Chapter 443: Black Myth: Shuyao Laomu

Orochimaru revealed a look of surprise; he had also been to that ruined town and had not discovered any aura emitted by a boss.

Although he did not like Orochimaru,

Akainu was clear that since a cooperation had already been reached, some intelligence did not need to be concealed. He said with a serious expression, "Although you killed the Black Wind Mountain Bandit and it barely counts as a boss-level dark monster, it was a pseudo-boss contaminated by the black blood of the 【Centipede Immortal】 on the third floor."

His tone held a slight disdain, meaning: don't think that killing the Black Wind Mountain Bandit makes you all that impressive.

Orochimaru asked with interest, "Could it be that there are other differences?"

"True bosses do not wander the Black Fog Wilderness at will; they all have their own territories."

Akainu sneered, "Furthermore, just like an emperor, they have countless dark monsters guarding them. If you don't kill the boss, those dark monster guards will continuously revive and fight until they drag you down."

Orochimaru frowned slightly and did not speak.

This type of boss battle mode, while difficult, had appeared before; the initial Underworld wanderer Sarina and the Vampire Baron were both emperor-style bosses that possessed territories.

But listening to Akainu's tone, it was clear there was still remaining intelligence.

"The most special thing about a Black Myth boss is that at the very center of the monster's territory, it is not the boss's true body, but a portal!"

Akainu's expression was serious; he did not continue speaking, but instead took out a contract.

Team Contract (Tier 2).

Once the content of the contract is violated, one will suffer a severe backlash. The power of the backlash can destroy Orochimaru's soul and shell; the light result is being heavily injured and dying, the heavy result is direct death.

The subsequent intelligence was all exchanged for the lives of over a dozen Navy scouts by the Navy Alliance.

Among them, four returned after clearing the Yellow Springs Mission, the rest were still trapped on the Huangquan Lu executing missions, and two had already been confirmed dead.

The cost of cultivating scouts and the Reward Points consumed were no less than those for ordinary combat players.

They were even more.

As far as he knew, only if Orochimaru agreed to sign the Team Contract would Akainu have the obligation to reveal the information that followed.

"The Navy Alliance can rest assured; I will not go back on what I have promised!"

Orochimaru's smile remained unchanged as he pricked his finger and dripped blood onto the Team Contract.

A faint, ethereal power of the contract wrapped around him like a thread; it would not cause any trouble in daily life, but once the content of the contract was violated, the power of the contract would take effect.

The power of the contract came from the rules of the Samsara Game, or one could say, the rules of the game merchant Fang Yi.

Even if Orochimaru broke through to 【Third Tier】, he would be unable to break free and would similarly need to endure the backlash of the contract's power.

Unless a player could surpass the game merchant.

Was that possible? Although the game merchant had never restrained the growth of a player's strength and had even helped without sparing any effort, it was precisely because of this that players were all the more clear about the massive chasm in strength between them and Fang Yi.

"Hmph, I still trust the contract more."

Akainu cursed inwardly; did he really think the Navy Alliance's Information Department was a pushover?

A slight investigation was enough to know that Orochimaru was notorious: first cooperating with the Sand, then assassinating them, then sowing discord between Konoha and the Daimyo, framing Hiruzen Sarutobi to usurp the country, and finally killing the Daimyo.

He was simply a two-faced, shameless paradigm.

If placed in the Pirate World, he would absolutely be the most despicable and shameless vicious Pirate.

It was just that since the other party was willing to sign the contract, there was no need for him to look for more trouble by exposing the other party's scandals and tearing off the mask.

After all, the Navy Alliance and Orochimaru would soon be attacking the newly discovered Dark Gold boss.

Orochimaru asked, "Can you say it now? I've been looking forward to it for half a day."

"After the Navy scouts risked their lives to rush into the portal, they were transported to a special space."

Akainu frowned, thinking of the situation reported by the revived Navy scouts. The Navy scouts naturally did not have the ability to break through to the center of the boss's territory; being able to enter the portal relied entirely on stealth skills and Agility attributes, with several Navy scouts risking their lives to attract the dark monsters while the rest of the scouts rushed in.

"Inside the special space is a fragment of a space-time river."

"At first, the Navy scouts thought they had been transported to an ancient world, but as time gradually passed, in about three days, the entire Guobei County would be contaminated by dark power."

"Civilians who were originally without threat or aggression would transform overnight into the fallen, female ghosts, Buddha-demons..."

"According to investigations by several waves of Navy scouts, it was discovered that the source of the corruption was the Lan Ruo Si outside Guobei County, a terrifying Shuyao Laomu."

Speaking of this, even Akainu felt some apprehension, saying, "A preliminary judgment is that it is a 【Tier 2】 Dark Gold-level monster."

Orochimaru raised an eyebrow.

A Dark Gold-level monster?

The Abyss evil god that once nearly destroyed the ninja world was only Dark Gold-level; it was only by uniting most of the players in the ninja world, as well as the rescue from the Pirate World, that they had barely managed to kill it.

This Shuyao Laomu was actually a monster of the same level as the evil god.

No wonder the Navy Alliance would seek to cooperate with him.

They were willing to let outsiders have a portion of the game items dropped by the boss.

For a dark monster like Shuyao Laomu, even if it were Orochimaru plus all the top players of the Navy Alliance, the probability of being able to conquer it was not high.

Once the raid failed.

The dead players would be trapped on the Huangquan Lu and unable to act for a period of time.

However, after the Navy Alliance lost its top players, it would still have a large number of mid-level combat forces, which would be enough to take this opportunity to rapidly swallow up the 【Death Tower First Floor】.

Good calculation, good methods.

The Navy Alliance's think tank was quite formidable; if the raid succeeded, they could pick up the game items from Shuyao Laomu and improve the combat power of their top players.

If the raid failed, they could also have some gains.

Killing two birds with one stone; they wouldn't lose out regardless.

However, Orochimaru did not care about such things; the Fire Empire had long been forged by him into an iron bucket, and even if he disappeared for a period of time, if the Navy Alliance wanted to swallow it, they would have to pay a huge price.

At most, he would lose some peripheral maps, which was entirely within the range of losses he could bear.

Orochimaru said with a smile, "Let's go, to the territory of Shuyao Laomu. I am only a mercenary, so the money for the Giant Totem should be paid by the Navy Alliance, right?"

"Wait, the people haven't all arrived yet."

After passing the news of the successful cooperation with Orochimaru back to the Navy Alliance, after a period of time,

Three beams of teleportation light lit up.

"Are we leaving now? I still wanted to have a fight with Whitebeard first; he actually said my Iron Fist was inferior to his broken blade..."

Garp scratched his head and let out a loud laugh.

His muscles were as solid as steel with clear definition; his entire person looked like refined steel tempered a thousand times, and with every step he took, it felt as if he could crush the ground.

He looked Orochimaru over and asked skeptically, "You are Orochimaru, the strongest player of the Samsara Game? Just as Tsuru said, you don't look very likable."

Necromancy, curse arts, snake mastery...

These are all abilities that lean toward the dark attribute; if a player touches even one, the aura they emit will gradually lean toward the dark system.

Not to mention a 【Siling Sheshi】 like Orochimaru who possesses them all.

(End of this chapter)