145. familiar object
Deng Gang…!
Orhel’s merciless blow.
Remedes’ head was cut.
With his eyes wide open, Remedes’ head fell to the floor.
The torso, which had lost its head, sagged without strength.
However, no one was surprised by the appearance.
At least Richmond is a little startled?
But that didn’t last too long.
The reason was obvious.
Andrew’s question was the answer.
“Isn’t that dead?”
At that question, Orhel nodded.
“Uh. I’m not dead. If I put my neck together, I’ll come back to life in a little while. I can’t say I’m dead. I won’t be able to hear or see you right now… but that’s all.”
“It’s the same as the giants.”
“Yes. It’s just that I stopped for a while.”
Because we had already seen this through the giants.
Rather, he was slowly getting used to the fact that he would not die even if his head was cut off.
At least there was a way to kill the Vampire Lord, but the giants were completely non-existent.
Anyway, right now there’s no way to kill Remedes either, so both were the same thing.
Orhel called Richmond with a finger.
And then.
“The head and the body. Keep them separate so they don’t stick together.”
“Ah, I see. Brother.”
So Richmond started to move.
Andrew also stuck by his side and helped.
“I’ll help too, bro.”
“Ah. Yes, thank you.”
While the two with similar personalities get along well with Remedes.
Those who remained continued to worry about the people behind them who fell into the labyrinth again.
Orhel stroked his chin and frowned.
“The problem is that I couldn’t figure it out after all…”
Magmaros and Kroyton also couldn’t erase their embarrassed expressions.
“Because it’s a giant that can approach the Vampire Lord… It’s ambiguous.”
“I don’t think it will be easy.”
I also tried rolling my head around.
Actually, nothing came to mind.
In the first place, I didn’t know that much about the giants.
So I decided to change direction altogether.
“Whoops. Remedes keeps talking about bloodstone. Let’s talk about that.”
Rather, if you dig into what they want, maybe something will come out.
It was because I thought so.
Hana Orhel also seemed a bit troubled.
“In fact, very little is known about bloodstone. In the first place, it is close to impossible to even approach unless you are a vampire lord, and there are few people who know about it.”
“But the giants seem to know.”
“That’s why it’s even more questionable. I don’t even understand how they know about bloodstone.”
“Did Remedes know more about bloodstone than you do?”
Orhel shook her head.
“No. As a vampire, I was the first to be born into the world…because I was the first.”
He told a bit of an old story.
“The beginning of my memory was during the war, when the war was still in full swing.”
* * *
The very distant past, when the war of the gods was in full swing.
“Cool! Cool!”
Orhel, without even knowing who he was.
without knowing where this is.
I opened my eyes.
“This… what else?”
He brushed the sticky liquid off his hands.
It was like a baby bird emerging from an egg.
Everything was confusing.
at that time.
Someone was talking to him next to him.
“Orhel. That’s your name…… Cool!”
Orhel turned her head directly in the direction of the voice.
The unidentified figure had a huge hole in his abdomen and was pouring out blood.
As well as pierced holes, mouth and nose.
And even the eyes were dripping with blood.
“angel?……”
For some reason, the word popped into my head.
I don’t know what the hell it is.
It wasn’t that I didn’t have any knowledge in my head.
That threw Orhel into chaos.
On the other hand, the angel whose life is almost running toward the end.
He continued talking to Orhel.
“Be alert, Orhel. You are a vampire. Vampire Lord.”
“Bae, what is a vampire?”
“A blood-eating monster.”
“Monster… water? I’m a monster?”
“Yes, monster. But keep in mind. You weren’t originally a monster. The only way to bring you back from the dead was by force. Cool! So, don’t forget that you weren’t a monster…don’t live as a monster. “
Angel’s cough got worse and worse.
“Cool! Cool!”
Orhel’s eyes shook.
In this world right now, it seemed that only that one angel knew about him.
If that person dies now, his identity will fall into an eternal labyrinth.
Orhel grabbed the angel by the shoulders and shook him.
“Well, then what was I originally? What the hell am I!”
“……”
However, it was after the angel’s breath had already ceased.
Orhel couldn’t help but fall into despair.
It was because he felt that no one in the world knew about him anymore.
Rumble……Kwaguawang!
The war between the giants and the gods was still going on in the sky…
At the rain-splattered sky, Orhel could only stare blankly.
* * *
aaa…!
The huge palm of the giant Antaeus.
He squeezed the vampire Lord Locke’s throat while holding it.
“Kek! Kek! This dog, bird… Kek! Let go! Let go!”
Anteos looked closely at Locke’s face and asked the first question.
“Didn’t you scream at me saying that it means you’re a giant? Then, it means that you don’t look like a giant. Did he have a different appearance from the giant?”
“Kek!……That, that’s right! Unlike the giants I’ve seen, they look like humans!”
“By the way, did you also have the divine power of the heavens?”
“Yes, yes! And the spirit king’s essence! Now, let go! Let go!”
However, Antaeus did not let go of Locke’s hand.
‘This is nonsense…’
How could a mere human possess the third eye of the giants and the divine power of the celestial world?
In that case, the body would usually not last and die.
Stronger, hotter, and more than enough power than a bowl, it was the reason of nature to break the bowl.
to put it the other way around.
‘According to the providence of nature… is it a vessel capable of holding that power?’
But that was a strange sound.
What kind of being in the world dared to contain the power of the giants and the power of Arlem?
Even the giants couldn’t have a greater power than their original power.
Even though they had these strong bodies, anything more than their power could actually harm them.
The power of the giants was enormous.
‘I don’t understand.’
What the hell kind of guy got all that in his hands?
As Anteos’s troubles deepened.
The power that goes into his hands is getting bigger and bigger.
In the end, Locke had no choice but to try to survive.
He intended to transform into a small animal and escape Anteos’ grasp.
But then.
“Billion?
Suddenly, something strange began to leak from Locke’s mouth.
It’s like… power is draining?
‘why?’
Situations that even the giant Anteos could not understand were happening one after another.
* * *
same time.
“I wandered for a long time. That’s right. In the middle of the battlefield without knowing who I was.”
I got it.
No, I didn’t understand it.
It was a feeling of intense sympathy.
‘Because I too… fell into this world…’
Looking at it now, I wonder why I was attracted to him instead of hating him.
I seemed to know a little bit.
deep down in the heart.
Maybe Orhel and I were carrying the same burden.
The emptiness of those who have lost their way forever.
The anxiety of those who have to create a new path, a new self.
and fear.
Maybe those things made me feel close to Orhel without even realizing it.
In the meantime, Orhel was talking about what he had been through.
“It was thanks to the elven lord that I learned about the title of Lord. It is an existence that must protect the balance of Middle-earth. But at first, I didn’t know. Why did I have to do that job? With this monstrous body that overflows with vampiric desire. However, a very long time has passed since then, and various things have changed little by little.”
Orhel smiled shyly and continued.
“Ah, I wish I could have this a little longer. I want to try a little more of this. I want to protect this… I want to protect it.”
He walked on and looked around at Richmond.
“You don’t know, man. You were one of those things. In my life…things I didn’t want to disappear.”
Is it the first time that Richmond has heard such a story?
He turned his head and answered.
“What, what are you talking about?”
Orhel fed up and followed in the direction Richmond turned his face.
“Hey, are you crying?”
“Ooh, crying!”
“I just… wanted to tell you. At first, Remedes and Drettnor were all good guys, right? I made them into monsters because of my greed.”
“Monster? Don’t be ridiculous, brother. You are a benefactor who saved us from dying for different reasons. That fact will never change.”
“I’m sorry. Always. But… this older brother was always like that. It was good that you guys were there, and I was grateful, and…”
Richmond stopped talking to Orhel.
“Ah, just go there! I really want to cry!”
in a voice that is already crying.
He took a handkerchief from his bosom and blew his nose.
“Did hyung-nim do what saved us? Bloodstone did it. It’s nothing to worry about hyung-nim. And honestly, was there anyone who complained about coming back to life after dying? There wasn’t one like that. Stop holding your form.”
“Whoops. Is that so?”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. I guess I’m old.”
While Richmond was draining tears and runny nose.
Before we knew it, we stood in front of the place where the bloodstone was stored.
Unfortunately, I’ve heard all of that deep story.
No one has yet properly approached what bloodstone is.
So, I arrived at this place with the mindset that I should at least face the bloodstone.
I came to see Bloodstone with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw…
My expression, facing the bloodstone, had no choice but to harden.
“This……!”
At my reaction, Orhel and Richmond were taken aback.
“What, what is it? I-couldn’t believe this…have you ever seen it?”
“What is this? Brother Rohan? Yes?”
The two of them looked at me with surprised eyes.
But I was still surprised.
The true identity of the bloodstone is none other than…
‘Isn’t it a stone of power?’
It was a surprisingly familiar thing.