Chapter 58: Bubu's Suggestion
Although Su Xiao had obtained the Starfire Adventure Group, he was only its nominal owner for now. To change the nature of the adventure group, he first needed to generate a Leader's Certificate through Reincarnation Paradise.
"Generate Leader's Certificate."
[Prompt: To generate a Leader's Certificate, 10,000 Paradise Coins must be consumed, and you must hold the position of Adventure Group Leader.]
[Detected that the Hunter is the leader of the Starfire Adventure Group. 10,000 Paradise Coins have been consumed. Leader's Certificate is being generated...]
Paradise Coins were quickly deducted, and the machine in front of Su Xiao began to operate.
[Please determine the form of the Leader's Certificate.]
Dozens of options appeared. The Leader's Certificate had no fixed form; it could be shaped into a token or formed into a mark.
Su Xiao shaped the Leader's Certificate into a coin. The shape of this item was actually unimportant; in most cases, it was tossed into the storage space and only used when changing the nature of the adventure group or upgrading it.
With a *ding*, a golden coin popped out from the machine. Su Xiao reached out and caught it.
[You have obtained the Leader's Certificate (Starfire).]
With the Leader's Certificate, Su Xiao could now make changes to the Starfire Adventure Group.
First, Su Xiao needed to clear the members within the Starfire Adventure Group. The Vice-Leader, Shabao, and the 24 official members had already withdrawn, leaving only Su Xiao and 2 temporary members in the group.
So-called temporary members were those still in the assessment phase. Whether they could join the Starfire Adventure Group depended on their performance in the next few derivative worlds.
For an adventure group like Starfire, which had little reputation, there wouldn't naturally be many people joining. For large adventure groups like Blood Gate, Divine Emperor, or Furious River, temporary members were at least several times the number of official members.
Su Xiao was puzzled: why hadn't these two temporary members voluntarily withdrawn? Or perhaps they had no idea what was happening.
[Temporary member, Contractor No. 19534, has been removed.]
[Temporary member, Contractor No. 24807, has been removed.]
Since these two wouldn't withdraw, Su Xiao directly removed them. They weren't official members and could be expelled from the adventure group at any time.
This left only Su Xiao in the adventure group. He immediately changed the nature of the group from multi-person to single-person.
[Starfire Adventure Group has been changed to a Single-Person Adventure Group.]
As soon as Su Xiao changed the Starfire Adventure Group to a single-person group, a flood of prompts appeared. Seeing these prompts, Su Xiao was somewhat surprised.
[Hunter has obtained a Single-Person Adventure Group.]
[Checking Hunter permissions. Permission level is [High].]
[According to Hunter Treaty Article 17452, if a Hunter obtains a Single-Person Adventure Group, Reincarnation Paradise will disguise the serial number of this adventure group. No means can lock onto the Hunter's adventure group.]
[Disguise has been completed.]
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After obtaining the single-person adventure group, Su Xiao's identity as a Hunter played a certain role. Having been a Hunter for so long, he found that Reincarnation Paradise's preferential treatment for Hunters was actually only of two types.
One was giving relatively difficult tasks to increase his speed of growth, which could also be considered an opportunity. The other was the disguise function, to prevent Violators from tracking Su Xiao.
As for other preferential treatments, Su Xiao hadn't seen any yet. As for the Honor Shop, that wasn't really a form of preferential treatment. Su Xiao had to successfully eliminate Violators to obtain Honor Medals, then exchange items in the Honor Shop. This was an equal exchange, hardly a privilege.
"Change the adventure group's name."
[Current name change count: 1 time. To change the adventure group's name, 5,000 Paradise Coins must be consumed.]
[Warning: If the adventure group's name is changed, the Starfire Adventure Group's favorability with plot forces in all derivative worlds will be cleared.]
[Warning: If the adventure group's name is changed, the adventure group's accumulated world evaluations will be cleared.]
[Warning: If the adventure group's name is changed, the adventure group's progress through derivative worlds will be cleared.]
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Three consecutive warnings. The meaning was clear: if Su Xiao changed the adventure group's name, all of Starfire Adventure Group's past achievements and blemishes would be wiped clean. Except for the team skills, which would remain unchanged, this adventure group would become a brand new one.
This was exactly the effect Su Xiao wanted. Who knew how many lousy evaluations the Starfire Adventure Group had received in the past? If Su Xiao entered a derivative world later and received a very low-level main quest, that would be ridiculous. A low level meant low risk, but also low reward, which was not what Su Xiao wanted to see.
"Rename to... uh~"
Su Xiao couldn't think of a suitable name for the adventure group on the spot. He was always very casual when naming things. Coming up with something flashy and cool was simply impossible. For example, the techniques he developed himself, like Ring Break or Sky-Rending, just by looking at the names, one could roughly imagine what those techniques looked like.
[Confirm renaming the adventure group to 'Uh'?]
Su Xiao hesitated for a moment and ultimately didn't confirm. He looked at Bubu Wang and Amu. As soon as he turned his gaze, he found that these two were each holding up a sign with an adventure group name written on them.
'Dog Star · Tear Space · Break Heaven · Level Ground · F*ck Air · Trample Everything · Demolition Crew!'
'Blood and Iron Hungry Bull!'
Su Xiao decisively turned his head back, pretending he hadn't seen anything. Amu's suggestion was barely acceptable, but as for Bubu Wang's suggestion, Su Xiao simply couldn't bear the shame.
Finding Su Xiao had turned away, Bubu Wang poked Su Xiao with the sign in his hand, looking at him with a very innocent expression, as if to say: "Master, this name is so domineering, it can intimidate enemies from the soul."
"I don't get that feeling. This name can only 'intimidate' me; it can't intimidate any enemy at all. Name it Dawn, omit the adventure group suffix."
[Adventure group naming successful.]
Adventure Group Name: Dawn
Adventure Group Rank: B
Leader: Su Xiao
Vice-Leader: Pending (Due to the single-person nature of the adventure group, Vice-Leaders can only be held by Followers, Apostles, etc.).
Adventure Group Mode: Single-Person (Cannot recruit external members).
Team Space: Frozen.
Team Skill 1: Glory Prelude (Passive: When settling rewards in derivative worlds, overall evaluation is increased by 1 level (Cannot raise overall evaluation to S+).
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Seeing the two Vice-Leader positions, Su Xiao's gaze shifted to Bubu Wang and Amu. He decisively appointed this one person and one dog as Vice-Leaders.
Bubu Wang's dog face twisted in awkwardness. Although he was now 'honored' as Vice-Leader, unfortunately, there was no one else in the group, making the Vice-Leader the smallest official position. At least the fellow Vice-Leader Amu would listen to his commands.
"More suitable than I previously imagined."
Su Xiao was very satisfied with the single-person adventure group model. This wasn't really an adventure group anymore. Combined with the Leader's Certificate in his hand, the Dawn Adventure Group was essentially a special piece of equipment.
"Let's go."
Su Xiao walked out of the Adventure Group Guild. He didn't have time to purchase information from the intelligence trading platform yet; he still had a large number of treasure chests and items to process.
Ten minutes later, Su Xiao returned to his Exclusive Room. He sat at a simple wooden table covered with treasure chests, Scarlet Cards, and other items.
Blue Treasure Chest x3
Dark Purple Treasure Chest x1
Light Gold Treasure Chest x1
Light Gold Set Treasure Chest x1
Gold Treasure Chest x2
Scarlet Card x7
Mystery Treasure Chest x1
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Su Xiao hadn't obtained too many treasure chests from those rogue contractors. Because treasure chests were too unstable, the most valuable things he got from them were a large number of Soul Crystals (Medium, Small) and various types of props.
Among these treasure chests and Scarlet Cards, the Light Gold Set Treasure Chest x1, Gold Treasure Chest x2, and Mystery Treasure Chest x1 were the most valuable. As for the other treasure chests, he could just open them casually.