474: The real horror of Midnight Rain (two in one)

Following Lin Yang's inquiry, the customer service representative of the Three Watches Rain website quickly replied:

"Hello, honored sir. The target is a high-ranking member of the Human Alliance. You need to first pay a consultation fee of ten million star crystals before we can provide you with other information and corresponding services for the target."

"..." Lin Yang was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Que Tian: "A consultation actually costs money?"

Never mind the fee.

It's not cheap either!

Ten million star crystals!

And it's just a consultation fee!

Que Tian nodded with a smile: "Of course there's a fee. All customer service at Three Watches Rain is handled by human representatives. If there were no fee, anyone could consult, and no number of customer service agents would be enough."

"Furthermore, charging a consultation fee is also a way to screen clients. The consultation fee is quoted based on the situation of the assassination target. Compared to the assassination fee, it's practically negligible. If one isn't willing to pay even the consultation fee, then they definitely aren't a target client."

Lin Yang immediately understood: "I see. How do I pay this consultation fee?"

"You can directly ask customer service for the payment information," Que Tian said.

"Okay."

Lin Yang then directly asked customer service for the payment information.

The customer service provided an anonymous card number from the Universe Alliance Bank, asking Lin Yang to transfer the fee directly to that card.

"Ten million star crystals!"

"Just a consultation earns ten million star crystals. This money comes so easily!"

Lin Yang muttered as he made the transfer.

If he hadn't wanted to understand the assassination quote for himself within Three Watches Rain, he would have been a bit reluctant to spend the money.

So much money, what else could it be used for... As he completed the transfer, the Three Watches Rain website customer service immediately provided the detailed quote.

"Dear honored sir, regarding your inquiry about the latest assassination quote for Lin Yang, the new Deputy Director of the Human Alliance Alien Management Bureau, it is as follows."

"The following plans are available for you to choose freely for assassinating this target."

"Plan One (Secure): This is the default plan. Our side will assign a member whose estimated strength is equivalent to or slightly higher than the target's for the assassination. The success rate is 99%, and the cost is ten intermediate spiritual universal materials."

"Plan Two (Decisive Kill): Our side will assign a member whose estimated strength is at least two levels or more above the target's for the assassination. The success rate is 99.999%, and the cost is ten advanced spiritual universal materials."

"Plan Three (Certain Kill): Our side will arrange for a special member to kill the target. The success rate is 100%, and the cost is ten top-grade spiritual universal materials."

"Due to the target's suspected breakthrough to the Spirit Realm, and his mastery of at least two supreme characteristics, a 100% success rate is not guaranteed except for Plan Three, and only half the fee will be refunded if the assassination fails."

"In addition to Plan Three, you can also specify the assassin's race and strength to increase the assassination success rate."

"Specifying the assassin's race requires an additional intermediate spiritual universal material. For each level the assassin's strength is increased, an additional one to three advanced spiritual universal materials are required. For specific prices, please provide your specifications for a separate negotiation."

"..."

Lin Yang looked at the assassination plans and corresponding quotes, and was momentarily speechless.

Professional.

Truly professional.

Not only are there predetermined plans, but one can also choose combinations. It can be said that as long as one is willing to pay the fee, the type of assassin needed is entirely up to them!

But the price is indeed ridiculously expensive!

Spiritual universal materials are used to enhance one's spiritual power after reaching the Spirit Realm.

They are somewhat similar to extraordinary characteristic material, but the difference is that after absorption, spiritual universal materials will only purely increase the concentration of spiritual power within one's body.

And they will not bestow corresponding spiritual divine abilities upon oneself.

This is a way to quickly improve strength.

After breaking through to become a Spirit Realm existence, in addition to being able to absorb the spiritual power between heaven and earth on their own, they can also rely on absorbing spiritual universal materials to increase the spiritual power within their bodies.

However, spiritual universal materials are not as abundant as extraordinary characteristic material.

The quantity of spiritual universal materials is significantly less compared to ordinary extraordinary characteristic material, with better quality being even rarer.

The preciousness of better quality spiritual universal materials also increases exponentially.

Not only because high-quality ones are few in number, but also because spiritual universal materials usually contain some impurities that cannot be transformed by the human body.

The amount of impurities is related to the quality of the spiritual universal material.

The better the quality of the spiritual universal material, the fewer impurities it contains.

Top-grade spiritual universal materials contain almost no impurities.

Although these impurities cannot be transformed and utilized by the human body, they will be absorbed along with the spiritual universal materials when they are absorbed.

And after absorbing impurities, one needs to specifically excrete these impurities from the body.

If impurities are not expelled, and they accumulate to a certain extent in the body, they will cause some irreversible negative effects on oneself.

However, expelling impurities requires time, and also regular special cleaning of the body using certain special methods to completely eliminate the negative effects of impurities on the body.

Nevertheless, compared to relying on naturally absorbing the spiritual power between heaven and earth for improvement, choosing to absorb spiritual universal materials for improvement still results in relatively higher overall efficiency.

Especially, some Spirit Realm existences have extremely poor speed and transformation efficiency in absorbing the spiritual power between heaven and earth, making it even more necessary for them to rely on spiritual universal materials for improvement.

Therefore, even ordinary quality spiritual universal materials are still very valuable.

The value of high-quality spiritual universal materials is even more self-evident.

They not only have fewer impurities, but also better absorption and transformation efficiency, saving more time.

This kind of value cannot be measured by currency like star crystals.

They are priceless and rarely seen on the market.

Any Spirit Realm existence greatly needs spiritual universal materials.

This is the hard currency among Spirit Realm powerhouses!

If one were to make a rough conversion, one ordinary quality spiritual universal material could probably be exchanged for at least hundreds of billions of star crystals, starting price.

But basically, no one would make such an exchange.

At the Spirit Realm level, even high-level universal currency like star crystals in the Ten Thousand Universes loses much of its usefulness.

Spirit Realm existences do not lack this kind of currency.

The 'poverty' of a Spirit Realm existence generally refers to not having enough spiritual universal materials and other treasures that can enhance themselves, compared to other Spirit Realm existences!

As for the exchange ratio between different qualities of spiritual universal materials, it is approximately one to ten.

That is, ten spiritual universal materials of a lower quality can be exchanged for one spiritual universal material of a higher quality.

For example, ten ordinary quality spiritual universal materials can be exchanged for one intermediate quality spiritual universal material.

And so on.

However, this ratio only applies to advanced and below advanced spiritual universal materials.

Furthermore, when exchanging lower quality spiritual universal materials for higher quality ones, this ratio will usually be even higher.

And when it comes to top-grade spiritual universal materials, the one-to-ten ratio no longer applies.

Advanced quality spiritual universal materials often require at least a twenty-to-one ratio to exchange for top-grade quality spiritual universal materials.

Because top-grade quality spiritual universal materials, whether in the spiritual power they contain or their absorption and transformation efficiency, are more than one level higher than advanced quality spiritual universal materials.

And they contain almost no impurities.

This is something advanced quality spiritual universal materials cannot compare to.

Therefore, their value is much higher, and top-grade quality spiritual universal materials also have some other wonderful uses, so they are generally not traded.

Top-grade quality spiritual universal materials are still considered precious even to existences like the White Fatty Old Man.

Furthermore, regardless of the quality of spiritual universal materials, they are extremely rare in the Ten Thousand Universes, only found in some special places, and are very difficult to obtain.

All this information he had learned from the system on his way from Blue Star to Cai Fei's wife's house.

Although the system could not accurately tell him the reason for the peculiar changes in his body, it could inform him about some information regarding the Spirit Realm and beyond.

However, now, among Three Watches Rain's assassination quotes for him, Plan Three actually charges ten top-grade spiritual universal materials directly!

Simply outrageous!

"Isn't this price a bit too high?"

Lin Yang couldn't help but haggle with the Three Watches Rain customer service.

For a moment, he didn't know whether to be happy about his high worth or something else.

"No wonder you said before that the Old Monster Faction people definitely wouldn't be willing to spend a lot of money to hire powerful Spirit Realm powerhouses to kill me directly. At this price, I even want to sell myself!"

Lin Yang also complained to Que Tian.

Que Tian couldn't help but laugh: "Haha, this is the current price. If the assassination fails a few more times, this price will continue to rise!"

Hearing this, Lin Yang couldn't help but say: "Isn't Three Watches Rain known as the strongest assassin organization? Their prices are too easy to deter people, aren't they? Especially since the first two plans don't even guarantee 100% success. How come they don't seem as powerful as they boasted before!"

"Moreover, if it fails, the fee will increase. Will Three Watches Rain's assassins intentionally fail a few times to earn more?"

Lin Yang also had some doubts in his mind.

Expensive fees, and no guarantee of success, unless one always chooses Plan Three, which is ridiculously priced.

Would anyone really hire Three Watches Rain to kill someone?

"Team Leader, you're mistaken there. Even with the default plan, Three Watches Rain will do its utmost to maintain the success rate."

Que Tian explained with a smile:

"Don't look at the default plan, which says it only matches assassins with equivalent or slightly higher strength. In reality, even at the same realm and equivalent strength, Three Watches Rain's assassins can still maintain a 99% success rate. This is already very terrifying. If there are no major accidents, it's almost a certain death!"

"As for the other plans, they are just to maximize the success rate of the assassination. They are generally only used to deal with some special individuals. Usually, there won't really be any suckers who choose the other plans!"

At this point, Que Tian paused, looked at Lin Yang with a smile, and emphasized:

"Actually, killing other ordinary suspected Spirit Realm targets doesn't cost as much as for you, Team Leader. It's mainly because you have the supreme characteristic talent and the identity bonus, so the fee is extra expensive."

"As for intentionally failing to earn higher fees, that basically doesn't exist."

"Three Watches Rain's assassins are also monitored during missions. If they intentionally fail, Three Watches Rain's internal system will impose very severe penalties on the assassin!"

"Although it's an assassin organization and cannot be regulated, if its reputation is ruined, then truly no one will hire them. So, on this point, Three Watches Rain still has considerable professional ethics."

"Oh... So it seems I really benefited from my identity. If the price were a bit cheaper, maybe the Old Monster Faction people would have been willing to spend the money!" Lin Yang said with a wry smile.

"If you, Team Leader, didn't have a sufficiently special identity, you wouldn't even be worthy of the Old Monster Faction people hiring an assassin!" Que Tian replied.

"...That makes sense!"

Lin Yang was speechless, then recalled the situation when he was assassinated, and nodded:

"Indeed, that assassin's strike earlier, if it weren't for Cai Fei's wife's prior warning and my constant vigilance, it's true that the assassin might have succeeded. Although it might not have killed me on the spot, I would definitely have been severely injured."

"Yes, so Three Watches Rain's assassination services are usually quite guaranteed, especially for those below the Spirit Realm, it's a sure kill!" Que Tian said.

Lin Yang nodded slightly, looking at the chat box.

Three Watches Rain's customer service immediately followed with the reason.

It was similar to what Que Tian said; the fee was higher due to his identity.

In addition, Three Watches Rain's internal rules for assassinating Spirit Realm powerhouses were somewhat different.

For assassinating Spirit Realm powerhouses, Three Watches Rain indeed usually does not guarantee a 100% success rate.

Spirit Realm powerhouses have strong life-saving methods, and the more powerful a Spirit Realm powerhouse, the lower the success rate of assassination.

For assassinations against powerful Spirit Realm existences, Three Watches Rain will directly state that 100% success cannot be guaranteed.

However, although they do not guarantee success for killing powerful existences, Three Watches Rain will accept assassination missions for powerhouses of any level!

This made Lin Yang realize the true horror of Three Watches Rain: "No matter what level of powerhouse they assassinate, Three Watches Rain accepts. Does that mean even for assassinating the most top-tier powerful existences, they can still find assassins with matching strength?"

Saying that, Lin Yang also directly asked again: "Since you accept targets of all levels, I wonder, do you accept assassination missions for those Old Monsters of the Human Alliance?"

After sending this message, he stared at the dialogue box.

If Three Watches Rain even accepted that, then it would truly be terrifyingly excessive.

"Yes!"

A very straightforward reply popped up in the dialogue box.

"If you wish to kill any of those Old Monsters, you need to provide the name of the corresponding Old Monster, and I will query the relevant quote for the target."

"..."

Lin Yang's scalp instantly tingled.

They really dare to accept?

This... Lin Yang stared at the reply for a moment, his eyes flickered twice, then he glanced at Que Tian, paused, and typed a name into the dialogue box.

"Northern Branch Rock!"

This was the name of one of the Old Monsters.

Since he had already asked, he might as well see the cost of killing these Old Monsters.