I Entered an Academy in a Ruined Game

Chapter 296 : The Natural Enemy of Demons (2)

Su-hyeon watched the Special Operations members' activities as they struck from outside in multiple directions to disrupt and break apart the Ma-in's encirclement lines, without revealing himself.

"Impressive."

It was pure admiration.

Flash! Crackle-zap!

Kim A-yun's firepower was outstanding as she unleashed lightning bolts, railgun shots, and electric animals without restraint, scorching the entire area.

Boom! Whoosh!

Hwang Ji-su's ability to turn the entire area into an ice zone and Hong In-hyeon's battlefield control that tore enemies apart with wind were also overwhelming.

Crash!

Of course, Seo Jun-seong's firepower, utilizing rocks, metal spheres, and gravitational fields to tear through the battlefield, was also beyond comparison.

"Damn it! It's those young Execution Force Captains!"

"How many of them came?!"

Confusion spread among the [Sword of Belphegor] members who were well aware of their power.

"Is this a trap?"

"We've been completely played! Retreat!"

"Nonsense! Do you think you'll survive if you retreat?"

A murderous glint appeared in the eyes of the Ma-in who knew well that there was no place to escape to.

"Oh really?"

Hong In-hyeon clicked his tongue mockingly as he wrapped blade-like winds around his fists.

"You want to fight?"

Hong In-hyeon bared his teeth, saying he would be grateful if they obliged.

"Hwang Ji-su! Let's attack together... Wait! Where did she go?"

Hong In-hyeon grabbed the back of his neck when he saw that Hwang Ji-su, who had other business, had disappeared.

"Ah shit, this makes things annoying!"

Flap flap!

Hong In-hyeon's clothes fluttered wildly in the wind he created, as if they would tear.

"I guess capturing the Queen wasn't meant to be my job!"

Meanwhile.

Song Yeonhui, realizing she had fallen into a trap, smiled as she guessed whose mind had devised this entire situation.

"This is the kind of strategy that child likes."

The man who had repeatedly thwarted Hwang Won-jae's schemes.

'Looking back, it would have been better if our plans were foiled by you.'

But what could she do now?

The water was already spilled, and no amount of regret would change anything.

"...You're here."

Song Yeonhui turned around at the spiritual presence she felt from afar.

"I'm lucky today."

"Likewise."

Lee Yu-jin and Hwang Ji-su.

The two Captains were the first to find Song Yeonhui.

"Hahaha. Lucky? You? Or me?"

Song Yeonhui laughed mockingly.

"How insolent, little ones who would have died as ugly pieces of meat that day if not for my mercy and indifference."

"Let's not bring up the past in such a pathetic way."

Hwang Ji-su responded indifferently.

Crack!

Song Yeonhui's left eye instantly froze.

"You sound like an old person."

"!"

"Back then, you could have killed us. So what? You couldn't kill us anyway, right? That's the result."

Slash!

Simultaneously, the flying strike thrown by Lee Yu-jin left a deep wound on Song Yeonhui's left arm.

"...!"

Song Yeonhui gave a hollow laugh at the attacks of the two Captains who so easily damaged her.

"Hahaha."

Crunch!

Song Yeonhui ripped out her eye directly and laughed, blinking with her newly grown eye.

"Even cockroaches aren't as resilient as you all."

"Ah, that goes both ways."

Hwang Ji-su retorted without giving an inch.

Crack!

Song Yeonhui's hand became stained with blood as she crushed her own eyeball.

And her blood transformed directly into a blood-red rapier.

Simultaneously.

The blood spilled by the Ma-in crawled along the ground like a giant snake or flew through the air like bats, gathering around Song Yeonhui.

"Well done. Are you advertising my presence here?"

"Arrogant bitch."

Song Yeonhui twisted her lips.

Crack!

One of the blood clots she summoned instantly froze.

Crackle!

Other blood clots transformed into sharp awls and shattered Hwang Ji-su's ice from the outside.

However.

'I should thank you instead!'

Hwang Ji-su's intense cold spread through the finely shattered blood and ice.

Crack!

And turned the entire area where Song Yeonhui stood into a perfect iceberg.

"Cut off her head!"

"Sure!"

Focusing strength in her lower abdomen, the mana circulating throughout Lee Yu-jin's body transferred powerful kinetic energy from her feet to her fingertips.

Swoosh!

The slash Lee Yu-jin swung cleanly split the massive iceberg in two.

Boom!

Song Yeonhui's frozen body was split in two along with the iceberg.

"What... did we finish her?"

Kwon Seung-yeon, who arrived after pummeling the Ma-in blocking her way, muttered.

"Why do you have to say something ominous?"

Hwang Ji-su snapped irritably.

"What did I do!"

"If Seung-yeon hadn't said that, we wouldn't have known."

Lee Yu-jin also sighed.

"Wow, even Yu-jin?"

"Look at that."

Wriggle wriggle.

Song Yeonhui's severed body was automatically reconnecting.

"So, vampires die when you stab their hearts?"

"Wasn't it the neck?"

"From what I know, you need to do something with a silver stake."

Hwang Ji-su, Lee Yu-jin, and Kwon Seung-yeon each said.

"Hey, hey, that's not a thing. All the weak vampires died without needing that stuff."

"In-hyeon!"

Hong In-hyeon, who flew in from a distance, pointed at Song Yeonhui and said.

"And that's the strongest vampire we know of."

"Little ones. That attack just now actually hurt."

As Song Yeonhui dripped with killing intent and created a blood giant, Hwang Ji-su and Lee Yu-jin lowered their stances again.

"Stay tense, and fight properly."

"Okay."

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Despite Lee Yu-jin, Hwang Ji-su, Hong In-hyeon, and Kwon Seung-yeon joining forces.

The power of Song Yeonhui, who possessed high S+ rank strength, was tremendous.

Even 4-to-1, the four people failed to completely subdue Song Yeonhui, and it was only after Seo Jun-seong and Min Hae-na arrived and joined the battle that they were able to completely neutralize her.

"You were still strong."

Hwang Ji-su, who had completely frozen Song Yeonhui, said while rubbing her abrasions.

"But our enemy isn't you anymore."

"......"

Song Yeonhui, trapped in ice, said nothing.

More precisely, she couldn't say anything.

'What's this? Su-hyeon, I can't even win against these children now.'

Just a year.

In that short time, she who once claimed to be the strongest had fallen at an incredibly rapid pace.

Not because she had grown weaker, but simply because she had remained in the same place.

"Everyone did well."

Su-hyeon walked through the Ma-in who had been subdued or had fled.

Special Operations Captain Jeong Su-hyeon.

Seeing his transcendent form now draped in dignity like a radiance, Song Yeonhui felt her heart sink with dizziness.

"The remnants of the [Sword of Belphegor] are effectively annihilated with this."

He nodded as he looked at the scene that had been neatly wrapped up without his direct involvement.

"The battle against the Vampire Queen was especially excellent."

Fighting without any of them suffering major injuries, slowly wearing down the cornered enemy before completely neutralizing them in one go.

It clearly showed how much they had honed their tactics through numerous real battles over the past year.

"All that's left is to find Crosell's location."

"What will you do with the Vampire Queen?"

"Execution."

Su-hyeon stated tersely.

"I'll do it myself."

As she watched this.

'My children.'

Song Yeonhui transmitted her voice to her subordinates who were still alive.

'Offer your lives to me.'

Crunch! Crush!

The vampires' hearts crushed themselves, offering their master their life force.

'Power is flowing into me.'

Ecstasy filled Song Yeonhui's eyes.

'And overwhelming power at that!'

"Yaaaaaaah!"

Boom!

Song Yeonhui, exploding her power all at once, instantly broke free from the ice and telekinetic restraints that had imprisoned and oppressed her.

"She's!"

"She still had that much power left!"

"Aaaaaaah!"

Song Yeonhui screamed and burst out all her power at once as she charged at Su-hyeon.

"Block her!"

"It's her final struggle!"

The Captains tried to block Song Yeonhui's path to Su-hyeon and subdue her.

"Just let her be."

Instead, Su-hyeon stopped them and took a step toward Song Yeonhui.

"I'll kill you!"

Slash!

The vampire's nails, as sharp as a lion's claws, flew toward Su-hyeon to butcher him.

Whoosh!

They slashed through empty air.

"Kugh!"

Su-hyeon stepped aside and thrust his fist into her ribs.

That was enough.

"Aaaagh!"

Song Yeonhui coughed up blood and fell to her knees, entering a groggy state.

"Ugh, huurk."

With that single attack.

Song Yeonhui realized the immense difference in power between herself and Su-hyeon.

The gaze of a transcendent being who saw through the trajectory and outcome of an attack the moment it began.

Evasion and counterattack that made everything seem natural without exerting effort.

Speed, power, flexibility, timing, accuracy.

From any perspective, Su-hyeon was no longer her match.

And between them existed a dizzying difference in caliber that could not be explained by any single factor.

'Hahaha.'

The profound emptiness made her laugh.

How had she built up her power?

How had she maintained her life?

'It was escape. I always survived by running away, and I grew stronger by running away.'

Vampires are beings who must rely on the night to survive.

Avoiding the sunlight that would melt her body, avoiding silver, avoiding the hands of hunters, avoiding stronger members of her own kind.

She had just kept running and running.

Squeezing out wisdom, enduring cowardice, making humiliation her friend.

Hiding knives within gentle smiles.

Truly, countless friends, countless lovers, and countless subordinates had died trying to protect her.

Even more enemies and powerful beings had failed to capture her.

And lost their lives to the blade of revenge long afterward.

In this way, the era of demonic beasts passed, and the era of Ma-in also passed.

And when the era of humans returned.

She had somehow become the greatest power ruling the underworld and a mighty Ma-in feared by all.

'I just wanted to live.'

Preferably young, beautiful, and eternally.

The price of incurring the sun's hatred was youth and beauty.

'The sun turned out to be nothing special.'

Before her mighty power, even sunlight could not harm her.

But she still lived in the darkness of night.

She no longer feared death.

Then other obsessions emerged.

Power and youth.

The pleasure of knowing that no one would dare disrespect her intoxicated her.

So when the Execution Force's major cleanup operation began.

She had to return to a life where her life was threatened daily, as the price of intoxication.

Ju Taeyang, Son Ji-gwang, Gong I-an.

Strong humans joined their wisdom to try to kill her.

And she could not stand against them.

The flight began again, and she met comrades as if by fate.

[Sword of Belphegor].

A gathering of Ma-in drawn by the dream-like voice of "someone" that had been calling to them for some time.

'Hwang Won-jae. You were quite a wise and splendid man.'

The first man she had thought she could walk the same path with as an equal.

Looking back, she thought the time when she fought with them, harboring a grand cause, was probably the most fulfilling and enjoyable period.

'The path walked alone is lonely and solitary.'

She realized that the time spent with comrades was the most brilliant period of her life, only after all her comrades had died.

What remained was the sense of betrayal at being used, and the wretchedness of having to bow her head and live like in the old days.

She still maintained her young and beautiful appearance.

But now that fact no longer pleased her as before.

Death no longer frightened her as before, so she thought if she was going to die anyway, it would be better to die at the hands of the man before her.

But why?

Even though she had resolved herself to death for this battle, her body wouldn't stop trembling.

"So vampires cry too."

Clear tears flowed down the pale vampire's cheeks.

"But those aren't tears of repentance."

They were tears of loss and resentment.

'Tears are not always proof of purity.'

Su-hyeon thought as he gripped the invisible sword in his hand.

"Aren't you going to ask me anything?"

"Would you tell me if I asked?"

"Perhaps."

"It doesn't matter. Any answers I could get from you, I can get from others too."

"Hahaha."

Song Yeonhui laughed through her tears.

"Is that the weight of my death? How empty."

"There is no emptiness greater than death."

The exchange ended with that.

Stab!

Su-hyeon's invisible sword pierced and destroyed Song Yeonhui's heart.

Cough.

Song Yeonhui's smile faded as boiling blood welled up at the corners of her mouth.

A world of eternal emptiness was waiting for her.