Treasure Hunting System： The Ocean Conquerer

Chapter 579: Chapter 276: Divine Descendant and Royal Authority

The deer composed of crimson mist was originally named Mirmi.

This knowledge and memory had been transmitted to Alka from the crystalline fragment he had just obtained.

Mirmi, the dream deer, like the chief serpent, was a mist creature.

He was considered a ”king” in the Dream Realm, but Alka didn’t know how his specific strength compared to the serpent.

The manifestation of power in the Dream Realm was also somewhat abstract.

One could only roughly gauge it within a certain range.

Based on his speculation and intuition, Mirmi was considerably weaker, even though the giant white serpent was also a Dream Realm King.

Kings within the Dream Realm also had their distinctions.

He had turned into crimson mist and attacked mindlessly, as if insane, all because he had been set up by a mere human.

The one responsible for this transformation was none other than Klian, the pirate.

By piecing together fragmented memories and information, Alka roughly understood the sequence of events.

Klian had acquired the fragment, but it held little value for ordinary humans.

Drawing on his understanding of the Dream Realm, and at the cost of his own life, Klian had imbued the fragment with some unsavory things, akin to negative emotions.

He used this fragment to lure Mirmi. As a mist creature, Mirmi was not typically aggressive under normal circumstances.

Or rather, he leaned toward order.

At that time, Klian had proposed a condition: if Mirmi signed a contract with him, he would give him the fragment.

The contract was successfully signed, requiring only that Mirmi protect Klian’s descendants.

However, when Mirmi obtained the fragment and integrated it into his body, a problem arose.

This special fragment had certain requirements for its Controller. Pure Dream Realm creatures, it seemed, found it somewhat difficult to control and needed to assimilate it slowly.

Then, Klian, using his own hatred and life—and an unknown blood sacrifice method activated through the contract—detonated the hidden machinations within the fragment.

The hatred thus affected the mist creature. This was a consequence stemming from a characteristic unique to Dream Realm creatures.

Under these circumstances, he was corrupted, ultimately transforming into the state Alka had previously witnessed.

This transformation filled him with a destructive urge, a desire to destroy all living beings.

He inexplicably wanted to go to the Real World; this was an obsession implanted by the blood sacrifice, something that even his madness could not alter.

The hatred was forcibly imposed upon his Spiritual World after Klian’s death.

With his power, once he reached the Real World, he would head straight for Southern Cross Island and unleash a massacre upon the royal family.

Alka and the others would have faced grave danger. One reason was Alka’s own powers connected to the Dream Realm. Another was that Klian, under duress from Kriel, had been forced to employ a mutually destructive method; this method also nullified certain long-prepared vulnerabilities.

Mirmi hadn’t charged directly into the Real World because royal blood, his primary target, was present on the Island.

That was why he had been so eager to drag the Island down. Alka and the others only survived the subsequent spreading attacks because Mirmi’s entire attention was focused on Kriel.

They were only attacked because they were caught in the crossfire aimed at Kriel.

Unconsciously, his attacks had spread across the entire Island.

They were simply too weak to be his main concern.

In truth, even if the chief serpent hadn’t come to help, Alka and the others likely wouldn’t have died.

Once Kriel died, the pull of hatred would have compelled the deer to quickly break through into the Real World, abandoning any further attacks on Alka and his companions.

That crystalline fragment was the reason Klian could set such a trap, one capable of luring a king from the Dream Realm.

This fragment was Alka’s greatest reward from this entire ordeal.

Because it was a fragment of a Divine.

Dream Court Maintainer, Gate of Passage, Master of Fantasy City.

These were all titles of this Divine.

However, Alka could not discern the Divine’s name from the scant information remaining within this fragment.

After all, it was merely a tiny piece.

The reason Klian, its earliest possessor, had used it to lure a king from the Dream Realm instead of using it himself was because this item was not something an ordinary human could adapt to or use.

Its most basic requirement for compatibility was a creature of the Dream Realm.

Alka himself had possessed the Dream Catcher for a long time. Being someone who was invariably active within his dreams whenever he slept, he was no longer purely a creature of the Real World.

Under the influence of the Dream Catcher, his soul and spirit had long become deeply bound to the Dream World.

Furthermore, after absorbing those spheres of light—the essence remaining from the assimilated deer—Alka became even more deeply bound to the Dream Realm.

He could now be considered a new form of life: half Dream Realm creature, half Real World being.

This nature made him exceptionally compatible with that Divine.

Because that Divine was a Dream God who had ascended from being a Real World creature.

The Divine also possessed characteristics of being half Real World and half Dream Realm.

Alka had also obtained the status of a Divine Descendant.

Divine Bloodline now flowed through his veins.

What he had also obtained was knowledge of how to ascend to godhood. This particular knowledge didn’t originate from the fragment itself. In the era when the fragment’s original owner achieved godhood, such specific knowledge did not yet exist.

Rather, it was something Klian knew, something that had come along with the Divine fragment when he acquired it.