Ch.87EP 3 Manticore

Mulbitbaram sighed and began to position herself.

Her legs spread wider than shoulder-width, and her upper body lowered.

Like a wolf stalking its prey, she radiated hostility.

There was no signal to begin the fight.

Without anyone making the first move, they simply rushed at each other.

CRASH-!

The pure white sword swung with great force was blocked by Mulbitbaram’s hand.

Despite the blade being sharp, it failed to cut her hand.

Mulbitbaram didn’t yield much even in this test of strength against me.

“You’ve changed…”

Mulbitbaram’s words as we struggled against each other.

She pushed away my sword with force and stepped back.

I tilted my head. I wasn’t the only one who had changed.

Everyone here had adapted to this world.

The fight between Mulbitbaram and me naturally escalated into a battle between our entire races.

Werewolves and vampires baring their teeth and claws at each other.

I shook off Mulbitbaram and spread my black wings.

In response, Mulbitbaram formed moonlight claws.

Flames and moonlight flashed in the darkness.

The battle of monsters, without the smell of gunpowder, raised a terrible stench of blood.

They tore off each other’s arms and legs, opening their mouths to devour flesh.

Bloodshot eyes successfully awakened the instincts of monsters that had been dormant in lethargy.

This scene of creatures leaping like moths toward the enemy camp, craving blood, was exactly the situation I wanted.

As skin was torn and blood from both sides mixed on the ground,

I began to move the shadows.

Mulbitbaram fought well. For an ordinary werewolf, that is.

“Hyaaak!”

“Die!”

“For Lady Charlotte!”

A white wave began pouring out from the black shadows.

Mulbitbaram started retreating with a greatly surprised expression.

While she was strong for an ordinary werewolf, her strength remained ordinary.

She couldn’t handle nearly 400 vampires alone.

And so, when Mulbitbaram began to be overwhelmed,

Other werewolves started joining the fight.

“Protect her!”

This too was a situation I had anticipated.

I took out various doping potions from my pocket and drank them all at once.

The potions immediately took effect, multiplying my abilities several times over.

I rushed forward using shadows as footholds.

When I reached out my hand, a werewolf’s chest burst open revealing a bright red heart, and when I swung my sword, their head flew off.

Dozens of werewolves tried to block my path, but the surging white wave simply devoured everything.

SWISH-!

My unhindered advance quickly closed the distance with Mulbitbaram.

She didn’t panic. With calm eyes, she swung her moonlight claws.

CLANG-!

Vampires and werewolves had been allies until just recently.

The two races had shared many things with each other.

Among the items they exchanged were, of course, Yuri’s cash items.

Just as I naturally used doping potions, Mulbitbaram also used them.

The werewolf’s already powerful body demonstrated strength incomparable to before due to the potion’s effects.

THUD!

Mulbitbaram in her doped state possessed attack power comparable to mine.

This was despite me being a character specialized in defensive abilities.

It was an unfair fight. Mulbitbaram must have known this.

Yet she still tried to stop my choice despite knowing her defeat was inevitable.

Why?

Why wouldn’t she move toward change?

If we eliminated the Manticore, this world would change for the better.

“Bite!”

“Chomp!”

“Yum!”

Hundreds of girls bared their teeth at Mulbitbaram.

Some successfully sucked her blood.

I tilted my head, tasting the blood coming through the shadows.

SMASH-!

Mulbitbaram’s swinging hand crushed the head of a white girl who was biting her leg.

After that powerful blow, the girl trembled and disappeared into the shadows.

My subordinate numbers decreased. But I could just make more.

I called nearby wounded werewolves into the shadows.

They would soon receive new bodies and become my children who would fight for me.

As time passed, the werewolves should have been pushed back significantly.

It made no sense for vampire forces with asymmetric power to fight equally with werewolves.

But despite the passage of time, the number of werewolves blocking my path wasn’t decreasing much.

I couldn’t reach my target because of these pests. Just when Mulbitbaram seemed within my grasp, other werewolves would intervene and block my advance.

Suddenly I felt a strange gaze.

I could tell it was from my own kind, not the werewolves.

This was a battle between race representatives, so spectators weren’t unusual.

But the gaze lingered too long. Shouldn’t they be busy fighting werewolves right now?

I just pulled the head off a werewolf blocking my path.

I looked around, swinging the elongated spine like a whip.

“What’s going on…”

Somehow the fighting between vampires and werewolves had stopped.

No, only the vampires had stopped.

They had taken a step back from the battle.

The only ones still fighting were me, Aurel, and the werewolves.

Hwang-gu was wagging her tail from a distance alongside Yuri.

I could understand why Hwang-gu wasn’t participating in the fight.

She probably couldn’t bring herself to kill her own kind.

But the fact that she was still cheering for me remained unchanged.

However, I couldn’t understand the vampires’ attitude.

“Aurel.”

I embraced Aurel who approached me. Somehow I felt isolated.

I used to feel this way as a child when I did something wrong.

Was this the wrong choice now? The vampires’ gazes seemed to reproach me.

“Why isn’t everyone fighting?”

“Charlotte… this isn’t right.”

“Are you feeling tired lately? Maybe you should rest…?”

Prix and Firin answered my question.

Vampires don’t feel fatigue. So that statement was incorrect.

But perhaps I did need some rest.

But rest would come after this battle ended.

“Is everyone just going to watch?”

“She’s crazy…”

“She doesn’t seem to be in her right mind…”

I frowned at Prix’s words.

My mind was clearer and more lucid than ever before.

Hadn’t I found a way to resolve the frustration I’d been feeling all this time?

At that moment, a werewolf rushed toward me.

Information about the target flowed in through my activated Mystic Eye.

A level 20 werewolf.

But his attack never reached me.

Small girls jumped out from the shadow at my feet and tore the werewolf apart.

He instantly became minced meat.

The girls sucked blood from the torn werewolf’s body.

“Don’t interfere.”

I turned my gaze away from the vampires.

I could force them. But if I focused on the vampires, the werewolves might escape.

The vampires who disobeyed their race representative would need punishment, but that punishment would come much later.

For now, dealing with the werewolves was the right course of action.

Coincidentally, the werewolves gathered here seemed manageable with my power alone.

The battle resumed.

I approached to capture Mulbitbaram while she continuously created distance.

In this situation, werewolves endlessly rushed toward me.

Blood formed rivers, and the shadows absorbed the rivers of blood.

Even if wounds appeared, they regenerated instantly.

When my children died, I created new ones on the spot, and even surviving werewolves were reborn in the form of girls.

“Lady Charlotte! You’re amazing!”

Aurel cheered watching my performance.

The encouragement from my lover who shared body and soul excited me.

When Aurel is happy, I’m happy too. And situations that make Aurel happy were what I desired.

Everything must be under my control.

The end of what seemed like an endless game of tag approached.

I finally managed to catch Mulbitbaram.

Immediately, children emerged from the shadows to restrain her limbs.

Several children burst and died during the capture, but Mulbitbaram eventually fell to her knees.

The children had torn off her arms and legs.

“Grrrr…”

Even with her limbs torn off, the light in her eyes hadn’t died.

I was impressed by this sight.

If she were reborn as my child, she would truly be adorable.

Just as I was about to cover Mulbitbaram’s body with shadows,

A huge explosion occurred behind me.

BOOM-!

Burning flesh and black smoke rising.

There were no humans here who could attack me.

This meant the attack came from a vampire, specifically one who could use ranged magic.

“Ch-Charlotte…!”

Aurel’s startled scream.

But I didn’t even turn my gaze.

There was something that took priority.

I pushed the fallen Mulbitbaram into my shadow.

After giving the werewolf representative a new body, I was able to turn around.

The one who attacked me was Firin.

Firin stood there with her magic book open.

She stared at me with trembling eyes and a pale face.

“Firin…”

I hope this attack was a mistake.

But Firin’s answer indicated this attack was no mistake. She was speaking.

“Charlotte… this isn’t right!”

Firin’s voice burst out like a seizure, causing the surrounding vampires to move.

Firin looked surprised at the vampires’ movement.

But soon, as if she had made a firm decision, she raised her hand toward me.

Brilliant flames and ice spikes flew in from all directions.

Those attacks hurt my children and sometimes even reached my body.

As the vampires’ attacks gradually became more organized, they eventually targeted even Hwang-gu.

When I first opened my eyes in this world, I was confused.

The ruined world and the sight of people who had adapted to it was truly shocking.

So I changed too.

But why are you looking at me like that?

The shadows I was controlling began to break free.

A massive beast-like form appeared, and white girls poured out like waves.