My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 78

#78

Brokoslak Clan (5)

“…is he a clan lord after all?”

Heinz glanced at the severed arm in Mulo’s hand, then returned his gaze to his face.

As a result of concentrating all of the power of the barrier on himself, all of his abilities, including strength and speed as well as detection and stealth, seemed to have surpassed their limits.

He must have thought of this method after seeing that blood magic did not work well on Heinz.

‘It seems like a method that puts a lot of strain on the body.’

However, with the vitality that Jinhyeol’s vampires have, they will be able to withstand the aftermath for quite a long time.

It was quite difficult.

‘Did we move too hastily? …No, now was the best time. The level of the load was just higher than I expected.’

No matter how good you were at disguising yourself, your blood relatives’ abnormalities were bound to be discovered at some point.

Frisia was brought in to delay it as much as possible, but that too was only a stopgap measure.

‘I thought it would be more efficient to attack the opponent at the moment they least expect anything, before they even get any indication…’

Thanks to that, I was able to get right in front of Mulo without any hindrance.

The only problem was that his level of peacetime preparedness, which could not be known just from the explanation of Mutupain Phrygia, far exceeded expectations.

“Whoa— whoa— I’ll finish you off as quickly as possible.”

Gurgling—

The severed arm in Mulo’s hand, which was continuously panting, was engulfed in red flames.

He threw it carelessly on the floor.

Before the burning arm even falls to the floor.

Hissing—

a sound like a blast splitting the air was heard.

But perhaps because I didn’t take my eyes off him for even a moment, this time I was able to react right away the moment he disappeared.

I narrowly avoided the five blade-like claws clawing forward, using even “acceleration”.

And without hesitation, he stabbed his left hand into the opponent’s gap, caught by his sharp senses, but…

Kagagagak!

It could not pierce the solid body and only sparks flew out.

‘It’s solid. Is this how the enemies who dealt with Heinz felt?

Mulo’s right hand swung again, tearing through space as if ignoring Heinz’s attack.

Although his specialty was magic, Mulo was a vampire who had lived for hundreds of years.

Even if he wasn’t as good as Phrygia or Obor, his movements were also unusual.

The moment Heinz tried to dodge again, the movement suddenly stopped.

‘Huh? what?!’

Red thorny vines wrapped around my legs from the floor.

It was cut off in an instant by Heinz’s power, but by that time, Mulo’s grasp had already reached right in front of us.

“Hmph!”

With his left hand, which concentrated as much blood magic as possible, he struck the opponent’s wrist and twisted his trajectory.

In the process, before he could even clean up his left arm, which was covered in blood, Mulo’s sharply extended left hand stabbed him, aiming for his heart.

A desperate moment when his posture was disturbed and he could not avoid it…

Heinz twisted his body to protect his heart as much as possible, and as a last resort, he held out his ‘right hand’ and took the attack instead.

Fuhuaak—!

His right arm was torn off by sharp clenching nails.

Just like that, his right arm was again held in Mulo’s left hand.

“Whoo— whoo— huh…? This?”

Mulo stopped for a moment, took a deep breath, and looked at the severed arm in his hand with a trembling face.

It was déjà vu.

“Your… arm?”

He distorted his face, which was filled with not only bloody tears but also a double nosebleed, as if comparing the arm in his hand with the arm that was still burning on the floor.

Undoubtedly, both were right-hand men.

But it didn’t end there.

“hmm? Ah—is this it?”

Heinz confidently extended his right hand to him and waved his finger.

As if showing off a sleek new product that has suddenly been regenerated with “super regeneration.”

Mulo, who looked at Heinz’s old arm in his hand for a moment and his newly sprouted new arm, gaped.

Of course, it was said that the lost body parts could be sufficiently regenerated once the blood flow level was reached, but it was never at that level.

It’s not even slime. How can the cut part grow like that?

“What kind of blood do you inherit from that gives you such abilities? A collateral branch of Brokoslag? “Such nonsense…!”

Mulo gritted his teeth, put his nose to the cross section of Heinz’s severed arm, and smelled it.

Although it was definitely deteriorated, it was clear that the basic foundation was Brokoslak’s veins.

It seems that what Freesia said earlier wasn’t just nonsense.

“…Is there something strange?”

But I felt a great sense of foreignness in the blood.

The foundation certainly felt familiar to him, but it only stopped there.

Everything else was ‘something’ he couldn’t understand.

‘Can collateral blood deteriorate to this extent? Even if you prey on members of other clans, this doesn’t happen…’

Something was fundamentally different.

It was truly a series of contradictory and incomprehensible situations.

An incredibly frustrating situation.

He glared at Heinz, who was confronting him, and lightly licked the blood flowing from his severed arm.

Even if you were a pureblood or higher, it was common to taste a small amount of blood and analyze the other person.

For him, Jinhyeol, this was no problem.

…It shouldn’t have happened.

That became a problem.

“Big—?! Hehe! “Whoops… whoops!”

Patter—! Clap!

Mulo spits out a bucket of blood even after spitting it out right away.

“What the hell is this…?”

The small amount of blood he ingested instantly affected the blood in his body and spread.

If that were all it would have been, it wouldn’t have mattered… The problem was the enormous thought condensed in that blood.

[My secret wish….]

[Blood oath….]

[Strength…]

[…….]

Because of that, I have to bleed out all the blood of other people affected by Heinz’s blood. did.

‘Dozens? Hundreds? ‘How can you be fine even with such terrible blood?’

This blood was no different from poison to vampires.

He had never imagined that blood like this could exist in the first place.

Although it was only a fleeting moment, it was enough to shake his ability, which had grown explosively by concentrating the power of the barrier.

‘Oops…!’

And when he regained his senses, he realized his mistake.

Phew—!

“Wow!”

“I guess you’ve lost your senses after being locked in a closet for so long? “You spend a long time thinking about other things during battle?”

Of course, it was by their standards.

His concentration was lost for at most 3 seconds.

But at their level, it was a leisurely time where lives could have been exchanged dozens of times.

Heinz, who approached secretly and quickly, was able to drive the blade of his hand into the heart of the unsuspecting Mulo.

“road-! Get out of the way, Phrygia!”

“I need you to hang out with me for a moment.”

Obor, who rushed forward, was stopped in the middle by Phrygia, who had already subdued all the vampires.

It was previously unthinkable to keep up with the speed of the assassin type, but now it is possible thanks to the strengthening effect of “Refined Blood.”

“Off—nenoom!”

Whoosh!

Heinz widened the distance without any regret as Mulo, whose heart was destroyed, swung his claws roughly.

For a moment, he was able to take advantage of the moment when his abilities weakened and break through his defense, but since he regained his senses, there was no point in attacking him up close.

As Heinz stepped back, the hole in Mulo’s chest quickly healed thanks to his transcendent regenerative power.

However, this did not mean that there was no income.

“Kkkkkkkkkkkkk! Whoo— whoo—”

Eyes, nose, mouth, ears.

The sight of Mulo bleeding heavily and breathing heavily showed that he didn’t have much time left.

***

Cluck—

“Ugh! “Yes, you bastard…!”

The two severed right arms melted into blood and turned into two blood-red chains, binding Mulo’s entire body.

Thanks to Heinz’s strong vitality, one arm that had been burning for a long time only suffered some damage to the outer part.

‘Phew… this is the end.’

Heinz sighed lightly and looked down.

Mulo, who had already exhausted all his strength and even the barrier technique was broken, was just out of breath as if he had no strength to resist anymore.

Kwaaaang—!

Just then, the battle between Phrygia and Obor, which had been clashing fiercely on one side, came to an end.

The winner was, of course, Frisia.

Not only was there a significant difference in specs due to the “purified blood spirit,” but there was also a compatibility advantage between being a warrior and an assassin.

Screaming—

She grabbed the limp boy by the scruff of his neck and approached him.

“I guess it’s all over. “I’ve just finished it too.”

Freesia smiled at Heinz with a proud face.

He seemed very satisfied with his ability, which he personally experienced this time.

“ah! And I didn’t kill other vampires, just suppressed them. “It wasn’t that difficult after the effect of the barrier disappeared.”

Since they were of the same blood family, there may have been a reluctance to kill, but the future work would require a lot of labor, so the more labor, the better.

Nodding to her, Heinz looked down at Mulo, who had been subdued again.

I was worried about whether I could inject “purified blood tablets” like this.

Phrygia was an opponent who clearly lacked blood magic and military power… but

Mulo was not such an easy opponent.

In fact, the amount of blood magic was even greater than that.

“Hmm, then let’s try that.”

After wondering for a moment what to do with him, Heinz finally made a decision and pulled the chain to help him stand up.

And then he put his mouth on his neck.

“You… what on earth…?”

“I am succeeding Rodzik.”

Sigh—

Sharp teeth sank into Mulo’s neck.

***

A stone chamber buried deep in the ground.

There was a person lying in an airtight, sealed darkness.

flinch!

A small change occurred in the person who was lying like a corpse in that quiet space.

Starting with the fingertips that continued to twitch slightly, the tightly closed lips trembled and slowly opened.

“…Ah…”

A rough, cracked voice echoed in the sealed stone room.

“Ah…”

The voice cleared its throat a few times before finally starting to sound normal.

And in the darkness without a single light, a pair of red lights slowly flickered.

“what?”

The being muttered softly.

I sense something wrong, but I don’t know what it is.

I keep falling asleep and can’t think normally.

“Oh, I’m sleepy…”

I woke up much earlier than scheduled and couldn’t get out of hibernation right away.

My eyes, which were barely open, close heavily again.

“…I should sleep a little more and wake up.”

The pair of red lights that had illuminated the darkness suddenly closed, and the stone room was once again buried in quiet darkness.

***

Several days have passed since Harris walked along the ‘forest path’ with the elves.

As the days continued with education and training while moving, Laforie, who was leading them, looked back at the group with a smile on his face.

“It will arrive soon. Just a little further.”

However, it did not mean that there were changes in the surroundings right away.

The dreamy forest path that I had been looking at tirelessly for several days continues on and on.

“and! really? So, will I be able to meet the World Tree soon?”

Cecily, who had been immersed in training with a burning competitive spirit toward Harris, asked with sparkling eyes.

Coming from the Aeon Continent, I had never seen the World Tree in my life, so I was excited to see it soon.

‘And that also means that Cecily will soon become a high elf.’

Because the final condition was for a qualified high elf candidate to reach the front of the World Tree.

“of course. The World Tree will also be very pleased with Miss Cecily.”

Lapori, who knew this, also smiled at her with a happy face.

Finally, the long journey was over and I was able to see the results.

Afterwards, the group walked through the forest for several hours without hiding their excitement.

And finally.

The road they were walking on gradually turns into a regular forest…

“Wow~!”

With Cecily’s exclamation as the background, Harris looked up blankly.

Before his eyes was a tree of such enormous size that it defy perspective.

“Unless there is something very urgent, it is not a good idea to head directly to the World Tree through the forest path. This is especially true since Miss Cecily is on a journey to become a high elf.”

The road to the World Tree was a kind of pilgrimage.

The journey to that huge tree while gathering your mind with awe is also a process.

‘It’s so big that you have to look up, but it’s still such a long distance away…’

I was in awe without even realizing it.

It seemed like I still needed a little more time to reach the World Tree, but that wasn’t a very important issue compared to the emotion I was feeling right now.

It was finally the moment when Harris landed in the Elven Kingdom on the Enamel Continent.