Chapter 2217

As soon as Lord Rat's voice fell, the bird-man with the metal box floating beside him rushed forward, heading straight into the dense forest.

"Don't let that bird-man run away!"

A roar came, and compared to this roar, Su Xiao's speed was faster. He directly swept out a blue afterimage and rushed behind the bird-man.

Sensing the blood aura behind him, the bird-man was secretly shocked.

Zing!

The blade tore through the air, and the crisp sound of the long blade being drawn came.

The bird-man, covered in white feathers like an angel, reacted extremely quickly. He immediately turned around and raised his wings. The feathers on his wings showed a metallic texture under the reflection of the sun.

Pfft~

The long blade slashed into the wings. At this moment, all the feathers on the bird-man's body stood up. His expression was distorted, and a burst of energy instantly accumulated in his hand, preparing to blast toward Su Xiao.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao's pupils contracted slightly. He stepped forward and delivered a straight kick with extreme speed.

Bang!

The air wave spread, and the energy in the bird-man's hand dissipated. He instinctively blocked with his wings, staggering back two steps, because Su Xiao's kick just now had caused most of his body to lose sensation, and the muscles all over his body seemed to be wailing.

This was the consequence of being caught in a flaw by Su Xiao. Su Xiao was always in a state of high vigilance. This was the Strongest Contention, after all. But after fighting this bird-man, he had a very strange feeling—the opponent seemed a bit weak.

With a swish, the long blade slashed past, and half a wing and a head with a stunned face flew up.

Thump.

The headless corpse fell to the ground, the bird-man's fingers twitched twice, and he went cold.

"That's it?"

Su Xiao muttered, looked at the blade in his hand, and then looked at the crowd who were about to charge.

Suddenly, the open space in front of the forest was silent, including the female Feather Race member wearing black feathered clothes. She quietly retreated a few steps. In her judgment, perhaps only her brother, who was also participating in the Strongest Contention, could fight the monster in front and win.

"Surround and attack him."

A shout came, the same voice that had shouted "agreed" in the abandoned hall before. This guy's concealment ability was quite strong; he had shouted twice, and Su Xiao still hadn't found where he/she was.

Ice suddenly exploded, spreading in all directions. Su Xiao picked up the metal box on the ground and just wanted to put it into his storage space when a prompt appeared—this thing could not be stored in the storage space.

With Amu's cover, Su Xiao rushed to the forest. He had just wanted to test the waters, but who knew that the bird-man's strength was so different from what he had expected. Therefore, he decided to take the metal box first; this was safer. Advanced alchemy formulas were hard to come by.

Just as Su Xiao was about to rush into the forest, the metal box in his hand suddenly disappeared.

"Amu."

As soon as Su Xiao finished speaking, the surrounding ice suddenly shattered into ice crystals, and a figure fell to the ground. She was wearing a thin gauze dress with pointed ears—it was the Dream Spirit Race girl.

Large pieces of ice chips splashed, and the other participants shattered the ice, their gazes all looking at the Dream Spirit Race girl.

"That wasn't me!"

A shout came, and the person who made the shout was also wearing a thin gauze dress with pointed ears. She was the real Dream Spirit Race, and the one who had stolen the metal box was Vago, disguised as a Dream Spirit.

"Heh~"

Vago leaped up, her figure changing rapidly. After transforming into a falcon in mid-air, she left a wisp of electric arc and disappeared.

At the same time Vago disappeared, Su Xiao, Amu, and Baja also disappeared into the forest. As for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, it was sitting on the mechanical war chariot, tilting its head and looking at Lord Rat.

"Give it up, I'm not representing Reincarnation Paradise this time."

Lord Rat waved its claws. On the back of its hand, obscured by fur, a tree-shaped mark could be vaguely seen.

"Woof~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's expression was a bit "low." It took a bottle of wine out of its storage space, but immediately put it away.

"The 'Margaya' unique to the Pirate World?"

Lord Rat swallowed, staring straight at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang.

Margaya, Epic-level, has no buff effects. It reached Epic-level entirely by the quality of the wine itself. If there were buffs after drinking it, the quality of Margaya would be greatly discounted.

The introduction of Margaya is very interesting: "For those who are addicted to alcohol, Margaya is the whole world." And Lord Rat was addicted to alcohol.

"Woof~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang jumped off the mechanical war chariot. Seeing this, Lord Rat also leaped down.

"Let's talk, Xiang Bubu."

The intersection between Lord Rat and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had to be traced back to when Su Xiao was at the Void Arena. That time, Lord Rat received a commission from Reincarnation Paradise to sit in the Void Arena, confronting the Mage Sage Serphilia of Arcane Eternal Star, helping Su Xiao block this Mage Sage.

It was at that time that Lord Rat and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang met, but they basically had no friendship.

"Woof!"

"Thirsty as hell, this damn weather is too hot. If I could go for a swim in the sea..."

Lord Rat pulled its collar, its words meaningful.

"Achoo~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang sneezed, and the Margaya flew out of its storage space.

After doing all this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran into the forest happily. Lord Rat picked up the Margaya from the ground, pulled out the cork, and drank several large gulps.

"Ha~, refreshing!"

Lord Rat's fingers tapped the mechanical war chariot, and the chariot changed its appearance rapidly, eventually turning into a metal ball the size of a basketball.

Inside the forest, Su Xiao stopped in front of a circular lake. The metal box he had just snatched was called the 【Box of Sealing】, which could only be opened after the first round of contention ended.

Unfortunately, the 【Box of Sealing】 had been stolen by Vago, and Su Xiao suspected that Vago was a fake name.

As for the rules of the first round of the Strongest Contention, kill one person to get 1 point, top five advance. But don't think that hiding all the time will get you eliminated and thus obtain the "consolation prize" from the Tree of Void.

Twilight Island is not big, not small, and half of the area is forest.

All participants must obtain 1 point within three days to have the qualification to be eliminated. Once it's 0 points after three days, they will be executed by the Tree of Void.

In other words, among nearly a hundred participants, even in the most peaceful result, half will lose their lives. The Strongest Contention is not a martial arts competition or an arena battle; participating in the Strongest Contention requires fighting with one's life.

And Su Xiao also discovered that he had misunderstood one thing: the participants in the Strongest Contention were not necessarily all similar in strength to him. There were many participation quotas on the Void side.

In the Void, besides the big races, some small and medium-sized races were not as good at fighting as imagined. Some were clearly here to get a guaranteed reward for their own race.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao's thoughts became much clearer. At least at the current stage, he didn't need to calculate against the old schemers; he just needed to clear the field as much as possible. The danger was likely in the second stage, third stage, and fourth stage. As for the fifth stage, which is the ten-strongest contention, that is the most dangerous link, there is no doubt about that.

Su Xiao looked at a piece of seven-colored fabric in his hand; this was what he had slashed off Vago.

After waiting for a few minutes, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang returned and conveyed Lord Rat's words to Su Xiao.

"Thirsty? Weather too hot? Sea?"

Su Xiao directly ignored the "thirsty" part and pondered what "weather too hot" and "sea" expressed. Given the style of the Violent Rat, it wouldn't lie to get wine.

Pondering for a moment, Su Xiao felt that "weather too hot" was just a cover, and the "sea" afterward was the key point.

Su Xiao organized his thoughts and roughly understood what the Violent Rat meant. This piece of information couldn't be used for the time being. What he needed to do now was to take back the 【Box of Sealing】.

He handed the seven-colored fabric in his hand to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's nose, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang began to search for the smell and aura on the fabric.

The Apostle's Eye fell from above, and the detection was complete. The diameter of the whole island was about 40 kilometers.

Su Xiao began to calculate the probability. A moment later, he took an Apollo out of his storage space. Throwing an Apollo from here, with a 2-kilometer explosion range, the probability of hitting someone was definitely more than 1/20. Consuming an Apollo first to get a lottery-style guarantee was not bad.

The Apollo in Su Xiao's hand only exploded for those destined to meet it.