Chapter 1691 – 1691. Hunter Vs Vampire
A grenade flies.
Even for a Noble-class vampire, their skin isn’t as hard as steel. A knife can tear their flesh, and bullets can pierce them. However, their exceptional regenerative abilities allow them to recover in just a few seconds. Silver bullets and silver-plated blades are effective in suppressing this regeneration.
‘But a grenade is different from other attacks.’
The explosive power inflicts significant damage on vampires. While an ordinary grenade might not kill them instantly, it can cause pain and temporarily incapacitate them. And if their head is blown off or their heart is destroyed? Even a vampire will die.
“Block it!”
Yana shouted, giving the order. But the vampires hesitated. How could they block a flying grenade? They didn’t have shields or armor. Following Yana’s order to block that grenade was a suicidal act. Not a single vampire here was willing to sacrifice their life for Yana.
In the end, Yana had no choice but to step forward herself. Her right arm transforms. Her fingers disappear, and her skin becomes a hard carapace. There’s a hole at the end. From there, a clump of spiderweb shoots out, ensnaring the falling grenade.
Bang!
The grenade explodes. Fragments scatter in all directions. A fragment grazes Yana’s face. Yana wipes the blood from her face, enraged.
“Catch that bastard! Catch him, you idiots! Are you just going to keep getting hit?!”
“H-However, that guy is wearing a bomb coat! That’s a real bomb coat! With that amount, it could blow up this warehouse and the surrounding area in an instant!”
“Just catch him carefully so it doesn’t explode! You’re not suggesting we run away just because we’re scared of one guy, are you? Huh?”
Yana’s eyes gleam with rage and madness. She seemed to have completely lost it. Her vampire subordinates cautiously approach me.
“Why do you think that bastard is wearing a bomb coat? It’s to stop us from attacking recklessly. Even he doesn’t want to die for real. Just be careful of the bomb coat and subdue him!”
Emboldened by Yana’s words, the vampires surround me.
“Hehehe…”
I chuckled. Doesn’t want to die? For others, a suicide bomb might be a last resort, but not for me. Self-detonation is just a means.
I indiscriminately threw grenades at the approaching vampires.
Bang! Boom! Bang!
Some of the fragments barely grazed my body. Fortunately, the bomb coat didn’t explode. Despite appearances, this coat is quite sturdy, designed with advanced technology from the [Vampire Detective] world. It doesn’t easily explode even with rough, acrobatic movements.
Bang! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The number of vampires hit by the grenades was increasing over time. Yana pointed at me, yelling.
“Attack him all at once! All at once!”
“It’s not easy with him constantly throwing bombs! And that guy is holding a detonator in his left hand! It might be the detonator for the bomb coat!”
My left hand, except for the thumb, had all four fingers broken. Perhaps it was the adrenaline, but I didn’t feel much pain. And even with broken fingers, holding a detonator was no problem.
“You useless things!”
Yana, enraged, shot a spiderweb at me.
[Using Flash. Remaining stacks: 6]
Yana had been watching me, and as soon as the spiderweb flew, I used Flash. I leisurely checked the trajectory of the spiderweb and moved my body to the side. The spiderweb passed by me.
“Kill me if you can!!”
I started running around the warehouse like a madman. I threw grenades with the pins pulled out and attached C4 everywhere. Explosions erupted wherever I went. The warehouse began to blaze.
“Catch him! Catch him!”
Yana screamed. She could move herself, but she was making her subordinates do it because she was afraid of the bombs. Bombs are equal to everyone.
Swish!
A spiderweb flew and grabbed my right foot.
‘She shot a spiderweb the moment I looked away. She’s not ordinary.’
The effect of Heavenly Mind had ended, so my right foot was caught by the spiderweb. I tried to shake it off by putting strength into my foot, but the stickiness was unusual, making it difficult.
“Got him! Immediately catch him and restrain him!”
Yana shouted, and the vampires rushed in.
“You crazy bastard!”
“You’re the reason Yujun died!”
“Don’t think you’ll die peacefully!”
Without hesitation, I pressed the detonator.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions erupted all around me. The warehouse walls and roof collapsed, and crimson flames soared into the sky. Immediately after, black smoke filled the air.
I was caught in the shockwave and fell to the ground.
‘Huh? I’m not dead?’
With this level of explosion, the bomb coat should have detonated. But the bomb coat didn’t explode. And I was just knocked to the ground; I was still alive and well.
I got up and realized what had happened. Around me, spiderwebs larger than myself were stretched out like walls. The spiderwebs had blocked me.
‘Yana. It seems she didn’t want to die either.’
At this point, it might be better to just die. I took out the detonator from my coat pocket. It was the detonator to detonate the bombs in the coat.
‘She protected me with spiderwebs, so she didn’t run away… Let’s die together.’
Just as I was about to press the detonator.
Swish!
A spiderweb flew and restrained my right hand. I was completely bound by the spiderweb, unable to move even a finger. I couldn’t press the detonator.
Just as I was about to slam my right hand on the ground, swish! swish! swish! Spiderwebs flew in succession and bound my body.
In front of me. Something fell in front of me, piercing through the black smoke. It was the corpse of a vampire, his chest pierced by something sharp.
“To think there would be an idiot who would ignore my orders and try to run away. I need to give some mental training when I accept new subordinates.”
Along with a voice that sounded like scraping metal, something heavy approached me. Its form was hidden by the smoke, but I seemed to know its identity.
Swish!
A spiderweb flew and entangled my spiderweb. My body was pulled along with the spiderweb. At the end of the spiderweb was a giant monster spider. It was over 3 meters tall, with the lower body of a large, round spider and the upper body of something similar to a human.
It was the true form of the Noble-class vampire, Yana. Creating and shooting sticky, hard spiderwebs was Yana’s special ability.
Yana grabbed my neck and lifted me up.
“You damn bastard. How did you take out things from thin air? From the smell and appearance, it’s clear you’re not a vampire… Are you perhaps a descendant of a witch?”
Come to think of it, in this world, there were not only vampires and werewolves but also witches. They were such a rare race that even I, who had read the original work, didn’t know much about them.
“Kuh…”
My lips twitched. My throat was sore when I tried to speak. Of course, my eyes were sore too. More than that, my whole body ached.
‘I feel like I’m going to die even though I haven’t done anything.’
I realized that my physical abilities had dropped to an ordinary level.
“Pathetic. It makes me sick to look at you. How did you survive with that body, vampire? Heh heh.”
I sneered at Yana. Yana’s body wasn’t normal either. Two of her six legs were gone, and half of her lower body was burned.
“What are you relying on to act so cocky? That fancy bomb coat? The bomb coat won’t explode. You’re finished. I’ll kill you painfully, whether you’re Juseo-hyeon or whatever.”
Thud.
One of Yana’s front legs pierced my abdomen. Like the vicious woman she was, she didn’t stop there, moving her front leg back and forth, tearing my insides.
“You smell delicious. Unlike your crazy mind, your body is in top condition?”
Yana smacked her lips. I glared at Yana and spat out, as if chewing my words.
“You made a mistake. You should have run away instead of trying to catch me! That was your only chance to get out of here alive.”
“You’re about to die, but you’re still so spirited. What’s the reason? You can’t even move a finger now. Bomb coat? Can’t you see my spiderwebs around you? The flames won’t reach your coat! It’s not me who’s finished, it’s you!!”
I still had a means left. It wasn’t about summoning items from my inventory. No matter what item I summoned, Yana would react faster than me and snatch it away. I couldn’t move my hands right now. Even if I had a spare detonator, I couldn’t press the button.
‘There’s no rule that says I have to detonate the bomb with a detonator.’
Tick.
Something flickered.
Yana narrowed her eyes, glaring at me.
“Static electricity?”
I used static electricity by utilizing lightning. Even without mana, I could use lightning by consuming vitality. However, the output was insufficient with just static electricity.
‘If I use all my power, I can reach the level of a stun gun…!’
I grinned. I already knew where the detonator of the bomb coat was.
“Goodbye, you bitch.”
“What?”
Zzzzzzzzz!
In an instant, sparks flew, and everything disappeared with an explosion.
[Death Resistance has been activated. You will not die for the next 15 seconds.]
Because of the explosion, I couldn’t see anything.
I didn’t know what happened to my body, but my consciousness didn’t disappear.
‘There will be aftereffects from the explosion, so it’s not good to use Full Recovery right away.’
But if I waited too long, the warehouse could collapse. Using Full Recovery only to be crushed to death by the warehouse? That would be the worst-case scenario.
‘I can’t use the space teleportation scroll because I didn’t set the coordinates for this world… Damn it. I’ll have to run like hell.’
After 10 seconds, I used Full Recovery.
[Using Full Recovery.]
The sensation in my body fully returned. At the same time, I felt the heat. The inside of the warehouse was filled with flames. I held my breath and dashed out of the warehouse.
[Using Acceleration. Lasts for 10 minutes. Remaining stacks: 5]
[Using Flash. Remaining stacks: 4]
The warehouse wall collapses.
[Using Flash. Remaining stacks: 3]
I used Flash to barely avoid the collapsing wall. If I didn’t have Flash, I would have been crushed to death by the red-hot steel wall.
[Using Flash. Remaining stacks: 2]
I didn’t save Flash. If anything looked even slightly dangerous, I immediately used Flash to jump forward.
[Using Flash. Remaining stacks: 1]
[Using Flash. Remaining stacks: 0]
I got out of the warehouse.
The wind blowing from the sea shook my dick and disappeared.
