Chapter 625

“What confidence.”

Opening the gates wide for an uninvited guest.

At this point, would they not normally be on guard?

It was a part that made him feel all over again just how enormous their confidence was.

So he did not refuse, and strode proudly through the front gate.

It was the moment he stepped into Middle Town.

[ You have entered ???’s domain. ]

[ Everyone is watching you. ]

An alarm he had never seen before.

What was this?

Now of all times?

However, the moment he stepped inside, he could tell that something had definitely changed.

From outside, he had not known, but once he passed through the gate, all of Middle Town was made of pure white marble.

- Wow.

Jack admired it on his behalf.

It was understandable.

Not only the floor, but this place without even a single tree, from the temple at its center to the sculptures all over, everything was pure white marble.

The only thing with color was the gigantic Red Maria rising like a backdrop behind the temple at the center.

Beneath it, it looked as though an unfinished painting of a temple, not yet fully colored in, had been erected.

Su-ho slowly walked toward the temple.

This place was called the Blood God Temple.

For a place named the Blood God Temple, why was it white?

When he climbed the temple steps and reached the entrance, the enormous marble doors opened left and right like automatic doors.

But the interior was madness too.

Because the softly glowing inside was also full of things just as white as the outside.

‘Is this a psych ward or what?’

The moment he entered the temple, the doors closed.

That was when it happened.

“Everything is according to the prophecy.”

A voice came from far away.

Someone walked out from behind the altar.

A frame that looked about the size of a boy’s.

The face was also that of a boy.

At that moment, Su-ho’s heart began pounding violently.

More precisely, it felt as though the blood flowing through his entire body was boiling.

Thanks to that, he instinctively knew.

That person was Alucard, the High Priest who stood at the very top of Noctarion’s hierarchy and the root cause of all this.

That must be why Levan’s blood flowing through my body is reacting this violently.

Su-ho said,

“You’re Alucard.”

“Haha, what an insolent one you are. Among those who have inherited the blood of Nosferatu, you must be the only one who dares call my name so carelessly.”

“What does it matter? It’s not like I inherited the blood formally.”

Su-ho took one more step closer.

Then, all of a sudden, a red line was drawn before Su-ho’s footstep.

It was not a simple line.

Wavering with a strangely murky color, it seemed full of the will to harm him if he crossed it.

“You’re already wary?”

“Haha, wary? No. I am simply not granting permission. You have not only inherited cursed blood, but you are a lowly seed as well. How dare you try to enter this place?”

“Seeing how long your tongue is, you must be pretty scared. I mean, even the master of the White Blood Palace lost to me, so of course you would be.”

“Haha, do you truly think the master of the White Blood Palace lost to you?”

At that moment.

A red circular magic circle was drawn between Alucard and Su-ho, and someone appeared amid red sparks.

It was Edersen.

He wore the same attire as when Su-ho had seen him just before, but this time, he was holding a long spear instead of a sword.

It was Edersen’s true weapon, Red Moon Mirror.

It was laughable.

His true weapon had been something else all along, yet earlier he had held a sword while saying something about matching appearances.

Alucard said,

“The Knight of God never dies unless I permit it. He carries the eternal duty of protecting the great First Blood.”

“Eternal duty, my ass. It’s just a slave contract. I already heard that you can control that bastard’s life however you like. That’s why I’m really curious. I wonder what will happen if you or he get absorbed by me.”

“Hehe, to subjugate immortal beings like us, indeed, the most primitive method like that would be the only thing that works. But do you know this? If you dare try to take the blood of a being of higher standing than yourself in reverse, you may be the one who gets devoured instead.”

“That’s something we’ll only know after trying. But...”

Su-ho looked around.

“I heard there were about fifty priests, so why can’t I see even a single nose of them?”

“Ah, those things?”

That was when it happened.

Squelch—

For a moment, I doubted my own eyes.

Everywhere inside the pure white marble interior.

Within it, shapes like human figures appeared as though stretching out like things unable to pass through plastic film, and astonishingly, they were the priests of the Blood God Temple.

“What the hell...!”

“The Blood God Temple and its priests are one. It is a bond that can never be severed. That is why they have devoted themselves like this and become one with the temple to serve the First Blood.”

“Insane... Then you ground the priests into the temple itself?”

At that moment, he recalled the system notification that everyone was watching him.

Was that why that notification had appeared?

However, Alucard showed an unpleasant smile and raised a finger to point at the floor.

“Not this temple.”

“What?”

“You seem to be misunderstanding something, but the Blood God Temple does not refer to this temple. It refers to Middle Town itself.”

“What did you say?”

“From the moment you entered Middle Town, you were already inside our domain. Which means that unless I permit it, you can never leave this place.”

“......!”

Alucard, this lunatic.

This bastard was an even greater lunatic than imagined.

From the beginning, he had not regarded anything other than himself as a single person.

He was madness itself, carrying out every grotesque act under the name of the First Blood alone.

At that moment, pure white hands reached out from the floor and attacked Su-ho.

[ Protection Holy Art activates. ]

KWAAANG!!

The hands that had shot out like a surprise attack were blocked by the Protection Holy Art and could not reach Su-ho.

The fight had begun.

Alucard laughed and retreated.

As he stepped back, his voice, mixed with mockery, echoed like a curse.

“Then struggle as much as you wish. Let us see what the end of a cursed fate looks like.”

Around the time those words ended, additional pure white hands burst out from everywhere and clung to Su-ho.

When the hands became so numerous and dense that not even a single speck of light could enter—

KWAAANG!!

[ Extermination of Evil activates. ]

Along with Extermination of Evil, a massive explosion erupted and shattered all of them.

“Looks like the scale is big.”

- What should we do?

“Let’s go with the frontal method for now. If the opponent’s size is big, we match the size and reduce it. Smash everything.”

- Okay.

Having caught the order, Jack began chanting magic.

[ Umbra’s Shadow Legacy activates. ]

[ Shadow Divine Beast King Hollow Jack summons the Black Army. ]

[ Shadow Divine Beast King Hollow Jack summons the Black Shadow Dragon. ]

[ Shadow Divine Beast King Hollow Jack summons Typhon. ]

RUMBLEEEEEE—

Shadow legions poured out in a torrent.

The house-sized Black Shadow Dragon and Typhon were summoned, punching through the ceiling of the Blood God Temple as they began collapsing it.

However, it did not end there.

[ Umbra’s Shadow Legacy activates. ]

[ Shadow Divine Beast King Hollow Jack uses Shadow Fusion. ]

Shadow Fusion.

When that skill was cast, the Shadow Knights spread all over the place and the Black Shadow Dragon began merging into Typhon.

Typhon’s bulk began swelling in an instant.

Typhon had already been enormous to begin with, but after the fusion, his size became at least twice as large as before.

“KHHHAAAAAAA!”

A voice rang out thunderously.

The sound was so loud that it reached even the beings in Lowfield beyond, and at the sudden roar, even the wild Vampir scattered across the field raised their heads and looked toward Middle Town.

There was one objective.

Destroy all of Middle Town.

Typhon clasped both hands together and raised them above his head.

And the moment he brought them down, Edersen, who had been standing still, moved.

SLASH!

Edersen shot diagonally in an instant and cut off Typhon’s neck.

Powerful force.

With a single strike, Typhon’s neck was severed.

Typhon’s head began falling askew in the same direction it had been cut.

But—

KWAAAAANG!!

Typhon did not care in the slightest whether his head had been severed or not, and continued driving down the fist he had been about to unleash.

Because Jack could control the shadow legion separately.

Fragments of the collapsed Blood God Temple flew in every direction, and a massive crater formed at the center.

Having already widened the distance in advance, Su-ho looked at that sight and gave a crooked smile.

“You think a shadow will die just because you cut its neck?”

However, Edersen did not even pretend to listen and turned his body, splitting Typhon’s body vertically.

Overwhelming destructive power.

Su-ho also used skills in succession.

[ Consecration activates. ]

[ Harm of Evil activates. ]

[ Extreme Strength activates. ]

[ Extermination of Evil activates. ]

BZZZZZZZZT!

Extermination of Evil stormed out.

At the same time, Harm of Evil engulfed Edersen, and as soon as Harm of Evil covered him, Extermination of Evil swallowed Edersen.

The attack did not end there.

[ Eclipse activates. ]

[ You receive sunlight and moonlight. ]

[ The Rune of Sun and Moon reacts. ]

[ The Power of Sun and Moon activates. ]

[ You receive the Blessing of Sun and Moon. ]

[ All stats increase by 2%. ]

[ All recovery power increases by 2%. ]

[ Fire attribute activates. ]

[ Light attribute activates. ]

[ Ice attribute activates. ]

[ Darkness attribute activates. ]

He even activated Eclipse, stiffening the surroundings, if only for a very brief moment.

Because he needed time.

Fortunately, the strategy worked.

Su-ho immediately followed after the Eclipse he had scattered as if throwing it, and unleashed the sword he had prepared.

[ Extreme Strength activates. ]

[ Soul Severing activates. ]

[ Diamond Cut activates. ]

[ Combined Sword Art activates. ]

[ True Severance activates. ]

[ Extreme Strength is applied. ]

[ True Severance’s power rises to the extreme. ]

What he had prepared was True Severance.

The moment True Severance activated, Middle Town’s colors inverted for an instant.

Within the gray world, rings of runes like golden nerve bundles became visible.

They were tangled throughout every corner of Edersen’s body.

The sword headed toward Edersen.

But what the sword cut was not Edersen.

SLASH!

What the sword cut.

It was none other than a single strand of a rune ring, glowing so faintly it was barely visible, like a hair connected to somewhere far away from Edersen.

And the moment it was cut—

“Nooooooo!!”

A scream burst from Edersen’s mouth.