Chapter 852 – 852. True Blood (4)
The vampire ran.
“… What!?”
As soon as she crouched down, she jumped up instantly, and the speed of the vampire rushing forward shocked the vermillion and the knights.
It’s different from before, when we were ambush in the dark.
The behavior itself of the beast, which earlier had hidden its presence as much as possible and ran with the momentum to bite the opponent’s neck.
However, the vampires now running toward them were different.
It was not a quadrupedal walk that ran recklessly like a beast, but a bipedal walk that ran with two legs moving, and had an intelligence that had never been seen before.
Furthermore.
‘It’s faster… !’
Faster than before.
The vampire’s speed resembled the footsteps of the scarlet, which ran fast and moved at high speed.
In an instant, the vampire who ran right in front of her nose swung her fist at the scarlet.
“Oh… !”
Ju-hong groaned involuntarily and smashed the vampire’s fist with his own fist.
At the same time, it burrowed into the vampire’s arms.
The vampire, who was only thinking about rushing and attacking, didn’t think about her counterattack, and her guard was also in a state of weakness.
Ju-hong once again swung his fist, which was blazing with magical power, and thrust it into the vampire’s face.
Fuck!
The vampire’s face was twisted and bent to the side by the vermillion fist that had been hit with a straight blow.
The flesh on his cheeks was torn and cracked, and it wasn’t just that his mouth was cracked, his neck bones also turned.
If it was a normal human, the damage would have killed him right there.
Kwadeuk!
The vampire’s twisted head snaps back to its original state, and the broken cervical vertebrae are put back together and regenerated.
And he glared viciously at the scarlet that had inflicted fatal damage on him.
Kreuk!
The vampire moved her arm again and punched her.
The attack was far from a simple punch that promised to inflict damage using his fist like Juhong.
A simple attack where you just swing your arm with all your might.
It was an attack that was simply wielded like a whip, with no essence or mastery of techniques to use the body rationally and efficiently.
“… Tsk.”
Juhong clicked his tongue.
Even if it was a simple attack, I had a hunch that it would not be easy to block it head-on.
In any case, it was just an attack with no skill added, just swinging the arms, but since the subject of the attack was the body of a vampire, it was impossible to ignore the vampire’s strength, which easily exceeded the average human.
Twist your waist to the side and lean your upper body backwards.
The vampire’s arm, which was whipped like a whip, passed dangerously over the vermillion’s face.
A small gap after a large action.
Ju-hong had no intention of leaving that gap alone.
‘Once more.’
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The side of the vampire was clearly exposed due to the swinging of the arm.
The scarlet fist hit the vampire’s side once more.
Kwajik!
Juhong was sure.
That his own attack went right in.
The side of the vampire who was hit by a direct hit dented, and at the same time, the vampire’s body could not withstand the impact and bent into an L shape.
As it is, it flies through the air once again and gets stuck in the rubble of the building.
“Are you okay!?”
After a brief skirmish, Eira and the Knights of Artia hurriedly ran at the same time as the vampires ran away.
The new knight looked at the vermilion with a very nervous expression.
‘Wow, that’s great…’
I couldn’t think of any other appropriate expression to express my feelings about the short scuffle between the vampire and scarlet from earlier.
The first person to be attacked by the vampire was himself.
She boasted that she was absolutely arrogant and careless, but the new knight did not notice the vampire’s surprise at all.
If it wasn’t for the cover of Ju-Hong, who noticed first, and Eira’s quick response, she probably would have been bitten off her neck and turned into a corpse lying on the side of the road.
She said that she was the younger sister of the rumored man named Eun-hyeon.
Perhaps Eun-Hyeon is stronger than this Ju-Hong woman.
‘… How strong is he?’
As she stiffened as she pondered complicated thoughts, Ju-hong gave a small reply.
“… Are you okay.”
Juhong gave a rough answer and stared at the pile of rubble of the building where the flying vampire was buried.
Soon after, some of the other knights followed her gaze and stared there.
“I am alive.”
“… Even with that?”
The members were astonished.
If it was an ordinary person, the part that was attacked would have been torn and burst right away.
Sure enough, the dusty wind from the wreckage of the collapsed building calmed down little by little, and the vampire reappeared.
“Human… Strong man…”
The vampire was glaring at the scarlet.
Her wounds from being hit by her had somehow been restored to her original state.
“… Tsk.”
Ju-hong saw her and clicked her tongue in irritation.
Her own attack certainly worked.
However, the most annoying thing about that vampire is not its superhuman physical ability, but its regenerative ability that allows it to stand up again no matter how attacked.
It seemed difficult to finish off that vampire unless it was a fatal blow that would completely cut off his breath.
Before long, the vampire started acting again.
The vampire moved her legs once more and ran.
“Uh?”
The place where the vampire who started moving was headed was not toward the vermillion or the Artia Knights.
She started running and there was nothing where she started.
“… Escape?”
She inadvertently muttered the new knight’s first thought out of her mouth.
“… No.”
In the eyes of the new knight, it looked like running away, but Ju-hong had a different idea.
The hostility and thirst that the vampire felt at the sight of her own is real.
There was something exactly, but I just didn’t recognize it.
“A dead body?”
Where the vampire headed, the corpses of the vampires that the Knights of Scarlet and Artia had defeated were strewn about.
Before long, the vampire picked up the priests of other vampires scattered on the street and brought them to her mouth without hesitation.
Kwajik!
“Her… !?”
Seeing the actions of the vampire biting and chewing the flesh of the corpse and eating the blood inside it, Scarlet and the knights were shocked at the same time.
It was completely different from the vampires shown in the previous clearing operation.
The vampires they know are the ones who covet human blood and grow their power through it.
“The same vampire… Eat?”
Since they hadn’t even thought about the fratricide at all, they couldn’t help but put on a dazed expression for a moment, even in front of the vampire who was ravenously devouring their kin.
Eventually, Ayra, thinking of a certain possibility, exclaimed urgently.
“We have to stop!”
A vampire’s characteristic is bloodsucking.
What if a vampire who had the power to grow his own power by eating human blood would, with some change, eat the blood of another vampire of his own kind, not a human.
And if you can grow your strength because of it.
It was the worst.
Aren’t the corpses of the other vampires now scattered on the floor completely different from that vampire’s food?
Upon hearing Eira’s urgent cry, the body of the knights moved reflexively.
The swords of the knights rushing in unison rushed towards the vampire.
Kaaaaang!
Scattering the roar of metal colliding with metal, the knights’ swords bounced off and flew through the air.
“… !?”
The knights were astonished.
It was because she belatedly realized that the vampire who had greedily devoured the corpses of her people had deflected their swords with her fist.
“What… !?”
Due to the swords of the knights that floated in the air at the moment, the vampires dug into their defenseless gap where the guard disappeared in a very short moment.
Even sharper and sharper, but shorter than before, the vampire’s claws penetrated the chest of the new knight closest to him.
“Ouch!”
“Ah… !”
It was the vampire’s counterattack that took place in the blink of an eye.
The vampire’s claws pierced the armor that protected vital points like paper cutting and so naturally penetrated them.
Delia’s complexion turned pale when she saw the image of a fellow new knight whose heart was pierced with a sharp nail up close.
It was at a time when he was frozen, uttering a sigh mixed with astonishment, horror, and fear.
“The weak human heart.”
Unlike the voice that flowed through the vocal cords of a monster that was seething and cracking, the voice that was clearly pronounced contained clear emotions and intentions.
Before long, the vampire raised the corners of her mouth and gave her a satisfied smile.
It was an ugly smile drunk with ridicule and superiority toward the obvious weak.
“Warm.”
The vampire’s hand that penetrated the new knight’s chest caressed his heart.
The warmth of the cold blood along with the beating of the heart that gradually becomes quiet.
The scent of blood flowing from there tickled the tip of the vampire’s nose.
“Kuk-kuk.”
The vampire laughed, intoxicated by the sweet scent that evoked strong urges.
Thinking that he wanted to taste it more, he opened his mouth towards the neck of the new knight who had pierced his heart.
“Hey.”
Between the rookie knight and the vampire whose heart had been pierced, vermilion intruded.
“Aren’t you going to clean those dirty teeth?”
Ju-hong once again threw his fist at the vampire’s face.
It was a well-timed blow aiming for an opening, but the vampire blocked the crimson fist with his own arm.
“Nice… !”
It was a vampire who had never thought of defense and had only attacked by relying on beastly instincts.
‘This child… !’
Juhong gnashed his teeth and glared at the vampire.
There was no mistake.
Abandoning the way she fought like a beast, just relying on her instincts from before, she is copying her own movements and methods bit by bit.
The vampire was ‘learning’.
It was as if he had expected that vermilion would intrude and interfere with him, just by looking at the vampire’s satisfied expression.
“Strong human!”
In the vampire’s perception, the woman in front of him was different.
Even though she possessed physical abilities that easily exceeded human physical abilities, she could not beat this woman.
No matter how fast she moved and wielded her mighty powers to attack her, this woman dodges her own attacks and takes advantage of her openings to counter her attacks.
So she was interested.
She observed the vermilion’s movements and thought to move like her.
Following her instincts, she abandons the quadrupedal locomotion she used to run like a beast and chooses a bipedal locomotion, finding a way to attack using her freed arms.
An effective human attack method and technique that is different from just tearing and biting opponents using her teeth and claws.
The ‘reason’ given to the vampire who grew in power while eating the blood of his own people was rapidly ‘learning’ the monster.
What is this feeling?
The vampire was unknown.
But at the same time that her own strength is growing, this process of ‘learning’ is so enjoyable.
Perhaps it was because he was facing the vampire’s face as he grinned and showed his fangs.
“Haha!”
The vampire fought back, punching her with all her might.
It wasn’t an ignorant way of wielding power like a whip, but a fist that energized from the firmly fixed legs to the waist, upper body, and arms.
Of course, she had only seen and followed Ju-hong’s movements with her own eyes, but the essence of any technique could not be found in those fists.
However, based on her vampire physical abilities, the fists she wields are still powerful.
There’s no way that Ju-hong doesn’t know that.
Faster than her opponent’s attack, the hand on the other side of the scarlet struck the vampire’s face.
Caang!
A sound reminiscent of hard metal resonated from the vampire’s face, which had been hit once again by her fist.
“… Fuck.”
Having grown up eating all the blood of his own people, it seems that he did not become equipped only with reason.