Chapter 854 – 854. True Blood (6)
“I’ll be the first to eat your blood!”
A boiling crackling voice came from afar.
Hearing that, Eunhyeon and Erin spurred their running legs even more.
As I quickly headed to the place where I heard the sound, I kept an eye on the situation and grasped it.
The Knights of Artia are lying here and there.
And Ju-hong, who is sitting on the floor and looking up at the vampire.
“… Whose blood are you going to eat?”
I was a little annoyed.
“Lol.”
But unlike Eun-hyeon’s anger, Ju-hong, who heard his voice, smiled and said, as if relieved.
“You are in big trouble now. This bastard.”
Those were words spoken to vampires who had been fighting fierce battles until now.
Eventually, Ju-hong looked for Eun-hyeon, who was getting closer and closer, and exclaimed with admiration.
“Brother! He made us like this! Punish me!”
“…”
Ju-hong’s attitude of asking for help with a triumphant attitude was somehow disconcerting, but Eun-hyeon let out a small sigh.
“Erin.”
“Huh?”
“Take care of it.”
“Okay.”
Erin nodded her head without hesitation.
“Under! Just because two more humans came, it makes no difference… !”
The vampire was dumbfounded.
What would change if two humans were able to invade a fight that had been dominant until now?
However, the vampire could not continue such confident words.
Squeak
The vampire was not even aware of what had passed right next to her.
“… Hmm?”
Such an empty feeling of not having what should be, not feeling what should be felt.
The vampire stared at her own arm where her emptiness had settled.
She had no arms of her own where she should be.
Her arm, which was well attached to her, was rolling across her floor.
“… ?”
Why?
It wasn’t long before she realized she had been attacked.
She couldn’t be seen or heard.
And what the hell do you mean?
This sharp anticipation of cutting off her own arm at once?
The pain that comes later.
A blue flame flared up from the cut surface.
“Ahhhhh!”
A vampire writhed at her as the fox fire burned her flesh.
No matter how hard I tried to put out the flame, the blue flame never went out.
It wasn’t a spark that came naturally, but a spark created by Erin’s divine beast’s magic.
The fox fire is a divine flame that burns forever and never goes out unless Erinn’s magical energy runs out or she withdraws it.
Besides, it wasn’t as strong as divine power, but it had the effect of purifying the turbid beings because it was made with pure magical power.
There was no way a vampire could resist the fox fire that could burn away even the undead.
In an instant, she cut off one of her arms and felt intense pain from the fox fire that rose from the amputation.
A pain that burns the soul itself.
‘Danger… Do… !’
The vampire felt.
This is, this woman in front of me is really dangerous.
Unlike the scarlet-looking woman who simply overpowered her with her skills and experience, the woman in front of her holding a rapier is a danger itself that is no different from harm to herself just by existing.
Seeing the blue sparks surrounding the blade of her rapier, her vampire was oblivious to the new emotion that had taken hold in her own instincts.
Not interest or curiosity about seeing things for the first time, not pride that you will never be able to defeat yourself, but fear of the power to truly kill yourself.
“Oh, don’t come…”
However, Erin moved without hesitation, as if it was not worth listening to the vampire’s words.
As if she had faced an opponent she could never defeat, her attitude was the opposite of when she faced Zhu Hong and the knights.
She was as if her predator, who had taunted and preyed on her weaker counterparts, faced a stronger predator.
The reason why the vampire’s body was trembling little by little wasn’t because his body, which had been damaged by the scarlet, was less well restored.
“Don’t come!”
Fear inscribed in instinct.
It was the worst kind of feeling, destroying reason and clouding judgment.
There were those who stood up against fear, but the vampires who were just beginning to acquire intellect and faced overwhelmingly strong opponents for the first time could not shake off the fear.
In the end, she unknowingly attacked by swinging her arms like the first time.
“Huh.”
Erin snorted her and cut off the less-recovered vampire’s arm with Levantein.
It was impossible for a vampire to beat Erin, who surpassed Scarlet’s physical strength, with the fighting ability of a vampire who couldn’t even land a proper blow on Scarlet.
A short moment when both of her arms were cut off and he hesitated.
The vampire, her pale blue complexion, finally turned her back on Erin.
It was the right choice for her to run away without hesitation, but she should have run away in the first place.
“Where are you running away!”
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Gungsin Tanyeong (弓身彈影)]
Erin’s body sprints at full speed with the elasticity that jumps up as if her entire body is about to explode.
Its speed is abnormal, exceeding the speed of sound.
In just one moment, he caught up with the vampire.
Before long, the Levantine pierced the vampire’s back and pierced his heart.
“Ouch… !”
The vampire, who had desperately fled, coughing up her blood, stopped.
Before long, blue flames flare up from the vampire’s heart and begin to sweep his entire body.
When the Levantine was pulled out, the vampire’s body fell to the floor.
It took an instant for the fox fire that started near the chest and arms to cover the whole body and turn the vampire’s body into ashes.
“Whoa.”
Erin, who quickly dealt with the vampire, immediately looked in her direction.
Eunhyun gathered the Artia knights and vermilion that had fallen in one place and looked at their condition.
The first thing that caught Erin’s eyes was Eira, who had fainted.
She put the Levantine in the scabbard and ran towards Eun-hyeon to check his condition.
“Hyunah. How is everyone? Are you okay?”
“There are some traumas, but nothing serious. There is no harm in life. However…”
Eunhyun looked at one of the Artia Knights.
Traces of holes clearly visible in the half-destroyed armor.
It was a wound that was estimated to have penetrated his chest and even destroyed his heart, but the owner of the body, the knight, passed out with a fairly peaceful expression.
“… You wrote it.”
Eunhyeon immediately guessed that Eira had probably used the elixir he had given him.
If it was a means to restore the damage that even destroyed the heart, it would be impossible unless it was Eleanor’s miracle.
It was given in preparation for such a situation, but it was an unexpected result to confirm the effect that even a destroyed heart could be restored.
“How is Hong? Are you okay?”
“… Are you okay.”
Before long, Erin checked the condition of her scarlet.
She frowned slightly, but it seemed that it was just because of the accumulated fatigue in her body, and that the physical damage to her wasn’t that great.
“Hongah. Get up.”
“Oh, what! Are you okay!? Why are you so misleading!”
Her Eun-hyeon checked the state of her sitting ju-hong and tried to carry her on her back, but Ju-hong was disgusted by Eun-hyeon’s behavior and pushed him away.
“Am I a kid? If you just rest for a while, you will recover quickly, so I can walk on my own!”
This damn brother must still see himself as a child who needs to be looked after.
Ju-hong pursed his lips and distanced himself from Eun-hyeon.
“…”
Eunhyeon looked at Juhong without saying anything.
“What, what? Why do you look like that?”
Eunhyun’s expression was somehow strange.
He looks like a father who has been hurt by his teenage daughter’s disgusted reaction.
He feels strangely pricked by his conscience even though he has not done anything wrong.
“No. Nothing. Let’s move Erin. Help move people.”
“Huh. I will move Eira and this female knight.”
Erin nodded and lifted Aira and Delia, who were fainting.
Ayra was tucked into her side, and Delia was slung over her shoulder, easily supporting the weight of two people wearing her armor.
Eunhyeon also carried the other knights on his back, and Juhongdo, who had recovered some of his physical strength, started moving by supporting a new knight.
“It’s a shame.”
“What?”
Erin, who was walking side by side with vermillion, murmured.
“Hyun said he would carry it. If it had been me, I would have clung to him asking to be picked up right away.”
“… Am I like you?”
Ju-hong replied as if it was absurd.
As Erin usually does to her Eun-hyeon, she imagined herself asking Eun-hyeon to hug her and acting her charms to kiss her.
It’s not like a chilly wind is blowing, but I get goosebumps for some reason.
Besides, I felt strange enough to upset my stomach.
“You do too much.”
“Hi-Hi. It will.”
Even so, since Erin passed out in her mage tower city, she saw Eunhyun’s face again in about a week.
This was also why Erin, who felt severely lonely after not seeing her for days, rushed to Eleanor’s call.
“Ha, damn…”
Ju-hong knew nothing about her brother’s love history, so he swears without even realizing it.
No, since they are a married couple, not a couple, the word dating doesn’t fit.
“Erin.”
“Huh?”
“Reverse summon all the white ghosts and Ashes you were summoning.”
“Maybe there are still vampires left here?”
“Because most of the numbers have been sorted out. I intend to leave it to Emilia.”
Even so, Emilia was impatient to use the combat data she had collected and organized so far.
If Erin had the same level of power as the vampires she had just dealt with, then she should be able to clear things up with just Emilia and her doll girl’s doll troop.
“There is no point in staying here any longer. There are no enemies to deal with, no people to save.”
“… That’s right.”
As soon as Eunhyeon and Erin arrived here, they grasped the situation of the entire Jajac territory through their senses.
It was the intention to figure out the number and location of enemies as well as the number and location of any survivors, but there were no survivors in this territory.
All of them were hunted down by vampires and died.
Erin also nodded her head with a sad expression and reverse summoned the white demons and Ash as Eunhyun said.
“Let’s join Eleanor’s side.”
The eradication of the vampires occupying the territory was successful, and the knights suffered almost no damage, so it could be said that it was a successful battle.
However, the faces of Eunhyeon, Erin, and Juhong were not so bright.
This is because tens of thousands of civilians who were hunted by vampires in this territory have all died.
Perhaps the fainting Knights of Artia had similar thoughts.
Expressing their condolences for their deaths, Eun-hyeon and her party returned to the place where Eleanor, Cha Han-seong, and Tia and Letty were.
‘Anyway, that vampire just now.’
Eunhyun was lost in thought as she hurried to return.
A monster that grew up eating the blood of non-humans.
It was the first time Eunhyun remembered seeing it.
He didn’t even think that he knew all the principles and laws of the world, but he couldn’t help but be very concerned about variables that he hadn’t foreseen.
‘Let’s go back and think.’
Putting the part that bothered him deep in his heart, Eun-hyeon moved.
