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"I..."

"I’m not going to close this battlefield."

Adrian and Kavasta looked at Maxime with complicated eyes.

But Maxime had already thought it through.

If he closed a yellow level battlefield, would it change anything for the human race?

The answer was obvious: absolutely not.

It was only a yellow battlefield, and whether it disappeared or not, it would make no difference to the situation of the Western Federation, and even less so when taking the whole planet Earth into account.

At the same time, Maxime thought about what he really wanted in this life.

"What I want is absolute strength. So that even if the Delta universe can invade the human race via thousands of dimensional battlefields, they don’t dare.

"Because I’ll be there."

"Everyone’s priority is obviously to protect their family, but no one can be content with protecting their family alone. Sometimes you have to rely on others to protect it for you.

"So I will protect the human race with my own strength in the future, and the human race will protect my family."

"And for that, I absolutely must seize every opportunity to become stronger."

While saying this to himself, Maxime clenched his fists tightly.

He had found it very difficult to make this decision because he feared Kavasta’s gaze.

After all, the commander had already given him extremely valuable gifts. It would be a shame to disappoint him, especially so quickly.

So in fact, he already knew what decision he was going to make when he finished reading everything that could be bought in the shop.

But he took those few minutes to prepare himself mentally for the reaction of Kavasta and Adrian.

After all, it was still a more or less selfish decision.

He met the eyes of Adrian and Kavasta.

But Adrian and Kavasta did not look at Maxime with complicated eyes because they did not agree.

It was just that they put themselves in Maxime’s shoes; they knew that they would also find it difficult to make such a decision.

In the circumstances, Kavasta finally smiled after a moment’s thought.

"Excellent decision."

"If the human race was strong, who would even dare to invade us? Would we be in that situation?"

"If we had extremely strong men, we wouldn’t even need Eternity Point to close these dimensional battlefields. A punch would be enough."

Maxime did not expect this reaction, but he was immediately relieved.

Adrian also nodded.

He didn’t know what Maxime had read in the shop, but he would probably have made the same choice as him.

Protect the human race?

That was good, but he still had to have the strength.

Closing a dimensional battlefield would indeed protect people in the city to some extent.

But his own family wasn’t even here.

And he wasn’t strong enough to protect his family in real danger yet, so when was he qualified to protect other people’s families?

Like many other Eternity players, he only trusted himself to protect his family in the future!

Of course he had a sense of duty, and even if his family was in danger, he wouldn’t become a deserter.

Because if everyone did that, then all the front lines would fall immediately and the war would turn into guerrilla warfare directly on Earth.

And above all, Adrian himself benefited from the army system protecting humanity, since he was not considered a really strong man in humanity.

The really strong men were on battlefields on Earth or Heaven level.

But clearly, if he had a choice like Maxime’s, he would choose the means to improve his strength directly.

His main mission, i.e. to protect humanity, would not change, and he would fulfill it even better in the future since he would be stronger.

And in the event that an invasion actually occurred, and there were many casualties, it would not be his fault.

If the others wanted to protect their families, they only had to risk their lives in Eternity and on the dimensional battlefields, just like them!

But obviously most would still do nothing, even if they knew the reality of humanity’s situation.

There were still simply too many cowards among the human race!

They obviously had such a treasure as Eternity in their hands, but they were not brave enough to exploit it.

In that case, if they could not protect themselves, they could only blame themselves!

That was how Adrian, as well as many soldiers on Earth, thought!

Their strength gained in Eternity represented their courage. Participating in the dimensional battlefields represented their honor and their sense of duty.

They were qualified to despise those who were content with the status quo.

Of course, as military personnel, their priority mission was to protect the human race, and that’s what they would do!

Otherwise they wouldn’t go to the dimensional battlefields.

It was much more reassuring to improve in Eternity, because in the game they only risked 3 years of life expectancy.

Here they risked their lives for a quantity of Eternity points that was really not exceptional.

They barely had enough to convert a few dozen points into gold coins and improve their class experience by 20 to 30%.

But yet they were all still there, fighting for humanity.

Meanwhile, Kavasta gave his opinion.

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"I think you’re making the right decision, Maxime. You’re still very young and you have much greater potential than I do. You need to seize every opportunity to strengthen yourself while you’re young."

"You will be able to protect humanity in the future. In the short term, trust your seniors to protect humanity."

Saying this really reassured Maxime.

"Can we see your stitching shop?" Adrian suddenly asked, very curiously.

"Of course," Maxime replied after some hesitation.

These men, for him, were trustworthy.

Of course, Maxime also had his limits and he wouldn’t show them things like his talents.

Soon, he changed the privacy settings of his shop and shared it with Kavasta and Adrian.

The two looked at the holographic panel in front of them with surprise.

"What?"

The two were extremely surprised.

"The cheapest price is 50 points? Some soldiers wouldn’t be able to buy anything if it weren’t for the conversion of Eternity points into gold coins..." Adrian muttered, amazed at the absurd prices in this shop.

Kavasta looked more specifically at the items with a high value.

"Dragon Fruit, Supreme God’s Talent, Elemental Skill, Unique Skill: Frozen Time, Legendary Artifact... Do we really live in the same world?"

After a while of observing the items available, Kavasta sighed.

Maxime smirked at Kavasta and Adrian’s reaction.

"I guess it’s not normal?" he asked amusedly.

Kavasta shook her head.

"I don’t know, it’s so rare to get so many points that it’s the first time I’ve seen some of the items in the shop."

"So what are you going to buy?" Kavasta continued, curiously.

"I don’t know yet."

Maxime was still hesitant.

"Dragon Fruit, which directly increases a stat point, is particularly powerful, but only in Eternity. In the real world, it only gives 0.1 physical points and would produce almost no change in my combat power."

"The Supreme God talent is interesting, but it’s only a Gold rank..."

Kavasta felt like he had heard wrong.

"Wait, Maxime, how is it just a Gold rank talent?"

Adrian also looked at him strangely.

He himself had a Gold rank talent that he had acquired when he entered Eternity.

He was always considered a genius wherever he went thanks to this talent and his hard work.

But in Maxime’s words, it’s only a Gold rank?

How powerful was his talent?

Maxime realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"I meant to say that a Gold-ranked talent won’t significantly change my combat power," he explained awkwardly.

"A Gold-ranked talent won’t change your combat power?" Adrian and Kavasta thought, speechless.

Skip-stepping over this phase, Maxime continued his reflection out loud.

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Kavasta intervened immediately.

"I advise against it. Magic without a meditation method is like having an assault rifle without a magazine and barrel."

"Not only will you tire yourself out very quickly using your magic, but on top of that your magic will be really weak."

Maxime understood, but he especially remembered one term:

"A meditation method?"

Kavasta nodded.

"Indeed, it is something you may be able to learn once you have left the continent on which you first landed in Eternity."

"But you still need to have a talent for magic, otherwise it’s useless."

Seeing the growing curiosity in Maxime’s eyes, Kavasta gave him some additional advice.

"Magic is practised and taught by wizards. But these continents are much more dangerous than the initial continent you land on. To give you a point of comparison, even I have died several times on the continent of wizards where I first landed. And even now, I am still stuck on this continent and I remain very discreet."

Maxime was astonished.

The commander must have had an additional 10-point physique, but he was still in danger?

How powerful could these wizards be?

For his part, counting his class bonuses, he could almost reach 5 points in Eternity.

But compared to the commander, it was ridiculous.

"For the moment, stay in the Kingdom you’ve landed in and earn as many gold coins as possible to strengthen yourself. At some point you will reach a limit, and that will be the moment when you will have to try to find new methods to continue to become stronger."

Maxime nodded, showing that he understood.

Adrian was also listening to Kavasta’s advice, as he too had not left the continent on which he had landed.

He still had a long way to go before he left.

"Finally, there is the unique skill ’Frozen Time’ and the legendary artifact..."

Kavasta was curious again.

The previous choices having been ruled out, only these two items remained.

"Which will you choose?" asked Kavasta.

At the same time, he offered some explanations.

"Frozen Time is clearly a sky-high skill that you can use all your life."

"But you can also use the legendary artifact all your life, and it’s cheap too. You could even buy another good quality item with the Eternity points that will remain."

Maxime agreed with what Kavasta said.

But he was much more keen on one choice than the other.

"I..."