Chapter 1397: Goddess of Dawn

Shengli Gate Fortress, in the stairwell from the fourth floor to the fifth floor, Su Xiao inserted the scabbard of Zhan Long Shan into his waist. The long sword returned to its sheath, and he walked toward the top of the stairs, holding D·Assassination flat.

The assistant followed behind Su Xiao, poking her head around. The assistant with a gun in her hand was very jumpy, but became a coward without a gun.

As Su Xiao stepped onto the steps, the charred smell coming from the fifth floor became more and more obvious.

At this moment, the fifth floor was already charred, several walls had been blown down, and several charred corpses lay on the ground.

Su Xiao fired a shot at each charred corpse. No matter how expensive the bullets of D·Assassination were, this was not the time to save bullets. If a charred corpse jumped up from the ground, even if he could solve this charred corpse, Su Xiao would waste a few seconds of precious time.

【You have killed Grand Commander Bilbom, you have earned 5 Samsara Paradise merits.】

Sure enough, there were enemies pretending to be corpses on the ground. After being shot by Su Xiao, they died on the spot.

Su Xiao had activated the detection function attached to the mission. At this time, God's Envoy Dubo Yisi was located in the innermost room on the fifth floor.

To kill Dubo Yisi, Su Xiao needed to cross the fifth floor and reach the innermost room. This sounded simple, but it was actually very difficult.

The fifth floor was the living quarters for Sun Kingdom officers. An official position above Grand Commander possessed inhuman combat power. Bishop, Dawn Bishop, God's Envoy—among these three official positions, perhaps not everyone had strong combat power, but over 60% had not-so-weak combat power.

For example, the Dubo Yisi Su Xiao was going to kill this time was a God's Envoy, whose status in the military was second only to the Grand God's Envoy.

There were two types of God's Envoys. One type ascended to the position of God's Envoy by seniority. This type of God's Envoy was good at leading troops in battle and had strong command and leadership abilities.

The second type of God's Envoy ascended by personal martial power. They had official positions but no real power, but they were also respected and responsible for solving some very tricky problems, or rather, they were the facade of the Divine Court.

Su Xiao didn't know what type of God's Envoy Dubo Yisi was for the time being, but he knew one thing: the officer dormitory on the fifth floor was definitely not easy to break into. Heaven knows how many Sun Kingdom officers were there.

An Apollo appeared in Su Xiao's hand. Previously, the assistant didn't know the function of Apollo, but after the previous events, she had personally experienced how terrifying Apollo was.

"No way, again."

The assistant groaned. She even wanted to jump out of the fortress from an observation port.

Su Xiao had just taken out Apollo when successive door-opening sounds came. A total of seven Sun Kingdom officers walked out of the rooms. They held various melee weapons, and their bodies had more or less blast marks. Some of the unluckier ones were missing limbs.

According to Su Xiao's preliminary observation, the officers who could maintain peak combat power might only be 4. The rest were either physically disabled or would kick the bucket at any time.

"God of Dawn, we gather here. Your will is on earth as it is in heaven. The dawn of the morning is holy, driving away all evil on earth..."

The seven Sun Kingdom officers chanted in unison. Their expressions were dull, their tones were uniform, and it was impossible to tell that seven people were chanting at the same time.

"Kill them!"

The assistant roared. From the time they met until now, Su Xiao had never seen the cheerful assistant have such an expression.

In fact, there was no need for the assistant to shout; Su Xiao had already raised the D·Assassination in his hand.

Pfft, pfft, pfft...

Bullet after bullet shot toward the heads of the officers. After a few crisp sounds, the heads of three half-disabled officers were shattered, and a silver barrier appeared in front of the remaining four, which imprisoned the bullets.

"With our blood as a medium, please descend in your true form, defend your divine power, and protect those who are pious to you."

The four officers raised their respective weapons and cut their own throats at the same time.

The throats of the four were cut open. There was no blood spraying; the wounds emitted pure white light particles, which was a kind of energy.

Su Xiao emptied the magazine of D·Assassination. He put away D·Assassination and stepped forward with his sword.

【Tip: Hunter has entered the field watched by the God of Dawn. Your Strength -20, Agility -20, Stamina -20, Charisma -20.】

【Detected that Hunter's Strength, Agility, and Intelligence attributes are real attributes, this debuff effect has been exempted.】

【Your Charisma attribute is temporarily reduced by 20 points.】

【Due to strong gravity suppression, your movement speed will be reduced by 50%–60%.】

【Due to unknown energy erosion, you will lose 6% of your health every second (originally 12%, Qing Gang Ying energy exempts part of the energy erosion).】

Su Xiao leaped backward one after another. The heavy pressure disappeared, the stinging pain all over his body also disappeared, and his health stopped sliding.

In mid-air, a mass of pure white energy gathered together, finally forming a heart.

Dong~

The heart beat, and the surrounding light flourished.

A moment later, a four-meter-high white phantom appeared on the fifth floor of the fortress. This was a phantom of a woman. Her appearance was blurry, and the most clearly manifested part was those hands.

"It's over."

The assistant took two steps back. She gritted her teeth and rushed in front of Su Xiao.

"Sir, I'll cover you. From the transparency, this thing won't last long. Its weakness is shadows. I have a way to drag it down. Wait for this thing to disappear before returning to the fifth floor to execute the mission."

It was obvious that the assistant had seen this white phantom before. She had developed depression, which was not because of the death of her partner, but because the good friends in the same squad had all died at the hands of this phantom.

"This thing... about how long can it last."

Su Xiao looked up and down at the phantom, and a smile appeared on his face.

The assistant clearly didn't expect Su Xiao to have such an expression as a smile. Her mouth opened and closed, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.

"About... three minutes to five minutes."

"Is that so? Then we must seize the time."

"Yes, the mission is the most important..."

Su Xiao pushed the assistant away and walked toward the phantom.

"Hey~"

The assistant's expression was somewhat brilliant. She had made a great determination to come out to cover the rear.

Pfft, pfft...

The four officers fell to the ground, and blood began to spray from their necks. The phantom turned its head to look at the four fallen officers. It waved its hand, and the wounds on the necks of the four officers were wrapped in white light, slowly healing.

Su Xiao's forward pace became faster and faster, and finally, he rushed forward at full speed.

During the rush, Su Xiao felt that he had penetrated a thin film. After passing through this film, stinging pain came from all over his body, and his speed dropped sharply.

The phantom turned its head. It sighed, as if pitying Su Xiao, but it looked at Su Xiao as if looking down at an ant.

The phantom's mouth opened and closed silently. Its entire body emitted white light. This light was like the morning sun rising in the early morning.

A spicy burning sensation came from the body surface. Counter-attack shields floated around Su Xiao. He slashed forward with his sword, and a blade light flew out.

The blade light slashed across the phantom's neck, passing through without any obstruction. It looked like it hadn't caused any impact on the phantom. This thing was almost impossible to be hurt by physical attacks unless the attack intensity exceeded a certain limit.

Su Xiao's health slid down like flowing water, sliding to 70% in less than 3 seconds. This was still considering his survival ability. If an ordinary fourth-tier contractor approached this thing, they would lose their life in less than 5 seconds.

This phantom was summoned by the four Sun Kingdom officers. From the four light chains connected to them, the movement range of this thing was very limited.

The reason Su Xiao rushed forward was not because his reckless soul was burning, but because he sensed that this phantom was a large mass of life energy gathered together.

If it were another type of enemy with this strength, Su Xiao would never fight hard, but as for an enemy formed by life energy...

The phantom didn't have much emotional fluctuation. It was a carrier of a certain consciousness. In this world, that consciousness was called the Goddess of Dawn, the god worshipped by the Sun Kingdom.

The phantom didn't seem to care much about Su Xiao. When Su Xiao rushed to five meters in front of it, it waved its hand.

With a swish, dense light blades swept past Su Xiao. The counter-attack shield shattered instantly, and seven deep-to-the-bone wounds appeared on Su Xiao's upper body.

Su Xiao's figure suddenly disappeared, and when he appeared again, he was already in front of the phantom. Blue smoke wrapped around his left arm, and his left arm had already pressed on the phantom's lower abdomen.

The phantom's body paused. It turned its ten fingers into claws, intending to grab Su Xiao, but it was still, motionless.

"I heard, you are the God of Dawn?"

Red light appeared in his eyes, and Su Xiao, whose left side was wrapped in blue smoke, looked up.

"Ah!!"

The eerie scream spread throughout the fortress. The phantom was no longer like a god; the "god" was screaming.

A blue phantom appeared behind Su Xiao. This thing almost represented the Blade Demon.

The Blade Demon phantom's eyes were blood-red, and its mouth opened to an exaggerated extent, larger than its head.

The Blade Demon phantom bared its full mouth of fangs and took a bite at the white light phantom, directly biting off the white light phantom's head and swallowing it.

The "god's" phantom twitched again, and then it didn't move.

PS: (Today's update is a bit late, mainly because writing six chapters a day is under huge pressure. Tomorrow, the update will resume at 6:00 PM.) ===== CHAPTER 1398 =====