Chapter 1949

One by one, the demon beasts stepped on their companions to climb up the stone wall, while blue-green "meteors" streaked across the sky, flying into the Burning Fire Highlands.

"Kill all these alien races!"

Nearly a thousand Sun Warriors on the stone wall roared, but they forgot one thing: they were actually the invaders of this world. This planet was called the Thorn Insect Star by the Void Tree, which already explained many things.

Countless demon beasts climbed onto the stone wall and engaged in a bloody battle with the Sun Warriors.

Fifteen minutes after the battle began, a three-hundred-meter section of the stone wall collapsed with a boom. More than 20,000 Sun Warriors hidden behind the wall charged out, catching the demon beast army off guard.

In this kind of siege warfare, success depends on numbers and overall quality. Now, the Sun Tribe was being attacked from both the front and the rear. Their 120,000 Sun Warriors were divided into two groups: one to block the Marge faction and the other to block Su Xiao's faction. The remaining 170,000 regular combatants were mixed in with the Sun Warriors.

One hour after the battle on the outer perimeter began, flames rose nearby, igniting a large number of wooden tents and scorching the corpses of demon beasts and Sun Warriors.

The first wave of Sun Warriors was beaten back, retreating to the high ground of the second line of defense, at least one kilometer away.

Good news also came from Marge's side; her Zerg troops had also breached the outer wall.

Su Xiao stood on the broken stone wall. He did not need to go to the front line and could simply wait for the battle reports. The 200,000-strong demon beast army had already charged toward the highland area, while the remaining demon beasts were clearing the nearby battlefield to ensure no fish slipped through the net.

A stone house nearly eight meters high caught Su Xiao's eye. He arrived at the main entrance of the stone house; this was likely the residence of some priest.

There was a fairly large square in front of the stone house, and nearby were some low stone houses and burning wooden tents.

Soon, tens of thousands of demon beasts formed a defensive line in the surrounding area, making this a buffer zone for their side. War is not about rushing forward blindly, but about advancing step by step and preparing retreat routes.

Just as Su Xiao occupied the outer stone house square, a prompt from Reincarnation Paradise appeared.

【Contractors are about to be transmitted to this world. Location: Highland Area.】

Seeing the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao knew those contractors were in for bad luck. They were being transmitted directly to the front line of the battlefield. However, his side currently held a great advantage; otherwise, none of these contractors would survive, let alone take the opportunity to reap benefits.

Below the highland area, the sounds of fighting were incessant as 200,000 demon beasts and Sun Warriors fought in a chaotic mass.

*Puchi, puchi... *

Sharp weapons hacked into carapaces. A Sun Warrior, face covered in insect blood, had just tried to catch his breath when three demon beasts lunged at him.

*Whoosh—*

Blue-green fireballs fell from the sky, exploding among the crowd. Although the Sun Warriors did not fear high temperatures, they could not withstand the corrosiveness of the flammable liquid.

Flames, the smell of blood, the stench of burning, shouts of battle, and screams—this was the battlefield, like a giant meat grinder, throwing all participants into it to be shredded.

Near a large pile of demon beast corpses, spatial fluctuations occurred, and more than two hundred contractors appeared out of thin air.

*Boom! *

A biological shell exploded in the area near them, splashing blue-green flames. Most of these contractors fell to the ground.

"Holy crap! Is this a reward world?"

A contractor looked around at the battlefield, his expression somewhat dazed.

"This is... a Fifth Tier world! Does Reincarnation Paradise want us dead?"

"The enemy is coming, many of them, at least several thousand!"

A sensory-type girl shouted, pointing at a group of demon beasts charging over.

Seeing these demon beasts, not to mention the Third Tier contractors, even the Fourth Tier contractors were shocked, their blood nearly running cold with fear.

One by one, the demon beasts rushed past these contractors; a few even hissed at them, the meaning seemingly: "Why aren't you charging forward?"

"These... are our own troops!"

A Fourth Tier contractor smiled very reluctantly.

"Our own troops are a bit fierce. Looking at their attributes, they are Zerg."

"If I'm not mistaken, our reward is to follow behind their butts, find isolated enemies to surround and kill, and then exchange for rewards with the Quartermaster using battle merits."

A bespectacled man spoke. After all, they were contractors of Reincarnation Paradise; after the initial shock, they immediately calmed down.

"This reward... is truly Reincarnation Paradise."

"Stop talking nonsense, follow them and charge... right?"

The contractor who spoke looked up at the sky. Dense blue fireballs were flying overhead; conservatively estimated, there were tens of thousands of them, blocking the sky. This contractor was certain he couldn't withstand even one of those things.

"Look over there!"

A contractor shouted, pointing at a dozen Sun Warriors who were severely injured and isolated.

Seeing this, dozens of contractors rushed forward.

One minute later, these contractors were beaten back. They "happily" discovered that this was a world where everyone was a small boss. Fortunately, killing one enemy soldier was worth 100 battle merits, which was a 50% increase in kill rewards.

A mature woman looked into the distance, where there were many 100-battle-merit rewards.

"Giving you a basic piece of intelligence: don't dream of dealing with Sun Warriors alone. Cooperate with the demon beasts to deal with them; battle merits will not be reduced."

A somewhat gloomy contractor spoke. As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared into the shadows. Cold on the outside, warm on the inside—that's the type of person he was.

The contractors soon dispersed across the battlefield. After reaping battle merits, a dozen charm-type contractors immediately moved toward the rear of the war zone. They wanted to go and befriend the Quartermaster first; what awaited them was a dog official.

On the edge of the battlefield, five contractors were hiding in a wooden tent. These five formed a temporary squad.

"Does this world only have main quests? Can we complete it by winning the war? Hmm, this should be part of the reward."

A burly man spoke. As a Fourth Tier contractor and part of the upper echelon of the Fourth Tier, he had a lot of say in the squad, or rather, his strength ranked in the top ten among the 200+ contractors in this world.

"It's not just war quests."

A girl named Mina spoke. She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old and was very energetic.

Mina pondered for a moment and continued: "This should be a temporary event, a very grand campaign involving three parties. If I'm not mistaken, the three parties might have been planning this campaign for a month or even longer."

Hearing Mina's words, the four people, including the burly man, nodded in agreement. In fact, the start of this campaign was much simpler than they imagined. The general process was as follows:

Su Xiao asked Marge if they should join forces; Marge agreed, and the next morning, the full-scale war began.

"That's right. In a war involving three major forces, we can just reap some benefits. We cannot participate in events that are too important. Any elite unit could wipe us all out."

When the burly man said this, he sighed helplessly, his expression melancholy. He was also a figure in the Fourth Tier, but just a moment ago, he saw an elite demon beast and probed some of its attributes. This monster was a boss in the Fourth Tier!

What was even more deadly was that there were thousands of such bosses on his side, and tens of thousands on the total battlefield! As for how terrifying the more elite combatants and leaders of the three parties were, the burly man was too lazy to think about it. That had nothing to do with him; encountering such freaks meant death either way.

"Just now, we were talking about triggering quests."

Mina spoke, signaling the other four to listen to her first. Through preliminary cooperation, she had temporarily acted as the decision-maker, though not the leader.

"To trigger quests, there are only two feasible ways: first, go to the rear of the war zone to find the Blue Steel King; second, encounter low-probability events."

Mina looked around at the other four, all of whom expressed agreement.

"Interrupting for a second."

A man in a white shirt raised his hand and spoke.

"What would happen if we went to challenge the Blue Steel King?"

The white-shirted man grinned, revealing white teeth, very much in the style of a Reincarnation Paradise contractor.

"We would die."

"Are you blind? Can't you see the red warning prompt? That's one of the three ultimate bosses of the Residual Sun Campaign."

"Just saying it casually. Shall we go see the Blue Steel King? If Mina licks him well enough, maybe we can trigger a quest. Otherwise, Mina, you go seduce him."

The white-shirted man smiled even more brightly, his potential for madness clearly revealed.

"We must see him. Better to go now than later."

"Then let's go."

The five contractors left the wooden tent somewhat sneakily, moving quickly toward the rear of the war zone. Along the way, they saw several waves of demon beasts reinforcing the front line.

Behind the battlefield, in a stone house at the temporary outpost.

Su Xiao sat on the back of an elite demon beast. This broken tribe really had no chairs, so he could only use the demon beast as a stool. However, this was not the first time this elite demon beast had served as a stool for Su Xiao, and its four claws stood very steadily.

The war was going smoothly. Under the pincer attack from his side's demon beasts and the Marge faction, the Sun Tribe could hold out for at most one day before being wiped out, provided that other totem tribes did not come to reinforce them.

Just as Su Xiao was organizing the battle reports fed back by Zhila in his mind, the demon beasts at the door stood up one after another. A contractor squad was approaching. As members of their own side, the demon beasts did not block them.

"Hello, I am..."

Mina, the representative of the five-person squad, stood in front of the stone house door. As soon as she spoke, she met a pair of sharp eyes.

Mina's body stiffened for a moment. The moment they locked eyes, she felt that the other party could cut off her head at any time.

Mina took a deep breath. The target she was about to negotiate with was a ruthless man who used a boss as a stool. When the other party was more than ten meters away from her, she could smell the faint scent of blood.

"There are some things that need to be done. You can go now."

Su Xiao used the authority of Reincarnation Paradise to issue a quest to the newcomers.

Mina was stunned upon hearing this. The next moment, she received a prompt from Reincarnation Paradise.

【Prompt: You have contacted an important plot character, Blue Steel King.】

【Prompt: You have triggered the campaign quest: Deep Behind Enemy Lines.】

【Campaign Quest: Deep Behind Enemy Lines】

Difficulty Level: lv. 37

Quest Brief: Infiltrate the enemy's rear and find out the location of the Great Leader, Gulaba.

Quest Duration: 10 hours

Quest Reward: 3800 battle merit points.

Quest Penalty: Forced execution.

Seeing the quest reward, Mina's heart felt not joy, but collapse. For a Fourth Tier contractor, a quest difficulty of lv. 37 could easily lead to a total wipeout.

Obviously, Su Xiao had a misconception; when he was in the Fourth Tier, he often performed quests with a difficulty above lv. 37.

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