Chapter 3903: Luck

In the restaurant, the three members of the "Big Smart" team were devouring the delicacies on the table. It seemed that in order to deal with their fourth strong enemy, the leader of the exiled Sun Warriors, they had been sleeping in the open for some time.

Among them, the Astral Devourer was eating the happiest. Having been born from the Star Giant Tree not long ago, it was in the stage of exploring the myriad worlds of the Void. Compared to the absolute cruelty of the previous Astral Devourer, this newly born Astral Devourer was uncertain in good and evil.

This was not speculation; there was evidence. Previously, Su Xiao had entrusted the three scoundrels of the Adjudicator to secretly assist the Big Smart team, so as to avoid them being unable to defeat the Blood-Thirsty Beast due to their worrying intelligence, until the Black Demon joined the team, which made the team representing the Soul Academy secure.

According to the Toad's secret observation, the Astral Devourer, who looked like a ten-year-old boy with ceramic-like cracks all over his face and hands, had previously rested in the Spirit Crown City of the Soul Academy. At that time, the Astral Devourer was also curious about everything. A type of meat pie on the side of the road successfully attracted its attention. What the Toad didn't expect was that the Astral Devourer actually knew how to pay and knew how to wait for the other party to give change.

Seeing this scene, the Toad's eyes widened to the extreme. This was an Astral Devourer capable of becoming a world-destroying existence, yet it actually knew how to pay and wait for change, although the Astral Devourer held a large paper bag of meat pies, calculating for a long time whether the change was correct, and finally didn't figure it out, walking away with a face full of dissatisfaction.

When the Astral Devourer passed through a small alley, something that made the Toad's eyes widen even more happened: the aroma of the meat pie in the Astral Devourer's hand attracted the attention of several stray dogs near a trash can, and then the Astral Devourer actually began to clumsily feed these stray dogs.

Don't think the Astral Devourer is kind because of this. A few days ago in the Dark Moon Nightmare, it encountered a group of explorers, and that group of explorers was killed by it. More detailed circumstances were that in the Dark Moon Nightmare, the Astral Devourer got separated from the Tyrant and the Immortal Brother, and the Astral Devourer wandered around until it was bored, just happening to encounter these explorers.

The Astral Devourer was curious about one thing, which was whether the bodies of these explorers were sturdy, so it unilaterally negotiated with these explorers to play a ball-throwing game. Whoever dodged the dark matter ball it threw would be let go.

Hearing this, one of the explorers, a one-eyed tough guy, stood out, not to participate in the game first, but to kill the Astral Devourer. The result was obvious: this one-eyed tough guy died miserably, to a degree of tragedy that made other explorers who dared to venture deep into the Dark Moon Nightmare full of fear.

Under the threat of death, these explorers could only play the ball-throwing game with the Astral Devourer one by one. Half an hour later, only one healer with despair in her eyes remained in this explorer team. Her teammates were evenly distributed on the ground within a few dozen square meters around her, and what greeted her was a dark matter ball the size of a marble, with the texture of black iron.

Beside the dining table, after Su Xiao put down his tableware, he looked at the Astral Devourer who was still devouring food. The problem now was, if he killed it directly, once it escaped, he would form a deadly grudge with this Astral Devourer. One must know that the Astral Devourer would definitely be able to reach "Top-tier Supreme." This was the power given to every generation of Astral Devourers by the astral realm.

That is to say, even if the Astral Devourer did nothing, it would become stronger every day. It was indeed at the Supreme-level now, but perhaps after a period of time, the Astral Devourer would reach the Supreme-level. The reason was that the Astral Devourer was not improving its power; it was recovering its power. It initially had a "Top-tier Supreme" upper limit.

As for whether it could reach "Supreme Peak," that depended on each generation of Astral Devourer itself. Each generation of Astral Devourer was a different individual. Some generations of Astral Devourers could, while others could not.

The Astral Devourer was part of the astral rules. Some abandoned stars in the astral realm needed something to devour, otherwise, it would not only hinder the birth of new stars but also breed terrifying things due to gradual decay. The mission of the Astral Devourer was to devour these abandoned stars.

The Astral Devourer could be good or evil, and each generation was different. Some Astral Devourers only devoured abandoned stars, or ate those stars whose energy was unstable and about to explode and destroy surrounding planets, while some Astral Devourers were addicted to star power and devoured those robust, healthy stars. This type of Astral Devourer would gradually turn into a world-destroying existence.

Those that only devoured abandoned stars and kept the astral rules stable would gradually turn toward the Star Dragon system. It was not that their form would permanently turn into a Star Dragon, but that they would gain a transformation-type ability, allowing them to turn into a Star Dragon for a certain period of time. The appearance and form of each Astral Devourer were constant when they were born and would not change in the future.

Forming a deadly grudge with the Astral Devourer was obviously not very cost-effective; it was both a waste of time and had no benefits. But if the Astral Devourer was left alone, it would likely become a world-destroying existence and a deadly enemy in the future. The most ideal situation was to let this Astral Devourer develop toward the Star Dragon system.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao realized a problem, which was that this situation was very consistent with the prerequisites for triggering a mission. He tried to conduct a consultation-type notarization with the Reincarnation Paradise, the content being: Star Devourer, Star Dragon system.

What Su Xiao didn't expect was that after applying for this consultation notarization, he really got relevant notifications. However, this was not because of good luck, but the corresponding authority derived after his Void Tree reputation exceeded 70,000 points.

【Notification: A mission related to "Star Devourer" and "Star Dragon System" has been detected.】

【Total number of missions: 1.】

【Notarizing party for this mission: Void Tree.】

【Prerequisite for activating this mission: Void Tree reputation above 50,000 points.】

【Special Mission · Astral Rules.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 94 (This mission level will increase in real-time according to the improvement of the Astral Devourer's comprehensive strength).

Mission Introduction: Let the current Astral Devourer evolve toward the Star Dragon system, rather than becoming a world-destroying existence.

Mission Deadline: 1200 natural days (no restriction on the world where it is located).

Mission Reward: Astral Treasure Chest (this is one of the highest-level treasure chests).

Mission Penalty: Deduct the current lowest physical attribute (current value + 10 points absolute value).

The penalty for this mission was quite harsh. The so-called "deduct current lowest physical attribute (current value + 10 points)" meant that, assuming Su Xiao's luck attribute was his lowest attribute, then his 94 points of luck attribute would be deducted by 94 points, becoming 0, and then deducted by another 10 points, making the luck attribute negative. The danger could be imagined.

However, Su Xiao's lowest attribute was the charisma attribute. His -27 points of charisma attribute were completely unafraid of this penalty. If the charisma attribute really reached below -50 points later, he would find a way to get a higher-star 【Exemption Badge】.

The problem was how to accept this mission. Su Xiao contacted Caesar through the communication channel. Caesar replied quite quickly but indicated that there was no way to accept this mission, and the matter was very difficult to handle.

Caesar said there was no way to accept this mission, which was beyond doubt, and the subsequent sentence that the matter was very difficult to handle meant that this guy had some ways, but there were prerequisites and he had to be paid more.

Su Xiao knew what this prerequisite was without Caesar saying it. At the very least, he had to get this mission out of the Void Tree's mission pool. This kind of thing definitely had to be done by someone with a Void Tree reputation above 50,000 points.

As long as someone could get this mission out, Caesar would have a way to transfer this mission from the mission acceptor to Su Xiao's mission list. In this way, he reasonably and cleverly bypassed the prerequisite requirement of "Void Tree reputation above 50,000 points," which Su Xiao could never achieve.

Regarding the Void Tree reputation above 50,000 points, Su Xiao thought of someone. Previously, with the Ruthless Brother and Xi'er, using the "Emergency Assistance" authority, he fished out the Battle Angel Zerina of this world. The other party's Void Tree reputation was above 50,000 points.

Before letting Battle Angel Zerina go, Su Xiao successfully added her to his contact list through her Battle Angel imprint number. At this time, he contacted this Battle Angel in text form.

Bai Ye (Hunter): "Reply when you see this, or I'll have Xi'er find a way to find you."

Zerina (Battle Angel): "I'm here."

Bai Ye (Hunter): "I have a deal, are you interested?"

Zerina (Battle Angel): "To be honest, I'm not very interested."

Bai Ye (Hunter): "Okay, sorry to bother you."

Zerina (Battle Angel): "You... don't be so polite. What exactly are you plotting?"

Zerina (Battle Angel): "You didn't really have Xi'er come to find me, did you? There's no need to treat me like this, don't let that shy-looking lunatic come to find me!"

Zerina (Battle Angel): "Hey! Reply!"

Zerina (Battle Angel): "Tell me, what deal?"

Bai Ye (Hunter): "Accept a special mission from the Void Tree. You name the price for the reward."

Zerina (Battle Angel): "Is it urgent?"

Bai Ye (Hunter): "No."

Zerina (Battle Angel): "Give me five days. I accepted a Hunter chain mission in Holy Heart City. Let's meet in Dusk City after I finish it."

Bai Ye (Hunter): "."

Zerina (Battle Angel): "By the way, you didn't really have Xi'er track me down, did you? To be honest, we should talk about our business ourselves; there's no need for outsiders to participate. Did you or did you not have that lunatic come to catch me? Reply quickly."

Bai Ye (Hunter): "I did not."

Su Xiao closed the contact list with Battle Angel Zerina, and then opened the dialog box with Xi'er. After telling her not to go, he sent her 800 Soul Coins in the form of an imprint email. Xi'er was quite happy to receive 800 Soul Coins without doing anything, and even left a message saying that she could be found for similar things in the future.

Closing the communication list, Su Xiao began to consider a problem, which was how to make the Astral Devourer abandon evil and follow good, and evolve toward the Star Dragon system.

Su Xiao looked around at the people present. Sin-Arias, who had a son and whose son was particularly naughty, was undoubtedly the best person to ask. He asked Sin-Arias this question in text form through the team's separate communication function, and the answer he got was quite concise: beat it.

The Astral Devourer, having eaten and drunk its fill, leaned back on the chair with satisfaction. It even muttered: "The human race only knows how to process food to satisfy their appetite. This is a symbol of low-level intelligent creatures. *Hiccup~*"

The Astral Devourer, having burped, looked like it was preparing to take a nap before setting off. It didn't know where it learned that.

"..."

Su Xiao took out a bottle of "Darkness Potion." This couldn't actually be considered a buff secret medicine; it was generally used to enhance the characteristics of "Water-type Potions." However, for the Astral Devourer, the "Darkness Potion" was a very good permanent buff potion.

The "Darkness Potion" was placed on the table. The Astral Devourer immediately became spirited. It glanced at the "Darkness Potion" on the table and then at Su Xiao. Even with its not-so-smart little brain, it could think that there was a conspiracy in this, so it pretended not to care and picked up the water cup beside it to take a sip.

"To tell you the truth, I killed the previous Astral Devourer."

Su Xiao spoke. The Astral Devourer hearing this had no reaction. It had guessed this point long ago, otherwise, it wouldn't have received the inheritance memory of finding the Law-Extinguisher to take revenge from the "Inheritance Power of the Astral Devourer" just after it was born.

"So, you want to kill me too?"

The Astral Devourer's pitch-black eyes narrowed, looking like it wasn't afraid of him and could fight him one-on-one at any time.

"As a Law-Extinguisher, I won't do such barbaric things."

"Ahem!"

Elucle, who was drinking lily porridge, almost choked. Elucle, with her long crimson hair, glanced at Su Xiao and said nothing.

"Then what do you want?"

Although the Astral Devourer felt something was a bit wrong, it didn't think too much about it.

"I'm prepared to give you some compensation."

Hearing this, the Astral Devourer showed confusion. Wood, Sin-Arias, the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and the Abyss Archbishop stood up one after another, indicating that they had finished eating and were going outside to see if the train had arrived. These five old schemers were clearly preventing blood from splashing on them later.

"My goal is to take revenge on you, not to get compensation. Even if you give me more..."

The Astral Devourer couldn't continue speaking, because Su Xiao had Amu bring out a box of "Darkness Potions," 24 bottles neatly arranged.

"*Gulp~*"

The Astral Devourer swallowed its saliva. After silently chanting in its heart that it couldn't be seduced by this enemy, it said angrily: "Even if you! Even if you give me so much, I... can still consider it."

The Astral Devourer's tone went from anger to relaxation, and finally, its eyes became a bit clear. Thinking about it, a box of 24 bottles of "Darkness Potion," a box of 24 bottles of "Miracle Potion," a box of 20 bottles of "Dark Life Secret Medicine," a box of 22 bottles of "Starry Sky Potion."

Four boxes of potions were stacked together and placed on the table in front of the Astral Devourer. Using these as compensation to resolve the conflict was already sincere to a ridiculous degree. It was no wonder the Astral Devourer's eyes became increasingly clear.

And in the seat next to the Astral Devourer, Elucle stood up quietly and moved to the next seat, keeping a distance from the Astral Devourer. Intuition told her that this generation of Astral Devourer was about to be fooled into a state of blurred consciousness.

"If you insist on taking revenge on me, you can."

Su Xiao finished speaking and signaled Amu to take away all the secret medicine boxes on the table. This was the difference between a promise and taking out real objects. If Su Xiao only promised to give the Astral Devourer these secret medicines and then said he wouldn't give them, the Astral Devourer would only be angry and feel played.

Now, the Astral Devourer had seen it with its own eyes and had a feeling that it already possessed these secret medicines. In this situation, taking these secret medicines away was not anger or rage, but the heartache of loss. Things that belonged to it were taken away like this; of course, it would feel reluctant. Reluctance derived desire, desire bred greed, and greed was a weakness.

"Okay... okay, I'll pretend the past didn't happen. And the previous generation of Astral Devourer was a world-destroying disaster, and you are a Law-Extinguisher. This belongs to... faction hostility? So, we should indeed reconcile."

The Astral Devourer had already started to find a way down for itself. Seeing this, the Spellcaster Elucle sighed softly. She knew that this Astral Devourer had been completely fooled.

Although he wanted to beat the Astral Devourer to make it turn over a new leaf, he couldn't just beat it directly. This would only lead to the Astral Devourer's anger value being maxed out, and the anger value would upgrade to hatred value.

But if he first increased the favorability value, for example, right now, because Su Xiao gave too much, the Astral Devourer's favorability had changed from the previous -50 points to 68 points. In terms of cost, there was actually basically no cost. The several potions Su Xiao took out were powerful and precious, but the production cost was low, and the price was all in the craftsmanship.

Now the favorability was 68. Considering the current basic relationship, the Astral Devourer would not appear in a negative favorability situation, but the favorability would connect to the anger value after reaching 0 points. After the anger value was full and reached 100 points, it would connect to the hatred value.

In this way, as long as he controlled the beating to within 168 points of favorability, and didn't let the Astral Devourer's anger value break through 100 points and turn into hatred value, there would be no problem. Later, he would give various potions + fooling, clear the anger value, and pull the favorability back to above 50 points, which would be fine. This was commonly known as controlling the anger value while beating.

In this process, letting the Astral Devourer realize the sinister degree of becoming a world-destroying existence, as long as the Astral Devourer's brain circuit was slightly normal, it would definitely develop toward the Star Dragon system.

The plan was gradually becoming clear. Su Xiao felt that the possibility of completing the "Special Mission · Astral Rules" later was very high. He hadn't obtained the 【Astral Treasure Chest】 yet, and he really wanted to try what kind of rare treasures he could open from it.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, meaning the Lord Train had arrived. Getting up and arriving in the courtyard, Su Xiao saw the Lord Train like a steel beast, as well as Delona walking out of the carriage.

"Hello everyone."

The smile on Delona's face was exceptionally happy. Even though there were Ancient God systems, humanoid Ancient Gods, Fate Devouring systems, the Black Demon from the Abyss, and the Astral Devourer present, Delona was not timid at all. If someone really wanted to hurt her, she could just let her sister Ayesha come out. The Dark Bed was one of the most powerful Abyss-nourishing creatures.

Due to the current situation in Dusk City, the great noble Luciva, who had no choice but to return to Dusk City, was now busy to the point of being overwhelmed and naturally couldn't use the Lord Train, so it was borrowed by Su Xiao.

As for Luciva's sister Delona, this young girl couldn't stay idle every day. Knowing that they were going to the Dead City, of course, she wanted to follow. However, Luciva had entrusted her not to let his sister enter the Dead City. After arriving there, don't let Delona get off the train. The Lord Train would naturally carry Delona back.

After the group got on the train, the carriage door closed. Including Delona, there were a total of fifteen passengers. Fortunately, the carriage was spacious enough and didn't look crowded, and there was space for Delona to chase Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang around.

The train started. As the train entered the different space, the wilderness scenery outside the window flew by. Su Xiao was just about to pass the time with meditation when news came from the Toad. He had previously entrusted the Toad to find out the whereabouts of the Hand of Destiny, Ashvis. The "Power Fragment · Soul Will" that was randomly refreshed this time was truly too tempting, and he had to take it down as much as possible.

According to the Toad's investigation, the Hand of Destiny, Ashvis, had not left this world. This truly surprised Su Xiao. When he last saw Ashvis, the other party had an expression of "I will never come to the Blazing Sun Star again for the rest of my life."

Through the Toad's description, Su Xiao knew what was going on. This storyline was quite funny. After Ashvis escaped from the Great Library, of course, he tried to leave this world as soon as possible. According to the agreement, the Great Library would pick him up and send him out of this world. But Ashvis, who was almost pitted to death by the Great Library, how could he still dare to trust the Great Library?

The Blazing Sun Star had a boundary-level seal, making it easy to enter but difficult to leave. Unless there was notarization from the Void Tree or Paradise Faction, it was impossible to leave easily. Ashvis obviously didn't have one.

In this way, Ashvis could only find powerful local forces and borrow their boundary-level teleportation array to first go to a small satellite of the Ancient Dragon Kingdom · Ebers, and then use the boundary-level teleportation array there to go to the Void. Once in the Void, it would be easy to handle.

The problem was that there were very few forces in this world with boundary-level teleportation arrays. Dusk City had the Great Library, the old nobles, and the newly promoted nobles. These three factions had them. Secondly, there were the Soul Academy and the Gods Church. After weighing it, Ashvis decided to leave this world through the Soul Academy's boundary-level teleportation array.

After some searching and inquiring, Ashvis finally found a particularly reliable teleportation array master. According to the recommender, the Soul Academy's boundary-level teleportation array was built by this teleportation array master. However, what Ashvis didn't know was that this teleportation array master was none other than the famous Nicholas Caesar.

Please don't laugh. Although Caesar was not a teleportation array master, he did know how to operate a boundary-level teleportation array, and his skills were a few points higher than the current teleportation master of the Soul Academy. The three scoundrels of the Adjudicator, who had received the money, had Ashvis stand on the Soul Academy's boundary-level teleportation array early the next morning. There were many details, but don't worry about these details; just look at the result.

The space light on the boundary-level teleportation array lit up, which almost made Ashvis tear up. Facts proved that he was happy too early this time. The moment the teleportation array started, the space of this world suddenly vibrated. This feeling was like invisible world-burning flames about to burn this world to ashes. Although for some reason, these world-burning flames didn't really burn, it also caused the space system of this world to appear with a momentary lag.

There were no other effects, except that a big unlucky guy who was using the boundary-level teleportation array suddenly had a deviation in his teleportation coordinates due to the spatial lag of this world, and was currently located in the darkness of the Lightless Zone.

The three scoundrels of the Adjudicator were indeed a collection of unscrupulous, treacherous, cunning, insidious, and greedy traits, but once things turned into the process of "taking money to do things," the three scoundrels of the Adjudicator were particularly reliable. Caesar and the other two rushed to rescue Ashvis, who had strayed into the Lightless Zone. At the moment, the three had already arrived at the Vanguard Fortress.

After reading this information provided by the Toad, Su Xiao rubbed his forehead with one hand. He suddenly doubted whether he really drew "Power Fragment · Golden Annihilation" last time because of the boost from this destiny-type ability. This guy's own luck could be so bad to this extent, which was truly indescribable.

Was Ashvis unlucky because his own luck was bad? Of course not. He was a destiny-type. If he couldn't even figure out his own luck boost, he would become a joke in the high-threshold ability system of the destiny-type.

Everything started from Ashvis, in order to save resources for promotion to Supreme, choosing to boost the only Law-Extinguishing Shadow of the Third Era with a hard head. From this start, Ashvis had an ultimate nemesis. That's right, it was the Law-Extinguisher whose luck he had temporarily boosted before.

Before escaping from the Great Library, Ashvis, whose state hadn't recovered, was top-heavy and weak to the limit, walking on the streets of Dusk City, and had already discovered that the situation was not right.

In just one hour, he was stepped on by passersby more than 20 times, almost hit by a car 5 times, the nearby sewer pipes exploded 3 times when he passed by, there was no wind or rain, five or six billboards fell down and almost hit him, and he choked on water 2 times, one of which caused him to sprain his waist, and when he took a step, the ground was slippery, and he almost did a big split. Until ten minutes later, when Ashvis, disheveled all over, squatted on the side of the road, and passersby had already started throwing coins at him, Ashvis completely realized the severity of the situation.

Would Ashvis be unlucky if he was in the same big city as Su Xiao? If it was just like this, Ashvis would thank the heavens for their favor. The current situation was that as long as Ashvis and Su Xiao were in the same world, he would be intermittently unlucky.

For example, during the use of the boundary-level teleportation array, he happened to catch up with a Law-Extinguisher sealing an Original Sin item, causing Ashvis to be confusedly teleported to the dangerous area of this world: the Lightless Zone.

The good news was that this kind of bad luck would be completely lifted as long as Ashvis left this world or Su Xiao left this world. In the final analysis, the subsequent causal backlash derived from daring to try to boost Law-Extinguishing luck before was not so easy to lift. It required a sufficiently long physical distance to completely tear apart this seemingly non-existent causal backlash and let it dissipate completely.

A more intuitive description was that Su Xiao's bad luck was currently being continuously received by the big unlucky guy Ashvis. Because of this, when refreshing the power fragments that 【Power Lord】 could form, such a powerful "Power Fragment · Soul Will" was refreshed.

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't go to the Lightless Zone. The three scoundrels of the Adjudicator who took money to do things were still very reassuring. The most important thing right now was to deal with the Incarnation of All Gods.

The lineup to deal with the Incarnation of All Gods this time was quite powerful. The problem was, who was going to backstab whom in this powerful lineup was a huge problem, and the combat power of the Incarnation of All Gods must be ridiculously strong.

This point could be seen from the mission difficulty. The previous mission to kill the Nun had a mission level of Lv. 95++, and the current mission level to kill the Incarnation of All Gods reached Lv. 95+++++.

More importantly, the penalty for this mission was "all attributes -3%, forcibly teleported out of this world." By the standard of main mission penalties, this was no different from having no penalty.

As the Lord Train slowed down, the surrounding environment began to dim. The carriage door opened, and the group got off one after another. A smell of corruption mixed with blood permeated the air. Looking at the sky, the pitch-black sky presented a dark red that made people feel uncomfortable, and the sound of the wind whimpered in their ears.

The earth in sight presented a withered brown. Looking into the distance, a large city with broken walls and long slopes of bones piled up in front of the walls appeared in sight. The "Dead City" located in the Northern Continent had arrived.

Just facing the "Dead City," there was a sense of oppression that made people feel heavy. This feeling made Elucle, dressed in gold-white magic robes, slowly exhale. However, the lineup of this team gave her some comfort. She looked at the temporary teammates beside her, but suddenly discovered that in the short time they walked off the train, Wood and Sin-Arias had disappeared, and they had disappeared without any sensory fluctuations.

Elucle looked to the other side, and then 'surprisedly' discovered that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, the Platinum Apostle, and Delona had also disappeared without a trace. This made her suddenly feel that this "Dead City" trip had become exceptionally dangerous. ===== CHAPTER 3904 =====