Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 497

Tukwaaang!!

A fierce running start.

Hard enough that the ground caved in.

Su-ho didn’t move.

The guy charged at Su-ho at ultrahigh speed and soon swung his sword.

And the moment Su-ho’s sword and Seorio’s sword collided.

Kwaaang!!

A tremendous blast.

At the same time, an explosion went off around them and a cloud of dirt rose up, and.

Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

Through the dirt cloud, someone went rolling disgracefully far away, bouncing as they went.

It was Seorio.

Tremble-tremble-

“Well, would you look at that?”

It wasn’t like he’d pulled off some huge trick, either.

They’d just clashed swords once, and in that instant, the Shock Wave option on the Hercules Club he’d layered on top of it activated.

And yet the guy didn’t just roll that far—his whole body twisted up, and he’d even ended up with his sword broken.

That was when it happened.

Kwaaang!!

Seorio’s head suddenly burst.

Su-ho hadn’t blown it up.

Su-ho knew that, too.

That was just Seorio’s master blowing it up.

“Seriously, this is something else.......”

Quitting the game this fast.

That was when it happened.

Swaaa!

A blood-red vortex surged again.

It was the moment Seorio’s owner played the next card.

- ???’s Butler Periotin Lv.???

Periotin.

Seeing the guy’s namecard, Su-ho frowned.

“This time it’s a butler, huh.......”

Why don’t you bring out a cook, a gardener, a stable hand, a bodyguard—hell, even a foot-wiper next?

Su-ho, dumbfounded, quietly waited for Periotin to open his mouth.

Periotin was an elderly gentleman.

He had white hair slicked back, skin pale, a monocle, and eyes as red as Shuraia’s.

Periotin, wearing the distinctive butler outfit that was somewhere between a tuxedo and a suit, spoke politely to Su-ho.

“Pleased to meet you. I am Periotin, the butler who serves my master.”

“Yeah, so you’re here to test me too? And how many servants are waiting behind you? If you’re going to do this, can’t you just all come out at once?”

“Haha, it seems the friends who dropped out earlier have put you in a foul mood. Don’t worry. I am the last.”

“Oh, yeah?”

Nice to hear.

When Su-ho grinned broadly, Periotin smiled as well and said,

“Yes. If you defeat me as well, follow the path that opened behind me straight ahead. Then what you want will be there.”

“What I want? I like how straightforward you are. Then should we start right away? What, are you Blood Armory too?”

“Haha, I am different from Seorio.”

Periotin, wearing a kindly smile, reached a hand out toward Su-ho.

Then the air compressed, beginning to gather into Periotin’s grip.

What is that?

In the moment Su-ho stared quietly at Periotin’s palm.

[ ???’s Butler Periotin uses Bloody Hand. ]

Surprisingly, what Periotin used wasn’t Blood Armory, but Bloody Hand.

Shukwagwagwagwagwa!

At the same time, an enormous suction force washed over Su-ho, and blood and magic power began to drain out of Su-ho’s body.

'Well, would you look at that?'

The suction was so strong it felt like even Su-ho’s body might get sucked into that shriveled hand.

Su-ho smiled /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ at that.

“You think you’re the only one with Bloody Hand?”

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Su-ho raised his hand as well and activated Bloody Hand.

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

Shuaaa!!

Su-ho’s grip began to suck in the entire area in front of him like a vacuum cleaner gone mad.

Seeing that, Periotin’s expression twitched for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure and focused on Bloody Hand.

Suction versus suction...... no, to be precise, it was a battle of bloodsucking versus bloodsucking.

For Su-ho, it was a fun experience.

There was almost no pain, but he could see with his own eyes his magic power and the blood filled in his Blood Grand Jade decreasing and increasing in real time.

'But.......'

This was only fun at the start. After some time passed, it started to get boring.

So Su-ho decided to raise the output just a little.

Shuaaa!!

Like turning a vacuum cleaner’s suction mode from low to medium.

But the moment he raised the suction output a bit, Periotin started to visibly panic.

'What the......!'

Periotin had been confident.

Because he believed the opponent was a half-baked shell that had obtained Royal Vampyr power through the vulgar trick called the System, while he himself was an original who had been granted power directly by a true Royal Vampyr master.

So he thought he wouldn’t just win—he would overwhelm.

But the moment Su-ho raised the output, impatience began to sprout in Periotin’s heart for the first time.

Su-ho also sensed the change in Periotin’s emotions and formed a faint smile.

“Let’s end this.”

He raised the output from medium to strong.

Then Periotin’s body, which had been standing straight, began to tilt toward Su-ho little by little.

“This......!”

Periotin’s expression twisted.

Then, throwing away the noble look unique to a butler, he drove both feet hard into the floor to brace himself and began raising Bloody Hand’s output with all his strength.

“Working hard. Really working hard.” 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

So Su-ho raised his output too.

From strong to strongest.

Then Periotin’s body came to the point of being almost sucked into Su-ho, and finally, right when Periotin’s two feet were about to get pulled out from where they were bracing.

PUH-EONG!!

Periotin’s head exploded.

Drip-drip-

Shreds of the exploded head’s gore scattered in all directions.

This time, the distance was pretty far, so I was really glad it didn’t splatter on me.

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