Chapter 3624: Meeting Gift

Clouds and mist flew past on both sides. Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the back of the Storm Flame Dragon, looking down at the scenery below. The lake was boundless, and the water surface after the rain was filled with mist. A flock of water birds dived into the water to escape because of the Flame Dragon flying through the sky.

"This pastry is delicious. Where in the Alliance did you buy it? I want to bring back two portions—no, ten portions—for my friends to taste."

As the Goddess of Luck spoke, she took a bite of the cream-filled cake. It was a very ordinary pastry, but she felt as if she had bitten into a cloud. The soft texture revealed a bit of chewiness, and just as this wonderful taste appeared, the specially prepared cream filling flowed out, making her subconsciously continue to chew. But before she could savor the beauty in her mouth, she found she had uncontrollably swallowed it, and her hand seemed to be out of control, picking up another piece.

"Another portion."

"Woof."

Bubutney barked, meaning that Beni hadn't ordered many pastries from Xia this time. If Beni took them from the team storage space and found them gone, nine times out of ten, she would scratch it.

"You just said, your friends? Are they also gods? In charge of luck?"

Baja spoke. Hearing this, the Goddess of Luck, who was eating the pastry, replied unclearly: "No, my friend is in charge of the fate god-position. Before you guys caught me, I hid at her house for a while. She was so welcoming to me, often telling me that meeting me was the greatest adventure of her life."

"That doesn't sound like a compliment."

"Impossible, our relationship is great. Sometimes when I offend people, I hide at her house. For me, she moved several times. Twice, I almost couldn't find her."

"Are you sure she wasn't hiding from you?"

"Definitely not. I secretly set a luck coordinate on her; how could she hide from me?"

Saying this, the Goddess of Luck's smile gradually became uncontrollable. Seeing this, Baja sighed: "As expected of you."

Su Xiao, who was meditating, opened his eyes and let out a long breath of the cool high-altitude air. Riding the Storm Flame Dragon to the Saint Lan Kingdom—if the Storm Flame Dragon flew at full speed, it would take at most two hours to reach the capital of the Saint Lan Kingdom from Kuss City. There was no need to rush like this right now; the Master of Fate still needed a few hours to complete its improvement.

Moreover, Su Xiao didn't need to rush to the capital. He only needed to arrive within the Saint Lan Kingdom. Once there, he could find a way to enter the God Domain where the God of Radiance was located.

Su Xiao pressed one hand on the black-blue dragon feathers beneath him. He could sense that after absorbing a portion of 【Storm Dragon Blood】, the Storm Flame Dragon's strength had improved, reaching the early-to-middle stage of a Tier 9 Overlord creature. He checked the Storm Flame Dragon's data:

Name: Storm Flame Dragon, Dis

Category: Overlord Creature

Health: 100%

Storm Power: 75000/75000 points (blessed by the Storm Core).

Strength: 281 (Real attribute).

Agility: 293 (Real attribute).

Stamina: 260 (Real attribute).

Intelligence: 249 (Real attribute).

Charisma: 2 points.

Skill 1, Overlord Dragon Race (Passive, LV. 82): Health +58000 points, wind-attribute ability moderately increased, flame-attribute ability moderately increased.

Skill 2, Dragon Blood (Passive, Lv. 81): Health +27000 points, physical defense +187 points.

Skill 3, Sky Overlord (Passive, Lv. 75): Basic flight speed increased by 42%, double-wing defense significantly increased.

Skill 4, Wing of Predation (Active, Lv. 78): After activating this ability, consume 1000 points of Storm Power per minute, flight speed immediately increases by 560%–870%, with explosive improvement as flight continues.

Skill 5, Wing of Death (Active, Lv. 80): After activating the "Wing of Predation" ability, when the Storm Flame Dragon Dis's flight speed reaches the maximum of 870%, it can lock onto a target and perform a raid, causing Real Agility attribute x 7.5 + enemy/self Real Agility attribute difference x 30.9 + 17% of the target's maximum health in damage.

Prompt: If there are no friendly units within 50 meters of the enemy, this attack will trigger the "Predation" effect, and the damage caused by this attack will be full real damage.

Skill 6, Predation (Core/Passive, X): Provides self-adaptive enhancement effects to attack-type abilities.

Skill 7, Storm Dragon Flame (Core/Passive, X): Possesses solar dragon flames blessed by wind characteristics.

Skill 8, Wind King (Passive, Lv. 72): Storm Dragon Flame carries a healing suppression effect. After being burned by Storm Dragon Flame, all healing effects are reduced by 80% for the next 48 hours.

Skill 9, Soul Brand (Passive, X): Storm Dragon Flame will simultaneously carry three attack characteristics: storm, solar flame, and soul.

Skill 10, Burning Defense (Passive, X): After being burned by Storm Dragon Flame, while the enemy receives ultra-high damage, they will also continuously receive judgments of storm resistance, solar resistance, and soul resistance. If one of the three judgments is not passed, subsequent dragon flame burning will cause the enemy's total defense to decrease by 20%. If two judgments are not passed, the dragon flame will cause the enemy's total defense to decrease by 50%. If all three judgments are not passed, the dragon flame will cause the enemy's total defense to decrease by 90%.

Prompt: If all three judgments are not passed, there is a 10% probability of triggering the "Predation" effect of this ability, thereby triggering instant death and being immediately burned to ashes.

Skill 11, Dragon Rage: Extreme Flame (Ultimate Ability, Passive, X): Dragon flame damage tier +3.

Skill 12, Dragon Rage: Burning World (Ultimate Ability, Passive): This ability is not activated; the Storm Flame Dragon needs to metamorphose to the middle stage of the Overlord level to possibly fully master this ability.

At first glance, the Storm Flame Dragon has many abilities, but in fact, there are only two core abilities: ultra-high-speed flight and dragon flames. All other abilities are derivatives or enhancements based on these two.

The Storm Flame Dragon's basic attributes are very high, which is not surprising; after all, it is a Tier 9 Overlord-level creature. If it were a Tier 9 top-level Overlord creature, its main attributes would definitely exceed 300 points. However, such Overlord-level creatures are rare.

For the upcoming life-and-death battle with the God of Radiance, Su Xiao is not prepared to use the dragon-riding state, so as not to have the Storm Flame Dragon's luck be insufficient, causing the world lightning to strike unstably.

This trip to the Saint Lan Kingdom to deal with the God of Radiance is just the beginning. Afterward, he still has to deal with the Sand King and the Betrayer. Under such circumstances, it is very necessary to let the Devourers' confrontation play some role in this plan.

Su Xiao activated the brand permission and chose material deployment. The deployed material was five bottles of 【Concentrated Vitality Potion】. For Devourers and their hosts, this thing is an extremely rare treasure. Simply put, this is a comprehensive enhancement potion that can be used multiple times.

Every 12 hours, a bottle of 【Concentrated Vitality Potion】 will be deployed at a random location in the capital. This kind of material, except for the Sun Apostle, the other four Devourers will choose to contend for it.

At the current stage, the Black Rose is in the capital. Suddenly having outsiders come to contend for something in the capital will definitely attract the attention of her or her subordinates, who will subconsciously think that this is someone sent by Su Xiao.

Will the Black Rose attack the few Devourers? Of course not. Black A has obtained the body and identity of the Dark Saint. Killing Black A is equivalent to offending the Dark God Sect and provoking Abyss Leader Silvis.

As for Boiling Red and her host Alisa, if the Black Rose kills them both, it is equivalent to offending Hunter Leader Tessa, as well as the Alliance families behind Tessa and Alisa. The Black Rose is not unable to offend them; it's just not worth it; it's too much of a loss.

As for Dark Sun, although this silly guy's brain is not good, among all Devourers, its combat talent is the strongest. And Dark Sun has an exceptionally powerful ability: although it cannot become stronger in battle, as long as this battle doesn't kill it, it will become a bit stronger while recuperating. This also leads to the fact that Dark Sun is either fighting or on the way to fight someone.

And the North Territory Princess (Crystal Ji)—as long as the Black Rose hasn't lost her mind, she won't kill the North Territory Princess.

Besides the identity of each Devourer or their host, there is actually a more wonderful point: they have no direct relationship with Su Xiao. No matter how the Black Rose investigates, it is difficult to determine the relationship between Su Xiao and Black A, Alisa, Dark Sun, and the North Territory Princess. Furthermore, Su Xiao himself will also arrive in the capital. The Black Rose has no extra energy to pay too much attention to Black A and the others.

"Caesar, I have a business, I don't know if you are interested."

"Interested, I am very interested in your business."

Having cooperated for so long, Caesar naturally knows Su Xiao's trading style.

Seeing Caesar answer so decisively, Su Xiao took out the 【Golden Can】. The divine source blood inside had all been taken out. Keeping this thing was useless, so it was better to sell it to the Golden God Sect.

He had been quite busy recently and didn't have time to handle this matter, so he decided that if he won the confrontation with the Black Rose this time and successfully dealt with the other party, he would entrust Caesar to take the 【Golden Can】 to trade with the Golden God Sect.

After Su Xiao explained this, Caesar stroked his chin, thinking with his eyes mismatched on purpose, his treacherous feeling already overflowing.

"My dear friend, you know me. Business is business. If you let me handle this, I want to take 10% of the transaction proceeds..."

"30%."

Su Xiao interrupted Caesar and increased the benefit for Caesar to 30%. This made the Goddess of Luck behind him stunned. She had never seen such a strange trading style; who would actively increase the price?

"This, um, then 30%."

Caesar smiled and rubbed his hands, his thoughts turning rapidly, considering how to bleed the Golden God Sect. The 【Golden Can】 was a supreme treasure of that side; he must make that side pay enough sincerity.

Caesar wanted 10% of the transaction amount, but Su Xiao increased it to 30%. It looked like Su Xiao lost, but actually, it was not.

Assuming he shared 10% of the proceeds with Caesar, the 【Golden Can】 would only sell for the price of 100 units of resources. But if he shared 30% of the proceeds with Caesar, this guy could think of every possible way to sell the 【Golden Can】 for the price of 500 units of resources. This back-and-forth not only didn't lose, but instead obtained several times more revenue.

If he were to split the proceeds 50/50 with Caesar... No, he couldn't split 50/50; he still had to return to the Alliance later and couldn't completely offend the Golden God Sect.

After Caesar took the 【Golden Can】, he took out an old POS machine and pressed his thumb repeatedly. Seeing this, Baja felt a cold sweat for the Golden God Sect.

During meditation, time passed very quickly. When the setting sun looked like blood on the horizon, Su Xiao found that below was a boundless forest. The Saint Lan Kingdom was semi-surrounded by the "Baal Great Forest." This meant that as long as he saw villages or small towns, he would be within the borders of the Saint Lan Kingdom.

Half an hour later, wisps of cooking smoke drifted out from a village. This small village had dozens of households. Such a small village was built with wooden protective walls several meters high, which showed how rampant the beast tribes were in this place, especially the protective walls, which were covered in claw marks and patches of mottled blood.

Continuing to fly, before long, the first large city of the Saint Lan Kingdom came into Su Xiao's view. This large city was surrounded by city walls dozens of meters high, which were covered in scars. In some places, claws nearly 10 centimeters long were half-embedded, with shriveled flesh and nerves connected to the ends of the claws.

Moving away from this large city, Su Xiao had the Storm Flame Dragon land at an ancient ruin. This was a place chosen in advance.

Walking down along the dragon's wings, Su Xiao scanned the surroundings. Everywhere he looked were broken walls and ruins, and clumps of weeds grew out of the cracks in the stone slabs on the ground.

Following the road of the ancient ruins, Su Xiao walked into the main hall at the deepest part. Seeing that it was drafty everywhere, Baja took out a gray ball and smashed it against the wall of the main hall. Immediately, the rock structure of the main hall began to "grow," filling the empty windows and the broken roof, making the place nearly sealed.

Bubutney began to set up lighting and ventilation devices and tidied up the floor of the main hall. After everything was ready, it was Caesar's turn to go on stage. This guy didn't know when he had put on a feather crown, but no matter how one looked at it, this thing seemed to be a fake made of chicken feathers.

The items Caesar took out couldn't be judged by their appearance. For example, his three divine artifacts: 【Endless Greed (broken POS machine)】, 【Filthy Foot-binding Cloth】, and 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】, none of which were in good condition.

Caesar began to dance, sometimes taking out a powder bag and pouring the turbid yellow powder inside onto the ground, forming part of the array.

Su Xiao, Bubutney, and Baja all took out gas masks and put them on, which made the Goddess of Luck, who came with them, look over.

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The Goddess of Luck didn't understand the situation yet. Su Xiao didn't speak, just threw over a gas mask that could be evaluated as Legendary-level. The Goddess of Luck put it on with doubt.

Three hours later, Caesar ended the setup of the unknown ritual with a small eagle-spreading-wings posture. He was covered in sweat, and sweat beads could be seen on his forehead. He was about to use the 【Filthy Foot-binding Cloth】 he was holding to wipe the sweat from his forehead, but he was so fumigated that he rolled his eyes and dry-heaved. Seeing this, the Goddess of Luck, wearing a gas mask, also dry-heaved. The visual pollution stimulated her stomach.

"My dear friend, it's done. Bubutney's ventilation device is not good; the smell didn't go out."

Hearing Caesar's words, Bubutney, who was guarding the ventilation device to change the filter, barked.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He took out the Master of Fate. Just an hour ago, the Master of Fate completed its promotion. In the equipment promotion requirements, it was written to soak this equipment in blood containing trace amounts of luck divinity. Su Xiao didn't do that, but soaked this equipment in source blood composed of luck divinity.

【Prompt: The Master of Fate has been promoted to Origin-level.】

【Master of Fate】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: Origin-level

Category: Ornament (Extremely rare)

Durability: 200/200 points (increased by 30 points).

Equipment Requirement: Only the Hunter himself can use it.

Basic Effect: When holding this equipment, Luck attribute +12 points.

Equipment Effect 1: Power of Luck (Core/Active), consume one Soul Crystal (Large), the Master of Fate can convert soul power into luck, temporarily increasing the holder's Luck attribute by 45%, and obtaining "Absolute Luck" blessing, effect lasts for 20 minutes.

Prompt: The bonus rate of this effect will not be affected by the quality or reinforcement level of this equipment. Every time the Hunter engraves a "Name of the Strong" on this equipment, this equipment will increase the Luck attribute bonus ratio of this effect based on the luck weight of this "Name of the Strong."

Prompt: The cooldown time of this ability is 3 natural days.

Skill Effect 2: Extreme Luck (Passive), when opening treasure chest-type items, there is a 10% probability of obtaining ultra-high amplitude gains. If this effect is not triggered, this effect trigger probability will be continuously accumulated based on the quality of the treasure chest opened, accumulating up to 100%.

Ultra-high amplitude gains: After this effect is triggered, you will definitely obtain the highest-value item from the treasure chest opened.

Prompt: This ultra-high amplitude gain probability can be continuously accumulated until an ultra-high amplitude gain is triggered, after which this probability will return to the initial 5%.

Equipment Effect 3: Luck God Blood (Passive), this equipment can absorb Luck God Blood to improve equipment quality and increase the upper limit of the number of "Names of the Strong" that can be engraved.

Increased "Name of the Strong" limit: 33 names.

Equipment Effect 4: Undying Luck (Special/Passive), as a Law-Breaker of Shadow, because you have held this equipment for a long time and engraved "Names of the Strong" on it, this equipment has produced an inseparable resonance with your Law-Breaker luck. When holding this equipment, if you are secretly attacked by fate-type and causality-type abilities, this equipment will trigger a luck counter-effect, enhancing the incoming ability by 5–10 times with the Law-Breaker's luck and rebounding it to the caster. The caster will face the following choices.

1. Forcefully bear this ability (ultra-high probability of death).

2. Pay resources equivalent to the current intensity of the ability x 3, in the form of money resources, etc., to offset the evil consequences brought by the fate-causality ability borne this time (the minimum estimated value of the resources paid is 12000 Soul Coins, and the maximum is determined based on the ability limit). The resources paid in this way will appear within 2 meters of the equipment holder after a delay of 1–5 minutes.

Prompt: Due to the special nature of this ability, you can transfer this ability from the Master of Fate to an Origin-level non-characteristic equipment piece. This will allow the Origin-level non-characteristic equipment to inherit this ability and bring a certain degree of enhancement to this ability.

Introduction: Saving luck in the midst of a storm, but occasional helplessness is also inevitable.

Rating: 3000+ (Origin-level equipment rating is 1500–3000 points).

Selling Price: Cannot be sold.

After absorbing a large amount of divine blood, the Master of Fate's improvement range was very large. Not to mention anything else, just the fact that the limit of "Names of the Strong" increased by three was a major improvement. This meant that the limit of the Master of Fate was not just Origin-level; there was a chance to rush to a higher grade.

Besides the increase in the carrying limit of "Names of the Strong," the newly added ability of the Master of Fate was very interesting. Simply put, when a fate-type or causality-type contractor or transcendent uses this type of ability on Su Xiao from the dark, they will suffer backlash—that is, they will bear the ability they cast themselves.

If it were normal-intensity backlash, that would be fine, but this was enhanced by 5–10 times by the Law-Breaker's luck. For example, if the ability cast was originally to reduce 10 points of Luck attribute and be struck by lightning, then after the backlash enhancement, it would become reducing 50 points of Luck and being struck by lightning five times—simply fatal.

If one wanted to escape this backlash, it wasn't impossible. As long as one paid enough resources as a price, one could avoid this backlash effect.

What's more interesting is that although this ability is generated by the Master of Fate, the Master of Fate is only temporarily carrying it. If Su Xiao obtains an Origin-level non-characteristic equipment piece, he can transfer this ability to the non-characteristic equipment.

There is little hope of buying this type of equipment. If one could really buy it, it would be from the Goblin Merchant side.

To obtain this type of equipment more stably, one must go to the Demon Blacksmith to forge it. The other party is a blacksmith who can even forge Origin-level full-rating scabbards.

Su Xiao looked at the Goddess of Luck. The Goddess of Luck nodded, indicating that she was ready and could help Su Xiao enhance his luck at any time.

"Start."

"Okay."

Caesar came to the center of the array. Only then did he mutter something for a while, took out a sculpture of the God of Radiance, stood it in front, and then took out the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】, put it on his head, and began to impersonate a devout believer of the God of Radiance.

According to the Goddess of Luck, the God Domain of a god is actually a sufficiently large and stable space. It might be a place of clouds and mist, or it might be inside a magnificent temple. What it looks like specifically is decided by the god himself.

The intelligence that can be determined right now is that the God of Radiance is in his own God Domain. The reason is that the spatial fluctuations caused by Caesar activating this sacrificial array are both distant and have not left this world. With Baja's attainments in spatial ability, it immediately investigated that the place where this array caused resonance was within an independent space, which seemed to be a large hall or temple.

Determining this intelligence, Caesar, wearing the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】 and impersonating a believer of the God of Radiance, continued to pray in Goblin language. It was just that, except for himself, no one could understand this Goblin language.

Caesar prayed for more than ten minutes. After initially deceiving the God of Radiance and making the other party mistakenly believe he was a devout believer, this guy immediately took out the Abyss Can, put it on his head, and after man-and-can-as-one, shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Open!!"

A spatial vortex appeared in front. This was the purpose Caesar wanted to achieve: forced sacrifice.

What is forced sacrifice? This first involves the normal sacrifice to gods. The normal sacrifice steps are: first set up the ritual, then offer the sacrifice, the god is satisfied with the sacrifice, starts the sacrifice, the god receives the sacrifice—this is the normal process of sacrifice.

Caesar's version of forced sacrifice at this moment is: Caesar offers the sacrifice, the god on the other side receives the sacrifice immediately, completely omitting other processes. As for the god on the opposite side not wanting to receive it—sorry, this is forced sacrifice; there is no option not to receive it.

At first glance, this seems like nothing, but at this moment, in front of the spatial vortex the size of a millstone formed by the sacrificial ritual, Caesar had already taken off one shoe and took out several small bottles, pouring the suspicious yellow powder and black-smelling mucus inside into the shoe. That is, just a few seconds later, a yellow smoke rose from inside. This wasn't all; Caesar extracted a certain amount of energy from the Abyss Can and extremely boosted this shoe.

After doing all this, Caesar threw this shoe into the spatial vortex. The next instant, this item appeared in the temple where the God of Radiance was.

After the spatial vortex was calm for a few seconds, Su Xiao felt that the ruin building he was in began to vibrate because of that spatial vortex. Vaguely, he could hear angry shouts coming from inside the spatial vortex. One didn't need to think to know that the God of Radiance was very angry at this moment.

Seeing this scene, Caesar sighed and threw the other shoe he had prepared into it, which made the spatial vortex tremble until it began to show double images.

The Goddess of Luck looked at this scene with a solemn gaze. She muttered: "This... this is too ruthless."

Her words had just fallen when she saw Su Xiao, Bubutney, and Baja, each holding a 【Solar Fury: Apollo】, throwing the activated Apollos into the spatial vortex one by one.

After waiting for a while, Su Xiao took out the Soul Crown and threw it inside. The next instant, the spatial vortex that had been trembling all along suddenly went silent. ===== CHAPTER 3625 =====