Chapter 4: Kodo School
Seeing the penalty for this mission, Su Xiao was quite surprised. With a penalty like this, toughing it out was nothing at all. However, relatively speaking, the mission reward wasn't high either.
The wealth of contractors from the Apocalypse Paradise largely stemmed from resource extraction. This wasn't just about miners being rich; combat-type contractors were also wealthy. The reason was that before entering a world each time, miners would hire protection to avoid encountering powerful beings or dangerous creatures in the mission world while digging.
The current mission reward and penalty were both set according to Apocalypse Paradise's standards. The main missions Su Xiao had received in the past, although the penalties were all forced execution, came with very generous rewards.
The main missions of Reincarnation Paradise had a characteristic: they would be judged based on the world's difficulty. Assuming a world with danger levels Lv.45 to Lv.60, Lv.45 would be an extremely low-risk mission. If you got such a main mission, the reward wasn't worth mentioning—it was basically a "consolation prize."
However, if the difficulty of subsequent mission chains skyrocketed, the rewards would increase at an even more exaggerated rate, eventually reaching a jaw-dropping level.
This was why the contractors on their side had strong comprehensive combat power but few in number. As long as you were willing to risk your life and fight hard, you could gradually rise in one or two worlds, achieving a turnaround from rags to riches.
There were benefits in the Apocalypse Paradise too. Although you were prone to being bullied, and every world war was a "disaster film" or "horror movie," as long as you played it safe, there was still hope to rise in the later stages.
That said, after contractors in the Apocalypse Paradise rose up, they also had to guard against one thing: encountering strange and bizarre things in fully open primordial worlds, such as the Black Demon.
Su Xiao's current goal was to find the Light King. The whereabouts of the Light King were known only to two major forces: the Soul Clock Tower and the Kodo School. These two forces didn't occupy territory, but they had branches in every major city. The two sides were in a semi-hostile state. In layman's terms, they saw each other as idiots, but not to the point of fighting.
The Soul Clock Tower belonged to the Light King's lineage, with three core principles.