The center of an underground waterway.
There is a large hole in the center, and water collected from various branches is sucked into it.
Above it were several iron structures built for use by workers cleaning or repairing waterways.
It was a waste of money to make a proper bridge, so it was a crude iron bridge made with extreme savings.
It was a bit worrisome whether it was okay to call a narrow reinforcing bar that would be tight enough to be filled when standing with both feet on top of each other, but the much poorer structure than expected was very welcome from Dojin’s point of view.
‘I thought what if it was difficult to break down, but I didn’t expect it to be so perfect for people to die.’
While the enemy lost his way and wandered, Do-jin prepared for battle in the center of the waterway.
They climbed up and down a slippery ladder full of sphagnum moss, and placed a lot of magic stone bombs in the center as well as in the enemy’s expected entryway.
It would be a battle boasting a crazy cost that fits the word money, but Do-jin generously robbed his inventory and made the entire center of the waterway his domain.
This battle was the most difficult crisis he experienced after returning, and Dojin intended to use everything given to him as a weapon to overcome it.
Literally anything that can be written.
“Ohhh… … ! I’ve never seen a structure like this since I was born! Building a facility like this on top of a natural hole and using it like this? As expected, the people of the Central Continent have great application skills!”
Whether or not Do-jin prepared for battle with spleen determination, Elder was busy looking at the black hole swallowing water with his head sticking out from a place that was no different from a cliff.
Although it has recovered a little, the only thing that can move is the head, but it seems to be distracted by crawling around with its chin and wandering around.
“Could you please be quiet?”
“Am I being very quiet? oh! Look at this! I can now move my neck this much!”
Elder moves his head around to look at this.
Do-jin just gave up when he saw the bizarre figure where only his head was moving violently while the neck was hanging down like a motionless corpse.
‘… I am an idiot for wanting to be calm from a child who ran away from the Floating Continent to the Central Continent.’
Even in the old days, he was a vampire who almost died while enjoying the sun by going up to the ground on the floating continent just to see the sky.
From a child’s point of view, crawling around with his chin might be really calm.
Let’s finish the quest quickly and return home. Then you will be able to enjoy a quiet and happy virtual reality life by yourself again.
It was when Dojin thought about that with a liberated expression.
“oh!”
Elder, who was looking at the city-level drain with his head out, pricked up his ears.
“I think the person with the bad laugh has found the right path. I’ll be over here in a little while!”
“How long do you have left?”
“Perhaps a minute or so? I think it will take that long!”
Dojin crossed the steel bridge and climbed the ladder.
The tunnel the enemy would approach was already in a certain state through the Elder.
The battle preparations have been thoroughly completed.
“Ugh, be careful! It’s okay for me to fall down there, but it would be very dangerous for normal humans like you to fall down there!”
“don’t worry. Even if you fall apart from me, don’t panic. If you hold out for an hour, your sun poisoning or whatever will be cured. Then you can go home.”
At Dojin’s words, Elder’s eyes were filled with an unprecedented sense of embarrassment.
* * *
since when What made me want rest more than life.
Karin couldn’t even remember it anymore.
It’s been too long since I wished for rest.
In the novel of the Central Continent, it was written like this.
‘Vampires are monsters that don’t age.’
If you see the author who wrote the book, Karin really wanted to say this.
‘There are some errors in the author’s sentence.’
Vampires certainly don’t age, but that’s a story limited to the body.
The heart is obviously getting old, weighed down by the piling up of time.
Even more so, the Principality is a place where the mind and emotions have faded as much as death has moved away.
Living in such a place for well over a thousand years, I didn’t have many opportunities to write about my heart and emotions.
In a mind that is left unused, dust accumulates in proportion to the amount of time it accumulates, and then the mind becomes buried in gray dust and is difficult to find.
Karin’s heart was like that too.
she didn’t like it
Even if I became an existence called an immortal monster, I wanted to be human at heart.
That’s why I found the book of the Central Continent with difficulty and read it.
I want to resemble a human. I want to learn.
But it wasn’t enough.
Perhaps because I grew up in a very dry land, I couldn’t understand and sympathize with the feelings of the characters even when I read the text.
Karin realized then. That he never had a heart as a person in the first place.
It was futile.
So I went up to the ground and looked at the sky.
I looked up at the sun and looked up.
‘Maybe I’m human. Then even if you look at the sun, you won’t die.’
… useless wind.
And it was an act mixed with bleak desperation that this life could end in extinction.
When I stepped on the Central Continent for the first time, I responded with the same thought when the priest, who should have regarded vampires as enemies of the crippled, approached with a smile and offered to help.
It’s good if it’s true, but if it’s not, it’s just that this life is over. Thinking so, I smiled brightly and followed him.
‘An adventure to solve the vampire curse? It’s hypocrisy. I just needed a reason to live. A reason to stay alive until I find ‘something’ I’ve never had.’
A contradiction in thinking that it is okay to disappear at any time and finding a reason to live at the same time.
The worries that had been going on for over a thousand years had been twisted and twisted, and now even Karin herself was unrecognizable.
But now. She felt like she had the first clue to what she was looking for.
“don’t worry. Even if you fall apart from me, don’t panic. If you hold out for an hour, your sun poisoning or whatever will be cured. Then you can go home.”
by one person’s words.
It’s as if we’ll never see each other again.
Karin was taken aback when she thought he might leave suddenly.
I wasn’t pretending to be embarrassed, I was really embarrassed.
“What are you talking about? Are you sure you want to leave me? Of course, if you decide to take care of yourself even now, I’m welcome!”
Karin, who was talking, felt sorry for her.
Thinking that saying this makes it sound like it’s okay to leave, I quickly add to it.
“If you leave me behind, will I not be able to properly say thank you to you?”
At the same time, he wandered around to find out why he was embarrassed and why that person was embarrassing him.
‘You helped me even knowing that I’m a vampire that everyone hates?’
right. This is why. But then, what about the priest you met as soon as you came to the Central Continent?
‘He cheated on me. Actually, there was a tea. The difference is that he didn’t intend to use me! He didn’t even ask for my name. He never asked for anything in return for saving me.’
It’s not kind. I can also sense that you are subtly persecuting me. Still, you saved me in the end. I could feel that he always cared more about my comfort than his own.
There are too many reasons to look for it. So much so that it’s hard to list them all.
‘He’s the first human to treat me like a vampire. Maybe I won’t be able to meet someone like that again in the future.’
Why didn’t I know this simple fact? I’ve been up all along Why did I realize it only when it might disappear right in front of my eyes?
“Thank you?”
Do-jin’s questioning voice blew Karin’s complicated mind at once.
“yes! I couldn’t even say thank you properly!”
Do-jin asked with a grin at her words with earnestness.
“Thank you.”
“Of course! You saved me!”
“That’s all right. you did it now say thank you That’s enough.”
Karin’s eyes widened as if they were about to roll down.
“Ah! Then no thank you! No thank you at all!”
I desperately tried to get a refund for the audit, but it was a futile attempt.
Dojin’s eyes were already staring into the tunnel.
Karin’s ears pierced an unpleasant sound of laughter.
* * *
“Is it you?”
The minion of destruction asked from the other side of the tunnel.
Dojin sighed.
“It’s disappointing. ‘Is it you?’ That’s a very boring question.”
The priest laughed.
The laughter that started small spread to madness, and soon reduced to laughter.
“I wondered what thought had interfered with my great and sacred ceremony… He was simply crazy. It must have gone crazy when you dare to answer my questions in such a disrespectful way.”
The appearance of a priest who is calmer than expected.
Do-jin thought as he folded and unfolded his fingers that glowed in pale gold.
‘One chance. One chance to make that opportunity. You have to bring it in as much as possible.’
In order to do that, you need to tune in.
“You guys. I wonder if you want to ask, but did you know about our existence and intervene? If you answer right away, the road to death will be a little shorter, so think carefully before answering.”
“we? what do i know I went to catch the slave trade, but there was something more bloody, so I brought it out. But what did you, a priest, try to do with that?”
Dojin deliberately pretended not to know the other person’s identity.
It’s because they don’t know what they’ll do if they find out that their identities have been revealed.
If possible, I would like to kill him here, but even in case I failed to kill him, I had to give him the awareness that he had stumbled on a rock rather than the ‘Cult’.
As if Dojin’s intention worked successfully, Hexley, a priest of the Church of Perdition, became noticeably more comfortable.
“Whoops, that’s right. There’s no way a bug like you knows how this world works. It was a rumor. make me apologize.”
Because he sees Do-jin so insignificantly, he doesn’t even doubt his words.
Seeing Hexley like that, Dojin laughed inwardly.
Because, the opponent who looked down on him was Do-jin’s favorite enemy.
“Unfortunately, you have nothing to do with yourself now. As you die slowly, regret your foolishness, bugger.”
Hexley shakes the bell with a gesture of blatant disregard.
In response, the monsters standing around him moved in unison.
Almost at the same time, Dojin’s fingers snapped.
puffer pung.
A series of explosions followed with a blue current.
The magic stone bomb that Dojin had placed in advance exploded.
Swept away by it, more than 15 dreg monsters disappeared all at once.
“this person… … !”
Not one or two, but suppressed anger leaks from Hexley’s mouth, which he believed that a worm could not handle when he turned 15.
Patter.
The rage peaked as the white priestly clothes were covered with the filth left by the remains of the dead.
“You bastard parasite that’s worse than this cockroach!”
“A cockroach. That’s a bit harsh.”
Replacing it casually, Dojin bent down on the floor.
And he released the order he had prepared a long time ago.
《Flashlight》
A strong light dwelt in a space that lacked light.
One blown spear of light shattered uselessly.
It was a cross section showing a remarkable level difference.
However, up to this point, Dojin also expected everything.
The flash spear was just a substitute for the slightly better flash grenade and a bait thrown to close the enemy’s distance.
《Fireball》
Do-jin, who ran desperately, created a large fireball in his right hand and swung it like a fist.
“It’s ridiculous.”
In response, Hexley waved his hand violently.
The power in the hand that he swung as if catching a fly beats not only Do-jin’s magic, but also his body at once.
“Cuck!”
The fireball just extinguished.
Dojin’s body staggered, and the gap revealed was fatal.
“Seeing that you’re not even as good as a buzzing mosquito, the word cockroach is too much for you.”
Hexley’s hand grabbed Dojin’s leash.
“Kuh, kuh… … !”
Seeing Dojin moaning in pain, Hexley shook his head.
“Not enough. It wasn’t enough to moan in that amount of pain. You will need more befitting pain and death.”
Hexley prepared a curse.
The most painful curse you can create.
It was then.
Dojin’s hand flashed! and moved.
hooked
“… … ?”
Hexley looked at the area where he felt the sharp pain.
sideways
The reason I felt the pain was the dagger.
hahahaha. I was so dumbfounded that I was laughing.
A sorcerer is in danger of dying, so he even wields a dagger in an ugly way?
What is trash anyway? There are more reasons to put a little more effort into the curse… … .
Hexley raised her head thinking and felt a chill run down her spine.
It was because the bug caught on the leash was laughing very satisfied.
Hexley recognized that something was dangerous, but by then it was already too late.
before he does anything.
“Stupid cubs. If I caught him, I should have killed him right away.”
《Black Dragon’s Poison Fang》
This is because Do-jin used the skill to activate an S-class weapon.