Chapter 40: Demon Curse Eye

Arriving at the arena marketplace.

What met the eye were machines resembling vending machines with glowing screens.

Many transcendents were currently operating in front of these machines.

To purchase items in the arena marketplace, one could directly operate on these vending machines.

Insert holy source coins to recharge one's arena medal; as long as you had enough holy source coins in your arena medal, you could buy anything in the arena marketplace.

And after purchase, the item would be quickly delivered through the machine.

Overall, it was very convenient and fast.

Gunie gradually recharged all ten thousand holy source coins.

First, Gunie naturally wanted to see if there was any information about the World Anchor.

But the marketplace content only displayed items worth up to one hundred thousand holy source coins.

For good items worth more than ten times the holy source coins one possessed, the marketplace did not allow casual browsing.

Although not allowed to view, Gunie roughly knew that the price of the World Anchor should be around two million holy source coins.

After some thought, Gunie began browsing for curse staves.

Gunie currently had no capital to buy high-grade or top-grade staves.

A mid-grade curse staff would be sufficient for use.

"First, I don't need secret crossing runes." Gunie first eliminated the option with secret crossing runes.

For other caster transcendents who had advanced to grandmaster, they greatly needed to speed up the casting of secret pattern curses.

And the number of secret crossing runes they themselves had condensed was only around ten or so.

Even the best had only about fourteen or fifteen.

Therefore, they needed secret crossing runes to increase their casting speed.

But for Gunie, his basic secret crossing runes were as high as 32, and with the Nether Staff, they reached 36.

The curses and arcane tomes in Gunie's hands were all instant-cast.

And with a frequency of up to forty-seven curses per second overlapping, Gunie had an absolute advantage in casting speed.

"I don't need repeat runes or many other elemental runes either, after all, I am a curse caster, not an elementalist."

"What I currently need is the strangeness and power of my methods."

"As long as my curses are strong enough to kill with one curse, even if you have heaven-defying means, you'll be helpless."

"Amplification runes are what I need most right now."

After Gunie's filtering,

Only a little over twenty mid-grade curse staves appeared before Gunie.

These "curse staves" had different forms, but none were in the shape of a staff.

Some were bracelets, some necklaces, some rings, and some were simply ethereal orbs of light.

The form of a curse staff appeared as a "curse" and was not constrained by shape.

Gunie began gradually researching and selecting among these mid-grade curse staves.

About two hours later,

A curse staff worth 10,000 holy source coins, the Demon Curse Eye,

Was chosen by Gunie.

The mid-grade curse weapon Demon Curse Eye was a fusion-type curse weapon refined using the eye of a demigod demon, combined with many powerful materials and curse cores.

This was somewhat similar to transcendent plant equipment.

But obviously, its form was much higher than transcendent plant equipment.

After complete demonic contact, the Demon Curse Eye could be integrated into the left or right eye.

At that time, the transcendent would gain the effect of the "Demon Eye."

Possessing indescribable extraordinary dynamic insight and dynamic locking ability.

For Gunie, this enhancement also helped improve his visual abilities somewhat.

But in fact, Gunie currently didn't need vision to help him locate enemies in battle.

The powerful soul domain and world arcane domain had long allowed Gunie to locate enemies without using his vision.

But for his own battles this time, he could completely use the Demon Curse Eye for dynamic observation during combat.

The reason was simple: Gunie wanted to hide his strength.

Once Gunie performed too strongly, there would be no value in betting on himself to win.

Besides its extraordinary dynamic insight ability,

The most important thing was its only curse rune—the amplification rune!

As a legendary mid-grade curse weapon, it contained as many as fifty amplification runes.

This meant that this mid-grade curse weapon had up to a fivefold amplification of curse power.

For reference, the Nether Staff only had an additional onefold amplification.

But this mid-grade curse weapon of legendary mid-tier power, the Demon Curse Eye, had fivefold.

Combined with Gunie's own, a curse released would be six times its base power.

Gunie's own curse level was already terrifyingly high, and with a sixfold amplification,

The power naturally went without saying.

After the purchase, Gunie had few holy source coins left.

Then, Gunie and Doulans went together to find a suitable place for living and cultivation nearby.

The battles in the Divine Kingdom Arena would last for a long time.

Therefore, a suitable place for secluded cultivation was necessary.

In the following days, Gunie peacefully cultivated in seclusion.

Unconsciously, three days had passed.

...

In the small meditation room.

Hum... hum...

A slight tremor sounded.

"Hoo..."

Gunie gently exhaled and opened his eyes.

At this moment, Gunie's eyes were completely different from before.

Previously, Gunie had white sclera, black pupils, and round pupils.

But now, Gunie had blood-red sclera, black pupils, and vertical pupils.

In the vertical pupils, a demon-like chilling gaze faintly radiated.

The change in Gunie's eyes was naturally due to the Demon Curse Eye.

Over these days, Gunie had nurtured the curse staff Demon Curse Eye to about eighty percent; when the nurturing reached sixty percent, the Demon Curse Eye had been integrated into his eye.

With the integration of the Demon Curse Eye, Gunie's eyes underwent such a peculiar change.

"Eighty percent nurturing of the Demon Curse Eye activated forty amplification runes, that is, a fourfold additional amplification of curse power. Although not fully nurtured, this fourfold amplification effect is quite good."

"In two days, I can easily perfect the nurturing and then unleash all the effects of the Demon Curse Eye."

With a flip of his hand, Gunie took out his blood-red Divine Kingdom Arena medal.

Gently rubbing it and feeling it, he put it away again.

"There are still three hours before I need to be there; I should prepare to set off. After all, it's the first battle."

After some preparation, Gunie stood up and opened the meditation room door.

Then he walked out along the corridor.

The secluded cultivation place that Gunie and Doulans had found was specially rented for grandmaster-level transcendents to cultivate in seclusion; it was quite quiet here.

Leaving the cultivation place, Gunie flew toward the Divine Kingdom Arena.