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it for this test.
You don’t have anything like that, do you? We only need to lure void beasts to a place of our choosing so we can hunt them.”

Su Ping raised his eyebrows; he truly didn’t have anything like that.

“How alluring is that thing? What if a swarm of void beasts are lured by this? How could it be precise?”

“It’ll be good enough if it entices any void beast.
We can always run back to the baseIf a swarm of void beasts tries to subdue us,” said Su Jin’er angrily, “Don’t look down on it; this item is rare.
It would be dangerous if we didn’t use it when looking for void beasts in their world.
You could run into a group of horrifying, dominator-level void beasts at any given moment.”

After thinking for a moment, Su Ping nodded and said, “Fine.
Let’s work together then.”

Su Jin’er was secretly relieved; she put on a smile and said, “You will soon know how useful I am.”

Su Ping smiled, although he didn’t say anything.

“Brother Su.”

Another person approached him right then; he was none other than the young man who had golden wheels in his eyes.
He was the one Su Ping had enslaved earlier on.

Su Ping withdrew the sword aura that had been placed next to the man’s heart after the round ended.
After all, the man also had a powerful background; it would have been outrageous if he continued threatening the man.

“Are you interested in cooperating?” said the young man with golden wheels in his eyes, as if he would have completely forgotten the earlier humiliation.

Slightly surprised after hearing the proposal, Su Ping asked, “You want to follow me again?”

The young man felt awkward after remembering the earlier suppression.
He replied, “We already know each other, right? It’s better for us to cooperate than to work with people we don’t know.
You are certainly stronger than me, but an extra hand is always helpful when you’re in danger.

“The first lord-level void beast will be yours if we hunt as a group; I won’t blame you if you don’t want to help me kill a second one.”

He spoke rather sincerely.

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After hesitating for a moment, Su Ping asked, “Are you sure?”

“Of course,” said the young man with a smile, “The lord-level void beasts are so terrifying that Lord Supreme is using them to test us; it would also mean that not many will be able to hunt them down.
I can hardly accomplish the task on my own, so might as well try to cooperate with you.”

“Okay.
But don’t blame me if the hunting gets too dangerous and I decide to head back the moment I kill mine,” said Su Ping.

“Of course I won’t,” said the young man with golden wheels in his eyes, smiling.

Su Ping glanced at him; he knew that the guy was doing that on purpose.
It was hard for him to decline such sincerity.

“Let’s go together then.” Su Ping looked at Su Jin’er and told her about the young man who had golden wheels in his eyes.

Su Jin’er said with a slight frown, “That’s fine.
However, the second beast we hunt will be mine, and the third will be his.”

She knew she had to fight for privileges.
Accidents might still happen if she was the last one to get the beast.

“Sure.”

Su Ping nodded.

Once they finished their discussion, a few others spoke to Su Ping telepathically, wanting to join his team; alas, Su Ping simply turned them down.

After all, every new member would require a beast.
A team of five would mean that he had to hunt lord-level void beasts five times.
He would rather go hunting on his own in such a case.

All the participants were soon registered.
Information was relayed through the watch that was given by the military, such as the location of their assigned residence in that place.

Su Ping asked the Star Lord who was responsible for the registration about the opening and closing of the cover.

The Star Lord was quite courteous when speaking to geniuses like Su Ping.
There were about thirty contestants with the chance to rise to the Ascendant State.
Although the information about Su Ping’s second place in the competition had yet to spread out, the well-informed organizations had already learned about him.

That Star Lord knew of Su Ping’s performance too, so he answered his every question.

“It takes five seconds for the cover to be opened on a small scale, and three minutes on a large scale.

“It takes the same amount of time for it to close.”

Su Ping noted it down, in case that he didn’t have enough time to get back during an emergency.

Then, everybody dispersed.

Many had chosen to team up; Luo Ying, the one who had won first place, had joined hands with a handful of geniuses.

Next to Dragon Shepard, the one in fourth place, the sixth, the seventh and the ninth had been gathered; all of them were among the top ten.

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Their team was the strongest one at the moment.

Some whose rankings were lower had formed a team of more than twenty people.
They were hoping to hunt down a void-level beast too, but the distribution would be a problem.

Su Ping ignored them and led Su Jin’er and the young man with golden wheels in his eyes to the military department on the island.

Su Ping went there to ask for intelligence on the void beasts.

There were different kinds; Su Ping read carefully and attained a rough idea about them.

He then asked for the defense log of the base.

The log was considered confidential, but the man gave it to Su Ping anyway; he actually thought highly of Su Ping for having actually asked to see it.
After all, it was possible to infer patterns of their attacks based on the log, which was why it was very important.

Su Ping furrowed his eyebrows after reading the entries of the previous three years.

Battles seem to be quite frequent.

The battles were more difficult than he thought.
A tide of void beasts would burst out once every three days on average, but most of them would only have small numbers; a massive beast tide would happen twice a year.

Only the massive beast tides had to be resisted by the protective cover.

The smaller beast tides could be eliminated by deploying legions.

“Where are the soldiers here from?” asked Su Ping curiously after reading the log.

The general who was responsible for the defense was a Star Lord.
He shook his head and said, “They’re from military departments of various places in the Federation.
You would be appointed to join the military department where there are special divisions to deal with void beasts if you chose to be enlisted.
All rookies are trained there first, before they are mobilized.”

“I didn’t know that there were casualties all the time here.” Su Ping sighed.

The general said with a smile, “You’ll get used to it.
Maybe someone else will take my place later on; this is just the norm at the border.
Casualties are unavoidable, unless the Ascendant State lords join us.”

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