Chapter 2: Using the current "Dukain Family Emblem" to unlock the true stage of this mission.
Tip: If you choose this method to complete the main mission, you can obtain a maximum SSS-level Supreme Peak world evaluation.
Tip: Detected that this is the first mission world after the Hunter's promotion to Supreme. This action carries significant risks, but in return, it will also raise your world evaluation cap (theoretically reaching SSSS-level, i.e., "Reincarnation-Level World Evaluation").
Tip: Each Paradise faction will grant a unique reward to the first Contractor to achieve an SSSS-level world evaluation, "SSSS-level being Reincarnation-level, Apocalypse-level, Sanctuary-level, Death-level, etc."
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Having just been promoted to Supreme, it would be prudent to play it safe. However, the opportunity to achieve an SSSS-level world evaluation only exists in the first world after promotion, triggered by completing a main mission of extreme difficulty.
One thing to note is that even if Su Xiao completes this world's exceptionally perilous main mission's true stage, it does not guarantee an SSSS-level world evaluation. It merely grants him eligibility; other criteria will determine his final world evaluation.
First is faction reputation.
This is not an issue at all. If not for the cap of 200,000 faction reputation points counting toward the world evaluation, he wouldn't need to consider other factors—he would directly achieve SSSS-level.
Second is the impact on this world.
This requires even less consideration. Look at how thoroughly Su Xiao has crushed the Dukain family: three councilors, two slain, one forced to retreat, and the council leader killed before he could even make a move.
Currently, Su Xiao's situation is that he has the leverage to obtain an SSSS-level rating. The key is that there is no upper limit on this score. Thus, he chooses to accept the true stage of this world's main mission.
Almost the instant Su Xiao accepted this mission, he felt the environment around him darken. It was as if he had entered Molten City more deeply. The true appearance of the Molten City he was previously in, along with the northernmost third of this world near the "Abyss Proximity Zone," unfolded before Su Xiao's eyes.
What he saw was a scene of decay and desolation. The world space was riddled with holes, as if eaten by worms. World force was severely depleted, and nearly half of the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, Eberath, seemed on the verge of death.
Su Xiao had traveled by Lord's Train to most of the important regions of this world. He opened the Dawn Team's map memory function, marked Molten City, and centered on the "Abyss Proximity Zone" further north of Molten City, let the gray-white spread across the map.
Soon, an image appeared. Molten City was like the source of a pollution leak, submerging nearly half of this world. 'Coincidentally,' the Dukain family's Empress City, Corrupt King City, and Elf Kingdom were located right at the edge of this polluted zone, forming a semi-encirclement, barely avoiding being affected.
Coupled with the fact that this world was being invaded by the Abyss, no one dared to perceive the depth of the world's condition. That would be asking for trouble by being tainted with Abyss power. From another perspective, this further concealed the true state of this world.
The former Transcendent Primordial World, the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, was being devoured by some unknown entity, riddled with holes. Perhaps ninety percent of the various resource outputs from Empress City, Elf Kingdom, and Molten City all went into the belly of this entity.
Thinking back now, Scorpion Lady, who owned Empress City, had to risk making a fortune through the potion business to accumulate resources for her own advancement. That was suspicious in itself, and it was the reason Su Xiao had never killed her.
The reason was that he had always suspected whether Scorpion Lady was using massive resources to cultivate some secret treasure, and that treasure had a certain destined connection to her. This wealth, tied to her own safety, would certainly not be touched or even mentioned in the Void Tree's judgment, even in debt collection.
Now it seemed that ninety percent of Scorpion Lady's former wealth had been handed over to this unknown entity.
[Warning: You have triggered the World Mission: True Stage of this world.]
[Main Mission: Dark Sanctuary.]
Difficulty Level: Lv.97.
Mission Briefing: Enter the "Abyss Proximity Zone" of this world.
Mission Time Limit: 5 natural days.
Mission Reward: None (this mission's reward method is cumulative calculation).
Mission Penalty: Forced Execution.
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