Chapter 130: Night of Winter's End

The next day, early morning.

Gunie, just awakened, sensed a change in himself.

Gently touching his arm, the tough texture of his skin and the highly defensive scale membrane beneath the skin layer were clearly revealed to Gunie's perception.

He lightly clenched his fist.

The powerful muscles, which surprised even Gunie, effortlessly unleashed great strength.

In just one night, Gunie's physical constitution had improved dramatically.

At the same time, Gunie also felt that he had gained a slight degree of control over the Death Beast blood within him.

"Is this the power of king-level bloodline? To make me progress so much in a single night." Gunie was secretly astonished.

His mind sank into the blood pool.

He saw that the piece of flesh and two bones he had put in last night were already completely digested.

"The digestive ability of a level three blood pool is truly formidable."

"I recall that in the inheritance information of the Blood Curse Master, when the Blood Curse Master Gewu established this inheritance, his blood pool was stuck at the peak of level six. And Blood Curse Master Gewu had cultivated for nearly a hundred years."

"I've only been at it for a few months, and I'm already at level three. In a little over a year, I'll reach level five, and level six will take at most two or three years."

"And that's assuming my talent doesn't improve. As my talent increases and my efficiency in absorbing cultivation experience rises, reaching level six blood pool will come even sooner."

As he pondered, Gunie took out another large piece of Death Beast flesh, scales, and bones, and threw them into the blood pool.

Getting up, Gunie went to a corner of the room and pulled out a weight scale from under the cabinet.

"My defense and strength have increased significantly, which must be due to the increase in body density. Let me test my body weight."

As Gunie stood on the scale, the numbers displayed rose rapidly.

Finally, it settled at 462 kg.

"Not bad, not bad. Gained over twenty jin in one night."

"My body size hasn't increased; it's purely a density increase."

"And an increase in body density will significantly enhance my physical defense and strength."

"Over this period, my physical defense and toughness have been continuously improving. Now, the prototype of a meat tank body is beginning to take shape."

"Ordinary first-level supernatural spells probably won't cause me much harm now."

"And when I'm wearing the Purple Scale Chainmail, even if a powerful attack hits me head-on, I can still withstand it relatively easily."

Gunie silently assessed the tankiness of his body.

But as for the exact level of defense, Gunie wasn't insane enough to test it by casting a spell on himself.

Ever since obtaining the Writhing Flesh, Gunie had been digesting it.

The most obvious effect was that Gunie's weight had been increasing linearly, gaining about three to five jin every day.

Yesterday's replacement with high-quality Death Beast blood and the blood pool's extensive digestion of the flesh had allowed Gunie to make significant progress overnight.

"With the successful blood exchange and the continued digestion by the blood pool, the power of the top-tier king-level bloodline will greatly enhance my physique in this short time."

"The power of a king-level leader bloodline is truly formidable." Gunie clenched his fist and thought to himself.

After washing up and having breakfast,

he began another day of his usual routine: brewing potions and studying secret pattern potions.

...

Time flowed on.

Gunie's life settled back into a stable rhythm.

Apart from the normal brewing of high-grade fine potions and secret pattern potions, Gunie spent all his remaining time studying runic analysis.

His deep understanding of the world framework runes also grew day by day.

Besides these normal cultivation tasks,

every few days, Gunie would quietly leave Deep爵 Castle through the secret passage behind the supernatural door in the secret chamber.

The purpose was naturally to trade life spring water and purchase materials for soul secret pattern potions.

Currently, it was very easy for Gunie to buy these materials.

But that might not be the case after a while.

Gunie was also not stingy with the gold pounds he earned from selling life spring water.

As long as he wasn't noticed, he bought as many of those materials as he could.

With the continuous progress of experiments,

the "Nightmare Blood Dragon Blood Secret Pattern Potion" began to show some improvement.

After consuming the dragon blood potion, the frenzy of the silver-armored mice began to decrease steadily.

The soul secret pattern potion also made steady progress, with the soul sleep condition slightly improving.

This was clearly related to the proportion of Soulfall Grass that Gunie had seen through the "Fate Peep" vision he had activated earlier.

As for the compatibility of the proportions of other materials with "Soulfall Flower," he was still exploring more optimal combinations.

Moreover, several promising ideas had gradually been worked out by Gunie.

With time and investment, the day when these two potions would be developed was drawing nearer.

...

Unconsciously, over half a month had passed.

One day, in the afternoon.

In the private alchemy secret chamber of Deep爵 Castle.

Gunie handed over the three latest Nightmare Dragon Blood Secret Pattern Potions he had researched to Leona.

Then he walked toward the lounge area.

"Dr. Henry hasn't been here for a while, has he?" Gunie mused as he walked.

"Probably no major breakthroughs, or the experiment there has entered a critical phase." Gunie speculated briefly.

Arriving at the sofa area by the warm fireplace,

the waiting maid "Wendini" quickly began grinding and brewing coffee.

Lying on the sofa, Gunie gently massaged his temples.

At the temples, Gunie could clearly feel with his fingers the fine, scale-like arrangement of the "muscle membrane scales" hidden beneath the skin.

The digestive and refining abilities of a level three blood pool were even more formidable than Gunie had imagined.

About the fourth day after the blood exchange,

the blood pool's powerful refining properties had fully refined the control of the Death Beast blood back into Gunie's hands.

After that, Gunie resumed drinking large amounts of life spring water, and the Death Beast blood began to exhibit clear characteristics of Blood Curse Master blood.

Recovery ability, energy properties, strong vitality.

In the rapid growth over the past half month, although he hadn't yet reached his previous peak state, he was at about 70% of that level.

The key point was,

during this half month, Gunie had digested nearly a quarter of the Death Beast's flesh.

The strength of his bones, the toughness of his flesh, and the muscle membrane scales formed beneath the skin were now incomparable to when he had just undergone the blood exchange.

Back then, Gunie could only withstand first-level supernatural spells without injury.

Now, with the formation of the highly defensive "muscle membrane scales" beneath the skin,

Gunie could probably take a first-level low-rank supernatural spell to the face without much trouble.

The growth of the magic tank's body from digesting the Death Beast was finally beginning to show its edge.

The coffee was ready. Gunie added two cubes of milk and three spoons of fine white sugar, picked up the coffee cup, and walked to the window to look outside.

At some point, the snow had stopped. Night was slowly falling.

The snow had almost buried the entire courtyard. Under the night sky, it was a vast expanse of white, with only a few cold-climate plants showing a hint of iron-gray winter austerity.

"Lately, I've been feeling a bit uneasy, as if... someone is secretly watching the entire Deep爵 Castle."

Gunie mused softly as he drank his coffee.

During this time, the entire Sog遗迹 City was very quiet, extremely quiet.

There was almost no news about those heretics or alien races. Even Via had come twice, but Gunie hadn't gotten any useful information from her.

But Gunie knew from George

that a child of an evil god had arrived in Sog遗迹 City.

This strange silence made even Gunie feel that something was off.

The calm before the storm, perhaps that was now.

Just then, light footsteps sounded behind him.

"Lord Gunie, have you prepared a hat?" It was Wendini's voice, not too loud to disturb Gunie's mood, but not too soft for him to hear.

"Hat? What hat?" Gunie looked over.

"A hat for the Night of Winter's End!" Wendini reminded softly.

"Night of Winter's End." Gunie's heart stirred slightly.

Then Gunie turned his head to look out the window at the sky where night was pressing down.

"Today... is the Night of Winter's End?"

Gunie's eyes narrowed slightly, a sharp light faintly gleaming.

"Night of Winter's End, then today is the day farthest from the sun and closest to darkness."