The Death List Novel - Chapter 179

Chapter 179 Invitation

“Oh!” Qin Lun couldn’t help but snort as two blood snakes hung from his nostrils.

“Woo!” A gigantic two-headed dog let out a joyful whistle as it approached Qin Lun with shattered steps. It lowered its ferocious and terrifying head and licked his trouser leg.

Chi! Qin Lun’s trousers died in a glorious battle, instantly turning into beggar-like rags.

“These are the fifth pair of trousers, Cyberlus!” Qin Lun helplessly looked at the strange Hellfire Devil Dog and shook his head.

Today was the third day that Qin Lun had obtained Cyberlus, and the second day that he had a man and a dog in the training ground.

The Hellfire Devil Dog named Cyberus was as big as a calf. Because it was still young, it could not control the massive fire elementium in its body. The charred lava skin would often ooze out dark red magma from the cracks.

Cyberlas was astonishingly talented. After completing the summoning contract, he was not a Tier 4 creature, but a Tier 5 creature. The sharp claws would inadvertently leave deep marks on the bluestone floor of the training ground.

The Hellfire Devil Dog occasionally opened its mouth and yawned. Its sharp fangs could shock even Qin Lun, who was its owner. Its tongue was full of barbs, its mouth saliva had the corrosive properties of a demonic creature, and the magma dripping from its body. After staying in the training ground for a while, the ground was covered in black mottled scorch marks.

The summoning contract was only half complete. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Hellfire Devil Hound was still young, pure-minded, and reliant on Qin Lun’s magic power, he wouldn’t have been able to maintain the summoning contract.

“It’s time to think of a way to improve the Maize Summoning Technique!” Qin Lun rubbed his temples. Because Burroughs was still one step lower in the Maezer Summoning Competition, every time he summoned the Hellfire Devil Hound, he would be drained of his energy and feel a splitting headache.

Cyberlas had the loyalty of a Hellhound and would not betray his master. However, if it increased by another level, Qin Lun would most likely be unable to maintain the summoning contract and lose the soul connection between the two parties. Cyberus would also lose his soul because he could not obtain the support of his master’s magic power.

The Hellhound possessed both the corrosive and fire attributes of the Hellhound. However, Cyberus’ intelligence was still immature and he could not control his own abilities. He could only attach these two types of damage to his claws.

To Qin Lun’s relief, the Hellfire Devil Dog was very easy to raise. No matter what he ate, it could replenish his body’s energy. Items with fire and darkness attributes, as well as creatures’ souls, could accelerate its growth. However, Cyborus still had the unique delicate aura of a young creature. Apart from Qin Lun’s own magic power, he only ate delicious and tender “living creatures”, the kind that had been skinned.

According to Berylseth’s reminder, Cyberus was still very “slim”. An adult Hellfire Devil Dog was over three meters tall, not counting its tail. Its body was more than five meters long, and its two heads were as big as a millstone. It could almost fill a living room.

Of course, the flaws of an adult Hellfire Devilhound were similarly obvious. It didn’t have any long-range attack power. Because it was a demonic creature, it had no resistance to sacred damage. At the same time, its large size also made it lose the agility of an ordinary Hellhound.

Although the magma in the Hellfire Devil Dog’s body could heal its injuries, once it was heavily injured, it would recover very slowly. If he used the Broken Crystal to request the Broken Universe to speed up his recovery, Cyberlas’ future body would definitely be ruined by a few more injuries.

After a comprehensive evaluation, the adult Hellfire Demon Dog’s combat strength was equivalent to a heavy tank, and it was an excellent melee meat shield.

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“Master, there are two guests visiting our house!” After leaving the training ground, Qin Lun received a message from Didi.

After finishing his deal with the Abyss Devils, Qin Lun asked Didi to pay the Abyss Devils twenty thousand broken crystals, leaving fifty thousand on credit. In this way, his body was carrying a debt of 100,000 broken crystals. It could be said that there were more lice and no worries.

Although Didi hadn’t found anything good in the auction house in the past ten days, he still made a lot of money by buying and selling it. Apart from taking out Qin Lun’s remaining 10,000 broken crystals and 1000 exchange rolls, it still had a few thousand broken crystals left, enough for the little fellow to buy a pile of alchemy formulas and ingredients.

“It’s you guys … What a surprise!” Returning to the villa, Qin Lun raised his eyebrows when he saw the two figures sitting opposite each other on the sofa.

“Qin Lun, are you interested in cooperating again?” The two guests on the sofa did not stand up when they saw their master enter the room. They only casually raised their glasses as if they were in their own home.

The man on the left was dressed in a pure black priest suit. He sat upright and had a gentle smile on his face. His silver hair was combed into a big back. On the back of his right hand, which was holding a goblet, there was a cross tattooed with two-headed snakes.

The man on the right was a muscular man with only a white vest on his upper body and camouflage trousers and tall boots on his lower body. He leaned lazily against the sofa with his arms open.

“Cooperation? What kind of cooperation?” Qin Lun thought quickly, but his face remained calm as he sat on the other sofa opposite them, forming an inverted triangle with them.

Even in his own home, Qin Lun still didn’t dare to let his back face these two fellows. Because the two of them were the same level of murderers as him, Shepherd Hill and disciple Hansen.

“You don’t have a few days to rest for your fourth alien mission, do you?” Hill and Hansen exchanged a glance. Hill was the first to ask, “Are you interested in forming a team with us and entering the mission world at the same time?”

“Team up with you?” A blurry inspiration flashed through Qin Lun’s mind like lightning. However, he still needed to sort it out for a while. He immediately dragged his tone and asked slowly, “Do you have the temporary team badge?”

“No, I got an official guild badge. If I submit it to the Broken Star System, I can form a small five-man guild!” Hansen raised his hand and flicked a small piece of metal towards Qin Lun.

The metal plate was ice-cold. It was a small badge less than two inches in diameter. Qin Lun immersed his consciousness into the death list and looked at the information about the party badge.

Low Level Team Badge: (Black Iron Level). After submitting the badge to the Shattered Universe, an official apostle can become the leader of the Black Iron Team. The Black Iron guild could recruit up to five official apostles and had a shared guild warehouse. Free communication within a mile through the guild channel, more than two miles for a fee, more than five miles will be unreachable.

Tip 1: A Black Iron rank guild must have at least three members. If there are fewer than three members, the guild will be automatically disbanded. The Guild Leader has the right to manage the team warehouse and personnel, and may also waive this right to determine the management of the team warehouse and personnel by more than half of the votes of the team.

Tip 2: Black Iron guild has a single guild skill-Halo of Sincerity. Within a hundred meters of Guild Leader, the HP and Mana Points of guild members will be increased by 10%. Upgrading to a bronze guild through a higher-level guild badge consumes member contribution points. More than half of the members of the Bronze Team must be professional apostles, and the Guild Leader must be at least Second Grade, Third Grade.

Returning from the previous mission world, Qin Lun firmly decided to join the team. During this period of rest and recuperation, he had successively inquired about the requirements and intelligence of forming a guild. Among them, the guild badge, guild skills, and management authority were the information and intelligence that were the focus of his inquiries.

The Black Iron Rank guild was the lowest level official apostle guild. As long as they were official apostles, they could use the Black Iron Badge to establish their guild. The Black Iron Team badge was worth between 10,000 and 15,000 broken crystals on the market, and it consumed a lot of them.

The Black Iron Team Badge usually circulates between the first two levels of the first level and the first two levels of the second level. It has two main functions. One function is to bring together weak beginner apostles and reduce the risk of the mission world.

The second role is more interesting, it is to adjust the task interval. Different apostles had different mission intervals in the shattered starry sky. If the time interval was too long, their fighting spirit would be weakened and their strength would increase slowly. The interval was too short, even a murderer like Qin Lun would find it hard to endure, let alone an ordinary apostle.

As a result, many beginner apostles were willing to spend two to three thousand broken crystals to buy a temporary position in a small guild, just to adjust the mission interval. However, the beginner apostles of the Black Iron guild were generally weak. If one or two of them died in the mission world, the guild would be disbanded. This was the main reason why the Black Iron Badge was consumed so much.

Apart from forming a black iron team, the Black Iron Badge was also a synthetic material for the Bronze Badge. The bronze guild could have ten members, most of whom were professional apostles. It was the most basic and fixed guild. A large guild of over a hundred members like Lost was also made up of several bronze or silver guilds.

After becoming a silver guild, the apostle guild could be named a guild and possess good guild halo skills, which was of great significance to the guild members. For example, a Silver guild would have a defensive halo when they received the title of “Rock.” There was also the title “Blazing Flame” of the fire attribute halo, and so on.

However, above the bronze guild, it was very difficult to increase the number of guilds. According to the uncertain information that Qin Lun received, it seemed that after the total number of members exceeded ten, every additional member of the guild would require astronomical resources, as well as extremely special precious treasures.

This was understandable. Every high-level apostle had powerful abilities. If those large groups gathered hundreds of high-level apostles into a mission world, destroying a country would not be difficult, and it could even cause the end of the world.

Although the shattered starry sky lived by plundering the world origin of other different spacetime, it still had to follow the laws of spacetime. Sending too many high-level apostles into a quest world at the same time would inevitably suffer a backlash from the Laws, and the end result would not be worth it.

After sorting through the information in his mind, Qin Lun finally grasped the thread of inspiration from before. He lowered his head and covered his face with his hand. He figured out the real reason why Hill and Hansen had come to find him.