Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

(This cave also has subsequent scenes, mentioned in Chapter 351, where Hughes and Iluya secretly visited it.)

"Pat-pat, pat..."

In the dim cave, Valerius, already covered in blood, crawled slowly on the ground, the blood dripping down his back forming a thin blood trail.

All around him, various bizarre and grotesque super-abnormal beings were watching him intently, but none of them dared to make a move.

They used to be wary of this second-level wizard, but now... he seems to have become weaker.

However, as Valerius crawled, it continued to roar, and its remaining mental pressure spread out.

"What... does my death diminish your prestige?!"

That's right, Valerius was already dead, and he did indeed die before he self-destructed.

He feared that his memories would be spied on, and he also worried that Rhoda would regain control of his body and interrupt his self-destruction.

Therefore, long before accumulating blood energy, he personally erased his own life, transforming his body into an unstoppable blood energy bomb.

The body he now possesses is merely a low-end blood clone, barely controlled by the remnant of his dying soul.

Once this lingering soul dissipates, Valerius will die completely.

Of course, it might not be Valerius...

However, as the soul energy continued to dissipate, the control this remnant soul had over the clone gradually decreased, and "Vallerius's" movements gradually began to slow down.

"I...I need to get to that place right away."

Although he was too weak to stand up, he still stubbornly wanted to reach that place—his treasure trove.

This is because within this blood clone lies something extremely important: the symbolic blood of Osiris.

He must send away the symbolic blood, and there just happens to be something in the treasury that can accomplish this task.

"Pat-pat, pat-pat..."

However, the remnant soul was getting weaker and weaker, and soon it could not even maintain a complete clone.

"Splash—"

As expected, the clone suddenly began to disintegrate, and its feet turned into two pools of blood.

Valerius tried, but seeing that he could not re-coagulate, he had no choice but to transfer the symbolic blood to his hands, hoping that he could eventually crawl to the treasure vault.

"Woo...woo...roar..."

"Crunch, crunch..."

As he weakened, those aberrations began to stir.

Some of them have even begun to slowly move towards this spot.

Fortunately, Valerius had already climbed to the end of the corridor.

But at the same moment, the super-abnormal variants behind them suddenly became restless and rushed towards them in groups.

"Thump, thump!! Thump, thump!"

"roar--!"

In the nick of time, Valerius quickly crawled into the burrow and then raised his hand to close the only passage.

"Bang!"

"..."

Inside the cave, various super-abnormal variants were about to rush in when they were blocked in front of the suddenly appearing runic gate.

They angrily pounded on the door, as if venting their dissatisfaction.

Just then, at the very end of their procession, a chilling aura suddenly burst forth...

"Snap—!"

……

"Pat-pat, pat..."

After entering the cave, Valerius quickly climbed a crystal staircase, then chanted a spell, passed through the cave ceiling, and arrived at the laboratory.

At this point, his legs had completely disintegrated into a pool of blood.

"I... Waaah... Who am I?"

Moreover, as his remnant soul gradually dissipated, even his memories became chaotic and fragmented.

"Am I really... Valerius? No! I..."

Even so, Valerius did not linger for long.

He shook his head, then continued crawling, quickly passing through the opening and entering the passage...

"Squeak—"

Finally, as the two large bas-relief doors slowly opened, the circular palace came into view.

"It'll be soon...it'll be soon..."

Now, Valerius's lower body has completely disintegrated into blood.

He was left with only his upper body, and with his bloodied hands, he struggled to move forward on the ground.

"Secondary...teleportation array..."

Ahead, a blood-red secondary teleportation array quietly lit up.

Here, non-living beings can access the true home of the vampires—the World Gate.

"Blood...blood..."

Valerius suddenly accelerated, and as he approached, he slowly extended his hand, which contained the symbolic blood, towards the array ring.

His fingertips stretched forward with all their might, about to reach the array rings.

"Huuuuuu..."

But just then, the sound of black mist flying behind them suddenly rang out.

Immediately afterwards, a clear, cold voice suddenly rang out:

"Valellius..."

——!

Upon hearing this, Valerius turned around and saw a vampire girl standing behind him.

She had long, jet-black hair, and her cold, blood-red eyes were looking down at him.

"You, you are—!"

Even though his memories were fragmented, Valerius seemed to realize something when the image of the girl came into view.

"I...I got...the master's...symbol blood..."

He unconsciously withdrew his hand, and then slowly extended it toward the girl in front of him.

"Please...please..."

"..."

"Bang!"

The next second, Valerius's bloody hand suddenly exploded, turning into a pool of blood.

Then, the blood-red dot of light quietly appeared and slowly floated in front of the girl.

Within this lies the blood that symbolizes Osiris.

She glanced coldly at "Vallerius," then turned and walked toward the ice crystal coffin.

Lift the lid, and inside is a small lump of meat.

Valerius once secretly stole a bit of Osiris's symbolic blood under the guise of his research.

Although it was less than 1%, he still kept it in his treasure trove for research.

And this lump of flesh is the container for that symbolic blood.

In fact, if the plan succeeds, Valerius will put the retrieved symbolic blood into this lump of flesh.

After all, this lump of flesh is the corpse of Viser's descendant.

Thanks to the characteristics inherited from their ancestors, each generation of the Vasiti family can withstand the blood of Osiris well.

"..."

Now, the girl stared at the mass of flesh in the coffin, then suddenly raised her hand and waved it, burying the blood-red light spot into the mass of flesh.

"Buzz—"

The next second, the mass of flesh underwent a strange transformation.

"Gurgle! Gurgle gurgle!!"

Upon suddenly gaining such immense vitality, it immediately began to shake violently, with such force that it even shook the entire ice crystal coffin.

"Bang! Bang bang bang!!!"

The next moment, the mass of flesh rapidly expanded, instantly bursting the ice crystal coffin apart.

"Crack—splash!"