Chapter 630

Alucard’s eyes widened.

Su-ho, caught in his grasp, also clutched Alucard’s neck and smiled.

“Why? Did you think you were the only one who knew how to suck blood?”

“You lowborn bastard......!”

“Yeah! Then let’s see how far you and this lowborn bastard can suck each other dry until one of us dies!”

[ Alucard uses the High Priest’s authority. ]

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

SHUAAAAAA!!

Bloodsucking from both sides.

A fight of sucking and being sucked.

The battle, where they thrust their hands into each other as though driving spears in and drained blood, was the first of its kind in Noctarion’s history.

Of course it was.

Because normally, when it came to bloodsucking between vampires, the side with even slightly greater power would inevitably win.

That was why Alucard was confident.

No matter how many tricks this bastard used, Levan had been born an inferior existence compared to him, and Su-ho, who had inherited that power, could never surpass him.

That was why he even used his authority and sucked in every bit of power Su-ho possessed with all his strength.

“Cough!”

Blood erupted from his mouth.

It was Alucard’s.

But Alucard did not stop.

He thought that if this bit of coughing blood was caused by the blood poison, then he could endure as much of it as necessary.

However, the longer the bloodsucking continued, the more Alucard began to feel that something was strange.

THUD!

It began with the snake.

The snake he had summoned far away collapsed.

Was that all?

The more bloodsucking was exchanged back and forth, the more things around them fell apart.

WHOOSH!

The enormous hurricane, which had been formed by combining three hurricanes into one, also vanished.

This, too, was something that could happen.

Because at present, he was focusing on bloodsucking.

But what came next was completely unexpected.

“Haa...... Haa.......”

They were gripping each other as though they had seized each other by the collar.

But as time passed, only Alucard’s complexion rapidly darkened.

Was it his imagination?

Absolutely not.

Alucard’s complexion was truly becoming extremely poor.

By contrast, Su-ho’s face was full of ease.

No, it was not merely full of ease. It was practically glowing.

It was not an illusion.

Even his expression was brimming with composure.

“You......!”

His voice was drying and withering away.

He sounded like someone who had starved for a week.

Because of that, the strength in Alucard’s hand gripping Su-ho also kept draining away.

No, it did not simply drain away. In the end, he lost his grip entirely.

“Grrk!”

Immediately after letting Su-ho go, Alucard clutched his own abdomen and vomited up a whole bucketful of black liquid.

One bucketful became two, and as though he had a tumor inside his body, he kept retching without end.

A foul and poisonous smell.

It was rotten water.

It was pure filth itself, where his internal organs, blood, muscles, and flesh had all become tangled together, pooled, and rotted.

After vomiting up all those things to the fullest, Alucard’s knees collapsed.

As a bonus, he clutched his stomach as though he had an upset belly.

“How in the world.......”

THUD—

Unable to endure the extreme pain, Alucard finally slammed his head into the ground.

Seeing that, Su-ho exhaled deeply.

Then he loudly brushed off the hem of his clothes and smiled refreshingly.

“That’s what you get for running your mouth.”

Smooth, glossy skin.

He looked truly healthy, as though he had just come back from a spa.

What sorcery had he used?

The secret lay in the bloodsucking process.

More precisely, he had contaminated the blood he sucked from Alucard all over again and sent it straight back into Alucard.

It was work that required tremendous concentration and delicacy.

But he had done it.

Because Su-ho knew better than anyone that if he simply exchanged bloodsucking with Alucard, he would lose in the end.

‘Even if I contaminated part of Red Maria, the contaminated blood won’t be injected unless he uses his authority. But what if I directly inject blood I’ve contaminated in advance into Alucard?’

Then even Alucard had no way to do anything and would be poisoned all at once.

Moreover, since Alucard possessed a relatively massive amount of blood, most of the blood Su-ho sucked from him had been clean blood.

By contrast, Alucard had taken back only contaminated blood, so could there be any trade more unfair than this?

There was one more thing.

Whether it was bloodsucking or authority, Alucard had to use the power he had stored in order to exert power, and since Red Maria itself was contaminated, it had truly become a continuous vicious cycle.

By comparison, Su-ho’s body was perfectly fine no matter how much contaminated blood it accepted.

Because all the contaminated blood in Red Maria or Alucard’s body had been created based on Su-ho’s mana.

‘I’m Corruption Sorcery itself. Other poisons might be one thing, but there’s no way blood contaminated by Corruption Sorcery would work on me.’

Still, it had been close.

Objectively speaking, as a vampire, Alucard, who had lived for hundreds of years, had higher specs.

Of course, the trait Power’s Price, which increased his power by twenty percent against vampires who hated him, had also played a tremendous role in this fight.

“This...... This...... I...... I, of all......!”

With his forehead pressed to the ground, Alucard desperately trembled as he tried somehow to raise his body.

But it was useless.

Because at present, the Queen-grade fairy’s contamination poison was running rampant inside his body.

[ Alucard uses the High Priest’s authority. ]

HWAAAAA!

Light burst out.

Unable to endure the pain, Alucard made a stupid choice.

“Cough!”

Something foul was vomited from his mouth again.

Seeing that, Su-ho clicked his tongue.

“Tsk, tsk. You should know that the blood you drew in to purify yourself is contaminated too.......”

This was no different from drinking seawater because he was thirsty.

Su-ho kicked Alucard, who was curled up and trembling.

Alucard fell over from even a light tap.

Amazingly, in that short time, he had aged rapidly until he looked like a man in his eighties.

“They said a vampire whose strength runs out takes the form of an old man. So it was true.”

It seemed his strength truly was not recovering anymore.

It looked good.

How many people had he tormented while living all this time?

Especially with that prophecy, whether true or false, he had likely sent more than just Levan into the abyss.

A dried-up voice leaked from Alucard’s mouth.

“The prophecy...... was right.......”

“Are you still going on about that damn prophecy? How about coming to your senses already?”

“I...... do not...... lie.......”

“I’m sure you don’t. But how important is that now? In the end, you collapsed, and Levan got to resolve his resentment. That’s enough.”

“I will...... curse...... you.......”

“Yeah, make sure you do. Do it twice. Do it before you sleep too.”

Su-ho raised his hand.

Then something he had been unable to hold for a while was grasped in his hand.

WHIAAAAA!

It fit snugly into his grip.

It was the Blood Sword.

Holding the Blood Sword in his hand, Su-ho drew it close and felt the familiar sensation.

“The Guiyeong Sword is the Guiyeong Sword, but as expected, you fit my hand better.”

Then, after gripping the sword in a reverse hold, he asked Alucard,

“Any last words?”

“You......”

CRUNCH!

“Yeah, I heard you. You.”

The sword he drove down in a reverse grip pierced precisely through Alucard’s brow, and in the end, Alucard, whose strength had run out, fainted limply.

He was not dead.

Because High Bloods did not die as long as their stored blood and mana had not all disappeared.

Especially not Alucard, who used Red Maria as his life force vessel.

However, a final measure was needed so that he could no longer act up.

That had been the finish just now.

With the Blood Sword still embedded, Su-ho spoke to Jack.

“Bring him with the sword still stuck in him.”

- Okay.

Leaving Alucard to Jack, Su-ho climbed onto Cheolma.

Then he crossed several lines and returned to Middle Town.

Middle Town was no longer Middle Town.

The pure-white Middle Town that had formed the snake’s body had been completely smashed apart, with no trace of it remaining anywhere, and the blackish dead land was scattered in every direction with the wreckage left by all kinds of battle.

Su-ho looked at the red ground exposed between the scattered debris.

Red Maria.

The enormous mountain range spread out before his eyes was one thing, but beneath this place, like the rest of an iceberg, an even larger Red Maria must be spread out.

Su-ho immediately raised his sword.

“Let’s begin.”

The enormous Red Maria held a massive amount of blood and mana that Alucard had gathered with difficulty.

In theory, until all of that ran out, Alucard was immortal.

But Su-ho had found the method to break through.

Because he had dealt with Edersen that way.

Su-ho lifted Alucard through Jack.

And used True Severance.

[ 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. ]

The light of the world inverted.

Along with it, faintly, he could see the lines connecting Alucard to Red Maria.

He cut them at once.

SLASH!

The lines like bundles of nerves were severed, and for an instant, Alucard drew in a rough breath.

The lines would connect again.

So he immediately used Bloody Hand.

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

SHUAAAA!

Alucard, who had temporarily lost his power, was sucked into Su-ho’s grasp.

The bastard disappeared in a miserable shape, like foreign matter being sucked down a drain hole.

Had he done it?

But no matter how long he waited, no system notification appeared.

What was this?

He immediately checked the Great Blood Jade.

But Alucard’s name was nowhere in the Great Blood Jade.

That was when it happened.

HWAAAAAK!

[ Alucard’s High Priest’s authority activates. ]

Light burst out.

At the same time, Alucard appeared again before Su-ho’s eyes in the same gaunt state and collapsed face-down as though falling.

“......?”

For an instant, Su-ho’s eyes widened, and his thoughts stopped.

What?

Why is it doing this?

According to the method I found, wasn’t he supposed to die?

No.

Alucard was the strongest and most special existence among all High Bloods.

Amazingly, he had even anticipated a situation like this and prevented his own death.

That was why the system notification was slightly different as well.

Alucard had not “used” it. It had “activated.”

“What the......!”

The flesh beneath Su-ho’s eyes trembled.

It was a difficulty he had never imagined.