Chapter 1396 - 18: Crimson Treasure Chest

Chapter 1396: Chapter 18: Crimson Treasure Chest

A golden light spreads, melting buildings like snow upon contact, and a light ball with a diameter of a hundred meters appears, illuminating almost half of Hot City.

After five seconds, the light ball ceases to be dazzling, gradually engulfed by the night.

The last thread of light fades away, and everything within a hundred meters disappears, a semicircular pit appearing on the ground.

On a distant five-story building, Shalin squints her tear-filled eyes, as her eyeballs continuously experience a stinging sensation. That light ball is simply a super-enhanced flash bomb.

Once Shalin’s vision recovers, her red lips slightly part in amazement as she stares blankly at the giant pit.

"Cuchulainn Bai Ye!"

Shalin is so enraged she nearly faints, as this is Hot City, the capital of the Geya Alliance. A hundred-meter wide, fifty-meter deep pit in the center of the capital’s commercial street cannot be justified, even if it is to capture enemy special agents.

From the pit, a scorched arm reaches out from the earth, and soon the owner of the arm crawls out of the soil.

"Luo Men, did water get into your brain?"

Crawling out of the soil is the Cold Smile Man, who had been dismantling the secondary space coordinates while enduring Shalin’s sniper and attacks from multiple special agents.

Luo Men and the Cold Smile Man set the secondary space coordinates in the back room of the Divination House, unimpacted by the battle thanks to Luo Men’s protection.

It is easy to infer from the current situation that the secondary space coordinates no longer exist, and Cold Smile Man is left half-dead from the explosion.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

As Cold Smile Man prepares to escape, his attention is drawn to two individuals standing and sitting dozens of meters away. The one seated seems to ask a question but receives no answer, as the standing one simply swings the knife, decapitating the seated person.

"This can’t be happening."

Cold Smile Man steps back, looking at the long knife-wielding man from afar. As night wind passes, lifting a wisp of dust, bright red blood drips from the knife’s tip.

"Friends from Reincarnation Paradise, let’s talk... damn."

Bang!

Earth flies as Su Xiao rushes straight for Cold Smile Man, while Shalin and several special agents target him with their guns.

Forty seconds later, Su Xiao snaps Cold Smile Man’s neck, throwing his corpse to the ground.

Shalin jumps down from the edge of the pit, pulling out the handgun from her thigh, firing several shots at Cold Smile Man’s corpse.

"Such an spectacular battle. The placement of the pit... is also quite excellent."

Clearly speaking sarcastically, Shalin originally wanted to interrogate Su Xiao about creating such a commotion, but seeing Su Xiao’s densely wounded upper body, she couldn’t speak her mind.

"Anything wrong here?"

Su Xiao removed the tattered Lan Kai Windcoat, which possesses a self-healing ability that consumes a certain amount of mana value during healing.

"Of course... there’s a problem."

Shalin grits her teeth, glaring at Su Xiao.

"Luckily this was done by enemy agents, so we can freely blame Sun Kingdom."

"Is that so."

Su Xiao walks toward Luo Men’s corpse, as something seems to have dropped after his death.

Upon nearing Luo Men’s body, Su Xiao sees a fist-sized treasure chest on the ground, its body completely crimson.

[You have obtained a Crimson Treasure Chest.]

[Hint: The hunter has obtained a Crimson Treasure Chest for the first time.]

[Crimson Treasure Chest]

Origin: Unique to World Struggle War

Category: Treasure Chest

Usage Effect: After opening the treasure chest, the hunter can choose from three options.

1. Obtain three items from Storage Space No. 30106 (random selection, ordinary items are excluded).

2. Gain one of the skills already mastered by Contractor No. 30106 (random selection, the skill will be converted into a skill scroll with initialized level).

3. Obtain one of the equipments worn by Contractor No. 30106 (random selection, attributes initialized).

...

Crimson Treasure Chest and Scarlet Card are different, or rather, they are not even on the same level. Scarlet Card is obtained by killing fellow contractors, with rewards not being overly generous; otherwise, Reincarnation Paradise contractors may go mad with internal slaughter.

Crimson Treasure Chest is different, obtained by killing enemy Paradise contractors, with Reincarnation Paradise clearly advocating this behavior.

Select any three items with quality from storage space, one random skill scroll, and one random equipment, choose one of them for a generous reward.

Su Xiao stores the Crimson Treasure Chest away, as he currently lacks the time to open it and must wait until subsequent matters are settled.

[You have received 5 Reincarnation Paradise Merits.]

[You have received 4 Reincarnation Paradise Merits.]

This is Su Xiao’s reward for killing two enemy contractors.

[You have completed the war’s branch mission: Clear the space coordinates; secondary space coordinates completion rate did not reach 20%, so you will receive an additional reward.]

[You receive fifty Reincarnation Paradise Merits (basic reward).]

[You receive Holy Tin Crystal Stone (rare material·legendary level).]

...

Seeing the completion of the war’s branch mission, Su Xiao lets out a sigh of relief. The opposing contractor was difficult to deal with, and the contractor named Luo Men was quite strong. As for his defeat, it was quite intriguing.

During the most intense part of the fight, Luo Men executed a move called ’Dizziness,’ which essentially involved using the Air Hammer to strike the back of Su Xiao’s head.

While enduring Su Xiao’s Blade Aura, Luo Men successfully activated the ability; the Air Hammer indeed hit Su Xiao’s head. Based on Luo Men’s past experience, Su Xiao should be dizzy for 1 to 2 seconds, which is enough to kill him. The golden light ball in Luo Men’s hand is his finishing move.

However, Su Xiao was not dizzy for even 0.1 seconds, directly using the Dragon Shadow Flash ability to reach behind Luo Men’s back. After twelve consecutive slashes, Luo Men can no longer transfer the injuries, as these twelve strikes have exceeded the domain’s endurance limit.

Luo Men couldn’t understand to his dying breath, unable to comprehend why Su Xiao wasn’t knocked dizzy.

What Luo Men didn’t know is that compared to his Air Hammer, the ’hammering sensation’ during Reincarnation Paradise’s teleportation is more severe. Facing strikes to the back of the head, Su Xiao has long grown accustomed. After taking the Air Hammer hit, his head indeed buzzed, but not to the extent of being knocked dizzy.

Luo Men, a Fourth-tier Contractor, one of Holy Sanctuary Paradise Faction’s trump cards, died from attacking the enemy’s back of the head.

Inside the large pit, Su Xiao rubs the ache in the back of his head, stepping towards the upper edge of the pit.

Hot City’s security forces arrive, beginning to coordinate with those from Los Zhi’s Eye for aftermath handling. These people actually arrived earlier, but they did not dare to enter the battlefield rashly; the battle between the Slaughter Troop and Los Zhi’s Eye is not one they can interfere with.

Su Xiao sits atop a rooftop on the edge of the pit, bandaging his wounds.

Several black vintage cars speed over, stopping abruptly near the pit, and several politicians and soldiers emerge from the cars.

"Bai Ye!"

A loud shout, and Su Xiao turns in the direction of the voice; it is Skardine, the newly appointed leader of the Slaughter Troop, who arrived. Although few in number, the Slaughter Troop is organized as a regiment.

"Chief."

Su Xiao offers a courteous greeting to his immediate superior.

"Did you do this?"

Skardine looks up at Su Xiao.

"Yes, I did."

"Well done."

Skardine smiles with his scarred face, and hearing his words, the nearby Poison Beauty Shalin rolls her eyes.

"Someone! Drag him down! Lock him up in Cakbeck Prison for six months!"

As soon as Skardine finishes speaking, five soldiers from the Slaughter Troop rush up to the rooftop where Su Xiao resides.

"Come on, Brother Bai Ye, return to the battlefield, where you can destroy at will."

A short-haired teenager speaks softly; he carries the scent of gunpowder mixed with blood. Skardine does not intend to imprison Su Xiao but rather intends to send him back to the battlefield.