# Chapter 28: The Beginning of Chaos
Blue sky, white clouds, the salty sea breeze blowing, white sandy beaches, a few seagulls flying by—everything seemed relaxed and carefree.
This was "Luoyashi" in the North Sea. Mentioning the name of this coastal city, few would recognize it, but if one mentioned the "Judgment Hall," everyone knew it. The Judgment Hall was located within this beautiful seaside city.
Luoyashi was neither a fortress city nor a ring city. The reason it dared to be built this way was that in the surrounding seas and lands, a total of three T1-level fortresses and five T2-level fortresses stood guard. It was these fortresses loaded with heavy cannon weapons that gave Luoyashi the audacity to stand openly in this chaotic continent.
This place would not suffer attacks from hunter groups. The high-ranking members of several most famous hunter groups all had properties here, either storing their assets or having their families settle here.
This was both to ensure the safety of their families and a compromise to the three major vassal forces and the Judgment Hall.
Near the Judgment Hall located in the central part of the city, at 6 AM, the sound of the clock tower failed to wake the sleeping people.
This coastal city was known for its laziness, wealth, and extravagance. Here, waking up before 8 AM was considered behavior for the elderly. In contrast, the nightlife here was very rich.
Fundamentally speaking, Luoyashi City, Freedom City, and Doom Fortress were not the same style. Luoyashi was like an elegant and noble beautiful woman, Freedom City was a middle-aged man who appeared refined on the surface but had blood on his hands, and as for Doom Fortress, no matter how you looked at it, it was a place for outlaws.
Inside a seven-star hotel diagonally across from the Judgment Hall, sunlight filtered through the curtain gaps. A graceful figure sat up on the bed, smooth silk blanket sliding off her body. It was clear she was still a bit groggy from sleep. This was Tide Hunter.
After a moment, Tide Hunter finished washing up and completed her skincare routine with expensive products. Although she had no interest in makeup, she was particularly interested in skin maintenance.
Whether it was accommodation, skincare products, or three meals a day, everything was the best and most expensive. The reason was that when she returned, she could get reimbursed by Su Xiao. If Baha knew, he would definitely mutter, "This spendthrift woman."
Checking the time, Tide Hunter decided to head to the "Border Region" at noon. Spending a bit more was fine, but if she returned late, there would definitely be consequences.
Tide Hunter stood by the window, slightly lifting the curtain to look down at the street. There were few people on the road.
Pfft!
A short blade suddenly stabbed into Tide Hunter's back, very abruptly. The blade pierced through from the center of her chest, shattering a button on her close-fitting clothes, causing the collar of her floral-patterned light white shirt to open wide, rarely offering a bit of a view, but amidst that view was a blood-stained blade.
Tide Hunter's pupils trembled, her body slightly arching forward from the sudden intense pain. A figure appeared behind her. This was a girl with facial markings. The metal patterns on both sides of her cheeks were symmetrical, like whiskers spreading to behind her ears.
This girl wrapped one arm around Tide Hunter's neck, while her other hand holding the knife twisted left and right, using the blade to shred Tide Hunter's heart. Feeling the sensation of cutting through the enemy's heart, the smile on the metal girl's face became increasingly delighted.
Bang!
A bowstring vibrated. A long, aesthetically pleasing arrow pierced through the back of the metal girl's head, pinning her and the "Tide Hunter" in front of her to the wall together.
The metal girl raised her trembling hand, palm facing backward, but in the next instant, an arrow pierced through her palm, nailing her hand to the wall.
This arrow not only pierced through the metal girl's hand but also the mechanical eye in her palm. Using the residual vision from the mechanical eye, she saw Tide Hunter standing in front of the dressing table, holding a source bow.
The "Tide Hunter" who had been stabbed through the back and pinned to the wall with the metal girl transformed into light blue water, wrapping around the metal girl.
"Who sent you?"
"Huh?"
Bang!
An arrow pierced through the metal girl's lower back, then nailed into the wall. The metal girl, whose head and palm were pinned, facing the wall, looked utterly confused, not understanding why Tide Hunter asked, "Who sent you?"
But soon, the metal girl had no mind to think about this. The arrow piercing her waist actually dissolved within a short time, turning into liquid metal, like countless metal worms, burrowing into the blood vessels of her body.
Not to mention the metal girl, even Tide Hunter's face twitched. She really didn't know this thing was so terrifying. This was given to her by Su Xiao before she left. She remembered what Su Xiao said at that time: "If you encounter a tough nut, give him an arrow. If you still can't get anything out of him, give the enemy a quick death."
A few seconds later, the metal girl pinned to the wall was crying and screaming, but Tide Hunter remained unmoved.
"You're sick. Is there something wrong with your brain? If you want to kill me, just kill me..."
The metal girl was full of tears. Just then, a fluorescent green beam suddenly shot through. This beam was about the thickness of a fist, flying almost right past Tide Hunter's cheek.
Tide Hunter reacted extremely quickly. Judging the direction of the attack, she immediately fired an arrow. Through the hole in the wall, she saw blood mist explode on the roof of the opposite building. The impact arrow had hit the enemy.
But before Tide Hunter could catch her breath, a feeling of being locked onto appeared. This made Tide Hunter's scalp tingle, and her heartbeat skipped a beat. This feeling was... death.
There was no deafening roar, no powerful energy fluctuation. Tide Hunter only felt as if she had been hit by a hammer at the right side of her lower abdomen, slightly upward. This caused her, who was originally on the fourth floor, to rapidly decrease in height within a short time, sitting trapped in a broken wall.
When Tide Hunter's vision cleared, she found herself sitting trapped in a wall in an alley. Looking at the building ahead, there was a series of diagonally upward holes. She was now more than a hundred meters away from the seven-star hotel where she was staying.
A piercing pain came from her side abdomen. She looked down and found a crescent-shaped gap on the right side of her abdomen. Given her slender waist, this gap occupied nearly half of the position.
Up to now, Tide Hunter still hadn't determined who had attacked her. It was most likely people from the Judgment Hall, but that didn't quite make sense.
She had sent Li Xiniwei here. The only person she had contacted was the old vampire from the Judgment Hall. Although that old vampire was greedy, as long as he could get benefits, there was no reason for him to make a move.
Tide Hunter couldn't figure out the connection, but she knew that if she didn't escape now, she was dead.
Sitting trapped in the wall, Tide Hunter used all her strength to draw an arrow and shoot it at the ground in front of her. The arrow split apart as soon as it was shot, and after entering the ground, it exploded with a bang. Smoke quickly enveloped the surrounding hundred meters.
Tide Hunter pressed one hand against the missing part of her side abdomen. This place was not suitable for staying. She came here not out of subjective will, but because of the cooperation established by the contract, to carry out orders.
Now that the matter was done and she had been ambushed, of course she would flee back to the base camp.
"Judgment Hall."
With a pale face, Tide Hunter disappeared into the smoke, clearly having developed a grudge against the Judgment Hall. Or rather, apart from the Judgment Hall, she couldn't think of who would attack her.
Several figures rushed into the smoke. With the spread of an impact, the smoke was dispersed.
These people were dressed differently. Some wore robes, some wore combat suits, and one was even in a bikini.
"Continue tracking. Those weaklings from Apocalypse Paradise sure have guts, actually daring to send a summon to our territory."
"We must find her. I almost drove her to mental collapse with torture instruments."
As the metal girl spoke, she used a pair of tweezers to stab into her own neck, clamping a wriggling liquid metal worm. Seeing this thing, the others all changed color. Having this thing burrow into blood vessels was a terrifying experience just to think about.
"Contact Sister Sacred Poem. How should we handle this?"
The metal girl sat on a pile of rubble. She just looked down and found her pants were soaked in a large area. This made her furious inside. The experience just now was simply hellish. She hadn't even noticed she had wet herself from incontinence.
"What did Sister Sacred Poem say? Is it someone from Golden Count's side?"
The metal girl tied her jacket around her waist to hide her embarrassment. The "Sacred Poem" she mentioned was the leader of the Holy Light Paradise side this time, while Golden Count was the leader of the Apocalypse Paradise side this time.
With so many contractors participating, Apocalypse Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, Watchful Paradise, and Sanctuary Paradise could all select leader-level figures.
As for Reincarnation Paradise and Death Paradise, the former hadn't started fighting internally and had agreed to cooperate, which was already a dream start. Leader-level figures weren't impossible to select, but no one wanted to be one. In every world battle for Reincarnation Paradise, leader-level figures had another name: those who die quickly.
Death Paradise didn't need a leader. Although they were all unruly, they had a strange cohesion, responding to a call and then going their separate ways after the fight.
Before long, the metal girl's team received a battle order, asking them to raid a gathering point of Apocalypse Paradise contractors in "Kewabo Ring City."
No one could have dreamed that the large-scale firefight about to occur was caused by a misunderstanding.
The cause of the matter was that Su Xiao's mark was currently disguised as an Apocalypse Paradise mark. Although Tide Hunter had come back to life "not in a way that counts as resurrection," her body and soul were intact.
These were all maintained by relying on the [Source] Stone. That is to say, Tide Hunter inevitably had the characteristics of a summon, and a temporary summon at that. This meant that unlike Bubu Wang, Baha, etc., she couldn't perceive the mark aura of Paradise.
In the perception of other contractors, Tide Hunter seemed to be a Reincarnation Paradise contractor. Experienced contractors could immediately distinguish that this was a summon of a Reincarnation Paradise contractor.
In the coastal city of "Luoyashi," many Holy Light Paradise contractors had gathered. Their leader-level figure, Sacred Poem, had already reached cooperation with the Chief Justice of the Judgment Hall in the city. Naturally, this place was the territory of Holy Light Paradise contractors.
The world battle was ongoing. A summon of an Apocalypse Paradise contractor had come to the territory occupied by Holy Light Paradise contractors. If this didn't lead to a fight, Holy Light Paradise would truly be a soft girl paradise.
Previously, the contractors of Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise had agreed with each other, meaning: everyone was civilized. Before finding the World Core, let's not start fighting each other first.
After reaching this agreement, both sides repeatedly emphasized this matter in their respective world communication platforms.
The problem was that at that time, Su Xiao's disguise mark was in the middle of authority simulation, so he couldn't check the world communication platform situation, and naturally had no way of knowing about this matter.
The current situation was that the metal girl's team was already rushing aggressively to "Kewabo Ring City," to retaliate tooth for tooth. At least, they couldn't lose face.
They had agreed not to attack each other first, but you Apocalypse Paradise actually sent such a strong long-range summon. Wasn't this slapping them in the face?
It could be imagined that after the metal girl's team raided the Apocalypse Paradise stronghold in "Kewabo Ring City," the contractors there would definitely be completely confused. They actually hadn't done anything.
After the confusion, those Apocalypse Paradise contractors would definitely be full of anger, thinking: "Damn it, we agreed to maintain peace first? And then you come to ambush? You weakling healers, just wait for me."
In this matter, the most headache-inducing should be Sacred Poem and Golden Count. The former represented Holy Light Paradise, the latter represented Apocalypse Paradise.
Yueshitu and Molei, these two were only famous within their own side in this world battle. Golden Count had never been optimistic about Yueshitu, because Yueshitu's summoning style was unstable. If it developed well, it was certainly powerful, but if it didn't develop, it would get beaten particularly hard.
Both Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise had invested a large amount of combat power in this world battle. Golden Count was at the top tier of the eighth rank, ranking seventh in the Paradise Arena (eighth rank). Among the six above him, three were from Reincarnation Paradise, two from Death Paradise, and one from the Void. This ranking already showed Golden Count's personal strength.
As for Sacred Poem, she didn't play the Paradise Arena (eighth rank). As an executioner of Holy Light Paradise, equivalent to a hunter of Reincarnation Paradise, she had been locked in a death struggle with Fairy for a long time. If not for participating in this world battle, she would continue to track Fairy's trail.
One of the main reasons Fairy agreed to cooperate with Huishenshi was that after the Treeborn World, Huishenshi and Shenfu would help her eliminate Sacred Poem. No one knew better than Fairy that this woman, who seemed as gentle as a big sister next door, had a heart that was so tenacious and powerful.
The leader-level figures teleported by Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise were all ruthless characters. Watchful Paradise was not bad either. Their leader-level figure this time was the famous Orlandi.
Mentioning Orlandi, whether it was Sacred Poem or Golden Count, their expressions would change slightly, and then they would show a somewhat uncomfortable expression.
Orlandi was not only strong; he also had many auras added to him: philosopher, magic man, etc.
At this point, the conflict between the contractors of Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise was already inevitable.
It must be that when Watchful Paradise saw this scene, they would be clapping and cheering. The harder Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise fought, the greater the benefit for Watchful Paradise.
Not only that, but Tide Hunter was also full of anger about this raid. She hadn't done anything, just delivered a person, and then took the opportunity to enjoy life.
Imagine, just waking up in the morning, having a beautiful breakfast, then doing skincare, with six hours left until the agreed return time. Tide Hunter had already planned to spend the morning on the beach enjoying leisure time.
In this mood, she was almost ambushed to the point of dying on the spot. How much resentment Tide Hunter had in her heart could be fully imagined.
Moreover, she really couldn't think of who besides the Judgment Hall would dare to do such a thing in "Luoyashi." Judging by the momentum, this raid had been prepared for a long time. Plus, after the enemy made their move, the city's military police had disappeared like they vanished. Even if ordinary military police couldn't come, with the military police captain's speed, they would definitely be able to arrive.
Therefore, in Tide Hunter's view, this matter was definitely done by the Judgment Hall. It absolutely couldn't be let go like this. She was doing things according to someone's requirements. She didn't believe that person would let disadvantage happen. At worst, when reporting back to the base camp, she would slightly exaggerate. This grudge must be avenged.
If the high-ranking members of the Judgment Hall knew the truth of this matter, they would definitely be depressed to the point of cerebral hemorrhage. They hadn't done anything. Why did they have to bear the biggest blame and suffer the most vicious beating?