Return (Final)

The roaring giant crushed down with a single punch, kicking up a cloud of dust.

But then he realized that something was wrong…

His descending fist was slowly lifted. Beneath the shadow it cast, he saw that familiar smiling face.

What was going on?

Something seemed off.

He had already thrown everything away. He had already let himself go. He was no longer even afraid of death. Right now, he was invincible.

What did someone who wasn’t afraid of death have to fear?

But for some reason…

When he looked down from above and saw that smile slowly lifting his fist, he inexplicably felt genuine fear.

It was the look…

Of someone watching prey…

Ding~ Task triggered: Capture alive. Don't kill them. Note: You are permitted to freely use your abilities in the Punishment Space to eliminate unstable factors.

Xu Yue had waited until the Reincarnation Space gave him permission before making his move, lest acting early caused some backlash and put the bill on his head.

There was a considerable difference between taking the initiative and acting after a task had been triggered.

Without a prompt, without receiving the imperial sword that granted him freedom of action, he would not have moved even if this guy had killed Si.

"Y-you’re a Reincarnator?!"

Glasses had calmed down somewhat and had not transformed or made any extreme moves. But when he saw the figure casually holding up that wildly disproportionate giant fist, his face turned ugly.

His partner might have been a little impulsive, but with his giant transformation ability combined with the several additional enhancements he had developed, his overall combat power might not have matched Glasses’s.

But in terms of pure, absolute destructive power, he was far beyond Glasses!

Even most Elite Reincarnators would never dare take his partner’s attack head-on.

But what was this situation?

A native they had previously identified had actually blocked it easily with one hand!

Heavens.

After all that, you’re telling me he’s a Reincarnator!

This was a Punishment mission, wasn’t it?

If he was a Reincarnator, then he must have been assigned a Punishment mission too, right?

But why could you attain such status and stand at such heights in a Punishment mission?

Why was your whole style different from ours?!

And we had tested you before.

"You played us!"

Glasses’s face was full of fury and resentment.

Then his hands rapidly formed seals. Since you could withstand my partner’s physical strength head-on, could your mental strength withstand my Illusion Technique?!

Our coordination was flawless!

"There are some things I never said. How can you call that playing you?"

Since the mission required them alive, and he had no idea what else the Reincarnation Space intended to do with them, Xu Yue did not strike too heavily.

He clenched his fist and exerted force.

The next moment, the enormous giant was squeezed by a terrifying force field from all directions, forcibly "shrinking" back to his original form.

That flawless pressure from all sides conveyed only one meaning.

Submit, or die…

On the other side, Xu Yue made no further display. After that glance he had swept over while speaking, he brutally tore apart the Illusion Technique fluctuations Glasses had formed and directly poured his own power into his mind. Glasses, who had been wearing a savage grin full of confidence in his Illusion Technique, froze completely before falling straight backward and losing consciousness.

The final incidental task was complete.

Even if the Reincarnation Space turned you into women and threw you into some alleyway in the Reincarnation Space to flaunt yourselves, that would be the Space’s business.

Take care of yourselves, brothers…

"Return."

As those two calm words left his mouth, the surrounding space froze before shattering…

Punishment missions did indeed come with many restrictions.

But with his familiarity with the plot, along with the various advantages he possessed, Xu Yue had still gained quite a substantial harvest.

He had obtained two S-Rank Plot Points and fourteen A-Rank Plot Points! There were even more B-Rank Plot and C-Rank Plot rewards on top of that.

Combined with that cooking state capable of independently boosting a single attribute by as much as fifty percent, he could fully make corresponding adjustments based on the actual circumstances.

Finally, the partial absorption of the World Will was also an enhancement that would be difficult to obtain even by spending S-Rank Plot Points.

And…

Food specialty store access unlocked.

This was the main quest reward from his final evaluation. It seemed to allow him to directly purchase various finished foods from the Space store. They could likewise provide all sorts of independent attribute boosts, such as healing injuries unlike potions, restoring health and mana, and increasing a single attribute by up to ten percent.

It also refreshed once per day. When it refreshed, there was a chance that a limited quantity of higher-tier boosts would appear. In extremely rare cases, the maximum fifty-percent boost to a single attribute could even show up.

In terms of convenience, it was not as good as spending time cooking for himself.

But…

This specialty store access could be passed on to a legion!

Many legion functions were external modules extended from the Reincarnation Space itself. As long as one paid the "installation fee," the Space could handle everything for them.

It could be sold within the Penguin Merchant Guild!

Purchases from this Space food specialty store required points, and those points were directly handed over to the Reincarnation Space, so the legion itself did not seem to gain much benefit.

But Xu Yue understood that for an organization like the Penguin Merchant Guild, functions that benefited customers and improved customer loyalty were the most important things.

The Penguin Merchant Guild had risen to prominence by using its exclusive Kabane flesh to establish its name, then supplementing that with expanded functions such as Omni-directional Mobility Gear.

Otherwise, it could never have achieved its later near-monopoly in the Huaxia Zone.

This new food might seem rather ordinary, but such completely independent bonuses could become the final straw that tipped the scales at critical moments…

Including the one he had saved before, he now possessed three S-Rank Plot Points.

To be honest, even putting all of them into the Six Paths Secret Arts would not be enough to fill it.

But Xu Yue still only learned Tengai Shinsei for now, leaving two behind.

After going wild in the Land of Lightning during his last Naruto mission, he had obtained perfect Body Mastery.

By all accounts, he could now open all Eight Gates.

Unfortunately, his perfect Sage Body was simply too powerful. After enduring until now, his Chakra had grown like an inflating balloon and had at least surpassed the Kage-level threshold. Yet the Eight Gates remained stuck at the Fourth Gate without moving at all.

He had not used one for empowerment last time because he had been worried that the Punishment mission might undergo some unexpected change, so he had kept one as insurance.

Now that he had obtained a new one, there was no need to wait any longer.

However, he would need to return to the Huaxia Zone first in order to use the experience empowerment function possessed by the Second Legion of the Beiyang Army.

There were also some matters in the merchant guild that needed review and handling. Thus, after leaving the Reincarnation Space, Xu Yue arranged for Deva Path Pain to return to the country.

Compared with a Wood Clone, the Six Paths of Pain had far more useful support functions.

Not only was its combat power stronger, it could also receive Xu Yue’s Chakra to sustain itself for a long time, provide real-time shared senses, and possessed greater relative "authority" than ordinary clones.

Its practicality was indeed much stronger.

Another S-Rank Plot Point had found its use. As for the final one remaining, he would keep it for the next mission and adapt to circumstances then.

His next mission would already be a Promotion Mission!

Originally, Xu Yue had planned to use a Designation Card. But as he learned more about the Reincarnation Space, he roughly came to understand some characteristics of the missions for formal Reincarnators advancing to Veteran Reincarnators.

Compared with the bloody and brutal elimination from novice to formal Reincarnator, promotion to Veteran Reincarnator came with much more room for maneuver. Even if one failed, one could continue circling around the formal zone, repeating the 3+1 process again and again until successfully advancing or dying during one mission.

Promotion generally meant obtaining a certain corresponding identity that needed to be assessed during a mission.

Calculating his Naruto progress against the usual strength of Veteran Reincarnators, if he entered during the Promotion Mission…

It would probably be the key plot of the Chunin Exams, and he would need to pass the exam to obtain the identity of a Chunin…

If he encountered a farming Space he did not want to enter, Xu Yue would not mind spending some extra effort to go there at that time.

But the Promotion Mission prompt he received immediately upon returning this time made him weigh things for a moment before temporarily suppressing the idea of using the Designation Card. There would still be a Punishment mission after using the Designation Card, and this time he would also need to devote energy toward "becoming a Chunin," so it was better to put it off for now.

Promotion Mission: Become a Level 6 Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Marvel universe. There were indeed some good things in there…

(Note: This is only the universe based on the movie series. The comics are a little too exaggerated, so only certain parts will be referenced. Everything is subject to the author’s setting.)

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End of Volume Five~ Volume Six tomorrow.

Both updates are complete~

As far as the movies alone are concerned, Marvel’s framework is indeed much better than DC’s. And as long as you have a little understanding of the Marvel universe, it does not really matter if you miss a few movies.

When Jiecao first encountered Marvel movies, he actually rejected them too. But later, he discovered that their interconnected framework really had its own charm.