novelraw Chapter 499
Chapter 499
At the same time, he began equipping himself.
[ You summon Hercules’s Lion-Head Helm. ]
[ Blessing activates. ]
[ Paladion activates. ]
[ Divine Aura activates. ]
[ Mana Detection activates. ]
[ Endurance activates. ]
[ Enhancement activates. ]
[ Night Watchman’s Eyes activates. ]
[ Sword Aura activates. ]
Since this was the first High Blood he’d ever dealt with, he decided to go all out from the start.
So he pulled out the lion-head helm he hadn’t been using, and even the two cardinal-class skills he’d learned this time.
- A lowly one is putting on a funny little act!
[ Roynan, the Sole Administrator of Helldown and High Blood uses Blood Scream. ]
Blood Scream.
The technique the cursed prince used back then in the Blood Cocoon gate.
Maybe because they were both from High Blood, Roynan used Blood Scream too.
Of course, the quality was different.
Unlike the cursed prince, this guy was a high-tier monster who had built up his power quite diligently.
Kwaaang!!
Blood-red claws blasted toward Su-ho.
But what do you know—Su-ho hadn’t even raised his sword to block, yet Roynan’s Blood Scream couldn’t even reach him. It was stopped right in front of his face, spitting out a violent roar.
It was thanks to Divine Aura, which was spewing intense holy power around Su-ho.
Watching the Blood Scream blazing right in front of him, Su-ho marveled.
“Wow. Looks like it even applies a shield effect against demonic-attribute monsters.”
Then thank you very much.
Su-ho used the opening Divine Aura bought him to focus his mind.
In an instant, the world flipped into black-and-white, and a golden ring began to appear on Roynan in front of him.
“Let’s do a durability test.”
Su-ho’s sword swung.
[ Soul Slash activates. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ Soul Slash’s power becomes even stronger. ]
Slash!
The blade swung cleanly.
Nothing blocked Su-ho’s blood sword.
Since he hadn’t actually cut flesh, the Shock Wave option of the Hercules Club didn’t activate either.
But the damage would be more certain than any other attack.
That’s what he expected, and what he was sure of.
Yet Roynan’s expression was smug.
- As sloppy as you look, you attack as sloppily. This is why lowly mongrels.......
At that moment.
Pajijijijijit!
White light started to burst from Roynan’s body.
Right along the trail of the slash mark where Su-ho’s blood sword had passed.
- What is this......!
Roynan’s eyes widened.
At the same time, the corners of Su-ho’s mouth lifted too.
“Oh, it went in properly. But I guess it doesn’t hurt that much?”
- You bastard! What did you do to me!
[ Roynan, the Sole Administrator of Helldown and High Blood uses Blood Nightmare. ]
Hwiaaaah!!
A massive storm of blood whipped violently around Roynan.
The tremendous pressure shoved Su-ho far back, but Su-ho calmly landed after a flip through the air.
- Why is this......! Why is this......!
After pushing Su-ho away with Blood Nightmare, Roynan hurriedly began treating the wound on his own body.
But it wouldn’t recover easily.
It couldn’t.
What Su-ho had cut wasn’t mere flesh, but the countless laws and rune-rings that made up Roynan’s existence—his soul.
'Against bastards like that, Soul Slash is perfect.'
Soul Slash was the only special attack among Su-ho’s offensive skills, and at the same time, his strongest attack.
Because Soul Slash struck the essence of existence, regardless of shell or core.
That was why he used it on Roynan.
Vampire bastards...... especially high-tier vampires like that one, basically had regeneration close to immortality.
So he used Soul Slash, which was hard to regenerate from.
Of course, Soul Slash wasn’t all-purpose.
Soul Slash was mainly used to destroy skills, barriers, and seals inside a gate. It could still strike a living target, but in that case, if the soul struck by Soul Slash wasn’t completely severed from the main body, then over time it would reattach to the main body.
'And the higher the soul’s grade, the harder it is to cut.'
Roynan was exactly like that.
Su-ho had cut Roynan’s soul with Soul Slash, but instead of completely severing it, all he could do was carve a slash mark into it.
That was fine.
Now, if he concentrated on that spot and cut the soul off, the body would rot away and vanish exactly as that severed soul part.
'But unless he’s an idiot, he won’t allow the same attack twice.'
So while Roynan was panicking over Soul Slash, he had to finish quickly with other skills.
Su-ho used skills on him in succession.
[ Weakening activates. ]
[ Seal of Pain activates. ]
[ Enrage activates. ]
[ Blessing of Rage activates. ]
[ Curse of Rage activates. ]
He put on every debuff he could. And then.
[ Rage Mode activates. ]
[ Foxfire activates. ]
Thanks to Blood Nightmare, even the gauge he’d been short on filled up perfectly, so Su-ho prepared his final finishing attack.
Su-ho summoned the Guiyeong Spear in succession and threw it at Roynan.
[ Spear Throw activates. ]
Swaaa!
The Guiyeong Spear flew at him at terrifying speed.
Sensing the killing intent, Roynan belatedly stretched out his hand and activated Blood Scream.
The activated Blood Scream transformed into sixteen branches of blood claws, trying to grab the Guiyeong Spear.
At the critical moment.
The spearhead of the Guiyeong Spear that had been shooting forward bent, becoming a single beast.
It was Guiyeong.
The keen divine beast Guiyeong pierced the sliver of an opening, successfully evaded Blood Scream, then charged straight in and succeeded in biting down on Roynan’s nape.
[ Shadow Pierce activates. ]
[ Shadow Shackles activates. ]
[ Shadow Bleeding activates. ]
System notifications rose one after another.
It worked perfectly.
- You damn shit-eating mangy dog bastard!!
PUH-EONG!!
An explosion.
Guiyeong blew up.
Enraged, Roynan used his own blood to blow Guiyeong up from the inside.
Because of that, the retired Guiyeong was immediately unsummoned back.
“Good work, Guiyeong!”
In that moment, Su-ho appeared from behind the scattering shadows.
He hadn’t intended to accomplish anything with Guiyeong, anyway.
He just needed a brief opening.
In that sense, Guiyeong had carried out its mission perfectly, and Su-ho didn’t miss the gap Guiyeong made. He closed the distance at once and swung the prepared strike.
[ Enhancement activates. ]
[ Diamond Cut activates. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ Diamond Cut’s power becomes even stronger. ]
A gleaming blood sword.
It blasted into Roynan without hesitation.
Slash!!
Right after the swing, the corners of Su-ho’s mouth lifted.
It went in properly.
Roynan had no defensive posture.
Because it was right after he’d blown up Guiyeong.
And that attack just now—he could say without exaggeration that it output the highest damage of any attacks Su-ho had swung so far.
Because unlike other boss monsters, Roynan was too busy dealing with the struck soul and Guiyeong to remove the other debuffs like Weakening.
Maybe that was why.
- Kuaaaaaaah!!
A miserable scream that didn’t suit royalty burst from Roynan’s mouth.
Su-ho raised his sword again.
When the opponent is suffering, that’s the perfect timing to drive in additional hits.
Su-ho started swinging his sword like he’d gone insane.
[ Enhancement activates. ]
[ Diamond Cut activates. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ Diamond Cut’s power becomes even stronger. ]
[ Enhancement activates. ]
[ Diamond Cut activates. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ Diamond Cut’s power becomes even stronger. ]
[ Enhancement activates. ]
[ Diamond Cut activates. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ Diamond Cut’s power becomes even stronger. ]
.......
A continuous barrage of strikes.
The effect was outstanding.
Paladion persisted, and Su-ho’s sword drew holy trajectories like crazy.
That was when it happened.
PUH-EONG!!
Roynan’s body exploded.
Unable to endure Su-ho’s successive barrage, it burst apart.
Shattered to pieces.
No, it was closer to an explosion than that.
Just like when Roynan blew his subordinates’ heads apart, his body had blood splattered in all directions, centered on the spot where he’d been standing.
Su-ho’s eyes narrowed.
He didn’t let go of the tension.
Roynan’s ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) body had definitely exploded, but the most important kill notification didn’t appear.
In that moment, Roynan’s voice rang out, echoing through the entire cavern.
- Hahahaha! Did you really think you won! You surprised me by learning some strange trick somewhere, but you will never kill me. My name is Roynan! A being who inherits the blood of the first vampires, the Royal Vampyr, as well as royal vampires—and High Blood!
Bubblebubblebubble-
Along with Roynan’s voice echoing from all directions, the remnants of blood that had exploded and scattered began to bubble and boil.
As if filled with will, they slowly began to gather, little by little, toward the place Roynan had exploded.
Seeing that, Su-ho said.
“Like I thought, high-tier vampires don’t die from something like this. Then how about this?”
After finishing his words, Su-ho raised his hand.
[ Bloody Hand activates. ]
Shuaaa!!
What Su-ho chose was Bloody Hand.
The moment Bloody Hand activated, Roynan’s bubbling blood began getting sucked into Su-ho’s grip.
- W-What are you doing!
“Do you think I’ve only dealt with mosquito brats like you once or twice? It’s a little surprising that mosquito brats are already crawling out when we’re not even in the late phase of the Great Cataclysm, but that doesn’t mean your strategy changes.”
That was literally it.
High-tier vampires don’t die easily.
Especially from noble-class vampires and up, even if you use silver weapons, garlic, holy water, or crosses, attacks don’t land easily.
They achieve endless, infinite regeneration like a slime, even if their heads explode or their bodies are torn apart, like they’re immortal beings.
To kill such a vampire, there’s only one way—burn all of the blood to death with solar-attribute flames.
And for Su-ho, there existed a portable sun he could pull out anytime, called Eclipse.
But Su-ho chose Bloody Hand instead of Eclipse.
Because he was curious.
Whether he could suck in all the blood that was everything of these noble-and-above vampires—Royal Vampyr and royalty-class, and among them, High Blood—with his own Bloody Hand.
'I couldn’t check it with Periotin earlier.'
Roynan screamed.
- You damned bastard!!
Realizing the seriousness of the situation too late, Roynan stopped posturing and hurriedly accelerated his bodily restoration and regeneration.
But Su-ho had already raised Bloody Hand’s output to the highest. Just like when he faced Periotin earlier.
As a result.
- Nooooooack!!
Roynan’s blood got sucked into Su-ho’s grip like crazy.
In the process, the face he’d barely restored didn’t last even a few seconds before it was crushed and stuffed into Su-ho’s grip, disappearing without a trace.
Shuruk!
Su-ho withdrew his hand.
Drip- drip-
A few drops of Roynan’s blood that hadn’t been fully absorbed dripped down from Su-ho’s grip.
And Su-ho could see it.
[ You have slain Roynan, the Sole Administrator of Helldown and High Blood. ]
Roynan’s complete death.
[ You have leveled up. ]
[ All stats have increased by 1. ]
[ You have obtained 1 bonus stat. ]
Leveling up was a bonus.
“Then now.......”
Su-ho’s gaze turned toward the cursed prince’s essence trapped inside the ice wall.