Chapter 636

- Haha, wonderful!

Jack crossed his arms and laughed heartily.

At times like this, his master’s sense of style was nothing short of admirable.

Su-ho said,

"I can’t bring Levan back to life, but this should be enough, right?"

- More than enough! Levan will now live and breathe forever here in Noctarion.

The power of immortality that any high-ranking vampire naturally possessed as a right.

Since Alucard had made him lose that, shouldn’t he be compensated in this way, at least?

Su-ho then turned around.

After that, he lifted his body high enough to overlook all of Noctarion, then looked down at Noctarion together with Jack.

- Feeling sentimental?

"Not really."

After answering, Su-ho stretched out his hand.

Then blood-red mist began pouring out around Su-ho.

[ Blood Spirit Arts activates. ]

[ Blood Magic activates. ]

The two skills activated, and soon the blood-red mist scattered rapidly in every direction.

What had he done?

The moment Jack wore that expression.

Kugung!

With a massive roar, every line centered around Middle Town collapsed and fell.

- What was that?

"What else? I removed the walls. Now that there are no High Bloods left, what need is there for walls like that?"

- But the nobles still remain, don’t they?

"Does that matter? In my Noctarion, there are exactly two classes: the king and the people. There are no nobles. Everyone else is simply the same people."

In truth, he was not particularly interested in the throne either.

However, unless Noctarion was ruled by a definite leader in this way, all kinds of difficulties would bloom, so he had merely taken care of it in advance.

And that fact was conveyed to every vampire that existed in Noctarion.

Because Blood Spirit Arts and Blood Magic had become a high-speed voice transmission and informed everyone of this fact.

"Let’s go now."

When Su-ho, who had finally finished everything, jerked his chin, a Subspace Gate leading outside was created.

Once he placed himself into it, the surroundings changed rapidly, and he was able to arrive at the familiar Cheongdam residence.

After returning to Korea, Su-ho checked his phone.

This time too, not much time had passed.

"It really is nice that time flows relatively."

- It seems not much time passed this time either. So what comes next?

"Next is......."

There were now three bloodline matters left.

Dragon Blood, Giant’s Bloodline, and Fairy Blood.

While looking at the quest window, Su-ho first pulled up his status window.

[ An [N O V E L I G H T] Su-ho ]

Lv: 400Class: Black PopeGrade: Guardian GodBetting:Traits▲: <New Blood★>Super Strength(S): 148True Demon(G): 437Super Sense(S): 90Command(N): 220Bonus Stats: 20Twenty bonus stats.

His level had not risen.

So it was disappointing.

"What a shame. I killed that many vampires, and I’m still Level 400."

- Does your level bother you?

"To be precise, my stats bother me."

- Do not worry about stats. When the time comes, they will rise on their own well enough. But it would be better to assume your level will no longer rise.

"Why?"

- To grow someone like you, who is already Level 400, it would be difficult to achieve growth without an extraordinary experience. Where would you find monsters like that?

"Does it work out like that too?"

It was not wrong.

Experience itself was the quantification and accumulation of experience for the sake of growth.

In that sense, for a Level 400 Player who had reached Guardian God rank and was now looking toward Constellation, ordinary monsters...... especially experience gained through hunting, might no longer have any meaning.

After thinking for a moment, Su-ho invested all the stats he had obtained into True Demon.

"Now it’s done."

- So next?

"Next is......."

What came next?

Whatever it was, he intended to postpone the giant side until last.

A war for the throne.

Just hearing about it was tiring.

Then in the end, it was one of the two: dragons or fairies.......

Su-ho had been thinking for a while when it happened.

- Disciple.

A voice suddenly rang out inside his head.

He lifted his head in surprise, and the voice came again.

- Why are you so surprised? Let us see each other for a moment.

There was only one person who could call him disciple.

It was Sword Demon.

Su-ho immediately replied.

- Why so suddenly?

- I cannot bear to just keep watching anymore. It is too frustrating.

- All of a sudden?

- Ah, hurry!

- A-All right.

What was this all of a sudden?

Su-ho immediately closed his eyes and focused his mind.

There was one way to meet Sword Demon.

If he entered a state of deep concentration and reached the world of the unconscious, he could meet him there.

[ Sword Demon Realm activates. ]

Sure enough, a little while later, Sword Demon Realm activated, and he opened his eyes in Sword Demon’s world.

Before his eyes, Sword Demon stood with his hands clasped behind his back, frowning.

"Have you been well?"

"I have not been well."

"Why not?"

"Look at the state of what you have been doing. And you still call yourself my disciple?"

"What are you talking about? I worked hard on my own and even comprehended a quasi-extreme combined sword technique."

"What use is comprehending it if you are that slow to use it in real combat?"

"Ah?"

Now he knew why he had been called here.

But was that really something to be that bothered by?

"It bothers me."

"I didn’t say anything."

"It is written all over your face, you brat. Enough. Take up your sword. From now on, know that you cannot go home until you can use combined sword techniques as quickly as sword-drawing techniques."

"Ah."

This was bad.

This had not been in the plan.

But it did not look like he could run away either.

Because Sword Demon was serious.

Even if he could run away, he would have to come back here someday.

Because he was Su-ho’s master.

Sword Demon had already drawn his sword and taken his stance.

Su-ho also drew his Blood Sword and said,

"But aren’t you going to praise me for learning combined sword techniques on my own?"

"Praise, my ass...... You have plenty of talent, but you did not train because you said you had no time. What praise are you talking about? Did you fail to comprehend combined sword techniques until now because you couldn’t?"

"Ah."

"What do you mean, ah! Hurry up and raise your sword!"

He was right.

At his stinging criticism, Su-ho immediately raised his sword.

"I told you. Your foundation is swordsmanship. But how can you be that slow at using the swordsmanship that is both your root and your foundation?"

"I’m sorry."

"Fights between masters end in an instant, and victory or defeat is decided by the difference of a sheet of paper. Even between masters of the same level, victory is decided depending on their condition that day and the state of their swords. Do you want to hear people say that a man who calls himself a swordsman lost because his swordwork was clumsy?"

"No, sir!"

"Then practice! If someone pokes you in the side, combined sword techniques should come out immediately. If you do not properly train the quasi-extreme, there is no next stage! It was the same in your past life! If I had not asked the System, originally, Unity of Body and Sword was something you could not have even dreamed of! Do you understand?!"

"I’m sorry!!"

"Begin! First is True Severing Slash!"

"Yes!"

At his master’s scathing rebuke, he hurriedly sent out his sword.

[ Diamond Cut activates. ]

[ Sky Slash activates. ]

[ Combined Sword Technique activates. ]

[ True Severing Slash activates. ]

Swaaaaaah!!

True Severing Slash, which combined Diamond Cut’s powerful cut and Sky Slash’s far-reaching, wide cut.

Perhaps because he had just been scolded, it activated faster than expected.

The sword strike of True Severing Slash flew toward Sword Demon.

Kaaang!

However, Sword Demon snorted and struck away Su-ho’s sword strike, collapsing it in a single blow.

"Tsk, tsk. Look at that pathetic way of swinging. Isn’t this what True Severing Slash looks like now because you spent every day chasing nothing but crooked little tricks?"

"I’m sorry!"

"Again!"

As a Demi-Constellation and Su-ho’s master, Sword Demon had continued watching Su-ho.

However, the more he watched, the more frustrated he became.

Thanks to his natural talent and system options, Su-ho comprehended the realms of swordsmanship themselves quite well, but when it came time to use the techniques he had comprehended, he used them not as true swordsmanship, but like cards from a card game. That made Sword Demon’s blood boil.

No matter how much the world operated by the System, someone walking the path of the sword missing an important moment because he could not use a technique he had realized quickly enough made him angry.

"Again!"

Swaaaaaah—Kang!

"Again!"

Slice—Kaaang!!

"Again!"

He did not permit rest.

What rest, when the man was Level 400?

He could heal himself if he got hurt, so where else would there be a state more suited to training than Su-ho’s current one?

That was why Sword Demon was even more annoyed.

He had even given him a training skill that allowed Su-ho to meet him just by concentrating, so he would not have to go anywhere far, and yet Su-ho had neglected training.

"Agh!"

Slice!

In the end, Sword Demon, unable to hold back his anger, split the Blood Sword with his own sword.

Su-ho looked at his neatly severed sword and swallowed dryly.

'H-He must really be angry.'

It seemed he would have to postpone the next trait quest for quite some time.

***

How much time had passed?

"S-Stop......!"

"Raise your sword!"

[ Soul Slash activates. ]

[ Diamond Cut activates. ]

[ Combined Sword Technique activates. ]

[ True Cutting Slash activates. ]

Slice!

Sword Demon’s rebuke.

And True Cutting Slash activated.

Now, Su-ho no longer needed to concentrate.

Because he had literally reached a level where it came out if someone poked him.

When Su-ho cut through a single line of rune rings and collapsed, Sword Demon only then sheathed his sword.

"What a brat, exaggerating like that."

"Haa, haa...... What do you mean, exaggerating? It feels like I’ve been using nothing but combined sword techniques for more than twenty-four hours."

"What are you making a fuss over, when it was only twenty-four hours? You are high-level, aren’t you?"

"My level is high. But my opponent is you, Master."

"Then who told you to neglect your training in the first place?"

"......."

When he put it that way, Su-ho had nothing to say.

Sword Demon rested his sheathed sword on his shoulder and said,

"I will give you ten minutes."

"Pardon?"

"Rest well. Because you need to increase your activation speed by at least twice what it is now."

"N-No, where does that even come from?"

"Do not talk back. If you want to comprehend the extremity, you have to be able to use combined sword techniques as naturally as breathing. Do I need to say it again?"

"Haa......."

It seemed that challenging the next trait quest was still a long way off.

"Time’s up. Get up."

"Uaaaaagh!"

Su-ho screamed and raised his sword again.