Episode 47
-I like your blood!
“That’s only possible while I’m alive. If I run out of blood and die, there won’t be anyone to call you after me. You’ll be a completely forgotten being.”
-That, that kind of… … !
“Anyway, I guess I know it’s possible.”
If I tried to use my blood to summon the blood spirit, I felt like I would dry up and die first. The elation I felt when he worked inside my body was greater than when I swallowed any elixir, and I was anxious that I would become addicted to his power.
-No, that method is limited. To amplify your abilities like I just did, you have to move the life force in your blood. There are other abilities that can be unleashed using the blood of another person.
The blood spirit tried to reveal itself.
He tried to make a contract with me somehow.
“Are you saying that you are useful?”
-Infinitely!
“I’ll sign the contract if you keep your mouth shut when I want you to.”
-That, that won’t do! Words are life!
“Really? That’s too bad. Everything is good, but there’s one thing I don’t like, so it’ll be hard to sign the contract.”
-Ugh! Okay, I’ll speak quietly.
“You might as well call Iredem and tell him. He seems to like you.”
-……good night.
With that the contract was concluded.
Even if the contract was concluded, the spirit could only be brought to the human world if summoned by a sorcerer.
The turbulent environment cleared up. No, it turbulent again. I felt extremely dizzy, and when I opened my eyes, the world was spinning.
I barely managed to turn my eyes, which seemed to be moving groggily, and looked at the ground.
My blood was spilled there.
“This crazy kid… … !”
The power unleashed by the Blood Spirit in the fantasy was not free.
He used my blood as an energy source. And it was inefficient because it was before the contract. If I had been even a little bit later, I would have been offered up as a blood sacrifice to him.
While still stanching the bleeding finger, he sent aura into the veins around his finger to heal the wound. Thanks to the power of the branded orc, the wound disappeared in an instant as the aura formed.
-What’s my name? Huh? What’s my name?
As I practiced the Aura, the dizziness seemed to go away a little. I focused all my energy on my heart, not my danjeon.
It was an imitation of the wizard’s training method.
As my heart started pounding and moving, blood finally started flowing to my cold hands and feet.
As I was overcoming the crisis, the blood spirit asked my name over and over again without any clue.
-So what’s my name? Huh? What is it? Tell me. Are you having trouble? Then let me help you? I have a few names in mind!
“Because it’s a blood spirit, it’s a blood cell.”
-……what?
“Blood cells.”
-The death of the beginning is Iredem!
Even with healing abilities and aura training, his condition was not completely restored. Indeed, blood was an important factor directly related to life.
I summoned all the spirits and gathered them in one place.
“Let me introduce myself. That skeleton is Iredem, the spirit of death, the black sphere is Dimes, the spirit of darkness, and this is Inferno, the spirit of fire. This is Hyeolgu, the spirit of blood.”
Even Inferno, who usually looked like a toad with his upper body puffed up two or three times his size, was quietly crouching inside.
Although they were spirits without rank, they seemed to instinctively know that they were of a higher rank than themselves.
-Bloodline! Tea, I’ll make it myself! Bloodline! Baronical Perreturssianis! Brunomalius Renodein!
“Shut up, Bloodgu. Go ahead and have a chat with Iredem like we agreed.”
-Kua… … !
The terms of the contract were absolute to the spirit. When I gave the order, he kept his mouth shut.
The drooping blood cells approached the primordial death, Iredem.
The guy was chattering incessantly beside her, and the sound was a buzzing noise.
“I can hear everything. Keep your voice down.”
The blood cells clung to the skeleton and whispered, while Iredem just nodded repeatedly.
“Then let’s go back soon. There are quite a few people who are eagerly waiting for my return.”
-… … .
The dark sphere shimmered. The guy moved closer to the bookshelf and squirmed. When I nodded, Iredem, the spirit of death, spoke.
-The darkness of the beginning. No, Demes has something to say to you.
The dark spirit Dimes passed through the bookshelf and headed to the other side.
There seemed to be something in it.
I tried to lift the bookshelf and pull it inward.
Kwajik!
Whoosh!
The worn-out bookshelf collapsed in an instant, raising a cloud of dust.
‘There are four spirits, but there is not one that can settle this dust.’
Fire and dust were incompatible, darkness and death, and blood had no effect on dust.
‘If you use the Aura training method with a little modification… … .’
He stretched out his hand and released his aura.
A warm blast of air blew from my palm, pushing away the dust. It was difficult to create a strong wind, but it was possible to clear the dust.
The dark spirit Dimes hovered in front of the wall.
“Inferno, light the fire.”
Inferno burned the spirit flames like a bonfire without a sound.
Even that disappeared as soon as it touched the sphere of darkness.
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“There’s something in there?”
Dimes didn’t answer. He just showed it with his actions. The darkness of the guy seeped into the walls.
As if smoke was being sucked through a crack, Demes moved the darkness to reveal a gap between the walls.
“Is this also the Eins way?”
The necromancer who turned into a ghoul was the creator of this dungeon.
He hid all the entrances and exits, from the entrance to the secret passages, in the Ains style.
Click, click, click!
My guess was correct. I found the button and pushed it, pushing the wall away.
Thump!
A familiar aura was felt in the inner space. A splendid red light spread softly.
There was a scent from that color. It was similar to the smell of blood, but it was a sweeter scent.
‘no way……?’
The most vivid and intense memory came to mind: that of Luis de Breyot.
As is usually the case with memories from that time, it was a dark and depressing feeling.
Thump.
I took a step.
Very slowly, doubtfully, but my head insisted that what I expected was inside there.
‘The breath of the dragon!’
Dragon’s Breath.
It was a potion that the Duke of Braio fed to his children, saying that it would give them a chance. If someone with talent in aura and mana drank it, it would be the best potion, but if someone without talent drank it, it would be a poison that would kill them within three years.
In my previous life, it was a deadly poison that shortened my life.
Memories of the past ten years of struggling to escape from that shackle flashed before my eyes.
“Why? Why are you there?”
The dragon’s breath was a red glowing sphere.
Although it was a liquid, there were wizards who classified it as an inert life form.
Dragon’s breath cannot be stored unless special magic is used. It appears and disappears suddenly, and even grows by sucking the life out of freshly dead creatures.
I read some of the necromancer’s memories, but there was nothing about dragon’s breath in them. Maybe he died while studying how to use it.
“I heard that other people never meet you in their entire lives, but you and I have been entangled twice. Last time, I forced you to eat me, but this time, I will eat you up. This time, I will make you completely mine.”
There was no reason to hesitate.
Dragon’s breath used to be poison, but now it was a potion that would maximize my aura.
When I touched the red sphere, there was an immediate reaction. Some of the dragon’s breath had seeped into my skin.
‘Oh!’
Before, I only felt a little pain and didn’t feel anything special. Now, I could clearly feel the large amount of energy that the dragon’s breath was giving me.
Gulp!
He put the sphere in his mouth and swallowed it. He immediately sat down and practiced the aura.
‘This, this is the dragon’s breath… …!’
The leap of faith that money cannot buy anything took effect within me.
Quagwaquagwaqua!
It was like hunting a branded monster right after. If I hadn’t had that experience, I might have panicked and made a mistake.
Kwakwakwakwakwa!
What was different from hunting monsters was that the dragon’s breath constantly exuded magical power.
When I didn’t practice my aura, it stayed inside my body and slowly flowed out, but when I practiced my aura, some of my magical power was lost. It rose up like a mist and tried to disperse.
‘No! I can’t miss a single handful!’
I concentrated as much as I could and tried to absorb all the energy. Even the Breyo Aura method was no match for the Louis Aura method that I created.
It meant that he could absorb more energy than the Duke’s Vision training method.
‘I will make you all mine! This is the end of our ill-fated relationship. You are mine, and you will remain in my life. Now you cannot harm me.’
* * *
We took the Swan and headed to Hebron.
I summoned four spirits, but they couldn’t move me. If I had even the lowest-level wind spirit, it would have been much easier to cross the wasteland.
‘Did the descendants of Sardia live without even knowing that there was a dungeon beyond their hideout?’
The descendants of the Duke of Sardia seemed thrilled to have found a hideout in the wasteland. They failed to discover the ghouls, necromancers, and dragons hiding deeper inside.
No, if they had discovered it, they wouldn’t have been able to survive with their power.
After running for a while, the walls of Hebron came into view in the distance.
On each wall there was a Hebron flag. As I approached the wall, I saw a larger flag flying than Hebron’s.
It was a pure white flag with an image of a roaring golden lion wearing a crown.
‘King Zeno’s messenger has arrived.’
“It’s the Baron! The Baron has returned!”
The soldier who spotted me shouted, and I motioned for him to shut up.
“Dimes, move the skull away from me.”
In an instant, Durahan’s head disappeared. Dimes had taken Durahan’s head into the dark space.
The space of Dimes, filled with darkness, could only contain lifeless things. It was the perfect place to hide the head of a Dullahan, which could be considered evidence of the undead.
After sending all the spirits away, we passed through the gates of Hebron.
Because my clothes were a mess, the maid Mariam came running with a change of clothes.
A group of people came out of the castle. The fact that they weren’t waiting at the castle meant that they were in a hurry.
“Baron Louis de Hebron sees the light of Zeno.”
The one who came to Hebron was Gaius de Zenon, the fourth son of King Zenon. He was twenty-two this year, and was generally considered a simple prince. Because he was far from the throne, Gaius was appointed special inspector in charge of handling the secret affairs of the royal family of Zenon, and he wielded limited power to his heart’s content.
“Where are the wild dogs of the wasteland, the remnants of Sardia?”
He took the evidence from Syang’s backpack and laid it out on the floor.
The flesh that had begun to rot was branded with a curse.
It was not a pattern that could be created arbitrarily.
“There were more, but as I approached, they committed suicide by drinking poison. Since the poison is airborne, I first took the skin off the unpoisoned corpses.”
“… …Behead the Delgaine bloodline and those who work for Delgaine!”
Gaius’s command was given.
That was foolish. It was not enough to keep the people involved alive to extract information.
‘Thanks to that, I can bury the fact that the Serpens upper class was involved with Spiel. I was thinking of exchanging my achievements for the life of the Serpens upper class, so it worked out well.’
