## Chapter 1774 – 1774. Vampire Detective
I swung the Super Blade, cleaving through the liquid metal. The liquid metal seemed to lose its power, but then it reached out for me again. At the same time, the Super Blade grew heavy, and I felt pressure on my arms and legs. My vision blurred, and the metallic liquid multiplied.
The psychic powers of the vampire progenitors.
One, each one was insignificant. Even the psychic powers that attacked me directly couldn’t control my body. If I included the abilities I hadn’t even realized, there were easily dozens of psychic powers pressing down on me. But none of them restricted my freedom.
‘Was I always this strong?’
Thunder Sky Knot (雷天結).
I recited the core incantation of the Thunder Sky Style. The energy containing lightning coursed through my body, and I was filled with power.
I swung the Super Blade at the approaching liquid metal. A powerful sword wind rose, scattering the liquid metal far away.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Thunder Flash (雷閃).
I swung my sword as I fell from the sky. The sword, swung more than ten times in one second, turned into sword energy and fell on the enemies. The helmeted vampires couldn’t avoid it and fell to the ground, dead.
Thud.
I landed lightly on the ground and turned my head to look around. There were still dozens of vampires left.
‘They can move so vividly even in broad daylight, is it because of the clothes and helmets they’re wearing?’
It didn’t matter. I was just sure that these guys were no match for me.
“You unfilial bastard. Is this all you’ve prepared? How pathetic. Don’t go around saying you’re my son.”
“…Haha. How novel. Did you ever think of me as your son?”
Sung Soo-Woon spoke leisurely. The vampire soldiers beside him were not so relaxed. They rushed at me like moths to a flame, trying to kill me. Even though they knew how strong I was, they still charged at me, which was admirable.
‘Even if they had bombs around their necks, they’d still rush at me like this? What kind of brainwashing did they go through to make them like this?’
It was impressive.
Of course, it wasn’t like I couldn’t guess what they had done. They must have been brainwashed repeatedly since they were very young.
Beep.
A signal sounded from the vampire soldier rushing at me from the front. I reflexively used the Moment.
[Using Moment (刹那). Remaining stacks: 6]
In the slowed-down world, the vampire’s body swelled up and then exploded. I leisurely watched the scene before moving to avoid the explosive force.
After killing, killing, and killing the rushing enemies, I arrived in front of Sung Soo-Woon.
“Impressive. Even if you ate the Orb of Life, how did you get such power?”
Sung Soo-Woon’s composure didn’t waver.
He was still acting arrogant even after I had come this far. It was too urgent to be a bluff. There was something else.
‘He’s the one who rebelled against me. There’s no way he’d prepare something so trivial as a trap. What’s his hidden trump card?’
For a moment, my mind was about to get complicated. I deliberately erased all the questions.
‘Okay. Let’s just kill him.’
The sword imbued with lightning flashed.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Thunder Light (雷光).
A blue sword strike cut through Sung Soo-Woon’s body. From his right shoulder to his left side. A clean diagonal cut.
A red line was etched on his body. Red blood seeped from the line, and just as his torso was about to slip and fall, the wound disappeared. Only his cut clothes and the blood on the floor proved that there had been a wound.
“Complete recovery…? No, that’s not it. Is that your ability as a vampire?”
He smiled, raising the corners of his mouth.
“This regeneration is just a simple physical ability.”
I narrowed my brow. I couldn’t understand the creature in front of me.
“Are you even a vampire?”
“Hahaha. Now that I think about it, you were particularly uninterested in vampires. You persecuted vampires, but you never thought about researching them or using them.”
“What’s so special about them that I’d research them?”
“That’s your arrogance. The arrogance of someone who has more power than a vampire! Do you know this? When a human becomes a vampire, they don’t all become equally strong. There are differences between individuals. Do you know what those differences are?”
“Hmm. Now that you mention it, I am a little curious. Does a healthy person become a strong vampire?”
Sung Soo-Woon tapped his head with his finger.
“It’s the mind. Humans with strong mental fortitude become stronger vampires. To be more specific, it’s the ego. The more perfect your ego, the more powerful you can become as a vampire.”
“So, you’re saying that because your mental fortitude is strong, you became such a strong vampire? Now that I see it, it was just self-praise.”
“But there are limits to becoming stronger with just that. Vampires get stronger by eating other vampires. You know that, right?”
“I’m losing interest, so just get to the point. I can cut your throat right now.”
“If an ordinary vampire devours five of its own kind, it becomes a progenitor. Then what about more than five? What happens if you eat 50 vampires?”
“……”
I couldn’t answer that question. Because I didn’t know.
In the original Vampire Detective, there weren’t as many vampires as I thought, and cannibalism was taboo. Because vampires were basically human. Even the original setting book didn’t say what would happen if a vampire ate 50 of its own kind.
“Did you do that experiment?”
“It was a bit difficult to do it without you knowing. To tell you the result, vampires get stronger the more vampires they eat. But there was a limit. An average of 30. If they exceed the limit, they go berserk and turn into something that’s not even a vampire.”
“An average of 30? Then there must be some above average.”
“During the experiment, there were vampires who ate up to 50. The difference in the limit is mental fortitude. Here’s the question. How many vampires did I eat?”
I stared at Sung Soo-Woon, lost in thought. The fact that he was so confident meant that he had eaten more than the average number of vampires.
“…Did you eat about 50?”
“Hahaha. You still look down on me. 250! I drank the blood of 250 progenitors!”
“That’s quite a lot. But your vampire life ends here.”
Crack.
A laser was added to the blade of the Super Blade. The blue glowing blade was beautiful.
[Using Moment (刹那). Remaining stacks: 5]
Slash!
I cut his neck. Even the feeling of the blade was perfect. His head fell off.
‘Cutting the body and cutting the neck. The two are clearly different.’
But something was strange. His head fell off, but his body didn’t fall; it was still standing upright.
Squish.
From the severed neck, a crimson mass of flesh surged up, taking the shape of a head. A head made of flesh. It was too crude to be called a real head.
“I have evolved. No matter how strong you are, you can’t kill me. I will rule this world.”
He swung his right hand. I stepped back. His right hand exploded, and a new right hand grew out. A long, red right hand.
‘No way.’
While dodging the growing hand, I kept swinging my sword. His hand was chopped off and fell to the ground. But a new hand grew out immediately.
“I, I have gained immortality!”
“Shut up. You can’t be called human in your current state. Have you really fallen into a monster? Just die quietly.”
I took out a bracelet from my inventory and put it on my left wrist. Meteor Sword Bracelet (流星劍釧). The magical artifact I got from [Ascension to the Light] shone brightly.
A huge sword was created in the air. At the tip of the sword aimed at Sung Soo-Woon, blue lightning crackled.
“Fall.”
The huge sword fell straight down and struck Sung Soo-Woon’s head first.
Wham!
It didn’t end with just the fall. The lightning contained in the meteor sword spread in all directions. It was like lightning striking the ground. The mass of flesh crushed by the giant sword was roasted by the thunder fire (雷火).
I could smell burning meat. It was similar to the smell of burning beef.
‘It smells different from when humans burn. Is it because he’s a vampire?’
Squirm.
The mass of flesh moved. The giant sword that was stuck in his head collapsed.
Sssrrr.
Hundreds of snakes crawled out of the mass of flesh. Snakes with three eyes.
‘Is that also a type of psychic power?’
Crackling!
I gathered lightning in my left hand and threw it at the crawling snakes. As soon as the lightning hit the ground, it spread in all directions, roasting the snakes as well.
A chill.
Something was coming from behind.
As soon as I felt the sense of unease, I jumped up. What covered my back was a hand that was 2 meters in size. A hand with 10 fingers.
The hand suddenly disappeared and appeared in front of me.
‘Space movement…?!’
[Using Moment (刹那). Remaining stacks: 4]
Slash!
I cut the hand. The severed hand fell and became a mass of flesh, squirming. The main body of the mass of flesh, the monster that could no longer be called Sung Soo-Woon, kept squirming.
“I am, I am the master of this world! I am!!”
Hands flew from all directions. Burning hands, poisonous hands, sharp metal hands. Now I understood. All those hands symbolized different psychic powers.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Thunder Flash (雷閃).
I sent out sword energy to cut the hands. The hands fell as masses of flesh. The masses of flesh merged into one.
“You unfilial bastard. Why don’t you just stop?”
“Eternal life! I have gained immortality!”
It seemed like my words no longer reached him.
I raised my left hand. I focused mana on the Meteor Sword Bracelet. In the sky, three giant swords appeared and fell like meteors in succession.
Wham! Bang! Whammm!
The shockwaves sent the mass of flesh flying in all directions. The shattered mass of flesh squirmed and merged back into one. Even if I burned it black with lightning, it was useless. No matter how much time passed, it would return to a red mass of flesh and move again.
‘Is this the berserk state he was talking about earlier?’
I stepped back. I was a bit tired from using too much mana. The mass of flesh grew bigger and bigger, wrapping around the Tokyo Tower.
A fleshy octopus monster was raping the Tokyo Tower.
I scratched the back of my head. How could I deal with that?
A nuclear bomb.
But it was a waste to use the nuclear bomb I had. Nuclear bombs had become hard to get since things had gotten this bad. Did I really have to use my own stuff?
“Ah, whatever. Japan can take care of it. I’m going to go enjoy the festival with Secretary Kim.”
I took out a space movement scroll and tore it.
