Chapter 2: An Outrageous Lineup
Su Xiao wasn't particularly surprised by Green Gillian's sudden appearance. The reason was that ever since she left the Eternal Light World and successfully infiltrated Arcane Eternal Star, she had been actively providing him with updates on the situation there. She was quite enthusiastic about it.
This made one wonder—had the notoriously ill-tempered Green Gillian changed her personality after dying once? Now it seemed there was something else waiting behind the scenes.
Green Gillian had a trait: she was indeed ill-tempered, but every time she acted as a troublesome friend, she would bring out benefits that her friend desperately needed, making them swallow the curses they were about to utter.
For instance, this time, Green Gillian secretly setting coordinates on Su Xiao's sword hilt with Cyan Steel Shadow Energy was quite improper. Before Su Xiao could bring it up, she immediately threw out a secret about the Black Maple Tree.
Moreover, she was cunning enough to wait until Su Xiao advanced to Supreme rank before revealing this secret. The implication was that as an Absolute Strength rank Su Xiao, knowing this secret would not only be unhelpful but could actually be harmful.
"Bai Ye, how about I become your Law-Destroying guide instead? That Waltz guy is too unreliable."
"..."
Su Xiao didn't respond. Coming from Green Gillian's mouth, he really couldn't think of how to reply. Green Gillian was actually saying other Law Destroyers were unreliable...
"We're both Soul Severing Shadows, so we have common ground. And don't feel pressured—a Law-Destroying guide and a master are two different concepts. A guide is more like an advisor. You can have multiple advisors."
As she spoke, Green Gillian teleported into Su Xiao's cell, casually sat down beside him, draped an arm over his shoulder, and patted his shoulder blade. "What do you think? Not a bad offer, right?"
"What can you teach me?"
"Brat, the way you say that—how old are you? Twenty-something? And I'm already... eh~, forget it, I'm still young too. Anyway, I have plenty to teach you. Hmm? Want to consider it?"
Green Gillian wore an ambiguous smile and nudged Su Xiao with her elbow.
"I don't know what you could teach me."
"Oh ho, I'll let you know today what a veteran Law Destroyer is. Forget what I'm best at, just the Devouring Core..."
"..."
Before Green Gillian could finish, Su Xiao formed a Devouring Core in his hand. This was an ability that had been raised to Lv.EX in Reincarnation Paradise, then broken through its limit with the Origin Stone: World, and further enhanced by 10 levels with a Golden Skill Point.
"This thing is on par with Ximan Aqide's level. I suddenly know why that Waltz guy doesn't come to you often. If it were me, I wouldn't come either."
Green Gillian studied the Devouring Core in Su Xiao's hand with interest, finally giving it a perfect rating. This was one of Green Gillian's few virtues—when seeing skills surpassing her own level, she didn't hesitate to praise. The reason was that she didn't care much about face.
Sefeiliya, Anna, the fortieth-generation Moon Witch—which of them wasn't somewhat cold in personality? Without a thick-skinned style, how could she charm these beauties? Green Gillian's charm was utterly comprehensive. She loved the new and loathed the old. When she was coaxing you, it felt like a spring breeze, as if the whole world had warmed. When she abandoned you, it was heartbreaking. The key point was that she was often laughing so happily at that moment.
"Bai Ye, look at this body of Green Wei—it can't handle my fighting at all. As a sign of respect for the Ancestral Law Destroyer, shouldn't you protect me?"
"Fine."
Su Xiao's answer made Green Gillian's smile freeze for a moment. She turned her head to look at him.
"Actually, I have my own troubles too. To be honest, the seals on these five Original Sin objects..."
As he spoke, Su Xiao took out the Book of Original Sin.
"Every Law Destroyer should have their own trials. Take care. Goodbye."
Green Gillian stood up and walked toward the cell door, phasing through the metal bars covered in layers of sealing runes. She made as if to leave the dungeon but paused, forming a translucent blue gem in her hand and tossing it to Su Xiao.
"When you encounter a particularly tough enemy, crush it. I'll handle it for you once. I'm off. Tsk~, Law Destroyers of this era are all this fierce, sealing Original Sin objects by the book..."
Green Gillian muttered as she walked away. Amid a few pained groans from the jailers and subsequent tearful pleas for mercy, this formidable lady was escorted out of the dungeon by the battered and bruised guards.
Su Xiao checked the notifications that had just appeared. First was the God Hunter aspect—this world mission could be ignored for now. The vast western region of this world was called the God Exile Land, where many aberrant gods resided.
Regarding the Sun Source Stones mentioned in the main mission, there were probably no more than ten of them. Using the Sun Lord title, after absorbing all the Sun Source Stones, the Sun Lord title would qualify to absorb the Blazing Sun Blood.
To obtain the Blazing Sun Blood, conflict with Twilight City was inevitable, more specifically, with its current owner, Blazing Sun Lord Aishilote.
Once the Blazing Sun Blood was successfully obtained and the Sun Lord title transformed into the Divine Clan Holy Emblem, that would mean +85 to all five basic attributes, +15% health, +10% mana, and one chance at fake death revival. Such an enhancement was not to be missed.
Not to mention anything else, just the +15% health—Su Xiao currently had 2.14 million health points. A 15% increase would be 320,000 points.
At this stage, trying to seize the Blazing Sun Blood was far too early. He had to start with the Sun Source Stones one by one. The first target was the aberrant beast god. The location of this powerful enemy was unclear, but one thing needed to be determined first: the direction of this beast god's aberration.
If it was a robust aberration caused by this world's sun, that was actually manageable. Robust aberration meant stronger and harder to deal with. The truly troublesome aberrations were the other three types: Bloodthirst, Nightmare, and Undying.
Using the Paradise faction's data-based explanation:
Aberration: Robust Distortion — All attributes increased by 50%, defense increased by 50%, self-healing recovery increased by 1500-2000%, wisdom, rationality, and self-control reduced by 70%.
Aberration: Bloodthirst — All speed characteristics increased by 300%, self-healing recovery increased by 3500-5000%, rationality reduced by 85% upon contact with blood.
Aberration: Nightmare — Can invade others' dreams, devour their souls, but gradually loses the ability to distinguish between dreams and reality, eventually sinking into the nightmare and being assimilated into part of it (this world has many nightmare zones, including several super-large ones).
Aberration: Undying — As long as one is on Blazing Sun Star Qiliade, they cannot die, not even be slain.
Among the four aberrations, the most unsolvable was definitely Undying. This type of undying, mutated by aberrant solar force, was completely different from traditional immortality or invincibility abilities. The victim's concept of death had disappeared, like a stone having no life—this wasn't an ability but common sense and a world system.
Slaying abilities couldn't kill an existence that had already drifted beyond life and death. Whether this ability was powerful was hard to answer, but one thing was certain: all intelligent races with Undying aberration spent their remaining lives with the sole pursuit of death, forever sinking into the quiet slumber of death.
The Undying were the most dangerous group in this world. Some had become Undying since the decline of Blazing Sun Star in the First Era. Imagine—every second, every minute was torture for the Undying. They couldn't feel temperature, had no pain, no taste. The Undying curse eroded their souls every second. They were like drowning in magma, neither drowning nor being burned to death, just slowly tortured like this.
This caused over 95% of Undying to attack living beings, and with particular ferocity. Some unlucky souls would be hunted by Undying for years, even decades.
Over the years, the iron rule of Blazing Sun Star was: don't even think about killing an Undying by any means within this world.
Compared to the Undying, Bloodthirst aberration, though dangerous, wasn't unsolvable. In terms of danger, Bloodthirsters were a notch above the Undying, because as long as you didn't enter an Undying's line of sight or perception field, you wouldn't be hunted. Most of the time, Undying stood still like statues at one location.
In contrast, Bloodthirsters actively hunted. The aberrant solar force caused them to suffer endless hunger and thirst. Only the warm blood of living beings could temporarily alleviate their endless hunger and thirst.
Don't think Bloodthirsters were like vampires or zombies. They excelled at hunting and ambushing. More terrifyingly, Bloodthirsters came in various forms. Some were simply shadows, hiding in their prey's shadow first, waiting for an opportunity to strike with one fatal blow.
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