[Absorption complete. You obtained 0.2 drops of 'primordial blood'...] [Absorption complete. You obtained 0.1 drops of 'primordial blood'...] [Absorption complete. The remains were too badly damaged. You failed to obtain any primordial blood...]
Over the next few hours, Mu You began continuously absorbing the remains.
The amount of blood he could absorb from each corpse varied, depending entirely on luck.
Five hours later, Mu You had finally drained most of the remains at the scene, and the primordial blood collected in the Blood Shrine had now reached sixty drops in total!
Aside from the initial ten drops used to advance to Duke, he had used another fifty drops of primordial blood. Yet the notification of another advancement he had imagined never appeared.
Advancing from Count to Marquis had only taken three drops, and Marquis to Duke had taken ten. Following that pattern, thirty drops should have been enough to advance from Duke to Progenitor. Yet now, even after fifty drops, nothing had happened. Mu You could not help wondering whether advancing to Progenitor required some other condition.
Come to think of it, what exactly had so many vampires gathered here for? And why had they all died such gruesome deaths?
If that Blood Clan Progenitor really had emerged from here, then he had most likely once been one of these people. He had simply been luckier: after going through certain events, he had successfully advanced to Progenitor and left this place, avoiding their fate.
With that thought, Mu You turned and asked the Night Watchman for the Pumpkin Lantern, then sent it into the game.
``` [Holding the lit Pumpkin Lantern, you walk deeper into the underground palace.]
[Under the blue-green glow, the dried, faded bloodstains on the stone walls to either side become visible again. Looking