Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

In the evening, as Ruo Manni ate dinner, she browsed the forums of the War Realm and suddenly recalled an important bonus announced ten days before the game’s launch.

To stimulate human motivation, challenge potential limits, and quickly enhance combat power, the War Realm’s developers set up an ultimate game feature.

Each group of players that reaches max level within a hundred members will have a high-level mech designer create a personalized mech of level four or above for each player on the leaderboard.

Moreover, in reality, the game will provide players with the customized parameters for free.

Needless to say, this reward is very appealing to strong players, as wealthy players are relatively few, while commoners make up about seventy to eighty percent of the entire Gumera Star Domain.

With this reward, those stronger players can save on the credits typically spent finding a mech master for customization; they can directly approach a high-level mech designer with their parameters to have a personal mech made. Even a moderately affluent level six mech designer can afford this.

To have a mech designer capable of customizing mechs, they must at least be one level higher than the mech pilot. The costs for designing custom mech parameters are comparable to the manufacturing fees, meaning that the rewards in the War Realm allow players to acquire custom mechs at the same price as standard models, effectively cutting their expenses in half.

This grand prize is attractive even to wealthy families, let alone to mech pilots who lack the funds to customize and can only settle for standard mechs.

For mech pilots of the same level, those operating fully customized mechs can unleash their combat power far more effectively than those using standard models, resulting in combat capabilities that are not just double but significantly enhanced.

Thus, every player in the War Realm who believes they have decent potential aims for this goal.

When Lin Kexin first saw this bonus, she was a bit confused, as she recalled that it wasn’t mentioned in the book.

If it had been the original owner, she would have only been able to watch others compete for this bonus, as she had no capacity to do so. But now, as Ruo Manni, this is a bonus that can potentially be claimed with enough effort.

Of course, Ruo Manni’s thoughts on customizing mech parameters differ from those of other players.

Other players likely focus on saving a significant amount of credit points to obtain a mech that suits them best. However, Ruo Manni’s emphasis is on customizing mech parameters.

It’s important to note that not all advanced mech designers can customize mechs for pilots; it requires a wealth of experience and precise simulation calculation skills.

In other words, even if Ruo Manni becomes a level seven mech designer in five years, she won’t be able to customize mechs for pilots due to her lack of experience.

To accumulate experience, one must engage in thorough research and exploration, and for a novice, studying and analyzing their own parameters is the best approach.

Especially since these parameters are customized by other advanced designers, if a novice can study them, it can be seen as a rapid way to absorb valuable experience from those advanced designers, fostering personal growth.

However, the vast majority of mech designers have low warrior levels, and customization parameters below level five are not very useful. Therefore, most advanced novice mech designers are unable to use this fast-track method.

However, with Ruo Manni’s potential as a warrior, becoming a level six mech designer is definitely within reach, so she won’t miss out on this bonus.

Since her rebirth, Ruo Manni has been like a parched sponge, desperately absorbing information about cultivation while recalling various plot points from the novels.

It wasn’t until she exhausted herself and collapsed on the floor of the training room that her thoughts gradually settled, allowing her to contemplate her future path.

Although rebirth wasn’t something she sought, now that she has this second chance, she intends to cherish it and live well, absolutely unwilling to become the kind of expendable character who gets eliminated from the start.

Her successful takeover means that the original host’s premature death has been altered, changing her fate. She believes that she won’t encounter the same tragic end as the original.

While Ruo Manni may not be a saint, she also doesn’t want to remain passive when she knows what the future holds. She feels that, given her abilities, she can’t be a savior, but she can influence smaller matters to create larger changes.

After thinking for a while, Ruo Manni realizes that wherever she goes, she cannot escape the war spreading across the entire Gumera star region. Therefore, returning to Topaz Star after graduating from the military academy is her best option.

This is where she can leverage her connections with Captain Lin, who holds real power in the Topaz military. Here, she should be able to showcase her strengths and make the most significant impact.

The novel doesn’t elaborate much on Captain Lin, but Ruo Manni remembers that Topaz Star was the primary battlefield in a war marked by a significant technological disparity, and it fell quickly.

In the tragic climax of mutual destruction, it was mentioned that Commander Lin piloted a level six mech, leading a dozen subordinates toward the enemy’s battleship, but was destroyed halfway through…

When she read the novel, she merely sighed at the fate of it all. But now, in reality, Captain Lin is Uncle Lin, the husband of Mentor Fang. When Topaz Star fell, and Captain Lin sacrificed himself, Mentor Fang and her son, along with all of humanity on Topaz Star, were annihilated.

Thinking about this, Ruo Manni immediately set a goal for herself: to become a level six mech designer and a level seven mech engineer within five years.

This is the first change that Ruo Manni can realistically achieve.

Next, if she can design customized mechs for the star warriors under Captain Lin, they can maximize their potential when facing the alien mechs in the cosmos.

With their combat capabilities doubled, the battlefield dynamics would surely shift. For instance, star warriors who were limited by standard mechs could significantly increase their effectiveness and take down more aliens with customized mechs.

Moreover, this might prevent them from suffering swift defeats and allow them to wait for reinforcements.

In this way, the changes she makes could alter not only Ruo Manni’s fate but also the destinies of those warriors using the mechs she customizes for them.

Such changes, even in small increments, could lead to significant differences, bringing more vitality to humanity on Topaz Star, slowing down the alien offensive, and giving humans some time to react.

At the very least, with Ruo Manni’s customized mechs, Captain Lin and his subordinates might not be wiped out in the first wave of the alien invasion.

In the novel, the fall of Topaz Star happened too quickly, with the rescue teams from the central star region still on their way.

Having thought everything through and having a rough idea of her future, Ruo Manni was determined to stay within the top hundred rankings of the youth group.