Chapter 78: The Devil Enters the Dream

An hour later.

After two teleportations in the dark, plus two changes of appearance and clothing, Gune had completely transformed into an ordinary sailor.

In a small, inconspicuous inn two streets away from the Boleiden Grand Hotel, on a higher floor, Gune rented a cheap room with a private bathroom.

Near the window, Gune looked toward the Boleiden Grand Hotel.

At that moment, the spot at the entrance of the Boleiden Grand Hotel where Captain Jack had fought the sixth-rank demon knight seemed to have been cordoned off.

Earlier on the road, Gune had heard some passersby say that official investigators had already intervened, and even the entire hotel had been sealed off.

After all, a fight of such destructive scale was still relatively rare in Dragon Head Great Seaport.

To calm the public's emotions, the authorities had to appear sufficiently forceful.

"Judging by the way they've sealed off both the street and the hotel, news of the battle between Captain Jack and the demon knight will probably spread by tomorrow."

"Only the first day here, and they've already fought such a brutal battle."

Gune rubbed his brow.

"Can't those guys just calm down a bit?"

"It seems I'll have to change my identity for a while; the identity of Jack Sparrow is no longer usable."

"I have to say, in these ocean island port locations, those fellows who operate on the sea year-round have quite a lot of informants; even human flesh search engines aren't as fast as them."

Gune closed the window and drew the curtain.

Plunging the entire room into darkness.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Gune calmed his mind and sensed his surroundings.

After about five or six minutes, Gune slowly opened his eyes.

"It seems no one has indeed tracked me down."

"Then... it's time for me to enter the dream."

The primary purpose of coming to Dragon Head Great Seaport this time was to inform the stationed Transcendent Association guardian of Dragon Head Great Seaport about the possible location of the Mother Goddess of the Human-Faced Flower Church.

Gune was well aware that some sinister forces had already infiltrated the Transcendent Association.

Even traces of those beings existed among the higher-ups.

Gune had to be careful.

Fortunately, Nigel had once told Gune.

In each region, the highest authority of that region was absolutely trustworthy.

Although he didn't know why Nigel was so confident, since the other party had said so, Gune could only believe it.

What Gune sought this time was the absolute ruler of this Dragonhead Great Seaport, a ninth-rank peak transcendent master—Thorstein Kalasa.

Even if the other party was an existence on the side of the evil gods.

Now that Gune had completely severed his own fate threads and let his secondary soul take the risk, Gune could remain perfectly safe.

Focusing his mind, Gune's demonic secondary soul cast [Blood Source: Great Blood Dream Curse].

Whoosh...

Passing through the layer forged by corpses and nightmares.

Gune's secondary soul entered a dilapidated, bloody, viscous nightmare-like blood dream world.

At this moment, Gune himself sat cross-legged steadily on the bed, completely unaffected.

Primary soul, secondary soul.

One body, two souls—one primary, one secondary.

Gune's soul will was unified.

Yet he manipulated from two directions.

Previously, Gune could already multitask with one mind.

Now, with two souls in his body each possessing independent thinking space, this ability to multitask was greatly enhanced.

Now.

Gune's demonic secondary soul entered the blood dream world.

Gune himself could do anything in the real world, and the two did not interfere with each other.

One body, two souls—one primary, one secondary—could indeed do this.

Other transcendents who condensed secondary souls could not let their souls leave their bodies and could only possess the ability to dual-cast spells.

At this moment, Gune's primary will immersed itself in the blood dream world, placed upon the demonic secondary soul.

A dilapidated, dark, silent small room was gloomy and oppressive.

The demonic secondary soul saw Gune himself sitting cross-legged on a decayed, rotten bed board.

After staring at himself for a moment, the demonic secondary soul pondered on its own.

"Even if I'm not asleep, at the position where reality and the blood dream world overlap, in the blood dream world I can still find this person from the real world. If the other party has hidden means, it's hard to say."

"Pulling someone who isn't asleep into the blood dream world consumes a lot of energy. But if the other party is asleep, it's very easy to pull them in."

"By the way..."

"If I pull myself into the blood dream world and kill myself, what would happen?"

"Hmm... if you're bored out of your mind, you can give it a try."

Withdrawing his gaze from the body, Gune examined this demonic blood-dream form.

Without a doubt, the blood-dream form of the demon lord was more condensed, solid, and full of power than Gune's original body, and the demon's secondary soul's blood-dream body also exuded the unique oppressive aura of a lord creature.

"It's stronger than when my main soul entered the blood-dream world." Gune clenched his fist and thought to himself.

Then, the blood-dream body of the demon's secondary soul opened the old, worn-out door and walked out.

The blood-dream world.

Above the sky, the blood-colored clouds burned as usual; it wasn't raining.

The scent of blood was slightly dry.

The alley was quiet and cold.

"Huh?"

Stepping outside and standing in the alley, Gune's expression shifted slightly.

"It seems... there's the movement of living things."

Earlier, when Gune was on the ocean, he had seen strange large birds flying across the sky.

And in the blood sea, some kind of creature was swimming.

Clearly, the blood-dream world also had living creatures.

Moreover, the more people there were, the more nightmares there were, and once nightmares increased,

naturally, some strange creatures that liked to devour nightmares would follow.

In the blood-dream world, the body was a blood-dream body constructed from blood and soul together.

At this moment, the soul was the powerful soul of a fifth-rank demon lord secondary soul.

Gune was confident that not many in the blood-dream world would be stronger than him.

As he pondered, Gune flipped his hand and produced a mithril-grade short blade.

After one breath, the entire mithril-grade short blade had turned into a blood-edged short blade.

A while ago, after Gune learned he could bring weapons into the blood-dream world, he had nurtured this mithril-grade short blade.

Having a mithril-grade short blade in hand was always better than being unarmed.

"Woo..."

A strange blood wind blew.

In the corner of the alley, some indistinct nightmare remains and corpse fragments seemed to reach the end of their life, rapidly dissipating with the blood wind.

After casting a blood shield on himself, Gune, holding the mithril short blade, strode out.

He had just reached the exit of the alley.

"Woo~~"

"Woo~~"

A low, almost growling sound came from the street at the end of the alley.

Then, blood-hound-like creatures, the size of medium dogs and entirely translucent, quickly passed by the street outside the alley and left.

Seeing these translucent creatures, Gune immediately felt relieved.

This translucent state meant they were very weak.

As soon as Gune came out of the alley,

immediately, many of these translucent canine creatures seemed to notice Gune.

When they saw Gune,

"Awoo~~"

"Awoo~~"

"Awoo~~"

These numerous canine blood-dream creatures immediately tucked their tails and fled in panic, and a few even released an unknown liquid as they ran.

This scene left Gune dumbfounded.

"I prepared carefully for half a day, and you all get scared and run away just by seeing me?"

"Could it be... because of my lord-level demon soul?"

"Last time on the sea demon ship, the strange fish in the blood sea weren't scared off by me."

"But this time, they directly scared off these blood-hound creatures."

"It should have something to do with the demon lord's soul."

"If that's the case..." Gune's eyes lit up as he thought.

"After a few days, when this [Blood Source · Great Blood Dream Curse] reaches level one, I can start looking for Meisha in the blood-dream world."

After adapting to the environment of the blood-dream world, Gune looked toward the location halfway up the extinct volcano at the core of the Dragon Head Great Seaport, where the Transcendent Association was located.

There stood an especially somber and oppressive ancient castle.

And the entire castle exuded an exceptionally strange aura.

Gune was well aware of the Transcendent Association's power; it wouldn't be easy to mess with.

"Let's go!" Gune headed toward the ancient castle, the Transcendent Association branch in the Dragon Head Great Seaport.