The morning was almost over and the massacre in Driftin was pretty much completed.
Thousands upon thousands of disembodied souls filled the destroyed city. Dead bodies lay all around, which monsters shared amongst themselves.
However, so intelligent beasts were busy with sothing else at the mont. If one looked from above, they would be able to see a massive geotrical diagram being drawn on the city grounds.
Using the blood of the dead people, goblins, lizardn, orcs, imps, etc. helped their master draw the advancent ritual array.
The stolen altar was kept in the middle, its previous runes replaced by new ones. A completely naked demon stood on the altar.
A young woman hugged him from behind. Her soft palms touched all over his body, painting him red with her own blood. It was a bizarre scene.
"Enough." Jake tapped Yvvone's hand, making her stop.
The dragon girl's eyes fluttered as she distanced herself from him. She had lost a lot of precious lifeblood and looked extrely pale at the mont. Half of her tail was also missing.
"You've done good, Yvonne." Jake said, retrieving the life gourd from his inventory.
At present, less than ten droplets of life elixir remain in it. Originally, this was to be used by the elven princess. But since she could be cured by other ans, there was no need to use such a treasure.
With Yvonne, Jake could use a regeneration skill to regrow her tail. However, the lifeblood that she lost required a lot of energy to recover.
A true dragon's blood was extrely valuable. If too much of it was lost, the dragon could even beco permanently weaker. Yvonne had sacrificed a lot this ti.
One drop of life elixir was adequate for her. Yvonne was still very young as a dragon, so another drop could turn her into a baby instead.
After the dragon girl consud the life elixir, her tail instantly regrew and her healthy complexion returned. Jake also noticed so changes in her body proportions.
"Thank you, master." Yvonne stepped below the altar. She could sense a trendous draconic power laying dormant within Jake.
Even as a true dragon, it still made her shudder. Previously, she only felt subservient toward Jake and had always questioned this feeling.
How can such a weak demon beco her master? The only reason Yvonne didn't revolt was because the seed of corruption would always break such thoughts.
Jake was aware of the situation with the dragon girl. She was soone at the peak of the fifth circle, and he'd gotten extrely lucky when corrupting her.
That's why Jake was careful when ordering her around and never went overboard.
'To truly eliminate her doubts, I must reach the 5th Circle. Or else, she will eventually reverse the corruption, making her servant.'
Jake rembered the first ti he read the description of the [Corruption] skill. Although it evolved into [Degeneration Halo], the side effects remained the sa.
After Yvonne flew away, Jake retrieved nine chaotic mana crystals from his inventory. Placing them on the edges in a circular fashion, he sent orders to the nearby monsters.
They quickly brought the young girls he'd captured from the villages en route to Driftin. These were the nine innocent souls required for the bloodline awakening ritual.
The Devil Rune array was already etched onto the altar. As for the rest of the array that the monsters were drawing, it was related to his advancent.
After taking out the bone dagger and the scale armor which he got from Marquis Jones, Jake grabbed Yvonne's dragon tail. It was thick, scaly and had a crimson sheen to it.
With this, he had fulfilled the condition of having dragon bones, scales and flesh for the ritual. After placing these three items on specific parts of the array, he tied the unconscious girls near each mana crystal before closing his eyes.
"Krsvuin entieste lo prrdesan…" The chant this ti was even more difficult to pronounce.
It seed to be in a language which predated even Ancient Demontongue. If not for the system's help, Jake would've probably spent an hour learning just one verse.
As he began chanting, the runes etched on the altar glowed dark red. However, there were also hints of gold in that red color.
At the sa ti, the chaotic mana crystals, which were known to be extrely volatile, began to softly disperse mana.
The innocent souls were covered with that mana and rose into the air. As Jake's chant beca louder and louder, the dragon parts on the altar lted.
The bone dagger beca a white liquid, the scale armor turned into a black powder and the flesh beca a red paste.
All of those combined and slowly converged on Jake's body which was sared with dragon blood. The mont this happened, he felt an otherworldly pain, as if his every tissue was being destroyed and regrown continuously.
It made him unable to chant anymore and a thundering scream… or rather a roar escaped through his mouth.
The roar of a true dragon.
This roar attracted hundreds of thousands of souls floating all over the city. At the sa ti, the nine human girls suddenly opened their eyes, their bodies covered with indescribable runes.
As the souls began to circle around the altar, chaotic mana pillars shot from the body of each girl. By now, they'd already lost all consciousness.
The dark mana pillars reached hundreds of ters high into the sky, forming the base for an ethereal magic circle up above.
Jake, who was at the center of this, felt the pain subside and began chanting the last verse of the advancent ritual spell.
With every strange sound he made, the souls disintegrated. Their raw energy was then continuously refined in the huge array, which fueled the demon in the middle.
When Jake finally finished chanting, the disembodied souls were all gone. For a mont, there was absolute silence in the ruined city.
But then a dark red halo spread from him, sending shockwaves which destroyed buildings all around him.
Next, a black dot appeared on Jake's forehead, enlarging into nurous marks which spread all over his naked body.
These marks were there when he advanced to the 4th Circle and they'd once again surfaced. But this ti, the dark marks were being filled with crimson and gold letters which glowed brightly.
"Ancient Draconic Language?" Yvonne narrowed her eyes as she observed from above.
She had only been taught its basics by her parents. In her clan, perhaps only the Elder Dragons of the Seventh Circle could understand Ancient Draconic.
"I can't believe master's bloodline is so pure…" The dragon girl muttered. She noticed an aspect of demonism within the draconic power in him.
Obviously, Jake's new bloodline wasn't completely draconic. It ca from an evil demodragon.
Right now, as the new marks settled within him, a change happened to his soul. Also, Jake's mana core grew more than ten tis before condensing into an egg-like shape.
Thick demonic mana then spread from it, nourishing his body.
The bloodline energy of the demodragon was reddish-yellow and it instantly began to transform his features. Jake was on the verge of completely advancing.
However, the Black Devil bloodline suddenly clashed with the new bloodline that was awakened.
"Tch." Jake clicked his tongue, even though he'd been expecting this to happen.
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