Your Majesty, Dinner Is Ready. - Chapter 112

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Chapter 112: Guild War — Glory (1)
I swept blood-soaked hair from my forehead with a hand that wouldn’t stop bleeding.
The moment I moved, the dagger lodged in my neck flared with a sharper, more brilliant pain.
Which only drew a deeper laugh from my lips.
“…Normally, that would’ve been instant death. Yet here you are, laughing instead.”
Kailas muttered the words with disgust.
“Still, the fact remains—your life hangs by a thread. But it’s not too late. Swear your Faith to serve the Sovereign, and you’ll live.”
“Such thoughtful compassion. My gratitude.”
To think an enemy would show me such kindness.
Moved by such generosity, I decided to repay the gesture with equal warmth.
Whoooosh—!
I spun my left arm backward and unleashed a torrent of flame.
Even freed from the shackles of Geuleumssak, fire remained a vampire’s weakness—that hadn’t changed.
Kailas bounded away nimbly, creating distance between us.
Before he could close in again and drive his blade through this small, precious body of mine, I formed a barrier of scarlet flame.
“You think you can contain me with mere fire?”
“Not at all.”
Countering flame defenses was Guild War fundamentals.
Naturally, it wouldn’t pose a serious threat.
But it would buy me time—that much, at least.
Crackle-crackle—!
With my left hand still spraying the Flame Wave Spell, I conjured a small sphere of lightning in my right, then swallowed it whole.
A sharp, stinging pain burned down my esophagus and into my stomach.
《Your body has taken on properties identical to Suei’s Black Lightning!》
The moment Sin: Gluttony activated, five needle-thin shuriken streaked through the air, each aimed with surgical precision at a vital point.
Of course, I couldn’t dodge.
The shuriken, coated with ninja Secret Art channeling, tore straight through me in an instant.
Crackle-crackle-crackle—!
Black lightning danced and sizzled, filling each hole as it formed.
My Stamina had crossed the threshold into the Realm of Transcendence, exceeding twenty—and now the lightning’s fluidity added to it, making me all but unkillable by conventional means.
……
Wrapped in a flame-resistant muffler, Kailas burst through the inferno and wove his hand signs with inhuman speed.
Rumble-rumble-rumble—!
The earth rose up like a wave, crashing down toward me.
Ninjutsu: Earth Wave.
A Socialite moving at such devastating speed had no escape—there was no need to belabor the point.
Thump-thump-thump—!
The wave of stone and soil swallowed me whole.
It felt a little suffocating. Strangely, though, I was curious.
Is this what it feels like to be buried alive?
I’d always wanted to experience it once.
Crackle-crackle—!
I became a single thread of black lightning and shot upward.
“I suspected you wouldn’t end there.”
Above me, Kailas waited.
He held the Liege’s Companion, wreathed in blue flame.
“Now rest outside the Dungeon.”
A slash too fast to follow cleaved across my entire body in an instant.
Wounds carved from head to toe, uniform and deep.
Blue flame, searing hot, burned along every laceration.
The Ninjutsu: Flame-Cutting Blade—a technique that allowed him to burn away even the body of an enemy with regeneration as formidable as my own.
Crackle-crackle—!
Lightning-natured blood erupted from countless wounds, scattering wildly.
When Kailas pulled back to avoid electrocution, I spread the lightning across my body, snuffing out the blue flames clinging to my skin.
In that span, every charred, burned, and melted section regenerated completely.
Even the hair that had been half-blackened, crumbling away to ash.
“…That recovery is absurd.”
“Your speed is equally absurd, Kailas.”
Stamina and Agility—
A duel between two Half-Elves, each having touched the Realm of Transcendence with different powers.
“So he didn’t rush in alone after all.”
Kailas, who had regained his composure in an instant, summoned blue flames that erupted across his body.
“Still, it doesn’t matter. I’ll grant you that your recovery is impressive, but eliminating an explorer of your caliber is hardly difficult.”
Whoosh-!
The countless shuriken scattered across the cavern floor began spinning through the entire chamber.
Their movement was orderly, governed by precise logic.
Ninjutsu: Sequential Shuriken Formation.
As they whirled chaotically about, one shuriken shot toward me.
– Caw!
The blind raven that had lunged forward batted the shuriken away with its wing.
Then the shuriken came flying in succession.
Ting, ting-!
Jinsil, her power as a raven intensified now that she’d reached Tier 5, deflected every one before they could reach me.
“How much longer can you hold out?”
Kailas, his expression growing more composed, sent blue flames hurtling through the air.
As I countered the Flame Wave Spell with lightning to cancel it out, a wheel-shaped shuriken that Jinsil had failed to deflect lodged itself in my calf.
With my focus shattered, the crimson fire radiating from my left hand collapsed helplessly against the blue flames.
Blaze!
At least the blue made for a somewhat elegant beacon.
While I scattered lightning to extinguish the flames, Kailas had somehow drawn close and slashed at my throat before retreating again.
Deep lacerations were etched into my flesh, the blue fire searing the wounds.
My body healed quickly once more, and on the surface I appeared unscathed, but internally things were different.
‘…I’m getting dizzy.’
My life force regenerated swiftly, but my mental stamina was draining fast.
The world had begun to spin slightly before my eyes.
The schemer approached again, wielding his dagger at astonishing speed.
Clang-clang-clang-!
The Liege’s Companion grazed my body dozens of times over.
I anticipated the impact zones and used only the minimum amount of earthen aura to defend, extinguishing the blue flames that erupted from cuts with Black Lightning.
Crack!
Whenever small openings appeared, I seized them without hesitation, striking back with the Flame Wave Spell.
The schemer twisted his body with flourish to evade, then resumed his onslaught.
“Ah, so that’s what it is.”
Without pause in his assault, the schemer let out a low chuckle.
“That Secret Art of consuming something to transform your body—it’s not without drawbacks. At first glance it seems like a limitless means of recovery, but in reality it places enormous strain on your body. Isn’t that right?”
“I couldn’t say.”
I answered as though it mattered nothing, but he was correct.
Sin: Gluttony saw dramatically improved performance starting at Tier 5, but it came with distinct penalties depending on the transformed body’s properties.
In the case of the Black Lightning infused with that noble’s power, my mental stamina was consumed every time my body repaired itself.
It was no coincidence that they’d chosen the ill-omened word “sin” for the name.
“In the end, time is on my side.”
Whoosh!
Even as he spoke, shuriken continued to rain down.
– Caw!
The blind raven was doing its best to block them, but shuriken were steadily lodging themselves in my body.
“Besides, an enhanced wyvern can’t be defeated by anyone—explorer or ghoul alike. This year’s Guild War will certainly end in disgraceful victory for us. So all I have to do is endure to the end. You, on the other hand, need to be eliminated first.”
“But you’re no longer an official participant, Kailas. You lost Laenis’s body, didn’t you?”
Truth be told, I already knew roughly what his answer would be, but I pushed the conversation forward to dull his focus even slightly.
“No matter how long you hold out here, it will be for nothing.”
“I can simply claim that I’ve been concealing my true form through Secret Art all along. There are Half-Elves disguised as Pure Elves scattered across the entire continent—no one will find it strange. Besides, the names are similar enough.”
He’d already destroyed all the Broadcast Crystals in this cavern long ago.
Moreover, the real Laenis’s pure-magic-system Secret Arts could be imitated well enough through ninjutsu, making her an ideal target for impersonation.
“How meticulous you are.”
“Of course.”
Kailas nodded with confidence, his hands moving ceaselessly.
I too responded with an endless array of Secret Arts, concentrating entirely on defense.
Attack and defense continued with identical ferocity, neither relenting.
My body, now living lightning, recovered swiftly from any damage, but….
‘…It’s all running out.’
My mind had begun to sink into an abyss of endless aching.
My Mental Stamina had reached zero.
“Looks like you’re finally hitting your limit. Your eyes have taken on a much more interesting light.”
Kailas, who had been wielding his dagger without pause, suddenly spoke.
He’d been waiting all this time for my Mental Stamina to run dry.
“Now it’s over….”
The schemer’s voice grew distant, and reality blurred.
A floating sensation washed over me, and my vision began to dim gradually.
I could roughly guess what kind of mental abnormality I was about to face.
‘Not the absolute worst, at least.’
The surrounding landscape suddenly shifted.
“Another one’s dead.”
A priest in bizarre ceremonial robes spoke with exasperation.
His subordinates tossed a limp boy onto a nearby altar like garbage.
Countless children lay scattered across the altar of fine metal, all of them broken and twisted in unnatural poses.
“Next, bring number 3849.”
The priest pointed at me.
And I—
Young as I was—
laughed.
Even as I was dragged and my limbs were bound.
Even after four days of unbearable agony coursing through my entire body.
I could only giggle mindlessly.
Gack!
About a week later—or what felt like it—a sensation like the world was being turned inside out swept through me, and blue flames erupted from my throat.
My vision shifted again.
The next moment—
I saw a Half-Elf ninja driving Liege’s Companion through my neck.
“…The more I learn, the more horrifying this becomes.”
Kailas’s brow furrowed sharply.
“With your Mental Stamina depleted and your Perception warped, you’re still somehow managing to block attacks? What exactly are you?”
Reality Distortion.
An abnormal state that forces me into traumatic memories, leaving me motionless for tens of seconds.
Experiencing it firsthand was quite disorienting.
It felt as though I’d spent days in an entirely different world.
The Fragment of the Colossal’s side effect—doubling the impact of mental abnormalities—likely made the experience feel even longer.
“The body naturally follows the mind’s control.”
But if I could anticipate what would happen beforehand, I could prepare adequately.
In the game, actions I’d queued before being hit by Reality Distortion still executed, so I thought it might work the same way here—and it did.
“But now it’s finally over!”
Kailas, having thrown me to the ground, reversed his grip on his dagger and drove it downward.
My entire body was covered in cuts and burns, so I couldn’t block with my flesh anymore.
Whoooosh!
Just before the blade pierced living tissue, a brown earthen aura from Liege’s Companion halted its advance.
I was drawing in a vast quantity of Earth essence flowing up from the ground and converting it entirely into an aura that enveloped my whole body.
Avatar of Earth.
The Earth Elf’s innate Secret Art is unbeatable in defense.
Especially when standing still, the aura consumption drops to an extreme, so if conditions are right, I could endure for an entire day.
“I have no idea how you’re wielding the Earth Elf’s natural gift….”
The schemer stepped back briefly and straightened his posture.
“But it’s nothing but meaningless resistance. The essence of the earth isn’t infinite. You know that as well as I do, which is why you’ve been saving it all this time before finally resorting to static defense….”
The Half-Elf ninja wove a hand sign.
A colossal tree root erupted from beneath the earth and began thrashing wildly.
Ninjutsu: Moving Colossal Tree Roots.
An Eighth Rank Secret Art that drains life force with a single touch.
“That’s the end of it, then.”
It’s basic knowledge that earth is weak to plant.
The aura created by Fifth Rank Avatar of Earth wouldn’t hold up even for a moment.
Crack-crack-crackle!
The massive roots surged forward.
Churning violently like a living beast.
The roots completely engulfed my body, beginning to shatter my aura.
Just before my earth aura crumbled entirely.
Crack!
A horrifying sound suddenly tore through the air.
“Ugh, aaahhh…!”
Kailas let out a cry of agony in response.
Somewhere along the way, his right shoulder—where his arm had been torn away—was clutched in his remaining hand.
“You’ve worked hard.”
To Kailas’s right.
A massive gray orc stood holding a slender left arm dripping with blood.
“That Concealment Pill you sent through Lai. It works brilliantly.”
Targon.
Second on the Twelve Heroes Ranking.
The strongest Warrior-class Explorer in Pletika.
“I didn’t expect you to hide my presence this perfectly.”
“…Targon!!”
The conspirator’s teeth ground together as he leaped backward, creating distance.
“At last we meet, spy.”
Targon watched the fleeing ninja carefully, then clenched both fists tight.
An expression he had never shown before.
His mouth split into a feral, manic smile.
“Please last a while longer. So I might break you in for much, much more time.”

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