Chapter 2869: Chapter Fifty-Eight: Immortality and the Mask

The soul skeleton knelt on both knees, hands holding a metal cup, black backflow incense spilling from within the cup, covering the ground, vaguely giving a sense of safety.

After successfully activating a 'Soul Skeleton' once, the Soul Shop refreshed, reducing the price and increasing the stock of the two existing exchangeable items, and additionally adding three new items.

Divine bones, holy land language, and immortal-grade weapons.

Immortal-grade weapon 【Soul Scythe·Death Herald】, just by the name one can feel its destructive power is off the charts, but Su Xiao does not plan to exchange for it yet, because activating other 'Soul Skeletons' later will lower its exchange price.

Su Xiao very much wants to see what the 'core bonus' effect of immortal-grade equipment is, but currently he lacks soul coins, and exchanging now would be too costly.

Su Xiao currently has 1500 soul coins, and the large quantity of 【Crude Soul Condensate】 in his storage can be sold anytime for 950 soul coins; besides these, Uni's Scarlet Card can also yield some soul coins.

【Crude Soul Condensate】 and Uni's Scarlet Card, Su Xiao will not use them for now, only considering using them when urgently needing soul coins; selling the 【Crude Soul Condensate】 now would lose 122 soul coins in price difference.

Su Xiao spent 100 soul coins to first exchange two epic-grade divine bones, the more the better.

In his storage, he has four holy-grade divine bones and two epic-grade divine bones, all prepared for the Sovereign of Fate.

Three divine bones can be synthesized into one same-grade 【Divine Bone Miracle】, which Su Xiao greatly needs.

The Sovereign of Fate is legendary-grade; to elevate it to holy-grade requires epic-grade 【Divine Bone Miracle】 and holy-grade 【Divine Bone Miracle】, respectively.

Su Xiao has long been able to synthesize holy-grade 【Divine Bone Miracle】, but epic-grade has always been impossible due to lack of same-grade divine bones; now he finally obtained epic-grade divine bones.

Long ago, Su Xiao always thought divine bones were useless, causing him to miss several epic-grade divine bones, until later he obtained one divine bone.

This is Su Xiao's mistake, and precisely this mistake caused the Sovereign of Fate to remain legendary-grade until now; fortunately, his luck is not bad now.

Putting away the divine bones in his hand, Su Xiao looked at the last exchange option: the language of Kiliad, that is, the holy land's language.

Undoubtedly, if Su Xiao completes the ascension mission and leaves Kiliad alive, this language will basically be useless, and its exchange price is as high as 320 soul coins.

Over 300 soul coins is not a small amount; Su Xiao, fighting in the seventh-rank world, gains a total of about 4000–8000 soul coins per world, which is already quite smooth.

But if he does not exchange the holy land language, Su Xiao cannot understand what enemies are saying; Kiliad differs from places like Dead Silence City and Misfortune Town—for example, the Sun Warriors, though fierce and strong, are still communicable.

Not only the Sun Warriors, Su Xiao suspects that besides half-dead enemies like jailers, other enemies are basically communicable, such as the Big Axe Brother he encountered earlier.

Although Su Xiao does not particularly need to communicate with enemies, he needs to know what they are saying; charging into the central area of Kiliad blindly is a suicidal act, here enemies are strong and various malicious mechanisms abound.

Su Xiao feels understanding the language here will likely not be a loss; these 300+ soul coins are like an investment—the earlier the investment, the higher the return.

Moreover, in the Pain Prison, a special Sun Warrior is imprisoned; understanding the language here allows one to fool……to negotiate with him.

The priest, this temporary teammate, is alive or dead unknown; Su Xiao needs a new temporary teammate, that is, to find someone to scout ahead.

Earlier he saw that Sun Warrior, who seemed not too bright, but strong enough, plus Sun Warriors have thick skin and flesh, giving them greater survival than shieldless Amu; most importantly, that Sun Warrior is a local, knowing this place better.

Having made up his mind, Su Xiao spent 320 soul coins to exchange the Kiliad language.

Soul coins rapidly depleted, Su Xiao felt his head dizzy, a large amount of information about 'Kiliad language' appeared in his mind.

This language is very complex, because it is overly ancient; if one pushes back the era of this world, it is:

Soul Energy Era → Oglu Dynasty → Imperial Chaos War → Turbulent Ages → Dark Ages → Unknown Era.

The 'Kiliad language' Su Xiao now masters is the language before the Dark Ages, and it is not that the older the thing the better, but rather this language and its complexity, complex to the point of being unnecessary.

More than half of the characters in Kiliad language, at first glance, would be thought to be some family's insignia.

Su Xiao gradually sorted out the chaotic knowledge in his mind; this language seems not only for communication, but also has a more important use, otherwise it would not be so expensive.

Walking out of the prison where the 'Soul Skeleton' was, Su Xiao took Bubu Wang and Bahah, heading toward the prison where the Sun Warrior was held.

At the same time, in the Holy Sacrifice Hall of Kiliad Royal City.

Sunlight poured in through each hole in the ceiling, casting large patches of light on the ground; at the deepest part of the 'Holy Sacrifice Hall', a strong man sat there, his head full of golden long hair, wildly flowing like a lion's mane, muscles on his chest like granite, sharply defined.

Most striking was the mask on this man's face, the mask overall bone-white, with a black hole as thick as an index finger at the brow center—this is exactly the dark mask Father and President Rogesh wanted to obtain.

Black liquid like blood traces flowed from the black hole in the mask, dripping down along the chin; the golden-haired man held a stone basin in both hands, already filled with black liquid.

Drip—

A drop of black liquid fell into the stone basin, sending ripples layer upon layer; the masked man remained motionless, like a sculpture.

With a creak, the two great doors of the Holy Sacrifice Hall were pushed open, over a dozen Sun Warriors holding spears entered, standing in two rows on either side of the lion-skin carpet.

President Rogesh entered the Holy Sacrifice Hall, gazing at the golden-haired man seated innermost and the mask on his face.

"What meaning is there in taking the mask from my hand?"

President Rogesh stepped forward, finally stopping before the stone platform where the golden-haired man stood, his hand pressing toward the dark mask, pulling it from the golden-haired man's face.

Clap!

A large hand grabbed Rogesh's wrist, with a crack, Rogesh's wrist was twisted and deformed, this force so terrifying it made one dare not believe it.

Rogesh hooked his finger, throwing the dark mask into the other hand.

"Your two offspring have already grown into adults, one named Hesiro, the other named Enier; unfortunately, one of them is already dead, and later the other will also not live long; as their true father, go save him."

Rogesh spoke low in the golden-haired man's ear; as his words fell, the golden-haired man, over three meters tall, slowly rose, looking down on Rogesh.

Strong, unmatched in strength, this golden-haired man was Rogesh's former arch-enemy; they dueled, and finally Rogesh lost, but now he has returned to the Holy Land of Kiliad.

After a moment, the golden-haired man put down the stone basin in his hand, brushed past Rogesh, and walked toward the outside of the Holy Sacrifice Hall; as he passed a Sun Warrior, he jabbed his index finger, penetrating without resistance into the warrior's brain, the warrior's body began to dissolve, finally completely absorbed by the golden-haired man.

After the golden-haired man left, Rogesh picked up the stone basin and poured the black liquid inside over his head, making his whole body pitch black; he bowed his head, standing dazed in place for about half an hour, then picked up the dark mask nearby and placed it on his face.

With a boom, the impact spread, a hole appeared above Rogesh, large amounts of black liquid flowed out, enveloping Rogesh within.

Bang!

Exploded into view, the dark mask flew out from within the black fluid, everything vanished in an instant, the Holy Sacrifice Hall returned to its original appearance, Rogesh's hair fluttered, his eyes black-red, making him look like a wicked ghost just crawled out of purgatory.

"Not enough, far from enough, Hesiro, do not disappoint me, accept your father's power, then… come before me, so I may take your power."

The great doors of the Holy Sacrifice Hall boomed shut, President Rogesh's plan was about to succeed; he is not actually Hesiro's father, and all claims about touching the dark mask to pass on 'immortal power' to Hesiro etc. are lies.

Hesiro's immortal body is his innate power; he and his sister, one inherited their father's immortal power, the other forever remains young.

Hesiro belongs to the Holy Land, no, he was born in the Holy Land of Kiliad, so he can ignore the scorching of the 'Sun', and moreover fully activate the fifth key, Heart Flame; all this was planned long ago by Rogesh.

When Rogesh's plan succeeds and he finally dons the dark mask, he will be the undisputed strongest in this world.

In Rogesh's view, life is too fragile, including himself; even with his current strength, being beheaded would still mean death.

Therefore he has always thought, if he possessed immortal power and maintained an eternally youthful body, then finally donned the dark mask, could he achieve immortality? Even if the price was becoming inhuman.

Immortal power, an ageless body, and the dark mask are the three main points of Rogash's plan.

Rogash already had an ageless body over a decade ago; he purified Xixiluo's sister into liquid form and drank it, after which he ceased aging. As an added benefit, he gained the 'Puppet' technique and created puppets such as 'No. 9' and 'No. 0'.

Now, Rogash has obtained the dark mask; he only lacks Xixiluo's immortal power, but that power is not yet perfect. When it becomes perfect enough, Rogash will go to seize it.