Chapter 3817: Arena Equipment

On the giant rock disc, soft golden light shone from above, and then spotlights shone down, illuminating Su Xiao, Priest, Madman, and other participants.

At the same time, Void Terrace · West Ring, Mou Arena.

A layer of light film covered the surrounding area, and this place had been notarized by the Tree of the Void. In the arena, circles of ring-shaped auditoriums were located around the venue. Looking around, the auditorium was already full, and in the venue, it wasn't fighters waiting in battle array, but giant screens facing all directions.

As one of the major arenas in the Void, the management team here naturally paid a huge amount of Soul Coins to obtain the broadcast rights for this Golden Arena. In the past, there were many viewers for the Golden Arena, and with the promotion of Arcane Eternal Star through its affiliated forces, the popularity of this Golden Arena soared.

Several major arenas in the Void bought the broadcast rights for the Golden Arena, and under the benefit of Arcane Eternal Star, they painfully lowered the ticket prices. Originally, the shareholders of several major arenas politely refused this suggestion of price reduction, but when a staff flowing with brilliant magic energy was kindly pointed at their heads, these shareholders immediately gave in.

The high-level officials of Arcane Eternal Star knew these shareholders too well. As long as the benefits were high enough, there was nothing they dared not do. And disobeying Arcane Eternal Star's words was naturally not a problem. It was safer to persuade them face-to-face.

Not only the large arenas, but even the Death Duel Company, which had experienced high-level runaways, bought the broadcast rights this time. As long as you held a Death Duel game terminal, you could watch the real-time broadcast of the Golden Arena.

Speaking of which, the Death Duel Company was also wonderful. The former boss of this company invested a huge amount of funds to create the Death Duel game, attracting a large number of players, many of whom were powerful and influential. However, one day, the Death Duel game suddenly updated its version. It maintained for almost several months, and the game's maintenance staff released an announcement that their boss had run away.

Su Xiao still remembered that his Death Duel terminal cost hundreds of thousands of Paradise Coins. Although hundreds of thousands of Paradise Coins weren't much to him at that time, the game terminal in his hand turned into a brick that could only be turned on and off, which really made him want to find the boss of the game company to chat.

What was surprising was that the employees of the Death Duel Company, because they were owed a large amount of wages, simply gave up and reopened the game. When the players logged into the game, they found that it had become a news channel, and the news pushed was both speechless and made people exclaim "Holy crap."

Just when everyone thought the Death Duel Company would continue to give up and eventually become a third-rate advertising company, the employees of the Death Duel Company showed another wave of operations. They didn't know where they got the intelligence channel, and they transformed into intelligence peddlers.

To this day, besides not being able to play the Death Duel game, the Death Duel terminal can read news, sell intelligence, auction rare items below the eighth rank, and you can even order takeout on it.

Now that the Death Duel terminal had obtained the broadcast rights for the Golden Arena, the employees of Death Duel also thoughtfully prepared a barrage function. However, the quality of the barrage was generally very high. The reason was that the essence of the Ten Thousand Worlds was the Dark Forest rule. Mocking an Absolute-Strong online would really lead to being killed offline.

In case the mocked Absolute-Strong had ruthless means and loved torture, the end of the mocker would be even worse. Although the probability of the mocking words being ignored by the Absolute-Strong was greater, people with normal brains were unwilling to take this risk.

"It's an honor to see the clash of Absolute-Strong in my lifetime."

"Don't be too happy too early. According to the convention of the Golden Arena, the Absolute-Strong cannot fight with full force in the first six rounds. Only in the seventh round can they decide life and death. Having said that, the Absolute-Strong in the past have always stopped at a point, unless both sides have old grudges."

"The Absolute-Strong cannot fight with full force in the first six rounds?"

"You'll see when you watch. It's really... two people fighting, adding up to hundreds of schemes. It's an arena, after all. The duels in the first few rounds are very fair. Everyone's starting point is the same. After entering, it depends on the foundation of these big shots."

The atmosphere of the barrage was harmonious. Compared to the atmosphere here, the situation on the giant rock disc was different. Because the duel hadn't started and the broadcast hadn't started, some participants began the warm-up session before the clash.

Initially, it was the four muscular men of Watcher Paradise mocking a Law-Breaker named Iron Fist Balur. Both sides conducted kind and comprehensive greetings to each other's immediate family members. But after a while, the adjudication trio also got involved. Here, Violent Rat was sent to fight, and the confrontation between the three sides began.

Maybe they were used to it, that Law-Breaker named Iron Fist Balur asked a question to Su Xiao, who was a Hunter, by the way. This actually didn't matter. Both sides were hostile, but the problem was that Baha was squatting on Su Xiao's shoulder at the moment, yawning. At that time, Baha's reaction was: 'If you say that, then I'm not sleepy anymore.'

The confrontation between the several sides gradually ended and evolved into eating melons and watching the show. Initially, Iron Fist Balur could occasionally fight back, but after a while, under Baha's comprehensive mental attack, Iron Fist Balur became silent.

The six-person team of Apocalypse Paradise, who witnessed all this, didn't dare to make a sound. The team leader, Thunder Law God Aiger, had lowered eyelids. His mood at the moment was exceptionally complicated. The beautiful mood of successfully advancing to Absolute-Strong stopped at this moment.

Actually, Thunder Law God Aiger had always been in the first tier among the same rank. Because his ability system was later, when facing old rivals of the same period, such as Magic Sickle Teride, Ranger brothers, etc., he would be slightly weaker. But if it were a life-and-death battle, Thunder Law God Aiger was not necessarily going to lose; he still had a 30% to 40% win rate.

Thunder Law God Aiger belonged to the type of accumulating and then breaking out. He used various resources he had accumulated to max out his three basic abilities and hundreds of passive abilities. Plus, the items for advancing to Absolute-Strong were prepared according to the highest specifications.

Under such circumstances, he took advantage of Su Xiao opening the Eternal Light World and went to the Eternal Light World for the highest-difficulty advancement trial. Although he encountered Su Xiao, this ultimate nemesis, during this period, Thunder Law God Aiger chose to endure it.

When the progress of the Eternal Light World was about to end, Thunder Law God Aiger finally completed his advancement trial. At that moment, he transformed. Thunder system, magic system, soul system—all three systems were big late-stage. When at a low rank, the Apocalypse Paradise contractors in the same team secretly mocked him for overestimating his own strength, and bluntly said that if Aiger could live to the third rank with this development method, he would stand on his head and pee to wash his hair.

Aiger lived to the third rank. The mocker didn't keep his promise; that mocker was slaughtered by a lunatic from Reincarnation Paradise at the second rank.

By the fifth rank, Aiger gradually became famous. By the eighth rank, he was called Thunder Law God. He was one of the few battle angels among the Apocalypse Paradise contractors who had the qualification to face ancient gods directly. His thunder system was Boundary Thunder, which was no joke.

Thunder Law God Aiger's Absolute-Strong path officially began. Just when everyone thought that in the late stage, he would definitely become the face of the Apocalypse Paradise faction, he encountered the nemesis of his life—the Shadow of Law-Breaker Su Xiao, who had 890 points of soul strength, 668 points of thunder resistance, and 60% magic immunity.

Having suffered losses from Su Xiao for the first time, Thunder Law God Aiger spent a lot of money to get Su Xiao's data. After seeing this data, Aiger put on a pain mask on the spot.

Because he was beaten by Su Xiao in several world progresses in a row, he doubted life a bit. After advancing to Absolute-Strong, Thunder Law God Aiger went to the Trial Land and fought several Absolute-Strong-level giant elephants in a row. This stunned the two Apocalypse Paradise Absolute-Strong who went with him. Thinking about it, Boundary Thunder, magic system, soul system—any one of them was particularly prestigious. Cultivating all three to the big late stage, of course, he could stand up.

This time, Thunder Law God Aiger participated in the Golden Arena and encountered five other Absolute-Strong from the same Paradise. One of the old brothers who had been Absolute-Strong for a long time transferred the team leader authority to Thunder Law God Aiger without saying a word. Reaching this level, one could basically judge the win or loss probability in one encounter. Facing Thunder Law God Aiger, his win rate was almost 0.

Feeling the respect from several people who were also Absolute-Strong, Thunder Law God Aiger's mentality also recovered. Just at this juncture, he encountered Su Xiao again.

"If I'm not mistaken, that's Bai Ye from Apocalypse Paradise over there?"

The assassination-type girl in the team, Rain Pheasant, spoke. She not only had a high-level liquid transformation ability but also a master-level energy poison control. Her body energy was highly toxic to other living beings and could even produce time erosion effects on inorganic matter.

"There's an 80% probability that it's the Night of Beheading."

The fire-system old brother spoke. He was the old brother who had senior qualifications but chose to give the team leader to Thunder Law God Aiger.

"The problem is not big. We are a six-person team, and we have Aiger who has mastered Boundary Thunder."

The earth-vein-type muscular man, Titan Grizz, spoke. Hearing this, the fire-system old brother agreed and nodded, but Aiger remained silent.

"We should... be more cautious."

The healer in the team, Luoluo, spoke. For this healing type, the other five paid special attention. At the Absolute-Strong level, let alone healing types, even auxiliary types were rare, not to mention healing types. Even the Holy Paradise didn't have many healing types among the Absolute-Strong.

"If we really encounter Bai Ye of Reincarnation Paradise in the seventh round, we will find an opportunity to kill him. Don't forget how high the bounty on this guy is."

The man in the team who called himself the Rainmaker spoke. He was dressed in black, with a mask on the lower half of his face, and his gaze gave people a gloomy feeling.

As for Su Xiao's bounty, this was the price of his mission to invade Apocalypse Paradise. In Apocalypse Paradise, he had a very high bounty, and it was an official bounty.

For so long, the Apocalypse sisters had never been moved by this bounty. There were two reasons: one was that they were all little rich women, and the other was that Su Xiao hit too hard.

Hearing the Rainmaker mention the bounty and killing Bai Ye of Reincarnation Paradise, the healer Luoluo spoke weakly:

"This... is not good, right."

The healer Luoluo's gaze was worried.

"It's okay, we have Aiger of the Boundary Thunder system."

As soon as the Rainmaker said this, the fire-system old brother, Titan Grizz, and healer Luoluo were all moved, and even the assassination-type girl Rain Pheasant was a bit moved. She had seen the bounty, and the number was particularly astonishing.

Feeling the hopeful or expectant gazes of his five teammates, Thunder Law God Aiger felt as if ten thousand wild donkeys were running through his heart. What was even more uncomfortable was that he couldn't refuse this expectation. The two Absolute-Strong from Arcane Eternal Star came here, representing that the chance of winning the championship was already very slim. But since they were here, they had to make a big profit. The "Golden Arena Entry Ticket" was extremely expensive. They all bought the entry tickets from others to participate in this contention.

After discovering that the situation was wrong, the Rainmaker proposed to use Su Xiao's bounty to make up for this huge loss. One key point was that Su Xiao was an Absolute-Strong who advanced in the last world. This didn't need to be investigated. He also had a lot of fluctuations from using "Primal Fragments." Only when advancing to Absolute-Strong would one use a large number of "Primal Fragments." However, the Rainmaker's logic was not wrong; Su Xiao was indeed an Absolute-Strong who advanced in the last world.

The five members of the team reached a consensus. Only Thunder Law God Aiger felt uneasy. According to his style, he should decisively refuse to deal with Su Xiao. The awkward place was that the two participants of Death Paradise this time, Light and Shadow—that is, the Absolute-Strong couple Light Flame and Shadow Qin—were Thunder Law God Aiger's old enemies. The depth of the hatred between the two sides was life-and-death.

Either deal with Bai Ye or be politely invited out of the team and face Light and Shadow alone. After weighing for a moment, Aiger decided to choose the former. At the very least, he could hold on until the seventh round before making a move. That is to say, before that, he had to keep pretending to be cool. Thinking of this, Thunder Law God Aiger smiled slightly and said:

"Bai Ye is my old rival. We have clashed several times, and the wins and losses were half and half."

After saying this, Aiger suddenly remembered the scene where he was fished by a white-skirted girl disguised as a god. It was shameful and social death. This made his eyes gradually condense, and the teeth in his mouth clicked.

Seeing Aiger's appearance, his five teammates didn't doubt Aiger's words. The other party's expression was too vivid. Even if the acting was excellent, it couldn't be acted so realistically.

"Alas, it's a pity that we are going to lose this rival this time."

Aiger sighed. Hearing this, the assassination-type girl Rain Pheasant, fire-system old brother, Titan Grizz, healer Luoluo, and Rainmaker looked at each other and felt that this time it was stable.

Aiger maintained a smile as steady as an old dog. He had never felt before that pretending to be cool was so tiring.

In the golden ring diagonally opposite, the couple Light and Shadow of Death Paradise were looking at Aiger. Shadow Qin's thin lips curled into a beautiful arc.

Golden light particles sprinkled from above. Su Xiao raised his hand, and a golden light particle fell on his hand. The next moment, the light of this golden light particle became blinding.

Boom!

After a muffled sound, Su Xiao's eyes turned into a vast whiteness. When he woke up again, he was already in a golden liquid. The surroundings were very open, and the scene was clear at a glance. Looking up, the sunlight was reflected by the ripples on the water surface, sparkling.

Su Xiao could feel his body gradually absorbing the strange substances in the golden liquid around him, which increased a certain upper limit of his.

【Hint: You are in the Golden Lake. You have temporarily obtained the permission to stay here.】

【Checking your body potential.】

【Check completed. Your body potential evaluation is: Basic Potential + All Potential Upper Limit Tier +36.】

【Potential comprehensive evaluation: Extremely high.】

【In the Golden Lake, your body will slowly absorb the "Special Golden Power" here. The upper limit of the quantity you can absorb will be determined by your potential comprehensive evaluation. You can absorb a total of 30 units of "Special Golden Power," which will significantly increase the effect of your use of golden skill points.】

【If your body completes this absorption of "Special Golden Power," the bonus efficiency of each golden skill point you use later will increase by 50%, and the judgment criteria will remain unchanged.】

Seeing these hints, Su Xiao knew why the "Golden Arena Entry Ticket" was precious. Just by entering, you had this treatment. It was truly worth buying at a high price.

This improvement this time wasn't big for those with insufficient potential, but Su Xiao obtained extremely high body potential through Demon Spirit energy. This kind of body potential, after absorbing enough "Special Golden Power," produced effects that were ridiculously powerful.

"The bonus efficiency of each golden skill point you use later will increase by 50%, and the judgment criteria will remain unchanged."

This bonus can be simply understood as: if Su Xiao triggers the bonus of "Origin Stone · World," obtaining "The level cap of all skills in the skill list is increased by Lv. 10," taking the "Indestructible Physique" ability as an example, the current "Indestructible Physique" is Lv. EX. After the level cap is increased by Lv. 10, it will become Lv. MAX, and then 10 golden skill points can be used to raise this ability back to the absolute max of Lv. EX.

The difference lies in these 10 golden skill points. The efficiency of Su Xiao's subsequent use of golden skill points will increase by 50%. That is to say, the bonus amount of his use of 10 golden skill points is equivalent to the actual effect of 15 golden skill points. Plus, the "judgment criteria" of this bonus "remains unchanged," which is equivalent to raising the limit of the ability by another level.

A more intuitive way of saying it is that the characteristic of this ability turns bonus 2 of "Origin Stone · World"—"The level cap of all skills in the skill list is increased by Lv. 10"—into "The level cap of all skills in the skill list is increased by Lv. 15."

Is the reward given by the "Golden Arena" too exaggerated? Not really. It's because Su Xiao's body potential is too high. Why is this so? The answer is that he split 50% of the Demon Spirit energy gains from the Blade Demon Spirit, and where did the Demon Spirit energy come from? It was obtained by devouring the source energy of an Undying/Indestructible Abyss-Nourished Creature. This is the power of the Abyss!

However, Su Xiao transferred it many times through various channels before absorbing it. When he absorbed it, it no longer had Abyss attributes; what remained was only power.

Su Xiao's body had to absorb "Special Golden Power" in the Golden Lake, but this didn't delay his participation in the first six rounds of the Golden Arena. As for delaying the mission time of the main quest, there was no need to worry. He participated in this Golden Arena on behalf of the Reincarnation Paradise faction, and plus he had already left the Witch World, so the mission time limit of the main quest was paused. This was the first time he had seen such a situation.

【Soul power transfer is about to be carried out (this transfer will not involve your source soul, only your recoverable soul energy). Your consciousness will be transferred to the new body along with the soul energy. You will use your new body to participate in the first six rounds of the Golden Arena until the seventh round, when your consciousness will return to your main body, and you will use your main body to participate in the seventh and eighth rounds of the Golden Arena (the eighth round is the championship contention, and only the last two participants can participate).】

Seeing these hints, Su Xiao knew what was going on. The first six rounds of the Golden Arena were very interesting. It wasn't using one's own body to participate, but the Golden Arena constructing a body that completely fit the participant. Presumably, this body would have different combat abilities. However, the initial comprehensive combat power of all participants' bodies would definitely be the same.

【When you use the new body, your consciousness will be protected by the notarization mechanism of the Tree of the Void. Therefore, even if you die during the duel, you have one resurrection chance for each round of the duel (six rounds of duels, a total of six resurrection chances, not to be used in advance, only once per round. After entering the unresurrectable state, you will enter the Ghost Spectator Seat, waiting for the resurrection after the next round starts, or be eliminated).】

【The initial combat power of everyone's duel body is absolutely consistent, but considering erasing the participants' own advantages, it is also unfair to a few participants. The duel body resurrection mechanism corresponds to the soul, and will subsequently make a judgment on the participants' own soul strength to ensure that the participants' own advantages are not ignored.】

【Soul strength judgment in progress...】

【Your soul strength is 890 points!】

【Notarization mechanism re-constanting...】

【You are a melee-type ability.】

【You have no soul-type active abilities.】

【You have no soul-type basic abilities.】

【Your advantage-type buff was originally melee-type, that is, your duel body must be a melee-type main ability.】

A bunch of judgments appeared. Obviously, the Golden Arena didn't quite understand why a melee-type with no soul-type basic or active abilities would have 890 points of soul strength.

In each participant's judgment, there would be an advantage judgment. For example, Thunder Law God Aiger, his new body, even if the body attributes were not high, would not be a pit-type melee type, or thunder characteristics, or magic system.

Each participant had only one advantage judgment. The problem now was that the Golden Arena was having difficulty judging what advantage judgment to give Su Xiao. Give him soul system? No, this is a three-technique melee master. Give him melee system? Even more so, 890 points of soul strength is not for show.

【Judgment completed. You will randomly obtain one of the melee/soul characteristic advantage judgments.】

【Drawing in progress...】

【Drawing completed. Your only advantage judgment this time is soul characteristic.】

【Judgment completed. Your soul strength is 890 points.】

【The constant method is: soul strength exceeds 300 points, each round of duel obtains one extra resurrection chance; exceeds 500 points, obtains three extra; exceeds 800 points, obtains seven (this buff will not stack, taking the highest value).】

【In the subsequent six rounds of duels, you can resurrect eight times per round. Because the subsequent six rounds of duels are all carried out in vast venues (not lower than the scope of a city), you will be teleported to a random position after each resurrection.】

After these hints appeared, Su Xiao felt a sense of teleportation. This teleportation was different from the past, exceptionally erratic. Thinking about it, this was the feeling of consciousness being teleported wrapped in soul energy.

After the teleportation ended, Su Xiao found himself in a bird's-eye view. Below was a venue full of technological sense, but the black metal was heavy and old. At the center, the culture tank unfolded, and a replica body of Su Xiao—no, it should be a duel-dedicated body—appeared. The proportion was the same as his main body, just far less powerful. He estimated that the body attributes were only about 10 to 20 points.

【You have obtained a duel body. Your duel body characteristic is: Ranged.】

【You can choose the following professions for this duel body. After completing the profession choice, you can choose a total of five skills, one of which must be your "Ultimate Skill."】

1. Beast Summoner (Your ability system is summoning beasts and adding buffs to the beasts. This is a Charisma attribute bonus profession).

Warning: Due to special reasons, after you choose this profession, the strength displayed by this profession will be significantly weakened.

2. Storm Creator (You can control the power of the storm. This is an Intelligence attribute bonus).

3. Reaper (Ranged ability, can obtain attack power growth by killing enemies. This is an Agility attribute bonus profession).

4. Secret Art Hunter (Body energy crystallization, using this to construct weapons for ranged attacks. This is an Agility and Intelligence attribute bonus profession).

Su Xiao figured out what the first six rounds of the Golden Arena were about. The so-called duel was not about being able to use familiar abilities, but all participants were lowered to a starting point, and then according to their respective advantages, the gap was widened. Just like, someone could resurrect eight times per round. If other participants knew this, they would definitely be bewildered.

【You have completed the profession choice · Secret Art Hunter. After completing the choice of equipment, you will awaken five types of skills one after another, including passive/active/ultimate abilities.】

【Your level is: Lv. 1 (killing ordinary units, killing elite units, killing golden units, and killing other challengers can all increase your level. After increasing your level, your body attributes will also increase, and you will obtain a corresponding number of skill points). The limit level is Lv. 50.】

【You are an Agility and Intelligence specialty profession. Each level increase, your Agility +3, Intelligence +3, Stamina +1, HP +15 points, body energy +30 points.】

【Hint: Because you are an Overlord Unit, you will not obtain the Lv. 5 level increase at the end of each round of duels. You can only increase your level by killing enemies.】

【In the settlement of the sixth round, your level will determine the quantity of your gains.】

【Equipment selection in progress. You can choose the equipment, items, etc., you currently hold, and use them as a reference. The Tree of the Void will construct duel arena equipment with the same name but completely different effects. The stronger the equipment you choose, the stronger the duel arena equipment constructed by the Tree of the Void will be.】

【You can have a total of three duel arena equipment. When choosing the template for the third duel arena equipment, you can obtain a larger scope of choice.】

Seeing these hints, Su Xiao knew what was going on. Commonly speaking, the stronger and more precious the equipment he chose, the stronger the duel arena equipment he would get.

After the initial same starting point, now it was time for the participants to compare their wealth. Thinking about it, the two Absolute-Strong from Arcane Eternal Star must have brought supreme treasures. If they could slaughter those two and explode treasure chests, wouldn't there be a probability of obtaining supreme treasures?

Not considering this point for now, this had to be implemented in the seventh round of clashes. Su Xiao opened the equipment selection, and a series of equipment and items appeared before his eyes. Logically speaking, he should choose Zhan Long Shan first, but he didn't. Instead, he chose 【Origin Stone · World】.

【You have chosen Origin Stone · World. Equipment judgment in progress... Judgment completed. The Tree of the Void will generate duel arena equipment corresponding to the strength of this equipment.】

Su Xiao felt that this first piece of equipment definitely wouldn't disappoint him. He continued to search. This time he decisively chose Zhan Long Shan. This was an Eternal-level Law-Breaker exclusive weapon with a score of 7150. The duel arena equipment referenced by it would definitely be very strong. The second piece of duel arena equipment selection was completed.

And at this moment, the two Absolute-Strong from Arcane Eternal Star had also chosen their respective duel arena equipment. These two Absolute-Strong spellcasters, a man and a woman, looked at each other and saw confidence in each other's eyes. The feeling was that this time it was stable.

"No one can stop us, no one."

In the initial area, the Madman who had just finished choosing his duel arena equipment spoke heroically.

Compared to these two sides, Su Xiao's situation here was somewhat special. When he was about to choose the third piece of duel arena equipment, he found that the scope of choice for the third piece was much larger. This was hinted at earlier, not surprising. He scrolled down, and when he reached the bottom, he looked surprised. He really didn't expect this thing to be in the optional list.

After pondering for a few seconds, Su Xiao chose the reference object for the third piece of duel arena equipment, which was... Book of Original Sin.

Su Xiao was a bit puzzled. Using this thing as a reference, what kind of duel arena equipment would the Tree of the Void construct? And, to what extent would this duel arena equipment be outrageous?

--- Author's Note ---

Recently, I've been at home alone, and I have to do everything myself. I get home quite late, and the updates are relatively late. I hope the readers will forgive me. ===== CHAPTER 3818 =====

Recently, I've been home alone, having to do everything myself, and I've been getting back quite late, so updates have been delayed. I ask for the understanding of all my readers.