Chapter 3500: Dragon Rider VS Giant Monster

The dazzling gold burned within the cylindrical barrier. Amidst the flames, the Ancient God Saint Oak was like a giant tree set ablaze, thrashing its body wildly and slamming against the interior of the barrier.

Various abilities erupted from its body, yet it still couldn't break through the barrier, at most causing it to warp slightly.

This barrier was constructed from a mixture of fourteen types of alchemical arrays. With Su Xiao's Alchemy level at Lv. 66, the strength of these arrays was already very high, and the core node of these arrays was the "Sun Ring."

This Sun Ring didn't exist independently. In the Sel star and the Tree-Born World, there were two other Sun Rings, which were resonating with this Sun Ring after notarization by the Reincarnation Paradise.

All the pig-headed people on the Sel star believed in the sun, and the mushroom tribes and ghost tribes in the Tree-Born World were basically the same. This huge group of living beings generated a massive amount of faith power every moment, which was then transmitted into the Sun Ring held by Su Xiao.

And at this moment, after this "Sun Ring" became the core of the alchemical arrays, it displayed extraordinary compatibility, leading to a tougher barrier and an extremely terrifying temperature of the sun flames within.

This wasn't the most despairing thing for the Ancient God Saint Oak. It hadn't discovered anything wrong before entering this world, but after entering, it gradually realized that this place was not right.

Alas, it was too late. Its current situation was that not only did it have to be burned by the sun flames inside the barrier, but there were also 1,000 Sun Flame Dragons outside the barrier, frantically spraying dragon flames at the exterior of the cylindrical barrier.

At first, the Ancient God Saint Oak could still maintain the dignity of a god's existence, but in the process of being gradually roasted dry, it "broke its defense." One might ask, how much capacity can a being that sets its own game rules and then plays dirty when it loses have?

That's right, before dying, the Ancient God Saint Oak cursed Su Xiao extremely viciously.

Below, flames were raging. Su Xiao frowned as he looked at the Ancient God Saint Oak roaring in the barrier and asked, "What is it saying?"

"Don't know. Who knows what kind of language this is? Big brother below, can you speak Void Mandarin? You're speaking a dialect; I can't understand it!"

Baha shouted, but the Ancient God Saint Oak roared one last "Pudilong" and crashed down inside the barrier.

In the end, Su Xiao still didn't understand what the Ancient God Saint Oak had roared, but that didn't matter. The Ancient God Saint Oak wasn't dead yet, so keep stewing at the current heat.

After continuing to stew on high heat for nearly an hour, the Ancient God Saint Oak, which had long been lying on the ground, let out an extremely unwilling roar, kicked its legs, and died.

The Ancient God Saint Oak's vitality was truly too strong. Su Xiao estimated that if he encountered this situation, he would die in about 10 minutes at most, but the Ancient God Saint Oak insisted for more than an hour before finally kicking the bucket.

【Prompt: You have killed the Ancient God Saint Oak.】

【You have obtained Inscription Box (after opening, it will definitely produce a Life Inscription).】

【You have obtained Pledge Item (special item).】

【You have obtained God's Soul: Saint Oak (special item, this item can be melted by "Smelting Furnace" to eliminate its evil characteristics, thereby obtaining "Liquid Soul," which can be poured onto soul equipment to greatly improve the comprehensive attributes of soul equipment).】

A total of three items were obtained. The 【Inscription Box】 needed no explanation. Su Xiao had already come into contact with inscriptions. The 【Inscription Base】 he was currently wearing as an ornament had "Burning Ash," "Darkness," and "Blazing Sun" inscriptions inlaid on it. The combination of the three was "Ember Fire (Passive)."

Su Xiao checked the attributes of the 【Pledge Item】. For some reason, this item gave him a faint sense of familiarity.

【Pledge Item】

Origin: Void/Meteorite Star/Wind Sea Continent.

Category: Special Item

Durability points.

Usage effect: None (this is a proof/token).

Introduction: A proof crafted by a Demon Blacksmith. Holding this proof and the "Smelting Furnace," one can go to the White Town to find this Demon Blacksmith (currently missing). The Demon Blacksmith can use the "Smelting Furnace" to smelt the souls of God-class existences, supplemented by other materials, to craft powerful weapons, armor, etc., with God-like characteristics. Of course, this crafting is not free; you need to pay the Demon Blacksmith enough Soul Coins.

Prompt: Due to the binding power of the pledge, you must carry this proof and the "Smelting Furnace" for the Demon Blacksmith to possibly perform such forging for you (you need to prepare the soul of a God-class existence yourself).

Price: 1,650 Soul Coins.

Seeing this thing, Su Xiao felt that he was both lucky and unlucky this time. He knew the Demon Blacksmith; the three Immortal-grade gems currently on the Dragon Flash were inlaid by the Demon Blacksmith.

Back in the White Town of the Dark Star, Su Xiao had had several interactions with the Demon Blacksmith. The items the other party gave him when leaving hadn't been identified by Su Xiao yet, so he could only throw them in the storage space first.

【Pledge Item】, 【Smelting Furnace】, and 【God-class Soul】—Su Xiao had all three required items, but the Demon Blacksmith was no longer in the White Town. Where exactly he went, Su Xiao didn't know either.

He could only save them first and let nature take its course in the future. However, after returning to the exclusive room this time, he had to move the "Smelting Furnace" to the team storage space.

Su Xiao issued an instruction to let Barbatos fly into the sky. A moment later, Su Xiao arrived above the clouds. The Sun Ring floated there, emitting dazzling light. After putting it away, he controlled Barbatos to dive down.

After the barrier opened, the ground previously shrouded by the barrier had long been burned into something else, leaving a cylindrical giant pit, and the Ancient God Saint Oak was lying inside.

After some decomposition, Su Xiao roughly understood the structure of the Ancient God Saint Oak. This wasn't a biological organism, but more like a wood-class existence with life. Therefore, it didn't have a heart or anything, and the interior was a connective tissue between biological and plant, not an ingredient, which was a pity.

Su Xiao collected some of this connective tissue and ordered the Sun Flame Dragons to burn the Ancient God Saint Oak into ashes. It just happened that there was a large lake nearby, so he scattered the ashes and buried them in the water to show respect.

Su Xiao took out the 【Sacred Oak】 and found that the characteristics of this equipment hadn't changed. After all, this was equipment notarized by the Void Tree and wouldn't appear any changes due to the death of the Ancient God Saint Oak.

Su Xiao brought all the demon beasts and Sun Flame Dragons back. This siege of the Ancient God Saint Oak was both to remove hidden dangers and to signal a warning to some people hiding in the dark.

Su Xiao was about to deal with the Brutal Fortress Kara. To deal with Kara, this move was ineffective. Setting up alchemical arrays to ambush was effective against enemies breaking through space barriers from the outside world.

Such enemies would have a short space adaptation period after breaking through the space barrier, that is, after arriving in a brand new world, facing different world rules, they needed to adapt briefly. During this period, their premonition of crisis, perception, etc., would be greatly reduced.

Kara was different. It was a native of this world. Even if its consciousness was chaotic now, it was very difficult to lead it into a trap.

Su Xiao's method of dealing with Kara was simple and direct. He would bring 270 Sun Flame Dragons, plus himself in the Dragon Rider state, to deal with Kara with the World Thunder Spear.

After returning to the Mother Nest base camp, Su Xiao began to wait for news from the Empire side. That side was always tracking Kara to avoid Kara attacking "Nova City."

The Third Fleet's reply speed was very fast. Now that side was temporarily commanded by Empire's Hand Rhine Gold. According to the information given by Rhine Gold, Kara was at "Gaoze Lake."

"Gaoze Lake" was located in the central area. This lake had an extraordinary significance to the natives of this world. It was said to be known as the Mother Lake.

The reason Kara went to "Gaoze Lake" was to submerge its body halfway in the water to alleviate the irritability and madness caused by the Netherworld erosion.

From this, it could be seen that Kara still had some reason. Unfortunately, this reason was about to be completely extinguished.

Su Xiao considered and decided not to bring Amu to this battle. The reason was that it was useless even if it went. Letting Amu resist Kara's attack was a very stupid decision. Letting Amu guard the home was a better choice.

As for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha, they didn't fully participate in the battle either. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was responsible for scouting the surroundings and providing Su Xiao with aura effects when possible. Baha was responsible for high-altitude scouting and engaging contractors who wanted to be the fisherman.

Barbatos spread its wings and flew up. This guy had a characteristic: for a period of time after being newly cultivated, it was not only arrogant but also jealous, and had the ancestral greed of the dragon race.

However, after Barbatos's soul left the insect nest for a period of time, it gradually became emotionless and completely entered the battle/slaughter mode. It would have to wait for the next time its soul slept in the Mother Nest and woke up to be clear-headed for a period of time.

The reason Zhila restricted Barbatos like this was because Barbatos was born with many advantages and disadvantages.

On the dragon's back, following Su Xiao's control, black tentacles spread out from behind Barbatos's neck and climbed onto his left arm and left half of his body. He could feel Barbatos's cold-to-the-extreme slaughter thinking. This was the biggest feature of the Zerg: there was no concept of pity.

Su Xiao left the Mother Nest and flew for more than half an hour towards "Gaoze Lake" before he felt the prying gaze. There were contractors eyeing him.

He had stated in that conference room before that he would deal with Kara. With so many people on the scene, some of them must have close friendships with certain contractors.

Not knowing who it was, the news that Su Xiao was going to deal with Kara was told to Kain. When Kain heard that there was such a good thing, he announced it on the World Communication Platform on the spot.

Kain and his side's hatred had long been settled. First, Kain was made a scapegoat on the transport spaceship, and later Kain was made the second in the reputation ranking.

For Kain of the Death Paradise faction, first and third were both fine, but he couldn't be second.

Kain counterattacked after being made a scapegoat. This was human nature. Not to mention announcing that he was going to deal with Kara, even if the people in the Hall of Valor helped Kara siege him, Su Xiao felt that this was reasonable. Fighting among each other in the native world and forming hatred was too normal. This was different from the deadly hatred with the Arcane Eternal Star side.

Clouds and mist passed by on both sides. Su Xiao didn't know how many people would come to be the fisherman this time, but this didn't matter. While dealing with Kara this time, he also wanted to make Kain's side completely honest, or directly wipe them out.

Flying all the way, when the time reached the afternoon, Su Xiao on the dragon's back finally saw "Gaoze Lake" below.

There were many water plants in the lake, and there was thin water mist on the lake surface, making "Gaoze Lake" look vast and having a sense of etherealness and vastness.

The entire lake couldn't see the edge. Diagonally opposite were continuous mountains. These peaks were generally not high, and they were densely covered with green vegetation, suitable for concealment.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, put on pilot glasses, and merged into the environment. Wearing a gliding suit, it jumped down and glided towards the mountain range. Don't underestimate Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's gliding technique. Before, it had taken Benny to jump into the Dark Abyss, which almost scared Benny to tears, and it was scratched quite a bit afterwards.

Ten minutes later, Su Xiao received news from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang that he had suspectedly found the traces of Kain and others.

At the same time, inside the continuous mountain range, figures were standing or sitting in the dark. It was the people of the Hall of Valor.

"Leader, they have arrived."

A female perception-class with a shaved head and a single-sided earring spoke. Although she shaved her hair, her appearance was still explosive. This female contractor was the kind of strong woman who didn't want to rely on appearance but wanted to speak with hard strength. She was a dual-cultivator of perception-class + assassination-class, named Silver Pheasant.

Silver Pheasant was different from traditional perception-class or assassination-class. As a perception-class, her mental power was powerful. In terms of assassination, she didn't have keen speed, but she used a kind of mental poison as an assassination method.

Anyone has a perception field or a technique-type perception circle. Silver Pheasant could attach her mixture of perception power + mental power with fierce poison, and then use perception power like a sharp needle to pierce into others' perception fields or perception circles, leading to others being poisoned by mental poison and finally dying of poison.

What was even more astonishing was that Silver Pheasant's mental poison had paralyzing properties. When she "stung" someone, there was basically no feeling. A few seconds later, there would be dizziness, and finally, the poison would break out.

Confronting Silver Pheasant, one might be "stung" by her from a hundred meters away and die suddenly later. It could be said that any system would gradually show its own strength after reaching a high tier, except for the Death-class, which was a handsome-to-the-extreme iron waste. Don't look at it just being one word different from the Undead-class, but the strength was a world of difference.

"Silver Pheasant, can you 'sting' him?"

Kain in the dark spoke.

"Yes, but he is a Technique-type. Although the perception range of Technique-types is small, that is a perception circle, not a perception field."

"What's the difference?"

An inquiry came from the darkness on the side. Silver Pheasant didn't intend to pay attention to it, but thinking of what Kain had said before, her ability was particularly feared by others, and her style was too cold, which was not very good. She said:

"The normal person's perception field is equivalent to 'gas' spreading out. Although the perception circle of Technique-types has a small perception range, it is equivalent to a 'liquid ball.' Piercing into gas and liquid is naturally different."

"Oh, learned something."

The brother who satisfied his curiosity nodded. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was squatting on the side, also had an appearance of increased knowledge.

"Leader, why don't we forget it this time? That is the Night of Decapitation. It is said that the Gray Gentleman was sharked by him."

A weak male voice came. Just listening to the voice, one could imagine the general appearance of this weak boy.

"Don't panic. This time we are pitting him, not directly confronting him."

A steady-voiced brother came out to comfort him. The weak boy was still a little worried.

Kain never spoke. He came this time after careful consideration. In his view, Kara must be eliminated. After getting Kara's kill reward, he would choose to observe the situation on the Empire side, and he always believed that Kara's death would be the beginning of all subsequent things.

Everyone in the mountain body restrained their aura. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang left quietly.

Ten minutes later, among the lotus leaves near the lake, two figures squatted in the shallow water, only showing half of their heads. It was Hao Mei and Moon Apostle. This concealment method was learned from Morey. Unfortunately, they only learned 40% and didn't learn Morey's soul-stirring "Quack~."

"Gurgle~"

Moon Apostle spoke, and a large amount of bubbles surged out.

"Gurgle, gurgle, gu~"

Hao Mei spoke, still "bubble language."

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle! Gurgle!"

After Moon Apostle finished speaking, she nodded. Hao Mei also nodded. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was on the shore, held its dog head with both paws, its dog eyes dumbfounded. It really couldn't understand what Moon Apostle and Hao Mei were saying. This was the most confusing day in its scout career.

Above "Gaoze Lake," Barbatos was circling and didn't rush to bombard. This time Su Xiao brought 270 Sun Flame Dragons to avoid Kara's World's Favor ability being triggered.

"World's Favor (Passive): When the number of enemies around Kara is higher than 100, 300, 500, 1,000, and 50,000, Kara will receive the following buffs from this world.

1. Tracking missile attack power increased by 20% (triggered when enemies are higher than 100).

2. All attributes +7 points (triggered when enemies are higher than 300).

3. Restore 5% maximum health every 3 seconds (triggered when enemies are higher than 500).

4. Crystal ray interval time reduced by 65% (triggered when enemies are higher than 1,000).

5. External armor defense tier +2 (triggered when enemies are higher than 50,000)."

The third type of super-speed health recovery bonus must not be allowed to be triggered by Kara. However, to ensure combat advantage, Su Xiao brought 270 Sun Flame Dragons.

Su Xiao took out a golden "Thunder Stone." This was made with Hao Mei's thunder blood as an extract, and one would be less if one was used. However, Hao Mei was also in this world. If she could be made to donate blood, the "Thunder Stone" could be replenished.

Su Xiao crushed the "Thunder Stone" in his hand, inducing the world thunder above the firmament.

Crack!

The muffled thunder exploded in the sky. The weather, which was sunny just now, was now covered with gray clouds.

Wind rose, clouds surged, and large ripples appeared on the lake surface. This scene gave people an inexplicable sense of oppression. Even if nothing had happened yet, it made people feel panicked in their hearts.

Crack!

Golden thunder fell, striking straight at Su Xiao.

In the dark, Kain, Silver Pheasant, and others saw this scene, and their hearts were both surprised and unexpected. They had seen people inducing world thunder, but they generally died very miserably.

The world thunder fell on the dragon's back, or more accurately, struck Su Xiao. The next second, the violent world thunder followed the thunder patterns outlined on his arm and gathered in his hand, and under the shaping of soul power, formed a dragon rider spear.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sound of flying whistled. Barbatos spread its wings and flew. On its back behind its neck stood Su Xiao, holding the dragon rider spear with one hand.

Kain and Silver Pheasant in the dark saw this scene. The two looked at each other. This sense of direct confrontation with the gods made them feel bad.

In the shallow water by the lake, Moon Apostle looked at Hao Mei with envious eyes. She knew that Hao Mei could also use world thunder.

Noticing Moon Apostle's gaze, Hao Mei's head shrank a little into the water. The reason for this was that Hao Mei was also envious to death in her heart. She didn't have such a scene when using world thunder. This was simply a contrast between the seller's show and the buyer's show.

Barbatos flew over the lake, and Kara, who had sunk to the bottom of the lake, hadn't shown up until now, which made people very puzzled.

On the dragon's back, Su Xiao pointed his thunder spear downwards, and a golden electric arc fell, submerging into the lake water below.

It was quiet in the lake for a few seconds, and a low roar, like a whale's long and deafening roar, came from the lake water.

The center of the lake bulged, and the water surface rolled like boiling.

With a "splash!" a huge monster stood up from the lake water. Its upper body alone was over 100 meters high, and its head was completely wrapped in biological armor, only revealing a single standing giant eye. Kara appeared.

Kara's eight giant arms, the top two had huge palms, and the lower six were six biological giant cannons that could shoot in all directions. Its back was covered with honeycomb-like holes, from which it could fire tracking-type tracking missiles as thick as a forearm and half a meter long.

As Kara stood up from the lake water, a large amount of water liquid flowed down its body. Some places on its body were still hanging with water plants.

"Roar!!!"

Kara's giant mouth under the faceplate made an unwilling roar. Unfortunately, its unwillingness dissipated in a very short time, replaced by madness.

Su Xiao, who disturbed Kara's sleep, became Kara's first attack target. Its heavy cannon arms raised, aimed, and locked onto Su Xiao.

Just as Kara was about to fire, points of light like golden starlight came from above Su Xiao's back. From behind him, they illuminated him. These were Sun Flame Dragons that had dived from tens of thousands of meters high and were preparing to hit Kara as biological Apollos.

Boom!

A Sun Flame Dragon broke through a sound wave, dived past Su Xiao, and blew his black feather cloak.

The next instant, this Sun Flame Dragon, which had overdrawn everything in exchange for diving speed, with the cold look unique to the Zerg, slammed into Kara. The tracking missiles fired from Kara's back simply couldn't intercept it; the diving speed was too fast.

Thud!

Sun explosion. Kara's huge body swayed, and cracks appeared on its biological armor.

Immediately after, Sun Flame Dragons dived past Su Xiao one after another, attacking Kara.

Thud! Thud! Thud...

The sound of sun flame explosions and the sound of tracking missiles blowing up the Sun Flame Dragons connected into a piece.

After being bombed dozens of times in succession, Kara's center of gravity tilted severely, and it crashed into the amber with a "boom," splashing water over a hundred meters high.

The entire lake surface was filled with white gas, as the sun flames roasted the lake surface until it boiled. An angry low roar came. Kara, who had crashed into the lake, supported itself with several armor feet and stood up again.

In the reed field by the lake, Moon Apostle, who was hiding here, took out a mechanical eye from the storage space and started recording. She felt that if she didn't record this epic battle scene of Dragon Rider VS Kara, she would be sorry for the recording device she bought for 300 Soul Coins. ===== CHAPTER 3501 =====