Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 114 Minister
"They've made taking out the Polar Day Society's reinforcements into one mission," Mu Xiang said, pushing up his glasses. "But with one B-level side quest and 6000 reward points per person, the overall difficulty is barely reasonable."

Zheng Zha scratched his head: "If we all come, wouldn't we be rich?"

"How could that be... Rewards and risks are linked. This B+6000 should be the result of the God's allocation. For the two of us, it's reasonable to set the overall difficulty as double B when taking down an enemy team led by a fourth-tier transcendent being." Mu Xiang waved his hand.

Zheng Zha gave a helpless smile: "Okay, okay... I've heard you and Chu Xuan talking about these things in a mysterious way before, but I don't understand them anyway."

Mu Xiang had a bit of a headache: "We need to have a general idea, right? Let me put it this way: the difficulty is relative. If we were both true Tier 4, the reward would probably be even less."

In truth, he wasn't sure what the reward for eliminating the invaders would be. The invader team battles in "Infinite Dawn" were significantly different from the situation they were facing now, and the rewards for these battles fluctuated based on the strength of the Reincarnation Squad.

The tasks they are now receiving seem to be based on the number of people and overall strength, with rewards determined accordingly.

"So according to you, our strength can actually be rated as fourth-tier extraordinary?" Zheng Zha asked curiously, "But aren't we only second-tier?"

Mu Xiang shook his head and said, "According to the Polar Day Society, the Gene Lock is one of the strongest cultivation systems... Moreover, our bloodline classification itself has the meaning of extraordinary tiers, so the converted strength will be much higher than the Gene Lock stage."

As they spoke, the two of them had been going downhill, getting closer and closer to the center of the deep pit... which was the experimental base of the Polar Day Society.

"We haven't encountered any obstacles along the way..." Zheng Zha frowned slightly as he scanned the road ahead.

Despite the existence of an extremely large barrier, we encountered no resistance upon entering.

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses and said, "If the one who set up the barrier was a fourth-order transcendent, then he must have known we were coming... so this arrangement might have been intentional."

"Huh? Why?" Zheng Zha was taken aback.

“Think about it, the reinforcements from the Polar Day Society that appeared a month ago didn’t cause large-scale destruction. The commotion of a group of people wasn’t even as big as that of a single counselor… So the initial reinforcements probably didn’t have much combat power and couldn’t handle the situation here,” Mu Xiang said patiently. “Judging from the time the barrier appeared and the rapid escalation of the conflict, we can infer that it took them three weeks to find a powerful figure capable of handling the situation…”

Zheng Zha suddenly realized: "A big shot leading a bunch of lowly soldiers?"

“Yeah, there might be some slightly higher-ranking figures, but I’m guessing none of them are as good as the counselor.” Mu Xiang glanced at his phone. “Otherwise, it would conflict with the mission issued by the main god. We can’t just fight a fourth-tier enemy and a bunch of third-tier enemies and only get this little reward. Those people before didn’t try to hide their tracks at all. The reason they couldn’t make a big fuss was simply because they were incompetent.”

As he spoke, Mu Xiang showed Zheng Zha a battle report: "Do you think there are any Tier 3 people among a group of people who were forced to cower in their shells by the Self-Defense Forces?"

They talked as they walked, but their steps were very fast, and they soon arrived near the experimental base.

"Either they're doing something very important, or they're confident they can trap and kill us." Mu Xiang looked at the green mark in front of him, sensed the energy intensity of the restriction, and couldn't help but sneer, "Expel...heh, killing them all certainly counts, right?"

Then, Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha exchanged a glance, and energy surged within each of them.

Zheng Zha was engulfed in crimson flames and walked straight towards the barrier in front of him. With a strange sound, the green barrier melted open under the scorching red flames, creating a large hole that allowed Zheng Zha to walk in unimpeded. After Zheng Zha entered, a flash of green light sealed the tunnel shut again.

Mu Xiang silently raised his hand, and the abundant energy within his body surged out in the form of ripples, stirring up the Seven Killers' force field. He gently pressed his golden hand, which was shimmering with light, onto the barrier's light screen, and the barrier shattered, allowing Mu Xiang to step inside.

Behind him, the green light trembled a few times before reforming the barrier. But the two could clearly see that after this disruption, the green light had dimmed considerably.

As Mu Xiang had predicted, they did not encounter any significant resistance along the way.

The ordinary soldiers of the Polar Day Society all looked the same, without any white robes, only extremely perfunctory white armor. They also all had the same big heads... or rather, octopus heads.

Zheng Zha reached out and melted through the last soldier's chest, listening blankly to the soldier's strange, unintelligible cries, and looked at Mu Xiang: "Why are there no organs inside?"

Mu Xiang's eyes lit up, and a beam of heat easily sliced ​​through the soldier's swollen head, revealing the crowded brain and organs inside.

"What the hell is this?" Zheng Zha felt nauseous and threw the lifeless corpse away.

Mu Xiang sighed, "They really are mass-produced minions. Their language abilities haven't even fully evolved... I suspect all the people in the Polar Day Society are like this, concentrating all their organs inside their skulls... just like octopuses." Zheng Zha looked at Mu Xiang strangely, "You mean, we're going to fight a giant octopus later?"

"A little octopus," Mu Xiang corrected with a smile, "the real giant octopus is the one behind the scenes at the Polar Day Conference."

The two charged forward without any pressure. These lowest-ranking soldiers weren't even extraordinary, and they only used ordinary magic slingshot guns... It wasn't until the outer perimeter of the core area that they encountered extraordinary enemies, but they were only at the first level.

Mu Xiang walked through the pitifully slow green light orbs, then grabbed the two octopus heads on either side and slammed them together. Before the other enemies could react, his heat vision shot out from his eyes. Although it didn't have the imposing presence seen in movies, it still easily sliced ​​through the bodies of these first-tier magic users.

Zheng Zha's battle was a different story. He held a ball of bright red flame in each hand, slapping it across the foreheads of several enemies in front of him, causing black smoke to billow from their octopus heads. Then, without Zheng Zha lifting a finger, they fell one after another.

Mu Xiang impatiently kicked the green light screen in front of him, revealing the scene inside the core laboratory.

The figure, composed of green dots, is talking to Chu Xuan, but no sound is heard. Beside them are various 3D images formed by green dots: Mu Xiang crushing the counselor's head with a stomp, Mu Xiang smashing Feng Yang's head with a punch… A light screen displays full-body images of Mu Xiang and Chu Xuan, alongside strangely shaped text, seemingly analyzing something.

A person dressed in a white robe with gold trim turned to look at Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha: "Is your companion different this time?"

Mu Xiang glanced at the various images in the lab and calmly said, "Haven't you fought against any members of the Reincarnation Squad?"

The person turned around, revealing their face hidden by a mask. But beneath the mask, something was stirring.

[They really are octopus monsters... but judging from their logic, they can't possibly be Cthulhu behind them.]

Mu Xiang was speculating about the saint or holy position behind the Polar Day Society when the man spoke in a screeching voice, "The Reflection Technique has only revealed this much so far... I'm very curious about what you were talking about back then. If you offer up your true essence, the previous information will be supplemented. Surrender now, and I can grant you a quick death..."

Before he could finish speaking, Mu Xiang spat. A gust of cold wind burst from Mu Xiang's mouth, violently ripping off the man's mask and revealing ugly tentacles.

"Enough with the nonsense. Your intelligence is always lagging behind the times." Mu Xiang sneered. "As expected of a fourth-tier transcendent being, you think you've mastered power with just a few simple words... You dared to spy on our conversation. You'll be staying here today."

[I can't quite use my Frost Breath yet... but the effect is alright.]

Mu Xiang knew that the Kryptonians' so-called "ice breath" was actually just inhaling air into their lungs, compressing and liquefying it, then retaining the heat within their bodies... followed by expelling the highly compressed liquid air, which would rapidly vaporize upon leaving the body, thus achieving a cooling effect. This was purely a physical ability, similar to an air conditioner.

Although Mu Xiang can no longer exhale with the power to directly freeze people, the intensity of his exhalation is still considerable. If an ordinary person were to be blown like that, it wouldn't be as simple as just having their mask lifted.

Zheng Zha's lips twitched as he looked at it: "It really is an octopus monster..."

"You are defiling..." This fourth-tier transcendent of the Polar Day Society was not angry because he lifted his mask, but was instead angered by Zheng Zha's sarcasm. "Defiling my lord!" As he spoke, there was no green light on his body, and he slowly floated up.

Mu Xiang silently rose to his feet, then said disdainfully, "What kind of class do you have to put on airs... There are plenty of saints hiding in the shadows, who does your master think he is? If you want to fight, then fight!"

"Remember the power you are about to face... I am the Ambassador of the Polar Day!" The man who called himself the ambassador snapped his fingers, and naked, large-headed fleshy bodies emerged from a row of arrays on the ground, each with the same aura, devoid of thought and consciousness.

Then, these newborn individuals opened their eyes, and a green light flashed in their eyes.

The next moment, green light shot up from the ground into the sky within the entire barrier, like a green rain curtain rising against the heavens, enveloping Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha and washing them away.

Mu Xiang naturally had a defensive force field around him to block the attack, and then he looked at Zheng Zha: "How about you deal with those small fry?"

Zheng Zha nodded, and the red flames that automatically rose from his body deepened in color, then erupted with terrifying heat, sweeping outwards. Wherever the red flames passed, even the green light had to temporarily give way, and the endless stream of flesh was directly reduced to ashes... Then new flesh would emerge, only to be burned to ashes.

Mu Xiang nodded slightly, then let out a long roar and punched out a deafening blast of air, directly smashing into the ambassador's head.

(End of this chapter)