Chapter 420 – 420. Nosferad (1)
Riod, who was commanding the battlefield in Lindewald, had doubts.
“… Strange.”
“Do you think so too?”
And the question is, Simon too.
No, all the knights and wizards who are currently clearing the vampires on the front lines must also feel a vague sense of incongruity.
“Simon thinks this situation is strange too.”
“Yes.”
“… How could I not see a single survivor?”
Buildings were collapsing and the territory was being destroyed, but no matter how ruined the territory was, not a single person could be seen.
After thinking about it, Riod came to one conclusion.
“… This territory is already over.”
There were no living survivors.
The homeless people, hoodlums, and other outlaws in this estate must have already ended their lives as prey to the vampires.
“I think the same way.”
Simon swallowed his saliva and nodded his head, feeling a sense of incongruity in his long experience.
Currently, the operation to wipe out the vampires is proceeding smoothly, but there is a sense of incongruity.
“…”
Coo goo
The sudden shaking of the floor.
Lyod and Simon frowned when they felt the energy spreading from a specific place throughout the territory.
“… This.”
It’s a problem that the density of magical power is unusual, but this magical power that comes in contact with the skin is something unpleasant.
It was a bad feeling as if I was in contact with the contaminated magic of a demonic beast, not the magic inherent in the human body.
This is the magic power emitted by the vampire.
“No way…”
Simon was the first to notice the identity of this.
Confirming the density of magical power spreading in an unusual range, I turned my head towards the source.
Coo woo
The building collapses and what emerges from within is something as massive as the building itself.
It spread its large wings and raised its body, unlike ordinary monsters, it showed a size that exceeded common sense.
A body with large thin wings and slender legs and arms.
Riod murmured after confirming the appearance of the gigantic monster that had risen.
“… Bat?”
In a deformed situation, as if a small bat had turned into a giant, all the knights, including Leo and Simon, paused and looked up into the air.
Then the giant bat shuddered once and opened its mouth wide.
Kyaaaaagh!
“Keugh!?”
“Nice!?”
The air shuddered at the roar of the bat demon that hurled into the air, making my whole body tremble.
“I… What the hell… !?”
Simon frowned and plugged his ears to block out his voice.
Every time it flapped its thin wings, powerful gusts of wind hit it from below.
Swept away by the wind of dust, I continued to stare at the huge bat-type monster in my blurry vision.
In my 70 years of life, I had never seen such a monster.
However, Lyod muttered as if he could guess something.
“That… Could it be that the Ancient Witchbeast?”
“Ancient… A witch?”
“… I just listened.”
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– Nosferad. Don’t say
“Nosferad?”
Eun-hyeon’s face was visible beyond the crystal ball given to her by Eleanor and Erin, who had participated in the operation to clear up the vampires on behalf of Eun-hyeon.
Riod asked again, chewing on the name he mentioned.
– The first vampire. No, the archetype of the ancient witch beast that existed before becoming the current vampire.
“…”
Riod, who heard Eunhyeon’s story by telecommunication, hardened his face.
– Originally, the origin of vampires is the beginning of an ancient witch who took the form of a bat and transformed into a human form.
The Witchbeast has intelligence like a human, and has transformed into a human in order to unilaterally play with that human and take their blood.
It is said that the body has become smaller and the power has been reduced, but through that change, the ancient witches can be equipped with intelligence like humans.
-Nosferad, who became the first vampire, coveted the blood of humans to hunt them down, and implanted his factor into the bodies of humans.
As a result, humans who sucked Nosferad’s blood became vampires and became a family that could never resist Nosferad.
The bodies that had to live hidden in the dark for the rest of their lives burning in the sun and the vampiric urge filled in their bodies made them perfect vampires, not human beings.
– Nosferad thought. You don’t need strong and enormous power to hunt humans.
A strong body is necessary, but what is more required is intelligence and organizational power that can drive humans.
So, Nosferard, who awakened her intellect, changed her appearance to become like a human in order to efficiently hunt the humans who hid herself and the ancient demons.
The result was successful.
He bit the scruff of a human he encountered by chance, drank their blood, and infiltrated a vampire who had become his own, into the tightly hidden human society, encouraging conflict and conflict among humans and causing cracks.
Ingesting a large amount of blood and acquiring many followers at the same time, Nosferad created a pyramid system to hunt humans.
-The king of vampires. Vampire Load. Nosferad As time passed, there was a time when it was called by many names, but now it has hardly appeared.
It meant that the vampires’ movements were moving more secretly, systematically, and systematically.
“Have you ever fought vampires?”
– About three times. Anyway, it was a small puppet.
Eunhyeon looked back on the past and put on a bitter expression as if it wasn’t a pleasant experience.
“Have you not met the king of vampires called Nosferad?”
-About 400 years ago… I’ve had a fight once. But he ran away That was a great opportunity to get rid of it.
When Nosferard, an ancient witch who transformed into a vampire, was just beginning to increase his followers step by step.
There was a time when I met Eunhyeon and fought a battle.
Before he could properly accumulate his power, Nosferard, who was still weak, was defeated in a battle with Eunhyeon and desperately fled to save his own life.
– He was weak too, but I was also weak.
Recalling Nosferad, who boldly cut off a part of her fatally wounded body and escaped by misting it, Eun-hyeon put on a bitter expression.
At that time, Nosferard, who had fled from Eun-hyeon, never appeared in front of Eun-hyeon again.
-This is the origin of vampires.
“… Right.”
After hearing the explanation, Riod nodded his head.
“In this territory called Lindewald territory, is there such a thing as the king of vampires?”
-… I’m not sure.
Eun-hyun, who always assumes the worst and prepares for it, was strangely unsure of her answer.
“Is the vampire king strong?”
-It’s strong, but if you’re a vampire, you might be able to deal with it. No, this is also based on my experience from 400 years ago, so it might not be very helpful. However, in the form of the original giant bat…
Eunhyeon, who took a break, hardened her bitter expression again and continued.
– Be sure to run away.
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“I don’t think it will be possible already.”
Riod looked at Nosferard in the air and murmured briefly.
Kyaaah!
The ancient Demonic Beast flapping its wings in the sky, creating a gust of wind and spitting out a roar below, was enough to freeze the bodies of the knights and wizards below.
“I-that…”
“What the hell is that!”
The knights and wizards were astonished.
There were also people whose legs trembled at the appearance that was bigger than any monsters they had encountered in their lives and evoked fear.
“… It’s impossible.”
A knight murmured softly as he dropped the sword in his hand.
Despair appeared on the face of the knight who sat down on the floor as if the muscles of his whole body were relaxed.
He longed for the Knights of Artia, and trained himself to become a Knight of the Order.
Even the knights who were prepared to throw themselves into a risky life-and-death situation realized the difference between themselves and the giant bat-beast floating in the sky.
Even when the hearts of the knights gave orders to fight to the death, their bodies only trembled with fear as if they had already been defeated.
“… Not good.”
Riod grasped the changed situation in an instant and hardened his expression.
The vampire’s sweeping operation, which had been smooth, begins to creak little by little.
The morale of the allies, who had been strong with the appearance of only one demon beast, was drastically shattered.
Ugh
[Six digit top magic]
[Vortex Hurricane]
Simon was the first to act in this situation.
Due to the composition of the magic formula and the injection of magic power, a whirlwind of gusts emanating from the magic gins deployed in front flew up into the sky and attacked Nosferard’s body.
Externally, he is evaluated as weaker than Illyana, but it is an undeniable fact that Simon is also one of the top 10 high-ranking magicians on the continent and one of the most important forces in the kingdom.
Unlike the magic of other high-digit wizards, the high-level magic activated by such an elderly wizard can show strong power with more precise control.
If it was a normal, normal monster, they would have had to face death by having their skin and flesh torn to shreds by this attack.
Kyaaaaagh!
Nosferad, who scattered the whirlpool of the gust by flapping his wings, glared at Simon, where the magic had been activated, and roared as the monster’s blood dripped on the torn skin.
“Whoa…”
After the magic was activated, Simon took a deep breath and changed the energy in his body.
Basically, wizards cannot use magic consecutively.
If you use one magic, there is an interval until you can use it after that, and if you use magic with higher digits and higher digits, the interval time will be even longer.
Illyana’s case is an extremely exceptional case.
Of course, the amount of magical power she possesses varies greatly, and being recognized as a member of her demigod family and being able to use her high-ranking spells in double and triple spears, there is something like her interval. There is no way
Unlike Illyana, Simon, who faced clear limits as a mage, caught his breath and stared at Nosferad in the air.
“… We must retreat.”
“What?”
Seeing Riod trying to order a retreat in a serious voice, Simon asked back as if he couldn’t understand.
His own magic clearly took its toll on Nosferard, and he was not an opponent that could be defeated, even if it was tough.
As a result of directly hitting the magic, Simon felt that way.
Currently, each leads knights and wizards, and the co-commanders of this operation are Riod and Simon.
Simon was always willing to respect Riod’s judgment, but he couldn’t understand Riod’s decision to retreat as soon as the monster appeared.
“… Wouldn’t it be worth trying?”
“If it’s a physical fight, you can try it. But…”
Riod looked at Nosferad in the air with a serious expression and remembered Eunhyun’s advice.
– Why? Is it that strong?
-Nosferad’s physical strength itself is not that low. But what’s more troublesome is the ability that the Witchbeast possesses. That witch… It spreads a highly lethal disease around itself. Even if there is really a 0.01% chance of defeating that monster, everyone within that range will die.
“Cool! Cool!”
One of the knights began to cough, and coughed up blood in a strong cough.
“Hey, hey! Why all of a sudden… !? Cool!?”
As one coughed and complained of pain, his eyes, ears, mouth and nose began to bleed.
“Suddenly, how did this happen… !? Ku-Hup!?”
Simon abruptly regurgitated his airway and saw the blood he had vomited from the back of his throat splatter on his clothes, and the thought came to a halt.
