Chapter 592: Chapter 302: Lucky Number 24 Apostle, Crimson Army in Saint Lance_2

Shang Xiaoyuan: ???

What happened to the promised transmission up to ten kilometers away?

[’Unknown Apostle #18’ was visibly taken aback, and immediately drew his sword...]

[The magnificent sword light fills your entire field of vision!]

[You only have time to slightly pull the trigger...]

[A high-intensity electromagnetic force fires a bullet, creating a beautiful bright blue arc of light.]

[The unstoppable sword light splits the armor-piercing depleted uranium bullet into two...]

[Your vision suddenly rises, followed by a feeling of the world spinning, everything in sight is rolling violently.]

[In the end, you fall to the ground, seeing a headless body holding a gun...]

[...]

[You died!]

The three blood-red characters chilled Shang Xiaoyuan to the bone.

He couldn’t help but tremble all over, covering his mouth to stifle a cry of despair.

Shang Xiaoyuan’s attention was all on the text of the impending resurrection of the Wandering Soul, he didn’t even notice the piece of equipment he had lost.

[The weak Wandering Soul is reborn at the peak of the Afterglow Peak...]

[You are caught in the death penalty of Slaughter Mode, during the one hour death penalty, you cannot use soul strength to reshape your shell...]

Shang Xiaoyuan stared intently at the text that appeared next, his pupils contracting sharply.

"I get it! I know why those Apostles will have their souls obliterated right after their shells die!"

[...]

[You suffered death in the form of a Wandering Soul, your soul strength limit is permanently reduced by one point!]

[Current Soul Strength 1/1!]

Halfway through speaking, his face turned deathly pale, feeling a splitting headache as if a large chunk of his soul was torn off by some great force.

Shang Xiaoyuan fell to the ground in pain, curling up, completely unable to continue the game.

[The dissipating Wandering Soul is reborn at the top of Afterglow Peak...]

[You are caught in the death penalty of Slaughter Mode, during the one-hour death penalty, you cannot use soul strength to reshape your shell...]

Shang Xiaoyuan knew that it was over!

The scythe of death was about to fall, no one can stop the game’s erasure mechanism!

His vision becoming increasingly dark, in his hazy consciousness, the sound of the door being broken open and the frantic shouts of his brother echoed in his ears.

He felt as if a long strip of paper was stuffed into his hands. As he was at death’s door, he subconsciously clung onto it tightly ...

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Lin Xun was a bit stunned.

When he was about to wipe out the 24th Apostle who was holding a high-tech firearm, the enemy Apostle suddenly slipped and miraculously dodged the fatal blow of the Ninja Master.

He had never seen such an outrageous event in all his time playing underworld games.

Unyielding, he launched another attack!

Just as the Ninja Master was about to behead the enemy, the 24th Apostle seemed to use some kind of life-saving item to disappear.

Seeing this, he clenched his teeth in anger, thinking that his cooked duck had just flown away... but then the 24th Apostle suddenly appeared behind him.

"So it wasn’t a life-saving item, it was an invisibility tool... trying to backstab me, aren’t you?"

Although Lin Xun didn’t know why the 24th Apostle interrupted the invisibility effect, he would not fall twice in the same place.

He decisively commanded the ’Ninja Master’ to launch an attack!

[...]

[You defeated ’Unknown Apostle #24’!]

[As your invasion permissions are high, you can plunder one piece of spoil from this apostle.]

[Please choose the category of spoils you want to plunder...]

[The intense battle near the city gate has attracted the attention of the Guardian Knights. The knights draw their cross swords and quickly rush to this place...]

"This easter egg Chapter is a bit weird. Not only is the level process wrong, even the competing Apostles are a bit abnormal..."

Sighing, Lin Xun activated his invisibility skill and hid from the Guardian Knights.

As expected, it will be ’under death penalty’, and ultimately the soul will be erased upon death.

His luck was poor this time and he drew a piece of extremely trashy equipment.

[Infrared High-Definition Night Vision Goggles (Ordinary Level Equipment): A pair of unremarkable night sighting equipment. It targets using infrared light and forms images by receiving reflected infrared radiation. After wearing this equipment, you will be able to see clearly in the dark.]

This kind of trashy equipment probably wasn’t worn by Apostle No. 24, it might be a spare piece of equipment carried in their inventory.

"Beggars can’t be choosers..."

The Doomsday Chapters about modern and future times in the game are quite rare, as are high-tech equipment. Therefore, very few Apostles follow similar upgrading routes.

When Apostles first got the high-tech equipment, many of them would hand it over to the research departments. However, in the end, it resulted in nothing and gradually faded out.

Lin Xun carefully stored the equipment, prepared to continue fishing at the city gate.

Suddenly, he frowned, feeling something was amiss.

"Why didn’t I see a death announcement for Lingering Soul’s game?"

He hurriedly clicked on the ’Slaughter’ option to check.

[...]

[Unknown Apostle No. 24——Chapter Quit!]

???

"Well done, old 6!"

The opponent most likely used a rare prop similar to an ’Escape Bookmark’ just before dying, directly quitting the Chapter to escape.

Lin Xun took a deep breath and continued to fish at the city gate.

This time he had to wait for more than half an hour. Just when he was about to give up waiting, he finally encountered another lucky person.

After killing the Apostle, the enhanced BUFF ’Slaughter Feast’ increased in level from initially enhancing all attributes by 20% to now 40%!

Lin Xun guessed that the pattern might be that every three Apostles killed would increase the level of the ’Slaughter Feast’. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Previously, Apostle No. 16 killed three Apostles by fishing, thus gaining ’Slaughter Feast’. He then defeated No. 16 and was able to inherit the enhanced BUFF from him.

If we count the kills in this way, he has indeed killed six Apostles.

Now, the number of Apostles on the list of candidates has been reduced from 24 to 13.

From the time they entered the Easter egg Chapter until now, a total of less than three hours has passed. In these three hours, the number of people decreased by 11.

This drastic decrease in number shows that the range of activity in this Chapter is not large. The only place worth exploring might be ’Saint Lance’. Places like the ’Royal City’ likely only serve as backdrops.

Therefore, the Apostles can only spin around Saint Lance, frequently encountering each other and fighting that led to substantial attrition.

Now trying to fish again, it’s been a long time since a fish has bitten.

He entered Saint Lance later than most, so there probably were no more candidate Apostles outside the city. If he wanted to kill other Apostles, he would have to explore the town deep.

"It’s too troublesome to find them one by one. If I can’t wait for a rabbit, I’ll pull you all out!"

In the Easter Egg Chapter of ’Slaughter Mode’, there isn’t much reward. Lin Xun’s primary goal is to stack ’Slaughter Feast’.

Instead of wasting time exploring, why not find a way to kill other candidates?

Although his power is strong, he is weak in the face of a war among the Demigods. He does not even have the ability to defend himself.

If he doesn’t quickly stack ’Slaughter Feast’ to enhance his power, he might have to use an ’Escape Bookmark’ to leave the Chapter at the final event.

Lin Xun opened his inventory and clicked on the ’Command Flag of the Ogiwara Family’!

[You pulled out a black long flag, silently reading the ancient character on the face of the flag: Swift as wind, quiet as forest, invade like fire, immovable like a mountain...]

[Crimson Army total number: 731, The highest morale value of the army: 100]

[Because you spent 2 points of soul strength, the level of this summon is the second stage.]

[The number of army answered your summon: 731, morale value: 50]

[The sound of war drums like thunder filled the town known as ’Moonlight Town’, and the shoutings and roars were unstoppable...]

[A sea of blood-red appeared behind you...]

[Numerous elite warriors responded to the summon and appeared. They were dressed in red armor, some mounted horses, some walked, some wielded spears, and others carried swords.]

[The sudden appearance of the foreign army shocked the soldiers and Guardian Knights stationed at the city gate. They seemed to want to take out their horns and blow them.]

[At your command, the ’Crimson Army’ archers drew their Longbows and quickly turned the soldiers and Guardian Knights into porcupines.]

[The townsfolk cried out and screamed, scattering...]

[With a wave of the ’Command Flag’, you ordered the more than 700 ’Crimson Warriors’ to scatter and go deep into the town to search for your enemy and kill them!]

Keep in mind, the Crimson Army belongs to Lin Xun’s special summon. In the eyes of the Crimson Warriors, enemy Apostles will also present the ’invader shadow’.

Lin Xun doesn’t require the warriors to kill the candidate Apostles. All he needs is to know the enemy’s location...that’s enough!

"I wonder if I need to summon the Nine-tailed Fox with my strength as a level six Apostle..."