Chapter 82: Death Beast Blood

Several consecutive days passed.

Gunie stayed in this quiet little hotel room.

He was completely immersed in the mysteries of the World's Essence, constantly comprehending it.

After the previous reincarnation from late fourth-order to mid fourth-order,

Gunie's talent had improved considerably, and his perception of the World's Essence had become much clearer.

His comprehension speed had never been slow, and now it was naturally even faster.

Every few days, Gunie could feel significant progress in his understanding of the World's Essence.

Meanwhile, his secondary soul spent these days continuously hunting pirates for blood crystals and soul fragments.

After dropping blood crystals, the pirates would suffer from qi and blood depletion.

After dropping soul fragments, those pirates with strong souls would suffer from splitting headaches and be bedridden.

Those with weak souls would lose half their lives on the spot.

Dropping nightmare fragments, on the other hand, would rid the pirates of some nightmare memories. This was the only drop that brought no harm but benefit.

Most of the time, blood crystals would drop, which was what Gunie liked to see most.

When soul fragments dropped, they were relatively weak, and Gunie fed them to the devil to hasten the secondary soul's advancement.

Nightmare fragments dropped very rarely.

While Gunie tirelessly taught these pirates a lesson,

two unlucky pirates, after three consecutive days of beating, suffered severe qi and blood depletion and soul injuries from soul fragment drops, eventually dying from their wounds.

The other lucky pirates, even if not seriously injured, were also severely depleted in qi and blood.

But they could not escape the fate of death.

After obtaining their blood crystals, as long as they didn't die, Gunie would slowly keep farming them for blood crystals.

Sooner or later, they would die at Gunie's hands.

Since they had become heinous villains, they should not fear retribution.

In just these few days,

news had spread among the pirates that a terrifying monster was hunting them in their dreams.

It was said that a devilish creature roamed their nightmares, waiting to devour their flesh and souls.

With deaths already occurring,

some pirates who had committed many evils naturally fled the area.

Fortunately, there were many pirates in Dragon Head Great Seaport.

Once the pirates in this area were farmed out, he could move to another area and continue.

Moreover, Gunie had already taken blood crystals from those who fled.

To such pirates, Gunie only wanted to say: run as you will; if you escape, I lose.

These blood crystals, large or small, could increase Gunie's blood pool capacity by one or two milliliters at least,

and seven or eight milliliters at most. Accumulating little by little, the gains were considerable.

Now, as his comprehension of the World's Essence grew deeper,

even when sitting cross-legged in the hotel room,

Gunie could clearly hear conversations from the tavern over twenty meters away.

Without going out, Gunie obtained useful information from the outside world every day in this way.

…

One day,

around noon,

Gunie, who had been sitting in meditation in the dark and quiet room, slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were full of surprise.

"Old Edward's daughter 'Ellie Edward' is dead?"

"And it was done by the Dragon Slayer and the Time Hunter."

"Could it be? Did George guess something and do this on purpose?"

After a moment's thought, Gunie nodded slightly.

"It's possible; otherwise, those two wouldn't have revealed their identities and whereabouts."

"Regardless, I need to go check it out."

"If George really did it on purpose, he would have left some traces."

As he thought, Gunie's devil secondary soul withdrew from the Blood Dream World and returned to his body.

After preparing, Gunie opened the door and left.

…

Over an hour later,

Gunie, dressed as an ordinary sailor, arrived at the place where Ellie Edward died—a seemingly nice single-family villa.

The villa had been completely cordoned off by the authorities.

The road in front was half-blocked.

The scene after the battle at the villa was shocking.

The entire villa was half-collapsed, with many traces of fire and spell bombardment, and the ground was cracked in many places.

It was clear that the battle here had been fierce, and both sides were not weak.

"No wonder I heard unusual explosions and slight source power fluctuations last night; it was a battle here."

After glancing over the surrounding streets, buildings, and a few remote narrow alleys,

Gunie lowered the brim of his wide black sailor hat and walked into a less busy alley.

He walked slowly, his source power vision spreading out to scan hidden corners.

Five or six minutes later, in a relatively remote alley,

Gunie stopped.

He sniffed the air slightly.

His heart stirred.

"It's Death Beast blood, very faint, almost imperceptible."

"If I weren't a Blood Curse Master, I would hardly detect it."

Gunie walked to a spot about seven or eight meters ahead and stopped.

Then, as if casually, he looked around to confirm no one was watching him.

His finger lightly brushed an inconspicuous spot on the wall.

There was a trace of dried Death Beast blood.

The moment he touched it,

a smile curled at the corner of Gunie's mouth.

"Sure enough, George left me a trail."

"The direction indicated by this faint blood trace should be this way."

Following the position of the Death Beast blood, Gunie walked along the road like a passerby.

As he walked, he could clearly sense that at intervals, in hidden corners of walls, there was a very inconspicuous dried Death Beast blood drop guiding the way.

After about ten minutes, following the guidance, Gunie arrived at the entrance of a café.

He stood at the door for over ten seconds.

As if sensing something, Gunie pushed the door and entered the café.

Once inside, the rich, mellow aroma of coffee hit him.

He walked up the stairs to the second floor.

Walking softly, he came to an ordinary spot near the window.

There were two people there, seemingly unremarkable.

Even when looking at them, Gunie subconsciously avoided focusing on them.

Gunie knew this was the effect of the Interference Nullification Barrier.

Previously, he would have been affected by it, but now its influence on him was very small.

With one step, Gunie directly crossed the Interference Nullification Barrier.

Then, the scene before him suddenly changed.

A rough-faced, disheveled burly man sat at the coffee table, looking out of place with the small coffee cup.

The other person was George Derrick, wearing a hat and glasses.

"George, your Interference Nullification Barrier hasn't improved much!"

Looking at George, Gunie smiled.

As he spoke, his face quickly reverted to his usual appearance, and his voice changed back.

At that moment,

Compared to the calm expression of the Dragon Slayer Sigurd,

George looked somewhat surprised at Gunie.

He could roughly determine that if that Captain Jack was indeed Gunie, he should be able to follow the Death Beast blood to this café.

But he hadn't expected Gunie to see through the Interference Nullification Barrier and come directly before them.

Although his Interference Nullification Barrier hadn't been strengthened with time for a long time,

it wasn't something just anyone could see through.

That Gunie could now see through it clearly demonstrated his current strength.

"Perhaps I should take the time to strengthen these auxiliary abilities,"

"otherwise, if I'm discovered due to insufficient concealment, that would be bad." George mused inwardly.

"It's not that I haven't improved much, but that your progress is astonishing."

"If it weren't for your battle with that Demon Knight, I wouldn't have known you're already at mid fourth-order Transcendent."

"How long has it been? You're already at mid fourth-order Transcendent. Your progress is truly amazing!"

As he spoke, George stood up and gave Gunie a big hug.

"Long time no see."

"Haha... long time no see." Gunie laughed heartily.