Chapter 62: Source Material: Actor's Mask
Where there is light in the world, there is darkness, and there is a gray area in between.
The Principality of Chiying originated from the Pirate Alliance, and its bad habits are hard to change, with many of its shady businesses. The black market of the Chiying Royal City was also born from this. The controller behind the black market is not any noble of the Chiying Principality, but the Grand Duke of Wandao of the nearby Wandao Principality.
Correspondingly, the black market power of the Principality of Ten Thousand Islands is controlled by the Grand Duke Chiying.
The two sides have exchanged control over the gray forces of each other's principalities. The benefits of doing so are very obvious. First of all, there is no need to worry about being directly liquidated when selling the country's shady extraordinary materials on the black market. Secondly, this is also a retreat prepared by the two grand dukes for their families.
Although the two principalities are not on the border of the human race, they are not in the heartland of the human race either.
The key point is that no new Sequence 3 Demigod has been born for many years.
As for the old Sequence 3 demigods, the founders of the two principalities, they had left their respective principalities 20,000 years ago. The current Grand Duke was already a descendant of these two several dozen generations ago. It was easy to imagine that there was no kinship at all after several dozen generations.
In this case, what if alien gods from outside the human territory appear?
Without the demigods, the two principalities had almost no ability to resist.
After the establishment of the World Government, many principalities were unfortunately destroyed by alien gods who crossed the tower and attacked them.
Even if the world government retaliates afterwards, the destroyed countries will not be resurrected.
Those great nobles who are truly well-connected will basically leave a way out in different countries.
Wearing a mask, Rosen walked into an underground building on the edge of the royal city.
The mask is enough. The entire black market does not allow the use of any spiritual power. Anyone who uses spiritual power will be forcibly expelled from the underground black market.
Rosen walked into a trading room with a vacant sign on the door, sat down opposite the trader and made his request.
Black market transactions do not require buyers and sellers to meet face to face; all transactions go through traders.
The price difference is the profit of the black market. Generally speaking, the price difference earned by the black market will not exceed 10%, otherwise it will be too greedy. People who come to the black market to trade are not fools. Here, except for a very small number of extraordinary and rare items, everything else can be traded with spiritual crystals.
"I need an extraordinary item that can disguise my identity, preferably one that has no conditions for use at Sequence 7."
After sitting down, Rosen directly stated his needs.
"Please be patient, this will take quite some time..."
Trader No. 166 was delighted to hear this. The commission from the Sequence 7 extraordinary artifact was a considerable fortune. He immediately took out a thick alchemy book and started reading it. Half an hour later, he turned the alchemy book upside down and pushed it in front of Rosen.
Rosen lowered his head and took a closer look. The book contained all the information about a Sequence 7 extraordinary item that met his requirements.
[Source Actor Mask: Extraordinary Item]
[Level: Sequence 7]
[Attribute: The Actor's Mask can deprive other extraordinary sequences of their extraordinary essence, allowing the wearer to gain a completely new identity]
[Source Ability 1: Wearing an actor's mask will give you the ability to imitate instinctively]
[Source Ability 2: Can randomly copy an additional extraordinary skill from the extraordinary sequence]
[Source Ability 3: Perfectly playing a role can accelerate one's spiritual growth]
[Equipment Requirements: Actor Sequence 7]
"It's a good thing, how can I use it?"
Rosen asked, looking up at the trader.
"There are many ways to circumvent equipment requirements..."
The trader was a little surprised that the buyer on the other side didn't know this, but he still explained seriously, "Ordinary extraordinary items don't have equipment requirements. At most, they can't be used because of insufficient sequence levels. Most of those that have equipment requirements are source-quality extraordinary items that have been fused with extraordinary source essence.
The essence of being unable to equip is the rejection of different supernatural sources. As long as the rejection is sealed, the need for equipment can be eliminated.
Based on the level of this extraordinary artifact, the price of erasing the equipment needs to be increased by 30%. "
"Increase the price by 30%..."
After some consideration, Rosen asked how many spiritual crystals were needed.
"The discount price will wipe out the remaining 800,000..."
The trader quoted a price that made Rosen's heart ache.
But without any thought, Rosen began to take out spiritual crystals continuously.
This time he looted the warehouse of the Gray Squirrels in Spiral Harbor, and together with the spiritual crystals dropped by the people he killed, he harvested a total of around 700,000 spiritual crystals. As for the various extraordinary materials, they were worth at least 500,000 spiritual crystals.
It seems like a lot, but in fact, these should be divided among thousands of human extraordinary sequences.
It's just that his series of actions made him swallow up all the resources alone.
Rosen thought that he had already shown off his wealth. If his wealth was in the hands of a Sequence 7, many Sequence 7s would not be able to produce so many spiritual crystals. However, compared with the turnover of the entire black market, it was far less, so he was not worried about the black market robbing each other.
So Rosen simply kept a small amount of rare resources as reserves and sold the rest.
An hour later, Rosen left the black market with 500,000 spiritual crystals and the actor's mask.
Because the traders made a lot of money in commissions, Rosen got a bonus message when he left.
Although the Actor's Mask is a powerful source of equipment, it is not as good as a true Sequence 7 Actor.
If the actor's ability to disguise his identity is perfect, then the actor can replace anyone's identity at will.
But in fact, it is not possible. If the actor's mask replaces the identity of the four major civilization sequences, it can be easily discovered.
Because noble blood cannot be forged by any means, the target of identity replacement should not be the four major civilization sequences.
Secondly, there are some extraordinary sequences and special extraordinary skills that can detect the disguise of the actor sequence. Where there is a spear, there is a shield. Therefore, after obtaining an identity with the help of an actor's mask, it is best not to act recklessly with the new identity.
Usually, as long as you don't commit any crime or cause any trouble, no one will expose you even if they find out you are disguising yourself.
After all, it's best to mind your own business, and people who meddle in other people's affairs often don't live long.
Rosen takes these reminders very seriously, as they are valuable experiences.
Now he had the actor's mask, but he still lacked a trouble-free identity.
It is best to have a sequence 9 hunter, which can better hide the hunter sequence he has mastered.
After returning to the pseudo-spiritual realm of the Artists' Guild, Rosen entered Masadora to select a suitable target.
Thousands of dead people from Red Stone City were reborn in Masadora after death.
The spirituality of these people has already been stimulated by the virtual spiritual realm. If assisted by some precious resources that can help spiritual awakening, it will not be difficult for some ordinary people who are only slightly lacking in talent to awaken their spirituality and qualify to take magic potions to transition to the extraordinary sequence.
Of course, changing jobs requires contact with the sequence ancient tree, and Rosen doesn't know whether it will be successful in the end.
But he has no shortage of spiritual crystals now, so it might be worth giving it a try.
After several days of careful selection, Rosen found some suitable experimental subjects among thousands of people in Masadora.
He also bought the ritual materials for awakening spirituality and the Sequence 9 Hunter Potion during these few days. After bringing them to Masadora, he immediately prepared the awakening ritual in the basement of Rose Castle and then forcibly sent the experimental subjects into the formation.
After several hours, two of the five subjects succeeded.
Rosen fed No. 1 the hunter potion, and the next moment he clearly felt that No. 1's spirituality had disappeared.
A moment later, a freshly-baked Sequence 9 Hunter was born.
Although the spiritual realm of Hunter x Hunter is special, it is obviously unable to block the power of the ancient silver tree in the spiritual world of human civilization.
Since one of them succeeded, there was no need for the other one to change his job to hunter.
Rosen thought about it and finally let No. 2 change his job to a knight to prepare a backup identity for himself in the knight sequence.
Rosen sealed No. 2's spirit and imprisoned him in Rose Castle, and put an actor's mask on No. 1's face.
No. 1, who was completely unable to resist, was beaten into a mummy by the actor's mask.
All life force and spirituality, including the soul and supernatural essence, were devoured by the actor's mask.
When Rosen put on the actor's mask again, he immediately turned into a strong young man in his twenties.
"Lynn Wells, this is my hidden identity as a hunter."
Rosen looked at the ordinary face in the mirror with satisfaction.
(End of this chapter)