Chapter 632

Roynan was genuinely angry.

Perhaps because he thought there would be no chance like this if not now.

And because showing this side of himself would let him display his loyalty to his master.

The strategy worked.

Su-ho gave a faint laugh and raised his hand.

"Enough. He was still, in name at least, the king of the vampires. And unlike you, he didn’t resist first and then bow his head. We resolved it through conversation from the start, so I can let that much slide."

"But......!"

"Then you should have respected your opponent from the start before attacking."

"......."

When he put it that way, Roynan had nothing to say.

And this was not discrimination, but fact.

Unlike Roynan, who had charged in while spewing all kinds of venomous abuse from the beginning, Edersen was a gentleman in many ways.

Su-ho looked at Edersen.

"Everyone here calls me master. So keep the title properly. Then I won’t touch anything else."

"Understood."

"Good. Then shall we talk business now? Do you know about the secret between Alucard and Red Maria?"

"I do. I do not know about the other Immortal Crowns, but at least I and the fifty priests who assist the Blood God Temple knew."

"How did you know?"

"Because my Blood Jade and the priests’ Blood Jades are also in Red Maria. For reference, my wife also became a priest."

Ah.

Now that he thought about it, Edersen had said he had a beloved companion, hadn’t he?

No wonder she had been nowhere to be seen.

At first, Su-ho had thought he had accidentally blown her away along with the Immortal Crowns when he absorbed them.

But that was not what mattered right now.......

Su-ho narrowed his eyes and asked,

"Then why were you killed? As soon as I cut the life force supply line between you and Red Maria and used bloodsucking, you were processed right away."

"Because I do not have such an authority. An authority close to a divine artifact is something only Alucard can use."

"Then what do I have to do to kill Alucard? Is there no way except taking all the blood in Red Maria?"

"Must you necessarily take it? I do not mean to disregard you, master, but from what I can see, the size of the Blood Jade you currently possess cannot handle all of Red Maria."

So that really was the case.

Since he had actually failed, he could not refute it.

After thinking for a moment, Su-ho shifted his gaze toward Alucard.

Then he picked Alucard up, opened the door to the Subspace House, and threw him inside.

That was when it happened.

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

A system notification.

At the same time, Alucard, who had been thrown into the Subspace House, was summoned back outside.

"Damn."

He had tried to kill him by cutting him off through space, but even that did not work.

Edersen, who had watched it, said,

"Alucard’s authority is more powerful than you think. It is something even all the vampires of Noctarion, including myself, could not do anything about. So rather than challenge the authority itself, I recommend simply giving up Red Maria."

"You mean destroy it and make it unusable?"

Edersen nodded.

Su-ho’s eyes narrowed again.

He knew.

He understood too.

But to give up that enormous treasury of energy for the sake of Alucard’s death felt far too wasteful, considering what was stored inside it.

At that moment, a good idea surfaced in Su-ho’s mind.

"Wait. Then I just have to make it so Alucard can’t use it."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It seems Alucard’s authority automatically draws on Red Maria’s blood. Then if there’s no blood left for it to draw on, that solves everything, doesn’t it?"

"In theory, yes...... Then are you going to destroy Red Maria?"

"Why would I destroy something that precious?"

Su-ho waved his hand and split the ground.

Then, looking at the enormous Red Maria sleeping beneath the ground, he said,

"I just have to make the contents inside unusable."

Then he activated the first skill.

[ Corruption Sorcery activates. ]

The beginning was Corruption Sorcery.

The target the sorcery would corrupt was none other than the blood stored inside the Great Blood Jade.

BUBBLE, BUBBLE!

He poured mana in and rapidly contaminated the blood.

Dirtying it was easy.

And sure enough, not long after, the blood inside the Great Blood Jade itself became contaminated blood poison.

Su-ho injected all of it into Red Maria.

The injection did not take long either.

Soon, after emptying out [N O V E L I G H T] all the blood, Su-ho placed both hands against Red Maria.

Then he activated Bloody Hand with his left hand.

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

Once Bloody Hand activated, the blood inside Red Maria entered Su-ho’s body.

Su-ho immediately used Corruption Sorcery again, turning the blood entering his body back into blood poison.

Then he released the completely contaminated blood poison back into Red Maria through his right hand.

Jack, who had been silently watching, noticed Su-ho’s intention and laughed.

- You used your head a little.

"Yeah, exactly. I never needed to put all of it into my Blood Jade in the first place. If Red Maria is contaminated, using the authority will become impossible anyway, so why would I overdo it until both my hands explode?"

Su-ho became a human filter.

A human contamination filter that passed clean blood through his own body, made it filthy, and sent it back into Red Maria.

Of course, there was a tremendous amount of blood to filter, so it would take a long time, but even so, it was much safer and far more likely to succeed than the first method of trying to move all the blood into his own Blood Jade.

Edersen must have judged it to be a good idea as well, because he watched silently.

How much time had passed like that?

Red Maria, which had once been so red, was no longer Red Maria.

It had become pitch-black Black Maria.

A while later, Su-ho slowly took his hands away from Red Maria.

It was because he judged there was no blood left to contaminate.

After taking his hands away, Su-ho sank down onto the ground.

"Wow, this workload is no joke."

- You worked hard, master.

"Then shall we try executing Alucard again?"

The time for confirmation had arrived.

Alucard was still collapsed, pierced by the Blood Sword.

Su-ho drew the Guiyeong Sword instead of the Blood Sword.

[ 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. ]

When True Severance activated, the familiar faint rune rings appeared around Alucard.

They fluttered like water plants and were connected to Red Maria beneath the earth.

"Lift him."

- Okay.

It was a short command, but Jack understood Su-ho’s needs and lifted Alucard, who was pinned to the ground, into the air.

The moment Alucard was lifted, the connecting lines tied to the underground Red Maria were pulled taut, and Su-ho swung his sword toward them.

SLASH!

He cut all the connecting lines.

At that instant, Alucard twitched again, and Su-ho immediately stretched out his hand.

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

SHUAAAAAA!

A powerful pulling force operated from his open grasp.

It immediately began sucking with enough force to devour everything in the world, yet amazingly, it designated and absorbed only Alucard with precision.

"Uoooooh......!"

Alucard, being sucked in, let out a bizarre sound like a tree branch splitting apart.

The absorption was complete.

At that moment, the authority activated again.

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

A system notification.

However.

BAANG!!

A small explosive sound came from somewhere.

Where did that come from?

He could not find the source of the sound.

That was when it happened.

[ You have defeated High Priest Alucard, Representative of the First Blood and highest-ranking priest of the Blood God Temple in Middle Town. ]

A short line of text.

It was the system’s kind notice announcing Alucard’s death.

"Finally!"

The operation had worked.

Yeah, I knew this would succeed!

At last, Su-ho was able to defeat Alucard.

Then was everything over now?

That was what he thought.

Because Alucard had been the last High Blood.

However, the system notifications did not end there.

[ You have defeated High Blood Inasis, servant of the First Blood and priest of the Blood God Temple in Middle Town. ]

[ You have defeated High Blood Ridax, servant of the First Blood and priest of the Blood God Temple in Middle Town. ]

[ You have defeated High Blood Animon, servant of the First Blood and priest of the Blood God Temple in Middle Town. ]

[ You have defeated High Blood Raus, servant of the First Blood and priest of the Blood God Temple in Middle Town. ]

......

Notifications shot up.

They were notifications saying he had defeated the other priests.

Why were these appearing now?

Thinking about it, he had not remembered seeing any defeat notifications related to the priests.

Then had they shared one fate with Alucard?

When he looked at Edersen in confusion, Edersen nodded.

"I see."

All those belonging to Su-ho had their souls bound together, so they could sense their master’s will even without the master saying it aloud.

Now, Edersen was the same.

Because he was an existence belonging to Su-ho’s Great Blood Jade.

Soon, even the notification for the final priest ended.

That was when it happened.

[ You have defeated all High Bloods. ]

[ The condition has been fulfilled. ]

[ Vampire Blood’s fourth authority reacts. ]

[ Levan de Nosferatu’s Power’s Price reacts. ]

[ Power’s Price’s information changes. ]

HWAAAAA!

System notifications surfaced.

Seeing them, Su-ho recalled the final sentence among the information possessed by Power’s Price.

[ Power’s Price ]

Grade: S# One of Levan de Nosferatu’s possessed abilities, the fourth authority of the liberated Vampire Blood.

......

# The third condition is revealed if all High Blood vampires are defeated.

The final sentence.

It said that the third condition would be revealed when all High Bloods were defeated.

By defeating Alucard and the fifty priests, that condition had finally been met.

Then what was the third condition?

He checked the information right away.

[ Power’s Price ]

Grade: S# One of Levan de Nosferatu’s possessed abilities, the fourth authority of the liberated Vampire Blood.

......

# The third condition requires you to become the official king of Noctarion by defeating all High Blood vampires and fulfill that duty.

Duty?

A duty, all of a sudden?

What was that supposed to mean?

If it was a conditional ability liberation, shouldn’t it be giving him more power?

It was incomprehensible.

At that moment, an additional system notification surfaced.

[ All conditions have been achieved. ]

[ All unlock conditions for Vampire Blood’s fifth authority have been fulfilled. ]

The last authority of Vampire Blood suddenly began to be released.