Chapter 275: The Reckless, Unhinged Woman

【Montraya Ore】

Quality: Special

Type: Rare Consumable Ore.

Effect: If 'Montraya Ore' is added when strengthening equipment, it will significantly reduce the damage caused to the equipment by strengthening failure. If this ore is added within +10 strengthening, the equipment will not break if strengthening fails.

Rating: None

Introduction: A unique ore from the Kara Star. The Kara Star people added this ore to the core of their spaceships, making the core sturdy and durable, capable of continuous use for over 1500 years.

Su Xiao tossed the obsidian-like ore in his hand and put it away carefully.

The harvest this time was not small. Su Xiao had long since witnessed the scarcity of Soul Crystals. There were no Soul Crystals for sale in the trading market; they could only be acquired at high prices.

The price of a Soul Crystal (Small) ranged from 20,000 to 50,000 Paradise Coins, and they were in high demand but low supply.

Soul Crystals (Medium) couldn't be acquired at all. Contractors who had the ability to obtain them would use them themselves; no one would sell them unless they were in dire need of Paradise Coins at a life-or-death moment.

As for the 'Montraya Ore', it was unique to the battlefield and couldn't be obtained through other channels, and it was unique to this 'Parasite' battlefield.

Su Xiao had never dared to strengthen Checking Zhan Long Shan again. If strengthening +7 failed, the strengthening level would be reset to zero. Each strengthening required 3,000 Paradise Coins, which would be a loss of 21,000 Paradise Coins—a heavy loss.

Once strengthening +8 failed and Checking Zhan Long Shan shattered... that kind of loss was something Su Xiao couldn't bear, as it would lead to a sharp decline in his strength.

'Montraya Ore' could solve this situation, ensuring that Checking Zhan Long Shan wouldn't break if strengthening +8 failed. One 'Montraya Ore' could only be used once and would disappear after use, regardless of whether the strengthening succeeded or failed.

Su Xiao's harvest was bountiful, but the contractors were in a bitter battle.

The melee had been going on for several hours, and contractors were suffering casualties from time to time, but the parasites' offensive showed no signs of weakening.

【Coordinate placement successful. Remaining time: 6 hours and 03 minutes.】

On the battlefield:

God King was mechanically swinging the greatsword in his hand, chopping off a parasite's head with one strike. Blood splattered all over him, turning him into a bloody man. He had forgotten how many parasites he had chopped down; a mountain of corpses had already formed on the periphery of the battlefield.

The appearance of the mountain of corpses meant the contractors' formation could only retreat; otherwise, they would have to face the parasites' high-ground offensive.

The parasites surged like a tide, and the contractors' battle line was like a dam. The 'river water' lashed against the 'dam', splashing up waves—these waves were blood-red.

All contractors were fighting until their hands were soft. The parasites' offensive was too persistent. If these contractors hadn't been tempered by one derived world after another, they would have already suffered mental breakdowns.

Everywhere they looked, there were parasites, and the parasites were attacking without pause, intent on taking their lives. What a desperate thing this was.

"Ah! These brainless beasts."

The main tank of the God King adventure group exploded. With bloodshot eyes, he used his shield to strike at nearby parasites, and the parasites immediately seized the opening to attack him.

Puchi.

A weapon with a peculiar shape slashed at the main tank. If this strike had hit an ordinary contractor, it would have been a severe injury, but this main tank only suffered a light injury.

"Calm down!"

God King shouted sharply, and the healer in the rear immediately cast a buff on the main tank, stabilizing the fluctuations in his mind.

The main tank calmed down, and the redness in his eyes faded.

This scene often appeared on the battlefield. Contractors were flesh-and-blood humans, not killing machines.

After the contractors defended stubbornly for another hour, they discovered that the parasites' offensive had clearly weakened.

"Hahaha, we're going to win."

"Kill them all!"

Wild laughter and cursing came one after another. The contractors were venting the suppression in their hearts.

Compared to these parasites, God King, Adam, and others were more worried about one thing.

If it were only parasites attacking, it would be fine, but once a stronger creature attacked, the defense line would be in jeopardy.

This was the contractors overthinking. The Asian continent was the Human Alliance's territory, and the Kara Star people were currently on the weaker side.

A war that had lasted for two years had just ended. The Kara Star people had been stunned by the weapons developed by humans and were currently recuperating, not daring to set foot on the Asian continent.

These parasites were all air-dropped by the Kara Star people.

It had to be said that Reincarnation Paradise chose the time to start the war very viciously—it was exactly the period when the Kara Star people were weak and humanity had just risen.

The Kara Star people knew of Reincarnation Paradise's existence, but the Human Alliance didn't. This was the difference between species.

Once the Kara Star people were defeated, it wouldn't be so easy to set up world coordinates again. The Human Alliance would develop at a rapid speed, and the difficulty of occupying this derived world would increase significantly by then.

After the battle continued for half an hour, the parasites retreated after leaving behind thousands of corpses. The contractors, ignoring the blood on the ground, lay on the ground and gasped for air.

Some contractors, with trembling hands, took out blood-stained cigarettes, lit them, and took a deep, satisfying drag.

【Coordinate placement successful. Remaining time: 4 hours and 37 minutes. Some Qiyuezhe casualties: 259/289.】

Nearly one-tenth of the casualties had already occurred. From the numbers, it didn't seem obvious, but if one were to visit the battlefield in person, they would see bloody, mangled corpses.

War was not child's play. It was putting all creatures into a meat grinder, and the survivors were the winners.

God King stood up with difficulty. He had already seen the prompt in the war channel.

"Our God King adventure group can send two people."

"The Brotherhood is the same."

"Flash Gold disagrees!"

Seeing the prompt in the war channel, Su Xiao was stunned. That unhinged woman from the Flash Gold adventure group was acting crazy again.

Su Xiao had already gained a preliminary understanding of the three group leaders' personalities. God King's personality was steady; he could abandon someone for the sake of the big picture. He belonged to the category of an ambitious hero.

Adam was very loyal; once in the group, they were brothers, and he wouldn't abandon any adventure group member.

Flash Silver was an unhinged woman, intermittently acting crazy, and her erratic thinking was staggering.

In the gaps between previous battles, Flash Silver had actually made up a riddle in the war channel for Su Xiao to guess.

This kind of 'teasing' the Arbiter almost scared God King and Adam to death. God King and Adam gave Flash Silver a five-minute education, and Flash Silver stopped her fancy ways of seeking death.

Not only did Flash Silver like to seek death, but her deputy group leader, Jin Gui, was also a veteran death-seeker. After entering the war channel, he actually attempted to bribe Su Xiao, and was eventually muted by Reincarnation Paradise for half an hour.

The Flash Gold adventure group was a strange flower in the war, but it also enlivened the atmosphere of the battlefield.

"Flash Silver, you..."

God King felt quite helpless.

"This is good for all of us. I suggest Flash Silver reconsider."

Adam's tone was also very helpless.

"No, I'm not refusing the recruitment, but I have other ideas," Flash Silver's crisp voice came.

"Lord Arbiter, the situation in our group is somewhat special. The specific reasons are inconvenient to disclose, but I want to send two Charisma specialists. Their Charisma is both above 25 points. They are a pair of twin sisters, and they have combat power themselves, so they don't need anyone to protect them. So, our Flash Gold adventure group wants to send two Charisma specialists. I wonder if Lord Arbiter agrees?"

This was an unexpected joy. If God King or Adam had proposed this opinion, Su Xiao would have accepted it without thinking, but Flash Silver, this unhinged woman...

"..."

Su Xiao replied with a blank space in the war channel, without making any statement. He didn't want to waste a precious opportunity because of this kind of thing.

Saying nothing could mean refusal, or it could mean tacit consent. It depended on Flash Silver's IQ.

"Thank you, Lord Arbiter."

Flash Gold in the fourth war zone chuckled, her eyes thoughtful.

"This Lord Arbiter... doesn't seem very fair, but I like this kind of unfairness."

Flash Silver bit her thumbnail and continued to mutter in a low voice:

"God King was almost scared to death by the previous riddle, which shows that the Arbiter must not be provoked. Now he has released information that is beneficial to us. If it is as I imagined... the battlefield is not a place of certain death."

Flash Silver was not the type to seek death on the surface. She had actually been testing Su Xiao's attitude, using a seemingly nonsensical way.

Su Xiao had long since discovered this point. It was best if Flash Silver could test it out. He couldn't post 'I will help you win' in the war channel. If he really did that, his Arbiter identity would be stripped, and he would also be punished. ===== CHAPTER 276 =====

Su Xiao had long since discovered this point; it would be best if Flash Silver could probe it out. He could not post "I will help you win" in the war channel. If he truly did that, his Arbiter status would be stripped, and he would also be punished.