Chapter 149 Excelled, Yet Again
The Dark Heaven Insect was able to breed a kind of treasure that could adapt itself amodating for
the need to upgrade the spiritual power of the spirit maniptor. While in this vast Wild Spirit Land,
such spirit-manipted beasts were extremely precious and rare in species. It was said that they
amounted to less than ten species. Compared to them, the Dark Heaven Insect was massive. For other
species of the spirit-manipted beast of its kind, these quantities were peculiarly umon.
Although, those rarer species could breed treasure, as the Dark Heaven Insect were the most wanted
creatures. In order to upgrade their power, spirit maniptors of Supernal Stage often wandered
around the Wild Spirit Land to capture simr spirit-manipted beasts which could breed treasure. It
was certain that the Wild Spirit Land was a boundless realm and the rare spirit-manipted beast lived
in the darker recesses or in the more dangerous parts of it. The opportunity to catch these insects was
mostly negligible, but the search in the wilderness of the Wild Spirit Land continued irrespectively. After
all, their power could be manifested once captured. Who would not want to fight for that?
''What a pity! I should not have killed it. Had I known the Dark Heaven Insect was such a golden
species, I would have captured it alive. It could have elevated my powers to a higher level.'' Rocky
regretted his haste actions after discovering the possibilities. He knew he couldn''t bring it back to life. It
was toote. This couldn''t have been undone. Somehow, he managed to acquire two medium-level
ck Heaven Eggs from the dead ck Heaven Insect. These two medium-level eggs served as a
major catalyst for the elevation of his powers at this stage.
Rocky was content. After all, half a loaf is better than none.
On the other hand, Marin and the deputymander stared at the body of the ck Heaven Insect
with the same regretful face. Although, it was a good news that the culprit which ruined the vige was
annihted, yet the better oue was that the insect would''ve been captured alive. If only they had
reached sooner...
"The base camp of the Crimson Dragon Group, thanks to the good timing and the advantageous
position of the camp, only keeps two Dark Heaven Insects of this species. Even if it is in the royal
Pce City, there are only four to five insects of this kind that were caught alive. Which spirit
maniptor blindly murdered such a rare spirit-manipted beast? Such a reckless waste of godsend
treasure!" Deputy Commander Chen sighed as he shook his head in disapproval. The culprit''s
justification could not make the remorse go away. After all, the ck Heaven Insect was a spirit-
manipted beast that one could not have asked for.
"Deputy Commander Chen, did you see Captain Rocky anywhere on the way here?" Marin inquired the
moment she noticed.
"I did not. Neither did you, Commander?" Deputy Commander Chen shook his head in silence. They
hadn''t seen Rocky anywhere on their route. When they saw the Dark Heaven Insect in front of them,
an unpleasant thought suddenly crossed his mind. He realized that if Rocky had encountered this Dark
Heaven Insect, he probably wouldn''t have survived. He did not want to imagine that. Jerking off the
negative ideas, he went on.
"It''s so weird that we haven''t seen any traces of Rocky anywhere. Where on earth did he go? Or was
he..." Marin, gawking at the Dark Heaven Insect, frowned upon the thought of Rocky being killed by the
creature.
"Commander, could he have been..." Neither of them could finish those sentences. Both of them knew
what they were asking each other. Deputy Commander Chen''s eyes ran up and down the body of the
Dark Heaven Insect as if he was scanning it.
"If he is dead, we can only hope that he is in a better ce. There''s nothing more we can do about it. It
was praiseworthy that he could sessfully bring the Dark Heaven Insect out of the vige to avoid
greater casualties. It was tough for him under his current base of power. But he made it. I was proud of
him," Marin said in a pitiful tone. But she was truly surprised by Rocky''s audacity and calmness
considering the fatal situation. The Dark Heaven Insect was way more powerful than him. He was
merely a second- or third-level spirit maniptor of Mortal Stage. Yet, he maintained hisposure
and made a decisive response to avert the crisis. Eventually, he led the Dark Heaven Insect out of the
vige sessfully and stopped further destruction. This was truly beyond a regr spirit maniptor''s
power. Adding to this, during the execution of this task, the sixth unit under Rocky''s leadership
captured the Three Powers at the Gehenna Border, the principle criminal wanted by the northeastern
military camp. This exceptional performance is also credited to Rocky. After all, the sixth unit surprised
everyone, especially thoseughed at them, with their sessive achievements ever since he
assumed leadershipy.
"It is really a shame," Marin muttered to herself. No one knew whether she meant the death of the Dark
Heaven Insect or Rocky. She then ordered Deputy Commander Chen to bring the creature''s body back
to the camp to use the iron shell for forging weapons. She didn''t want to waste what they had. "I have
to go back to the military camp now." She looked a little low in spirit as she finished hermand.
Walking away, she approached the Verdanim and drove it away.
Following her, some soldiers worked out how to carry the Dark Heaven Insect back to the northeastern
military camp along with other soldiers and two units of spirit maniptors under the guidance of the
Deputy Commander.
After all the people had left, Rocky slowly uncovered himself from under the sand dune.
"So, they all thought that I was dead. I wonder if they would be too dumbfounded if I just go back alive
and well." An evil smile appeared on his face as he pictured another mischievous idea unfold, then led
Uriah to get away from the sand dune.
At the northeastern military camp, the spirit maniptors of the sixth unit were waiting anxiously to hear
from Rocky. Their miraculous team leader had unknowingly be the backbone of their team.
"Thor, do you think our captain can make it this time? Is he going to be okay?" Joss muttered to Thor.
"That''s nonsense. Of course, our captain will be alright. If anything happened to such a powerful
captain, who else would we ever count on?" Thorforted him. Patting Joss'' shoulders, he masked
away his own anxiety.
Just then, a giant dark green shadow of something flew across the sky bringing with it, a strong breeze,
arousing the sand and dust, as it slowly descended to the military camp.
"Commander..." Thor and Joss ran hurriedly at sight of itsnding, with tears washing away their faces.
Marin had arrived. The Verdanim''s was very fast. It didn''t take her long toe back.
"Commander, where is our Captain?" Joss asked eagerly.
"The men we sent out to search for him, couldn''t find anything. But, I doubt he could..." Marin could not
look them in the eyes and gave the unfortunate news. Beforeing back to the military camp, she
actually went back to look for him everywhere around the vige, but there was no luck. Rocky was
gone.
"No way! Our captain couldn''t have... not so easily." Thor and Joss read Marin''s face instantly. They
looked at each other with disbelief. It didn''t seem real to them.
"All we found was the wild spirit-manipted beast that assaulted the vige. But it was already killed
by some sort of powerful spirit maniptor who must''ve happened to pass by. Rocky would have been
back if he had survived that ident. But now, it seems..." Actually, Marin dide back with a little
faith in her. She thought Rocky would be back at the military camp if he had escaped that disaster. But
when she saw the look on Thor and Joss'' faces, she knew Rocky wasn''ting back.
"Captain..." Thor and Joss grieved as they heard Marin''s exnation. This belittled unit had just risen
from ashes because of the new leadership. They could not believe the leader that brought the change
and hope to the unit was now...
Other spirit maniptors of the sixth unit stood there beside them, dejected, and sighing in grievance.
They won a Third-ss Honor under Rocky''s leadership, but he just passed away before he could be
thanked and rewarded.
"Is the death of that kind of a lowly screwball worth our sorrow?" Evan sneered at the distressed team
members of the sixth unit.
"Even though, he did not survive the crisis, he did manage to handle it properly. He prevented that
spirit-manipted beast from causing more destruction. Therefore, I shall confer a Second-ss Honor
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to the sixth unit and the deceased, Captain Rocky." Marin''s sudden announcement surprised all the
people there.
Suddenly, the entire military camp seemed to be warmed up by her words.
Three other units which had not received the mission were also stationed here at the military camp.
Their team leaders, including Evan, were astonished as they heard Marin''s announcement.
Those petty leaders thought it was a sheer dumb luck for the sixth unit to capture the Three Powers at
the Gehenna Border. On top of this, Marin conferred a Second-ss Honor to the sixth unit purely
because Rocky died. This made it even harder for them to ept reality. A Second-ss Honor was
only conferred to a perfect execution of a fairly dangerous, important mission.
Not to mention the fact that the sixth unit had never received any award before. Among the other five
spirit maniptor units of the northeastern military camp, only the first unit had been awarded one
First-ss Honor and one Third-ss Honor. Among the remaining units, only one of them had
received two Second-ss Honors. For other units, there was only one opportunity to receive the
Second-ss Honor once.
Also, from all the military guarded area at the Gehenna Border of the Holy Dragon Empire, the location
of the northeastern military camp was a rtively peaceful one. So, there were fewer chances for them
to execute crucial missions of pretty danger. The first unit was only rewarded with a Third-ss Honor
when they killed a spirit-manipted beast of Earthly Stage riotingst time.
As a result, other units were definitely unwilling to ept Marin''s decision to confer a Second-ss
Honor to the sixth unit and Rocky.