Chapter 28: The World Anchor

As the Nightmare Lord.

Gunie needed both his own growth and the cultivation of his own power.

Take the Dawn Radiance Source Clan, for example.

By following the Nightmare Lord, their clan could rise to prominence.

But if they abandoned the Nightmare Lord, they would be nothing.

Only then could they unwaveringly obey the Nightmare Lord's commands.

At this moment, when Gunie issued any order in the name of the Nightmare Lord, they would carry it out resolutely.

Even when Gunie eventually ascended to the Saint rank, he could command a group of deities to work for him.

In fact, upon arriving, Gunie had already begun considering a problem.

That was, under the pretext of the Nightmare Lord's command, to have Sogra Kadletz gather a large number of powerful beings at the Divine Envoy and Ancestral Spirit level, and descend upon the Oya Continent through the teleportation array.

To jointly attack the World Essence Extraction Array constructed by the southern evil gods and the church.

But the question was whether the teleportation array could transport beings of the Divine Envoy and Ancestral Spirit level.

If it could, how many resources would be required?

In fact, even Gunie's teleportation using the Ancient Shadow Gate consumed a considerable amount of energy.

The two round trips had made Gunie somewhat pained.

Just cross-world teleportation within the Gurant World Cluster alone.

The enormous resource consumption was unbearable even for beings at the Divine Envoy level.

And the ultra-long-distance teleportation between the Holy Feather Dark Source Large Supernatural World and the Gurant Large Supernatural World.

The Dawn Radiance Source Clan might not be capable of it.

After all, when Gunie came here, he used the teleportation array of a powerful nation like the Aristede Divine Source Nation.

And one teleportation basically prevented a second within several hundred years, showing the immense energy consumption.

After pondering for a moment, Gunie spoke softly.

"Senior Sogra Kadletz, can your Dawn Radiance Source Clan, or the forces of the Dachilong Mountains, perform cross-world teleportation?"

Sogra thought for a moment and nodded gently in response.

"From our Holy Feather Dark Source to the surrounding medium and small supernatural worlds, it's not a big problem."

"But the cost is extremely high. Unless it's an important matter, we generally don't teleport there."

"Then..." Gunie's tone slowed slightly.

"What about teleportation between large supernatural worlds?"

Sogra Kadletz immediately smiled.

"Lord Gunie, you used the power of the great Nightmare Lord to teleport to our supernatural world, so you don't feel how enormous the cost of teleportation is."

"But I can tell you clearly, even I would be unwilling to pay such a high price for a cross-large-supernatural-world teleportation."

"Only those powerful deities have the qualifications and resources to perform cross-teleportation between large supernatural worlds."

"Moreover, without a well-matched receiving teleportation array, it's basically impossible to teleport there."

Gunie fell silent, realizing that his idea was probably unworkable.

"Then is the cost of teleportation between your world and the higher-dimensional Saint Heigar even greater?"

"That cost is actually not too high. A capable Divine Envoy or Ancestral Spirit can grit their teeth and bear it."

"After all, our Holy Feather Dark Source and Saint Heigar have quite a lot of contact."

"Fixed teleportation arrays have fixed space-time light paths, which save most of the cost."

"Otherwise, in terms of distance, from Holy Feather Dark Source to Saint Heigar, basically no deity could afford the cost."

After this conversation with Sogra Kadletz, Gunie completely gave up the idea of seeking help from Sogra Kadletz; it was basically impossible.

Gunie's inquiries seemed to have alerted Sogra Kadletz to something.

"Lord Gunie, has something happened in your world?" Sogra Kadletz asked softly.

"Another vassal of the Nightmare Lord, also a friend of mine, his world has been invaded by evil gods."

"The evil gods have already activated the World Essence Extraction Array."

"Their forces are gathering to attack the strange energy arrays constructed by those evil gods to extract the world's essence."

"He asked me for help, hoping to gather more strength, but now it seems impossible." Gunie said.

"Extracting world essence?" Sogra Kadletz's expression turned grave.

"That's not good news. For a medium or small supernatural world, after three to five years of extraction, various bizarre anomalies will appear."

"If the World Essence Extraction Array built by the evil gods cannot be destroyed, the entire world will likely fall into death."

"But... there is a way to deal with such essence extraction energy arrays." Sogra Kadletz said.

"Oh?" Gunie's heart stirred.

"What way?"

"The World Anchor."

"The World Anchor?"

"Yes." Sogra Kadletz nodded slightly.

"Lord Gunie, do you know why no one extracts world essence from large supernatural worlds?"

"Is it because those evil gods probably couldn't survive in a large supernatural world?" Gunie said.

"That's one aspect. Another is that the energy arrays they build simply cannot extract the essence of a large supernatural world."

"In a large supernatural world, deities can fully exert their power and realm, and the world itself has immense容纳性."

"Secondly, any deity who attempts to extract world essence, upon touching the world's essence, will immediately suffer the suppression of the large supernatural world, be drawn into the world essence, and become part of it."

"I see."

Gunie nodded and looked at Sogra Kadletz.

"Then what does that have to do with the World Anchor?"

"Oh, it has a lot to do with it." Sogra Kadletz smiled.

"The World Anchor is a peculiar item that mimics the framework of a large supernatural world and can enhance the stability of a world's essence."

"Once a World Anchor is cast deep into the essence of a supernatural world,"

"the stability of the world essence will be greatly increased. The degree of stabilization varies depending on the size of the world."

"But basically, one World Anchor can increase the stability of a medium supernatural world by about three times. This will reduce the energy of the evil gods' essence extraction array to one-third of its original."

"Two World Anchors will reduce the speed of essence extraction to one-tenth of the original."

"Three or four World Anchors can basically make the world essence completely unaffected by the extraction array."

"Thus completely cutting off the evil gods' influence on that supernatural world."

"At the same time, anchored deep in the essence, the World Anchor stabilizes the world essence while also allowing it to grow faster, thereby raising the energy level of the entire supernatural world."

"After all, we supernatural beings can continuously grow, and supernatural worlds can also slowly and continuously grow. But the growth of supernatural worlds is too slow, usually measured in millions of years."

"But with World Anchors, it's different. The speed will increase by dozens or even hundreds of times."

World Anchor!

From Sogra Kadletz's description, Gunie recognized the importance of the World Anchor.

What the evil gods coveted was the world essence of the Oya Continent.

If Gunie had three or four World Anchors, directly anchoring them deep in the world essence,

he could cut off the evil gods' hope at the root.

At that time, the world would hold no attraction for them, and they would naturally leave.

"Whether for the current evil gods or for even more powerful evil gods that might come later, the World Anchor to stabilize the world essence must be obtained. Only then can we ensure that the Oya Continent is at least not coveted by evil gods."

Gunie pondered inwardly.

"Does the Holy Feather Dark Source have these World Anchors?" Gunie asked.

"The Holy Feather Dark Source doesn't need World Anchors, so naturally it doesn't have them. But... the high-dimensional supernatural world Saint Heigar does."

"However, the price is not cheap."

"The high-dimensional supernatural world—Saint Heigar." Gunie narrowed his eyes slightly, gently rubbing his fingers, already forming some ideas in his mind.