Chapter 2719: Ranking

Peipeini knelt in the shallow stream water, droplets dripping down her pale golden hair tips. She had an expression of having seen a ghost.

"Hmph hmph—"

Strange sounds came from Peipeini's mouth, as if she were groaning, or perhaps questioning the injustice of fate. Where was the protagonist's opening that was promised? Where was the power inheritance? Where were the handsome Imperial officers?

"Mentor, your transformation Technique is truly amazing. To be able to turn into the appearance of a War Demon, it must exist, right? Transformation Techniques, such a thing must exist, right?"

Peipeini, with tears in the corners of her eyes, spoke. She had already begun to have delusions, delusions that there were transformation Techniques in this world. In reality, there were none at all.

"Treason, attacking Imperial soldiers, assisting the Chaos Legion's Great Lord in escaping, defecting to the enemy—these crimes added together, you are already one of our own, Peipeini."

Su Xiao's hand moved from the top of Peipeini's head to her neck. As long as Peipeini said one wrong word, she would die on the spot.

"Wa—"

Peipeini couldn't hold it back and cried out. Su Xiao withdrew his hand to avoid getting her snot on it.

"Chimney Mountain is over there. I... I have a request. Can you let me die neatly?"

"Speak human language."

"Leave a whole corpse."

"Okay."

"!"

Peipeini's soul was almost scared out of her. She had just said it casually, but the other party actually agreed, and so nonchalantly.

Crack!

A very thin bolt of lightning struck down. Su Xiao raised his hand to block it, and electric arcs surged on his left arm. He felt that this might be a side effect triggered by the 【Sky-Plundering Astonishing Waves】 title? It couldn't be determined for the time being.

Fortunately, this kind of lightning was very weak, and Su Xiao could ignore it.

However, this scene in Peipeini's eyes made her worldview become very "correct" at this moment, because she discovered that if one did too many evil deeds, one would really be struck by lightning. And it was a clear, sunny day right now.

【Prompt: Main Mission: Great Lord has been activated.】

【Main Mission: Great Lord (First Ring)】

Difficulty Level: lv. 67

Mission Information: Arrive at Chimney Mountain, Black Ring Fortress, and regain the position of Great Lord of the Chaos Legion.

Mission Deadline: 3 days.

Mission Reward: Real Attribute Points x5.

Mission Penalty: Forced execution.

Seeing this main mission, Su Xiao frowned. From the current point of view, the main mission had nothing to do with the World Tree Fruit, but it shouldn't be like this.

He had entered this world using the 【Eternal Will】 gem as a coordinate. Inferring from this, the main mission would likely be related to the World Tree Fruit.

According to the information of 【Eternal Will】, the indigenous people of this world who betrayed that Saint Light Paradise contractor were not just one person. The description of the betrayers above was "they," not "he."

If the main mission was really related to the World Tree Fruit, then these betrayers were likely within the Chaos Legion.

Or perhaps, these betrayers had temporarily united. Among them, there might be elves, high-level officials of the Duoyin Empire, or even Gray Orcs.

There was no eternal hatred or enemy, only interests. Driven by huge interests, it was not impossible for the Six-Race Alliance and a few people in the Chaos Legion to unite and enter the Viking Sea.

What Su Xiao needed to do was to find these betrayers. The World Tree Fruit was in the hands of one of them.

Even if the World Tree fruit had already been used by these people through special methods, Su Xiao could not have come for nothing; at least he had to make a profit before leaving.

Su Xiao looked at Peipeini. This young girl was somewhat peculiar. She was indeed a very ordinary mage apprentice, but when he had detected her earlier, her Luck attribute was 5 points.

Su Xiao did not know if this was an average value or what. At the time, he only had 1 point of Luck attribute, so 5 points was likely not the average.

Ignoring this, after Peipeini experienced the previous life-threatening situations, her Luck attribute had actually reached 12 points.

Su Xiao could be certain that Peipeini was not a Child of the World or anything of the sort, and there was no hidden power on her body, yet her Luck attribute had simply increased.

This abrupt increase was definitely not normal, which made Su Xiao think of one person: the Goddess of Luck. Peipeini was, of course, not the Goddess of Luck in disguise, but she might have received the blessing of the Goddess of Luck.

What would happen if he killed such a person? Su Xiao felt that he might be unlucky for a period of time, and it would be the kind of hidden bad luck that was hard to detect, for example... being struck by lightning?

Su Xiao began to recall. Earlier, when he was inside the Ring-Sealing Tree, that tree had been struck by lightning. That time could be explained as being caused by a spell formation, but what about this time? It was struck by lightning for no reason at all.

The point that 【Sky-Plundering Shocking Waves】 had side effects was completely overturned by Su Xiao. An eight-star title would not have side effects so easily.

Looking at the timing of the two lightning strikes, both occurred when Peipeini was about to be casually slaughtered by him. Twice in a row, it could not be a coincidence, plus Peipeini's suddenly increased Luck attribute.

Su Xiao, who already had a rough speculation in his heart, activated the Devourer Core ability. Black-blue smoke wrapped around his entire body, and the world before his eyes turned into black and white; only energy had color.

Peipeini's aura was pale gold, very faint, which represented her good luck. Su Xiao shifted his gaze, and his blood-red pupils contracted slightly. Soon, in the surrounding different space, he saw a few strands of gold-thread-like aura; this seemed to be the residue of someone.

The Goddess of Luck had been frightened by the previous generation of Law-Destroyers like Ma Wen-Waltz and had been hiding for a long time. Now that the scar no longer hurt, she dared not look for Ma Wen-Waltz, the old Law-Destroyer, or the black-fog figure, so she had sought out Su Xiao.

Su Xiao felt that the opportunity to collect blood had come; Peipeini was the bait. Thinking of this, he picked Peipeini up and carried her on his shoulder.

Peipeini had already given up struggling. After multiple blows, she decided to accept the arrangements of fate.

Su Xiao sped toward the west side. He was prepared to go to Chimney Mountain, but before that, he first had to rendezvous with Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja. As for Amu, Su Xiao let Amu head to Chimney Mountain first through the team channel.

Speeding along the way, after more than an hour, he successfully rendezvoused with Xiang Bubu Wang.

"Woof?"

Xiang Bubu Wang looked at Peipeini with some confusion. Through the team channel, it quickly understood the situation.

Xiang Bubu Wang's eyes widened, which meant that she must be caught and pinned to the ground to collect blood.

Half an hour later, Baja also successfully rendezvoused. After Baja arrived, Peipeini was handed over to it. Baja let Peipeini experience the feeling of high-altitude flight, and Peipeini was so happy that she fainted.

In the Duoyin Empire, Royal Capital, beside the fountain flower bed in the Fengshui District, a man and a woman were standing opposite each other, separated by the artificial fountain in the center, with water splashing everywhere.

The woman among them wore backless leather clothing and had short black hair. Her eyes were like two black gemstones, so black that they made people feel panicked.

As for the man opposite, he wore incongruous sportswear, his complexion was pale, and his aura was twisted.

"Muxiao, the Royal Capital is already my territory. To put it in simple and easy-to-understand terms, get the hell out of here."

Mad Beast Gaske had his hands in his pockets, and that pale face was smiling. Don't look at him smiling now; once he went mad, he was a guy who didn't recognize his own kin.

"Before you entered the Death Paradise, were you a comedian? You're so good at being funny."

Muxiao's pair of black-gemstone-like eyes stared fixedly at Mad Beast Gaske. The last time she met him was in the Survival Trial World.

After Muxiao was silent for a moment, she said:

"You still haven't figured out the situation? This is a Tier 7 fully open world, and it's also a war-side world. The War Merit Ranking is about to open. I have no interest in killing you. Taking the top spot is what I want. According to the rotation notarized by the Void Tree, the one providing the top five rewards this time is the Apocalypse Paradise. The resource-richest Apocalypse Paradise, aren't you tempted?"

Muxiao's words contained a lot of information, but she was certain that Mad Beast Gaske also knew these things.

Mad Beast Gaske snorted coldly and jumped down from the edge of the flower bed. Of course he knew these things; this was the reason he entered this world.

【Announcement: War Merit Ranking is opening...】

【Announcement: Joining any faction, completing faction missions (escorting supplies, etc.), or participating in small, medium, or large-scale battles, etc., can all earn a certain amount of War Merit.】

【Announcement: All contractors in this world, after earning War Merit, will be ranked on the War Merit Ranking. When all contractors in this round have left this world, the War Merit Ranking will issue rewards based on the ranking (the top spot is a unique reward, the top 2-5 are rare rewards, and 5-100 are basic rewards. To view the rewards obtained, you need to open the announcement branch to view).】

【Announcement: War Merit Ranking has been opened.】

Muxiao was not surprised by these announcements. Right now, everyone had just entered this world, forces had not yet been joined, and everyone was in an unranked state. But this was an opportunity to see who the opponents were. With a total of several hundred contractors, Muxiao began to flip through them.

Before long, Muxiao's complexion turned very ugly, because in the ranking list, she saw many familiar names, such as Samsara Paradise's Bai Ye, Some Qiyuezhe (Fake) Gray Gentleman (Brand Burning State), Sanctuary Paradise's Flame Master (Super God-Stick), and Apocalypse Paradise's Moon Apostle.

Bai Ye, Gray Gentleman, Moon Apostle—seeing these three names, Muxiao felt a tightness in her chest.

"Gaske, did you see it?"

"..."

Mad Beast Gaske was silent for a long time. Obviously, he also saw these competitors. Mad Beast Gaske seemed to be unable to be quite so "mad" anymore.