Chapter 3466: Talent and Compatibility

Inside the snail shell, Su Xiao stood before the "Talent Su Xing Device." The device was about 10 meters tall and over 6 meters wide. Most of its exposed structure was heavy metal, with some parts made of crystals that emitted a faint blue glow from within.

Over a hundred black cables, each as thick as an arm, extended from the "Talent Su Xing Device." One end of each cable was connected to various parts of the device, while the other ends were buried deep into the surrounding soil, reaching the ley lines.

When activated, it would draw power from the ley lines to stabilize the entire device. This was also the reason why the "Talent Su Xing Device" could not be moved; once it fell here and was activated, it became connected to the ley lines.

Su Xiao had no way to take this thing with him. It was a creation of the Silintis race and could not be solved through alchemy—much like how it is difficult for a blacksmith and a tailor to cross professions, with Reed being the exception.

To say there was absolutely no way was not entirely true; Su Xiao planned to place a unique Law-Breaker mark on the device after he finished using it.

If he could survive and leave this world to return to Reincarnation Paradise, he would contact Marwen Waltz, the old Law-Breaker, and the black-fog figure from the Starry Sky Seat. Those three old guys might have a way to get the "Talent Su Xing Device" out of the Tree-Born World.

Su Xiao did not choose to activate the "Talent Su Xing Device" immediately, but instead checked the kill notification that had just appeared.

【Notification: You have killed the Mother of Aquatic Life.】

【You have obtained 4,652 Soul Coins (Team reward increased by 23%).】

【You have obtained Badge of the Strong ×4 (Team reward increased by 1).】

【You have obtained Aquatic Object (Immortal-grade item).】

The number of Soul Coins obtained from killing the Mother of Aquatic Life was exceptionally high, much more than killing the Old Knight in the Painted World. This did not mean the Mother of Aquatic Life was stronger than the Old Knight, but rather that due to the team distribution mechanism, more Soul Coins were allocated, while the treasure chest rewards were spread out.

Su Xiao had not come for the kill rewards this time; his gaze shifted primarily toward Wood, Zuiyas, Solomon, and the others.

Noticing Su Xiao's gaze, Solomon knew well that this was no place to linger. The Mother of Aquatic Life had been successfully killed, and he had obtained a large amount of benefits; there would be no problem with the subsequent Great Relic achievements, so he just needed to wait to collect the rewards.

Under these circumstances, Solomon turned and left. He estimated that if he stayed any longer, those three teammates might start backstabbing each other, and it was not impossible that those three might attack him first.

"Farewell."

It was rare for Solomon to bid farewell to anyone. Leaving those words behind, he turned and walked away. Solomon's meaning was: I don't care if you three want to backstab each other, but don't come looking for me; I'm pulling out now.

Under Aidoer's puzzled gaze, Solomon was soon far away.

"My dear friend, Caesar still has some things to attend to. I'll be back in a few hours."

Caesar left these words behind and walked to the side of the super-giant snail shell, disappearing from sight.

"Ah! I've been poisoned by the Mother of Aquatic Life."

Yuer fell to the ground with exaggerated acting, then kicked his legs and went still.

Even Yuer, who was a bit naive about social nuances, could see that the situation was wrong. How could Aidoer not have noticed? But she couldn't turn and run; if she dared to run, she might experience the feeling of flying in the next second—well, only her head would fly.

In front of the snail shell, Su Xiao, Wood, and Zuiyas stood vaguely in a triangular formation. The "Book of the Dead" appeared behind Wood, while Zuiyas took off the pendant from his neck and wrapped it around his hand.

"Bai Ye, congratulations on getting what you wanted."

"..."

Su Xiao stood with his back to the large snail shell, and a crystal chair formed behind him. He sat down, signaling his attitude of watching the show. Aidoer, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baja all slipped behind Su Xiao.

Seeing this scene, Wood and Zuiyas felt a bit more at ease. The attitude Su Xiao displayed was that finding the "Talent Su Xing Device" on this trip was already satisfactory, and he would not go on to seize some item that Wood and Zuiyas had their eyes on. On this point, Wood and Zuiyas both trusted him; they knew Su Xiao was not the type to be insatiably greedy.

"Hahahaha."

"Hehehe."

Wood and Zuiyas laughed at each other and exchanged a look, meaning to go to the location of that treasure first and then seize it later.

The two walked ten-plus steps while laughing and talking. Suddenly, a black tentacle grew from Wood's back. This tentacle coiled around a dagger and stabbed it into Wood's lower back.

To deepen their "friendship," Zuiyas controlled the tentacle holding the dagger to twist it, which made Wood let out a muffled groan. This backstab aimed straight for the kidneys was truly ruthless.

"Wood, strike first to gain the advantage, later..."

Zuiyas spoke with a smile, but just as he was halfway through his sentence, the smile on his face suddenly froze. A familiar, intense pain appeared in his abdomen, causing him to vomit a large mouthful of black-red blood mixed with organ fragments.

Zuiyas was all too familiar with this feeling of organs being eroded into mush. Last time, at the Sea God Palace in the Painted World, it was like this after he was poisoned by Su Xiao.

Zuiyas looked toward Su Xiao and found that Su Xiao, a hundred meters away, was sitting there smoking without saying a word, not looking this way at all, treating it as if nothing had happened, representing that he would not participate in this matter.

Zuiyas immediately thought that it was this dog thief Wood who, after paying the benefits, had bought the potent poison from Su Xiao. One could only say that this dog thief was not slow to act either.

After a few roars, the two good teammates ran into the distance and disappeared from sight.

"w(? Д?)w"

Aidoer stood frozen in place. She was stunned; the Dawn Team was too "united." That familiar backstabbing and the silent poisoning were definitely not something that could be practiced overnight.

Aidoer hadn't seen the scene in the Painted World before; back then, a few rounds of chain backstabbing were simply a daily occurrence.

"This dog thief Zuiyas's backstabbing is becoming harder and harder to guard against. Boss, we have to be careful later."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Zuiyas's dagger strike just now was indeed masterful, making one wonder if this dog thief had strengthened his training in this area after returning to the Fallen Star.

"Are you still planning to cooperate with those two later?!"

Aidoer's voice cracked, her face full of disbelief.

"What's wrong?"

Baja looked at Aidoer in confusion.

"They both backstabbed their teammates!"

"So what? They have ability when they need ability, wisdom when they need wisdom, and means when they need means. They don't drag their feet, they don't have internal strife before defeating a great enemy, and they are never hypocritically self-righteous. To achieve their goals, they use any means necessary. Aren't such teammates reliable enough? Aren't they ten thousand times better than pig-like teammates?"

Baja's words left Aidoer speechless. Thinking about it carefully, it really was the case.

Compared to finding teammates who could make one so angry as to cause a cerebral hemorrhage during the planning process, cooperating with Wood and Zuiyas was clearly the better choice.

Not to mention anything else, before the goal is achieved, the team is still very united. As for after the goal is achieved, cough~, as the saying goes, resources are ownerless things, and those with the ability shall possess them. Those who are beaten away are simply those without ability.

"Watching" the two good teammates go far away, Su Xiao felt a bit more at ease. If he wanted to use the "Talent Su Xing Device," he needed someone to act as a guard.

Yuer was the best candidate, which was also the reason Su Xiao brought him along. His purpose was pure, a typical case of living toward death.

"Yuer, before I come out, slaughter anyone who dares to approach."

Su Xiao took out a crown. If Yuer wanted to achieve the path of destiny, this crown, crafted by the Elven race with their life's efforts, was a necessary artifact.

Yuer didn't say anything else, just nodded and went to patrol and guard the surroundings.

Su Xiao gave Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang a look, signaling him to also go scout the surroundings. Xiang Bubu understood and blended into the environment.

Su Xiao looked at Baja. Without needing to say anything else, Baja understood Su Xiao's meaning. He was both a guard near the large snail shell and had to watch Aidoer. If Aidoer made any suspicious moves, there was no need to worry about too much; kill her on the spot. Having spent so much effort to get to this step, he certainly couldn't let a moment of negligence lead to a total loss.

Su Xiao walked into the inner side of the snail shell. A crystal layer spread, turning into crystal walls and sealing the inner side into a secret room.

Su Xiao stopped in front of the "Talent Su Xing Device" and reached out with one hand. Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy gathered in his hand. In the next second, the "Talent Su Xing Device" let out a loud bang, its lower half rammed into the ground, and the arm-like black cables formed an energy circuit with the ley lines.

Hum~

The Talent Su Xing Device was initially activated. Cables as thick as little fingers spread over and attached themselves to Su Xiao's right arm, shoulder, side ribs, and other positions.

The Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in Su Xiao's body was consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in his body was absorbed, and his mana dropped to 0 points.

When his True Intelligence attribute broke through 100 points, Su Xiao gained a characteristic ability, which was:

"Su Xing: When in a state of inner peace, mana recovery speed increases by 600%."

Meditation itself could accelerate mana recovery and achieve a state of inner peace. Combined with the Su Xing characteristic, the mana recovery speed climbed by a large margin. Plus the Ice Goddess Halo provided by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang a hundred meters away, Su Xiao would probably need 5–6 hours to fully recover his mana. This wasn't because the recovery was slow, but because his mana cap was as high as 43,372 points.

Meditating to recover mana, converting it into Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in his body, then having it absorbed by the Talent Su Xing Device, continuing to meditate to recover mana...

After more than ten hours, a total of 150,000 Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy had been absorbed. Su Xiao, sitting cross-legged, felt the cables attached to his arms, shoulders, and ribs detach. After he opened his eyes, he saw the Talent Su Xing Device, which had changed drastically.

At this moment, the device looked like it was crafted from light blue crystals. The massive energy field made the surrounding air distort, and the soil on the ground was stained light blue and floated up.

Su Xiao came to the device and raised his hand to press on the cabin door. With a swish, the cabin door opened. He walked inside and found it wasn't large; there was a chair, and in front was the activation device.

This chair was a rare humanized touch from the Law-Breaker faction. These pragmatists liked to concentrate all resources in useful places. Their motto was: it doesn't matter if the device is ugly, as long as it works. It doesn't matter if it hurts like hell while mastering the ability, as long as you don't die, it's fine if the ability is strong.

Su Xiao sat on the crystal chair and experienced the rare humanized touch of the Law-Breakers. With a boom, the cabin door closed and locked.

【Notification: Detected that the Hunter is using Talent Su Xing for job transfer. Do you wish to perform data notarization? Performing data notarization allows you to activate this device more intuitively, with no bonus or reduction to the activated effect.】

【Notarization complete.】

【If you continue to accept this Talent Su Xing, you have a 98.59% probability of death.】

【Do you wish to sacrifice one of your existing talent abilities to reduce the risk brought by this Talent Su Xing?】

【Your talent abilities are as follows:

1. Soul Eater (Killing Talent · SSS-grade).

2. Blood Beast (Growth Talent · SSS-grade).

3. King of Elements (Amplification Talent · SSS-grade).

【You must choose one to sacrifice to reduce the risk brought by this Talent Su Xing. If no choice is made, one will be randomly selected from the three talents within 20 seconds.】

Su Xiao decisively chose "King of Elements." If it randomly selected Soul Eater or Blood Beast after 20 seconds, that would become an epic-level cerebral hemorrhage event.

【Notification: You have chosen to sacrifice the talent ability · King of Elements. The Talent Su Xing Device will activate in 3 seconds.】

【3, 2, 1...】

Boom!

A muffled thunder seemed to appear in Su Xiao's ears...

Not knowing how much time had passed, Su Xiao's index finger moved. He opened his bloodshot eyes and, with a trembling right hand, brought the small jar-shaped "Extreme Oxygen" to his mouth and bit down to inhale it.

Hiss hiss hiss~!

As "Extreme Oxygen" was inhaled into his body, the world before Su Xiao blurred for a moment. The intense pain churning throughout his body finally subsided.

Su Xiao finally knew why there was a crystal chair in the Talent Su Xing Device. This wasn't humanization at all; without this chair, he would have fallen flat on the ground after activating the Talent Su Xing Device just now.

The Talent Su Xing wasn't finished yet. This time, the Law-Breaker faction was indeed rarely "humanized," dividing the Talent Su Xing into two stages: 1. Sacrifice talent, 2. Choose new talent ability.

The reason it was a unique talent ability of the Law-Breaker Shadow was not because this type of talent ability was only suitable for Law-Breakers, but because the several talents that could be awakened had to have Law-Breaker abilities as a foundation.

The first stage had passed during Su Xiao's fainting spell. He rested for a moment and activated the Talent Su Xing Device again.

With a hum, the light and shadow before Su Xiao were stretched. When his vision recovered, he was already standing on a piece of scorched earth.

The surrounding ground was full of traces eroded by magic energy. Skeletons were laid out on the ground. These skeletons were wearing mostly decayed robes, some clutching staves in their hands, or wearing crowns on their heads, etc. Judging from these artifacts, the owners of these skeletons were definitely not small figures in their lifetime.

Su Xiao walked among the skeletons. In the dark red sky, there was a blue sun and a cyan crescent moon.

Not knowing how long he had walked forward, a mountain appeared in front. This was no mountain, but one piled up from the skeletons of spellcasters.

Stepping on the skeletons or skulls of spellcasters, Su Xiao climbed to the flat mountain peak. Located here stood four stone tablets.

The first stone tablet was entirely black-blue. Su Xiao raised his hand and pressed it, finding that the ability it represented was not suitable for him. The talent this tablet symbolized was for the "Crack-Space Shadow" ability to reach its limit, and it required ultra-high Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy manipulation.

Su Xiao had ultra-strong energy manipulation, but the Crack-Space Shadow ability was a no-go.

Coming to the second stone tablet, Su Xiao decisively gave up. This was a combat system evolved based on the Supreme Blade ability, and he hadn't developed in that direction.

The third stone tablet was light blue, and the fourth was crystal blue. The former was a talent ability based on Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, and the latter was a talent ability based on the Devouring Core and soul strength.

Both talent tendencies were a perfect fit for Su Xiao. He carefully deliberated and decided to give up the third stone tablet and choose the fourth.

The reason was that his Dragon Flash and Green Shadow King abilities both provided bonuses to Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, and the Soul-Severing Shadow he was about to master seemed to have a great connection with Green Qing Qing Gang Ying.

There were already enough characteristics linked to Green Qing Qing Gang Ying. If he let the talent be closely related to it now, there would be too many bindings.

Looking at the fourth stone tablet, it was based on the Devouring Core and soul strength. It should be known that Su Xiao's current Devouring Core ability had reached Lv. EX, but Su Xiao hadn't received much feedback; he could only use it to improve his Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability and blood energy, and improving the former required the presence of essence spirits.

Even if Su Xiao searched the world for essence spirits, that stuff was very rare. Whether it was indigenous people or contractors, they used it themselves after obtaining it.

As for improving blood energy through the ancient battlefield, that was a brain-hole operation Su Xiao thought of himself. Heaven knows if he would be teleported to the ancient battlefield again when he improved this ability in the skill upgrade cabin after the aura release ability reached a certain level.

Su Xiao always felt that he hadn't even exerted one-tenth of the Devouring Core's efficacy. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but there was no point of application.

The talent represented by the fourth stone tablet could receive a bonus from soul strength. For Su Xiao, this was a great opportunity. Besides elemental affinity, his highest attribute was soul strength.

Su Xiao concentrated his attention on the fourth stone tablet, and a line of Reincarnation Paradise notification text appeared.

"To master this talent, you must ensure your Devouring Core ability reaches Lv. MAX+++ and have soul strength above 420 points."

That's the one. Su Xiao pressed his hand on it with all his might. With a boom, the stone tablet shattered, and a large amount of crystals splashed and surged toward Su Xiao.

Inside the Talent Su Xing Device, Su Xiao suddenly opened his eyes and exhaled a turbid breath. The second half of the talent awakening process had a slight pain, which was nothing to Su Xiao. The first half, sacrificing the talent, was truly impressive.

His body felt slightly weak. Su Xiao checked the notification that had just appeared.

【Notification: Because you have awakened a new talent ability, you have obtained the permanent characteristic "Proud Song Amplification."】

【Proud Song Amplification: The Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy crystallization achieved in Proud Song form will have its crystal strength amplified by soul strength. The amplification intensity is soul strength × 10%.】

【Notification: Because you have mastered a new talent ability, the Devouring Core has developed a new structure, "Soul Core." The "Soul Core" is located at the very center of the Devouring Core and is used to store soul energy.】

【You have awakened talent ability: Shadow Hunter.】

【Shadow Hunter】

Category: Law-Breaker Shadow · Unique Talent.

Grade: S (Can reach SSS-grade after completing one awakening).

Talent Effect (Passive): After killing an enemy, you can seize one of the enemy's abilities, and then you can make the following two choices.

1. Seal it in a crystal form materialized by Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy using a special method. After sealing, this ability can be used once.

2. Devour this ability through the Devouring Core and convert it into soul energy. Soul energy can be used to permanently improve yourself or your own abilities.

Notification: Due to the high compatibility between soul energy and Law-Breaker Shadow, it can be used to improve exclusive Law-Breaker abilities such as Green Shadow King and Green Qing Qing Gang Ying.

Notification: After this ability awakens to SSS, you will be able to obtain soul energy through more methods.

Su Xiao observed the crystal layer clinging to his hand carefully. The appearance of the crystal layer hadn't changed, but its strength had undergone a qualitative improvement. The current Proud Song ability was now boosted by soul strength. Even if the amplification intensity was only 10%, given his soul strength, this boost was still quite considerable.

The effect of the talent ability was actually very simple: seize the enemy's ability after killing them, then seal or devour it.

【Shadow Hunter】 couldn't seize just any ability. If the enemy's ability wasn't strong enough, the "tearing" phenomenon would occur during the seizure, and it couldn't be seized at all.

Besides combat characteristics, in Su Xiao's view, the principle of this ability was to ingest source energy, use the "Soul Core" to convert it into soul energy, and then use it to improve his own abilities.

Su Xiao believed that when the Green Shadow King ability no longer occupied a large number of Golden Skill Points, it wouldn't take too long before he could improve all his Lv. MAX abilities to Lv. EX, giving his combat power a qualitative leap.

Regarding obtaining soul energy, in Su Xiao's view, the scope was a bit too small; it could only be done by killing strong enemies. Some elite units with average strength might not have abilities that could withstand the seizure of 【Shadow Hunter】, leading to "tearing," which meant the seizure failed.

Su Xiao was never a stubborn person. Thinking from another perspective, seizing and devouring an enemy's ability mainly required source energy. This type of energy was different from body energy; it was non-renewable energy, similar to source life force.

What contained source energy? The answer was soul crystals. Soul energy was at the top tier among various types of source abilities.

Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal (Complete). If it were anyone else, they really couldn't absorb this thing. Previously, Zuiyas had tried to eat a small piece after watching Su Xiao eat Soul Crystals, but as a result, Zuiyas of the Ancient God system almost died. The structure of Soul Crystals was particularly stable; unless one had the corresponding ability, it was impossible to absorb it.

With a crack, Su Xiao bit into the Soul Crystal in his hand. If it really succeeded, his "Soul Eater" ability and "Shadow Hunter" ability would achieve a perfect match.

Su Xiao could completely rely on the ability to eat soul stones brought by "Soul Eater" to accumulate soul energy at the cost of Soul Crystals.

Soul energy had many uses. In layman's terms, this was the "exclusive skill point" of the Law-Breaker Shadow. It could also be absorbed by the body to improve physical fitness, but the latter had little effect and was a waste of resources, far less considerable than using it to improve Law-Breaker abilities.

Of course, soul energy was by no means omnipotent. This energy converted through the Devouring Core could only be used to improve "Law-Breaker" abilities, such as the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability.

This was just the initial form of "Shadow Hunter." In the future, when it awakens to SSS-grade, it will definitely show all its power.

Su Xiao ate the Soul Crystal in his hand and closed his eyes to digest it. He first felt this soul energy sink into the Devouring Core, and after conversion, it sank into the "Soul Core" at the center to be stored.

When the storage of soul energy reached 100%, it could be used to improve the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability. After reaching 300%, it could be used to improve the Green Shadow King.

Eating this Soul Crystal (Complete) allowed the Soul Core to accumulate about 1% soul energy. That is to say, about 100 Soul Crystals (Complete) could improve the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying ability by 1 level. This wasn't expensive at all; previously, improving Blood Gun Master Lv. 50 cost 100 Soul Crystals (Complete) per level.

In the future, if he joined a major force in a native world and robbed... cough, developed a few treasure vaults, he could get quite a few Soul Crystals (Complete).

Moreover, after killing a strong enemy, he could also seize one of the enemy's abilities and devour it to obtain soul energy, thereby improving the "Green Qing Qing Gang Ying" or "Green Shadow King" ability. This was simply an extra way to gain profit. Changing the perspective, killing a strong enemy now was equivalent to obtaining quite a few extra Soul Crystals (Complete). Huge profit.

Killing a strong enemy = obtaining kill rewards notarized by Reincarnation Paradise + soul energy + potentially obtained soul memories. This was almost pushing the profit of killing enemies to the limit.

Su Xiao left the Talent Su Xing Device and placed a unique Law-Breaker mark on the snail shell nearby as a coordinate, to see if Marwen Waltz and the others could bring this device out of this world later.

Su Xiao penetrated space and exited the crystal wall he had set up earlier. He didn't plan to dismantle this thing.

"Boss, did it go smoothly?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He felt like he almost died just now, but now that the talent ability had successfully awakened, he didn't know if it counted as smooth.

"Your reward."

Su Xiao tossed the crown to Yuer. After Yuer caught it, he looked up at the dim sky. After staring at it for a few minutes, he said:

"Farewell, Mr. Bai Ye."

Just as Yuer finished speaking, he put on the crown. The pupils in his eyes suddenly constricted, then re-expanded, but these pupils had turned white. The powerful soul and consciousness named Yuer were erased in this instant. From now on, it was a vessel.

Thump!!

An impact spread from the vessel as the starting point. It shot into the sky, its flesh and blood shattered, then these flesh and blood spread out like a pair of wings, finally gathering and reshaping.

A figure with dead-white skin hung high in the sky. Tentacles grew from its body. These tentacles, hundreds of meters long, were intertwined and sank into the air, ingesting the distorted Abyss energy. In just over a month, the Great Relic and Bay City would no longer be dangerous areas, and monsters like the Merman Brother and the Silt Man would all die because their energy was sucked dry.

Su Xiao watched for a moment, then turned and walked out of the Great Relic. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baja, and Aidoer followed closely behind. Just then, Su Xiao received a notification.

【Notification: You have completed the hidden mission · Path of Destiny.】

【You have obtained the Holy Spirit-grade set treasure chest · 6/6 set (This is a set unique to the Elven race).】

【Team settlement in progress...】

【The Dawn Team has penetrated deep into the Great Relic this time, killing a total of Queen Sigrian, Four-Life Evil Ghost... Mother of Aquatic Life.】

【The Dawn Team is an SSS-tier team, which will bring more benefits to this settlement.】

【The Dawn Team has completed the following achievements in total:

1. Kill the Mother of Aquatic Life.

2. Contain the distortion.

3. The crying from a thousand years ago (Completed by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang).】

【Calculation complete. Title rewards have been sent to other teammates. As the captain of the Dawn Team, you will receive a skill card reward.】

【You have obtained the permission to randomly draw a skill card (Due to the extremely high team settlement this time, the lower limit to upper limit is Team Skill Card Lv. 30 ~ Lv. EX).】

Su Xiao closed the notification. Words like "random" and "draw" inevitably made one feel uneasy.

If he drew an Lv. EX-grade skill card, he would be rich. Su Xiao's Dawn Adventure Team still had two team skill slots. If he inserted two Lv. EX skill cards into them, maybe he wouldn't need to catch a healer when needed in the future?

It should be known that healers caught are far better than wild ones. For example, the wild healer Aidoer caught this time—her buffs, let's not even mention them.

If he could get two Lv. EX skill cards, whenever he needed a healer in the future, he could completely use the world contact platform to lure a healer with three Lv. EX team skills. After luring them, give the healer employment fees? Heh, naive. It would be good if they didn't have to pay him instead.

"Big shot, if you're short of people for a team in the future, you must call me. I'll even pay Soul Coins to join."

Aidoer had an undisguised smile on her face. During the settlement just now, with the advantage of her charm attribute and the exaggerated team settlement evaluation, she obtained a total of 2 Seven-Star titles, which almost made her faint from happiness.

"There are places with higher benefits later, want to go?"

Baja spoke. Hearing this, Aidoer nodded with a smile. She didn't know what her mood would be when she found out that the next step was to deal with the Gray Gentleman.

In a dim space inside a tree, this place was about tens of meters in size.

The faint light from the ceiling shone down. The Gray Gentleman sat on an old chair. The wall behind him was somewhat special; embedded in this wall was a rusty metal cabin door, and on the cabin door, the four numbers 1349 were printed.

Opposite, a figure wearing a black clerical robe stood there, saying in an old but calm voice: "I originally thought you would take the opportunity to retaliate against me."

"Why would I do that?"

The Gray Gentleman smiled and looked at the stone table beside him. On it was a metal cup, wrapped with dense rune ropes. The liquid in the cup was increasing at a slow speed and was about to overflow.

"I used your people and used their lives to get rid of the Book of the Dead. Isn't that worth hating?"

"My people?" The Gray Gentleman raised his eyes to look at the figure opposite, then shook his head and said:

"Every rule-breaker who comes to the Tree-Born World has their own purpose. They are sound-minded people who must bear the consequences of their own decisions. Thank you for helping me hold back Bai Ye for so long. From the very beginning, I never counted on you to kill him. If there's nothing else, disappear from my sight."

"Good."

After the person in the darkness finished speaking, he looked at the cabin door behind the Gray Gentleman, which had the four numbers 1349 and was embedded obliquely in the wall. When he first saw this thing, he only felt it was incredible.

A moment later, in the dim space inside the tree, only the Gray Gentleman sitting on the old chair remained, along with Bee eating a carrot beside him.

"Bee."

The Gray Gentleman spoke.

"Crunch crunch crunch~"

Bee gnawed on the carrot like a rabbit. Heaven knows what TV show she had been watching again.

"Has your brand resonated yet?"

"Not yet~"

After Bee finished speaking, she continued gnawing on the carrot. The Gray Gentleman patted her head, signaling her to go play on the side, but not to leave.

The Gray Gentleman stood up from the chair and turned to look at the wall behind the chair. He stepped forward two steps and pulled down half a metal mask embedded in it. The mask was covered in rust, with more than half rusted into dregs. Looking closely, one would find that this was surprisingly the same mask as the Phantom Troupe leader's, or rather, this was the leader's former metal mask.

"Phantom Troupe, well-deserved reputation."

The Gray Gentleman tossed the half metal mask in his hand and turned his gaze to the Holy Grail beside him. Dangerous Object · S-002 · Death Holy Grail was about to overflow, and his plan was also about to come to an end.

PS: (Continue flipping back to see the Gray Gentleman easter egg chapter.) ===== CHAPTER 3467 =====