Chapter 3927: Recruitment

The space fluctuations after teleportation subsided, and Su Xiao returned to his exclusive room in the Samsara Paradise. This cooperation with Mo Lei was quite pleasant, at least his mood was relatively pleasant.

Su Xiao previously thought that there would be no World Contention Battle after reaching Absolute Strength-level. Now it seems this is not the case. Although there are, they are rare. He encountered it this time because of some changes in the Ruins of Dawn Paradise.

Su Xiao estimated that it was very likely triggered by the last contractor of Dawn Paradise, Bee. In the last world, he met the ruthless brother and Xier on the Blazing Sun Star. These two, one accumulated four master technique abilities, and the other was a top-tier poison milk. On the surface, their goal was to deal with the super high-risk violator Hao Chou, who was on par with Su Xiao, the Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and others. Now it seems, it was not at all.

Hao Chou chose to be promoted to Supreme Strength while knowing the chaotic camp of the Blazing Sun Star, there must be a reason.

One possibility is that "Ruthless Poison Combination" and Hao Chou both won. First, let's talk about "Ruthless Poison Combination." They seemed to be going to deal with Hao Chou, but now it seems that this was more like a smoke bomb chosen under the chaotic camp of the Blazing Sun Star.

The "Good Teammate" trio, the three scumbags of the adjudicator, the Priest team, the Black Demon team, coupled with the powerful local forces of the Blazing Sun Star, under this camp, "Ruthless Poison Combination" put on a mask of pain at that time. They were not really cowardly; they were carrying out a particularly important task, which was to escort the last contractor of Dawn Paradise, Bee, to a semi-abandoned Paradise device on the Blazing Sun Star.

This device was when Samsara Paradise and Dawn Paradise were conducting a "Paradise Contention Battle." Dawn Paradise was about to be defeated, so it randomly teleported this important device. Until not long ago, a Samsara Paradise contractor discovered this thing on the Blazing Sun Star, which derived the escort mission of "Ruthless Poison Combination."

Encountering the chaotic battle during the escort mission, "Ruthless Poison Combination"'s solution was to fight Hao Chou to the death, making the outside world feel that they already had enemies and didn't need to pay attention to them. Facts proved that this was very effective.

As for Hao Chou, this guy who seemed to be a tough guy who could punch everything with both fists, actually had no weakness in strategy. His purpose in coming to the Blazing Sun Star was not to be promoted to Supreme Strength, but to strangely be promoted to between Absolute Strength and Supreme Strength.

Such a strange promotion tier would not appear in 99.99% of situations. The old environment of the Blazing Sun Star gave Hao Chou the opportunity.

Why did Hao Chou perform such a strange promotion? The answer is that only those below Supreme Strength can participate in this World Contention Battle of Dawn Ruins. Being promoted to between Absolute Strength and Supreme Strength is the upper limit allowed by notarization.

Besides that, the Priest's side was also eyeing it covetously. Su Xiao was convinced that the Priest had been preparing for this for a long time. He even had reason to suspect that it was under the Priest's secret guidance that the Samsara Paradise contractor discovered the device on the Blazing Sun Star, thereby triggering a series of subsequent situations.

This also explains why the Priest deliberately inquired before whether Su Xiao had opened the Scarlet Card of the Gray Gentleman.

Things have developed to this step, it should be the plan of the Gray Gentleman. Don't forget, Bee had always been following the Gray Gentleman. Although Bee was a bit dull, until now, Bee actually only trusted the Gray Gentleman and told the Gray Gentleman everything she knew.

If one continues to speculate, the large-scale gathering of violators conducted in the World of Trees before was essentially the Gray Gentleman attracting cannon fodder to cover up his ultimate purpose. This purpose was to fully activate Bee's "Dawn Brand."

Bee's "Dawn Brand" should have three stages. In the first stage, Bee could only be the last contractor of Dawn Paradise. In the second stage, Bee's significance would be completely different. The Gray Gentleman used a Dawn Paradise device in the World of Trees to successfully activate Bee's brand.

This also explains why Bee often posted expressions in the World Contact Platform in the World of Trees. She was bored in the activation device alone. Bee, who was a bit dull, had no hobbies, so she opened the World Contact Platform, watched what people said inside, and occasionally posted an expression representing her mood.

However, in the World of Trees, the Gray Gentleman was indeed defeated. As a price, he became 【Scarlet Card · Gray Gentleman (★★★★★★★★)】, or rather, this was also one of the Gray Gentleman's trump cards. However, a certain dog thief hunter refused to open this Scarlet Card.

This led to the Priest and others who conspired with the Gray Gentleman being unable to wait, thereby gradually promoting this upheaval.

If I'm not mistaken, this was a plan laid out from the Seventh Tier. At that time, it certainly didn't cover events like "World Contention Battle (Absolute Strength-level)," but there was a general direction.

Thinking about it this way, the big enemy going to Dawn Ruins this time was still the Priest team. The estimated members were: Priest, Platinum Apostle, Hao Chou.

Among them, the Platinum Apostle, although sprayed to death by the Zerg Demon Flame Dragon Legion in the Eternal Light World, considering that the Platinum Apostle could survive the hunt of the Leader, he certainly wouldn't really die this time.

Besides the Priest team, the item from Dawn Paradise that Su Xiao obtained in the Witch World before was also an important purpose for going to Dawn Paradise this time. At this time, this item was already displayed as 【???】.

The origin of this thing was somewhat tortuous. It had to be traced back to the violator · Spirit Demon encountered in the Eternal Light World. Simply put, the Spirit Demon was devoured of fate and, without knowing it, put 【???】 into his storage space and started courting death, and was subsequently killed by Su Xiao.

The reason why the Platinum Apostle set it up like this was that the only possibility for this thing to be brought out of the Eternal Light World was through the killing revenue judgment of Su Xiao, who had a very high credibility in Samsara Paradise.

If Su Xiao opened the Scarlet Card of the Spirit Demon normally, he couldn't have opened 【???】. Corresponding to this, the Platinum Apostle had already prepared to open the 【???】 added to the "Scarlet Treasure Chest Random Item Pool" through other means. The problem was that Su Xiao just didn't open the "Scarlet Treasure Chest · Spirit Demon."

Interestingly, super old schemers like the Gray Gentleman and the Platinum Apostle, one broke his defense because Su Xiao didn't open the Scarlet Card, and the other broke his defense because he didn't open the Scarlet Treasure Chest. Was Su Xiao knowing the future? That's not the case. He wasn't very keen on opening Scarlet Cards and Scarlet Treasure Chests. Once he felt a little risk, he wouldn't open them. Speaking of which, this has to be attributed to the large amount of shampoo opened in the First Tier, and these shampoos haven't been used up yet.

The reason why the Platinum Apostle broke his defense was not entirely because Su Xiao didn't open the "Scarlet Treasure Chest · Spirit Demon," but because Su Xiao, after a period of time, very shamelessly used the 【Directional Acquisition · Once】 permission to open 【???】 from the Spirit Demon's Scarlet Treasure Chest. The attributes of this thing before were:

【???】

Origin: Dawn?

Quality: Paradise...

Effect:???

Warning: This is a Dawn Paradise characteristic item that cannot be notarized. The hunter can choose to submit it, or go to the??? place in Dawn Paradise · Dark Ruins to use this item.

Prompt: With the hunter's current permission, you can apply for notarization to Samsara Paradise to view the conventional mode attributes of this item, but after performing this notarization, you need to complete binding with this item within 10 minutes. After binding, you will have to use this item.

Detection Result 1: This item only has the notarization restriction of "Paradise-grade" and has no usage risk (this description only includes the usage process).

Detection Result 2: This is a positive revenue characteristic item, unique to Dawn Paradise. Due to the current situation of Dawn Paradise, you need to prepare 186,000 ounces of Space-Time Power yourself to charge the device activated by this item to complete this upgrade.

Detection Result 3: Because you are a hunter, when you successfully use the??? device to complete the upgrade, the ownership of this device will change. Samsara Paradise has a 50.95% probability of successfully notarizing this high-level device a second time, thereby obtaining the composition, manufacturing, and driving process of this high-level device, thereby adding a high-permission upgrade facility to Samsara Paradise.

Prompt: Detecting the hunter's behavior of using this item will likely bring revenue to Samsara Paradise. If you successfully enter Dawn Paradise · Dark Ruins and arrive at the storage place of this device, the 186,000 ounces of Space-Time Power you originally needed to pay will be 99.99% borne by Samsara Paradise. You only need to pay a total of 18.6 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate this??? high-level device.

Prompt: Before the hunter's Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Intelligence attributes all reach 800 points, please do not go to the storage place of this??? high-level device in Dawn Paradise · Dark Ruins.

At the moment, after the World Contention Battle was notarized and Su Xiao was designated as a participant, the information of this thing was further displayed as:

【Potential Transcendence Badge】

Origin: Dawn Paradise.

Quality: Paradise-grade.

Category: Permanent upgrade class.

Effect: Permanent buff / permission key.

Usage Prerequisite: Must be Absolute Strength-level, main attribute reaches 800 points, Dawn Paradise contractor, violator (this prerequisite has been abolished, you can use this item normally).

Effect: Enter Dawn Paradise · Dark Ruins, arrive at the "Potential Transcendence Device," and start it with this badge in this device, thereby performing a potential transcendence buff on yourself, making all your current main attributes permanently +100 points.

Prompt: This is a device unique to Dawn Paradise, but due to the current situation of Dawn Paradise, you need to prepare 186,000 ounces of Space-Time Power yourself to charge the "Potential Transcendence Device" to complete this upgrade.

Prompt: Because you are a hunter, when you successfully use the "Potential Transcendence Device" to complete the upgrade, the ownership of this device will change. Samsara Paradise has a 50.95% probability of successfully notarizing this high-level device a second time...

Prompt: Detecting the hunter's behavior of using this item will likely bring revenue to Samsara Paradise. The 186,000 ounces of Space-Time Power you originally needed to pay will be 99.99% borne by Samsara Paradise. You only need to pay a total of 18.6 ounces of Space-Time Power to activate the "Potential Transcendence Device."

Introduction: Death, transcendence, or... the ultimate one, those who crave the limit, how can they refuse such a challenge and temptation.

Price: Cannot be traded, cannot be transferred, cannot be abandoned, cannot be stored in storage spaces below Tier 10 (the hunter can store this item in the storage space).

Su Xiao finally knew why the Platinum Apostle racked his brains to obtain this thing, and why the other party hadn't been promoted to Supreme Strength yet, always staying between Absolute Strength and Supreme Strength. It turned out to be waiting for this limit.

Only by achieving "all potential upper limit tiers +45" can one raise one's main attributes to 800 points. Su Xiao had already experienced the difficulty of raising "all potential upper limit tiers." He previously thought that the 800-point attribute peak of Absolute Strength-level was the limit. Now it seems that the true absolute limit is the Absolute Strength-level 900-point attribute peak achieved by the Dawn Paradise exclusive buff device.

Don't think that this is just increasing the 100-point limit of the main attributes at the Absolute Strength-level. The Absolute Strength-level is laying the foundation for the Supreme Strength tier. The more solid this foundation is, the higher the limit that can be reached after being promoted to Supreme Strength.

Some powerhouses, after being promoted to Supreme Strength, the early stage of Supreme Strength is their absolute limit. Su Xiao estimated that if one wants the strength limit to stably reach "Supreme Strength Peak," one needs the main attributes to reach 800 points at the Absolute Strength-level as a foundation. Therefore, the Leader, who took another half step in Supreme Strength, very likely used the 【Potential Transcendence Badge】 before.

Don't feel incredible. The Leader led his own hunters and contractors to attack Dawn Paradise later.

With such a record, before this, as a Samsara Paradise hunter, using the "Potential Transcendence Device" exclusive to Dawn Paradise, there is no need to feel incredible. And it wasn't the Leader alone facing Dawn Paradise; he had the notarization of Samsara Paradise as support. As for the rest, it depends on individual ability.

For so long, Su Xiao always had the feeling of not giving up on competing with the Supreme One, but finding it difficult to see where the road ahead was. But now, this 【Potential Transcendence Badge】 made his road ahead clear.

This trip to Dawn Paradise is not only crucial for those few super high-risk violators, but also for Su Xiao. Since that's the case, then... let's have a high-energy blood battle from beginning to end without anyone being cowardly.

Checking the remaining stay in Samsara Paradise, there were still a full 36 hours. This is the benefit of being the last to arrive at the Absolute Strength battlefield. However, some things need to be dealt with as soon as possible. In another five or six hours, whether in Samsara Paradise or the Great Gathering Place, there won't be many people left.

Leaving the exclusive room, Su Xiao headed to the Forging Street. Compared to when the world progress just ended, there were fewer people on the Forging Street. Walking into Reed's forging shop, he saw Reed frowning and flipping through ancient forging books. Discovering Su Xiao's arrival, Reed fished out a beer from the cooling liquid beside his hand. Seeing Su Xiao decline, he pulled it open, took a big gulp, exhaled comfortably and said:

"You are the arbiter of the war zone this time, right?"

"No."

Hearing this, Reed felt slightly surprised, then just nodded and didn't ask deeply. He pointed his thumb at the storage cabinet Su Xiao used behind the wall, and then continued to frown and flip through the ancient books.

Opening the storage cabinet, inside were the repaired 【Hunting Night】 and 【King's Crown】. Besides that, there was the top-tier Overlord equipment 【Soul Weapon】 that had been confirmed.

【Soul Weapon】

Origin: Overlord creature · Twin of Stars.

Quality: Overlord-grade.

Category: Weapon (Three forms)

Durability: 780/780 points.

Equipment Requirement: Soul Strength above 950 points, and mastered at least three types of Master-level technique abilities above Lv. 90.

Equipment Effect: Soul Adaptation Power (Unique · Passive), this weapon has three forms: long sword, soul bow, and crystal hammer. After the holder chooses to soul-bind this equipment, these three weapon forms will adapt to corresponding weapon characteristics based on the equipment wearer's own technique ability type.

Score: 6000 points (Overlord-grade equipment score is 1~6000 points).

Introduction: Gorgeous, elegant, lethal.

Price: 13500 soul coins (cannot be sold after soul binding).

This weapon is very strong, but Su Xiao already has Zhan Long Shan. Using this weapon would be putting the cart before the horse. However, he had an idea. He chose to soul-bind this weapon and then use it for the Magic Spirit.

When fighting strong enemies, the Magic Spirit's main role is to activate Magic Spirit-type abilities, such as "Replacement," "Double Blade," etc. Su Xiao couldn't spare his mind to control the Magic Spirit to fight, which would only weaken his combat power.

But if entering an area that is certain to die upon entry, or in a mission world, having a conflict of interest with high-level personnel of the same faction, and not being able to take action personally, then controlling the Magic Spirit holding the 【Soul Weapon】 to slaughter the enemy's lair is undoubtedly a good choice. Even if everyone knows later that this was done by him, but he didn't come forward personally, there is huge and efficient operational space.

The 【Soul Blade · Sub-weapon (Passive, Lv. EX)】 ability Su Xiao mastered before was intended to form a weapon for the Magic Spirit. Later, he found that this ability was undoubtedly top-tier when used for buffing Proud Song, but it wasn't very good when used as the Magic Spirit's weapon.

Su Xiao chose to activate 【Soul Weapon】. A few minutes later, he checked this equipment again.

【Soul Weapon】

Equipment Effect: Soul Adaptation Power (Unique · Passive)...

Long Sword Form (Corresponding to Blade Technique Master): When the long sword attacks, it carries soul damage and 5% true damage of the total attack amount, and carries the "Powerful Heavy Slash" characteristic.

Powerful Heavy Slash: Normal attacks default to super powerful slashes. Even if the enemy successfully parries with a weapon, there is a 50% probability of shaking the enemy into physical paralysis.

Crystal Hammer (Corresponding to Close Combat Master): When the crystal hammer attacks, it carries the "Destructive Blow" characteristic.

Destructive Blow Characteristic: While absolutely knocking the enemy away, it causes the enemy to be completely physically paralyzed in mid-air, during which the body defense is reduced by 35%, and the Blood Qi-type damage resistance is reduced by -280%.

Soul Bow (Corresponding to Blood Spear Master): When the soul bow attacks, it carries Blood Qi damage, and carries the "Burst Continuous Shot" and "Raging Blood Beast" characteristics.

Burst Continuous Shot Effect: Each arrow shot will increase the shooting speed of the next arrow by 65% (can be stacked). After completing a total of five shots, this state will reset (this bonus can be triggered without cooldown, every five arrows is a buff cycle).

Raging Blood Beast Effect: Each attack of the Soul Bow · Arrow that reduces the enemy will accumulate 1 layer of "Blood Erosion" effect. When stacked to 5 layers, the enemy will suffer "super high amount" of "Raging Blood Instant Burst" damage, and this "Raging Blood Instant Burst" will determine the attack multiplier based on the enemy's current Blood Qi-type damage resistance.

Prompt: If the enemy's Blood Qi-type damage resistance is lower than 50 points, they will suffer double "Raging Blood Instant Burst" damage.

Prompt: If the enemy's Blood Qi-type damage resistance is lower than 20 points, they will suffer triple "Raging Blood Instant Burst" damage.

Prompt: If the enemy's Blood Qi-type damage resistance is lower than 0 points, they will suffer five times "Raging Blood Instant Burst" damage.

Seeing these weapon characteristics, Su Xiao thought of the Magic Spirit's combo: surprise attack, one slash to paralyze, weapon form transforms into crystal hammer, one hammer to smash the enemy away, causing the enemy to be physically paralyzed + armor broken in mid-air, and finally pop-pop-pop-pop-pop five arrows. A small boss receiving such a combo would have to be blown to death by "Raging Blood Instant Burst" on the spot.

If there were other enemies, the Magic Spirit could just point-kill them one by one in the blood smoke. Because of Su Xiao's outrageously high soul strength, the initial attack power of the Soul Bow was particularly high.

Putting away 【Soul Weapon】, Su Xiao walked out of the forging shop. At this moment, Reed said: "Take this."

Su Xiao took the object thrown over, and a prompt appeared.

【You obtained Essence Quenching Substance (one-time item): After use, it can restore 25% durability of metal-type equipment, but this can only be used as a temporary repair. The consumption speed of the restored durability is increased by 50%. Subsequent need for a skilled blacksmith to perform perfect and fine repairs.】

Su Xiao didn't politely say anything about paying, threw back a bottle of elemental brew, and walked out of the forging shop. Facts proved that Reed, who opened the bottle cap and took a big sip, was in a better mood than receiving some soul coins.

Returning to the exclusive room, Su Xiao activated the title burning and refining disk. In the last world, there were still dozens of nine-star non-attribute titles obtained. Don't look at how simple it was to obtain nine-star non-attribute titles on the Blazing Sun Star, this was a special notarization case of the Tree of the Void. Fortunately, Su Xiao grasped this opportunity and upgraded the 【Abyss Shadow】 title to "Extreme Burning and Refining · 5 times."

There were still 57 nine-star non-attribute titles left, which could upgrade the existing nine-star titles to one "Extreme Burning and Refining · 1 time" and one "Extreme Burning and Refining · 2 times." The titles selected for upgrade were 【Mysterious Scholar】 and 【Old Hunter】.

No need to consider, of course, it was to mainly upgrade 【Old Hunter】. This was an exclusive title as a hunter. Su Xiao embedded 【Old Hunter】 in the center of the burning and refining disk, and after embedding five secondary titles around it, the burning and refining began.

At this moment, an email appeared, and it was displayed as coming from the Star Realm faction "Gil-Eryu Family," with the Tree of the Void as the notarization party. After opening it, it was indeed sent by the Saintess.

The content of the email was a total of more than 5000 words, which could be summarized in one sentence: 'I worked very hard, thank me quickly, and say a few more nice and detailed compliments to me.'

Seeing this, Su Xiao opened the data storage permission of the adventure team, found a photo from Bubu Wang's photo classification, which was a photo of the Saintess biting his palm when she was drunk at the Starry Sky Seat, and sent it over. After a brief silence, the emails sent by the Saintess began to screen. Look at how "happy" the Saintess was, her words were witty.

Opening the attachment of the first email, it was the customized professional treatment tools. After Su Xiao took them out, he unfolded the rolled-up thick cloth tool bag. Amu, who was eating at the small table, was stunned after seeing the Sun Treatment mark on the roll-style tool bag, and the large chopsticks in his fingertips fell.

This was asking the Tree Sage to manufacture professional treatment tools. However, the Saintess had a message just now, the content was that because the Tree Sage hadn't manufactured this kind of professional treatment tools for a long time, the skill was inevitably rusty. If these treatment tools were divided into grades, they were ordinary quality, good quality, fine quality, and top quality. Now this set could reach the level of good quality.

Subsequently, the Tree Sage would manufacture a few more sets until he made a set of top-quality professional treatment tools and sent them to the Saintess again. The reason for this treatment was that an old undead in the Saintess's family saved the Tree Sage in his early years, and later protected him once under not-so-small pressure. You know, at that time, the Tree Sage was not yet a master of pharmacy.

Su Xiao edited an email and sent a dozen bottles of nourishing secret medicine to the Saintess. The raw materials for these secret medicines were discovered by Beini in the secret realm environment of the Blazing Sun Star. These secret medicines were mainly to nourish the skin, commonly known as beauty and skin care. The improvement to strength was very limited, so they were treated as reserve gifts by him.

This gift effect was remarkable. The Saintess, who was sending emails with witty words, stopped immediately. Finally, she sent one: "After you have a conscience," and ended this greeting with satisfaction.

Su Xiao took out 【Corrupt Divine Blood Stone (Source of Filth/Sealing Object)】. He prepared to use this thing. Although it would attract the "Lord of the Old Days," he had already thought about what to sacrifice, and that was the "Greedy Life Tree." This thing could indeed bear "Life Fruit," but the tree spirit played tricks to the extreme.

Since that's the case, let the "Greedy Life Tree" feel what is the fear of the old days. This is the most primitive, most instinctive, and most profound fear and despair. Su Xiao made a gesture to activate 【Corrupt Divine Blood Stone】, and a prompt appeared.

【Prompt (Apocalypse Paradise): In about 34 hours, the hunter will enter the Ruins of Dawn Paradise (Dark Ruins). Detecting that your current participating team only has you as a member, as the captain, you have the right to recruit team members.】

【Prompt (Apocalypse Paradise): Detecting that the hunter cannot complete this team member recruitment in Samsara Paradise (in this team, there can only be you as a Samsara Paradise · hunter/contractor), you will be teleported to the Apocalypse Paradise · Absolute Strength-level Combat Angel/Some Qiyuezhe Selection Waiting Area in 10 seconds, so as to recruit team members here.】

【Prompt (Apocalypse Paradise): After successfully arriving at Apocalypse Paradise, you can activate this "Contention Battle Absolute Strength-level · Contact Channel" and recruit team members through text form in this channel.】

【Prompt (Apocalypse Paradise): Given that the hunter is going to Apocalypse Paradise for the first time, you obtain a map of Apocalypse Paradise. This map has recorded most of the basic infrastructure with permission below 9, the location of shops opened by contractors, etc.】

There were quite a few prompts. Su Xiao saw that Apocalypse Paradise not only gave task information meticulously, but also was relatively gentle in other aspects. Looking at it this way, Mo Lei, the Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei all reached Ninth Tier strength and had such good personalities, which was by no means accidental.

However, Su Xiao also discovered one point: the prompts of Apocalypse Paradise were really long. In contrast, the prompts of Samsara Paradise with the same content were much shorter.

The core content of these prompts was to recruit teammates. Because Su Xiao was full of blood, it was easy for Apocalypse Paradise · contractors to be afraid to join the team. Fortunately, there was a "Contention Battle Absolute Strength-level · Contact Channel." Su Xiao didn't care about other types of team members, but he must find a powerful milk.

If recruiting in text form, the advantage of the Dawn Team was huge. The four powerful and tempting team abilities of "Leader Power," "Thunder Breath Blessing," "Will Rune Stone," and "Vitality Awakening" could inevitably pit a powerful milk... cough~, recruit a powerful treatment-type teammate. ===== CHAPTER 3928 =====