After getting the Walpurgis Knight Order into some shape to the point where they could be of real use, Vali started sending them to the places where his sight couldn't penetrate to obtain information from there.
Naturally, he didn't expect anything from this.
Nevertheless, he was pleasantly surprised when one of the wizards he sent to the subterranean world returned with a piece of shocking information.
At least to him, because from the memories of the wizards, he found out that the entire subterranean world served as an enormous graveyard sort.
That was also the reason why his sight couldn't penetrate there, because there were countless Tier 11 entities that died there and even some of Tier 12, including one enormous corpse of something that appeared to be Void Leviathan of Tier 13.
He didn't dare to think how these beings died here and how did they ended in a place like this, but at least now he was sure that in this world there weren't any powerful entities that could harm him, as he prepared to entire the subterranean world by himself and plunder it for the Chthonian Empire.
From the preliminary scouting done by the wizards, it was totally empty without the signs of life, which was a good signal, so he could safely enter the place and take everything there.
It was rather ironic how human wizards dismissed it as just a pile of bones and nothing interesting...
If they knew that things like this could change people's civilizations by miles and bounds.
There were cases where even ordinary civilizations without any special Energy or inquests found such graveyards and, within mere decades, were propelled from Tier 0 to even Tier 8 civilization.
Naturally, Vali wouldn't leave such wondrous resources and powerful things there, so right now, he was in the final phase of preparation for the expiration of the subterranean world.
After taking everything from the subterranean world, he would take the members of the House of Black together with him and one of the non-members, as he, during his stay, found an interesting specimen with natural Level 8 Superior Soul Aptitude and unnatural talent for Divination and Arcane Magic to the point that even his father would be shocked.
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When Vali stood in front of the entrance to the subterranean world in Antarctica, he was getting a bad feeling.
Something was making him uneasy because while the wizards he sent to scout the underground returned with news that nothing alive was there, he was still getting weird signals out of this entire endeavor.
Still, he entered the underground tunnel as he started descending deeper and deeper into the subterranean world until he, after half an hour, he reached the place which he saw in the memories of the wizards he sent there to scout the area.
Just like in the memories, there was absolutely nothing in this enormous underground space, aside from bones from long decomposed corpses of countless beings.
Even the weakest one who died in this place seemed to be a Tier 10 being, while there were many Tier 11 and a good number of Tier 12 beings.
This made Vali wonder what happened here, then came up with two possibilities.
Either this was a place where some grand battle took place and these were the participants...
Or, considering the fact that this was a randomly released world in the Endless Void, this could be some hidden graveyard that was created by some mighty expert or civilization to prevent these things from being found.
'There are Void Creatures, Fiends of the Infinite Abyss, cultivators, Elder Gods?... that this place must be like really ancient if the corpses of Elder Gods were here.'
Vali thought because this was indeed a surprise... Elder Gods were not a Rank or Grade; rather, they were sub-species of Gods from the ancient times when the Endless Void was not only 1/10 of what it is today.
Each one was born at Tier 11, reached Tier 12 by adulthood and Tier 13 if they put a bit effort into their training; countless Elder Gods reached the limit of Tier 13 or became Universe Masters or, if not Universe Master, then at least Divine Thrones.
There were even several Tier 14 Paragons among their race, but alas... as time went by, some of the more powerful species wanted to obtain the power of the Elder God Race for themselves and thus started waging war on them.
While the Elder Gods were extremely powerful, they were several outnumbered by many of the superior species like Mind Flyers, Fiends, Magicians or even some monstrous cultivator clans and thus, slowly but steadily, they were hunted down and annihilated.
Naturally, Vali knew this because one of the very few friends of his father was actually a member of the Jade Clan.
The very same clan was one of many who participated in the Elder God War eons ago and some of their clansmen even killed a good number of the Elder Gods.
Thus, he was more knowledgeable on the topic than others.
'Fortunately, the corpses of the Tier 12 entities and that Tier 13 Void Leviathan are well preserved... though shame that the Tier 11s and Tier 10s didn't manage to withstand the passage of time, probably the time they were here was too long for them.'
Vali muttered as he strode through the enormous underground space while heading toward the source of the biggest energy signature in the entire place.
He passed by a good number of corpses, piles of bones and other things, but as he saw, not all Tier 11 corpses were entirely done...
Some of those who had some extraordinary bloodlines were still intact like they were killed right now.
He then went deeper and deeper into the subterranean world, following the energy signature that he felt, until he soon arrived in a new part of the underground world at a small plateau.