"Hm? Where’s Corin? Why didn’t he accompany them?" Bruno asked curiously; Corin would surely want to join them.
Ruri quickly furrowed her brows at the question, leaving Almin and the others with a strange look, unable to say anything.
"He... can’t accompany us right now," Ruri muttered dryly. "Currently, he’s recovering his body and can’t walk."
The whale was clearly caught off guard. "But he was perfectly healthy when we arrived, what the hell happened?"
"That idiot was tarnishing master’s name. I had to discipline him along with Calirer," Ruri clenched her fists and spoke rapidly.
The whale’s bewilderment didn’t change, so Almin huffed, speaking a bit awkwardly. "Corin, he has a... strange personality... as soon as he settled, the women in charge of security had a lot of trouble with him."
Ruri then spat coldly. "He would sneak around... at night, into the houses of all the single women! And during the day, he would pester all of them. He has no restraint! No matter the race, if she was single and female, he would jump from one to another! That..."
Alm and Bruno were speechless for a few seconds...
Then, Bruno asked in disbelief, "But, Corin and Calirer were close when we arrived? Why was he behaving like that?"
"Yes, the two were close. But when master isolated himself, he quickly showed his fangs. He said that in his universe, his race was small, and everyone was free to have as many children as they could with anyone they could!" Ruri spoke dryly. "He had the audacity to say that to Calirer, who kicked him away. So he didn’t take long to chase after others."
Alm and Bruno sighed; it was a cultural difference, coming from a primitive race to the ’modern’ world.
"But Calirer... despite that idiot being like that, she still likes him. To prevent him from embarrassing master even more, I promised to put him in line," Ruri commented, looking at the whale with conviction.
"That boy’s bloodline is something scary, and no demoness would refuse him if he were smart," Langrum said, amused by the situation. "Master Calirer also wants to have an army of children, so she didn’t mind that much on the inside. If they tie him to her, I doubt Corin will have the energy to chase after others. My master is just playing hard to get."
The whale snorted, and Bruno turned to Ruri. "He may seem to be only two years older than you, but he’s almost fifty thousand years old, really. If the women consent, let him be free..."
"No! You didn’t understand, master!" Ruri cut in quickly. "That idiot bothered the women during the day, but... he wouldn’t talk to them, or stay in plain sight. He just waited near the lake for them to appear, or watched them from afar. But during the night, he would invade their houses and watch them sleep... and steal things from them... that’s just what I know, the guardians hid things from me."
The whale’s eyes jumped slightly. ’God... he’s a complete pervert!’ Bruno exclaimed, shocked.
Alm then took charge, while Bruno was still stunned. "What a problem. I take back what I said, keep up the good work. If it’s as Langrum said, Calirer has already started investing in him, just mold him until things unfold."
Ruri nodded contentedly, then the whale took steps forward. They would have to deal with Corin properly later.
"Oh, by the way!" Ruri spoke as they walked through the castle.
"Surprisingly, Deryu kept guard of the Drake and only took two-thirds of the bloodline of the corpse. He left the rest for Rurnula; they’re together, slowly consuming the entire body. But that Drake is very powerful, and they’re nowhere near finishing. They eat a bit and pass out... but their bodies, bloodlines, and cultivation are exploding every day."
The whale nodded satisfactorily. That little bastard had finally started to value the people close to him, and Runula had already marked her presence on him. A nomad with nothing to lose isn’t trustworthy; they had been like that before, and they knew it well. Now, it was worth investing some effort in him.
Soon, they approached a place in the castle that looked like an ordinary dark wall. But the whale just activated his new spiritual root, and the connection with the laws made something change there. The space on the wall flickered like the entrance to something. Everyone got excited and quickly jumped in.
They had been transported to some kind of special place, a small separate space with spatial laws within the castle. So, as their eyes stabilized, they found themselves in a dark and cold place; the smell of earth made it clear that they were in some kind of cave.
Suddenly, eight pearls on top of eight stone pillars lit up, making this cave as bright as day and revealing its vast space.
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With this light, they could see clearly. This cave was like the inside of an ancient palace. The eight stone pillars had engravings of hundreds of humanoid beings and other unidentifiable things. Everyone looked at the engravings, and no one could immediately recognize those forms. But after a few seconds, Langrum jumped, seeing the form of an ogre; then soon after, they saw dwarves, elves, and other known creatures, except for humans.
After a minute, the whale took steps forward. In the center of that place, there was an altar that was empty but emitted a powerful pressure.
On the wall behind the altar, there was a huge mural 100 meters high. There were a dozen figures depicted on it. Alm and Bruno immediately recognized the figures; they were humanoid beings. To be more precise, they were races that had a single common ancestor: all of them had Chromaraic as their common descendant.
When everyone looked at those figures, they felt as if they were being watched, evaluated. This mural was full of energy... and quickly, everyone sensed a dense bloodline power in it.
The whale nodded slightly as the entire mural suddenly lit up. In a few seconds, it shrank and turned into a scroll of ten meters. That scroll rolled up like an ancient scripture, and the whale picked it up, feeling information flowing into its mind.
"Diagram of natural bloodlines," the whale murmured lightly, and everyone listened excitedly. Then he opened the scroll, and the same figures from the mural appeared, but now they pulsed with bloodline power.
"These are the twelve humanoid races that exist or existed on this planet. It seems that the demon who created this castle hunted all of them and made this diagram. Inside, the bloodline of all races is sealed in a formation," he explained as they calmly analyzed the figures. "It seems there are things beyond bloodline... but only those with pure blood of the race can comprehend."
Langrum sighed. She had the blood of one of these figures, but it was diluted. It wouldn’t be as useful to her, and she probably wouldn’t be able to see what lay beyond.
The whale then took a second look around, then turned and left; there was nothing more there for them. Everyone left curious about the next steps; it seemed to be something ominous and had many uses. And now everyone wanted to reach the Elemental Condensation Realm quickly to find out what awaited them hidden in the next room.
The whale summoned the dwarf leader, Vuard. The dwarves were the few non-hybrids in the city; in the diagram, there were no Cerberus, but there were dwarves. Vuard entered the castle excitedly, speaking.
"Lord, we have already understood the method of using that divine elven fabric! We are just waiting for your approval of the model to make it."
The whale nodded; he had left the elven fabric that Sesel gave them with the dwarves. Ruri’s birthday was less than a month away, and they were going to make something ’adult’ for her to wear.
Then, they called Vuard over and removed the diagram. When the dwarf’s figure inside the diagram lit up, everyone jumped back with the extreme reaction coming from the red-bearded dwarf. His entire body petrified, and an extreme bloodline power erupted from his body.
Everyone felt the air grow heavy, and the bloodline of the dwarves became so intense that they felt suffocated. It reverberated with Vuard, and it took several minutes for him to stabilize with the help of Alm and Bruno.
"So? What did you feel inside?" The whale spoke gently to the stunned and trembling Vuard.
"That... lord, this is the sacred bloodline and heritage of my race!" He exclaimed, astonished. "All dwarves know the legends of a distant past. The royal family of the dwarves possessed a pure and exuberant bloodline, and their abilities were divine. But nowadays, the king of the dwarves has no trace of the royal bloodline. The high dwarves have long been extinct."
Everyone was surprised by this information, so Vuard continued with trembling words. "The legends vary greatly among the dwarves, but the only certainty is that the high dwarves were extinct in the first war that occurred on this planet. How... can this exist here?"
The whale sighed; it seems that one of the reasons for the outbreak of the war was the demon harvesting the most powerful bloodlines and their heritages that lived on this planet. Humans had nothing similar, so nothing happened to them. This explains how humans are predominant in terms of power and cultivation on this planet currently. They had never seen elves here yet, which was very strange.
"Lord, this is something very important to my race," Vuard spoke, quickly kneeling. "I beg you, return this to us. My entire race will reward you with everything we have!"
Alm and Bruno nodded. They already intended to pay a visit to the dwarves in the south of the planet, now they had a good reason and would gain much more than they initially imagined. They quickly lifted Vuard, calming him.
"I will pay a visit to the kingdom of the dwarves soon. First, I have to check some things, then you will take us there, okay?" They said gently, and Vuard quickly smiled in adoration.
As soon as Vuard left the castle, they summoned the city’s guardians. Then, an order to organize a small escort and visit the central city of the planet was given. They needed recent information about the planet before taking action. And more specifically about the Three Extremes Sect.