Chapter 3675: Encounter?

Above White Hoof Port, a Dragon-Fin Whale with a body size of over a hundred meters swam past. The air ripples stirred up from the surroundings made this place look like an underwater world.

In reality, this was the defensive formation of White Hoof Port. After it was activated, the Sea Race within the range of White Hoof Port could swim rapidly in the air as if they were in the sea.

Precisely because of this, the scene at White Hoof Port at this moment was very spectacular. The entire ten legions of the Sea Race, either standing on the ground or floating high up, surrounded the central building. The sunlight shining from above reflected ripples in the liquid-like air.

Even though massive amounts of spells were engraved inside this central building, under such dense attacks, plus the bombardment of war weapons, the relatively fragile parts like windows had already been breached.

The central building became leaky on all sides, which allowed various Sea Race to rush in, and then in the limited terrain, they engaged in melee combat with one Beastman big boss level member after another. The result could be imagined.

This disadvantage of the Sea Race did not last long. Under the human-sea tactic, even if the Lord Squad members were all big boss level in strength, they could not hold on at this moment and could only retreat layer by layer. At the moment, they had already retreated to the first underground floor.

The stairs leading to the first underground floor were easy to capture, but when the Sea Race rushed to the corridor, they were educated by the Centaur tribe members who were full of spiral arrows. Under the spiral arrows that were more than three meters long and had an all-metal structure, as many Sea Race as rushed in were shot and exploded. Not only that, the solar flames attached to the spiral arrows caused these shot-and-killed Sea Race to be burned to ashes on the spot.

At this moment, in the temporary command post in the front area of White Hoof Port, Sea Race Commander Poinelo listened to his subordinates' reports with an ugly face. He had previously left the central building through a space item and arrived at the "Ancestor Lighthouse". Just after arriving there, he used the teleportation array there to return to the outer area of "White Hoof Port" and stabilized the various Sea Race legions guarding "White Hoof Port" at the fastest speed.

But even so, Sea Race Commander Poinelo still felt like a fishbone in his throat, because what he ordered to be destroyed at this moment was the central building of White Hoof Port, which was also the hub of all spells in the city.

In other words, once the foundation hub of the central building was destroyed, the entire White Hoof Port, whether it was the city wall or the spells under the sea, would all fail. Once the Beastman army attacked during this period, White Hoof Port would be almost no different from a flat wilderness.

This resulted in the fact that although the central building had been bombarded until it was riddled with holes, Sea Race Commander Poinelo did not dare to continue ordering an attack. The spell hub of White Hoof Port was in the treasury on the lowest floor of the central building. Poinelo was not sure if there was anyone among those savage beasts who could recognize this thing. Once the spell hub was recognized, it would be a disaster.

The few people in the room all kept their eyes fixed outside the window, looking through the glass window at the central building that was under siege. From time to time, the sound of explosions came from inside. Just at this time, the perception jellyfish in front floated up, representing that someone was contacting.

After Sea Race Commander Poinelo woke up this jellyfish, a figure wearing dark gold scale armor with a head full of gray hair like thin snakes was reflected by the detection jellyfish. Because the contact distance was very far, this image was not clear.

Seeing this figure on the throne, Sea Race Commander Poinelo immediately knelt on one knee and lowered his head. The others even prostrated on the ground, because the person opposite was the supreme ruler of the Sea Race, the Sea King.

"Poinelo, has White Hoof Port fallen?"

The Sea King's tone was calm, seemingly without any intention of blame or punishment.

"Temporarily... not fallen."

After saying this, Sea Race Commander Poinelo's head hung even lower, obviously with some shame.

"So, the enemy hasn't broken through the high wall?"

"The enemy is being besieged in the underground treasury."

Saying this, Sea Race Commander Poinelo's forehead lowered until it touched the ground. At this moment, he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

"That is to say, the enemy launched a surprise attack into the treasury?"

The Sea King opposite felt amazed. However, from the beginning to now, this Sea Race King did not have any intention of blaming Sea Race Commander Poinelo. The other party had guarded White Hoof Port for many years, plus this place was within the range of the main battlefield and should have been a place for the Sea Race and Beastmen to fight each other. The reason why the Sea Race had occupied it for many years was 70% due to the personal ability of Sea Race Commander Poinelo.

"Yes."

Sea Race Commander Poinelo gritted his teeth and admitted it. He did not argue that the enemy had launched a surprise attack with the eldest son of the Abyss Dragon, and he did not even mention that the enemy was a super elite team composed of hundreds of Beastmen.

When the communication with the Sea King ended, Sea Race Commander Poinelo sat at the council table with a gloomy face. In his view, whether he lost face this time did not matter, but the spell hub of White Hoof Port must not be destroyed. Not to mention the high cost of that thing, once the various buildings in White Hoof Port lost the blessing of spells, they would be as fragile as dead wood under the attack of the Beastmen.

"My lord, the Beastmen have never been good at driving spells, so subordinates believe that those savage beasts don't recognize the spell hub at all. How could they recognize something they have never seen before?"

The dwarf adjutant spoke. He naturally guessed the worry of Sea Race Commander Poinelo. But just as the dwarf adjutant's voice fell, many buildings in White Hoof Port dimmed a bit, especially that alloy city wall that was hundreds of meters high, which had lost its indestructible feeling.

This made the few Sea Race present think that the spell hub in the treasury had been destroyed. Sea Race Commander Poinelo's face was even uglier, but it also helped him make up his mind. Since the spells of White Hoof Port were destroyed, then this Beastman elite team must be kept here forever.

Sea Race Commander Poinelo was just about to give an order when a Sea Lizard tribe messenger ran over quickly and reported: "Commander Poinelo, the enemy army has closed our spell hub, causing more than half of the spells in White Hoof Port to stagnate."

Hearing this, Sea Race Commander Poinelo's heart skipped a beat. Among the Beastmen this time, not only was there someone who understood spells, but they were even able to close the spell hub.

Before long, Poinelo received news that the enemy Lord who led the Beastmen to launch a surprise attack here wanted to talk to him.

At the same time, inside the fifth floor of the underground treasury, this place was slightly dim. Su Xiao poured the last bottle of inhibitor onto the spell hub, which caused the spell hub to further subside, only able to emit a faint fluorescence.

Su Xiao picked up the air detection device on the side and found that the Sea Race had not injected poison gas or the like into this place, so he took off the gas mask on his face. He naturally did not intend to negotiate with the Sea Race, but he would not continue to fight to the death with the Sea Race here.

The reason was that the 【Initial Mark (Large Fragment)】 he had just obtained had been activated. He had to wait for 40 minutes before this thing would subside, and he could obtain the holding right and put it into the storage space.

Under normal circumstances, it would have been a chaotic battle with Ruthless Brother, Magic Scythe Teride, Thunder Law God Aige, the Ranger Four Brothers, and others. In this competition, there was actually no such thing as one's own people, because in the notarization of the Void Tree, there was only one winner, which was the person who held the most "Initial Mark" fragments.

However, there was one point: as long as one obtained an "Initial Mark" fragment, no matter how small a piece, one could also be exempted from the corresponding task penalty.

Su Xiao estimated that in a one-on-one fight, he was likely not the opponent of Ruthless Brother and Magic Scythe Teride. Both of them had reached the absolute limit of the ninth tier. The reason why they had not advanced toward the "Absolute Strong" was likely that they were accumulating or waiting for some kind of opportunity.

Under such circumstances, the ten Sea Race legions surrounding the area were the best defense. At the moment, whether it was Ruthless Brother or Magic Scythe Teride and others, they had actually arrived at the area around White Hoof Port. After seeing the Sea Race army surrounding this place, a group of competitors suddenly became uninterested in this piece of "Initial Mark" fragment.

Therefore, Su Xiao had never thought about negotiating with the Sea Race commander here, nor did he care that the Sea Race had blocked the space in this area. He checked the progress of obtaining the mark:

【Currently holding Initial Mark: 5.1%.】

Equivalent to obtaining one-twentieth of the Initial Mark, which was already quite a lot. If one could obtain more than 50% of the Initial Mark, even if one obtained 50.01%, as long as one was not slaughtered, it was a sure win.

The notarization rule of the Void Tree this time was that at the moment the world progress ended, the person holding the most Initial Marks would immediately obtain all the remaining mark fragments.

Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal (Complete) and bit off a piece with a 'crunch'. It could only be said that even though he had eaten all kinds of soul-characteristic 'delicacies', the classics never went out of style. Soul Crystal was this classic.

Just as Su Xiao was savoring the taste of the soul, Ergein hurried over. Seeing Su Xiao throw the last small piece of Soul Crystal into his mouth, even with Ergein's courage, he could not help but stop his steps, because he felt that every time their Lord ate a soul, that gaze always had an inexplicable sense of eeriness.

"Speak."

"It's like this, my lord. Sea Race Commander Poinelo sent an envoy who wants to negotiate with our side, and that envoy claims to know you."

"Let him in."

"Yes."

Ergein turned and walked up the stairs. Before long, he brought back a Sea Race dwarf.

After Su Xiao saw this Sea Race dwarf, he felt somewhat familiar. Recalling it, he remembered it was the Sea Race adjutant he had let go before.

"This Lord... my lord, compared to both sides suffering losses, there is actually another way to resolve the current situation,"

The dwarf adjutant spoke, maintaining respect without losing the face of the Sea Race side.

"2,000 Soul Stones."

"What?"

The dwarf adjutant did not react for a moment. The originally scheduled transaction was for the surrounding Sea Race legions to retreat and let the Lord Squad leave this place, but in exchange, the Lord Squad must not destroy the spell hub before leaving.

As a result, before the dwarf adjutant could state this negotiation condition, Su Xiao had already made an offer first.

The dwarf adjutant still wanted to try to negotiate, but after discovering that the Beastmen around were starting to look unkind, he could only retreat tactfully and report the conditions Su Xiao had made to Sea Race Commander Poinelo.

In less than ten minutes, the dwarf adjutant walked into the underground treasury again. The bargaining chip he brought this time was that the Sea Race could not pay Soul Stones, but supplies in other aspects could be discussed.

Seeing this situation, Su Xiao knew that the opponent this time was relatively difficult to deal with, so he simply let Baham go to negotiate with the dwarf adjutant. Sea Race Commander Poinelo, who guarded this place, had quite a reputation, and it was very difficult to scheme against this guy.

Su Xiao checked the existing reputation points and found that the reputation points had become 1,295 points, which meant that temporarily capturing this central building had earned him over 13,000 reputation points.

Finally no longer having negative reputation, Su Xiao opened the task list. Sure enough, the faction task ranked first had changed, showing that a fief could be obtained in a compromise way, but one had to return to the main city, Eternal Ring City, first.

The core purpose of Su Xiao forming the Lord Squad was to get a fief, and after getting the fief, to use the Lord Squad to clean up those restless city lords on the fief. At the moment, the initial goal had been achieved, so there was no need to continue taking risks on the main battlefield.

【Prompt: The notarization time limit has been reached. No contractor has come here to snatch the Initial Mark (Fragment). You have obtained the holding right of this Initial Mark (Fragment).】

Receiving this prompt, Su Xiao stood up from the seat and simultaneously released the Blade Demon Spirit. A crystal war hammer gathered in the hand of the Blade Demon Spirit.

Arriving at the inner side of the treasury, the ground here was already engraved with space arrays. Su Xiao stood on the teleportation array, and large patches of black semi-fluid surged over. Afterward, Ergein, Harvey, and other Beastmen all rushed into this black semi-fluid.

After the last Centaur tribe member disappeared into it, Su Xiao controlled the Blade Demon Spirit to smash the spell hub. From the beginning, he had never intended to negotiate with the Sea Race, or rather, the Sea Race had similar thoughts, both were delaying time. It was just that the other side was delaying time to wait for the most elite assassination squad to arrive.

The moment the space array under his feet started, Su Xiao discovered that a translucent thin film covered the surroundings. This was obviously a space blockade set up by the enemy.

At the same time, outside the central treasury, a space tower emitted a white faint light, representing that it had started to block teleportation.

After Sea Race Commander Poinelo in the temporary command post saw this scene, the killing intent hidden in his eyes became even colder. He knew that at this moment, the spell hub had been destroyed. Even if he had not received a report from his subordinates, he could be sure of this point.

"Commander Poinelo, with this space blockade, no one can escape using space spells. Please rest assured."

A Sea Race old man with octopus whiskers spoke. He was the spell master responsible for the space seal of White Hoof Port. But just as this octopus spell master's voice fell.

Thud!

A muffled sound came, and the space tower that had been continuously blocking space teleportation exploded. The fragments splashing all over the sky were like the space tower having been hit by a train.

The gazes of Sea Race Commander Poinelo, the dwarf adjutant, Black Omen, and Banshee Dita all looked toward the octopus spell master. The octopus spell master's whiskers twitched, looking in shock at the shattered space tower.

……

Space flipped, twisted, stretched, and finally spiraled in circles, throwing out the eldest son of the Abyss Dragon, Ergein, and others. This place was a lush valley with a waterfall falling and water vapor rising. Baham had set up a node here in advance, allowing everyone to teleport here.

Just after being thrown out of the space vortex, the eldest son of the Abyss Dragon recovered to its Abyss Dragon form. It staggered a few steps as if it were drunk, and then one dragon wing supported the towering rock wall like a hand, and with a 'wow', it vomited out last night's dinner. In those vertical dragon eyes, the ferocity was no longer visible, but instead, it began to be confused.

A Centaur tribe captain tried to stand up from the ground. In his life, he had never been like this, lying on the ground with his four legs spread wide. Sitting not far away, Evil Tooth poked two fingers into his mouth, and before long, he picked out a broken tooth.

Originally, Su Xiao intended to return to Iron Fortress City by teleportation array again, but at the unanimous request of Ergein, Harvey, Viper, Evil Tooth, and others, Su Xiao left them here to wait for orders, while he took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baham to return to Iron Fortress City.

Just as the space teleportation ended, Su Xiao arrived at the temporary station. With Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang driving, just as the vehicle left the courtyard, the towering steel chimney of Iron Fortress City first came into view. The faint dirty smell permeating the air was the unique scent of Iron Fortress City.

Driving to the rear city area, Su Xiao arrived at the supply point. When he pushed open the door of the material exchange office, he was choked by the smell coming toward his face, and his vision went black. After supporting the door frame with one hand for 0.5 seconds, the darkness in his vision faded.

The sound of bubbling cooking came. Caesar was boiling something in a large iron pot on the stove. Seeing Su Xiao come, Caesar's eyes revealed surprise, and he greeted him, saying: "My dear friend, you came just in time. Look at the recovery potion I prepared, how is it?"

"……"

Su Xiao did not speak, keeping a distance of a few meters to look at the boiling, rolling brown viscous liquid in the iron pot. He did not make an evaluation, or rather, with his 'superficial' level of pharmacology, he truly could not see through the ingredients of this potion.

Seeming to feel that the taste of this potion was indeed not very good, Caesar opened the window, took the iron pot off the stove, cooled the potion liquid, and packed it into a potion bottle. He picked up a bottle and handed it to Su Xiao, saying: "See if there is any place that needs improvement."

"……"

Su Xiao took the potion and found that it was indeed a recovery potion, but the attributes were quite wonderful, being:

【Viscous Potion】

Origin: Nicholas Caesar.

Quality: White～Holy Spirit Level.

Type: Recovery Potion/Debuff Potion/Unknown Ingredient Liquid.

Drinking Effect: After drinking, there is a 33.33% probability of vomiting, 33.33% probability of fainting, and 33.33% probability of immediately recovering 95% of maximum health.

Side Effect: After recovering health with this potion, there is a certain probability of causing severe diarrhea or soul chills and other adverse reactions.

Rating: 1～1,000 points.

Introduction: To be determined.

Price: To be determined.

……

Su Xiao still did not figure out the approximate ingredients of this potion. Asking Caesar, Caesar stammered for a long time and did not say it out. It was obviously an impromptu performance, and the potion he made, even he himself did not know the formula.

This was very consistent with Caesar's style of preparing potions. Others put in what was written in the formula, while Caesar put in whatever he had.

Su Xiao came to the wooden counter, while Caesar came inside the counter. The Quartermaster authority was activated, and at the same time, the Faction Shop was activated.

Su Xiao first submitted the 【Faction Task: Capture/Surprise Attack White Hoof Port】, obtaining a total of 6,850 reputation points. Although he had occupied the central building of White Hoof Port before, the damage to the buildings of White Hoof Port was not great. These 6,850 points were basically all rewards corresponding to destroying the spell hub.

There were actually several thousand points later, but it required destroying those buildings where the spells had failed. In the situation at that time, obviously, there was no such opportunity. Su Xiao opened the Faction Shop, and the list appeared before his eyes.

【Existing Reputation Points: 8,345 points.】

1. Soul Crystal Core.

Inventory Quantity: 2,190 pieces (replenished irregularly).

Exchange Prerequisite: Reputation Tier · Boss Level (already exceeded).

Single piece exchange price: 120 reputation points……

……

Su Xiao flipped to 【Soul Crystal Essence】 and found that the 22 【Soul Crystal Essence】 in stock before only had 14 left. The reputation prerequisite of Lord level really could not stop Ruthless Brother and Priest and others for too long.

【You have paid 7,800 reputation points.】

【You have obtained Soul Crystal Essence × 6 pieces.】

With only 500+ reputation points left, Su Xiao did not rush to exchange them for Soul Crystal Cores. After having a fief later, the way to obtain faction reputation every day would be stable.

Even if the situation of the fief was relatively bad, as a Lord of a fief, one could also obtain 100～3,000 reputation points every day, and send legions to the main battlefield. Each legion could bring Su Xiao 300 reputation points of income every day. Counting by each Lord having at most five Beastman legions, the stable income was 1,500 reputation points every day. This did not count the extra reputation point income brought when the subordinate legions had achievements on the main battlefield.

"How is the preparation?"

Su Xiao closed the Faction Shop. Hearing this, Caesar's smile opposite was exceptionally treacherous, saying: "I am prepared to set off this afternoon."

Caesar was prepared to go to the Sea Race side this afternoon and find a way to become the quartermaster of the Sea Race faction.

Su Xiao took out a portion of the alloy sealed boxes obtained in the White Hoof Port supply depot and let Caesar break the space secret patterns on them. Caesar did not agree to a 50-50 split but chose to take nothing. It was not that Caesar had put away his greed, but he wanted to get a share of the pie after Su Xiao obtained the fief later. Regarding this, Su Xiao naturally had no reason to refuse.

After handling various trivial matters, it was already almost 1:00 PM. Su Xiao went to the main city, Eternal Ring City, through the space tower.

The space mist dissipated around, and the scent of grass and trees drifted into his nostrils, making people feel comfortable. Compared to the dirty air of Iron Fortress City, Eternal Ring City was much better, but compared to some remote big cities, it was still not as good.

Boarding the bus train, the sizzling sound of oil frying and a slightly familiar fragrance drifted over. Su Xiao looked over at the sound. It was in the dining kitchen counter in front of the bus train, where a snack similar to fried meatballs was being cooked. This was a very famous snack in the main city. A moment later, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baham sat in a row on the window seat, all holding a few skewers of fried meatballs, and the chewing action seemed more synchronized than last time.

When the bus train stopped, Su Xiao had arrived at the Third City District. He walked toward the mansion of Grand Marshal Kane. Just arriving at the front gate of the mansion, he found that the guards on both sides of the front gate were several times more than when he came last time.

Su Xiao walked on the path of the mansion. A woman wearing a black gauze skirt, as if her whole dress was black mist, walked toward him. That beautiful face made it difficult for people to move their eyes away. However, the reason why it was difficult for Su Xiao to move his eyes away was because this was a diviner, a very strong diviner.

After the woman in the black skirt brushed past Su Xiao, she could not help but quicken her pace. For some reason, as a diviner, she subconsciously felt that the person who brushed past her was dangerous.

Su Xiao looked at the black skirt back walking away. If such a capable diviner could be recruited to the fief, the subsequent plan would go much smoother.

"Ahem!"

Grand Marshal Kane's coughing sound came.

"White Night, if something happens to my youngest daughter recently, I won't be done with you."

After Grand Marshal Kane finished speaking, he pushed open the door and signaled Su Xiao to talk inside the castle.

"Looking at the age, I thought it was your granddaughter."

"Adopted daughter."

During the chat, Grand Marshal Kane walked into the study and signaled Su Xiao to sit wherever he wanted. After Kane sat down, he picked up an object that looked like a pipe, stuffed some tobacco into it, and sucked on it, exhaling smoke to light it.

"Regarding the fief, I have already prepared it here."

Grand Marshal Kane took out a document approved by the Beast King from the drawer. If Su Xiao directly obtained a fief, the seven major families would definitely come to find trouble, which would be very unfavorable to Su Xiao, Kane, or the Beast King.

But if it was Su Xiao assisting a young Lord to manage a fief, the seven major families would not be able to pick out any problems.

At the moment, among the 100+ Lords, there was a little girl whose parents were murdered and who had helplessly inherited a fief not long ago. At this time, beside that little Lord, there was only one 'loyal' butler assisting her.

A butler alone naturally could not become a climate. The problem was that this butler colluded with two city lords on the fief, and the three of them colluded to hollow out the little Lord's power, making a gesture that that piece of fief was a force they commanded.

Regarding this kind of situation, Su Xiao was not worried. One of the purposes of him establishing the Lord Squad was to clean up those city lords who were making trouble on the fief.

Su Xiao put away the document. Grand Marshal Kane opposite the desk knocked on the cabinet on the side with his knuckles. Before long, a black shadow walked out from the shadow and whispered something in Grand Marshal Kane's ear.

"Understood, go down."

After Grand Marshal Kane drank some clear tea to moisten his throat, he said: "The few people you mentioned before will very likely go to a jewelry store in the Fifth City District in a few hours. Also, don't make a big commotion in Eternal Ring City."

"Oh."

Su Xiao stood up and walked out of the study. After leaving the mansion, he took the bus train toward the Fifth City District.

Three hours later, a jewelry store in the Fifth City District.

The store door was pushed open. Mo Lei, who had just sold a batch of jewelry, could be said to be in a good mood. Standing on the side of the street, she stretched, thinking about what to eat tonight.

"You two, don't dawdle. Selling some jewelry is so slow, I'm hungry."

While Mo Lei was speaking, her gaze looked around at the shops, looking for a dinner location tonight. Inadvertently, she saw a man holding today's newspaper sitting on a bench across the street, which made her gaze gradually become solemn, and she took a step back, retreating into the jewelry store behind her. Confirming the gaze, she had encountered the person she feared the most, and her mentality collapsed.

The two flapping store doors in front of Mo Lei stabilized. Moon Apostle and Hao Mei, who were just preparing to push the door out on both sides, were both made suspicious by Mo Lei.

"What's wrong with you, with an expression like you were robbed."

Hearing Hao Mei's words, Mo Lei pushed a crack in the store door in front. Moon Apostle and Hao Mei looked through the door crack and just happened to see the man sitting on the bench across the street. The expressions of both of them froze, and both took a small step back, standing in line with Mo Lei. The three looked at each other, and their mentalities all underwent quite a change. ===== CHAPTER 3676 =====