Novel Full Chapter 315: The Bell-Sword Prototype
Chapter 315: Chapter 315: The Bell-Sword Prototype
The settlement of Moonless Echo Battlefield arrived with the first false dawn.
The battlefield did not brighten like morning. Instead, the darkness thinned until distance became honest again. The broken Echo Command Tower collapsed into gray dust, and the allied remnant squad stood silently beside Qin Yuheng’s team.
Their captain bowed.
"You did not make us obey your voice."
Qin Yuheng returned the bow.
"You verified and chose."
The Tower panel appeared.
[Floor 133: Moonless Echo Battlefield]
[Main Mission: Cross battlefield and destroy Echo Command Tower — Completed.]
[Sub-Mission: Identify 20 false command echoes — Completed.]
[Final Count: 37]
[Sub-Mission: Prevent team separation — Completed.]
[Sub-Mission: Defeat 300 Echo Soldiers — Completed.]
[Final Count: 412]
[Sub-Mission: Protect allied remnant squad — Completed.]
[Survivors: 12 / 12]
[Sub-Mission: Break 3 Sound-Distance Distortion Fields — Completed.]
[Sub-Mission: Defeat Echo General — Completed.]
[Additional Merit:
False Qin Yuheng command echo resisted.
War without crown coordination maintained.
Prototype Bell-Sword Echo Severance created.]
[Calculating final evaluation...]
Qin Mo looked at the final line.
"The Tower names things faster than we do."
The result appeared.
[Final Evaluation: SSS]
Rewards descended.
[SSS Evaluation Rewards]
EXP +72,000
Tower Coins x1,080,000
SS Grade Moonless Echo Battlefield Chest x1
SS Grade Echo Command Tower Core x1
SS Grade Trusted Voice Severing Bell x1
SS Grade Sound-Distance Truth Lens x1
SS Grade Silent Battlefield Coordination Thread x1
SS Grade Echo Soldier Core Bundle x1
Special Mark: False Echo Breaker]
A hidden reward followed.
[Created Prototype Countermeasure Against Familiar Command Echo]
SSS Grade Bell-Sword Echo Severance Seed x1
Qin Yuheng immediately understood the significance.
This was not only for him.
One day, Qin Xue’er might build something from this seed.
The Tower had recognized a symbol she created and Qin Yuheng shaped into battle method. That did not mean she awakened early. It did not mean she received power now.
It meant a future path had a seed.
A safe one.
An unwritten one.
When they returned to the Qin Estate, Mu Qinglan examined the Bell-Sword Echo Severance Seed.
She held it between two fingers. It looked like a tiny silver bell with a sword-shaped crack through its center.
Her eyes softened.
"Do not give it to Xue’er yet."
Qin Yuheng nodded.
"I know."
Mu Qinglan continued, "But keep it. When she reaches the proper age and her path becomes clearer, this may become one of her foundation options."
"Offensive?"
"Yes."
Qin Mo looked at the seed.
"So the little bell charm became a future attack seed."
Qin Xue’er, who had been listening outside despite being told not to, rushed in.
"I knew it!"
Everyone turned toward her.
She froze.
Mu Qinglan asked gently, "Were you eavesdropping?"
Qin Xue’er thought very hard.
"I was guarding the hallway from bad echoes."
Qin Mo whispered, "Excellent defense."
Mu Qinglan gave him a look. He stopped.
Qin Yuheng crouched and showed Xue’er the seed from a safe distance.
"This is not for now."
"I know."
"Do you?"
She nodded seriously.
"If fruit ripens too early, it rots from the center."
Qin Wanshan, standing nearby, laughed softly.
The family had repeated that lesson enough that even Xue’er could quote it.
Good.
The Trusted Voice Severing Bell was evolved.
[Primordial Origin Evolution activated.]
[Target:
SS Grade Trusted Voice Severing Bell]
[Available Evolution Paths:]
1. Quantity Multiplication
- Possible Result:
Trusted Voice Severing Bell x???
- Useful for distribution.
2. Quality Enhancement
- Possible Result:
SSS Grade Sovereign False Command Echo Severing Bell
- Stronger protection against familiar voice command and false authority echoes.
3. Talent Evolution
- Locked.]
This time Qin Yuheng chose Quantity Multiplication.
Not every reward needed to become one supreme item. The campaign required many protection tools across villages, academies, and allied teams. One SSS bell would protect one place. Many SS bells could protect many vulnerable nodes.
Gray-gold light spread outward.
[Quantity Multiplication successful.]
[SS Grade Trusted Voice Severing Bell x86 obtained.]
[Note:
Copied items cannot be evolved again.]
Qin Mo almost cried.
"Distribution resources. Finally."
The Sound-Distance Truth Lens was enhanced instead.
[SS Grade Sound-Distance Truth Lens]
↓
[SSS Grade True Distance Echo-Sight Lens]
[Effect:
Detects false sound location, command echo distortion, dream-distance manipulation traces, and voice-origin deception.]
This tool directly countered the escaped Golden Bud data adaptation.
Yu Qingmei requested several Trusted Voice Severing Bells for regional child-protection centers. Qin Yuheng gave them without hesitation.
Lin Xian’er requested two for market courier verification.
Approved.
Silent Heaven took several for command-channel defense.
Approved.
The rest were stored for future network strikes.
Meanwhile, Madam Wen Suli’s deeper interrogation revealed a phrase connected to Dawn Benevolence Foundation:
The Dawn does not steal children.
It purchases the gratitude that makes them walk willingly.
This sentence made Qin Yuheng’s expression turn cold.
Dawn Benevolence was not merely buying data.
It specialized in voluntary surrender shaped by gratitude.
That was harder to fight than chains.
The next target would not be an obvious prison.
It would be a place where children smiled while being led away.