Chapter 1884

Seeing Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's reaction, Su Xiao slowly walked to the oval building and leaned against the wall next to the door to look inside.

The Sacrificial Altar was very spacious, about three hundred square meters, circular in its entirety. There were stone carvings along the edges, and names were carved under each stone carving. Although Su Xiao didn't recognize these characters, he knew what one of the names meant: Mad Hunter Kefirson.

The floor of the Sacrificial Altar was paved with a kind of light yellow stone slab. It was these stone slabs that gave people a sense of security here.

In the center, there was a gray square stone covered with black patterns. Just looking at it made one feel dizzy, as if one's spirit was about to be sucked into those patterns.

The reason Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had that reaction just now was because there was a human figure sitting on the innermost side of the Sacrificial Altar. He was wearing black scale armor and holding a scepter. It was none other than the Day King, Erdels, the ruthless man who had once dealt with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang in the palace until it doubted its life.

As if sensing Su Xiao's gaze, the Day King, Erdels, opened his eyes. Because of the scales on his face, one couldn't see his appearance clearly.

"Living person."

Erdels spoke, but he didn't stand up, just sat on the tall stone chair.

Su Xiao hesitated for a moment, then entered the Sacrificial Altar from the main entrance. He didn't feel any hostility from the Day King.

"We... have met before. It was you who let Sayeto sit on the throne."

The Day King's voice was somewhat muffled due to the face mask. He let go of the scepter in his hand, and the scepter stood in place.

"Go back. There is no hope here anymore. Coexistence is the best way. We are traitors, traitors of the Dead City."

After the Day King finished this sentence, he closed his eyes, and the armor on his body gradually turned gray and white, turning into a stone carving.

Clearly, the Day King had not been completely assimilated by the Dead City, because he was not originally a resident here. Turning into his current appearance was only because of the responsibility of the Adgesh bloodline.

From the perspective of the empire, the Day King, Erdels, was almost a saint. His heart was full of ideals, but in order to allow humanity to continue in peace for three hundred years, he gave up everything and sat on the throne.

【Hint: The Hunter has entered the safe zone, the Sacrificial Altar.】

【Do not actively attack the Day King, Erdels; this action will bring huge risks.】

【The Sacrificial Altar has been activated. The Hunter can use the Dark Star Stone in the center to upgrade talent abilities. This is a technology left behind by the Mortia Kingdom and is extremely rare.】

【Each activation of the Dark Star Stone requires consuming 5% of the Source of Darkness. Each talent can be upgraded up to 4 times. Number of upgrades already performed: 0/8. The upgrade intensity depends on the talent potential.】

Confirming that the Sacrificial Altar was not dangerous, Su Xiao came to the Dark Star Stone—the square stone covered with black patterns. This thing was one meter high; it looked like stone, but it was actually the core of a certain star.

Amu and Veronique both entered the Sacrificial Altar. Only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was still a bit scared. It hesitated for a long time before trembling as it entered the Sacrificial Altar.

Click~

The stone-carved Day King opened one eye, scaring Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang so much that it quickly ran to Su Xiao's side, pressing tightly against him. The look it gave the Day King clearly meant: Don't touch me, I was wrong.

Using the toughest look to express the most cowardly meaning—this was something only Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang could do.

Su Xiao didn't pay attention to the 'friendly' exchange between Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and the Day King. He raised his hand and pressed it on the Dark Star Stone, and a stream of black energy emerged from thin air and merged into the Dark Star Stone.

【You have consumed 5% of the Source of Darkness.】

【Please select the talent you wish to upgrade: Soul Eater (S-rank) / Blood Beast (SSS-rank).】

Just as Su Xiao chose to upgrade Soul Eater, a sudden, intense pain made his whole body lose strength. After stabilizing his figure, he sat cross-legged in front of the Dark Star Stone.

Su Xiao's current feeling was very similar to when he first awakened the Soul Eater talent. Something in his body seemed to be decomposed inch by inch, and after becoming stronger, it aggregated again.

The intense pain made time seem long. I don't know how long it had passed before Su Xiao, covered in cold sweat, came back to his senses.

"Hoo~"

Su Xiao let out a long breath, the veins on his neck bulging. After checking his talent ability, his eyelids twitched. It wasn't that the upgrade effect was bad—it was very good—but he still had to experience the feeling he just had three more times. No, wait, he had obtained a total of 27.9% of the Source of Darkness, which meant he could upgrade Soul Eater four times, and the remaining Source of Darkness could upgrade Blood Beast once.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Xiao's hand pressed on the Dark Star Stone again...

Two hours later, Su Xiao's gaze was fixed straight ahead. It took a few seconds for him to come back to his senses. During this time, he was thinking about one thing: if upgrading a relatively gentle talent like 'Soul Eater' had such an experience, then what would it feel like to upgrade Blood Beast?

After upgrading Soul Eater four times in a row, Su Xiao could intuitively feel the changes in this talent ability. Although this wasn't a secondary awakening of the talent, it could be considered a small awakening.

【Soul Eater】

Category: Killing Talent (Awakened once)

Level: S (Highest level for first awakening)

Talent Effect (Passive): After killing a target, permanently seize 1–50 points of Mana (upper limit increased by 20 points), and restore the same amount of Mana and Health (e. g., if you permanently increase 50 points of Mana after killing an enemy, you will restore 50 points of Mana and Health).

Hint: Each derived world can permanently increase up to 400 points of Mana (upper limit increased by 200 points). If the seized Mana reaches the upper limit, Soul Eater will be fully activated, and the restoration effect after killing an enemy will be increased by 50%.

The intensity of Soul Eater had doubled. If the fighting was intense, one could increase 400 points of Mana in each world, and the restoration effect had also increased by nearly half.

Su Xiao was looking forward to what changes would occur after the secondary awakening of Soul Eater. Awakening a talent is different from permanently upgrading a talent; the former is a change in nature, while the latter is an increase in existing intensity.

After resting for a moment, Su Xiao's hand pressed on the Dark Star Stone again. This time, he was going to upgrade the Blood Beast talent ability.

Boom!

Blood energy erupted with Su Xiao as the center point, blowing Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's fur. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had no reaction; it was already used to it.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had no reaction, but Veronique was different. She subconsciously took a few steps back, her pupils gradually shrinking. She was looking at Su Xiao with astonishment, and the thought in her heart was: "What kind of person did I enter the Dead City with? Have I lived enough?"

The visible blood energy filled the Sacrificial Altar, even spreading out from the windows, forming a Blood Beast above the Sacrificial Altar, roaring at the sky.

In the outer periphery of the Dead City, near the area of the circular river, on the roof of a church, the blood-covered old charlatan was lying on the roof. And near him, there was also a corpse—that was a little girl with long black hair, her whole body covered in ragged wounds.

The old charlatan's blood-stained fingers moved. He slowly sat up, the skin on his face somewhat gray and white, even showing cracks.

"Have you already reached the center? I also have to... hurry up."

The old charlatan stood up and looked behind him; it was a large area of corpses of Dead City residents.

With a click, the long-handled blade in the old charlatan's hand shortened, its serrated edge covered in blood and minced meat. The old charlatan had also once been a hunter, a hunter who had accepted Ice Therapy.

Holding the saw-blade in one hand and a metal book in the other, the old charlatan jumped down from the roof. This book recorded all the monsters he had once hunted, and on the last page, it actually recorded himself: Mad Hunter Ken Rahan.

Nearly half an hour later, inside the Sacrificial Altar, Su Xiao, covered in blood energy, stood up. Seeing his appearance, Veronique felt that something was a bit wrong.

"Otherwise, let's run first. He seems a bit wrong."

"Woof~ (You're overthinking it)."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang tilted its head. Don't mention Su Xiao in this state; even when he had just returned from the ancient battlefield and was completely eroded by blood energy, it had seen him. That was what you called terrifying.

"Next destination: Hall of Birth."

Su Xiao exhaled blood energy from his mouth. He had been near the Hall of Birth before, but he didn't go in because the most terrifying resident of the Dead City was there—that was the completely assimilated Black King, Adgesh.

And now, Su Xiao was preparing to slaughter that former king. He had searched every place he could search. The last piece of the Black King set was either obtained in the Hall of Birth or in the Supreme Sanctuary.

"Kukulin, if you're going to the Hall of Birth, count me in."

An old man wearing a black-brown long leather coat, the leather coat stained with mottled blood, leaned against the main entrance. Beside his feet stood a saw-blade, the skin on his face had slight cracks, and his gray-white hair made him look tough and bloodthirsty.

"Simply... cool as hell."

Seeing the old charlatan in this appearance, Veronique muttered. Suddenly, she felt that she seemed to be the most useless one.