# Chapter 8: Very Soft, Very Soft
After 5 hours of war, Su Xiao was covered in blood—the blood of his enemies.
"It looks like this will last until at least nightfall. I'm starving."
At this moment, Su Xiao's gaze was so sharp it was frightening. Due to his repeated use of Ring Break and Energy Blade Net, his kill count on the battlefield was definitely among the top few.
Su Xiao glanced at the war channel. There were 428 contractors in the Black Soil Plains region, and now, 396 were still alive. Not everyone was suited for the battlefield, and if luck was bad, one might encounter powerful enemies on the battlefield.
As his kills increased, Su Xiao became more familiar with the battlefield, gradually learning how to conserve stamina.
He was now standing on a pile of corpses, beside him the body of a human officer. This corpse pile had been created by that officer, who had ultimately died from exhaustion.
Scanning the battlefield, Su Xiao noticed that the Empire side had gained a significant advantage, thanks to the overwhelming rain of arrows.
The Empire's strategy was simple: clear the field with arrow volleys, allowing human or elf soldiers to form battle formations. When the arrows stopped, the formations charged. After the formations were wiped out, the arrows cleared the field again, repeating the cycle.
The Tribe side was no pushover either. While the Empire had arrow volleys, they had old-style large cannons made by goblins and green phosphorus fire bottles. As for cavalry, the dwarves' mountain cavalry were the main force—those dwarves riding wild boars.
The mountain cavalry's charge capability could stop even human heavy cavalry. The reason Su Xiao had been surrounded by orcs earlier was that the mountain cavalry had made a small charge, ultimately stopped by arrow volleys, causing them to scatter.
"Roar!"
A furious roar echoed across the battlefield. Humanoid creatures about five meters tall emerged from the Tribe camp—they were trolls, the Tribe's ace army.
These trolls were wrapped in steel armor, their specific features unclear, with exposed skin a grayish-white color.
A troll wielding a spiked club charged forward, trampling several unlucky orcs along the way.
Boom, boom.
That troll pounded its club into the ground like crushing garlic, smashing armored human soldiers into metal-and-flesh pancakes.
As soon as the trolls appeared, the battle situation began to tilt one-sidedly. Su Xiao noticed dozens of contractors charging toward one troll—it should be a small adventure group.
Su Xiao used Apostle's Eye to check the troll's attributes, hesitating whether to take one on as an opponent. Killing one of these should yield good rewards.
[Comparing both parties' intelligence attributes... Comparison complete. Our intelligence is 5.75 times the enemy's. Obtaining 100% enemy data.]
Data as follows:
Name: Sam Springhall
Category: Troll Race
Health: 99%
Mana: 120/120
Strength: 70
Agility: 34
Stamina: 80 (World Maximum)
Intelligence: 12
Charm: 3
Skill 1: War Bloodline (Passive LV.30), Health +8000, Strength +5, Abnormal Status Resistance +20%.
Skill 2: Secondary Magic Resistance Skin (Passive LV.26), Reduces magic damage by 60%.
Skill 3: Vakole Metal Fusion Armor (Passive LV.21), Defense +20, Movement Speed -10.
Skill 4: Troll Roar (Active LV.19), The troll roars with full force, creating a shockwave with a 50-meter diameter, dealing 300 base damage + 110 shockwave damage, and performing a stamina check. If the check fails, stun for 2-3 seconds.
For a second-rank world, a troll's attributes placed it between a minor boss and a major boss. If it was 1v1, Su Xiao wasn't afraid of this thing. But now, on the battlefield, even if he could kill this troll, it would consume too much stamina—not worth it.
Better not provoke this thing. The war might last who knows how much longer.
Su Xiao killed a few nearby orcs. After his Soul Devourer talent awakened, he was like a one-man army on the battlefield.
A breeze blew, and Su Xiao suddenly caught a faint fragrance mixed in with the smell of blood. The scent was pleasant, and he even felt slightly intoxicated by it.
Silver hair fluttered in the wind. A petite young girl stood not far from Su Xiao.
Seeing her, Su Xiao immediately judged she was a contractor, but there was a strange feeling about her.
Several orcs were near the silver-haired girl, but they ignored her, instead pouncing on nearby human soldiers.
Seeing this, Su Xiao judged she was a contractor from Apocalypse Paradise.
"So you're that contractor from Reincarnation Paradise? You look pretty strong."
The silver-haired girl brushed her hair behind her ear, smiling as she looked at Su Xiao.
"Xi?"
The "Xi" Su Xiao referred to was the leader of the Apocalypse Paradise contractors. As he spoke, Su Xiao decapitated a nearby orc.
"Of course not. Although we look alike and are related by blood."
Getting the silver-haired girl's reply, Su Xiao stopped speaking and held Dragon-Slaying Flash horizontally in front of him.
Boom!
A terrifying sonic boom came from in front of Su Xiao. The silver-haired girl had somehow appeared right before him, her delicate fist raised, punching toward Su Xiao.
Crack, crack.
Space shattered. This punch actually broke space?
Su Xiao was somewhat stunned, but he instinctively formed a 500-point strength energy shield in front of him.
With a shattering sound, the energy shield was broken.
Bang.
That slender fist pierced through Su Xiao's chest, shattering his heart!
Blood surged from Su Xiao's mouth, but he felt something was wrong. His waist was numb, as if something had pierced through it?
A cold sensation came from his back. Su Xiao's pupils contracted. His heart had clearly been pierced—why was he feeling this?
Realizing this, Su Xiao immediately crouched low, bent his left arm, and slammed his elbow backward.
Bang.
"Oh!"
A scream came from behind. From the sensation, Su Xiao felt his elbow hit a mass of soft flesh—very, very soft.
"Pfft~"
The silver-haired girl in front of Su Xiao spat blood, covering one side of her full chest with her hand, stomping her foot in anger.
At this moment, one of the girl's arms was still piercing through Su Xiao's chest. Su Xiao reached for her but grabbed nothing.
The silver-haired girl retreated several steps, watching Su Xiao warily.
Su Xiao looked down at the hole in his chest. The light and shadow twisted, and the hole in his chest disappeared. Instead, a bullet hole appeared in his lower back, with a shallow stab wound near his heart.
Seeing this, everything before could be explained. The sonic boom of the silver-haired girl's charge, the punch that shattered space—all of that was an illusion, a paper tiger.
No, if it was an illusion, Mind Blade would have triggered and immunized these illusions.
If not an illusion, then the silver-haired girl had used some ability to deceive his vision and senses. Mind Blade could only immunize neural-type control effects.
The silver-haired girl definitely didn't have the ability to shatter space with a punch. Otherwise, she wouldn't have used a gun to ambush Su Xiao, and when she found the gun wasn't very effective, she wouldn't have risked stabbing his back with a dagger.
Su Xiao's waist muscles tightened, and a silver bullet was pushed out by the muscle contraction.
Seeing this, the silver-haired girl looked at the black pistol in her hand. If calculated by Reincarnation Paradise's quality standards, this pistol was at least Dark Purple quality.
After receiving the buff effect of "Iron Legion War Drum Tune," Su Xiao's stamina attribute reached 70 points. Taking a bullet was nothing—a drizzle.
Ding~
The Realm Severing Thread on Su Xiao's left arm extended, using the surrounding corpse pile to form a barrier, trapping Su Xiao and the silver-haired girl inside.
Azure Steel Shadow energy clung to Dragon-Slaying Flash, and a 500-point strength Counter Shield formed, protecting Su Xiao. His aura burst outward—after all, he had just killed hundreds of orcs and dwarves. His presence made one's hair stand on end.
"So... if I said I was just joking earlier, would you believe me?"
The silver-haired girl's smile was a bit awkward. She now clearly realized she might have messed with the wrong person.
"Farewell."
The silver-haired girl tried to escape, but would Su Xiao let someone act tough and then run away? Of course not. Although he couldn't grind her into the ground on the battlefield, he would make sure she stayed here forever.
Su Xiao carefully sensed his surroundings while tightening the Realm Severing Thread.
Zzz~
The Realm Severing Thread contracted. Su Xiao slowed his breathing, sensing everything the thread touched as it tightened.
The surroundings became silent. Dust floated in the air. The battlefield's killing cries were ignored by Su Xiao.
Suddenly, the Realm Severing Thread touched an object. Su Xiao instantly rushed forward, slashing the object the thread touched into pieces several times.
With a splatter, the pieces fell—it was an orc's corpse.
Ding~
Some metal object hit the Realm Severing Thread. Su Xiao's feet kicked up the blood-soaked mud as he rushed toward the sound, lightning surging on Dragon-Slashing Flash. He slashed down with full force, and drops of blood appeared out of nowhere.
With a shattering sound like breaking glass, the surrounding "illusion" shattered. Su Xiao saw a silver-haired girl fleeing into the distance.
At this moment, the silver-haired girl had no other thoughts. Just one slash had chilled her to the bone. The blade had cut her back, and only the tip had grazed her.
The silver-haired girl charged into the orcs, trying to use them as cover to retreat.
Pfft, pfft...
The sound of blades cutting flesh came. The girl looked back and couldn't help but groan.
Blood droplets fell through the air. Before the blood could even hit the ground, a figure had already rushed through the droplets.
The silver-haired girl suddenly pointed her slender finger at the sky, her expression solemn as she shouted: "Supreme under heaven, only I am honored."
Seeing this, Su Xiao paused mid-step.
"Heh, you fell for it."
The silver-haired girl took the opportunity to dive into the orc army. A pale blue blade aura slashed toward her, and several orcs caught the blow, falling dead on the spot.