Chapter 2920: Messenger

Outside the castle, Su Xiao stood in the black fog waiting. The first, second, and third floors of the castle had been cleared, and a small number of enemies in the fourth floor were still resisting to the death.

The first and second basements of the castle had also been cleared, and the third floor was being cleared. No enemies had been found there for the time being.

Su Xiao wasn't worried about any enemies escaping. Compared to fighting, the Black Curse Crows' reconnaissance ability was stronger. They were responsible for cleaning up the slave traders and other fierce criminals related to pirates on the island. Everything was under blockade.

The entire Shipwreck Island was tightly blockaded. It didn't matter if the enemies could burrow into the ground; the sea was around the island. A total of 10 Cursed Ones had turned into black shadows in the sea, patrolling the surrounding sea area.

The *Doom* was also on the sea. In the hold at the bow of the ship, a Cursed One was operating the bow cannon hidden in the hull. As long as an enemy ship approached, it would blast it with a cannon.

Su Xiao looked at the fourth floor of the castle. Two contractors were hiding inside. The specific information of these two people was not yet clear.

Waiting for a few minutes, the contractors hiding in the castle finally couldn't hold on. The Parasitic Guards were almost killed off. Once the Parasitic Guards were killed off, it was only a matter of time before they were discovered, and then they would be surrounded and attacked by the Cursed Ones.

With a *boom*, the window on the fourth floor of the castle was broken. Two figures rushed out. The taller one headed straight for Su Xiao, while the shorter one fled into the distance.

"Amans, I want him alive."

Su Xiao spoke. In the black fog behind him, a Cursed One nodded. Compared to other Cursed Ones, Amans Murray's consciousness was clearer and could execute orders that weren't too complex. It could only be said that he was worthy of being the ancestor of Brigadier General Murray.

Amans disappeared into the black fog with five Cursed Ones to chase the short figure who had fled. The sky was full of Black Curse Crows, and Baja, who had just returned, was also mixed among them. This situation was the most desperate; even using space-type items wouldn't allow escape.

A female contractor wearing a white robe stood in front of Su Xiao. She wore a hood and had a pair of golden pupils.

These pupils made Su Xiao somewhat familiar. He had seen similar people and slaughtered the other party.

A hidden fluctuation spread around the female contractor. Sensing this fluctuation, Su Xiao felt quite surprised. This fluctuation was... a spellcaster.

A spellcaster had actually entered an open-world native world. Even if it was a fully open native world notarized by the Tree of Void, spellcasters basically couldn't enter, unless it was a special situation like the Strongest Contest.

Or, was it that the contractor had obtained the inheritance of a spellcaster? This kind of thing wasn't impossible, just very rare. The key to a spellcaster's ability inheritance lay in the Arcane Eternal Star and the plundering of natural elements.

Su Xiao looked at the female contractor ten meters away. He had a very strong feeling in his heart that this was a spellcaster, a spellcaster from the Arcane Eternal Star. This was his feeling as a Law-Extinguishing Shadow. The Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in his body became active by a few points.

How did the spellcaster enter the fully open native world? Obtaining the entry qualification was first ruled out by Su Xiao. The other party had the brand of a certain paradise. This wasn't wrong. The fluctuation of the brands of various paradises was too obvious. Two contractors meeting by chance could judge which paradise the other party came from through preliminary perception. This was because the fluctuations between the brands were different.

A spellcaster who had a paradise brand and came from the Arcane Eternal Star—this combination made Su Xiao think of one person: the Gray Gentleman.

The Gray Gentleman could control many "puppets," that is, control other contractors through special means. When he encountered the Illusionist in the Primitive Continent, that guy was a "puppet" half-abandoned by the Gray Gentleman.

It looked like this was the Gray Gentleman's strongest ability, but in fact, it wasn't. The Gray Gentleman's most heaven-defying ability was that this guy could strip the brands of the losers through some way. The few brands in the hands of the Mad Doctor were gifted by the Gray Gentleman.

If the Gray Gentleman gifted a brand he had snatched to Mage Sage Sephiria, and the two reached some kind of cooperation, and finally that brand was implanted into the female spellcaster in front of him.

A bolder guess was that this ambush had nothing to do with Mage Sage Sephiria, but was planned by the female spellcaster in front of him. In this way, many things could be explained.

Mage Sage Sephiria's previous two ambushes had all been in vain, but the purpose was clear. One was to send an assassin unrelated to the magic system, and the other was to let her disciple test whether the Li element could fight the Law-Extinguishing Shadow to a draw.

Although in vain, both were purposeful, allowing Sephiria to gain a lot of intelligence.

This time was different. Su Xiao couldn't think of what benefits this ambush could bring to Mage Sage Sephiria. Even if it was to be in vain, it couldn't be so in vain.

To put it simply, this matter might have nothing to do with Mage Sage Sephiria, but was planned by the woman in front of him.

The other party knew the Gray Gentleman. After paying a certain price, the Gray Gentleman helped the other party implant a brand, allowing the other party to enter the fully open native world, but there would be no benefits. Not only that, but there was also the risk of being discovered by Hunters, Battle Angels, etc. at any time.

This female spellcaster herself was an eighth-tier combat power. Unless she had a very high status in the Arcane Eternal Star, it was impossible to take out a reward that would move eighth-tier contractors.

Or, the other party disguised herself as Mage Sage Sephiria and promised something to the contractors hired this time, such as magic-system items from the Arcane Eternal Star, or promised the output of the Black Maple Tree.

Mage Sage Sephiria had a very high status in the Arcane Eternal Star, located in the first tier, and above that was the Supreme Person.

This ambush was planned by the woman in front of him, and the Gray Gentleman assisted from it. And looking at the Gray Gentleman's meaning, that guy just offered advice and didn't directly participate in it.

If it was a spellcaster of Mage Sage Sephiria's generation, Su Xiao would be very wary. As for the new generation of spellcasters coming to assassinate, he wasn't wary.

It could be said that Su Xiao and the new generation of spellcasters had experienced completely different things.

Su Xiao was fighting in various worlds. Old Lion, Monarch Harold, Iron Feather King, Alien King, Source Guardian, etc. —among these people, some were super old schemers, some had strong combat power and swept everything with a hook-blade gun, and some guarded an object for a thousand years for a promise.

Besides these strong people in the native worlds, Su Xiao had also clashed with contractors from various paradises many times.

On the contrary, the new generation of spellcasters basically practiced in the Void. The Black Abyss was a dangerous place. Apart from that, they were just fighting wits and courage with the new generation of other great Void races. Winning meant being a leader, and losing didn't have a high probability of death.

At this moment, the key information was four:

1. The unique elemental aura of the spellcaster from the Arcane Eternal Star.

2. The other party's peculiar brand fluctuation. This brand fluctuation was very similar to the feeling of the Mad Doctor disguising himself as a contractor from Apocalypse Paradise. The similarity of the fluctuation reached over 95%.

3. The female spellcaster's golden pupils. There seemed to be a large number of magic formation diagrams hidden in those eyes. Su Xiao had killed a female spellcaster with such pupils. That was during the Strongest Contest. The other party was named Dilin and was a disciple of Mage Sage Sephiria. Dilin mastered the Li element ability. The Li element was a kind of acquired synthetic elemental power specially used for combat, developed by Sephiria to restrain the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, but it failed.

4. The entire ambush plan was too rough. The feeling was like... these ambushers knew the characteristics of the *Doom*'s curse and knew that he would definitely come to the Magic Sea after reaching the eighth tier, so they had been stupidly waiting here. After meeting by chance on Shipwreck Island before, like idiots, they started waiting bitterly on Shipwreck Island again. Su Xiao felt that Sephiria really couldn't make such a stupid thing. How to say, that was also a powerful spellcaster who survived the "final battle."

Su Xiao hadn't encountered many such straightforward enemies.

"Is it a mine buried by the Gray Gentleman?"

Su Xiao muttered in a low voice. For him, the Gray Gentleman was one of the great enemies, much more dangerous than the Priest.

It looked like Su Xiao and the Priest were at odds, but the Priest was the kind of person who would take the initiative to cooperate with Su Xiao as long as the situation required it.

The Gray Gentleman was another level of danger. This guy didn't know what method he used to actually be able to strip the contractors' brands. Even if the stripped brands had no function and were in a completely sealed state, they were dangerous enough.

Once the Gray Gentleman cooperated with the Arcane Eternal Star, Su Xiao would face a steady stream of the strongest assassins of the same tier.

The good news was that the Gray Gentleman knew the risks involved. A few world progresses ago, the other party buried a mine, which was the female spellcaster in front of him. This looked like a probe.

The relationship between Su Xiao and the Gray Gentleman was more like enemies who wouldn't provoke each other for the time being, but would put the other party to death once they met by chance. Once the Gray Gentleman cooperated with the Arcane Eternal Star, Su Xiao would choose to do nothing and focus on hunting down the Gray Gentleman.

The Gray Gentleman also knew this, so he found a spellcaster who was eager to prove herself and would likely act without authorization. The Gray Gentleman's layout looked like a deterrent, wanting to temporarily live in peace with Su Xiao.

Su Xiao was wary of the Gray Gentleman cooperating with the Arcane Eternal Star, and the Gray Gentleman was wary of Su Xiao doing nothing and focusing on hunting him down as a violator. This made the relationship between the two sides reach a kind of balance. Both could tear their faces, but there was no such necessity for the time being. It was simply too hurtful.

Thinking about it, the price the Gray Gentleman paid for this probe and deterrent was not small, and he was currently recovering in the dark.

Su Xiao estimated that the first sentence the female spellcaster said would be related to Dilin and the Li element.

Just at this moment, the female spellcaster in front spoke:

"Dilin, that waste, couldn't kill you. The mentor was very disappointed with the Li element, so... I am standing in front of you."

Hearing the other party's words, Su Xiao estimated that the other party's second sentence would still be related to the Li element. When he used the long knife clinging to the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy to pierce the defense of the Li element with one knife, Dilin's worldview was about to collapse, but that woman's heart was very tough, and what she firmly believed was broken, but she didn't collapse.

The person in front of him might be the first batch of Li element adapters cultivated by Sephiria. After Sephiria was completely disappointed with the Li element, the female spellcaster in front of him could be said to have gone from heaven to hell.

What she firmly believed collapsed, and a kind of obsession appeared in her heart, which was to prove the Li element she firmly believed in.

When Sephiria valued this female spellcaster so much and loved her so much, the obsession in this female spellcaster's heart was now that deep.

"I will use... the Li element to defeat you and bring your head to the mentor."

The female spellcaster lowered her head, and a golden magic formation diagram appeared behind her. This was composed of the Li element.

Was the person in front an enemy? Barely considered one. Compared to this female spellcaster, the people hired by the other party might be more difficult to deal with.

This female spellcaster was more like a "messenger," a "messenger" who helped the Gray Gentleman convey the information of living in peace.

*BANG! *

The female spellcaster swept out a residual image, and the golden energy long spear in her hand headed straight for Su Xiao's face.

With a *snap*, Su Xiao lit a cigarette with the Fate Master. After a muffled sound, the energy long spear that stabbed in front of him was blocked by a few sailor knives and couldn't advance even a fraction.

Su Xiao sat on a chair formed by Black Curse Crows, spitting out blue smoke from his mouth. Around him were eight Cursed Ones.

Seeing this scene, the female spellcaster Eva's anger could no longer be contained. She couldn't figure it out—couldn't figure out why she was clearly the one who arrived in this world first, but was now in such a situation? Where exactly did the problem go wrong? The plan was clearly very thorough. She had already united with the strong people of this world.

The spear blade of the energy long spear rubbed against the blades of a few sailor knives, emitting *creak, creak* sounds. It was still half a meter away from stabbing Su Xiao, but this half a meter was a heavenly wall.

An anchor swung down from above, slamming into the place where female spellcaster Eva was with a *boom*, forming a huge pit. Female spellcaster Eva jumped backward with all her might. As soon as she landed, she found that she was already surrounded by Cursed Ones.

In a trance, female spellcaster Eva remembered a sentence her mentor said to her one day. That sentence was: "Eva, I know what you are thinking, but that person is no longer someone you can counter. My generation will find a way to get rid of him. You, now, might have stronger strength than that person, but don't go looking for that person. He is not someone you, as the new generation, can deal with."

*Caw, caw, caw. *

Crows filled the sky. Female spellcaster Eva took a deep breath. She had practiced on the battlefield, had been to the bottom of the Black Abyss, and had even looked at the Sword Demon from afar. She was the strongest of the new generation. She didn't believe that she, who had undergone "hell-like" training, wouldn't be able to survive today's danger.

"Law-Extinguishing Shadow!"

Female spellcaster Eva rushed toward Su Xiao. Unfortunately, she was separated from Su Xiao by nearly a hundred Cursed Ones.

The surrounding Cursed Ones all rushed forward, and the large group of Black Curse Crows in the sky dived down, almost forming a black wave, submerging female spellcaster Eva in it, and only golden light could be seen flashing.

The reason the female spellcaster, Eva, was in such a miserable state was that Su Xiao had estimated the most dangerous outcome: the Sage of Mages, Seraphina, had sealed her strength to the Eighth Tier and entered this world using a special method.

If Sephiria entered this world, no matter how strong the other party was, it was also eighth-tier strength. This was the world's restriction. The difficulty of the Magic Sea world was in the upper-middle reaches of the eighth tier. This led to the fact that it was impossible for this world to have combat power exceeding the eighth tier.

If it was a world with top-tier eighth-tier difficulty, the strength ceiling of that world might exceed the eighth tier a little, but the Magic Sea was not that kind of world. ===== CHAPTER 2921 =====