124 – Prove it, time! (3)
The silence flows for a moment and then breaks.
“What, what?”
“What is that man saying?”
“…If it moves, it kills you?”
“Cho, Chief! What is this all of a sudden?”
“I barely came out with a body like this because I was told that I couldn’t move because of a hangover, but what about the sound of sh*t falling into the dry sky?”
The villagers opened their bunny eyes and looked at Siwoon strangely.
“Chief?”
Lee Si-woon blinked at the village chief, Da-on, and Da-on came forward and said.
“Everybody, don’t panic, listen to me.”
I was told not to panic, but when I heard the explanation, it was obvious that everyone would be shocked beyond embarrassment.
Anyway, Dion calmly laid out the current situation.
“Bae, you can distinguish vampires from here?”
“You mean there is that monster among us?”
“Where are you! Come out!! The bastard who killed my son! I’ll rip your jaw! Where are you!!”
“My grandmother was killed by that devil too! Who is it? Are you sure the devil is among them?”
“I’m scared. I want to go home!”
Yoo-seok blocked her ears and prevented the frightened woman from leaving her seat.
“If you get out of here, you will be considered a vampire and you will face a catastrophe. It’s over soon, so don’t move.”
“You are so scary! Do you know what kind of guy he is?”
Without answering her, Yoo-seok stood in front of her with her rugged size.
Residents began to doubt each other and be wary. The ensuing commotion was stopped by a beast that jumped out.
“What a surprise!”
“What is that again?”
“A wolf cub?”
“They are walking on us!”
All the residents looked at the fox sniffing and walking toward the residents strangely.
“Ilmiho! Do you still remember the smell I told you to remember yesterday?”
The fox turned his head to see Siwoon, nodded, and scratched the scruff of his neck with his paws.
“Why did you call me in the morning today? I mean, I was sleeping!”
When the fox, thought to be an animal, spoke, the villagers doubted the ghost. It was a bonus that I was even more surprised by the voice that was very different from his humble appearance.
“Miho. There is no time for small talk. Find that smell among them now.”
“Kang? Why should I?”
“Don’t you want to eat mana stones?”
“Kang! Give it Hurry up and give it to me!”
“Then find it first.”
The fox glanced over at the villagers who were staring at him.
Then I walked through the crowd.
Then the residents backtracked.
“Oh, here they come!”
“I am scared because his voice is hideous.”
“Chief! Say something!”
Dayon raised his palms and waved them, gesturing to the residents to be quiet.
“You already explained it! Stay still. Just a moment!”
Sniff sniff.
“Mom! Uh, where!”
Her woman shuddered as the fox poked her nose at her own leg.
“Do not argue whether it is a woman, a child, or a man, and find it!”
Siwoon added.
It was common knowledge that vampires could unleash fiendish power on a moonlit night, but could not exert their energy during the daytime when the sun was up.
Even if he had a male appearance when he was a vampire, he was guessing that he could change into a non-manly appearance to avoid suspicion during the daytime.
Pakang! The back of the fox’s tail rose upward and hardened like a blade.
The villagers who held his breath and swallowed dry saliva silently watched the fox detect his scent, and the villager who passed his turn let out a sigh.
“Sniff!”
The fox stopped moving in front of a man.
“……… !”
Everyone stopped there with their eyes widened.
“Is that the smell?”
Siwoon asked.
“I blew my nose for a while because my nose was stuffy.”
“Can’t you do that later?”
“Shut up! If you want to poop, can you pack it later?”
“Ha….”
Siwoon shook his head.
Perhaps he needs more intimacy in order to be able to listen to him docilely from the time he appears to the time he disappears.
The fox started detecting again.
The fox raised his eyes and stopped.
“Karlung!”
“Kyaaak! Please go away! Somebody help me! They are trying to bite me!”
Standing in front of the young woman, the fox scratched the ground with her paws, bent her upper body, and made a wary gesture.
“Is this the person?”
The fox slowly nodded his head to Siwoon who approached and asked.
“Are you sure?”
“Don’t make me say it twice.”
“What, what are you doing! Please save me! Chief! Uncle Old! Grandma!!”
Her woman gave her astonishment as Shiwun’s blade stopped on her own neck.
Her villagers in unison distanced themselves from the woman and glared at her with her frightened eyes.
At that time. Da-ion hurriedly ran over and grabbed Si-woon’s arm.
“Oh, no. This child can never be a vampire.”
“Chief. Get out of the way.”
“Maybe that fox made a mistake!”
She refused to let go of Siwoon’s arm, saying Dai Ion couldn’t do that.
In his memory, she was a very tender and kind child.
Never! There’s no way this kid could be that devil!
“Oh, please don’t touch me…. I, I… Absolutely not! I mean no oh oh oh oh oh!! I swear by my heavenly parents, really.”
“Chief? How could he have been able to live in hiding in this town without ever being seen? Vampires are cunning bastards.”
“Isn’t that child crying so sadly! Do you think that such a devil can act so weakly crying?”
“Keah!”
The woman shuddered as she let out her screams.
Her sword blade passed through the arm she was clutching, and her blood dripped.
“…… I’m sure this woman is.”
“Because it’s not! No! She said no She said stop now… “
“I have special eyes than others. There are no white blood cells in this woman’s blood.”
Shiwoon cut off the village chief’s words and said firmly.
“What is that……… Aagh!”
Da Ion was frightened and kicked his ass.
Push! The flashing blade pierced the woman’s narrow belly and protruded from her back.
“Ouch! Whoa!”
The residents who saw the sight screamed in fright.
“Ouch….”
The woman dropped her chin, spat blood out of the corner of her mouth, and buried her head in the chest of her shiun.
And she raised her eyes with evil and glared at her luck.
“This, this guy, this…… Coheo.”
Push!
With her blade removed, she fell violently to the floor.
Everyone stared at the woman with her mouth shut and her belly covered with her entrails spilled on her floor.
Siwoon grabbed her hair and lifted her head up, put her hand into her mouth, took something out of it, and held it out to Da Ion.
Daion’s face when he saw it was a mixture of mixed emotions.
Surprised and sad.
Dion gave strength to his trembling eyes and confirmed once again that he was in Siwoon’s hand.
‘Hemodiasite… ! Obvious.’
Bloodstone.
Another heart of a vampire.
A stone condensed with the blood of vampires, it is said to dissipate their impulsiveness and give them violence.
A storm that had driven the entire village into panic seemed to have stopped like this.
It was then.
‘The bloody urine stone moves.’
Moment. A soft alarm sounded in my ear.
[The bloody stone’s stone power dwells.]
The bloodystone melted down and spread through Siwoon’s arm, spreading all over his body and flowing into his flesh.
“Ugh.”
Muscles all over the body twitched.
While I was startled by the suddenness, the alarm sounded again.
[Stone power is being administered to the blood.]
[The power of stone completely surrounds you.]
[You have completed Unification.]
[Aura creates a skill.]
[You have acquired the skill Vampire’s Wrath.]
‘……… What?’
I opened the skill window as it is.
[Vampire’s Wrath][Attribute]
– Acquisition condition: A person who has obtained a bloodsidian after executing a vampire during the day.
-Skill Effect: Coagulates the blood flowing in the body of an enemy who has been given a vampiric state.
-Selection: You can activate or deactivate it at will, whenever you want.
‘I never thought I’d get a special skill here!’
It was a hit!
Characteristic skills were of a different kind from active or passive skills.
It was very difficult to acquire, but the effect was incomparable to a normal skill.
At the unexpected windfall, Siwoon smiled inwardly.
In a situation where a miserable corpse is lying in front of you,
Because if you laugh with your mouth instead of your insides, everyone will treat you like a crazy person.
* * *
Around the time when the men who were mobilized to rectify the gruesome corpse in front of the stone statue of the goddess were busy moving.
Daion raised his trembling hand and put his mouth to the teacup.
“I never thought he would do it so quickly….”
A hunter named Siwoon Lee. He twisted one of Dion’s expectations.
While he is still personally feeling the surprise at that fact, he is struggling with another.
‘It’s surprising that he found and killed that elusive demon, but he didn’t even show his skills to defeat the black magician.’
Dion gave him and his crew a second chance to prove their qualifications.
An opportunity to defeat all the monsters in the Demonic Tower located near Miwol.
It certainly won’t be easy this time.
‘But….’
I didn’t give them a deadline.
‘I must change my mind. If they destroy all the monsters within 3 days….’
Acknowledge them then,
I will sortie to the temple where there is a guy who is said to wield the power of a real devil.
Da Ion shook his head, closing his eyes tightly.
‘However, it would be impossible. Because it lives in that tower.’
That moment.
Siwoon and the others entered the Demonic Tower and climbed to the second floor.
On the first floor of the Demonic Tower, in fact, only the ‘Queen Spider’, a giant spider that cannot fit into the axis of a monster, inhabits it, so it was not difficult to kill it prematurely.
However, Siwoon knew very well that it was different from the second floor here.
“Huh? What?”
“The quest window popped up.”
“Me too.”
Hye-ryeong, Yoo-seok, and Yeon-hee stopped walking and looked up into the air.
A window also appeared in front of Siwoon’s eyes.
[Final proof of qualification][Cooperation]
Daion, the village chief, is the final gateway to test your qualifications.
Let’s fight all the demons and monsters on the entire floor of the Demonic Tower and prove your qualifications.
Success Conditions: Defeat all monsters within 72 hours.
Fail Conditions: 72 hours elapsed or party annihilated.
Rewards: Large amount of experience points, possible to complete chain quests.
Penalty in case of failure: You cannot proceed with the next linked quest forever.
“The success condition has changed. We have to wipe this place out within 72 hours.”
Shion muttered.
I can guess why the success conditions have changed.
Daion must have changed his mind.
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The Demonic Tower here is a mutant dungeon.
In short, it means that each monster has different strengths than normal mobs.
Its strength was that it fed the vampirism status ailment.
That’s crazy too.
It couldn’t have been more difficult, but Siwoon smiled even more inwardly.
‘So lucky.’
It was.
Just before arriving here, I learned the counter skill for the vampiric status ailment.
That is also a characteristic skill.
“Did you bring the potions to remove abnormal conditions? I came fully prepared.”
While organizing her inventory, Hye-ryeong examined the faces of her party one by one.
“The carrots are ready. I have a skill to cancel status abnormalities, sister.”
“I guess you learned it because you are a magician? Is that over there?”
Yooseok replied by moving her mouth briefly.
“You? Oh, I must have prepared for it.”
Hye-ryeong tried to ask Si-woon, but stopped talking. That guy is a category you don’t need to worry about.
“Why are you laughing? The monsters here are really strong. You have to be nervous.”
Yeon-hee asked as she saw Si-woon’s mouth curl up.
“Yeonhee. Don’t apply a status ailment buff on me.”
“…… Why?”
“Because I don’t need it now.”
Took.
When Siwoon, who was walking, stopped, everyone stopped one after another and looked at Siwoon.
“Everyone, please stay here for a moment.”
“Why? Are you sure you want to attack all of this by yourself?”
“Hey, hey. What else are you going to do?”
Siwoon replied with a meaningful smile and summoned Lecras.
“Stay here, everyone.”
After speaking, Siwoon and Lecras started running like crazy beyond the dusty darkness.
“Siwoon!”
“Ha…. Is he doing something reckless again?”
Hyeryeong frowned.
She did, but she didn’t bother to follow.
The many reckless things that guy has done have never disappointed Hye-ryeong.
“Sister. You can’t leave me alone like that.”
“Stay here until he calls. I do it because I have an idea.”
Meanwhile.
Siwoon, who had been running to the point where sweat poured down his cheeks, stopped walking.
“Lecras! Fly to the top of the tower, screaming as much as you can, and lure the children and bring them.”
Caw? Caw!
Hooung! The crow flapped her wings back, speeding her up and flying forward.
After a while.
‘You drove well.’
Kahah!
The crow hurriedly flew in and landed on Siwoon’s shoulder.
Looking pretty frightened.
As soon as the crow disappeared, all the scenes the crow saw while flying were planted in Siwoon’s mind.
‘The number of heads is quite large?’
It was then.
Kroaah!
Kleur!
Kooooo!
From the front, there was a roar of running and screams of fury.
‘Shall we have some fun?’
I fixed my sword and ran away.
Kaaa!
Kooooo!
Blue eyes began to gather in various places in the dark tower.
Thump!
Thump!
Kaaa!
A good 8m long dinosaurs waggled their tails and attacked with dog foam.
Fishik!
“Keugh…. Is this pretty hot?”
I deliberately responded to one attack.
And.
[HP continues to decrease due to blood-sucking effect.]
‘Okay.’
Spear! Chanang!
I hit the tails and claws three times the size of people’s waists flying from all directions with my sword.
I deliberately met their attacks while trying to counter them. Of course, I minimized the damage and pain by pouring it properly.
‘Twenty. All of you got vampiric at least once.’
Siwoon grinned.
Karr!
Kao Oh!
Kaaa!
Considering Siwoon’s smile as a provocation, he pushed his head in even more frantically.
At that time.
“Vampire’s Wrath.”
[The vampire’s vengeance effect has been activated.]
[Effective on enemies who have created vampirism.]
[Immediately clots the blood circulating in Devil Lizard’s body.]
Wow?
Karr!
Kaa?
Their rough movements have slowed down considerably.
Kaa…. Kaa!
A guy stepped forward and wooow! I buried my head in the dusty floor of the mage tower. It was because the lower body stiffened with hardened blood.
One after another, twenty Devil Lizards stopped moving on the spot, groaning out of breath.
‘Anyway, these guys know that wild houses are no joke. It’s convenient to make and cook like this.’
Shaak! The pouring out of the blade swept the side of one.
Cow!
Shaak! Let’s cut that side again,
Cow!
He groans and stumbles.
Blood gushed from his open side.
The skin of the one known to be hard was very well pierced, perhaps because the blood was coagulated.
Pashuuk!
I jumped up to the head of the lowered guy and threw the sword into it,
Let’s twist the sword as it is.
Kawoou!
He drools out of his mouth because he is madly in pain.
Grab! Let’s pull out the sword
Wow!
A guy who collapses heavily and dies.
-You have killed the Devil Lizard.
Shake off the monster that came out from the tip of the sword body, and as you approach the rest of them with a grin, fear begins to set in their eyes.
“I’ll kill you quickly now. All of you.”