Chapter 3: Participating in the 'Alice Demon Castle Game' requires an invitation letter and waiting for the number of participants to reach 7. The invitation letter can be exchanged for 200,000 Paradise Coins + Soul Crystal (Medium) × 15.
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There are three options in total. The first is a challenge type, which should be the simplest yet most expensive method, requiring Soul Crystal (Large) × 5.
As for the second option, the Black Abyss Trial, Su Xiao didn't even consider it. This is clearly a survival-type trial, requiring strength + luck. With his luck, going to the 'Black Abyss' would be a death sentence.
As for the third option, it's a compromise. The cost isn't as high as the first, and the danger level is lower than the second. However, there's a restriction: you need to wait for 6 other contractors to participate before it can begin.
Seeing the name Alice, Su Xiao immediately thought that he seemed to have an invitation letter for the 'Alice Demon Castle Game,' obtained from killing the third-rank contractor Die in the Holy Grail World.
Die should have reached 80 points in attributes, successfully broken through the body's limits, obtained information related to the 'Proof of the Strong,' and then spent Paradise Coins + Soul Crystals to exchange for the invitation letter.
After Die died, Su Xiao opened her Scarlet Card and obtained [Alice's Invitation Letter]. When he first examined this invitation letter, he had no idea what it was. The inspection result at the time was:
[Alice's Invitation Letter]
Origin: Unknown
Quality: Unknown
Type: Invitation Letter
Effect: Unknown
Rating: Unknown
Description: An invitation letter, inviting you to enter...
Price: 1 Paradise Coin
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Su Xiao had once tried spending Paradise Coins to identify this item, but the result was insufficient authority + relevant conditions not activated.
Now everything makes sense. The reason Su Xiao couldn't view the attributes of [Alice's Invitation Letter] was twofold: first, insufficient authority; second, his attributes hadn't reached 80 and he hadn't broken through the body's limits.
Su Xiao took out [Alice's Invitation Letter], and sure enough, its attributes appeared.
[Alice's Invitation Letter]
Origin: Reincarnation Paradise
Quality: None
Type: Invitation Letter
Effect: After using this invitation letter, you will wait 2 to 3 natural days (must be in Reincarnation Paradise or the Real World). When the game begins, you will receive a notification.
Rating: 0
Description: An invitation letter, inviting you into Alice's Demon Game. It's a place both interesting and despairing. Come, complete this game, and you will be a strong one, no one can question it.
Price: 1 Paradise Coin
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After hesitating for a moment, Su Xiao chose to use [Alice's Invitation Letter]. Compared to the costly challenge or the extremely dangerous trial with no entry conditions, the compromise 'Alice Demon Castle Game' was the best choice.
[The Hunter has used 'Alice's Invitation Letter.' You will wait 2 to 3 natural days. If you enter a derivative world during this period, you will receive the 'Game Invitation' during your stay time after returning to Reincarnation Paradise.]
Su Xiao still had about an hour before entering a derivative world, so he could only start the so-called Demon Game after this derivative world ended.
In this derivative world, Su Xiao would begin the third-rank trial assessment. If he passed the assessment, he would be promoted to a third-rank Hunter.
If he successfully advanced to third rank, breaking through the 80-point barrier would be three-quarters complete, leaving only the 'Proof of the Strong,' and he already had a clue about that.
But before that, Su Xiao had to unlock the third and final layer of Alchemy, attempting to unlock Alchemical Creature Manufacturing. A prompt appeared.
[Prompt: Alchemical Creature Manufacturing not unlocked.]
[To unlock 'Alchemical Creature Manufacturing,' you need to raise 'Alchemical Pharmacy' to Lv.10 (Already achieved) and pay Soul Crystal (Medium) × 1 + 10,000 Paradise Coins.]
The cost to unlock Alchemical Creature Manufacturing wasn't high. He still had two Soul Crystals (Medium) left, so Su Xiao chose to unlock it.
[You have successfully unlocked the third layer of Alchemy, Alchemical Creature Manufacturing. The entire Alchemy skill tree is now unlocked.]
A vast amount of knowledge about 'Alchemical Creature Manufacturing' flooded into Su Xiao's mind. He pressed one hand to his forehead as his brain rapidly absorbed this knowledge. With his current physical condition, he no longer experienced the dizziness he had before.
Half an hour later, Su Xiao successfully unlocked 'Alchemical Creature Manufacturing.' He casually opened the Alchemy skill tree.
Alchemy Third Layer: Alchemical Creature Manufacturing Lv.1 (Proficiency 0/10)