Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 628

“What is that?”

He was so shocked that the words burst out of his mouth.

Jack, who was dwelling within the Guiyeong Sword, also widened his eyes and spoke.

- Wow, I didn’t think he’d come up with an idea like this.

“What do you mean?”

- That bastard is resonating with Red Maria right now. But to be precise, it’s not resonance. He’s receiving power from Red Maria.

“From Red Maria? How?”

- I don’t know either. But if what I’m thinking is right, you should go put your hand on Red Maria too.

“On Red Maria?”

There was no time.

Su-ho immediately widened the distance backward and placed his hand on Red Maria.

- Suck it in.

“What do you mean, suck it in?”

- Use Bloody Hand!

He did not ask back.

Right now, the situation was urgent, and Jack was the finest strategist he had.

He immediately activated the skill.

[ Bloody Hand activates. ]

SHWAAAAAA!

Then something astonishing happened.

From Red Maria, blood and mana began to be drained little by little.

“Kuhuuuuung!!”

At that moment, Alucard, who had finished recovering, charged at Su-ho.

The bastard rushed in fiercely, as though his eyes had rolled back, and in an instant enlarged his body, lunged over Su-ho, and bit down. Su-ho immediately took his hand off Red Maria and enlarged the Guiyeong Sword.

CRUNCH!

The Guiyeong Sword lodged itself upright between the opened jaws.

“You damn bastard......!”

Alucard desperately tried to close his jaws.

But since the bastard’s intent was plainly visible, Su-ho made both ends blunt so that the Guiyeong Sword would not pierce through the bastard’s head and jaw.

Su-ho raised one corner of his mouth in a grin.

“You son of a bitch...... I wondered where you’d been storing all that blood and mana. So the secret was Red Maria?”

“Nonsense!”

The excited Alucard spewed poison from his mouth.

When closing his jaws did not work, he had brought out another measure.

A powerful acid poison, like hydrochloric acid, sprayed from the bastard’s mouth.

[ Protection Holy Art activates. ]

KWAGAGAGAGAGA!!

The acid poison was powerful.

But Su-ho’s Protection Holy Art was powerful too.

Because he had invested plenty of true demonic energy and strengthened Protection Holy Art to the maximum. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

The corners of Su-ho’s mouth, now that he had found the answer, showed no sign of coming down.

Amid the pouring acid poison, Su-ho spoke in a clear voice.

“You’re finished now.”

“Shut up!”

The acid poison intensified.

It went beyond hydrochloric acid, turning dark and murky, and melted everything.

Soon, the pouring acid poison ended.

CRACK!

Alucard’s mouth closed.

The sound of the Guiyeong Sword breaking rang out, and something had clearly been chewed inside his mouth.

However.

“You damned—!”

Alucard roared harshly.

Because he had felt it clearly.

The fact that he had missed the rat inside his mouth.

And Su-ho was in a place he had never expected at all.

“Haha, idiot.”

It was the Subspace House.

When the acid poison intensified, Su-ho chose to evacuate into the Subspace House rather than pour in more mana to strengthen Protection Holy Art.

There was one reason.

Because there was no reason to go out of his way to face that ignorant acid poison.

Su-ho released Giantification and comfortably accepted the risk that came with it throughout his body.

[ Giantification duration has ended. ]

[ The risk for using the Giantification skill begins. ]

Since he had enlarged his body quite a bit and used a fair number of skills, his energy consumption had been considerable.

Accordingly, the size of his body shrank considerably as well.

But it was fine.

As long as he was inside the Subspace House, nothing would interfere with him.

Su-ho immediately displayed the outside scenery.

There, he saw the enraged Alucard sharpening his nerves as he searched for him.

“Haha, that dumb bastard.”

He had never imagined it.

That Red Maria, which he had thought was part of nature, was actually Alucard’s life force vessel.

This must be what people meant when they said it was darkest under the lamp.

He immediately called Jack.

“Jack.”

- I’m listening.

“How’s your condition?”

- Fine. We hit and pulled out at the right timing, so the shadow loss rate is low too.

“It’s really a shame. If only those vampire bastards had shadows, I’d collect every single one of them.”

For some reason, vampires had no shadows.

So from the start, he had not even thought of supplying shadows from them.

“Anyway, thanks to your advice, I think I found the method to break through him. But you saw it too, right?”

- Yeah. Your bloodsucking ability was lower than expected.

This was the new problem he faced.

It was good that he had found the location of the vault, but the vault door was thick, so he could not take what was inside.

On top of that, in front of the vault, there was even a vicious guard snake rampaging around, so the difficulty rose another level.

- Alucard will probably try to protect Red Maria with everything he has from now on. Until now, he had been hiding the connection point itself with Middle Town and the dead soil, but you flipped that over and exposed it, so in many ways...... No, he must be extremely anxious.

It was exactly as Jack said.

Even Alucard, visible on the screen right now, was like that.

Unlike the relaxed attitude he had shown until now, the bastard was repeatedly screaming and searching for Su-ho.

“Still, the fortunate thing is that he can’t move that huge Red Maria anywhere else right now.”

- Right. That’s the main point. But you can’t do anything about that thing either, can you?

It was as Jack said.

Red Maria was far too large.

It was not at a level that could simply be moved with tools. Its area amounted to several dozen times the size of Middle Town.

- What’s hidden beneath it is probably greater than what’s exposed above the ground. That’s what the tip of the iceberg means.

“How fascinating. Just how many years does a bastard have to gorge himself to store that much blood and mana?”

- He’s a bastard who’s lived at least several hundred years. I don’t know if he actually did it, but if we assume he exploited even ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) all the Normal and Under classes in Third Town, then it makes sense that he gathered that much.

“So, do you have a good idea?”

- Well, to come up with an idea immediately, I think we need to investigate Red Maria a bit more......

Jack’s eyes narrowed.

They had learned that Red Maria was the main body of the power the bastard possessed, and also his weakness.

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