Chapter 148: The Strength of a Genius

Normally, Gune would activate his innate divine ability [Blood Source · Great Blood Dream Curse] to pull enemies in and make them fight.

If Gune did not pull them, they could not enter the "Blood Dream Arena" he constructed at all.

Although the Blood Dream Arena objectively existed in the Blood Dream spatial layer and would remain even if Gune left it—this Gune had tested before—

aside from Gune's pulling, they had no way to enter the objectively existing "Blood Dream Arena." That was also an objective fact.

How they could enter voluntarily was clearly a problem.

When there were few people, it was manageable.

If they used the altar to call, Gune could still pull them in.

But when there were many, say tens of thousands entering at once,

even if Gune turned into a pulling machine devoid of emotion, he could hardly pull so many in a short time.

Not to mention that when they left, Gune also had to send them off.

"Perhaps..."

As he pondered, Gune's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I can use 'spell incantations' and 'blood crystals' to solve this problem."

As Gune's thoughts blossomed to the extreme, a relatively perfect plan slowly unfolded.

"First, blood sacrifice. Transcendents first take out a portion of their blood, condense it into blood crystals, and use the altar to sacrifice their blood crystals. In this way, the blood crystals sacrificed into the Blood Dream Arena won't be confused with ordinary sacrificial blood."

"After obtaining these people's blood crystals, the demonic secondary soul can use them as raw materials, placing them high in the Blood Dream space to expand its size and enhance its stability."

"Moreover, the heights of the Blood Dream world are areas that entrants cannot reach."

"Then, modify the spell incantation. With blood crystals as guidance and their voluntary entry, the modification is simple and not difficult."

"Thus, as soon as they recite the corresponding incantation, they will feel the pull from the Blood Dream Arena and enter naturally. Voluntary entry is much easier than my pulling."

"When leaving, they also recite the corresponding incantation, slightly adjusted."

"My demonic secondary soul only needs to wait in the Blood Sea for the delivered blood crystals and use them as foundation materials to build and strengthen the Blood Dream Arena, without expending much effort."

"I can continuously use others' power to build my Blood Dream world."

"And the more people, the stronger my power becomes."

"Hmm, I can also recruit more clans like the 'Dawn Source Clan' as my vassals, granting them some ability to modify the Blood Dream Arena to manage and build different types of arenas in the Blood Dream world."

"I can completely hide behind the scenes while appearing as a vassal."

"Huh..."

With a gentle exhale, Gune gradually restrained his smile and entered a state of calm concentration.

"Once successful and widely promoted, it will be an immense help to me."

"The Blood Dream Internet of the steampunk era—more precisely, the Blood Dream Arena of the steampunk era."

"First modify the incantation, then use these Dawn Source Clan members as experimental guinea pigs. Hmm, settled."

Then, Gune immersed himself in the comprehensive analysis, extraction, and modification of the spell incantation for [Blood Source · Great Blood Dream Curse].

Fortunately, Gune, having embarked on the path of the World Principle, could deeply perceive all aspects of [Blood Source · Great Blood Dream Curse], and modifying a certain incantation was indeed not difficult.

Unknowingly, ten days had passed.

...

On this day.

Inside the Dawn Source Clan's arena.

As a transcendent clan of considerable strength, they naturally had an arena for clan members to spar in.

At this moment, in a large arena, over two to three thousand Dawn Source Clan members sat in the audience.

These many Dawn Source Clan members watched the battle in the arena with extreme tension.

Inside the arena, Gune was fiercely fighting a shadow-type assassin with terrifying attack power.

With every dodge, the shadow-type expert could cleverly land a blow on Gune.

Moreover, this assassin used a blade; with each slash, a sharp blade-curse energy shot forth, quite powerful.

Fortunately, Gune had his "Blood Sea Shield" to block it, otherwise he would have been hit many times.

Ever since Gune's transcendent profession evolved into "Blood Source Curse Master,"

Gune's own basic "Blood Shield" had also evolved into "Blood Sea Shield."

With the enhancement of Blood Sea power and World Principle, the defensive thickness of the Blood Sea Shield was already close to that of a runic-level curse shield.

Thus, he could withstand the attacks of this foreign genius of the World Principle.

At the same time, Gune's "Blood Escape Technique" had evolved into "Blood Sea Escape Technique."

The effect after evolution was also quite remarkable.

With a flash of blood light, Gune could easily dodge two hundred meters away.

Using his speed and the Blood Sea Escape Technique, Gune continuously bombarded this enemy with Small Thunder Flame Curse and Demon Blade Trick Curse at a moderate pace.

Gune maintained a rate of about five curses per second, with curse flight speeds average, not fast or slow, and the attached World Principle was of a very ordinary form.

It turned out that when the enemy was strong enough, this rate of five curses per second was not very threatening.

Some of Gune's curses, this extremely fast enemy could easily dodge; if he couldn't dodge, he would directly use his magic short blade to cleave the curse.

Then he would try to kill Gune.

Unfortunately, he could never harm Gune.

Allowing the opponent to hit his shield—

that was already with Gune imposing many restrictions on himself.

If it were a real fight,

this sixth-order transcendent who had only a shallow understanding of the World Principle—Gune could electrocute even his corpse in one second.

Feeling the fight was about enough, Gune,

with a thought,

a Small Thunder Flame Curse instantly transmitted and reached the shadow assassin's side.

The curse transmitted so fast that the shadow assassin could hardly evade.

As Gune's understanding of the World Principle deepened, his curse transmission speed grew faster.

Even though the shadow assassin tried his utmost to evade,

the transmission characteristic of the Small Thunder Flame Curse was directly attracted to him.

With a "Zzzt!" sound,

an intense numbing sensation instantly bloomed in his flesh and soul.

At the same time,

Zzzzt, zzzzt...

Five or six Small Thunder Flame Curses quickly turned into fierce electric currents around him but did not hit him.

It wasn't that Gune couldn't hit him; Gune deliberately missed.

If they hit, this guy would basically die on the spot.

A fifth-level high-grade curse containing Destruction World Principle—a sixth-order transcendent could not withstand it.

After the numbing effect of the Small Thunder Flame Curse passed, feeling the burnt smell left in the air by the electric currents around him,

the shadow assassin finally shook his head helplessly.

If it were a real fight, he would have died just now.

No, if it were a real fight, he couldn't have lasted this long against the opponent.

"I lose."

The shadow assassin said.

As his words fell,

a wave of disappointment emerged from the many spectators in the stands.

Over the past few days, this foreign genius had already fought all the sixth-order experts of their clan.

Their clan had many geniuses, but none could defeat this foreigner.

They had already lost fifteen consecutive matches.

This was the sixteenth.

This time, the peak sixth-order shadow assassin was an expert who had just emerged from a long seclusion.

Shadow assassins were supposed to counter casters.

Yet he still failed.

Thus, it would be extremely difficult for their clan to defeat this foreign genius.

No wonder their clan members were so disappointed.

Feeling the disappointment from the audience, Gune, walking toward the passage, shook his head slightly.

"Letting this assassin last three to five minutes was already giving you enough face; otherwise, he couldn't stand for three seconds," Gune said softly.

When Gune followed the passage to his resting room,

he saw the divine-level powerhouse "Kakaroi" leading ten transcendent masters standing guard at his door.

"Oh? Finally something to discuss with me?"

Gune narrowed his eyes and thought to himself.