Chapter 5830

“So… the boy hides quite the secret,” the Soul Devourer murmured, the rasp now edged with ice and a glimmer of hunger no mortal ear could miss. Power enough for a Human Immortal to sever a Heaven Immortal Level Seven… That is no ordinary stroke of luck.

Perhaps the youth bore some heaven-defying legacy. Perhaps he carried a treasure even the ancient void had never revealed. Whatever the answer, the crimson eyes dimmed-and in that moment the vast hall felt smaller, as if the world itself had begun to narrow around a single, predatory intention.

“My Lord, that swaggering Jared Chance behaves as though you did not exist. He must be hunting for you this very moment. Please, emerge from seclusion, wield your supreme arts, crush him in your grasp, rip out his soul, refine it, and wipe away this insult.”

Catching the faint spark of murder in his lord’s eyes, Sheldon pressed harder, hammering at that spark like iron on an anvil.

Soul Devourer offered no reply. Twin pinpricks of crimson light burned inside his hood, sweeping across Sheldon for a single heartbeat. The glance dropped Sheldon into an instant, glacial abyss.

“Do I require your counsel on how to act?”

The iciness of that question rattled through the hall; Sheldon’s knees knocked against the black flagstones. “N-Never,”