Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 238

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 238

159. Vampire Lord (2)

Vampire Lord Belwood was thinking about the future of his race.

‘How long will we remain buried in this stuffy place.’

As a Vampire Lord, he had a duty to pursue the reproduction and prosperity of his race.

However, it wasn’t easy due to the limitations of the vampire race and the Empire’s long-standing oppression.

Of course, increasing the race’s numbers wasn’t difficult.

If he went out from here and bit any passerby, he could turn 1 out of 10 people into vampires.

But that wasn’t the solution.

The fact that they had to live in hiding wouldn’t change.

‘I’ve done nothing for 10 years. All I’ve done is… adapt somewhat to this underground city.’

The prosperity of the race.

How exactly should he pursue it?

Should he assassinate the Emperor of the Empire?

It was while he was having such thoughts and staring blankly outside the spire.

“…What is that.”

Below the spire, he saw three familiar faces.

He saw several unfamiliar faces.

And the owners of the familiar faces were all kneeling with their wrists severed.

“This is insane.”

Had they been subdued by intruders instead?

This was impossible.

Belwood, who had lived for over 100 years, had never been this flustered.

But this was only the beginning.

“Krwaaaaaaak!”

“Kruuuuuuu!”

Two summoned beasts that suddenly appeared.

“Ete…rak?”

They were actually Eteraks.

And they were glaring this way with their mouths wide open.

Belwood knew.

He knew what would happen the moment the Eteraks attacked this way.

“What, what are those fellows doing!”

Belwood hurriedly assessed the situation and soon realized exactly what was happening.

If he didn’t come out, the spire would collapse.

Probably the kinsmen inside this spire would die, and he couldn’t guarantee his own survival either.

Naturally, those kinsmen kneeling outside with severed wrists would also die.

“Let’s stay calm.”

Belwood gulped down his dry saliva.

But then.

“Krwaaaaak!”

Shuaaaak!

The Eterak’s breath grazed past the spire.

His heart sank for a moment.

“…”

The meaning of that was simple.

Come out right now.

If you don’t come out, we’ll collapse this entire spire.

To make matters worse, that silver-haired fellow who was presumed to have summoned the Eteraks…

“…Wasn’t he a summoner?”

He floated three fireballs in the air.

A spire built with dwarven technology wouldn’t collapse from mere fireballs, but combined with the breath, the story would be different.

This was no way for a Lord to maintain his dignity.

But he had to go out.

“Damn it!”

“Are you crazy? What if it had hit there! That spire means so much to our race! How deep its significance is…”

Darbado kept complaining beside me.

He’d been going “surely not, surely not” since I summoned the Eteraks, and now he was acting like this when the breath actually flew.

“He didn’t seem like he had any intention of coming out otherwise.”

“Even so, still! That spire is…! Of course, it wasn’t built so loosely that it would collapse from just one breath, but still… You, you weren’t really planning to collapse it, were you?”

I just smiled wickedly at those words. Darbado’s face was colored with terror.

“I knew you were crazy, but…”

Of course, I had no intention of collapsing it under normal circumstances.

That was a beautiful architectural structure even by my standards, so it would be a waste.

But if necessary, I would have collapsed it.

It was a dead city anyway, and while it might be important to Darbado, it wasn’t to me.

Most importantly, if that vampire lord fellow kept holding out, I wouldn’t be able to find out anything.

“When Dane says he’ll do something, he’s the type who does it.”

At those words, Darbado looked at the spire with tears in his eyes and let out a sigh of relief.

A bat was flying toward us.

Then it flew to a place not too far from us and transformed into human form.

“Is that fellow the Lord?”

“…That’s right.”

The same black robe.

That must be the vampire lord fellow.

“What is the reason for suddenly invading, killing our kinsmen, and threatening us like this?”

That was his first statement.

I pointed my spear tip toward the three vampires we had captured.

“Thanks to them, we almost died.”

“The invasion was started by you fellows first…”

“This place was originally a dwarven city. Though it’s been forgotten.”

“…”

Of course, I had no intention of having a war of words here.

What mattered here was the logic of power.

“I’ll give you two choices.”

I brought my spear tip to the back of one fellow’s neck.

“Either make the vampire race disappear from here.”

And then point my spear at him again.

“Or cooperate with us obediently and spill everything you know.”

The fellow growled.

“Regardless of the reason, you killed our kinsmen when there aren’t many of us left, so do you think I’ll meekly listen to you?”

Sring!

Ten claws grew from both his hands.

Claws that looked whiter and more powerful than the other fellows’.

“I’ll kill you and make the rest all flow with our blood.”

The fellow approached, and I approached too.

“You wouldn’t know. What the life of each member of our race means.”

I chuckled at those words.

“Those guys tried to kill my friends.”

“Cut the excuses.”

Swish!

He swung his hand through the air.

Sharpness that cut through the void.

Though I was wearing simple armor underneath, it obviously wouldn’t be able to block that.

Of course, I just had to avoid getting hit.

“Looking at that spear reminds me of some crazy killer.”

At his sudden remark, I naturally thought of someone and asked.

“Silver hair, by any chance?”

“….”

He looked at my hair and flinched.

But no further conversation followed.

Tschk!

Because I instantly kicked off the ground and thrust my spear at his neck.

Unfortunately, his claws crossed to block my spear, but his eyes clearly showed bewilderment.

“Hup!”

He deflected my spear and retreated with quite acrobatic movements.

His strength was considerable.

The hardness of his claws seemed incredible too.

As evidence, two scratches appeared on the spearhead that Father had given me as a gift.

“You can’t pierce my claws with that spear.”

He was right.

I couldn’t pierce his claws with this spear.

But I didn’t only have a spear.

I flicked my finger.

Then two Eteraks moved forward, approaching him.

Thud, thud.

Crash!

“O-our city….”

There was a minor accident where houses got in the way and collapsed, but it was enough to fluster him.

“Damn it.”

I didn’t summon them just to stand around as decorations all day.

I had to put them to use, didn’t I?

“Kraaaak!”

One Eterak breathed out its breath, and he hastily deployed a defensive barrier.

As expected, he was one who used magic.

I knew he’d block it.

“Krgh!”

But it didn’t look like he could last long.

Actually, battles between summoned beasts and humans were almost impossible to establish.

Because their weight classes were completely different.

However, due to the duration being inversely proportional to size, summoners couldn’t maintain such gigantic summoned beasts for very long.

“Why, why isn’t the breath ending!”

So I was the unusual one.

“How many minutes did Dane maintain Eterak?”

“Last time in the monster subjugation battle, he maintained it for almost over an hour. While using magic freely too.”

“…Does that even make sense?”

“Just don’t question things like that? It’s Dane. Dane just did something ‘Dane-like.'”

While I could hear my friends whispering behind me, I just shrugged my shoulders and looked at the Lord fellow.

It seemed he was having a hard time holding out much longer.

“Krghh….”

If he slipped up there, his body would melt away from the acidic breath and then some.

Being a vampire, he’d probably recover to some extent with regenerative power comparable to lycanthropes, but that wouldn’t bring him victory.

“Are you going to keep doing that?”

“…Damn! Stop it, I said stop!”

He finally declared surrender, and I withdrew Eterak’s attack.

“Kruuuu….”

Eterak’s sigh sounded almost regretful.

But for all that, the vampire Lord’s condition didn’t look very good.

As if proving that it would have been serious if I’d been even a little late, both his arms were corroded.

“Damn… I thought you were just simple intruders….”

He looked at me with a resigned expression and raised both hands.

“Do as you please.”

But I didn’t trust those words and chuckled.

“Put away whatever you’re gathering behind your back first.”

“….”

I saw it.

Him flinching.

And the energy gathering behind his back fluctuating.

And sure enough—

“Die!”

The pitch-black flames that had been forming behind his back flew toward me.

About the size of a pumpkin.

But the power of those black flames was extraordinary.

Once they caught fire, due to the vampire’s mana, they could never be extinguished by ordinary means.

I had seen those flames on the battlefield and witnessed how those engulfed by them died.

But—

“Karnas.”

I was with a fellow who could breathe even stronger flames.

“Kiruuuuuk!”

A stream of fire shot out from Karnas’s mouth as he poked just his head out from my chest—

Whoosh!

The moment it collided with the black flames, it wrapped around them and completely devoured them.

And those black flames, just like when I faced the secret organization fellow in the Habarosk Mountain Range….

“T-this is impossible!”

Having devoured the opponent’s flames, they flew away as they were, and this time I didn’t save him.

Because he was a vampire.

Crash!

“….”

“….”

Silence from behind.

Thick smoke and the smell of burning flesh from the front.

Which side would make a sound first?

“…Kgh. Cough.”

Naturally, from the front.

He wasn’t dead.

Being a vampire Lord, there was no way he’d have no resistance to flames made of their own mana.

Though perhaps because Karnas’s flames were too strong….

“My, my goodness.”

“Half his body is gone….”

The fellow’s body was almost half burned and melted away.

The only reason he was managing to stay alive was because he was a vampire, and a Vampire Lord at that.

“Kueok…. Keok.”

I approached the fellow who was writhing in agony, and he was trembling all over without even thinking of resisting.

“What… exactly are you….”

Eyes full of disbelief.

Then those eyes turned toward my hair instead of my face.

“Silver hair… Spear Arts… No… it can’t be….”

Vampires had participated in the last war.

Both Empires had mobilized vampires.

So naturally, the vampires would have seen Father wielding his spear like a storm on the battlefield.

“Are you perhaps….”

“Dane Sogress. The eldest son of the Sogress Count House.”

At my words, the fellow’s eyes trembled, and then one of Father’s famous nicknames came out.

“…Ha, so you’re the son of the Mad Butcher.”

That’s right.

“You should have recognized me sooner.”

I chuckled and sheathed my spear.

The combat was over.

Now, it was time to extract secrets.

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