Chapter 834 – 834. Vampire Remnants (1)
“Nice… Ruck!”
Even with his throat pierced, the vampire glared at Cha Hanseong while letting out the sound of a scratching beast.
Monsters that covet human blood and make it their staple food were not easily killed just by getting their necks pierced.
The vampire gnashed his teeth and was furious with Cha Han-seong, who attacked him.
‘Dare… !’
To attack oneself on the subject of humans who are only prey.
She couldn’t forgive.
It seemed that the truth would be solved only when it was clearly told who was the predator and who was the prey.
She tried to pierce Cha Han-sung’s neck with a sharp counterattack by swinging her long nails like blades, but it was impossible.
The sword of Hanseong Cha, which has already pierced the vampire’s neck, is a holy sword, Durandal, different from other ordinary swords.
Before long, pure white light burst from Durandal and engulfed the vampire’s neck and body.
“Kuh!?”
The vampire trembled at her startled.
With her mystique flowing from her Durandal, she felt that her powers were eating away at her own body.
It’s not exactly eating moths.
The power of purification to return one’s body and existence itself to nothingness.
The existence of weak divine power flowing from the holy sword was no different from the body of a vampire with turbid magical power.
In particular, vampires who do not have proper intellect and fall under the lowest class do not even have the resistance to resist that power.
“Ah, ah!”
In the end, the vampire who struggled with her pain evaporated and disappeared without her resistance even once.
Cha Han-seong put Durandal in his scabbard after searching for a vampire who disappeared without leaving a trace.
“Is it okay if I just get rid of it?”
The vampire Cha Han-seong just eliminated must have been the culprit behind the villagers’ disappearance.
If so, wouldn’t it be a better choice to get information than to get rid of it right away?
However, Cha Han-seong shook his head and denied the two questions.
“… No. That vampire just now is probably the cause that got rid of the residents of this town, but her fundamental culprit must be something else.”
“What? How sure are you?”
“Because the traces of eating people were so neat.”
“… ?”
Ju-hong tilted his head, not understanding Cha Han-seong’s explanation.
Cha Han-seong explained in more detail.
“Usually they don’t eat clean. They tear apart human flesh and gobble up the blood that flows out. Vampires of the lower realms are like that. Because I didn’t even have a proper intellect.”
“…”
Ju-hong recalled the image of the vampire whose throat had been pierced by Cha Han-seong’s Durandal.
The vampire who had driven her to the brink of death was partly due to the sword piercing her neck, but she was glaring at Cha Hanseong, growling ferociously like a beast.
She lacked the proper intellect.
That’s exactly what it meant.
“A low-ranking vampire like that ate dozens of villagers cleanly without a trace? Nonsense.”
“…”
“Vampires of a higher level came and went. That’s probably…”
Cha Han-seong paused for a moment and was unable to speak.
Something in his head was struggling to choose his words.
He was cautious, afraid that Ju-hong would disappoint him or even despise him, but he would find out someday.
Determined, he put his guess into his mouth.
“One of the residents of this village must have been forcibly turned into a vampire by a higher level vampire.”
“…”
Ju-hong looked at Cha Han-seong in surprise.
It was the reaction Cha Han-seong expected.
Even though Cha Han-seong has turned into a vampire, it was because he killed the villager, a human, with a single knife without hesitation.
From Ju-hong’s point of view, who comes from the same earth and has similar values, wouldn’t it be no different than Cha Han-sung’s murder without hesitation?
However, Ju-hong nodded slightly and showed a different reaction than Cha Han-sung expected.
“… Okay. He should be at ease now.”
“… ?”
Ju-Hong accepted the fact more calmly than he thought.
Rather, I tilted my head at Cha Han-seong’s reaction, which was surprised.
“What are you so surprised about? Did you really think I would be disappointed or even scornful?”
“That, that…”
To be honest, it was.
Because Ju-Hong was one of the closest friends he had a special affection for among all the reincarnated people from Earth he had ever met.
I was afraid that she would be disappointed.
Ju Hong let out a sigh and smiled bitterly.
“… Hey. I too am now a body that rolls and rolls in this world. Did you really think I wouldn’t understand that?”
“…”
“And… It happened quite often on Earth as well.”
It was nothing like this.
The act of taking the life of an innocent person may be repulsive, but the opponent is a monster who has lost his intellect by turning into a vampire.
I had no idea whatsoever.
Cha Hanseong couldn’t say anything when he saw Juhong’s bitter expression.
She and the Earth she lived on were a bit different.
It didn’t change that they were in the same place, but the time zone they lived in was different.
Cha Hanseong passed away after passing away in a peaceful era, but in the case of Juhong, he came over from a hellish era dominated by demons and monsters.
It was unavoidable.
He thought he had similar values, but there were some differences.
“That person would have thanked you instead.”
Even Ju-hong wasn’t sure if the villager, who had lost his intellect after being turned into a vampire, really thought that way.
It was just that she would have thought so if she were herself, and it was her own consideration to comfort her Cha Han-seong.
“… Okay. Thank you.”
Thanking her for her consideration, Cha Hanseong smiled wryly at her and nodded her head.
“Let’s rest for a bit and leave at dawn.”
“Okay. Okay.”
Cha Han-sung and Ju-hong took a break again.
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Kyaaah!
It was similar to the cry of a ferocious animal, but the subject of the voice that flowed from the boiling vocal cords was intelligence.
The vampire’s one arm, unable to avoid Durandal’s blade swung from the front, fell to the ground and shed dark blood.
“Yes… He… ! Who is… !”
“You know what to do.”
Cha Hanseong replied with a calm expression.
Soon there was nothing that could answer the monster.
Scarlet struck an additional blow at the staggering vampire.
Fuck!
The vampire’s torso bent vertically as the regime was properly inserted into the abdomen.
“Cuck!”
I stepped on the shoulder of the vampire who was staggering and fell to the floor.
Kwajik!
“Ah, ah!”
The other side of her shoulder, which was relatively intact, was horribly crushed, and the vampire let out a scream at her.
“Say. Where is the guy behind you now?”
“What… Sound… !”
“Don’t you know? Or are you pretending not to know?”
I couldn’t tell.
When it comes to combat, he was quite confident, but Cha Han-seong was still immature in this area.
Knowing the other person’s intentions or ulterior motives through the other person’s complexion, attitude, and behavior and coping with them is not a type of field that can be developed overnight.
‘If Erin-sama were here…’
Might have been a little more comfortable.
Erin is a combat type who acts only with her senses, similar to herself, but she has the special ability of a Shinsoo who can feel the emotions of others, so she can recognize her opponent’s lies or agitation.
When it came to gathering information about her, no one was as brilliant as she was.
That’s why the only thing Cha Hanseong could do now was to press the opponent further and drive him into a corner.
“Most of the towns in this south. You guys ate them all. But I don’t think you ate it alone.”
I was too weak for that.
Cha Han-seong and Ju-hong have visited a total of three empty villages where no one lives.
In the meantime, I’ve also encountered four or five vampires, but all of them are low-level vampires who cannot be said to have intelligence.
This was the first vampire of a strong individual who had proper intellect and could have a conversation.
However, this guy also recently finished evolving in the lower world and has intelligence, and is not a vampire belonging to the strong axis.
“It’s behind you. A high-level vampire who turned you into a monster.”
“… !”
The vampire trembled startled.
Not only was she originally a human, but the men and women in front of her who easily overpowered her were well aware of the physiology of her own race, her vampires.
Realizing that fact, the vampire quickly rolled her head at her and she looked for a way to keep herself alive.
“Sah, save me.”
“…”
“I was, I was a human being! That monster made me like this!”
She squeezed out sweat instead of the tears that didn’t even come out, and appealed for her sympathy while trying to look as miserable as possible.
However, Cha Han-seong’s expression did not change at all in response to his cheap appeal for sympathy.
The vampire begging for his life was not the answer Cha Han-seong wanted.
Cha Han-seong asked again.
“I will ask you again. Where is the higher-level vampire who turned you into a monster?”
However, it didn’t work for Cha Han-seong and Ju-hong, as it would have been for other people experiencing a vampire’s menstruation for the first time.
“Castle, it’s in the castle!”
“… Castle?”
“Yes! It’s the lord’s castle of the Viscounty of Brawlton nearby! That monster is now in the lord’s castle of the Viscounty’s territory!”
“…”
Cha Hanseong’s complexion hardened coldly.
He didn’t know what kind of place the Viscounty of Brollton was, but the fact that there were vampires in the lord’s castle was a very serious matter.
It was the same story that the entire territory of the Viscounty was taken over by vampires, and that all the humans living there had already fallen prey to the vampires, or that they had become vampires themselves.
Realizing that fact, Cha Han-seong gnashed his teeth and spat out disgust.
“… Shit.”
“Now let me live… !”
“Dog sound.”
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Hwajeopbalgyeong (胡蝶發勁)]
Perong!
The terrifying shockwave derived from the scarlet talons hit the vampire’s head straight and exploded.
The end of the vampire was too futile.
The fact that vampires evolved to the point of being intelligent and able to communicate was the same as the story of vampires taking their lives in order to indulge in human blood.
Although originally human, neither Cha Han-seong nor Ju-hong were so stupid as to accept and forgive the existence that attacked other humans and made them their own food.
“Hanseong-ah. What are you going to do?”
Ju-hong looked at Cha Han-sung and asked for his opinion.
“For now… I will have to ask for support.”
The first thought that came to mind was to ask for support from the Knights of Artia, to which he belonged.
Not only did a few small villages suffer damage, but the fact that the entire territory of the self-governing territory was passed over to the vampires meant that at least tens of thousands of people had already suffered casualties.
This wasn’t a problem that could be solved by just the two of them, just the two of them.
In addition, even though the incident occurred on such a large scale, the fact that the news was not delivered to the palace and the capital also meant that the vampires were systematically controlling information and moving.
It is never something to be taken lightly.
Cha Hanseong hardened his face and took out a crystal ball for communication from his arms.
[What’s going on?]
When I channeled my magic power to make it work, a man’s voice came from the crystal ball.
It was the voice of Cain Cesar, the vice-captain of the Artia Knights, who had become his direct superior after being given the position of external auditor.
“Vice-captain. There is an issue I would like to report and ask for support.”
