Chapter 3897: Initial

Outside the office door, secretary Yuyuna knocks on the door. Her temperament is gentle. Because she is a bit short and looks pure, she put on light makeup and wore high heels to make herself look mature.

Being able to work beside the person she admires and being the other party's absolute confidant, Yuyuna even felt that she was dreaming on her first day of work. However, after two years of training, she is already a competent deputy and can arrange the City Lord's diet and daily life to a certain extent, so as to avoid the other party's body condition getting worse due to irregular diet and work.

Secretary Yuyuna knocks on the office door, but there is no response from inside. This makes her frown slightly. This is indeed the City Lord's office, but the City Lord's friend is in the office, and pushing the door directly seems rude.

Just as she is about to raise her hand to knock on the door again, she feels someone push her, making her have to step aside. As she turns her head to look and prepares to ask, a figure has already kicked the wooden door.

Bang!

The office door, which was sandwiched with K-type metal, was not kicked open, but only bent inward. The power of this kick is very consistent with the power possessed by an Absolute Strong-level summoner.

Amu appears, punches the office door open, and rushes into the office with a battle axe with cold air.

This sudden change makes secretary Yuyuna a bit pale. City Lord Xia Er-yin is calm, but there is inevitably a bit of worry in her eyes.

As the door is broken open, the scene inside the office comes into view. Behind the desk, on the leather chair, a female figure composed of black mist with long hair like smoke and blue eyes is holding the back of the Goddess of Fate's neck with one arm. Under this guillotine lock, the Goddess of Fate's small body is already looking listless.

Amu throws the battle axe, whistling with the wind. The rotating battle axe cuts through the attacker's head, splitting the black mist head open, but in the next instant, the black mist person recovers. She turns into black mist and drills out from the cracks around the floor-to-ceiling window, disappearing into the air outside the window.

With a thud, the Goddess of Fate falls from the leather chair. City Lord Xia Er-yin steps forward quickly, covering the Goddess of Fate's side neck with one hand. After feeling the life aura and pulse, she relaxes. As a friend, she knows that friendly gods like the Goddess of Fate are existences with flesh and blood. Before obtaining the "God Soul," many friendly gods were simply powerful people in that ability system.

The one who attacked the Goddess of Fate was the Blade Magic Spirit released by Su Xiao. The reason for doing this is to avoid being seen through by this God of Fate. Disguise ability can deal with perception, but it is not very useful when facing prediction, not to mention that the Goddess of Fate is the top prediction.

"Yuyuna, go find a doctor."

Just as City Lord Xia Er-yin finishes speaking, Su Xiao has already pressed one hand on the Goddess of Fate's neck. After all, he is a newcomer to Xiguang City, and City Lord Xia Er-yin does not trust him.

"It's just deep coma. If necessary, it can be forcibly awakened within five seconds."

City Lord Xia Er-yin hears the subtext of Su Xiao's words. The Goddess of Fate is fine, but if she wants to wake her up immediately, it will definitely put a huge burden on the other party's body, and it might even leave permanent damage.

Not long after, followed by several guards, a middle-aged doctor walks over. After initially determining the Goddess of Fate's situation, the middle-aged doctor says:

"The problem is not big, but it is best not to wake this lady easily. She herself has very serious deep damage. This injury has caused her old wounds to recur. Now she needs rest and to heal the deep damage most."

The deep damage mentioned by the doctor is naturally soul wounds. Hearing this result, City Lord Xia Er-yin nods knowingly, expresses her gratitude, and sends people to send the doctor away.

A moment later, the elevator on the 33rd floor opens. Under the guidance and protection of several guards, the middle-aged doctor walks into the elevator. At the moment before the elevator door closes, the dark blue in the doctor's pupils flashes away. He rubs his temples. Regarding everything he experienced just now, although it is still a personal experience, it feels like watching a movie. Is it because he is nervous seeing the City Lord? Or has he not rested well recently?

As the elevator door closes, the guard captain outside the elevator opens his eyes wide, and the black-blue flashes away in his eyes. He looks around, then goes downstairs via the stairs and walks toward the guard room on the 29th floor.

At the same time, the young man watching the surveillance screen in the guard room yawns. He sees his captain walking toward the guard room through the surveillance. He hurriedly tidies up his appearance. Just as he wants to remind other colleagues, he remembers the exclusion on weekdays and drinks the carbonated drink in the teacup leisurely.

After the guard captain arrives at the guard room, although the door is open, he knocks twice, which causes quite a commotion in the guard room of several dozen square meters. Several lazy guards stand in a row, feeling uneasy. The young man in front of the surveillance screen glances at this scene, his face serious, but his mood is beautiful, and he takes a small sip of the carbonated drink.

"You, and you, come with me."

The guard captain points to two guards. The hearts of these two are even more uneasy, but the guard captain's subsequent words make the two feel as if they have been granted amnesty.

"The City Lord asked me to deliver a document to the City Bank. You two go with me."

Half an hour later, city center, 36th floor of the City Bank, in the bank president's office.

"Hello, Mr. Lares, this is the document the City Lord asked me to deliver."

While the guard captain walks over, he hands over a paper document. President Lares looks suspicious. He did not figure out why the City Lord asked the guard captain of the Central Building to deliver the document. Usually, it is the other party's secretary or deputy who delivers it. When document security needs to be guaranteed, it is transported by the central security team.

However, as the vice president of the City Bank, Lares has spent most of his life in human relationships. He did not ask much, took the document, opened it, and found that it was all text composed of black-blue smoke. These texts gathered together, turned into black mist, and drilled into his mouth and nose.

Lares's expression quickly changed from horror to calm. He snapped his fingers, and the three guards in front all fell to the ground. The black-blue smoke floating from the three guards all rushed into President Lares's head, making his eyes turn black-blue.

Lares wakes up a computer on the side and enters a string of code into it. A few seconds later, this string of code combines into a dog head, still a dog head very much like a husky. After the computer screen goes black for a few seconds, it starts to operate at overload. All kinds of code flash on it and then disappear. The hacker flow is not cool at all like in movies, it is all boring code. The dog head just now was the coolest operation of the whole process.

Not long after, the computer screen recovers. Several statistical lists are presented. President Lares picks up the teacup. While his index finger touches the teacup one by one, he reads the material list of the bank vault. It must be said that Xiguang City is unexpectedly rich. It seems that they have not plucked less wool from contractors from Apocalypse Paradise.

At the same time, in the City Lord's office, Su Xiao sits opposite the City Lord's desk, holding a teacup, touching the teacup one by one, as if thinking about something, his eyes looking at the rotating perpetual motion instrument on the table without focus.

"Is the fate situation serious?"

City Lord Xia Er-yin behind the desk speaks.

"It's okay, just the rest period will be longer, maybe ten days or so before waking up."

"Is that so? Well, being able to heal soul wounds is nothing to complain about for her."

City Lord Xia Er-yin's face looks better. She looks at the door on the side of the office. Behind the door is a bedroom. As a workaholic, how could the office not be connected to a bedroom?

"Regarding the treatment fee," City Lord Xia Er-yin just said this when she was interrupted by Su Xiao raising his hand. He said:

"Being able to treat the Goddess of Fate is a harvest in itself. I have triggered a quest here, and also, after she recovers, she must return this favor to me."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, City Lord Xia Er-yin smiles and nods, replying that this is natural. After getting the list of materials and equipment needed for treatment, she asked her secretary to prepare it. Before tonight, it must be prepared properly.

"City Lord, there is something, I don't know if it can be revealed, to avoid being involved in trouble."

Su Xiao speaks. He naturally wants to ask about the attack just now. As an eyewitness, not asking such a thing is the biggest suspicion.

"I know what you want to ask. If I am not mistaken, this matter should have been done by the Law-Breaker/Kukulin/Bai Ye."

"..."

Su Xiao does not speak, because he cannot figure out for a while whether this counts as being shot while lying down or being accurately predicted.

"About ten days ago, the Law-Breaker/Kukulin/Bai Ye entrusted the hunting group leader Lu Siwa, saying that he wanted to come to Xiguang City to handle important matters. I naturally refused. Now it seems that the price of refusing these evil people has come. That Law-Breaker and Lu Siwa must be plotting something in secret. Perhaps that old fox Augus in Dusk City is also involved..."

City Lord Xia Er-yin crosses her fingers, looking thoughtful.

"Why exclude that Law-Breaker from coming to this city? Do you have old grudges?"

"That's not it, but he is very dangerous."

"The reason is?"

"This madman dared to detonate a high-power explosive on the Arcane Eternal Star and successfully destroyed a resource star of the Arcane Eternal Star. For such a madman, what is it to flatten Xiguang City?"

"I have heard of this, but it is just a rumor."

"I received an invitation to the Arcane Celebration and went to the scene in person, so I also witnessed the two explosions on the Arcane Eternal Star. Those two sun fire pillars standing between heaven and earth, I still remember them vividly to this second. I will never let that ghost, who can be called a mobile disaster, step into Xiguang City."

City Lord Xia Er-yin says this, her gaze begins to lose focus and become unconfident.

"..."

Su Xiao does not speak. He finds that in other people's perspective, how is he like a villainous boss.

But thinking about it, City Lord Xia Er-yin plucked wool from contractors from Apocalypse Paradise, and he plucked wool from the other party this time. Back and forth, how can he be a villain? This is clearly venting anger for contractors from Apocalypse Paradise who are in the same Paradise faction!

People in the Paradise faction, how can they be bullied by the indigenous people of the Blazing Sun Star? This is: plucking wool from Apocalypse Paradise contractors = plucking wool from the Paradise faction = plucking wool from Reincarnation Paradise = plucking wool from the Hunter = Damn, dare to pluck my wool, this must be dealt with!

After the Law-Breaker formula conversion, his conscience felt comfortable immediately. And, dear contractor friends from Apocalypse Paradise, this anger must have been vented for you this time.

If the battle angel Zelina, who was fished by Su Xiao using 【Emergency Assistance】 some time ago, knew this statement, she would definitely say with a complex expression: "Then thank you very much for venting this anger," and while saying this, glance at the knife on her neck.

"City Lord, how do you plan to deal with this Law-Breaker?"

"There is no plan in this regard for the time being, but it certainly cannot be just like this."

"Why don't you notarize a quest with the Tree of Void, specifically to hunt down the Law-Breaker/Kukulin/Bai Ye."

"Hmm~, this suggestion is indeed feasible, but the Law-Breaker's strength is too strong, and the bounty must be very high."

Speaking of this, City Lord Xia Er-yin's gaze is hesitant.

"He has already bullied you, and you just endure it like this?"

Su Xiao naturally has to persuade. He is still counting on accepting this quest.

"This attack is more like a warning. If I issue a wanted notice, it will be a deadly feud."

"I heard about the Soul Academy some time ago. That Law-Breaker ransacked the treasury of the Soul Academy. He might also be eyeing the treasury of your Xiguang City. Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better to strike first."

"No, no, besides, our Xiguang City treasury has many. If only one is ransacked, the loss is within an acceptable range. Moreover, the anti-theft of our treasury is the technology that the Giant Bank just eliminated not long ago. There is no need to worry about this."

Su Xiao, who was sitting opposite the desk, understood. It turned out to be the previous generation of anti-theft technology of the Giant Bank. He already knew the general countermeasures.

"Holy Soul, do you have a grudge against Kukulin/Bai Ye? I always feel that you seem to really want me to issue a wanted notice for him."

City Lord Xia Er-yin looks at Su Xiao with a smile in her eyes, as if she had seen through Su Xiao's heart long ago. In fact, if City Lord Xia Er-yin really saw through Su Xiao's heart, her state of mind would have already cracked on the spot.

After chatting for a while, City Lord Xia Er-yin went to attend a meeting. Only Su Xiao and secretary Yuyuna were left in the office. Yuyuna asked softly: "If you have any needs, you can find me. I am next door."

"..."

Su Xiao did not speak. A bottle of potion appeared between his fingers. Seeing this, Yuyuna hurriedly refused: "Mr. Holy Soul, I cannot..."

"The value is not high, but it can moisturize and nourish the skin."

"This..."

Hearing moisturizing and nourishing the skin, Yuyuna was a little moved.

"Fill the bathtub with warm water and pour in one-fifth, once a week. After one month of persistence, your skin age can probably be healthy until you are over 50."

"Mr. Holy Soul, can I buy it with money?"

Yuyuna's expression was tangled.

"Judging by the price of materials, this bottle of nourishing potion is worth about 0.5 Moon Silver Coins? Or even less, it's just a meeting gift."

"Mr. Holy Soul, thank you for the meeting gift."

Yuyuna was still willing to accept a meeting gift of this value. Not long after she left the office, she pushed the dining car back. It was very rich.

During the meal, Su Xiao tried to activate the "Xiguang City Quest," and the hint from the Tree of Void appeared.

【Detected that your brand level is Lv. 95, you can accept high-level quests corresponding to the brand level.】

【The quest list is as follows:】

1. Side Quest: Gods.

Quest Level: Lv. 95+++++

Quest Introduction: Kill the avatar of the gods.

Quest Deadline: Before the end of this world progress.

Quest Reward: 3,000,000 Moon Silver Coins.

Failure Penalty: Tree of Void reputation -8500 points.

2. Side Quest: Dark Invasion.

Quest Level: Lv. 95.

Quest Introduction: Go deep into the west side of the Lightless Zone, find and bring back the "City Lord's Iron Ring."

Quest Deadline: Before the end of this world progress.

Quest Reward: 1,500,000 Moon Silver Coins.

Failure Penalty: Tree of Void reputation -8200 points.

3. Side Quest: Investigate Intelligence.

Quest Level: Lv. 95.

Quest Introduction: Enter the Central City District of Dusk City and record the content on the Sun Stone Slab.

Quest Deadline: Before the end of this world progress.

Quest Reward: 1,200,000 Moon Silver Coins.

Failure Penalty: Tree of Void reputation -12000 points.

4. Side Quest: Noble Leader.

Quest Level: Lv. 93.

Quest Introduction: Sneak into the mansion of the old noble Augus in the Inner City District of Dusk City and steal the secret approval document from his bedroom.

Quest Deadline: Before the end of this world progress.

Quest Reward: 850,000 Moon Silver Coins.

Failure Penalty: Tree of Void reputation -11000 points.

5. Side Quest: Hunting Shield Gun.

Quest Level: Lv. 94.

Quest Introduction: Sneak into the "Vanguard Fortress" on the south side of the Lightless Zone and steal the exploration notes of the noble Lu Siwa about the Lightless Zone.

Quest Deadline: Before the end of this world progress.

Quest Reward: 1,950,000 Moon Silver Coins.

Failure Penalty: Tree of Void reputation -15000 points.

6. Side Quest: Extreme Dark Nest.

Quest Level: Lv. 95

Quest Introduction: Sneak into the lower level of the Great Library in the Inner City District of Dusk City and take the "Prophet's Enlightenment" ancient book from the Eye-less Sage's bookshelf.

Quest Deadline: Before the end of this world progress.

Quest Reward: 2,150,000 Moon Silver Coins.

Failure Penalty: Tree of Void reputation -16800 points.

Su Xiao flips through the quest list. There are more than thirty quests in total. He does not make a choice, but wants them all. That's right, he accepted all these quests. The reason is that even if he cannot complete them, let these quests deduct the Tree of Void reputation. If they want to deduct, he must have this reputation. Tree of Void reputation -??? is invincible in this quest notarization mechanism.

Su Xiao feels that the first few quests are quite interesting. For example, "Side Quest: Extreme Dark Nest." If he wants to complete this quest, he will sneak into the Great Library? Of course not. His relationship with the old nobility is getting more and more rigid, and he naturally gets closer to the Great Library.

When the time comes, just talk to the old monster directly. If there are no accidents, obtaining "Prophet's Enlightenment" from the other party does not require paying any price.

As for "Side Quest: Noble Leader," this time he will hand the 【Blazing Sun Greatsword】 to the Monarch Faction. When the time comes, tell Augus about this. Involving the major event of the 【Blazing Sun Greatsword】, that old fox will immediately send his subordinates to take out the secret approval document in his bedroom safe.

As for "Side Quest: Hunting Shield Gun," this quest is too interesting. He wants Lu Siwa's exploration notes about the Lightless Zone. With the quest reward of 1,950,000 Moon Silver Coins, which is equivalent to 195,000 Soul Coins, he will just tell Lu Siwa later to take the exploration notes for 97,500 Soul Coins.

In this situation, Lu Siwa will not refuse. For the hunting group exploring the Lightless Zone, they are willing to share the results they have obtained with all intelligent group factions willing to fight against the Abyss and darkness. Not to mention, there are Soul Coins to take. This is no longer too fragrant, it is fragrant crazy.

Lu Siwa's reaction at that time is basically: "That someone, yes, you, come here, watch him for me, don't let him run, I'll be back soon."

This quest is City Lord Xia Er-yin wearing colored glasses to look at people. However, thinking about it, who could have thought that the hunting group with a fierce and crazy style would be so generous with precious exploration notes.

That evening, City Lord Xia Er-yin's house, on the first basement floor, in a transformed treatment room.

The Goddess of Fate is lying on the operating table, beside her is City Lord Xia Er-yin who looks a bit worried.

"Holy Soul, will Fate wake up temporarily?"

"Before soul anesthesia, yes, but her judgment will be affected, and she will talk nonsense at that time."

"Can she recognize me then?"

"Not sure."

Su Xiao adjusts all kinds of equipment and determines that all potions are prepared. He moves his five fingers. Some time ago, he learned "Treatment Secret Method" from Sun Scholars, making it evolve into "Sun Treatment Secret Method." Because treatment and alchemy have many things in common, assuming he was "Sun Treatment Secret Method Lv. 30" before, now he is at least "Sun Treatment Secret Method Lv. 85."

After Su Xiao showed his treatment methods to the four Sun Scholars, the evaluation of the four Sun Scholars was: although the treatment effect is average, the technique is still very gentle.

From this, one can imagine that "Sun Treatment Secret Method" is a... slightly rude treatment method. Of course, the effect is very top-notch.

If it were before, Su Xiao only had a 10% chance of success for the Goddess of Fate's soul wounds, but now, he is 100% sure he can cure the other party's soul wounds. However, everything in the world pays attention to balance. "Sun Treatment Secret Method" has such a powerful treatment effect, and there are no side effects after healing. The treatment process is slightly rude, and I think the treated person will not mind.

With the progress of soul anesthesia, the Goddess of Fate, who was in a coma, suddenly felt a coolness from the inside out, which made her eyelids tremble and slowly open her eyes. First, her good friend City Lord Xia Er-yin came into view, which made the Goddess of Fate, who was wearing a special oxygen mask, let out a long sigh of relief. She turned her gaze to the right side of the operating table.

On the right side of the operating table is a figure wearing a lower-face

"Ooh!"

The Goddess of Fate tried to get up, but she couldn't move a single inch. She felt herself falling into darkness, which caused tears to well up in the corners of her eyes. She had already recognized who this healer was: the infamous Law-Breaker, Kukulinn Bai Ye. Thinking of this, she realized: "Being treated by a sword master, I'm done for this time."

This feeling was comparable to being on an operating table, just having been anesthetized, only to find out that the person performing the surgery was a blacksmith.

Seeing the tears in the corners of the Goddess of Fate's eyes, he smiled and said, "Look how happy Fate is. Knowing she can be cured, she's crying tears of joy."

The words of the City Lord, Charin, reached the ears of the Goddess of Fate while she could still hear, and she was immediately so enraged that she fainted.

This made Su Xiao frown. He checked the data on the equipment nearby; the Goddess of Fate shouldn't have fallen into a deep coma so quickly. He took out several types of semi-finished potions, quickly finished adjusting them, and injected them into the IV bag. As the potions took effect, the Goddess of Fate's various vital signs began to stabilize.

Wind Sea Continent, Beast Race main city, Eternal Ring City.

The steam train passing through the wilderness and the endless wheat fields made the picturesque scenery appear peaceful and comfortable. Just then, a black dot suddenly appeared in the air. This black dot slowly formed a vortex, rotating and expanding.

Such a spatial intrusion immediately triggered the world's rejection response. Driven by the world's consciousness, this black spatial vortex slowed down and showed signs of healing.

Crack!

A spider leg, sharp as a blade, suddenly stabbed out from within the black spatial vortex.