Chapter 62: Hill's Assassination Ring
The central area of Eternal Life Island appeared ahead. Su Xiao did not rush in recklessly. The other four peripheral zones had not yet been cleared. If he barged into the central area now, he would not only face the three wild major bosses there but also risk being surrounded by enemies from the outer zones.
Su Xiao led his group back to the Spore Forest. The mushrooms were still very enthusiastic. Do not think these little things were harmless. Coexisting peacefully with them was fine; if you got along well, you could even receive gifts from these tiny creatures.
Once you tried to harm them, they would spray a large amount of spores. Before long, the Spore Forest would be shrouded in spores, turning every living thing there into mushrooms.
Besides this ultimate move, they were also individual spore mines. Step on one, and the impact was not strong, but you would suffer multiple debuffs.
Of course, this was based on hostility. Su Xiao had just made a deal with the Mushroom Prophet. When he stepped on a small mushroom in the soil now, it would at most make a "goo goo" sound, indicating that Su Xiao had stepped on it.
After passing through the entire Spore Forest, Su Xiao arrived at the Crocodile Zone. The remaining seven giant crocodiles still lurked here. Thanks to the previous physical negotiation, the reputation with the "Giant Crocodile Clan" was probably between Respect and Worship.
Su Xiao felt that asking these giant crocodiles to assist in battle was no problem, but he could not take too many away. At the very least, he had to leave seeds for the "Giant Crocodile Clan" to reproduce. Taking one or two giant crocodiles with him might be possible for them to help him fight.
After weighing the options, Su Xiao took two giant crocodiles and left five behind. Among the five, four were female and one was male. From the outside, this male giant crocodile was smaller in size, but the burden of continuing the Giant Crocodile Clan fell on it. He wondered if it could handle it.
Leaving the swamp and passing through a dense forest, Su Xiao returned to the sandy beach area by the island's edge.
The beach area had changed significantly. There were many large houses woven from plants. Su Xiao had paid 50 grams of [Natural Blessing (Royal Jelly)] as a reward, and through Kaiser, these were built.
That scoundrel Kaiser used local materials. He did not know how he negotiated with the vines in the plant zone, but he managed to trick the mother body of the "Thorn Vine" into forming these houses.
These houses varied in size, totaling over a hundred. The largest was over 400 square meters and had a two-story structure.
From a distance, these houses looked like they were woven from brown tree roots, mostly two or three stories high. At the four corners of the edge stood four thirty-meter-tall watchtowers.
This place had become a temporary base camp. Behind it were the beach and the sea, in front was the dense forest, and further in were the swamp and the Spore Forest.
If contractors saw this building complex, their heads would definitely buzz. They were still fighting desperately against the supernatural creatures of Eternal Life Island, while here, a base camp had already been established.
Su Xiao surveyed the building complex ahead. It was decent. He decided to use this as a temporary rest point.
For now, Su Xiao had nothing to do. Going deep into the island's center was impossible. As for going to other peripheral zones, the Empress was in the Poison Insect Zone, the Duke was in the Snake Zone, Gask, the Warden Squad, and Black Rose were in the Hunter Zone, and the Nether Wolf and the Dual Poison Combo were in the Active Plant Zone.
Entering any zone was not a good choice. Now, everyone's goal was the same: clear the island's periphery, then go to the central area to besiege the final major boss. Before the final battle, it was better not to break this balance.
Su Xiao stopped at the center of the building complex, in front of a two-story vine building. He pushed open the double doors and entered the room. It was very spacious inside. Thick vines as thick as eggs were woven together on the walls, providing decent defense.
Leaving the two giant crocodiles temporarily on the first floor, Su Xiao climbed the wooden ladder at the corner to the second floor. The second floor was also empty. He sat cross-legged on the ground, and Bubu Wang began to frolic in the open space nearby.
Finally able to catch his breath, Su Xiao prepared for the upcoming great battle. Earlier, he had considered using Apollo to carpet-bomb the area, but when he thought that the Primordial Water might be evaporated, he put that plan aside. If the Primordial Water was destroyed, his attribute barrier breakthrough would fail.
That was not the worst. Su Xiao was cursed by the Demon Sea. If he could not obtain the Primordial Water to lift the curse, his death was not far off.
The safest approach was to besiege the final major boss together with others. But after defeating that final major boss, the real climax of the battle would begin.
The ownership of the treasure chest dropped in this kind of siege would become very ambiguous. This would result in the chest being unopenable for 24 to 48 hours. Moreover, due to the ownership verification by multiple paradises, it could not be stored in the storage space for a certain period.
The siege of the final major boss would be brutal. Even more brutal would be the subsequent fight for the treasure chest. How many contractors came to Eternal Life Island this time? The answer was over 200. Yes, that was the exaggerated number.
Only about 50 people actually bought the coordinates from Su Xiao, with a net profit of 7,800 Soul Coins. It could only be said that selling information was incredibly profitable, and it was a one-time investment with endless returns.
Contractors could not publicly share these coordinates on the World Contact Platform, but they could contact each other through the platform, form temporary teams, and go to Eternal Life Island together.
For example, the Warden Squad. Only the Warden, as the squad leader, bought the coordinate information. Sharing this information with his teammates did not violate the trading rules.
Su Xiao had tried to set the coordinate information as non-shareable. The Void Tree's prompt was that it could only restrict the buyer from publishing the purchased information on the contact platform. Once the information was sold, it became the buyer's private property.
Afterward, over 200 eighth-rank contractors would participate in the siege of the final major boss. The moment the boss battle ended, the person who obtained the treasure chest would attract what kind of attention?
At that point, the killer of the final major boss would become the new "final major boss," besieged by the contractors.
Su Xiao's current preparations were for dealing with this situation. Of course, he did not delude himself into thinking he could repel all these eighth-rank contractors, but he needed the capital to resist them and retreat safely.
Su Xiao planned to use this time to accomplish this. However, before that, he had to tally the recent gains. [Divine Bone (Immortal Rank)], [World Key], and [Life Source] did not need to be checked. As for the Holy Spirit Rank equipment [Ancient Assassination Ring], he had not yet had time to examine its attributes.
This Holy Spirit Rank ring was very special. It was powerful but also had a fatal weakness. After wearing it, if the wearer was attacked by an enemy, the ring would immediately break.
Note: [Assassination Ring] was not like the Primordial Mask, which would only break if the face was hit. [Assassination Ring] would break if the wearer was attacked, regardless of where the attack landed.
[Ancient Assassination Ring]
Quality: Holy Spirit Rank
Category: Ring
Durability: 1/1 (Extremely low durability consumption during wear and use, extremely fragile when taking attacks, weak to all types of attacks).
Equipment Requirements: None
Equipment Effect 1: Precision (Passive · Unique), Base · Neural Reflex Speed +12 points, Base · Dynamic Vision +12 points, Remote-type basic ability level adaptively increased. The increased level depends on the wearer's True Agility Attribute and True Charm Attribute (e.g., increases Gun Master, Bow Master, etc.).
Equipment Effect 2: Weakness Slaughter (Passive), when attacking enemies at range, triggers Hill's Soul Power to continuously enhance the remote attack (enhances bullets, arrows, etc.).
Tip: If the remote attack hits the enemy's vital point, the resulting vital damage will be increased by 4.72 to 6.32 times (depending on the chosen vital point location; the head is the highest priority, followed by the neck, heart, etc.).
Equipment Effect 3: Fragile (Passive), extremely easy to break. Due to its overly precise internal structure and being an equipment formed by multiple coincidences, once this equipment is broken, it cannot be repaired by any means.
Rating: 1000++ (Holy Spirit Rank equipment rating ranges from 700 to 1000 points).
Introduction: This is a relic left by the legendary assassin Hill. Originally named "Hill's Assassination Ring," Hill assassinated 1,593 rebels in his lifetime without ever being injured. Outsiders do not know that during battle, enemies could never find Hill. His so-called perfect infiltration was actually just shooting all enemies within his line of sight.
Price: 350 Soul Coins.
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