My Demons - Chapter 69



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My Villains Episode 069

19. Escape (2)

All classes in Dark World become incomparably stronger than before when they reach level 15.

The reason is simple. This is because you acquire a rank 2 skill.

I also acquired rank 2 skills when I reached level 15, and I became powerful rapidly.

lost.

First of all, what caught my eye the most as I leveled up was the fact that ‘free points’ were added.

When going from level 11 to level 12, 1 point was automatically added to the ‘flowing blood’ skill. As before, this time, 1 point was given to ‘Hot Blood’, an enhanced version of ‘Running Blood’.

The original plan was to use the saved skill bonus to take three 2nd rank skills at once, but since ‘Hot Blood’ was taken for free, I invested the remaining points into the 1st rank skill ‘Thirst’.

In other words, there were a total of 3 new skills I learned: ‘Hot Blood’, ‘Plunder’, and ‘Bloodborne’.

‘Hot Blood’ is a rank 2 passive skill of the bloodline series.

This skill allows you to control not only your own blood but also the blood of others nearby, and slightly increases attack speed and movement speed.

The effect itself is good, but since it is a required skill to learn ‘Boiling Blood’ and ‘Burning Blood’, I learned it right away.

‘Plunder’ is a rank 2 special skill in the Blood Fighting series.

The effect is to strengthen the 1st rank skill ‘Blood Blade’, which is simply a ‘blood sucking’ skill.

This is a technique that gave the Blood Knight the nickname ‘Blood Wheel’ due to its deceptive ability to restore vitality in proportion to the damage and amount of bleeding inflicted on the opponent. Of course, it is mandatory to take a picture.

‘Blood Bora’ is a rank 2 active skill in the blood magic series.

It is a technique that attacks the enemy by exploding the blood under one’s control, but because the magic coefficient is high, the performance is unremarkable at the moment.

However, it is also a prerequisite skill for ‘Red Thorn’, the Blood Knight’s best long-distance control skill, so I just recorded it.

As I was checking the character sheet, Trickster suddenly came to mind.

He was a rare fraud character who used three ultimate skills, including ‘Messenger of Thunder’, ‘Frozen Earth’, and ‘Dragon’s Breath’. Did he become such a fraud by receiving ‘free points’ like me?

“••hmm.”

Anyway, there is something that contributed more to my power increase than learning skills and strengthening my stats.

It is ‘Hrunting’.

Hrunting, taken from Luke’s skeleton soldier, is a unique one-handed sword and one of the exclusive weapons for Blood Knights.

Well, it’s not quite enough to be called graduation-level equipment, but it’s more than enough equipment to give to a character in the middle of a campaign.

How did you get this… . Yes, about a few months ago, I killed a challenger who was making fun of me and turned him into a skeleton soldier. I think he was a blood knight wearing Hrunting and mirror armor… .

But I don’t remember all the options. No, didn’t you look at it properly back then?

Unique equipment has a total of 6 options. Depending on the equipment, there are 1 or 2 fixed options, and the rest are all random options.

Of course, I clearly remember Hrunting’s fixed options. ‘Get stronger by drinking blood’ and ‘20% chance to bleed when hit’.

To paraphrase the ambiguous tooltip, ‘Get stronger by drinking blood’, it was ‘Attack power increases by 0.1% each time a new type of enemy is killed.’ Bleeding is always a sweet option for a Blood Knight.

Both seem like pretty good options, but compared to something like a magic sword, not so much… No, let’s not say we’re full.

The random option is… Wouldn’t you be able to figure it out as you write? Judging by the strength that increases when holding the sword, it seems like there is a strength bonus attached… I’m not sure about the rest.

Thanks to acquiring various skills and unique weapons, the bloody blade was also completely different from before.

First of all, there was a difference in color. The blood surrounding Hrun Ting’s auburn blade was not a flashy bright red like before, but a bright red that caught the eye.

The shape also changed. Before, it was simply coating the blade, but now the blood is pulsating little by little and is alive and breathing. If you watch quietly, it feels like an animal is licking its tongue.

Ellen frowned as if she was uncomfortable as she watched me sticking a knife into Muljara’s body and sucking out the fluid.

“•••Do you really have to go that far? “Aren’t you disgusted?”

“It’s a place where you never know when something will happen. “We must do our best.”

Actually, I feel a bit uncomfortable.

I’m not a vampire, and there’s no way I would enjoy sucking the blood of other animals. When he was Seungsu Kim, he didn’t like Seonji very much.

But what can I do? If you want to stay in top condition, you have to do something like this.

After sucking up the last bit of body fluid, my whole body is drenched in vitality.

It felt like after a full body workout in the sauna, I had a bowl of rice cake ramen and took a nap in the sleeping room… That’s how I feel. It’s so refreshing.

“Whoa-”

As I sighed with satisfaction in front of the shriveled bugs, Ellen, who was leaning against the wall, said with a tired expression.

“I’m telling you just in case, never do that in front of other people.”

“Yes? what?”

“Sucking blood. “Especially if you do something like that to a person, you will be chased by the Inquisitors.”

I said with a frown.

“Hey, am I a leech or a mosquito? “You don’t do that.”

“Well, I’m glad… .”

Ellen shook her head and continued.

“•••I thought the phrase about blood magicians stealing blood was a metaphor or a lie.

“I never thought I would see this as a reality.”

“•••A rumor?”

Wait, what do you mean?

“Uh, then don’t other blood magicians do this?”

“Why are you asking me that? “You are the blood magician.”

“No, just… “I wonder how people know.”

The guy answered with an expression like, ‘What is this guy?’

“If all blood magicians drank blood like you, they would not be treated as blood magicians but as a type of vampire. “Isn’t it obvious?”

•••Suddenly, Necromancer Luke comes to mind.

Before revealing its identity, it only used spells from the extinction system or the abyss. Then he said without blinking that he never deals with necromancy.

In addition, he presented himself with a gentle and kind attitude, making it difficult to imagine that he was someone who broke taboos.

Perhaps a blood magician is similar to a necromancer?

Isn’t that the situation?

The social aspect of Middle World was similar to that of the mid-Middle Ages in Europe.

It was a period in which the power of the church grew stronger day by day, and myths, legends, and superstitions other than those written in the Bible were rejected.

Not only the necromancers, but even the most powerful wizards are being pushed out by the power of the church. Blood magicians, who are extremely few in number, will have no choice but to be even more cautious.

Of course, even if it is not for the sake of the church, killing people and drinking their blood is something that should be rejected according to common sense. Actually, it’s not much different from cannibalism, is it?

Well, anyway, you’d better be careful.

Ellen shrugged her shoulders and asked, looking at me lost in thought.

“so? ‘I wonder how people know’, does that mean that blood sucking is normal among you?”

“No, that’s not it… . Uh, it’s because I’m a bit of a different type. “I have a relatively healthy constitution, so I absorb things well, well, something like that.”

Ellen, who was raising her eyes in suspicion, hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.

“If the.”

” huh?”

“What if I suddenly feel like drinking blood?”

“Hey, it’s not like that? “Am I a vampire?”

Although he waved his hands as if it were unfair, the man still looked determined.

“But, if that happens. “You’d rather drink my blood.”

“what? “What does he say?”

“They said you gave me a lot of blood. therefore,”

For some reason, a laugh escapes me.

“Hey, don’t be weird and just carry me on your back.”

“•••grunt.”

Ellen pouted her lips but stretched out her arms to wrap around my neck.

Ellen and I traveled through the crypt and encountered all kinds of monsters. The main things I encountered were giant insects, but in addition to that, there were all sorts of dangerous, annoying, or unpleasant creatures such as crocodiles, black slime, and drowned corpses.

However, thanks to the new skills and Hrunting, I had rapidly become stronger, and Ellen’s level had also risen shortly, so there was no major threat.

However, it was only a little difficult as I walked quickly to avoid the underground lord’s pursuit.

After two days, we discovered our first magic trap.

When the ‘Altar’ event is triggered, the topography of the crypt changes dramatically, and the magic trap was one of them.

As befits its name, Simcheo’s magic trap contained all kinds of deadly magic.

It was not unusual to teleport a monster next to a monster or summon a monster right in front of you, and there were also cases where it suddenly inflicted damage or caused a monster to go berserk.

“Phew, finally.”

When I sighed with relief in the face of such a magic trap, Ellen let out a puzzled voice.

“Nice to meet you Tunde?”

“of course. There is a trap… “It means you’re getting closer to your destination.”

To be precise… To enter the destination relic room, you had to find the magic passage hidden between the magic traps.

In short, this means that you have to step on and activate each magic trap one by one and hope to be instantly transported to the relic room.

“This is where the hard work begins… .”

“What trouble?”

“Wait a moment.”

After putting Ellen down, I slowly walked towards the magic trap.

Wooooow.

A trap that looked like a glass window made of holograms was blocking the way.

The magic trap was a kind of magic circle, filled with all kinds of complicated symbols and letters.

Right now it’s just glowing and fluttering, but if someone touches it, it will immediately activate and unleash deadly magic.

“Uhm…”

I looked to see if there was anything different from the game, but there was nothing that stood out. It seems like we just have to rely on luck, like in games.

At that time, Ellen, who was sitting behind her, muttered quietly.

“Land, noon, standing?”

“huh? what?”

When I turned around, the guy shrugged his shoulders and answered.

“Is it written that way?”

“… “You can read this?”

“It’s a ‘rune word.’ “It’s a little different from what’s used in modern times, but it’s not so bad that you can’t read it, right?”

This is completely unexpected, isn’t it? So what?

“Then, do you know how to unlock it?”

“Well, well. “I’d like to see it up close.”

I immediately picked Ellen up and moved to the place he pointed to. Then Ellen began to examine her magic trap with her sparkling eyes.

“The flow of mana and the activation process seem to be similar… . What kind of technique is this?

“Why did you put it there?”

In order not to disturb her, I watched Ellen in silence except when she pointed in the direction. Ellen tilted her head for a while, then looked up at me and asked a question.

“Poi, what does that look like?”

“Well, which one?”

“Over there, the one drawn in the center.”

The magic trap was a glowing circle, divided into three major parts.

First, the outermost letters and symbols. They were so small and densely packed that at first glance they looked like patterns on carpet or wallpaper.

Next, large strings engraved the size of a human torso. Strings that appeared to be words or phrases were located in one line at the top, bottom left, and bottom right.

Ellen said that the strings, in that order, mean ‘ground’, ‘noon’, and ‘stand’.

The last one was the symbol located in the center. It was that symbol that Ellen was pointing to with her finger.

I looked at the symbol for a moment and then spoke in an uncertain tone.

“Uh, is it a maple leaf?”

“Doesn’t it look like a flame?”

“flame? uh… It seems like that. “Then does the curling over it represent heat?”

“Hmm.”

Ellen was worried again, but we didn’t have much time.

Gooooooo!

A roar that was enough to make the crypt rumble – it was clearly the roar of the Underlord. He was in a bit of a hurry, but before he knew it, the guy had followed him a short distance away.

“Ellen,”

“Yes, please step aside for a moment.”

As I stepped back, Ellen in my arms began to quietly recite a spell. Then she suddenly shot a spell towards the magic circle.

“In—fridge, dando imbre!”

“Uh oh—”

Whoa!

Before I could even try to stop him, a bluish cold air was already coming out of his hands. It was a ‘Cold Air Spray’ spell, a rank 1 cold skill.

The magic circle that was hit by Ellen’s spell soon glowed brightly and began to emit heat that seemed to cook flesh.

Chii Iik.

As the cold blue wind collided with the shimmering heat, steam spread out with a loud noise. As soon as the magic trap lost its power and disappeared, I asked Ellen, rubbing her startled heart.

“How did you do it? “Have you figured out the magic circle?”

Ellen, who withdrew her hand, shrugged her shoulders and answered.

“I gave it a try, but luckily it was a fire-type spell.”

“•••what? What if it was some other magic?”

“Then there’s nothing we can do.”

I said, suppressing a laugh.

“Hey, where are those irresponsible words? Then,” “I don’t have time to nag.” “I hope you move quickly.”

nagging? This kid… .

Even though I was grumbling to myself, I quickly jumped down the crypt.