The Blood Domain was collapsing.
Not cracking.
Not weakening.
Collapsing.
Like a dying beast whose organs were being ripped out from inside.
The crimson dome above the arena pit trembled violently.
Outside, thousands of people screamed and ran through the stands.
Cultivators leapt over seats.
Merchants dropped bags of spirit stones.
Even hardened killers panicked.
Because this wasn't an arena fight anymore.
This was a disaster event.
Inside the dome…
the air screamed.
The Cult Priest staggered backward, clutching his chest.
Blood poured from his mouth like a broken faucet.
His altar projection—the giant crimson eye behind him—had cracks spreading across it like spiderwebs.
Every crack was a piece of his authority breaking.
Every crack was Arjun's hunger winning.
Arjun walked forward slowly.
His Devourer Domain pulsed around him like a living void.
The crimson air flowed into him.
The priest screamed:
"STOP!!"
"You don't understand what you're doing!!"
Arjun's eyes didn't blink.
His voice was calm.
"I understand perfectly."
He stepped closer.
The priest lifted trembling hands and forced power into the altar.
👁️🩸 BLOOD DOMAIN: FINAL REINFORCEMENT
The giant eye behind him opened wider.
The cracks slowed.
For a moment, the domain stabilized.
The priest's face twisted into desperate confidence.
"Hah… hah…"
"You can't eat it all…"
"This is a priest domain!"
Arjun nodded slowly.
"You're right."
The priest smiled.
Arjun continued:
"I can't eat it all…"
"…as Arjun."
The priest frowned.
"What?"
Arjun whispered:
"So I'll eat it…"
"…as the Devourer."
Then Arjun's body shifted.
Not visually like a monster transformation…
but spiritually.
Something inside him unlocked further.
The system flashed violently.
🔊 [DEVOURER DOMAIN: DEEPENING]
✅ Compatibility: Priest Domain HIGH
⚠️ Warning: Soul overload risk
✅ Option: Devour the Domain Core directly
Proceed?
(YES/NO)
Arjun smiled.
"YES."
🩸🕳️ DEVOURER DOMAIN — CORE HUNT
Arjun raised his hand.
His fingers spread like claws.
And the air around his palm formed a swirling red-black vortex.
Not a technique.
A hunger.
A gravity made of death.
Arjun didn't attack the priest.
He attacked something deeper.
Something hidden.
The priest's eyes widened in horror.
"N-no…!"
"YOU FOUND IT?!"
Because every domain has a heart.
Every domain has a core.
A spiritual node that sustains the law inside it.
And Arjun…
had just sniffed it out like a predator smelling blood.
The priest screamed and formed seals.
🩸 DOMAIN SHIFT!
The altar projection flickered.
The core tried to move.
But it couldn't.
Because Arjun's domain was already eating the roads inside the priest's world.
The priest staggered.
His voice cracked.
"How can you locate my domain core?!"
Arjun answered calmly:
"You think hunger needs eyes?"
Then Arjun stepped forward and slammed his palm into the air.
Not into the priest.
Into the invisible space behind him.
And suddenly—
the domain core became visible.
A small crimson orb floating behind the priest's back.
It pulsed like a heart.
The heart of the blood world.
The priest's face turned pure terror.
"No… no no NO!!"
He threw himself in front of the core like a shield.
Arjun looked at him.
Then whispered:
"You're late."
Arjun's palm pressed forward.
🩸🕳️ TRUE DEVOURING BODY — DOMAIN CORE DEVOUR
The orb screamed.
It trembled.
It fought.
It tried to explode.
But Arjun's Devouring Body didn't allow it.
It swallowed.
It pulled.
It consumed.
The crimson orb shrank rapidly.
The priest screamed like his soul was being peeled.
"AAAAAA—!! STOP!! STOP!!"
Arjun's eyes were empty.
He didn't stop.
Because this wasn't a fight anymore.
This was feeding.
The domain orb shrank…
to the size of a coin…
then a seed…
then nothing.
Gone.
Eaten.
THE DOMAIN DIES
The moment the core disappeared—
the entire Blood Domain collapsed instantly.
The crimson dome shattered into fragments of red light.
It looked like glass breaking in reverse.
Outside the dome, the world returned.
Fresh air hit the arena like a slap.
The crowd saw the pit again.
And what they saw…
made their blood freeze.
The Cult Priest was on his knees, coughing blood nonstop.
His forehead symbol was flickering.
His altar projection was gone.
Destroyed.
The law of his world…
had been eaten.
Arjun stood in front of him like death standing over a kneeling god.
And Arjun was different now.
His aura was heavier.
Sharper.
His bones hummed like a thousand drums.
His eyes carried a calm cruelty that felt worse than rage.
The system chimed.
🔊 [DOMAIN CORE DEVOUR COMPLETE!]🎁 +40,000 Points
🎁 Skill Acquired: Blood Domain Fragment (1/5)
🎁 Bloodline Growth: Bone King +2
🎁 Devouring Body Growth: Significant
✅ Iron Body Stage: 8.6/10 → 9.9/10
Arjun's entire body pulsed with power.
He was one step away…
from completing Iron Body Stage.
One step away from becoming something even harder to kill.
The priest stared up at Arjun, eyes full of horror.
"You… you ate my domain…"
Arjun nodded slightly.
"Yes."
The priest shook.
"You can't exist…"
"You can't be allowed…"
Arjun leaned down.
And whispered:
"Too late."
The priest tried to crawl away.
Arjun stepped on his robe.
The priest screamed:
"WAIT! I CAN GIVE YOU—"
Arjun interrupted softly:
"You already gave me enough."
Then he grabbed the priest's forehead—
right where the Crimson Eye symbol flickered.
Arjun's palm glowed.
🩸🕳️ TRUE DEVOURING BODY — PRIEST AUTHORITY DEVOUR
The priest screamed like an animal being skinned alive.
His symbol began dimming.
His eyes rolled.
His mouth foamed.
His soul shook.
And then—
his body dried into ash.
Only the mask fell to the ground.
CLACK.
Arjun picked it up.
Two cult masks now.
One envoy.
One priest.
He looked up at the thousands watching him.
Silence.
Pure silence.
No cheers.
No laughter.
No greed.
Only fear.
Because the market finally understood one truth:
Arjun wasn't prey.
Arjun was a plague.
A walking calamity.
A monster that grew by eating power itself.
Arjun raised his hand and ripped the priest's robe open.
He took a small crimson scroll from inside it.
A cult scripture.
A technique record.
Arjun smiled faintly.
"Good."
Then he whispered to the crowd:
"Who wants my bounty next?"
No one answered.
No one moved.
Even the arena master Mako was shaking on the stage above.
Arjun stepped forward.
The crowd split like water.
Because nobody wanted to be the next meal.
The System chimed again.
🔊 [CULT MARK WEAKENED — removal chance increased]
✅ New requirement: Blood Domain Fragment (complete) OR Cult Elder blood
Arjun's eyes narrowed.
So the priest wasn't enough.
He needed bigger prey.
He needed a true cult elder.
Arjun smiled.
"Perfect."
He walked out of the arena.
Leaving behind corpses.
Broken pride.
And a city that had just learned fear.