The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 191

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Episode 191
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I had been toyed with in Helena’s palm.
There was no doubt about it.
That smirk playing across her face as she looked at me.
Even the tone of her greeting.
Everything mirrored that final moment when she had manipulated me before.
The instant Lazard faced Helena, an illusion of despair engulfed him as if he were plummeting into an abyss.
An impulse to declare defeat right then and there.
Such a compulsion seized him.
Yet Lazard was no fool.
The power emanating from Helena was remarkably faint.
Compared to the other Minions, it was overwhelmingly potent.
But even so, it paled in comparison to what it had been in the past.
‘Helena is different from before.’
He grasped this truth swiftly.
In the past, the moment she appeared, an aura of absolute dominion should have descended upon everything.
The fact that it hadn’t was proof of this change.
This was an opportunity instead.
Now!
As hope returned to Lazard.
Sebastian too perceived it with equal speed.
The fact that Helena was different from her past self!
“Sebastian!!!”
“Yes!!! I await your command!!!”
“Slay that wicked woman, our sworn enemy!!!”
“Yes!!!”
Sebastian answered with resounding vigor while Lazard issued his command.
Helena smiled knowingly at the two of them.
Then, in a seductive murmur, she spoke softly.
“Honestly, even I didn’t foresee things turning out like this. Even the gods couldn’t have predicted such an outcome.”
At that dulcet voice, Sebastian heightened his vigilance and, realizing the abyss blooming beneath his feet, swung his blade.
Yet he could not dispatch all the grasping hands erupting from the abyss.
Seized by the sudden manifestations of abyssal hands, Sebastian struggled to break free.
In that instant, the ceiling flashed brilliantly.
Countless spears of light materialized and pierced downward toward Sebastian.
Thud, thud, thud, thud!
“Cough!”
Sebastian, a Minion forged from all of Lazard’s power.
Yet he grew progressively weaker beneath the onslaught of those spears of light.
Watching this, Helena murmured to herself.
“So you’re weak against celestial power after all?”
Helena, cloaked in celestial energy, attempted to summon even more celestial skills.
Lazard cried out at the sight.
“No, how can an Overlord wield celestial power…!?!?”
“Hmm?”
Helena responded to Lazard’s words with a puzzled tone.
“I’m not an Overlord anymore, though?”
“…What?”
At Helena’s words,
Lazard let out a dumbfounded sound.
The current Overlord is Yoo Sung-hyun.
And Helena is already a dead being.
Though she has been resurrected in the Mortal Realm, she has lost all her authority and power.
Yet despite manifesting with the very essence of a lord intact,
Lazard stared upward with trembling eyes at the celestial light appearing above the ceiling, unable to believe it.
Celestial light—vulnerable to vampires born from blood and darkness.
As that brilliance, brighter than the sun itself, poured down,
Sebastian, who had been standing there, left no sound as he crumbled to dust and vanished.
Facing his final defeat, Lazard looked at Helena with an expression of utter absurdity and spoke.
“I was played with in your hands until the very end.”
“Hmm, that’s not really true though.”
Helena spoke with a somewhat aggrieved tone.
Lazard, watching her fade away, spoke as he disappeared.
“What exactly are you trying to create…”
“Create? How rude. My Yoo Sung-hyun is already a completed masterpiece.”
Helena said so with a slight smile.
Upon hearing those words, Lazard nodded his head.
At the same time, he spoke.
“An Over… lord. A lord capable of commanding all lords.”
With those final words, Lazard, like Sebastian before him, transformed into ash and vanished.
Only a blood sphere glowing with deep crimson light remained floating in that space.
He disappeared, leaving nothing else behind.
Lazard, who had vanished so anticlimactically at the end.
Yoo Sung-hyun watched this and wondered if it was finally over.
Then the blood sphere glowing with deep crimson light flew toward him.
Whoosh!
The deep crimson blood sphere flew swiftly toward him.
He wondered if it was an attack, but since Helena made no move to stop it, Yoo Sung-hyun remained still.
The deep crimson blood sphere flew toward him and—
was absorbed into Yoo Sung-hyun.
Then.
Countless messages flooded Yoo Sung-hyun’s vision, dizzying in their profusion.
[Third class advancement completed.]
[The blood of the former Overlord, Helena, left behind in the Blood Lord, Lazard, is transmitted to you in its entirety.]
[The power of the past Overlord is inherited.]
[The power of the past has been successfully inherited.]
[The authority of the Overlord activates.]
[The power of the Blood Lord, Lazard, mixed within the blood of the former Overlord, Helena, is subjugated.]
[A reward is granted.]
[As a third class advancement reward, the job-exclusive Almighty-grade skill, Bloodsucking, which was deferred, is acquired.]
[As a third class advancement reward, the job-exclusive Almighty-grade skill, Blood Lord, is acquired.]
[As a third class advancement reward, the job-exclusive Almighty-grade item, Codex of Blood, is acquired.]
‘Huh.’
I let out a deflating breath, astonished.
Two Almighty-grade skills and one Almighty-grade item.
They said third class advancement was a major turning point.
It was true.
I had obtained all of it.
Yet I was perplexed.
These skills were somewhat different from before.
They were related to blood, certainly.
‘Bloodsucking?’
My race wasn’t even vampire.
Perplexed, I immediately checked the details.
First, Bloodsucking.
『Bloodsucking』
→《Almighty》
→[Lv 1][Growth-type]
[Passive Effect][Composite]
[Cooldown: 1 minute]
Blood contains all life, all death within it.
The lord who claims it shall claim all that dwells within.
→Exclusive skill for Overlords.
→You can perform bloodsucking.
→Upon bloodsucking, you can temporarily borrow the target’s physical attributes or abilities.
→Upon bloodsucking, you can recover health and mana proportional to the amount drained.
→Upon bloodsucking, you can temporarily afflict the target with the ‘Confusion’ status.
‘Oh?’
Was this the skill Helena had mentioned?
I can temporarily borrow their physique or abilities.
In other words.
‘I can temporarily become a vampire, can’t I?’
It won’t be as easy as transforming completely into Fiora.
But it should give a similar sensation.
Of course, beyond the transformation effect, it was quite exceptional.
There’s health and mana recovery, and it can even put opponents into a confused state.
It truly was a skill befitting an Almighty-grade ability.
A remarkably interesting skill.
With status ailments combined with health and mana recovery.
Most importantly.
‘The cooldown is short.’
It’s an absolutely absurd skill.
Such utility with a short cooldown at that.
This is what an Almighty-grade skill should be.
Yoo Sung-hyun was about to move on to the next skill, Lord of Blood.
Now that I think about it, there was another skill with “Lord” in its name before Lord of Blood.
‘It was Lord of the Abyss’s Terror, wasn’t it?’
A skill that stains with fear and recovers health and mana accordingly.
It was likewise an Almighty-grade skill.
I wondered what this Lord of Blood would be like.
As Yoo Sung-hyun checked the skill with anticipation.
『Lord of Blood』
→《Almighty》
→[Lv 1][Growth-type]
[Persistent Effect][Passive]
The lord of all things shall make even other lords their own.
The lords themselves shall bow their heads.
→Exclusive skill for Overload.
→Become the ruler of all bloodkin.
→Absorb bloodkin to enhance your power.
→Grant power to absorbed bloodkin.
*Current number of absorbed bloodkin: 0
“Huh?”
The Lord of Blood’s effects were simpler than I expected.
Even simpler than Lord of the Abyss’s Terror.
Reading through each effect.
‘Absorb vampires to gain their power?’
It’s an even better skill than I imagined.
A skill truly befitting a lord, I’d say.
In other words, Yoo Sung-hyun had now acquired the power of the Blood Lord.
I scratched my cheek as I observed this.
‘Is this right?’
An effect this broken?
As I pondered this.
“Congratulations. You’ve already obtained the power of three or more Lords.”
“Ah.”
If I counted the Lord of the Abyss’s Terror, three was correct.
I nodded in acknowledgment.
Helena spoke.
“From what I can tell, the Lord of the Abyss’s Terror is still sealed, so you’ll have another chance to obtain it later.”
“I see.”
“The Blood Lord is quite good in its own right, so use it well.”
At Helena’s words, I looked at it again, wondering if this was merely decent.
It’s incredibly good.
This is just decent?
“Of course. The Lord of the Abyss’s Terror alone is far superior to something like the Blood Lord.”
“…Is that so?”
“Yes, you can look forward to it.”
At Helena’s words, I was momentarily taken aback.
The Lord of the Abyss’s Terror was even better.
Since it was still sealed.
Let’s move on.
But there was something else that bothered me.
The part about becoming the ruler of vampires.
Come to think of it, I’d heard that vampires existed among the users.
Rather than a race you could select from the start.
Should I call it a hidden race?
I had a faint memory of hearing about it.
‘Then what happens to those users?’
Could I absorb them as well?
Such thoughts naturally arose.
But I didn’t dwell on it deeply.
‘I’ll find out when I meet them.’
And finally.
An Almighty-grade item, the Codex of Blood.
『Codex of Blood』
→《Almighty》
→An ancient tome of blood passed down through the ages to the Lords of Blood.
→Though it has been inherited through generations, no Blood Lord has ever been able to discern its true origin.
→Only the owner of the Lord of Blood can use this.
→Upon acquisition, you can learn any Blood-series skill of your choice.
→After acquisition, every 10 levels you can learn an additional Blood-series skill of your choice.
→Merely possessing it increases the power of Blood-series skills by +20%.
*Effect applies when in inventory.
*Normally, only Unique-grade skills can be acquired.
*Legendary-grade skills can be acquired in increments of 100.
It was an item remarkably similar to the Overlord’s Grimoire.
However.
‘Blood-series skills?’
It would boost the power of the Blood-series skills I already possessed.
And I could develop my Blood-series skill build even further going forward.
Without needing to choose the Overlord’s Grimoire.
‘Heh.’
I marveled at the considerable potential of this item.
Several crucial skills for my Blood build immediately came to mind, and I smiled.
This could actually be quite entertaining.
[World-wide Announcement]
[Notice]
「We announce a large-scale event occurring across 『all Labyrinth Regions』.
Based on East Asia Server time (Seoul, South Korea), the event begins tomorrow at 6:00 PM.
The event is titled 『Awakened Bloodkin』.
『Awakened Bloodkin』 will appear in the Labyrinth.
They are exceptional vampires who may establish themselves within the Labyrinth. Or perhaps they may leave the Labyrinth and migrate to new territory.
Unlike monsters that spawn in the Labyrinth, 『Awakened Bloodkin』 can escape from it.
The level of 『Awakened Bloodkin』 that escape the Labyrinth fluctuates rapidly and grows increasingly powerful.
Do your utmost to contain the 『Awakened Bloodkin』 spreading in all directions!
Within the Labyrinth, 『Awakened Bloodkin』 follow the Labyrinth’s level.
Each time you subjugate 『Awakened Bloodkin』, you receive merit points according to their strength.
Eliminate as many of the 『Calamity Legion』 as possible and claim your merit point rewards.
The user who achieves 1st place in merit points will receive three Legendary-grade rewards.
We appreciate your participation.
Thank you.
-E-World Administration-」
Upon reading that, I smiled.
I had just acquired a skill related to bloodkin.
And now they were offering an event tied to it?
‘I wonder if I’m even eligible to participate?’
I harbored that slight concern.
But if that were the case, wouldn’t I have received a separate message?
Yoo Sung-hyun smiled at that thought.
Then shall I prepare for the event happening tomorrow?

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