chapter 14
14 – Blood Bag (3)
Quaaang!
But that sympathy was never something that would last long.
Even as I felt the muscles twitching and losing strength and the body being pushed around helplessly, I could not feel sympathy.
The action performed was simple. Pushing and kicking with the leg without even holding on to the armor that is about to come off.
However, the moment I touched that leg, I could feel the strength in my body slipping away.
It was a strange thing. Even though all I do is kick, all the strength goes out of my body. It’s not like the blood flows back, but it feels like my muscles and blood flow are being controlled.
It was the same in the air fortress. Even though it was just a normal attack, it happened every time I got hit.
My defense is easily destroyed and my attacks miss or return with a large gap while inflicting only minimal damage.
Something that is generally difficult to feel, let alone understand.
From then on, I realized that all of these phenomena were the basic magic used by those blood knights.
Because there was no technology like this anywhere in Grim Darker.
It was the same even now. Before his pure white legs were revealed, he was kicked with his heavy armor. As soon as I can barely control my flying body, it skids to a stop on the floor.
Even though I never learned how to fall, this monster-like body flew away without even being able to control itself. It wasn’t common.
What was even more unusual was the Blood Knight’s attitude.
The floor splits, the peeled armor flies backwards, and the Blood Knight approaches.
It was almost half-naked, but there was no time to watch or enjoy it. There was a decapitating sword falling straight at me.
“… Ugh!”
When he barely manages to turn his head and throw his body away, he crashes down onto the floor.
It was creepy. If only I had hit that.
“It’s annoying.”
As soon as I steady myself and land, something flies past my head.
It was a helmet with a not very large slit. As I turned my body to avoid the helmet that narrowly passed in front of me, I saw a pure white figure approaching me.
Boom!
The sound of a helmet crashing into a wall.
And at the same time, long flowing silver hair and red eyes.
A body shape and appearance that clearly makes one look much younger than the day before.
There was no sign of shame about being naked, nor was there any embarrassment about the sudden change in body.
This vampire just wanted to kill me.
Without any hesitation even though his body was clearly exposed due to lack of armor.
I love you!
A decapitating sword passes in front of me. I barely managed to jump back and dodge it. It was inevitable that he would be defenseless against the attacks that followed.
Go!
So I eventually caught up. Even though she held out her arm covered in Her Precious Blood to block it, the sensation of her wrist being bent and her bones breaking was vivid.
The beheading sword was such a weapon. A weapon with a heavy weight and sharpness that can easily cut off a head.
There was no way the weapon used by that blood knight was a magical weapon, so even if it was surrounded by holy blood, it would not be able to completely block it.
Cheow!
So my best bet is to give up the bones and chew the flesh. At the same time as the arm broke, the blood knight was pushed by the broken leg, and I immediately felt my leg being cut off.
A truly toxic b*tch.
Before I could even roll around on the floor, I saw the Blood Knight approaching again.
Wow!
A pure white leg without any flab lifts my chin and kicks me. My head suddenly bent down and blood filled my mouth through my chewed tongue.
You can’t win. I don’t know how much of a difference in level there is, but at least it wasn’t an enemy that could be defeated by cheating with combinations.
Then the best I can do is.
My eyes rolled around and looked around, I put my hand behind my back and placed my hand on my cloak.
Then the shape of the cloak changes. Without hesitation, I threw away the cloak that seemed to be collapsing in my hands.
“Isla!”
Blood Knight Lorian glances behind me for a moment at the words I shouted. The red eyes moved quickly and were fixed on me again before a single moment had passed.
It will spin.
Lorian tightly clenched his right fist in place of his true sword, which had already been swung.
An attack that has already been experienced several times. However, it is a blow that I can see with my own eyes and cannot block.
But things are a little different now. I planted my feet firmly on the floor and kicked my legs.
Wow!
Then, the red eyes on the pure white skin were momentarily colored with embarrassment.
The girl’s body flies backwards. A completely different result from the aerial fortress.
When I was as confused as the girl, I realized the reason.
The limbs became shorter when the Blood Knight became a girl. That was the cause.
Even if the opponent was a monster-like blood knight, he would not be able to adapt to his new body right away.
I instinctively knew where I should aim.
Feeling of disparity due to shrunken limbs.
I lowered my body and the blood knight adjusted his stance and attacked at the same time.
He dodged the decapitating sword swung by the leaping Blood Knight, and his hand was cut off while trying to strike it down, and he minimally blocked the attack with his arms covered in holy blood.
The Blood Knight tried to grab the leg I had raised, but lost it, allowing me to attack with my elaborately swung fist, and frowned.
Anyone could see that I was at a disadvantage. My attack could not be said to be an effective hit, but the Blood Knight’s attack was fatal in every attack.
But.
That wasn’t what I was aiming for.
What I was aiming for was not the Blood Knight, but what was behind him.
Isla is busy running around and picking up things in her cloak.
I made eye contact with Isla for a moment and caught the beheaded sword aimed at my uvula with my wrist.
Wow!
Although the wrist was blown off, the regenerative power did not decrease. It was about time I grabbed his wrist, which was quickly regenerating.
“The end!”
Isla shouted. Words that are so ambiguous that one cannot guess their intention. However, the Blood Knight was so clueless that he could not guess what had happened.
There was no armor. Isla had a cloak in her hand.
Even though he couldn’t understand the exact principle, the Blood Knight guessed it.
Isla and Llewelyn stole her armor.
“You… !”
As soon as I could avoid the attack aimed at my uvula, I heard a sound in my ear.
The sound of humans approaching. The sound of running and pounding.
It wasn’t several people. Just one person. But when I realized that the person I was waiting for had arrived, I stepped back.
No, this is not enough. Strengthen your legs and jump.
The flagstone shatters with a loud sound and my body soars high. The Blood Knight looked puzzled at such a sudden action, but held the beheading sword with both hands.
Even though he did not understand the situation, it was a cold response.
It seemed like they were trying to kill me by attacking me at the moment I fell.
It looks like he’s trying to seize the opportunity to cut him in two or cut his head off.
That won’t happen.
The sound of people running stopped, and someone took a breath from the wide open entrance.
“Star.”
I spit it out like that.
It was before I could even turn my head to the sound I heard. The space became distorted.
Kuhwaaa
And flames poured down as if filling the distorted space.
A sight you would not normally see.
Rather than thinking that it was dangerous due to its absurd power, I first thought that it was beautiful.
So, I was floating in the air, staring blankly at the flower.
It was more intense than what I saw in the game. It looked like a stream of water falling from a high waterfall.
The falling water was just replaced by flames.
Is this a flame created by a star contractor?
It was around this time that I opened my mouth in vain.
“Stars!”
Someone’s shout passed the laws of physics and reached my ears, and the flames became more intense.
Quarrr!
The sound of flames hitting the flagstone and the sound of hot winds blowing all around.
The foul smell of burning raw flesh with sparks flying in all directions.
Mixed in, an indescribable shout-like sound follows.
When I unconsciously raised my head next to the intense and dangerous flames of the sun, I saw.
The ceiling opens to reveal the universe, and flames pour out from that universe.
Tongue-flicking flames flutter across the open space, burning the dungeon’s ceiling.
In the end, the moment my high-flying feet touched the ground again, I ran to Isla, who was covering her eyes.
“Let’s go!”
There was no answer, but there was no time to hesitate. As I picked up Isla, I felt her legs and tail naturally wrapping around my waist.
I ran out through the open exit.
*
“Stars… !”
A man stretched out his hand with his face distorted.
Flames that no being could withstand were pouring out of the stretched area.
A legendary transcendental star, said to have melted castle walls, burned dragons, and crushed volcanoes.
It was a flame called by the contractor of such a being and the leader of this mercenary group.
He remembered the corpses he had seen on the way.
They were once his subordinates.
My subordinates had their heads crushed, cut off, and cut into pieces.
They were grateful people who followed him to the New World. As long as they were loyal to him, he had to protect them.
He was away for not that long. The man-eating baron, whom I interacted with quite often, became quiet and only went on an expedition.
But what does this mean? His subordinates had been thoroughly slaughtered, like pigs in a slaughterhouse.
I couldn’t forgive. Even though they both made a living by earning money, there was a degree.
In a murder that felt malicious, he felt a malice that thoroughly looked down on the value of life.
It was also obvious who the identity was. It was a monster before my eyes.
She had the appearance of a beautiful girl, but was clearly something else. Although he exerted too much strength, he hoped that the being in front of him would be completely charred to death.
“Ugh, ugh…” !”
My face became red from the force I had exerted, my blood vessels swelled and appeared on my muscles, and cold sweat poured down on the floor.
Grumbling!
The flames stopped as suddenly as they had poured down.
Then, a cocoon appeared amidst the high heat and flickering flames.
It was a red cocoon. Something that there is no other way to explain.
Something that did not burn out even with the flames of stars pouring down for a long time.
The leader of the ‘Star Blade’ carefully pulled out the longsword from his belt.
Kwasik!
Rather, the cocoon splitting was much faster.
Something shoots out of the cocoon. No, it was more accurate to say that it was shot and flew away.
In the exact opposite direction of the company, in the direction where an exit that wasn’t originally there was created.
A chin and a small body suited to the light landing sound were revealed under the still glowing light of the flames.
Long silver hair that reaches below the waist and red eyes.
Even an arrogant look that seems to disdain all the life that lives there.
Contrary to its beautiful appearance that did not bother the exposed naked body, the being flippantly held up a blood-soaked beheading sword and clicked its tongue lowly.
And then disappeared.
All you can see is the back facing out across the exit.
The man who was standing blankly quickly gritted his teeth.
“What a f*cking b*tch… !”
The sound of the four people’s footsteps echoed through the exit.