Chapter 1242

One day later.

Yellow sand surged. On a vast desert, Su Xiao was traveling at high speed. With Amu, this 'self-propelled air conditioner', he couldn't feel the hot climate of the desert at all.

Su Xiao took out a needle. This thing was a green quality piece of equipment. It wouldn't point north, only in the same direction. With this thing, distinguishing direction was very simple.

Taking out the map for comparison, Su Xiao was already very close to the 'Seme Wetlands'. At his current speed, he would reach the God's Wall in less than 5 hours.

Su Xiao was somewhat fatigued, but he had no time to rest now. The stay time was getting shorter and shorter. If he couldn't increase the stay time, whether he could reach the ruins of the Shadow of Extinction was an unknown.

Besides the map of the Saint-Sodin Kingdom, Su Xiao also had a somewhat crude map of the Necromancer Empire.

The Necromancer race also had an empire, or rather, the towns in the territory of the Necromancer race were no fewer than those in human territory.

The capital of the Necromancer race was in the Dark Moon Swamp. Don't think that it was a wild land. Above the Dark Moon Swamp were large vines intertwined together, and on the vines was the capital of the Necromancer race.

In terms of machinery and construction, the technology of the Necromancer race far exceeded that of humans. As for farming, humans completely crushed the Necromancer race.

Su Xiao's destination this time was near the Dark Moon Swamp. He only knew the approximate location of the ruins of the Shadow of Extinction, and the specific location would have to be found after arriving at the Dark Moon Swamp.

Putting away the map, Su Xiao continued forward. Ahead was the 'Seme Wetlands'.

Four and a half hours later, Su Xiao passed through the 'Seme Wetlands'. The feeling this wetland gave him was that it was difficult to travel, with too many animals and plants.

Su Xiao's gaze looked into the distance, and a pitch-black sky wall appeared. The God's Wall had arrived.

The God's Wall separated the territories of humans and the Necromancer race. It wasn't all built of rock. Most of the God's Wall was built of rock, some areas were built of solid ice or non-flammable wood due to special geographical locations, and one of the most special sections of the God's Wall was even built of animal bones.

If the Necromancer race wanted to invade human territory, they had to break through the God's Wall. The Necromancer race wouldn't stretch the front line too long. They would only attack the God's Wall in a few areas, such as the Lulimas Snowfield area (where the Scorched Burning was located), the Kekebaya Gobi, and other regions.

The God's Wall in these locations had a common feature: it was difficult for humans to transport supplies there. Even if they could transport them, it would cost a lot of manpower and material resources.

Clearly, the God's Wall in the area where Su Xiao was located was not an area attacked by the Necromancer race, and he wouldn't choose that kind of area either.

Su Xiao wanted to go deep into the territory of the Necromancer race. Charging into the Necromancer army sounded very domineering, but in reality, it wasn't a wise choice.

On the contrary, Su Xiao found a section of the God's Wall that the Necromancer race was least likely to attack. The 'Seme Wetlands' had abundant supplies, so there was no difficulty in transportation there. The Necromancer race hadn't attacked here for hundreds of years.

Su Xiao traveled to the front of the God's Wall. As soon as he arrived under the wall, a horn sounded on the God's Wall.

"Person under the wall, stop!"

More than a dozen soldiers stood on the edge of the God's Wall, looking at Su Xiao with vigilance. These soldiers remained alert at all times, so Su Xiao was discovered as soon as he approached, which showed the overall quality of the Saint-Sodin Kingdom's army.

This section of the God's Wall was very peaceful, yet the soldiers here were so alert. If it were a location where war occurred all year round, how sharp would the soldiers there be?

Su Xiao took a roll of parchment out of his bosom. After finding a few stones to tie it on, he threw the parchment onto the hundred-meter-high stone wall.

The dozen or so soldiers on the wall subconsciously hid behind the wall enclosure, and a mechanical crossbow protruded from behind the wall enclosure, aiming at Su Xiao. About ten seconds later, the mechanical crossbow was dragged back.

"You are... Iron Hand?"

A soldier on the wall was full of disbelief. The biggest official he had ever seen was the legion commander in their area. As for a royal official like Iron Hand, he had only heard of it and didn't expect to see a living one today.

A large group of soldiers soon gathered on the wall and reported Su Xiao's arrival to their superiors. While doing all this, the soldiers on the wall lowered a rope ladder.

Su Xiao climbed up the rope ladder to the God's Wall. Hundreds of soldiers had already gathered on the God's Wall. They didn't believe in parchment at all. Unless their superiors confirmed it, they wouldn't relax their vigilance. Nearly a thousand years of war had made the Saint-Sodin Kingdom's army exceptionally elite.

"Lord Iron Hand, I wonder what you are doing at the front line?"

A small squad leader spoke. He really couldn't figure out what Su Xiao was doing here, and Su Xiao's aura made him very suspicious. The squad leader originally thought that Iron Hand's aura would be similar to an assassin's, with light blood energy but sharp eyes.

The situation now was not so. The squad leader detected very heavy blood energy on Su Xiao. Rather than saying Su Xiao was Iron Hand, the squad leader was more willing to believe that Su Xiao was a legion commander who had been killing enemies on the battlefield for more than ten years.

"Special mission."

After Su Xiao dealt with it casually, he walked to the other side of the God's Wall. No Necromancer race was found outside the wall, and everywhere he looked was a vast wasteland.

【Hint: The Hunter has activated the adventure group promotion assessment.】

Seeing this hint, the corners of Su Xiao's mouth curled up. He had stayed in the royal capital for so long but couldn't activate the adventure group promotion assessment. So, the only place that could activate the adventure group promotion assessment was the front-line battlefield.

According to Su Xiao's observation in the original world contact platform, most Contractors were on the front-line battlefield or near the royal capital, and only a few relatively unlucky Contractors were transmitted to some bird-not-laying-eggs places.

The first thing Contractors did after entering the original world was to think of ways to improve their status while obtaining benefits, so most Contractors chose to rush to the front-line battlefield. The way to improve status here was more direct: kill the enemy.

A small number of Contractors targeted the royal capital. If they wanted to enter the royal capital, they first needed to have a certain status, otherwise, entering the royal capital would also be soy-sauce-making, or even being wanted for suspicious identity.

It seemed that Su Xiao had done many things in the royal capital, but in reality, the time he stayed in the royal capital wasn't long. When he left the royal capital, other Contractors hadn't even entered the royal capital.

【Mark being generated...】

A burning sensation came from the back of Su Xiao's hand. Soon, a skull-like mark appeared on the back of his hand. The energy inside the mark made Su Xiao somewhat familiar, a bit similar to Necromancer power, but slightly different from Necromancer power.

【Necromancer positioning mark has been generated.】

【The Hunter has executed the adventure group promotion assessment count: 0 times.】

【The Hunter's stay time has been cleared, and you can return to the Reincarnation Paradise at any time (non-combat state).】

【Within ten minutes of the start of the assessment, the Hunter must enter the territory of the Necromancer race, otherwise 10,000 Paradise coins will be deducted every minute. If there are no Paradise coins to continue deducting, the Hunter will be forcibly expelled from this original world.】

【Timing has started. The assessment evaluation will be determined based on the Hunter's stay time in this world (stay time before accepting the assessment is not calculated).】

Su Xiao successfully activated the adventure group promotion assessment mission. Not only that, he also solved the problem of stay time. From now on, he didn't need to worry about how much stay time was left, but how long he could persist.

This sounded a bit strange, but connecting it to the mark on Su Xiao's hand, it wasn't strange at all.

'Necromancer positioning mark', at first glance, it was a mark to locate the Necromancer race, but in reality, it was the exact opposite. According to the content of the assessment, Su Xiao determined one thing: as long as the mark on his hand remained, some or all of the Necromancer race would continuously hunt him down.

These were all Su Xiao's guesses. If the guess was true, then his situation wouldn't be very optimistic. The worst case was being hunted down by the Necromancer army while looking for the ruins of the Shadow of Extinction.