The Lord Who Levels Up by Devouring - Chapter 249

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Chapter 249. Heroes of Whitewolf Territory (2)
A body that could no longer regenerate.
The power of immortality, stripped away.
The absolute law of death had begun to apply to Dracula.
“How… how is this possible?”
Dracula’s eyes widened in shock.
He whipped his head around frantically, searching for the reason.
And then he saw it.
Kiiiiiing—!!
Countless magical circles suspended in the void.
Standing at their center—a girl with pale blue hair.
Each time her azure eyes gleamed like frost, Dracula’s blood flow ceased and his heart stuttered as if refusing to beat.
Dracula understood at once.
That girl was imposing the law of ‘death’ upon him.
And it was the only method that could kill Dracula.
“Impossible!!”
Dracula’s eyes flooded with horror.
First, he couldn’t fathom how she even knew of such a method.
Dracula himself didn’t fully understand how his immortal power functioned.
Even if she somehow knew the method, that was one thing.
But actualizing it was an entirely different matter.
It required reading and perfectly comprehending the fundamental order of the world itself.
And that was beyond the realm of humanity.
A genius of the century?
A heretic of the age?
A dragon beyond all measure?
Such things could never reach that height.
Without being the very entity that created the world’s laws, it was impossible to read, interpret, and intervene in that order.
Arcanis Rilsein, the first mage.
Only she had barely attained what was called the ‘perspective of divinity’.
Yet how could this small human girl…?
Moreover, she wasn’t merely reading and interpreting the world’s laws.
‘She’s controlling the laws themselves…?’
It made no sense.
Dracula thrashed against the invisible force.
But something pressed down upon him, suffocating his breath.
The air itself was heavy.
Resistance was… meaningless.
A mere Dracula could not defy the will of the world.
And the effect was not limited to Dracula alone.
The Vampire Legion.
They could not regenerate after being shattered by the Dwarves.
They could no longer rise.
They had lost their immortal power.
Only now.
Death was finally permitted for them.
“Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!!”
Dracula screamed, squeezing every ounce of power from his being.
All the blood in my body surged violently.
My heart trembled as if it would explode.
A crimson mist of blood engulfed Dracula.
Though my immortal power had been stripped away—
“I am Vlad Dracula!”
The sovereign who rules the night, and—
“The Lord of Blood!!”
The blood mist spread, creating a tempest.
There was only one target.
That Blue Girl who forced death upon Dracula.
“Die!!”
A torrent of blood erupted like an explosion.
Through it, Kai’s aura blade pierced forward.
Boom!!
A shockwave spread like a detonation.
Dracula gritted his teeth and drew forth even more power.
“Impossible!!”
The world seeks to maintain all balance.
Therefore, it is not only Dracula and the Vampire Legion who are suppressed by the world.
Kai.
His immortality is equally suppressed.
Surely… it should have been so.
Thud thud thud!
Kai’s torn flesh mended itself from the torrent.
“This is absurd!!”
Dracula’s eyes widened in disbelief.
He should have been suppressed.
The world’s oppression is equal to all.
Therefore, just as Dracula’s immortality was stripped away, Kai’s immortality should also have been crushed.
Yet how did that just happen…?
“Could it be… through the power of aura?”
…That makes no sense.
Of course, Aura is a force that resists the world itself.
But the more extreme the imagination pulling it into reality, the stronger the world’s oppressive weight becomes in response.
And immortality is the highest taboo.
A power the world will never permit.
Therefore, when the power of immortality—the rejection of death itself—manifests, the world exerts all its strength to crush that existence.
That is precisely why The Queen had no choice but to flee to the Other Dimension, was it not?
In other words.
Even The Queen could not completely shake off the world’s oppression.
“Yet how could a mere human possibly…!!”
It made no sense.
…It was impossible.
“Gaaaaaaahhhhh!!”
Dracula let out a scream.
Blood torrents erupted from him.
And yet.
…nothing emerged.
It was not a matter of depleted power.
I had clearly drawn upon it.
But the blood would not move.
My veins had frozen solid.
My heart had stopped.
The world simply refused to acknowledge Dracula’s existence.
…I had to resist.
I needed to break free by awakening memories of the past and unleashing the power of Aura.
But.
Too much time had passed.
Five hundred years.
I had forgotten Aura entirely.
Ever since inheriting The Queen’s blood, there had been no need to strive for anything.
Kai, by contrast, had relentlessly driven himself forward.
He had honed his power while resisting the world’s oppression.
And so now.
That difference had manifested as a hopeless chasm.
“No… No!!”
Dracula had received everything.
And so there was no reason left to ascend further.
Kai had received nothing.
And so he had endlessly refined himself.
One who had grown complacent at the summit.
One who had clawed his way up from the abyss.
Over five hundred years, this chasm had widened into an unbridgeable gulf—
Crack—!
finally driving Dracula to his death.
* * *
Calamity Quest [Lord of the Undying].
A calamity quest triggered by the Immortal Legion’s assault on Whitewolf Territory.
Yet with the current forces of Whitewolf Territory, it could be repelled without difficulty.
“There’s no need for concern.”
I dismissed the quest window without worry.
Then I checked my player information.
“…Raising the agility stat is proving troublesome.”
Agility was a problem here too.
“I should have stored those devices from the Gravity Training Ground in my inventory.”
But who could have foreseen this?
Still, I couldn’t invest my level-up stat points into agility.
Regrettable as it was, I could still raise agility through other means.
I gathered a handful of pebbles and scattered them skyward.
In that instant, a deep boom—!
Gravity twisted across the entire valley.
The pebbles didn’t fall from above to below.
Some moved left to right.
Others plummeted earthward.
Still others ricocheted into empty space.
Each pebble experienced different gravity—utterly chaotic.
Weak Point Hunting [M] couldn’t predict it.
The pebbles had no will of their own.
But.
Through Spatial Sense [U], I could detect vibrations, pressure, shifts in air currents, and more.
I could sense the ‘phenomenon’ itself, not the intent behind it.
Thus I could respond to irregular scattered and rapid fire without blind spots.
◆Your agility stat increases by +67!
My agility stat rose rapidly.
Yet it was more than mere numerical improvement.
Valley of Kardun.
A space infused with infinite death energy.
But now, reinterpreted through circulation, the natural forces were rapidly evolving me.
My senses expanded progressively.
My reaction speed kept pace.
Yet it wasn’t mere reflexive enhancement.
My senses themselves seemed to be expanding—
◆Skill, Hypersensory Motor Control [A-] has evolved!
At last, I had transcended that limitation.
◆Neural Hyperadaptation [A]
: Upon acquiring this skill, the player’s nervous system recalibrates in real-time according to external stimuli and environmental conditions. Integrated response speed of complex sensory perception increases by [+900%], and sensory information error rate converges to [0.0001%] or below.
Should the neural network sustain damage, new connection pathways form instantaneously, compensating for lost functions by referencing previous response patterns.
【This skill is an evolved skill derived from Hypersensory Motor Control [A-].】
“Phew…!”
As I exhaled deeply, my vision refined itself to an even greater precision.
The invisible currents of air.
Wind direction, air pressure, humidity, density—everything.
External information crystallized with perfect clarity.
Until now, it had been.
A sensation of merely feeling.
But now it was the precise sensation of calculation itself.
“Excellent.”
I had drawn infinitely closer to the Ultimate Life Form.
And now it was slowly coming into view.
That realm which had seemed so impossibly distant.
The Ultimate Life Form.
The day I would take that step forward was truly not far away.
Perhaps the evolution toward the Ultimate Life Form would commence the moment I transcended Ultra-Dense Muscle Fiber [A+]…but.
“Why hasn’t the Calamity Quest cleared yet?”
With the full strength of the Whitewolf Territory, it should have been cleared by now.
* * *
Dracula’s severed neck, cut clean in an instant.
The head that had been rolling across the ground came to a halt.
The blood that had spilled forth crawled back toward its original location.
In that moment.
Uuuuuuung!
A bizarre oppressive force crushed the entire space.
The magical circles inscribed in the void erased the gathered blood and forced death upon him.
“This… this cannot be….”
Dracula’s vacant eyes.
The consciousness dwelling within them slowly extinguished.
Only then could Kai finally draw ragged breaths.
“Haa…! Haa…!”
He braced himself, sword planted in the ground.
His entire body trembled.
The force of death imposed upon Dracula had exacted a considerable toll on Kai as well.
And yet.
I held on.
I could endure it.
Kai gripped the hilt of his sword and rose to his feet.
Glancing around, Broombar was finishing off the Vampire Legion single-handedly.
“Hrraaaaahhh!!”
…He was truly remarkable.
That monstrous strength—crushing vampires with nothing but his fists and forearms.
Though not quite Adrian’s level, his raw physical power was comparable to Adrian’s own.
In Whitewolf Territory terms, he was of Arcane-class caliber.
That was the extent of his monstrous power.
Of course, this was only possible because of Rielin’s support.
In any case.
The situation was drawing to a close.
Kai slowly steadied his breathing and sheathed his sword.
Right then.
“Kekekekek…!”
A strange laughter echoed out.
Turning slowly, the laughter was pouring from the severed neck of Dracula.
“Khahahahahaha!!”
Laughter that should not have come from a severed throat.
It was far too vivid, far too distinct.
Was he not dead?
…No, that wasn’t it.
He was merely burning his last like a candle flickering before extinction—
“Come forth! Bow down! Sing praises!!”
This was no longer the voice of a living being.
Will and curse.
Conviction and madness.
A ‘summoning’ twisted and tangled from all such things at once.
“From the sea of entropy, descend and devour death—”
A twisted smile.
“My Queen.”
With Dracula’s final shriek.
BOOOOOOOM!!
Dracula’s head and body exploded simultaneously.
It was not only Dracula.
The entire Vampire Legion erupted.
Boom! Boom boom boom boom!!
Blood, flesh, bone fragments—
Not a trace remained.
The existence vanished as though offered as a sacrifice.
And then.
Space itself wept.
The sky gleamed red and black, bruised as though struck by an invisible fist.
A crimson vibration tore through the void—
Screeeech—!
A blood-dark fissure split open as if the world itself were being cleaved.
Space yawned wide like a colossal beast opening its eyes, spreading left and right.
…Something was coming.
Kai’s instincts seized control, and he gripped his blade once more.
Beyond the widening chasm.
Skin so pale it was almost translucent.
Eyes of crimson so deep their depths could not be fathomed.
She stood as noble as a flower blooming upon a sea of blood, overwhelmingly beautiful.
But.
Kai could sense from her the anguished wails of countless souls, the sobbing of life itself.
Infinite malice and the sorcery of eternal existence.
Incomprehensible horrors that finite mortal reason could never grasp, never touch—they tangled and wove together to form her being.
The moment her feet touched the ground.
Space trembled as though blood were spreading across it.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom…!
It was as if this world itself were screaming.
That she should not be here…
“How long it has been.”
Her voice was glacial.
Like fleshless fingers brushing against one’s ear.
And mocking this world itself.
“Since I set foot in this realm.”
A casual gesture of her hand.
Crimson threads of blood unraveled like tangled yarn.
Screech—!!
The void tore asunder.
Space twisted and shrieked in agony.
The earth fractured.
The air trembled and wailed.
Phenomena of impossible light bending erupted across the landscape.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom—!!
A violent crimson flash detonated outward.
Kai raised his blade.
He expanded his aura to withstand the shockwave crashing down upon him.
Crack—!!
I was merely withstanding the shockwave of her power.
‘My entire body feels like it’s being crushed…!’
…She was strong.
Impossibly, absurdly strong.
The very fact that I had dared to block with my blade felt like arrogance itself.
Kai understood instinctively.
The Vampire Queen.
The immortal sovereign who had been banished to the Other Dimension had finally set foot in this world.

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