Chapter 44: The Return and the Red Hunter (Fifth Update)
Inside the third floor of the castle, Su Xiao drank a bottle of Ancient Secret Medicine. Afterward, his wounds gradually stopped bleeding. He manually adjusted his ribs, and his breathing became much smoother.
Bubu Wang rarely got injured. Even when occasionally hurt, it was only a light wound. This time, however, he was seriously wounded. When Su Xiao treated his wounds, he howled with heart-wrenching pain.
Su Xiao’s wound treatment technique was very professional. As for the patient’s experience, Iron-Blooded Bull Amu had almost shed tears after being injured once.
After Su Xiao finished treating Bubu Wang’s wounds, the dog kicked his legs and passed out.
“Is she… really dead?”
Melody spoke weakly. The two people she feared most were Morisha and Su Xiao. Now that Su Xiao had killed Morisha, Melody not only hadn’t forgotten her fear of Morisha but seemed to be developing even greater psychological trauma.
“Obviously, she’s dead as a doornail.”
Su Xiao gestured for Amu to take care of the unconscious Bubu Wang, then stood up and headed toward the fourth floor.
The entire fourth floor of the castle was Morisha’s private quarters, forbidden to outsiders. Given Morisha’s personality, the level of luxury here was unimaginable.
After wandering around the fourth floor for a few circles, Su Xiao stopped in front of a metal door. This metal door was covered with various array diagrams, and at its center was a sun-shaped protrusion that could be turned. If his guess was correct, this thing was similar to a combination lock. After examining it, Su Xiao found that it was basically impossible to crack, at least for him, unless he used brute force to break the door.
Su Xiao tried turning the sun-shaped protrusion. After a few rotations, the metal door, as expected, locked completely. With no hope of opening it, Su Xiao drew his blade and stabbed the door.
[Tip: The Sun Transformation Crystal has been destroyed.]
[The Hunter has annihilated the Westport Witch Gathering Point. Kill record being tallied…]
It wasn’t Su Xiao who directly destroyed the Sun Transformation Crystal, but rather his triggering of the metal door’s defensive restraint that caused its destruction.
When Su Xiao cut through the door and entered, the fifty-square-meter room was already in shambles. Everything had been reduced to ashes, including, of course, Morisha’s personal property and the rare resources hoarded by Westport. Given Morisha’s personality, she would never allow outsiders to get their hands on these things.
A burnt smell hit him. Just then, the previous kill tally ended, and the reward settlement began.
[The Hunter has annihilated the Westport Witch Gathering Point. You have received the following basic rewards.]
[You have received 20% Pioneer Source. Total Pioneer Source now: 26.3%.]
[You have received 12,700 Holy Healing Church Reputation. Current Reputation: 13,790/100 (White Rank).]
[You have received Soul Crystal × 10.]
[Basic rewards have been deposited into the Hunter’s personal Reincarnation Paradise Imprint. The following are additional rewards. The Hunter may choose one from the following options.]
A, Basic Ability Promotion Qualification (Promotion limit: Grandmaster Rank).
B, Legendary Chest: Hunt × 1 (This chest has a 100% chance of containing a Legendary Equipment, 70% chance of a Legendary Skill Scroll, 50% chance of a Legendary Cultivation Method/Basic Skill/Rare Bloodline, 8% chance of a Soul Crystal (Complete), 2% chance of an item above Legendary quality.)
C, Temporary Extreme Value Limit Removal (Temporarily removes the 99-point True Attribute extreme limit, effect lasts 10 minutes).
D, Curse Resistance increased by 30%. After obtaining this reward, Curse Resistance will be raised to 95% (Normal reward Curse Resistance cap is 75%).
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In addition to the basic rewards, Su Xiao could choose one from four additional rewards. Reward A was the safest. Reward B depended on luck; it could be the highest or lowest return. Reward C was temporarily ruled out. Even if Su Xiao’s four main attributes broke the extreme limit, they would at most exceed 100 points. Without corresponding rewards, whether it was strong or weak was unknown.
As for Reward D, this reward was very interesting. After obtaining it, Su Xiao could almost ignore Curse-type witches. No matter how bizarre their abilities, the impact on Su Xiao would be extremely limited.
Choose one from A, B, or D. After weighing the options repeatedly, Su Xiao chose “Legendary Chest: Hunt.” This uniquely named chest basically represented the highest value among Legendary chests.
Although Curse Resistance and Grandmaster-level abilities were also tempting, Su Xiao could soon raise his Curse Resistance to 75%. Coupled with his Blade Grandmaster’s control immunity effect, he wouldn’t fear those Curse-type witches either.
Grandmaster-level abilities were certainly powerful, but without investing a large amount of resources, they were only good on paper. His Blade Grandmaster had already reached Lv.12, and the subsequent resource consumption temporarily didn’t allow Su Xiao to divert resources to other basic abilities.
If it were just a Legendary Chest without the word “Hunt,” Su Xiao would have decisively chosen Curse Resistance.
A chest appeared in Su Xiao’s hand. It felt unusually heavy. Storing the chest in his storage space, Su Xiao came to a large bed and fell asleep. The long journey and the high-intensity battle against the large group of witches, Morisha, and the Uncrowned Lord had severely drained his stamina.
He didn’t know how long he had slept when he suddenly felt something kick him. Opening his drowsy eyes, he found Bubu Wang’s paw planted on his face.
Pushing the sleeping Bubu Wang aside, Su Xiao continued to sleep.
A few hours later.
Tap, tap, tap…
Footsteps approached. Su Xiao’s eyes opened, and he reached for the hilt of Dragon-Slaying Flash. A stranger was approaching him—not Bubu Wang or Amu.
The long blade slashed diagonally, finally stopping before a pale neck.
“I’m just… bringing food~”
Melody spoke in a trembling voice. She still didn’t know how dangerous it was to approach Su Xiao while he was asleep.
“How long have I slept?”
Su Xiao sheathed Dragon-Slaying Flash. Aside from this castle, Westport no longer existed.
“A long time… about ten hours?”
“Is that so.”
Su Xiao moved his left arm. His left arm was the most severely injured. A stinging pain came, but although the situation was still not optimistic, he could at least move it freely. A few days of rest would be fine.
“What now? Continue hunting witches?”
Melody placed the porridge she had cooked on the bedside table. This White Witch clearly didn’t have the attributes of a good wife and mother. The porridge she cooked had a burnt smell, and there were even crusty bits inside.
Su Xiao glanced at Melody, then at the thin porridge on the bedside. Melody smiled awkwardly.
“The taste isn’t bad, at least it’s quite crunchy~”
“…”
Melody was clearly in a good mood. With Morisha dead, she had completely let herself go. If not for the bomb still inside her, she would have long since flown away to continue her swindling.
After drinking some burnt-tasting porridge, Su Xiao felt his condition had significantly recovered. He stood up, thought for a moment, and walked out of the castle.
The witch hunt was now complete. His ultimate goal in hunting witches was to raise his status in the Holy Healing Church to access some classified intelligence. With his current Holy Healing Church reputation, raising his Witch Hunter rank to Red Rank was no problem.
Walking out of the castle, Su Xiao found that Amu had already parked the carriage at the entrance. After everyone boarded the carriage, they headed straight for the Holy Healing Church headquarters in the Central Region.
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After four days of nonstop travel, Su Xiao returned to Holy Healing City.
On the bustling street, a carriage stopped in front of the Holy Healing Church headquarters. The three Donkens pulling it collapsed to the ground, drawing sidelong glances from the surrounding civilians.
Su Xiao jumped down from the carriage and walked toward the main entrance of the Holy Healing Church. By now, his injuries had mostly recovered. To fully heal, he would need at least two to three more days.
PS: (Originally confident about writing six chapters, but after finishing the fifth, I was shivering from exhaustion. I can only make up for it tomorrow. After adjusting my sleep schedule, this waste mosquito is now a battle mosquito!)