133 – Real
It was rare for Anis to talk about what happened in Merhem.
The party’s footsteps began to speed up,
It wasn’t long before we reached the Beinhard Mansion.
What we were able to see as a result.
“… What is this?”
The half-destroyed mansion of the Beinhard family in the distance.
“The Black Fang Guild…?”
They were the remains of the members of the Black Fang Guild scattered here and there.
As if you were peacefully closing your eyes,
Silica quietly approaches her and checks her pulse.
“…Died.”
…Again?.
This time too. ‘Blood’ is not visible.
Even though a huge sword scar can be seen through the torn clothes,
It’s normal for the wound to ooze out and your clothes to get soaked…
“Rye…! Over there!”
It was then.
At the sudden shout, everyone turned their heads in one place.
“…!”
-Jijijijik!!
Inside the half-destroyed mansion of the Beinhard family.
I witnessed red sparks flying from a familiar device.
“…Gate guidance device!”
“Red energy is leaking out!”
… The ominous mana that colors the sky,
Hundreds of lost blood. And gate induction devices.
It was clear what had to be done.
“We need to break the device!”
“Silica. Right now…”
“…That’s kind of embarrassing.”
“?!”
-Jerebuck.
A middle-aged man in a neat suit emerges from among the corpses.
“…Who are you!!”
“Well… No one will know the name if I mention it here.”
Remedy.
“Just… Introduce yourself as a ‘real’ vampire.”
“…A vampire?”
As the man said,
Jet-black hair and red eyes. And even the pale skin without blood.
Anyone could see that he was a man who was a vampire himself.
But…
“…A real vampire? What do you mean by that?”
“hahahahaha. That’s right… Since you guys are ‘fakes’, I have no choice but to introduce them like this.”
“No bullsh*t. Answer me when I ask. Why are you here? The people of House Beinhard?”
Ignoring Silica’s warning, they gradually close the distance.
‘… It’s chilly.’
Because the atmosphere and place are places,
It was hard to believe that a mentally ill person was just passing by here.
Besides,
Even though he is a vampire.
… I wasn’t at all intimidated by Adela.
“Prepare for battle.”
– Seruk.
The first to run out was Silica, clad in wolf armor.
Kwaaang!!!
Closing the distance in an instant,
I try to swing a giant pitchfork at the man.
Hooung!!
“…!!”
Only the sound of cutting through the air can be heard,
The man was no longer visible at the place where Silica attacked.
“Oh my gosh… I can’t believe you rushed at me.”
Whirick!
Silica hurriedly turned her head at the voice behind her.
“Don’t be so ruthless. It’s been a long time since I’ve come to the world…”
Suddenly!
“… Huh?”
Puffed up.
There already, at some point, the figure of Adela holding a sword by the man’s side.
-…
It was only the corpse of a man cut in half.
“…Leader.”
“He was quite capable. Don’t beat yourself up.”
Silica biting her teeth as if she was angry at the failed attack,
Adela calmly soothes Silica.
Looking at that figure, Veronica
She stared at the man’s corpse for a while as if she was embarrassed, then opened her mouth.
“So. Shall we continue the patrol?”
“Wait a minute.”
“Huh?”
Anis-sama’s warning.
And from the time the red sky appeared to the physical abilities that began to subtly decline.
“… Leah.”
-Yes.
There were not one or two questionable parts to just skip over.
I can feel Leah’s mana being activated in her body,
Her body, which used to be unnatural, is energized, and at the same time, mana is blown into her eyeballs.
And.
“…Sister. Silica. Step back.”
“…?”
“That guy. He’s alive.”
As soon as I finished my words.
– Mr. Ik.
As if startled by Adela’s slash, the mouth of the guy who was acting as a dead corpse with her eyes wide open,
It began to rise bizarrely.
“…Oops.”
“Kyaaah!!”
“…! A corpse?!”
Turup.
The blood-soaked upper body raised itself up and the man’s red eyes looked straight at me.
Soon.
Charleureureuk!!!
The man’s body turned into hundreds of bats that flew in all directions.
-… How did you know?
“Because I saw it.”
-Hoho… It’s a golden demonic eye. You have strange eyes.
“…”
Hundreds of bats hovering around us.
But this wasn’t a real bat.
It’s just an aggregate of mana in the ‘shape’ of a bat.
But…
The act of converting a part of her body into mana itself was an act outside common sense.
In the scenery seen through fantasy,
A man’s mana tissue was finely connected between hundreds of bats.
-Suddenly!
I tried cutting through the mana tissue in front of me as a test.
-Squeak!
Soon, the mana threads from other bats filled the void.
-Listen up, fakes. Foolish vampires with their fangs pulled out.
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Awesome!
Hundreds of bats fluttering in the air before your eyes,
The man’s voice echoes like an echo.
-The true nobility of the night has arrived.
That last word.
-…
As well as the appearance of a man,
Even countless bats disappeared all at once.
“Wait…!!”
“It’s useless. They’re not around anymore.”
Let the man disappear,
Veronica looked around as if she was dumbfounded and finally came up with a word that represents everyone’s feelings.
“…What the heck. What was it?”
“Really…”
“What is it?”
As well as Burimi,
How come all the vampires involved in Dimension did the same thing.
To attract attention in a plausible way and then wait for the night to come.
“… It splattered.”
For a noble of a noble night, it’s unmatched.
When I climbed to a high place and looked at the Beinhard Mansion once more,
At some point, a transparent curtain had been installed in the room where the mechanism had been shown.
“Look over there.”
“… It’s a barrier that looks pretty urgent. But for something like that, it looks pretty complete.”
“Then shouldn’t we destroy the device first…?”
“Wait.”
“…Yes?”
It was none other than Veronica who interrupted Elena.
“…Actually. I missed the timing to tell you earlier. Gate guides are not something you can just break.”
“Why?”
“It’s basically a device that gathers mana and coordinates from another dimension. If it’s destroyed in an unusual way…
In the worst case, a random gate may open and the entire nearby terrain may disappear, or a large explosion may occur due to mana fusion.”
“… There have been cases where humans have had adrenals.”
“That was when the gate was completely connected, and then it was destroyed with the gate disconnected. This is different from now.”
Haa…
It was a bloody expediency setting.
“So… You mean we have to wait for the gate to open like this?”
“…For now. But with only one guidance system, it won’t be so massive at once.”
To buy time for reinforcements to arrive.
…In the first place, that was our mission,
I didn’t feel very good when the road I thought I could go comfortably was blocked right in front of my eyes.
“… Then.”
“It can’t be helped. First of all, make sure there are no more suspicious people around, or prioritize activities to destroy the barrier.”
“Wait a minute.”
“Huh?”
“More than that. Can you tell me where the gates are occurring?”
“…That’s right. If you look at where the mana around you is condensed?”
“Sure. Let’s make that a priority.”
“…Are you thinking about something?”
It was more like a feeling than a thought.
The sky dyed red and my weakened body before summoning Leah.
This isn’t the first time I’ve experienced something like this.
In the old case of Gremlock King,
At the time when I was exposed to the ominous energy that flowed from the cave.
I experienced the same ominous feeling and weakening of my physical abilities.
Magi.
Easy to think of it, it is an evil energy.
And for us…
-Sueuk.
“… Huh?”
Stupid.
There was Elena, who had the ability to purify demonic energy.
“Helena. It feels like this…”
Sitting on the ground,
Let’s draw a picture on the dirt floor with your finger and explain the feeling I thought.
“… Simple.”
“Simple is best.”
“Certainly. As long as I’m prepared to some extent…”
“…”
In fact, it was an absurd situation to plan such a strategy with a final battle weapon like Adela, but
It was the first time I had experienced physical attacks and I couldn’t destroy an opponent and a guidance device, so there was no way Adela could do anything.
As I quietly look at the embarrassing plan to even call it my strategy,
Just a nod.
“That sounds like a good idea.”
“Yes. Reinforcements will be coming soon.”
When I heard about the reinforcements,
Veronica started looking at her smart watch with worried eyes.
“The situation in the gorge… It seems that it is not yet, judging from the fact that we have not been contacted.”
“There are two guild masters, so I’m not too worried about them…”
“What about the other side?”
“The other side?”
“That…Jinha and Grade.”
Ah. Are you talking about the raid side?
Looking at him opening his mouth as if he had been waiting,
Banter, who didn’t talk but only showed a playful side, seemed to be concerned about that leader.
Of course, Mr. Ethan went along too, but
Ethan, who specializes in setting traps, didn’t have the image of being proficient in combat.
But…
“If it’s that way, you don’t have to worry even more.”
“…But. I think there are too few people.”
“Yeah…”
If most of the group are missing from Merveus,
It must mean that almost all of those people are vampires.
If a vampire is your opponent…
“Actually, Jinha won’t catch them all alone?”
For Seong Jin-ha, who has the blood of Jinjo,
It’s no different than playing alone in cheat mode.
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“…Wow!!”
…Again!
Again…
– Flinch!
My body doesn’t listen.
A few years of living as a tramp.
With an unexpected opportunity, I instantly gained physical abilities that surpassed that of a mid-level knight I longed for, but…
-Jerebuck.
Why… Were we not chosen by ‘him’?
…As the organization ordered, they infiltrated the city and set fire to buildings.
The comrades were subdued one by one by four men who appeared out of nowhere.
Except for the children who were brainwashed into suffering, everyone felt desperate.
Because I didn’t want to go back to my miserable past life.
I just thought that I would take this opportunity to join the organization, even at the cost of my own life.
But…
“Aagh!!”
It all started when a man appeared from the shadows and tripped his colleague’s leg.
It was from breaking his arm and subduing him.
It was unreasonable that one person was injured.
Because the number of Baptists mobilized for this raid exceeded 100.
“Oh, it’s all .. Legs !!”
But the screams didn’t stop.
The guy climbed onto the roof to avoid the man in the shadows, and his legs dented.
“…!! It’s a trap!”
Trap magic that properly combines blood magic and shadow ceremony.
Those who were hiding were caught in traps that jumped out of unexpected places one after another.
It can’t end like this.
Those who were cornered began to transform one by one into the ‘final form’ in which they sacrificed their lives.
-Kwagwaang!!!
With the surrounding buildings,
Began to break the trap.
“..That’s it!!”
A body and strength that has grown several times larger.
In addition, it even has the resilience to regenerate wounds.
After all, as much as he sacrificed his life,
It was not easily subdued by traps or shadow attacks by others.
It was then.
A boy with a small body in a broken building,
The one that fell from the roof splendidly.
“Let’s finish quickly.”
At first, I thought I was just one of the children who had been baptized.
But…
“..That’s it!!”
-Suddenly!
Effortlessly dodge the fist with explosive destructive power,
An artistic swordsmanship that cuts off limbs while freely turning the body as it is.
With flashy swordsmanship as if dancing,
The body cannot keep up with the speed of regeneration and begins to collapse.
“That… That’s that!!”
-Fu-wook!
“…Rest in peace.”
The situation was not good.
I wonder if I wasn’t the only one who noticed that,
Those who thought they were a bit special all turned their heads and chose to retreat in order to prolong life.
And…
-Jerebuck.
I encountered ‘that man’.
“…”
An expression full of annoyance with a sharp impression.
To those of us who try to run away to a safe place while ignoring them lightly.
“Stop it.”
The man’s determined voice pierced my ears.
“… I won’t stop just because I said stop.”
At that time.
– Huung!
Around the man,
Invisible spirit burst out.
Flinch!
Dozens of comrades, including myself,
Standing still in place like a lie.
“…This. What…!”
-Jerebuck.
Every time a man takes a step,
My whole body started to tingle, and eventually.
“Uh. aaa!!”
In the case of a guy with weak mentality,
From grabbing his head to having a seizure.
“… This isn’t the time to spend time on this.”
I can clearly hear the man’s muttering as if it is transmitted to my brain.
Even so, we couldn’t do anything.
Just,
I just lowered my head because I couldn’t look into the man’s dark red eyes.
The strategy Dimension planned to pass the time was,
It came to an end in vain.