Chapter 2: An Emotionless Tool

More than an hour later.

After sending the Blood Dream Elves into the Blood Dream Arena to observe for a while, Gune calmed his mind.

The Blood Dream Elves' adaptability to work was clearly better than Gune had anticipated.

From now on, having them manage and control the entire Blood Dream Arena would be basically no problem.

In fact, they would do better than humans.

After all, humans still needed to enter and leave the Blood Dream Arena.

But they were permanently residing within the Blood Dream Arena.

"Huh..."

After the Blood Dream Elves settled into the Blood Dream Arena, Gune also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"The framework for the Blood Dream Arena's expansion and the Blood Dream Elves' management has been established, so I don't need to spend too much effort on this aspect."

"I just need to quietly wait for the growth of the Blood Dream Arena and the Blood Sea."

"However..." Gune rubbed his brow and pondered slightly.

"During this time, in the Blood Dream Arena, the dropped qi and blood have somehow decreased quite a bit."

"There's plenty of fighting there too!"

"Although compared to sacrifices, this dropped qi and blood crystals aren't much, it's a continuous source."

"It's as if... the dropped qi and blood were stolen when I wasn't paying attention."

"Has something in the Blood Dream World set its sights on my Blood Dream Arena?"

Gune also understood that the Blood Dream Arena was only a part of the Blood Dream World, and obviously he wasn't the only one who could enter the Blood Dream World.

"It seems that in the future, I'll need to thoroughly investigate the area around the Blood Dream Arena. Stealing my things right under my nose—when I catch you, you won't get any good fruit."

Then Gune sank his thoughts and looked at himself.

After half a year of secluded cultivation and the use of many resources,

Gune's own transcendent realm had also skyrocketed, from the early stage of Transcendent Fifth Order all the way to the current late stage of Transcendent Sixth Order.

Gune heard that Senior Nigel seemed to have advanced to Transcendent Master during this time, making rapid progress.

The effects of the auto-cultivation slots were also remarkable.

First auto-cultivation slot: True Scale·Armor of Protection (Level 6)

Second auto-cultivation slot: Dusk Star Source Codex (Level 4)

Third auto-cultivation slot: Lesser Thunder Flame Curse (Level 7)

Fourth auto-cultivation slot: Greater Thunder Flame Curse (Level 8)

Fifth auto-cultivation slot: Blood Source Sea God Codex (Level 5)

Sixth auto-cultivation slot: Blood Source·Greater Blood Dream Heaven Curse (Level 7)

Seventh auto-cultivation slot: Demon Annihilation Erosion Blade (Level 6)

Eighth auto-cultivation slot: 96%

The curses at all levels had greatly increased in level, and the eighth auto-cultivation slot was about to open.

Now, the power of Gune's curses was no less than that of an ordinary Seventh Order Transcendent Master.

At the same time, with the support of the Blood Sea and the absorption and digestion of the Dominator's flesh, Gune's physical body had easily surpassed the defense level of Mithril-grade Tank Armor.

The level of Mithril Tank Armor would basically make it difficult for ordinary Sixth Order transcendents to cause damage.

That is, even if Gune stood there and let a Sixth Order transcendent attack, the opponent might not be able to harm Gune.

One can imagine how strong Gune's physical toughness is now.

As for injury tolerance, with the expansion of the Blood Sea, Gune's injury tolerance was terrifyingly strong.

Even if Gune were torn limb from limb, the scattered remains could quickly reunite, and his injuries would recover in a short time.

Overall, if Gune now fought a Seventh Order Master, if the opponent's strength wasn't strong enough, the opponent would likely die.

As he pondered, Gune looked at his Blood Sea and frowned slightly.

Deep in the Blood Sea, Gune could feel that the Dominator's flesh was now smaller than a thumb, a reduction of over ninety-five percent in volume compared to before.

Originally, Gune estimated that the Dominator's flesh would take a long time to digest.

Who would have thought that the expansion speed of the Blood Sea was too fast.

This led to the Dominator's flesh being nearly completely digested in just half a year.

"The Dominator's flesh gives my body not only toughness but also very unique characteristics, such as the coverage range of the Blood Dream Arena."

"Without the support of the Dominator's flesh, my plan to cover the entire starry sky with the Blood Dream Arena would obviously not work."

"Now I'm already at the late Sixth Order, and it will only take a few months to advance to Transcendent Master. It won't be too late to go out and seek the Dominator's flesh after advancing."

"Besides..."

Gune shook his head and smiled lightly.

"Even if I wanted to go out now, I can't."

Yes.

In this Starry Sky Watchtower, the protection of those strong individuals over Gune was quite strict.

Basically, they wouldn't let Gune go out alone.

"Continue cultivating in seclusion."

Sitting cross-legged on the cultivation seat, Gune continued to close his eyes and meditate.

"Buzz buzz..."

Just as Gune was about to enter the comprehension of the profound meaning again, the transcendent door of the secret chamber lit up.

"Hmm? Something happened again?"

Gune's heart stirred slightly.

During the half year of Gune's secluded cultivation,

outside, Muland Elkeri had come to see Gune three times.

The first time was naturally about the Blood Dream Arena.

When the news of the Blood Dream Arena spread, the impact was quite significant.

Gune heard from Muland Elkeri that the high-level Transcendent Association held an important meeting on the third night.

At the same time, the high-levels of the three empires also held important meetings.

And the target of the meetings was naturally the sudden appearance of the Blood Dream Arena and the Cthulhu creature with the supreme true name—the Nightmare Lord.

Then, within two days, Muland Elkeri brought three other Divine Envoy-level experts to find Gune.

Gune was not at all surprised that the Transcendent Association might find him after the Blood Dream Arena spread.

In this private conversation, Gune clearly stated the following:

"I am just an emotionless tool under the great existence, with no personal freedom, and even my will must obey the great Nightmare Lord."

This was indeed true.

"I only have the ability to promote and offer small discounts on sacrifices.

Moreover, the Blood Dream Arena and other aspects are all jointly constructed and arranged by the Nightmare Lord and other powerful vassals. I only have a small part of management rights, and I don't even get any benefits.

Typically, I do all the hard, dirty, and tiring work, while they take all the benefits.

After all, I'm only at Transcendent Fifth Order now, and I can't even directly hear the words of that great existence; I can only understand and convey the will of the great Nightmare Lord through information passed by other vassals.

And I have my difficulties; many things I cannot say, because once I say them, my vassal status will be gone."

After such an exchange, it became clear that the great existence didn't care much about the transcendent world of this Oya Continent.

Only then did the many experts feel relieved.

Even a slight ripple of power from such a great existence would be enough to turn all efforts to ashes.

Fortunately, their world had a vassal of that great existence, so the great existence wouldn't directly destroy this world.

Once that great existence made a move, the entire world would fall into an abyss of death and despair.

There would be no ability to resist at all, only to wait for death in despair amidst distortion and wailing.

In the history of the stars, this situation had occurred more than once.

Bloody lessons had taught all civilized beings.

Great Cthulhu creatures simply could not be matched by the power of civilized beings.

Fortunately, this time, that great being whose name sounded terrifying didn't seem to have the intention of destroying the world.

After that first visit to Gune, the next two times Muland Elkeri came to Gune were to have Gune lead a team to the World Border's Void Space to clear out those aberrant creatures.

Gune also made two moves, killing two powerful Sixth Order flesh devourers that were like huge meat mountains over ten meters tall.

These aberrant creatures, the flesh devourers like giant meat mountains, were indeed not something ordinary people could handle.

Their own defensive capabilities and the injury tolerance of their thick bodies made them very difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, these things were not so difficult for Gune to handle.

Gune slowly cut them up while collecting all the cut parts into the Blood Sea. Even if they were dozens of meters tall, Gune could slowly kill them.

Besides these meat mountain-like creatures, Gune also secretly collected many aberrant creature corpses, making some contribution to the expansion of his Blood Sea.

He just didn't know why Muland Elkeri was coming to see him this time.

As he pondered, Gune walked forward, placed his palm on the transcendent door, chanted a curse, and slowly opened the transcendent door.