< Doctor (2) >
[Woohoo! Masquerade? What a cool name! It suits you guys so well!]
Doctor, a middle-aged man, applauds and responds with genuine joy.
However, Heinz II, who had finally managed to set foot on this spot after clearing the dungeon, did not answer those words and slowly looked around.
Frowning slightly at the information he had just discovered with his newly blossoming spiritual senses.
‘You’re showing off your skills.’
At first glance, it seemed like they had finally reached their destination after overcoming all obstacles, but in fact, this place was by no means an ordinary place.
It is just an illusion that reflects the actual space as if it were a mirror.
Of course, the same goes for the doctor who was talking in front of him right now.
‘Is this the last struggle?’
But now, this level of resistance was no longer funny.
As a deep bloodshot aura appeared in Heinz’s eyes, the space surrounding him began to tear apart.
Kwajijijik—
He just kept doing what he had to do without caring at all about what others were saying in front of him.
An ultra-small local dimension formed by artificially overlapping and twisting the phases of the backspace.
That was his rough estimate of the methods the Doctor used.
‘If Hans or Horus were here in person, they would have figured it out faster and more clearly.’
The various spells applied in this space were so complexly intertwined and so high in level that indirect analysis through other avatars was bound to have certain limitations.
Wasn’t the element of sense originally an absolute standard in accepting and interpreting any information?
‘I’m still not fully used to the newly developed senses.’
Besides, that level alone was enough to destroy whatever was blocking his path right now.
No matter what anyone says, he was the only level 10 vampire in the world with divine blood.
[This, this, this is really difficult! Hahaha! This is what they mean by a one-sided argument!]
“···It’s noisy.”
And the doctor, who was directly involved in this matter, was also very aware of this fact.
The last barrier that kept him from coming face to face with that monstrous being was about to collapse.
[Hahahahahaha—!]
But even though his end was clearly approaching, he just burst into a strange, maddening laughter as if nothing had happened.
Heinz’s brow furrowed slightly at that attitude, which was difficult to understand even for a madman.
‘Are you giving up? If not, why would you react like that… Hmm?’
That moment.
His thoughts stopped as he felt something.
Woohoo—
The surrounding energy began to shake violently due to the sudden, intense flow of causality.
And his senses, which were highly sensitive, instantly derived some result from it.
The corners of his mouth kept twitching without him knowing.
That would be the case, this is···.
“···Huh, self-destruction?”
[Oh? You’re really quick-witted!]
An abnormal phenomenon that occurred and swallowed up all the mysteries centered around this mansion.
It quickly inflated in size and began to disconnect the surrounding area from reality.
‘It’s a technique that is developed at the cost of one’s own life. It doesn’t seem to be a function that existed originally… Did you build this in such a short amount of time?’
Heinz, who stuck his tongue out inwardly, looked at the doctor again.
A ritual that separates the back space combined with the dungeon and returns everything inside to nothingness.
As a result, the very site of the mansion they were currently on would have been destroyed from the world, leaving behind nothing but a giant crater.
‘Of course, if it succeeds.’
A snicker escaped his lips.
‘···There’s no way it can succeed.’
It’s not like I’m hiding somewhere and doing things, but it’s happening right in front of me, so how can I just sit still?
No matter how abnormally fast the consciousness led by that guy was, there was bound to be a certain limit.
Jiiing—
Heinz’s thoughts accelerated rapidly.
As time passed endlessly, depth gradually increased.
The flow of causality that was rippling around me seemed more palpable than ever.
‘Then now.’
He slowly reached out his hand, feeling all of those things.
I held onto a part of it with a single thread of thought in it.
Woohoo—
and.
···That was the end of it.
The interior of the mansion became quiet again, as if it had never been so noisy.
The only thing that had changed was the fact that the doctor was bleeding profusely from the seven holes and was quickly crumbling to dust from the extremities, as if he was the only one who had taken on all the aftermath.
“Coolook! Wow~ I didn’t know it could be stopped so easily···? Kkeukhik, I didn’t think something like this would be possible···. As expected, you’re much more capable than I thought!”
But even in the midst of all this, his square mouth did not close.
After laughing out loud for a while, he nodded his head, looking around at his limbs scattered in the air as if he had encountered an interesting research subject.
“It’s a shame that we can’t study it right away! This seems like it would be a very interesting topic.”
Then he licked his lips and let out a slight complaint.
The way he thought about research even when his own death was imminent was truly the epitome of a mad scientist.
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But that image of the doctor didn’t last long.
The recoil of destruction that had consumed his body in an instant passed his limbs and reached straight up to his torso and head.
“···Then I’ll see you again next time! I hope I can see you and all your friends then! Pheasant!”
Parsac—
The body of the doctor who left behind such words that could not be called a will or a curse was soon completely reduced to dust and scattered.
I felt a little uneasy about the somewhat absurd ending, but it wasn’t like I could do anything about it right away.
‘···It would have been best if I could have caught him alive, but there’s nothing I can do since he came out with the intention of dying from the start.’
No matter what, doesn’t that side have the upper hand in terms of magic?
Still, it wasn’t all that bad, since we were able to prevent the collapse of space and retrieve additional information from the Doctor’s lab.
‘This whole place is a great teaching resource. If we just sweep everything away and look through it, we might be able to find something more. There are quite a few things that look useful… Oh? That’ll help Howard with his research.’
Heinz crossed the empty space and finally entered the doctor’s personal study, looking around the messy room with admiration.
There are research journals bound in files and even instruments of unknown use scattered all over the place, so at first glance it looks like a garbage dump.
But the items here were all precious and would have enormous value if taken outside.
No matter what anyone says, it was either an object touched by the hands of the Doctor, the world’s greatest supernatural engineer, or a journal containing his thought processes.
“Hmm? This is···.”
But then, as he was casually scanning the research plans, a very familiar phrase stuck in his mind.
‘···Fully evolved organism project?’
It was a subject of experimentation that had already been put to good use once, a long time ago, in the making of a Harley.
After roughly looking over the content, it definitely felt like it was more advanced than what I had seen before, perhaps because some time had passed.
“It’s far.”
But Heinz criticized him mercilessly and threw the papers down on the desk.
Of course, unlike them who are still struggling in the design stage, haven’t they already created the ultimate work of art that has surpassed perfection?
Even if additional updates were made in theoretical terms, it was bound to be laughable for him.
‘But there’s still a lot to do. I have to choose someone to lead the remnants of Dracul in Romania, and I have to gradually give them the 「Refined Blood」 so that the people below don’t have other ideas…’
For him, who was quickly thinking about what to do next, the idea of a masquerade ball that he had thoughtlessly blurted out was no longer there.
That was the day when the European branch manager of the Buncheonhoe, ‘Gongjak’, and the general technical manager, ‘Doctor’, died.
Their control over Europe has fallen to an unprecedented low.
What happened during that process had a direct impact on other countries.
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No matter how chaotic the world may be, the strength of modern society remains the rapid transmission of information.
A high-speed network that can transmit information in real time, even if it happens on the other side of the globe.
And that had a huge impact on quickly conveying recent events in Europe to far-off East Asia, especially to Korea.
Despite the fact that the incident occurred over an incredibly long distance, the facts were successfully made known with almost no loss of information.
In fact, it was possible because the news had enough buzz to attract the public’s attention.
Well, that can’t be helped.
Isn’t it true that a single vampire from the remote region of Korea is single-handedly taking down the traditional powerhouses of Europe, the vampire clans, one after another, and absorbing their power?
Of course, people had a hard time believing that at first.
But no matter how much you dig into the evidence, the truth becomes clearer.
To begin with, Phantom was already a famous person with quite a few photos taken of him, so it was very easy to compare and analyze.
Heterosis’s office located in downtown Seoul.
Jin So-ran quietly looked at the report in the office of the new building she had moved into after the Alpha attack incident the other day.
“···When the Lord said he would be going to Europe for a short while, I did have some hope···.”
Jin So-ran, the acting head of Heterosis, a woman wearing a neat suit and with long hair tied into a ponytail, spoke indifferently while looking at the photo of Heinz included in the attached materials.
Well, anyone could have done that.
How long has it been since you went abroad and you’ve already brought several national emergency black organizations under your command?
And suddenly, I found myself on the same boat as people who live on land much larger than Korea.
To be honest, there was no area where the Korean blood alliance could gain an advantage, either in terms of size or power.
Europe is not a land where vampire power is strong for nothing.
‘Well, if it’s definitely Lord’s ability, then if we can somehow persuade the leader, the rest will be relatively easy.’
Still, it is clear that the scale is on a different level.
She sighed as she looked at the keywords that were currently causing a stir in the Korean community.
Actually, up to this point it was fine.
Since this could be considered a nationalistic element in its own right, the domestic community and the mass media generally had a friendly atmosphere.
The problem is on the other side.
Most of the media were foreign media, mainly from Japan and China.
“The Buncheonhoe must have had a hand in it···.”
Recently, Phantom has been showing open hostility towards the Bancheonhoe, so pressure is starting to come in from areas other than military force.
Above all, China was still their home turf, and Japan has not yet been properly liquidated.
‘They will never miss this opportunity to take a strong stance against the Korean government, even if it is not necessarily at the instigation of the Pancheonhoe.’
The problem was that the method was more effective than expected.
In any case, if we look at it objectively, it is an undeniable fact that Phantom and the vampires under him are criminals who do not follow the laws of the country.
If we don’t somehow change this image, it will be a hindrance for a long time to come.
“What should I do?”
Jin So-ran, holding her head, groaned with her forehead pressed against the desk.
In order to fight against the deep-rooted fanaticism in society, the best way is to gather as much strength as possible and respond jointly.
In that case, rather than taking a hard-line approach, we should take a route that is more approachable to the public.
Could a vampire who needs human blood appear friendly to humans in the first place?
“Ha, intimacy… Should I put up an advertisement? Our kids don’t ask. Like, the same thing. They’re not celebrities, so there’s no way something like that would be of any use…”
She paused for a moment as she continued speaking.
And then he carefully stroked his chin and fell into thought.
Is it really impossible?
Considering Phantom’s current popularity, it doesn’t seem that impossible.
Above all, vampires were generally handsome.
This could be said to be a personnel decision optimized for the entertainment industry.
‘There is a positive exchange of opinions between the government and the Korean Repatriates Association. If we do well here…’
Her eyes sparkled like stars as she smiled, revealing her sharp fangs.
Jin So-ran, the acting head of Heterosis and the person in charge of external affairs for the Blood Alliance.
It was a well-known fact that she was a former aspiring idol and current internet broadcaster.
