Chapter 8: Potent Venom
The value of the [Ancient Giant God Weapon] was precisely why contractors participated in the survival trial. Setting aside its combat capabilities, even selling it as rare metal would fetch over 400 Soul Coins.
Su Xiao had nearly fought his way through an entire world in the previous realm to obtain over 6,000 Soul Coins. Under normal circumstances, earning 1,000 to 1,500 Soul Coins per world was already considered a bountiful harvest.
The first day's supply crates were merely an appetizer. The Life Dragon Essence would be dropped on the fourth day, which would trigger a massive free-for-all.
As for the Purple Supply Crates, which held even greater value than the Life Dragon Essence, one could only imagine how brutal the struggle would be.
Therefore, Su Xiao needed to complete his main mission as quickly as possible. Without the threat of forced execution, he could freely compete for the daily supply crates. As long as he obtained five Green Supply Crates, his earnings in this world would meet his expectations.
Su Xiao looked at the White Supply Crate before him. If it contained an Eighth-Rank disposable item, everything afterward would become much easier. Such an item would be a trump card usable only within this world.
Opening the White Supply Crate, wisps of cold air rose. A disc-shaped device appeared, about half a meter in diameter, embedded with a ring of glass cylinders.
[You have obtained: Liquid-Impact Heaven's Gate.]
[Liquid-Impact Heaven's Gate]
Origin: Reincarnation Paradise · Worker No. 11112
Item Rank: Eighth Rank
Type: War Weapon · Pressure-Triggered Mine
Effect 1: After successful deployment, can be set to trigger upon biological reactions such as beasts, humans, superhuman beings, or non-human units. Units not matching the set biological reaction will not trigger Heaven's Gate.
Effect 2: When Heaven's Gate is stepped on, it will immediately explode, causing devastating 'Liquid Dispersion Impact' within a 15-meter radius, dealing 28,000 to 35,200 points of Penetration Damage and Explosion Damage (mixed damage type).
Effect 3: This explosive can block most Eighth-Rank perceptions and all Seventh-Rank perceptions.
Description: This is the 12th finished product. Its range is much smaller than the 7th, and its power is 52.7% weaker than the 10th, but the 12th is stable enough and has a fast trigger speed. A satisfactory piece of work.
Price: Cannot be taken out of this world, cannot be sold, can be traded.
Seeing the attributes of [Liquid-Impact Heaven's Gate], Su Xiao's conjecture was confirmed. The power of this item was enough to instantly kill over 90% of Seventh-Rank contractors. Even if they survived, they would be rendered combat-ineffective.
Stepping on it would result in such terrifying damage that even Su Xiao, with his survivability, would have both legs blown off instantly, reducing his combat effectiveness by over 70%.
Su Xiao was not surprised by the item's origin. He had never underestimated the workers on his side. Workers spent more time in Reincarnation Paradise and naturally had their own areas of expertise. For example, Worker No. 11112 was undoubtedly a master of explosive device creation.
Just as Su Xiao put away [Liquid-Impact Heaven's Gate], he received a message from Bubu Wang. Bubu Wang was asking whether to abandon tracking the predetermined target.
That's right, Bubu Wang was trailing another contractor. Initially, Bubu Wang was tracking a contractor whose Paradise affiliation and identity were unknown.
However, after a short while, Bubu Wang discovered that the contractor had two teammates. This three-person team seemed like a good target, but unfortunately, one of them was a hidden Hunter.
That Hunter had already bared his fangs, ambushing and instantly killing one person. The other didn't last long before being eliminated.
Su Xiao had originally planned to deal with this guy, but who would have thought that right after the double kill, the Hunter encountered a five-person team and got thoroughly beaten by them.
The Hunter was beaten into submission. The reason was that the five-person team had a Main Tank, a Healer, a Control Specialist, a Ranged Attacker, and a Melee Assassin.
This five-person group wasn't here for survival at all; they were practically a team formed to take on Leader-class units. Their combat power was insufficient for Lord-class units, let alone Overlord-class creatures.
In the end, the Hunter was driven to self-isolation by the enemy Main Tank's Domain-type suppression ability, which turned him into a sitting duck. If he weren't skilled at escaping, this Hunter would have been dead.
Bubu Wang changed targets, now focusing on this traditional team. Su Xiao planned to have Bubu Wang observe for a while before making a move.
A barely audible sound came. Su Xiao shifted his gaze. Sunlight was blocked by the sky-reaching trees, casting large patches of light on the ground. In the nearby banana leaf thicket, something seemed to be there.
Suddenly, a figure leaped up. Mid-air, she had already drawn her longbow to its full extent.
"Damn it!"
Baha shouted, immediately leaning back to hide behind Amu. The posture of the attacker, jumping and shooting an arrow, was way too reminiscent of the Tianba Clan.
Amu's muscles tensed all over, memories of being shot into a pincushion by Ni Tianba flooding back.
Zheng~
Su Xiao drew his blade while crouching low, rushing forward in a few steps.
Bang.
A not-so-loud bowstring vibration sounded. A green streak cut through the air, faster than a blur, and the next instant, it embedded itself in Amu's left arm.
Amu didn't retreat half a step, his body not even swaying. Unlike when hit by Ni Tianba's arrow, which felt like being rammed by a train, this time he was unfazed.
Amu looked down at the arrow stuck in his left arm. After pulling it out, he was completely unbothered. If it were Baha, he would definitely say, "Ah! An arrow hit me for 0.3% of my health. So painful. I'm dying."
The figure in the thicket landed with a low grunt. Like a female leopard, she instantly disappeared among the banana leaves, wild and agile.
Su Xiao flicked the blood off his blade, covering his mouth and nose with one hand as he leaped back to avoid the faint green smoke spreading toward him.
"What is this?"
Baha was stunned. He had initially thought it was a contractor attack, but now it seemed otherwise. The figure was covered in graffiti and wore only animal skins, clearly a primitive native.
"Boss, did you sense it?"
Baha's expression turned serious. Ripples of spatial energy spread around him.
"The aura... disappeared."
Su Xiao's gaze swept the surroundings. All traces of the primitive native had vanished, her aura completely gone. The attacker was incredibly fast and very familiar with the terrain.
"This woman... is not to be trifled with."
Baha took flight, beginning to hover at low altitude. That arrow seemed more like a warning; otherwise, it would have targeted Amu's head, neck, or heart, not his left arm.
If the Tiger Wasp Zone was the territory of the Wasp Queen, then the Water Source Zone was the domain of a primitive tribe.
Just as Baha was searching for the enemy's trail, Amu staggered two steps, his upper body swaying. He couldn't understand why everything before him was distorting.
With a thud, Amu collapsed. Su Xiao approached to examine him and found that the arrow wound on Amu's left arm had turned emerald green, with the blood flowing out also emerald.
The emerald color began spreading up Amu's arm, creeping toward his shoulder in thread-like patterns. Checking Amu's status, one abnormal condition stood out prominently.
[Your Follower has been afflicted with 'Emerald Life Venom,' taking 12 points of Poison Damage per second, and will be unconscious for 3 to 18 seconds. Emerald Life Venom will last for 5 hours and completely suppress self-healing capabilities.]
[Note: Due to the 'Unyielding War Bull (Passive Lv.70)' ability, the damage per second from Emerald Life Venom is reduced to 8 points.]
[Note: Due to the 'Ice Armor (Ultimate Ability Lv.17 · Passive)' ability, the Fierce Winter War Bull will lose 4 points of Health and 4 points of Ice Energy per second. This is the final damage taken.]
At first glance, Emerald Life Venom didn't seem that bad—only 12 points of Poison Damage per second, a mere annoyance. However, factoring in its duration, it was a terrifyingly potent poison.
Twelve points of Poison Damage per second meant 720 points per minute, 43,200 points per hour. Over five hours, without an antidote, it would be very difficult to endure.
This potent venom suppressed one's vitality, temporarily reducing Health recovery to zero. Without using potions or relying on teammates' healing abilities, one could only tough it out or find an antidote or item capable of neutralizing the poison.