Chapter 20: Supreme
Dark embers scattered, the battle in the Wind Sea Continent had completely ceased. Although all participants felt a sense of surviving a calamity, they also knew that the Wind Sea War Zone was only the first battle. Four more such battles awaited, along with the final campaign: the decisive battle in the Void War Zone.
The Supreme Peaks present exchanged glances. Whether they were Apocalypse Peaks or reinforcements, as participants in this round's first victory, they all had two choices: either return to their respective Paradise factions for a brief rest before being rematched to other main war zones, or go back for a short break and immediately volunteer to join one of the four current main battlefields, or head to the core war zone.
Going directly to the four main battlefields would increase subsequent merit rewards by 30%, while immediately reinforcing the core battlefield would boost subsequent merit gains by 50%.
However, all Ninth Rank contractors had an additional option: they could immediately return to the Apocalypse Paradise, no longer participating in other main war zone battles, and wait until the Void War Zone entered its final stage before receiving a mandatory summons. Logistics system participants faced a similar situation.
"Bai Ye..."
Iron Blood Rose·Betansina was about to ask in euphemistic terms where Su Xiao would go next. This was also a concern for all the Supremes and Absolute Strong present. With the Elemental Insect Race around, as long as they followed this top-tier powerhouse to the same war zone, risks would be low, and they could still participate in a victory.
After all, winning the Wind Sea War Zone this time meant all participants received multiplied merit points based on their contributions, plus phased victory rewards. Everyone had made a huge profit.
"Bai Ye, where to next? We still support you. Of course, if everything goes smoothly, we can still get another campaign victory."
Isha spoke. She was the one who primarily boosted her Charm Attribute and ended up as a powerhouse in the Soul Supreme system. She had provided the "Conqueror" title.
"Blazing Sun."
After speaking, Su Xiao had already sent an application to the Void Tree to head to Blazing Sun Star.
A teleportation sensation appeared around him. Everything within sight was swallowed by darkness. Su Xiao felt like he was riding a pipeline train shuttling through dark liquid matter, with hissing friction sounds around him. Never before had a Void Tree or Paradise faction teleportation felt like this.
After a bumpy sensation, the world around Su Xiao regained a bit of dim light. When the world fully materialized, a sky-covering pitch-black warhammer came crashing down. The wind pressure was fierce. He raised his hand, and his blood-gleaming fingertip touched the descending giant hammer.
With a thunderous roar, the tens-of-thousands-of-meters-tall dark giant holding the super hammer was flipped over by the immense force from its weapon. Even more astonishingly, glaring blood-red cracks suddenly spread across the super hammer, then climbed up the dark giant's right arm, spreading from the arm to its neck and chest. After that, the conspicuous blood-red cracks spread to its eyes. Its multi-pupiled eyes even shattered from the blood-red cracks.
Boom!
The dark giant collapsed, embers rising and scattering.
Su Xiao's hand pressed on the end of the sword hilt at his waist. In an instant, the blade's resonance rang out, clearing the area around him while also opening a path toward the Blazing Sun base camp.
The Saint Domain Paradise contractors were responsible for the Blazing Sun Star campaign, led by Holy Song·Samanya. She was the one who had made the Supremes and Absolute Strong on the front line suffer life-and-death struggles.
She wore a pure white form-fitting robe, with a natural face but a full queenly aura. Her gaze looked at everyone as if they were trash, just like how she looked at the struggling Supremes and Absolute Strong participants, her eyes looking down as if watching a group of insects.
Their eyes met. After a few seconds, Holy Song·Samanya subtly shifted her gaze away, seemingly letting out a "tsk" sound. Su Xiao, who had been about to walk toward the base camp, paused and turned his head to look at Holy Song·Samanya.
Holy Song·Samanya clenched one fist under her sleeve but remained silent. The feeling of encountering her nemesis made her choose to back off.
Facts proved that Holy Song·Samanya was wise. Clashing with a powerful reinforcement whose Void Tree Reputation was -? points was not wise. Also, Holy Song·Samanya was actually from a friendly faction; she just had a bad personality. In reality, she had resurrected countless participants.
As a cost, overusing her resurrection ability made her light-headed and extremely irritable inside, seeing everyone as trash and insects. But her deepest genuine obsession was that she wouldn't just watch allies fall.
Simply put, before battle, Holy Song·Samanya was a powerful figure like a kind older sister, gentle in demeanor and soft in tone, reassuring and making people want to look at her more, yet not daring to have any inner desecration.
But as the battle continued, Holy Song·Samanya kept using her resurrection ability, and death inevitably brought "negative emotions." Reversing death naturally meant bearing these. Holy Song·Samanya would gradually become irritable, transforming into a proud queen, thinking inside: all trash, all insects, ahhhhh!!!
When Su Xiao entered the Blazing Sun base camp, he found it identical to the previous Apocalypse base camp. Not in architectural layout, but in the wounded everywhere, painful wails, busy yet numb healers, and temporary helpers who could only alleviate injuries.
Arriving beneath the Abyss Purification Device at the center of the base camp, Su Xiao took out a summoning scroll. As for summoning Jila, he didn't use the "Law-Destroying Teleportation Array" but a summoning spell from the Reincarnation Paradise. For summoning Iron Blood Hounds, Goddess of Fortune, Goddess of Fate, etc., he used the "Law-Destroying Teleportation Array." Hmm, this was an Abyss campaign, different times called for different measures.
If the Goddess of Fortune were present, she would definitely complain: "Saying that, have you ever used the 'Law-Destroying Teleportation Array' to summon Jila before?" To this, Dragon-Slaying Flash would have something to say, and the Goddess of Fortune would immediately be speechless.
The summoning array was activated. Because it wasn't the Law-Destroying Teleportation Array, the speed was noticeably slower. After a moment, the teleportation was complete. Jila, who had just arrived, looked a bit confused. After looking around, she came behind Su Xiao, reached out with her index finger to draw a circle, and a spatial wormhole appeared, from which a worker scorpion embryo egg fell.
The "Elemental Crystals" from the Wind Sea Continent naturally couldn't be brought to Blazing Sun Star. The reason was that under the rules of the "Initial Regulations," Paradise-related creations must be notarized for inter-realm exchange. That meant applying to the Void Tree to notarize those "Elemental Crystals," which would be a considerable expense.
Under the busy work of the first worker scorpion, the prototype of the insect race mother nest was established. The fungal carpet spread out first. Soon, the dozen-meter-tall mother nest produced the first batch of worker scorpions. Half an hour later, the mother nest enveloped the base camp's Abyss Purification Device, reaching a height of several dozen meters.
What needed to be done next was simple. The mother nest continuously spread the fungal carpet to accumulate "Elemental Crystals." To be safe, Su Xiao didn't let Jila stay here but had her set self-executing instructions for the mother nest. Absorbing and storing such simple instructions could be infinitely looped with the current mother nest level.
Su Xiao sent a rest application to the Void Tree. Despite his Void Tree Reputation being -? points, the rest application was instantly approved. He had just won the Wind Sea War Zone; if such a rest application couldn't pass, that would be too unreasonable.
Bringing Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Jila, when the teleportation sensation faded, Su Xiao had returned to his exclusive room in the Reincarnation Paradise. Only then did he have time to check the series of prompts that had appeared.
[Prompt (Void Tree): You have won the main battlefield: Wind Sea Continent.]
[After verifying that you played a decisive role in this campaign and assessing your resource needs, you have received the following victor rewards in total.]