Chapter 3774: Clash

The strength of the War Lord title was still astonishing, but judging from the situation in the Eternal Light World, having this title alone still didn't necessarily mean he could deal with the World-Eater; he still needed to develop the Zerg to the extreme.

Dealing with the World-Eater was not urgent for now; the top priority was to allow the talent mission to continue to be completed. Su Xiao checked the team channel and saw Caesar's message inside.

"My dear friend, I didn't keep you waiting long, did I?"

Caesar's voice suddenly came from the adjacent seat. Su Xiao almost drew his blade; the other party's appearance was far too sudden. To this day, he still hadn't figured out the principle behind Caesar's sudden appearance ability. It shouldn't be a spatial ability, otherwise, it would be impossible for there to be no teleportation fluctuations at all.

After Caesar appeared, he took out a metal disc the size of a plate. This object was exactly the same as the blood-patterned disc on the Blood Altar in the underground world, only the material and size were different. The blood-patterned disc on the Blood Altar was made of rock, while this blood-patterned disc was made of black metal.

Making the Scarlet Monarch one of the new four giants was not a simple matter; any slip-up in any link would lead to the failure of this plan.

Taking this object, Su Xiao and his party left the council hall and followed a downward staircase to the underground of the Supreme Temple.

This place was originally full of life-force absorption runes, used to slowly extract the original life force of the creatures in the Middle District and Lower District. Those Shelter City residents who chose to pledge allegiance to the Lightless Temple thought they had escaped the list of bait, but in fact, the four giants didn't care about them at all and also treated them as life-force bait, slowly extracting their original life force.

At this time, the appearance of this underground space had changed greatly. With the assistance of several disciples of the Mechanical Maker, the appearance of this place was almost the same as the Blood Altar in the underground world.

One by one, Lightless Temple members had changed into the attire of the Scarlet Faction. In the open space in front of the altar, that scarlet guillotine was moved from the underground world.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao retreated into a secret room. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja entered the secret room together. Who knew that the Dark-Eater also entered.

"Speak, what do you want from me this time?"

The Dark-Eater crossed its arms. Not seen for a few days, its aura was actually a cut stronger than before. It seemed that this elemental eruption caused many monsters in this world to become weaker, and the Dark-Eater took the opportunity to devour a lot of original power.

Seeing the Dark-Eater walk into the secret room, Su Xiao was a bit surprised, because this time he entrusted the other party to come here with three bottles of 【Dark Potion】 to make this monarch sacrifice more realistic.

"Over there."

Su Xiao pointed to the altar platform in the distance. The Dark-Eater looked in the direction he pointed, and the next second, its eyes went black.

When the Dark-Eater slowly woke up, it suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness strike. The spell ring shackles on its arms temporarily suppressed all its abilities. Not only that, it also found that scarlet was diffusing around it. It was at the edge of an altar platform, locked in a large iron cage.

With a clatter, a red-eyed knight smashed the lock of the iron cage with a war hammer. Before the Dark-Eater could react, two red-eyed knights had already dragged it out of the iron cage, one holding each of its arms, and carried it toward the guillotine in the center of the altar.

The Dark-Eater looked around. Inside the altar was a rock disc, with a metal disc embedded in the center, and an old man dressed in a scarlet robe, dressed as a high priest, was standing under the blood-patterned disc.

This scene made the Dark-Eater immediately recall the experience of being captured in the underground world before. It looked at the guillotine and saw a deformed alien demon already bound to the guillotine, and then the blade above fell.

The head of the deformed alien demon was cut off, and the blood surging from the severed neck flowed down along the groove on the guillotine, spreading from the rock patterns on the ground to the blood-patterned disc behind.

Seeing this scene, the Dark-Eater's previously angry gaze suddenly became clear. Before it could speak, the blood-patterned disc emitted a scarlet light, and the source blood of the deformed alien demon on it was absorbed.

Su Xiao in the secret room saw this scene and knew that the matter had succeeded. The scene before him was Caesar disguised as the high priest of the Scarlet Faction, combined with Wood's disguise-type ability, thus achieving it.

This level of disguised sacrifice was naturally unlikely to deceive the Scarlet Monarch, after all, the Scarlet Faction was the force he created, but the disguised sacrifice carried out this time was not aimed at the Scarlet Monarch, but at the Scarlet Scepter.

In fact, when in the underground world before, this kind of sacrifice of the Scarlet Faction was to temporarily appease the Scarlet Scepter, this big daddy, through monster source blood.

When dealing with the Star-Boundary Devourer, Su Xiao released the "Scarlet Scepter" from the "Book of Original Sin". When it reached the belly of the Star-Boundary Devourer, the Star-Boundary Devourer just spat it out, and the "Scarlet Scepter" disappeared without a trace.

Based on Su Xiao's knowledge and experience with Original Sin items, the "Scarlet Scepter" was definitely not the kind of Original Sin item that would move its position on its own, or rather, 99% of Original Sin items would not move their positions on their own. Having seen so many Original Sin items, only the "Book of Necromancy" and the "Ancient Mask" had this characteristic.

More accurately, the "Book of Necromancy" would not move its position without a holder. In this way, the only one with this characteristic was the "Ancient Mask", a quasi-Original Sin item that ran away from home on its own.

In the case that the "Scarlet Scepter" would not move its position on its own, it suddenly disappeared, and there were only two possibilities: 1. It returned to the seal of the Book of Original Sin; 2. It returned to its holder.

There was no doubt that the "Scarlet Scepter" returned to its holder. This was a choice made out of necessity. Compared to being sealed by Su Xiao, entering the seal where the holder was located through the causal connection with the holder was a better choice for the "Scarlet Scepter".

That is to say, now it was the Scarlet Monarch who was holding the "Scarlet Scepter". This represented one thing: the Scarlet Monarch might break through the seal faster.

In contrast, at this time, if source blood was sacrificed to the "Scarlet Scepter", to a certain extent, it was also equivalent to sacrificing to the Scarlet Monarch, and the people performing the sacrifice were a group of Lightless Temple members dressed in Scarlet Faction attire.

Under Caesar's presiding, all this was successfully achieved, and in the judgment of the Tree of the Void, this matter would not be so cumbersome, and it could be summarized in one sentence: The Scarlet Monarch accepted the sacrifice of the Lightless Temple.

At this moment, on the sixth floor of the Supreme Temple, the sculpture that originally represented the Lord of Eternal Darkness was moved away, and the sculpture of the Scarlet Monarch was erected there instead.

Almost simultaneously, in the secret room of the underground space, Su Xiao received a prompt.

【Prompt: Due to the faction change of the Lightless Temple, your talent mission will also change. The four giants of the Lightless Temple are changed to:】

【Scarlet Monarch, Abyss Archbishop, Star-Boundary Devourer (killed), Ancestor (killed).】

【Detected that the combat power of the Scarlet Monarch is far stronger than the Lord of Eternal Darkness. This change will significantly increase the difficulty of the talent mission.】

Same as Su Xiao's estimate, if he wanted to reduce the difficulty of the mission, it would be exceptionally difficult, but if he wanted to increase the difficulty of the mission, the process would be much simpler.

Su Xiao walked out of the secret room. The various disguises in the underground space began to recover as Wood withdrew his ability. Su Xiao arrived at the rock platform and took off the metal disc embedded on the blood-patterned disc.

Just at this time, the Dark-Eater, full of anger, walked over. I saw the Dark-Eater's shark teeth biting until they clicked, and it asked full of anger: "You... next time there is such a situation, tell me in advance."

The Dark-Eater's voice dropped rapidly, and the anger vanished. The reason for this was the wooden box Su Xiao handed over, and after opening the wooden box, the ten bottles of 【Dark Potion】 neatly arranged inside.

Su Xiao followed the stairs to the first floor of the Supreme Temple. After leaving this magnificent building, he arrived at the Middle District of the Shelter City through the elevator, then went down to the Lower District, and went deep into the Dark Street.

After wandering around and arriving in an alley, Su Xiao stopped in front of a small building. The one living here was Yusha, whom he had had several intersections with before. He guessed that the Scarlet Seed was ten-to-nine on Yusha, and what the relationship between Yusha and the female swordswoman Losna was, this was temporarily unknown.

Knock, knock, knock~

Su Xiao knocked on the door, but after a while, no one responded. However, in his perception, there was an aura in this building, and it was indeed Yusha. The other party should be in a bedroom on the second floor.

Su Xiao stepped aside, signaled Amu to kick the door, and then took out a cigarette and lit it. As he exhaled blue smoke, wisps of smoke with a blue glow scattered around. The smoke mixed with trace amounts of Spirit Shadow energy could stay around for half an hour. During this period, as long as someone touched it, no matter what means the other party used to hide, they would be discovered by Su Xiao.

Stepping on the debris after the wooden door was broken, Su Xiao walked into the small building. Originally, there were many children and teenagers and girls here, but for some reason, he came here twice, and felt that these children and teenagers were slightly uncoordinated. However, this level of abnormality was not worth his special investigation. Since entering the Eternal Light World, he had rarely encountered normal people or relatively normal environments.

Going up to the bedroom door on the second floor, Su Xiao's thumb touched a transparent silk thread. This means was actually quite good, but he often used Spirit Shadow Threads as an ignition device for Apollo, so facing this kind of means, he could naturally see through it.

Su Xiao raised his right forearm, Baja landed on it, and activated spatial ability, which allowed Su Xiao to clamp an explosive bolt out of space with his index and middle fingers. After disarming the ignition device, he observed the explosive bolt for a moment, and overall it was quite good.

Pushing open the bedroom door, after Su Xiao walked into it, he saw a doll lying on the bed, covered with a quilt. This doll was made vividly, and on its arm, there was a blood-gas mark, which was slowly drifting out blood gas.

The production level of this doll was much more brilliant than the explosive bolt just now. Even with such close-range perception, he still felt that the doll's aura was consistent with Yusha's.

"Losna."

After Su Xiao let Amu take the doll, he turned and left the small building, and walked deeper into the Dark Street. A professional was also here, and he could just ask the other party about the origin of this doll.

Ding-a-ling~

Su Xiao pushed open the door of a tavern. It was exceptionally lively inside, but what was puzzling was that the drinkers here came from different forces, including three Scarlet Faction boss-level Scarlet Spell leaders, two boss-level Scarlet Great Knights, and three red-robed priests of the Lightless Temple, five battle-armored guard captains of Black Iron City, and a one-eyed giant troll tribe, and finally a one-armed rule-breaker with an astonishing aura and eyes tightly closed.

These people all had one characteristic: although they all had natural expressions, on their hands, faces, or necks, there would be more or less doll-like stitching marks.

The person Su Xiao came here to see was No. 2 of the Phantom Troupe, the Puppeteer.

The Puppeteer still wore a fox mask and was dressed in a loose black robe. Although the black robe was a single color, it had a kind of pure-color gorgeousness. The fox mask was made of metal, with a number "2" on the forehead, and a small pendant at the bottom, which was a small doll wearing a gothic dress.

The Puppeteer sat at the bar, with half a glass of wine in front of her. She habitually used her fingers to flick the small doll hanging under the mask, and the small doll swayed left and right.

"Speak, what's the matter with you looking for me? Except for dealing with that Nightmare Avatar of yours, everything else is fine."

Hearing this, Baja, who landed on Su Xiao's shoulder, asked: "Puppeteer, how did you know that was my boss's Nightmare Avatar?"

"I really can't think of anyone else who could have such strong blood gas. The first time I saw that Nightmare Avatar, my first thought was, Bai Ye's Nightmare Avatar has escaped from the nightmare."

This made Baja speechless. He reached out and grabbed a glass of wine and drank it down.

Su Xiao looked at Amu. No need to say more, Amu threw the doll he was holding onto the bar. Amu was indeed a bit silly, but in terms of understanding what Su Xiao meant, Amu was not slow at all.

"Losna of the Shelter City, I saw her a few days ago."

The Puppeteer recognized the origin of this doll at a glance. Her finger pointed at the doll and continued: "This doll is very precious. If the situation wasn't urgent, Losna wouldn't have abandoned this doll, or, she used this doll as bait. After all, the main owner represented by this doll has been targeted by you."

After speaking, the Puppeteer tapped the blood-gas mark on the back of the doll's hand with her fingertip.

"Can you track the person represented by this doll?"

"Not very likely. This doll is precise in terms of aura, but other characteristics are not prominent. This is more like a substitute doll. It has already achieved its purpose and has been abandoned."

Hearing this, Su Xiao knew what was going on. Although he didn't know what the relationship between Losna and Yusha was, a long time ago, Losna had been protecting Yusha, or it could be secret protection, and she had prepared a substitute doll for the other party in advance.

The Scarlet Seed was in Yusha's body. Only by awakening the Scarlet Seed in her body through the 【Scarlet Awakening Stone】 could Yusha break the second seal that imprisoned the Scarlet Monarch.

There were two possibilities: one was that after awakening the Scarlet Seed, Yusha had to pay a great price; the second was that Losna believed that the current Law-Breaker faction had no possibility of defeating the Scarlet Monarch, even if the world was currently activating the "Super-World-Level Sealing Spell", it wouldn't work.

Once the Scarlet Monarch's seal was opened and the other party could not be killed, the Scarlet Monarch would first find the Shadow of the Law. After killing all the Shadows of the Law, the second target would be Yusha, who had the Scarlet Seed. Precisely because of this, Losna did not agree to break the seal now.

However, Losna didn't know that even if the seal in the depths of the Sand Sea was not opened now, that sealed place wouldn't be able to trap the Scarlet Monarch for much longer. As for explaining this to the other party, without clear evidence, the other party wouldn't believe it, so there was no need to waste this breath.

Having roughly figured this out, Su Xiao didn't intend to go find Yusha again. Now it was Losna who took Yusha away. Under the other party's protection, Yusha was very safe. It wouldn't be too late to go find the other party later.

"I'm going to deal with the Nightmare Blood Shadow tomorrow. Are you interested in participating?"

"From the risk level of this matter, my interest is not high."

"After the matter is done, I'll pay you with Black Maple Tree output."

"This~"

The Puppeteer hesitated. Seeing this, Su Xiao dipped some wine with his index finger and wrote a 3 on the bar. This asking price was already not low.

"3 ounces of Black Maple Tree output, actually..."

The Puppeteer hesitated more. 3 ounces was 85 grams, which was 0.17 jin of Black Maple Tree output. This was already quite a lot.

"I'm talking about 3 kilograms."

"?"

The wealth strike hit the Puppeteer's heart hard. After she was silent for a few seconds, she habitually touched the small doll hanging under her mask, and then said: "I'll bring more dolls tomorrow."

When Su Xiao walked out of the tavern, he already had a small doll in his hand. Although it was not the one hanging under the Puppeteer's mask, as long as he crushed this small doll, the Puppeteer guaranteed to arrive within an hour.

Arriving at an unmanned place in the Dark Street, Su Xiao set up a teleportation array map and looked at Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja. Amu was the first to chicken out, slowly standing on the teleportation array, followed by Baja. After Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang persisted for more than ten seconds, he finally stood on the teleportation array.

With a boom, the teleportation array started. When the spatial mist around disappeared, Su Xiao had returned to the manufacturing plant of Black Iron City.

Sitting at the round table, Su Xiao took out a contract. This was a contract prepared for the priest. No need for the other party to sign it directly; as long as it was touched, there was an 80% or more probability of triggering this contract.

As for why he wanted to calculate the priest at this time, this had to involve the Abyss Archbishop escaping from this world.

Previously, the Abyss Archbishop's plan seemed to be a game between Su Xiao, the Lord of Eternal Darkness, and the Abyss Archbishop, but in fact, it was not. If you think about it carefully, there was also the priest.

First of all, the last time they met in the study of the Scarlet Temple, the priest deduced Su Xiao's mission, which was to deal with the four giants of the Lightless Temple, and he only needed to kill three of them to complete the talent mission.

Under the premise of mastering this important intelligence, the priest would definitely turn it into an advantage, turning passive into active.

The reason for the priest's cooperation with Su Xiao was to open the Scarlet Monarch's seal through Su Xiao, thereby achieving the contract he had previously signed with the Scarlet Faction, in order to obtain a secret method that could increase the compatibility with Original Sin items to a low-to-medium degree.

From the surface, whether Su Xiao opened the seal to deal with the Scarlet Monarch depended entirely on Su Xiao's decision-making, so the priest seemed very passive. The priest indeed knew that the seal imprisoning the Scarlet Monarch could not be maintained for too long, but how long the seal could be maintained, the priest also had no accurate judgment. After all, that was a seal set up by the Law-Breaker faction.

Under such circumstances, the priest's situation was very passive. Once Su Xiao chose to ignore the cooperation commitment and not open the seal in the depths of the Sand Sea, the priest's plan would fail.

How to make Su Xiao have to deal with the Scarlet Monarch was the thing the priest most wanted to do at the current stage, so the priest looked for opportunities in the four giants of the Lightless Temple.

It seemed that the Abyss Archbishop backstabbed the Lord of Eternal Darkness, but the Lord of Eternal Darkness's strategy was only below the priest and the Abyss Archbishop, so it shouldn't have been so easy to be backstabbed, and after being backstabbed, there was no room for counterattack.

The reason why this would happen was because of the identity the priest replaced, the Temple Chief Priest · Ozle, who was the most trusted confidant of the Lord of Eternal Darkness, or rather, the founder of the Lightless Temple was the Lord of Eternal Darkness, and as the Temple Chief Priest · Ozle, whose status was only lower than the four giants, he was naturally the confidant of the Lord of Eternal Darkness.

After the Lord of Eternal Darkness was backstabbed, there was no room for counterattack, because it was not only calculated by the Abyss Archbishop, but also by its most trusted subordinate, who eliminated all room for its counterattack.

Once the Abyss Archbishop killed the Lord of Eternal Darkness, and then the Abyss Archbishop escaped from this world, Su Xiao's talent mission would have a killing vacancy. To fill this vacancy, there was only one way, which was to let a new four giant of the Lightless Temple appear through the priest and the Lightless Temple.

Regarding who the new four giant of the Lightless Temple was, there was no need to think about it. Under such circumstances, to make the new four giant of the Lightless Temple achieve the judgment of the talent mission, its combat power must be stronger than the Lord of Eternal Darkness, the Abyss Archbishop, the Ancestor, and the Star-Boundary Devourer to have a possibility of successful operation.

Thinking this way, the new four giant of the Lightless Temple could only be one person, and that was the Scarlet Monarch.

In this way, Su Xiao had a reason to have to deal with the Scarlet Monarch, which made the priest, who was originally passive, become calm. Even, the priest only needed to wait, and he could wait for Su Xiao to open the seal in the depths of the Sand Sea. By then, the priest's purpose would naturally be achieved.

Whether the priest would come here this time to meet Su Xiao, Su Xiao was not worried about this point. If the priest didn't come, he would activate the 【Old Hunter】 title, and then use the existing tens of thousands of Demon Flame Dragons to hunt down the priest.

When Su Xiao saw the Abyss Archbishop disappear into the spatial crack, he had considered whether the priest had conspired with the Abyss Archbishop to backstab the Lord of Eternal Darkness together. Now it seemed that the priest must have participated in the Abyss Archbishop's plan.

Just as Su Xiao was thinking about this matter, the door of the inner hall was pushed open, and the priest walked in and sat down opposite the wooden round table.

Su Xiao and the priest looked at each other, both with smiles on their faces, but one had a contract hidden in his sleeve, and the other was carrying a cursed object with charm characteristic judgment in his arms. ===== CHAPTER 3775 =====