Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant

Chapter 502

After looking at Blood Prison’s information, Su-ho curled the corner of his mouth up.

'This is getting more and more exciting.'

Of the four bloodlines that New Blood possessed, he’d only obtained half so far.

And yet it was already like this.

No matter how conservatively you thought about it, if you said you weren’t looking forward to the power the next bloodline would give, that would be a lie.

Su-ho shifted his gaze and looked at Roynan.

Roynan, who had been suffering searing pain under the sacred fire, had turned into a pitch-black lump of charcoal.

He wasn’t dead.

Su-ho hadn’t permitted death, and no notification saying he’d died had appeared either.

So Su-ho said coldly.

“Shit dog, quit the act and get up.”

At that moment, red particles gathered over Roynan’s charred body, and Roynan’s body rapidly regenerated, forcibly lifting itself up.

Then, when most of his body had regenerated.

“Huuuh!”

He opened his eyes, sucking in a huge breath like someone waking up right before drowning.

Roynan collapsed onto the floor, panting.

Su-ho clicked his tongue as he looked at him.

“Tsk, tsk. You’re making a fuss over just that. Revan lived his whole life inside pain like that.”

“.......”

“You’re not answering?”

“Y-Yes, yes! S-Sorry!”

“Keep forgetting. Then I’ll roast you until you’re properly trained.”

“I’m sorry! I’ll make sure I remember!”

At Roynan’s overly proper reaction, the three vampires who had once been Roynan’s vassals quietly drew their lips in.

Yeah.

Good reaction.

If you could punish one to warn a hundred and make an example for the others, what effect could be better than that?

Su-ho planned to use Roynan every time he met other mosquitoes from now on.

Why Roynan specifically?

It wasn’t anything special.

Just the sin of being the first High Blood he’d met.

No—more precisely, the sin of not knowing his place and running his mouth at Su-ho, calling him a shit dog and whatever else.

'Honestly, even if it wasn’t that, it doesn’t really matter. Either way, this bastard and that bastard are all the same High Blood.'

Revan, are you watching?

I’m working this hard for you.

Now that discipline was over, it was time to ask the most important thing.

Su-ho asked.

“Shit dog.”

“Yes, Master.”

“Where are the other High Blood?”

“That is.......”

Roynan hesitated for a moment.

Haha, would you look at this bastard?

After getting beaten like that, he still hasn’t come to his senses.

No need for questions and answers.

The moment Su-ho silently raised his hand, Roynan hurriedly waved his hands and said.

“W-W-Wait a moment, Master. It’s not that I don’t want to answer. There are circumstances. Really. I’m not lying.”

“What circumstances? If I can’t accept it, I really will kill you this time, so answer prepared for that.”

“T-That is...... I’m ashamed to say it, but the location of the High Blood is currently tied to your...... M-M-M.......”

“M-What?”

“I’m really not saying it because I want to, but there’s no other word I can use, so I’m expressing it that way. Please understand just that.”

“Ah, so what is it.”

“Th-That...... because Master’s q-qualifications are j-just a little lacking, at my level I can’t dare say it.”

“Ah?”

That damned qualification issue again.

Su-ho’s eyes narrowed.

'Ugh, that fucking security clearance.'

Yeah. If it’s a qualification issue, that changes things.

He was a guy who’d seen the bottom of hell through sunlight heat—there was no way he’d dare lie, thinking it was “safe.”

And he’d been sick of hearing about security clearance based on qualifications since Grid.

He didn’t even think it was a lie.

'Looks like I’ll only be able to learn the High Blood’s location around the time I unlock the next authority.'

If not, there was nowhere else to get a hint.

'Or my Player rank goes up by one stage.'

But he had no idea how to raise Player rank.

He’d never even heard the term Player rank before his regression.

With lingering regret, Su-ho criticized Roynan.

“Useless bastard.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Enough. All of you, disappear.”

“Yes, Master.”

At Su-ho’s command, the vampire vassals were unsummoned and vanished.

Su-ho then took the exit portal that had formed nearby and left Helldown.

The place he arrived after taking the portal was, as expected, inside the Subspace House.

After investing the one bonus stat he’d received for dealing with Roynan into Giant Strength, Su-ho checked the trait information for the Giant’s Bloodline.

[ Giant’s Bloodline ]

Rank: S+

# The pure bloodline of giants, said to be inherited only by the primordial giants.

# Lv.1 - Power of the Giant: Giant Strength (S)

# Lv.2 - Massive Bloodline: Giantification (S)

# Lv.3 - [ ??? ]: Locked.

└ Unlock Conditions

① Reach level 300.

② A choice at ???.

# Lv.4......

'Choice?'

What is this now?

A choice?

This is another baffling problem.

Will Fairy Blood be like this too?

It doesn’t matter.

I’ll find out when I go.

Su-ho shook his head and touched the bold text.

[ Moving to ???. ]

Hwaak!

The moment he touched the text, light flashed, and Su-ho’s body vanished from the Subspace House.

*

Flash!

A dark, silent space.

A flash like a camera strobe flickered, and Su-ho appeared there.

It was dark around him.

He couldn’t see anything.

But that was fine.

His vision would brighten soon, thanks to skill effects.

That’s what he thought as he waited.

But no matter how long he waited, the Vampyr effect didn’t activate.

What is it?

Did the Vampyr effect disappear once he became High Blood?

That can’t be right.

Just as that thought crossed his mind, far off at the horizon, a white light began to show—like dawn swelling up.

It was dazzling.

His brow narrowed on its own.

At that moment, he began to feel his body shooting upward, like when you ride an elevator that’s rising.

“Uh?”

It wasn’t his imagination.

His body really was shooting upward right now.

Because as he rose, the wind created by the ascent was slapping his face.

'What the hell is this?'

At that bizarre phenomenon, Su-ho unconsciously lifted his head.

And the moment he looked at the sky, Su-ho couldn’t help swallowing his breath.

Because in the sky—where he’d thought there would be nothing—two enormous eyes were staring down at him.

'Th-That... what is that?'

Enormous eyes.

Su-ho was overwhelmed by them.

He couldn’t help it.

He’d spent most of his life on the battlefield, but nowhere had he ever seen eyes that massive.

Of course, he didn’t know if those were truly eyes.

There were none of the usual details eyes had—no whites, no pupils, no irises. They were filled entirely with pure white light.

He’d only instinctively thought of them as eyes because the two symmetrical shapes resembled a pair of human eyes.

'But how far up is this going to shoot?'

Because of the eyes in the sky, he’d been distracted and briefly forgot the situation he was in.

He had a bad feeling about this.

But it wasn’t like he was the type to just stand there panicking.

Su-ho hurriedly summoned Cheolma.

“Cheolma!”

“Hihihing!”

Mounting Cheolma, Su-ho immediately flew high into the sky, leaving the rising ground behind.

Just in case, he tried to get as far away from the eyes as possible.

But no matter which direction he went, the eyes in the sky were so enormous that he couldn’t escape their field of view.

So he gave up on avoiding them and decided to at least get away from the rising ground first.

He drove Cheolma and flew quite high.

He didn’t know where this was, but he flew and flew.

But all he could see around him was pitch-black darkness—still nothing at all.

'What is this?'

Where the hell is this place, that its “theme” is this kind of garbage?

This was a bit of a serious problem.

It had been the same with true dragon blood and Vampire Blood, but both of those places gave no hints and forced the Player to progress on-site by themself.

'And the Vampyr effect isn’t even activating....'

Was it possible his skills had been sealed?

To check, Su-ho immediately began equipping himself.

[ You summon Hercules’s Lion-Head Helm. ]

[ You summon Hercules’s Club. ]

[ Blood Armory activates. ]

[ Blessing activates. ]

[ Paladion activates. ]

[ Divine Aura activates. ]

[ Mana Detection activates. ]

[ Endurance activates. ]

[ Enhancement activates. ]

[ Night Watchman’s Eyes activates. ]

[ Sword Aura activates. ]

Equipment effects whipped up in a flurry.

What is this?

All the skills were working perfectly fine?

Then that # Nоvеlight # meant there wasn’t some activation restriction.

If other Vampyr skills were activating, there was no way only the vision-securing effect wouldn’t activate.

It was right as he was thinking that.

“......Huh?”

Even while Su-ho was checking various things, Cheolma continued flying higher and higher at its master’s command.

Then something happened to enter Su-ho’s field of view by chance.

It was the true identity of the rising ground.

“A hand......?”

He didn’t know how high he’d flown.

The eyes in the sky still didn’t feel “close,” but he thought he’d flown quite high at this point.

Higher than a modern airplane would climb just to fly.

Maybe that was why. Only now could he see it.

That what Su-ho had first stepped on wasn’t ground at all—it was the hand of something.

“What the.......”

What Su-ho saw really was a hand.

Because he could see the clear outline of a hand cupped as if it were scooping water from a pool.

So Su-ho’s gaze naturally moved from the hand to the wrist, and from the wrist along the arm.

But once that line passed the wrist and reached somewhere along the arm, he couldn’t see beyond that.

Because it was concealed, as if hidden by fog—covered by darkness or something he couldn’t identify.

Su-ho shifted his gaze elsewhere.

If what he’d been standing on was a hand, he thought there should be a body and limbs visible somewhere else too.

But aside from the hand in front of him and the two eyes in the sky, there was nothing else visible anywhere.

Just like the arm that was concealed by whatever that darkness was.

Still, no matter what, he was sure.

Looking at the hand still shooting up toward the sky, that was definitely a “giant” connected to the trait he possessed.

That was when it happened.

- Are you very surprised?

An unknown voice that made his head hum.

And the voice was female. Like a queen, and old enough to have quite some age on her.

The voice continued.

- Haha. Anyone coming here for the first time can’t help being surprised. Still, you realized this place’s identity fairly quickly.

In that moment.

Shuaaaah!

A tremendous suction force swept over Su-ho.

“Damn it!”

He tried to resist.

But it was an immense gravitational pull he’d never experienced in his life, and Su-ho, along with Cheolma, could only be dragged and sucked toward where it pulled.

Kwaaang!!

Under that powerful pull, Su-ho’s body was thrown down like he’d been slammed into the ground.

Cheolma had already been unsummoned.

The place he’d been thrown to was the giant’s palm—right where he’d first put both feet down.

“Ugh.......”

It hurts.

He’d thought he’d built up resistance to most physical impacts by now, but for it to hurt this much.

- It seems you’re in a lot of pain.

Of course I am.

At Su-ho’s pain, the unknown voice laughed.

It was the moment Su-ho frowned and got to his feet.

Hwiaaaah!

A gale of wind.

Then someone was summoned in front of Su-ho.

The one who was summoned was a woman.

And a stunning beauty at that.

But when Su-ho saw the summoned woman, he couldn’t help lifting his head to look up at her.

Because the woman looked like she was at least four meters tall.

The woman gave a sly smile and waved her hand at Su-ho.

- Hi?

A voice that rang inside his head.

So I can finally use telepathy.

Su-ho asked, still with his brow furrowed.

- Who are you?

- I’ll introduce myself. I am Seolmundae Halmang, one of the primordial giants.