"Boss! Boss! It's done!"

As soon as Jia Zhengyi returned to the mansion, he immediately found Su Lin and the others, and proudly pulled out a gleaming gold medal from his pocket: "Look! I got the Thorn Flower Medal!"

"This thing is said to be extremely rare. We're the only ones to have obtained it in the entire empire over the past hundred years. The king originally intended for us to go to the capital to receive a title or something... but his cabinet said the war situation wasn't optimistic, so they made an exception and sent it over directly."

Jia Zhengyi curled his lip: "If you ask me, this is purely to prevent us from running around and upsetting the elves, it's just a way of trying to please them."

He's right. Elves are known for their arrogance and capriciousness in their native world, and with their formidable strength, they are naturally highly valued by all races.

"Well done."

Su Lin praised him, but before he could take the medal, Jia Zhengyi mysteriously pulled out two magic stones from his pocket: "Ta-da! And this too, boss, the magic stones have been delivered as well."

"And this scepter!"

Jia Zhengyi then took out a magnificent scepter about one meter long and handed it to Su Lin: "This time we're going to advance on two fronts simultaneously, and we've made great progress on both the phased missions and the hidden missions!"

Double happiness!

Jia Zhengyi continued speaking mysteriously in a low voice, "Boss, do you know who sent these things from the capital?"

"I don't know, but they should be quite strong."

Su Lin shook his head: "This thing is very precious. Without some skill, it would be impossible to deliver it safely to the front line."

"That's right!"

Jia Zhengyi slapped his thigh: "It's said that two great mages and two sword saints personally escorted them, and one of the sword saints' disciples... Hey! Guess what? It's that kid who was rude to us in Balota City before!"

"He was leading a team inside too. The boss didn't see the look on his face when he gave me the things. It was like he'd eaten shit."

"His mission was to collect and protect this thing, but he ended up having to deliver it to someone else himself."

Jia Zhengyi chuckled; he held a grudge.

Who can yell at us besides the boss? Not even a NP!

Su Lin smiled slightly upon hearing this, but didn't say anything. He wasn't that petty and had long since stopped caring about such trivial matters.

Su Lin took these items, and information notifications popped up one after another in front of him.

[Congratulations! You have obtained the "Wind-type Ultimate Magic Ball - Scepter Gem".]

[Item Value]: 10 million resource coins.

[Congratulations! You have obtained the "Lightning Ultimate Magic Ball - Scepter Gem".]

[Item Value]: 10 million resource coins.

[Congratulations! You have obtained the "Holy Scepter (Fragmented)".]

[Item Value]: 2 million resource coins.

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[Congratulations player! You have completed stage 7!]

[Since you completed the task in less than half the required time, it is considered a "perfect completion," and an additional reward is being calculated!]

[Congratulations, player! You have received an additional reward for this stage of the quest: the difficulty of Stage 8 has been reduced by 20%, and the final stage reward has been increased by 20%.]

[Now, we will announce the details of Phase 8.]

[Current Phase 8]: You are now deeply bound to the human faction. To better advance the war, please obtain command of an army of at least 100,000 human warriors within one month. If the current phase expires, the progress of the phase will be reset and all rewards will be cleared.

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Several notifications popped up one after another. Su Lin glanced at them briefly and nodded in satisfaction: "There are only 2 gems left that I haven't gotten yet. If I put in a little more effort, I'll be able to complete this hidden quest."

"As for this task 8..."

Su Lin pondered for a moment, then looked at Xiao Linlin.

Xiao Linlin shrugged her little shoulders indifferently: "Let Brother Jia handle it. We have tens of thousands of elves, so asking for a hundred thousand logistical support troops isn't unreasonable, is it?"

"After all, which elite unit doesn't have a bunch of errand soldiers with their families behind them?"

"That makes sense."

Su Lin nodded and looked at Jia Zhengyi.

Jia Zhengyi spread his hands nonchalantly and said helplessly, "I'll go talk to them, I'll go talk to them in a bit... I guess I know, I'm the social butterfly in our team, I have to handle everything."

"The capable should do more work!"

Xiao Linlin patted Jia Zhengyi's thigh with a grin, offering a knowing, old-fashioned advice: "Brother Jia is exceptionally talented and deeply trusted by the Duke, so naturally you should strive to secure more benefits for the team."

"I heard that recently, remnants of the surrounding armies have flocked to the fortress, and with the support from the nearby capital, the total number of human troops in the fortress should now be over 300,000, right?"

"Of these 300,000 troops, the elite forces probably only make up a small portion. We can take some of the remaining remnants without much of a problem."

After Xiao Linlin finished speaking, Jia Zhengyi didn't delay, nodded in agreement, and turned to leave.

He knew that Xiao Linlin cared a lot about the progress of the task at each stage and didn't want to delay it, so she wanted to complete it as quickly as possible.

After Jia Zhengyi left, Su Lin carefully examined the sacred scepter in his hand. From the outside, it didn't seem to be anything special, and it didn't seem to be worth 2 million.

However, upon closer inspection, one can find small grooves on the surface of the scepter, which seem to allow for the embedding of something.

There are exactly nine grooves, no more and no less.

"It's not going to be filled with gemstones, is it? But it seems a bit too small."

Su Lin held up a gemstone for comparison, but unexpectedly, the scepter suddenly emitted a powerful suction force, pulling the magic gemstone in Su Lin's hand.

Su Lin's heart stirred, and he stopped resisting. He loosened his grip slightly, and the magic gem shot into a groove in the holy scepter with a whoosh.

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