Chapter 3971: Monarch

Dawn City is completely different from a few days ago. The towering metal city walls reveal decay, with a thick layer of vines climbing over them. This makes it convenient for everyone to enter the city; one simply needs to climb up along the vines.

On the thousand-meter-high city wall, warm gusts of wind howl. Su Xiao stands at the edge of the wall, bird's-eye viewing the interior. He can see that the front city area is divided into two distinct regions, left and right.

The eastern region's vegetation is overgrown to the point of distortion. Dark green vines several meters thick are coiled here, covered in the Undead. At the ends of the vines are giant flower buds, from the gaps of which viscous transparent liquid flows, forming small streams on the ground that converge at the center of this region.

This is a blooming vine flower, over several hundred meters in diameter. On the central pistil, there is a cluster of purple-pink light, within which seems to be a figure. Presumably, this is the leader-level unit of this region, the Plant Kingdom Princess of Yagowa, Lisyuni.

The Undead that have completed a parasitic relationship with the plants wander between the giant vines and thorn trees in this region. Looking at the appearance of these Undead, they must be extremely difficult to shatter and render immobile.

Compared to the right side of the front city area, the scene on the left is completely different. The buildings here are dim and viscous, like rotten wood softened by insect infestation. Darkness and dark red are the main color tones here.

Observing carefully, one can see countless rot-insects wriggling between the decay and viscosity. The Undead hidden in the darkness of this region are all parasitic insect bodies. Once blasted, rot-insects will surely splatter everywhere. Getting even a little on you will result in suffering high-intensity erosion from parasitism, insect toxins, and decay.

Undoubtedly, one of the four leaders, the Rot-Insect Evil Thing, Poison Leech, is right here.

If one cautiously passes through the boundary between the "Thriving Garden" and the "Corrupted City District," one will arrive at the "King's Front Avenue." On this hundred-meter-wide, several-kilometer-long stone slab avenue, it is full of Undead whose bodies are covered in metallic distortion. They have an average height of over three meters and hold heavy cold weapons while being clad in heavy armor.

Located in the innermost area of these elite Undead, there is a figure over seven meters tall, clad in dark gold battle armor, standing here. This is the Mad Dragon General, Bashed. The dark red meridians protruding on his right arm come from the Source Blood of the Undead Monarch. Once the Undead Monarch is eliminated, these Undead Source Bloods will be activated, allowing the Undead Monarch to be resurrected.

Passing through the King's Front Avenue is a solemn and magnificent hall. A skull with a diameter of over a hundred meters is located at the top of this hall. This is the King's Hall, the place where the final big boss, the Undead Monarch, resides.

As for wanting to take a detour from the rear to sneak into the King's Hall, there is no such possibility. The entire rear area of Dawn City is a dense forest of stone statues, with the "Colossal Statue Guard, Ao" guarding this place. This thousand-meter-high giant statue is like a rock giant from the ancient era.

Everyone on the city wall confirmed the plan again. It had been planned beforehand: each team is responsible for their respective enemies. The Demon Scythe team is responsible for the Princess in the "Thriving Garden," the Priest team is responsible for the Rot-Insect Evil Thing, Poison Leech, in the "Corrupted City District," Hao Chou and the Undead team are responsible for the Mad Dragon General, Bashed, on the King's Front Avenue, and the Cain team is responsible for the Colossal Statue Guard, Ao, in the "Stone Statue Forest" at the rear.

And Su Xiao is to battle the final big boss in the King's Hall, the Undead Monarch awakened by Xiketo at the cost of his complete death.

The Undead Monarch has a triple Undead characteristic. The first is an unsolvable recovery power; even if its head is blasted to pieces, it can instantly repair it, and the health recovery speed reaches a terrifying 300% of maximum health per second.

The Undead Monarch, with 650% maximum health, only needs less than 3 seconds to restore its special life force, or rather, its Undead power, to full.

Even more outrageous is that under the blessing of World Power, the Undead Monarch has protective energy five times its maximum health, which is 3250% fake health. Before exhausting this fake health, don't even think about truly hurting the Undead Monarch.

Even more outrageous is that the Undead Monarch's exaggerated health recovery is also effective for restoring fake health. It only takes 11 seconds for this ridiculously high fake health to be fully restored.

No matter how you look at it, this super big boss is invincible. At the very least, within this world, don't think about defeating this terrifying existence. The problem is, the 28 participants this time are also very "not human."

Confirmed, the Demon Scythe team and the Priest team set off. This time, the Priest team is not just the Priest alone, but also includes the Curse Warlock, Poison Priest, and Greed, Yute Luo. These three's ability systems are biased towards the dark type and have relatively high resistance to rot-insects.

It is worth mentioning that because the Gentleman team currently only has Sea Crocodile left, he was temporarily assigned to the Priest team. Upon learning this news, Sea Crocodile tried to refuse, but under the friendly gazes of the Priest, Platinum Apostle, Hao Chou, and Su Xiao, he laughed and said, "I was just trying to liven up the atmosphere, just a joke," and agreed to this division.

The wind on the high wall weakened, but it was still sultry. The Steel Demon Dragon, Cain, standing at the edge of the high wall, looked at Su Xiao. He didn't speak, just nodded, then leaped off the high wall. His steel dragon wings unfolded, circling towards the rear of Dawn City.

Su Xiao took out the pocket watch given by Saintess Seat, set it for 10 minutes, and then opened the communication list of the temporary adventurer group. That's right, this old guy, the Priest, used some unknown method to create a temporary adventurer group, and now all participants have joined it.

On the high wall, Su Xiao glanced at the time. The Demon Scythe team and the Priest team had arrived at the Thriving Garden and the Corrupted City District and could attack the Princess and the Rot-Insect Evil Thing, Poison Leech, at any time. Now, they were just waiting for the Cain team to arrive at the Stone Statue Forest in the rear area, which is the area where the Colossal Statue Guard, Ao, is located, so the three teams could strike simultaneously.

Without first destroying the three "Core Hubs," Su Xiao had no possibility of fighting the Undead Monarch to the death. He looked at the time on the pocket watch again. He had never doubted whether the Demon Scythe, Priest, and Cain could deal with the three leaders, and as for the battle between Hao Chou and the Mad Dragon General, Bashed, he also believed Hao Chou would definitely win.

Looking up at the sky, this huge prison world belonging to the Undead was unexpectedly sunny. Just then, Black Eye, a member of the Saint Light Paradise Witch team behind Su Xiao, asked:

"Mr. Bai Ye, can we succeed this time?"

Black Eye's eyes revealed worry.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. For some reason, as time passed, he felt a faint palpitation. Even when he fought the Abyss Shadow, Shiman Achid, in the past, fighting until he was nearly dead, he didn't have the palpitation he had now.

However, Su Xiao never thought that the Undead Monarch could be compared to the Abyss Shadow, Shiman Achid. The Undead Monarch's strength came more from the blessing of this world, that is, the toughness in the combat mechanism.

To be safe, Su Xiao spoke in the Dawn Adventurer Group channel, telling Xiang Bubu Wang, Amu, and Beni to act cautiously. Baha is a bit better, after all, he is space-type, and he instructed Baha that if possible, he should save Fenny's life in the upcoming battle. This top-tier healing type from the Apocalypse Paradise might have a big role in the subsequent links.

Although this battle is dangerous, the next round will involve stepping into the Dawn Ruins. That is a remnant area of a paradise. Even if the Dawn Paradise is half-dormant, it is also exceptionally dangerous.

Su Xiao raised his hand, looking at the ticking pocket watch hands in his hand. There were five minutes left until the agreed time. He looked at the leader of the Witch team, Battle Angel, Zelina.

"Let's go."

Zelina said, taking the lead to leap off the high wall, and the few people behind her followed closely.

"Gudu, Gudu~"

The sound of gulping down liquor came. It was Hao Chou, who was over 3 meters tall, shirtless with a strong upper body, and lion-like wild hair draped behind him. He gulped down a large bottle of strong liquor, spat out a breath of alcohol refreshingly, licked his forest-white steel-hard flat teeth, and said:

"Bai Ye, I have a shitty premonition."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took a sip of the already opened Elemental Fine Wine. This kind of fine wine, which could rank in the top few dozen even in the Myriad Worlds, made the alcohol-loving Hao Chou swallow his saliva. Seeing this, Su Xiao raised the hand holding the wine bottle, didn't speak, but the meaning was obvious.

"Haha, hahaha..."

Hao Chou raised his hand to decline with a bit of embarrassment. It wasn't because of anything else; Bai Ye was famous not only for his sword art and contracts but also for his alchemical deadly poisons. If one were to drink it, it would be refreshing, but what alchemical deadly poison one would be hit with afterward, only heaven knows.

"..."

Su Xiao took a light sip of the Elemental Fine Wine and didn't look down on Hao Chou because of his actions. Sometimes sacrificing some unimportant face to avoid unknown risks is a desirable choice.

"Time is almost up. You guys who play with the undead, follow me."

After Hao Chou left these words, he leaped out with a bang. He flew high like a cannonball, drawing an arc and crashing toward the King's Front Avenue.

"Qi~, you're the one playing with the undead, so rude."

The Death Soul girl with smoky makeup muttered, nodded at Su Xiao, left a sentence "This time it's up to you," and teleported at close range to the back of the Undead Ice Dragon.

The hoarse dragon roar caused layers of air waves to spread. The Undead Ice Dragon carried several Undead-types and flew toward the direction of the King's Front Avenue to deal with the Mad Dragon General, Bashed, together with Hao Chou. It wasn't that they didn't believe in Hao Chou's strength, but the Mad Dragon General, Bashed, was stronger than the other three leaders.

Time passed second by second. When the pocket watch made a crisp click, Su Xiao immediately activated the Extinguishing Law Teleportation Array under his feet.

Dong!

In the shocked eyes of the few auxiliary-type participants around, the teleportation array left a circular shape covered in cracks on the spot. Several people had ultra-long-range buff abilities and didn't need to enter the King's Hall with Su Xiao to battle the Undead Monarch.

After a strong and familiar feeling of teleportation, the space cracks around Su Xiao gradually disappeared. In the hall where the light was slightly dim, black chains as thick as arms hung down from above, gathering on the high chair in the center of the hall.

This rock high chair was not big, but it was ten meters high. A figure tightly wrapped by black chains sat bound on the high chair. He had backward-curving horns, and the dark gold body scales like scales on his neck were like dry, cracked skin eroded by the years.

Seeming to perceive Su Xiao's arrival, the Undead Monarch, whose body had withered like a dying old man, trembled his eyelids and opened them.

"Damn... Xiketo."

The Undead Monarch spoke in a dark and hoarse voice, having long lost the dominance he had when he broke the seal.

"And that, despicable villain who plays with fate... damn it!"

The Undead Monarch's mouth full of withered yellow teeth bit until they clicked, hating the mastermind behind the scenes who had calculated him to this point.

"Sorry, Extinguishing Law, I have been... sealed... for too long, too eager... to get, freedom, and even violated, the promise with the mask..."

Speaking to this point, the Undead Monarch, who looked like he was about to die of old age, spat out a large mouthful of black blood with a wow, binding the chains wrapped around him even tighter, and even causing the gray stone seat under him to be covered in cracks.

"Hehehe, in the end, I... overestimated myself, thinking I could borrow or even obtain that power that was dark to the extreme, in the end... but became a sealing container."

The Undead Monarch laughed miserably, and then spat out black blood again. This was like opening a valve; his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose all began to spray black blood. These black bloods scattered on the ground, spreading in a regular circle on the ground, and finally stopped at a diameter of more than ten meters.

A familiar and dangerous Abyss aura rushed toward him. Su Xiao's expression was calm, and the faint palpitation that had been continuing finally disappeared. He was very puzzled about one thing at this moment, which was how many coincidences this trap was pieced together from, causing him, the Priest, and Hao Chou to all fall into this trap.

As for who dug this trap, if Su Xiao still couldn't figure it out at this point, then he wouldn't have been able to play games with many old masterminds until today. The person who dug this trap was the Platinum Apostle and Xiketo.

First of all, Xiketo had the qualifications to be the former enemy of the leader, so naturally, he wouldn't be afraid of death, not to mention that he was already between life and death.

Not having defeated the Chosen One of the same era, burying the Chosen One of this era in this prison world that had trapped him for many years seemed to be a good choice, but it lacked an opportunity.

The appearance of the Platinum Apostle allowed Xiketo to see this opportunity. As both violators, and one who once possessed the "Forbidden Mark, Fate Mark," and one who was currently possessing the "Forbidden Mark, Fate Mark," the two had a tacit understanding that others couldn't understand when they first met.

Even more wonderfully, the Platinum Apostle was once the leader's subordinate, and even when fighting the violator alliance such as Xiketo, the Platinum Apostle participated in this grand confrontation as the leader's subordinate. Although the Platinum Apostle was a second-rate figure at that time, it still made Xiketo remember that there was such a person.

Fate is so wonderful. After the two met, they had a tacit understanding. Such a clever conspiracy, even Su Xiao and the Priest, inevitably fell into it, because the two were not omniscient and omnipotent.

Even worse, the Undead Monarch was not imprisoned in this world. He was once a sealer, but was gradually eroded by the existence within the seal, lost his mind, wanted to give up the seal, and leave this place to achieve the delusion of dominating the void and myriad worlds that was brewing in his heart, but in the end, under multiple measures, he was forced to become a container.

In this way, it was equivalent to the Undead Monarch, without knowing it, silently cooperating with the Platinum Apostle and Xiketo, making the two's plan even more seamless.

Speaking of which, the Undead Monarch was also once a person on the leader's side. His whole family died in the Abyss invasion, his heart was almost like dead ash, and his hatred for the Abyss existence made him agree to the leader's commission.

In the empty King's Hall, there seemed to be invisible babble from an unknown place, so the Abyss energy here quickly became rich, and black water droplets in the shape of water droplets floated around.

【Warning: This place is being invaded by Abyss power!】

Strips of bright red Apocalypse Paradise warning prompts appeared. It seems that for this kind of area, the Apocalypse Paradise gave a very high danger level. Su Xiao closed these warnings. As for why the Reincarnation Paradise didn't give him a warning, he guessed that it might be because he often enters Abyss areas or often fights with Abyss-type enemies, making his judgment threshold in this regard particularly high.

Su Xiao looked at the dark blood area in front that was gradually boiling. He didn't strike to interrupt it. That existence had already successfully broken free from the seal. Attacking now would only accelerate the speed of this Abyss existence breaking free from the seal.

A pleasant smell of fresh soil after rain permeated the air, which made Su Xiao frown. The "Top-tier Abyss Studies" he spent over a hundred thousand ounces of space-time power to improve was not just for show. This omen meant that the Abyss existence about to appear must be a particularly powerful Abyss powerhouse from the past.

The communicator in his arms vibrated. After taking it out, Su Xiao unhurriedly lit a cigarette, glanced at the circular dark blood area, and connected the communication. The Priest's voice came:

"It seems, it's the Platinum Apostle."

"Hmm."

Su Xiao spoke. Sometimes it's quite comfortable to cooperate temporarily with old masterminds, at least you don't have to explain to the other party what is happening.

"What is that thing on your side? Is it tricky?"

"Very."

"Is that so? Then it seems, I can only live and die with you."

Hearing the Priest say this, Su Xiao's hand paused. He threw away the remaining half of the cigarette in his hand. The half cigarette flipped, leaving a few wisps of blue smoke in the air and falling into the dark blood area, being evaporated in an instant.

Su Xiao was silent for two seconds and said: "Why, is the world outside the hall collapsing?"

"Hehe."

The Priest smiled and didn't answer.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just privately sent the information of an item to the Priest through the temporary team channel. This is 【Filthy Fate Blood】.

"You finally got it."

The Priest sighed, as if his weakness had been seen through, but Su Xiao wouldn't believe that this old guy was so easily manipulated.

"Let's join forces, before this Paradise Contest ends."

In the Priest's tone, there was a rare lack of kind laughter, but a bit of a deep voice.

"Okay, to be safe, let's sign a contract."

As soon as Su Xiao said this, the Priest was silent immediately. A moment later, the Priest said rarely seriously: "Don't make such jokes. If I'm not mistaken, that big guy is coming out soon. You are an expert in this field. What are our chances of winning?"

"No chance."

As soon as the voice fell, the sound of the communicator being snatched came from the opposite side.

"Hey! Bai Ye, don't be so pessimistic. We have a group of people joining forces, and we still can't kill an Abyss existence? Even if we can't kill it, sealing it should be fine, right?"

Hao Chou's voice came from the communicator. It could be heard that there were many people on the Priest's side. It was estimated that the sudden change of the Undead Monarch made the four leaders appear strong but weak. They relied on the blessing of this world. They looked particularly bluffing when perceived, but revealed drawbacks after truly starting to act.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He wasn't exaggerating. Just a few seconds ago, the gray stone high seat belonging to the Undead Monarch was cracked by black chains, and a pitch-black greatsword revealed a bit.

This greatsword was about four meters long, with a medium width, looking heavy and sharp. At the end of the hilt, there was a dark blue gemstone, and the black-blue light particles inside were beating like a heart, flickering on and off.

Su Xiao had seen this greatsword more than once. To be precise, he had seen its replica before. This is:

Abyss Greatsword!

The weapon of the former Abyss Lord.

Su Xiao didn't think that what was sealed here was the previous Abyss Lord. It wasn't that he looked down on the Undead Monarch, but that even if he were at his peak, he indeed didn't have this qualification.

Even so, what was sealed here must also be one echelon lower than the previous Abyss Lord, an existence that was his right-hand man, otherwise, he wouldn't be qualified to hold this representative weapon of the Abyss after he disappeared.

Gulu-lu~!

The dark blood on the ground boiled. A strong arm reached out from the dark blood and slapped it on the blood surface with a slap.

Peng! Peng!

With the shattering of the black chains in the hall, a giant man with four arms, nearly ten meters tall and pitch black, stood up from the black blood. He had beard-like tentacles on his chin, wooden messy horns on his head. After his eyes opened, the eyes on both sides also opened. The lower half of his face had an exoskeleton mask with fine air holes on it.

Hu~!

The four-armed giant man took a deep breath, and a whirlwind appeared in the entire hall. The airflow gathered toward the giant man, and the space even appeared ripples due to this suction.

"How long has it been, this... sense of reality in the material world."

The four-armed giant man breathed deeply with intoxication. He looked at Su Xiao sideways and said with a sneer: "Oh? It's Ma Wen's disciple. Last time he let me be silent for many years. Although he is a bastard, he is not an arrogant guy. He wouldn't let his disciple come to challenge me alone. It seems, it's a coincidence."

The four-armed giant man, no, the Abyss Guard Chief grinned, revealing a mouth full of forest-white teeth. Under the previous Abyss Lord, there were two right-hand men. One was the Abyss Governor who was biased toward strategy, and the other was the representative of martial power, the Abyss Guard Chief.

At this moment, what Su Xiao and others were about to face was the Abyss Guard Chief who had just broken the seal and possessed the Abyss Greatsword.

Good news: This world is suppressing the combat limit of the Abyss Guard Chief, making it unable to reach above the absolute strong, that is, the supreme level.

Bad news: This world is gradually collapsing due to the breaking of the seal by the Abyss Guard Chief.

Even worse, this is a prison. Before it completely collapses, no one can escape. Coupled with the fact that it is currently during the Paradise Contest, six paradise camps and the Void Tree notarize this place. It is still possible to enter this place halfway, but as for wanting to leave, even with the Priest's immortality, don't think about doing this.

The fact is so wonderful. Su Xiao, the Priest, and Hao Chou, who should have been each other's mortal enemies, can only join forces at this moment, otherwise, they will surely die.

There will be two more chapters updated later. ===== CHAPTER 3972 =====