This was a discarded limb of the Daughter of the Cosmos, located in a different position within the main material plane. Goki hadn't expected this thing to still be useful in the world of Terra.
As one of Goki's many arcane tools, the omen of ibytas was one of the most frequently used. The tentacles summoned from another dimension could interrupt many attacks from super-armored enemies, making it exceptionally useful.
Similarly, these tentacles tasted good, and if one was cut off, it would grow back. However, eating them caused a drastic drop in Sanity and a surge in Insight, so not everyone could enjoy them.
Since the Director had excavated the ruins of a certain Kazimierz indigenous deity, and that deity had swallowed the power belonging to Ibytas from Goki's body, it was not surprising to obtain this arcane tool.
In short, another old friend had returned to Goki's storage box, which was cause for celebration.
"Don't even. If my main body were here, I'd be afraid of getting pregnant—and you, ugh, you actually injected those unknown bloods into your body. Won't there be a rejection reaction? How can you still be considered a normal person…"
Giving Goki a glare, Muelsyse / Muir Sais's Clone, sitting in the chair, quickly recovered.
Watching Goki inject tube after tube of strange-colored, clearly non-human blood, completely unsterilized, into his body, Muelsyse / Muir Sais's mouth twitched.
"At least disinfect them a little… Ha, forget it, I don't care anymore, do whatever you want!"
Fortunately, Muelsyse / Muir Sais was not a medical professional and didn't have Kaltsit's obsessive-compulsive level of cleanliness. After taking a deep breath, she regained her composure, glaring resentfully at Goki, and began to recount the Director's speech.
"Director… she seemed to be explaining things about the Great Ones to us. I've never seen her look so worried. I can't believe all of this is real."
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"Ah, indeed, the Director seems to have done something to Ifrit. She actually dared to confess directly to Saria—it's over, it's over. Ifrit is Saria's reverse scale. If those two fight, the entire building will probably explode."
After recounting the Director's speech, Muelsyse / Muir Sais's Incarnation immediately clutched her head in fear.
Clearly, after the Director openly stated what she had done, admitting to her experiments on Ifrit and herself, Saria, that Dragon, was already furious.
"Ah, that's her personality. If she agreed with the Director's ideas, then she wouldn't be Saria."
Behind Goki, a row of precise storage equipment that had originally contained blood was now completely empty. And the five-digit blood echoes above Goki's head had now become six-digits, nearly two hundred thousand.
This feeling reminded Goki of the joy of crushing accumulated Coldblood Dew one by one in the Hunter's Dream.
The amount wasn't much. Given Goki's ever-increasing demand for attribute points, these blood echoes could at most allow Goki to level up about ten times.
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However, the significance of these bloods lay not in their energy itself.
They were not the prey itself, but something that pointed the way to the prey—didn't the Azure Star next door also have to look for footprints and fur before hunting?
Thanks to the Director's decades of self-sacrifice, even severing her horns, to collect data from all over the world, Goki now knew of a dozen different ruins related to the Great Ones.
Deserts, ice fields, plains, underground... and even ancient mobile cities—the divine powers existing in those perilous places are certainly not just what's in front of him.
With this, Goki's direction for his next hunt became clear.
He had three objectives in coming to Rhine Lab; finding his prey had been achieved, and he had just messed with the Director's experimental Materials, which was basically good.
"Alright, since those two are about to fight… I should also get involved—I hope the Director still has some conscience; if Parvis, that madman, dies by my hand, she might not even care."
Taking out the heavy Church Stone Hammer, Goki lightly brushed his chest, and the Hunter's uniform, unworn for a long time, was taken from the dream, clean and pressed, covering his body.
Goki had specifically cleaned this when he was at Kaltsit's clinic; Skadi had originally volunteered to help, but after she broke a basin, Goki and Mon3tr took over—when Goki wasn't around, Kaltsit always assigned household chores to the poor Crystal Beast.
"Parvis, hiss—hah, I should have realized long ago, you're the Hunter who took care of that Flame Giant in Sargon!"
Seeing the black trench coat appear on Goki, Muelsyse / Muir Sais froze for a second, then her eyes widened in surprise, covering her small mouth.
If he was one of those two fierce individuals... perhaps they indeed had the right to forcefully enter Rhine Lab.
Saria, that fellow, didn't recruit a business spy; she practically brought in a father!
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