episode_0152

“Fuck··· ”

Sorian was slowly approaching, feeling a mixture of dizziness and pain.

Contrary to his leisurely, sarcastic attitude, the guy’s movements were cautious.

In normal circumstances, I would have smashed it head-on without any gaps, but the power I felt from the hand holding the sword was extremely unstable.

“I heard it’s a deadly poison that can even kill dragons, but it looks much better than I thought. I really have to kill it.”

“I’ll take the left side, you dig in from the right side.”

The monster, who appeared to be badly wounded, cut through its own body without a care.

The arm, which had been dangling due to the wound that tore upward from near the heart, fell to the floor with a thud.

The guy calmly took an attacking stance as if his body was not being damaged and closed the distance.

“What a convenient body.”

Even though he was an undead, the expectation that his fighting power would not be reduced due to losing an arm was being shattered faster than the speed of light.

The sword he was holding in his severed arm was floating in the air.

Three swords full of life.

It is nearly impossible for me to withstand two types of attacks that are so flashy and require elaborate swordsmanship and reactions with my current body condition.

“Don’t worry. When you die, the Demon King will put your body to good use.”

“Is this squeezing out as much as possible?”

If he is the Demon King who can even resurrect dragons as undead, then it would be entirely possible for him to use my corpse.

If that happens, I’ll be that guy’s slave forever.

A slave with no free will and who cannot even choose his own death.

It’s a more horrible and miserable ending than falling to your death on the street.

“If my body falls into the hands of the Demon King, it will be difficult for him too, right?”

I looked at Sorian to try to sow discord, but the will in his eyes seemed stronger than steel.

“Ironically, thanks to you, there’s still a lot of time left before the Demon King invades. This is something we can take care of in the meantime.”

“That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard today.”

Certainly, the Demon King’s army suffered a great blow when their identity was discovered and their plan failed.

But that doesn’t mean you have to be a match for the noble Naburangi.

No matter how powerful a noble may be, he is only a great figure within the framework of a nation.

It is not enough to be a match for the Demon King who is targeting the entire continent.

“If you’re serious about what you’re saying, you should open your head and check for yourself right now.”

“I’ve eliminated countless enemies over the years. You’re going to be one of them. Nothing is impossible for me.”

Sorian’s arrogant eyes were filled with confidence.

But his clouded eyes made it difficult to see that he had made a rational judgment.

A look filled with anger and obsession with power.

His face, with its twisted smile, was uglier than trash thrown into a cesspool.

“Nothing more I say will mean anything.”

Before we knew it, the distance between them had become close enough that an attack could have occurred at any moment.

In the narrow distance, Sorian and the monster stood in place, glaring at me, and an ominous silence flowed around.

“Die.”

After a while, the silence was broken by Sorian’s dry voice.

But there was implicit anger in his dry voice.

visor-!

A sword within the sound that delicately penetrates the gap.

I struck back as quickly as I could, but the monster’s attack from the other side was striking my vital points.

“Fuck··· ”

Instinctively, he curses and swings his sword in the opposite direction again.

Despite my best efforts, my body was moving much slower than usual.

In the end, he managed to knock away two swords, but one of them left a deep gash on his arm and he returned to where the guy was.

“Huh··· The defense isn’t even working properly.”

This is an attack that can be blocked by strengthening the skin with mana.

But in a situation like now where my body was in shambles, it was a threatening attack that I couldn’t let down my guard against.

With my current physical condition, the best I can do is barely react to the attack.

“Don’t rebel like that. Since you’re going to die anyway, wouldn’t it be better to die comfortably?”

The damp laughter in Sorian scratched my ears unpleasantly.

What’s most frustrating of all is that it’s hard to refute what he says.

A dying body and two enemies carefully tearing flesh apart.

In the worst of circumstances, the survival instinct was blaring warning lights.

‘If we continue like this, we’ll die.’

No matter how hard you try, if there is no clear solution, a slow death awaits you.

Even if it was a bit difficult, I just had to find a way to resolve this situation.

“Really··· Today is an unlucky day.”

“There is no day more unfortunate than the day a person dies.”

I continued to fight back against Sorian’s attacks while listening to his lame jokes, but the taste of blood in my mouth only grew stronger and the situation continued to worsen.

‘Wait… can’t we use blood?’

A thought that suddenly crosses my mind.

Right now, the most powerful of all poisons is flowing through my body.

Then, could it not be used as a weapon?

While I was worrying, my body was getting worse to the point where I didn’t even have time to consider the possibilities.

“Have you already given up?”

Ignoring Sorian’s taunts, he gathers as much mana as possible from his body.

Although the amount of mana gathered was noticeably less than usual, that alone caused me to feel a pain as if an awl was running through my blood vessels and tearing my body apart.

“It looks like you’ve given up, so I’ll kill you cleanly.”

When the pain stopped his movements, Sorian swung his sword with great momentum.

A sword that digs to pierce the throat.

There was no way to avoid it, but there was a way to fight back.

Right in your mouth.

“Tsk―!”

The face of Sorian, who had been so confident, suddenly became distorted into a vicious grimace.

Immediately afterwards, blood full of venom hit his face, and he hurriedly retrieved his sword and tried to wipe it off his face.

“Keuuugh···!! ”

Sorian rubbed his face with his sleeve, then dropped the knife on the floor and sat down.

As I was experiencing it firsthand, there was no doubt about how quickly the poison spread and destroyed my body.

He was groaning heavily, blood flowing out of every orifice, including his eyes.

“Kaaah···! This··· Interest rate···! ”

The body inside Sorian was damaged much faster than the overwhelming physical difference.

His death is virtually certain.

I looked at the monster, ignoring him as he lay dying, unable to fight, and the guy’s face was distorted in shock.

“One was taken care of… The rest are just undead.”

“I never thought you’d use that method··· ”

Although he was momentarily flustered, he readied his fighting stance and carefully prepared to attack again.

But on the other hand, my body didn’t have enough strength left to knock him down.

“This fight is my victory as a survivor!”

The guy looked at me with a puzzled look at my sudden declaration of victory.

A look that is almost like looking at a crazy person.

The guy who didn’t know what I was going to do was rather cautiously raising his guard.

If I had known, I would have rushed in instead of watching the situation carefully.

“Are you crazy?”

“Well··· ”

Currently, Sorian is addicted and is certain to die.

And the guy is already a dead undead.

If that’s the case, then if I run away like this and survive, it’s like my victory.

Even if you meet the guy again, you can just go back to the mansion, recover, and then stomp on him.

‘I don’t know if I’ll succeed because my physical condition is so messed up…’

Squeeze as much mana as possible and infuse it into the artifact.

The concentration displayed in a situation where death was imminent was astonishing.

If I could just return to the mansion even if I spent all my mana, there was hope.

Because it is home to a dragon with great power and a witch who joined hands with the Demon King.

“It’s a shame I can’t see you die, but I have to go first!”

It was only when a bright light began to emanate from the artifact that the guy realized what was happening.

But it was too late to regret, and there was no time left to even swing the sword.

“Ugh···!! ”

What I saw right before my vision flashed with pure white light was Sorian’s face, a mixture of anger and despair.

*****

“···”

All that remained in Eugene’s lost space were dying nobles and undead monsters.

The two of them, who had never expected that he would have the ability to escape while intoxicated, could do nothing but look at the place where he disappeared.

“Ku …

A cry from the depths of pain and anger.

The voice that resonated throughout the surroundings was filled with ugly anger, but it was ringing out in vain, without finding a target.

“Eugene···! Interest rate···!!”

His end, awaiting a painful death, was misery itself.