70: Chapter 70 Shock and Panic

"It's gone."

Jin Ruxuan stared intently at the invasion panel in front of him, which displayed the territory coordinate he had entered.

However, just after he finished inputting it, the System prompted him that the territory coordinate did not exist...

He clearly remembered that this territory coordinate pointed to an old-guard lord of the Shadow Race who had participated in the destruction of the Jinshi Chamber of Commerce.

Now, it was gone.

Jin Ruxuan knew exactly what this meant.

That old-guard lord of the Shadow Race was dead, and their territory had been destroyed along with them.

"He did it; Lin Xiao really did it."

Jin Ruxuan was shocked to the extreme.

Besides Lin Xiao, he couldn't think of anyone else.

After all, the four major races were currently besieging the Human Race, and they held the absolute advantage in the First Source Sea. The old-guard lords and top-tier lords of the Human Race were being suppressed and beaten within their own territories, having absolutely no spare energy to invade others.

Of course, anything was possible.

Perhaps some top-tier lord of the Human Race still had the energy to counterattack and happened to target this old-guard lord of the Shadow Race.

Being besieged was one thing, but as long as the space-time turbulence disappeared, a besieged lord could still invade others.

Furthermore, it was also possible that a few ordinary Human Race lords had attacked this old-guard lord of the Shadow Race together and managed to take him down.

Or perhaps a lord from another race had invaded that Shadow Race lord for some reason.

If it were only one instance, Jin Ruxuan could explain it as a coincidence.

But this was the third one.

All three territory coordinates he had given to Lin Xiao had become invalid.

One might be a coincidence, but three made it inevitable.

"How on earth did Lin Xiao do it?" Jin Ruxuan couldn't understand.

In such a short amount of time, he had destroyed three old-guard lords in succession. Even though these three were the weakest ones he had selected, they were not easy to take down.

After all, they were old-guard lords who had operated in the First Source Sea for many years; their territory defenses were as solid as a rock, and they were certainly not pushovers.

Jin Ruxuan had no idea that Lin Xiao possessed a top-tier Epic Grade unit like the Burning Sky Flame Dragon, which was also a flying unit.

In fact, if not for President Gu Yizhou's care, Lin Xiao would never have been able to obtain a top-tier unit of this caliber.

Of course, the Burning Sky Flame Dragon and Lin Xiao were mutually beneficial to each other.

If it were any other lord, the Burning Sky Flame Dragon would not have been able to unleash such terrifying lethality.

"Forget it, none of that matters."

Jin Ruxuan quickly stopped overthinking. How Lin Xiao did it wasn't important; what mattered was that a small part of the obstacles to rebuilding the Jinshi Chamber of Commerce had disappeared.

That was the most important thing.

"I must increase the investment."

Jin Ruxuan made a decision immediately.

This was part of the contract, but of course, even without that contract, with Jin Ruxuan's investment insight, he would still be willing to place a heavy bet on Lin Xiao.

...

Qin Yiyi was also feeling equally shocked.

She soon discovered that the ten territory coordinates she had given to Lin Xiao were all becoming invalid, at a frightening speed.

Qin Yiyi didn't dare to delay and immediately reported it to President Gu Yizhou.

It wasn't that she was reporting out of turn, but rather that President Gu Yizhou had specifically instructed that intelligence regarding Lin Xiao be sent directly to him.

"Good lad, he really is extraordinary."

President Gu Yizhou was full of joy, as if he could see the endless black clouds shrouding the First Source Sea finally showing signs of dissipating.

Although the loss of ten old-guard lords was nothing to the four major races, this was undoubtedly a good start.

He quickly issued an order.

"Increase the investment; whatever he wants, we will give him."

"The Lord Association will support him with full force."

"There is only one condition: have him kill as many enemy lords as possible."

...

"What, Kojima Miyuki is dead?"

"And Nishimura Yuta is dead too?"

Matsumoto Toshio's expression turned extremely ugly.

These two old-guard lords were among the many lords ordered to invade Lin Xiao's territory, but now they were both dead.

Matsumoto Toshio had a gut feeling that both Kojima Miyuki and Nishimura Yuta must have invaded Lin Xiao's territory, yet their end was that both had fallen.

"What exactly is going on with this Lin Xiao?"

Ono Nobuo was one thing; after all, he was just an ordinary lord. But Kojima Miyuki and Nishimura Yuta were both old-guard lords, yet they had also died, and so quickly at that.

It was as if they weren't facing an opponent of the same level at all.

Matsumoto Toshio was extremely agitated; all signs indicated that Lin Xiao's strength was a bit stronger than imagined.

Even for a top-tier lord, it shouldn't be that simple to take down Kojima Miyuki and Nishimura Yuta.

Even if Lin Xiao had used some kind of burst or one-time method...

"Yes, it must be a burst method."

"His territory must be in a weak period right now."

"We must take the opportunity to kill him; we absolutely cannot give him a chance to catch his breath."

"I need more manpower."

Matsumoto Toshio had limited manpower and resources at his disposal. He didn't dare to delay and immediately went to find his direct superior, Drake, to lay out the situation regarding Lin Xiao and his own speculations.

Heretic Hunting Bureau.

Drake's expression was extremely gloomy as he coldly looked at the trembling Matsumoto Toshio.

"Have you ever thought about what if Lin Xiao didn't rely on some burst, but actually possessed the strength to easily kill old-guard lords?"

Upon hearing this, Matsumoto Toshio's face turned deathly pale.

This was a possibility he dared not dwell on.

Because it meant that their indulgence might have raised an ultimate BOSS.

Such a responsibility—let alone him being doomed to a miserable death—was something even Drake could not bear.

"Useless fool, you've ruined me."

Drake wished he could slap the other person to death.

If there were a regret pill in this world, Drake would definitely go back ten days to slap himself awake for being bewitched by Matsumoto Toshio.

What fishing, what trap setting.

Killing everyone who came, making the Human Race Prodigies afraid to show their heads, that was the most correct choice.

Unfortunately, it was too late to regret now.

He had to deal with this incredibly thorny matter.

"I will mobilize as much manpower as possible to invade Lin Xiao's territory."

"But if that worst-case scenario is true, the power of our Heretic Hunting Bureau alone is far from enough."

Drake took a deep breath.

The manpower and resources that the Heretic Hunting Bureau could mobilize were also limited.

They had already exhausted their efforts to launch invasions against thirty-one Human Race Prodigies simultaneously.

Now, they could only slow down the invasions against the other twenty-nine Prodigies and focus their efforts on Lin Xiao and Yun Zhiyue.

After all, Lin Xiao being an ultimate BOSS was only a possibility; Drake couldn't commit all his manpower to invading him, while the threat from Yun Zhiyue was real.

Both had to be suppressed with full force.

However, Drake also did not want another Lin Xiao to emerge from those twenty-nine Human Race Prodigies.

He was truly afraid.

There was no other way; he could only report it up.

He would let higher-level lords handle it, ideally mobilizing the strongest old-guard lords, or even top-tier lords, of the four major races in the First Source Sea to snipe these Human Race Prodigies.