Chapter 35: The Deep-Sea Anchor

Immediately, Gune carefully sensed toward his blood pool.

As the blood pool digested the blood of the fifth-order shadow dweller,

a majestic and vast peculiar power gently bloomed within the blood pool.

Gune had felt something like this before, when he digested the blood of the Man-Faced Flower King after opening his blood pool.

"This guy... he's a follower of an evil god."

"The aura in this blood is grand and vast, carrying a sense of devout faith, and also a hint of furnace flame—he's a follower of the evil god 'Titan'."

"Followers of evil gods, deep-sea altar, undead, altar chains."

Gune quickly pondered this information in his mind.

"It's very likely this guy has a group."

"I killed this fifth-order guy; maybe their group has already sensed it and is on their way here."

Gune's heart stirred slightly.

"I need to speed things up."

Then, as Gune swiftly swam toward the altar chains,

the Small Thunderflame Spell also entered its peak bloom, releasing at a rate of twenty-five per second, madly toward the undead swimming around.

Each Small Thunderflame Spell could eliminate one undead.

If two unlucky ones stood in a line, the Thunderflame Spell would conduct through, killing both.

In less than half a minute, Gune had cleared most of the surrounding undead.

Then Gune arrived beside the core of this encounter, the "altar chains."

These altar chains were about as thick as an arm.

The whole body was somewhat dark, resembling volcanic rock material.

The exposed length was about two hundred forty to fifty meters.

But Gune knew from the system details that there should be quite a bit more length in the anchored dimensional space below the altar.

Gune alone naturally couldn't pull it out.

But Gune had a way to lift this thing.

Gune quickly cast Puppet Secret Threads.

In one second, twenty-five Puppet Secret Threads had already wrapped around the entrance of the altar chains.

Then Gune pressed one hand against the altar chains.

And then, following an ancient incantation given by the system to activate the altar chains,

Gune chanted in a low voice.

As Gune chanted the ancient incantation,

the fluctuations of the incantation gently bloomed across the entire altar, and were even amplified by the altar, spreading throughout the surroundings.

Half a minute later, Gune finished chanting the incantation, which had over eighty syllables with many repeated ones.

"Hum! Hum! Hum..."

Faint red runic marks like volcanic lava began to appear on the chains.

Without the corresponding spell, it would be nearly impossible to pull out the chains, but with the spell, it was very simple.

Gune also began to manipulate the Puppet Secret Threads to pull the chains.

Crack, crack...

A small section of chain was pulled out.

The pulling power of the Puppet Secret Threads was quite formidable, especially with over twenty threads working together.

Feeling the pulling speed was a bit slow, Gune immediately cast another twenty-five Puppet Secret Threads, accumulating fifty.

This time, when Gune manipulated the Puppet Secret Threads to pull,

crack, crack, crack, crack...

a half-meter length of chain was pulled out.

Gune consumed spirit and source power, pulling with all his might.

"This kind of manual labor really isn't easy for a spellcaster; I should learn some summoning spells for contracts."

"Summoning something like a simple-minded, brawny brute giant to do the heavy lifting would be best, since who knows if I'll encounter something like 'legendary minerals' in the future."

"A summon with great strength, endurance, and the ability to follow my orders carefully... yes, it's necessary to get one."

About two minutes later,

after pulling out about forty to fifty meters,

Gune felt the altar chains seemed to reach their end.

"Come out!"

With a sudden pull from Gune,

a dull "hum" sounded.

A cube about the size of a small table, matching the altar opening, was pulled out by the chains.

"Huh?"

Looking at this cube, Gune was startled.

"Aren't these altar chains? Why is there something attached?"

"This thing should be one with the chains, right?"

Gune reopened the system, carefully browsed, and finally confirmed that this thing was indeed one with the chains, like the relationship between an anchor and its chain.

Without wasting more time, Gune pulled the chains and thought a command.

"Splash..."

The long chains, along with the anchor-like cube at the end, were all stored into Gune's system space.

"Go!"

Without hesitation, Gune immediately headed toward the Sea Demon Ship.

The Dolphin Fin, combined with Gune's own source power acceleration and his alignment with the world's framework principles to avoid some water resistance,

made Gune's speed very fast.

After more than ten minutes, Gune saw the Sea Demon Ship ahead, sailing slowly.

The several mates on the Sea Demon Ship seemed afraid that Gune couldn't catch up, so they hadn't raised the ship's speed to a high level.

Gune swiftly swam and landed directly at the helm on the foredeck.

"Dive to the lower left, full speed ahead, get out of here."

As soon as he landed, before the three mates could ask anything, Gune, with a grave expression, manipulated his source power and spoke in a low tone.

The three of them changed expression upon seeing this.

Gune took the helm from Jason and quickly accelerated the dive to the lower left.

At the same time, he poured a large amount of source power into the Sea Demon Ship without restraint, and the Whale Demon Ship sped up, soon leaving the original course.

More than ten minutes after Gune and the others left the original course,

several powerful fifth- and sixth-order experts, led by a Transcendent Master, quickly investigated along the deep-sea direction.

If Gune and the others had kept their original course straight into the deep sea, they would likely have been caught red-handed.

Diving all the way, Gune and the three mates took turns at the helm.

Each person poured in source power with all their might, keeping the Sea Demon Ship at maximum speed.

While one person input source power, the other three quickly recovered their own.

In terms of source power supply, Gune, as a spellcaster, clearly had the advantage.

The navigator, Old Chart, also had some advantage.

Bast and Jason didn't have much advantage in source power.

Their combat and shadow pools were very small, so in sustained consumption, they were clearly inferior to Gune and Old Chart.

This rapid diving continued for over three hours.

And the Sea Demon Ship had fully entered the deep-sea region, at a depth of four to five thousand meters.

At this time, below the Sea Demon Ship, Gune could see the undulating peaks of submarine mountains, with various stone pillars and jagged rocks.

Also, some submarine volcanic vents were "gurgling..." spewing hot water, forming a small ecological zone on the seabed.

Then Gune looked behind him.

"No pursuit for over three hours; we should be temporarily out of danger," Gune thought to himself.

"We should be out of danger, but we need to continue at full speed for a while to completely leave this area," Gune said to the three.

Hearing this, the three all breathed a sigh of relief.

"What exactly happened?" asked First Mate Jason Howell, his mind at ease, as he steered the ship at full speed.

"Follower of an evil god, possibly a Transcendent Master," Gune said in a low tone.