Chapter 3701: Lineup

Su Xiao meditated with his hands loosely holding the 【Endless Ring】. The black ring floated between his hands on its own, emitting wisps of darkness while also possessing strong life fluctuations.

Su Xiao was determining whether the 【Endless Ring】 had any other hidden dangers. Whether it was Overlord equipment or Abyss equipment, they were all freely notarized. So-called free notarization meant that some secrets needed to be explored on one's own.

Of course, free notarization also had its benefits. If one obtained an unnotarized item and chose to notarize it freely, the Space-Time Power required to pay was 30%–40% of a complete notarization, which was more than half lower.

Precisely because of this, the prices of fully notarized and freely notarized items sold in gathering places differed by nearly double. The benefit of complete notarization was that one could completely trust the item's attribute data. So far, no one had discovered any discrepancies in the attributes after complete notarization.

The 【Endless Ring】 obtained now was freely notarized, which also meant that one could trust its attribute data, but one had to be cautious about the characteristics not notarized by this thing.

There was one point Su Xiao couldn't figure out: where did the name 【Endless Ring】 come from? Was it because it could devour a large amount of equipment? Currently, the equipment's rating had reached 6000 points, and the ability to devour equipment had disappeared, so it clearly didn't represent this aspect.

The only thing that was unfathomable should be the equipment's debuff, "Dark Drowning."

"Equipment Debuff: Dark Drowning (Passive). While carrying this equipment, you will be gradually eroded by the darkness of the Abyss (because your Abyss resistance is 20 points, you can exempt 'Dark Drowning' within a certain time limit. If the time you are buffed by this equipment exceeds 24 hours, you will begin to be affected by 'Dark Drowning').

Hint: An estimated 28–30 points of Abyss resistance can completely resist this debuff."

Su Xiao had a hypothesis: the equipment's debuff wasn't as simple as it looked. Perhaps when his Abyss resistance reached 30 points, although he completely resisted the current "Dark Drowning" effect, the equipment's debuff characteristic would upgrade, leading to the need for stronger Abyss resistance to resist it.

In other words, the higher Su Xiao's Abyss resistance was, the stronger the equipment's debuff would be. This endless cycle of replacement was the equipment's most core characteristic.

Currently, bringing its rating to 6000 points didn't mean the equipment had taken shape, but rather that it had just activated the equipment's true characteristics.

What was its true characteristic? As far as it looked now, this equipment was darkness endowed by Abyss characteristics, and then the excessive darkness brought the purest life force, just as mentioned in the equipment introduction.

One possibility was that this equipment wanted to erode Su Xiao with stronger darkness, and wouldn't stronger darkness also bring stronger life characteristics, thereby making the equipment's health bonus higher?

The more accurate sequence was: Su Xiao's Abyss resistance increased, stimulating the Endless Ring's debuff, thereby wanting to erode Su Xiao with stronger darkness. But after this equipment had stronger darkness, the life characteristics derived from it were also stronger, thus creating this endless cycle.

Didn't this mean that higher Abyss resistance could bring a higher health bonus?

This made Su Xiao think that the 【Endless Ring】's "Slow Absorption" effect was somewhat discordant. It felt like someone had obtained the 【Endless Ring】 before but hadn't figured out how to use it, so they had additionally attached this ability, wanting to use the darkness within the 【Endless Ring】 as buff energy.

A more accurate statement was that a previous holder of the 【Endless Ring】 wanted to rely on this equipment to devour the characteristics of other equipment, developing this equipment into a buff-type equipment. That is, whatever equipment was devoured, the Endless Ring would gain that characteristic and enhance it.

As a result, this ability wasn't fully developed. The enhancement was created, but the Endless Ring's devouring nature wasn't contained.

The reason Su Xiao had this consideration was that the 【Endless Ring】's Ability 2 was very contradictory. Its characteristic was:

"Slow Absorption (Core Passive): Can slowly devour equipment or special artifacts, and before completely devouring this equipment, the 【Endless Ring】 will temporarily gain its characteristics and enhance the temporarily obtained ability based on the 【Endless Ring】's existing rating."

Previously, when the 【Endless Ring】 only had a rating of 10 points, Su Xiao's feeling was that after letting it devour a piece of equipment, that devoured equipment could at least last for more than ten days, which meant letting the 【Endless Ring】 temporarily gain that equipment's ability for more than ten days.

Now, a very bizarre thing happened: when the 【Endless Ring】 was upgraded to a rating of 6000 points, the "Slow Absorption" effect was enhanced in all aspects.

Now, the ability of the devoured equipment would be enhanced by 1.5 to 3 times by the 【Endless Ring】. At first glance, it looked beautiful, but don't forget, the characteristic of this ability was enhanced in all aspects due to the rating increase, which also included devouring efficiency.

This also led to the ability called "Slow Absorption" not being slow at all when devouring equipment. Su Xiao took out a fragment of the Overlord equipment 【Golden Balance】 and let the 【Endless Ring】 devour it. Even though this Overlord equipment was damaged and couldn't devour any ability, measuring the devouring time was no problem.

Su Xiao took out a stopwatch, pressed the time, and put it down. By the way, he controlled the 【Endless Ring】 to continue floating. He prepared to go to the back kitchen to find something to eat. Previously, going to Floating Light Island and resisting the darkness with body energy made him feel hungry now.

Su Xiao had just stood up when he suddenly felt that the 【Endless Ring】's fluctuation was wrong. He looked at it and found that the 【Golden Balance】 fragment devoured within the 【Endless Ring】 had already been absorbed clean.

He looked at the stopwatch; only 5 seconds had passed. He had previously estimated that the 【Golden Balance】 fragment could last for more than ten minutes. Now it seemed that this "Slow Absorption" ability was truly unreliable.

One could imagine the disbelieving expression of the holder who developed this ability after testing it.

This "Slow Absorption" ability, which wasn't slow at all, made Su Xiao more certain that this ability was added later. Since that was the case, could it be stripped or eliminated?

Holding the attitude of trying, Su Xiao first released the Blade Spirit and released his mental power, letting the Blade Spirit, which had turned into black smoke, wrap around the mental power threads he released, thereby probing into the darkness within the 【Endless Ring】's ring.

Everywhere he looked was darkness. Su Xiao continued to release mental power threads and was ready to cut them at any time. Just then, in a piece of darkness within the 【Endless Ring】, he discovered a golden shimmer. Careful sensing revealed that this shimmer was multiple layers of circular imprints superimposed together, very stable, and was relying on the darkness within the 【Endless Ring】 as energy to maintain the existence of this composite imprint.

Seeing this, Soul Shadow Threads appeared on Su Xiao's five fingertips, spreading along the already released mental power threads, finally entangling the composite "Amplification Imprint" and dragging it out of the 【Endless Ring】.

Because the "Amplification Imprint" was forcibly added later, it was already somewhat repelled. The process of Su Xiao pulling out the "Amplification Imprint" was very smooth, so much so that he only used force to pull at the beginning, and afterward, the darkness pushed the "Amplification Imprint" out.

With a whoosh, a burst of darkness surged out from within the 【Endless Ring】, repelling the "Amplification Imprint" that emitted golden brilliance.

Hum~

The 【Endless Ring】's fluctuation was purer. Su Xiao checked its attributes. Sure enough, this Abyss equipment only had the "Robust Life" buff and the "Dark Drowning" debuff left.

Although the health points increased by the 【Endless Ring】 didn't increase, still 120,000 points, the feeling of its buff was completely different now, more natural and gentle, rather than having a strange sense of alienation as before.

The current 【Endless Ring】 was incomparably pure, with only two characteristics left: "darkness" and "life." Darkness was the debuff, and life was the buff.

More importantly, the 【Endless Ring】's sense of instability disappeared. Previously, this equipment always had a feeling that darkness could erupt at any time. He originally thought it was the characteristic, but now it seemed it was caused by the "Amplification Imprint" inside.

Putting away the 【Endless Ring】, Su Xiao began to study the golden "Amplification Imprint." There was no doubt that although the creator of this thing didn't understand how to use the 【Endless Ring】, their attainments in imprint studies were very high.

And there was another point: Su Xiao discovered that the operation mode of this "Amplification Imprint" was somewhat similar to the inside of the Eye of Mystery. Although the precision and complexity of the structure were far inferior to the Eye of Mystery, the two certainly had certain commonalities.

Su Xiao had a hypothesis: could the internal structure of the Eye of Mystery be adjusted to look like the "Amplification Imprint"?

Thinking of this, he took out the Eye of Mystery and began to adjust it. This attracted the attention of Baha nearby. Baha quietly arrived nearby, and before long, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Amu were also attracted, clearly particularly interested in Su Xiao adjusting the Eye of Mystery.

Noticing that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha were all peeking and looking around, Xian Lulu was also attracted and sat to the side, curiously observing.

With a click, the structure inside the Eye of Mystery was temporarily locked. Su Xiao encountered this situation for the first time. This change, different from the past, made him think that this should be the correct way to use the Eye of Mystery.

After checking and estimating that there was no problem, Su Xiao activated the Eye of Mystery. The next second, the Eye of Mystery unfolded slightly, and a precise and pleasant operating sound came from inside. Unknown energy was absorbed into it, aggregated, compressed, and then... Boom!!

Su Xiao's vision was instantly white. Because of the wonderful change in the Eye of Mystery just now, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Xian Lulu were all gathered around the Eye of Mystery, watching intently. Now that the Eye of Mystery exploded with strong light, the result was imaginable.

"Woo-ooh Wang!"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang covered his dog eyes and rolled on the ground, Xian Lulu covered her eyes with her cat paws, and Baha exclaimed "Damn it" before flapping its wings and flying up, then hitting the chandelier.

A moment later, Su Xiao put down the empty potion bottle in his hand. He was fine, and Amu and Baha were also fine. Only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Xian Lulu had red eyes.

"..."

Su Xiao carefully studied the Eye of Mystery and felt there was no problem. He held up the "Amplification Imprint" and compared it with the structure inside the Eye of Mystery. It seemed... they were the same?

Su Xiao frowned and pondered. Soon, he discovered that the "Amplification Imprint" in his hand looked a bit awkward. He tried to move the floating "Amplification Imprint" with his hand, turning its vertical direction. Hmm, it looked much more pleasing to the eye this time. No wonder it felt strange just now.

After recording the current flashing structure of the Eye of Mystery, Su Xiao began to adjust it. Now he had discovered two ways to use the Eye of Mystery: 1. Lock-opening mode, 2. Flash-explosion mode. Given the dazzling degree of the Eye of Mystery just now, it could be used to deal with enemies in ambush or surprise attacks.

Half an hour later, Su Xiao successfully adjusted the structure inside the Eye of Mystery to look like the "Amplification Imprint." With a crisp click, the inside of the Eye of Mystery locked itself. Seeing this situation, Su Xiao knew that this time it was truly a success.

However, before activating the Eye of Mystery this time, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha all wore professional light-flash protection devices, while Xian Lulu covered her eyes with her cat paws and hid under the coffee table.

With a click, the Eye of Mystery was activated. A wonderful change appeared: the entire Eye of Mystery unfolded somewhat, turning into the same golden color as the "Amplification Imprint," and it had a sense of accommodation.

Thinking of the characteristics of the "Amplification Imprint," Su Xiao took out the detection equipment 【Eye of the Gods】 and threw it out. As soon as it approached the Eye of Mystery, it was wrapped within the unfolded Eye of Mystery. A more wonderful change was that the current Eye of Mystery could actually check attribute status.

【Eye of Mystery】

Quality: Origin-tier.

Hint: The quality of the Eye of Mystery will be comprehensively determined based on the holder's Strength, Intelligence, Charisma, Body Energy Cap (Mana Cap), Soul Strength, and Luck attributes.

Equipment Effect: Aura Sensing (Active): Can detect all types of enemies and obtain their data. The completeness of the data depends on the Intelligence attributes of both sides.

Hint: When performing detection judgment, the judgment correction is increased.

Hint: Aura Sensing (Active) has no cost.

Hint: The cooldown time for Aura Sensing (Active) is 2 minutes.

Hint: This effect comes from the Holy Spirit-tier equipment 【Eye of the Gods】. If it is stripped from the Eye of Mystery, this effect is removed.

The notarized data wasn't much, but the Eye of Mystery climbed the judgment level of "Aura Sensing" from Holy Spirit-tier to Origin-tier, skipping a major level, which was Immortal-tier. The improvement was imaginable.

If there were any shortcomings, they naturally existed. The detection level was increased, but every time it was used, it consumed a lot of durability of the 【Eye of the Gods】. It might be that after detecting five or six times in one world, the durability of the 【Eye of the Gods】 would reach the level of needing repair.

More importantly, Lide wouldn't repair this thing. Letting Lide help repair 【Night of the Wild Hunt】 was already Lide's limit of tolerance. If he were asked to repair such a high-tech creation, it was more likely to be smashed by two hammer blows.

Although it would additionally consume the durability of the 【Eye of the Gods】, it was equally worth it. Su Xiao had already experienced how hard it was to buy detection equipment with Intelligence judgment; these things were generally Charisma attribute bonuses.

However, Su Xiao's Charisma attribute was hard to describe. If he were to detect enemy data with his Charisma attribute, it wouldn't be a question of whether he could detect it or not. He suspected that once he chose this type of detection, under the blessing of his -19 Charisma attribute, he wouldn't just fail to detect the enemy's data; his own data might suddenly be displayed, resulting in a reverse detection.

Su Xiao controlled the Eye of Mystery to float on his hand. He held it loosely with one hand. As he controlled it, the Eye of Mystery unfolded and released the 【Apostle's Eye】 wrapped inside, which caused the Eye of Mystery's detection ability to disappear.

Su Xiao took off the 【Heart of Berger】 and tried to buff this pendant with the Eye of Mystery. He was originally just trying it out, but who knew, the Eye of Mystery really temporarily gained the ability of the 【Heart of Berger】 pendant and even buffed this ability to the Origin-tier level.

"Adaptation Power (Core Passive): During battle, it will increase the wearer's abnormal status resistance by 85–100 points based on the enemy's ability characteristics (Adaptive)."

This effect was quite good, but there was a very critical problem: how should the Eye of Mystery be worn? This thing wasn't clear equipment, so there was no equipment slot. He tried to equip it to the equipment slot corresponding to the pendant, but a hint appeared: this item was not a pendant-characteristic equipment and could not be equipped to this equipment slot.

Su Xiao controlled the Eye of Mystery to unfold, took out the 【Heart of Berger】, and re-wrapped the 【Eye of the Gods】. He roughly understood the characteristics of this thing: it could be used to buff equipment, but couldn't buff items or others. And when buffing equipment, it was best to choose equipment like detection types that could be released externally and had active effects.

Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of a possibility: what would happen if he used the Eye of Mystery in a buff state to wrap a small-volume Original Sin Object and buff it? For example, wrapping the "Nether Bone Ring" with it?

After weighing it, Su Xiao dismissed this idea. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha nearby noticed that his gaze no longer had an inexplicable luster, and both secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he failed to form the Supreme Moonlight with the Wolf Sword and thus awaken the "Moonlight Set," the gains from the Endless Ring were already quite good. The 120,000 health point bonus brought his maximum health to 840,000 points. When fighting powerhouses, he was considered to have a sense of security. If he fought the Wolf God, he could probably take one more hit?

The powerhouse team going to Floating Light Island had already been decided, and the members were as follows:

First was the Knight Commander of the Beastkin's Yonghuan City. This person was from the legion, having served as a Beastkin soldier and fought on the main battlefield. Later, he was promoted step by step from a leader to a grand leader, and then he was personally appointed by the Beast King as the Legion Leader. Finally, he was transferred to the main city, Yonghuan City, as the commander of the Imperial Guard, and later promoted to Knight Commander by the Beast King.

This was the person most trusted by the Beast King. In fact, the Beast King was cultivating the Knight Commander into the next Beast King. This behavior of the Beast King made him completely isolated; even the Steel Feather family behind him no longer supported him and were vaguely colluding with the Seven Great Families.

The Knight Commander's strength was unquestionable; even among Supreme Powerhouses, he was a combat power between the upper echelon and the top. As for what would happen if he died at the hands of the Wolf God this time while going to Floating Light Island, the Beast King was once a War King and was destined not to protect his successor, but to let him experience enough tempering before passing the throne to him.

Going to Floating Light Island this time was the final test the Knight Commander had to face. If he defeated the Wolf God, he would basically be the next Beast King.

Regarding this, the views within the Seven Great Families were exceptionally contradictory. They acknowledged the Knight Commander's ability and acknowledged that after the Knight Commander became the new Beast King, the Beastkin's glory would continue. But the problem was that the Seven Great Families wanted to support someone from their own family, and they were truly afraid that years later, the Knight Commander would have the same majesty as the current Beast King in his youth. The Seven Great Families still felt palpitations when they recalled that former majesty.

The second member was not a Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe, but after his name was written on the list, both the Beastkin and Sea Tribe high command acknowledged it. Even the tribal representatives who came to make up the numbers felt that this person should be on the list.

That's right, that person was the Priest. After entering this world, this guy had caused no small amount of trouble for the Beastkin, Sea Tribe, and tribal factions. Mentioning this guy, many high-level officials of the three parties felt their teeth itch with hatred, but they had to admit that this guy, who was as eerie as a humanoid ancient god, was too suitable to go to Floating Light Island.

The third candidate was quite surprising: the Sea Tribe's Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe, Black Omen. Previously, the high-level officials of the Beastkin and Sea Tribes both thought that the Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe Zhakawa was more suitable. The latter had been a Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe for many years and belonged to the old-school Supreme Powerhouses. In contrast, the former, Black Omen, was a newly promoted Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe in recent years.

The reason for choosing Black Omen was because his ability could allow the powerhouse team to successfully reach the sealed hall, thereby fighting the Wolf God in the best state, rather than having to deal with the billions of dark creatures, evil spirits, and at least a small amount of Abyss-corrupted creatures in the black mist.

In such a situation, it was truly more advantageous than adding an old-school Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe. Otherwise, it would be the powerhouse team killing their way to the sealed hall. Furthermore, this wasn't clearing a dungeon; the Wolf God likely wouldn't be waiting in the sealed hall.

It was more likely that the Wolf God would detect the sound of battle and then lead billions of dark creatures, evil spirits, etc., to fight the powerhouse team, which would make it completely impossible to fight. Black Omen's joining solved this problem.

In addition, the old-school Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe Zhakawa's Abyss resistance wasn't high. When he arrived at Floating Light Island, his combat power might not necessarily be stronger than Black Omen's.

The fourth member was both reasonable and outrageous. Reasonable in terms of lineup matching, outrageous in terms of faction stance.

That's right, the fourth team member was none other than the Mage Sage Serphilia. It wasn't that the Beastkin and Sea Tribes wanted to cause trouble, but there weren't many Supreme Powerhouses in this world, and those with high enough Abyss resistance were even fewer. The stronger the strength, the more they feared the power of the Abyss.

Those Supreme Powerhouses without factions in this world usually considered themselves guardians of their respective areas. As a result, when the Abyss invasion came, these Supreme Powerhouses without factions all failed, and none of them had Abyss resistance exceeding 12 points.

The Knight Commander's Abyss resistance was tempered by the Beast King. The Beast King had let the Knight Commander go to the Abyss-eroded areas of this world many times. At that time, many people thought the Beast King wanted to get rid of the Knight Commander. Now it seemed the Beast King's choice was not wrong at all.

The Priest didn't need to be mentioned. Black Omen was a dark-type ability user and was inherently related to Abyss characteristics, so his corresponding resistance was also quite good.

As for Serphilia's Abyss resistance, this was actually her daily life. Besides managing the Black Maple Tree, whenever an Abyss Passage in the Void opened, she basically led people to close it. If her Abyss resistance were quantified, it would at least be over 80 points.

This also meant that Serphilia was the powerhouse team's most powerful output, and she was also a long-range output.

The last member, that naturally didn't need to be mentioned, was Su Xiao as a Law-Breaker. It wasn't the Beastkin and Sea Tribes' choice, but because there was this position for Su Xiao, there was a powerhouse team. To be precise, he was one of the only two people in this world who could slay the Wolf God.

The other was the Magic Scythe Teride. That person was a special powerhouse who didn't appear once in ten thousand years. Moreover, it wasn't because the inheritance system gave the other party this ability. Only the inheritance systems of Moon Wolves and Law-Breakers possessed the ability to eliminate Abyss-corrupted creatures with the Undying trait. This was recognized.

In fact, the Beastkin and Sea Tribes also approached the Magic Scythe Teride, but the Magic Scythe Teride didn't pay any attention to them. Before the Abyss completely spread, she wouldn't use that means to slay Abyss-corrupted creatures with the Undying trait, because that wasn't an ability, but a price.

Putting Spellcasters and Law-Breakers together in a team, the Beastkin and Sea Tribes' behavior could be described as unprecedented, but it was truly forced by necessity. The Sea Tribe's attitude was firm: if the Abyss energy spread, the first thing they would do was send powerhouses to kill the Dwarf King, so that the Arcane Eternal Star could no longer obtain elemental artifacts, thereby causing the Void to eventually face the Abyss invasion.

The Sea Tribe's attitude was clear: if Serphilia didn't help with this, then everyone would suffer together. As a result, the Sea Tribe high-level official who went to lobby Serphilia was killed on the spot by Serphilia. Serphilia's attitude was: don't wait for the Abyss invasion, the Arcane Eternal Star would open the array boundary now to destroy the Sea Tribe.

The Sea Tribe was stunned. They truly didn't expect that Spellcasters would be so ruthless, and looking at the attitude, the Arcane Eternal Star wasn't threatening; they were truly prepared to do so.

After the Beastkin knew the situation here, their brains buzzed. The final result was that the Sea King seemed to have taken out an artifact, and Serphilia's attitude softened. After talking a few more times and the Sea Tribe paying many benefits, Serphilia's attitude changed to: isn't it just going to Floating Light Island with a Law-Breaker? If the Law-Breaker has no problem, she has no problem.

Not only that, the Beast King and the Sea King also obtained a contract notarized at the highest level through the Tree of the Void. The contract content was that during the trip to Floating Light Island, and for 24 hours after resolving this matter, Su Xiao and Serphilia were not allowed to harm or calculate against each other in any way, such as summoning teammates, etc., which was also not allowed. The remarks in this regard in the entire contract amounted to thousands of items.

The notarization echelon of this contract was too high; even Su Xiao couldn't find a way to operate it.

In this way, the powerhouse team of five members was formed, and the lineup was as follows:

Knight Commander: Front row + melee output, can fight and take hits, and comes with strong recovery ability.

Black Omen: Path-opening + burst output, can restrain, and can serve as a temporary long-range.

Priest: Deals with all eerie and unknown situations, and weakens the Wolf God's various resistances.

Serphilia: The most powerful output in the team, has true control ability that ignores immunity to control. After all abilities explode, the suppression power is tyrannical.

Su Xiao: Blood Qi-type long-range + pharmacist + ensures the sealed hall is a closed environment with sealing studies + ensures dying members don't die after the battle ends + as the only one in the team who can slay the Wolf God, it can be said that this should be the most tanky long-range. ===== CHAPTER 3702 =====