Chapter 40 – Chapter 4 – Vampires

Vampire.

True to their nickname, ‘nobles of the night’, most of them have very strong pride and have a strong selfish tendency to think only of themselves and not to trust others unless they are related by blood, including family members.

All the heroes who were active in the war against the immortals evaluated vampires like this.

If they were just a little smarter and could stick together, it might not have been the living who would win the war.

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“Karel!! Karel!! Answer me!!”

‘Mardin’, a vampire nestled underground in the Anhui region, shouted into the black crystal ball.

It was a communication technology from another world that did not exist in the midfield.

“Answer me quickly!! It means that one o’clock is urgent!!”

When there was no sign of light entering the crystal ball, Mardin shouted again.

Perhaps his noise pollution had worked. After a while, the crystal ball came into light and another man’s voice came from the crystal ball.

“..It’s noisy. Unlike you, I’m not leisurely enough to hold on to the crystal ball all the time, Mardin.”

“What, what?! I’m free?!”

“Then are you busy? I don’t think you’re too busy making pawns underground while we roam around the world gathering information and securing the corpses of knights.”

“Profit!! I took on this role by Lord Warstein-sama’s order, not because I lacked my skills!”

“Yes. I’d say yes.”

A sigh came from beyond the crystal ball.

“So, why did you contact them? Quickly tell them and cut off the communication. No matter how savage they are, they don’t have eyes and ears.”

“Yes, that’s right. What have you done! Isn’t ‘Shining Mountain’ your area!!”

After Barstein moved over to the midfield through the ritual of blood ties, Barstein analyzed the way he crossed over and periodically called in vampires who had been with him in the past.

And he assigned tasks to each according to his abilities and gave orders.

People with low abilities like Mardin are less difficult and less important. I was entrusted with the task of creating an army to be consumed later.

Those who can melt among humans with the ability to disguise, transform, and seduce were in charge of securing the corpses of masters throughout the central plains and sending them to higher research facilities.

And Karel’s place is none other than the volcano.

Of course, he was not the only vampire who infiltrated the volcano, but his ability was known from the fact that he infiltrated the Gupa faction.

“Yeah. Why is that? You’re going to beg for a corpse like before?”

“No, that’s not it!! The sword master from your district came this way!”

“…Wait a minute.”

Karel’s reaction, which had been cold and indifferent, changed a little abruptly.

“… I see. She was originally a woman who was in the deepest part of the mountain, so she didn’t care, but there are traces of her leaving.”

“Isn’t it your role to find out about it in advance and let it know!!”

“Damn it. No matter how much I say, it’s impossible to take over all of this place. Do you know what it feels like to be active in the same guild as sword masters? If you get caught, it’s the end!”

“I mean there’s a Sword Master above the lab right now!”

Fights like this were commonplace for vampires.

No matter how much they were bound under the Lord’s command, they never bowed their heads, thinking that no one other than the Lord could place them above them, as each individual’s pride pierced the sky.

“..Whoa. Calm down for now. The important thing now is to figure out why that woman went that way.”

“Sir, are you going to catch me?”

“I don’t think I would have gone all that far to catch you.. It’s a world without warp gates.”

The sound of paper came through the crystal ball.

“Daddy, find it quickly!”

“Don’t rush and stay. We won’t be able to find you soon anyway.”

While Mardin waited, stomping her feet, Karel was getting information not only from her papers, but also from the humans who had brainwashed her.

They were not easily brainwashed as they were trained in martial arts, but it was unavoidable because Karel had meticulously approached them.

After quite a while, Karel opened her mouth to her crystal ball.

“It looks like he went there looking for someone.”

“Person..?”

“The woman had a disciple, and she says that ten years ago, that disciple had an accident and broke a new disciple’s short circuit. It looks like you’re trying to.”

“Danjeon… The Mana Heart of this world…”

Even though they were vampires from another world, they knew how serious it was.

“So that disciple is in this area?”

“At least that’s the case with the candidate I just discovered. In the end, even the swordsman who visits the place doesn’t know if this disciple is real or fake. I’m just going because I found a possibility.”

“No matter how much magic there is in the world, it takes more than 10 years to find just one person. You should know that they are barbarians.”

The vampire himself, who had never contributed to the development of magic, was laughing ominously.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s real or fake. Just make it real through brainwashing.”

“..What trick are you trying to do?”

“Now, give me all the information about that incident. This body will show you. This body’s skills that once ridiculed even the sword master.”

“…Ha.”

Karel sighed.

Mardin. Certainly a lower class for a vampire.

He’s a guy with no ability to create, maintain, or hide among humans, but he was active during the war.

He was a guy who had a history of bringing the sword master’s head alone.

He wasn’t exactly strong enough to finish it himself, but he did incapacitate it, so 99% of the time his ball hit.

“Why don’t you just stay still and don’t do useless tricks? If you don’t step out and do nothing as if you’re dead and stay underground, I think you’ll go back on your own.”

“This is an opportunity that will never happen again. Whoops, even if you’re a sword master, you’re still a weak human being. If you mix brainwashing and drugs while dealing with trauma and guilt, turning them into puppets isn’t even a job.”

“..Sometimes, once in a while, I like to have success.”

“It’s noisy. Hurry up and give me information. Information is the life of things like this.”

Karel passed on the information with a sigh.

Even if he failed and was ruined, it wasn’t his business anyway.

After all, the most important thing for vampires was their master’s orders and their own desires.

“Okay.. His last name is Dan and his first name is Yuseong.”

“I’ve passed on everything I’ve learned from this. Good luck.”

“Huh, sooner or later, I’ll show you the people I made as sword masters. You’ll be surprised when I go then.”

-Beep

At the end of those words, the crystal ball lost its light.

Karel looked at the crystal ball that had lost its light with cold eyes.

‘I’ll have to destroy this crystal ball soon.’

I don’t think it will be successful.

If it succeeds, it is good because it can reduce one hero before the full-scale war begins, and even if it fails, it is Mardin who will return to blood, not himself.

Well, if you’re lucky, you can activate the warp gate in his lab and escape, but he didn’t think that he would be able to activate the magic circle while avoiding the Sword Master’s sword.

“Ugh…”

“Okay. You can go back now.”

He issued a congratulatory order to the man who was losing light in his eyes.

When he wakes up tomorrow morning, he won’t remember what happened all night.

As he was sending his man back, his mouth opened.

“…Ah. Come to think of it, there was a rumor.”

“…Hmm?”

Not saying it in advance meant it wasn’t as deeply etched in his mind.

A level of information that would have flowed out of your head almost as soon as you heard it.

“Ten years ago… I heard a story from the people in charge of the records… That the swordsmith tried to rape Danyuseong…”

Just as expected

“… Ha. That’s nonsense.”

It wasn’t worth listening to.

No matter how much human nature is hidden, isn’t that too far out of scope?

“A grown woman raping a pre-teen boy? What nonsense is that?”

-Shaking my head

It was conceptually impossible.

Even succubuses can only be eaten after at least the second sexual stage.

Karel’s common sense could not understand what part of that youthful appearance could be sexually attractive.

“It’s a rumor made up by those who laugh at the fall of the shining one.”

I came to that conclusion and sent the brainwashed man back.

She was thinking of securing some corpses today, and if she wasn’t on the mountain, it was a good time to try.

-Sreuk

Using the vampire’s ability to hide and kill as much as possible, I headed to the place where the corpse I had seen in advance was stored.

‘It’s fortunate that this world still has a culture of storing corpses.’

After the war in the previous world, the human camp burned all the corpses, leaving only dust.

Because it can’t be used as a zombie or a skeleton.

Of course, no matter how you say it, it’s really precious right now. The liver was not large enough to target the corpses of ‘high people’.

Currently, the limit is to steal the bodies of sinners who are less interested in little by little.

‘It would be nice if I could get the sword master’s corpse…’

While searching for the energy I felt, I found something nice.

Although he wasn’t the expected sword master, the resentment he felt was significant.

‘Is the level of advanced sword expert?’

Even if it’s not a sword master, it’s good enough.

And that great grudge.

If you can control it properly, you might be able to make some pretty fun stuff.

“Your name…Is a mess.”

He’s still dead, but his name plate has been hacked to the point of being unrecognizable.

It seemed that he had committed a very great sin.

If you try to use the language skills you have learned so far and read it somehow..

“Han… Damn it. I can’t read it.”

I only know the last name.

I couldn’t quite figure out the name.

‘..Anyway, that guy from Mardin. You probably know that the name of this world is preceded by a family name.’

Even though he was a guy who only studied underground, he wouldn’t be ignorant of that.

…Maybe.