Chapter 1746: Summoning

Seeing the content of the final mission, Su Xiao felt something was wrong. First of all, the Space-Time Core was a good thing for all contractors, capable of increasing World Source by 25% during world settlement, which had no small appeal to any contractor.

Su Xiao certainly couldn't use this thing to increase World Source; he needed to use it to complete the promotion mission, thereby promoting to the Fifth Tier.

The three-ring mission Su Xiao had received was actually a chain mission. The first ring, Ghost Ring, was to have him investigate the Ghost Ring force and weaken it, thereby preventing them from deploying Eye Chambers.

The second ring, Sixteen Eye Chambers, was to prevent the Eye Chambers from being activated as much as possible. After Su Xiao found the Eye Chambers, Harold would send people to destroy a portion first and then seal them.

If Su Xiao could directly destroy the core of the Eye Chambers, he would immediately complete the promotion mission. And how many Eye Chambers he sealed concerned the difficulty of the final stage of the mission. What made him somewhat puzzled was that he had only found seven Eye Chambers, yet the mission hint showed that nine had been sealed. The extra two Eye Chambers were unknown where they came from.

There was a connection between the sealed Eye Chambers and the Space-Time Core, after all, both originated from the same source. The more Eye Chambers Su Xiao found earlier, the greater the attraction to the Space-Time Core, and the range for searching for the Space-Time Core would also be reduced.

If Su Xiao found twelve Eye Chambers, then the range the Space-Time Core could move would be at most the size of a small town, and the difficulty of searching would be significantly reduced.

Over ten kilometers outside Zuer City, there was a small town named Badansha.

Thick chimneys stood in the town, yellowish thick smoke drifting obliquely into the high sky. Beneath the thick smoke, water droplets were falling, emitting a pungent odor.

There were many such small towns around Zuer City. Badansha Town had nothing special, but today, the town was dead silent.

The aroma of food drifted through the streets, yet the entire street was dead silent. Pedestrians lay scattered across the street, their eyes wide open, their skin gray and white, the veins on their necks bulging, like dried corpses.

A few drops of sewage fell from the sky, landing on the mouth and nose of a middle-aged woman. Even though the smell of these few drops of sewage was exceptionally pungent, she had no reaction. The turbid pupils indicated that this middle-aged woman had lost her life.

The town was very quiet. In a town with over a hundred thousand people like this, even if a virulent plague broke out, such a terrifying scene would not appear.

At the edges of the four directions of the town, four black pillars of light shot straight into the sky. Terrifying wailing sounds came from within these pillars, with both male and female voices, thousands of sounds mixed together simultaneously.

There were sixteen Eye Chambers in total. Su Xiao found seven, three had been activated in Zuer City, and Gulu found two, selling the intelligence to Harold. But even so, that was only twelve, and four Eye Chambers remained.

The remaining four Eye Chambers were in Badansha Town and had already been activated, forming a summoning array.

In the center of the town, a metal pillar full of eyeballs was stuck in the street. This was the core of the Eye Chambers.

Mr. J pressed one hand on the metal pillar. To get this thing, he not only changed camps, helping Sin infiltrate the Execution Agency headquarters, but also abandoned opportunities to profit multiple times in Zuer City.

Mr. J had originally wanted to obtain 【Ghost Treasure】, but when he was still 20 Codex Merits short, 【Ghost Treasure】 was exchanged by Su Xiao, so Mr. J had to settle for second best.

Mr. J's second opportunity to profit was when he learned of Madam Nancy's identity and activated a hidden mission, but Mr. J gave it up. Madam Nancy was someone around Su Xiao. If he continued to complete this hidden mission, he would be exposed to Su Xiao's sight.

Mr. J chose to endure. He would not forget the long blade surging with blue "electric light," as well as the experience of being pressed to the ground and slashed. Two arms and one leg were the price he paid in that battle. Even though he had recovered now, after paying the "tuition," he no longer considered melee combat with Su Xiao. He really couldn't beat him, personally tested.

The third opportunity was to assassinate Harold, which made Mr. J very hesitant. He knew Harold was a super old schemer. After observing for a period of time, he "happily" discovered that his former opponent had also become a veteran old schemer—an old schemer who could fight and was very difficult to calculate.

After learning of Sin's true purpose, Mr. J was stunned for a few seconds, but he immediately thought that this was an opportunity—an opportunity to avoid direct confrontation with Su Xiao and Harold to profit.

Mr. J's terrifying aspect was not how cunning he was, but that he was stable enough. Facing Su Xiao alone, if managed properly, Mr. J wouldn't retreat again and again. But if facing the combination of Su Xiao + Harold, Mr. J chose to avoid it; he didn't want to die yet.

Mr. J even suspected that if it weren't for the fact that Sin's true purpose was not very destructive, the other party might not have been able to leave Zuer City. Activating Eye Chambers in Zuer City was an extremely stupid act. There were two evil ghosts there. Wanting to complete the summoning array under the eyes of those two evil ghosts was simply impossible.

Rumble...

A trembling sensation came from the metal pillar. The corners of Mr. J's mouth under the mask curled up.

A pitch-black spatial vortex emerged. Mr. J stepped back slowly, waiting for the summoning array to complete.

A stream of gray-black energy surged out from the spatial vortex. At the same time this energy appeared, the black pillars of light at the four corners of the town disappeared simultaneously, and the life energy and souls within them gathered toward the center of the town.

In front of Mr. J, two red lights appeared within that mass of gray-black energy, like two eyeballs. This mass of energy had no fixed form, just floating in mid-air.

In an instant, life energy and hundreds of thousands of souls surged from all directions, quickly swallowed by that mass of gray-black energy.

In less than a few minutes, the life energy and over a hundred thousand souls were swallowed up. That mass of gray-black energy gathered into the form of a human upper body, while the lower body was drifting energy.

"My servant."

A low voice came from within the gray-black energy. This voice gave people a very strong sense of pressure.

"Oh Immortal King whom I believe in, I welcome your arrival."

Mr. J knelt on one knee, his expression under the mask "respectful."

"My servant, your ritual is not complete."

The Immortal King floated in mid-air, seemingly somewhat unwilling.

"Oh King whom I believe in, before summoning you here, I encountered no small resistance. I beg for your forgiveness."

Mr. J kept his head low, his shoulders trembling slightly. In the Immortal King's view, this was fear. In reality, Mr. J was holding back from laughing out loud.

"You have worked hard."

"Pfft~"

Mr. J couldn't help it, or rather, he did this on purpose.

"Hmm?"

The Immortal King was somewhat angry, and the surrounding temperature dropped significantly.

"Sorry, I really couldn't help it. Watching others perform hypocritically, holding back from laughing is very hard. Don't you think so, oh King whom I believe in, energy creature from the Void."

Mr. J looked up and met the Immortal King's gaze. At this moment, Mr. J's pupils were dark red, like magma flowing inside.

An ominous premonition appeared in the Immortal King's heart. Although his strength in the Void was just average, descending into this world, he was absolutely an invincible existence.

"Immortal King, I summoned a part of you from the Void to here. You should at least reward me with something, right?"

Mr. J, who was kneeling on the ground, stood up and pressed one hand on his mask.

"..."

The Immortal King slowly drifted backward. The summoning array hadn't disappeared, and the situation was somewhat wrong. He prepared to retreat. Although he was an "Evil God" now, in reality, there were too many powerful existences in the Void that could destroy him in minutes.

"Don't even think about it. Since you've arrived here, you must leave something behind. Immortal King? You dare to use this title? You dare to use this title in the Void? I heard that the Demon Race has an old guy called the Immortal King, but he has always been unwilling to admit to this title to avoid attracting too much attention. I suppose you also heard about this and borrowed this title, right? You say, if that terrifying old demon knew about this, would he casually pinch you to death?"

Mr. J looked at the "Immortal King" with great interest. That gaze... was like looking at something delicious.

"You are Purgatory..."

The Immortal King seemed to have thought of something, and his voice was not as dull as before. Being exposed while posturing was embarrassing enough, not to mention he wasn't in his peak state. The four Eye Chambers could only summon a part of him. Compared to the temptation of a world, he was willing to take this risk.

"Heh, he was swallowed by me long ago."

As soon as Mr. J's voice fell, he rushed toward the Immortal King. A blood-red mouth formed by flames appeared behind him. Inside this blood-red mouth were over a dozen rows of sharp teeth, the sharp teeth extending deep into the throat.

Over ten minutes later, Mr. J, covered in black wounds, picked up the metal mask on the ground and put it back on his face.

"This guy has a strange smell. I don't know which backwater energy creature in the Void he is, actually thinking 'Immortal King' is that old demon. It scared me so much I didn't dare to summon him. Heh."

Mr. J smiled self-deprecatingly. He tossed a black crystal the size of an egg in his hand.

"Space-Time Core? Someone's mission item? It wouldn't be... that guy's mission item, would it? If it can be tracked, that would be troublesome."

Mr. J's hand stiffened. A man holding a long blade and killing with great momentum immediately appeared in his mind. He suddenly felt that the Space-Time Core in his hand was somewhat "hot to the touch." ===== CHAPTER 1747 =====