High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

As Song Chen turned and walked to the door, Lal's voice drifted over from behind him again.

"By the way, the specially assigned Punisher has a privilege: they can accept missions across regions."

"The Department of Punishment's Galaxy General Administration is divided into sixteen branches. The Seventh Action Team can only take on missions within the jurisdiction of the Seventh Branch. It is an independent organization and is not restricted by region. You can see the mission lists of all sixteen branches."

"Take a look around. Some missions on remote planets may not contribute many points, but they can be very lucrative."

Song Chen kept those words in mind and went out the door.

When he walked through the corridor again toward the portal, his steps were much lighter than before.

The fact that he's now assigned to a separate organization means that he can go wherever he wants and take on whatever missions he wants.

No need to worry about teammates slowing down the pace, no need to worry about revealing too much about your combat skills, and no need to worry about killing mission targets you don't like.

The universe is so vast, there's bound to be one that suits him on the task list.

Of course, he also knew he wasn't a good person.

The killing system allows him to become stronger by killing people. This path has been paved with blood from the very beginning, and he just wants to walk on this bloody path more freely.

We've arrived at the portal lobby.

Song Chen swiped the terminal, selected the Judgment Star, and quantum ripples engulfed his body.

When he returned to Judgment Star, he glanced at the terminal.

Two new messages appeared in the notification bar above. The first was the committee's automatic reply: the application has entered the expedited review process and is expected to be completed within eight hours.

The second notice is for the occupancy of the Logistics Department of the Punishment Department: Independent staff members may apply for single-person dormitories, which are located on the 72nd floor of the North District of the Judgment Star, and are equipped with independent training rooms and equipment maintenance workshops.

Song Chen walked along the corridor toward the mission hall.

The mission hall of Judgment Star is located on the fourth floor of the Disciplinary Department headquarters building. It is a huge space that connects the entire floor, with a spherical holographic star map with a diameter of more than fifty meters suspended in the center, displaying the missions to be received within the jurisdiction of all branches in the Milky Way.

The mission points on the star map are marked with different colors: green for routine collection, yellow for armed collection, red for suppressing rebellions, and purple for emergency conscription.

Thousands of points of light twinkle on the star map, each representing a story of a civilization that has failed to repay its debts.

Song Chen found a corner to sit down, opened the terminal on his wrist, and projected the task list in front of him.

The list was so dense that I couldn't see the end even after scrolling through it several times.

He set several screening criteria: the mission location must be within 20,000 light-years of Judgment Star, the mission type is not limited, and it can be accepted by a single person.

There are still more than 300 results after filtering.

He flipped through them one by one.

【Certificate CT-RC-8821】Zer Civilization, Level 2 Subsidiary, with overdue debts for nine hundred years.

Task requirements: Collect outstanding debts or assets of equivalent value.

【Code CT-RC-9147】Kalon Trading Post, a level 2 neutral civilization, owes the Alliance transit tax for four hundred years.

Task Requirements: Freeze the trading post assets and enforce the freeze.

These business dispute-type tasks are the most boring. Most of the time is spent on seizing assets and filling out forms. There's no fighting involved, so skip them.

【Case No. CT-RC-9003】Yu Ye Civilization, a Level 1 civilization, has discovered a new psionic mineral vein and refuses to pay it to the Alliance according to the treaty ratio.

Mission requirements: Armed collection; take over the mine if necessary.

……

When Song Chen scrolled to the two hundredth item, his finger suddenly stopped.

【Civilization ID: CT-SR-1127】Thunder Star, Level 1 Civilization, Alliance Subordinate Civilization ID: SR-KM-0042.

The Thunder Civilization has been a member of the Alliance for 12,000 years and is currently a Level 1 civilization. Its repayment status is normal.

Three weeks ago, a large-scale civil war broke out. The rebels have taken control of about 40 percent of the Thunder Continent. The civilized regime's tax revenue and psionic resource extraction capabilities have declined significantly, and serious arrears are expected in the next repayment cycle.

Mission Requirements: End the internal strife by any means necessary and restore the repayment capacity of Thunder Continent.

Song Chen clicked on the details.

Thunder Star is a rocky planet with a highly charged atmosphere. Its surface area is about four times that of Earth, and land accounts for 60 percent of its surface area.

Because of the persistent high-intensity charge storms in the atmosphere, all the native life on this planet has evolved an affinity for electric psionic energy.

The intelligent species on the planet, the Thunder Clan, have focused on harnessing lightning as the core direction of their civilization's development since the Stone Age.

Twelve thousand years ago, the Cangxing Alliance's probes discovered this planet, deployed Source Spirit Star Stones, and laid out spiritual energy veins.

With the support of the Alliance, the Thunder Clan developed rapidly, and within three hundred years, some of them broke through to the seventh rank, officially becoming a subordinate civilization of the Alliance.

Twelve thousand years have passed, and the Thunder Clan remains at the first level of civilization.

It's not because their technology is inferior; in some specific areas, their electric psionic technology is even superior to that of a Level 2 civilization. Rather, it's because their civilization has never truly been unified.

There are hundreds of factions on the Thunder Continent, and they are constantly fighting each other.

The alliance has always been too lazy to deal with these kinds of internal conflicts; as long as it doesn't affect repayments, you can fight however you want.

But this time is different. This time, the rebels, referred to in intelligence as the "Thunder Extreme Army," swept across 40 percent of the Thunder Continent's territory within three weeks.

Their leader was a peak seventh-tier cultivator named Lei Mo, who called himself the "Lord of Thunder's Mandate" and boasted that he would establish a new Thunder Empire.

The current Star Lord, Lei Yuan, is also at the peak of the seventh rank, but he is old and frail, and is constantly being defeated by Lei Mo's attacks.

After reading the mission details, Song Chen quickly assessed the situation in his mind and concluded that the mission was not bad.

Most importantly, civil unrest means a large number of rebels, and the kill count gains will be no less than those from Emerald V.

Song Chen didn't answer immediately. He turned off the terminal, closed his eyes, and mentally reviewed the plans for the next few days.

First, we have to wait for the staffing adjustment to be approved.

Lal said within one business day, which would be by tomorrow at the latest.

Before he was officially assigned to a new position, he was nominally the deputy captain of the Seventh Action Team and could not take on missions on his own.

Secondly, he needs time to adapt to the Silver Armor.

The Silver Armor possesses boundless power, but it requires time to adapt to.

Then, he went to the mission hall to accept the mission for Thunder Star.

After accepting the assignment, the disciplinary department's logistics department will provide him with standard equipment for solo missions, including a spaceship, supplies, and intelligence packages.

Although he could handle these things himself, the things provided by the disciplinary department would definitely be easier for him to do than what he could handle himself.

Finally, there's one more thing before we set off: contact Earth.

He had been away from Blue Star for some time, and before leaving, he told his parents and Lin Qingxue that he was going into seclusion.

Song Chen opened her eyes and stood up from her seat.

There were many more people in the mission hall than before, and a group of messengers in disciplinary uniforms were gathered below the spherical holographic star map.

Some people were discussing the mission, some were exchanging intelligence, and a few squad members who had just returned from a mission were sitting on the floor, sleeping with their backpacks against their backs.

Song Chen walked out of the mission hall and headed towards the disciplinary department and logistics department.

Since the staffing quota hasn't been approved yet, he can't collect equipment as an independent staff member.

But he can now go to the logistics department's public training ground.

The training grounds on Judgment Star are the best in the Milky Way, with adjustable gravity, simulated environment, and target drones ranging from first to ninth order.

He planned to spend several hours in the training ground with the Silver Armor, thoroughly understanding every single performance statistic of the armor.