Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 472 Contract and Echelon [Additional update to celebrate Mosquito's recovery]

[Prompt: Transmission completed, destination reached: Lailai Cult Headquarters, Training Room]

Xin Lailai opened his eyes and looked at the empty training ground in front of him. Without any hesitation, he quickly walked to the control terminal.

In fact, he had already wanted to try to challenge the White Night Contract when he returned from the Overlord world, but because of the appearance of the Deathbringer, he temporarily put the matter on hold.

But now the Death Bearer and Sanshui Renyun and others have not returned yet, and this training ground is usually only used by formal members like them who are below level seven. In other words, no matter what he does here next, he doesn't have to worry about being seen.

[Advanced training mode activated, starting White Night Simulation: Contract Operation 12.0...]

"Huh? There are so many new challenge records?"

Xin Lailai looked at the challenge record on the terminal with a hint of surprise in his eyes, and flipped through it with some curiosity:
[Challenger: Sanshui Renyun, rank: third rank, difficulty level: level 37, battle duration: 2'34＂67, challenge result: success]

[Challenger: Sanshui Renyun, rank: third rank, difficulty level: level 38, battle duration: 2'57＂32, challenge result: success]

[Challenger: Sanshui Renyun, rank: third rank, difficulty level: level 39, battle duration: 1'49＂98, challenge result: failure]

[Challenger: Sanshui Renyun, rank...]

【…】

[Challenger: Sanshui Renyun, rank: third rank, difficulty level: level 40, battle duration: 1'49＂98, challenge result: failure]

At a glance, all the challenge records displayed on the terminal were left by Sanshui Renyun alone, and the specific time was just after he entered the Overlord world.

Judging from the results, Sanshui Renyun seemed to be able to easily challenge the third-order White Night Contract with a difficulty level of 37, but when the difficulty level reached 39, he began to encounter obvious obstacles. It took him more than twenty challenges before he gradually stabilized and maintained a 39:40 ratio with the White Night Contract of level . As for the subsequent dozen or so challenges to the third-order White Night Contract of level , it was more like he just wanted to give it a try.

"However, he actually stayed in the training ground for three days and three nights in a row. This guy seems to be a ruthless person..."

Xin Lailai looked at the record time that spanned three days and his eyelids twitched slightly. The longest interval between the challenge records would not exceed 1 hour, and the shortest time would be less than 10 seconds. Just by looking at this record, he could even imagine the other party's expression when he challenged this thing.

“Hmm? This is…!”

Suddenly, Xin Lailai, who had been scrolling down, caught a glimpse of the name of the new challenger and his eyes moved immediately.

[Challenger: Death Bearer, Rank: Second Rank, Difficulty Level: Level 28, Battle Duration: 0'56＂64, Challenge Result: Success]

The challenge record of the death bearer...

Sure enough, this guy also secretly signed a White Night Contract in the training ground!

Xin Lailai looked at the new record in front of her and immediately became interested. She couldn't wait to flip through it. Just when she was about to enjoy the torture of the Death Executioner by the White Night Contract, she suddenly froze.

Because... this time he only swiped down a little bit, and the entire record list reached the bottom:
[Challenger: Death Bearer, Rank: Second Rank, Difficulty Level: Level 29, Battle Duration: 0'47＂55, Challenge Result: Success]

[Challenger: Death Bearer, Rank: Second Rank, Difficulty Level: Level 30, Battle Duration: 1'36＂28, Challenge Result: Success]

[Challenger: Death Bearer, Rank: Second Rank, Difficulty Level: Level 31, Battle Duration: 0'39＂17, Challenge Result: Failure]

Including the first one, there are only four challenge records left by the Death Bearer, starting from the second-order White Night Contract at level 28 and ending with the White Night Contract at level 31. If he succeeds, he will continue to move forward, and if he fails, he will stop directly without any procrastination, just like the other party's personality.

"This is really... Why do I suddenly feel a little ashamed of myself?"

Xin Lailai looked at the four records on the terminal, smiled self-deprecatingly and shook his head, then took a deep breath, got rid of the boring thoughts in his mind, opened his eyes again, looked seriously at the challenge record of the Death Master, and clicked it to check.

"The two items that were not selected at level 30 were Steel Shadow Enhancement and Demon Hunter Set?"

Although there is no playback function for these challenge records, they fully record the specific items selected by the challenger during the challenge. According to the records left by the Death Executioner, the opponent successfully defeated the level 30 White Night Contract in less than two minutes without clicking on the two items [Steel Shadow Enhancement] and [Demon Hunter Set].

As for the level 31 one, he added an [Strengthen the Blue Steel Shadow], which gave the Blue Steel Shadow an energy blocking effect. Judging from the challenge time, the Deathbringer was most likely killed by this thing at the first sight.

The opponent of the Death Bearer is not a master of swordsmanship and does not have the ability to be immune to energy erosion. The only way to fight against the energy of the Blue Steel Shadow is to use his own death energy to offset it. However, the opponent's Netherworld Death Energy can only undergo a qualitative change after breaking the real attribute barrier at the third stage and reaching the same level of strength as the Blue Steel Shadow's energy. In this case, it is normal for the opponent to be killed on first sight when facing the Blue Steel Shadow's energy with a strong energy blocking effect.

After all, he had tasted that shitty Blue Steel Shadow energy more than once or twice. As long as he got touched by even a little bit of energy other than 100% pure mana, he would instantly turn into a mad dog. Even with the Heavy Sword Master's immunity to energy erosion, he couldn't stop it all.

As for the last [Demon Hunter Set] entry, to be honest, if this thing is given to a melee class alone, although it is powerful, it is actually okay. It is tricky to give it to a space class, but if the close-range suppression can be guaranteed, it is actually not impossible to deal with. But when it is given to a melee class with the ability to travel through space... hehe.

If he didn't have [Ghost Scale Sky Feather], even if he had mastered the ultimate move like Nirvana that was almost a one-hit kill, he wouldn't want to face this shit.

The game starts right away with [Monster Hunting Time], and then it bites you like a mad dog. If you don't have spatial abilities, you can't even touch the opponent. If you can rate and evaluate the White Night Contract, Xin Lailai believes that this entry is definitely the lowest rated one. If it is converted into game terms, it's probably like this:

——The shitty mechanism terms force the challenger to learn a space-related skill or a method that can counter the space-related skill. The solution is single and there is no gaming experience at all.

But if you consider it from a practical point of view, the existence of the entry "Demon Hunting Suit" is another matter. The Day Night Contract is not a game, but real training. Because of this, the combination of Demon Hunting Suit + Dragon Shadow Flash can effectively improve the countermeasures of people like him when facing space abilities.

It was precisely because he had suffered from the torture of Dragon Shadow Flash that he was able to accurately capture the opponent's breath when he used space travel when facing the Dark Light Alien, and was able to kill the opponent and force the opponent into the second stage, and then kill him in one fell swoop with the help of Dao Ji's backup plan. Otherwise, he and Ling Yuzi would most likely have been forced to be trapped in the Black Bullet World because of the loss of their physical bodies, and could only wait for Dao Ji to resurrect there, and gamble on whether the opponent could kill the Dark Light Alien alone.

"Well, let's try to challenge it first without using the methods of Nether Scale, Sky Feather and Destruction."

After briefly analyzing the challenge records of the Death Bearer, Xin Lailai looked at the entry options on the other side of the screen. After thinking for a while, he made a decision and began to select on the screen:

……

[Level 3 gain list]

A. Physical Enhancement III: Health +1000, Mana +1000, Physical Defense +10.

B. Armor Enhancement III: Armor and firearms are upgraded to gold quality.

C. Skill Enhancement III: Yasuo is upgraded to LV.40.

D. Weapon Enhancement III: Dragon Slash is upgraded to gold, the enhancement level is increased to +10, and [Dragon Shadow Flash] is unlocked.

E. Technique Enhancement III: Sword skills are upgraded to Master Level 40, fighting and firearms are upgraded to Master Level 30, and [Blade Sword·Blood Blade] is unlocked.

F. Breath Strengthening II: Breath release is increased to LV.20, willpower is increased to 50, and [Blood] is unlocked.

G. Perception Enhancement II: Intuition is increased to LV.10.

H. Soul Enhancement II: Soul strength increased to 50.

……

[Level 4 gain list]

A. Physical Enhancement IV: HP +2000, Mana +2000, Physical Defense +20, unlock [Limit Removal]. B. Armor Enhancement IV: Armor is changed to the gold quality [Demon Hunter King Set], and is set to full energy by default.

C. Skill Enhancement IV: Blue Steel Shadow's energy intensity is increased by 100%, and the [Energy Block] effect is activated.

D. Weapon Enhancement IV: Dragon Slash upgraded to Legendary quality, enhancement level increased to +12, inlaid with three [Soul-Breaking Shadow Stones]
E. Technique Enhancement IV: Sword skills are upgraded to Master Level 50, and Fighting and Gun Master skills are upgraded to Master Level 40.

F. Breath Strengthening III: Willpower increased to 80, breath release increased to LV.30, charm value reduced to 0.

G. Perception Enhancement III: Intuition is increased to LV.30.

H. Soul Enhancement III: Soul strength is increased to 80, Soul Eater talent is awakened to S level, and Dragon Slash is unlocked [Magic Blade].

……

Xin Lailai first maxed out all the level 3 gains, then checked all six options except B and C in the level 4 gain, and looked at the confirmation bar at the bottom:

[Currently selected difficulty level: Level 30, do you want to start the challenge? ]

Level 30 White Night Contract.

When he first entered the second stage and was still at the super-top level, he looked at these level 4 gains with an extremely respectful attitude and had never thought about contracts above level 28.

But after he had reached the pinnacle of the second stage, when he looked back at the entries that had once made him so awed, he no longer felt that they were out of reach. Instead, he felt that some of the entries were too conservatively designed, and were designed just to barely reach the threshold of the theoretical level.

For example, [Physical Strengthening IV] seemed insignificant at first glance, but when he looked at it again now, he clearly felt that the bonus here was too little, or that the special factor of the execution ground was not taken into consideration at the time of design, affecting the monsters in the outer echelon in the park.

There is also the [Energy Cycle Basic Type]. This occupation template has already spread throughout the Paradise camp. Low-level pioneers and hunters and other special classes have basically exchanged for this thing from the Honor Store of their respective Paradises. Those who haven't exchanged for it yet are either extremely rare and incompatible special cases, or they are unlucky and have never encountered any violators, so they have no medals of honor and cannot exchange the [Energy Cycle Basic Type] from the Honor Store.

Having said so much, it can be simply said in one sentence:

——That is, he felt that the current version of the White Night Contract was a bit outdated.

The standards for dividing the second, first and top tiers in the park rarely change, because these stages cover almost 99.99% of the contractors in the park, and the base number is relatively large, so the standards are difficult to change.

But the super top echelon and the outer echelon are completely different. The contractors in these two echelons are extremely rare no matter at which level.

Especially when it comes to the external echelon, even if all the people who have reached this echelon in the six major parks are added together, the total number of people in each stage is estimated to be difficult to exceed 30. Even if the Apocalypse Park is excluded, the average number of people in each park will not exceed 6.

Taking the Sanctuary Paradise as an example, his class had a 'transfer student' like him and Dao Ji, a 'repeater' who had been trapped in the Black Bullet World for a year, which allowed the number of outsiders in the Sanctuary Paradise to exceed 7. Otherwise, as far as he knew, there were only 5 people in the second stage who could be called outsiders.

Two of them were naturally Yamu and the Death Bearer whom he was familiar with, and the remaining three were from the Cult of the Solar System, the Mechanicus and the Ancient Gods. Among them, two were pioneers and one was a judge, all of whom were special ranks in Paradise.

However, because their time of entering and leaving the world happened to be staggered, Xin Lailai had not seen these three people until now. He only had a brief exchange on the communication channel with the leader of a second-level affiliated sect similar to the Blazing Gold Sect who was taken care of by the pioneer of the Sun God Sect. He had never had any contact with the other two.

Of course, if he could continue in his current identity, it would only be a matter of time before he would come into contact with the remaining few people. After all, the promotion speeds of the contractors of the same echelon in Paradise were basically the same in the early and middle stages. For example, by the time he reached the third level, Sanshui Renyun, the third-level pioneer who had met him in the God Eater world, would most likely have already reached the fourth level.

Simply put, if you stay in the top echelon and never fall behind, you will find that from level one to level nine, the top echelon contractors around you at the same level are basically always the same group of people.

Influenced by this point, even if the contractors are from different paradises, after reaching a high level, as long as they don't have any irreconcilable hatred, they will basically maintain a pretty good relationship in the end.

After all, as long as they don't fall behind or overtake too much, the contractors in the same batch will most likely keep hearing about each other's achievements until they reach a high level or even become extremely powerful, in the true sense of the word, they will see each other every day.

To use real-life analogy, it is equivalent to being surrounded by the same group of people from elementary school to university. In this case, unless your personality is too extreme, you should have developed some friendships with the people around you.

Although these things have nothing to do with him for the time being, their only use is to prove that he will most likely develop friendships with the remaining three members of the external echelon who he has not met yet in the future.

If we go back to the topic about the number of people in the external level, we will find that with a little thought, we can understand where the biggest problem of the external level echelon lies:
——The sample is too small.

In fact, in the more ancient times, there was not even the concept of the super top echelon and the outer echelon in the paradise. At that time, the contractors were simply divided into the second, first and top echelons.

But with the emergence of generation after generation of contractors, the standardization and clarification of many mechanisms in the park, and the changes in the overall environment, others have gradually discovered that even among the top-tier contractors, there may be huge gaps between them.

So, gradually, the foreign-level echelon was separated from the top echelon.

But as the times continued to develop, later contractors discovered that the gap between some of the standards of the outsider level and the standards of the top echelon was too huge, so they set up a super top echelon, which was specifically used to include those who had met some of the standards of the outsider level, but were still some distance away from the real outsider level. This was a echelon of contractors who were on the road to the outsider level.

At this point, the park's echelon division has taken shape, but the issue of the division criteria between the outer-level and super-top echelons has never been resolved.

——Because there are too few people in these two echelons.

For example, initially everyone regarded those who could score 80 points as the top tier, those who scored 90 points as the super top tier, and those who scored 100 points as the intermediate tier.

As a result, with the development of the times, one day there appeared people who could score 120 points. At this time, it was obviously inappropriate for those who had only scored 100 points in the past to say that they were in the same tier as the other side. Therefore, they had to downgrade themselves and raise the standard for the external tier to 120 points, and the standard for the super top tier also became 100 points.

Of course, there is another possibility. For example, a certain group of contractors is extremely polarized. Except for the contractors with scores above 80, there are only contractors who can score 120. In this case, the evaluation criteria for the external echelon will also change.

Simply put, due to various circumstances, the standards for external echelons are constantly rising with the development of the times. For example, now, when Xin Lailai looks at the Bai Ye contract again, he has begun to feel that the terms of this thing are a bit crude.

[Confirmed, starting to generate the White Night projection, current difficulty level: Level 30, challengers please prepare for battle! ]

On the training ground, a mechanical electronic sound rang out from the radio, and a terrifying blood energy instantly rose from the center of the training ground. A human figure surrounded by blood energy and blue-green lightning arcs quickly began to form.

Come on, let him have a try.

Boom!

Unlike the previous avoidance, this time, Xin Lailai took the initiative to step forward. The dark pressure spread out instantly, colliding heavily with the blood energy that was coming towards him, and black and red thunder burst out in the air.

Now, what is he like?

[Generation completed, challenge begins! 】

The next second, a clear electronic sound rang out from the radio, followed by...

——How far have you come!!

Boom!
Two figures, one in black and one in red, took a step forward almost at the same time, rushed out in an instant amid a huge wail from the ground, and collided heavily with each other.

In an instant, the entire training ground was swallowed up by black and red, leaving only the sound of weapons clashing like a rainstorm.

……

(End of this chapter)