Rust - Chapter 835



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RUST -835

Pain that comes late.

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Thanks to the vampire’s unique regenerative powers, the bleeding stopped in an instant, and a phantom pain occurred behind the wound. It felt like it wasn’t cut even though it was cut.

It was a pain I had never felt since I became a new human, and a noble at the very top. Even when I was human, I had never experienced this kind of pain.

The count’s gaze turned to his severed arm lying on the floor. If it had been cut cleanly, it would have been easy to just reattach it. The upper arm was gone, as if it had been eaten by something.

This wasn’t swordsmanship.

What the guy was holding looked like a knife, but it wasn’t a knife.

A sense of crisis that makes your hair stand on end.

Can you stop that?

It was impossible. It would have been torn off like my right arm.

My right arm was torn off, but if I hadn’t reflexively dodged, my neck might have been blown off.

‘It’s clear. It was after my neck.’

As the yellow blade bounced, I remembered the strange smell I had smelled. It was a foul smell, like rotting food waste or something musty and rotten.

The count touched his shoulder where the bleeding had stopped. He had thought it was the ticklish sensation caused by the wound rapidly healing, but that was not the case.

‘Is it a poison?’

The new humans were virtually immune to most bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Of course, tetanus was out of the question.

But what is this ticklish feeling?

It took only a blink of an eye for the count’s expression to turn pale with fear, and then his dominance turned into a mental wave that swept over the surroundings.

The cannibals who had been attacking from the rear were influenced by this and became even more rampant. They charged forward without caring if their limbs were stabbed or shot, and the formation of the imperial army collapsed.

“Stop it!”

“Hold me from behind so I don’t get cut off in front!”

Kwaaaaah!

“These kids are all crazy!”

“Why are they like this all of a sudden?”

“It’s the head!”

“Blow my head off!”

“Take an axe, a shovel, or whatever, and hit the head!”

“—shit, it’s pierced! Damage!”

The cannibals who had broken their formation ignored the imperial army before their eyes and rushed towards where the count was.

The cannibals were out of their minds, like piranhas rushing madly at raw meat dropped into a calm lake.

Cannibals blindly rush in as if they forgot everything, whether a bullet hit their back or not, or whether the cannibal running next to them got his head blown off.

“Lord. Kill it! Kill it!”

The Count pointed to the empty space with his left hand. It was a space where nothing could be seen, but the cannibals threw themselves toward that space.

Maru, who didn’t care about the cannibal rushing at him like a ogre, looked at Newclips with slightly suspicious eyes.

[You turned it on a little at the end, right?]

Newclips shivered slightly as if nothing had happened.

‘Look at this kid. He understands what I say.’

Seeing a response this quick suggests that you can understand what is being said, or at least read the emotions contained in the words.

[I told you to drink it, not eat it?]

A vibration, as if it were a grumbling complaint, was felt from the handle.

[What’s so unfair about it? Do you want to eat shit?]

The blade is about half as long as the Eclipse, but it has the ability to chew up as much space as the shortened length, so the range is similar or longer.

Newclips cries as if it is absolutely not true.

[Okay. Watch? You can eat the ones coming in now.]

Really? Really? Newclips sends out vibrations mixed with joy.

[Okay. Eat as much as you want.]

Kwaaaaaaaah!

Kwoooooooooo!

The evil cries of cannibals who had lost their senses. The heads of the cannibals that had been surging toward the space where Maru was hiding began to be chewed off.

Kkujik- Kkuadduk!

The Nuclipse, which would flap and twist and tear off the heads of cannibals no matter how carelessly you swung it. With just one swing, dozens of cannibals lost their heads with that single short swing.

Even as their comrades lost their heads and fell before their eyes, the cannibals did not stop. They could not stop. This was because they could not escape the Count’s control.

Kujik-

Kujijijik-

Kkuddeuk-

Nuclipse, who was tearing off the cannibal’s head saying it was good, added to the trembling. And the cannibal lost its head in the trembling and was thrown back, splattering blood drops in all directions.

[Hey. You should have eaten it without splattering blood.]

Newclips paused at Maru’s words.

As the shape of the floor appeared red, the Count raised his voice.

“It’s him. Kill him.”

The count, who had picked up his arm that had fallen to the floor, screamed loudly. Once again, a powerful sense of dominance swept through the area.

As soon as they saw their target, the cannibals’ floor, which had been briefly hesitant, they began to charge at them again with tenacity.

[Imperial forces. Move.]

Maru’s brow furrowed as he checked the image that appeared on the HUD along with the report from the assistant AI. It was because the Imperial Army was slowly retreating behind.

‘Look at my personality. Get out of here?’

I decided to save you, so I did save you… But this was a bit too much.

Shouldn’t we call it a show of fighting together at this point? If you draw aggro like this, it can be quickly ended if you intervene. Are you just going to leave now?

There’s no way that the old man would give the order knowing that he would have a long tail. Was it an order given by the field commander?

‘What···. Okay-‘

It was the Empire’s fate to choose such a retard commander. If it had been a truly dangerous situation, then Maru thought there was no need to say anything since Naruzu was waiting.

‘I guess I should avoid getting involved if possible.’

By watching what the Imperial Army commanders did, one could guess what the Imperial Army military was thinking.

‘then···.’

Maru suppressed the rampaging Newclips. In an instant, Newclips, who had chewed on the heads of over a hundred cannibals, was unable to calm down and flinched in Maru’s grasp.

[Hey. Shit knife.]

At those words, Nuclipse stiffens quietly. Taking advantage of the gap where Nuclipse’s fluttering stopped, Maru’s murderous intent burrows into the approaching cannibal.

The murderous intent that had accumulated by killing hundreds of millions of living creatures spread like vines in all directions. It seemed as if the murderous intent that could not be seen with the eyes was visible.

Death that was entangled like vines and tentacles, encroaching on all sides. It was a death that was no longer life but a typified death.

Even the cannibals who had lost their senses stopped moving as death gripped their entire bodies. The cannibals barely managed to endure the shock that would have killed an ordinary person instantly.

Shut up—

Wow—

The sight of the fierce struggle slowly dying down like a dying flame.

Crushing death.

Death is coming.

It was definitely death.

coup—

Woohoo

The first wave that crashed into the deck turned into dead foam, and the second wave lost its strength and collapsed.

[······.]

It was certain. As the deaths piled up, it was clear that something was changing. Maru was able to confirm what he had only thought of as a feeling.

‘The more you kill, the stronger your will to live becomes.’

Should I call this killing? Something that goes beyond the mere intent to kill, but kills the moment you think about killing.

A power that could instantly kill a cannibal who had lost his mind. And it wasn’t just a simple power. It felt like vines or tentacles were tangling the enemy.

The aura of death that had been like a flowing fog was now materialized, sweeping through all directions and harvesting life.

Maru held his breath at the strange sensation.

‘stop.’

The writhing death slowly began to disappear as if it was regrettable.

◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘

The count muttered with a shocked look on his face.

“···A king?”

“He was really a king?”

“Was what Joseph Meyer said true?”

The count was trembling as he held the sword tightly in his hand, wondering when he would regenerate his devoured right arm.

[What does that mean, king?]

“···Stop it!”

The Count, who had blocked the way in front of Maru with the surviving cannibals, ran desperately towards the open space. His movements were so fast that an afterimage was visible for a moment.

The imperial army was already standing far away, blankly watching. Even as the vampire ran away, they just watched with the space open.

Maru swung his Nuclipse at the cannibal blocking his way. The Nuclipse swung quietly without flinching, as if it was dead.

The sword that devoured space cut down dozens of cannibals in one stroke. Maru immediately gave an order to Naruzu.

[The guy runs away. Be careful because you need to extract information from his head.]

[yes.]

[Please leave it to me.]

[Ordered by Oraburning]

[Gyaaaah- It’s the king.]

[Head. Head. Be careful of your head.]

[Don’t emphasize the hair.]

[So what if a girl shoots someone in the head?]

[That’s right. There was a weird year.]

[Anyway, I won’t investigate everything after I catch the vampire this time.]

[Let’s catch it. If we catch it, there might be another reward.]

[A date with the king?]

[Dinner with Oraburning?]

[Gyaaaaaaah!]

Maru quietly changed the communication channel and called the escort.

[Pack up the living ones and send them to the research lab. Extract information from the ones with a sound mind. Gather the dead ones and burn them.]

[ancient.]

As the escort began to clear the battlefield, communications came in from the Imperial forces far away.

[The Imperial Commander has requested communication. Should I connect?]

[no.]

Maru refused to communicate with the Imperial Commander, because it was obvious that he would be talking nonsense if he saw what he was doing.

[The Imperial Army demands the spoils.]

[what?]

[The Imperial Army is demanding the cannibal corpses, claiming that they are the property of the Empire.]

Yeah, just like now.

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The adjutant of the Rapid Deployment Force could not understand his commander’s actions.

When the King of the Holy Kingdom drew the attention of the cannibals, he could have finished them off quickly by striking from the side. Then he retreated his army and opened up some distance, and when the battle was over, he suggested that they split the spoils.

It was a battle in which the Rapid Deployment Forces would have been annihilated if Vladimir Kalin had not come, and it was completely incomprehensible to talk about achievements to the enemy who saved the imperial forces.

“So you’re saying our request was denied?”

“Commander, they saved the Imperial Army.”

“Who denied that? What was rescued was rescued, and the spoils our soldiers fought for were spoils of war. Above all, they didn’t rescue us for free.”

“yes?”

It was the commander who knew the situation and when he communicated with the home country.

“The Führer and the King of the Holy Kingdom made a deal over Canada. The Empire would help us if we kept our hands off Canada.”

“······.”

The commander looked sharply at the Holy Kingdom escort and Vladimir Kalin, who were clearing the battlefield.

“Did you see that a little while ago? The King of the Holy Kingdom slaying a cannibal···.”

“······.”

The scene of cannibals dying helplessly during a seizure. It was something I couldn’t believe even though I saw it with my own eyes. It was like a vision of vines or tentacles made of death squeezing out life.

“If I hadn’t withdrawn my troops, our troops would have been caught up in that strange phenomenon.”

The adjutant was momentarily dumbfounded by the commander’s words.

Wasn’t it because they pulled back the army and used that power? Would it have been the same even if they had supported it instead of pulling back? I wanted to ask, but the adjutant kept his mouth shut.

The commander added, perhaps because he had guessed the adjutant’s thoughts or was conscious of the officers around him.

“The most important thing is the results. Since the military has been defeated, we have been able to see the hidden abilities of Vladimir Kalin. This is important information.”

Several officers nodded in agreement. Then, looking into each officer’s eyes, the commander spoke.

“Perhaps the King of the Holy Kingdom is not human.”

It was clearly an illusion, but the power of that death was shocking in itself. I couldn’t believe that a human being could have such power.

“According to the dead Virginia president, the author may be the king of cannibals.”

The scene of the terrorist attack targeting Den Brown and the Imperial Council. The story that happened there. The will of Joseph Meyer, who said that Maru was the king of the new human race, began to spread little by little.

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The Count had increased his power. He had clearly unleashed a power that could seduce even humans, but the Imperial Army was not working.

Why?

This happened because they didn’t know that the Holy Kingdom had handed over the technology to counter the cannibals’ dominance to the Empire.

The Count, who had passed through the breached encirclement, intentionally moved in the direction of the Imperial Army. The Imperial Army retreated and avoided combat, but the Count avoided the situation by maintaining a distance that allowed him to jump into the Imperial Army at any time.

‘Is there any equipment that can counter the dominance?’

The count’s thoughts became complicated as he thought that those who were extracting information from the empire had missed such important information.

‘It’s important to escape now.’

I thought this was a chance to take over the Holy Kingdom in one go, but it wasn’t. The information I thought was certain was full of holes, and most importantly, the information about Vladimir Kalin was a mess.

‘You crazy kids.’

Are you using me? The count’s face distorted.

Perhaps the emotional turmoil had dulled the vampire’s senses, but the Count was unaware of Naruzu’s movements as he pursued him from afar.

Ppop!

At the same time, the Count, who had holes in both of his knee joints, fell forward with a thud. Even in that split second of falling, a bullet struck his hip bone and spine.

[I got it right.]

[me too.]

[I’m an ass.]

[What a shame, I shot the butt.]

[Let’s go quickly. I told you that it’s a vampire and will regenerate quickly.]

[I’ll cut your neck.]

[That’s funny.]

[Hey. Let’s stop and start cutting off the arms and legs first, and then decide separately about cutting off the head.]

The count looked like he was going crazy.