Chapter 26_ Vampire City (4)
"What the hell is this?"
Elfin Stone frowned and his whole body was bloody.
"A human had hurt me?"
He muttered in doubt. Then, he unconsciously touched where Lexus slashed. Apart from the fact that his attack was painful, he also felt an unbearable scorching heat from Lexus' sword. Groaning at the heat, Elfin Stone immediately knew that it was one of the reasons why he was easily sliced with little resistance.
"Human!"
Elfin Stone's voice grew cold as he glared at Lexus. His pupils narrowed, revealing his hatred for him. He could tell he was a danger. With a single snap of his fingers, the coffins surrounding the city opened, and vampires emerged. They had pale skin, long fangs, and red eyes. Their gazes all settled on Lexus.
"This fragrance is good."
"As soon as I open my eyes, I can celebrate with human blood."
The vampires were the top predators. They didn't feel any nervousness about the person who had invaded their territory; rather, they laughed like they were happy. The vampires living in the underground cities were different from those who popped up all over the continent. Their combat power was between level 280 and 350.
"Give me blood! I shall enjoy it!"
"Ohuhut, shall we aim for that man's clean neck?"
More than 200 vampires quickly narrowed the distance to Lexus. It was a tremendous speed. They aimed for him while waiting for Elfin Stone's permission to attack. Seeing that he was surrounded, Lexus narrowed his eyes. The vampires possessed excellent physical abilities, magic powers, and intelligence.
It's difficult to face them if one has low magical defense and they also have physical attacks in their onslaught. In some cases, it was the opposite, making even tank players unable to demonstrate a complete defense and getting quickly wounded.
Looking at the appearance of his minions, Elfin Stone decided to have them test his capabilities. He wants to know his threat level before personally making a move. With that, Elfin Stone assimilated with darkness and disappeared like a mirage.
With his approval, the vampires joyously and maniacally laughed as they quickly rushed to attack. Sensing that they were coming, the world around Lexus slowed down as his thinking processing was enhanced by a thousand times.
With the slow downed world, Lexus clearly saw their movements despite their fast speed.
Papat! Papapat!
The vampires were skilled in hand-to-hand combat or swordsmanship, depending on their strength and agility. They aimed magic towards Lexus, who dealt with their attacks with ease.
"Cripple!"
"Dark Binding!"
"Neder's Grab!"
Various curse magic was fired to lower his magic resistance and to restrain his body.
[You have resisted.]
Seeing the incoming curses, Lexus didn't do anything about them, knowing very well that they wouldn't affect him even a bit. The vampires, however, expected him to be affected, as they were very confident in their own magical abilities.
The vampires' swords aimed at his weak points. One greedy vampire even used his fangs.
"Troublesome."
Lexus murmured as he watched his surroundings move slowly. He found it annoying to be attacked by hundreds of vampires of various types all at once, while the boss hid its presence and observed him. With his agility equaling his strength, the power of his swordsmanship gradually increased.
Seokeok! Puk!
"Kuaack!"
His attacks became faster and more powerful than before; he stabbed and slashed at the vampires. The vampires bled faster.
"I guess I'll swiftly deal with them."
Whispering softly to himself, Lexus tightened his grip on his sword. As he gazed upon the irritating vampires before him, Lexus did not hesitate to unleash one of his most powerful skills from his arsenal. Although this skill required a significant amount of mana, Lexus was fortunate enough to have a potion that reduced the mana consumption for all his skills by 10%.
Although it was quite expensive, there's no regret in his decision as he drinks the potion. If Lexus didn't become a Sword Saint, he might have been unable to use this due to the lack of sword energy resource but now that he had, Lexus was sure that the vampires will meet their demise.
"Vampires...Be honored that you bunch will be the first to witness the greatness of the Undefeated King after hundreds of years."
100,000 Army Massacre Sword.
With a single swing of his sword, the first vampire that the sword made contact with—his face incredibly distorted as he screeched in pain, agony and misery.
[Critical!]
[The weak spot has been attacked! Further damage will be dealt!!]
[You have dealt 137,000 damage to the target.]
[The Blight of Misery's option effect is activated, causing you to attack the target twice.]
[You have dealt 274,000 damage to the target.]
[A junior vampire was vanquished.]
[Junior Vampire's Ring has been acquired.]
[4,901,000 experience has been acquired.]
[You have dealt 548,000 damage to the target.]
[A junior vampire was vanquished.]
[...]
[A junior vampire was vanquished.]
[...]
[You have dealt 35,072,000 damage to the target.]
[You have dealt more than 20 million damage in one blow for the first time!]
[Title: 'Death in One Shot' has been created.]
[The passive '30% increase in critical strike damage' will always be applied.]
[...]
[...]
[You have dealt 140,288,000 damage to the target.]
[An intermediate vampire was destroyed.]
[6,954,300 experience has been acquired.]
[Your level has risen.]
[Your level...]
[...]
The amount of experience from the vampires was more than expected. It was nearly three times as much as the desert monsters. However the vampires' demise doesn't end there.
[This is a phenomenal record!]
[You have dealt over 100 million total damage in 5 seconds!]
[Reputation throughout the continent will rise by +5,000.]
[You have renewed the highest damage record!]
[The effectiveness of the title: 'Death in One Shot' has increased. Critical damage will increase by 10%!]
[You have dealt 280,576,000 damage to the target.]
[The True Blood vampire, Junx has been destroyed.]
[44,690,500 experience has been acquired.]
[...]
[You have renewed the highest damage record!]
[The effectiveness of the title: 'Death in One Shot' has increased. Critical damage will increase by 10%!]
[...]
[You have dealt 561,152...]
[...]
[You are establishing unparalleled damage achievements. You had received the attention of Martial God Chiyou.]
[The title 'Death in One Shot!' will be changed to 'One Who Met the Martial God.']
[The effect of 'One Who Met the Martial God' has amplifies the critical damage to the power of 2. Once the title effect is activated, there is a normal probability of activating the 'Ultimate Martial Art.']
[Ultimate Martial Art]
[Passive
There is a normal chance of inflicting a stun that can't be resisted or dispelled on the target.
This effect doesn't distinguish between the target's status, race, or rating.
The duration of the stun is a minimum of one second and a maximum of eight seconds.]
(#A/N: He still haven't encountered any Heavenly Gods of Asgard like Rebecca, Judar and others so I'll skip Zeratul and proceed to Chiyou.)
A stun that couldn't be resisted or lifted—this meant that even if the opponent was a legendary class or named boss with abnormal status resistance, they might become stunned the moment Ultimate Martial Art was launched. In addition, they couldn't remove the stun using recovery skills such as Cure.
In the future, Lexus would be able to stun beings such as great demons and dragons. This made him happy yet afraid. It was because abnormal status causing skills that weren't affected by abnormal status resistances would continue to emerge in the future. It was a situation where the possibility that he himself might be affected.
'In any case, I've benefited.'
"What the!!!!"
Elfin Stone's eyes widened in great surprise. Vampires considered themselves superior beings and viewed humans as inferior. Their main skills were dark magic and the evasion of other attacks aside from the divine attribute.
At this moment, every vampire around him, regardless of their level (whether they were a low-grade vampire, intermediate, advanced vampire or even true blood vampires) were all annihilated in a blink of an eye without leaving any trace behind.
It wasn't because they were weak. Stat-wise, Lexus was definitely weaker than a low-grade vampire as they were already over level 300. However, when the swordsmanship of the Undefeated King was used, it shattered Elfin Stone's common sense.
Lexus himself was very surprised by the amount of damage he had dealt. He knew that if a target died, the damage dealt to the next target would increase, but he didn't expect it to be this significant.
The Undefeated King's swordsmanship... it is too strong. The increase has no limit as long as many were slain at that moment.
The 100,000 Army Swordsmanship skill was a myth rated skill, which was many times more powerful than legendary skills. In normal conditions, Lexus would have already suffered a fatal and severe backlash or recoil from using the skill.
However, with Perfect Status Resistance, the recoil was nullified. With that, only Lexus could freely use Madra's swordsmanship without worrying about the skill recoil. Turning off Thought Acceleration, Lexus regained his composure and spoke, breaking the silence.
"I don't really intend to fight with you vampires but you left me no choice."
Just like the other monsters, vampires respawn after death; however, the direct descendants are super-named bosses, which once killed, do not respawn again. Seeing the relaxed human, Elfin Stone spoke.
"You're strong for a measly human. Who are you?"
Elfin Stone asked with a serious expression. Seeing his reaction after he materialized in front of him, Lexus replied with a smile.
"Just an ordinary swordsman. The name's Sword Saint Lexus."
A sword saint? Over three hundred years ago, Muller became a Sword Saint and was renowned throughout the world as the strongest legend, not just in the past generation of legends, but also the current generation. Elfin Stone looked at him with doubt. He felt he was weak to become one, but the single swing of his sword that annihilated the vampires in a flash was clear in his mind.
"So you're a legend."
Elfin Stone spoke with tone of understanding. Legends had the power to transcend common sense in their field so a legend's prowess couldn't be measured easily. But still, Elfin Stone smiled. There were no human who could survive his strongest skill Extreme Blood Transfusion.
[Extreme Blood Transfusion]
[Deals damage equal to twice your maximum mana value to the target while absorbing 100% of the damage. If your health is at the maximum, the lifesteal will be reversed and additional damage will be dealt to the target as vampiric energy. The additional damage isn't affected by the target's magic resistance and attributes resistance.
Mana Consumption: 10,000
Cooldown Time: 24 hours.]
It was a terrifying attack and recovery skill that restored his health by taking away large quantities of the target's health. The disadvantage was that he could only use it once a day.
Then, a bloody curtain swallowed up Lexus.
"Kukukuk, legend or not. A human is still a human. Don't ever think that I'm on the same level of the vampires that you eliminated."
He was convinced that he had killed Lexus and was about to leave to enter his comfortable slumber but haulted when he heard a relax voice.
"I've never treated a direct descendant comparable to other vampires."
Elfin Stone panicked when he heard Lexus' voice. Because he was so confident that he could instantly kill him with Extreme Blood Transfusion, his composure broke.
"You, why are you still alive? You're still alive? How's that possible?"
He saw Lexus remained where he stood as if nothing had happened. His body was like a tall mountain, the peak of which could not be seen.
"You don't have any chance of defeating me. No matter how you struggle, all there is for you is death," Lexus expressionlessly said, but Elfin Stone flinched as suddenly his body stiffened. His blood red eyes widened, his breathing and heartbeat simultaneously stopped.
Pressure, an incredibly terrifying power that he couldn't even begin to describe, was enveloping every inch of the space around him. It pressed against his body, consuming all the power he had managed to gather. Under this kind of pressure, Elfin Stone felt like his body was being ground down and sliced apart.
As a vampire who had lived for hundreds of years, he had gone through countless lives and deaths experiences and had received countless wounds, but nothing had ever made him feel fearful or terrified. And yet, he now felt fear. He could even feel that the surrounding space seemed to tremble as if it might crumble at any moment.
What was this power?!
How could such monstrous power exist in this world?
Undefeated King's Rage.
A wild gale blew, and the atmosphere became uncontrollably chaotic. An indescribable sense of ferocity and cruelty filled the air, and a pungent scent of blood and gore permeated the area, accompanied by a sense of death that could only exist in the depths of hell.
Looking into Lexus's eyes, which were now blood red in color, Elfin Stone could only tremble in fear.