[Montelarya Ore]
Quality: Special
Type: Rare consumable ore.
Effect: When ’Montelarya Ore’ is added during equipnt enhancent, it significantly reduces the damage caused by enhancent failures. If used for enhancents below 10, the equipnt will not be damaged upon failure.
Rating: None
Description: A unique ore from Kara Star. The Kara Aliens incorporated this ore into the core of their spaceships, making the core durable and long-lasting, sustaining usage for more than 1500 years.
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Su Xiao tossed the obsidian-like ore in his hand, then carefully stored it away.
This ti, the harvest was significant. Su Xiao had long known about the rarity of Soul Crystals. There were no Soul Crystals available in the trading market, and they could only be acquired at high prices.
The price of a small Soul Crystal ranges from 20,000 to 50,000 Paradise coins, rare but unavailable.
As for dium Soul Crystals, they are impossible to find. Contractors who can acquire them use them themselves. No one sells them unless they urgently need Paradise coins for life-and-death situations.
The ’Montelarya Ore’ is specific to the battlefield, unaccessible by other ans, and exists only for the ’Parasitic Beasts’ unique to this battlefield.
Su Xiao had always been hesitant to enhance Dragon Slash further, fearing a 7 enhancent failure would reset its enhancent level to zero, losing 21,000 Paradise coins per failure, a severe loss.
If a 8 enhancent fails and Dragon Slash shatters... such a loss would be unbearable for Su Xiao, drastically reducing his power.
The ’Montelarya Ore’ can solve this problem, ensuring that a 8 enhancent failure for Dragon Slash does not result in breakage. One piece of ’Montelarya Ore’ can only be used once and disappears after use regardless of success or failure.
Su Xiao’s harvest was abundant, yet the Contractors were in intense battle.
After several hours of chaos, Contractors were continually injured or killed, but the onslaught from the Parasitic Beasts was relentless.
[Coordinate deploynt success remaining ti: 6 hours 03 minutes.]
On the battlefield
The Divine King was chanically wielding his great sword, decapitating a Parasitic Beast. Blood splattered all over him, turning him into a blood-soaked figure. He had lost count of how many Parasitic Beasts he had felled, forming a mountain of corpses on the battlefield’s periter.
The corpse mountain forced the Contractors to retreat their formation; otherwise, they’d face an elevated attack from the Parasitic Beasts.
The Parasitic Beasts surged like a tide, with the Contractors’ line like a dam, the ’river’ lashing against the ’dam,’ raising splashes—blood-red ones.
All Contractors were killing to exhaustion. The Parasitic Beasts’ assault was too long-lasting; if these Contractors hadn’t undergone baptisms by one Derivative World after another, they’d be ntally collapsing.
Everywhere they looked were Parasitic Beasts, attacking without pause, aiming to take their lives—a truly despairing situation.
"Ah! These brainless beasts."
The main tank of the God King Adventure Team erupted, his eyes bloodshot as he battered Parasitic Beasts with his shield, who imdiately exploited the gap to attack him.
Squelch.
An oddly-shaped weapon cleaved into the main tank. This strike would severely injure an ordinary Contractor, but this main tank was only lightly wounded.
"Calm down!"
The Divine King shouted, and the healer in the back imdiately cast a buff state on the main tank, stabilizing his ntal fluctuations.
The main tank cald down, the redness in his eyes fading.
This was a common scene on the battlefield; Contractors are flesh-and-blood humans, not slaughtering machines.
After another hour of strong defense, the Contractors noticed the Parasitic Beasts’ attacks were weakening significantly.
"Hahaha, we’re about to win."
"Kill them all!"
Laughter and curses followed, Contractors venting the oppression in their hearts.
Compared to these Parasitic Beasts, the Divine King and Adam worried more about one thing.
If only Parasitic Beasts attacked, it would be fine. But if stronger creatures attacked, the defensive line would be on the verge of collapsing.
This was overthinking by the Contractors; the Asian Continent was the Human Alliance’s territory, and the Kara Aliens were now on the weak side.
A war lasting two years had just ended, and the Kara Aliens were bewildered by the weapons developed by humans, now recuperating and not daring to venture onto the Asian Continent.
These Parasitic Beasts were airdropped by the Kara Aliens as a risky venture.
Reincarnation Paradise picked a very sinister ti to start the war, just as the Kara Aliens were weak, and humans had just risen.
The Kara Aliens knew of Reincarnation Paradise, but the Human Alliance was unaware due to species differences.
Once the Kara Aliens are defeated, setting up world coordinates would beco much more difficult. The Human Alliance would develop rapidly, and the difficulty of capturing this Derivative World would increase significantly.
After half an hour of fighting, the Parasitic Beasts retreated, leaving thousands of corpses. Contractors ignored the blood on the ground, falling to the ground, panting heavily.
So Contractors, hands trembling, took out blood-stained cigarettes and lit them, taking a deep, satisfying drag.
[Coordinate deploynt success remaining ti: 4 hours 37 minutes, Contractor casualties: 259/289.]
Almost a tenth had been injured or killed. Nurically, it wasn’t significant, but on the battlefield, it was a mass of mangled corpses.
War is not child’s play; it’s throwing all beings into a at grinder, with the last surviving being the victor.
The Divine King struggled to stand, seeing the war channel’s prompt.
"Our God King Adventure Team can send two people."
"The Brotherhood as well."
"Flash Gold disagrees!"
Su Xiao was stunned by the war channel’s prompt. Flash Gold Adventure Group’s erratic girl was at it again.
Su Xiao had begun to understand the personalities of the three leaders: the Divine King was steady-minded, willing to sacrifice one for the greater good, a strategic leader.
Adam was very loyal, considering all group mbers brothers; he wouldn’t abandon any adventure group mber.
Flash Silver was an erratic girl with sporadic bursts of madness, and her thought process was astonishingly unpredictable.
During a previous battle intermission, Flash Silver even made a riddle in the war channel for Su Xiao to guess.
This ’teasing’ of the Ruler almost scared the Divine King and Adam to tears. The Divine King and Adam gave Flash Silver a five-minute-long lecture, after which she stopped her reckless antics.
Not only did Flash Silver like courting death, her deputy leader, Golden Demon, was also a seasoned death-seeker. Upon entering the war channel, he attempted to bribe Su Xiao, ultimately getting a half-hour ban from Reincarnation Paradise.
Flash Gold Adventure Group was a peculiar flower in the war, yet it enlivened the battlefield’s atmosphere.
"Sister Flash Silver, you..."
The Divine King felt rather helpless.
"This benefits all of us; I suggest you reconsider, Flash Silver."
Adam’s tone was also quite helpless.
"No, it’s not that I refuse to be mobilized; I have other thoughts." Flash Silver’s crisp voice ca.
"Lord Ruler, our group’s situation is sowhat unique, reasons inconvenient to disclose. However, I want to send two Charm Attribute Specialists, whose Charm is above 25 points. They’re twin sisters and have combat capabilities, needing no protection.
So, our Flash Gold Adventure Group wants to send two Charm Attribute Specialists. I wonder if Lord Ruler agrees?"
This was a pleasant surprise. If this suggestion had co from the Divine King or Adam, Su Xiao would accept without hesitation. But for Flash Silver, this erratic girl...
"..."
Su Xiao replied with silence in the war channel, making no statents. He didn’t want to waste a precious opportunity on such matters.
Saying nothing might an a refusal or tacit approval, depending on Flash Silver’s intelligence.
"Thank you, Lord Ruler."
Flash Gold of the Fourth War Zone chuckled softly, her eyes thoughtful.
"This Ruler... doesn’t seem fair, but I like this unfairness."
Flash Silver bit her thumbnail, murmuring softly:
"The previous riddle almost scared the Divine King to tears, proving the Ruler is not to be provoked. Now information beneficial to us has been issued. If it’s as imagined... the battlefield won’t be just a matter of death over life."
Flash Silver wasn’t simply a death-seeking personality; she was probing Su Xiao’s attitude in a seemingly nonsensical manner.
Su Xiao had long noticed this. It would be best if Flash Silver could discover it. He wouldn’t say ’I’ll help you win’ in the war channel. Doing so would strip him of his Ruler identity and bring punishnt.
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