After ending the one-way video call, Annan furrowed his brows and hunched over in his chair, deep in thought.
No matter how he thought about it, something seemed amiss.
—If their goal was simply to obtain a very large number of Gold-rank Transcendents, then they wouldn't need to go through so much trouble.
It's highly likely that they've already started tapping into the Curse Cellar.
Which means they've already acquired cursed energy.
They just need to mass-produce and then kill some Bronze-rank Transcendents to obtain the "base" for creating nightmares.
Directly using cursed energy to multiply the rewards from clearing a challenge by dozens or hundreds of times, they'd max out Bronze in one run, smoothly advance to silver in the second, max out at silver the next time, and then prepare to advance to gold—
