Chapter 1983

The cat-woman walked on tiptoe on the metal frame. Below her was a bottomless sinkhole. An ordinary person would definitely feel their legs go weak just by taking one look down.

The cat-woman's pace was steady. She walked to the cabinet with a cat-like gait. The three braids behind her bent, and lock-picking needles probed into the cabinet. Through the crystal layer above the cabinet, she had already seen the Will Rune Stone.

Click, click...

Gears rubbed, and the cabinet popped open.

Ding, ding, ding...

A dozen sharp glints flashed. The cat-woman used the fine blades at the tips of her braids to cut a dozen silk threads, ensuring that when the cabinet's small steam door flipped open, it wouldn't touch the metal wires above.

The cat-woman's braids wrapped around those dozen metal wires to ensure they wouldn't trigger the mechanism.

Scalding steam spread, and the cat-woman was just about to raise her hand to grab the Will Rune Stone.

Bang!

A muffled sound came, as if something had smashed onto the cabinet, and the Will Rune Stone disappeared the next moment.

Click-clack...

The metal supports below made a teeth-grinding friction sound, and the next moment they collapsed with a crash, dense, thin steel beams falling into the sinkhole.

Because the cat-woman's braids were still entangled with the metal wires, she was left hanging in mid-air by her hair. The cabinet in front of her also fell into the sinkhole with a boom. After falling to a certain depth, steam sprayed out from under the cabinet, helping it decelerate to avoid damaging the items inside.

Hiss.

The steam door of Storage Room No. 3 opened, and Moon Apostles rushed in. Before they rushed in, the cat-woman put her hands together, and her whole body became transparent.

"Hmph."

The cat-woman felt something step on her head, as if it were using her to leap forward. She could even feel some soft paw pads.

Now the cat-woman had two choices: 1. Die here and keep all secrets; 2. Surrender and live by betraying her benefactor.

The cat-woman's braids loosened from the metal wires. She chose to die to keep the secret.

Boom!

A loud noise came, and the cat-woman felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, after which she knew nothing.

A huge hole appeared on the stone wall of the sinkhole. A shirtless man with bulging muscles stood in the hole, holding the unconscious cat-woman. His speed and strength were truly too strong, so strong that the cat-woman didn't even have a chance to react.

At the Pontlock Grand Hotel.

The atmosphere at the banquet was quite good—no, the atmosphere in most areas was quite good, except for this entertainment room where Su Xiao and the Moon Goddess were.

Just an hour ago, perhaps to ease the tense relationship between the two sides, the Flower of the Empire, Sonia, proposed that Su Xiao, the Moon Goddess, the little adjutant, Tree Wolf, and Sonia herself engage in a post-meal entertainment activity: playing cards, a type of card game called Edara. The rules were simple, mainly testing luck and IQ.

10 minutes after the start, the little adjutant and Tree Wolf were self-isolating. 20 minutes later, Sonia couldn't take it anymore. The atmosphere became subtle from then on. In the post-meal entertainment activity with a base bet of 200 gold pounds per game, the little adjutant lost 15,520 gold pounds, Tree Wolf lost 17,530 gold pounds, and Sonia lost 13,750 gold pounds.

Su Xiao flipped over three cards: Executioner, Moon, and Blue Sparrow Vine. This was the last game, and both he and the Moon Goddess had bet all their stakes, with a total amount of 57,800 gold pounds.

"What a pity, Mr. Kukuline. The Goddess still favors me tonight."

The smiling Moon Goddess was just about to flip over her cards when the door was pushed open, and a Moon Apostle walked quickly to her side and whispered something.

"Excuse me for a moment."

The Moon Goddess walked to the entertainment room. Sonia and Tree Wolf looked at each other.

"Need to pee."

Tree Wolf also got up and left.

"Aren't you going?"

Su Xiao glanced at Sonia. Sonia said "excuse me" and also hurried away.

"It seems they've been robbed again. Even after Eagle Marquis died, they didn't let them go. What kind of grudge is this?"

The little adjutant was a bit gloating. When the Ninth Unit was in bad luck, the Moon Goddess Monastery was one of the culprits.

Su Xiao pushed all the gold pounds on the table to the little adjutant. He was in a very good mood now. The little adjutant didn't know what politeness was and filled all her pockets with banknotes and gold coins.

A full half hour passed, and the Moon Goddess still hadn't returned, only sending Sonia to deliver a message.

Su Xiao took the little adjutant and Baja and left the banquet hall. After returning to the residential house, he locked the door and walked into the bedroom.

Bubu Wang was lying on the bed in the bedroom playing with its phone. Its mission was successfully completed.

Su Xiao took the 【Will Rune Stone】 from the team storage space, and the Reincarnation Paradise prompt appeared.

【Awakening Mission: Secret of Listening - Second Ring (Completed).】

【Will Rune Stone is being notarized...】

【Notarization completed.】

【Will Rune Stone】

Origin: Moon God World (Unique)

Quality: Epic

Category: Equipment/Disposable Item

Durability: 30/30

Equipment Requirement: None.

Usage Requirement: None.

Equipment Effect: Will Protection (Passive). When carrying this equipment, you can exempt some external will interference, intrusion, etc.

Usage Effect: After using this rune stone, you can significantly improve soul resilience for a period of time, thereby reducing soul damage, impact, etc.

Prompt: Effect lasts for 30 minutes.

Prompt: Will Rune Stone will disappear after use.

Rating: 700+

Introduction: Originally an item used when praying to gods, until one day...

Price: 390,000 Paradise Coins.

【Prompt: The Hunter has obtained the Will Rune Stone, and the third ring of the Awakening Mission has been activated.】

【Awakening Mission: Commander's Wrath (Third Ring)】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 48

Mission Requirement 1: Kill Earth Dragon - Tamen and obtain Earth Dragon Blood (Killing Earth Dragon - Tamen has a 100% chance to drop a treasure chest; Earth Dragon Blood is the basic reward for this chest).

Mission Requirement 2: Kill Soul Speaker and obtain Moon Hair (Killing Soul Speaker has a 100% chance to drop a treasure chest; Moon Hair is the basic reward for this chest).

Mission Requirement 3: Kill Gatekeeper - Frank and obtain Key to the City of Earth (Killing Gatekeeper - Frank has a 100% chance to drop a treasure chest; Key to the City of Earth is the basic reward for this chest).

Mission Deadline: 7 days

Mission Reward: Soul Source (High purity, unique resource of this world)

Mission Penalty: Forced execution

Seeing the mission information for the third ring, Su Xiao breathed a long sigh of relief. Finally, a simple and brutal mission had arrived.

Compared to the third ring mission, the first two rings were simply pit-traps. If it weren't for Su Xiao's thinking ability rising linearly due to long-term training, he would likely have been stuck in the first ring mission.

Searching for the Soul Speaker, apart from this simple clue, the first ring mission didn't even have the most basic prompt. As for the second ring, it was equally pit-trapping. Searching for the Will Rune Stone also had no clues, and everything had to be found and speculated by Su Xiao himself.

And by the third ring, the content of the mission became clear. Just kill three people.

Su Xiao closed the mission list and got up to walk out of the residential house. He rushed to the original station of the Ninth Unit overnight. The Soul Speaker was imprisoned here.

Thousands of soldiers were guarding near the Ninth Unit building. These soldiers were borrowed by Su Xiao from the old Holy King.

After entering the abandoned building, Su Xiao headed straight for the underground passage, passed through the underground hall, and entered the underground prison.

With a boom, the iron door of the underground prison was pulled open. Hearing the sound, the Soul Speaker, who was being held in the dungeon, looked up.

"It's you."

The Soul Speaker stood up with eyes full of anger, grabbing the iron bars with both hands.

With a click, Su Xiao opened the dungeon door. The Soul Speaker was clearly a bit stunned and subconsciously took a few steps back. This time she had learned to be smart and said nothing to avoid being used by Su Xiao again.

Su Xiao drew the Dragon Flash from his waist and thrust the long sword forward.

Hiss!

The long sword pierced the Soul Speaker's throat with lightning speed. If it weren't for the mission requirements, Su Xiao wouldn't have bothered to talk nonsense with this old woman at all.

The Soul Speaker grabbed the long sword, making gurgling sounds in her throat, and blood flowed down from the corners of her mouth.

"You cannot... blaspheme the gods... I'm sorry, Aya, sorry..."

The Soul Speaker's voice grew lower. Su Xiao pulled out the long sword with a swish, and the Soul Speaker fell to the ground and died with a thud.

【You have killed the Soul Speaker.】

【You have obtained a treasure chest (Purple).】

【You have obtained 1.7% of the World's Source.】

【Warning: Moon Goddess Monastery reputation permanently decreased by 3,000 points. Current reputation: -9,600 points (Dead Enemy).】