Chapter 3949
Golden City, front city, Gate No. 1 area.
Shadow Soul Dragons circled in the sky, and along with them were countless Dark Soul clansmen. They were like bloodthirsty dark phantoms, cruising in the sky. Not only that, many blood-materialized Blood-Thirsty clansmen were also circling in the sky in an energized state. Looking up, the sky was like a Yellow Springs ghost domain, which was very terrifying.
By comparison, the surface in front of the high wall was a true purgatory. Looking around, countless Troll clansmen, Wild Boar men, Dark Soul clansmen, and Blood-Thirsty clansmen were shattered, extending all the way to Gate No. 1. In the high gate corridor continuing forward were the corpses of Troll leaders.
At the end of the high gate corridor was the inner gate. In the past, it wouldn't be closed here. After passing the various instrument scans of the outer gate, there were no problems by the time one reached here. However, today, this alloy gate, built with heavy gold and several meters thick, was tightly closed.
Inside the gate, a group of Troll, Wild Boar man, Dark Soul, and Blood-Thirsty clan leaders stared at the inner gate, which was dozens of meters high. The leader of the Wild Boar men, Semz, was being supported by two personal guards. Standing over ten meters tall, with proud tusks and a mane extending down to his spine, his aura was weak. It wasn't just that his fighting spirit was frustrated, but also because of the diagonal slash wound on his chest; this slash had nearly cost him his life.
Before this, the Wild Boar man leader Semz had always believed that his strength, let alone in the Lord Continent, was a figure of some significance across the Void Myriad Worlds. But today, with just one slash, he experienced the suffocation of death rushing toward him.
The Wild Boar man leader Semz's vertical pupils trembled. His memory flashed back to this morning. This month, his legion was stationed at Gate No. 1. For such a good thing, he had been living in the high wall's officer dormitory for the past half-month.
Today was breezy and sunny. The Wild Boar man leader Semz came to the gate as usual to inspect the performance of his city guards. Stationing at Gate No. 1 was lucrative, but one couldn't go too far, so Semz came to inspect every day. In addition, he had to go to the training ground to exercise for three hours every morning; if he didn't break a sweat every day, he would feel uncomfortable all day long.
Semz had climbed up from the bottom of the Wild Boar men. He sincerely thanked the Lord for his appreciation and cultivation. Not only that, the legion leaders of the Trolls and Dark Souls among the four major legions had also climbed up step by step from the bottom. More precisely, Great Lord Gulbak preferred to use legion leaders who came from such humble backgrounds but were brave enough to move upward and fight.
After breaking a sweat at the training ground and taking a cold shower, Semz took his lover to the central street to sell jewelry. At one o'clock in the afternoon, Semz arrived at Gate No. 1 early. A VIP was coming today, but the VIP didn't arrive; instead, a god of slaughter did.
The afternoon sun scorched the earth, making the air on the ground a bit distorted. The shrill chirping of insects was annoying. Just as the Wild Boar man leader Semz was getting impatient, a cool breeze blew, making Semz feel very comfortable, but the scene that followed was something he would never forget for the rest of his life.
Dark clouds gradually pressed in from the distant sky. Beneath the shroud of these dark clouds was a man walking calmly. The other party held a long blade pointing diagonally at the ground, and the visitor was not friendly. Semz looked closely, and after seeing the visitor's appearance, his first reaction was that he had misread it. How could that Law Breaker, whose wanted posters were plastered all over the city, walk in so openly?
After just a few seconds, upon confirming that it really was that Law Breaker, the city defense artillery fire gathered like a swarm of bees, tracking and closing in on the enemy. After a series of explosions, Semz's cheek twitched fiercely.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the man, who was sitting casually and wearing a metal mask, sitting leisurely on top of a Giant Armored War Pig. This Giant Armored War Pig, which had charged into the Beast army years ago and smashed through city defenses without any fear, couldn't even stand on its hind legs at this moment, and the spreading urine soaked the surrounding dozen meters.
The shadow that Semz would never be able to forget for the rest of his life began. The moment the two sides clashed, the Wild Boar man warriors within a hundred meters of the Law Breaker turned into sugar-cube-sized fragments on the spot. Let alone battle cries, they didn't even have a chance to let out a half-sound of a scream.
What kind of enemy was this? The answer was that the magic blade with a pitch-black body and ghostly blue edge could kill every living creature it slashed. And its master was a monster that couldn't be blocked, couldn't be pushed back, couldn't be surrounded, and couldn't be killed. After the other party killed hundreds of Wild Boar man warriors, the long leather coat on his body seemed to be blessed by black mist; it maintained a physical form but also had a sense of black mist. It wasn't that it was completely impossible to hurt the other party, but that the power of most attacks was absorbed by that black-mist long leather coat.
Not only that, the more Wild Boar man warriors this Law Breaker killed, the deeper the black mist transformation of the other party's long leather coat became, which also meant the other party was even harder to kill. Even more fatal was that their side's attacks on the other party had little effect, but with one slash of the other party's blade, a circular slash light spread out, and a large area of the Wild Boar man legion fell. No matter how high the morale was, if this continued, a large-scale rout would happen sooner or later.
The Wild Boar man leader Semz suppressed the fear in his heart and led a group of personal guards to charge forward. When Semz woke up again, he was already inside the city. The diagonal slash wound on his chest hurt so much that he nearly fainted again. This was a double pain of body + soul. The feeling of the soul being slashed open in his chest wasn't an illusion; it was truly being slashed open, and the origin soul energy was gradually dissipating.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
As the Wild Boar man leader Semz coughed dryly, he spat out blood continuously. This was caused by severe damage to his lungs. He looked around; the second line of defense was very stable, but he was certain that this once-powerful line of defense would definitely not be able to stop the monster outside the gate today.
Boom, boom, boom~!
The inner city gate made a series of loud noises. Each time a loud noise occurred, the city gate would irregularly bulge a bit. Correspondingly, with every roar, the Wild Boar men and Trolls of the second line of defense couldn't help but slowly retreat.
Boom!
The inner city gate shattered. Amidst the diffusing dust and smoke, a pair of eyes with red light shining from the pupils looked at the group of city guards.
"For the Lord!"
The Wild Boar man leader Semz let out a roar, causing the nearly collapsed morale to soar to over 95 points. Semz pushed away the confidant supporting him and took his skull-shaking war hammer. As he strode forward, blood spilled along the way. He was certain that facing this Law Breaker, he would definitely die, but for the sake of the Lord's appreciation, he would never flee.
Ten minutes later, in the front city area, third line of defense, Dark Soul legion garrison area. The Dark Soul clan chief looked at the slash light soaring into the sky in the distance, as well as the sky that looked like it had been slashed open. Blood vessels gradually bulged on his pale skin; this was the manifestation of the Dark Soul clan's anger.
As for why the Dark Soul legion didn't go to reinforce the Wild Boar man legion's second line of defense, it wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they couldn't squeeze through. Now, the total of four lines of defense in the Golden City were all in a semi-circular shape facing forward, blocking the incoming strong enemy while also being able to take the opportunity to surround him and then conduct a siege.
The Dark Soul clan chief was an old guy with sunken, dark eye sockets and six eyes. He glanced at the pocket watch in his hand. The only good news now was that the Corrupted Beast King, the Undead clan, and the Iron-Melting City had sent dozens of strong individuals plus multiple elite legions to reinforce. As long as they held on for another 60 minutes, the reinforcements would enter one after another.
The Dark Soul clan chief didn't believe that the Law Breaker who attacked this time could take on the four major forces alone. Even, he felt that this time it was somewhat making a mountain out of a molehill. The first line of defense didn't block him, which didn't mean the other lines of defense were similar. The first line of defense was the City Guard Legion. The City Guard Legion was a cushy job, and its members were generally the relatives of mid-to-low-level officers, waiting for the opportunity to station at Gate No. 1 once every four months to make some profit.
So the Dark Soul clan chief felt that this time it was making a mountain out of a molehill. Their Great Lord Gulbak, as his wealth accumulated to a certain extent, had become increasingly afraid of death and had long since lost his former ambition and courage.
This made the Dark Soul clan chief's eyes narrow slightly. The mid-to-high-level members he had secretly colluded with had all died at the first transit station yesterday. This shocked him so much that he almost ran away that night.
The Dark Soul clan chief looked toward the Platinum Casino, and then toward the area where the first line of defense was located. The fighting there had already stopped, which caused the ambition in his heart to gradually extinguish. With the Wild Boar man leader Semz and the Troll leader Shiba there, he didn't dare to act recklessly.
Just then, the adjutant responsible for perception beside the Dark Soul clan chief spoke: "Chie, chief, we, we..."
The adjutant couldn't even speak clearly, which made the Dark Soul clan chief feel that something was wrong. Suddenly, the sound of wind breaking came, and a black shadow flew over. After landing with a bang and sliding a distance, the Dark Soul clan chief's eyes gradually widened as he saw that this was actually the large head of the Wild Boar man leader Semz.
Before the Dark Soul clan chief could issue a reinforcement order, a figure had already appeared beside him, even placing one hand on his shoulder. This caused the Dark Soul clan chief's vertical pupils to tighten rapidly, and soul energy erupted instantly.
Hum~!
A buzzing sound that went from large to small appeared in the Dark Soul clan chief's ears. He felt the whole world spinning. After a plop of falling, the world he saw stopped rotating and instead lay sideways, as if one side of his cheek was pressed against the ground. He opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't say anything, and his vision fell into pitch black.
Boom!
World Thunder pillars fell from the sky. With the elemental level of this world, Su Xiao could still withstand it, especially now that the "Green Shadow King" ability was fully activated, his health reached the extreme value of 6 million points.
Not only that, the new characteristics of the "Green Shadow King" were truly too top-tier. Su Xiao raised his hand, and his "Wild Hunt Night" long leather coat seemed to turn into a physical entity composed of smoke, especially after killing enemies and stacking many layers of "Magic Spirit Battle Armor," this manifestation was even stronger.
Through actual combat testing, Su Xiao discovered that the upper limit of the "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" was 100 layers. When he was focused by human-sea tactics, the bonus of the "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" would inevitably be triggered. One or two layers of "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" couldn't actually resolve particularly high damage, but the consumption of "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" had no upper limit. If needed, it would instantly consume 100 layers, and in this way, the damage resolution of the "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" was particularly considerable.
More importantly, this thing was easy to replenish during melee combat. One "Magic Blade · Super · Ring Break" would instantly fill it up. This was also the reason why he could kill his way into the Golden City alone.
It might be that Su Xiao had frequently drawn World Thunder in recent days, and every time he drew it, it was the highest-intensity World Thunder of this world, causing the World Thunder drawn this time to only affect the enemy troops within a few kilometers of the surrounding area.
The surrounding buildings were evaporated. On the scorched earth, countless Dark Soul clansmen surrounded and killed Su Xiao from all directions. The shouts of killing soared into the sky. It wasn't that they were loyal to Great Lord Gulbak, but that Su Xiao had just taken the head of their clan chief.
Half an hour later, a drop of dark red soul blood slid across the long blade, falling along the tip of the blade and evaporating in mid-air.
Su Xiao was still one person, one blade, walking toward the direction of the Platinum Casino. The dark clouds in the sky were even thicker. When he walked to the third line of defense, he found that the Blood-Thirsty clan stationed here was nowhere to be found. Continuing forward, he saw the Blood-Thirsty legion and the Troll legion fighting in a melee.
It wasn't that the Blood-Thirsty clan wanted to take the opportunity to seize the command of the Golden City, but that they felt Great Lord Gulbak's situation was gone, and they wanted to take the opportunity to loot in the prosperous areas of the central city. It just so happened that the Trolls stationed in front of the central city were loyal to Great Lord Gulbak, and the two sides fought in a melee all over the central city.
Speaking of which, Great Lord Gulbak really had methods. He didn't obtain a complete Lord system, or rather, the place where he entrenched himself destined that he couldn't obtain a "Lord Core."
The Golden City was located in the northwest direction. Although it didn't block the path between the Eternal Light City and the Corrupted Beast herd on the west side, it could still pose a certain threat to the supply and transportation of "Corrupted Soil."
This destined that Great Lord Gulbak couldn't get the Scarlet Lord's permission, that is, to master a "Lord Core" that belonged to him. At most, he could master a Lord Aura. Under such natural disadvantages, Great Lord Gulbak first won over and then subdued four combat groups.
The Golden City originally had an "Energy Crystal" business. After Great Lord Gulbak took over, although he couldn't make it bigger, he found another way and built the "Platinum Casino," this money-burning cave.
At this moment, everything Great Lord Gulbak built began to fall apart. Su Xiao walked on the street. The street, which was more than ten meters wide, prohibited vehicles. Inside the jewelry-filled shops on both sides, the Blood-Thirsty and Dark Soul clans were looting happily. The Wild Boar men, who had previously expressed loyalty to Gulbak, were the most hardworking at this time. Any shop door that was difficult to break, they would swing their war hammers and smash them open in a few hits.
The truly loyal Trolls had already suffered over 90% casualties. In the previous times Su Xiao attacked, the Troll legion suffered the most deaths.
However, there was a problem: the Troll leader Shiba, who had shot an arrow at Su Xiao before, was nowhere to be found at this time. If he were here, as the Troll Ninth Legion of the fourth line of defense, it wouldn't have collapsed to this extent.
Su Xiao stopped in front of the main gate of the Platinum Casino. The casino, where guests used to be in an endless stream, was now deserted. Inside the open gate, it was pitch black, as if pairs of eyes full of murderous intent were staring at Su Xiao in the darkness.
Su Xiao stepped inside. At first, the first floor of the Platinum Casino was very quiet. This silence lasted for a few seconds before being broken by a roar.
Bang!
A Troll warrior was blasted out of the window. It struggled on the ground for a moment, roaring with blood spilling from the corners of its mouth as it rushed back to the first floor of the casino.
At this time, a few kilometers away, in a guest room on the twelfth floor of a luxury hotel, the five members of the Witch Team were watching. As a team from the Holy Light Paradise, Witch Lilia, Black Eye, Curse Warlock, Poison Priest, and Greed Yutro were very relaxed this time. The other team in their camp, the Magic Scythe Team, had already united with the Corrupted Beast herd, which could be called a dream start. Now they were just waiting to enter the final melee stage.
The five members of Witch Lilia discussed and decided to come to the Golden City. They had arrived here three days ago, and their target was Vault No. 1 here. However, the plan was only half-executed when, let alone the rare treasures in Vault No. 1, even the floor tiles were cleaned out.
Regarding this, the five members of Witch Lilia endured it. They then set their sights on the vault on the top floor of the casino. Everything was prepared, and they were just waiting to enter the final melee stage to fish in troubled waters. However, the five of them discovered that the situation in the Golden City was getting more and more wrong.
At one o'clock this afternoon, the five of them discovered that the Hunter from Reincarnation Paradise had come to the Golden City alone. Seeing this scene, the five of them immediately thought that this guy was going to draw World Thunder again, but the situation that followed made the eyes of these five people increasingly solemn, because they witnessed the whole process of one person soloing the Golden City.
"What about our plan?"
Greed Yutro was not very reconciled.
Hearing this, the Curse Warlock laughed sinisterly. He touched his bald head and teased: "Otherwise, why don't you try to snatch food from the tiger's mouth?"
"I can try."
Greed Yutro's eyes showed contemplation, which shocked his four teammates around him. Black Eye, who looked like a little boy, bit Greed Yutro's forearm, causing Greed Yutro to curse repeatedly in pain, but he successfully restrained the greed that was about to overflow.
"Captain, captain?"
Greed Yutro looked around, only to find that the captain, Witch Lilia, was nowhere to be found.
"Look over there."
The Poison Priest, who looked like an old man with messy gray hair, pointed his bone staff at the Platinum Casino opposite, discovering that their captain, Witch Lilia, was walking up the stairs.
Black Eye, the Curse Warlock, and the Poison Priest stared at Greed Yutro together, all thinking that this guy had plotted against the captain, causing Witch Lilia's greed to grow wildly, which was why she lost her mind and went to snatch food from the tiger's mouth at the Reincarnation madman's place.
A scene that surprised the four of them appeared: their captain wasn't slashed by a blade, but instead, after a brief negotiation with the Hunter, she walked downstairs quickly and even waved at the direction where they were, telling them to come over quickly.
The few of them were a temporary team. The reason they were so worried about Witch Lilia was that Greed Yutro and the other three all felt that it was luck to meet such a reliable captain. The other party might not be able to lead them to victory, but there was a high probability that she could lead them to survive this World Contest.
At this moment, inside the 30th floor of the casino.
Su Xiao pressed the elevator, but there was still no response. He continued to go up the stairs. Just now, Witch Lilia had come to find him to propose a deal. In the current situation, there were many places in the city that could trigger missions, but the problem was that no contractor dared to come here. Witch Lilia would take her teammates to handle these sudden missions, and in return, after this round ended, she could help Su Xiao divine one thing.
There was no reason to refuse this deal. Su Xiao continued to go up. When the stairwell from the 30th floor to the top floor was stained with blood, he finally stood in front of the door of the top-floor office.
Zing~
Without seeing him swing the long blade in his hand, the office's seventh-level defensive door shattered in response. The furnishings inside were magnificent, especially the super-large golden desk, which was very eye-catching. Great Lord Gulbak sat behind the desk, facing the side of the desk, looking at the Golden City outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
"It seems you..."
Great Lord Gulbak had just said this much when Su Xiao rushed onto the desk in a few steps and slashed down, not giving Gulbak any chance to talk nonsense. This made the corners of Gulbak's eyes twitch wildly. His last chance for a comeback was the gradually effective mental invasion + soul strangulation.
Regarding why Great Lord Gulbak didn't take the opportunity to escape just now, it wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he couldn't. When he lost the Platinum Casino, the Arcane Eternal Star would immediately abandon him and state that they were not familiar with this guy who opened a casino and harmed countless people. In this way, the enemies Gulbak had accumulated over the years would let him know what hell was.
Rather than that, it was better to sit here. With his Lord Aura, the Troll legion would have enough combat strength. And after Su Xiao stepped into the Platinum Casino, it wasn't a question of whether Gulbak wanted to escape or not, but that there was no chance left.
Clang!
The long blade was blocked by a layer of golden protection. As Great Lord Gulbak stood up, his right arm made of sun gold clenched into a fist, and a terrifying heat condensed in his hand, but before he could punch out.
Boom!
!
Standing on the desk, looking down from a high position, Su Xiao kicked Great Lord Gulbak directly. Gulbak immediately turned into an afterimage, crashing out of the Platinum Casino diagonally downward, and then broke through the ground, crashing into the dark underground city before he finally half-submerged into the ground, forming a crater with a diameter of a hundred meters where he was located.
"Cough! Cough!"
Great Lord Gulbak coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood. He wanted to get up, but his whole body's bones felt like they had fallen apart. His sun-gold prosthetic right arm had loosened to the point of nearly falling apart.
"Heh~, the protection of gold is not so easily broken. It seems I can only flee. Damn it! Bastard!"
Great Lord Gulbak's face twisted as his left hand gripped the necklace. In the darkness a few hundred meters away, Baha's wings gradually unfolded.
With a whistling sound of wind breaking, with a squelch, a heavy fish-chopping knife flipped and cut off Great Lord Gulbak's wrist. In the past, his body's defense could easily ignore this, but after taking Su Xiao's direct kick, his body's defense was reduced to almost nothing. Coupled with the erosion of blood energy, a negative body defense appeared. This was a weakness Gulbak had never experienced before.
Dense footsteps came from all around. Great Lord Gulbak, who still couldn't get up and could only lie half-submerged in the ground, looked around. Everywhere he looked were the poor people he had exploited and sucked blood from in the past. These underground city poor people surrounded him, looking at Gulbak coldly, holding various crude but cruel weapons in their hands.
"Hahaha, hahahahaha!
"
Great Lord Gulbak, laughing loudly, was gradually surrounded and submerged by the poor people of the underground city, followed by hacking, stabbing, cursing, and even spitting.
After Great Lord Gulbak ruled the Golden City, all the residents here lost the right to live on the surface and could only live in the underground city. And he set a rule that only by meeting one of the following conditions could one obtain the right to live in surface buildings.
1. Successfully pass the strict assessment of various service industries to serve the Platinum Casino or other entertainment institutions.
2. Have a sufficiently handsome or beautiful appearance.
3. Pay enough soul coins.
And today, the extremely weak Great Lord Gulbak was about to face the poor people of the underground city he had bullied in the past.
When everything calmed down, the soil within a few meters nearby, which was damp and carried a rotten, moldy smell, was stained with dots of blood. Great Lord Gulbak, covered in wounds and with only one eye left, looked at the huge hole above at the moment of his near-death. This was the hole he had smashed open when he fell just now. Seeing this hole and the sunlight shining down, his pupils contracted slightly.
He had forgotten how many years ago, a boy whose right arm had been replaced by a mechanical prosthetic stood in the center of the underground city. Nearby, slightly leaking steam pipes were slowly emitting hot steam, making the dome above misty with water vapor. This dome was the only place in the underground city where one could peek at the top.
The boy was not alone. Behind him were partners with different appearances but the same aspirations: an old little giant, a Blood-Thirsty clansman, an old human man, a sturdy dwarf, a Beast clan warlock, and an Elf girl whose eyes were full of the boy's back.
The boy standing on the ruins raised his mechanical prosthetic right hand and clenched his fist high toward the dome: "We will definitely be able to defeat the Golden City Lord. We... will definitely be able to let all the underground city residents have the qualifications to return to the surface to live again."
The boy's expression was firm, but as time accelerated, the boy's face gradually matured, his gaze began to turn cold, followed by cold arrogance and cruelty, and finally... it became nothing. As the boy gradually matured, even his slightly wrinkled face gradually overlapped with Great Lord Gulbak's face, and finally, it was exactly the same.
Did the dragon-slaying boy become a dragon? No, the boy became a monster more terrifying than a dragon. It's just that Gulbak suddenly forgot why all this happened.
"You, why... didn't you come to save me."
Great Lord Gulbak muttered to himself, his pupils beginning to dim. At the moment of his passing, he suddenly remembered that his former partners hadn't failed to come to save him; it was because he had been forced by the Scarlet Lord's death threat, and coupled with the fact that he already had stronger, more useful, and more obedient subordinates at that time, he ordered them to be slaughtered.
Gulbak finally recalled what reason made him abandon his former ideals. It was because when he thought everything was going to be beautiful after defeating the Golden City Lord, his dignity, life, soul, and everything were trampled under the feet of the Scarlet Lord.
"I am... in the Yellow Springs... waiting for you, Scarlet... Lord."
Great Lord Gulbak, who burned the last bit of his life force to say these words, had his eyes completely lose their luster.
Platinum Casino · Top Floor Office.
Just 10 seconds ago, the vault here was successfully opened by Caesar. Su Xiao and Caesar were both convinced that Great Lord Gulbak's wealth should all be here. But as the vault door opened, the scene that met their eyes was a metal room of dozens of square meters, empty and with nothing.
In front of the vault door, the two looked at the empty vault. There was no doubt that someone had truly snatched food from the tiger's mouth, and they had succeeded.
This situation was more painful for Caesar than stabbing him a few times, so this guy's eyes were glowing green. He took out the Abyss Jar, put it on his head, and he almost crawled on the ground to search. A moment later, he suddenly grabbed something out of thin air.
"Caught it."
Caesar took out various strange and peculiar objects. After some operations, he reached a conclusion: just ten minutes before the two arrived here, someone had quietly entered this vault. The other party was named the Mysterious Merchant. To be more precise, this was the highest-tier merchant notarized by the Tree of the Void. No, it was the highest-tier unscrupulous merchant.
In front of the vault door, Su Xiao and Caesar turned their heads to look at each other. Ask, could this be tolerated? The answer was, of course not. This time, not only did they have to make the Mysterious Merchant spit out all the benefits he had taken, but it also had to be spit out manifold.
End of Chapter
