Chapter 19: Vital Purification
[Selena left after finishing her explanation. And as you watched her back, your heart softened a little more. But without dwelling on that for now, you quickly pricked your finger, squeezing a drop of blood onto the book — just as Selena had instructed.]
[And the book dissolved into blood and drilled into your body. Its content, written in a foreign language, yet somehow perfectly understandable, became imprinted in your mind.]
A superior technique really is something else, Noel thought in wonder, reading about the Blood Scripture.
[Two weeks passed. You devoted all your time to the technique — practicing its breathing and movement patterns to awaken bodily awareness. And at last, you reached the threshold of the first stage.]
[So absorbed were you in your training, that your agitation over not seeing Lilith, and your situation, seemed to fade. Even your relationship with Selena began to improve.]
[One month passed. You could now sense the blood flowing through your body more clearly, and began the early process of removing impurities within it.]
[During that time, your relationship with Selena returned to how it was before, and you began sleeping together again.]
[Then one day, you mentioned the name Coren Merrow to her.]
[Selena raised an eyebrow and asked how you knew that name. But you brushed her off.]
[Two months passed. You had already started cleansing your bloodstream and blood vessels, and your physical strength alone had more than doubled compared to before you began this path.]
[Another two months went by. With further mastery over the early parts of Blood Scripture, you were finally able to measure your progress in the first stage — Vital Purification. Shockingly, despite how powerful you already were... you had only reached 1%.]
[But instead of feeling discouraged, you found yourself looking forward to the future even more — to how strong you could become when you reached the higher stages.]