Chapter 3827: Beginning

Sky City·Top City, Ancient Sacrificial Ground.

The full moon hung high above. At the center of the sacrificial ground, pitch-black chains became increasingly solid, transforming from the phantom shadows of a few days ago into semi-solids. Black mist drifted slowly on the coiling chains. A king sleeping here was about to awaken.

At the same time, in a dark alley in the Bottom City, a young man dressed in noble attire, but with some dirt on his body and face, walked through the dark alley like a lost soul. Even when stared at by the fierce eyes in the dark, he didn't notice at all.

This young man in his twenties was named Aguye, born into a wealthy merchant family. His family operated a luxury fur business. Sky City was located on the west side of the "Dark Swamp Great Forest," less than 50 kilometers from this largest forest in the Wizard Continent, passing through three small towns with populations exceeding 100,000, making it more convenient for Sky City to enjoy the natural resource treasure house of the "Dark Swamp Great Forest."

Aguye's family was responsible for purchasing and processing high-end furs, and then transporting these furs to the "Eternal Winter City·Longlu," more than 300 kilometers away, to sell to the Ice-Born nobles and royal family members.

The reputation accumulated by several generations of the family, as well as the quality that exceeded their peers, made the luxury furs of Aguye's family highly recognized by Ice-Born nobles or royal families. And Aguye, at the age of sixteen, followed his father to travel between Sky City and Eternal Winter City.

At Aguye's age at the time, of course, he had no interest in the family business. The reason he was willing to travel between the two places was because he could see his Ice-Born fiancée, Mo·Stacy, in Eternal Winter City.

This was originally a connection between families. It was just that after these two teenagers met, they indeed had good feelings for each other, and the elders of both families naturally tried their best to bring them together.

In the blink of an eye, eight years passed. According to this life trajectory, Aguye would marry Mo·Stacy, have a child, and then manage the family business with his older brother. He would be responsible for dealing with Ice-Born nobles and royal families, while his brother would deal with the leather merchants of the "Dark Swamp Great Forest." Everything was beautiful.

It was a pity that a weird antique changed Aguye's fate. It was an old crown. Aguye's father had a hobby of collecting antiques. After buying it, he recognized that this was the crown used by the first generation of Ice-Born royalty when they ascended the throne. Discovering this, Aguye's father was overjoyed and immediately contacted the Ice-Born royal family, with whom he had a close relationship, to return this crown of the ancestor of the Winter King to this King of the North.

What Aguye's father didn't expect was that this Winter King seemed to have no interest in this ancestral object, and didn't even plan to see him. This made Aguye's father, who had already sent out the ancient crown, feel disappointed. It was a typical case of spending money, but not even seeing the main person, and having no chance to flatter.

On that evening, the Winter King changed his attitude and sent a trusted minister, which made Aguye's father both pleasantly surprised and secretly palpitating.

That night, the Winter King visited with more than a dozen personal guards. This was no small matter for the Winter King to visit Sky City in person. Although he came to the Middle City, not the Top City, it was enough to make people surprised.

The reception in the family manor that night was grand. When everyone was full of food and wine, the Winter King took out the ancient crown he had received in the afternoon, played with it happily, and asked casually where he had gotten this crown....

Learning that Aguye's father had bought it from someone else at a high price, the Winter King nodded with a full face of smiles. He was too "surprised" by this "big gift" delivered to his door. Originally, by cooperating with the Law-Extinguisher, he had barely added some fate power to himself. After the devouring of this ancient crown, there was not much left.

The dozen or so personal guards of the Winter King slaughtered all living things in this family manor. What was puzzling was that Aguye, who was hiding in the wardrobe and scared out of his wits, escaped a disaster. This was no longer a coincidence or luck that could explain it. Under the perception coverage of more than a dozen personal guards and the Winter King, Aguye, whose strength didn't even reach the Third Tier, was not discovered.

The next morning, Aguye looked at the family mansion that had turned into charcoal. After being stunned for nearly an hour, he remembered another thing, which was that he had lost all his relatives, and he couldn't lose his fiancée, Mo·Stacy, again.

Sky City did indeed prohibit space teleportation, and the control of the Top City under the high clouds was strict. Teleporting to Sky City was impossible, but teleporting out from the Middle City was still possible, provided that a large amount of money was spent.

When Aguye arrived at the front gate of his future fiancée's family manor in Eternal Winter City, he saw the head of his future father-in-law hanging in front of the gate. All kinds of rare treasures were packed in boxes, piled in the courtyard. One headless corpse after another fell on the snow, and some servants or distant relatives were detained by soldiers, everyone looking lost.

What made Aguye's eyes split even more was that his fiancée was taken away by a man wearing silver battle armor with sharp eyes. This was none other than the Winter King's second son, "Sword of Winter"·Ehm.

Although Aguye's fiancée was not shackled and had not been harmed, her eyes were already dim, as if she had turned into a puppet. But when her peripheral vision saw Aguye, and she cast a gaze of disbelief, Mo·Stacy's eyes regained their luster.

Helplessness and grievance made her tears overflow, but as a descendant of the combination of nobility and royalty, her life experience from childhood forced her to look away, no longer looking at her fiancé, so as not to bring disaster to her beloved.

At that moment, Aguye wanted to rush up regardless of everything. Only the remaining reason kept him from doing so. He knew that his fiancée's mother was Ice-Born royalty. Even if his fiancée had a serious crime, it would go through a cumbersome and long process before being judged.

Aguye turned and disappeared into the crowd watching the excitement, swearing in his heart that no matter what, he would save his fiancée. So he needed power and influence. Considering the enemy was the Winter King, obtaining power and influence that could suppress the other party was simply a pipe dream. So only strength remained. Although the hope was still slim, at least there was a glimmer of opportunity.

Aguye wouldn't have thought that if it developed according to the normal fate line, his fate would not be simple. He would only experience the pain of losing all his relatives at the age of 30, and would become brothers as close as hands and feet with "Sword of Winter"·Ehm, whom he hated now, and even to a great extent, would shoulder the future of Eternal Winter City·Longlu. Unfortunately, all of this was forcibly changed.

That's right, Aguye was one of the three pseudo-World Children of this era in this world. The Witch World would not have true World Children, but there would be about three pseudo-World Children in each era. Don't underestimate their luck power; it was stronger than the genuine World Children of Ninth-Tier worlds....

In the dark alley of the Bottom City, Aguye walked forward with blank eyes. He was looking for a black shop whose main business was fencing stolen goods. At a banquet, he had heard of this black shop. At the time, he just took it as an anecdote, but he didn't expect that today, with little money left on him, he could only obtain power at a low price by taking huge risks.

According to memory and guessing, Aguye actually found that black shop. He knocked on the thick wooden door with some trepidation. After knocking twice, the wooden door opened with a creak.

The shop was not big, about 30 square meters. The shelves by the wall even blocked the windows. All kinds of strange objects were hung high and low everywhere. The dim environment made people feel panicked. Just at this time, candlelight lit up behind the old wooden counter, and an old man with a face full of wrinkles and hands like dead tree bark was looking at Aguye with a pair of turbid, yellow eyes.

"Young man, are you here to pursue power?"

The weird old man spoke, revealing only a few remaining teeth when he smiled.

"How... how did you know?"

"Hehehe, you look like a loser, with an expression of having lost your whole family. Coming to me, what else could it be besides pursuing power?"

The weird old man took the cargo list and began to count.

"Then, what do I have to pay? Money?"

Hearing this, the weird old man mocked mercilessly: "You look so unlucky, do you still have money?"

"No."

Aguye's gaze dimmed a bit, then he thought of something and said: "I can sacrifice my soul to you, or something similar..."

"Hahahaha!"

The weird old man laughed with his mouth wide open, quite exaggerated. He said with a mocking smile: "Why does everyone feel that their soul is very valuable? Now even the lowest-level Corruptor is unwilling to sign a soul contract with a living being. What is truly precious is Soul Stone; that thing is a natural resource of the world and has nothing to do with the souls of living beings."

"Then... I have nothing."

Aguye gradually lowered his head, his expression numb.

"No, no, no, you actually have something more valuable."

The weird old man smiled meaningfully.

"What is it?!"

Aguye grabbed the last straw.

"Your... fate. Look at this fate contract. If you sign it, then power is right before your eyes."

The weird old man pressed a contract with his left hand and pushed it out, then pushed a thumb-sized bottle forward with his right hand, inside which was rich darkness.

A moment later, only an empty bottle remained on the table, along with the fate contract signed with Aguye's name. After the weird old man picked up the contract, he rolled it up and threw it into the darkness beside him. A hand caught the contract.

"Father, you keep it first. I have to keep an eye on President·Po. Yeen's side recently. Aguye, this kid, will be handed over to you later."

While speaking, the weird old man pulled the skin on both sides under his ears with both hands and tore off the human skin mask on his head. During this process, his voice gradually turned ethereal from old, as if multiple tones were mixed together. This person was the Platinum Apostle.

The luxury cruise ship sailed under the night sky. It was already late at night. Most passengers had fallen into dreams. In the carpeted corridor, a sturdy man stopped in front of a guest room and knocked on the door. After a big dog opened the door and poked its head out to confirm that there was no one in the corridor, it let the person into the guest room....

Violator·Godspeed had just walked into the guest room when he saw Su Xiao and Caesar waiting here. Seeing these two, Godspeed felt uncomfortable all over. Due to the situation being stronger than the person, he could only sit down.

"Godspeed, you've been in the Dark God Sect for a while, right?"

Baja spoke. Hearing this, Godspeed shrugged indifferently. In his view, asking this was nothing more than wanting information on the Dark God Sect, or stealing some important items. He felt no pressure about this.

"I have indeed accumulated some faction reputation. If you need it, I have no opinion."

Having signed the contract drafted by Su Xiao, Godspeed had no temper at all in this world progress. Conversely, after leaving this world, these contracts would expire. Well~, at least that's what Godspeed thought, and that's indeed what was written on the contract.

"Not needed."

After Baja said this, it started laughing unscrupulously. It continued: "Godspeed, now we are all on the same boat, we are our own people, right?"

"Uh~, right."

Godspeed smiled perfunctorily.

Baja didn't care about Godspeed's attitude, but continued with a smile: "Since we are our own people, we should help you profit. For example, your faction reputation in the Dark God Sect—so many days, you've only obtained over 10,000 points. Too slow."

Baja's words made Godspeed inevitably feel a bit indignant. His dead fish eyes narrowed slightly, saying: "The gold content of the Witch World reputation is very high. This is already quite a lot."

"No, this is very little, too little. As our own people, we should help you obtain more Dark God Sect faction reputation."

Baja's tone was resolute, which made Godspeed feel a sense of unease in his heart. He was just about to decline when he found Su Xiao looking at him expressionlessly, which made him swallow the words that had reached his mouth. He really didn't doubt at all that this Law-Extinguisher would cut off his head with one blade.

"Since you've agreed willingly, let's start."

Baja turned to look at Caesar with a smile, winked at Caesar, Caesar ate the remaining fruit core, used the stem held between his fingers to pick his teeth, and finally chewed the stem to taste it before spitting it out.

Caesar took out a hood, put it on his head, and began to chant a language that couldn't be understood. Just at this time, Godspeed received a large number of prompts.

【Prompt (Tree of the Void): Due to your excellent performance, you have been promoted to a direct subordinate by this faction's Material Administrator·Nicholas·Caesar.】

【Nicholas·Caesar has activated his exclusive ability: Robbery (l).】

【You have lost your ring-type equipment.】

【You have lost your main weapon.】

【You have lost your detection-type equipment.】

【You have lost all equipment. The equipment currently lost has all been detained by Nicholas·Caesar.】

【You have reported this behavior to the Tree of the Void.】

【Triggered Nicholas·Caesar's exclusive ability: Thick-Skinned (l).】

【Nicholas·Caesar has expressed his apologies to you and promised to return all your equipment within 999,999 natural days, and pay a penalty of 0.1% of the total equipment value for each natural day.】

【Due to Caesar's unique ability 'Handling Fee l', you will bear a 3% handling fee for this transaction.】

【Caesar will pay you a penalty of -2.9% (total equipment value) for each natural day, which means you need to pay Caesar a 2.9% (total equipment value) handling fee for each natural day.】...

【Due to Nicholas·Caesar having reported Nicholas·Caesar to the Tree of the Void, this behavior will be punished.】

【Nicholas·Caesar has decided to pay you compensation. You have obtained the following gains.】

【Your Dark God Sect·Faction Reputation increased by 1.5%.】

【Due to triggering Caesar's??? ability, the next compensation reward is increased by???.】

【Your Dark God Sect·Faction Reputation increased by 386%.】

【Your Dark God Sect·Faction Reputation increased by 1.6%.】

【Due to triggering Caesar's??? ability...】

【Your Dark God Sect·Faction Reputation increased by 526%.】

This series of prompts made Godspeed feel like his brain was going to explode. He pressed his head with one hand, fingers inserted into his hair. The expression on his face was best described by the words "WTF." However, he didn't know that this was just an appetizer.

【You have triggered multiple faction missions, totaling as follows:】

【You have completed the faction mission: Capture the enemy hegemon unit·Kukulin·Bai Ye alive!】

【You have obtained 125,000 reputation points.】

【You have completed the faction mission: Obtain important intelligence through hegemon unit·Kukulin·Bai Ye, and this intelligence has been conveyed to your immediate superior? 5?? 9*?? -？.】

【You have obtained 83,560 reputation points.】

【You have completed the faction mission: Attempt to seize the unique item of hegemon unit·Kukulin·Bai Ye, the Book of Original Sin.】

【You have obtained 580,000 reputation points.】

【Your superior Nicholas·Caesar has decided to obtain greater benefits for you, and has sold the "Book of Original Sin" to the Dark God Sect·Faction Store on your behalf.】

【Warning: It is absolutely impossible for the faction store to acquire this item!】

【Warning: Do not sell this item to any faction store notarized by the Tree of the Void again.】

【Detected that this item is indeed a capture obtained by you during the execution of the faction mission, and you have been compensated with 1,285,000 Dark God Sect reputation points.】

【Due to being in high danger, you have chosen to return the "Book of Original Sin" to hegemon unit·Kukulin·Bai Ye immediately, and you have requested the Tree of the Void to notarize this behavior.】

【Notarization completed. Because you did not truly touch the "Book of Original Sin" and did not substantially obtain the "Book of Original Sin," it was only a temporary capture in an unowned state. You have no causal connection with the "Book of Original Sin."】

【You have obtained a "massive" amount of Dark God Sect reputation points. You are deeply grateful to your superior Nicholas·Caesar for his promotion. In order to repay Caesar's appreciation and promotion, you voluntarily pay 1900 Soul Coins as a token of gratitude.】

【You will pay 1900 Soul Coins.】

【You attempt to terminate this payment.】

【Due to your treacherous behavior, you have triggered Nicholas·Caesar's Faction Bully (l) ability.】

【You have paid Caesar 9100 Soul Coins and obtained a "Receipt."】

【If you have any objections to this transaction, you can take this "Receipt" to the Reincarnation Paradise to file an appeal and report.】

Godspeed looked at these prompts with a face full of doubt about life. He suddenly felt that his life as a violator was so stifling. Compared to the guy in front of him, his methods as a violator were nothing.

Soon, Godspeed thought of one thing: he had so much Dark God Sect faction reputation, of course he wanted to go to the faction store to exchange for a lot of things. It was just a pity that all his equipment was currently detained by Caesar, which made him dare not move even a single reputation point.

"Godspeed, you should have thought of what to do next. You take one-tenth of it."

Hearing Baja's words, Godspeed's face looked better, but he didn't know that the reason he was given one-tenth was not to buy him off, but because there had to be a scapegoat.

"Are the coordinates confirmed?"

Su Xiao spoke. Although his "Law-Extinguisher Teleportation Array" could go anywhere, the momentum was too big. Caesar's teleportation array was more suitable for going to the destination quietly.

Wearing the Abyss Jar, Caesar, with man and jar as one, began to set up the array. A moment later, Su Xiao, Caesar, Godspeed, Bubu Wang, and Baja were all standing on it. Amu stayed behind, lest the array have problems during the return trip.

When the space fluctuations subsided, Su Xiao had arrived in a storage room. Caesar opened the door with a thief's eyes, found that there was no one at the material exchange, made a quiet gesture, walked slowly into the wooden counter, and activated the material administrator authority of the Dark God Sect. Immediately after, Godspeed received various prompts.

【Because you are a direct subordinate of Material Administrator·Nicholas·Caesar, in view of your excellent performance, he has applied to temporarily open the Dark God Sect faction store to you.】

【The judgment parties for this exchange/transaction are: you, Nicholas·Caesar, and Hunter·Bai Ye.】

【Warning: Both Nicholas·Caesar and Kukulin·Bai Ye are targets with ultra-low Tree of the Void reputation. Please be extra cautious in this cooperative exchange/transaction.】

Seeing this warning, Godspeed's gaze, which had always been fierce, gradually became clear. As a violator, this was the first time he had received such a warning to be careful. He felt very unaccustomed to it.

Before Godspeed could figure out what was going on, subsequent prompts appeared.

【Because your reputation level is insufficient, you will not be able to exchange for more than 60% of the items in the faction store.】

Seeing this prompt, Godspeed felt disappointed. There was one-tenth of his share in this; of course, he wanted to gain as much as possible. It was just that his disappointment was premature. Su Xiao and Caesar had encountered the situation of being unable to "stock up" due to insufficient reputation level several times. The two began to respond, and Godspeed immediately received subsequent prompts.

【Prompt: In view of your consistent excellent performance, Caesar has decided to pass the identity of Material Administrator to you. This behavior has been agreed upon by Material Administrator·Nicholas·Caesar's superior, Deceiver·Nicholas·Caesar.】

【You have become the Dark God Sect·Material Administrator. You have obtained the lv. 10 exchange authority (highest-level exchange authority) possessed by this identity.】

【You can exchange for items in the following list with your existing reputation.】

【Automatic exchange has been enabled, and the items you exchange will be distributed according to the ratio of 45% for Nicholas·Caesar, 45% for Hunter·Bai Ye, and 10% for you.】

【Detected the above behavior, your Tree of the Void reputation will be deducted.】...

【Your Tree of the Void reputation deducted by 4150 points.】

【Nicholas·Caesar's Tree of the Void reputation deducted by 8650 points (because this unit's Tree of the Void reputation is too low, the actual deduction is 0 points).】

【Hunter·Bai Ye's Tree of the Void reputation deducted by 9553 points (because this unit's Tree of the Void reputation is too low, the actual deduction is 0 points).】

Seeing these prompts, Godspeed suddenly made a decision: he would not be a violator in the future and must find a way to abandon evil and follow good. It wasn't that he suddenly had a change of heart, but after experiencing these operations that made his mentality collapse, he felt that being a violator was too stifling.

Godspeed's heart was bleeding. Compared to the one-tenth gain that hadn't arrived yet and he didn't know how much it was, he cared more about those 4000+ Tree of the Void reputation points. He was a violator, but his Tree of the Void reputation had always been quite good, maintained above 120 points. This time, it was all gone, and he was even in debt by 4000 points. What made his blood pressure soar even more was that the two accomplices in this conspiracy didn't have a single point of Tree of the Void reputation deducted.

Su Xiao didn't care about Godspeed, whose mentality had collapsed. He came to the teleportation array in the storage room. Just as he wanted to check the gains of this time, he suddenly received a message notarized by the Tree of the Void, for which the other party paid 500 Soul Coins. Seeing that the sender was Morey, he wasn't surprised by this extravagant behavior.

After checking the content of the message, Su Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly. Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei were attacked by a five-person team from the Death Paradise. A large box of "Moon Stones," one of the top-tier minerals that could be stored in the storage space after notarization at the end of this world progress, was all snatched away.

According to the prior agreement, Su Xiao occupied 30% of the top-tier mineral "Moon Stones" harvested by Morey and the others this time, and Morey, Hao Mei, and Moon Apostle shared the remaining 70%. In other words, this five-person team from the Death Paradise had robbed Su Xiao.

In Morey's words, it didn't matter if they beat me up, but they snatched your "Moon Stones." Can this be tolerated?

In the past, it was always Su Xiao using the Law-Extinguisher Formula to rob the enemy... cough~, reasonably distribute enemy resources. This time, someone actually robbed him. Of course, it couldn't be tolerated.

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In Morei's words, it doesn't matter if they beat me up, but they snatched your "Moon Stone"—can this be tolerated?

Usually, it's Su Xiao who uses the Law-Extinguishing formula to snatch from enemies... *cough*, to reasonably redistribute enemy resources. This time, someone actually snatched from him; of course, it cannot be tolerated.

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