After Kubo left, Dago lingered alone on the balcony until a maid carrying freshly brewed tea interrupted his wandering thoughts.
The lightning and storms raging outside the Silver Falcon airship's energy shield were indeed terrifying to ordinary people, but most of the fear the girl before him displayed was feigned.
She trembled all over, making herself look pitiful and vulnerable. When Dago's gaze fell on her, she deliberately lifted her ample chest.
Dago did not drink the tea. He simply waved the girl away, his expression indifferent. As she obediently lowered her head, a few traces of barely concealed disappointment flickered in her eyes.
Dago took one last look at the entrance to the Storm Realm, which resembled the Eye of the Firmament. His gaze returned to the direction Kubo had vanished in, then he calmly turned and left.
The moment he stepped into his meditation chamber, Dago's body gave a slight shudder.
An unusual look flickered across his face, and he sat down cross-legged right where he stood.
Turning his mental power inward, he saw the image of a small Blood Tree spinning rapidly over his heart.
His heart continued to expand as the Blood Tree spun. The instant the spinning stopped, his heart, now nearly twice its normal size, rapidly shrank like a deflating ball. Then red threads resembling capillaries began growing around the shrunken heart.
The first Bloodline Deduction is complete.
Dago blinked. With a little hope that he might get lucky, he guided the red threads outward, driving them into his flesh one by one.
In an instant, Dago felt his skin tighten sharply. Then his already smooth skin seemed to grow even finer, taking on the color of moonlight beneath the chamber's illumination crystals.
It purified the human bloodline in my body.
Dago let out