Zefia Republic (3)
The first thing Heinz II did was to analyze the barrier that covered the mansion.
[Insight] combined with his transcendental senses uncovered the composition of the barrier, and based on that, [Mystery of Blood] began to present diagnosis results one by one.
‘Is it a composition of complex spells built around blood magic? It’s a pretty complicated twist.’
[Mystery of Blood] was created by adding various knowledge possessed by vampires from other dimensions to Auterica’s [Blood Magic].
Embracing all kinds of possibilities, it was an overwhelmingly superior ability only when it came to magic techniques that were activated through the medium of ‘blood’.
In addition, the fact that it was a complex technique was not particularly special to him.
Even if you collect this and that for a hundred days and twist it in a complicated way, will it only do the magic that ties together the mysteries of the dimensions that you experienced on Earth?
‘It seems like they put a lot of effort into it…’
It meant nothing to him.
Beyond Heinz’s gaze, who was still staring at the barrier for analysis, Hans, who was concentrating on research in Immortality, stopped what he was doing for a while and joined in.
As a result, skills such as “The Way of Magic” began to dismantle the diagnosis that “Mystery of Blood” had grasped in an instant—.
‘Upper application and reversal of phases. I have to admit that stability is more than anything else. To break this…’
Soon after, he was able to obtain the identity of the barrier and how to destroy it.
‘The standard is to aim for the core deep inside, but it’s not like there aren’t other ways.’
Destroying the same point inside and outside the barrier at the same time.
Communication with the outside was blocked from inside, and it was impossible to get an accurate RBI just by looking at it from one side, so it was a sound that was only possible in theory.
Such trivial matters did not limit him in any way.
“It looks like it will consume a lot of energy, but it shouldn’t matter since we harvested quite a lot on the way.”
Still unconcerned, Heinz lightly twisted his head.
And immediately after that, he was lifted up to his chest level, and a few veins of blood gushed out of his upward palm.
Churreuk—
The bright red fresh blood began to squirm and tangle with each other.
The essence of power made of the pure blood of [Jewel Blood Jeong] was controlled by the [Mystery of Blood], and while holding the miracle he desired, it was gradually compressed into a single point and turned into a bloody orb the size of a fist.
It was a medium filled with the power of blood magic that had been sent to Hesperon, who had been fighting raiders before.
‘I just need to make two more. The destructive power itself will be a bit lacking, but since this is just a signal flare anyway, this should be enough.’
After the work of making a total of three marbles was completed, the full-scale work began.
He called Hugo, the only avatar with empty hands right now, to hold the marble and push it into the barrier.
To find a striking point that connects you to the inside through an avatar that shares your senses.
“Whoa.”
Hugo is now completely in charge of the earth’s chores and is gradually becoming a master of housework based on his individual skill, “Versatile”.
He took the marbles full of Heinz’s energy, entered the barrier confidently, and used one of them toward a certain point inside.
Kurrureung—
As I thought too.
Powerful blood magic was activated and a strong vibration seemed to shake the inside of the barrier for a moment, but it was suppressed and disappeared in an instant within a few seconds.
Even in the middle of it, there was no sign of the outside.
“···Found.”
However, just one attempt was enough for Heinz, who had been observing the causal flow of the entire mansion with utmost concentration, to set the exact zero point.
Goooooh—
Aiming for the target spot, the right hand slowly stretches forward.
A large amount of blood was extracted from his fingertips, and the tremendous blood magic that rushed in an instant mixed with him and began to gather in an instant.
‘There’s nothing to wait for. I’ll go right away.’
The bloody orb the size of a basketball clumped together in front of his right hand, wriggling as if it were about to explode at any moment, showing off his presence.
And that, starting with the second blood magic exploding from inside the barrier—.
Quarreung- Quaang-!
It emits a dark red light that reminds you of the dragon’s breath, and hits it at the right point with the right timing.
Kugu Palace!
Unlike the surroundings that were simply ruined by the aftermath, the mansion did not change significantly even after being hit directly by the attack.
However, through 「Insight」, Heinz could vividly feel the distortion of the hit barrier and the resulting crack.
“It’s strong too.”
Unlike the outer part of the barrier that was definitely blown away, it happened because the power of the orb to destroy the inside was not enough.
He didn’t even think he’d be able to finish it in one shot anyway.
‘It’s not a direct attack, so there’s nothing you can do about it. The sea I was expecting.’
Unlike the first attack, which was immediately restored upon impact, the moment when the barrier did not immediately regenerate after receiving considerable damage.
From the beginning, I was only aiming for this moment.
Goooooh—
From Heinz’s left hand, which had already been prepared, a darker light than the destructive ray emitted from his right cut through the atmosphere and reached the same spot.
And it embraces the power of causality and directly strikes a vulnerability that has not yet been recovered.
Kwaaang——!
At that timing, in response to the ‘personal blood magic’ that erupted from the inside once again, the barriers inside and outside the target were twisted at the same time.
The barrier finally collapsed after not being able to overcome the shock.
An enormous explosion sound, incomparable to that of the past, vibrated in all directions.
‘It turned out just as I thought.’
It took a lot of energy to manipulate a bit of causality to derive the process, but the result was very satisfying.
It was a bonus that in the aftermath of the attack, a huge hole was opened across the mansion, starting at the front gate where Heinz was.
‘The author is…’
At the same time that the barrier was destroyed, Heinz sent her Hugo back and found an old man sitting at the end of the passage with a worried expression, and her eyes lit up.
It felt instinctive.
That the author is the originator of the Obipo Clan and one of the first Holy Blood, Obaipo himself.
Satisfied with this cool yet hot encounter with her, Heinz slowly moved her steps and opened her mouth.
“Yes, I finally get to see her face.”
After that, the opponent’s head slowly turned this way at his one word.
His embarrassed face had returned to an expression of calm before he knew it, but the corners of his mouth were still wriggling as if he hadn’t calmed down yet.
“I apologize for being overly aggressive. Maybe the owner of the house was deaf and didn’t even think about coming out.”
The corner of his mouth began to twitch even more at those words.
The provocation seemed to have worked well.
Heinz II smiled coldly as he looked at his blood magic, which began to blaze and expand around Obaipo.
He seemed confident and shameless to the last, as if he wanted to take out the hidden number right away.
***
The twelve veins of the beginning.
A long time ago— when the Holy Bloods, including Obipo, Upersh, and Brokoslak, were first born on this land.
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There were only 12 vampires in the world.
As time passed, vampires spread more and more in the world, and clans named after each Holy Blood also began to have a system to some extent.
Before they knew it, they became one race that existed on the continent and naturally melted into the world.
‘Though I don’t have any memories of that time now.’
Obaipo was also one of the first Holy Blood.
Estimated age is over 10,000 years.
However, unlike dragons, which were born with mental strength as strong as their lifespan and intellect without oblivion, vampires’ mental strength was not as strong.
Of course, they were also beings who had reached transcendence, so they were far beyond the level of ordinary mortals, but even that had a limit in front of the endless flow of time.
On average, the period during which the Holy Bloods maintained their selves was around 2,000 years.
From around that time, those who started to deviate little by little, were swept away one by one over the years, and the number began to decrease.
Someone ran amok without thinking about what happened next and went on a killing spree before being subjugated.
Someone killed a young dragon to covet its blood, and was torn to death by the dragon in rage.
Another was chased and killed by the church because he didn’t cut his tail properly.
Some even took their own lives after struggling with eternal life.
It was not surprising that the number of Holy Bloods, which were initially twelve, had decreased to this extent.
‘To protect my self, I chose to erase all but a thousand years worth of memories. Like dragons, Brokoslak took a method of reducing activity through periodic hibernation, and Upersh tried to overcome it by splitting his power and memory and storing them in another body.’
Because of that, the information of the previous era that Obipo now has was closer to what he learned later based on various facts, rather than memories that he had ‘directly experienced’.
Forgetting a vivid experience and replacing it with a few dry lines of information added later.
That’s how he’s been able to hold on so far.
However, as the activities of the Holy Bloods, which had absolutely reigned in the vampire society, decreased and their influence weakened, the clans also diverged and died out over time, and the rise and fall began to rise and fall one by one.
In particular, the rate of decline of the clan without the Holy Blood was so devastating that it was hard to see.
It was at that time that some kind of ambition began to sprout in the heart of Obaipo, who had watched the rise and fall of the race from the beginning.
. . No, it was probably at that time.
＜How pitiful and disorganized it is. Is there any way to unite those foolish children? . . . Yes, this body has no choice but to step out. I will become a great king myself and lead those children.＞
It was always erasing all but the memories of the last thousand years, so it was not clear when he had such a longing, but it was clear that it had far exceeded the thousand years.
That would be the case, because even the oldest memory that remained in him was dotted with the process of achieving that goal.
And for a very long time.
He only moved with the goal of his life to recover the essence left by other Holy Bloods.
It wasn’t too difficult to steal what the guys who had degenerated into minor clans were keeping or what went into a certain noble’s warehouse.
The problem was that they were in places where it was not easy to rob them…
‘In the process, the great battle with the Immortal King was a great help. Thanks to that, I was able to retrieve what had fallen into the hands of the dragon and the church.’
The Immortal King’s riots that occurred in the blink of an eye when he was only looking for an opportunity were a great help to his progress.
In addition, even the essence, which he could not find after a long search, was finally obtained with the help of the oath of reversal and revolutionaries, and finally all the essences of the Holy Blood except for Brokoslak and Upersh came into his hands!
The time has finally come for a long-cherished dream to come true.
With that kind of heart, he proudly greeted Heinz II.
He didn’t even think that he would be defeated.
He was only full of thoughts of retrieving the Essence of Upersh from a guy named Heinz and the Essence of Brokoslak in Talia Kingdom.
‘Why… Why…?’
That’s why the situation now feels even more embarrassing.
I was caught in a situation I hadn’t even thought of.
Kwaaang! Curling—
“Heuk!”
The original form has already collapsed beyond recognition, leaving only rubble.
Until just now, Obaipo was the throne waiting for a challenger with a confident mind.
It wasn’t a hospital bed to lie in a mess like now.
Pussuk—
With stone dust all over his body, he slowly rose from the ruins of the mansion.
Hold it—! Dismissed—!
A spark that flies non-stop.
The fight in the mind had already been going on dozens or hundreds of times.
But what he didn’t expect was…
‘Fast···! Not only his abilities, but also the speed of thinking that backs them up…!’
Contrary to his first step forward, his opponent’s ability far exceeded his expectations.
In addition, for some reason, the authority as a person who approached the ‘source’ of blood, which was the biggest reason for his confidence, did not work for him.
He didn’t expect complete control since he was a Holy Blood from a different lineage in the first place, but he was the one who got his hands on 10 of the 12 bloodlines!
It was strange no matter how much I thought about it that he was not affected at all.
‘Why? In the first place, a blood vein is a twelve-pronged stem that branched off from a single source. There can be no such thing as being unaffected by anything like now.’
Isn’t this a reaction as if it were a separate bloodline that has nothing to do with the origin?
Of course it wouldn’t be possible.
‘Did he cheat on something? Or maybe my research is wrong? No, it can’t be. Then what’s the situation now?’
His mind started to tumble and his thoughts began to falter.
As there is a limit to the power an existence can contain, no matter how many essences he possesses, he does not become that strong.
Is the power that the current Obipo can accommodate is at most 1.3 times the limit?
In the current situation where we are consistently being pushed back, it could not be said to be a particularly meaningful number.
‘I didn’t want to write only this. Revolutionary, did you expect this?’
Until now, I didn’t even think about anything else, thinking that the ability to control as a source was enough.
For some reason, he felt like being played by a revolutionary, but he couldn’t just stay like this.
Pajijijijik-! Dismissed—!
And from that time onwards.
Heinz, who had been approaching leisurely, stiffened his expression.