Chapter 16: Luck
The secret revealed by the Shadow Devourer truly caught Su Xiao off guard. He had previously guessed that Green Gillian’s remnant soul still existed, especially when he gathered the Soul Severing Shadow Stone and mastered the Soul Severing ability, only for her to bite off over 50,000 points of his mana in one go, completely draining his blue bar and requiring a long meditation to recover fully.
Su Xiao clearly remembered that during the process of mastering the Soul Severing ability, he was in a vast, white unknown realm when a blurry silhouette appeared.
When she first appeared, she carried a certain mysterious beauty. Looking back now, that deliberately displayed elegance was clearly meant to prevent Su Xiao from immediately escaping that unknown realm.
That blurry figure was over ninety percent likely Green Gillian. Though her remnant soul still remained, she was trapped somewhere, and after such a long time, she was on the verge of dissipating entirely. Those 50,000-plus points of homologous body energy gave the nearly collapsing Green Gillian a much-needed boost.
The fact that Green Gillian’s remnant soul still existed didn’t surprise Su Xiao, but the problem was that her remnant soul was actually within the Eternal Light World. This was astonishing, considering this was the cage where the Law Destruction Faction imprisoned world-destroying beings and Abyss Spawn. One could say this was the place with the most enemies of the Shadow of Law Destruction, bar none.
But thinking it was Green Gillian, everything suddenly made sense. That female Law Destroyer’s thought process was beyond ordinary people; even other Law Destroyers sometimes struggled to keep up with her train of thought. The title of the most malicious Shadow of Law Destruction in history wasn’t earned for nothing.
Su Xiao had deep personal experience with this. As the last Shadow of Law Destruction, he occasionally took the blame for things his predecessors had done. Out of ten times he was blamed, at least seven were because of Green Gillian. The Shadow Devourer beside him now had been bullied so miserably by Green Gillian back then that it developed such hostility toward Law Destroyers.
However, the Shadow Devourer was also a bit dim-witted. This was evident from many things. For example, on the Wind Sea Continent, when it scouted near the Lord Manor where Su Xiao lived, it didn’t even bother to hide its footprints in the heavy snow. More critically, wherever it walked, the snow was eroded by dark energy, leaving black footprints.
When Baha saw those tracks, he was completely baffled. He initially thought it was an enemy’s strategy to intimidate them into constant vigilance. Later, Baha realized he was overthinking it—the scout was just a fool.
Actually, these were minor issues with the Shadow Devourer. With a little manipulation from Su Xiao, the Shadow Devourer was easily tricked and was now ready to rejoin the "Good Teammates" to head to the Extreme Dark Castle. One could say that having such a strong yet dim-witted member in the team perfectly filled the squad’s weak spot.
What was the weak spot of the "Good Teammates" squad? The answer was: difficulty in feigning weakness, which made enemies overly cautious. Whether it was Su Xiao, Zuiyasi, Wude, or Kaisa, none of them looked easy to fool. Or rather, not being fooled by them was already a victory in itself.
Now with the Shadow Devourer, it would become the focal point in the enemy’s eyes, at least giving the enemy room to maneuver. Enemies who would normally turn and flee might try to make a move, only to outplay themselves.
Among Green Gillian’s many enemies, the Shadow Devourer didn’t even rank. Sefeiliya, with Abyss Resistance of at least 80 points, was the real threat. Not only that, according to secret information from the Holy Maiden’s side, Sefeiliya seemed to be on the verge of advancing to Supreme rank. This was news Su Xiao received before entering the Eternal Light World.
Speaking of which, aside from being somewhat irrational due to being hurt by that female Law Destroyer, Sefeiliya was both powerful and calm at other times. The fact that the Void hadn’t yet erupted with the Abyss was closely tied to her actions.
What was even more worthy of vigilance was that when facing the Holy Flame Alchemist, Sefeiliya didn’t put on the arrogance of a Spellcaster. In fact, even toward ordinary people, she was merely cold, not arrogant.
This actually made sense. Considering that the malicious female Law Destroyer had been utterly infatuated with her, ignoring all factional risks to pursue the rising Spellcaster star of Arcane Eternal Star, one could see how outstanding Sefeiliya once was.
Suddenly, Su Xiao thought of a problem. When he first encountered Sefeiliya, she had unleashed full killing intent without him showing any hostility. This was completely inconsistent with her subsequent behavior. Even if she had been hurt by that female Law Destroyer, so many years had passed—there was no need for such blatant killing intent during that meeting.
What could cause the Mage Sage Sefeiliya, who guarded against the Abyss invasion of the Void, to lose her composure to such a degree? It likely wasn’t because of that female Law Destroyer, but because the appearance of Su Xiao, the last Law Destroyer, directly touched upon some achievement Sefeiliya had worked on for years. And that achievement was… Green Wei!