Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 237

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 237

159. Vampire Lord (1)

“I’ll count to three.”

Mocking laughter erupted from all directions.

Sure, one of their kind had just fallen from that attack, but could he really face eight vampires alone?

And a human at that?

“Not even funny.”

Vampires are powerful beings.

The fact that they become extremely weak when exposed to sunlight.

The fact that they must periodically consume blood, whether from beasts or humans.

The fact that they have pale appearances too conspicuous for human society and fingernails harder than steel.

Despite numerous disadvantages, they are formidable in combat.

So much so that both empires once used them as nighttime special forces units, luring them with promises of integration into imperial society.

“One.”

Therefore, the eight vampires mocked the boy who stood before them, gripping his spear and folding down one finger.

“Your stupidity just now will bring death to everyone.”

“Two.”

Regardless, Dane folded his second finger and drew up his mana.

At that point, the first vampire to appear felt a strange doubt.

What is that fellow counting on?

Could there be others besides these guys?

Surely… they were intruders after such a long time, so he had checked very thoroughly.

He shook his head inwardly.

Whoever comes, all they’ll have to offer before vampires is their lives.

‘That white nape is quite appealing.’

Just as he was licking his lips while looking at Dane’s pale white neck.

“Three.”

Finally, all of Dane’s fingers were folded.

And-

Whoosh, thunk!

Before anyone realized it, the spear flew and pierced through one vampire’s heart, embedding deeply into the ground.

“Guh, guhk…”

Thud.

The vampire collapsed like a bundle of straw.

It took considerable time for everyone to grasp the situation.

But before that, Dane’s voice was heard.

“As expected, it’s the heart. No different from before.”

So he had faced them before?

The confusion from Dane’s words was brief.

The emotion that arose among the remaining seven vampires was…

Disbelief.

And-

Gulp.

Very faint fear.

“Seven left now.”

With those words, Dane drew his sword.

The Arcanium sword gleamed brilliantly, casting a green light.

“Don’t worry. I’ll leave one alive.”

With those final words, Dane vanished in an instant.

“E-everyone, stay alert!”

He had hidden in the shadows, but they had no way of knowing.

And defense was meaningless anyway.

While they were looking elsewhere, Dane reappeared in his original position and charged through the gap.

Slash!

“Kyaaah!”

He slashed one fellow’s arm and kicked him away, while stabbing another straight through the heart, killing him instantly.

That made three in an instant.

What could this be?

Faster than vampires, more fierce, and above all, without hesitation.

Even when facing enemies greater in number than himself.

Snap.

Then Dane snapped his fingers, and the barrier protecting his companions disappeared.

“Now it’s time to join in.”

His fellows emerged, stretching as if they had been waiting.

Now the numbers were reversed.

At the same time, defeat was no longer a concern.

Because Dane was here.

Thwack!

Ernest started it off.

An arrow lodged into the shoulder of a hesitating vampire.

And as if that was a signal, Leila and Dorian charged in while Priscilla generated a Holy Orb from behind and hurled it.

“Damn it all!”

The vampire who had appeared first screamed.

Vampires are certainly strong.

Among the people here, excluding Leila and Dane, no one could claim victory in a one-on-one fight.

But they had already lost in momentum.

With just one person, Dane, joining the fray.

And what the hell was that sword anyway?

“I blocked… guhk!”

The green sword sliced through fingernails harder than steel like cutting butter, then passed by, slashing the throat.

“Damn! Help me… ahhh!”

As Leila and Dorian finished off the vampire who had been staggering from Priscilla’s Holy Orb…

Now only three remained.

And those three were surrounded just as they had done earlier, unable to advance or retreat.

“It would have been so much better if you had chosen earlier.”

Dane spoke as if genuinely regretful, then swung that green sword through the air to shake off the blood.

Flick.

From the vampires’ perspective, truly precious blood was being wasted.

‘Damn.’

The first vampire to emerge.

The one who had come here under orders to capture the ‘intruders.’

He was conflicted.

Should he resist here and die?

Or preserve his life and plan for the future?

Naturally, he chose the latter.

“I surrender.”

He raised his hands with a rather calm voice.

“Do as you please. Bind my hands or feet. So please, no more of our kind…”

The sight of him unable to continue speaking looked quite pitiful.

But his true intentions were different.

‘While they’re off guard, I’ll transform with polymorph and escape.’

The vampires’ specialty, polymorph.

If he could manage it, he could transform into a small animal for a brief moment and escape the crisis.

Having his limbs bound didn’t really matter.

As long as he had sharp claws.

“Quick to surrender.”

But Dane wasn’t fooled.

“Then hold out your hands.”

“Right, I’ll tie them right…”

“If I look away for even a moment, you’ll try to cut through with your claws. Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

The words that followed were quite shocking to them.

“So I’m going to cut them off.”

“…!”

He meant to completely eliminate any possibility of escape by cutting off their wrists entirely.

Though it sounded cruel, from Dane’s perspective it was only natural…

And it wasn’t actually cruel at all.

“They’ll regenerate in a day or two anyway, won’t they?”

“…”

A human who knew this much about vampires.

And he looked like just a boy.

Naturally, they had no way of knowing that Dane from his previous life had faced vampires on the battlefield.

In the end—

Slice!

“Grraaahhh…”

The three remaining vampires had their wrists cut off and were reduced to groaning in pain.

Dane immediately gathered the severed wrists and ignited flames to burn them completely.

Once they understood the situation, the scene didn’t even look particularly cruel.

Rather, his friends were thinking it was fortunate.

Of course, Dane didn’t let his guard down with this.

“Try any tricks and I’ll cauterize the stumps immediately.”

“…”

He even knew about this.

The two methods to prevent vampire wound regeneration.

One was to inflict wounds with divine power, and the other was to cauterize with fire.

“You, just who are you…”

“Well then, shall we have our little chat now?”

Dane crouched down in front of the three vampires who were kneeling with bewildered expressions, meeting their eyes with a calm look.

“Speak. From when you came here, what you’ve been doing inside, and with what intention you attacked us.”

“…”

“And who else is here besides you.”

As he said this, Dane pressed his sword tip against the throat of the one in front.

“You don’t have to talk.”

“…”

“But then we’ll go searching ourselves. After burying you here.”

At Dane’s words, the vampires’ bodies trembled violently.

The vampires I know are similar to lycanthropes. They were used and abandoned by both empires, and are treated like a kind of plague.

But if there’s a difference, lycanthropes try not to increase their kind while vampires are the opposite.

You could call it an instinct carved into their race.

In the end, because of that instinct, they’re creatures who would have faced the Empire’s oppression in some way.

Though it’s hard to say the Empire’s oppression was unconditionally right.

Anyway, from what I learned—

“So the unknown creatures aren’t vampires after all.”

The timing didn’t match.

The vampires started hiding and living here about 10 years ago.

But the dwarves left Acrium long before that.

“If it were just vampires, they would have defended this place no matter what sacrifices it took.”

At Darbado’s words, who had joined us late, I nodded.

“There’s no reason for the dwarves to flee from mere vampires.”

“How dare you speak of our race like… Hup.”

Swish.

Before he could finish speaking, I thrust my sword right in front of his nose.

“Only answer when asked.”

“I, I understand…”

They had taken Dorian hostage and tried to infect my friends with vampirism.

That alone was reason enough not to treat these bastards with any courtesy.

“I’ll ask again. You established yourselves here 10 years ago and have used it as a base since then.”

“Y, yes.”

“Then how many vampires are there here in total?”

“…”

“There are many ways to find out even if you don’t answer.”

I said this while pointing at the spire.

“For instance, we could collapse that. After collapsing it, we could dig through the rubble and count the number of corpses.”

It was such a terrifying method and completely unimaginable idea that Darbado jumped up in shock.

“Co, collapse the central spire? What are you saying! That place holds all of our dwarven dreams!”

Of course, I had no intention of actually collapsing it. Our purpose for coming here was in there—I’d be crazy to do that.

But thanks to Darbado’s reaction, the vampires seemed to be even more frightened.

“We, we only came here to survive! The Empire, the Empire…”

“Right, abandoned you. Like the lycanthropes.”

“Yes! They promised to give us a place to live and then abandoned us! They even launched subjugation campaigns. That’s why we…”

“But your circumstances aren’t particularly important to me.”

I spoke clearly to them.

“What’s important is the fact that you tried to harm us, and that we all nearly became vampires who’d have to live without seeing sunlight for the rest of our lives.”

“…”

“So cooperate.”

He trembled violently.

Only he would know why he was acting like that, but his internal struggle didn’t last long.

“…Our Lord is on the floor just below the top of the spire.”

Backlash erupted from the other two vampires.

“Damn it, Vaper! To say that now…”

“Vaper, you traitorous bastard…!”

Then Priscilla stepped forward and displayed a Holy Orb in front of the two.

They shut their mouths, and the one called Vaper continued with difficulty.

“…We established ourselves here 10 years ago and very slowly, bit by bit, gathered our kind or… created new ones.”

“New ones?”

“We infected intruders like you.”

“Total numbers?”

“…Exactly 23 inside and outside the spire combined. Though that just decreased by 6.”

So that means 17 in total.

They’re inside the spire too, but it seems they’re randomly opening doors and staying in this empty city.

The traces Darbado and I saw earlier are proof of that.

“Even you wouldn’t be able to face all the remaining kinsmen at once. Especially… our Lord is strong.”

Instead of responding to those words, I asked a different question.

“What is your purpose?”

“…I don’t know. I really don’t know. The Lord said he would someday give us a bright world, but honestly… I think it’s a difficult task.”

At those words, the two vampires subdued by Priscilla tried to shout something, but were immediately suppressed.

“Shut up and stay down, you damn bastards.”

I asked him again.

“Fine. Then let me ask this. Excluding you guys and ‘intruders’ like us, have you seen anything else?”

“…”

“You’re slow to answer.”

It was when my sword moved even closer to his neck, just before cutting his throat.

“Lo, Lord. The Lord would know. I don’t know.”

“The Lord knows?”

“The Lord… I’ve heard him talking. Referring to ‘that person’…”

Then it’s decided.

“Then I just need to ask this Lord fellow.”

I stood up from my spot.

Then came the voice of the guy called Vaper.

“You cannot defeat the Lord.”

At those words, I answered calmly.

“Do you think this Lord can defeat a demon?”

“…What kind of nonsense are you talking?”

I chuckled and stared at the spire.

By the way, how is it…

That whenever I go on an adventure, something always goes wrong somehow in the middle.

Well, I’m used to it now.

Rather, it’s even interesting.

“What are you going to do now, Dane?”

At Leila’s question, I pointed to the spire.

“We have to go there.”

“I thought so.”

Right.

Let’s find out.

What’s happening here, in this Forgotten City.

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