Chapter 629

“You......!”

Alucard’s face boiled with rage.

“What have you done to my Red Maria!!”

RUMBLE, RUMBLE!

His voice was loud.

The scale was so enormous that it was the loudest sound Su-ho had heard so far, to the point that it could reach all the way to Lowfield in the distance.

In that sense, Protection Holy Art was truly useful.

Because it recognized sound as a physical shock as well and protected its master’s ears on its own.

That was why Su-ho had no choice but to laugh.

Such an intense reaction.

If you react this strongly, you’re practically proving that my method for taking you down is correct, aren’t you?

Su-ho smiled and sent a voice transmission.

“I thought about it for quite a while. About how I should use this enormous treasure house of energy to screw you over.”

The reason he had kept sending clone soldiers was to buy time.

During that time, Su-ho had stuck close to Red Maria with Jack and thought about how he could use it to catch Alucard.

The time allowed to him had not been long, but even so, he had done his best.

And at last, he had found a method.

Su-ho smiled and said,

“You sealed it so damn tightly that it doesn’t budge even against external impact. So I changed the idea itself. Not destroying Red Maria, but what if I contaminated Red Maria itself?”

“Contaminate? Contaminate, you say?”

At the word contaminate, Alucard’s eyes widened.

The black spots that had bloomed all over Red Maria.

Was that the evidence of contamination?

Su-ho’s explanation continued.

“Yeah, contamination. Fortunately, this huge storage vessel has the property of rarely spitting out energy except to its master or under external shock, but at least when it comes to blood, it swallows just fine, doesn’t it? So I fed it my blood. And not just any blood, but terribly filthy blood, contaminated as much as it could possibly be.”

When Su-ho opened his hand, the black blood stored in the Great Blood Jade began falling onto Red Maria in heavy drops.

It was, literally, Su-ho’s blood.

More precisely, it was blood closer to a deadly poison, no, deadly poison itself, with Corruption Sorcery applied to it as much as possible.

He had poured in a truly enormous amount of blood.

There was a saying, wasn’t there?

That to cleanly dilute contaminated water, you had to pour in clean water a hundred times greater than that.

In other words, dirtying something was easy, but purifying it was difficult.

So he had chosen to dirty it.

He contaminated all the blood he had collected in the Great Blood Jade with Corruption Sorcery, then dropped almost all of it into Red Maria.

Whether Red Maria knew those circumstances or not, it swallowed it down quite eagerly.

It had not taken that long to apply this plan.

Because destruction was originally easier and faster.

And a little while later.

When Alucard used the High Priest’s authority, he drew upon the blood and mana stored in Red Maria as he always did, and Red Maria, now containing contaminated blood, naturally injected poison into Alucard.

“Of course, the amount of blood you collected was so huge that I couldn’t contaminate all of it enough to kill you instantly. But is that really so important? From now on, every time you use that damn High Priest’s authority or whatever it is, you’ll slowly gnaw away at your own life.”

“You bastard!”

It hit the mark.

Alucard flew into a rage, and his snake stretched out long, rushing toward Su-ho, who stood on Red Maria.

KWAAAAANG!!

The force was so powerful that part of Red Maria shattered.

It was fascinating.

When Su-ho and Jack had struck it like mad, it had not broken, yet after one collision with a mere snake head, it shattered and was torn away.

‘Well, no matter what, that’s your loss.’

Su-ho pulled out the Guiyeong Spear and climbed onto Cheolma.

“Let’s suffer a little, Cheolma!”

“Neigh!”

Now it was a battle of time.

He did not know whether the bastard could purify the contaminated Red Maria, but even if he could, Su-ho had no intention of giving him that time anymore.

Su-ho chanted a skill.

[ Rainstorm Art activates. ]

RUMBLE! SHWAAAAAA!

He made rain fall.

Then an enormous downpour covered all of Middle Town.

[ Thunderbolt activates. ]

RUMBLE!! KWAAAAAAAANG!!

He scattered thunderbolts without holding back as well.

He had no intention of using Giantification twice.

Because if he left the battlefield even for a moment to manage the risk, he did not know in what way the bastard might purify Red Maria.

Was that all?

[ Extermination of Evil activates. ]

PZZZZZZZT!

While Su-ho fired thunderbolts in rapid succession, he also used Extermination of Evil.

All of them consumed quite a bit of mana, but it was fine.

He had been prepared for this level of total war from the beginning.

His opponent possessed all the power of an empire created by an entire race, and had carried out iron-blooded rule in the name of a priest for hundreds of years.

He had never thought he could defeat someone like that without this much sacrifice.

PZZZZZZZT!

Thunderbolts and Extermination of Evil deliciously fried Alucard’s snake.

In truth, when the first thunderbolt fell, Alucard’s snake had already lost its distinctive pure white color and turned into pitch-black soot.

Even so, however, Alucard could not use his authority.

If he used his authority right now, he could heal the snake, but the more he used his authority, the more damage his main body would take.

But now, it had reached its limit.

[ Alucard uses the High Priest’s authority. ]

HWAAAAAK!

Light burst out.

When the authority manifested, all of Red Maria shone.

Originally, he had minimized that power so that the parts exposed above ground would barely emit light, but now that everything had already been exposed, there was no longer any thought or meaning in hiding it.

So he revealed it freely.

Red Maria shone brightly, and Alucard’s snake was also healed at once.

However.

“Cough!”

The more forcefully he drew out power, the more the contaminated blood poison Su-ho had planted accumulated inside Alucard.

‘I have to kill him before the blood poison’s erosion becomes severe!’

Alucard’s eyes shone.

They even gleamed with resolve.

Ever since the Noctarion Empire had been built, there had not been a single person who doubted his authority, so how could there have been anyone who challenged him!

That was why he had leisurely accumulated power without worry, and when Red Maria had finally collected enough blood and mana to face every vampire in Noctarion, he had stopped being wary or suspicious at all.

Because he believed that he, possessing such power, was the true messenger of God and the incarnation of the First Blood.

But that certainty shattered today.

And because of an existence who had inherited the blood of a certain insignificant High Blood born with a damned fate.

“Cough!”

The blood poison stirred inside his body and made him cough up blood.

But it was fine.

For now, he could endure.

At that moment, another thunderbolt struck down over his head.

KWARURURUNG!!

Following the thunderbolt that fell, Extermination of Evil exploded.

Alucard’s snake endured Su-ho’s attack once again.

But he could not keep repeating the same war of attrition forever.

After checking his own stamina, Alucard’s eyes flashed.

[ Alucard uses the High Priest’s authority. ]

HWAAAAAK!

The authority manifested, and Red Maria emitted light once again. ℯℯ𝑙.

‘Recovery again?’

No.

The authority used this time was on a completely different track from everything he had used until now.

KWAGAGAGAGAGA!!

A blood-colored tornado formed in Middle Town.

It was a Blood Hurricane that would grind away and erase everything.

“I didn’t use this because it wastes too much blood, but I’ll kill you as quickly as possible......!”

In Noctarion, the highest value was undoubtedly blood.

Moreover, blood containing high-purity mana was like gold to humans.

And wealth, even if it was merely hoarded without being used, grew poison, enlarged the greed of the heart, and that enlarged greed eventually made a person sick.

That was why there were many misers among the rich, and many people with stingy hearts.

Alucard was no different.

Moreover, what he considered far more valuable than mere human gold was the blood he had gathered. Would he really want to use that blood to catch someone of a mere cursed fate, and not even fate itself, but a lowborn thing that had inherited its will?

Absolutely not.

That was why he had been saving it, but now the situation had changed.

- You’ll need to be careful, master.

“Yeah. It looks like he’s decided to step out in earnest anyway.”

HWAGAGAGAGAGA!!

The Blood Hurricane slammed toward Su-ho.

KUGUGUGUGUGU!!

The Blood Hurricane destroyed everything it brushed past, like a great disaster.

It was truly tremendous power.

Even Cheolma, who would not be shaken by any wind, nearly got sucked into the Blood Hurricane’s pulling force.

But Cheolma, an outstanding famous steed, ultimately succeeded in protecting its master from the Blood Hurricane.

“You rat-like bastard!”

[ Alucard uses the High Priest’s authority. ]

Alucard used his authority once again.

Then this time, two more Blood Hurricanes as enormous as the one made just before were created.

“L-look over there!”

“Run!!”

“Kyaaaaa!”

“Save me!!”

The Blood Hurricanes did not operate only in Middle Town.

Like beasts with their reins cut loose, they crossed First Line and First Town, turning the surrounding area into a wasteland.

It was in order to chase Su-ho and Cheolma, who were fleeing like mad.

Su-ho, too, was not simply running away.

[ Thunderbolt activates. ]

KWARURUNG!!

[ Earthquake Tsunami activates. ]

KWAGAGAGAGAGA!!

[ Extermination of Evil activates. ]

PZZZZZZZT!!

Even while fleeing from the Blood Hurricanes, he constantly fired attack skills.

The burden was heavy.

Cold sweat ran all over his body.

Even his jaw trembled.

He could say with certainty that he was using the most mana he had ever used in any battle in his life.

Whenever his mind spun from excessive mana consumption, Jack popped out and steadied Su-ho.

- Get a hold of yourself, master!

That was when it happened.

[ Alucard uses the High Priest’s authority. ]

Another authority.

At that moment, the three hurricanes merged into one, creating an enormous cyclone on an unprecedented scale.

HWAAAAAAAAAA!!

An insane wind pressure.

It spun like a washing machine and began sucking in everything in the area.

In the process, Cheolma was inevitably caught up as well.

‘Damn it!’

Should he enter the Subspace House even now?

But if he left his position now, the bastard would immediately find a way to reverse the situation.

And just because he left his position for a moment, that would not necessarily solve everything either.

At that moment, a gigantic hand shot out from within the whirlwind and grabbed Su-ho, who had been caught up in it.

Alucard’s face manifested at the end of the hand.

The gigantic, nightmare-like Alucard flashed his two eyes and said,

“I finally caught you, you rat-like bastard!”

SHUAAAAAA!

Alucard, who had grabbed Su-ho, cast bloodsucking on him.

At that moment.

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

SHUAAAAAA!!

Su-ho also cast bloodsucking on Alucard.