Chapter 3391: God-like assistance from clan teammates (Revised)

On the battlefield where the smoke hadn't dissipated, wild boar warriors and dwarf boars were cleaning up the battlefield. The enemy's weapons were good things, his side could use them directly, and the combat uniforms were even better. Although his side couldn't use them, they could be sold to the human side.

For the combat uniforms of clan soldiers, the human side had been coveting them for not just a day or two. Just the touch and softness of this metal fiber with cloth was of not-low value.

Besides that, the military officers' weapons were also valuable. The remaining spoils of war belonged to whoever found them.

As soon as Su Xiao gave this order, some injured wild boar warriors came to collect spoils of war despite their injuries. These were wild boar warriors who already had wives; they had already developed private property and family concepts, etc.

Su Xiao walked on the battlefield. Suddenly, he saw red light flashing in the corpse pile. After going up, he found a scarlet card under the corpse pile piled up by clan soldiers and wild boar warrior corpses.

Enemy contractors died in this battle. With the melee to that extent, contractors had to retreat with the main force if they wanted to retreat. Joining one side of the faction to participate in the war in this kind of large-scale battlefield would have many benefits.

As a price, for example, an Apocalypse Paradise contractor joined the Clan Alliance and participated in the war as a force faction. If this contractor fled in the face of battle and was discovered by the supervisor team, he would be pursued by the Tribunal afterward.

It was impossible to continue participating in the war, and it would eventually lead to the failure of the war mission. If judged as cowardice, he would be forcibly executed by Apocalypse Paradise.

As a contractor of Apocalypse Paradise, the failure of the war mission wouldn't lead to death, but if he didn't participate, or ran away before the war started under the condition of huge disadvantage, it was cowardice and would be forcibly executed.

This was also why the contractors of Apocalypse Paradise, although they feared the madmen of Reincarnation Paradise, still had to fight every time they met. Becoming a contractor in Apocalypse Paradise, losing the battle would at most be punished. Running away without fighting was definitely death.

Su Xiao took out the scarlet card from the corpse pile, wiped the blood on it clean, and put it into the storage space.

After walking for another distance, he saw a slender figure wearing a white robe, who was squatting there. Looking closely, it turned out to be the Priestess kneeling on the ground, with both hands clasped and pressed against the ground, forehead pressed against both thumbs, having this squatting posture.

"Lord, will the sun really favor us? I heard the dead wailing, they are resenting you."

The Priestess's voice was sorrowful, almost choked with sobs.

"You mean, the enemy turned into ghosts after death?"

"Yes."

"Can you see them?"

"No, but I can hear their voices, and they can hear my call."

The Priestess's expression was even more sorrowful.

"Is that so? That's very good. Help me tell them to come to me as soon as possible. I'm short of a batch of experimental materials recently."

"Eh?"

The Priestess's voice revealed heavy confusion. She couldn't associate vengeful ghosts with experimental materials.

"Your name is..." Su Xiao thought for a while, then said: "Octavia."

"Yes, Lord, I am Octavia. Thank you for still

"Octavia, actually, there are two ways to use a Sun Handmaiden."

"Ways to use..."

High Priestess Octavia carefully chewed on these two words.

"You should know that I created the Holy Nest. Regarding the Sun Handmaidens, if they are unwilling to go to the battlefield, you only need to use a 'Bone Needle' to pierce their fifth vertebra and then put them into a vertical cage. They can then be used as healing pillars. However, there is a price: after the 'Bone Needle' pierces the fifth vertebra, it will cause the central nervous system to fall into paralysis."

Su Xiao's hand pressed lightly on High Priestess Octavia's head. Octavia had a head of smooth, golden long hair, and those golden-white pupils were transformed after she became a Sun Handmaiden.

"Octavia, do you hope to be put into a vertical cage and carried onto the battlefield, or do you want to walk onto the battlefield yourself?"

"I... I hope to walk onto the battlefield myself."

As High Priestess Octavia spoke, her hand hidden under her sleeve was trembling slightly.

"Then can you still hear the voices of the dead now?"

"No... I can't anymore."

High Priestess Octavia lowered her head completely.

"Listen less to the words of the dead. If you listen too much, perhaps your own death date will arrive. Don't you agree?"

"I... I know. My lord is right; we are favored by the sun."

High Priestess Octavia nodded repeatedly. Seeing this, Su Xiao stood up and walked toward the other side of the battlefield. Behind a pile of corpses not far away, the five Fireball brothers were hiding.

"Should we burn that woman?"

"Do it!"

"Wait! The lord didn't give the order. Do we really want to do it?"

"So many of our kin died this time, yet she isn't doing post-war statistics and is just praying there. Who is she showing that to? And she says she can hear the voices of wronged souls—I'll listen to her 【expletive】. Brothers, kill her. If the lord blames us afterward, I'll take the fall."

"Last time, when we snuck out to find Mr. Caesar, you also said you'd take the fall, Fourth Brother. When the lord ordered an investigation, you were the first to run. I was the one hung in front of the fortress and beaten half to death, while you all ran away."

"The lord is looking this way. Smile quickly, everyone smile. The lord doesn't seem to be in a good mood. If he finds us an eyesore, we'll be in trouble again. The last matter hasn't been settled yet."

The five Wild Boar brothers all revealed smiles, smiling very stiffly, just like simpletons.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao's footsteps paused. The hearts of the five Wild Boar brothers skipped a beat. The fifth brother was so scared he shivered, remembering the previous time Su Xiao ordered Amu to hang him up and whip him; he had cried that time.

"You lot, come here."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the five Wild Boar brothers immediately stood in a row. The tallest, the fifth brother, was pushed to the front. In a foot-braking posture, he was pushed forward rapidly by the four brothers behind him, leaving two furrows in the ground along the way.

"Lo-lo-lo-lo-lord... M-m-m-master..."

The fifth brother was a stutterer by nature. Encountering Su Xiao, whom he feared most, he stuttered so badly he couldn't even speak clearly.

"The five of you go to Warehouse No. 2 and use the teleportation array there to go to the human side. For this business with the humans, the five of you go find Azba. He will tell you what to do for the subsequent matters."

After Su Xiao finished speaking, Baham tossed out a bag of active ore, about 10 kilograms, which was for the five Wild Boar brothers' expenses after arriving on the human side.

Hearing that it was an official business trip and that they were going to find Azba, the fifth brother of the Wild Boar brothers stopped stuttering, and the fourth brother's cross-eyed gaze even straightened out a bit.

Ever since these five guys had contact with the slave merchant Azba last time and were taken to a brothel by him, the five Wild Boar brothers had opened the door to a new world.

In the last two days, Su Xiao had contacted Azba several times. After that guy arrived at the new territory—that is, the human city—he had whored until he lost contact that very night.

If Su Xiao hadn't entrusted the human high-level officials to help search, Su Xiao would have thought that guy had died in some hotel or sauna.

Looking at the joyous five Wild Boar brothers, Baham narrowed its eyes. There were some things Su Xiao, as the Sun Lord, found difficult to say, but it could. Baham said:

"If you guys aren't back by tomorrow morning, I'll have Hausman help you 'remove the roots'—castration. Understand? It's just a 'snap,' and your little brothers will all be gone."

As Baham spoke, it made a cutting gesture. The five Wild Boar brothers instinctively squeezed their legs together and nodded repeatedly, indicating they would definitely be back before tomorrow morning.

"Go."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the five Wild Boar brothers ran off beaming with joy. The fifth brother patted his belly as he ran. They were going to find Azba, and Azba would definitely take them to a brothel; it was no wonder these five guys were so happy.

Su Xiao inspected the battlefield for a while longer. After finding no more Wild Boar soldiers that could be saved, he turned back to the general command room on the top floor of the fortress.

Sitting on the sofa, Su Xiao checked the fortress data. The data was as follows:

Name: Sun Fortress (Living).

Level: T0 (Invincible Fortress).

Active Energy Reserve: 95,380 points.

Total Population: 318,085.

Wild Boar Leader: 1 (Hausman).

Wild Boar Great Chieftains: 2 (Steel Tooth, Gluttony).

Wild Boar Mages: 5 (The five Wild Boar brothers).

Wild Boar Chieftains: 34.

Heavy Tanks: 12.

Sun Handmaiden: 1.

Wild Boar Soldiers: 231,800 (Core combat power).

Dwarf Boar-men: 53,370.

Female Boar-men: 32,860.

After this battle, the troops that had been hoarded for a long time suffered a significant loss. This also had its benefits: the Demi-human faction would no longer underestimate his side, and next time they attacked, they would surely prepare thoroughly before acting.

This had both pros and cons. The downside was that the next battle would be even more brutal. The upside was that after one of the Demi-human side's elite units, the "Warhammer Unit," was beaten down, one might ask: would the Demi-human Alliance send another ace unit, the "Heavy Artillery Unit," plus other units one level lower, to storm his side?

The answer was that it was possible, but the probability was not high. Don't forget, the Demi-human side consisted of "three families." The current situation was that the Demi-human Alliance would surely let the other two families also send troops to besiege the Sun Fortress.

This was easy to understand. In the words of the Demi-human Alliance: "My head is almost being hammered to pieces by the Sun Fortress, and you two still want to keep watching the show?"

The result of this was that the Aurora Council had the heart to fight, but they were too far from the Border Area, and on their other side was human territory. While mobilizing troops to go on an expedition, they also had to leave enough troops to guard their home. If they were stabbed in the back by the humans, the "big brother" of the Demi-humans, the Aurora Council, would be too miserable.

The Aurora Council wasn't cowardly, but the Watchtower was. Their attitude here was definitely to let the Demi-human Alliance wait a bit longer, wait until the "big brother" arrived, and then attack the Sun Fortress together.

Under this situation, the Demi-human Alliance, having just had a tooth knocked out by the Sun Fortress and being bruised and swollen, although full of anger and spewing foul language, would not easily make a move.

What Su Xiao needed most now was time. For the next period, it would depend on whether he developed faster or the Demi-human side could mobilize troops after uniting in hatred.

War was a competition of efficiency, but the bureaucrats of the three Demi-human forces had the least efficiency. It was no wonder the Demi-human soldiers were so fierce, still giving the humans room to breathe even now.

This time would not be too long. Su Xiao had to seize the time to develop. The fortress's daily active ore production was around 1,000 units. Hunting in the alienated beast territory could harvest about 200–300 units of active ore. Having hunted too ruthlessly before, the income in this aspect had declined.

The 140,000 sets of combat uniforms just seized were a windfall. They could be sold to the humans through the channel of the slave merchant Azba, and then boar-men could be purchased from the humans to replenish the troop source.

Just as Su Xiao was sitting on the sofa thinking, a prompt from the Tree of Void appeared.

【Prompt (Tree of Void): The first round of war in the Border Area has subsided.】

【Because the soldier-type units under your command have killed over 10,000 enemies, your exchange level in the Title Shop has reached Lv. 2.】

【Because the soldier-type units under your command have killed over 50,000 enemies, your exchange level in the Title Shop has reached Lv. 3.】

【Because the soldier-type units under your command have killed over 100,000 enemies, your exchange level in the Title Shop has reached Lv. 4.】

【When your exchange level in the Title Shop increases, the Title Shop will open for you personally for 5 minutes. This time, it will open for 15 minutes.】

【Your exchange level is Lv. 4; you can exchange for one-star to four-star titles in the Title Shop.】

【You can exchange for the following titles.】

1. Metal Devourer (Four-star title).

Price: 315 Soul Coins.

Stock: 1.

2. Warfire Rose (Four-star title).

Price: 309 Soul Coins.

Stock: 1.

3. Friend of the Xin Clan (Four-star title).

Price: 328 Soul Coins.

Stock: 1.

A long list of titles appeared before Su Xiao's eyes. Seeing the price of the four-star titles, Su Xiao knew that he had bought the 226 one-star titles before at a loss, but he accepted the loss of these Soul Coins.

Su Xiao didn't know how many titles would be in the Title Shop. Would buying them all be enough to fuel the burning and refining of 【War Lord】? This related to whether he could win this world contention battle.

If he tried to save a few Soul Coins and gamble, only to end up failing miserably because he was just one four-star title short of upgrading War Lord and couldn't get it no matter what, that would be losing the watermelon to pick up the sesame seeds.

Su Xiao calculated for a while. Since the Soul Coins in his hand were still quite sufficient, he took all the two-star to four-star titles in the Title Shop. Afterward, he opened the Title Burning and Refining Disk and embedded the titles one by one to burn and refine them.

Near noon, he closed the Title Burning and Refining Disk. The original pile of messy low-star titles had been burned and refined into 5 four-star titles, plus the 12 four-star titles bought directly from the Title Shop. Counting the previous one-star title purchase, he spent a total of 8,685 Soul Coins.

Buying low-star titles to synthesize—you lose the most at one star. The higher the star level, the less you lose, because the total quantity of titles is small, and the consumption brought by synthesis naturally decreases.

Just after closing the Title Burning and Refining permission, Su Xiao received a prompt from the Tree of Void.

【Announcement (Tree of Void): It is about to reach 12:00 noon. At this time, the Title Shop will be opened for all participants in this world.】

Su Xiao closed this prompt. He had already finished stocking up in the morning and had no interest in the now-empty Title Shop.

Gathering place in the Demi-human Border Area.

After the crushing defeat, the Warhammer Unit led the army to retreat here, both to stabilize military morale in this small town and to wait for subsequent reinforcements to arrive.

The surroundings of the small town had been sealed off layer by layer by Demi-human soldiers. Located in an inn in the east of the town, as the only decent inn in the town, it was temporarily requisitioned.

The T3-level fortress originally in the town center had already made room for Brigadier General Reitz. The manager of this place, Captain Jeffrey, was an admirer of Brigadier General Reitz, but the Brigadier General himself refused. A defeated general had no face to receive such treatment.

In the guest room of the small inn, Brigadier General Reitz frowned, staring blankly at the wall in front of him. His clerk, who was also his daughter, stood by the water basin with a worried face, not knowing what to say, while the Brigadier General's adjutant didn't even dare to breathe loudly at this moment.

"To actually lose to that kind of nonsensical, swarming tactic."

Brigadier General Reitz unscrewed his flat metal flask and took a sip. The white hair at his temples seemed to have increased.

"Father, everything has accidents."

"It wasn't an accident. There must be a secret we don't know. Those Wild Boar soldiers are very strange; they seem to... be willing to fight to the death."

"Father, our soldiers also..."

"It's not the same thing. That kind of... spirit? Let's call it spirit for now. That kind of spirit is more straightforward and direct; it's not something that can be trained. It's more like... faith?"

When Brigadier General Reitz said this, he suddenly remembered that he had seen many Wild Boar soldiers with ring marks on their bodies through real-time projection. These marks were not exactly the same, but they were mostly very similar, and many marks looked like they represented the sun.

Brigadier General Reitz suppressed the stifling feeling in his heart and began to sum up the gains and losses of this battle: how he was defeated and why he was defeated.

Although he had fought countless victorious battles in his life, in his view, every campaign was a new beginning. All explanations from a loser were meaningless nonsense in the ears of the listeners; instead, it was an ugly search for excuses. If you lost, you lost. Any explanation was pale and weak; only winning back was the most powerful defense.

"Where have the subsequent troops arrived? At the latest, they must arrive at the border this afternoon. Before 6:00 PM, we must go to war with the Sun Fortress again. We cannot give Kukuline Bai Ye even a tiny bit of breathing time. We can withstand a war of several months or even years, but he definitely cannot."

Speaking to the end, Brigadier General Reitz slammed his fist on the wooden table beside him. His gaze was so sharp that his adjutant didn't dare to look him in the eye.

"Sir, the meaning from above is to call a truce first..."

"Bullshit! If we don't extinguish this sun in the Border Area now, as long as Kukuline Bai Ye catches an opportunity, the ones who will be roasted to death are us! Is the brains of those parasites filled with feces?!"

Brigadier General Reitz was so angry that his skin was trembling. In fact, this old general was right. If the war continued tonight, and then the Demi-human side's subsequent troops arrived one after another, Su Xiao's side definitely wouldn't be able to hold on.

"Sir, there is one more thing. Because of our failure this time, the meaning from above is... is to let us go to the Inquisition first."

"Hmm?"

Brigadier General Reitz looked at his adjutant in confusion, then smiled. Those Demi-human bureaucrats wanted to seize this opportunity to make him uncomfortable. They didn't know at all what specifically happened in the Border Area; this was revenge.

During the war between the Demi-humans and the humans, Demi-human officers held great power, but after peace, the power in the hands of these people was taken away by the bureaucratic faction, under the pretext that they couldn't let the hunting dogs bite their own chains.

There was no help for this. Demi-human soldiers had no productivity, and the finances were controlled by that side. Unless these Demi-human generals gathered together to break the existing power system and establish a new regime, the scene of today was bound to happen sooner or later.

Brigadier General Reitz let out a long sigh and stood up to walk out of the room. His back had a touch of loneliness. After walking a few steps, he stopped and turned to look at the window on the side. That direction was the direction of the Sun Fortress. He wanted to clash with that opponent again, but unfortunately, he had no chance for the time being.

"In the end, I'm still... old."

Brigadier General Reitz's back was a bit more aged as he left this slightly old-fashioned room.

Inside the room, Bubu Wang yawned and followed Brigadier General Reitz out of the room while contacting Su Xiao.

On the top floor of the home base fortress, in the general control room.

Su Xiao closed the team communication and let out a long sigh in his heart. That difficult opponent had actually been transferred away. After clashing with Brigadier General Reitz once before, Su Xiao had always worried whether he would fall into the hands of this old general. Now it seemed he had been overthinking.

"Wonderful."

Su Xiao muttered to himself. Others felt just as wonderful as he did.

Border town, inside an abandoned warehouse.

There were some wooden crates in the warehouse, and dozens of men and women were standing or sitting on them. Among them, Morey and the Moon Apostle were sitting on the same wooden crate. Although many people suspected Morey was a traitor, after reporting, it was found that Morey had no violations, and she was also a Battle Angel. If they reported her repeatedly, they would be warned.

"How many times do I have to tell you? We were kidnapped. Also, Samsara Paradise's Bai Ye is not my father, understand? The ages don't even match."

Morey spoke. Beside her, the Hao Sister, who was holding a wine bottle and had light white wavy long hair, snorted. She didn't care about Morey's gaze and poured wine into her mouth.

Golden Count, Saint Poetry, Orlandi, and others were also in this abandoned warehouse. Among them, Orlandi said:

"Just now, the Tree of Void prompted that the Title Shop is about to open. I've encountered this situation before. There aren't many titles inside, and you have to snatch them, but the price is cheap. It's one of the benefits of triggering a historical-level event."

"One of the benefits? Are there other benefits?"

"There are if you win."

The corners of Orlandi's mouth curled up, meaningful.

"What is your exchange level?"

"Mine is level 2."

"Level 1."

"Level 3."

The contractors spoke one after another. It was obvious that the quantity required for killing enemies with one's own hands versus letting soldier-type units under one's command kill enemies was vastly different.

However, what was strange was that these contractors had clearly increased their exchange levels, yet they didn't know the situation inside the Title Shop.

This was natural. The Tree of Void had a balancing mechanism. At present, Su Xiao from the Samsara Paradise side was one party alone, while the hundreds of contractors from Apocalypse Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, and Watcher Paradise were the other party.

In the judgment of the Tree of Void, even if Su Xiao had ten million soldier-type units, it was achieved through his own means after entering this world. In the judgment, these soldier-type units would not be counted but would be judged as Su Xiao alone facing hundreds of contractors.

If soldier-type units were counted, it would actually be a good thing for Su Xiao, because the contractors' side had more soldier-type units. They had all joined the Demi-human faction. How many soldiers did the Demi-humans have?

One against hundreds, with no other special treatment—the balancing mechanism didn't tilt to that extent. The only compensation for the number difference given by the Tree of Void was that Su Xiao could have the Title Shop open for him personally for 5 minutes when his exchange level increased. This was his only fairness advantage in a one-versus-hundreds situation.

"It's coming. First come, first served. My brain speed is not something you can compare with."

The younger brother of the Heavenly Ghost brothers, Ghost Eye, spoke. Morey and the Moon Apostle ignored him and were silently counting down in their hearts.

【Announcement (Tree of Void): The Title Shop has opened. This time, it will open for 10 minutes.】

"They're all mine! Ah, what?"

A smile bloomed on Ghost Eye's face. With the opening of the Title Shop, this smile froze. Although there were dozens of contractors in the abandoned warehouse, it became deathly silent.

"Did you see any titles?"

"No, could it be the first day of opening and they haven't stocked up yet?"

Deer Brother spoke with a confused gaze. He was particularly bewildered now. Just at this moment, Morey suddenly said:

"Damn! You are really ruthless, not a single one left. Are you exchanging for so many titles to eat them!"

Morey threw the paper milk carton in her hand to the ground. With her rich experience as a victim, she immediately thought that the Title Shop had been emptied by Su Xiao.

PS: (Two chapters of 11,000 words today. I won't split them into three chapters; the reading experience of two chapters is more compact.)