Chapter 2: Use It Yourself. When you use the "Star Heart," you will become mortal enemies with the Soul Clock Tower, mortal enemies with the Gods, and mortal enemies with the Rune Family.
Mission Time Limit: 30 Natural Days.
Mission Reward: Reincarnation Emblem × 1.
Mission Penalty: Forced Execution.
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Compared to the mission content, Su Xiao cared more about the mission reward. He wasn't sure before whether the [Reincarnation Emblem] was only obtained by winning a Paradise War, or if there were other ways to get it.
Now it seemed that when the world rank was high enough and the main mission difficulty was high enough, there was still a probability of it appearing in the main mission rewards, even if it was just one.
This made Su Xiao start to feel comfortable spending the 22 [Reincarnation Emblems] he currently had. He had always been restrained before, afraid that if the Honor Shop refreshed with good items, he wouldn't have any [Reincarnation Emblems] on hand. Now it seemed keeping about 2 in reserve was enough.
After figuring out the [Reincarnation Emblem], Su Xiao began studying the content of this main mission. At first glance, the main mission of this world seemed to have only one phase, but having experienced the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, he knew that in worlds at the Supreme rank, the main mission had a true stage, which was the world's true terrifying form.
Regarding the "Star Heart," Su Xiao was determined to obtain it. This item was a Star Realm level secret treasure; in one era, maybe only two or three would appear.
What he didn't quite understand was why he was mortal enemies with the Gods. That was understandable, since holding the "Origin Codex" meant the secret to truly annihilating the Gods was within this codex.
Su Xiao didn't need to know the secret. What he needed to do was kill enough Gods and use the blood of Gods to rewrite this codex, then place it in the "Place of Return."
Being such great enemies with the Soul Clock Tower was quite surprising to Su Xiao. He took out the [Soul Secret Treasure Box] and estimated that there was a 90% chance the Soul Clock Tower had a way to sense this item, or rather, this inherited treasure was something the Soul Clock Tower had been searching for.
This was a secret treasure prepared by the Soul Clock Tower during its most glorious period in the First Era to cultivate the "Soul Clock Tower" as the next candidate for Tower Master. As a result, it was ruined by Su Xiao, the Shadow of Law Destruction.
When the Soul Clock Tower of this world discovered this, how could they not be furious? The fact that they hadn't directly attacked was likely because they were currently competing with the other two major powers for the "Star Heart."
On the other hand, the attitude of the Abyss Descendant·Rune Family was more surprising. They were hostile, not mortal enemies. It seemed this Beast Clan, while hostile towards their former opponents, didn't hate them. They were probably a group that loved fighting and slaughter.
After weighing things, Su Xiao found that this initial identity was very good. The question was, what exactly did the old king who gave him this identity intend? This was bound to be muddy waters. Originally, he would have actively stirred into this muddy water, but the old king's actions had passively pulled him into it.
Su Xiao would certainly not refuse such an advantage, but he naturally couldn't avoid the old king's open scheme.
From the current situation, the old king wanted him to help kill all the Gods. After Su Xiao took out the "Origin Codex," the old king clearly had further plans for cooperation. For now, the old king was an ally. Whether he would become an enemy later depended on how things developed.
Besides this, this identity gave Su Xiao two conveniences. First, the "Imperial Special Affairs Department" had quite a few capable people, after all, it was a violent institution responsible for "Aberration" and Abyss matters.
Second, although Su Xiao's current identity had no official position, at the King's Council, he sat at the same level as the Vice Chancellor, Three Ministers, Grand Commander, and Mechanical Pope, only below the King.
In addition to these, Su Xiao also obtained a very interesting temporary authority called "Imperial Squad." He opened the relevant prompt.
[Prompt (Void Tree): Detected that you have assumed the position of Minister of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department." You have obtained the temporary authority "Imperial Squad." This is unique to this world.]
[Imperial Squad: You can select up to 20 members from the "Imperial Special Affairs Department" to form an "Imperial Squad" to campaign against factors that may threaten the safety of this world, such as Abyss regions, Imperial hostile forces, Aberrant groups, etc.]
[Every time your "Imperial Squad" conducts a campaign and eliminates more than 65% of the enemy leader and main members, it is judged a successful campaign. You will receive a settlement reward. This settlement reward will be determined based on the "Imperial Squad's" campaign degree, as well as your personal Charm Attribute, Luck Attribute, and personal fortune.]
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First of all, this was a world certified by the Void Tree. The first half of the prompt was fine. Su Xiao was even starting to plan how to form the "Imperial Squad," but then it appeared that each campaign settlement reward would be based on his Charm Attribute, Luck Attribute, and personal fortune.
Among these three judgments, the most presentable one he had was his current 28 points of True Luck Attribute. The problem was, his Charm Attribute was -34 points... no, from entering this world and killing until now, it had slipped to -35 points.
Who knew that killing a large number of dark creatures and Abyss creatures would also cause his Charm Attribute to drop? He estimated that he had only killed a few hundred thousand with the Blood Sea. How could his Charm Attribute drop?
What was even more eyebrow-raising was that his Charm Attribute had dropped by one point, but not a single treasure chest dropped. However, he hadn't lacked "Hunter Gold Coins," and the "Abyss Mission" improvement was limited. There were quite a few Supreme-level Abyss creatures in these areas, but he hadn't seen many immortal and indestructible Abyss Spawn.
The -35 Charm Attribute's impact on the "Campaign Settlement Reward" was already severe enough. If you added Su Xiao's -150,000 fortune, if the "Campaign Settlement Reward" could go negative, he estimated that each time, not only would he gain nothing, but he might have to pay to make up for the negative resource income from the settlement. Of course, the "Campaign Settlement Reward" definitely wouldn't be negative.
After pondering for a few seconds, Su Xiao decided that given the complex environment of this world, not finding Kaisa would be a disservice to this friend. A world with a major power like the Empire was Kaisa's favorite.
It could only be said that the treasuries of the three major powers—the Gods, the Soul Clock Tower, and the Rune Family—were in danger.
Su Xiao took out the communicator for contacting Kaisa and found that it could be dialed directly without needing a signal connection first. This meant Kaisa was already in this world, and had even arrived earlier than him.
He dialed Kaisa's communicator. After waiting for over ten seconds, the other side picked up.
"My dear friend, it seems we can join forces again."
Kaisa's voice, sly with a hint of greed, came through the communicator.
"Where?"
"Royal Capital."
Hearing Kaisa's words, Su Xiao hung up the communicator. A Soul Coin appeared in his hand.
Ding~
The Soul Coin was flicked into the air, and halfway down, it was caught by a hand.
"My dear friend, it seems you have urgent business with Kaisa."
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Su Xiao directly sent the information related to the "Imperial Squad" to Kaisa. After Kaisa reviewed it, he shook his head regretfully.
"I'm probably powerless in this matter. Even if I really did it, the cost would outweigh the benefit."
In a world certified by the Void Tree, performing such operations was generally not impossible in Kaisa's dictionary, but if the cost outweighed the benefit, then in Kaisa's view, it was impossible.
"Molei was kidnapped... I mean, invited by me to this world."
"Oh? In that case, using her Luck, Charm, and fortune to replace your dominant position in the 'Imperial Squad' is very feasible. Moreover, there's no causal cost between you two. However, my hard work fee..."
"5 ounces."
"What? My dear friend, Kaisa's hard work can't be so cheap. At least 500,000 ounces of Space-Time Power."
After bargaining between Su Xiao and Kaisa, the matter was finally settled at a price of 150 ounces.
As for where to find Molei, Su Xiao picked up the internal communication device on the table. A cold voice came from it: "Sir, please speak."
"Go arrest three people..."
Su Xiao explained the general information about Molei and the other two, and had Bubu Wang upload their photos to the "Branch Network Cluster" of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department."
Speaking of which, Molei and the other two were indeed lucky. They could buy the initial state of a friendly God·Divine Soul. After this type of Divine Soul advanced to Supreme, it basically reached the individual's upper limit of strength. It wasn't that it couldn't be improved at all, but the improvement method of the God system was almost impossible for Contractors or Battle Angels of the Paradise camp to achieve.
But it was still Supreme, and the advancement probability was extremely high. As long as the initial Divine Soul's compatibility with the user was not less than 75%, the success rate was nearly 99%.
On the other hand, the heavily contaminated Supreme Divine Souls passed down through multiple generations were very dangerous to fuse. The success rate was low, but the mortality rate was high. If it was the kind of Divine Soul passed down from the First Era to the present, the mortality rate from fusion could reach over 90%.
This was why, even today, the method of advancing to Supreme through resources was still mainstream. Although it required more resources, the success rate and mortality rate were within acceptable limits. Moreover, the potential after advancement meant this mainstream method would continue to be used.
At this moment, over 800 kilometers west of the Royal Capital, Molei and the other two were sitting on the back of a low-flying White Moon Peacock. This White Moon Peacock had a wingspan of over twenty meters, easily carrying the three. From the relaxed aura of the White Moon Peacock, it was clear it was very willing to carry them, since one was its owner, and the other two often shared delicious food with it.
"La la la~, da da da!"
Molei hummed a tune, in an extremely good mood. Looking at the data on the detection device, there was a "Soul Glowstone" vein deep underground here. If they could fully mine it, the wealth the three had lost before would at least recover by more than half.
But compared to wealth, thinking about the different qualities of "Soul Glowstone" and the small chance of finding a top-grade "Soul Glowstone," Molei was so excited her scalp tingled.
"Oh? Oh! Oh!!"
Hao Mei saw the detection results and immediately let out a strange cry. Yueshitu was so excited her little fists were clenched.
However, the happy Apocalypse Sisters didn't know that at this moment, the Empire's strongest violent institution had marked the three as top-priority wanted targets, and they must be captured alive without injury. This was the first task issued by the newly appointed Minister, causing half of the combat personnel of the "Imperial Special Affairs Department" to voluntarily mobilize.
The Apocalypse Sisters, as if they had violated heavenly laws, still didn't know what they were about to face.