Ch.84Full-Scale War

The battlefield situation unfolded similar to a game.

Vampires and werewolves trying to approach by any means.

Humans risking their lives to prevent their advance.

Barbed wire, barricades, landmines, and bombs.

The humans, using everything at their disposal, successfully managed to stop the first assault.

I had no choice but to halt the charge of vampires and werewolves.

Because the sun had risen in the sky.

If only that hateful sun weren’t there, I could have finished Busan today.

I let out a sigh filled with regret.

Given time, the humans began moving at a frightening pace to establish new defense lines.

They reinforced collapsed barricades and used skills to plant mines.

The vampires and werewolves could only watch.

I stroked Aurel and Hwang-gu’s heads.

The two girls, apparently exhausted from the fierce battle, were lying beside me in deep sleep.

Judging by how they were rubbing their soft cheeks against me, they must be dreaming.

Now that the gunfire and shouting that filled the battlefield had disappeared,

The three races entered a six-hour rest period.

I looked at Yuri with a peculiar expression.

Despite her comrades dying before her eyes, her expression remained unchanged.

“Doesn’t it bother you?”

“What?”

“Humans are dying.”

“Are you saying I should side with the humans?”

“No, but…”

Yuri smiled slightly at my response.

She looked out the window while playing with her hair.

“600,000 points.”

“600,000…?”

As I tilted my head at Yuri’s sudden statement, she continued.

“That’s how many points I’ve earned from this war.”

“Is that true…?”

I asked Yuri with a dubious expression.

Yuri hadn’t directly participated in this war.

She had merely stayed in a safe space, occasionally getting knocked unconscious by Bbi-bbi.

I couldn’t think of any way she could have earned points.

“Yes. It’s true. It seems when someone uses an item I’ve given them to kill an enemy, I earn a certain amount of points.”

“What an insane ability…”

While I was frowning at Yuri’s candid explanation, we had a visitor.

“Um, excuse me…”

It was Prix who opened the door and entered, wearing a solemn expression as if he had made some decision.

“Prix?”

“Shh…”

Prix put his finger to his lips while looking around the room.

Soon he spotted Yuri and approached her.

“Hmm…?”

Yuri looked at the approaching Prix with a puzzled expression.

Then, as if realizing something, she smiled brightly.

“Is that offer… still valid…?”

Prix asked Yuri with a face flushed red.

Yuri nodded as if she knew what he meant.

Then she stood up.

“You’ll… return my cloak too, right?”

“Cloak? Hmm… I’ll give it back.”

Prix smiled brightly in his small girl form.

He seemed to be imagining getting his cloak back.

“I’ll be back in a bit?”

Yuri said as she turned to look at me.

Then she grabbed Prix’s hand and went into an empty room.

She looked just like a pervert luring children with candy.

Click-

Shortly after the door closed, small moans began to flow from inside the room.

The temporary shelter we found to avoid the sun wasn’t soundproof.

-Ahngg!

***

Exactly ten minutes later, it was Prix who came out of the room.

Small girl Prix was dragging a cloak larger than her height.

“All done?”

“…”

Prix turned his head with a strange expression at my question.

I blinked and looked at both his hands.

Prix had been promised a cloak and a Gender Change Ticket to return to his original form in exchange for doing it once.

Since Yuri wasn’t the type to break promises, he should have been holding a small card.

But there was no item that looked like a Gender Change Ticket.

“I’ll… come back again later…”

Leaving those words, Prix ran away hurriedly.

The sun that had been in the sky disappeared exactly six hours later.

It meant the war had to resume.

Before starting the charge, all clan leaders gathered.

Everyone was burning with fighting spirit, waiting for my orders.

I tilted my head and looked at one girl.

It was Prix.

He still hadn’t returned to his original form.

Or should I say, he chose not to return?

It seemed his feelings had changed.

Prix’s shoulders hunched as if conscious of my gaze.

Anyway, that wasn’t important right now.

The charge against the humans was the issue.

I looked at the human base.

Many things I hadn’t seen before had been built in that short time—deep trenches dug into the ground and crudely made crosses stuck in the earth.

They must know crosses aren’t effective unless made of silver…

It seemed the mental state of the remaining humans had deteriorated.

“Charlotte. What’s the plan?”

I smiled slightly at Mulbitbaram’s question.

As if vampires and werewolves would have strategic plans.

The strategy was simply to break through the defense line and engage in close combat.

It was a long-standing tradition since the Blood Carnival days.

“Just charge.”

I checked all the forces reassembled after the rest period.

Reckless charges always resulted in many casualties.

A significant number of my subordinates had already been reduced.

The faces of vampires and werewolves were full of vitality thanks to the night’s return.

“Everyone, charge!”

Following my command, vampires and werewolves began rushing forward again.

In response, thousands of lights poured out from the human camp.

The six-hour rest period was over.

Now was the time to put knives to each other’s throats.

I shouted while mounting Hwang-gu’s back.

“Let’s go!”

As always, I needed to lead the vanguard and clear the path.

I had the ability to do so and was in the position where I had to.

The charge combining Hwang-gu’s mobility and my defense must have felt like a disaster to the humans.

The humans spotted our approach and concentrated their bullets while screaming.

Rat-tat-tat! The noise of bullets hitting my widely spread shadow.

Landmines and bomb traps didn’t work on Hwang-gu.

She was faster than the traps could activate.

Tap-tap-tap!

Having broken through the first defense line, Hwang-gu jumped into the trenches dug by humans.

There were really many human users stationed inside.

“C-crazy…!”

“Enemy! Fire! Fire!”

Humans screamed at the sight of Hwang-gu and me suddenly dropping into the trench.

I drew my snow-white sword and took a stance.

Hwang-gu and I began a cavalry charge.

Whoosh!

My widely spread shadow served as both a good shield and a weapon.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Humans flew through the air after being hit by the rapidly charging Hwang-gu.

The humans launched into the air had their arms and legs bent in strange directions.

-Waaaaaah!

-Charge! Kill them!

-Fresh meat!

Vampires and werewolves concentrated on breaking through the defense line I had destroyed.

No matter how thick the human defense was, once breached like this, it easily collapsed.

The humans were continuously pushed back.

In the midst of this chaotic push against the humans—

BOOM!

An enormous explosion unlike before.

The subsequent shock wave overturned the ground.

I stopped Hwang-gu and glared at the human camp.

There stood a human holding a bazooka that glowed green.

Just as we had farmed items, it seemed the humans had also acquired special weapons.

I licked my lips at the sight.

Werewolves and vampires cannot equip firearms.

Even if we pushed back the humans and captured that bazooka, we couldn’t use it.

But now there was one human who was on our side.

If we handed that weapon to Yuri and proceeded with the boss raid together, it would be very reassuring.

I hugged Hwang-gu’s neck and whispered in a small voice.

“Let’s charge quickly. At maximum speed.”

“Woof!”

Hwang-gu responded energetically to my command.

She immediately took a stance as if about to charge.

Then blue lightning began to rise.

Hwang-gu’s fur stood on end and began to emit lightning.

Crackle-crackle!

At that moment, with a bang, space itself distorted.

Hwang-gu’s top speed was truly incredible.

Even with powerful Mystic Eyes, I couldn’t fully grasp that speed.

When I came to my senses, Hwang-gu and I were buried in the debris of a collapsed building.

“Ugh…”

“Whine…”

I got up with a groan.

Hwang-gu also shook her head as if dizzy.

Without lowering our guard, we escaped from the building.

However, where Hwang-gu and I arrived wasn’t the human base.

We were far from the battlefield.

Standing on tiptoe and looking into the distance, I could see blue flashes of light with explosions.

It seems we arrived at the wrong place due to Hwang-gu’s incredible speed.

“Couldn’t you control the direction?”

“Whine…”

Hwang-gu lowered her head with a dejected expression at my question.

I hugged her neck and mounted her back.

“It’s okay. This time, let’s run only as fast as you can control.”

“Woof!”

Hwang-gu running at full speed was no different from a missile moving in a straight line.

I returned to the battlefield with Hwang-gu.

The war ended in a complete defeat for the humans.

The vampires and werewolves destroyed all human facilities in Busan and captured the surviving humans.

Those who escaped weren’t pursued.

The number of captured humans was about 500.

The vampire and werewolf alliance divided these humans equally.

The war greatly reduced the number of werewolves and vampires.

But the werewolves weren’t worried. They could increase their numbers by having children among themselves.

The problem was with the vampires. Vampires are inherently infertile. Neither males nor females could have children, so the reduction in vampire numbers was a huge loss.

But there was a way to solve this problem.

They could breed the captured humans to have children, then use Race Change Tickets to raise them as vampires.

The werewolves and vampires returned to their respective territories.