Reincarnation Paradise Park-Chapter 720 - 30: Delayed Revenge

"Ingrateful mortal."

Resentful Orphan Hughes looked at Su Xiao, killing intent rising in his eyes.

"Since that’s the case, then become my nourishment."

Hughes raised the muscle curved knife, and the muscles on the knife flowed as though it had come to life. Moments later, Hughes’s arm dropped, seemingly drained by the activation of the knife.

Su Xiao couldn’t help but look at the muscle curved knife; there was no special change to it, looking the same as before.

He took out a bottle of No.1 Potion and drank it, quickly restoring his Life Value, but the intense pain in his body wasn’t relieved.

Realizing this situation, Su Xiao knew he couldn’t delay any longer. A dull pain began manifesting in his forehead; after prolonged erosion by that aura, his reaction speed was slowing down, almost unable to perceive the enemy’s attacks several times.

Activating the skill attached to his bracers, Su Xiao’s Life Value suddenly dropped by about a third, with a large loss of blood from his body.

A red blood mist clung to the surface of Su Xiao’s body as he activated the active skill ’Minotaur Lord’s Rage’ of the "Minotaur Lord’s Arm Armor," consuming 30% of his Life Value to increase his Power by 15 for ten seconds.

Su Xiao prepared for an all-out gamble; if he couldn’t resolve or defeat the enemy in these 10 seconds, his journey in Reincarnation Paradise would end here, becoming nourishment for the monster before him.

A surging sensation of Power emerged within him, and at this moment, Su Xiao’s Power Attribute surpassed Hughes’s.

Su Xiao’s body hunched, and the Dragon Slash in his hand radiated dazzling light. This was the result of converting all his remaining Mana Value into Blue Steel Shadow energy, and imbuing all of this energy into Dragon Slash. Though it was somewhat wasteful, it greatly increased the knife’s power.

Boom.

A circular pit appeared under Su Xiao’s feet, and he vanished from his original position, reappearing in front of Hughes.

With both hands gripping the knife, Su Xiao poured all his strength into it.

Faster, it must be faster, fast enough that the enemy can’t react.

The long knife slashed down, and the sudden burst of momentum from Su Xiao left Hughes stunned, instinctively raising the muscle curved knife in his hand.

As Dragon Slash collided with the muscle curved knife, a wave of impact spread out.

With a rumble, cracks appeared on the barrier surrounding the room, Hughes’s feet sank into the ground, and unprepared, he fell to his knees before Su Xiao with a thud.

Hughes’s pupils trembled; he found himself kneeling before a human, filling him with furious rage.

"Just a mere mortal!"

Hughes bellowed angrily, as though deeply insulted.

Yet in the next moment, the anger in his eyes vanished, as Dragon Slash sliced into the muscle curved knife. At that moment, Dragon Slash displayed its fierce enhancement of Light Gold quality +12.

With a swift sound, Dragon Slash cut through the muscle curved knife, slicing straight toward Hughes’s shoulder.

Clang.

Dragon Slash plunged into Hughes’s body, with a large amount of Blue Steel Shadow energy rampaging within him.

"Ah!!"

Hughes let out a roar, leaving Su Xiao’s ears ringing.

Dragon Slash continued cutting downward, slicing from the shoulder down to Hughes’s lower abdomen, severing much of his internal organs, nearly splitting his upper body in two.

Crack, crack, crack.

Hughes’s bones quickly proliferated, tightly encasing Dragon Slash within his body.

Su Xiao tried to pull out Dragon Slash, but it was firmly lodged in Hughes’s body, unable to move an inch.

Su Xiao decided swiftly, releasing the hilt of Dragon Slash and using his bare fists to pummel Hughes’s face. Ten seconds hadn’t elapsed, and his Power Attribute could still suppress Hughes.

Bang.

Su Xiao’s punch broke a few of Hughes’s teeth. Hughes was also a violent fighter, with ten finger bones stabbing toward Su Xiao’s chest.

Squish.

All ten fingers pierced into Su Xiao’s chest cavity, and Hughes began to clench his fist, trying to crush Su Xiao’s organs, but Su Xiao’s Physical Attributes were as high as 60 points, making his body very sturdy.

With a loud sound, Su Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood, and he and Hughes rolled on the ground like a pair of fighting tops.

An Energy Shield formed on Su Xiao’s chest, immobilizing Hughes’s hands.

Enduring the severe pain in his chest cavity, Su Xiao’s fists unleashed a storm of punches like raindrops on Hughes’s head.

Bang, bang, bang...

In just two seconds, Su Xiao delivered dozens of punches. It was clear Hughes, as a major boss, had never been pummeled to the ground before, especially not with someone sitting on top of him doing the pummeling. He was stunned.

Continuing with his fists, after delivering over a hundred punches, the effect of ’Minotaur Lord’s Rage’ faded, and a sense of weakness emerged.

Realizing Su Xiao’s punches had lost power, Hughes, with a skull covered in fractures and an eye punched out, seized the chance to retaliate. He exerted force with his hands, with a cracking sound, breaking a few of Su Xiao’s ribs.

The intense pain caused Su Xiao’s consciousness to waver, but giving up now would only lead to one result: death.

A flintlock gun appeared in Su Xiao’s hand, the Dawn Roar given by the old priest. Upon seeing the flintlock gun, fear flashed in Hughes’s eyes, as if he recognized it.

"Dawn..."

Su Xiao didn’t care about Hughes’s thoughts. He inserted the barrel of the flintlock gun into Hughes’s eye socket, directly pressing the cold barrel against his brain.

"No!!!"

Bang!

Gunpowder smoke spread, and golden Holy Water exploded in Hughes’s brain.

Ssss～

A foul stench permeated, Hughes’s body twitched once, its form started to change, his height gradually returned to that of a normal person, his surface adorned with flesh, transforming back into a woman’s form.

Dark green long hair spread across the ground, and Hughes was already silent, the flintlock gun lodged in her eye socket. This gun had once been her weapon, and she was the female Agent the old priest spoke of, who had saved many with this gun. Today, she died at the hands of this very gun.

According to the old priest, this female Agent had died long ago, but that wasn’t the case; there was surely a story here, one that could form a novel, but Su Xiao didn’t want to delve into that story.

[You have slain the Lord Level creature, Resentful Orphan Hughes.]

[Defeating a leader-level creature grants an extra reward of 7000 Paradise coins + Soul Crystal (Medium) x2.]

[The Resentful Orphan · Hughes is a Lord-level creature, obtaining 13% World Source, now has a total of 42.8% World Source.]

[You obtained the Book of Repentance (Task Item).]

[You obtained a Treasure chest (gold).]

...

Su Xiao didn’t look at the items on the ground. He grabbed Hughes’ two pale arms, pulling the hands out from his own chest cavity.

"Cough, cough~"

Su Xiao coughed out a large mouthful of blood, staining Hughes’ chest red, making her lifeless body no longer exposed.

"This woman was really ruthless."

Su Xiao lay beside Hughes’ corpse, his trembling hands took out two bottles of No.1 Potion and poured them into his mouth. At this moment, he didn’t care about the side effects of the drugs, survival was the priority.

The limited mana value in his body converted into Blue Steel Shadow energy, annihilating the Hashirama cells in the No.1 Potion.

Due to the addition of Hashirama cells, the recovery effect of the No.1 Potion was extremely strong, especially for repairing internal injuries.

Several ruptured internal organs in Su Xiao were able to be healed, and after lying on the ground for half an hour, he finally regained some strength.

Picking up the items dropped by Hughes, when touching the [Book of Repentance (Task Item)], Su Xiao was momentarily stunned, then a smile appeared on his face.

The Talent Awakening Task was completed faster than expected, from infiltrating Liu Dong Temple to now, only a few hours had passed.

"Seems like there’s time to complete the main task, just wonder how many of those Heroic Spirits are still alive."

Su Xiao sat on the ground, he needed to rest now, but he always felt uneasy. He had previously encountered two pairs of Heroic Spirit + Master combinations, yet hadn’t met a single contractor during the process, which was highly unusual. Where did those contractors go? Did they all hide?

Su Xiao had previously checked the Derived World Contact Platform. Initially, there was nothing abnormal, but as time passed, fewer contractors were speaking on the platform, and by now, almost none were speaking.

...

In an underground bar in Fuyuki City.

The door of this bar was tightly shut, and if one looked through the gap of the windows, they would see dozens of corpses lying on the ground.

Three men and women sat inside the bar, indifferent to the corpses on the ground.

A sexy young woman stood behind the bar, her head full of wavy purple hair combined with a voluptuous figure, made her seem very alluring.

"Congenial brother, staying here is so boring, why don’t we just rampage through this Derivative World, it’s just a Second Tier world after all."

The woman’s body leaned forward, deliberately exposing herself to the man in front of the bar.

The man lifted his wine glass, downing his drink in one go.

"No, the boss instructed to first clear out the contractors in this Derivative World to avoid that guy partnering with other contractors. That guy should be busy fighting Heroic Spirits right now, I’ll do whatever the boss says."

The man exhaled a breath of hot air, faint sparks flickering within it, his name was Huang Yan, deputy leader of the Blood Gate Adventure Group, Third-tier contractor, he once pursued Gulu.

"Isn’t it just a Second Tier rookie, not necessary to be so serious, right?"

The woman straightened up, failing to seduce made her somewhat annoyed.

"Shut up, Butterfly, you talk this way only because Huang Yan is good-tempered. If the boss were here and you said these things, you’d be dead."

A little fatty sat in the distance, in front of him knelt a Second Tier contractor, looking dazed.

"Little fatty, don’t tease him, he’s my slave, not a dog."

"Tch, being bewitched by you into a slave, how’s it different from being a dog? I’d rather be a dog than be bewitched by you."

The little fatty tossed a peanut, to which the Second Tier contractor immediately opened his mouth and caught it mid-air.

"So obedient, had I known, I would have specialized in Nen ability too."

The little fatty kicked away the Second Tier contractor.

"How’s the progress?"

Huang Yan spoke up, usually a bit taciturn, he was one of the two people Stan trusted most.

Stan only trusted two people, one was his wife, the other was Huang Yan, they were life-and-death friends before entering Reincarnation Paradise.

"Not bad, no alarm was raised, there are only five ’targets’ left, they seem to have sensed something and all hid."

Butterfly’s lips curled up, she was a Charm specialized contractor, controlling a Second Tier contractor was not difficult.

"There’s still five days left on the catalytic clock, within ten hours, find the remaining five contractors."

Huang Yan poured another glass of wine.

"Roger."

Butterfly stretched lazily, walking towards the bar’s exit.

"Huang Yan brother, isn’t it a problem for us to kill Second Tier contractors like this, won’t it violate some taboo?"

The little fatty seemed obviously concerned.

"Our strength is suppressed, using formal methods, it won’t."

Huang Yan stopped speaking, and the bar fell into deathly silence.

...

In a sewer in Fuyuki City, a man covered in mud sat inside, a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

"Where did all these crazies come from, starting a chase without a word, did I dig up your ancestral graves or sleep with your wives."

If Su Xiao saw the man’s face, he would immediately recognize who it was. The man was Umbrella Brother, whom he met during the Survival Trial, a Wild Main Tank.

Umbrella Brother wore very peculiar clothes, with a noticeable bulge at the back, inside which was a simple parachute, it seems the Survival Trial left a shadow in his mind.

"Sigh, Second Tier is so damn dangerous, First Tier was better..."

Umbrella Brother sighed, his experience this time being extremely aggrieving, ever since entering the Holy Grail World, he had been on the run.