◈ 145. [STAGE 5] Vampire King (2)
The life stock that Selendion initially brought was consumed as his subordinates died.
However, his Legion took quite a few lives from our troops in the battle on the walls. That number is about one hundred and fifty.
The names of the dead flashed through my mind. The faces of Old Girl and Skull, who died a little while ago.
I clenched my fists.
… Anyway, currently Selendion has about 150 life stocks.
By consuming this, he raised himself from the dead again.
《It’s been a while since I’ve been to the underworld.》
Suddenly, not a single wound remained on his body. Selendion thumped and warmed up.
《It’s a place I long to return to anytime, but as you can see, it’s because I can’t easily collapse.》
“Stop spoiling the afterlife… … .”
While he calmly revives and reorganizes.
This one has also been remodeled.
Lucas and Evangeline stood firm in front of me again, and Damian lined up his crossbow and horse rifle on the floor, ready to fire.
The corpses of dead allies come into view on both sides. I gritted my teeth.
I cannot lose even for those who died for me.
“I want to ask you one question. Vampire King.”
《Huh?》
“Aren’t your subordinates revived?”
I asked Celendion, who was standing alone.
“With the number of lives you have now, it should be possible to revive your men.”
《Currently, the number of lives left for me is one hundred and fifty-three.》
As if figuring out how many products are left in stock in the warehouse. It’s like writing a cashier report on an excel sheet.
Discussing the life of the person he took, he was indifferent.
《It may be possible to revive it, but it is not very profitable. Above all, I am too weak. It would be stronger to use all the lives I have now as my combat resources.》
“… indeed. If you’re strong enough to stand alone as an infant, are you saying it’s better to fight alone without subordinates in the first place?”
“I love my Legion. sincerely. But love and efficiency are separate issues. One hundred and fifty-three of my men and one hundred and fifty-three of me. Isn’t the weight different
? that buck
He began to approach again with a fully recovered body.
“So I will fight alone. Alone will survive and alone will destroy the world. It’s enough for my men to raise them up after that.”
I pulled out my staff from my bosom.
Behind me, three blades of magical power spun and sprang up.
“That judgment will be your defeat. Vampire King.”
《Ho. Are you sure
you have the confidence to kill me a hundred and fifty-three times, human?
Scorned, I changed the subject.
“Before we fight again, let me tell you, Selendion. You are a liar.”
“hmm? Me?
”
I scolded him harshly.
“You just want to enjoy a near-death thrill in a safe place… Actually, you’re a coward who fears death more than anyone else. no?”
Even if you jump from a high place, if the safety rope is hanging from your leg, it is not suicide, but bungee jumping.
So is this child. He only feels the thrill of being next to death, but in reality he is more obsessed with life than anyone else.
“Pile up hundreds of lives, write cheat keys, and play games without worrying about dying. Oh, it’s no fun, so I want to quit the game~ It’s annoying to see this shit.”
A person who takes the blood of others to prolong his own life cannot actually want to die.
The race of vampires is, from their very nature, the embodiment of narcissism.
“More than anyone else, I am obsessed with life. That’s what you guys are vampires. Isn’t that right?”
《… .》
Even if you didn’t understand everything I said, did you understand the nuance?
Displeasure crossed Celendion’s face for the first time.
“Say what you like, man. What would a mortal who couldn’t even understand the pain of eternal life know?”
“Of course I don’t know that. I’m not interested. But I do know one thing.”
I quickly swung the cane in my hand and hit Lucas, Evangeline, and Damian on the shoulders one by one.
[Advanced buff won!]
[Lucas (SSR) gets ‘25% reduction in all damage for 3 minutes’ buff!]
[Superior buff won!]
[Evangeline (SSR) gets ‘HP recovery 3% per second for 3 minutes’ buff Applied!]
[Winning the lowest-level buff!]
[The ‘10% increase in physical penetration rate for 3 minutes’ buff will be applied to Damian (N)!
] That you will face the dead end of that wish later.”
I glanced over the list of random buffs that came to mind and grinned.
“It’s okay to say thanks in advance, Celendion.”
I jerked my wand forward.
“I don’t know when your birthday is, but I’ll give you a hearty present for your anniversary today!”
My magical blade shot forward, and at the same time, my party members and Selendion collided again.
***
The main party is, in name and reality, the best among the hero characters I own.
He was strong by nature, but the past few weeks of practice have made him even stronger. Enough to defeat Selendion with a single party.
But the limits are clear.
No matter how much I upgraded my specs, it was absolutely impossible to kill 150 monarch-level monsters.
No, let alone one hundred and fifty, I haven’t been killed once since then.
In the end, our tactic focused on wasting time, and even that reached its limit when the buff went off after 3 minutes.
Above all, Celendion was relentlessly targeting me.
The party members had to fight as if to protect me, and this tactic eventually revealed its weakness.
Flash-!
Selendion fired blood magic at me.
“What?!”
Exhausted, I couldn’t evade in time, and Evangeline held up her shield and wrapped herself in front of me.
Quagmire!
“Aagh!”
Evangeline, hit by blood magic, rolled on the floor screaming in pain.
Defense guard Bija Selendion jumped up at me.
Push! Push!
Just in time, the arrows flew into the castle.
Tup!
Swirling in the air and catching the two arrows with one hand, Selendion stretched out his other hand to the side.
《Annoying snipers!》
Blood magic shot from his fingertips. Exhausted from continuous sniping, Damian was in a situation where he could not escape.
“Say… brown!”
At that time, Evangeline, who had fallen down, jumped up again and received the blood magic with her shield.
It’s like a libero saving the ball in a volleyball game.
Quagmire!
At the same time as the thick blood mist exploded, Evangeline fell like a broken balloon.
Damien, caught in the blast, also collapsed screaming.
“Haaaaaa-!”
At that moment, Lucas lunged at Celendion like a beast.
The longsword was swung ferociously.
Selendion struggled to dodge all the sword attacks by a short distance, but before long, he had a troublesome expression on his face.
Fu-wook!
He took the sword with his own body.
Blood poured like water from the chest where the long sword was stuck. Lucas’ sword strike tore his spirit core apart again.
But regardless, Celendion reached out and placed his hand on Lucas’ chest.
When fighting Beta, Lucas’ breastplate was destroyed and is now in tatters.
As Celendion’s hand touched his chest, Lucas’s face flashed with embarrassment.
“Damn it-”
Pervert-!
A terrible explosion occurred.
It was a zero-distance blood magic bombardment. Lucas ran away, coughing up blood.
“I write a lot, but… .]
All of Selendion’s arms were crushed from the zero-range bombing. The silver longsword just now cut the spiritual core.
But that’s enough to consume one more life to recover.
Selendion, who had healed all his wounds in an instant, approached me with a tilt of his head.
《Did you just shout that loudly?》
“… .”
“If you have any money left, why don’t you show me some more? I don’t have any comrades to protect you anymore.”
Selendion squatted down right in front of me, his fangs flashing.
His voice even drools, as if he wanted to drink my blood.
“My base?”
sigh.
I raised my lips and smiled.
“Wait three seconds. It’s falling from the sky right now.”
“You’re getting tired of that bravado, Ash… .]
Selendion didn’t care anymore and jerked his mouth toward my neck.
“Don’t eat well. I will specially absorb life and make you one of my followers.”
***
Vampires use the essence of life stolen from others as fuel.
If you can’t supply blood by killing enemies on the battlefield, the vampire’s power, which consumes a lot of money, will run out sooner or later.
So, vampires try to vamp their opponents whenever possible.
This is the pattern you should be aiming for.
***
Peruk-!
《… ?]
With a dull destructive sound, Selendion looked down at his chest as if wondering.
A silver pillar… … It had pierced my chest.
《Huh?》
Celendion slowly turned around.
It was a huge silver stake.
A silver stake literally fell from the sky and stabbed him from his cervical vertebrae to his mid-back, through his chest, and into the floor.
“It’s late, heh… … I’m sorry, Your Highness Heouk… … .”
God Hand, panting again with a dying face, barely spoke to me.
Next to it, I saw a body bag lying on the floor with a face that looked like it was about to die.
The silver that was made from nets and the silver weapons recovered from the battlefield were all combined.
God Hand made a huge silver stake, and Body Bag lifted it into the air with telekinesis and threw it at the right time.
In the instant right before vampirism, any vampire is caught off guard. You don’t even touch a dog when you’re eating.
It was pretty close, but in the end I was able to thread and restrain him.
“It’s your vampire’s classic relativity. Drive a stake through the chest. Isn’t it refreshing to have a hole in it?”
“I did a pretty cute thing… So?]
He was chained to a stake, but of course the Vampire King didn’t die. 《
What are you going to do with these kids pranks?》
damn
Even now the silver stake is cracking. Before long, Selendion will break the stake and get out.
I struggled to get up and growled at him.
“okay. All these kids pranks… … It’s all a tactic to pass the time.”
《What?》
It was then.
Whoaaah-!
The air around them changed completely. Torrents of ignorant magical power rushed to one side of the wall, causing a tornado.
Selendion looked at her with surprised eyes, and I looked at her with a smile on her face.
Junior was standing.
With both hands raised up, dozens of colored magic elements floated above his head.
“Junior!”
I shouted.
“I waited so damn long! Are you still far-!”
“… It’s done, Your Highness. Another 30 seconds.”
Perhaps it was a fairly complex magic, just looking at the spells entangled in the air made my eyes go round and round.
Junior nodded as he completed the magic.
“I can finish that monster in 30 seconds.”
Perhaps realizing the identity of the magic, Selendion’s eyes widened in bewilderment for the first time.
“That magic… … !]
The flagship Selendion shouted.
《… Isn’t that mine?!”
Junior nodded happily.
“After being hit by your magic reverse calculation that day, after studying and researching to somehow make it mine… … barely finished I haven’t registered the trademark with the Continental Magic Society yet, but I’m going to do it soon.”
Celendion’s face contorted horribly.
《Four years, on the subject of a lowly human being! Dare to use the secret art of our bloodline-!》
“Yes, yes. It’s not homage. Plagiarism is correct. Hey, but I have to say this.”
Junior smiled like a fox even as blood poured out of his nose and mouth.
“Your magic is great, you mosquito cub?”
Celendion’s mouth fell open.
