Chapter 2562: Baha's Ancient God Science

Su Xiao had long anticipated this result. He would use 【Soul Whisper】 for a long time, so it was worth investing resources to enhance it. After all, 【Soul Whisper】 is a short blade and can receive the full bonus of Sword Art Master.

【Enhancement has started, please ensure that the quantity of Ba Souls held is sufficient.】

【Hint: This enhancement is guaranteed to succeed, and the enhancement consumption will increase according to the enhancement level.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao had a bad feeling. Using Ba Souls to enhance is guaranteed to succeed, then in terms of consumption...

Five minutes later, steam sprayed out from the equipment enhancement machine, and the enhancement was successful.

【If you need to enhance Soul Whisper to +2, you need to consume 2 Ba Souls.】

The bad feeling in Su Xiao's heart became stronger, but he still chose to continue. Ten minutes later, 【Soul Whisper】 enhancement +2 was successful.

【If you need to enhance Soul Whisper to +3, you need to consume 4 Ba Souls.】

Su Xiao's thought was verified. These 4 this time don't seem like much, but next time it will be 8, then 16. When enhancing to +8, a single enhancement requires 128 Ba Souls.

Two hours later, Su Xiao only had 113 Ba Souls left, and 【Soul Whisper】 was successfully enhanced to +8.

Originally, Su Xiao wanted to enhance 【Metal·Tyrant】, but the compatibility between the sniper cannon and Ba Souls didn't match, and the enhancement effect was less than 23%.

【Soul Whisper +8】

Origin: Ten Thousand Beasts Continent·Unique weapon from killing the Alien King

Quality: Saint Spirit-class+

Category: Weapon (Short Blade)

Durability: 132/132 (reduced by 20 points)

Attack Power: 342–382 (increased by 32–10)

Equipment Requirement: Real Agility 149 points, Soul Strength 80 points or more.

Equipment Effect 1: Will·Qin Erosion (Passive), if this weapon is stabbed into the enemy's back of the neck and heart, after the enemy's health drops below 30%, the weapon holder can control the enemy's actions.

Hint: Can control the enemy for up to 56 minutes (determined by intelligence attribute). After 56 minutes, the enemy will die.

Hint: This weapon cannot control Leader, Lord, or Overlord-class units.

Hint: During the period of controlling the enemy, this weapon will integrate into the enemy's body.

Equipment Effect 2: Soul Resonance (Passive), for every point of Soul Strength the user has, this weapon's sharpness and penetration can be increased by 1 point.

Hint: Currently increased by 240 points of sharpness, 240 points of penetration (this is the limit bonus, soul strength overflow bonus is invalid).

Score: 1150 points (due to special enhancement process, this equipment has exceeded the Saint Spirit-class score)

After seeing the 'Will·Qin Erosion' ability, Su Xiao raised his hand and touched his chin. He felt that this ability, when combined with the 【Ancient Mask】, would have unexpected effects.

Control an enemy first, then Su Xiao puts on the Ancient Mask and disguises himself as someone else. In this way, it is a two-person infiltration, and at critical moments, he can let the puppet attract the enemy's attention.

Just as Su Xiao was considering how many combinations 【Soul Whisper】 and 【Ancient Mask】 had, there was news from God Emperor.

Half an hour later, God Emperor Adventure Group headquarters, third floor.

Su Xiao and God Emperor sat opposite each other across a tea table. On the tea table were a tea tray with a dozen oval-shaped small teacups, still emitting heat.

Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha were behind Su Xiao. Looking at God Emperor's side, God Emperor himself sat majestically, with an OL-dressed royal sister standing beside him. This was the chief perception-type.

Mad Fox stood behind God Emperor, holding a bottle of wine in his hand. Behind him were over a hundred team members. The reason so many people came was God Emperor's intention, striving to get familiar with Su Xiao, so as to avoid Su Xiao doing things in the Fifth Tier world in the future and accidentally slaughtering his team members.

From just now, the atmosphere had been a bit wrong. A teenager in the crowd swallowed his saliva, sweat seeping from his forehead. The feeling of being about to 'negotiate' became stronger and stronger, as if someone would slap the table in the next moment, and then both sides would fight in chaos.

"The style is wrong, and who put on the music? Turn it off."

Matcha's head was getting big. God knows what was going on, the atmosphere was becoming more and more like a negotiation.

"Mad Fox brother put it on."

"Mad Fox!"

"Ah? Hiccup~"

Mad Fox hiccuped, clearly drunk again.

"Disperse."

God Emperor coughed lightly, the atmosphere suddenly returned to normal, the music stopped, and Mad Fox, who was glared at by Matcha, was a bit confused.

"Cough, Brother Bai Ye, long time no see. Just now these were the more active team members. If you meet them in a mission world..."

God Emperor didn't continue.

"Hmm."

Su Xiao took out items one by one from his storage space. Old Goat beside God Emperor was about to step forward, but was stopped by Su Xiao raising his hand.

【Mechanical Structure Diagram 'Liquid-Impulse·High-Pressure Impact Hammer'】 and 【Mechanical Structure Diagram 'CU·Stabbing Mantis·949·Particle Ship Cannon'】 Su Xiao didn't take out. This was the technology of the Bana Little People race, which he obtained during the Strongest Contest. These two design drawings were not core confidential technologies, but they were also very difficult to master and required supporting scientific and technological techniques.

"Fake King Set and Archery Master Scroll, I can trade them to you without collecting Paradise Coins."

"Brother Bai Ye, you are..."

"I need a Basic Passive Scroll. After the next world progress ends, it shouldn't be a problem to get a Basic Passive Scroll, right?"

"This..."

God Emperor hesitated. He naturally knew what a 【Basic Passive Scroll】 was. It was a rare material produced in low-tier worlds. Of course, mid-tier and high-tier worlds also produced them, just in small quantities.

Assuming the production rate of 【Basic Passive Scroll】 in low-tier worlds is 3%, then mid-tier is 0.5%, and high-tier is below 0.02%.

【Basic Passive Scroll】 has a characteristic: the starting point is low, but the ending point is very high. This is Reincarnation Paradise's preferential treatment for low-tier Qiyuezhe. Only Qiyuezhe who dare to explore the hidden areas in low-tier worlds have a certain possibility of obtaining them.

The rarity of this type of scroll, which is needed by all tiers, can be imagined. Some low-tier Qiyuezhe, seeing the low initial bonus of this type of ability, think that this type of skill is not as good as active skills, so they use 【Basic Passive Scroll】 to exchange for active skills. When these Qiyuezhe live to the high tier, every time they think of this, they want to slap themselves.

Su Xiao saw a 【Basic Passive Scroll】 on the Trading Street. The ability's bonus was very simple: Lv. 1 increases stamina recovery speed by 1.2%. He didn't see the price clearly. The reason was that just as he wanted to see the price and take it if it wasn't ridiculously high, it was bought by someone else in an instant.

"Brother Bai Ye, I'm not sure if I can get it before the next world progress ends, but I have developed 7 affiliated adventure groups in the First Tier. I can assign tasks to them, specifically looking for 【Basic Passive Scroll】. This way, the probability of obtaining it is higher. As long as the resources I promise are enough, someone will be willing to risk their lives."

"Okay."

Su Xiao didn't think God Emperor would renege on his debt. The Fake King Set is only a Legend-class set, selling for at most 120 Soul Coins. The debuff of this set is too ruthless. After ordinary people put on the Fake King Set, they can't do anything other than get beaten.

As for the Archery Master Scroll Lv. 1, the price is about 600–1200 Soul Coins. For a Seventh Tier Qiyuezhe, this is an acceptable price.

Don't think that having an Archery Master Scroll makes you an Archery Master. That's an illusion. The main resource consumption of technique-type abilities is the growth process.

This process requires a lot of time and resources, countless Soul Crystals (Complete), the usage fees of the Land of All Living Things, etc. To better comprehend technique abilities, 【Origin Stone】 is the best choice. One Origin Stone is 5000–7000 Soul Coins.

Adding all these expenses together can instantly crush a large group like the God Emperor Adventure Group. Moreover, a true combat-ready technique master is not piled up with resources; they are killed out.

"Brother Bai Ye, you draft a contract."

"We draft? Are you sure?"

Baha spoke.

"Is there anything inappropriate?"

"Nothing, God Emperor, your adventure group doesn't often enter Fifth Tier native worlds, right."

Baha seemed a bit emotional.

"Of course, we rarely go to such dangerous places. Derivative worlds are already very dangerous."

Matcha sat on the armrest of the sofa where Su Xiao was. Compared to God Emperor, Mad Fox and Matcha had a closer personal friendship with Su Xiao.

"So far, we have experienced two native worlds, Dawn Battlefield and Ghost Continent."

A trace of fear appeared in Matcha's eyes. The experience in Ghost Continent left too deep an impression on her.

"Oh? Ghost Continent?"

Baha became interested. That place could barely be considered its hometown.

"Hmm, in the Ghost world, we worked for the Punishment Agency, under a legion commander named Reinhardt. That man was as strong as a monster, especially on rainy days. Fifteen-eyed ghosts were beaten like grandsons by him, but he often said he wasn't strong enough. Looking at the entire empire, only Monarch·Harold could dispatch him."

Mentioning the three words Harold, Matcha instinctively trembled. The feeling of being controlled by someone from beginning to end, and every move being predicted by someone, was actually terrifying.

"Reinhardt."

Su Xiao muttered in a low voice. This was a subordinate who had worked for him. He was taciturn, the lower half of his face was disfigured, and he wore a high-collared priest's outfit to cover the lower half of his face to avoid scaring ordinary people. He was extremely cruel when killing ghosts, but would take the initiative to give way when encountering stray cats on the road.

Reinhardt's ability to handle things was very strong. Su Xiao only needed to give orders, and the other party could handle many things alone. He was a subordinate who could be entrusted with important tasks and was trustworthy.

"The gains from native worlds are shockingly high, but... too dangerous."

Matcha shook her head, clearly thinking of the whole team's autistic journey in the native world.

"You large adventure groups are really happy. I haven't even entered a derivative world."

Baha's words made Matcha a bit stunned.

"How is it possible..."

"Nothing is impossible. By the way, tell you a piece of intelligence, Ghost is a closed native world."

"Closed native world?"

God Emperor was hooked. This kind of intelligence sometimes couldn't be bought with money.

"Yes, the Ghost world is actually not dangerous. Fully closed means it belongs to Reincarnation Paradise, and only Qiyuezhe from Reincarnation Paradise can enter. Semi-open native worlds are interesting."

"Semi-open..."

God Emperor narrowed his eyes. Hearing these three words, he had a bad premonition.

"Semi-open native world, Qiyuezhe from 2–3 paradises can enter, occasionally a chaotic battle. There are the strongest in single combat, the lunatics of Reincarnation, the rangers of Death, and the gods of Sanctuary. Holy Light's team battle is strong, Apocalypse's resource acquisition ability is strong, and Watcher is good at position battles, the kind that can beat you until you vomit."

Baha's words made Matcha a bit stunned. Just by listening to Baha's tone, she knew that this was often fighting with Qiyuezhe from other paradises, and they were used to it.

"Off-topic. If you have a chance, you can go to semi-open native worlds to 'stroll around'. As for fully open native worlds, believe me, if you can avoid going, don't go. Ancient Gods and Overlord creatures have a small probability of appearing. If that world is mysterious-side, there might be a bunch of neutral gods, and dealing with combat-type ethnic groups is a daily routine. 'Abnormalities' are everywhere."

"Ancient Gods?"

"Very ugly guys. Worlds where you can't see the sun for half a year have Ancient Gods. They will 'suck' the world, and crazy fanatics are everywhere."

Hearing Baha's description, Matcha felt a bit incredible. The concept of 'sucking' the world was something she heard for the first time.

"Fear, dreams, spatial fluctuations, and momentary flaws in the heart are all things they can use to kill you instantly. As for how to identify Ancient Gods, if you see guys with black tentacles or full-body exoskeletons, it's likely them."

After saying this, Baha landed on Su Xiao's shoulder, and left the God Emperor Adventure Group headquarters with Su Xiao. ===== CHAPTER 2563 =====