The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 356

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Episode 356
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The Intelligence Knights who rushed forward seemed to charge at Sung-hyun first, but suddenly they unleashed their attacks toward the crimson blood droplets that materialized before them.
They judged it an obstacle and decided to breach it first.
And that judgment proved excellent.
Sung-hyun snapped his fingers as he watched them rush toward his blood droplets.
The crimson droplets erupted with an ominous black aura, transforming into awls that stretched like needles through the air toward the knights.
Awls that elongated like the legendary staff from ancient tales.
The Intelligence Knights moved with remarkable speed and dodged every single awl as if they were shadows.
Though they were numerous, they lacked the skill to withstand such linear, straightforward movements.
Once they had evaded everything, the Intelligence Knights charged directly at Sung-hyun.
Whoosh! Bang!
As the Intelligence Knights closed the distance in an instant, blood droplets materialized once more before them, and this time vivid crimson blood appeared, transforming into blood blades that boasted razor-sharp edges and shot toward them.
Whirrr!
Faced with hundreds of blades that appeared in a flash, the Intelligence Knights retreated and raised their swords to block them.
Though they fell back, Haldrin observed the awls still maintained in the air and unfolded his swordplay infused with a shadow-like aura.
The shadow-like aura stretched like the elongated shadow before the sun, sweeping across the surroundings in an instant, and the crimson awls shattered into fragments.
Certainly impressive skill—Sung-hyun’s eyes gleamed with interest.
“Wow, that’s incredible.”
Baren, who merely observed the situation, spoke thus.
His viewers could only nod in agreement without complaint.
-Wow, that brief exchange just now was incredibly intense;;;
-I can only admire it.
I’m honestly shocked at how much psychology was packed into that brief exchange.
-Insane. But who are those guys?
-No clue? The Demon King said they were the Intelligence Knight Order???
-Does anyone know????
The viewers were equally excited by the appearance of these powerful new combatants.
They had anticipated a battle with the boss, but suddenly this confrontation emerged.
For the viewers, there was no better situation than this.
Meanwhile, Haldrin, unable to close the distance at all, gestured in resignation, and the Intelligence Knights suddenly began to line up in a single file before charging toward Sung-hyun.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
The distance closed rapidly.
Sung-hyun, observing this, acknowledged their approach and drew his blood forth once more.
A fierce torrent of blood swirled and pressured the Intelligence Knights, but the first to hold their ground fell back, and one by one they retreated in turn until finally, when only Haldrin remained, he reached the range where he could strike at Sung-hyun.
As Haldrin swung his sword, Sung-hyun’s body transformed into blood in an instant, and the blood coalesced in one of the spaces swept by the torrent.
There, Sung-hyun appeared.
Blood Lord.
In other words, Sung-hyun, who could be called the emperor of vampires.
Such feats were possible for him.
What I’ve shown so far has merely been applications of offense, but if we continue from here, the methods of attack become boundless.
For instance.
The crimson blood swirled and coalesced.
“Oh, so this works too.”
As Yoo Sung-hyun murmured to himself, the blood condensed and soon took the form of four human figures.
Each person formed from that blood bore Yoo Sung-hyun’s likeness, appearing as though they were clones of him.
However, each wielded different weapons—one held a staff gleaming with crimson light, another a spear shimmering in blood-red, and the remaining two gripped a sword and bow both radiant with that same sanguine hue.
Two at range, one at mid-range, one at close range.
Haldrin, observing this, narrowed his eyes and assessed the threat.
Though his emotions had been stripped away, he understood well that the situation had turned disadvantageous.
With caution, he signaled with a glance and gathered with the Intelligence Knights.
Though they all wielded swords and didn’t seem to think themselves outmatched, they immediately clustered together and charged forward.
And the moment they rushed in, the blood clones Yoo Sung-hyun had created moved in kind.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
Clang clang clang—
The blood clones moved with swift, crisp motions, their speed slightly faster, and it was the spear clone that charged first.
The spear clone rushed forward, leveraging its superior reach to thrust at one of the Intelligence Knights.
One of the Intelligence Knights saw this and swung his sword to deflect the strike.
But as the extended spear pressed down like a weight, the sword clone surged forward with it, and another Intelligence Knight hastily moved to intercept the sword clone.
Clang—!
With a sharp metallic ring, the Intelligence Knight who blocked the sword clone felt a tingling in his wrist and quickly retreated backward.
Simultaneously, as the first Intelligence Knight the spear clone had targeted moved to cut down the sword clone, something pierced through with a sharp whistle, forcing the Knight to fall back.
Whoosh—.
A crimson arrow pierced through the very spot where the Intelligence Knight had just stood, its passage marked by a keen, cutting sound.
Another Intelligence Knight attempted to attack that position, but blood magic erupted from behind, disrupting even that effort.
Haldrin, observing the battle’s progression, furrowed his brow deeply.
Each individual clone alone possessed skill comparable to the Intelligence Knights.
Yet whenever he attempted to advance, the two ranged clones behind would interfere.
The two focused their harassment on Haldrin specifically, while the remaining close and mid-range clones engaged the other three, with the two ranged clones frequently providing support to maintain an even balance.
Clang—!
Clang clang clang—!!!
As the battle dragged on longer than anticipated, Haldrin judged that this could not continue and issued an order to the Intelligence Knights.
“Take the elixir!”
With that cry, Haldrin swiftly moved to block the spear and sword clones while also intercepting the ranged clones’ harassment, allowing the three remaining Intelligence Knights to fall back, each retrieving a small elixir vial they had brought and pouring it into their mouths.
The elixir Haldrin had originally intended to use.
The moment they consumed it.
The Intelligence Knights’ momentum exploded outward in a sudden surge.
“Wow, even that works lol.”
-They’re literally doping themselves???
-What the!??!
-Is that a drug? What even is that???
-??????That looks like something Demon followers use???
-I’ve seen something like that before;;;
Several viewers were able to identify what it was upon seeing it.
A drug that explosively increased demonic energy for a certain duration.
However, once that time ended, it was a forbidden substance that caused one to lose all vitality at once.
And.
-If it’s the Intelligence Knight Order, aren’t those guys from the Riescan Kingdom?
Does that sound right?
-Wait, they just took a short-term drug used by Demon followers from there????
-Wow, what kind of major plot twist is this????
Viewers who recognized them as the Intelligence Knight Order from the Riescan Kingdom.
The Intelligence Knights were unaware of this, but they exerted themselves with all their might to somehow achieve a decisive victory.
Though they lost one vial, Haldrin also stepped back and retrieved a short-term drug he had set aside separately, consuming it as well.
As demonic energy explosively leaked from Haldrin, he looked at Yoo Sung-hyun and the others and spoke.
“Kuhehe. Now that you’ve seen this, I have no choice but to kill you all.”
“Hmm, when did you ever pretend you were going to spare us?”
Normally, Yoo Sung-hyun would use formal speech even with enemies, but having known these bastards so well.
And knowing what atrocities they had committed, Yoo Sung-hyun was speaking casually to them.
And Yoo Sung-hyun spoke with genuine disgust toward them.
“I know well about that short-term drug.”
“Kuhehe, then you must understand what state I’m in right now.”
Haldrin spoke, feeling omnipotence from his increased power, regardless of Yoo Sung-hyun’s words.
However, Yoo Sung-hyun shook his head as if he found it tedious, looking at them.
Was the reason I took that drug in the first place because I was wary of some unknown enhancement?
It wasn’t.
“I took it knowing full well because once you reach that state, it becomes far too dull.”
“Hmph, you’re drowning in arrogance.”
“A drug that allows demonic energy to penetrate the bloodstream and temporarily turns one into a Demon, right?”
“…Even if you know that, it’s useless….”
“And what am I currently manipulating?”
“…What?”
Haldrin let out a stupid sound at Yoo Sung-hyun’s question.
And Yoo Sung-hyun extended his hand toward Haldrin and the Intelligence Knights.
As the battle continued, they sustained minor wounds, and I had already mixed my blood into theirs during the fighting.
And as a result.
After absorbing all the demonic energy in their blood with my own blood and extracting it from their bodies.
As the blood condensed with demonic energy drained from their bodies, the awakening effect disappeared, leaving only weakened figures behind.
Seeing this, I let out a small sigh and spoke.
“I told you it would become dull.”
“C-cough, cough. This… this can’t be…”
Watching them speak that way, I shook my head and turned to Helena.
“I’ll need to have a conversation with these people later. Can I ask you to handle them?”
“Of course.”
Helena smiled brightly at my words, and without moving a single finger, she summoned an abyss beneath them.
As the abyssal tendrils that suddenly materialized seized them and dragged them into the depths of the abyss, something shifted.
The Intelligence Knight Order members, who moments ago had appeared emotionally drained and vitally depleted, suddenly reacted differently.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
“S-save me!!!”
“W-where are you taking us!!!”
“Gaaahhhhh!!!”
The abyss drew forth all of humanity’s primal terrors, and the emotions they thought had been stripped away slowly surfaced from the depths of their consciousness.
But they were already being pulled into the abyss, and I muttered with regret.
“Hmm, I didn’t get to fully test Blood Lord yet…”
At my disappointment, both Baren and the viewers stared at me in disbelief.
Despite such an overwhelming victory, I was still unsatisfied.
Were those who reached the top truly different?
Baren gazed at me with admiring eyes as he pondered this, and the viewers couldn’t help but express their amazement.
-Didn’t even go all out and still won.
-Right;;;;;
-The Demon King is impressive either way.
-Won everything with just a finger flick so far.
-Wow…
Just as everyone was marveling at this.
I smiled at Baren and the others and spoke.
“Well, thanks to this, I got three more masks here, and two more on the way in, so it works out perfectly.”
The five masks I had been lacking were now complete.
So then.
“Shall we head down?”
The Exploration Team members and my Retinue nodded in agreement.
At last, we could venture into the depths of the Masked Lord’s Tomb.

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