Cultivation Online novel Chapter 2604

Chapter 2604: Unknown Ore

"General Mei, are you making Corporal Yuan partake in the cleanup missions nonstop?" one of her officers asked during a meeting.

"What sort of question is that? Why would you think that?" she asked with a puzzled face.

"That’s just what the others have been saying."

"I’ve also been hearing it," another replied. "They claimed that you’re trying to assert dominance over the new recruit by forcing him to do these missions over and over again."

"How stupid." Mei Feng sneered in disdain at such outrageous claims. "Why would I even need to assert any dominance? It’s not like he’s being disobedient."

"So it’s true that he’s willingly doing these cleanup missions himself? Why? While I am happy to see a soldier finally eager to do something that everyone else finds a chore, it’s a little concerning how eager he is..."

"Right? It’s literally all he does. Mission after mission. Without rest. It’s like he’s possessed or something."

"General, shouldn’t we assign him something more fitting for someone called the upcoming Ironman?" someone suddenly suggested.

"Why?"

"I mean... we’ll become a laughingstock if someone so talented keeps on doing these cleanup missions..."

"Let them laugh. In case you forgot, Corporal Yuan joined just a little over a month ago. Do you remember what you were doing during your first year, let alone the first few months? Give him some time to adapt and familiarize himself with his new surroundings, and if he wants to spend all of his time doing cleanup missions, let him. It’s not like he’s harming anyone."

"I agree with General Mei. We should give him some time... at least until those who joined at the same time as him finish their training."

"So a year, huh? Fair enough."

Meanwhile, Yuan began his second month of cleanup missions.

As his name and reputation continued to spread, more and more soldiers were willing to let Yuan spend some time in the Orange Zone cleaning up Void Specters, which extended his time outside the city but at the cost of completing missions more slowly.

Time continued to pass swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the start of Yuan’s third month in the military.

However, instead of going on a new cleanup mission after completing his last, Yuan went to the training area to see how much closer he got to defeating the enemy on the 46th floor.

"Foolish mortal..."

After several intense rounds later, Yuan sighed in defeat.

"I knew it wasn’t much, but I didn’t think two months of absorbing the Void Specters’ Eternal Essence would only help me last a few seconds longer..."

At this rate, he’d need to keep on doing cleanup missions for decades to have any noticeable results.

"This won’t do. I will need to head further into the Red Zone, if not even deeper. However, I doubt they’ll agree to let me venture so far away from the city so soon..."

He considered doing the gathering missions that would allow him to enter the Red Zones, but upon asking Sergeant Bing about it, he learned that attacking Void Specters during such missions was highly frowned upon since it was unnecessarily risky for everyone involved.

"Guess I’ll give it another month and ask Mei Feng if I can go outside alone again. My reputation has risen quite significantly, and pretty much everyone is aware that I can handle the cleanup missions alone without issue."

With that in mind, Yuan started doing cleanup missions again.

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