Chapter 34_ Special Skeletons (2)

[You have entered the Vampire's Underground City (8).]

[The entrance of the dungeon is blocked. Contact with the outside world will be blocked.]

[You can't escape the dungeon until you kill the dungeon boss or without the dungeon boss' permission.]

After stealing from Trauka's lair, Braham who still had enough time to control Lexus' body decided to pay a visit to someone. With teleport, he immediately appeared to a vampire city with Lexus' body.

[The owner of the 8th city, Vampire Viscount Latina has appeared.]

At the end of the red-carpeted hallway. A dark haired woman was sitting on a throne. She was an obvious beauty, but her ice-cold skin and blue lips gave off a bizarre feeling.

"Oh my, there's a human? Prey has arrived after a long time."

Vampire Viscount Latina is one of the nine children directly born from Beriache. Latina smiled as her red eyes shone. She waved her hand once as a response after she discovered the existence of the intruder.

Kuduk!

Kudududuk!

Then, it seemed as if the ground split apart and zombies appeared.

Clack! Clack clack!

The joints of the skeletons made bizarre sounds as they approached. The zombies staggered and stared with hollow eyes. There seemed to be 1,000 of them.

But then,

'What is this?'

The calm and amused Latina widened her eyes in surprise. Latina was one of the nine children directly born from Shizo Beriache. The same class as Elfin Stone. She had a lowly title because she avoided the annoying responsibilities. Her power was absolute. In particular, she was the only one of her brethren who could rule over the dead.

"It has been a while."

'This tone...'

The arrogant expression and eyes. Even the impression of the magic power gave her the creeps. Above all, the dark red eyes.

"No way. You are?"

Latina hurriedly withdrew as the white-haired Lexus or to be exact, Braham who was in control of the flesh due to assimilation, smiled at her.

"Braham! You... What are you doing here?"

Braham called the clan a 'lazy and useless race' and wanted to destroy them. There were countless clan members who died because of him, including Elfin Stone's fiance. Latina loathed Braham but she also feared him. Braham looked at her shrieking self and laughed.

"Can't you see this face?Right now, I am borrowing it. This face isn't mine. Otherwise, how could you forget your brother's face?"

"Shut up! Don't joke around with that filthy mouth!"

The more frightened a beast, the more they barked. Latina showed her survival instinct and summoned new undead. They were on a different dimension from the previously summoned skeletons and zombies. More than 200 Skeleton warriors, skeleton mages, and ghouls simultaneously rose from the ground.

The surprising thing was that a death knight was leading the undead. It was a impressive skeleton in black armor and holding a burning sword.

'This looks serious... Isn't it dangerous?'

Lexus thought of looking at Braham's action. As the duration of assimilation was still not over, he could not move his body so he just let Braham do what he wanted to do for the time being. What he didn't expected was that Braham would go here.

Looking at Latina's reaction, Braham laughed and shot a Fireball.

[You have dealt 365,000 damage to the target.]

[50,000 fire damage will be dealt per second for 10 seconds.]

[The magic has been fired at close range. The explosion effect of Fireball is maximized.]

[You have dealt 480,000 damage to the target.]

[The blow has caused bleeding (large) in the target's affected area.]

"...!!"

Braham dealt a counterattack to Latina. The mental shock she suffered was immense and she also felt a scorching heat from the simple fireball. As Braham was rampaging, Lexus took this chance and used Plunderer on Latina while she was preoccupied with Braham.

« Confirmed. Vampire Viscount Latina's knowledge in magic and necromancery has been acquired. »

« There was a big difference in level, stealing her skills failed. »

« All possible skills to obtain has been succesfully acquired. All knowledge gained has been optimized and successfully transferred.»

[The skill, 'Can you Become the King of the Dead?' has been obtained.]

—–—–—–—–

[Can you Become the King of the Dead?]

[You can summon two 'Growth-type Skeletons' that will gain five stat points every time the level is raised.

The skeletons will start off at level 1.

The skeletons' basic stats are 3 strength, 3 stamina, 3 agility and 1 intelligence.

Skill Mana Cost: 3,000

Skills Duration: Until the summoning is release or the skeletons are destroyed.

Skill Cooldown Time: None.]

—–—–—–—–

"You! Brahammmm!"

A ghost was haunting her! Tears poured down Latina's face as her fear was ignited; she was terrified and shaken by Braham's fireball. The explosive effect of Braham's enhanced Fireball had caused a massive blast at the moment of impact. The effect of the newly devoured and absorbed Dragon Heart caused the fireball to disperse and resemble a sea of flames.

[The duration of Assimilation is over.]

[You have regained the control of your flesh.]

「 Tch. It's already time. I haven't finished greeting her though. 」

Braham regretfully grumbled seeing that he had already run out of time. As he took his sweet time stealing Trauka's treasures, he spent mostly the assimilation time's duration at that moment and teleported here at the last moment. Now that he could control his body again, Lexus took a final glance at Latina's beautiful face that was filled with fear and tears because of her trauma of Braham.

'Well I already obtained the skill so there's really no need to fight her.'

[The stat 'fighting spirit' has caused your stats to rise.]

[The other party is stronger than you.]

[There will be an additional stat increase.]

Lexus thought as his mana knead and flowed throughout his entire body. As time went on, the Dragon Heart that Braham consumed using his body was assimilating to Lexus' body, making him stronger and stronger. But a part of him focused his consciousness on his body.

'After the mana core was opened, mana and magic power in my body were operating better than before.'

Until now, he had only thought of magic power as a ball of energy. However, magic power was able to be used in a variety of different ways. It was a whole new world for him. The concept of mana was too hard for someone who had grown up on Earth.

'Well leaving right now sounds like I ran away from her because I'm scared of her.'

Lexus nonchalantly thought. Well just the thought of if left a bad taste in his mouth. Then, a hot wind with Lexus at its center spread out in a circle around its surroundings. A shocked Latina quickly jumped back. The wind tickled her chest.

This was clearly a warning. If you got closer, you would be in danger. As if to prove that, the moss and algae in areas where the wind passed turned golden-brown. The air heated up and the earth cracked as if a drought had occurred. Then sparks flew out, causing a fire to spread all around. The column of fire grew taller while hugging Lexus.

Then through that column, she was able to see a figure wrapped in fire. He looked like a divine being with armor made out of fire, or an angel, with wings of blazing flames. No, a devil. Together, the armor he originally wore and the red flames made him look all the more threatening. The heat that was warming up the air was also pushing down the undead around him.

Latina was tongue tied at this spectacle. Her eyes shook rapidly. 'More than two times the original amount….! No…three times?'

She checked Lexus' magic power and was shocked as he released the restrained magic power that he had just gained.

[The title effect of Ruler of Fire has changed and influenced the skill Sword of Ember .]

[The magic power of the skill Sword of Ember is greatly enhanced.]

[The level of Sword of Ember has risen.]

[All stats related to your skill increase.]

[The skill information of 'Sword of Ember' has changed.]

[Sword of Ember -Lv.Max]

Rating: Legendary

[A sword art created by the outmost perfection and has been completed upon consumption of the heart of a young dragon and with the acquisition of new knowledge that is optimized with Intellectual King Solomon.

* Concentrates the intense flames of the sword along the edge of the blade. It neither burns nor erupts, but anything it touches is eradicated to nothingness from the scorching heat. Every attack completely ignores the target's defense and deals 5,000% of your magic power.

Skill Resource Consumption: 12,000 Mana.

Skill Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes.]

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Without hesitation, Lexus weaved the scorching red sword in his hands towards the vampire viscount. As she was caught off guard by the sudden use of swordsmanship, Latina wasn't able to do something as Lexus severed her arm in just one slash.

[You have dealt 500,000 damage to the target.]

"Ugh! Kiyaaaaaak!"

Latina felt tremendous burning pain in her arm. Looking at it, her expression was so grim as her arm that made contact with the sword, was nowhere to be found or there's nothing left behind. Her fear towards him became even more intense.

'I have concentrated all the heat that my flames possess into the narrow line of my blade's edge. It does not burn or even rage. It merely eliminates all it touches without a trace.'

After he swung his extremely hot, red sword, Lexus came into this conclusion.

"He should have only be able to use magic! How can this freak use a sword?!"

Along with her shriek of fear, Latina's counterattack was more deadly because she had been prepared to die in order to kill the enemy. But she was a direct descendant. She didn't die easily.

"Life Drain... Heok?"

Latina attempted to reverse the battlefield by absorbing Lexus' health, only to be shocked. Ignoring her squealing noise, Lexus thrusts and stabbed his sword while making a sword dance but there's no time delation or gaps from his movements.

Pagma's Sword Dance, Kill.

[You have dealt a critical blow.]

[The title effect of 'One Who Met the Martial God' has...]

Together with extreme heat and suffocating murderous intent in the sword, sparks of black flashes throughout the surrounding upon contact. Feeling another pain that couldn't be explain, Latina screamed in agony and her legs gave away. Unable to handle the extreme heat and the burning sensation, Latina lost her strength and her spirit shattered in an instant making her fell to her knees.

She was only alive despite the large damage she suffered because of the enormous health and vitality of a direct descendant and her Life Drain.

Looking at her who was quivering in her misery because of the aftermath of using the newly evolved Sword of Ember and Kill at the same time, Lexus sheathed his sword as his victory was already concluded at the moment.

Lexus then heard Braham that he wanted him to say something to Latina. As Braham couldn't currently do it by himself, Lexus agreed and passed Braham's message on his stead.

"This is the end of your laziness." Lexus imitated Braham's tone of criticizing her. "A lazy person didn't develop, would be left behind and eventually become prey. This way will just lead to the decline of our clan."

Well seeing her current condition, Lexus no longer had the interest in finishing her. Though it was mostly because of her fear for Braham, Lexus found that she was a boring opponent and thinking that it would be a waste of energy to finish her.

Completely losing his interest in her, Lexus disappeared from where just standing before she could react and say something as he activated Teleport (Enhanced) to take his leave. He still had something in mind so he didn't want to delay it.