Lucien took out the seal of the Shi Xue Clan, which he found in the pagoda, and inserted it into the mechanism. Nothing happened so far as the blood of the pure-blood Noble Ghoul was required.
Thus, Lucien congealed the kagune dagger, cut his hand, and dripped several drops of blood onto the mechanism. Only then the mechanism started working and glow in the blue light, similar in color to that crystal.
So even though the Washuu Clan found the Ancestral Shrine, they couldn't access it and open the door. They didn't even have a seal of the Shi Xue Clan that served as the key, and they weren't pure-blooded ghouls either.
Maybe they would try to open it with explosives or something, but who knows? Lucien thought even those weapons that he obtained would cause problems if they fell into the hands of the Washuu Clan and then Vasuki.
Lucien stepped away and let to massive stone door open. They were opening slowly, and it took some time for the door to open fully. After they opened, Lucien entered the place, and there were two altars in the small room.
The entire room was dark and the only light was generating those blue crystals, creating a very subtle atmosphere here. Altars were carved in simple architecture, without any decorations or something, just plain stone and that's all.
And finally, the next thing here was, of course, the Royal Blood Crystal. It looked rather ordinary, like any other crystal, it was just in blood-red color and it was constantly releasing a bloody aura of slaughter and blood. Crystal was now its so-called sealed state.
Lucien stored it in his Cross Crest.
The most fascinating thing there and the most precious thing was Heart.
Yes, a beating heart on the pedestal.
With only one description.
'Heart of the Ghoul King'
Lucien was shocked but quickly recovered and stored it in his Cross Crest.
After searching through the entire room several times, Lucien decided to go away and explore the underground region once more. There were still many buildings where he wasn't, and there could be something valuable for him.
He exited the Ancestral Shrine and when he was at the entrance to the shrine itself, he bowed slightly, paying respect to ancestors of his race that fell in the battle and betrayal by the Washuu Clan.
Lucien then walked away from the fortification and searched for some buildings. He mainly found some houses which served as housing space for people. There weren't many valuable things in these houses, almost nothing that had any use.
After some time, he was delighted because he found a big building. But when he entered, he was utterly disappointed as this was some medical ward combined with a place for storing the medicine. After exploring the rest of this place and getting to know that nothing valuable was here, he decided to leave.
***
Lucien slept for several hours in a row before going to work.
The extraction process of several hundred corpses. There were countless corpses of B-Rated and A-Rated ghouls here. And corpses of agents of Vasuki and members of the Washuu Clan were also high in numbers; this would give him enough Blood-Essences to speed up his evolution.
He extracted Blood-Essence from those B-Rated and A-Rated ghouls at first because they were the weakest. They were around three hundred of them; Lucien didn't count them as it was too bothersome to do something so annoying.
As all of these Blood-Essences would be used for his evolution, he didn't keep them and stored them in a special place. From all these ghouls, he obtained around one hundred Blood Essences.
Then he moved forward and started refining the bodies of Vasuki agents. They were much stronger and more potent compared to those mercenaries.
Almost eighty Blood-Essences. This was a huge number as agents of Vasuki numbered in tens; maybe they were only a hundred altogether. They even gave more blood essences compared to their numbers.
After he extracted everything, he looked at the beating Heart of the Ghoul King.
It was so mesmerizing that he couldn't control himself and bit into the Heart of the Ghoul King.
After several seconds he at the entire Heart of the Ghoul King. Then he felt some weird in his body, as his whole body was being strengthened, especially the Kagune and his mental power to use Telekinesis. Even his RC Level increased a bit.
He opened The Game to see the precise changes.
[Name: Lucien Etras di Aeon
Race: Ghoul King (12%)
RC Type: Rinkaku
RC Level: 65,894
Unique State: Kakuja V4
- Kakuja V1: Left hand - body armor, right hand - kagune katana
- Kakuja V2: Entire body armor without a mask, kagune katana
- Kakuja V3: Entire body armor with the mask, another armor layer (extra thin), kagune katana
- Kakuja V4: Entire body armor with the mask, another armor layer (extra thin), kagune katana, Rinkaku Tails
Star Rank: 4th
***
Abilities: Telekinesis - Alpha]
He saw that his Telekinesis had been strengthened to the Alpha-Level, and now had the strength of more than a hundred tonnes. Also, his race has changed to the Ghoul King, but not entirely; his race was still only evolving.
After the process was done, he would be geniue Ghoul King.
In the next few days, Lucien trained and familiarized himself with his new strength. There was still some time before the 11th Ward Battle and raid on the Cochlea Prison.