Chapter 42 – 42. Completing the Stinking Gutter Attack

Surprisingly, by hunting a vampire, I was able to gain one of the vampire’s abilities.

‘There are three options… All unranked skills… I think I showed three of the characteristics of the vampire I just killed at random… ‘

[Vampire recovery (-)]

[Effect: By sucking ‘human blood’, it quickly recovers from wounds and fatigue and prevents aging.]

[Handicap: Longer fangs.]

[Penalty: You will gradually turn into a vampire.]

Vampire recovery. This is a pretty good skill if you have enough people who can suck blood or if you can just rob a blood donation house. Anything can be recovered as long as it sucks blood.

However, there is one fatal problem: if you acquire this skill, you will become a vampire.

‘If I become a vampire… Will I completely lose my humanity like that guy just did? Then it’s a bit difficult. I don’t know the pros and cons of becoming a vampire..’

For now, it’s on hold. I also checked the following skills.

[Bleeding control (-)]

[Effect: You can arbitrarily control your own bleeding status.]

[Handicap: Longer fangs.]

[Penalty: Natural wound healing slows down.]

This skill looks really good when you look at its effects, but the penalty is quite problematic. The slowdown in wound healing can be fatal. If I had had the recovery skill in advance, it would have been a skill I liked quite a bit.

[Blood doping(-)]

[Effect: By sucking ‘human blood’, your physical abilities and reflexes increase significantly for 10 minutes and you feel a sense of mental uplift.]

[Handicap: Longer fangs.]

[Penalty: Gradually becoming addicted to the taste of human blood.]

‘I’m addicted to the taste of blood..’

The phrase about becoming addicted to human blood is significant. The same goes for the effect of the skill. I was reluctant because it felt like I was becoming addicted to drugs.

‘The amount of blood required to be satisfied will gradually increase..’

Rather than struggling due to addiction to blood, it would be better to choose between bleeding control and vampire recovery.

‘Prevent bleeding or recover.’

The phrase about becoming a vampire is quite annoying, but I think it would be better to just suck blood and heal quickly rather than becoming immune to bleeding but having less recovery.

If you think it’s a bit strange, just pass it on to someone who can kill you.

“With recovery from blood sucking… “

You have made your selection. Soon, I felt a sharp toothache and my fangs became slightly longer.

‘If you chew this with your tongue, it will tear..’

I gently touched the sharpened fangs with my tongue. She is quite scared that someone might chew her tongue while eating.

After selecting finishing skills, I increased my physical abilities. It improved the senses and durability.

“Ugh…”

Meanwhile, Choi Chi-su, free from dizziness, stood up. The guy looked completely exhausted. He seemed to have broken his heart in many ways as he went through a series of events.

“Haa.. Haa.. Over there.”

“Huh?”

“I… I will die in the end.”

“…”

In order for me to get out, I have to kill Choi Chi-su, whether I like it or not. Because I can’t be trapped here forever. But I can’t die for that guy.

“Hey… If you’re going to kill me anyway… Just quickly. Please finish it quickly. I can’t… I can’t do this anymore. Ugh… Anyway… When I go back… I don’t have any family…”

“You have no family?”

“He’s dead.. I confirmed it.. Ugh.. That monster will come crawling out too.. I think this is the end of it..”

Choi Chi-soo, who witnessed the rampaging vampire, was completely devastated by the fact that there was no hope for him to return alive. Moreover, even if he went out, he had no family to wait for him, so he gave up living.

In the end, he wanted me to kill him right here.

If you’re going to kill them anyway, I just want it to end quickly. It’s quite useful when using bioelectricity, so I wanted to keep it with me until the end, but… It’s a bit difficult for him to not listen to me even though he wants me to kill him that much.

It means that you are cornered and that you have abandoned all will to live. It is right to grant his last wish.

“I’ll send it to you neatly.”

“Yes.. Hmm.. Haha.. Actually.. Even if I hadn’t come in here.. I would have died.. I was trapped. Ha.. Haha… Now.. I can meet my family..”

I put the gun to his head. Because this is the most painless way to kill.

-Peoeoeook!!!!!

Choi Chi-su’s head flew off. Wouldn’t he have died without even feeling any pain?

-Notice! One survivor has died! Two people left!

Now there is only one person left.

After learning how to block vision, I picked up the bracelet and ring from the wrist of the dead uncle Kang Jun-hyuk. I’ll have to use this for the time being.

“But.. Where is Gwangju, Gwangju..”

I didn’t hear that. Is it Gwangju Metropolitan City? Or maybe Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do? In fact, I said these words to reassure him as he was dying, but I really had no intention of going to find his family.

It’s a situation where I can’t go and rescue Saeyeon’s family right now, and I don’t have any intention of going and supporting the family of the man I met for the first time today. You will live well on your own. It’s a time when you have to survive on your own.

“Whoa..”

I wiped my bloody hands and checked the reward I received for hunting the first vampire on Earth.

[Reward List]

[One. Grade A Random Skill Ticket: When used, you will receive a random Grade A skill. You can awaken non-awakened people.]

[2. Garlic Rosario: A rosary with a strong garlic scent that vampires find repulsive. Vampires are reluctant to approach.]

[3. Solar flashlight: This is a flashlight that can produce eco-friendly sunlight by feeding it magic stones. Burns the vampire’s skin.]

You have to choose one of the three.

The first was a reward that could awaken the general public, and the second and third were measures against vampires.

Are you going to get the garlic necklace to keep the vampires away? Or should I get a solar flashlight and burn off the vampires’ skin? I’m worried about this.

Just because Garlic Rosario can’t get close doesn’t mean it can’t even attack from a distance, so I think a solar flashlight would be better than Garlic Rosario. To be honest, I wasn’t very interested in the A-rank skill acquisition because I already had skill theft.

“Oh..”

When I selected the reward, a yellow flashlight popped out. It is quite heavy and sturdy. What was even more interesting was that there was a yellowish gem embedded in the headlight of the flashlight. This appears to be producing sunlight.

As an experiment, I took out a magicite from my bag and held it to the flashlight.

-Paaat!

“Wow…”

Brighter than expected. Even the mold that was clinging to the gutter walls dried up in an instant and crumbled into ash. A light source of this magnitude seems to be quite effective against vampires.

“Oh, it’s turned off..”

With the lowest level magicite, it seems to glow for about 2 to 3 minutes.

First of all, I got everything I could here. It’s time to go catch the last participant.

******

‘Fuck… ‘

Park Hee-jun sat down in a corner of the gutter and wiped her face. All the other survivors are already dead, and only he and the unknown killer are left in the gutter.

‘They killed them all within 5 hours of coming in…? You are a complete human butcher..’

He was sure. One person would have killed them all. He even vaguely heard gunshots, which made him consider the possibility that the human wandering around was an armed soldier.

‘If you meet me, you’ll die.. Haha..’

Park Hee-jun was confident in close combat. He also studied Muay Thai, and because he has a ‘point-point strike’, if he can get close, he can render his opponent incapable of fighting.

However, if the opponent was holding a gun, there was no answer. He won’t even be able to get close and he’ll be shot dead.

‘You have to run away as much as possible to make them lose their temper..’

Other than that, there was no other way to deal with the opponent.

Since he was a murderer who had already killed five survival level 5 humans, there was a high possibility that he would go so far as to kill people. And he must have had a skill that directly affected the battle, so there was no answer other than a surprise attack.

‘Let’s focus on the sound. Then, you will definitely hear the sound of his footsteps..’

At that time, the muzzle of a gun touched his head.

Kang In-ho, who had already discovered Park Hee-jun’s traces through trace observation, was following him while lowering his presence using a recognition-impairing ring.

“Fuck you!!”

-Taang!!!

Kang In-ho blew off his opponent’s head before he could do anything.

[Ability robbery is activated.]

[New abilities are added. Would you like to receive it?]

Kang In-ho confirmed the dead man’s abilities.

[Point-and-point strike (A)]

[Effect: Strikes the point of a moving target and paralyzes it for a moment.]

[Handicap: Cannot be used when holding a weapon.]

“Oh.”

Kang In-ho was a bit surprised because it was a better skill than he expected. He felt a chill go down his spine as he thought about how he could have gotten into a close fight and been counterattacked for no reason.

‘Of course.. Surprise attack is the best..’

As Kang In-ho, the last survivor, was sorting out the items left behind by the dead Park Hee-jun, a final notification was heard from the gutter.

-Notice! One survivor has died! One person left!

-You have succeeded in conquering the labyrinth!

-An escape hatch is created.

The exit of the labyrinth, which he had seen in previous labyrinths, was created before Kang In-ho’s eyes. If you open this door, you will now be able to go outside.

“Ha. 5 hours… “

It didn’t take as long to conquer as I thought. Perhaps, if there had been no trace observation, the prey could not have been discovered so quickly.

Kang In-ho took a quick look at the gutter and then went out.

In this labyrinth, he was able to see with his own eyes what kind of vampires they were. Through this, he came to the idea that he had to become stronger. The moment you stop even just a little, you will become food for monsters.

‘I need to become stronger… To do that… I need to gather more team members… And supply more skills…’

Kang In-ho became a little more dull.

I was gradually learning with my body that I had to kill to live.