#29Chapter 29: Legendary Professional Rafar!
"Bad news?"
A sense of foreboding rose in Link's heart.
[Despite your clone's repeated orders forbidding any action by the Xuan Black Squad before their second job advancement,]
[the Xuan Black Squad members, having tasted the immense gains from robbing other professionals, simply couldn't control the greed in their hearts!]
[The million federal credits obtained from robbing the Crimson Squad last time had already been squandered. Although the strength they gained from spending that million was enough for them to complete their second job advancement before their third year, who wouldn't want even greater achievements? Faced with an endless stream of top-tier equipment, rare skills that might not be encountered again for who knows how long, and even precious items that could enhance their potential and grant extra attribute points, even vast sums of money were never enough to satisfy human greed.]
[The Battle Group and the Police Department exploited this psychology, seemingly discreetly but actually quite openly, spreading the news that a freshman squad, fully equipped with luxurious gear, was heading into the wilderness for training. The news confidently claimed that the squad's equipment was worth over twenty million federal credits! They weren't afraid of red-named professionals at all.]
[Upon hearing this news, the Xuan Black Squad members couldn't resist the temptation of such a rich reward for robbing a mere, arrogant freshman squad. They fell right into the trap set by the Battle Group and the Police Department!]
[Even worse, despite the clone's clear opposition to any action, the Xuan Black Squad didn't inform the clone of their private operation. By the time the clone couldn't reach the Xuan Black Squad members and realized something was wrong, the joint task force of the Battle Group, the Police Department, and even Donghua University had already begun their operation to capture the clone!]
[All was lost. The clone, bitterly hating his animalistic teammates, made a decisive decision to flee into the wilderness...]
[A professional flying through the air spotted the clone and launched an attack...]
[Your clone was severely injured, but fortunately, he managed to escape into the depths of the wilderness. The professional pursuing the clone seemed to have a deep fear of the wilderness's depths, and even though only one last strike was needed to obliterate the clone, they didn't continue the attack, simply watching as the clone fled into the wilderness.]
[The next day, the entire East Sea City, and even the Federation, reported on this massive, malicious professional crime! It was unimaginable that the perpetrators were a team of student professionals from a prestigious university with bright futures. In front of the cameras, the Xuan Black Squad members confessed their criminal activities and their motivations one by one. When it was revealed that they had been running a smuggling operation, and then, in order to monopolize the smuggling market in District Three, they had coldly murdered all the smugglers who refused to obey them, attacked police officers investigating the smuggling crimes, and even kidnapped the officers' families, and finally, they had turned their sinister intentions towards their own classmates, and even cruelly murdered two classmates to achieve their goal of intimidation, a wave of fierce condemnation swept across the entire Federation!]
[The Federal Supreme Court sentenced all members of the Xuan Black Squad to immediate execution. A highest-level warrant was issued for the still-at-large mastermind, Link. Anyone who discovers Link's whereabouts can receive a reward of 1.2 million federal credits, and assisting in the arrest or killing of Link will earn a bounty of up to 10 million federal credits! At the same time, the Federation will organize Battle Groups to continue searching for the main culprit, Link, dead or alive, to ensure that he receives the solemn judgment of the law!]
[Faced with countless civilian professional teams and even Battle Groups, your clone could only hide in the wilderness. Fortunately, the Phoenix Ember granted your clone super-strong life recovery, so even without any supplies, the damage he suffered could naturally recover at several times the normal rate, greatly increasing the clone's endurance in the wilderness.]
[But even the strongest endurance is ultimately lacking a safe rear, especially in the dangerous environment of the wilderness, where no one knows what level of monster attack they might encounter next. Your clone understood that he couldn't last long in the wilderness.]
[And that was indeed the case. In less than a week, your clone was attacked by several monsters with levels as high as 30 or more. Even the Phoenix Ember's super recovery couldn't keep up with the rate of life loss.]
[Just when your clone was about to give up, a mysterious person appeared before your clone.]
[The person claimed his name was Raphael...]
"Raphael?" Link's brain buzzed as he saw this name in the simulation.
This name was famous to the people of this world! So much so that Link, who inherited the memories of his predecessor, immediately recalled the glorious achievements of this famous existence upon seeing this name!
He was one of the ten Original Professionals who awakened before the very first awakened professionals in the world.
In the fifth year of the Awakening Era, he completed his fifth job advancement, becoming one of the world's earliest Sky-level professionals!
The other person who advanced with him was none other than the current President of the Blue Star Professional Guild, Roffa Carmine, the undisputed strongest professional recognized by the world's three hundred million professionals!
He had countless followers and was known as the Strongest Swordsman! He and Roffa Carmine, along with a group of Original Professionals, defeated the Abyss Lord who once threatened the entire Blue Star world, saving the world.
But in the ninth year of the Awakening Era, two years before Link transmigrated to this world, Raphael began to claim that the Blue Star world had no hope, that an unstoppable, immense cataclysm was about to descend upon the world, and that the only way for humanity to survive was to gather the resources of the entire Blue Star and create ten Star-level professionals to lead the seeds of human civilization into the universe, thereby escaping the tragic fate of perishing along with the Blue Star world.
This insane plan, called the God-Making Project, was met with fierce opposition from society at the time! Not only would this God-Making Project require all three hundred million professionals on Blue Star to serve as cannon fodder, assisting the chosen ten in completing their job advancement challenges, but also, trying to gather enough Star-level advancement materials would drain almost all of Blue Star's finances, and even if all of Blue Star's power was combined, the success rate of completing the Star-level advancement task for ten people would only be five percent!
Most importantly, Raphael couldn't prove that the world was really going to end. Furthermore, even if the God-Making Project succeeded, the power of a mere ten Star-level professionals could only protect less than a million people.
And the number of humans was: ten billion!!