Chapter 3: Joining the military

[Mission 1: Join the military;

  Starlink city is under demonic beast's siege and needed reinforcement. Join the reinforcement team and save the city residents from the beasts.

Reward: +1 increase in rank 

Punishment for failure: -1 lottery point

Sub-mission 1: kill 10 purple ranked demonic beasts.

Reward: +2 increase in level, purple ranked armor set (random)

Punishment for failure: -2 decrease in level 

Sub-mission 2: successfully taunt an Orange ranked demonic beast.

Reward: Orange ranked mental cultivation technique, Orange ranked skill book.

Punishment for failure: 50% decrease in strength for one week.

Good luck 🤞]

Charlie looked at the system mission wide-eyed. He doesn't even know whether to laugh or to cry; because the mission seems like a joke and a death sentence at the same time.

Why should he jump ranks and fight a demon beast that can kill him with a swipe of it's hand? Why?

While lamenting about his Ill fate, the nurse entered the room with another man in white coat. After checking his pulse, he then prescribed medicines for him and instructed him to get it from the pharmacy on his way home.

Charlie was discharged from the hospital with a bill of over 10,000 divine coins to settle. He paid 10,127 divine coins out of the remaining 11,500 he got from the military. He still used another 5,000 divine coins to pay for the prescribed drug he got from the pharmacy.

Immediately he got home from the hospital a text message entered his phone, but he didn't bother to check. His phone ringed immediately after.

"Report to the military barracks immediately!" He didn't even get to speak before a deep voice commanded him on phone.

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Upon getting to the baracks, Charlie saw thousands of soldiers neatly dressed in their green uniform, lined up in rows with their heads raised up and their faces free of any expression.

Charlie walked past this group of human robots as he made his way to the gathering point for the newly recruited logistics personnel.

Upon getting to the place, Charlie saw a crowd of people sitted on the bare floor, waiting for someone. He also joined them.

The people here are the lowest of the lowest of talented people. They all have talents ranging from E to G.

They are all people who have not awakened any special ability.

If the system hadn't intervened, charlie would've been the lowest of these group of trashes.

"Hello mortals! Congratulate yourselves for being selected as one of the logistics teams of our great nation.

As you all know, your job is to transport resources for the soldiers of our great nation. You're to follow them throughout any mission you're assigned to; be it dungeon exploration, sending rations to the battlefield, following reinforcement team, weapon and food transportation.

Your job is to listen to your superior, and try not to get killed during the mission. And if you should die while carrying out your missions.

Though, your names wouldn't be recorded in the history book, but you can die knowing that you did your part in helping this nation move forward, you die your part in this fight for humanity's survival.

For humanity's sake!!" A burly scar-faced man came out to address the more than 3,000 people.

"We must survive at all cost!!" The crowd chanted the military slogan used by all military forces around the globe.

"Form a straight line to receive the newbie pack, as promised in our recruitment post!" The burly man yelled again.

Not long after, the pack was given to the people on the line. The newbie pack contained a a military uniform, and a martial arts cultivation technique.

Merely looking at the technique in their hands, some of the people couldn't contain their emotions and started crying on the spot.

In this current era of martial arts. People would do anything to get their hands on a martial arts cultivation technique, as that is the only way for them to gain status and power in this current world where justice is given to the man with the strongest fist.

The martial arts cultivation technique only circulated within the cycles of the rich and powerful families and some martial sects. You can only join the military, work for some powerful families or the government, before you can lay your hands on a cultivation technique.

You can also buy them at an exorbitant price in the market, or at an auction.

The cultivation technique given to the newly recruited logistics personnel "The Heart of Heaven Sutra" is the lowest of the lowest technique out there. You can buy it at a cheap price in the market (but to the lowest class people with no great background, it's equivalent to 10 years savings).

The people here we're all in poor ordinary people who sold themselves for the free daily rations and the cultivation techniques distributed by the military… except for Charlie, who came here all because his girlfriend kept pressuring him for the latest Zeephone. He was not able to afford the expensive phone, but his girlfriend wouldn't listen to him. She even adviced him to join the military and use the advance payment to get her the phone.

After the Newbie packs were distributed, the General told them to go home and prepare, then come back the next day to set out for the mission.

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Upon getting home, charlie quickly summoned the system, "System, show me the list of newbie gifts In my system space.

Then a row of texts appeared before him. He the clicked on the cultivation manual: The Death Seeking Manual.

"Who will use you trashy cultivation manual when I have my own system manual…" Charlie ridiculed the military cultivation manual and threw it on the bed as he mentally commanded the system to open the manual.

[Death Seeking Manual: It's a support type manual that is used to increase cultivation speed.

Instruction: Cultivate your current technique in reverse, by reversing the energy pathways.

Note: Be ready to die at any time while practicing this technique.

The probability of dying increases with the rank of the technique practiced with.

You're advised to get married and have children before practicing this manual.,]

"What the…"