Sunny maintained a posture of statuesque stillness upon his spine-throne. His dark robes pooled around him like spilled ink. He explicitly focused his crimson gaze on the heavy iron cage in the corner. The Iron-Forged Ghoul Ape, newly ascended to the Commander tier, stood perfectly motionless within.
Sunny was internally reeling. The sheer, physical density of the Ape was deeply unsettling. He explicitly recognized that its current form was the absolute apex it could achieve without requiring materials from the Calamity tier. Calamity-grade resources were fiercely hoarded by the Grand Elders; attempting to acquire them would undoubtedly trigger an immediate execution.
Therefore, Sunny needed to pivot his strategy. He explicitly decided to focus his available resources on maximizing the lethality of his primary assassin, the Phantom Ash Scorpion.
However, the Supreme Merge System had just presented him with a deeply confusing revelation regarding the Scorpion's progression.
