Chapter 964: The Third Transaction Theocrat
Feeling the fierce gaze of the gray slimes around him, the system body was slightly silent for a few seconds before he said expressionlessly: "...... Tracked?"
A hint of cunning flashed in the eyes of the leader slime: "Hehe, guess what?"
"It's Randy's soul, right?" The system host was unmoved, still expressionless and said his judgment, and his tone was calm and determined, "The specific time when I was manipulated should be the time when you first invaded my host's soul to spy on me. ”
“......”
Although the slime did not speak, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
The system host, who had been paying attention to the changes in the slime's expression, saw this, and was even more sure of his judgment.
As a created one, it should not have much emotion, but at this moment, it is also rare to have some mood swings called 'regret'.
Originally, after taking Randy's body, there was no need for the system host body to continue to retain Randy's soul. And the reason why it still has to keep it until now is to temporarily store Randy's soul as a resource in case it needs it.
Because for the trading theocracy it uses, that is, the golden scale, the value of the trading chips represented by the sacrifice of different things is also different, just as the value of currency will also vary depending on the type. And the 'soul', especially the 'soul' belonging to the higher intelligent life, is one of the most sought-after 'currencies' in the golden balance!
Even if Randy's soul cultivation had only been systematically strengthened to a level close to the second-level high level before, if he was sacrificed, the reward he would get from the Golden Balance would not even be much weaker than half of the vitality contained in his current body that had been systematically strengthened to the third-level extreme realm.
With such a bargaining chip, the system host is naturally unwilling to waste it easily. Anyway, as long as Randy's soul's freedom of action is completely controlled by the system as it is now and cannot resist the system, then his soul will be regarded as the property of the system by default by the trading rules, and it can be used by the system as a trading chip to sacrifice to the golden balance in exchange for the benefits it needs.
For the system that was in a crisis at that time, every chip available in his hand was worth cherishing, after all, who knows if he would rely on this chip to get the opportunity to turn the tables and win in the battle.
But unfortunately, the system did not expect that its behavior of preserving Randy's soul in the consideration of not wasting resources has now become a key factor that caused him to get out of trouble but fell into crisis again.
But it's useless to dwell on these now. The system will not waste too much time on such an irreparable matter. The reason why it deliberately voiced the words of the Grey Crystal Slimes was just to further determine what the problem was this time.
Looking at the Grey Crystal Slimes around them who were gradually approaching them, and also cautiously blocking all possible routes to break through to the surrounding voids, the eyes of the system hosts were full of coldness.
Because he has already experienced the difficulty of this group of slimes, and there is a mysterious powerhouse who does not know the depth of strength before, so the system will blindly adopt an action strategy based on breaking through and escaping.
But now it seems that if this group of enemies is not eliminated first, it really doesn't want to escape easily.
Before the two sides could fight again, the system body felt a new wave of spatial fluctuations, and only turned its head slightly, and it found the black-haired boy who had just appeared in the distance behind the slime legion, watching the situation from a distance, and seemed to be the leader of this group of enemies.
Even the system host saw the black-haired boy's lips move slightly.
"Go on, don't worry about me. Although I didn't hear the specific words, the system that knew how to read lip language still read this meaning from the movements of the black-haired boy.
Without waiting for it to continue to pay attention to the other party, the more than 100 gray crystal slimes around it seemed to be waiting for the black-haired boy, and after the other party arrived, they launched an attack on the system host again with great tacit understanding.
Ignoring anything else, the system host could only focus on dealing with the attack of these slimes in front of it, after all, with the strength of these slimes, although one or two alone could not pose much of a threat to it, it now had to face more than a hundred!
However, this time the two sides fought again, and the system host immediately felt more pressure than before.
After all, now, in order to break through, it sacrificed full half of the vitality of this host's body to the golden balance before, and it has rapidly aged from a good young man in his twenties to a middle-aged and elderly man who looks at least forty or fifty years old.
The aging of the body inevitably leads to some decline in its state.
Although this decline does not seem to be too large, you must know that the system host is facing the siege of the slime army with one enemy and one hundred enemies, and it has already been suppressed and is very difficult to support. Now the state has been further weakened, which is tantamount to adding to the situation.
In just a dozen seconds, the system host was almost caught by more than twenty gray crystal slimes at close range because of its lack of action response.
Outside the field, in the void where there was a distance of tens of thousands of meters from the system host, Jiang Yan observed the situation of the battle between the two sides for a while, and found that the system body seemed to be able to hold on for a while, and he couldn't help but admire its tenacity slightly.
Through further analysis and observation so far, Jiang Yan found that the will of this so-called system seems to have a lot of similarities with the brain-type data-based soul machine he created with the power of data.
In terms of deduction and calculation, it is not easy to say which is better or worse between the data-based intelligent brain and the other party. But in terms of thinking and state of mind, the two have striking similarities, they are the same, basically will not be affected by the emotional fluctuations that normal creatures should have, their own state of will, the mode of thinking is like mechanical intelligence, the geography is incomparably intelligent but not stiff and rigid, and the action is extremely decisive, and basically will not waste their time on things that have no practical meaning!
To be specific, Jiang Yan feels that the term 'mechanized mind' is very suitable to describe this so-called systematic will.
In addition, Jiang Yan almost confirmed the existence form of the other party, it doesn't seem to be a normal life form, uh, if it is a prop with self-will, it is man-made. The will of this prop called 'system' is also similar to that of 'machine spirit'.
When Jiang Yan was still analyzing the so-called system will, he found that there were traces of artificial transformation on the other party's body, and it was still a soul body in essence. In this regard, the other party is also very similar to those data-based intelligent brains under Jiang Yan.
This kind of discovery made Jiang Yan want to capture the other party even more, because his initial guess seemed to come true, this so-called system was really a chess piece created by some high-level power for a certain purpose.
Such a 'system' type mysterious prop, just the power it shows at the moment, is no less than any kind of true god-level artifact secret treasure. In particular, the other party also has the ability to independently cast the terrifying effect of the 'trading divine power', such a divine skill that can be exchanged for any reward they need as long as they pay the corresponding price, as long as they find the right way to use it, it can almost be said that they can do whatever they want.
And the unknown existence behind the scenes that can create such a magical thing must not be much lower in itself.
Moreover, Jiang Yan didn't think that the system host only had these abilities that it had shown now, which made him look forward to the moment when he took it down.
Jiang Yan kept flashing various thoughts in his heart, and finally stopped watching from the sidelines, but planned to take action in person to help the Slime Legion.
After thinking about it, he took out a silver crystal with a large amount of data flow code circulating inside from the storage ring, and after pinching it in his hand, he no longer hesitated, and threw it fiercely towards the position where the slime army and the system host were fighting in the distance.
The silver crystal flew towards the battlefield like a meteor, and as soon as it approached, it automatically shattered, and the massive real data resources sealed in it immediately burst out, turning into a silver sea composed of data codes, and then condensed into one hexagonal crystal wall after another, with more than 100,000 pieces as far as the eye could see, covering almost the entire battlefield within a radius of 10,000 meters.
"Sa, let me see, are you still hiding any hole cards that are useless?" chuckled, Jiang Yan waved his hand coldly.
One hundred thousand small crystal walls then moved, each crystal wall was like an experienced hunter, occupying all the corners of the edge of the battlefield from an all-round angle, and then slowly began to steadily advance in the center, forming a three-dimensional spherical encirclement, pressing towards the central system body little by little.
As soon as he saw this familiar routine that he had just experienced once not long ago, the system host suddenly secretly screamed that something was wrong.
The cage built by this crystal wall has a powerful effect of imprisonment, and it has experienced it before. If it is trapped, even if it is based on its third-level extreme realm cultivation strength, if it does not rely on trading divine power in exchange for an exception-breaking level power beyond the current limit, then it is not necessary to break through the blockade of the crystal cage again.
To add insult to injury, this time, the system host has to face not only the suppression of the simple crystal cage, but also the more than a hundred difficult gray crystal slimes!
Whether it's the Crystal Wall or the Grey Crystal Slime, either alone would be a huge headache for the system, and now the two are stacked together to deal with it, which is a desperate death.
After quickly calculating it, it took almost half a second for the system to come to the conclusion that it could not rely on its own strength to break the game, and looking at the speed of the surrounding layer slowly compressed by countless crystal walls, there was not much time left for it to think about countermeasures, and it was less than 10 seconds at most.
Moreover, the strength of the crystal wall itself is inversely proportional to the size of the coverage area of the cage it builds. Because this is the same as the expansion and contraction of an elastic balloon, the smaller the cage coverage is compressed, the crystal wall itself does not need to spend too much weight to maintain the wall area of the cage, and the saved amount can be used to thicken the wall.
The smaller the cage sizes, the thicker the crystal wall itself becomes, and the stronger it becomes.
According to the previous experience, the system host naturally saw this, and wanted to rush out to break a gap when the crystal cage was still just beginning to shrink.
It's a pity that the gray crystal slimes that have been prepared around for a long time have been able to hold it back at this time. Even because of the attention attracted by the crystal cage, although it reacted quickly, but because of this, the system host, which was slightly sluggish, was still touched by a few gray crystal slimes, and was once again devoured a lot of power.
If it weren't for the fact that there was still a reserve energy in the storage space of the system body to replenish, the system host would have to fall directly into a state of weakness and weakness after this mistake.
But even that only adds a little to its struggle.
With the Grey Crystal Slime's delay, the crystal cage continued to shrink in an orderly manner.
It didn't take much time to suppress the range of activity of the system to within a radius of one kilometer. For ordinary people, this range is very wide, but for a third-level cultivator who can easily cross a distance of thousands of meters in an instant, this distance is too narrow.
“......”
In the end, the system host, which had been forced to the center of the crystal cage with a range of less than five hundred meters, could only rely on continuously venting the power in its body like a flood to the surrounding areas, constantly bombarding the void with a radius of ten meters centered on it at an extremely high frequency, shattering and erasing all the beings who dared to approach this range, and at the same time, with this high-frequency bombardment, it continued to shake the surrounding spatial structure, creating a circle that was enough to prevent the gray crystal slime from rushing through the space jump. Minefield's space field.
The effect of this is still there, at least until the system hosts exhaust their own energy, whether it is the gray crystal slime or the crystal wall formed by the simulated crystal wall, it will be difficult to cross that violent energy field.
But when Jiang Yan saw this scene, he was not in a hurry at all. Because he knew that such a chaotic defensive method of the system could not last long.
You must know that in order to make it impossible for the Grey Crystal Slimes who have inherited from Xiaobai's super resistance and devouring ability to get close to each other, the power required to consume this energy field created by the system host at any moment is an extremely terrifying number.
If you come over as an ordinary third-level Extreme Realm powerhouse, even if you just release energy like this and hold on for thirty seconds, it is enough to squeeze out all the energy reserves of your body!
Even if the system host has the support of backup storage space, Jiang Yan doesn't believe that there is no limit to the other party's reserve energy, even if it is consumed, there are still dozens of sealed crystals in the storage ring, and he is confident that he can consume it over the other party.
Moreover, not to mention the problem of consumption, such a desperate and all-out output of energy is very serious for the body of the system.
Even if it is a machine, it will have the problem of wear and tear after being overused, not to mention the human body! If it continues like this, even if the energy reserve of the system is not exhausted, the body where the system is lodged will collapse first!
Therefore, Jiang Yan is not afraid of dragging it out like this. However, he knew that what he could think of, as a party of the system, would definitely not be ignored.
Sure enough, just as Jiang Yan thought, the system host did not hesitate to bear a huge burden, but also to create such a violent energy field, in addition to buying himself some safe time, more importantly, he didn't want its next actions to be disturbed by the enemy.
"Hoo ......"
Forcibly ignoring the constant pain from every inch of the host's flesh and blood due to the excessively violent energy flow, the system host slowly exhaled and said solemnly:
"In the name of the god of wealth, make a deal with the Supreme Reason!"
Silently, the mysterious golden scale, which symbolizes the principles of the conceptual law of trading, emerged from the head of the system for the third time.
No matter how much the violent energy field released by the surrounding system hosts raged everything around it, it could not bring the slightest ripple to the golden balance that was close at hand. Under the gaze of the majestic and invisible mysterious will, a faint golden light sprinkled on the body of the system host, as if it was quietly waiting for its movements.
Seeing this, whether it was Jiang Yan or Xiaobai, they couldn't help but look a lot more solemn.
This time, I don't know what the other party will get from the golden balance?
However, Jiang Yan was a little surprised to find that a hazy illusory figure that was only the size of a palm suddenly floated out of the center of the system's eyebrows, and was shrouded in the golden light of the golden balance and began to float towards the tray on its left.
Jiang Yan's pupils shrank slightly: "That's ...... Randy's soul?!......
Before Jiang Yan could continue to think about it, the system host had already shouted the answer:
"I offer this human soul and this human body in exchange for the dimensional gate to welcome the arrival of my great Lord God!!"