Chapter 28: The Blood Curse Master

At the entrance of the pitch-black, silent corridor.

Elie, Paul, and the others stared at the opposite end of the corridor with unusually grave expressions.

At the entrance across the corridor, Gunea's row of Fire Arrows had already burned out, leaving only an empty darkness in sight.

A dozen minutes ago, they had clearly heard Gunea's piercing scream.

And that was exactly what worried them.

Inheriting a transcendent relic was very dangerous.

After all, humans were creatures of flesh and blood, and transcendent relics involved the supernatural powers of the eerie side.

For an ordinary human to master extraordinary power with a mortal body—one could imagine how high the risk was.

If one's will was not firm enough, or their transcendent talent insufficient,

situations hard to control could arise: soul trauma, will contamination, life alienation, transcendent失控, and so on.

Although Gunea was exceptionally talented and they had confidence in him,

that piercing scream still made them, despite their confidence, feel a bit worried inside.

"Tap... tap..."

"Tap... tap..."

Strange footsteps sounded from the darkness.

Their expressions changed sharply, and they immediately became alert.

The three casters had already begun to silently gather their spells.

After a moment, a blood-soaked human appeared at the edge of the torchlight they held up.

Seeing this blood-covered figure, the three casters nearly hurled their spells at him.

"It's me!" Fortunately, Gunea spoke in time to stop that from happening.

"You... how did you end up like this?"

After carefully examining Gunea back and forth to confirm it was indeed him, Elie finally relaxed a little.

"When I touched the blood curse totem pillar just now, it still had some residual soul power—probably the eerie power left by the blood creature we killed outside."

"It caught me off guard, and I accidentally fell into the blood pool."

The others exchanged glances.

"Luckily, I had a backup plan and eventually destroyed that thing."

"And then, I obtained the transcendent profession: Blood Curse Master."

Saying this, Gunea let out a breath as if pretending to relax.

A somewhat complex emotion surfaced in everyone's hearts.

A transcendent!

This was their greatest pursuit at the moment, and Gunea had already achieved it.

These wealthy heirs and nobles knew well

that to gain a sufficiently high status and position within the family, being a transcendent was essential.

Even,

in some families with fierce internal strife, if you weren't a transcendent, your life might be in danger.

Besides power and wealth,

transcendents also possessed a lifespan that ordinary people could hardly attain.

For ordinary humans who toiled year-round, living past fifty was already considered good.

As nobles, their lifespans generally reached sixty or seventy.

But after fifty, with declining qi and blood and aging spirit, even a common illness could end your life.

Ordinary life, in this supernatural world with mysterious powers, was as fragile as duckweed.

But if one became a transcendent!

Even a very ordinary first- or second-tier transcendent

would easily have a lifespan of over a hundred years.

Even in old age, they would still possess decent spirit and a sufficiently robust transcendent body.

The higher the transcendent rank, the longer the lifespan.

A longer lifespan was also one of the fundamental reasons many pursued transcendence.

As he pondered, Gunea looked at Yulaire.

"Do you also want to inherit the Blood Curse Master?"

Yulaire also followed the path of a spellcaster.

She was also qualified to inherit.

She had obviously given this question careful thought.

"Mm!"

She nodded without any hesitation.

Although the Blood Curse Master had weaknesses, that did not overshadow its reality as a powerful transcendent profession.

"Many curses have certain solutions. If I become strong enough, I might even suppress the blood curse in turn."

"At worst, there are transcendent items."

Yulaire thought silently to herself.

"Although I destroyed that evil consciousness, you still need to be careful when you go over."

"Mm! I understand."

Breathe in... breathe out...

Taking a deep breath to calm her suddenly surging emotions,

Yulaire entered the corridor alone and soon disappeared into the darkness.

Withdrawing his gaze from Yulaire's figure vanishing into the dark, Gunea looked at the others.

"Does anyone have extra water?"

The blood in the pool was strange, sticky like grease, clinging to his body—unbearably uncomfortable.

"No."

"No."

"No."

They all said firmly.

Shrugging helplessly, Gunea sat down on the ground nearby and began to rest with his eyes closed.

Opening the system in his mind,

a glance at the idle page made Gunea smile.

"The fifth idle slot has finally opened."

At this moment, the fifth idle slot on the page, after a long time, was about to activate.

Reining in his inner joy a bit,

Gunea re-examined his transcendent profession—Blood Curse Master.

Now, Gunea had fully inherited the transcendent profession of Blood Curse Master through the medium.

So Gunea was no longer an apprentice spellcaster.

But he wasn't exactly a first-tier spellcaster either.

He was, so to speak, half a spellcaster.

Once Gunea initially opened his source pool and his soul underwent the transformation at the first-tier threshold,

Gunea would formally become a first-tier transcendent professional—Blood Curse Master!

The core ability of the Blood Curse Master was blood.

As he calmed down, Gunea could clearly feel the blood flowing throughout his body.

Blood was born in the marrow, flowed into the veins, and then, under the heart's action, was pumped throughout the body to supply energy.

In the core inheritance of the Blood Curse Master, the most important thing was the strengthening of blood.

The stronger the blood, the more it would nourish the body, making it stronger.

"The Blood Curse Master strengthens blood and enhances physical strength—this fits perfectly with my tank-mage path."

"A tank mage needs not only extreme defense in equipment but also great personal strength."

"This Blood Curse Master really suits me!"

Gunea sighed softly in his heart.

Along with inheriting the Blood Curse Master profession,

the core of this profession's inheritance also contained the blood-strengthening method, the "Blood Pool Codex."

"The 'Blood Pool Codex'?"

Feeling this transcendent scripture, the Blood Pool Codex, Gunea fell into thought.

"It seems that the Blood Curse Master Gewu must have made a pact with some powerful and mysterious blood demon or vampire clan, thus creating this 'Blood Pool Codex' that aligns with blood strengthening."

Sensing the vast, profound, mysterious, and obscure blood magic codex, Gunea knew it was an extraordinary transcendent scripture.

The mid-tier transcendent scripture "Seborne Source Pool" that Gunea was currently idling was far less than one-tenth the complexity of the Blood Pool Codex.

As he thought, Gunea placed the Blood Pool Codex into the newly opened fifth idle slot.

[Idle]

First idle slot: Bone Element Potion Secret Spell (Level 6)

Second idle slot: Seborne Source Pool (Level 1)

Third idle slot: Ring Art Bombardment (Level 5)

Fourth idle slot: Devout Knight Breathing Method (Level 1)

Fifth idle slot: Blood Pool Codex (Level 0)

All five scriptures were transcendent scriptures.

And after this period of idling, Seborne Source Pool and Devout Knight Breathing Method had both risen to Level 1.

For others, transcendent scriptures that would take months or even a year or more to level up, for Gunea, only a few days of idling were needed.

After placing the Blood Pool Codex,

ten seconds passed.

+15

A +15 number floated above the Blood Pool Codex and then disappeared.

"Is the experience gain this high?"

Seeing this two-digit number, Gunea couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart.