Opportunist (First Update)

Cornelia had been completely surrounded by the Black Knights and was being forced step by step into a canyon.

In front of her was Kallen, piloting the ‘Guren,’ while several Burai stood watch from above the canyon.

Those Burai mecha were nothing to worry about, but while she was fighting that terrifying red mecha in front of her, those small fry fired at her blind spots!

Both arms of Cornelia’s machine had already been torn off, leaving it weaponless.

If Lelouch wanted to kill her, he could have done so already.

But since things had reached this point, naturally, he would try to capture her alive!

Only by using his Geass to control her could she be put to maximum use.

And Cornelia herself, driven into a corner, had already prepared for the worst.

"Hey~ hey~ Governor Cornelia, I’m here to help. You’re not dead yet, are you?"

However, the voice over the radio made Cornelia freeze for a moment. Reinforcements?

For someone to dare speak to her like that, this guy really was…

Amid a cloud of pulverized trees and dust trailing all the way behind it, Xu Yue’s Sunderland, which already looked rather battered and occasionally sparked, came speeding into the battlefield!

Having kept the Sunderland running at full capacity the entire time, Xu Yue had been moving quite quickly.

But just as Xu Yue arrived at the scene, a triggered mission inexplicably popped up.

Ding~ Triggered Mission Accepted: Hidden Assassin. Someone seems to be plotting against Governor Cornelia and Zero. Find him and stop him. Reward: one C-Rank Plot.

That surprised Xu Yue somewhat. A small fry worth a C-Rank Plot had managed to get here? Someone who dared target Cornelia and Lelouch, and whom the Space deemed capable enough to warrant a triggered mission guiding him to stop them?

This time, only he had received it.

Still, whatever. Even a mosquito was meat. There were only a few of them—he could just kill them all, except Kallen and Lelouch.

Xu Yue then raised the mecha’s head-mounted sensors and spotted the Burai holding the high ground along the cliff. After noticing one Burai moving unnaturally, he decisively fired the Swallow Grappling Cable from the mecha’s chest and yanked himself toward the top of the cliff!

Hyena had already lined up his sights on Cornelia’s cockpit and was about to fire, but the sudden intrusion of a Sunderland inexplicably made his hand tremble.

Ding~ Triggered Mission Accepted: Troublemaker. See that Sunderland? That's him. Kill him. Perfect completion reward: S-Rank Plot Points x2.

Unlike ordinary newbie Reincarnators, Hyena had always toyed with the Space’s rules and had a relatively thorough understanding of its methods.

He knew that drastically altering the course of history would not only bring pressure from the natives of the Space, but also cause other Reincarnators to receive missions to stop it!

Their fundamental interests would inevitably clash.

Every time he obtained a B-Rank mission, it had left him hovering between life and death.

Among his three B-Rank missions, the first B-Rank Mission Plot Points he had earned came from joining others to kill a formal Reincarnator who had altered the plot!

Even now, he vividly remembered the bloody scene: more than thirty newbie Reincarnators who had received the mission were slaughtered one-sidedly.

If not for the side effects and time limit on that person’s own abilities, he probably would not be alive today!

It was only after that incident that the door to a new world had opened for him!

From then on, he became one of the Space’s elites, specializing in actively seeking thrills and difficulty in exchange for enormous gains!

And now, a mission with a reward of two S-Rank Plot Points lay before him!

This was truly…

I want to die…

(/TДT)/

Hyena’s tears immediately came pouring down, impossible to stop.

Back then, a B-Rank triggered plot had required a whole group of newbies to fill it with their lives. He was probably now at the level where he could trigger B-Rank missions himself.

That was why he was always so careful. If one strike failed, he would definitely retreat.

But now what the hell was this?!

S-Rank x2?

This Space only allowed formal Reincarnators at most!

And you were telling him the reward was S-Rank x2?

How vast was the gap between B-Rank Plot and A-Rank Plot?

And how vast was the gap between A-Rank and S-Rank?

Now you were telling him that completing this would earn him two S-Rank rewards.

Why not just erase him outright?!

Hyena had not even finished that thought.

The Sunderland had already arrived before him with an utterly unstoppable momentum, moving at a freakish speed.

Hyena was also quite self-aware. He silently pulled the escape pod lever, without even the slightest intention of resisting.

All he asked was for this big shot to show mercy and spare his life.

A salted fish like him was completely unworthy of the big shot wasting time hunting him down!

"Oh? You really are quite cooperative. Since it’s done, then that’s that."

Xu Yue raised an eyebrow as he cleaved the Burai in two with one strike and watched the escape pod eject.

But after casually completing this C-Rank triggered plot, he did not plan to do anything more.

The Space’s reward notification did let Xu Yue know why the reward this time was only a C-Rank Plot.

It was because he had already farmed this guy once.

It was probably a restriction meant to prevent malicious farming of Plot Points. Besides, the Reincarnation Space itself had strong control over Reincarnators. It likely even plugged objective and subjective factors into some kind of formula for calculation.

It was like anti-money-laundering measures. If someone truly tried to recklessly launder Plot Points and transfer them all to a newbie, they would likely lose everything, pants included.

The limits on gifts and such were thresholds people had tested out with hard cash.

After taking out that Burai with a single blow, Xu Yue looked at the other stunned members of the Black Knights, as well as Lelouch’s Burai, and a gentle smile appeared on his lips.

It was time for him to leave the stage for a while.

Only a living Lelouch could continuously provide him with evaluations…

"Stay away from him!"

As Zero’s bodyguard, Kallen immediately abandoned Cornelia when she saw Zero in danger. Relying on the mobility of the ‘Guren,’ she pounced straight at Xu Yue.

The radiation wave device in her hand reached for Xu Yue’s Sunderland.

And as an opportunist, Lelouch immediately retreated at high speed, raising the Burai’s little gun and preparing to spray Xu Yue with bullets.

Only Hyena, who had ejected along with the escape pod, stared blankly at the Sunderland’s "desperate situation" and sighed.

It was useless.

This was ultimately only a world of mortals. How could they possibly touch an S-Rank big shot? If they managed to break that mecha, they would probably end up even worse off…

But clearly, Xu Yue had no intention of letting them break the Sunderland.

Kallen, who had yet to fully mature, Lelouch, who was physically weak, and several salted-fish machines spamming 666 did not seem like much of a threat.

Though this Sunderland was nearly at its limit…

Let’s add a buff…

Layers of pale violet armor appeared across the Sunderland’s surface, blocking every bullet Lelouch fired outside the armor.

Then, with the armor-covered MVS Sword, Xu Yue directly braced against the radiation-wave hand of the ‘Guren’ as it came crashing down from above!

That device, which could melt and detonate a mecha like a microwave, was blocked by the sword tip and could not advance even an inch!

At the point of contact, rings of air ripples continuously spread outward.

Each time one spread out, the surrounding earth seemed to have been plowed once.

Lelouch and the other salted-fish machines were forced to retreat again and again.

In the end, the edge of the cliff beneath them collapsed and broke apart, and the two mecha fell downward together…

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