While Ashara opened the gate for his grandson's departure, all the golden-blooded humans of house Serkar, a total of 124 individuals, gathered within the Merit Hall to go through Konrad's experiment. Under Berken's orders, all formed circles around the glittering Blood Tablet and held their breath in a mixture of awe and uncertainty.
Konrad snapped his fingers and the new entrants all collapsed on the floor, with their internal organs no longer functioning and their soul at rest. A breeze of silence pa.s.sed before the fallen rose again, their black eyes s.h.i.+ning with newfound purpose.
Konrad stretched out his hand, causing the Blood Origin of all the golden-blooded Serkar to emerge from their chests and fly toward the Blood Tablet! As non-deities, without Blood Origin, their lives should have ended. But since in perfect undeath they lay, that rule no longer applied.
Chimera's Blood Origin joined the mix, making the tablet blaze with a brighter red. The Golden Blood Origins superimposed within the tablet, mixing with Chimera's Icy-Blue Blood Origin before turning into a ball of golden-blue flame.
If quant.i.ty didn't ensure quality, then through the Blood Refining Tablet and his own brilliant skills, Konrad would build quality out of quant.i.ty.
Ma.s.sive waves of chthonian energies erupted from his palm to barrel into the Blood Tablet's nucleus where the bloodlines intertwined. With the black and icy-blue force fueling it, the mixture burned brighter, the imperfections vanished into nothingness, and the energy signature it released rose to new levels. With his left hand, Konrad manipulated the Blood Refining Tablet, using it to perfect the fusion and enhance the result.
One hour pa.s.sed before Konrad's refinement of the new lineage ended. And as he pulled back his right hand, within the Blood Refining Tablet, an icy-blue Blood Origin remained, rippling with a might that rivaled t.i.tans. Konrad's hands flashed in incantation gestures, and that Blood Origin emerged from the tablet to fly toward his chest and merge with his Chthonian Heart.
Dazzling, icy light erupted from him as his Chthonian Heart refined the resulting Blood Origin and brought it to another level. Now, as Konrad appraised the result, he realized that even t.i.tans were left behind.
The icy Blood Origin emerged from his chest to hover within his palm. And from it, light beams erupted to fly toward Chimera and all the gathered Serkar scions. Gulistan was no exception. When the new Blood Origin lodged within their chest and releasing fresh blood within their veins, they could feel their strength rise to greater heights than ever before.
