Near the head of the Stone Bridge, Su Xiao checked the kill notification that had just appeared as he advanced.
Notification: You killed the Four-Life Evil Ghost.
You obtained 2,873 Soul Coins.
You obtained an Immortal-grade Treasure Chest: Raging Shark.
You obtained 3 Strongest Badges (a unique item of this world; after use, one Strongest Badge can be converted into 2%–4% of the World Source in any native world. The exact amount depends on the world's rank, danger level, and other factors).
Notification: Strongest Badges cannot be used in this world.
After closing the notification, Su Xiao looked at the super-giant snail shell a kilometer away. The Talent Awakening Device was there.
Su Xiao was certain of one thing: Wood and Ziyas had not come here with him out of kindness. They definitely had their own agenda.
Su Xiao did not know what the two were after. He had too much on his plate lately—dealing with Father, scheming with the Elf King, determining the direction of the Great Ruins, and guarding against the Gray Gentleman. With everything piled together, he had no energy left to investigate what else lay inside the Great Ruins.
Something had drawn Wood and Ziyas here, and the two had already confirmed that it was in the hands of the Mother of the Aquatics. That was why they had killed their way here.
Apart from Wood and Ziyas, the goals of the other two team members were clear. Yuer wanted to seal all the mutated abyssal power within Bay City and the Great Ruins into himself, completing his mission as a vessel and allowing the Elves to die properly instead of "rising from the dead" as they were now.
Solomon's goal was purer: Soul Coins. One could say that this undead archmage remained utterly true