Chapter 3707: Misfortune

Upon learning that they were going to assassinate the Sea King, Morei, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei were so "happy" that they didn't know what to say, and suddenly felt that the 300 ounces of space-time power promised by Su Xiao suddenly didn't smell good anymore.

"Wait, you just said that our goal is actually to rescue the legendary blacksmith, the Dwarf King?"

Hao Mei spoke, seemingly having grasped the point of the matter.

"Yes."

Su Xiao drank a sip of the cocoa hot drink specially made by the head maid. Suddenly, his expression became a bit solemn. He looked at the hot drink in his hand with a bit of suspicion, swallowed it, and it was very choking to his throat. He swallowed it again before barely swallowing it down.

Su Xiao looked at the cocoa hot drink in his hand again and placed it in front of Morei on the side. Morei gave a puzzled look, and Su Xiao said:

"Not used to sweet drinks."

"Then don't waste it."

Morei didn't feel disgusted. She picked it up and took a sip, then almost rolled her eyes. Because she had just said "don't waste it" and really didn't have the courage to drink a second sip, she placed it in front of Moon Apostle.

"So, the risk of assassinating the Sea King is greater than rescuing the Dwarf King. Why use something with greater risk to attract attention? Is this reasonable? What are you drinking? You didn't even give me any. Damn, what is this?!"

Hao Mei barely swallowed it down. Looking at the cup, it was already empty. Seeing this scene, the head maid standing by the door with her hands tied to her lower abdomen had a loving smile. It was the first time someone had finished her original drink, and they looked like they were still wanting more.

"We don't need to have a very clear assassination plan. Just raise it high and let it fall gently."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Morei, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei were all relieved.

Su Xiao's cooperation with the Apocalypse sisters this time was actually just because of one point: he wanted to try what level Morei's good luck could reach.

However, for the time being, Su Xiao didn't intend to continue letting Morei help open treasure chests. The other party's real luck was very powerful, but correspondingly, the price the beneficiary had to pay was not small.

After having the ability, Su Xiao was not afraid of fortune overdraft. For example, the misfortune state that was supposed to last for two days was relieved immediately after he poured it into a hanging ornament.

But everything has a degree. Based on Su Xiao's rich experience of bad luck, he divided negative fortune into four levels.

1. Unlucky level.

2. Lightning-strike level.

3. Misfortune level.

4. Calamity level.

Su Xiao can resist the first three levels of misfortune, but once he doesn't control it well, causing the misfortune to fall to the fourth level, the calamity level, then the loss outweighs the gain.

【Treasure Box of Secret Treasures】

Category: High-value treasure chest item.

Effect: After opening, you can obtain one of the following items.

1. Free usage permission for Skill Upgrade Warehouse.

2. 1–3 Primordial Fragments.

3. Primordial Fruit.

4. Full-score · World-class equipment.

5. Dawn Fragment.

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Originally, Su Xiao intended to let Morei open this treasure chest and the 【Abyss Treasure Chest】, but the maximum upper limit of the benefits of these two was truly too high. If he wasn't careful, Su Xiao's fortune might slide because of this.

This made Su Xiao judge that letting Morei help open treasure chests is indeed the way with the greatest benefits, but it is also too much of a good thing.

After discussing the general cooperation, Morei and the others found that the aspects they were responsible for were much safer than expected, so they were naturally willing to accept this cooperation. However, when the contact person arrived, the three of them gradually put on painful masks. That's right, the one who came was Caesar.

Before, Su Xiao entrusted Caesar to help improve 【Endless Ring】, but the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. Later, the Wolf God broke the seal, giving Su Xiao a better way to improve 【Endless Ring】. The problem was that he had already paid Caesar, and Caesar didn't have the habit of refunding money.

Those tens of thousands of soul coins just happened to be used as the reward this time. Caesar naturally agreed to this, as long as he didn't mention a refund, everything else was negotiable.

Right now, it was Caesar taking Morei and Moon Apostle to infiltrate the Sea Clan's main city. Hao Mei didn't need to infiltrate. She was currently the one with the most faction reputation in the Sea Clan camp, but she chose to be anonymous.

Actually, it wasn't that Hao Mei was low-key, but that she couldn't spend the faction reputation she already had. She knew exactly how this reputation came from. For example, she was currently completing a mission whose danger star rating was sticking out of the edge of the mission list. This mission was named.

That's right, Su Xiao was now one of the two Grand Commanders in the Beast camp. There were many reasons for this. First, he represented the Beast camp to go to Mingguang Island this time. The Beast camp had lost face on the front battlefield and didn't have much resources on hand. Compared to taking out a large amount of resources to reward Su Xiao, it was better to give a position that was high enough but had no real power.

Cain had been the Grand Commander alone for many years, and the power originally shared by the two Grand Commanders was basically in his hands. This was also the reason why the Beast King felt relieved to confer the position of Grand Commander to Su Xiao.

Besides this, Su Xiao was the exclusive provider of the bacterial carpet, and other parties had no possibility of imitating it.

Not only that, Su Xiao now had 10 Beast Legions, and Ergein under his command was good at fighting. He was also preparing to fight in the near future. If this was captured, the richness of the Winter Territory would immediately soar by several levels.

Now the Beast King and Cain were both a bit regretful and had no way to deal with it. They were a bit regretful for pushing Su Xiao to the position of Lord, and what was even more uncomfortable was that the seven great families were eyeing them covetously, and the Beast King and Cain couldn't leave this increasingly dangerous Winter Lord.

The benefit of pushing Su Xiao to the position of Grand Commander was that once Ergein under his command captured it and the Winter Territory had output, the attitude of the Beast King would change to: "Bai Ye, look, the Beast camp is currently lacking, as the Grand Commander of the Beast camp, shouldn't you express something?"

This was the Beast King's deep scheming. This person not only had the strength of a War King, but also understood the power aspect very clearly. After taking out a position with a high rank but no real power, he achieved three things at once.

As for refusing this position of Grand Commander, that was even more impossible. Su Xiao is a Hunter of the Paradise camp. He is not obsessed with power, but needs the benefits derived from high status. Refusing would be a huge loss.

After Hao Mei successfully completed this mission with amazing danger, she was calm. After all, she had experienced it several times. Morei was shocked by the show, always feeling that she had seen similar operations in the Painting World before.

After Caesar had lunch and ate until his neck was full, he left satisfied. Both sides had agreed to assassinate the Sea King the day after tomorrow.

If he wasn't mistaken, the internal contradictions of the Sea Clan were actually not small. The Sea King, the Sea God Sect, and the Council of Elders were all at odds with each other. Although the current Sea King was in his prime, the Sea God Sect and the Council of Elders each had their own candidates at the beginning. It was precisely because of the disagreement between the two sides at the beginning that the current Sea King had a chance.

Even so, after the Sea King took power, the power in his hands was never very stable. This could be seen from the fact that Su Xiao was calculated by the Sea Clan before and teleported to the main battlefield to be surrounded by a Sea Clan legion.

At that time, that Sea Clan legion was commanded by a Sea Clan commander, a gnome adjutant, and a deep-sea banshee. It seemed that the Sea Clan commander had the highest status, but in fact, the other two were not low either.

Among these three, the Sea Clan commander was from the Sea King's faction, the gnome adjutant had a Sea God Sect background, and the deep-sea banshee came from the Council of Elders.

At that time, the alliance with the Arcane Eternal Star was led by the Sea King. This was clearly to stabilize the situation on the main battlefield first, beat back the Beast camp, and while the Beast camp was licking its wounds, clean up the Sea God Sect and the Council of Elders.

Now the problem of the Sea Clan is that after the Arcane Eternal Star entered, the situation on the main battlefield was indeed reversed, making the Sea Clan the party with the great advantage. But wanting to send away this hegemon force was not that simple.

This is also why Su Xiao chose to assassinate the Sea King. He could determine that the assassination he set up couldn't hurt the Sea King, but this was not important. At this stage, the Sea King was assassinated, and it was assassinated in the Sea Clan's main city. The first to be suspected would definitely be the Council of Elders and the Sea God Sect.

However, Su Xiao didn't intend to frame this matter on the Council of Elders and the Sea God Sect. He could find a better scapegoat, which was the Dark God Sect. In the eyes of the outside world, the Dark God Sect had just released the Wolf God. After the Wolf God slept forever, the Beast camp and the Sea Clan would inevitably clean up the Dark God Sect.

At such a juncture, the Dark God Sect was desperate and chose to assassinate the Sea King, which was not worth being surprised about. After all, they were the tumor that could break the seal of the Wolf God.

Suddenly, Su Xiao seemed to know why the Dark God Sect hadn't been completely wiped out for so many years. It was both because of the extremely high resistance to being wiped out and because it was a natural scapegoat. No matter how outrageous things were, as long as it was said that it was done by the Dark God Sect, then surely few people would doubt it. After all, this tumor was usually like this, and besides good things, it did everything else.

Besides this, the strange existence in the Sea Clan's main city could also be dealt with by taking the opportunity. That thing had come once before. Although it was persuaded to leave by Su Xiao with three Sin Objects, for some reason, the other party's malice didn't converge.

Especially when Baham was patrolling the Lord's Manor, it saw black little footprints on the courtyard wall. Those footprints represented that the black-eyed existence had come more than once, but out of fear of the Sin Objects, it didn't make a move.

Su Xiao estimated that it must be something he was wearing that attracted this black-eyed existence, or it was a more obscure reason.

Through Grand Commander Cain, Su Xiao found information about the black-eyed existence and found that this thing was more troublesome than imagined. But thinking that this was something feared by Caesar and evaluated as strange by the Priest, everything seemed reasonable again.

This black-eyed existence belongs to the Dark Spirit, not an existence like the Candle Girl or the Overgrowth Frenzy. Dark Spirits belong to the World-Extinguishing level existence.

The so-called Dark Spirit is a rare and dangerous existence. Their appearance involves the process of a world being eroded by the Abyss. It is after the Abyss invasion, the world consciousness appears distorted due to being boosted by the Abyss power.

This distortion is irreversible. Some world consciousnesses directly merge into the world itself, which is the best situation. Such worlds are rich to the point of confusion.

There are several other possibilities for distortion. Su Xiao doesn't know the specifics. He only knows that one kind of distortion is the differentiation of world consciousness into Dark Spirit groups.

From another angle, this is a dark version of the Son of the World, and this thing is almost immortal. Even if it is killed, it will be reborn in some corner of the world by absorbing world power.

Not only reborn, they will carry revenge hatred after being killed, leading to one becoming two upon rebirth, and two Dark Spirits going to take revenge together.

After a battle, killing both of these Dark Spirits, it won't be long before four Dark Spirits come to the door, and so on.

But this is a normal Dark Spirit. The one encountered now is an absolute outlier among Dark Spirits. It is called, initially, by devouring other Dark Spirits, it strengthens itself. When all the Dark Spirits in the world where it was born are devoured by it, it will leave that world and go to a world with Dark Spirits to continue devouring.

This stage is called drifting, until it devours to satisfaction, and its own body undergoes a crucial transformation.

This transformation is very strange and secretive. Each one will have its own unique characteristics. For example, the one encountered now, its characteristics are very likely.

If someone wants to get the fragments in its hand, as long as they ask it, it will give them. Since it is an exchange, one must also take out something. The problem lies here: what to take out is not determined by the trading party, but by what it wants, and the trading party must take it out.

If the trading party goes back on their word, it is considered a failed exchange. In that situation, it will lose control, first devouring the trader, and then pursuing the trader's karma, devouring the people related to the trader one by one, until the spreading karma line breaks, and it will be satisfied.

The three types of most terrifying ones are the wish-granting type, the exchange type, and the covenant type.

The one in the Sea Clan's Royal City now is clearly a Dark-Devourer based on the principle of.

After learning that this Dark-Devourer is a World-Extinguishing level existence, Su Xiao finally understood why this guy had such strong malice towards him.

There is no need to think about it to know that this existence must have had a grudge with the previous generation of Law-Breakers. Thinking of the other party's ability, it was probably scammed by the previous generation of Law-Breakers. The unscrupulous mentor and the vicious female Law-Breaker could really do this.

Thinking of these, Su Xiao finally understood completely why the Dark-Devourer's gaze contained pleasure and playfulness when they first met. This was clearly secretly happy in its heart, finally catching a Law-Breaker who hadn't reached the Supreme level, and then after discovering that Su Xiao was carrying three Sin Objects, the Dark-Devourer was very unwilling. It was so unwilling that it had been coming to the vicinity of the manor for the last two days, standing on the wall, looking at the ancient castle in the wind and snow.

Thinking about it this way, since he had already completely offended this Dark-Devourer, it would be better to take the initiative. At worst, he would seal it in the Eternal Light World. Anyway, there are already World-Extinguishing level existences like the World-Borer, Silver Queen, Pain Queen, and Star-Parasite Crab over there, so one more doesn't matter.

Is Su Xiao's attitude towards the Eternal Light World "breaking the pot and letting it fall"? Of course not. The previous generations of Law-Breakers don't know how many World-Extinguishing level existences have been imprisoned in that ghostly place, and World-Extinguishing level existences are not friendly to each other.

This also caused World-Extinguishing level existences to eliminate each other, the weak being the prey of the strong. The ones who can occupy a place in the Eternal Light World now are all existences with fierce abilities that make people shudder. Really sending the Dark-Devourer over, there is a 90% probability that this newly arrived World-Extinguishing level existence will not see eye to eye with those old prisoners in the Eternal Light World and will fight.

Thinking about it this way, sending more World-Extinguishing level existences to the Eternal Light World is not "breaking the pot and letting it fall", but rather has a not-low probability of making the risks of going to the Eternal Light World later smaller.

The situation Su Xiao least wants to see is that just as he arrives in the Eternal Light World, those old prisoners who have been imprisoned in the Eternal Light World for millions of years wake up one after another. That is the most unsolvable dead end. Conversely, if they are fighting each other before he goes, the situation will be better.

Assassinating the Sea King, plus angering the Dark-Devourer, these two things combined are enough to make the defensive forces in the Sea Clan's main city confused for a period of time, taking the opportunity to rescue the Dwarf King, and the plan is considered a success.

Just as Su Xiao was pondering this, Baham flew over and whispered: "Boss, the Priest has come, and Amu is blocking him in the backyard."

"……"

Su Xiao's brows furrowed. He wasn't surprised that the Priest didn't die, but this old guy coming here was probably not a good thing, but the hidden danger of not seeing him was even greater.

A moment later, in the inner hall on the second floor, Su Xiao and the Priest sat opposite each other across the tea table. Su Xiao picked up the teacup and poured a cup of tea for the Priest opposite, as if there were no grudges between the two.

After the Priest drank a sip of tea, he coughed repeatedly, his aura even weaker than when he dealt with the Dark-Devourer before. He asked: "Bai Ye, has that Abyss Hole closed?"

"Seems so."

"Wasn't it you who closed it?"

The Priest's tone was like chatting, while Su Xiao shook his head and fiddled with the tea set sent by the God Emperor, saying: "Of course not. Now only those spellcasters will close the Abyss Hole. I haven't gotten any secret techniques in this regard yet."

Hearing this, the Priest nodded thoughtfully. He looked calm, but he was actually preparing to "repay" the person who closed the Abyss Hole in the seal hall.

Before fighting the Wolf God, the Priest was suddenly swallowed by darkness and disappeared. In fact, it was because of the Wolf God's ability that he fell into the Abyss passage.

The Priest is also a ruthless person in terms of willpower. He didn't slide from the passage into the Abyss, but climbed out from inside. As a result, he was about to reach the exit when he didn't know which bastard closed the Abyss Hole. That is, the Priest has many strange means, and he used death + rebirth means to escape from there.

Although the Priest didn't say it clearly, his inquiry about who closed the Abyss Hole made Su Xiao think that this old guy should have fallen into the Abyss passage behind the Abyss Hole before.

This made Su Xiao suddenly remember that it was no wonder he felt that before the Abyss Hole closed, something was peeping at him in the darkness connected by the Abyss Hole. It turned out that the Priest was inside. He even thought that some Abyss creature was about to rush out.

The Priest asked with a kind smile: "It really wasn't you who closed it?"

"Of course not. I guarantee it in the name of the Law-Breaker."

Hearing this, although the Priest still didn't believe it, he didn't say anything. But for some reason, he always felt that before the Abyss Hole closed, the guy outside was the Hunter · Bai Ye.

"I have a commission here. Are you interested?"

The reason Su Xiao said this was because he had an idea, which was that instead of continuing to guard against this old guy, it would be better to continue cooperating. Besides, this old guy coming here must have a purpose.

It was indeed the case. The Priest came here for the 20% fragments mastered by the Dark-Devourer. The Priest had a lot of divine blood taken away by the Dark-Devourer and ate a dumb loss. He became more and more angry as he thought about it. In the past, he was the one calculating others in the dark. When had he ever eaten this dumb loss?

Besides, he estimated that the person who closed the Abyss Hole was 80-90% Su Xiao, and this definitely had to be "repaid" well.

With these two things combined, the Priest's subsequent plan had become exceptionally clear. His goal was never revenge, but those 20% fragments. For this, he needed to make the Sea Clan's main city completely chaotic, and only then would he have a chance.

"Tell me about your commission?"

The Priest spoke with a smile.

Su Xiao didn't answer directly, but asked: "You came to find me, something up?"

"Yes."

The Priest knew he couldn't stall, so he simply admitted it.

The two people sitting opposite each other across the tea table looked at each other, and the meaning was very clear. Since neither was willing to clarify first, they would show their cards at the same time.

Su Xiao: "I am preparing to assassinate the Sea King."

Priest: "I plan to assassinate the Sea King."

Su Xiao and the Priest spoke at the same time. Although the content was slightly different, the meaning was exactly the same.

"……"

Su Xiao looked at the old guy opposite him with a blank expression. He was sure that this old guy's purpose was the 20% fragments of the Dark-Devourer.

The Priest looked at the Law-Breaker opposite him with a smile. He could conclude that this Law-Breaker's purpose was the Dwarf King, otherwise there was no need to go to the step of assassinating the Sea King, especially since the Dwarf King's chief disciple, the Rune Master, was in the manor's backyard workshop. It was basically correct.

Both sides knew each other's purpose, but neither clarified it. Some things, once clarified, would be another situation.

After the Priest left, Su Xiao took out a sealed charcoal box from his storage space, removed the seal, and opened the charcoal box. Inside was an energy ball emitting scarlet light in the darkness, about the size of a marble, full of misfortune.

【Source of Misfortune: Can enhance the characteristics of a piece of equipment, or make the equipment misfortune-oriented.】

【Warning: Due to the characteristics of this item, you must use this item within 2 natural days, otherwise you will suffer its backlash, and the equipment chosen for enhancement must be one you have equipped or held for more than 30 natural days.】

That's right, after Su Xiao filled 【Azure Will +13】 with misfortune, this thing became 【Source of Misfortune】, and it had to be used, very misfortune-oriented.

The equipment Su Xiao wears and holds are all what he needs. For a while, it was really not easy to choose. Finally, he took out an ancient ring. This item is named 【Ancient Killing Ring +13】.

Although he could use this thing for the subsequent assassination of the Sea King, it wasn't really about killing the Sea King. Whether he had this equipment or not was not the key. Besides, compared to other necessary equipment, this was very unstable. Equipment with four debuff states after equipping is most suitable for taking risks.

As Su Xiao used 【Source of Misfortune】 on 【Ancient Killing Ring】, scarlet brilliance erupted. A rich misfortune to the extreme quickly changed the characteristics of this equipment. Only half an hour later, the transformation of this equipment was completed, and its attributes became:

【Misfortune Ancient Ring】

Quality: Misfortune.

Improvement: This action will bring unknown risks.

Category: Ring

Durability: 1/1.

Equipment Requirements: None

Equipment Effect 1: Fatal Range, when attacking enemies from a distance, the farther the distance from the target, the greater the damage increase.

Hint: If attacking enemies from a distance, the damage caused will increase by 1.2–3.8 times.

Equipment Effect 2: Misfortune Revelation, when attacking enemies from a distance, your negative attributes will bring bonuses to this ancient ring, thereby bringing long-range damage increase.

Hint: If attacking enemies from a distance, the damage caused will increase by 8.2 times.

Equipment Effect 3: Energy Adaptation: If you want to activate the characteristics of this equipment, you need to consume a certain amount of physical energy. The consumption range is: for every 0.2 times increase in long-range attack intensity, you need to consume 1000 points of mana for the bonus.

Hint: If you want to reach the theoretical full attack intensity bonus, one strike needs to consume 60,000 points of mana.

Equipment Debuff 1: Fragile, during the wearing process, any judgment recognized as an attack, regardless of hitting any part of the wearer's body, will cause this equipment to shatter immediately. Once this equipment is damaged, it cannot be repaired by any means.

Equipment Debuff 2: Slow Movement, after wearing this equipment, you can only move at a walking speed. Once the movement speed exceeds the predetermined value, it will cause the misfortune within this equipment to spread out and attach to you.

Equipment Debuff 3: Slow Removal, if you want to remove this ring, you need to cut off the energy resonance with this equipment through mental power 5 seconds in advance. Only after the resonance is completely ended can you remove this equipment. If you forcibly remove this ring, it will be damaged immediately.

Equipment Debuff 4: Slow Energy Gathering, the bonus of this equipment will enter a 120-hour silence after taking effect three times. During this period, equipping this equipment will only trigger equipment debuffs.

Equipment Debuff 5: Misfortune Entanglement, if this equipment is permanently damaged, the misfortune inside it will all pour out, acting on the user, causing them to permanently reduce a certain amount of luck attribute.

Equipment Debuff 6: Misfortune Su Xing, can swallow a large amount of misfortune to improve the intensity of this equipment, but it will also make this equipment appear more.

Equipment Debuff 7: Abyss Craving, you can significantly improve its intensity by injecting Abyss energy into this equipment, as well as significantly reducing the mana consumed per attack.

Score: 3180 points.

Introduction: The appearance of this equipment is perhaps because of the unique potential of a certain Hunter?

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After Su Xiao saw the attributes of 【Misfortune Ancient Ring】, for some reason, he suddenly felt that this thing and the characteristics of were somewhat similar. ===== CHAPTER 3708 =====

After Su Xiao saw the attributes of the 【Ancient Ring of Misfortune】, for some reason, he suddenly felt that this thing was somewhat similar to the characteristics of the 【Dragon Flash】.