Chapter 4: Dream Chaser (Title)
Grade: ★★★★★★★
Title Effect: Sacrifice (Active), can select any existing six-star title, activate this ability to consume the Dream Chaser title, promoting the selected six-star title to a seven-star title, greatly enhancing the title's ability (stronger than over 90% of seven-star titles).
Description: Unceasing pursuit, dreams may be right before your eyes.
Price: 3000 World Reputation Points.
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In the back seat of the steam car, Su Xiao examined the four items in the reputation shop. Aside from [Bloom], he was interested in the other three, especially the Dream Chaser title.
According to the previous prompt, there should be another seven-star title, but it was likely that the World Reputation Points were insufficient, so the exchange right for that title had not yet been unlocked.
The Dream Chaser title's ability was very strong, allowing a six-star title to be promoted to seven-star, but its exchange cost was too high, a full 3000 World Reputation Points.
After completing the Gluttony Dark Demon incident, Su Xiao only obtained 62 World Reputation Points. This was already a first-class supernatural incident, meaning he would need to resolve nearly 50 first-class supernatural incidents to have enough World Reputation Points to exchange for the Dream Chaser title.
Regarding this, Su Xiao was not anxious. He had only been in this world for a short time. There might be other ways to obtain World Reputation Points, or perhaps participating in and resolving a special-class supernatural incident would grant a large sum of World Reputation Points.
The street lamps cast dim yellow light as the steam car sped down the road. A mother and daughter walked slowly on the sidewalk, the little girl holding a lollipop.
"Mom, look, a dog is driving a car."
The little girl pointed her lollipop at a steam car driving away. Hearing this, her mother just smiled.
"Silly child, dogs can't drive cars. Don't judge by appearances. Even if someone looks unusual, you can't call them a dog, understand?"
"But~"
"No buts."
Under the somewhat strict maternal love, the little girl's worldview was restored: dogs don't drive cars.
Speeding all the way, after arriving at the market in Sodo City, the streets became more crowded. A circus was performing here tonight, and many citizens had come to watch. The performance tent was surrounded by people, and there were quite a few vendors who had rushed over.
The steam car simply couldn't pass through the street ahead. Fortunately, the fortune-telling house was on this street. Su Xiao got out of the car carrying his wooden box and walked into the crowd.
"Sir, would you like to come see our performance? Only 3 Schiller."
A man dressed as a clown blocked the way in the crowd. His bright red big nose and the corners of his mouth split wide open seemed like makeup, but in reality, they were not.
"Baha."
"Understood."
Baha flew up from Su Xiao's shoulder, looked down at the clown, and said, "Hey, you, dare to fight me one-on-one?"
"Guest, you are very rude."
The clown was still smiling, but his eyes had already turned bloodshot.
"Stop the nonsense, I'm asking if you dare."
Baha used his eagle claw to make a 'middle finger gesture' at the clown.
"As you wish."
In the crowd, the clown slightly bowed, a gap splitting open on his bulging belly. The next instant, both the clown and Baha disappeared, leaving only a claw mark in the air and slowly dissipating sparks.
Su Xiao continued forward. This clown's aura was very special. It wasn't a Dark Demon, but it wasn't human either. This made Su Xiao think of Wraiths. The clown probably originally had extraordinary talent, and after being invaded by a Wraith, his innate talent was amplified, but he was also being controlled by the Wraith.
Quickening his pace, Su Xiao soon arrived at the door of a fortune-telling house. The door was closed, and the light inside was somewhat dim.
Pushing open the door and entering the fortune-telling house, a smell of blood hit his nose. Su Xiao tossed the box in his hand aside.
The entire fortune-telling house wasn't large, about 40 square meters. Due to all kinds of strange furniture and hanging decorations from above, it felt very cramped.
Drip, drip, drip~
Blood dripped from the armrest of a wheelchair. A headless corpse sat in a wooden wheelchair. A blanket was draped over her, and her only remaining arm hung limply.
"I arrived 30 seconds before you. Don't trust this woman. She couldn't even foresee her own death."
A bold voice came. A figure sat on the record table behind the wooden wheelchair, holding a head in his hand. The expression on the head was very calm.
Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp...
The figure sitting on the record table held a large bottle of wine, tilting his head back and drinking heavily. Because he was drinking too fast, the wine flowed down both sides of his chin.
Sharp claws, a strong but not bulky body, wild red hair scattered behind his head. Wine flowed over his chest, which bore two scars, clearly from being cut by a sharp weapon. This was a Fourth Stage Dark Demon, Hao Gui, a crazy guy who dared to storm the Watch Guild headquarters. Since this guy appeared, a total of 157 old hunters had died at his hands.
Hao Gui tossed the empty wine bottle aside. With a crash, the bottle shattered. Hao Gui exhaled a pale red breath of alcohol and said with a smile, "Old friend, how many years has it been since we last met?"
Clang.
Su Xiao drew the longsword from his waist. The enemy before him was very difficult to deal with, even slightly stronger than the Tamisha he had encountered in the previous world.