"Maybe they're not teaming up. I have a pretty good idea of what they're up to," Nymph for a moment, feeling that she had a pretty good idea of the answer.
Su Xi asked curiously, "What?"
"It should be that they hired you."
"Hire... you mean they'll have me help them fight monsters, and then let them get the final blow and earn points?"
Nymph nodded and said, "Let's go take a look first. This is just my guess right now."
As long as it doesn't affect Su Xi's first place ranking, this collaboration is entirely possible.
Arriving in the Siren Empire.
There are many ways to reach the Siren Empire. Basically, you can reach the Siren Empire as long as you travel along the waterways. After all, the Siren Empire controls a large area of sea. The seafood that the NPCs on the mainland eat must be caught with the permission of the Siren Empire. The shipping routes of the caravans also need to be contracted with the Siren Empire in order to operate.
Of course, while the Siren Empire was domineering, they would fulfill their contracts very well once they were signed. In fact, when caravans sailed along the agreed routes, they would be protected by the Sirens navy. If fishing boats or caravans encountered severe weather such as storms at sea, they could seek help from the Sirens navy.
With the help of these naval forces, accidents at sea became very rare. If any accidents occurred outside the Siren Empire, they would not be held responsible. This was the main reason why various empires and caravans were willing to sign contracts with the Siren Empire.
The ocean in the Meta World is very clean and beautiful. It has not experienced the devastation of the industrial age, and its color has not been polluted by things that cannot be purified, such as oil and nuclear wastewater. Its color is as blue as the sky.
Coral City, a city on the eastern border of the Siren Empire.
Brilliant rays of light, like sharp swords, pierced the seawater, illuminating the colorful coral reefs and the seabed with dazzling brilliance.
After accepting the mission, groups of players rode surfboards around the seabed, having a great time.
Movement in the water is greatly hindered. Players who have not been reborn as Sirens can only rely on these underwater surfboards to move faster in the water.
In order to avoid attracting the attention of the players, Su Xi and Nymph were in the [Anti-Cognition System] state as they moved forward. Before long, they arrived in Coral City and found Yan Hu in the agreed secluded place.
Su Xi glanced around the scene and saw that only Yan Hu and Ling Yue were there. She then had Nymph cancel her skill before greeting them, "Oh, what do you want?"
The two were startled by the voice, neither of them expecting Su Xi to suddenly appear in front of them.
Ling Yue realized what was happening and said, "Your Highness Su, it's like this, we plan to hire you to help some of our small teams kill some monsters and earn points."
Tell me more.
"We all know that if Your Highness Su wants to be number one, no one can take it from you. So we're not trying to piggyback on Your Highness Su's team. We just hope that Your Highness Su can help us reduce some of the gold-tier monsters to low health so that our team can kill them and earn points."
Nymph was right; these people didn't want to join her team, but rather wanted her help to kill monsters.
After all, the level of the monsters in the event is similar to that of the players, but the Gold Rank monsters that reach this level have an unbelievable amount of health, just like the Fallen Priests in the Southern Volcano World. Not only is their defense high, but their health is also in the hundreds of millions.
If all players worked together to attack, defeating these bosses wouldn't be too difficult. But now everyone is trying to improve their ranking, and they'd rather you couldn't beat them than help you.
Therefore, in such situations, players with exceptional individual combat strength become a crucial point of contention. The team with the most powerful players and support will achieve a higher ranking.
"Hiring is also an option."
Su Xi thought for a moment.
Even if the monsters encountered in events are strong now, they can't possibly be stronger than the animals in the Ancient Ecosystem. Even a level 60 gold monster probably can't escape Fulan's destructive talent.
If you were to crush just a few of those 'eyes' at that point, you'd be crippled.
"But we need to talk about compensation."
"Reward? Of course, what would Your Highness Su like?"
"An avatar item, [Unsinkable Luck], is in the Siren Empire's treasury."
Last time, I asked Kurumi to help me get it, but she couldn't get the quest to go to the Siren Empire's treasury to choose items, so Snow Wind's avatar item is still in the Siren's treasury and hasn't been taken out yet.
Upon hearing this, Ling Yue's face showed reluctance.
Most importantly, the Siren Empire is not a major area of Chinese involvement. Although some Chinese players reincarnate as Siren sea creatures, the number of players is very small. Most of the reincarnations are by players from Western Europe.
Therefore, no one in China has ever received a mission to enter the Sirens' Treasury.
"Although it's a bit difficult to obtain, we have a lot of people. We can have them grind up the reputation with the Siren Empire. Once they receive the mission to enter the Siren Empire's treasury to select items, we'll let you know," Ling Yue said.
Does even the president of the Reality Adventurer's Guild find this difficult...?
Oh well, there's no rush anyway. We'll have a chance to get it eventually if we take our time.
Su Xi added, "That item is legendary; you need a quest to select legendary items."
"Okay," Ling Yue quickly agreed.
"In that case, I agree to this collaboration."
"Great! Your Highness Su, please stay in touch. Once we find a golden monster, call for Your Highness Su to come down, otherwise other players will steal it."
"OK."
Su Xi had no objection to this.
Anyway, she'll be doing the tasks for this event all the time, opening treasure chests like crazy to get the World Tree Fragment hidden inside. She won't be going anywhere else, and helping Ling Yue and the others is just a small thing.
As for the World Tree Fragment, only the player with the highest contribution to the event, that is, only the first place player, can obtain it. Therefore, Su Xi is not worried at all about whether other people will obtain the World Tree Fragment.
After their conversation, Su Xi and Nymph went to the Adventurer's Guild to collect their free surfboards and accept the corresponding quests.
The monster-killing system awards points based on the monster's Life Level, while completing Adventurer's Guild quests rewards you with quest experience and Gold Coin.
Of course, the experience gained from these tasks was useless to Su Xi, but the more tasks she completed, the more advanced surfboards she could get. Right now, with just this ordinary surfboard, her speed in the water was still a bit slow, far slower than her speed in the sky.
For several days in a row, Su Xi led Nymph around the event area. Thanks to Nymph's skills, the monsters that were instantly killed didn't even know how they died. Su Xi even transformed into Fulan in an area with many players and crushed the 'eyes' on the monsters without any scruples.
However, other players couldn't detect Nymph. Even players with scouting skills couldn't outsmart Nymph, so when those players saw the monsters suddenly explode into pieces, they all thought they had encountered a ghost.
Fulan's destructive power is so great that any small fry inferior to Fulan have no chance of escaping being crushed to death.
That day, while the two were still on a mission, they received a message from Yan Hu.
"Finally, Gold Rank monster has appeared?" Su Xi said with some surprise.
I've been killing monsters for days, and the highest-level monster I've ever killed is only a silver-level sea monster. As for the Gold Rank, I haven't even seen a single hair.
They quickly rushed towards the coordinates where the golden monster had appeared, carrying Nymph.
This is the muddy sea area in the western part of the Siren Empire. The environment here is not as clean as in the east because this area is close to Hurricane City. The weather around Hurricane City has never been very good, and the seabed here is even more pitch black.
It was quite a feat to finally find Yan Hu's small team.
After controlling the speed of their surfboards, the two slowly came to a stop in front of the team.
"Wow, a white jade surfboard, could this be a legendary surfboard?"
"Your Highness Su has arrived."
"They already have an average of 50,000 points, which is 40,000 points higher than the second place, and their total points have reached 300,000. It's not surprising that they can get the legendary surfboard."
"Based on this total score, His Your Highness Su has killed at least tens of thousands of monsters in the past few days."
"If we're only killing silver monsters, then we only need to kill 6,000."
"There aren't that many silver monsters. We were the ones who found the first gold monster. Even if a silver monster is one level lower, it shouldn't be that easy to find."
"Damn, it takes me at least three minutes to kill a regular monster, let alone an excellent or rare one. If I can kill six hundred monsters in three days, that's pretty awesome."
"It can't be that bad, only 600 a day? You can gather the monsters into a group and then use wide-area skills to kill them faster."
"Sigh, with Your Highness Su's strength, killing a single silver monster would earn her 500 points. Given the strength she displayed in the arena, silver monsters would probably only be instantly killed in front of her."
Everyone present stared at Su Xi with surprise on their faces, and then chatted in the team chat system about what His Your Highness Su had been doing recently.
Yan Hu stepped forward to greet him and then pulled His Your Highness Su into the group chat.
While underwater, surfboards can provide a thin Magic Circle that prevents people from getting their clothes wet, speeds up movement, and allows for underwater breathing, they do not help transmit sound.
Underwater, sound distortion is extremely high, unless one is a marine creature with the aid of certain organs.
Therefore, non-sea creature players mostly communicate using chat channels while underwater.
As soon as Su Xi entered, she asked, "Where's the monster?"
"Wow, it's His Your Highness Su's voice, it sounds so nice, ah, I'm dead."
"Welcome, Your Highness Su! Applause! Clap clap clap!"
"Don't go to this barbershop!"
"Hey, don't embarrass yourself."
Su Xi felt ashamed.
Who are the people in Yan Hu's small team?
Yan Hu scolded them a few times before they stopped making a ruckus.
"That golden monster hides underground in the silt. It only shoots out its tentacles to hunt when something swims past it. We only discovered this after our exploration player was eaten."
"The player who was exploring detected that it is a monster octopus with a total of 500 million HP. Based on its characteristics, it may also have abilities such as limb regeneration."
Su Xi nodded. Five hundred million HP, higher than Emperor Shi Yuan's, not bad, but still not enough.
In fact, unless your Life Level /experience level exceeds hers, having more health is meaningless.
"I thought they would at least be as strong as the monsters at the bottom of the ecosystem..." Su Xi muttered.
Su Xi asked them to lure the monster out, but the surrounding area was filled with murky water, and she couldn't tell which way to go.
Soon, a warrior cast a taunt spell on the monster beneath the mud, causing the entire sea to tremble. The murky mud floated in the water once more, making it even harder for everyone to see their surroundings.
"Wow, this monster actually knows how to take advantage of the terrain."
Su Xi chuckled, and a giant octopus hand slammed onto her body, covered with piranha heads. Hundreds of piranha mouths opened, trying to devour Su Xi.
Unfortunately, I only got to eat something.
They couldn't break through Su Xi's defenses at all.
[Dimensional Avatar: Flandre Scarlet]!
He quickly switched his avatar skill and activated his talent, causing dozens of red 'eyes' to light up in the dark seabed.
"Isn't the number of these red 'eyes' a bit off?"
Nymph explained, "Octopuses usually have several hearts, and this monster is so bizarre that it might even have several heads. It's normal that even if you kill one of them, you still can't kill it."
Fulan thought about it, and it seemed that the octopus was indeed like that.
But it doesn't matter. No matter how many red dots there are, as long as they are all crushed, they will all die the same way.
With a thought, the red eyes on the monster octopus floated one after another into Fulan's hand, and then, as if crushing a berry, she crushed these red 'eyes' until only one remained.
When its red eyes shattered, the monster octopus let out a deafening roar, as if the end of the world was about to come.
However, everyone present had seen similar scenes many times before, so they weren't too surprised. They just quickly protected themselves to avoid being killed before the octopus monster was even dead.
Only one red 'eye' remained on the octopus monster's body. Its roar grew even more intense, and it attacked Su Xi with even greater fervor.
Fulan's avatar's defense was not high enough, so Su Xi would switch back to her original body whenever she was about to take an attack.
"What a strange life form. It only has one 'eye' left that is destined to die, yet it can still control the tentacles on its body."
Su Xi felt that her understanding of octopuses had been updated.
Then she transformed back into Fulan, destroying the eyes on all the tentacles. In an instant, all the tentacles exploded into octopus flesh, leaving the octopus monster with only its head floating in the water.
"Can we make takoyaki by collecting all this octopus scraps?" Nymph asked curiously.
"... How would I know?"
After all the tentacles were shattered, the octopus monster was completely unable to resist, so Fulan ordered Yan Hu and the others to go up and kill the octopus monster.