Chapter 1614: Synthesis

When Su Xiao left the God Emperor Adventure Group Headquarters, it was half an hour later. He had inquired about the movements of the Blood Gate Adventure Group from the Divine Emperor.

Su Xiao’s enmity with Stan was obviously known to the Divine Emperor. The origin of the enmity was simple: Su Xiao killed a Dark Horse Level member of the Blood Gate Adventure Group. As the leader of a large adventure group, Blood Gate couldn’t just ignore this. At the time, there were two ways to handle it: either send someone to eliminate Su Xiao, or have Su Xiao compensate Blood Gate with huge benefits.

Evidently, Blood Gate’s people couldn’t track Su Xiao, and Su Xiao didn’t compensate Blood Gate either. Thus, enmity was formed. Even though the two sides were enemies at this point, it hadn’t reached the level of a mortal enemy.

Stan sought fame, which is why he openly opposed Su Xiao. In reality, he didn’t want to waste too many resources on Su Xiao. It was more about letting outsiders know that Blood Gate’s people couldn’t be killed just like that, that’s all.

Su Xiao was always puzzled as to how Blood Gate’s people managed to track his whereabouts and tried to deal with him in the Holy Grail World.

This confused Su Xiao greatly. From what he knew, although Stan was hard-edged and brutal, he didn’t exhibit an attitude of “Only I am the Supreme.” In their several conversations, they would at most mouth off sarcastically about why the other wasn’t dead yet, without any profanity. Judging by their expressions alone, one would mistake them for old friends who hadn’t seen each other in years.

Yet Stan actually spared no expense, sending Huang Yan to the Holy Grail World to hunt down Su Xiao. Not only was Su Xiao baffled by this, but the Divine Emperor also expressed surprise upon hearing about it. He had been an old adversary of Stan, and this kind of behavior didn’t seem characteristic of Stan.

Before Stan sent people to the Holy Grail World to hunt down Su Xiao, the two sides were mostly just adversaries, and over time, such matters could easily fade away, eventually ending without conclusion. Su Xiao wouldn’t bother assaulting a large adventure group over a few verbal threats, as that would be a thankless task.

But the situation now was different. There were only two outcomes: either Su Xiao brings down Blood Gate, or Blood Gate eliminates Su Xiao. No other alternatives remained.

Although Su Xiao couldn’t comprehend why Stan made the decision back then, speculating by Blood Gate Adventure Group’s situation, perhaps the order to hunt Su Xiao wasn’t even Stan’s decision. At least, Su Xiao didn’t believe Stan would make such a choice.

No matter the circumstances, the enmity was irreparable. Su Xiao and Stan weren’t the kind who could negotiate peace, so a decisive outcome was necessary. This was the style within Reincarnation Paradise—the concept of life and death was disregarded, and confrontation ensued if unsatisfied. Stan was likely not one to fear death.

Now, Su Xiao clearly had the capability to face off against the Blood Gate Adventure Group directly, though he certainly wouldn’t single-handedly challenge an entire adventure group. However, Su Xiao didn’t believe Blood Gate’s people would always stand united.

While contemplating, Su Xiao arrived at the marketplace. Numerous Contractors were traversing between various stalls. Before long, Bu Bu Wang, A Mu, and Bennie all arrived at the marketplace, and after meeting up at the central flowerbed, each took responsibility for a direction, beginning their search for something in the marketplace.

The marketplace was vast. Had he been alone, Su Xiao might have had to spend an entire morning there to inspect all the stalls.

As he traversed ahead of the stalls, the items displayed were diverse, with occasional sightings of Gold Suit fragments, whereas Legendary Gear was quite rare in the marketplace, and Epic Level was even unheard of. Gear of such grade didn’t need to be sold in a marketplace.

Su Xiao spent a full two hours browsing but still couldn’t find what he desired. Fortunately, Bennie brought good news.

“What’s the asking price?”

Su Xiao contacted Bennie through the team channel, and Bennie replied with an offer of 100,000 Paradise coins.

“Tell them, it’s a deal at 70,000 Paradise coins.”

After waiting for a moment, Su Xiao saw a new item in the team storage space, and things seemed to be proceeding smoothly. He stepped out toward the marketplace exit, heading straight for his exclusive room.

Returning to the exclusive room, Su Xiao entered the relatively spacious Sword Training Room, where he activated the usage authority of the equipment decomposition/remodeling/synthesis machine he had acquired earlier.

Spatial fluctuation occurred and a machine resembling a truck engine appeared, standing over two meters high and nearly five meters long, with steam pouring out of a smokestack on top.

A sound of numerous gears turning followed, and Su Xiao, understanding a bit about precision machinery, couldn’t even dismantle this equipment decomposition/remodeling/synthesis machine due to its sheer complexity.

[You have activated the usage authority of the equipment decomposition/remodeling/synthesis machine, remaining time: 29 minutes 57 seconds.]

With time being precious, Su Xiao placed his hand on the machine, causing a virtual panel to pop up.

[Please select the desired function: Decompose/Remodel/Synthesize.]

After selecting Synthesize, the machine in front of him transformed. All the gears retracted into its body, and it transformed like a Transformer, changing its appearance in less than five seconds.

At the center of the equipment synthesis machine was a hole about the size of a basin, emitting a red glow, and on both sides of this central hole were two relatively smaller holes emitting blue light.

Su Xiao took out the Eye of the Apostle and placed it into the center hole, where it floated in the red glow into the air, linked by ten energy filaments.

[Main equipment selected, please add at least 2 auxiliary pieces of equipment.]

The equipment synthesis machine comprised two parts: the main equipment and auxiliary equipment. The main equipment influenced the type of equipment ultimately created, and the auxiliary pieces affected the quality. If both were the same type of equipment, the synthesis result would definitely be equipment of that type.

Su Xiao inserted 11 pieces of detection equipment into the side holes and prepared everything before activating the equipment synthesis machine.

Boom!

An energy pulse surged, causing Su Xiao to step back half a step. In the next instant, numerous fragments of equipment flew.

Buzz～

All auxiliary equipment in the slots shattered, the red glow on the main equipment Eye of the Apostle intensified.

[Enhancement: Equipment synthesis will conclude in 13 minutes 27 seconds.]

The synthesis time isn’t long, but it also signifies that the equipment synthesis machine could only be used twice.

In just a moment, the cooled Eye of the Apostle was ejected from the equipment synthesis machine and Su Xiao caught it with one hand, checking its attributes simultaneously.

[Eye of the Apostle]

Origin: War World·Ramiel Technology

Quality: Legendary Level (Unable to further synthesize)

Category: Detection Equipment

Durability: 75/75

Equipment Requirements: Intelligence 10 points.

Equipment Effect 1: Free Energy Storage (Passive), The Eye of the Apostle can absorb light energy, electric energy, thermal energy, magnetic energy, bioenergy, and other twelve types of energy, and store them.

Note: Currently stored 1500 points of light energy.

Equipment Effect 2: Life Detection (Active): Allows detection of enemies and obtaining their information. The completeness of this information is determined by both parties’ Intelligence Attributes. The user’s Intelligence Attribute needs to be at least double that of the enemy’s, guaranteeing at least 50% of the enemy’s information.

Note: Life Detection (Active) has no consumption.

Note: Life Detection (Active) has a cooldown time of 5 minutes.

Note: Life Detection (Active) priority is Sixth Tier.

Equipment Effect 3: Guardian’s Eye (Active): The Eye of the Apostle floats to mid-air or high altitude and undergoes optical invisibility, detecting within a one-kilometer radius. Upon any suspicious entity entering this range, the Eye of the Apostle will issue a warning.

Note: Guardian’s Eye (Active) consumes 100 points of energy per hour, capable of continuous activation.

Note: Guardian’s Eye (Active) can detect invisibility, perception shielding, underground stealth, magic energy shielding, and 152 types of stealth abilities.

Rating: 530 points (Legendary Gear Rating: 400～530 points.)

Description: This equipment integrates detection, warning, and examination. With it, one could sleep soundly even in dangerous wilderness.

Price: 269,000 Paradise coins.