Chapter 635

Su-ho slowly read through the information.

The fact that Nosferatu’s name had been engraved there was one thing, but the trait description written there before had also changed.

Among those lines, the phrase saying that among beings who handled blood, none would ignore him particularly caught Su-ho’s eye.

Because it could be interpreted to mean that there were other beings besides Su-ho who handled blood.

'I’d like to meet them once, if they exist.'

He then checked the detailed options of the newly acquired trait and the information on the skills one by one.

[ Imperial Blood ]

# The emperor’s blood possessed only by one who stands at the summit of all vampires.

# Among beings whose bodies carry vampire blood, none will dare refuse to submit to Imperial Blood.

[ Nosferatu ]

Grade: SS# Vampire Blood’s final authority.

# You have inherited everything from the First Blood, ‘Nosferatu.’

# It possesses infinite possibility and expandability regarding every power a vampire can have.

# Nosferatu will always watch over you and protect you.

The final line, saying that Nosferatu would always watch over him and protect him, stood out.

Yes.

Watch me.

Because I will make sure I avenge you.

Next, he checked the following information.

[ Dominating Bloodline ]

Grade: SS# Nosferatu’s Imperial Blood possesses powerful dominance not only over vampires, but over every kind of blood.

# Everything about the blood successfully dominated can be utilized.

# Every being with blood flowing through their body will instinctively bow its head before Dominating Bloodline.

[ Blood Magic ]

Grade: SS# Nosferatu’s Imperial Blood actualizes everything the user imagines through blood.

[ Blood Spirit Arts ]

Grade: SS# Nosferatu’s Imperial Blood responds to the user’s will and moves as though alive, carrying out commands.

From Imperial Blood to Blood Spirit Arts.

After confirming the information, Su-ho let out a faint sound of admiration.

Because every single one seemed like the greatest things one could possess as a vampire.

'With Blood Magic and Blood Spirit Arts in particular, I won’t need to learn any other blood magic.'

Blood Spirit Arts would literally replace the role of spoken commands, and Blood Magic meant it was the same as every kind of blood magic, as long as he could imagine it.

Su-ho then checked the information on the five existing blood-magic skills that had been influenced by Nosferatu.

All of them had gone from S+ grade to SS grade, and their names had each changed.

Bloody Hand → Offering

Great Blood Jade → Blood Core

Blood Armory → Blood Genesis

Enthrallment → Domination

Transformation → Change

They had changed like that.

On top of that, after checking all the information, he felt deeply satisfied.

Because these were the very things that could be called the extremity of Vampire Blood.

He had especially high expectations for Blood Core.

Because of the Red Maria.

Until now, he had tried to give up because his vessel was not sufficient, but now the circumstances had changed, so it was worth trying once more.

No, it was not even a challenge.

The Red Maria felt trivial now.

Because he had learned the size of the vessel Blood Core possessed.

'If Great Blood Jade was a lake, then Red Maria is a river, and Blood Core is a size that could be called the sea.'

Su-ho’s gaze shifted from the various information windows to the Red Maria.

Then, the moment he gave a glance toward the Red Maria.

[ Blood Spirit Arts activates. ]

[ Offering activates. ]

Two skills activated on their own.

It was convenient.

Especially in Offering’s case, unlike Bloody Hand, he did not need to stretch out his hand and could draw blood by will alone, making it even more convenient.

It was not only blood.

It had always been that way to begin with, but now, through Offering, he could have everything of the target, including blood, ‘offered’ to him like a sacrifice.

Hwaaaaa!

It was immediately after Blood Spirit Arts and Offering activated.

Once the two skills activated, the entirety of the Red Maria began glowing faintly.

The skills and the Red Maria had begun resonating.

What was even more surprising came next.

From the entirety of the Red Maria, which had begun glowing faintly, the enormous amount of polluted blood and mana stored within it erupted all at once and began seeping into Su-ho.

The things that erupted did not even directly touch Su-ho.

Like they were being blocked by a protective holy art, those things, drawn out like violent streams of water, were absorbed into Su-ho while keeping a certain distance.

However, the sight did not look sacred.

Because the blood, black and murky from Corruption Sorcery, looked as though he were being covered in filth.

That was fine.

Such things were not very important to Su-ho.

What was actually surprising lay elsewhere.

He had thought that if the black blood was drawn out of the Red Maria, the entire mountain range would shrink away and disappear, but surprisingly, the vast black mountain range was only gradually losing its characteristic black color, as though toilet water were being flushed, and returning to the brown mountain range it had originally been.

Around that point, Su-ho activated one additional skill.

[ Purification activates. ]

It was Purification.

Since he no longer needed to hold onto polluted blood, he was purifying it.

The speed of the purification was extremely fast.

It was not difficult either.

There was no sensation of being overloaded like before, and instead, it felt refreshing.

His mood rose, and a sense of satisfaction welled up.

It felt as though he had finally mined all the gold from a gold mine he had discovered by chance.

When the work was almost finished, Jack congratulated him.

- You did it.

"You can say that again."

Soon, once the work ended, Su-ho could feel it.

The amount of blood currently stored inside his Blood Core was, without a doubt, as great as the amount of shadow Umbra had gathered from the entire spirit realm.

That was how much blood Alucard had gathered over an extremely long time.

After drawing in all the blood in the area, Su-ho confirmed that there was no blood left nearby to Offer, then snapped his fingers.

Then Alucard, stored inside Blood Core, was scattered before Su-ho as though pouring out.

Now that the system’s administrative procedure had ended, it was time to take care of the second of the three things he needed to do.

That was Alucard’s execution.

Su-ho had no intention of leaving Alucard alive.

He too was someone created by Overment, but regardless, Levan’s misfortune had begun with him, and in order to symbolically conclude Levan’s pain as well, Alucard had to be executed.

Alucard’s appearance was still ugly.

There was none of the boyish appearance Su-ho had seen when they first met.

Through Su-ho’s power, he was only barely able to maintain his form by receiving the bare minimum amount of power.

This had happened thanks to Blood Spirit Arts.

Because Blood Spirit Arts, having understood Su-ho’s will, had supplied only Alucard with the bare minimum amount of blood, unlike the other vampires.

At last, when Alucard regained consciousness and looked up at Su-ho.

"......!"

Alucard’s eyes widened.

"Y-You are......!"

At that reaction, Su-ho gave a small laugh.

"Why? You can see something from me, can’t you?"

"H-How could you......!"

"Let me ask you one thing. You called yourself the First Blood’s messenger and representative, but do you perhaps know what the First Blood’s name is?"

"Lord First Blood is Lord First Blood! To him, a name like the shell of a created being such as us is not important......!"

"That’s unfortunate. Because it didn’t seem like he thought so."

"What?"

"And he said he never gave any prophecies either. It all began from your idiotic greed. So I thought about it for a while. Whether to keep you by my side and torment you for a long time, and what else to do with you. But I decided to just kill you. For someone like you, who lived a span close to immortality, there is probably no punishment more lawful than death."

"What does that......!"

"Goodbye."

It was the moment Su-ho bid him farewell.

"Guh......! Guaaaaah......!"

Suddenly, Alucard’s body began burning.

Blood Magic and Blood Spirit Arts had activated, and according to Su-ho’s will, they began burning Alucard in order to erase his existence.

"Guaaaaaaaaaah!!"

The flames burned very slowly.

In order to deliver the greatest possible pain for the longest possible time.

Soon, the entire flame swallowed Alucard, and inside the slow-burning fire, Alucard met his end while letting out a terrible scream.

Whoosh!

As the last flame died out, the ash left behind by Alucard disappeared with the wind.

With this, Su-ho was able to finish the second of the things he had to do in the Blood Realm.

"Then shall we take care of the last thing now?"

At those words, Jack asked,

- Last?

"Yeah, last. In a way, it’s the most important procedure."

- What is it?

"You’ll know when you see it."

After answering, Su-ho slowly lifted his body into the air.

"Oh, this works?"

Jack was surprised when he saw it too.

- You can fly now?

"Apparently. But when you think about it, flight ability was kind of obvious. I’m the vampire king in name, after all."

- True.

Flight ability was not an official skill.

However, when he awakened the final authority and obtained Nosferatu’s power, Su-ho naturally knew.

All the abilities he had possessed had been inherited, and among them were also Nosferatu’s memories.

Soon, after floating up, Su-ho stood before the Red Maria again.

In truth, there was no denying that it felt somewhat awkward to keep calling the Red Maria the Red Maria now.

Because it had lost all of the red color that had been its symbol.

But what did that matter so much?

Su-ho stretched his hand toward the Red Maria.

[ Blood Magic activates. ]

[ Blood Spirit Arts activates. ]

The moment he stretched out his hand, the two skills activated, and sharp blood-red winds burst out from Su-ho’s grasp.

Slice! Slice! Slice!

They poured out without stopping, and soon began striking the Red Maria madly.

Pale clouds of dust rose.

After quite some time, when the roar finally stopped and the smoke cleared, Su-ho was able to look at Maria with a satisfied expression.

Because carved there, with a bright smile on his face, was ‘Levan de Nosferatu,’ who could be called the beginning and end of the Vampire Blood that had given Su-ho power.

And beneath it, these words were written.

For Levan de Nosferatu, the greatest and most blessed existence in Noctarion’s history.