Chapter 4156

Above, black clouds pressed down, and the rumbling of muffled thunder continued like war drums. Below, the overwhelming tide of Abyss creatures made the contractors on the front line, in front of Vanguard Fortress No. 1, inevitably breathe a bit faster and grip their weapons tighter.

Click, click, click~

The pupils of the evil and beautiful Red Count dilated slightly. She hadn't felt such pressure coming head-on in many years, which made her pupils even more scarlet.

Located beside the Red Count was a tall figure in a black Archmage robe that made him look even more burly. The skeletons following him gave him an aura between life and death; he was the Undead Archmage, Seth.

Just as the wave of Abyss creatures in front broke through an invisible barrier, with a boom, countless long-range attacks from their side were unleashed.

Within the entire Void Fortress, there were, of course, not only contractors; local powerhouses of the Void could also respond to the Void Tree's summons to garrison here.

Of course, there was no lack of people among the local Void powerhouses who feared war and sought to survive. The problem was that the temporary war shelters notarized by the Void Tree could only be entered if one's combat power was below a certain level. Civilians from various worlds in the Star Realm entered the "temporary war shelters" located furthest from the Abyss's spread in their respective worlds. As for those unwilling to enter, they were naturally not forced. Regarding such choices concerning life and death, the Void Tree's notarization had always been very lenient.

Some large cities in various worlds rejected this protection from an unknown powerful force and chose to defend their homes themselves.

The fate of these large cities was actually already sealed. As for those Star Realm powerhouses who chose to fear war and seek survival, they failed to realize one point: once the Abyss Campaign began, the only safe places for transcendent beings were the war fortresses of each world, which were their own base camps.

At this moment, the Void base camp could be said to be a gathering of Star Realm powerhouses, coupled with the numerous powerhouses of the Paradise faction, as well as the summons within the Ninth Tier to Supreme Realm range, plus a large number of employees, bringing the total number of people in the base camp to over one million. And this already reserved space for subsequent replacements for the front line and temporary reinforcements for the other five major battlefields. Of course, compared to the core battlefield,

the defensive power of the other five major battlefields was more than several times weaker. Correspondingly, the offensive limit of the Abyss power faction on those sides was also far inferior to the Void. After all, the Abyss Gates there were projected; the only one truly opened was in the Void.

Beside the Undead Archmage, Seth, was actually the Goblin Elder, Maza Bia Dorthy. All the high-level members of the Goblin Chamber of Commerce were very clear that if they could not resist this Abyss invasion, it would be the day of extinction for all living beings in the Star Realm. Therefore, they simply submitted over 90% of the Space-Time Power in the Goblin Chamber of Commerce's inventory to the Void Tree.

If this battle were won, the Goblin Chamber of Commerce would inevitably take off on the spot. However, given the greedy yet low-key style of the Goblin Chamber of Commerce, at most they would maintain their current appearance and wouldn't even climb to the top of the chamber. To put it bluntly, the Goblins' greatest hobby was secretly counting gold coins under their covers and enjoying it on the sly.

And to the right of the Goblin Elder was an old woman. That's right, the Demon old woman had also come. All along,

the Demon race had been fence-sitting, but this time they couldn't. Could they join the Abyss faction? Just thinking about it was unreliable. If they really entered the Abyss Era later, the Demon race wouldn't even have an environment in which to survive.

The Demon race had always been fence-sitters whenever possible, but when they couldn't, they never lacked the determination to fight to the death. It could be said that the Demon race had no stance and was brutal, but one could not say they were not good at fighting.

Facing the surging wave of Abyss creatures, the Undead Archmage, Seth, stood alone on the metal wall at the very front. He raised one hand, and with a boom, wormholes of various sizes for death giant insects appeared. From these spatial wormholes surged a massive amount of undead creatures, the weakest of which were high-tier undead creatures like Brain Eaters.

Using others' ultimate-level summoned creatures as cannon fodder—this was the strongest Undead type, one of the faces of the Death Paradise: Sun Seth.

But there was one strange point: the undead summoned by the Undead Archmage, Seth, all had Sun characteristics; even the weaker ones had intense Flame characteristics.

The massive amount of undead creatures met the black tide, but the next second, the undead tide was swallowed by the dark tide. Seeing this, the Undead Archmage, Seth, remained calm. Standing on the high wall, his Archmage trench coat was blown wildly by the gale.

Su Xiao, located on the high wall of their third line of defense, looked at the Undead Archmage, Seth, in front and secretly felt that this person had great courage. With numerous Abyss-type powerhouses secretly spying, he actually dared to stand in such a conspicuous position. Asking himself,

with those old things secretly watching, even he wouldn't want to charge into the battle group right now.

The black tide that had just submerged the undead army a second ago exploded with a roar the next moment.

Boom, boom, boom—

Explosions that tore space to shreds appeared. It was those undead creatures. The Undead Archmage, Seth, beckoned, and the undead creatures that had scattered into fragments after the explosions actually adhered to each other, reassembling. Whether art is an explosion, Seth didn't know, but he certainly knew how to blow enemies to smithereens.

The title "Sun Seth" was what outsiders called him after he became famous, fearing his vengeful personality. In the past, he was called "Crazy Seth," and there was no summon of his that couldn't self-destruct.

The continuous Sun explosions triggered by Sun Seth actually suppressed the Abyss tide in front for a time. The earth and sky were shrouded in explosions. Not to mention the rushing Abyss creatures, even the contractors or Void powerhouses on their own front line hid behind the high wall, and they could still clearly feel the high wall in front of them vibrating with boom after boom.

A Demon named Abak looked at the vibrating high wall with lingering fear. Near him were his two Winged race friends, a pair of siblings: the older brother, Feiyu, and the younger sister, Chenwu.

Abak swallowed his saliva and asked the masked man beside him, who was a Pioneer: "Are you people from the Paradise all like this?"

Abak's meaning was: I'll stay further away in the subsequent melee, lest I not die at the hands of the enemy but be accidentally killed by my own people.

The masked Pioneer was silent for a moment and said: "Compared to the Madman Paradise, Sun Seth is considered relatively rational."

"Madman Paradise? Which one is that?"

Chenwu of the Winged race asked. With the start of the final battle, the Star Realm powerhouses participating in the war had a preliminary understanding of the several major Paradises through the information provided by the Void Tree. This was normal; they were about to fight to the death together, and if they didn't even know who they were fighting alongside, that would truly be a bit ridiculous.

"The Paradise where Kukulyn Bai Ye is."

"Oh~!" x3

Abak, Feiyu, and Chenwu all had expressions of "that makes perfect sense."

The sound of explosions never stopped, as if Sun Seth alone could hold back the Abyss tide. On the high wall, Sun Seth felt very refreshed. Not only had he been low-key for many years, but at this moment, in front of the myriad races of the Star Realm and the powerhouses of the several major Paradises, he was thoroughly showing off, and also because of his soaring Merit points.

If he accumulated enough and later obtained one of the "Abyss Heart/Elemental Eye," he would thoroughly rise. Of course, with Sun Seth's style, he would definitely have to be steady and solid. His goal was to reach this point around the middle of the Fourth Era.

One could only say that Sun Seth was truly steady. Besides the fact that he had indeed been low-key for too long, anyone who had absorbed Sun power for who knows how many years inside the sun of a waste star would want to vent a little.

Swoosh~

A subtle sound of wind breaking that was almost ignored struck. It was the Fish family patriarch, Emu Kensa, who had his hand cupped in front of his mouth in front of the Abyss Gate, as if blowing something out with a blowpipe.

A white, hair-thin insect flew toward the front of Sun Seth. In fact, what was truly dangerous was never the strange evil coming head-on, but this kind of quiet and fast thing.

A giant skeleton burning with Sun flames appeared in front of Sun Seth. The white nematode nailed into its tall leg bone. After a moment of silence,

Boom!

It wasn't an explosion, but a blast caused by a super amazing breeding speed. A white nematode instantly split and bred into a nematode domain a thousand meters in diameter, like a sea of insects about to submerge this place.

Sun Seth's expression changed slightly, and he immediately wanted to use hard means to carry this move from the enemy. He, Sun Seth, could usually fall or be defeated, but what he represented while showing off in front of people at this moment was the Death Ranger of the Death Paradise. Having been the "ten-thousand-year second place" for so many years, as a powerhouse from the period when he was the leader, this time, no matter what, he had to take off the hat of the "ten-thousand-year second place" of the campaign.

Clang~

A slash quietly swept past. Sun Seth was surprised at first, then understood. Sun flames erupted suddenly with him as the center, burning the surrounding nematodes to nothing. Amidst the flying remnants, Sun Seth, standing on top of the high wall, did not lose his side's momentum at all.

In front of the Abyss Gate far away, the Fish family patriarch, Emu Kensa, smiled without mirth. It was certain that the Undead Archmage was not of the causality system, and the way that kind of causality was instantly annihilated just now—even the true causality annihilation of the causality system couldn't be so crisp. Known to be able to do this, besides that Law-Extinguishing expert who used the sharp blade in his hand to slash and annihilate a Transcendent World, who else could it be?

The Fish family patriarch, Emu Kensa, looked around at the high wall on the enemy's front line. With its perception power and the strength of the aura of the person it wanted to find, it could naturally determine whether the other party was on the front line.

"It seems he doesn't dare to face us directly."

After Emu Kensa finished speaking, it chuckled sinisterly, the laughter like the cold, damp deep sea.

The Bronze patriarch remained silent; this one was always serious. The leader of the aggregate body also didn't express an opinion, which was like ten thousand black spoons... As for the patriarch of the Rune family, a strong and tall figure named Rune Kui, who wore a bone mask on the lower half of his face, he looked down at the Fish family patriarch, who looked like a little old man but had a terrifying image. The Rune patriarch, also the boss of the Beast family, didn't speak either, but the meaning was clearly: if the Master weren't here, it was as if you would dare to face that Law-Extinguishing expert directly.

In fact, the mission of the four great patriarchs this time was to eliminate Su Xiao. One-on-one, they were definitely not his match, so it was four-on-one. As for it sounding bad if it got out, there was no such concern at all. That was the Law-Extinguishing expert, Kukulyn

Bai Ye. The strength of this enemy was such that four-on-one was nothing disgraceful, and it even gave people the feeling that four-on-one was only natural, and even very insecure.

The Abyss creatures were like an endless stream. Fortunately, their side's firepower was sufficient. Various long-range abilities were bombarded wildly as if they didn't cost money, and there was no need to aim at all. Now, as long as a skill was thrown out, it would hit.

A Fire-type mage from the Apocalypse Paradise located on the third defense line had a faint flame glimmering on the staff in his hand. Above, fireballs the size of houses fell, booming into the rushing enemy tide.

Looking at the continuously scrolling Merit points, the corner of the Fire-type mage's mouth was harder to suppress than an AK. According to the prompt just now, Merit points were resources that could be exchanged for Real Attribute Points and usage permissions for Skill Upgrade Chambers. Therefore, he continued to safely farm Merit points like this. At most by tomorrow or the day after, he would have the confidence to become a Peak-tier mage after the rotation.

Just as the Fire-type mage was bombarding wildly, the Support-type behind him who was restoring his mana was sweating profusely, and the Melee-type was guarding the surroundings, dark liquid suddenly appeared beside the Fire-type mage.

"Roar!"

A creature with a shape like a worm suddenly drilled out of a spatial tear. It was so close to the Fire-type mage that he could smell the fishy stench of this black worm-bred creature, as well as the sense of terror that made his hair stand on end.

Splat.

The bred creature exploded, turning into a large number of leech-like black worms. The black worms scattered, and one of them bit the Fire-type mage's left hand. Its mouthparts ignored all defenses, biting off a piece of flesh the size of a soybean from the pad of the Fire-type mage's finger.

Bang!

A flame impact blasted the black leech worms to pieces. The Fire-type mage felt a bit of lingering fear. Just as he felt he had escaped a disaster, he suddenly felt movement in his palm. Raising his hand to look, strips of black leech worms had already drilled out from the skin of his hand, twisting wantonly and powerfully. Seeing this scene, the Fire-type mage, who was usually very manly, had his cheek twitch.

This scene was quite hard to dream of even in a nightmare.

The healer in the team had an even uglier expression. Her dispel ability had already been used but had no effect, because these leech worms were transmitted after the black worm bit off a piece just now. At the moment, they were breeding wantonly inside the Fire-type mage's body, and their characteristics had become a part of the Fire-type mage's body. Even if this part was undergoing deadly and rapid proliferation, it was not something that could be eliminated by dispel abilities.

As for healing abilities, they were even less usable. The characteristics of these leech worms were too troublesome. One could only say that Ninth-tier contractors were indeed a bit fragile when facing characteristics nourished by the Abyss. Not everyone was like Su Xiao, who started coming into contact with Abyss-bred objects or environments from the Seventh or Eighth tier, and after the Ninth tier, dealt with Abyss characteristics in every world, not to mention after reaching the Peak or Supreme tiers.

The Fire-type mage pulled up his sleeve. The sight that met his eyes made him regret not cutting off this arm at the first moment. Strips of black leech worms hung down like tassels. The Fire-type mage groaned with a tremor. At this moment, he understood: on this Abyss battlefield, as a Ninth-tier Fire-type mage, he was at best the lowest-tier combat power that could be killed at any time. Although not at the cannon-fodder level like summoned creatures, when encountering danger, he would truly die.

In this five-person squad, the silent Tank-type brother rose from the metal supply box, and the tower shield in his hand landed fiercely. Shield held, charge! Target: teammate, the Fire-type mage.

Seeing the incoming tower shield, the Fire-type mage smiled with some relief. This was the correct choice that also made him want to curse.

Bang!

The Tank-type brother, in War Spirit form, charged past. He didn't knock the Fire-type mage away but passed through him. The Fire-type mage felt intense pain coming from all over his body, followed by relief. After the healing ability was cast on him, he let out a long breath of relief after surviving the disaster.

Looking at the Tank-type brother now, strips of black leech worms were drilling out from his body surface. He stomped his feet and let out a wild roar, and strips of black leech worms flew out from his body. After completing all this with the Tank-type's life-dominating body technique, the healer's ability also flew over.

The Tank-type brother, wearing a face mask, pulled it down a bit, revealing a face that looked honest, and nodded at the Fire-type mage. The Fire-type mage, who had just recovered, raised his hand and gave a thumbs up.

When first matched into this campaign team, the Fire-type mage was a bit unhappy. After all, he had to split the Merit points from killing enemies among five people. He had nothing to say about splitting with the "Support-type" and "Healer-type."

But right now, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Merit points should be split among five people. And don't look at that Melee-type young man as listless; if an Abyss creature suddenly used some means to drill into a spatial gap and get here, this young man was the guarantee for the whole team.

It is worth mentioning that the Fire-type mage was from the Apocalypse Paradise, the Melee-type youth was from the Reincarnation Paradise, the Holy Support-type was from the Sanctuary Paradise, the little healer was of course from the Holy Light Paradise, and the Tank-type brother was formerly a contractor of the Guardian Paradise and was now a contractor of the Holy Light Paradise.

And there were still many such squads in the Void core war zone and the five major war zones of the Transcendent Worlds. However, not every squad was lucky enough to be matched with a Tank-type from the Guardian Paradise.

At this moment, on the front line, the intensity of the front line was astonishing, but it was only the opening. The Abyss creatures were overwhelming and continuous, true, but the real threat was those Abyss descendants waiting for an opportunity.

Drip, drip~

Blood dripped down Mo En's chin. He was a well-known friendly person, but this didn't mean he lacked combat power.

About to be promoted to the Peak Realm, he was currently located on the front line. It could be seen that Mo En was determined to promote to the Peak of the Supreme Realm during the early to middle stages of this Abyss Campaign. Only in this way could he have a foothold on this tragic battlefield and protect those he could protect.

In the past, many people said Mo En was hypocritical, but to this day, Mo En still maintained the kindness of distinguishing good from evil and helping those worth helping.

Just a moment ago, Mo En was almost pierced through the throat by a sharp tentacle that appeared suddenly. It wasn't that an Abyss climber had ambushed him; it was that there were too many Abyss creatures coming head-on. A figure composed of dark red tentacles was walking leisurely among the Abyss creatures that were constantly charging. It was an aggregate body, and it shouldn't be a core member of the aggregate body family; if that were the case, Mo En, who hadn't been promoted to the Peak yet, wouldn't have a chance to survive.

Speaking of which, in the Abyss Campaign, even the combat power and destructive power of a Peak climber wouldn't be very large in range. There were too many enemy Abyss creatures, and their side had too many summoned creatures and barrier defenses. Both sides had too many things that needed to be destroyed. Therefore, the range of various combat powers naturally wouldn't be as world-destroying as when two Peak powerhouses were fighting one-on-one. Of course,

if two Peak climbers from both sides were fighting for their lives, the affected range would still be very wide.

Su Xiao was just sitting on the iron-black metal high wall of the third line of defense, looking at the Abyss Gate in the distance. Just a moment ago, the Abyss Lord had already returned to the Abyss. It was estimated that, unless necessary, he wouldn't leave the Abyss too far,

so as to maintain the continuous external invasion of Abyss power.

Su Xiao wouldn't make a move for the time being; he would be busy later. Right now, he just needed to wait for the core battlefield to hold on and maintain the current defensive posture. Don't think of this as simple. Their climbers seemed to have killed the Abyss creatures until corpses were strewn everywhere, making the sky over the chaotic battle zone shrouded in black blood mist, but their climbers were constantly consuming combat power, while the incoming Abyss creatures were endless.

He raised his hand and looked at the back of his right hand. A mountain mark had appeared; this was an aid mark. When any main battlefield needed reinforcements, he could use this to rush there. Besides that, he would receive battlefield missions at any time. Just as he thought of this,

【Prompt (Void Tree): You have received an emergency battlefield mission. You need to kill 1 "Bred Variant: Cruiser" in the shortest possible time.】

There was no "mission failure penalty" or the like, but the requirement of "shortest possible time" showed the urgency of the situation. At Su Xiao's current tier, the emergency missions of this campaign would definitely not have mission failure penalties. The reason was that once things were messed up, he would definitely have to bear the bitter fruit for it later.

Su Xiao stood up and looked at the short girl beside him. Her attire was cumbersome and gorgeous. She was one of the top perception-types in the Apocalypse Paradise, and of course, also a causality-type. Her branch choice was prediction and prophecy. She was a divination witch named Monisha.

Monisha was "lucky" enough to be matched into the "Peak Reinforcement Squad" as a perception-type. Regarding this, Monisha had something to say. As for what, she could at most guarantee not to cry when speaking. Are you kidding me! Letting her assist a Law-Extinguishing expert who had sealed eight Original Sin objects? She was a causality-type! Had she accidentally triggered some penalty mechanism?

Subsequently, Monisha learned one good news and one bad news.

Good news: She didn't have to go to the emergency reinforcements for other main battlefields, and she certainly wouldn't go. As a causality-type, going to emergency reinforcements—which sounded like sudden, fast, and high-intensity combat—wasn't that just looking for death?

Bad news: Although she didn't have to help Su Xiao with prophecies, she needed to help Su Xiao with perception.

"Monisha."

Su Xiao spoke, waking up Monisha, who was in a gorgeous purple dress and doubting life: "Wha, what is it?"

"Perceive the location of the 'Bred Variant: Cruiser'."

"Huh?"

Monisha looked at Su Xiao, blinking her eyes with long eyelashes. She understood these words, but after putting them together, she was very confused.

Click, click, click~

Proud Song crystals outlined in front, forming a wriggling, constantly deforming eye. This eye was about the size of a soccer ball.

Seeing this, Monisha first divined, then perceived, and it took less than five seconds before she said seriously: "Found it. It has actually sneaked into the fifth defense line. How did it do that?"

Su Xiao didn't speak. He pressed one hand on Monisha's shoulder. Amidst Monisha's confusion, Su Xiao used the other party's perception sharing, and his other hand drew Zhan Long Shan.

Clang!

In perception, that "Bred Variant: Cruiser" was suddenly cut by an upright slash mark, then struggled in pain, and finally dissolved.

Monisha, who perceived all this throughout, gradually became dumbfounded. She estimated the distance; not only was it very far,

but it was also separated by multiple defense lines and countless various defensive barriers.

"May I ask, how did you... do that?"

Hearing this, Su Xiao looked down at Monisha. This perception-type's performance just now was indeed excellent. He said:

"Slash its causality."

"Ah?"

As a causality-type, Monisha knew better than anyone else how absurd and explosive this was.

"Could it be that you are actually a causality-type? Just using Technique Grandmaster as a disguise?"

Su Xiao didn't speak.

"Last question, please satisfy my curiosity. Your slash almost shattered all my efforts in the causality-type! How did you do it?"

"Improve technique."

"And then? Is there anything special?"

"Constantly improve."

"This, it seems to make a lot of sense, but, you just did it like that, and slashed causality? I have to prepare a ritual, and it takes a total of three days to achieve causality destruction. What is this? Oh, right! What level is your Blade Technique Grandmaster?"

This question indeed stumped Su Xiao for a moment. Upgrading Blade Technique Grandmaster to the max was Lv. 110. Later, Blade Technique Grandmaster reached Lv. EX, and he had carried out several super-large upgrades, as well as the improvements brought by Sky Peak Slash Shadow, so it was impossible to estimate.

"Very high."

"Specifically?"

"Not clear."

"Sorry, a piece of trash like me is actually jealous of how you can slash causality. I'm going to change my profession."

Monisha was "hurt" by the "slash causality" move. Actually, she didn't have to be like this. Su Xiao was a Peak Grandmaster,

and with the accumulation of "Peak Movement," he naturally had the great combat power of "Blade Slashes Causality."

Just at this moment, the communicator in Su Xiao's arms rang. After answering, it was the little sprite, Popoli. The other party had already delivered that 【Covenant Object】 to their base camp and was waiting for Su Xiao in the base camp at this time.

Su Xiao made a move to return to the base camp, but suddenly received a bright red prompt:

【Prompt (Void Tree): The war situation in the Wind Sea Continent is in crisis. You will be teleported for reinforcements in 10 seconds.】

Of the six major battlefields, the core battlefield, the Void, was the responsibility of the Reincarnation Paradise faction. There were the most Reincarnation Paradise contractors here.

The other five major battlefields were responsible by the other five Paradise factions, which were:

Myriad Race World: Responsible by the Dawn Paradise faction. The Dawn Paradise had just revived not long ago, but the Myriad Race World itself had sufficient defensive combat power and was currently very stable.

Divination Witch World: Responsible by the Holy Light Paradise faction. The current state was still quite good.

Blazing Sun Star: Responsible by the Sanctuary Paradise faction. Performing stably.

Ancient Dragon Kingdom: Responsible by the Death Paradise faction. This side belonged to their disadvantageous area. Although the contractors of the Death Paradise...

Heart is okay.

Wind Sea Continent: Responsible by the Apocalypse Paradise faction. One could only say that this was an unexpected allocation of combat power, but the Void Tree's combat power judgment was based on the higher winning rate of the entire campaign, not a single battlefield.

As for the situation in the Wind Sea Continent now, one could see from the prompt that it was in urgent need of reinforcements.

A teleportation array appeared under Su Xiao's feet. Target: Wind Sea Continent.