Chapter 3763: Gem

Seeing the prompt about Dead Silence Ash, Su Xiao's gaze became a bit solemn. Through the data of the Black King Armguard, he had long known that Dead Silence Ash had a main body.

When he first obtained the Black King Armguard, Su Xiao only felt that this equipment was very strong, especially the Dead Silence Arrival ability, which was simply a god-tier skill for group battles.

But as the tier gradually increased, he gradually discovered that Dead Silence Arrival didn't seem so unsolvable. On the contrary, this weapon, Dead Silence Ash, became a great help for him to fight strong enemies. No matter how strong the enemy's physique was, after a few Dead Silence Ash bullets, the enemy's defense would definitely be eroded and decayed by Dead Silence.

When he reached the 9th tier, Su Xiao felt again that the Dead Silence Ash he manifested actually didn't have particularly outrageous strength. Before finding the main body of Dead Silence Ash and having the Black King Armguard absorb this weapon, the strength of this move couldn't reach the strength of ultimate moves like "Extreme Blade · World," "World Thunder," and "Direct Kick."

Instead, the Black King Armguard's exemption from the near-death state made Su Xiao feel better and better to use. Especially at high tiers, after he saw the attributes of an Eternal-level ring, he truly realized that the Black King Armguard's strongest ability was being able to 100% exempt all kinds of debuffs caused by the near-death state.

There were actually two types of near-death states, and the near-death state of contractors was an incidental ability of the brand, which was not a weakening, but an additional enhancement, because this small section of HP in the near-death state was an additional increase, not an occupation on the original basis.

Assuming a contractor's vitality was 10 standard units, then sliding from 100% HP to 10% would consume about 9.9 standard units, leaving the contractor with only the last bit of vitality.

And the 10% HP remaining in the near-death state was the vitality retention effect incidental to the brand, that is, when the contractor's vitality was sufficient, they slowly stored vitality into the brand. This stored vitality allowed the brand holder to hold on for a while longer when they were seriously injured and about to die.

It was also because of this that the near-death state would be so weak, with all attributes declining, vision narrowing to less than one-tenth, and even collapsing to the ground, unable to move. This was because their own vitality was about to be exhausted, and they were barely supporting themselves by relying on the vitality slowly released from the brand.

Therefore, this was not a weakening. Without the near-death state, the contractor would die directly, rather than having an extra 10% near-death blood bar to hold on for a while longer.

The Eternal-level ring Su Xiao saw at the Great Gathering was named 【Soul Bloom】, and it had only one effect: when entering the near-death state, exempt 50% of near-death debuffs.

When he first saw this ring at the Great Gathering, his first impression was that this equipment was very good. Although it couldn't be compared with the Black King Armguard at all, after he saw the price of this thing, he subconsciously thought that the stall owner was showing off the equipment and didn't intend to sell it sincerely, because this thing was actually priced at 1.95 million Soul Coins.

Su Xiao soon discovered that it didn't seem so, because in front of the stall, several contractors were negotiating the price with the stall owner with full sincerity. At low tiers, one could occasionally encounter equipment that reduced near-death debuffs by a small margin, but at middle and high tiers, this kind of equipment was almost extinct, and some abilities that could reduce near-death debuffs began to gradually fail.

The ring named 【Soul Bloom】 was priced so high because this equipment could still take effect on high-tier contractors. It was also because of this that Su Xiao felt that the Black King Armguard's ability to exempt near-death was very strong.

He wasn't surprised at all that the Black King Armguard had this strength. The "Dead Silence Source" sealed inside had caused a world that had resisted Abyss erosion and become a Super-Native World to almost collapse.

Su Xiao looked at the Black King Armguard wrapped around his left forearm and left hand. He moved his five fingers, estimating in his heart whether he could continue to suppress this equipment after the Black King Armguard lifted the three-fold seal, or rather, suppress the "Dead Silence Source" inside.

Even if the five-fold seal of the Black King Armguard sealed the "Dead Silence Source" inside, under the influence of the "Dead Silence Source," the strength of the Black King Armguard was still slowly improving. He checked the data of the Black King Armguard at the current stage.

【Soul · Coronation of the King】

Origin: Root · Dead Silence City

Quality: Origin-level · Set.

Category: Armguard

Durability: 229/240 points (increased by 45 points)

Equipment Prerequisite: Only the Dead Silence King can wear it (achieved · White King).

Basic Effect: Exempt near-death state, until death (this bonus has high priority).

Equipment Effect 1: Ash Extinction (Core · Active), you can imitate the "Dead Silence Ash," one of the two strongest weapons on the Gloom Continent, through the "Dead Silence Source" inside this equipment. The initial attack power of Dead Silence Ash is constant, and there are 5 Ash Extinction bullets inside.

Hint: Ash Extinction bullets receive a small bonus from Soul Strength, increasing extra attack power by Soul Strength × 0.16 (increasing by 0.01 ratio), and extra penetration by Soul Strength × 0.14 (increasing by 0.02 ratio).

Ash Extinction Bullet: An old-fashioned bullet composed of a large amount of death energy. If multiple Ash Extinction bullets hit the same enemy, due to the erosion of death energy, the enemy's defense will be reduced, causing the damage caused by subsequent Ash Extinction bullets to increase incrementally. The first Ash Extinction bullet hitting the enemy is 100% damage, the second is 120% damage, the third is 150% damage, the fourth is 200% damage, and the fifth is 300% damage.

Hint: Ash Extinction bullets generate one every hour, until the "Dead Silence Ash" gun chamber magazine is filled (reaching 5 bullets), it will stop generating automatically.

Hint: If you obtain the main body of "Dead Silence Ash," the Hunter can use this ability to devour this weapon, thereby significantly increasing the comprehensive strength of this ability.

Equipment Effect 2: Dead Silence Arrival (Core · Active): After activating this ability, the seal of this equipment will be slightly opened, releasing high-concentration dead silence energy produced by the "Dead Silence Source," performing high-speed assimilation on the environment within 10–10,000 meters around, temporarily assimilating this area into "Root · Dead Silence City"...

Equipment Effect 3: Soul Nourishment (Core, Passive): Your soul power will nourish your will power at a slow speed, thereby permanently increasing your real will power.

Current "Dead Silence Origin" seal degree: Five-fold seal (the fewer the seals, the stronger this equipment will be).

Warning: If the seal is reduced to one layer, the "Dead Silence Origin" will bring many uncertainties and dangers. Only when your own soul power is strong enough can you consider completely lifting this seal effect and completely releasing the power of the "Dead Silence Origin."

Rating: 3000+++ (As the seal is lifted, the quality and rating of this equipment will increase).

Introduction: Are you really ready to face this source of dead silence that caused the decline of a transcendent native world?

Selling price: Cannot be sold.

Su Xiao looked around. Where he was, was inside a dim building that exuded a rotten smell. Looking at the style of this place, it should be a treatment center. The bedding on the hospital beds had turned black and hard, and the corpses on them were half-decayed, with withered flesh wrapped around the bones.

Every few steps, there was a hospital bed. The corpses lying on them were either wearing half-armor or wearing warlock robes. Even though many years had passed, their corpses were severely decayed, but one could still see some of the intense pain they felt before they died. Some simply died by committing suicide while holding their personal weapons.

From the scene here, one could still see the terrible influence of the Tyrant's parasite going out of control on his subordinates. In order to continue to control the generals and legions under his command, the parasites transplanted by the Tyrant had absolute control over similar parasites.

From this, it could also be seen that the reason why the Tyrant was obsessed with this parasite was no longer just to control the scarlet power. After being abandoned by the "Soul Crown," the Tyrant's mental bewitchment of his generals decreased day by day, and this parasite was undoubtedly a method to regain control of his subordinates and reappear the Disaster Legion, at least in the Tyrant's view.

Under such circumstances, the Tyrant's own parasite went out of control, and the generals and all the elite warriors under his command must have suffered a devastating disaster.

An infusion bottle containing yellowish-brown liquid hung on the infusion stand. Su Xiao found that there was a black sediment in this infusion bottle, which looked like dead little insects. He formed a crystal short blade in his hand and tapped the infusion bottle with the back of the blade. The black little insects in the liquid shattered due to the vibration, turning into debris and floating upward.

This reminded Su Xiao of one thing: darkness had a certain degree of inhibitory effect on scarlet. Previously, when fighting the City Lord's wife, the opponent was trapped in the bedroom by a dark area.

Seeing the black little insects in this infusion bottle now, they should be a type of creature with strong dark characteristics. After the parasites here went out of control, the scarlet in the bodies of the Tyrant and his subordinates would naturally also go out of control, and the emergency measures taken by this treatment center were to resist scarlet with darkness.

Darkness did not restrain scarlet; the relationship between the two was more like being incompatible. More darkness could wrap around scarlet, while when there was more scarlet, it could erode darkness and turn it into scarlet.

This characteristic was very reasonable. One of the essential characteristics of abyss energy was darkness. It was normal for the scarlet power twisted from abyss energy to be wrapped by darkness.

Su Xiao came to the front hall of the treatment center. On a treatment table, he saw papers scattered everywhere, as well as a parchment scroll stained with blood for the most part. After opening it, he found that this was a circular spell. This was the simplest spell structure he had ever seen, with only a scarlet ring and a core node in the middle.

Observing the bloodstains on it, Su Xiao rubbed them with his thumb. These bloodstains were at most a few months old, obviously not from the period when the parasites went out of control.

The bloodstains evaporated on Su Xiao's fingers, revealing dots of scarlet inside. This was not the blood of a normal creature. To be eroded by scarlet to this extent, eight or nine out of ten were completely devoid of reason.

That is to say, the person who drew this spell and the person who left these bloodstains were two different people. These two people were highly likely to be hostile. The one who drew the spell was being hunted by the one eroded by scarlet, which was why they used this method to resist.

Although this spell was simple, if one observed it carefully, one would find that the lines forming this scarlet ring were actually composed of tens of thousands of micro-spells. Because these spells were too tiny, after being combined together, it made people feel that it was just a line.

The more he observed this spell, the more Su Xiao felt that it came from the hand of a spell master. Looking at the myriad worlds, the number of spell masters of this level should not exceed the number of fingers on one hand.

Su Xiao walked out of the treatment center. As soon as he went out, the scene of the starry sky came into view. Where was this an underground space? This was simply an underground world. In the starry space above, there was also a circular blood moon.

Staring carefully at this blood moon, one could faintly find shadows on the blood moon. This shadow was like a scepter. In the part of the blood moon above the scepter, the blood color was particularly obvious, vaguely forming a crown shape.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao was suspicious. With the Tyrant's ability, how could he build such an underground world in the Eternal Light World? But recalling Ligejia's narrative, he remembered a sentence from the other party: the Tyrant discovered this place, not built this underground world.

In fact, the only ones most likely to build this place were the Law-Breaker faction. But why would the previous generation of Law-Breakers spend huge sums of money to create such an underground world in the Eternal Light World?

Looking at the blood moon above, Su Xiao thought of a possibility: building this place was to further seal the Scarlet Monarch located in the Nightmare Land deep in the Sea of Sand.

Su Xiao had discovered a point before: even if the Scarlet Monarch was in the nightmare seal, a large amount of scarlet power still spread out. This meant that the Scarlet Monarch could continuously condense scarlet power through some method, even if the opponent was in the seal.

If left unchecked, once the Scarlet Monarch accumulated enough scarlet power, the nightmare seal might not be able to trap him. Therefore, not only did he need to be sealed, but the scarlet power of this terrifying existence also needed to be continuously extracted.

Even if these extracted scarlet powers were released into the Eternal Light World, they could cause not-so-small hidden dangers. Therefore, a place that could store a large amount of scarlet power without affecting any living beings was urgently needed by the Law-Breaker faction.

Entrusting the Silintes dwarves to come to this world to build this underground world was the best choice. The scarlet power extracted from the nightmare seal was released here, and then through the spells here, these scarlet powers were crystallized and finally sealed up.

It was precisely because of this that this space was divided into two layers. The layer originally above did not have Laughing Town. This was the evil consequence caused by the Tyrant after discovering this place.

In the upper space, there was originally only a three-story small building, plus the surrounding forest, and that three-story small building was actually very much like the control room of this underground world.

In that case, everything made sense. After obtaining the 【Moon's Brilliance】, the Tyrant had a way to quietly enter and exit the Eternal Light World. At that time, the Law-Breaker faction had already perished for many years, the Moon Wolves had also died, and the remaining Eternal Light Watchers were less than one in ten. So, no one could discover the Tyrant who would occasionally enter the Eternal Light World quietly.

By chance, the Tyrant arrived near the entrance of the underground world. Because he held the 【Moon's Brilliance】, this was also the key for the Moon Wolves to enter the underground world.

The Tyrant discovered the underground world first, and then he developed a longing for the scarlet power. Until later, when the Tyrant was miserably defeated by the Witch World and was about to be abandoned by the "Soul Crown," he became extremely obsessed with the scarlet power.

Su Xiao had wondered before how the Tyrant could have so much scarlet power to use for research and absorption when he couldn't produce scarlet power.

Thinking about it this way, the Scarlet Monarch was more dangerous and powerful than estimated. The Nightmare Land of the Sea of Sand alone was not enough to seal the opponent; it also required the blood moon in the sky and this underground world to keep the opponent trapped in the seal.

Therefore, the judgment of the danger level of this underground world must never be based on that Tyrant. It was already difficult to judge what kind of terrifying monsters would be bred here.

The feeling of the silently gliding airflow made Su Xiao tilt his head slightly to the right. Subsequently, Baha landed on his left shoulder, and then Bubu Wang also appeared beside him.

"Boss, this place is very bad. There are strange-looking monsters everywhere."

As soon as Baha's voice fell, the sound of neat armor colliding came. Su Xiao immediately hid behind a pillar in front of a building by the street.

He looked at the empty street that was more than ten meters wide. A team of blood-eyed warriors wearing armor walked past the street in a somewhat loose formation. The leader of the blood-eyed warriors was nearly four meters tall, and behind him was a pair of double blades more than 2 meters long. Each long blade was as wide as a palm, and the sharp edge revealed a blood color.

The six blood-eyed warriors behind carried large bows. Their average height was just over three meters, so the length of the large bows was more than 1.8 meters. The metal arrows, which were spiral-shaped throughout, revealed scarlet at the arrow tips.

In addition to these blood-eyed archers, there were also red-robed warlocks in the formation wearing red robes and holding twisted wooden staves, as well as two parasitic bodies in the front who were fat and tall, with cracks all over their armor and blood-colored spikes growing on their backs.

Located at the very back of the team was a blood-eyed giant. His battle armor looked as if it had been burned, half-melted and stuck to his skin. In his hand was a metal club covered in spikes.

This fierce weapon was eight meters long. At this moment, the blood-eyed giant was gripping the spiked club with one hand. What was horrifying was that there were also spikes on the handle of this weapon. One by one, blood-stained spikes pierced through the blood-eyed giant's palm, and he was gripping it tightly.

What was eye-catching was that the blood-eyed giant was carrying the spiked club on his shoulder, and at the raised end, a figure was hanging upside down with chains. It was the Dark Eater tightly wrapped in scarlet silk threads. Its mouth was sealed, and its hands were tied behind its back.

"Woo!"

The Dark Eater struggled with all its might, but could only squirm like a silkworm chrysalis hanging up. In those pitch-black eyes with white shimmering lines swimming, it seemed to be saying: 'Just you wait until I break free from the restraints.'

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao's eyes showed contemplation. Although the Dark Eater was a bit silly, it wouldn't die in this kind of situation.

However, as a 'good teammate', since they had met, he should still give some help. Su Xiao formed a 20 cm long crystal spike in his hand, and then let Baha attach the space attribute to this crystal spike, giving it the characteristics of silent flight and shielding perception.

Su Xiao threw the crystal spike. The next second, the spike nailed into the Dark Eater's forearm, causing the Dark Eater to squirm a few times in pain, and then it used its other small hand to pull out the crystal spike and grip it in its small hand.

The Dark Eater's eyes looked around and soon noticed Su Xiao behind the stone pillar. Its smiling eyes were full of confidence, as if saying: 'Bai Ye, I'll meet up with you in a while.'

Su Xiao watched the patrol team walk away. He found a problem: these red-eyed warriors and red-robed warlocks were obviously patrolling with a purpose. Did this mean that there was a leader here?

Whoever was leading this underground world was not a good thing for Su Xiao. Either the opponent was plotting the power of the Scarlet Monarch, or they were simply a fanatical worshiper of the Scarlet Monarch. No matter which one it was, the opponent would try to open the seal deep in the Sea of Sand.

Su Xiao decided to find the Dead Silence Ember first and explore the situation of the leader here by the way. If the opponent really might release the Scarlet Monarch, he must kill this person before the opponent took action.

At the moment, he had only killed one of the Four Giants of the Lightless Temple. The remaining three powerful enemies had not been dealt with yet. He must never let the Scarlet Monarch break free from the seal. Not only that, there were a large number of world-destroying groups, and the most troublesome World-Eater among them, that he had no time to clean up, which made every minute and every second Su Xiao spent in the Eternal Light World potentially a narrow escape from death.

Since Su Xiao entered the Eternal Light World, it seemed smooth, but in fact, it was like walking on a single-plank bridge. If he took one wrong step, he would be doomed immediately.

Su Xiao was just about to walk out from behind the stone pillar where he was hiding when he suddenly found a prompt appearing. Because this prompt was not too important, it was in the very corner of his vision, and plus his attention had been on the passing patrol team just now, he hadn't noticed this prompt.

Opening it to check, Su Xiao knew what was going on. Because this place belonged to one of the most dangerous super-dangerous areas in this world, the Void Tree provided a team recruitment function.

The so-called team recruitment was not that one could team up with other contractors anytime and anywhere, but that after entering this area, the list of the world contact platform would change. In the list, the codenames of all contractors not in this area would appear gray, while the codenames of contractors in this area would appear white and be higher up in the list.

Checking the world contact platform, Su Xiao found that although he hadn't opened this place for long, many people had already come here. Come to think of it, it was reasonable; the time this world had been open was not short. Those guys who had been accumulating strength had already broken through the 300-point attribute barrier and advanced to become Absolute Powerhouses. Like the Ruthless Guy, Puppeteer, Black Demon, Magic Scythe Teride, and Priest, they must all be like this.

Among them, Black Demon, Su Xiao felt he should add a few points of precaution. He was friends with the little fatty Black Demon, but whether the little fatty was still around now was really uncertain. He even suspected that Black Demon might have both abyss characteristics and original sin object characteristics. Whether the opponent was an enemy or a friend would depend on the situation after meeting.

By checking the list of the world contact platform, Su Xiao knew who had come here. First were the three members of the Law Soul Team. It was not surprising that these three guys came here. Previously, Su Xiao intercepted the opponent's mission. If those three completed the final mission of the Scarlet Castle, eight or nine out of ten could trigger the relevant missions of the underground world.

Speaking of which, the Scarlet Castle mission, the minimum intensity of the mission was actually Tier 9 top strength. Don't look at the bosses in the castle as Absolute Powerhouses, but as long as one followed the mission process, one could find three Absolute Powerhouse helpers. If operated properly, the rational beast on the third floor of the castle and the Scarlet Eldest Son on the fourth floor of the castle could actually become helpers.

In this way, it would be the three members of the Law Soul Team, plus five Absolute Powerhouse helpers, and using the method provided by the Mechanical Creator to disperse the scarlet mist in the bedroom, finally eight people would fight the City Lord's wife without scarlet mist together. This was the most reasonable and simplest way to clear the Scarlet Castle.

And Su Xiao had pulled the difficulty of this 'dungeon' to the max, and then hammered this dungeon. It was no wonder that two of the five bosses in the Scarlet Castle ran away.

Actually, this was still because Su Xiao's speed was fast. The Scarlet Guard Captain on the first floor didn't have a chance to run. By the time it reacted to what was going on, it had already been kicked into the wall by a side kick.

As for the Scarlet Elder on the second floor, actually, this old guy also wanted to run, but the Scarlet Guard Captain was defeated too quickly and didn't give the Scarlet Elder a chance to run. By the time Su Xiao went up to the second floor, the Scarlet Elder could only bite the bullet and go up.

Seeing the three members of the Law Soul Team come here, Su Xiao contacted the Witch Lilia among them. He had cooperation with the other party, and it was no problem to make an appointment with the other party to meet here to see if the other party knew more secrets about the Monarch's treasure. After all, the other party was a causality-type diviner.

Besides the three members of the Law Soul Team, Black Demon and Magic Scythe Teride also came here. Su Xiao estimated that these two should be hostile. If things went wrong, Magic Scythe Teride might be hunting Black Demon to this place. Teride would use her magic scythe to kill the abyss-type that harmed living beings. The little fatty Black Demon wouldn't kill innocent people indiscriminately, but Black Demon would.

The names of Ruthless Guy and Xier also appeared in white on the list, indicating that these two also came here. When in the Wind Sea World, he had already seen Ruthless Guy's operational level. This time, the other party had teammates, so they must have more means.

Don't be deceived by Xier's identity as a treatment-type poison nurse. A long time ago, she was considered by many Tier 9 top assassins to be the strongest assassin below the Absolute Powerhouse level, the face of the assassin-type of the same tier, although she didn't admit it herself and insisted that she was a treatment-type.

Besides this, the most troublesome enemy, Priest, also came to this underground world, and Moon Witch, who also came here, was very likely to have reached a cooperation with Priest. For this charm-type rule-breaker, Su Xiao was not particularly wary.

Priest coming here made Su Xiao change his mind temporarily. As a 'good teammate', he must immediately go to save the Dark Eater and tell the other party the good news that the other party's enemy, Priest, had already come here.

Su Xiao had just thought of this point when he sensed layers of ripples appearing on the side. This was not a space ability, but he didn't know by what principle it achieved remote movement. He looked at the position where the ripples spread, and it was indeed Witch Lilia.

Lilia was still dressed as a witch. Clearly, her clothing was not revealing, but that lazy, plump temperament made people's imaginations run wild. As soon as she appeared, she looked puzzled and asked:

"Bai Ye, why didn't you go to snatch the Holy Gem? The people who came to snatch the Monarch's treasure this time all went to snatch the Holy Gem. That gem is in the Tyrant's palace."

Hearing this, Su Xiao looked puzzled. He really hadn't heard that the Monarch's treasure contained the 【Holy Gem】, and he knew nothing about the characteristics of this object.

Learning that Su Xiao hadn't even heard of the 【Holy Gem】, this time it was Witch Lilia who was surprised.

"If I could choose any treasure from the Monarch's treasure, I would definitely choose this gem. This is a world-class gem with a 6000-point rating."

After hearing this from Witch Lilia, Su Xiao was full of interest in this 【Holy Gem】. A world-class gem, and it was also a 6000-point full rating. Such a secret treasure must not be missed.

Witch Lilia's subsequent narrative made Su Xiao understand the 【Holy Gem】 better. Although this was a gem, it was not used for inlaying, but used on oneself. After use, the effect of this gem would be like a passive ability, always buffing until the holder died, and then this gem would detach and wait for the next holder.

As for the effect of this gem, it was very powerful: luck attribute +30 points, and it increased the luck attribute equivalent to 2 times one's own charm attribute, which could bring a maximum of 200 points of luck attribute bonus.

Hearing this effect, Su Xiao's interest in this gem vanished. As a rare world-class full-rating gem, this thing not only only increased luck by 3 points, but the subsequent attributes also reduced the luck attribute by 42 points, which was simply outrageous.