Chapter 3384: Apocalypse

Fortress base camp, inside the command center on the top floor.

Half of a World Core floated in mid-air, and a semi-transparent coordinate in the shape of ф wrapped it in the center and gradually merged into it.

【Hint: Due to the incompleteness of the World Core, the world coordinate only constitutes 50%.】

【Because the world coordinate is not 100% constituted, it cannot merge with the World Core of this world.】

【Your war mission has been activated.】

【In this world contention, because the initial participation was by intrusion, in order to obtain notarization in the early stage of the world contention, the hunter will not be able to normally obtain Reincarnation Paradise merit.】

【Judging...】

【Judgment completed; the revenue balancing mechanism has been activated. Because the hunter cannot obtain merit by killing enemy contractors, such due revenue will all be included in the rewards of the war mission.】

【War Mission: Dark Mist (This mission has only one ring).】

Difficulty Level: Adaptive.

Mission Introduction: Obtain Dark Mist.

Mission Deadline: Until this contention ends, or the enemy takes the World Core from your hands.

Mission Reward: Determined according to the final completion degree (During the hunter's execution of this mission, killing enemies, positive progress in the war situation, etc., will all increase the mission completion degree).

Mission Penalty: Forced execution.

Seeing these hints, Su Xiao knew that his previous guess had been fulfilled. This round of successful defense was not the end, but just the beginning.

What 【Dark Mist】 was, Su Xiao had seen in the introduction. The initial "Black Rain" was like patches of black clouds in the sky, located in the sky all year round.

As one of the peak creations of the Second Era Alchemy Civilization, when it floated in the sky in the state of black clouds, it was regarded as natural climate by the natives of this world. These black clouds had existed for too long.

By the Steam Age, the natives of this world began to study the black clouds in the sky, but because their development direction had nothing to do with alchemy, and the dimension gap of civilization was too large, they regarded the black clouds as an unknown substance.

Although it was an unknown substance, they still had to give it a name. Initially, people called it black clouds. A group of scholars officially named these black clouds 【Dark Mist】.

That's right, this was 【Dark Mist】. Later, because this world developed to the Electrical Age and began modern warfare, airplanes, cannons, and so on were built. Afterward, nuclear bombs were built. After the test explosion of the first nuclear bomb, the war stopped.

Not voluntarily. The radioactive dust after the nuclear explosion drifted into the sky, activating 【Dark Mist】 to a certain extent, causing 【Dark Mist】 to turn into black rain and fall, causing mechanical pollution. Afterward, clans, alienated beasts, and so on evolved.

The appearance of pig-headed people was actually also caused by the mechanical pollution caused by 【Dark Mist】. Otherwise, relying solely on the biological hybridization technology of the clans, it would not be enough to cultivate the race of pig-headed people.

From a certain perspective, clans and pig-headed people were "close relatives." What were clans? The initial clans were the next generation born after humans were subjected to high-intensity mechanical pollution, with more than 20% of the cells in their bodies transformed into metal cells.

What were pig-headed people? The initial pig-headed people should be called ancestral half-beasts.

They were beasts that devoured humans while their consciousness was confused during the process of mechanical pollution. Afterward, due to mechanical pollution, a fusion phenomenon occurred. They didn't transform like metalized cells, but underwent cell and gene fusion, becoming ancestral half-beasts.

At that time, there were countless beasts that went mad due to mechanical pollution. Humans, as the most numerous mammalian creatures at the time, being devoured by these beasts in madness was by no means a low-probability event.

For some reason, the ancestral half-beasts failed to develop and instead went extinct, while the clans rose.

Many people speculated that the clans used the ancestral half-beasts for biological hybridization to cultivate pig-headed people.

This was not a conspiracy theory. The clans later tried to cultivate dog-people, lizard-people, lion-tiger-people, and other humanoid creatures, but without exception, they all failed. The genes were too unstable.

It was rumored outside that the clans' experiments were too radical, causing all ancestral half-beasts to die out, which was why no other humanoid races appeared.

Compared to those failures, the pig-headed people were very stable in all aspects and were known as the four major races together with humans, clans, and the beast race.

It is worth noting that ancestral half-beasts and the beast race were not the same species. The former were humanoid races, and the latter were extraordinary beasts with wisdom.

Where 【Dark Mist】 was, was still unknown. Su Xiao had been developing his power, focusing his attention on the World Core and the clan faction. The clan faction was his biggest threat; that side could wipe out his side in a short time.

Even developing to now, Su Xiao still couldn't launch a frontal war with the clans, unless the number of wild boar warriors under his command reached more than 300,000, and the Evolution Nest completed its third upgrade, allowing the wild boar warriors to master and use the power of the sun.

The upper echelons of his own faction were well arranged. There was no need to worry about Hausman, and the same went for the Head Chef. The only possible variable, the Priestess, had also just stated her position.

Su Xiao's attitude just now was simple and clear: if the Priestess wanted to lean toward theocracy, then let her disappear immediately.

No matter to what extent the wild boar warriors believed in the sun, Su Xiao didn't care. What was truly prone to problems was a god-stick in a high position inciting from the middle.

Currently, the philosophy of the Sun Fortress was: believe however you want, it's all up to personal will. If faith values were digitized, then the faith of wild boar warriors was around 75 points, dwarf boars 40-50 points, female pig-headed people 10-20 points, and for someone like the Head Chef, having 1-3 points was not bad.

【Announcement (Tree of the Void): The war zone ban has been lifted.】

The blockade of the war zone was opened, which meant that the contractors from Apocalypse Paradise, Saint Light Paradise, and Watcher Paradise could all return to the clan territory.

In this way, what would Saint Poetry, Orandi, and others do? The answer was that they would immediately find the three major clan forces: "Watchtower," "Clan Alliance," and "Aurora Council," and tell them that on the border area outside their territory, hundreds of thousands of pig-headed people had entrenched themselves and formed a large force.

The high-level members of the three clan forces might not completely believe it, but they would definitely send people to the border area to scout.

Assuming Su Xiao hadn't developed much, there was still a chance to avoid this wave of scouting. Unfortunately, the Sun Fortress under his command already had a population of over 200,000.

Clans were different from contractors. Clans were more familiar with the border area. Even if the Sun Fortress moved away, after the clan scouting troops arrived, they would immediately discover that this large mine in the border area, which hadn't been mined much due to the harassment of alienated beasts, had traces of re-mining. At that time, everything would be exposed.

Su Xiao could be sure that the scouting troops on the clan faction side would rush to this large mine immediately.

It was like someone's house being robbed; surely no one would run to neighbor Wang's house first to see if they had lost money, or if there was anyone under the bed or in the closet.

Once the clans discovered that the Sun Fortress was developed based on pig-headed people as the basic combat power, they would definitely fight to the death with his side. Everything the clans obtained, and everything they possessed now, was built on them stepping on the pig-headed people; this was their foundation.

If they discovered that the foundation under their feet might threaten them, and no longer work for them for free, or even offer their lives for free, they would immediately be furious to the point of hysteria, showing their ugly side, and come to wipe out the Sun Fortress with speed and troops that would shock the outside world.

The legendary fighter Oink made the clans lose face, and they did that much. Now, the rise of the Sun Fortress was equivalent to letting more than 100,000 wild boar warriors inherit Oink's spirit of resistance. The clans absolutely could not tolerate it.

Su Xiao was sure that war was inevitable, but that was fine too. In this way, he didn't have to go looking for 【Dark Mist】.

A person's energy is limited. Su Xiao would not go looking for 【Dark Mist】, and he would not stop the enemy from looking for it. On the contrary, it was better if the enemy found 【Dark Mist】.

The existing half of the World Core was in Su Xiao's hands, and 【Dark Mist】 was used to "fill" this World Core to make it complete.

Even if Golden Count, Saint Poetry, and Orandi found 【Dark Mist】, it would be useless. Afterward, they had to take the World Core from Su Xiao's hands. 【World Core】 + 【Dark Mist】 could become the final winner.

Su Xiao could not go looking for 【Dark Mist】, but Golden Count, Saint Poetry, and Orandi had to go looking for 【Dark Mist】.

If Su Xiao found 【Dark Mist】, that side would lose. Although the defeat penalty of Apocalypse Paradise and Saint Light Paradise would not lead to death, it was also very painful. On the Watcher Paradise side, there was a high probability of forced execution.

From the moment Su Xiao entered this world, he hadn't obtained any information about 【Dark Mist】, and he had previously learned through the world contact platform that Golden Count hadn't come to the war zone.

What made Golden Count exempt from coming to the war zone, and what triggered the execution? It must have something to do with 【Dark Mist】. Besides that, Su Xiao couldn't think of any other possibility. Golden Count had found this thing in advance.

Without any priority in information, Su Xiao didn't think he could beat Golden Count in the search for 【Dark Mist】. The other party had experienced one god leading a group of pits multiple times and led the teammates to win. Such an enemy would definitely be very difficult to deal with.

Su Xiao simply didn't look for it, letting the enemy look for it. He concentrated his energy on development. As long as he beat all the enemies down, 【Dark Mist】 would naturally be close at hand.

Just like dealing with Fei Shi before, that time it was cooperating with Morey and others, or rather, the core mission of entering the Sand Emperor world that time was to unite with battle angels, executioners, and disciplinary knights (rangers) from other paradises to get rid of Fei Shi.

Others were uniting and preparing, wishing they could find out how many grains of rice Fei Shi ate per meal.

After entering the world, Su Xiao temporarily forgot about that, fighting the Peru Dwarf Kingdom to the point of bleeding. After waiting for Fei Shi to come, he let hundreds of thousands of beast cavalry welcome the other party. The scene was particularly lively, and Fei Shi was moved to death.

Facts proved that sometimes doing those fancy things was useless. Accumulating strength and then hammering the enemy to death was enough. Was he bored? If he could hammer the other party to death directly, why did he have to fight wits and courage with them?

Now Su Xiao had 173,260 wild boar warriors under his command. The good news was that after saving for three days, he already had 5,861 units of active ore. This huge sum of money had to be spent quickly before the clans reacted.

Just as Su Xiao was about to contact Caesar, a hint from Reincarnation Paradise appeared.

【Hint: Battle Angel (Reserve) brand analysis completed. Due to the irreversible process of analysis, this brand has slipped by half a tier and become an Apocalypse Paradise contractor brand.】

【This brand is being sealed...】

【This brand has been sealed in the form of a title.】

【You have obtained the special title "Apocalypse" (This title has no star rating).】

【This title can be worn, but the title effect is waiting to be activated. You need to kill an Apocalypse Paradise contractor in a specific environment to activate this title.】

【This title cannot be burned, cannot be decomposed, and can be temporarily transferred.】 ===== CHAPTER 3385 =====