Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 482 Intermission and Black Dragon [7k words]

Void, Haoyue Channel, the seventh transfer station.

"Ah, finally I'm free. Long live vacation! Long live paid vacation!"

An excited cheer rang out on the sparsely populated silver-white avenue. At a glance, a young woman with a ponytail and a bandage wrapped around her body could be seen raising her arms high and cheering to her heart's content, completely unaware of the strange looks cast by the scattered staff around her.

"Tsk, Ape Brain, can you please be quiet? You still think this isn't embarrassing enough, right?"

The white-haired girl who looked a little frail at the side looked at her companion shouting and couldn't help but grit her teeth and scold her.

"Why, my mouth is on my own face, and I want to say a few words to celebrate, but it bothers you, a short guy?"

"Okay, today is finally the day when we are all discharged from the hospital. Can't you two just calm down a bit? We are about to..."

"Captain, shut up!" "Bald guy, you have no right to speak here! Why do you think we were beaten and had to lie in bed for a whole month?"

"That's right. If you, Captain, hadn't insisted on fighting that strongest abyss creature, we wouldn't have been beaten like that!"

"Hehe, can you blame me for this? Didn't I tell you to just run away? I could stop them by myself, but you insisted on accompanying me. Can you blame me for getting beaten half to death?"

04296, who was standing in the middle of the group, heard the two women's complaints and coughed awkwardly. Then he looked in the direction of the teleportation tower, laughed it off, and changed the subject:

"Haha, um... by the way, didn't you say you were planning to take advantage of this holiday to find a place to travel? Have you decided where to go?"

"Hey, Captain, don't change the subject!" "Hey, I haven't really thought about this yet, Shorty, have you thought about it?"

Two completely different responses were given, which made the white-haired girl and the female fighter stunned at the same time. Then they glared at each other. When they were about to start quarreling again, Baihua, who was standing at the back, sighed helplessly and patted the two girls on the shoulders.

"I say, if you guys keep arguing, 04296's real body will soon be on the teleportation tower and leave."

Baihua pointed at the "04296" in front of her as she spoke. The figure of "04296" that was extremely real a second ago quickly became illusory, and finally disintegrated in front of several people into tiny arcs of lightning that bounced onto the faces of the two women, leaving several small holes in their hair.

"..."

Instantly, the atmosphere of the entire Silver Avenue seemed to suddenly become quiet, and then, two angry shouts rang out from the avenue:
"Captain!!" "Bald guy! You're a coward!"

After saying that, the two of them were seen fighting while rushing towards the teleportation tower. Baihua in the back and the middle-aged man with a heavy sword on the side could not help but hold their foreheads and sighed in unison.

"Are these two guys really planning to travel together? If they do, they might be detained by the Void Tree for vandalism."

"There's nothing we can do. Let them be. After all, we've been holding it in for so long that they're already tired of it."

Baihua looked at the two people who were fighting all the way to the teleportation tower and shook her head helplessly. It was obvious that there was no good way to deal with it.

"Let's go. We've been out for so long. It's time to go back and relax."

"Well, speaking of which, I wonder how the team over at the White Night Channel is doing. If I remember correctly, the teams over there seem to have started taking vacations recently, right?"

The middle-aged man with the heavy sword nodded slightly, and chatted with Baihua as they walked side by side towards the teleportation tower.

"That's true. So maybe I can meet two or three more people on the way back. I just hope nothing unexpected will happen along the way."

"With the place we stopped at earlier, some troublemakers should have relaxed their vigilance against us. Although it's definitely not going to be particularly peaceful, at least it shouldn't be as troublesome as when we set out."

"hope so."

Baihua sighed, rubbed her temples gently, and crossed the silver-white light curtain with the heavy sword man to the interior of the teleportation tower. Then her originally slightly melancholy expression suddenly became a little unsettled.

"You guys...are you doing some kind of body art?"

On the platform inside the teleportation tower, the white-haired girl and the female fighter who had been fighting each other endlessly before were now like two strange human sculptures, frozen there in a weird posture, with wisps of black smoke coming out of their mouths, looking like they were about to faint.

"I can't help it. They are too troublesome. They almost stepped on the emergency transmission device just now. I had to chop them twice to make them behave. Otherwise, there would be no peace on the way."

"However, since you are all here, let's release the control for them first."

04296 crossed his arms and took a look at the two funny guys who were frozen by the lightning and drooling like two silly roe deer. He flicked his fingers and two golden lightning bolts burst out from the bodies of the two women and fell into 04296's hands. The two women who were originally fixed there like sculptures also sat down on the ground with a plop.

"Damn it! How dare you, a bald guy, attack me by surprise! I..."

"Ok?"

"Uh...I, I won't buy you wine next time!"

As soon as the control was touched, the female fighter jumped up from the ground reflexively with an angry look. She was about to find 04296 to question her, but 04296 turned his head and glanced at the female fighter. A golden arc flashed through his pupils, making the female fighter, who was still aggressive in the previous second, immediately become obedient.

"Tch, it's really worthless."

The white-haired girl at the side caught a glimpse of the female fighter who had instantly become as obedient as a Husky, curled her lips, and habitually sneered.

"Why, you are so brave, how about letting you experience the feeling of Thunder Prison again?"

"No...No! Captain, I was just joking, please don't take it seriously!"

04296 An indifferent question was asked. The white-haired girl shuddered when she heard it and waved her hands quickly. Her pale face and frightened expression obviously reminded her of some bad memories.

Om-! !

Suddenly, a strong spatial fluctuation spread from around the platform, followed by Baihua's voice that sounded slowly:

"Alright, if you keep arguing the teleportation tower will be closed. If you have nothing else to do, just leave now. Are you planning to stay for dinner?"

"Um, this... that, who is Ayidong... Xiaoluo provoked me first."

"Bah, it was obviously you who started it! We agreed to settle the score with the captain first, but you refused to let go of my hair no matter what!"

"You also refused to let go of my ear! So it's still yours..."

Sizzle——!!

A subtle sound of electric current was heard, and the two women, who seemed to be arguing again, quickly shut their mouths, glared at each other fiercely, snorted coldly, turned their heads away, and just sat on the ground with their backs to each other, like two quarreling children.

"..."

04296 Looking at the two people sitting on the ground sulking, the expression on his face twitched slightly.

——Ever since recruiting this pair of funny guys into the team, he felt that his temper and patience had improved several levels.

"Ah! My Void Express was automatically sent back because it was not signed for for a long time!"

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream sounded. The female fighter, who had finally been quiet for half a minute, looked at the information on her screen, stood up with a bang, turned her head, looked at 04296, showed a resolute expression of sacrificing her life, and rushed over directly, and then...

A large hand pressed down on the female fighter's forehead, like an unshakable mountain, preventing her from getting close to 04296. She could only swing her fist like a breaststroke and cried out with a sad face:

"Woo woo, it's all Baldy's fault, you have to compensate me for the delivery! Those are the snacks I've been waiting for half a year!"

"Tsk, you... forget it, Baihua, can you help her check where her package is? Since it's half a year, if we change our schedule a little bit now, we should still have time to stop it."

"No problem, Sally, send me your delivery slip and I'll check it for you."

"Really?! Right now! Let me see... um, how do you pronounce this word..."

"..."

The four of them looked at the female fighter who was checking her express delivery with eyes shining like a fool, then looked at each other and finally fell silent at the same time.

"Baldy...how about we find another vanguard?"

"Forget it. A fool has his own luck. Besides, where can you find another stupid meat shield like this who can jump up and take two more blows from the strongest man before giving up?"

"..."

Baihua looked at the female fighter who was looking up a dictionary, then looked at herself and the other people in the team. After thinking about the number of attacks each person had withstood in the battle a month ago, she stopped talking.

"Huh? Were you talking about me just now?"

The female fighter who was looking up the dictionary raised her head and looked at the two of them, revealing a pair of big eyes full of "wisdom".

"Nothing, we are just praising you. It's a good thing that you, Sally, fought four battles by yourself a month ago, otherwise we might not have survived until the reinforcements arrived."

Baihua looked at the curious female fighter and comforted her with a smile.

"Oh, that! It's nothing, after all, I'm the vanguard. If I carry less than the bald guy, it would be too embarrassing, right?!"

"But, Baldy, why did you continue to stay there and fight with that strongest abyss creature? Didn't you say that you no longer have the ability to fight against the strongest? You got us all beaten up so badly that we had to rest for a month before we could get out of bed!"

The female fighter seemed to have thought of something and asked indignantly. Seeing this, the white-haired girl at the side couldn't help but cover her forehead and sighed:
"You, you really didn't notice anything? Why do you think the captain deliberately fought us a month ago? It was because he knew we couldn't beat him now! That's why he wanted to fight for others to see!"

"?"

Facing the white-haired girl's explanation, the female fighter blinked twice, obviously not understanding what the other party meant at all.

"……you!"

"Forget it, Xiao Luo, let me explain it!"

Just when the veins on the forehead of the white-haired girl were about to pop out because of the female fighter, Baihua at the side took the initiative to step forward and stopped the other party. Then she looked at the bewildered female fighter and said:

"Sally, do you remember why you joined our team?"

"Remember, remember. I heard that a bald guy killed a newly promoted strongest guy when he was at his strongest, so I came here!"

"Well, you should also know that the bald man paid a huge price to kill the newly promoted strongest man, and there is only that one chance, and there is no possibility of repetition, right?"

"Um, this... Baldy did mention it to us, so does this have anything to do with the fight Baldy is going to have?"

"Of course there is. The people in our team and those who know the specific situation know very well that the situation of Baldy cannot be repeated. No matter how good he is now, he can't swing a blow that is strong enough to kill the strongest. However, some outsiders don't know this."

"From their perspective, they only know that a pioneer killed a supreme being with one strike when he was at his strongest. Who was this supreme being? How did he die? What price did the supreme being pay behind the scenes? They don't know anything, and they won't try to understand." "Well, that's true, so what does this have to do with the fight with the bald guy?"

"It's simple. Avoid suspicion and prove yourself."

"Avoid suspicion... prove yourself? What the hell?"

"Sally, have you noticed that since we had that fight a month ago, the number of people who came to the transit station to challenge us to a fight has suddenly decreased significantly?"

"Well, it seems to be true. These people are quite polite. As soon as they heard that we were recovering from injuries, none of them came over!"

"Idiot, it's not that they think we can't recover from our illness, but that we are no longer worthy of being challenged. Do you understand?"

"Why do you think they came to our door? It's because of the rumors about the captain that these people all want to test the captain's weight!"

"Well, even if that's the case, we can just beat those guys back. Why is there any need to go through so much trouble..."

"Hey, Sally, do you know what levels of strong people are among those who plan to challenge the captain?"

"What's there?"

"Four new Supremes, one senior Supreme, and one top Supreme."

"?"

"That's right. In fact, Baldy and I didn't intend to take care of these things. After all, if we are not envied, we are mediocre. It's not a bad thing for us to have a few challengers come occasionally to practice our skills. Even if there are one or two newly promoted strongest people, as long as we have a good attitude, they won't make things difficult for us. We can just treat it as a beating to gain experience."

"As a result, no one knows who started it, but the rumors about the bald guy have become more and more outrageous. From saying that he could kill a newly promoted Supreme with a single blow, to killing a newly promoted Supreme like slaughtering a dog, to finally saying that the bald guy killed a peak Supreme with his extremely strong body in a second."

"Under such circumstances, if Baldy doesn't find a way to prove that his true strength is between the normal absolute strong and the strongest, I'm afraid that rumors of him killing the strongest with his bare hands will emerge soon."

Baihua spread her hands and said helplessly.

Just like he said, he and 04296 had no intention of trying anything to prove their innocence.

However, the rumors outside were getting more and more outrageous, and there were many secrets behind the shot that could not be spoken publicly, which led them to have no choice but to resort to this last resort. They secretly lured a supreme abyss creature to the vicinity of the transfer station, and then used their full strength to let the supreme beings who came to support them see their true strength, and use this method to dispel the rumors.

Of course, the fact that the Sanctuary's Chosen One, who was once so famous, was defeated by a newly-powerful abyss creature and finally survived with the rescue of others would undoubtedly deal a huge blow to 04296's reputation. Ridicule and bad words would certainly be inevitable, but compared to the outrageous rumors, this price was nothing at all.

"Is that so? I...I was wondering why I felt like you guys were hiding something from me? Ha...haha, then I'll continue reading the delivery note."

After hearing Baihua's story, Sally's expression became a little unnatural. She just laughed it off and waved her hands, as if she was going to do her own thing. Then...

A hand wrapped in lightning arcs was silently placed on her shoulder, causing Sally to freeze.

"Captain? What's up?"

"I didn't have it originally, but I suddenly feel like I have it now."

04296 looked at the female fighter who was almost speechless with fear, and slowly squatted down, revealing a 'kind' smile:

"Come on, Sally, tell us why you got so nervous when you heard the rumors?"

"By the way, I just swore a solemn oath that if I find out who spread the rumor, I will cripple his limbs and stuff him into a black worm breeding tank to breed for ten days or half a month before he comes out."

A black...black worm breeding tank? !

Hearing 04296's words, Sally's face turned pale, and she waved her hands with a sad face and shouted:

"Captain... Captain! It's not me. It's really not me! When I was drunk, I just said that you can easily kill the strongest. It's completely different from what I said! It's an accident! This is just an accident."

When 04296 heard the other party's words, he just laughed, and laughed happily.

He grabbed the female fighter's head, slowly turned her around, stared at her horrified expression, and said with a grin:

"Accident? Do you know how many powerful people beat me up on the front line recently? The worst time was when I was dragged into another dimension and beaten before I could even finish my shit!"

"If I don't teach you a lesson today, I will write the three words 'Hao Jue Yuan' backwards from now on!"

Boom——! !

The next second, piercing thunder accompanied by convulsive screams rang out from the extremely well-sealed transmission platform, and the lingering sound continued in the ears.

……

At the same time, the world is wrong.

"You just said... the Black Dragon of the End?"

Inside the carriage, Xin Lailai was stunned when she heard what the executioner said. She obviously didn't expect the other party to say this name.

The black dragon of doom, the black dragon of disaster, the evil dragon of destruction, the dragon that devours the world...

There are too many names for each other, because the existence of each other is too special in this world.

No, not only in the Dicuo world, even in Paradise, if you can ask around among the fifth-level contractors and ask which sixth-level BOSSes in the derivative world are the most difficult to defeat, then the black dragon of the Dicuo world will definitely be among them.

Black dragon, Nidhogg.

As the final BOSS of the entire Dicuo world, this guy is the only maze monster that is not inside the maze but moves on the ground. He is also the most powerful existence in the entire Dicuo world.

Generally, in a derivative world with a high upper limit of the supernatural system like Dicuo, the usual plot in the late stage is that the ratio between the protagonist of the derivative world and the final big boss is 4:6 or 3:7. At worst, it can be 2:8 or 1:1.

But in the world of Dicuo, even if the protagonist Bell Crane goes all the way to the end, his chances of winning against Nidhogg alone are still zero. In the original book, the opponent finally gathers the strength of all the adventurers in Orario, and finally defeats the black dragon Nidhogg after an extremely difficult battle.

As for why the black dragon Nidhogg is so powerful, it is actually easy to explain:

The power of the world.

As mentioned before, many skills and ability systems in the derivative world are actually simplified versions of certain abilities and systems in Paradise and the Void. In Paradise, after the contractors have collected more than seven basic passive skills in the late stage and upgraded them to LV.EX, they will have the opportunity to obtain a powerful ability called [Power of Destruction]. This ability can greatly enhance its combat capability in the world by devouring the power of the world. The black dragon in the world of Earth Wrong has a simplified version of [Power of Destruction]:
……

Skill 26, World Devouring Dragon (Active, LV.EX): When in the current world, you can continuously improve your physical attributes, physical defense, self-healing ability, skill level, and skill damage by devouring the power of the world.

……

Yes, this is the most perverted skill of the black dragon Nidhogg. If it is Nidhogg in the sixth level of his prime, then the opponent can get this level of panel with just this skill:

150 points of real physical attributes + 100 points of physical defense + 4th level of regeneration + all skills LV.MAX + 300% increase in all skill damage.

In addition, due to the limitations of the derivative world, the Dicuo world itself can only allow fifth-level contractors to enter at most. This causes the black dragon Nidhogg to become a huge mountain that many fifth-level contractors find difficult to overcome.

Normally, if you want to defeat the black dragon Nidhogg, you need at least a team of 15 people whose members are all from the top echelon and led by at least one super top echelon, in order to succeed without losing any members.

This difficulty level even gave the Black Dragon of the Dicuo World a special name in the park, along with several other Overlord-level derivative world bosses of similar difficulty:

——Derivative world “Graduation Class”.

This implies that once they can rely on their own strength to defeat a BOSS of this difficulty, it means that these contractors have truly reached the level of "graduation" from the derivative world. In the future, there is no need to challenge the lower-difficulty world of the derivative world, but they should start to focus on the more long-term native world.

"Hey, hey, although I admit that the three of us are indeed very strong together, isn't it a little too early to challenge this kind of 'graduating class'? You have to know that the Earth World has been suppressed to the third level, not the second level!"

Yamu also showed a somewhat exaggerated expression and said to the person holding the dead:
"It would be fine if Dao Ji was here, but it would be too reckless for us three second-level pioneers to directly confront a BOSS of this level, right? Are you planning to waste your chance to release the boundary on this?"

"No, we can make use of the power of the native characters in these derivative worlds, especially Bell Crane's 'Hero's Wish' and Haruhime's 'Treasure Hammer', which can play an important role in the strategy of conquering the Black Dragon."

"Based on the basic reward for killing the black dragon, and the impact of killing the black dragon in advance at this plot point, even with the participation of local characters, the world source we can get in the end should be much more than making a big fuss in Orario."

"And by doing this, we can also help the Black Dragon Gang and other local characters to accomplish some great deeds, allowing their overall strength to cross levels, which will also be more beneficial to our subsequent actions."

The projection of the Death Keeper looked at the two people in front of him and stated calmly. Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai thought about what the Death Keeper said and fell into deep thought.

Indeed, just as the Death Keeper said, if they could defeat the black dragon, even with the help of plot characters, the amount of Source of the World they would eventually gain would definitely be massive.

——After all, the basic reward for killing the black dragon Nidhogg is too generous!
Taking the configuration for defeating the black dragon under normal circumstances just mentioned as an example, if the black dragon can be successfully defeated without relying on the help of plot characters, not only can each of the 15 people get a 100% epic treasure chest, but if the rewards are divided equally, everyone can at least get 100% of the source of the world.

Yes, it is 100% of the source of the world, and everyone has it.

You have to know that the source of the world is never given in excess. It will be divided among as many people as possible in a team.

If 15 people team up to kill the black dragon, each of them can get 100% of the source of the world. Another meaning of this sentence is that the total amount of the source of the world obtained by killing the black dragon reaches an outrageous level of 1500%!
Although the rank of the Dicuo world has been suppressed now, the importance of the black dragon itself to the plot of the Dicuo world has not changed.

In other words, if they could really kill the black dragon now, the total amount of World Origin they would obtain would be directly based on 1500% of the basic value!
——Even if the benefits were reduced due to the intervention of plot characters, but considering the impact of killing the black dragon in advance, the two would offset each other, and the probability that the source of the world they would obtain individually would not be less than 400%.

From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the Death Master saying that defeating the black dragon is the best way to obtain the source of the world, but...

"However, if you plan to defeat the black dragon, there is a problem that I can't find a solution to for the time being."

A cold and calm voice sounded, and the Death Holder looked at the two people in front of him and said:

"At this stage, the black dragon should still be near the end of the world, which is 230,000 kilometers away from Orario. In this case, if we want to take the adventurers of Orario to defeat the black dragon, the time spent on the journey will be the biggest problem."

"Yes, that's what I wanted to say. The Black Dragon is too far away from our current location. Yamu, you are in the Kingdom of Lazia, I am in the suburbs of Orario, and the Dead Holder is inside Orario. In this case, even if I use all the teleportation items on my side, there is no way for me to get to the Black Dragon and then rush back before Dao Ji completes his retreat."

Xin Lailai nodded slightly and agreed.

Two hundred and thirty thousand kilometers.

If he ran this distance, even if he maintained a speed of 400m/s and ran non-stop, it would still take him more than a week to get there, not to mention bringing the adventurers from Orario along.

For a moment, the three people in the carriage were all lost in thought.

After several minutes, Yamu slowly raised his arm, narrowed his eyes, and said in a deep voice:
"Regarding this, if you plan to bring the adventurers from Orario with you, I can't help you, but..."

"If you send the black dragon to Orario, I think I might have some tricks that can come in handy."

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(End of this chapter)