Chapter 2833: Priest

Eastern Continent, Ganglu Central County, Baida City.

Baida City was located in the central-ish region of the Eastern Continent. This place used to be the capital of multiple kingdoms, and all kinds of ancient ruins were countless.

Many years ago, the Magic Association and the Steam Alliance fought for this place. The two sides fought for several years, eventually settling it with the Magic Association giving up maritime trade. It was at that time that Baida City was renamed Baida City by the Magic Association.

On the Eastern Continent, all cities or large cities were managed by three parties: the Magic Association, the Healing Church, and the Steam Alliance. These three large areas had different laws, cultures, and the people's living habits were also different.

At the current stage, the three parties had not erupted into conflict. Trade, transportation, and even the tourism industry had been opened up.

Inside the Space Tower, Su Xiao looked through the window at the bustling scene on the street. This place was completely different from the Western Continent. There were no prison hotels, no corpse-collecting carriages, no wild couples of anglers could be seen on the street, and peddlers didn't carry spring-loaded crossbows to give a bolt to customers who didn't pay, finally spitting on the corpse while cursing.

"What are you looking at? Did you bring the goods?"

The Occultist walking down from the spiral staircase spoke. From the gaze he occasionally cast toward his pocket watch, it could be seen that he seemed anxious to do something.

Bahamut threw out an iron box wrapped in black cloth. Inside were black crystals. The Occultist walking toward him checked it perfunctorily and then left with his people, not checking Su Xiao's identity. The reason was that this Occultist had a private cooperation with the Masked Man, Bath.

Whether the Masked Man, Bath was loyal to the Magic Association was a complete mystery. That guy's mental power was too strong and twisted, causing the opponent to have to keep his nerves tense at all times. Once a certain string in that guy's brain snapped, Bath would go crazy, or rather, the current Bath was already crazy, just hiding it very well.

Following the spiral staircase downward, after exiting the Space Tower, Su Xiao found that the guards here were not strict. Most Space Towers were one-way, and he thought this one was too, only serving as an end point, not as a starting point for teleportation.

Walking on the streets of Baida City, Su Xiao began to think about the subsequent action route. He wasn't in a hurry to go to the world coordinate setting point. That place was named "Sun Temple," located in the ancient capital of the Ganglu Dynasty.

The Ganglu Dynasty had a profound influence on the Eastern Continent. Influenced by the Dark Age, the rulers and civilians of the Ganglu Dynasty all had a nearly fanatical worship of the sun. Everything related to the sun represented holiness in that era.

Sun Disk, Penitent, Judgment Staff, Dark Mask—that era left behind many incredible things until the Ganglu Dynasty began to crave the sun, building the Sun Ladder with the intention of occupying the sun for itself.

In that era when the darkness had just retreated and the sun had just appeared, this was almost an inevitable result.

What the Sun Temple in the ancient capital looked like, Su Xiao didn't know yet, but he could be sure of one point: it was easy to defend and hard to attack. Otherwise, seizing the node in the City of Smoke earlier would have lost its meaning.

Finding a small restaurant, through chatting with a merchant at the neighboring table, Su Xiao learned quite a bit of information.

For example, the crime rate in Baida City had soared recently, and there was a big explosion at the "Inferu Racecourse" last night. After the security team cleaned up the scene, they found multiple unidentified corpses.

Hearing "Inferu Racecourse," Su Xiao thought of the melee between his side and the Death Paradise side last night, which was at the "Inferu Racecourse."

Through his authority, Su Xiao checked the remaining number of people on the four sides.

Samsara Paradise side: 185 people (originally 219).

Death Paradise side: 207 people (originally 256).

Sanctuary Paradise side: 25 people (originally 270).

Apocalypse Paradise side: 405 people (originally 462).

Seeing this data, Su Xiao was somewhat astonished. In the past few days, his side and the Death Paradise side had been wildly greeting each other, and then, while fighting, they actually fought the Sanctuary Paradise side into non-existence?

This operation was truly bewildering. Currently, only 25 people were left in the Sanctuary Paradise, almost about to sadly exit the stage, unless they brought out a trump card sufficient to change the battle situation.

Su Xiao opened the World Communication Platform and flipped up to check the records. Through these speech records, he found that his side and the Death Paradise side didn't seem to be in a cooperative relationship, and the momentum of greeting each other was still strong.

The key time point was 4:20 AM in the second half of last night. After that, the contractors of the Sanctuary Paradise side didn't speak, and the 25 survivors all remained silent.

All kinds of guesses appeared, such as infighting within the Sanctuary Paradise side, or the Samsara Paradise side and the Death Paradise side uniting to surround and kill the Sanctuary Paradise side, etc. Strangely, no one suspected the Apocalypse Paradise side.

Some also guessed that the Sanctuary Paradise side had a conflict with the forces within the world, and the survivors chose to remain silent, wanting to create a strange atmosphere so that contractors from other sides wouldn't dare to easily look for them, thereby protecting themselves.

When Su Xiao flipped to the news after 5:00 AM this morning, a very long message caught his attention.

Philosopher (Apocalypse Paradise): "At 5:42 AM this morning, I discovered the gathering point of the Sanctuary Paradise side in 'Baida City.' That's right, they gathered together, preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Samsara Paradise side..."

Prompt: The following message requires payment of 1 soul coin to view.

Su Xiao hesitated for a moment and chose to pay. Information notarized by the Tree of the Void was absolutely authentic. The second half of the content released by Philosopher was as follows:

"The reason the Sanctuary Paradise side wants to surprise attack the Samsara Paradise side is that they learned through special channels that their 'Contender' team located on the Western Continent has been completely wiped out, all dying at the hands of the Samsara Paradise side's 'Contender.'

This is not the point. The point is, that 'Contender' from the Samsara Paradise side didn't leave this world! He is still in the super high-danger area of the Western Continent, the City of Smoke, and didn't leave this world because the mission was completed. He might arrive on the Eastern Continent at any time. Everyone, do you know what this means? That 'Contender' who slaughtered several contractors of the same tier (Tier 8) is coming to compete with us on the same stage.

Back to the topic, last night, after the people of the Sanctuary Paradise side gathered, they hadn't launched a surprise attack yet when they encountered an unknown attack. Look at these photos, maybe they will be helpful to you (attached 3 photos)."

Su Xiao checked the photos Philosopher sent. The scene in the photos was a grand hall. Everything else was normal. Located on the inner side of the grand hall was a row of stone sculptures in various poses.

These five stone sculptures were some human figures, some had horns, and some had both hands raised, making a pose of wanting to embrace the sun.

All five sculptures were half-submerged into the wall. In the center of their chests, there was a ring-shaped mark, the shape very close to that of the sun.

Located above the five sculptures were five engraved pictures, which were: a disk, a scepter, a thorn whip, an ouroboros, and finally a ball of flame.

Above these five representative items was an engraving of a mask. The image of this mask was very blurry; one could only see a black hole in the center of the brow, with black blood flowing out from inside the hole.

This was the content of the first photo. The second photo was of the ground. The ground was engraved with the shape of a mask, like a small pool, filled with fresh blood.

The third photo was text written in fresh blood, the content being: "Priest." ===== CHAPTER 2834 =====