Chapter 3883: Calculation

The teleportation array emitted a faint light. The "Extinction Law Teleportation Array" that had not been activated yet could not be said to look particularly stable, but it could be considered harmless. However, the Daughter of Nature · Elucle looked a bit hesitant.

"Are you sure there is no problem with this teleportation array?"

Elucle's brows were tightly locked. She obviously had a certain level of spatial attainment.

"After multiple practices, there is no problem."

"Still... forget it, let's meet at the dungeon in the Northern Continent."

Elucle turned and drifted away. Seeing this, he felt a bit regretful. The space notebook already in his hand seemed to be useless. He originally wanted to record the teleportation shock wave.

Boom!

The surrounding space exploded into crystal fragments. After these fragments healed again, the surrounding scene was completely different. Here is a mansion in the dungeon.

The original luxurious decoration was now in a mess. The walls were full of cracks, looking like they had been affected by the impact of a strong explosion. Later, bandits or scavengers came to this place and took away everything of value here. Even the relatively intact marble slabs on the ground were taken down and transported away.

Walking out of the building that was on the verge of collapse, Su Xiao found that the spiral cross originally standing in the center of the dungeon had been smashed down. This is the symbol of the Dark Theocracy of this world. At the moment, a skull flag was erected, which belonged to the local scavenger force.

The reason why the scavenger flag has such a pirate style is that the geographical location of the dungeon is special. To the south is the sky wall of the Lightless Zone, to the northwest is the Ancient Gao Ta, and further north is the "Dead City." In addition, this place is not far from the Lightless Zone, which has led to many low-intensity dark spreading areas in the area around the dungeon.

The scavengers in the dungeon had long explored the relatively safe areas around them. They could only advance to the relatively safe east sea to explore isolated islands one by one.

The current situation is that because the Dark Bishop · Bohewa, who was in Dusk City, was assassinated by Xiao, the dungeon in the far Northern Continent soon fell into a state of having no leader. What is even more bizarre is that in other worlds, the Dark Theocracy, which is a tumor-like force, was actually wiped out by the local scavenger force in Radiant Star.

What is even more wonderful is that this scavenger force fought the Dark Theocracy and gained confidence, feeling that the level of a first-class force is just like this? This made them decide to go all out and go to the Southern Continent to grab territory from the Soul Academy.

It can only be said that this scavenger force still has some rationality. They didn't choose to go to war with Dusk City. In addition, this scavenger force also knows that the Northern Continent is not suitable for staying for a long time. The nights here are becoming more and more dangerous. They must leave this territory belonging to dark and strange creatures as soon as possible and go to the Southern Continent where humans and the Sun God Clan have more advantages.

Besides this, Su Xiao also saw many lower-level officials from Dusk City coming here. The dungeon has millions of residents. For the entire Dusk City, this population is not large, but for a single district of Dusk City, this population is particularly important.

Dusk City has more than 100 districts. The size of the entire city is much larger than the land area of a country in a ninth-tier world. This also makes the entire Dusk City very difficult to manage. In addition, there are various historical problems left over from the war with the Ancient Dragon flying dragons. At the current stage, Dusk City is a mixed power-holding method of noble system + official system.

Simply put, the Radiant Sun Monarch · Ashlot is at the top of power. Below him are the old noble · Augustus, the Minister of Finance · Heibosha, and the leader of the Sun Warriors.

The Minister of Finance · Heibosha is a serious and rigorous old lady. Dusk City can hold on until today, and she has at least two-tenths of the credit.

The leader of the Sun Warriors is in the inner city. A more intuitive way of saying it is that the Sun Warriors are like the personal guard army of successive Radiant Sun Monarchs, and this leader of the Sun Warriors is the personal guard captain. One can imagine how much the Radiant Sun Monarch trusts him.

Finally, the old noble · Augustus, the entire old noble system, relies on him to stabilize. The old nobles have two levels: Great Nobles and Nobles. Great Nobles cannot be inherited and can only be passed on to blood relatives. It is worth noting that in Dusk City, cousins are also blood relatives, but they are not direct blood relatives.

In the entire Dusk City, the outer city occupies more than 90% of the area, totaling 125 districts. Each district is managed by a Great Noble and a Finance Officer. The Great Nobles here are naturally managed by the old noble · Augustus. As for the Finance Officers, they are directly managed by the Minister of Finance · Heibosha.

Under a Great Noble and a Finance Officer in a district, there is a group of officials of various sizes. The officials who came to the dungeon at the moment are basically those officials in districts with a small number of residents. Before they came, the Great Nobles behind them all explained the approximate number of people. If they can't pull back so many residents, even if it is not considered dereliction of duty, their future will be worrying.

Just looking at the current situation of the dungeon, it won't be long before this place becomes a fortress city with a population of only over 100,000. As an adventurer gathering place or a supply city, a large number of adventurers who want money but not their lives will teleport from the Vanguard Fortress in the Southern Continent to the dungeon, using this as a starting point to explore the resources and wealth of the Northern Continent. Of course, this will be accompanied by the risk of being swallowed by the strange and dark Northern Continent until not even bone residue is left.

It is conceivable that by then, a large amount of resources will first arrive at the dungeon, and then reach Dusk City through space teleportation channels via the Vanguard Fortress. For Dusk City, which has almost exhausted the resource development of the Southern Continent, this is undoubtedly injecting a large amount of fresh blood.

Thinking about it this way, the death of the Dark Bishop · Bohewa, who was once the lord of the dungeon, was too timely. Thinking carefully about the cause of his death, when Su Xiao first entered this world, he intended to conspire with the Dark Bishop · Bohewa to support an agent in Dusk City, so as to intervene in the power-holding system of Dusk City.

The actual operation was quite smooth. The Dark Bishop · Bohewa and the former noble · Albers were both sent to Dusk City by Su Xiao, and he also provided a good enough start. For those elderly nobles who were on the verge of death, the secret medicine that can prolong life was simply irresistible.

But who knew that after arriving in Dusk City, the Dark Bishop · Bohewa didn't take long to defect and invested in the old noble side.

This is the method of the old noble · Augustus. Facing Su Xiao's conspiracy, the old noble · Augustus also felt tricky. He could curb the greed of the nobles under him, but he could not suppress the desire of some dying old guys to survive. Once he took forceful suppression, he didn't even need Su Xiao to intervene behind the scenes, and those dying elderly nobles would make Augustus the target of public criticism.

Augustus's method of breaking the situation was to first win over the weakest point in this conspiracy, which is the Dark Bishop · Bohewa, who dominates the Northern Continent · Dungeon. For this guy who dominates the Northern Continent · Dungeon, Augustus of course knows him, and even knows that he had already purchased a mansion in Dusk City · Inner City and sent his family there.

Facing Augustus's solicitation, the Dark Bishop · Bohewa didn't hesitate much and agreed. Thinking about it, compared to the Extinction Law practitioner who had just entered the mission world for not long, the Dark Bishop · Bohewa was of course more willing to cooperate with the famous noble leader · Augustus of this world. Su Xiao does not have a halo of lowering intelligence, and cannot make the other party abandon interests after cooperating with the Dark Bishop · Bohewa, and be inexplicably loyal to him.

After successfully winning over the Dark Bishop · Bohewa, Augustus didn't immediately find the former noble · Albers, whom Su Xiao prepared as an agent. This old guy keenly sensed that the visitor this time didn't seem to be plotting anything, but more like he was just bypassing Dusk City during the process of achieving his goal, and only then came up with this conspiracy. Logically speaking, a person who can come up with such a thing should have a more perfect, more extreme, and more difficult-to-deal-with plan.

It was because he determined this point that Augustus had a smile on his face when he met Su Xiao. The whole negotiation process between the two sides was very harmonious. It was not that both sides had good tempers, but that they had already fought secretly, and both felt that the other party was difficult to deal with, so they became cooperators.

It must be said that an old fox is an old fox. Augustus's move not only eliminated the relatively unstable Dark Bishop, but also successfully reached a cooperation with Su Xiao, and became the exclusive supplier of "nourishing secret medicine," more stably managing the nobles of the old noble faction, and making the Northern Continent · Dungeon, which was originally a threat to Dusk City, gradually become an adventurer gathering place. With the rich resources of the Northern Continent, he solved the problem of the Southern Continent's resources becoming increasingly scarce.

Did the old fox · Augustus not see this point? This is the smartest point of Augustus. He saw it, but pretended not to know anything. This old fox now secretly hates Su Xiao's conspiracy for being too ruthless. This plan of using the dungeon as a bait, if Augustus prevented the old noble faction from swallowing this bait, he would be standing on the opposite side of the interests of all the nobles.

Not staying in the dungeon for too long, after Su Xiao and his party left the city, they entered the forest shrouded in thin fog not long after. The trees in the forest were withered but not dead, and the bark was black, giving people a dark and gloomy feeling.

Being in such an environment, the Daughter of Nature · Elucle remained vigilant at all times. What surprised her was that the Su Xiao team, led by Su Xiao, seemed to have no experience in exploring dangerous places, and moved forward quickly. This made her feel a bit surprised. Under normal circumstances, people from the Paradise faction all have combat experience and experience in exploring dangerous places. At the moment, the appearance of the Su Xiao team is like a novice with no experience in exploring dangerous places at all.

"Are we moving too fast?"

Elucle spoke. It can be seen that her emotional intelligence is quite high, and she didn't directly say that the Su Xiao team had no experience and caution in exploring dangerous places.

"This... why walk so slowly?"

Baja looked at Elucle suspiciously.

"The Northern Continent is the territory of monsters. After accidentally entering their territory..."

Elucle said half of what she said, and couldn't go on. The reason is that the one-eyed alien demon entrenched in this area chose to flee this area temporarily after sensing Su Xiao's blood energy.

This made Elucle think about why the Su Xiao team, who came from the Paradise faction, looked like they had no experience in exploring dangerous places. This is not that they have no experience, but that their experience is too rich. This exploration method is simple and rude, moving forward straight to the target area. Monsters encountered along the way that can't be scared away are slaughtered to explode treasure chests, and those that can be scared away are ignored.

The Northern Continent is full of dangers, but the problem is that with Su Xiao's current combat power, after he came to the Northern Continent, the danger he had to face was not him, but instead, he would also become one of the sources of danger in the Northern Continent.

Those alien demons, moon beasts, mad beasts, etc., after sensing Su Xiao's blood energy, their first reaction is definitely not that a human has entered their territory, but that a more powerful monster is passing by. Just endure this wave for now, it's not shameful.

The speed of the team's march became faster and faster, until the black fog in front was thicker, even to the level of semi-fluid.

The sound of a group of soft-bodied creatures squirming came from the front. Su Xiao took out a honeycomb-shaped crystal and threw it into the darkness in front. This crystal didn't land, but floated a few meters from the ground, emitting a sound wave that could not be captured by hearing.

The light group approached from above. When it was a hundred meters away from the honeycomb crystal, the light group suddenly accelerated, like a predatory carnivorous fish, swallowing the honeycomb crystal. As the light group approached, Elucle saw this ancient and ugly creature like an anglerfish.

Su Xiao's purpose was not to lure out this alien creature, but to see the true appearance of the black fog in front through the unique light of the other party's light-emitting organ.

Where is the thick black fog in front? It is a kind of dark creature squirming like a leech. The number is so large that it affects a range of several kilometers in front. They are distributed on the ground, in the air, and in the sky, turning this area into a forbidden zone. While making a wet and sticky squirming sound, they also emit a smell similar to the soil after rain. Most intelligent creatures like this smell, and feel a kind of subconscious relaxation when they smell it. And this is exactly the fatal trap that these leech-like dark creatures want to create.

What is even more terrifying is that because this kind of dark creature has physical, mental, and soul triple paralysis, the intruders who are attached to them cannot perceive their existence until they are eaten to the point of being unable to maintain the lowest vital signs, and then their eyes gradually turn black. Before falling into the darkness of death, they can see this scene that makes their spirit collapse.

Elucle has been to many dangerous places, but to be honest, she would rather not go to this kind of scalp-numbing area. At the moment, this experience is definitely one of the most shocking scenes she has ever experienced.

"Should we, take a detour?"

"No need."

Su Xiao took out a refrigeration device and took out a piece of dark red flesh from it. As soon as this dark red flesh touched room temperature, it dripped blood water to the ground. The dark creature group in front began to become restless.

Su Xiao exerted force in his hand, squeezing the blood water out of the dark red flesh like squeezing a sponge. Strangely, these blood waters didn't continue to drip, but clung to the surface of the dark red flesh, making its volume grow rapidly.

He threw it out with appropriate force. After the dark red flesh flew out for several kilometers, it landed with a plop. With a whoosh, all the leech-like dark creatures swarmed up, and in a moment, they formed a black sphere with a diameter of one kilometer.

The black fog in front dissipated instantly, revealing a layer of white bones on the ground. Su Xiao stepped forward and continued to move forward. After seeing this scene, Elucle thought thoughtfully. She remembered a dangerous place she had been to. The deepest part was so dangerous that it could not be passed. In contrast, in the treasure house in the deepest part, several secret treasures that people dream of were stored.

Elucle didn't mention this, after all, she was hostile to Su Xiao's faction, and this temporary cooperation at the moment was forced by helplessness.

Su Xiao's advanced abyss studies did not directly improve combat power, but played a vital role in the exploration of the Northern Continent. If he wanted to arrive at the "Ancient Gao Ta" from the "Dungeon," even with his current combat power, when he killed his way to the front of the "Ancient Gao Ta," not to mention being seriously injured, he would feel exhausted in a state of injury. As for finding a place to rest, there was basically no such possibility. The experience brought by advanced abyss studies perfectly solved this problem.

After marching for a full dozen hours, the sky that had always been dim became a bit brighter. The further forward he went, the more obvious this feeling of clear sky became. A cylindrical high tower appeared in front. The diameter of this high tower was more than 10,000 meters, and its height went straight into the sky. He couldn't see how high it was with the naked eye. The Ancient Gao Ta had arrived.

Around the Ancient Gao Ta was a large area of broken walls. Because the time was too long, only those relatively large pure rock structures could get a glimpse of the former glory of this big city.

Along the main street of the ruins, Su Xiao came to the entrance at the bottom of the Ancient Gao Ta. On both sides of this main street stood guards in dilapidated armor. Their height was over two meters, and their flesh and blood were withered to the point of woodiness. These were the Moon Eclipse Knights of the former Dark Moon faction. Their old rivals were the Sun Warriors who are still incomparably powerful today.

The pair of metal giant doors of the Ancient Gao Ta were closed tightly. The lower right corner of one of the giant doors had been corroded to the point of damage. Entering from this nearly three-meter-high damaged area, Su Xiao found that most of the areas in this vast high tower were occupied by a dark purple substance. This substance looked like a biological structure, but was harder than most metals.

With Su Xiao's blade technique, he could of course slash these dark purple substances. The problem is that the time cost is too high, and it will trigger unknown risks.

The elevators, stairs, etc., leading to the upper floors had all been blocked by this dark purple substance. Only one high tower teleportation array could still be used. Coming to the teleportation array, he found that it was marked in Void language. Because it was ancient Void language, he could only understand a part of it, but it was enough.

The structure of this teleportation array is special. In the case of space traps all over the Ancient Gao Ta, this high tower teleportation array can ignore these traps. In addition, the space traps here are very old and basically do not exist the possibility of cracking. And these space traps, which are irregular and barely running, are more dangerous than when they were laid out.

【Hint: You have entered the Ancient Gao Ta and triggered the "Moon Curse" here.】

【Moon Curse: When you try to take any items in the Ancient Gao Ta away from this place, you need to be weighed by the "Soul Balance." All your gains in the Ancient Gao Ta will be on the left side of the Soul Balance, and you yourself need to stand on the right side of the Soul Balance. When the weight of your soul is greater than the items in the left tray, these items will belong to you, and you will obtain "Moon Marrow Spirit Liquid" of the same "weight" as these items.】

【Warning: If the weight of your soul is less than the items in the left tray, you will be swallowed by the??? in the Ancient Gao Ta.】

【Hint: You can pay 50% of the items obtained this time, give up the test of the Soul Balance, and in the subsequent 500 natural days, endure the erosion of the Moon Curse.】

Closing the hint, Su Xiao continued to study the high tower teleportation array. A moment later, he found that only one space scale of this high tower teleportation array could be used, which was to teleport to the top floor of the Ancient Gao Ta. He adjusted the scale and started this teleportation array.

With a boom, a large area of cracks appeared on the teleportation array. Fortunately, the teleportation proceeded normally. When the space fog around him disappeared, Su Xiao was already in a luxurious and old room. It can be seen that the owner of this room once had a high status in the Dark Moon faction.

Su Xiao looked around. Most of the furniture had decayed into ash. A dark purple resin container on the metal wall cabinet attracted his attention. He stepped forward and picked up the container.

【You have obtained Dark Moon Source Essence.】

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao's brows frowned a bit. The Great Library side seemed to have secretly enhanced his luck again, otherwise he would not have encountered such a thing as obtaining a source essence for no reason.

Is the fact really so? It can only be said that it is not completely. Because of the plan of the old monster in the Great Library, the high-level officials of the Great Library did indeed pay a great price to invite a powerhouse with destiny-type abilities to temporarily enhance his luck after Su Xiao went deep into the "Lightless Zone," but the process was limited to the time period from Su Xiao entering the Lightless Zone to walking out of the Lightless Zone.

The problem is that this destiny-type powerhouse had never personally experienced the power of Extinction Law luck. This person tried his best to successfully enhance the Extinction Law luck, but after the scheduled time, he found that it couldn't stop at all.

At the moment, this skinny destiny-type powerhouse is being forced to enhance Su Xiao's timing, and is constantly trying to figure out how to stop this enhancement. Otherwise, he might become the first destiny-type powerhouse in history to die because of enhancing someone else's timing. ===== CHAPTER 3884 =====

Closing the prompts, Su Xiao continued to study the high tower teleportation array. A moment later, he discovered that only one spatial coordinate remained usable for this array: the one teleporting to the highest level of the ancient high tower. He adjusted the coordinate and activated the array.

With a boom, large cracks appeared on the teleportation array. Fortunately, the teleportation proceeded normally. When the surrounding spatial mist vanished, Su Xiao was already inside a luxurious yet ancient room. It was evident that the owner of this room had once held a high status within the Dark Moon faction.

Su Xiao looked around. Most of the furniture had decayed into dust. A dark purple resin container on a metal wall cabinet caught his eye. He stepped forward and picked up the container.

【You have obtained Dark Moon Origin Matter.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao's brows furrowed slightly. The Great Library seemed to be secretly enhancing his luck again; otherwise, he certainly wouldn't have encountered such a situation where he obtained a piece of Origin Matter for no reason.

Was that truly the case? It could only be said that it wasn't entirely so. Because of the Great Library's Old Monster's plan, the high-level members of the Great Library had indeed paid a great price to summon a powerhouse with fate-related abilities. However, that was intended to temporarily enhance Su Xiao's luck only after he had ventured deep into the "No-Light Zone," with the process limited to the time frame between Su Xiao entering and exiting the No-Light Zone.

The problem was that this fate-related powerhouse had never personally experienced the power of the Law-Breaker's luck. This person had exerted all his strength to successfully boost the Law-Breaker's luck, but once the scheduled time arrived, he found that he simply couldn't stop.

At this moment, this gaunt, fate-related powerhouse was being forced to continue boosting Su Xiao's fortune while constantly attempting to figure out how to stop the enhancement. Otherwise, he might become the first fate-related powerhouse in history to die from boosting someone else's fortune.