Chapter 3623: Luck

Inside the different dimension barrier, Caesar's sudden arrival meant Su Xiao's original plan needed some changes—or to be precise, it needed to be adjusted to yield greater gains.

Caesar, in his man-and-can-as-one state, looked around the barrier for a while before taking off the Abyss Can from his head, revealing his signature smile: seven parts treacherous and three parts sleazy.

The moment she saw Caesar reveal this smile, the Goddess of Luck, who had never had any intersection with Caesar before, subconsciously covered the bracelet on her left wrist with her right hand. This was a spatial item containing many good things.

After making this move, the Goddess of Luck herself was stunned. She didn't know why, but seeing this thin, small old man, she subconsciously felt that her wallet was in danger.

Baja lifted the different dimension barrier, and everyone returned to the spacious bedroom. A moment later, Su Xiao sat down behind the office desk, Caesar sat opposite, and the Goddess of Luck sat to the side.

From just now, the Goddess of Luck didn't dare to get too close to Caesar. Although Caesar's own combat power was almost equal to zero, the Goddess of Luck recognized the Abyss Can. Seeing someone put this thing on their head, not only being fine but also so calm, her worldview was a bit shattered.

Su Xiao used the tea set on the table to brew a few cups of tea, giving one to Caesar and one to the Goddess of Luck. Caesar, who had drunk Maple Tea before, drank it with a relaxed expression.

After the Goddess of Luck picked up the teacup, she took a small sip. This unique tea fragrance and the meditative aftertaste made her eyes reveal suspicion. She drank a sip with a solemn gaze and asked tentatively:

"This tea seems to have the charm of the Black Maple Tree. How peculiar."

Hearing this, Baja, who was holding the teacup with its wings like hands, smacked its lips and said: "It's not that it seems to have the charm of the Black Maple Tree; this is tea made from Black Maple Tree buds. Amu stir-fried it. Not bad, right?"

Hearing this, the Goddess of Luck, who had just taken a sip of tea, almost spat it out. But thinking of the luxury of this tea, she held it back, gulped it down, and looked at the teacup in her hand. She was shocked; she completely didn't understand what kind of wasteful way this was.

"Let's not talk about these unimportant things. This time we are prepared to go to the Saint Lan Kingdom to deal with the God of Radiance. Luck, listening to your tone before, you seem to know the God of Radiance? That's right, you are both friendly gods."

Hearing Baja's words, the Goddess of Luck denied it: "He is not a friendly god at all. Gods who accumulate divine blood through faith are not friendly gods. He doesn't even count as a neutral god; he should be considered an evil god."

"Oh? How do you say that?"

"Most intelligent races hold gods too high. In fact, gods are just 'God Souls' with different characteristics. Among us, there are god systems with flesh and blood like me, and there are also god systems with energy divine bodies. It's nothing amazing. Those who say 'you ants' to living beings are basically mentally ill."

After the Goddess of Luck finished speaking, she drank the tea in her cup and let out a long, satisfied sigh.

"Gods who accumulate divine blood through faith are actually not very good."

The Goddess of Luck's words were meaningful. Currently, the Dawn God Sect was developing exceptionally strongly in the Saint Lan Kingdom, able to rival the royal power. Under such circumstances, was the God of Radiance really a friendly god? The possibility was too low.

When living beings were on the verge of suffering, they would be more urgently in need of the protection of gods. Currently, the Alliance and the North Territory Empire had been at a stalemate for many years, and the Saint Lan Kingdom naturally would not be affected by the war. Under normal circumstances, the Dawn God Sect would not have grown so strong afterward.

The result was the opposite. Since the thousand-year blood war between the Alliance and the North Territory Empire ended, several kings of the Saint Lan Kingdom had not lived past 40, and they all inherited the throne at around ten years old, being used as puppets. When they finally endured for decades and were about to truly obtain royal power, they suddenly died of illness.

Once or twice was a coincidence, but several consecutive kings were like this, meaning someone was moving hands in the dark. Not only that, within the Saint Lan Kingdom, except for the capital, other large cities might be looted by the beast tribes in the "Baal Great Forest" every few days.

The impression the Saint Lan Kingdom gave outsiders came more from its capital, such as the slow pace of life for commoners, the prevalence of music, art, etc. But the entire Saint Lan Kingdom only had the capital like this.

The situation in this kingdom right now was that a young king under ten years old sat on the throne. The ministers and the queen around him were in collusion, royal power was controlled by the Black Rose, and divine power was firmly grasped in the hands of the High Priest of the Dawn God Sect. The High Priest didn't care about the king's orders at all, only obeying the God of Radiance.

This was just the situation in the capital. In the large cities of the Saint Lan Kingdom, the city lords regarded royal power as nothing, either taking orders from the Black Rose or being people under the High Priest.

In fact, one could see the true face of this force from the Dawn God Sect's preparation to develop toward the Alliance before. It was just that the four Grand Councilors of the Alliance had arranged everything long ago, using the priests sent by the Dawn God Sect as tools.

Originally, the layout of the four Grand Councilors was to beat the Golden God Sect while also dealing with the increasingly restless Dawn God Sect. But after Su Xiao dragged the Dark God Sect in to take the blame, the four Grand Councilors all had glowing eyes. They actually wanted to deal with the Dark God Sect more, so they just took this opportunity to uproot the Dark God Sect within the Alliance.

After witnessing the Dark God Sect taking the blame, the Dawn God Sect hurriedly withdrew, having personally experienced the means of the Council Chamber.

Su Xiao was not interested in the character of the God of Radiance. What he had to do now was to kill this god who was in collusion with the Black Rose. The enemy's friend was a new enemy.

"Luck, to what extent is the strength of the God of Radiance? This is too difficult to investigate. This god hasn't made a move for at least a few hundred years."

Baja threw the intelligence about the God of Radiance on the table.

"The last time I came to this world, that was... uh~, for the age of gods, you can bring it in by dividing by 100 yourselves. For example, me, sometimes I sleep for decades. I am actually a very young god..."

"Stop, stop, stop, this is not the point. Say something important."

"This is actually quite important..."

The Goddess of Luck said halfway, finding Su Xiao looking at her expressionlessly. She changed her words:

"Let's put it this way: the God of Radiance is more powerful than you estimated. You estimated before that he and the Sand King were similar in strength. Actually, no. Because of some special reasons, I have been to this world many times, otherwise I wouldn't have responded to your summoning so quickly."

"Special reasons? Explain specifically."

Su Xiao spoke. He didn't want unknown factors in the intelligence. No matter how one looked at it, the Goddess of Luck was hiding something.

"Cough~, there is a barbecue shop in the main city of the North Territory Empire in this world, it is very... delicious."

By the end, the Goddess of Luck even gulped.

"I... I'll be damned."

Baja was stuck with a belly full of sassy words for a while, and in the end, couldn't say a single one.

The Goddess of Luck coughed lightly and began to continue explaining the general situation of this world. She knew the situation of more than 70% of Tier 9 worlds very well. The reason was that the local forces of these worlds did not exclude her. No one wanted to offend a god in charge of luck. Moreover, this god neither caused trouble nor preached after coming, just came to play.

However, the Goddess of Luck didn't dare to go to the Transcendent Native Worlds. According to her, there used to be four Transcendent Native Worlds. After the Dark Continent declined, it became three, which were the Night Witch Guild (Witch World), Meteorite Star, and Wind Sea Continent.

The Night Witch Guild, that is, the Witch World, didn't welcome outsiders there, whether they were foreign gods or contractors from the Paradise faction. Once discovered, the Night Witches would begin to expel them, giving the outsiders enough time to leave. But if they attacked the Night Witches, check out the top of the Void Grudge List.

It wasn't that they were xenophobic. To enter there, one had to first contact the witches in front of the World Gate of the Witch World. After both sides discussed it properly, the Night Witches would show a welcoming attitude toward guests. But if one trespassed, they wouldn't be polite.

It is said that the Witch World has a population of hundreds of billions, and intelligent living beings are too many to count. And the Night Witches are the guardians of these living beings.

The other two Transcendent Native Worlds—the Wind Sea Continent was already fighting to the point of exhaustion, with multiple races in a great melee. To be precise, the various races of this Transcendent World were either at war or in the stage of recuperating and preparing for war. Fierce beasts were rampant there, and birds of prey that covered the sky flew past. In that place, 100-meter-level beasts were simply little brothers; only 1000-meter-level scale-bone giant pythons could barely count as a leader, and their territory was not large.

The situation right now was that the various races on the Wind Sea Continent were fighting endlessly, and even 1000-meter-level exotic beasts didn't dare to go out easily, as they were easily caught by various races and forcibly transformed into war beasts.

Compared to the chaos of the Wind Sea Continent, Meteorite Star was the lair of the Ancient God faction. One could imagine the scene there; it was a desolate, eerie place where even the sewage in the roadside ditches was highly toxic.

"Off-topic again. Talk about the situation of this world."

Baja spoke, letting the Goddess of Luck, who was drinking tea while describing with relish, return to the theme.

According to the Goddess of Luck, the ranking of the strength of the powerhouses in this world was basically as follows:

First place: The Betrayer.

Second place: The God of Radiance.

Third place: Abyss Leader Silvis.

Fourth place: The Sand King (Defector).

Fifth place: Platinum Bishop.

Sixth place: Tessa.

Seventh place: North Territory Great General.

Eighth place: Black Rose.

The God of Radiance was harder to deal with than imagined. Looking at it this way, it was not wise to go head-to-head with the other party. Moreover, he still had to deal with the Sand King and the Betrayer afterward, especially the Betrayer. Some means, if used when dealing with the God of Radiance, even if he won in the end, would be a certain-death situation when dealing with the Betrayer later.

"My dear friend, I do have a way, but this requires your luck to reach a normal-to-above-average level, even if it only lasts for a period of time."

Caesar spoke. Hearing this, Su Xiao furrowed his brows. He hadn't considered luck before, so the Master of Fate was currently in the promotion stage and could not be taken out for use.

"Increasing Bai Ye's luck is not impossible."

When the Goddess of Luck spoke, her gaze revealed a bit of heartache. Everyone's eyes were focused on her.

"Increasing the luck of a Law-Breaker is theoretically not impossible, but it's a matter of intensity. Let's use an analogy: suppose the luck of a transcendent is the capacity of this teacup."

The Goddess of Luck placed the teacup in her hand on the table. Baja continued: "Then the Law-Breaker's luck is a water bucket?"

"A water bucket? If it were just the difference in capacity between a teacup and a water bucket, I could still do it. The sum of the Law-Breaker's luck is not a water bucket; it's a tank—the water storage tank on top of the water tower."

Saying this, the Goddess of Luck even pointed outside the window, pointing to the tall water storage tank in the distance. That thing had to be at least ten meters high and five meters thick.

"A normal person's luck is filling this cup of water, which is good luck. The Law-Breaker has to fill that tank of water to have good luck. But conversely, when the Law-Breaker's luck overflows, imagine what it would be like to compete with others in terms of luck? A water tank smashing into a teacup—*snap*, the teacup turns into slag. This is the two-sided nature of the Law-Breaker's luck. Law-Breakers are all old unlucky ghosts... No, I'm not talking about you. You know, what I mean is... is, oh, right, luck ECG."

The more the Goddess of Luck explained, the more her little mouth was smeared with honey.

"Hahaha."

Baja couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Let me think about how to describe it. Hmm, right, this kind of luck makes you unlucky, but it also makes you fearless of fate-type and causality-type abilities. If people with those two types of abilities come to trouble you, it's simply overestimating themselves."

"..."

Su Xiao furrowed his brows. Seeing this, the Goddess of Luck returned the topic to the theme.

"The old me couldn't significantly change your luck, but now I should be able to, provided I am within two meters of you, and I burn more than 500 drops of Luck God Blood to bless the use of this ability."

The Goddess of Luck spent her blood capital, or rather, without showing some sincerity, she wouldn't feel at ease with these 3000+ drops of Luck God Blood; there was always a sense of unreality.

After some discussion, a plan to deal with the God of Radiance was reached. To be precise, this was a plan to deal with the Mystic Black Rose, but the first step of this plan was to hunt the God of Radiance, who ranked second in strength in this world.

When the sky was just getting light, a prison cart stopped in the courtyard of the Asylum. Several prisoners wearing black hoods were pushed down, three of whom were pushed to the first level of the underground prison, and one was taken to the Dean's office by a nursing assistant.

With a *click*, the nursing assistant helped the newcomer unlock the handcuffs and shackles, etc. The newcomer pulled off the hood himself; it was the Dragon God, Dean.

"Bai Ye, I did join the Alliance faction, but not the Twilight Asylum..."

Dean's words were only halfway through when he received a prompt.

【Prompt: Under the recommendation of the Twilight Asylum Dean, Bai Ye, your Alliance faction reputation level +1.】

【Due to this recommendation, you have been temporarily transferred to the Logistics Department of the Twilight Asylum, managed by the Logistics Department administrator, Nicholas Caesar.】

【Due to Nicholas Caesar's unique skill "Faction Bully" (Active, Lv. EX), you have received the following bonus.】

【Due to this bonus, your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is reduced by 99.99% (this increase covers all reputation acquisition channels).】

Seeing this prompt, Dean was stunned. He didn't care who Nicholas Caesar was now, but wanted to know why his faction reputation acquisition amount was reduced by 99.99%. This meant that if he could originally obtain 1000 points of faction reputation, he could only obtain 0.1 points now? What was even more outrageous was that this was actually a bonus. No matter how one looked at it, this was a debuff.

Before Dean could speak, prompts appeared one after another.

【Prompt: Logistics Department administrator Nicholas Caesar has actively initiated a notarization check to the Tree of Void, and the Tree of Void has checked that Nicholas Caesar indeed has severe harsh behavior toward you. You will receive the following compensation provided by Nicholas Caesar.】

【Your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is increased by 99.99% (this increase covers all reputation acquisition channels).】

【Your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is increased by 32.6%.】

【Your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is increased by 5.7%.】

【Your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is increased by 17%.】

【Your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is increased by 56%.】

【Your Alliance faction reputation acquisition amount is increased by 12%.】

【You have triggered the emergency mission issued by the Alliance Twilight Asylum Dean, Bai Ye.】

【Emergency Mission: Disguise.】

Mission Content: Use??? to disguise as Dean Bai Ye and ride the train to the Saint Lan Kingdom capital with others.

Mission Difficulty: ★★★★ (The difficulty of this type of mission is ★–★★★★★).

Mission Danger Level: ★★★★★

Mission Reward: ★★★★★★★★★★★ (Originally a full ★★★★★, because your reputation acquisition cap has been added with ★★★★★★).

Prompt: Each ★ reward corresponds to 200 points of reputation value. The final mission reward is Mission Reward Star Rating x Mission Completion Degree x 200, which is the final reputation quantity obtained.

Seeing this mission reward, Dean was silent for a while. He looked at Su Xiao and Caesar opposite. At this moment, he naturally thought that Caesar was the Dr. Wofu he had met before, as well as the Arbiter Caesar who was famous in the Paradise faction and the Void.

"You two are really the Hunter and the Arbiter."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just manifested his Reincarnation Brand, which floated in front of him. On the side, Caesar raised his palm and manifested the brand unique to the Arbiter.

Seeing this, Dean was silent. He took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one after a long time, took several puffs while sitting there, and then threw the cigarette on the ground and stepped on it, resolutely saying: "I'll take this job."

"Happy cooperation."

Su Xiao stood up and raised his hand to shake hands with Dean, which made Dean feel slightly puzzled, but out of politeness, he still chose to shake hands with Su Xiao.

*Snap! *

Su Xiao's hand, wrapped in a crystal layer, gripped Dean's right hand. This made Dean's face change drastically. Just as he was about to manifest his dragon wings, Amu, who was behind him, gathered his arms and hugged Dean tightly. Baja, who appeared suddenly, grabbed Dean's right hand with its eagle claws, Veronica wrapped metal wires around Dean's left forearm and pulled hard, and finally, Dre locked Dean's legs with a locking technique.

"You!"

Dean was furious. He was careless; he didn't expect this to be a trap.

"..."

Su Xiao took out the Ancient Mask from the storage space. Seeing this thing, Dean's breathing stopped. The corners of his eyes twitched, and he said: "Bai Ye, the thing you are holding, it wouldn't be... an Original Sin Object, would it?"

Su Xiao didn't speak. Caesar, who was wearing the Abyss Can on his head, tapped the Abyss Can on his head with his finger: "That one doesn't count; this one is."

"!"

Dean's eye corners didn't just twitch this time; his cheeks twitched fiercely several times.

Su Xiao activated the Ancient Mask. Scarlet, hair-thin tentacles spread out from the inside of the mask. Su Xiao pressed the Ancient Mask toward Dean's face. Dean tried to tilt his head back, but it was impossible.

"Bai Ye, I'm not done with you for this. Wait, wait, I have disguise props, your mask..."

Before Dean could finish, the Ancient Mask was already buckled onto his face.

One hour later, a group of people led by 'Su Xiao' drove away from the Asylum. In several cars sat 'Su Xiao', Amu, Dre, Silver Face, Veronica, Platinum Bishop, Red-Eyed Woman, and Beast Knight. For some reason, the 'Su Xiao' in the passenger seat of the car seemed to have a gloomy face.

When the vehicles drove past the street corner, a beggar glanced at the motorcade as if unintentionally. And when everyone arrived at the train station, a ticket seller looked at 'Su Xiao' and the others. After the group boarded the train, the ticket seller walked into the bathroom and took out a small communication device in a single stall.

Ten minutes later, in a three-story building in the capital of the Saint Lan Kingdom, a man in a suit looked at the report in his hand and instructed his subordinate: "Immediately go and report to the Lord, that group of people is coming toward us."

In the bedroom on the third floor of the Twilight Asylum in Kuss City, Alliance, which was only connected to the Dean's office.

The curtains were tightly drawn. Su Xiao, Bubutney, Baja, Caesar, and the Goddess of Luck were all here. As for the person who led the team just now, it was naturally Dean wearing the Ancient Mask.

Dean, who was buckled with the Ancient Mask, was furious, but just as he was about to attack Su Xiao, he received a prompt. If he actively attacked Su Xiao, the Dean of the Twilight Asylum, his Alliance reputation level would be continuously deducted, along with the reputation points he had already obtained. This made Dean calm down, and after looking at the exaggerated eleven-star mission reward, the anger in his heart dropped by a large margin.

The reason Su Xiao arranged it this way was to attract the Black Rose's attention. When the Black Rose stared at the Bai Ye Dean team, it would be more stable for Su Xiao to go and fight the God of Radiance.

Su Xiao came to the Demon Teleportation Array. Bubutney and Baja both stood on it. Caesar put on the Abyss Can and walked up naturally. Finally, the Goddess of Luck was staring at the corner of the ceiling.

"Stop avoiding reality, let's go."

Baja urged. The Goddess of Luck looked toward the teleportation array and shook her head stubbornly.

A moment later, after some careful persuasion, the Goddess of Luck, with joyful tears in her eyes, stood on the teleportation array.

*Boom! *

After a muffled *boom*, Su Xiao arrived at a warehouse in Sotto City, then rushed to the suburbs. The Storm Flame Dragon flew over, and the group boarded the Storm Flame Dragon and set off for the Saint Lan Kingdom.

The reason for using the teleportation array to Sotto City was to be safe. The Black Rose likely planted eyes near the Asylum, but the other party would certainly not plant eyes in Sotto City, which was a hundred kilometers away.

The wind whistled past his ears. The Goddess of Luck, whose face was still a bit pale, had basically recovered. Regarding how to deal with the God of Radiance, after some discussion, it was decided that Su Xiao would fight the God of Radiance alone.

However, there was a premise for this, which was that the Goddess of Luck would increase Su Xiao's luck and decrease the God of Radiance's luck for a period of time at the cost of burning more than 500 drops of Luck God Blood.

This advantage naturally couldn't wait to be triggered by chance—for example, making the God of Radiance unlucky during the battle, causing ability usage errors, etc. This was a waste of such a large luck gap. Therefore, Su Xiao decided that during the battle, he would activate the 【Spirit of Thunder】 and use his Luck attribute to draw world lightning.

This lightning drawing was different from the past. Su Xiao would stop drawing lightning halfway through. This would cause a situation where the world lightning would still be drawn down, but where it would strike specifically would be up to luck—completely depending on luck.

Under such circumstances, there were only Su Xiao and the God of Radiance in the battle venue. With the blessing of 500+ drops of Luck God Blood, Su Xiao's Luck attribute would be ridiculously high, and as a Law-Breaker, his luck would reach an extremely high level. For the sake of stability, Su Xiao decided to wait a few hours until the Master of Fate completed its current improvement, and under the blessing of the Master of Fate, plus the luck blessing of the Goddess of Luck at the cost of 500 points of divine blood.

Just as the Goddess of Luck said, a Law-Breaker might seem unlucky at times without luck blessings, but once it involved competing with others in luck, it was another matter. The difference between a water tank smashing a teacup or a water tank smashing a water bucket—moreover, this water tank would be temporarily filled with water, and its weight could be imagined.

When the world lightning struck, Su Xiao's luck would be astonishing, while the God of Radiance opposite might even have a negative Luck attribute. Furthermore, this world lightning was drawn down with the Luck attribute as a medium and had a very strong fate judgment. As for who this world lightning would strike, one didn't need to think to know. ===== CHAPTER 3624 =====