[Convergence cleared.]
[Evaluating participant contributions...]
A few seconds later, the text was replaced all at once.
[Earth Defense Settlement]
[Settlement Scope: Regional.]
[Convergence Classification: F Grade.]
[F-Grade Regional Contribution Cap: 10,000.]
[Regional Contribution Ranking]
[1. Lin Yan — 9,500]
[2. Marcus — 300]
[3. Jason — 100]
[4th — 50]
[5th — 25]
[6th — 25]
[All remaining participants — 0]
[Contribution Points are awarded according to actions performed during a convergence.]
"What the hell is this?"
"System."
[Are you illiterate?]
Lin Yan’s mouth twitched.
"I can read."
Then it hit him.
"Wait. You knew about this, didn’t you?"
[Yes, but—]
"Damn. I knew you cared."
[...]
"Love you too."
Lin Yan couldn’t help grinning.
Put someone else in my place and they probably wouldn’t have bothered saving everyone.
No way they’d have walked away with ninety-five percent.
After a few seconds, the excitement settled, and he finally gave the rest of the ranking some thought.
Marcus had gone into danger with him and helped lure the Crusher, so three hundred was fair.
Jason had gotten the survivors into the control room and kept them somewhere safe. The cameras, map and radio probably counted too, even if they had not done much for Lin Yan personally.
Fourth place was the broad-shouldered man who had helped force open the train doors. Fifth and sixth were the two passengers who had treated Jason’s leg.
As for everyone else, they had done nothing, so they got nothing.
More work, more reward. No work, no reward.
Very socialist.
Nine thousand five hundred Contribution Points sounded great.
But what could he actually do with them?
And if there was a ranking, first place had to come with something else, right?
Almost as if answering him, the ranking disappeared.
A much larger panel replaced it.
[Settlement Rewards]
[Contribution Points acquired: 9,500.]
[Regional Contribution Rank: 1.]
[Rank 1 Reward: Select 1 of 3 F-Grade Core Rewards.]
[F-Grade Boss Kill confirmed: Trollblood Goblin Crusher.]
[F-Grade Authorization Certificate ×1 acquired.]
[Certificate effect: May be consumed to authorize one F-Grade restricted exchange.]
[Global First Achievement completed.]
[Unique Origin Title acquired: Hero.]
Another notification appeared.
[Global First Achievement will be announced.]
[Display your identity?]
[Yes / No]
Lin Yan selected No without hesitation.
[Identity hidden.]
---
[Global Announcement]
[Humanity has achieved its first victory in a world war.]
[The first foreign-world convergence on Earth has been cleared.]
[The first occupied territory of Earth has been reclaimed.]
[Victor: Anonymous.]
[The first Hero of Earth has been born.]
Across Earth, conversations stopped.
People in offices, homes, shops and crowded streets stared at the same translucent announcement hanging before them. Some called out to the people beside them. Others simply stood there, trying to understand what they had just read.
World war.
Foreign-world convergence.
Hero.
And one name that had not been given.
At that moment, countless people across Earth had the same thought.
"What the fuck?"
Back on the platform, Lin Yan had a much simpler reaction.
What does this Hero title do?
As if in response, its details appeared beneath the settlement rewards.
[Hero]
[Classification: Unique Origin Title.]
[Granted to the first person of Earth who repelled a foreign-world incursion, protected surviving humans and reclaimed occupied Earth territory.]
[Title Authority]
[Selectable reward options: +1.]
[Claimable rewards: +1.]
[Free reward regeneration: 1 per completed world-war settlement.]
[Regenerated rewards cannot exceed the original grade limit.]
[Equip Hero?]
"Holy shit."
"System."
[Yes?]
"You’re seeing this, right?"
[I am.]
"This is fucking insane."
[It is exceptionally powerful.]
"Equip."
[Hero equipped.]
"That’s fucking unfair!"
Lin Yan paused. He had almost forgotten about them.
The man with the axe had stepped forward again, with the other two close behind him. If they had been flushed before, their faces were as red as apples now.
"How the fuck is that fair?" the axe-holder shouted. "Why do you get nine thousand five hundred? You took almost everything, and now all the good rewards are yours too. Why the fuck do you get everything?"
"Exactly," the man with the extinguisher snapped.
The empty-handed man pointed at his own panel.
"We get nothing!"
Lin Yan raised one finger.
"Hold on."
"What the fuck do you mean, hold—"
"System."
[Yes?]
"If I knock these three out, Task 5 won’t fail, right?"
[As long as they remain alive.]
Lin Yan set the hammer down and walked straight toward them.
The axe-holder was still shouting.
"You think you can just—"
"Didn’t your mother teach you not to swear?"
The punch landed with the last word.
Crack.
Lin Yan had put a little more force into this one.
The man’s feet left the floor. He flew backward and crashed onto the tiles several meters away, blood and broken teeth scattering around him.
The other two had not even reacted before Lin Yan was already in front of them.
One punch smashed into the extinguisher man’s mouth. Teeth shattered under the impact as he was knocked off his feet and thrown backward.
Lin Yan turned and gave the last man the same treatment.
Three punches.
Three bodies hit the floor.
All of them were still breathing, deep in the kind of sleep usually reserved for babies.
Barring a miracle, all three were probably going to be disfigured. Eating normally was going to be difficult for a while too.
Not my problem.
He picked the hammer back up.
Now came his favorite part.
The four Rank 1 options opened together.
[F-Grade Permanent Enhancement: Earthborn Foundation]
[Permanently enhances the user’s overall physical capabilities.]
[F-Grade Skill Imprint: Adaptive Combat]
[Instills foundational proficiency with common melee weapons.]
[Improves the user’s ability to adapt to unfamiliar weapons and combat conditions.]
[F-Grade Growth Resource: World-Bound Armament Seed]
[May be fused with one F-Grade or lower weapon.]
[The selected weapon will become bound to its owner.]
[The bound weapon will acquire self-repair and limited evolutionary potential.]
[Compatible materials may be absorbed to support future growth.]
[F-Grade Consumable: Lifeblood Ampoule]
[A sealed ampoule containing highly concentrated restorative essence.]
[When consumed, rapidly repairs severe physical damage and purges F-Grade and lower contamination.]
[Single use.]
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