Chapter 41: The Final Carnival
The battle on the grassland subsided. The corpse of the Sacrificial Divine Ox was swallowed into the cavity of a Spore Tank. The bio-energy gained was secondary; the genes of the Sacrificial Divine Ox were the real prize.
Su Xiao didn't linger long on the grassland. After all, this was Marg's territory. As for whether Marg would agree to join forces against the Sun Tribe, that answer wouldn't come until tomorrow morning.
Returning smoothly to the forest base camp, Su Xiao first inquired about the situation on Baha's end. Attacking the Sun Tribe was just icing on the cake; the world coordinates of the ancient ruins were the core mission.
There were no changes at the ancient ruins. Of the remaining 11 stragglers, 3 had been hunted to death by elite Demon Beasts. Although they possessed spatial abilities, they couldn't use them indefinitely.
Moreover, most of them were support types. Once entangled by elite Demon Beasts, with the subsequent insect swarm surrounding them in time, those stragglers were almost certainly doomed.
Su Xiao sat in the wooden shed in front of the insect nest, with a bewildered Jila standing before him.
Su Xiao was considering one thing: how to maximize Jila's value. Making her a permanent summon wasn't very advisable. For Jila to unleash her combat power, she first needed bio-energy.
And bio-energy wasn't abundant in every world. This current war world was almost untouched by human development, with large and super-large wild animals everywhere, which gave the insect swarm the opportunity to thrive.
If Jila entered a modern world or a medieval one, developing would take a massive amount of time—a few months at the shortest, a year at the longest. Most of the tasks Su Xiao received had a time limit of one month at most, often ten days or even shorter.
As for having Jila simultaneously attack several totem tribes, using Demon Beasts as cannon fodder to gain benefits, that was even more wasteful.
Su Xiao planned to leave Jila in this world, terminate the summoning contract, but not extract the demonic power from within her, letting her develop in this world.
If Jila could evolve to the Fourth Rank or even Fifth Rank, she could become a huge asset for Su Xiao in the future.
Primordial Worlds and Derived Worlds—even if Reincarnation Paradise obtained this world, it couldn't reset its timeline, a fundamental difference from Derived Worlds.
Su Xiao even felt that the rank of Primordial Worlds was close to that of the Real World. This wasn't a guess but had evidence.
Previously in the Black King World, Bubu Wang had explored the royal palace alone and encountered a Overlord-level giant spider, Queen Meredith. That wasn't the issue; the problem was with Meredith's stored food.
Inside a certain silk sac, Bubu Wang found the corpse of a Contractor, left there at least a few years ago, and it wasn't even the corpse of a Contractor from Reincarnation Paradise.
That meant the Black King World had likely never been reset. If other Contractors entered the Dead Silence City, they might be able to kill the Day King, but the Black King, already eliminated by Su Xiao, would never reappear.
Since the Black King World couldn't be reset, then as a combination of a War World and a Primordial World, the Insect World had a high probability of not being resettable either.
This wasn't a bad thing. Although such worlds were dangerous and unsuitable for ordinary Fifth-Rank Contractors, they could serve as Trial Worlds for completing survival-type tasks.
Remember, when Su Xiao advanced from First Rank to Second Rank, he entered a Trial World filled with dangers but also rich rewards.
It could be said that Su Xiao and the other Contractors participating in the war were pioneers. Their combat power surpassed that of ordinary Fifth-Rank Contractors, so they acted as representatives, fighting and scheming against powerhouses from other Paradises.
Those Fifth-Rank slackers, on the other hand, could enter the worlds they fought for to perform survival tasks, allowing promising Contractors among them to quickly grow stronger and enter the first echelon.
There was another reason Su Xiao wanted to leave Jila in this world: as his rank increased, he would constantly come into contact with the Void, even entering certain worlds or continents within it.
At that point, if he faced a major power, before his strength reached a crushing level, he would need a group of soldiers willing to fight and die for him.
Given the reputation of the Law-Destruction Faction, recruiting allies in the Void was nearly impossible. Besides, Su Xiao had no interest in building a faction; he pursued individual strength.
Because of this, Jila in the Primordial World became particularly important. In terms of the power structure of Jila's insect nest, it wasn't a faction at all, but a weapon of war.
Su Xiao needed this kind of simple, brutal war machine. As long as he managed one, he could mobilize all of them. Of course, the prerequisite was that Jila could develop.
Therefore, Su Xiao felt that bringing Jila into Reincarnation Paradise and having her experience various worlds with him was a waste of her talent. That wasn't the way for Jila to grow stronger. She needed massive amounts of time, focusing solely on development, and avoiding combat as much as possible.
This was the difference between Jila and Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Beini.
In Su Xiao's team, he and Bubu Wang were the core, Amu was the tank, Baha handled high-altitude reconnaissance, transport, and assassination, and Beini provided resource support, such as selling items and checking real-time prices.
As for Jila joining the team, with her homebody personality, she could barely even go out the door, making her completely unsuitable.
With that thought, Su Xiao's train of thought ended. He fell asleep. Whether he would destroy the Sun Tribe tomorrow morning or wait for the time limit to expire and return to Reincarnation Paradise depended on the reply from Marg's insect nest.
The next morning, the rising sun slowly climbed over the horizon. Dewdrops dripped from the leaves, and all things revived.
A spider-like insect raced through the forest. When it reached the fungal carpet near Jila's insect nest, it stopped.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
The earth trembled slightly. Countless insects poured into the forest, eventually stopping at its edge.
This was the attitude of the Insect Queen, Marg: alliance, destroy the Sun Tribe.
Perhaps it was a special ability of Insect Queens, but both Marg and Red Doom had clone abilities. At this moment, Marg's genetic clone stood on the back of an insect.
Su Xiao and Bubu Wang walked out of the forest.
"Human, I hope you keep your promise."
Marg was still as aloof as ever. Or rather, this was what an Insect Queen should be like. A homebody like Jila was the abnormal one.
"The left battlefield is yours. We'll be on the right flank, pincer attacking the Sun Tribe."
Su Xiao hadn't expected Marg to be so decisive, bringing 340,000 insects to the forest. Judging by her attitude, she clearly intended to attack the Sun Tribe this very morning.
As for formations or attack patterns, they were completely unnecessary. Just agreeing on each side's attack position was enough. Combining their insect forces was impossible; trust issues alone wouldn't allow it.
The situation was already clear. Su Xiao's side would attack the Sun Tribe from the right, Marg from the left. As for what would happen after victory, no one mentioned it.
Su Xiao left Amu and Beini at the base camp, along with over 10,000 Demon Beasts and 500 Titans. The insect nest still had plenty of bio-energy stored. If the base camp was attacked, they could immediately start producing more troops.
Su Xiao's side had 260,000 Demon Beasts and over 14,000 Titans, including many elite individuals.
Marg's side had 340,000 Stage 4 combat insects, including melee, ranged, and defense types.
As for the Sun Tribe, their total population was over 400,000. Excluding the old and young, they had about 290,000 combatants, including 120,000 Blazing Sun Warriors.
Adding all three sides together, the total combat units exceeded 900,000. If a battle broke out, it would be nothing short of apocalyptic.
This was a carnival—the final carnival before Su Xiao left this world. The war world had developed to this extent, and Su Xiao had played it in a whole new way.
"Move out."
Su Xiao said in a low voice, leaping onto the back of an elite Titan. The elite Titan looked like a living biological cannon fortress.
[Tip: The Hunter's actions will severely affect the normal continuation of this world. Please cease your current behavior.]
Su Xiao glanced at the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise. No penalty. He ignored it.