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“Black Dragon’s Fang Dagger” increases both attack power and magic attack power.
That was why the dagger was able to pierce Hexley’s skin despite the significant difference in level.
At best, it is just a scratch that is too embarrassing to even call a puncture wound, but here, the phenomenon of being ‘pierced’ itself has meaning.
Basically, any being’s resistance to magic is more vulnerable to explosions coming from ‘inside’ than from ‘outside’.
In simple terms, it means that magic that is activated by inserting even a small amount of dust inside is more effective than magic that is shot from a distance.
《Black Dragon’s Fang》
Attack and defense.
Environment and circumstances.
A complex calculation is performed.
For a split second, Dojin’s actions were evaluated under the laws of LOST.
And the result is.
“Kwaaak!”
The verdict was decided by Hexley’s screams of pain.
It was a success.
Beyond the significant level difference, Dojin’s curse has seeped into Hexley.
Hexley threw down the sword he was holding as the pain inside his abdomen felt like a viper writhing.
“this person……!”
Catch him and kill him. Curse or whatever, if I don’t kill that bastard right now, I feel like my brain will explode with rage.
Hexley raised his head to kill the Dojin he had thrown before thinking about what had happened to him.
“Hello. Take care, Saibi.”
But Dojin didn’t even give his enemy a chance to take revenge.
He gave a refreshing smile to Hexley, who was glaring at him as if he was going to kill him, and then flew backwards.
Naturally, Hexley immediately moved to follow, but to Dojin, it didn’t really matter what Hexley did anymore.
The hard part is planting a three-minute time bomb, after that, only the easy parts remain.
Kwakwakwang.
As he surrendered to gravity and fell, Dojin fired a fireball towards the location where he had installed the magic stone bomb.
Kwakwakwakwang.
As the fireball exploded, the triggered magic stone bomb exploded, and the impact caused other magic stone bombs to explode, causing a chain reaction of explosions that devastated the center of the waterway.
Even though it only broke the steel bridge and ladders, it was enough to temporarily tie down the enemy.
It would only take a moment. Just enough time for him and the Elder to sink down into the black hole that was greedily swallowing up the city’s waters.
“teacher!”
The elder’s tearing voice was heard.
But I didn’t have time to look at it.
Instead, Dojin looked at the wall and used his telekinesis to pull the long rope hanging there.
widely.
Dojin, who caught it, pulled the rope with all his might.
“oh?”
The one connected to the rope was Elder, and she was pulled along by Dojin’s pull, joining the free fall.
Dojin smiled as he watched the elder fall from slightly above him.
‘it’s okay.’
The enemy is planted with a deadly time bomb that will be detonated in three minutes.
By destroying bridges and ladders, we were able to block the enemy’s path to reach the Elder in a short period of time.
The elder used the rope he had prepared to drop him deep underground, where it would be filled with water, the safest place in the current situation.
It is impossible for the priest shouting in anger from above to find the Elder who will disappear into the black hole with the current in a short time.
Elders who are not drowned will recover over time, and the Fate quest will be completed.
‘I’m going to die, but… … .’
Everything else is achievable.
Dojin is the one chosen.
If I have to hold out anyway, there is a high chance that I will give my life to the enemy, so I will rather use it as a means to victory.
The sensation of falling into water with a splash, followed by the sensation of being swept away by a strong flame, came over Dojin.
A large amount of water pours into your nose and mouth without you even being able to control your breathing.
Dojin’s consciousness faded away with the horrible feeling of water filling his lungs.
* * *
Karin didn’t wonder what Dojin was doing as he watched him tie the rope around his waist.
I just thought I’d do something.
Even when I was watching Dojin plant the magic stone bomb, I had no thoughts.
Likewise, there was only the awareness that something was being done.
Because whatever happens around you is okay.
If you’re lucky enough to find something to fill your empty heart, that’s great, but if you end up failing to find it, that’s also great.
But this wasn’t okay.
‘This is not it. This is… not right.’
He had no idea that the rope he had tied around his waist would have such a use.
Karin thought that even if it was dangerous, she would be in danger.
But Dojin betrayed all of her expectations.
‘Was everything you’ve been doing since just now for this? To sacrifice yourself to save me?’
Just as Dojin didn’t ask Karin’s name, Karin didn’t hear Dojin’s name either.
The emotion Karin felt as she watched Dojin being swept away by the rough waters a little ahead and being tossed back and forth was fear.
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I’m afraid that person will die. I’m afraid that I won’t even find that person’s body. I’m afraid that I’ll have to live forever without knowing that person’s name.
‘Move… please move.’
This kind of current was nothing to her, a vampire elder.
If it were normal, I would have been able to reach the person in front of me in the blink of an eye and move them to a safe place in an instant.
But not now. Not now. Of all times, it can’t be now. At this most urgent time.
‘idiot!’
Karin felt resentful of herself.
From the moment I left the duchy, I regretted every choice I made.
I had a feeling that they had come together to create the current situation.
The more this happened, the more Karin’s heart, like a new sprout, poured out helplessly toward Dojin.
It blooms, grows, overflows and pours out.
‘no!’
The point where the water path diverges has appeared.
If things continue like this, the path that Dojin and Hwayul take may change.
Karin desperately tried to move her body.
Her efforts only moved her body, which was supposed to move, just a little.
It was only a little bit of a wriggle, but it brought about a miracle.
Whirlyrick.
The rope fluttering near Dojin had become entangled with his body.
Connected like that, Dojin and Karin continued to flow.
* * *
The place where Karin and Dojin arrived was a small empty lot.
It must have been a space created after being eroded by the current for a very long time.
There, Karin was kissing Dojin.
“Whoop, whoop, whoop.”
I was performing artificial respiration based on the method I read in the book.
The only problem was that the only thing that could move was above the neck.
Even when approaching Dojin, I had to crawl on my chin, and when turning Dojin over, I had to forcefully push him with my head.
The chest compressions also became a strange posture where he would crawl up Dojin’s body with his chin and bang his head.
Even blowing air into it was difficult because the angle was not right.
Still, Karin did what she could by drawing on the knowledge she had gained from the books.
“Coolook, coolook… … .”
“teacher!”
Did the world find his efforts admirable? Dojin coughed weakly and vomited water.
Karin looked at Dojin with delight.
But consciousness still hadn’t returned.
In addition, he was in very bad condition due to injuries sustained from being swept away by the strong current and colliding with various places.
The barely detectable breathing and heartbeat were so faint that it wouldn’t have been strange if they stopped at any moment, and they gradually became fainter.
‘Just hold on a little longer, just a little longer. I’ll definitely save you when I recover.’
Karin prayed like that, burying her head in Dojin’s chest.
Thump, thump, thump, thump.
A human voice that vampires cannot make.
Dojin’s heartbeat is engraved on Karin.
Time passed.
Karin was able to move her fingers.
Thump… thump… thump… thump… .
The interval between Dojin’s heartbeats widened slightly.
Karin’s feet moved a little.
Thump… thump… thump… thump… .
In proportion, Dojin’s heartbeat became weaker.
As she recognized in real time the state of herself gradually recovering and Dojin gradually walking towards death, Karin felt her blood and soul drying up together.
‘If this person dies… I will desire extinction even more than I do now. But… I will not be able to die. It was a life I took so lightly, but the moment this person dies, my life will become infinitely heavier.’
This person’s life will add to the weight of my life.
The emotions I newly realized and learned were all things I wanted to never know again.
And what blossomed at the end was hatred of the same weight.
Hatred towards the priest wearing pure white clothes who made Dojin like this.
‘Maybe he’s the one who deceived me.’
Although their faces and voices were different, Karin could distinguish them by the sounds their bodies made.
It was far more likely that he had disguised his face and voice than that he had two heartbeats.
‘I will never let you go. I will follow you to the ends of the earth to hold you accountable for this.’
Karin vowed that she would check the heartbeat of every living, breathing thing in this world.
I will take revenge on someone whose name I cannot even ask.
with a splash.
At that moment, another sound was added to Dojin’s heartbeat.
“There were some bug-like bastards here… … .”
Hexley was ecstatic with joy.
* * *
The curse was successfully applied, but its damage was critically lacking.
Even 3 minutes of continuous dot damage and 3 times that amount of damage could not kill Hexley.
The reason Dojin dragged Elder and threw himself into the current was because he had that possibility in mind.
It’s a problem to last 3 minutes until the burst damage ends after the dot damage, but it’s an even bigger problem if the enemy doesn’t die even after that.
But there was something that Dojin, who had considered the possibility of his enemy’s survival, did not anticipate: Hexley’s madness and obsession.
Even if he was crazy, I never thought he would chase after someone by jumping into a pitch-black hole with no idea what the bottom would look like.
However, as soon as Hexley recovered from the damage he had suffered from the curse, he jumped into the hole to chase Dojin, and now he has reached where Dojin and Karin are.
“Hehehehe. As expected, you look like someone who went against the will of great providence. You look like an insect that has died from drowning. However, you don’t deserve to die so comfortably. Yes, I’ll cut off your limbs and leave you here. I’ll also gouge out your eyes. And your eardrums. Even when you regain consciousness, you won’t know what kind of situation you’re in. You’ll slowly dry up and die like that. Yes, that’s good.”
It’s a very fitting and miserable death.
Hexley, who was looking at Dojin with his eyes sparkling white, discovered Karin late.
She was glaring at Hexley with blazing eyes.
“Hahaha, it looks like you still can’t control your own body. Just wait a little longer. I’m carrying around an abundance of holy water and gold materials for you. I’ll have to think about how to get out, but I can’t leave the precious materials needed for the great providence in a place like this.”
Hexley said that and walked away.
“Oh, no!”
Karin covered her body with Dojin’s.
A desperate act that you know is pointless.
It would take at most a few dozen minutes, or at most a few minutes, before he would regain his powers as a vampire elder.
Thinking so, Karin closed her eyes tightly.
At that moment.
“ha…….”
A very familiar sigh tickled Karin’s ears.
The sound was so small that it was hard to hear unless you were Karin, and it was filled with the weariness that had come with the long years.
This was the voice of ‘Father’.
Karin, her tension relieved, opened her eyes and turned her head toward the source of the sound.
There was. Behind Hexley, the master of the shadow principality shrouded in black fog.
Looking at him, Karin let out a word she had never used before.
“Dad… … !”
Hexley, who had not noticed the presence of the Archduke, mistook Karin’s words for words of fear and burst into laughter.
“You big blood-sucking mosquitoes, you still look for your mother and father when faced with death! Disgusting, disgusting-”
Pick.
A slash appeared on Hexley’s wrist as he pointed.
Pick pick pick.
Then his arm kept getting cut off little by little.
Hexley let out a pitiful scream in belated pain, but that was only for a moment.
Pippipipipit-
There were countless noises, and in an instant, Hexley was left rolling on the floor with no arms or legs.
He couldn’t even scream.
Because the blood forced back into the lungs took away the right to make sounds.
Yet, there were no deaths due to lack of oxygen.
Even dying before the Archmage Carnes Tyrund required his permission.
Prince Tyrund looked into his daughter’s eyes as he thought.
‘There was a kid who could have eyes like that… … .’
Before becoming a vampire.
The child with the beating heart used to come home from the garden holding a dead bird in his arms and look at it with those eyes.
“Father… please save this person, this person… … .”
Yeah. You said that back then too.
Then I answered like this.
‘You can’t bring back dead life. That’s the law and providence of this world.’
And I still clearly remember how I was at a loss as I watched you cry, not knowing how to comfort you.
“But fortunately… this time I won’t have to worry about appeasing her.”
Yeah, that was fortunate.
The animal my daughter picked up this time wasn’t dead yet.
“Let’s go back.”
Black fog spread from Prince Tyrund’s body.
The fog enveloped Dojin and Karin, as well as Hexley, who had been deprived of both life and death.
And the fog evaporated, taking everything it enveloped with it.
