Chapter 338 – Wilhelmina (2)

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Thus – the warrior Alseios defeated the source of evil, a vampire and necromancer, and brought peace to the village and the world.

The legend of the legendary vampire hunter, the hero Alseios, handed down in this town and the kingdom’s capital, ends with this last sentence.

He was a warrior and hunter who exterminated vampires all over the continent while traveling with the holy sword of exorcism and his companions.

The method of dealing with vampires he left behind remains in modern times and serves as a guide for many who want to hunt vampires.

Along with Tromeia, he is also called one of the 12 warriors who made great contributions in the history of the kingdom, and a huge statue honoring him is erected in the palace.

During his lifetime his, a warrior who defined vampires as demon lords who brought a threat to the continent and swung his sword only to protect mankind.

——That is, the story of the legend related to him that has been revealed to the last.

What is hidden behind such legends is not always full of glory and honor.

In the case of Alseios, if the truth is known, his descendants his as well as the monster hunters who are said to have inherited his spirit his will be no different from denying their existence his.

The hero, Alseios, was neither clean nor courageous, as modern people think.

He said yes, but he was not unclean, nor was he a coward.

He is an ordinary human being who can be found anywhere.

It’s just that he became a hero because he was able to wield the holy sword, and the reason he started hunting vampires was because he had a friend who knew a lot about vampires.

Alseios had two companions.

One is ‘Wilhelmina’.

A necromancer who has been friends with Alseios since childhood and was born into a family of psychics and honed his ability to handle the power of the soul.

Another one is ‘half’.

A young vampire with the imprint of a hunter whom Wilhelmina and Alseios met while on a journey to find the holy sword.

Fate united the paths of the three people, and they naturally became companions and traveled the continent.

At the end of the journey, Wilhelmina asked Alseios who she had finally found the holy sword.

“How, for whom, and where will you use the power of that holy sword?”

Called.

Alseios replied.

“Nothing is fixed. Just as fate led me to the holy sword, I intend to leave it to fate once again.”

Although it was an answer uncharacteristic of a hero, Wilhelmina thought it was an answer worthy of a hero.

Another colleague, half talked.

“Then, let’s use that power to hunt down my own people to protect humans.”

Half were kinslayers, savage vampires who turned against humans as food and slaves.

Alseios thought it was fate that Ban came to be with him and decided to follow his suggestion his.

Half, being a vampire, she knew all too well about her vampire weaknesses.

The vampire’s weaknesses, characteristics, habits, hiding places, etc…

Originally, the number of true vampires, each of whom could easily wipe out a city, was quickly reduced.

The surest way to defeat vampires was to seal them by sucking their blood along with their true names.

After several years, Alseios began to make his name on the continent as a warrior who hunted vampires with a holy sword in his hand.

Behind her was the shadow of her colleague her, Ban, who hated to show her outwardly, giving all her credit to her to Alseios.

It was the same for Wilhelmina, so Alseios found a new way to get rid of vampires that she learned through her research her.

Alseios, who gained fame and power, was gradually becoming greedy.

The other two, faced with a bigger problem than that, had no time to focus on Alseios ‘change her.

Ban’s body his, which has been burdened with so much vampire power, has reached its limit.

I found many ways to neutralize them, but I still needed to drain half of their blood to prevent their regeneration and seal their will.

If he overdoes it, he will end up becoming a monster without reason, not even a vampire.

Thinking so, Wilhelmina proposed to Van that she could stop them without having to rely on him anymore.

That is, to vamp himself and turn him into a vampire.

As Van has done so so far, now Wilhelmina needs to take the vampire’s power instead of him.

However, it was a completely different story to create a ‘fellowship’ through blood vampirism and to create a ‘kinsman’.

Although the subordinates were stronger beings as subordinates, the same kind of people were really vampires themselves, and the meaning of being a family with the vampires who shared their power was great.

Van, who loved Wilhelmina with her opposite sex, did not want her to become a monster like himself.

Wilhelmina, too, loved Van, and she did not want him to die alone as a monster.

Eventually, Van and Wilhelmina became kin.

Alexios didn’t like it at first, but he couldn’t help but nod to Wilhelmina’s story that it would be difficult to hunt vampires any longer unless someone became a vampire.

However, it must have been from then. What changed the way Alexios looked at the two of them.

Instead of looking at a trustworthy colleague like before, I looked at the two people with the same eyes I used to look at the monsters I hunted together.

Thinking that it was unavoidable to feel uncomfortable with their sudden change, Wilhelmina and Van helped Alexios.

It was only decades later that it all shattered.

A body that has passed the time of its prime and is aging.

The power of the holy sword gradually weakens as the pure heart is lost.

Despite gaining fame, wealth, and the love of many people, Alexios was terrified as if he were tired of the shadow of ‘time’ following him.

‘Half’ had what was necessary to escape that fear.

As for the hero Alexios, he tried to become a vampire he had been hunting until now.

The one who knew best about their strength, their constancy, was the one who had fought against them until now.

Hero Alessios asked Van.

He wants to make himself into an ‘immortal body’ like Van and Wilhelmina.

However, half refused.

Thanks to the group’s efforts, there were only a handful of vampires left on the continent, and most of them did not touch humans.

There was no need for Alessios to become a monster like them.

Besides, half noticed it to some extent.

That Alexios’ heart had been corrupted and he had become blind to power.

The fact that there is no longer a boy who, with a pure heart, entrusted himself to fate, enjoyed traveling, and found it rewarding to help people.

But if I’ve overlooked something-

Alessios said that for a long time, he did not consider them companions.

When the holy sword was swung, a dazzling flash passed through Ban’s neck his.

And, when her head fell to the ground, Van yelled at Wilhelmina to run away. Until the next moment, his head is shattered.

Wilhelmina fled, from Alessios, who was her valiant her and her ally her.

And, using the results of her research her and Ban’s corpse her, Alexios became a vampire.

Alexios disappeared with the holy sword.

There’s no way a fallen hero could wield a holy sword.

However, she knew as much as Wilhelmina.

What he hid was that after getting used to his new body his, he would visit him and steal his power his.

So, until Alexios reappeared, Wilhelmina had to prepare for a fight with him.

Even from her point of view her, she had prepared various tools to stop Alessios there, holding the site on top of the spirit vein where the ancient temple was located.

One of them was a huge spherical sealing coffin.

On top of that, insurance needed to be put in place.

She immediately performed the ritual of her previous life, separating her own body and soul, and dividing the soul her into her three jewels of her.

She was a vampire, a necromancer, and a lich at the same time.

Like every night, a magical light was created in the ruins where she was staying, so it seemed that bad rumors had already spread around her, but she couldn’t stop her research and preparation even in order to stop Alessios. .

And- not too long after that, Alexios reappeared.

Standing beside him was a figure wearing a robe and a mask in the shape of an animal.

He introduced himself as a member of the ‘Church of Exile’ and said that he would watch the fight between Alexios and Wilhelmina.

“You got involved in an unrelated human being… You really fell to the point where you fell.”

When Wilhelmina said that, Alexios twisted the corner of her mouth her.

He was already drunk with power.

Wilhelmina and Alexios, who thought that nothing would work, started fighting.

For three days and three nights, the vampires wielded swords and magic aiming at each other’s necks while fighting as if they were dancing under the moonlight by Wilhelmina, who had cast a spell to keep the sun from rising.

Wilhelmina, a necromancer, occasionally raised undead beasts to disturb Alexios and drove him away with menacing offensive magic.

Alexios, who could no longer use the holy sword, used a sword without any features, but counterattacked Wilhelmina with his enhanced physical abilities and long-honed swordsmanship.

However, after she became a vampire, Wilhelmina still prevailed when it came to the use of her body.

Furthermore, thanks to her lichification of her and splitting of her soul of her, even if she was fatally wounded, the damage to her body of her was meaningless.

In the end, little by little, Wilhelmina’s dominance continued, and the hero, Alexios, began to be pushed aside.

Wilhelmina’s enchantment of her was more full of hatred for the enemy who had taken her beloved than of her pity for her childhood friend her.

When the chain of vengeance finally catches Alexios.

His body his seemed to be dragged into the coffin of the seal.

At that time, Alexios shouted.

“Your offer, take it now!”

The next moment, if you feel the magic of another dimension wrapped around Wilhelmina’s body her.

At some point, her chains her, dragging herself inside her orb her, were wrapped around her own limbs her.

No, it wasn’t just the target of the magic that changed, it was the two people’s positions.

“What-!?”

Wilhelmina couldn’t react properly to the sudden situation.

But, as she stretches out her hand towards herself and Alessios, the mask of the beast that is manifesting her magic in the glittering ring of her ring her-she introduces herself as her Cult of Exile-she looks at him.

The last thing Wilhelmina saw was Alessios’ face of her, mocking herself as she raised the corners of her mouth of her.

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When Wilhelmina’s story was over, everyone’s eyes turned to the warden in the owl mask next to them.

This is because the existence of the ‘Church of Exile’, which appeared in her story of her, was also wearing the same impression as her of her.

As Lila tried to tell her something of her own her, only one person, who was not easily taken aback by her story her, opened her mouth her.

“If what I just said is true… Is it because Alessios and the Holy Sword disappeared… Because he became a vampire and disappeared…?”

Reese murmured in disbelief, holding his head with trembling hands.

The village legend that continued to be told that the reason the village protected the ruins was because a dangerous being was sealed inside them was a lie.

It was a shocking fact that Reese, who believed in it all his life his and protected the village and ruins, could not easily accept it.

“Because I was sealed in the sphere of sealing, I couldn’t take the vampire power I had absorbed… I might be alive with the intention of aiming again someday. My head was full of this, so I didn’t think of committing suicide…”

Wilhelmina looked down at her own hand her, then she shook her head and looked at her party her.

“But before that, there is something I must ask the guy from the Exile Church over there.”

“…”

As Wilhelmina pointed her finger at her, her warden her watched silently.

“The reason you’re here is because you also inherited something from a guy from hundreds of years ago. Why did you help him back then?”

At Wilhelmina’s question, the warden remained silent for a moment. Then she quietly opened her mouth to answer her question.

“Because Alexios was easier to deal with.”

“…”

Her answer her made the group’s mouths shut.

“To us, anyone who disturbs the balance of the world is an enemy without any difference, and is a target to be banned. However, Wilhelmina, it was easier to deal with and control the fallen Alexios than you, who fell into power. I will tell you.”

Haha…”

When Wilhelmina heard the warden girl’s answer, she let out a dry laugh as if it were absurd.

“…Then, what happened to Alexios after that?”

The warden girl spoke without hesitation.

“Amidst the possibilities that have been opened to you by being sealed. I have left him alone as I have observed that his presence smooths out our plans.”

“What…!”

Solina’s eyes widened and she looked at the warden in disbelief.

“I told you that the things that disturb the balance of the world are enemies without distinction! But how can you let such an evil person go!?”

“Even an evil person, if used as a tool, still deserves to exist.”

“…!”

At the girl’s answer, Solina lowered her head while holding her hand tightly as if she was fed up.

The next moment, two fireballs were thrown at the girl’s body.

When he caused a large explosion, two explosions that appeared to be two or three times the size of the girl’s body encircled her body.

When everyone turned around in the sudden attack magic, they saw Lyla, her face frowning, pointing her wand at her warden girl.

“The one I can think of as the enemy here must be that guy.”

“But if you suddenly attack…!”

Beatrix, who said that, was also waiting with attack magic floating around.

However, Lila replied, stretching her wrinkles between her eyebrows.

“Don’t worry, I wouldn’t have died by this much… “

When the dust that had risen had settled to a certain extent, a translucent membrane-like substance could be seen appearing around the silent warden.

“I thought it was a magic shield… But it doesn’t seem like it. As expected, you guys… Are you dealing with the power heading into the rift in another dimension?”

“Then?”

“It is the prerogative of fools and fearless men to wield dangerous power.”

As Lyla said so, as she prepared for her next spell, Reese and Solina, who seemed confused, somehow poised and confronted the Warden of the Exiled Church.

But at that moment, a huge magical pressure was suddenly felt from the back of the party.

Just like when Wilhelmina appeared, the same sense of intimidation as the group looked back together.

There, a woman slowly approached, her hair glistening in the beautiful moonlight.

“…Illenu…!?”

When Lyla and Beatrix look back at her with a look of dismay on her face.

Illenu’s eyes her, which had been covered by her bangs her, soon lifted her head, and I saw them shining crimson.

And- Wilhelmina turned her head to the sudden appearance of a new person.

I call her name her with a shocked expression.

“Alessios…!?”

At Wilhelmina’s call, Layla put on a dazed expression for a moment, then—

Soon, she feels everything connect together in her head her, and her body her twitches with vertigo.

A vampire who is Illenu’s enemy and father.

And, the vampire who betrayed Wilhelmina and sealed her here was the same person.

That everything, at this moment, was to return to this place and steal Wilhelmina’s power from her.

The next moment, Illenu’s body disappeared leaving behind an afterimage…

Wilhelmina appeared beside her and swung her sword at her.

It was a silver rapier that I usually use.

Wilhelmina hurriedly rolls her body her to dodge her attack her, but immediately afterward she recognizes her sword her, which struck her.

“That sword can’t be-“

A night of amazement, doubt, and anger was about to begin.