Transcendent Dawn

Chapter 575: Chapter 0575: In Addition (Third Update Request for Subscription)

Time backtracks a slight bit.

The northern provinces.

Underneath the snowy mountains, within a certain grotto.

One hundred occupational corpses scattered around, oozing fresh blood continuously.

Beryl herself lies within a massive blood-red crystal. The power of these pulsating veins is incessantly seeping into her body, performing a bloodline substitution.

This is the ascension ritual for the fifth stage of the path of the undead – [King of the Undead]!

Transplanting the bloodline of highly-ranked spiritual beings and appeasing the divine with the death of many professionals!

Within the dense environment of ‘death’, Beryl murmured to herself:

“To appease the gods with a large amount of killing? In fact… it is to appease the realm associated with death, isn’t it? Just as the master said, during the performance of this ceremony, there’s a chance of attracting the attention of a death-related divine entity. I wonder which one… but undoubtedly… Lady Moon is the most dangerous!”

What has uniqueness is the profession, not the realm! Therefore, there are more than one death-associated divine entities.

For instance, Lady Moon, her seventh-level occupation might be [Ferryman of the River Styx]. This professional path is untouchable to anyone else until her demise.

However, other undead or lich can set foot in the realm of death through the profession of the seventh-level [Pale Lord].

However, these divine entities in similar realms, their paths complement and are compatible with one another. They can devour each other and are more prone to infighting. The enmity between them intensifies.

An even more stark instance is Antonio Caesar.

He plans to ascend to godhood through a brand-new profession that consolidates sovereign power and war, thus encroaching on the realm of war. As a result, his power can weaken the faith towards the God of War.

The moment he becomes a god, he will plunge into fierce competition with the original God of War.

The professional path is the path with the strongest inclusiveness and creativity.

Accessing the same realm through different professions, achieving similar effects – this is the source of continuous innovation on various professional paths!

The ritual that Beryl is conducting will access the realm of death and has the potential to be sensed by any divine entity associated with death elements in their profession.

Of course, most likely all the great beings would dismiss the sacrificial ceremony performed by any common fourth-level creature.

However, Beryl is slightly different.

She once was marked by Lady Moon, so this ceremony is most likely to attract her attention, which could push the outcome of the ceremony into a completely unpredictable state.

Su Lu once suggested that Beryl should wait for a while, and hold the ascension ceremony under his supervision.

Apparently, Beryl didn’t take this advice.

As someone favored by ‘death’, she has an innate acuteness. She had this premonition that now is the most suitable moment for the ascension!

[Undead] believe in their inherent ‘inspiration’.

Thus, Beryl chose a hidden base and began her attempt to ascend.

Anyway, even if she fails, she could still be backed up by Su Lu, just by invoking the true name of the one.

The blood-red crystal gradually turned colorless, as if all the blood inside had been completely absorbed by Beryl.

When the last hint of pale red vanished, she slowly paced out of the crystal, knelt down and began to pray.

“With this blood, I sacrifice to death…”

“Supreme death, the end of everything, is the greatest equality in the world…”

With the ancient and obscure sacrificial words, she dipped into the fresh blood on the ground, drawing a vertical line on her face.

The bright bloodline began at the forehead, moved past the bridge of her nose, her cherry lips, and finally, she closed her eyes to meditate deeply.

The ritual moves onto the most crucial part!

Beryl suddenly felt a vast and immense force of death; they are so condensed, so vibrant, so… close!

It seemed like a death vortex was forming in the world, right in the Chris Empire, right in the northern territories!

‘Death is average, why would it gather like this?’

‘If it weren’t for my unique constitution as I just ascend to the fifth level, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to sense this subtle ‘node’…’

‘No wonder I had the premonition that this is the best time for the ascension. Is it because the force of death in this world is becoming highly active?’

Thoughts flashed through Beryl’s mind and she suddenly became a bit heavy-hearted.

There must be a reason behind the activation of the force of death, right?

Suddenly, a somewhat blurry voice sounded in her ear.

It was as if some great being had perceived her ritual and was responding:

“Suo… Luo…”

“Suo… Luo… Ke…”

“Suo Luo Caesar!”

“Ah!”

Beryl screamed, feeling her spirit being involuntarily pulled out of her body, transferred through the Spirit World, and brought to a place filled with darkness underground.

Innumerable skulls, piled up into nine towering hills.

The power of death was highly activated here.

Hovering in mid-air was a dark golden, heavy coffin!

Many of the skulls were now chanting praises:

…

“Suo Luo Caesar!”

“You are the king of the undead, the lord of the pale lands!”

“Your name… will become sacred in death!”

…

If a noble scholar from the Chris Empire who specializes in studying royal bloodlines were here, they might be able to infer the life of the tomb’s owner from the various reliefs on the name and the coffin.

Suo Luo Caesar!

He was the ruling emperor of the Chris Empire three hundred years ago, an ancestor of Antonio Caesar!

His reign lasted only a few years, and he died of a violent illness, ultimately buried in the Caesar family cemetery.

But obviously, all of this was a lie.

This emperor was relatively unknown during his reign, but in terms of occupational talent, he was clearly a genius who had touched the threshold of becoming a god!

The direction he chose was ‘death’!

As for the ritual, it involved being dead for more than a hundred years and then widely collecting the power of death from the entire world!

Antonio’s insane launch of a world war was not just to collect war!

War is always accompanied by death! This is common sense!

But Beryl didn’t know any of this.

She looked at all of this, feeling that her spirit was involuntarily being cast into the coffin, and she would become an inconspicuous stone under the seat of the god.

Death was like a shadow, it was a landslide and tsunami coming towards her.

“No!”

She struggled, but did not despair.

Facing this greatest terror in the world, Beryl uttered her last reliance: “Su Lu Ke Pottery Meng…”

This was Su Lu’s real name, and any utterance of it would get a response.

Originally, this was just Su Lu’s last insurance for Beryl against a failed ascension.

Now, it undoubtedly served as an excellent trump card for survival.

The gaze of a divine being was cast!

“This is…”

The Blue Star World.

Looking like it pierced through the void, the gaze of Su Lu’s incarnation directly saw the coffin and the corpse inside: “Another Caesar family’s god-making ritual?”

He had always felt that Antonio’s actions were a bit odd, and the guards were somewhat weak.

Now it seems that the mad king was indeed quite crazy. He was so prepared that he even had a second plan for divine ascension.

In fact, he even used himself to draw firepower for another royal family member who was about to ascend!