Master of True Blood

“Hayat!”

With a great shout, I swung my staff.

Mages have to stop moving when casting, so timing had to be perfect.

I calculated the upcoming patterns and pre-casted my spells.

The longer the casting time, the more powerful the magic I could use, but to avoid the named monster’s bombardment flying towards the area-of-effect or ranged lines, I had to cancel the cast.

If a long cast is canceled before completion, it leads to that much loss in DPS.

That was the mage’s only drawback.

In contrast, that Hwarang bastard was rolling around on the floor while firing his dual pistols, bang, bang.

He was like a moving machine gun.

I bit my lip while looking at the DPS numbers of the damage dealers in the raid.

1. Hwarang

2. Helena

3. Snow Mage

4. Yeon-i Gongju

5. Yerin

6. Iyap

Hwarang was the top DPS dealer, but Helena was closely following behind.

It was clear that the moment Hwarang stopped dealing damage even for a moment, Helena would snatch the top spot.

Helena was showing that much tremendous firepower.

The Ether rank of the equipment Helena and I were wearing was the same.

The job tree was also the same. The order of skills used was also the same.

But my DPS ranking remained in 4th place.

So, why was there such a big difference?

The answer lay in special Transcendence Stones.

These Transcendence Stones, which granted additional special abilities to equipment, could only be obtained from dungeons.

Since they dropped as untradeable, you naturally couldn’t buy them even with money.

The Yeon-i Gongju I was currently playing didn’t have such special Transcendence Stones.

That’s because I had only used tradable Transcendence Stones to raise my stats.

It was a disaster that I had only pushed through the main quest and hadn’t logged in much.

That’s when it happened.

Hwarang, who had been spraying bullets while rolling on the floor, stopped and smirked at me.

Something shot from deep inside my chest and stuck with a *puk*.

It was a huge shock. My face flushed, and my shoulders began to tremble.

When Hwarang stopped moving, there was a change in the DPS rankings.

Hwarang’s nickname, which had been maintaining the top spot, slowly descended and settled in 3rd place.

Naturally, those below him rose in rank by one step each.

1. Helena

2. Snow Mage

3. Hwarang

4. Yeon-i Gongju

5. Yerin

6. Iyap

It was close. It seemed like I could catch him if I tried a little harder.

I glared at Hwarang with a deep frown.

Bang-!

Bang-!

Bang-!

Hwarang was shooting his gun while rolling around on the floor as before.

But he didn’t have the same desperate feeling as before.

This bastard…

He was messing with me!

It was clear that he was teasing me from right above my rank.

Of course, it was just a hunch.

On the surface, it looked like Hwarang was doing his best to deal damage.

“Eeeek…!”

I gritted my teeth and continued to unleash skills.

I even used the event doping potion I had been saving.

But even so, I couldn’t catch him.

When my DPS slightly increased, Hwarang went up just as much as I did, as if he was teasing me.

My head was hot. I felt like my insides were bubbling and boiling.

But there was nothing I could do.

“Yeon-a!”

“Huh?”

That’s when it happened. A sudden scream was heard.

A familiar voice. It was Helena’s voice.

When I turned my head, Helena, who was far away from me, was reaching out her hand.

When did she get so far away? She was definitely breathing fire next to me.

The distance had widened. Given the nature of mages who plant themselves and deal damage, there was only one reason to move.

To avoid the named monster’s pattern.

In other words, the named monster’s area-of-effect attack had fallen where I was.

“Ah-!”

The moment I realized that fact, a huge shadow approached from above my head.

The movement of a heavy and massive object.

What was flying in with a great gust of wind was Bahamut’s chubby tail.

Kwaang-!

A huge shock shook my entire body.

The moment I recognized the impact, my body was flattened and slammed into the floor.

“Heueng…”

My vision turned gray.

I was being punished for not focusing on the raid.

I had become a pancake from Bahamut’s tail attack.

“Yeon-aaaa!!!”

Helena screamed as she watched me die.

Of course, the raid didn’t stop just because I died.

The raid members who had easily avoided the pattern returned to their original positions and began to spam skills.

Hwarang looked at me, who had died, and let out a small sneer.

I stared blankly with my mouth open at the falling DPS numbers.

My nickname, which had been in 4th place, was plummeting to the bottom.

In contrast, Hwarang’s nickname had risen back to 1st place.

He could have reclaimed 1st place at any time.

But he didn’t. Only to mess with me, to provoke me.

He deliberately came down to 3rd place and lingered in front of me.

Bad guy.

Bad guy.

Bad bastard.

“Hing…”

“Guild Leader-nim!!! I’ll revive you!!!”

A healer among the sub-healers who had some leeway reached out to me and cast a resurrection spell.

I closed my eyes as I watched.

What meaning would there be in coming back to life now?

To raise the DPS numbers that had fallen to the abyss, I needed an even stronger power than before.

Of course, that was just my personal opinion.

The moment I was resurrected, I would pour out magic with all my strength again.

Chwaaaaaak-!

The casting time for the resurrection skill is 10 seconds.

That meant that for 10 seconds, one healer couldn’t do anything.

If it was an urgent situation, they wouldn’t have used the resurrection skill.

But right now, it was a fairly relaxed situation.

Paaaat!

As a result, I was able to stand up again.

“Resurrection!”

Don’t be obsessed with DPS.

Enjoy the game itself.

I began to self-hypnotize and immerse myself in the Yeon-i Gongju I had created.

The raid party gathered to face the giant vampiric dragon Bahamut.

Yeon-i Gongju was a person in a tremendous position even within that.

Everyone had gathered to see her. Everyone believed in and followed Yeon-i Gongju because of her beauty, cuteness, and tremendous magical skills.

“Hoo…”

As the continuous self-hypnosis continued, my head, which had been heated up, began to cool down.

“Everyone, get rid of that evil dragon!”

I shouted, banging the staff on the floor.

Immediately after that, countless skills from the raid members poured onto Bahamut.

I couldn’t be left out either.

To use powerful magic, a suitable incantation was necessary.

I opened my arms wide and opened my mouth to cast a spell.

Seueuk-

“Darkness beyond twilight…”

“The raid leader-nim is chanting!!!”

“…”

Of course, Yeon-i Gongju, who had outstanding talent, also knew how to skip the incantation.

I closed my mouth and unleashed powerful magic.

Hwareureureuk-!

After a while, after planting numerous spells into Bahamut’s huge body, he began to inhale.

It’s coming.

I shouted to the raid members.

“Everyone, keep your health at maximum!”

The vampiric species mutation pattern is approaching.

Those who have antibodies in that pattern are randomly determined each round.

In other words, everyone needed to maintain maximum health until it was revealed who the antibody holders were.

[Kueeeeek!]

Bahamut began to spew out thick blood with a huge scream.

There was no direct damage, but it was quite unpleasant to have it pouring over your head.

At that moment, my vision turned red.

[Infected with the blood of the vampiric species!]

[Beginning to mutate into a vampiric species.]

I was not an antibody holder.

I cleared the message that appeared in front of me and shouted.

“Antibody holders, raise your hands!”

The antibody holders began to raise their hands one by one.

I placed a large mark on each of their heads.

Since it was a mark that all raid members could see, those who had mutated into vampiric species would not make mistakes.

The skill that is created when infected with the vampiric species [Blood Drain]

A technique that absorbs the target’s health as a fixed value and restores one’s own health.

Since there was no cooldown, it was a technique that could suck a raid member dry like dried squid if you made a mistake.

At that moment, a sudden realization came to me.

If I couldn’t be number one, wouldn’t it be okay to drag number one down?

I looked at Hwarang.

He was also undergoing a mutation into a vampiric species.

Hwarang was approaching the antibody holder with his red eyes shining.

The hesitation didn’t last long.

I ran behind Hwarang and reached out my hand.

[Blood Drain]

Since it was a skill that could be used without direct contact, I could drain blood just by reaching out my hand like this.

Shuaaaak-

[Blood Drain]

Shuaaaak-

“Huh…?”

[Blood Drain]

Shuaaaak-

Hwarang, who had his blood sucked three times, became a shriveled corpse and collapsed on the floor.

He was looking up at me as if he didn’t understand what had happened to him.

That was the moment.

In an unexpected situation, two of the ongoing quest’s achievement conditions were counted simultaneously.

[Absorption of Vampiric Species Blood]

As Dr. Haven said, collect the blood of the vampiric species scattered throughout Deron and absorb it into the existing blood.

A separate purification process is required.

Human 1/1

Beast 1/1

Demon 1/1

Dragon 1/1

Fairy 1/1

Elf 1/1

“Heok…”

All conditions were met.

The moment I thought that, a message appeared in front of me.

[New Race Unlocked]

[True Blood]

[Would you like to be reborn into this race?]

[YES/NO]

The hesitation didn’t last long.

I immediately selected the YES button.

Chwaaaaaak-!

Immediately after that, the blood flowing on the floor surged greatly and began to envelop my body.

“Yeon-a!”

I could feel the gazes of the raid members from all directions.

I could hear Helena’s voice as well.

But I couldn’t look at the raid members.

I had to check the changes that were happening to my body.

The blood that wrapped around my body began to be absorbed into my body.

At the same time, my white skin began to turn pale, and my round and blunt nails began to grow slightly sharp.

The horns that had sprouted on my head disappeared.

The changes in my body didn’t end there.

The moment my body, which had been floating in the air for the rebirth, landed on the floor, the blood flowing around me began to split apart as if avoiding me.

“This is…”

I could instinctively realize it.

Yeon-i Gongju had transcended humans, no, demons.

It felt like I had evolved one step as a living being.

I swept my hair back with my blood-stained hand and smiled pleasantly.

“Keukeuk…”

“Yeon-a… we’re still in the middle of the raid…”