Chapter 3568: Forgetting

Su Xiao closed Amu's data. In short, Amu's abilities now fall into two situations.

If Amu has teammates beside him, he is still the silent, honest bull. His main ability is the tank system. Because he has the Ultimate-level ability "Fearless War Bull," his survivability has improved.

If three of Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baja, and Beni are near Amu, he can obtain a bonus of 60 points of physical defense, 10500 points of Health, and 6 points of True Stamina attribute.

This bonus seems already very high, but don't forget, "Fearless War Bull" is only level 10. With further improvement, the tankiness this ability provides will definitely reach a shocking degree.

Compared to "Fearless War Bull," Amu's other Ultimate-level ability, "Outlier War Bull," has attributes that seem complex but are actually very simple.

Amu now is a main tank with Strength, Stamina, and Intelligence as main attributes. After transforming into the "Outlier War Bull" state, he is an Ice Warrior with Strength, Agility, and Stamina as main attributes, and he is also a semi-tank, semi-output warrior with a charge ability.

Not only that, in the Outlier War Bull state, due to the bonus of "Ice Flame Life," as Amu is constantly injured, not only will his Health recovery speed become faster and faster, but his movement speed will also gradually increase.

This reflects that in the Outlier War Bull state, one characteristic of the "Ice Flame Life" ability is that the more severely Amu is injured, the more thoroughly the ice energy in his body is stimulated.

Normally, the "Life Energy" and "Ice Energy" in Amu's body do not interfere with each other and coexist in his body. But after he is injured, these two body energies will gradually mix together due to the constant impact of external forces, which will cause the ice energy in his body to become stronger and stronger.

Amu in the Outlier War Bull state has an ability called "Cold Blade Axe." This ability temporarily abandons the external release, freezing, and spreading characteristics of ice energy in exchange for high weapon sharpness and weapon attack power bonuses.

In other words, the more Amu is injured in the Outlier War Bull state, the more Health he recovers, the faster he moves, and the stronger his attack power becomes.

This is good news, meaning Amu can not only take a beating when fighting strong enemies but also has strong independent combat capabilities. Of course, if he is unlucky enough to fall into the sea at the start, there's nothing that can be done.

Su Xiao took out the 【Wolf Blood · Moon Ornament】. After absorbing the wolf blood, this thing underwent a qualitative transformation and actually became a World-class piece of equipment. This was something Su Xiao hadn't expected.

【Wolf Blood · Moon Ornament (World-class · Ornament)】

Durability: 57/60 points.

Equipment Prerequisite: Sword Art Grandmaster or Sword Art Grandmaster Lv. 65 or higher, non-magic system, non-Abyssal tendency (at most one ornament can be worn).

Equipment Effect (Unique): Damage tier of blade-type and sword-type weapons +2.

Introduction: Gifted to a blood-sworn friend I have never met.

Selling Price: Cannot be sold.

The improvement of the Wolf Blood Ornament was simple and crude, increasing from the original blade-type weapon damage tier +1 to +2, just as simple and direct as the Moon Wolf's sword skills.

After re-wearing the Wolf Blood Ornament, Su Xiao placed his hand on the hilt. Although he didn't draw the blade, he could clearly feel that the slashing power after he drew the blade had fundamentally improved by a notch.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the small wooden bed and took out the 【Blade of Sealing】 obtained from the trade with the Priest. This was a product of the Law-Extermination camp. Others couldn't investigate its secrets, but Su Xiao could.

Following his control, the 【Blade of Sealing】, which presented a translucent crystal texture, floated in front of him. He made a grasping motion with both hands, and Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy spread from his hands, disappearing into the 【Blade of Sealing】.

Click, click!

Due to the immersion of the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, the appearance of the 【Blade of Sealing】 began to change. Although it was still in the shape of a short dagger, it looked more like a large key with a hilt. There was also a mark on the hilt used by the previous generation of Law-Exterminators. This mark was circular, and the internal structure was complicated.

Seeing this mark, Su Xiao's gaze became a bit solemn. In the Law-Extermination camp, this mark represented danger. He checked the attributes of the 【Blade of Sealing】 after it was activated.

【Blade of Sealing】

Origin: Void · Shadow of Law-Extermination.

Quality: Sealed Item (Only usable by Shadow of Law-Extermination).

Durability: 195/340 points.

Equipment Effect 1: Can open a one-way boundary barrier to the Eternal Light World.

Prompt: This one-way boundary barrier, if you choose to enter the Eternal Light World, this barrier has no blocking effect. If you intend to leave the Eternal Light World, you will be blocked by this barrier.

Equipment Effect 2: This key is both a sealing key and a coordinate object for the Eternal Light World. You can use this coordinate object as a medium to establish a one-way ultra-long-range teleportation array to the Eternal Light World.

Prompt: This coordinate object can be used multiple times, each use consumes 1 point of durability.

Introduction: Eternal Light World, thrilling and exciting.

Seeing the effects of the 【Blade of Sealing】, Su Xiao immediately recalled the World-Eater, the Star-Parasite Crab, the Dark Spirit ethnic group, the Abyssal creatures, and the Silver Queen who had arrived there not long ago.

Among these ethnic groups, taking any one of them out, the unlucky one wouldn't just be one world; rather, after ruining a world and causing it to be on the verge of collapse, these ethnic groups would move to ruin other worlds.

In short, if they weren't world-destroying ethnic groups, they wouldn't be qualified to survive in the Eternal Light World. This world was just that terrifying.

And now, Su Xiao had a further understanding of the Eternal Light World. He suspected that this world was a huge cage created by the previous generation of Law-Exterminators, throwing all those ethnic groups that couldn't be eliminated and kept destroying various worlds into the Eternal Light World, letting them hurt each other so they wouldn't come out to harm people.

Thinking this way, besides the World-Eater, Star-Parasite Crab, Dark Spirit ethnic group, Abyssal creatures, and Silver Queen insect swarm in the Eternal Light World, there must be other terrifying ethnic groups, and the types of such ethnic groups were not few; they were all thrown in by the previous generation of Law-Exterminators before.

There was a question that made people unable to figure it out: what kind of high-tier world was the Eternal Light World to be able to withstand such ruin, and still be able to continue to this day?

Or rather, did the Eternal Light World have a world consciousness? And was that world consciousness extremely terrifying and tyrannical, allowing that world to continue to the present?

What it looked like specifically, Su Xiao wasn't curious at all. Originally, he thought that the inhabitants of the Eternal Light World, only the World-Eater group and the Silver Queen insect swarm had a grudge against him. Now it seemed, that wasn't the case.

If this was truly a world cage created by the Law-Extermination camp, then the old-school world-destroying ethnic groups thrown in before and the Law-Exterminators were mortal enemies, fighting with all their might upon meeting.

If Su Xiao, as a Law-Exterminator, went to the Eternal Light World, over 80% of the world-destroying ethnic groups there would be his enemies. Just thinking about this situation made his head ache.

The idea of never going to the Eternal Light World became even more firm. Su Xiao put away the 【Blade of Sealing】. He wouldn't go himself, but sending some unsolvable strong enemies there was a very good choice.

Leaving the small room where he rested, Su Xiao found that Zuiyas, Wood, and Caesar were all gone. Only Gulu, sitting on the chandelier, was holding a game terminal with both hands, her expression gradually becoming irritable.

This was normal. Gulu had always been curious about what new version of the puzzle game Su Xiao was playing. This time, he simply shared it with her, letting her experience the joy in it, especially since Gulu only had her right arm left, and her left arm was in a life-support device.

Regarding this life-support device, Gulu praised it endlessly and asked Su Xiao where he bought it. In fact, this thing couldn't be bought; it was made by Su Xiao himself. After many improvements and actual combat, he obtained the result.

Su Xiao came to the ritual vessel, which was filled with Source Stones. Where Zuiyas, Wood, and Caesar had gone, he could roughly guess.

Having Source Stones alone wasn't enough; there had to be proof objects that could absorb Source Stones. Successive chosen ones all had their own proof objects.

Zuiyas and the others were not chosen ones, so naturally, they didn't have proof objects. Regarding how to imitate proof objects, Su Xiao didn't have very good methods. Fortunately, there had been many chosen ones throughout history. After they died here, they should have left their respective proof objects.

If these proof objects were found, through Caesar's trickery, Zuiyas and Wood using these proof objects to temporarily absorb Source Stones to obtain shelter should be no problem. As for Caesar, this guy didn't even need a shelter stone when coming to the Silent City; he just put the Abyssal Jar on his head. What shelter stone? What was that thing?

Regarding the proof objects that the chosen ones might have left behind, Su Xiao had always been unable to figure out why so many chosen ones died here, yet not a single proof object was found. Not only did he not find any, but Zuiyas, Wood, and Caesar also didn't see a single one. This was a very abnormal thing.

Su Xiao picked up a Source Stone. With a ding, the Source Stone was adsorbed by the Black King Armguard, and then turned into a dark energy, disappearing into it.

Seeing this, Su Xiao, wearing the Black King Armguard on his left arm, reached into the bowl-like ritual vessel, his forearm submerged in the Source Stones.

After absorbing about a hundred Source Stones, the capacity of the Black King Armguard reached its limit.

【Prompt: Detected that the Hunter has obtained a high-intensity shelter effect. This effect is being evaluated...】

【You have obtained a unique bonus for this world, Shelter Lv. 89.】

【Due to this notarization, some areas within the Silent City have been divided into erosion levels (erosion levels correspond to shelter levels).】

【Silent City · Outer City Area: Erosion Level 3.5–4.】

【Silent City · Inner City Area: Erosion Level 4–5.】

【Gray Rock Plaza: Erosion Level 5.】

【Cathedral: Erosion Level 0.】

【Saint Ten Cathedral: Erosion Level 5.】

【Wolf Tomb: Erosion Level 5.】

【Treatment Center: Erosion Level 5.】

【Filthy Land: Erosion Level 8.】

【Atonement Hall: Erosion Level 10–15.】

【Supreme Sanctuary: Erosion Level 46.】

The erosion level of the Supreme Sanctuary was very high, but for Su Xiao now, this was no longer a problem.

Su Xiao was just about to leave when he thought of one thing: the 【Saintess Badge】 he had obtained hadn't been used yet. The problem was that the "Ancient Laboratory Pass" exchanged for by this thing was no longer very useful.

Su Xiao estimated that the Steel Maker's preferential treatment for Amu was entirely because he found Amu, this silent, honest bull, pleasing to the eye.

If Su Xiao went himself, he estimated that even if he held the "Ancient Laboratory Pass," with his Charisma attribute as high as -13—cough—already -14, let alone him knocking on the door, even if he blew up the door, the Steel Maker wouldn't come to negotiate with him.

It wasn't that Su Xiao's thinking was negative, but he had confidence in his Charisma attribute.

If he let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang go, he could get in, but what would Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang go to the Abyssal battlefield for? To go to that place full of vengeful spirits, ghouls, ancient corpses, and exotic beasts, and come out doubting his dog life?

If he let Baja take the "Ancient Laboratory Pass" to find the Steel Maker, with its eloquence, it might be made into Magic Eagle Stewed Mushrooms by the Steel Maker before even entering the Abyssal battlefield.

Previously, Su Xiao was prepared to sell the 【Saintess Badge】 to the Crow Woman, but unfortunately, the Assassin Girl who had been calculated by Su Xiao in this world was already close to entering the stage of fighting wits with the air.

This also resulted in the 【Saintess Badge】 being about to smash in his hands. Su Xiao looked at Gulu on the chandelier, who was attacking the puzzle game and was about to be so angry she bit the terminal. Gulu suddenly trembled.

"What... what for."

Gulu looked at Su Xiao vigilantly.

Su Xiao took out the 【Saintess Badge】 and said: "Saintess Badge, selling it to you at a low price."

Su Xiao's mental expected price was 100–6000 Soul Coins. As long as it didn't smash in his hands, it was fine. Furthermore, he couldn't use this thing himself.

"Low price?"

Gulu pondered for a while and then said: "Then I'll offer 200 Soul Coins."

"Deal."

Compared to being worth nothing if it smashed in his hands, selling it for 200 Soul Coins was already a good gain, twice as high as the estimated minimum gain.

Hearing this, Gulu was stunned. This transaction was too suspicious, but considering that if she went back on her word now, she would very likely be beaten until she bought the 【Saintess Badge】.

After completing the transaction, Su Xiao came to the small room inside the sacrificial altar and activated the teleportation device. When everything around him recovered, he had arrived at the Treatment Center.

Going down to the first floor, the Ghost Old Man was holding a huge handwritten book half a meter thick, carefully examining the names on it. He ended up in his current situation both because he calculated against the Steel Maker and because he was pitted by others, so he wrote down the names of all his enemies and was currently thinking about who had pitted him.

From the thickness and size of this handwritten book, the Ghost Old Man's enemies were probably a bit numerous.

"Ask you something."

Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, the Ghost Old Man in the wooden cupboard smiled and said: "You know the rules, one question, one Soul Crystal."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just placed one hand on the hilt of the Dragon Flash. Seeing this, the Ghost Old Man's attitude changed significantly.

"Hahaha, we're all friends, just joking with you. What question, say it."

"Where did the proof objects of the previous generation of chosen ones go?"

"Ah, you're talking about this, they were collected by the black mud. Haven't you gone to fight to the death with it yet?"

The black mud the Ghost Old Man spoke of was the Sin Aggregate.

"I'm not prepared to go find it."

Su Xiao already had enough Source Stones, so heading straight to the Supreme Sanctuary was a more direct choice.

"Impossible. To reach the Silent City, the four trials are indispensable. You should have already passed three, right? If you don't go to the last trial, you won't be able to open the main gate of the Supreme Sanctuary. Even with the Sanctuary Key, it's useless. That key isn't used to open the outer gate."

The Ghost Old Man took a stone slab, which recorded the tradition of the chosen ones and the four trials. If Su Xiao died here, the next chosen one would still have the four trials, only the Wolf Trial would be changed to the Moon Beast Trial, the Moon Beast transformed by the Saint Priest.

"The shelter degree of the chosen one was originally insufficient. There are only five Source Stones in total. If you don't take them all..."

The Ghost Old Man spoke halfway and couldn't continue. He stood up and stared at the Black King Armguard on Su Xiao's left arm through the gap between the wooden bars.

"Is this armguard your proof object?"

"Obviously."

"How many Source Stones did it absorb?"

"About a hundred or so."

Hearing this, the Ghost Old Man behind the wooden counter began to pace back and forth, muttering about a hundred or so. At this moment, his gaze was fierce and ferocious to the extreme. He had been trapped in the Silent City for too long, so long that he began to fantasize about non-existent enemies and then wrote the fantasized names in the enemy roster.

"You are the chosen one I have seen who is most likely to defeat the silence."

The smile on the Ghost Old Man's face was strange, and his eyes had turned pale, with no distinction between pupils and fundus. Seeing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang retreated and huddled toward Su Xiao. Looking at the appearance, he was not far from using his dog paws to hug Su Xiao's left leg.

"Hope is not great, hope is really not great. You still can't fight that God, but you have no choice. No, I have to invest in you. What if? What if you succeed?! Wouldn't I be able to leave this place? Haha, hahaha! I can... leave this place!!"

"..."

Su Xiao narrowed his eyes, and blood energy gradually spread with him as the center.

"I will, leave this place!!!"

The corners of the Ghost Old Man's mouth split to under his ears, and he slapped the counter with both hands. Dark, twisted, viscous aura blasted out, occupying half of the first floor of the Treatment Center with the blood energy, eroding and devouring each other.

Suddenly, the viscous dark aura suddenly receded, all disappearing into the Ghost Old Man's body. The blood energy rushed forward, causing scars to appear on his body and face.

These scars didn't bleed, or rather, the Ghost Old Man's body surface was a layer of skin. After this skin was tattered, the viscous darkness surging inside was revealed.

"Right, you have to perform the fourth trial, you have to perform the Sin Trial. I have to return... to the Atonement Hall."

The Ghost Old Man looked at his tattered hands, and in those pale eyes, a bit of confusion appeared.

"How ridiculous, I actually forgot what I am. Yes, I was swallowed by sin, it was the inevitable result."

After saying that, the Ghost Old Man turned into a semi-fluid like black mud and disappeared into the ground.

"Damn, Boss, is this the Sin Aggregate? The strong enemy we are going to deal with next?"

Baja was surprised and mixed. In the few meetings with the Ghost Old Man, it often joked with the other party.

"Not entirely."

While Su Xiao was speaking, he tried to activate the camp shop and found that there was no change. Previously, he subconsciously thought that the Ghost Old Man was a neutral unit managing the camp shop and was notarized by the Tree of the Void.

Now it seemed that wasn't the case. The other party was just managing supplies here and had no direct relationship with the camp shop, more like having some understanding of the camp shop.

Su Xiao estimated that the Ghost Old Man was very likely to have been assimilated by the Sin Aggregate after his body was shattered into a soul body due to past sins, becoming a part of the Sin Aggregate.

Precisely because of this, the Ghost Old Man's obsession with leaving this place was exceptionally strong, and the enemies he fantasized about were not entirely fantasies. Those he wrote in the enemy roster were basically people assimilated by the Sin Aggregate.

To be precise, the Sin Aggregate didn't just assimilate people with heavy sins; as long as it was a powerful soul body, it would assimilate it.

For some reason, the Ghost Old Man's consciousness temporarily broke free from the Sin Aggregate and came here. The reason he came here was because this place was notarized by the Tree of the Void and was a place the Sin Aggregate couldn't find.

It was wonderful to say that Su Xiao had previously commissioned the Ghost Old Man to send supplies to Amu, and the Ghost Old Man had completed this commission.

At that time, there was indeed no other choice. After learning Amu's location, commissioning Caesar to help send supplies was the safest choice. Unfortunately, he couldn't contact Caesar at that time. Later, he learned that Caesar happened to be on the Abyssal battlefield at that time, so naturally, he couldn't be contacted.

The risk of letting the Ghost Old Man send supplies wasn't as high as imagined. The worst result was that the batch of supplies was swallowed. Compared to appearing casualties and the team's main tank dying, bearing the risk of swallowing a batch of supplies wasn't a risk at all.

Before being stimulated by the Black King Armguard fused with more than 100 Source Stones, the Ghost Old Man himself had forgotten that he had been assimilated by the Sin Aggregate.

Sometimes, the most brilliant disguise wasn't lying or acting, but forgetting one's true identity, just like the Ghost Old Man. A few minutes ago, he always thought he was a member of the Treatment Center and had been trapped here for a long time, always trying to find a way to leave the Silent City, etc.

Su Xiao left the Treatment Center and went deep into the Silent City all the way to the "Filthy Land." No, this place should be called the "Land of Eternal Sleep." After arriving in this area, there were no longer groups of three or five Silent City Sword Saint groups on the street. This was good news.

After walking for about three hours, Su Xiao found a towering black fog wall appearing ahead. This black fog wall couldn't be seen from a distance, but after getting close, he found it exceptionally dense.

Click, click, click~

A crystal layer clung to Su Xiao's hand. He tried to touch the black fog wall. A burning sensation came, and the crystal layer wrapped around his hand blasted into pieces.

The black fog wall wasn't stationary but was rushing upward rapidly. Standing in front of it, one could hear a booming sound like a rushing river.

Moving along the black fog wall, not long after walking, the front part of a large hall protruded from the black fog wall and was exposed outside.

From the current situation, without passing through the "Atonement Hall," one couldn't reach the "Supreme Sanctuary" further back. The black fog wall separated this place.

Su Xiao stopped in front of the main entrance of the "Atonement Hall." There was no keyhole or anything on the door. Just as he arrived here, the Black King Armguard worn on his left arm surged with black smoke. He pressed his left hand on the tall door leaf ahead.

Rumble~

Dust fell down, and the giant door rose by itself. The palace that came into view was very empty. After walking into it, Su Xiao didn't find anything worth noting. He came to the inside of the palace, inside a ten-meter-high doorway, which was the black fog constantly rushing down. Amu punched it, and the skin on his fist was immediately washed away by a layer of flesh.

Amu didn't care about this "flesh wound" and recovered after a while. Baja tested it with space ability, but almost had its fur removed.

This black fog door was the only path to continue forward. If he broke in, even if he rushed through, he would be washed away by the black fog until only his skeleton remained.

Su Xiao looked at the Black King Armguard constantly rising with black smoke. He tried to wrap his entire left arm with this smoke, and then his left arm reached toward the black fog wall.

His left arm entered it safely. This feeling was like reaching his arm into a flowing river.

Su Xiao controlled the black smoke to wrap his entire body. After letting Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja wait here, he passed through the black fog door alone.

After the scene in front of him darkened, Su Xiao arrived in a dilapidated hall. There were withered limbs everywhere, and the walls had a layer of moss-like black thick grease. At the edge of the walls were withered corpses kneeling toward the walls, as if maintaining a kneeling posture of repentance.

The ground was inserted with various weapons, some of which were old wolf greatswords, and some were the representative spiral spears of the Choir.

Drip, drip~

Black water droplets fell. Su Xiao looked up and found that the ceiling was already covered with a black mud-like semi-fluid. The number of this black semi-fluid was increasing, gradually hanging down.

Su Xiao didn't make a move immediately. He could sense that the Sin Aggregate had a core location. The core location was not in the pile of black mud in front of him. Without killing that core, the Sin Aggregate couldn't be killed.

It seemed like a soft sound from the dead came from this black mud. Finally, this large pile of black mud with a diameter of more than ten meters fell.

After landing, many human figures protruded from this large pile of black mud. They struggled desperately to get out, but couldn't break away from the Sin Aggregate at all.

With a slap, the Sin Aggregate exploded and turned into dozens of independent individuals. These independent individuals instantly changed their appearance, and even their clothing and accessories were perfectly restored.

The sound of pulling weapons from the ground came from ahead. Su Xiao looked around. Washinoki Washinoki Jishi of strong enemies had already faintly formed a semi-encirclement of him.

At this moment, opposite Su Xiao, 12 Wolf Knights holding wolf swords and 30 Choir members holding spiral spears were staring at Su Xiao with pairs of pitch-black eyes. A crushing pressure that was almost suffocating rushed toward him. ===== CHAPTER 3569 =====