Chapter 849 – 849. True Blood (1)
“I will change my plans.”
Eunhyeon immediately corrected the organization of the number of people that had been originally decided in advance.
It was because the number of white demons Erin was able to command and the existence of Ash brought about an unexpected result of a larger-than-expected increase in power.
Erinn’s value was her pure magical power and her fighting ability, but her greatest value was her ability to fight phantom beasts with power so powerful that the word “One-man army” Was comparable.
“Please do not divide Artia Knights and Hongi into two groups of three. Erin and I will take over the other areas.”
Starting from the current location, the central square of Jajaklyeong.
To the east are the Knights of Artia and the six scarlet ones.
In the west, Ash and over 30 hundred demons following Erinn’s orders.
To the south is Emilia and her Dominus doll unit.
The last North is Eunhyeon and Erin.
It was the best power distribution considering the number of people and efficiency that could be organized.
“All right.”
No one was dissatisfied with Eunhyun’s organization or threw up.
“It moves.”
After a short talk, the party dispersed in four directions.
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Kyaaah!
The screams of the vampires attacking for the advantage of invisible sight in the dark night.
The night was their territory, and the way they used it to hunt was a habit close to instinct for them.
A vampire appeared in an alley with a dim view that could not be seen properly, ferociously baring its teeth and brandishing its long claws.
Right before the vampire’s claws were pierced by the crimson neck that was running at the forefront.
If it was an ordinary person, he would have already been decapitated and died just like that, but Ju-hong was different.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Sammae Jinhwa (三昧眞fire)]
The two flames that start to burn in the fists of both hands are intangible gauntlets that provide the best offensive and defensive power to the owner, Ju-Hong.
Juhong swung a fist of flame that scorched the air around him and raised its temperature.
Kaaang!
An intense reverberation, as if metal collided with iron, spread through the wind.
The sound was so intense that the Knights of Artia, who were running together, stopped momentarily when they heard the metallic sound.
However, in the midst of the chaos of the sound, Ju-hong remained unmoved and only stared at the vampire who attacked him.
The claws that were about to pierce the neck of the vermillion fist bounced off to the side, and the vampire fell into a rigid state for a short moment due to the recoil of the impact created with the roar.
It was a very short moment, but the vampire who attacked vermilion would not have thought that that moment would become an opportunity for her to lose her life.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Crushing Strike]
Ju-hong burrowed into the arms of the immobilized vampire and threw power into his abdomen.
Kwajik!
It was far from the sound produced by striking the body.
An attack with terrifying power that rips flesh, shatters internal bones, and bursts organs.
The fist of flame that hit the front exploded the vampire’s abdomen.
“… !”
The Knights of Artia who were accompanying him all looked at the back of the vermillion in surprise.
The vampire’s surprise attack itself was not a very threatening attack to them.
To them, who were constantly undergoing hard training under the guise of real combat, a surprise attack of this magnitude could not pose a great threat.
The reason why the knights were surprised was the calm and quick response of the vermilion.
He was not at all taken aback by the surprise attack in the dark blind spot, but reacted immediately and dealt with it calmly.
And what the heck is that counterattack you just showed me?
“What. That attack… ?”
“Is fire coming out of your bare fist?”
“Is it possible that such power can come out with bare hands?”
With bare hands, not a sword or weapon, he was astonished at the power of Ju-Hong, who showed attack power comparable to that of a sword attack.
For the Knights of Artia, the woman named Ju-hong was the first person they had ever seen, and since she seemed to have a fairly close relationship with their member, Han-seong Cha, she couldn’t help but be more concerned.
This was especially true of Eira.
‘With Hanseong… What kind of relationship?’
It was when she reached the vicinity of Viscount Brawlton in a helicopter with Erin’s reckless push.
Eira tried to express her happiness to Cha Han-seong, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, but she couldn’t.
[Really! You can really get into big trouble if you go out without thinking!]
[No… I can’t help it either…]
[Sister! Sorry! Don’t scold oppa because of me!]
Ju-Hong reprimands Cha Han-Sung, who appeals for unfairness even though he has a shy expression, and Letty, a girl who defends Cha Han-Sung while crying.
And when she saw Eunhyeon and Eleanor, who were watching from a distance with a bitter smile as if she had no intention of defending Cha Hanseong, she didn’t know what had happened, but she could guess that Cha Hansung had done something reckless and foolish without hesitation. .
Seeing that scene, Eira couldn’t help but be perplexed.
It was because a woman he did not know was accompanying Cha Han-seong, who he knew was carrying out the position of external auditor alone.
As far as Eira knew, Cha Han-seong’s human relationship was not that wide.
If so, it means that he became close enough to a woman named Ju-Hong in a very short period of time, to the extent that he could treat him without hesitation, and that really bothered him.
‘I don’t know the face of Hanseong.’
This is what I think now, but Cha Han-seong was always polite and respectful to everyone.
Like Delia, in the case of her successors who belonged to the same knights, of course, she treated them comfortably, but other than that, everyone used honorifics and had polite manners.
It must have been the only people around him who were not easy for him to treat comfortably.
Ayra, of course, her father, Riodna Eunhyeon, and his wives.
In his limited human relationships, there was no one he could treat without hesitation like a really close friend.
So, I felt a stir in my heart at the sight of Cha Han-seong and Ju-hong treating each other without fault.
While Eira was staring at Ju-Hong’s back with such a complicated feeling, Ju-Hong, who had cleared one of the vampires in the blink of an eye, immediately looked back.
“Shall we move again?”
“That, it is…”
The senior knight, the oldest among the Knights of Artia, immediately woke up from his blank expression and nodded his head.
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Kyaaaaagh!
The vampires’ madness was getting worse and worse.
The starting point is from the point when the subjugation of blood that suppressed and controlled their instincts disappeared.
They started to hunt humans like crazy as the vampire who controlled them and had complete control of the Viscounty of Brawlton and the surrounding area died.
The blood thirst and vampiric urge that started right away was an unbearable pain for the lower class vampires, and it was like a terrible mental attack.
Finally, reason and ego collapse, and all that remains is the instinct to eat human blood.
It was no different from a witch or a monster.
If there was one difference, vampires constantly surrendered to their instincts to quench their thirst for blood.
And finally, when the seeds of humans, the population of the prey, began to dry up, it was obvious who the vampires would target next.
Other vampires of the same species as himself.
Kiaag!
Kyaaak!
The terrible fratricide of vampires who have lost reason and ego has begun.
As long as human blood was completely dried up, it was a natural flow stemming from their survival instinct to covet the blood of other vampires as a substitute.
By biting each other’s body, drinking blood, and sucking each other’s life, who will die first, a tight tug-of-war in which winners and losers are divided.
The winner eats all the blood of the loser and grows their strength to evolve into a more powerful being.
Key, Rick!
The victorious vampire realized the changes that had taken place in his body by drinking the blood of his own kind.
The intensity of the body became stronger, and the reason and ego that had been lost gradually returned.
No, rather than returning, it might be more accurate to say that it is newly reconstructed and equipped.
The vampire who newly realized his existence had no memory of the past before he lost reason and self.
Now, the vampire was intoxicated by the taste of the new blood of his own people.
“Blood, blood…”
It was on a different level from the human blood that I tasted in the grip of instinct.
The blood of his own kind, which was sweeter and had powerful magical powers that activated his entire body, was as attractive as it was, leaving a strong impression in the vampire’s mind.
The vampire gradually began to attack and devour other people.
Kreuk!?
She lost her life to a sudden attack by her own kind, a vampire who had not yet felt a thirst strong enough to think that she wanted to have a kinsman.
As he began to hunt his own people one by one, the vampire gradually gained intelligence as he grew stronger.
“A little… More. More…”
The thirst to absorb the blood and power of more of his own people could not be quenched.
Instead of being relieved, she continued to hunt her own people as if she were becoming more addicted.
The vampire learned by repeating her hunt.
More efficiently, with less effort, more quickly, more blood, in a more certain way.
The vampire who developed her intellect so slowly developed her own power.
The blood of the same people was so delicious and attractive.
As she preyed on her people and slowly grew her own strength, her variable occurred.
Dada Dada Dada Dada!
All the vampires’ attention was drawn to the empty space where the sound was heard at the intense metallic sound they had never heard before.
It was a black flying object floating in the sky, making a loud sound as if hitting the air.
“… That one?”
It was the first time she had seen an unknown object, but the vampire flickered and sparked from the lower part of the flying object and stiffened her body with the metallic sound produced by the fierce rotation.
I couldn’t figure out what it was, but I was sure of one thing.
“… That is dangerous.”
The vampire’s troubles did not last long.
The intellect and instincts he grew up hunting for his own people were warning him.
That she was too weak to confront it head-on on her own.
The vampire, keenly aware of the difference in her strength, chose to hide her body in the darkness.
“The night is still long.”
There was still plenty of time before sunrise, and in the meantime, she intended to increase her strength by preying on as many of her people as possible while hiding her body in the shadows.
And when your own growth has finally reached its completion.
“When that time comes, I will eat all of you.”
Looking forward to that moment, the vampire disappeared into the shadows.
