Chapter 644
Chapter 644
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What Raual felt was bewilderment at the human’s strange behavior of pushing him away while muttering incomprehensible words.
Although she has lived as a vampire for much longer than she did as a human, her past memories and common sense have not completely disappeared. As a noblewoman from birth, she was the type of person who knew best how tragic an accident could occur if a means of transportation such as a carriage or horse overturned.
Even a simple word can kill a person if it falls down wrong. But how can you jump off an object that you have to catch up with with all your might without any hesitation?
In the absurd situation that made her forget even the pain, just before her body hit the floor, a thousand questions crossed Raual’s mind. Then, a single word shouted by a knight who somehow managed to come to his senses flashed through her mind.
‘···brave?’
No way, the warrior is a bit more dignified like this…
-Quadduck!
“Ah …
As he reminisces about the past, Raual’s head tries to recall the warrior he had met but cannot even remember when, but he gives up his thoughts in front of the lightning called agony and appeals for mercy.
She has lived for hundreds of years without any sense of pain, possessing a body that is incomparably strong compared to mere mortals, and possessing various means of avoidance. For her, pain is not a simple sensation, but the result of the tantrum left by the cursed con artist Lacosma before he disappeared from the world.
That’s why when I woke up in the hands of the demons, my eyes rolled back in pain, and when the sword fragments that suddenly flew in and pierced my body, I felt like my head was going to burst with rage.
And now Raual realizes that it wasn’t all bullshit.
“Let go! Let go of it!!”
brave?
No, this kid is a devil.
The creature that was now climbing on top of me, pressing down on my head, dispersing the shock that was about to pour down on my body, and using Laual as a foothold, while maintaining exquisite balance, could not have been human.
“Let go, you little shit!”
Eventually, a twisted smile spread across the lips of the human who seemed to be calmly concentrating on the swearing that poured out instead of screaming, and he suddenly took his hand that was holding the sword away and punched Laual in the face without hesitation. Even as he watched Laual vomit blood again from the shock that was more than just being crushed, the human’s expression did not change at all, and only said one thing.
“Agari·”
It was only one word, but that alone made the human race the number 0 being that Raual wanted to kill. She wanted to rip its head off right now, but it hurt so much that nothing else besides her mouth could move the way she wanted it to.
It was still stuck in Raual’s heart, ‘cutting’ the floor, as if it had no intention of breaking, even though it didn’t know what the black sword was made of. It was clearly only absorbing divine power until just now, but as soon as the human’s hand touched it, a terrible pain like a saw cutting through the wound surged, and even the path made of an unidentifiable lump of metal was being cut like paper.
It seems that she has tried to escape through transformation hundreds or thousands of times since the moment the sword fragments were embedded in her body, but her body has not changed at all. There was no way to know whether it was because the foreign substance stuck in her body prevented her from transforming properly or because of the sword’s special ability.
In the first place, it was the first time since she became a vampire that a fly was stuck in her body.
“Even the devil children can return to Manmajeon by destroying the fake heart they made when they came here, so why aren’t you dead?”
If only he could escape this terrible moment, he would not hesitate to sell his soul to Lacosma again. Even as the terrain changed and pieces of iron and stone flew everywhere, the human race calmly analyzed itself and fell down as if nothing had happened.
That fact drove Laual crazy twice… but all he could do for now was to pin his hopes on the fact that his pace of decline was slowing down.
I belatedly regretted thinking that I had dragged myself out because I had no way to catch up with the vehicle moving at an insane speed, but even that was a mistake, and I was pushed back as I could not overcome the waves of pain that continued on.
Constant pain, even if it does not threaten life, has a way of sapping the will.
Although Raual was proud of knowing that fact better than anyone else, he never imagined that he would be in that situation.
Raual bit her lip as she realized that half of the muscles that had bulged to pull out the sword by force were being torn to pieces on the floor, and the other half were gradually returning to their original form as her will was halved.
First of all, you have to get out of this situation no matter what damage you suffer.
As she thought about this and braced herself, the flesh between her breastbone suddenly split open and a scar began to form.
“What is this···?”
For the first time, a look of bewilderment appeared on the faces of the humans who saw this, and Raual gave up trying to force something like a smile.
The curses that Lacosma brought upon the believers who tried to kill him and seize the divinity to gain freedom were too numerous to mention, but the essence of those curses was simple:
It is the madness and price that makes one become a slave to the power of God, rather than reigning over the world as a king with the power of God.
Because of this, the vampires who had been aiming for the back of each other’s heads until the moment Lacosma died, thinking of becoming the second Lacosma, realized that they were in a situation where they could not kill each other as they accepted all the divinity that flowed in when the evil god died.
To be exact, it was a situation where I had to protect something that I couldn’t simply kill.
“I seek to break the seal of a long-standing contract! I demand the return of the power I have entrusted to you!”
The divinity that has been maliciously distributed to a precarious level is like a vessel that overflows the moment someone dies. The moment that vessel overflows, they lose their self and become complete slaves to the one who feeds them blood first.
To avoid this, the surviving vampires made pacts with those who were most hostile to the gods, yet had a keen understanding of the divine, in order to deceive their eyes.
With the great demons, that is.
“So, come out of the Manma Hall and fulfill the contract!”
It was an unreasonable contract structure that collected 10% of the power held in exchange for sharing and storing the divinity contained in the body, and collected 20% in proportion to the amount of power regained, but there was no choice.
It was only temporary anyway. If you find a way to overcome Lacosma’s curse, you can take back the power you lost in exchange for the contract by killing other vampires.
Just that alone is enough to make the day come when he will reign supreme. Everyone thought that way and made a contract with each demon.
The same was true for Laual.
“I will take back all the power I entrusted to you! Crumelia!”
Starting with the fierce scream of Laual that burst out in the midst of the pain that was gradually decreasing and the speed gradually decreasing, a summoning circle made of blood and wounds began to glow on her chest.
The power she entrusted was two-thirds.
It may be difficult to control the power that suddenly overflows, but since this is a situation that requires such a thing, Raual’s decision was bold.
Unlike the divinity of the good gods, the divinity of the evil gods is like a delicacy that can be eaten without any preparation. As the great demons are busy fighting each other just like the vampires, they will give priority to the descending spirits as soon as the contract is activated…
“···Crumelia?”
···It was clear
No response
“They do all kinds of nonsense”
-Bang!
“Oh my?!”
The demon that had been called did not come, and since the speed had decreased, the humans who had been less focused on protecting their own bodies were only looking at them with a look of disgust and throwing punches.
“very·”
-bang!
“Ugh…”
“dog·”
-Kwaang!”
“Ouch!”
“What the hell”
-Bang!
“Ugh!”
“Just do it”
-bang!
It was a painful punch that felt like my skull was being split open, but at this moment, the embarrassment of Crumelia not revealing herself was greater than that.
“Why? The contract is clearly still in effect?!”
Now that the slipping and scraping of the floor is completely over, the human race can confidently continue to strike with their fists.
Raual’s body was also recovering quickly as if nothing had happened, but she was unable to accept the sudden change in situation and was busy protecting her head without even thinking about swinging her arms to shake off the humans.
If the demon had died, the contract would have been broken and the power would have been restored long ago. If not, then it would clearly mean that the contract is valid.
But why on earth don’t you respond to the call?
In a situation where she had no idea what was going on, the one who gave her the answer to her question was the human who kept striking her with his fists.
“Caroberos”
“yep!!”
The demon, who had twisted the dimension so urgently that it made a clap of thunder, made Laual forget even his pain.
What did I just see?
“Can you find Crumelia?”
“No? Uh… Since being attacked by the master, I’ve been busy hiding from other demons, so I can’t even see my nose, so I can’t find it.”
A demonic race that uses divine powers and calls itself a warrior asks a real demon about the great demon it made a contract with, even calling it its master?
And what? This race caught that great demon?
“Then what is the possibility that she will run away while avoiding the eyes of other demons and then respond to the contractor’s call?”
“No. How do you react when you’re about to die?”
“That’s a lie! If you don’t fulfill the contract, you devils will die!”
The cracked ground, the pieces of iron, and the pieces of Raual’s flesh and blood splattered everywhere, the demon with the colorful hair who was kneeling respectfully, not caring about the answer, unknowingly got angry and intervened, and a hammer-like fist fell on Raual’s head.
Kwaang! This time I blocked it wrong and my head really broke, but I could hear their conversation clearly.
“Huh? Vampire…? Oh, so this kid tried to break the sacred seal contract to defeat his master?”
“Oh, that’s what it was? So is she coming or not?”
“I absolutely cannot come. It is a common mistake made by mortals who want to make a contract, but they do not make conditions such as responding to the contract within a few minutes of calling. By the looks of it, this one is no different.
It was a moment when tears of blood welled up in Raual’s eyes, the only one left because half of his head was broken, and he began to deny reality.
There was no way this could be real.