Roynan was genuinely angry.
Perhaps because he thought there would be no chance like this if not now.
And because showing this side of himself would let him display his loyalty to his master.
The strategy worked.
Su-ho gave a faint laugh and raised his hand.
"Enough. He was still, in name at least, the king of the vampires. And unlike you, he didn’t resist first and then bow his head. We resolved it through conversation from the start, so I can let that much slide."
"But......!"
"Then you should have respected your opponent from the start before attacking."
"......."
When he put it that way, Roynan had nothing to say.
And this was not discrimination, but fact.
Unlike Roynan, who had charged in while spewing all kinds of venomous abuse from the beginning, Edersen was a gentleman in many ways.
Su-ho looked at Edersen.
"Everyone here calls me master. So keep the title properly. Then I won’t touch anything else."
"Understood."
"Good. Then shall we talk business now? Do you know about the secret between Alucard and Red Maria?"
"I do. I do not know about the other Immortal Crowns, but at least I and the fifty priests who assist the Blood God Temple knew."
"How did you know?"
"Because my Blood Jade and the priests’ Blood Jades are also in Red Maria. For reference, my wife also became a priest."
Ah.
Now that he thought about it, Edersen had said he had a beloved companion, hadn’t he?
No wonder she had been nowhere to be seen.
At first, Su-ho had thought he had accidentally blown her away along with the Immortal Crowns when he absorbed them.
But that was not what mattered right now.......
Su-ho narrowed his eyes and asked,
"Then why were you killed? As soon as I cut the life force supply line between you and Red Maria and used bloodsucking, you were processed right away."
"Because I do not have such an authority. An authority close to a divine artifact is something only Alucard can use."
"Then what do I have to do to kill Alucard? Is there no way except taking all the blood in Red Maria?"
"Must you necessarily take it? I do not mean to disregard you, master, but from what I can see, the size of the Blood Jade you currently possess cannot handle all of Red Maria."
So that really was the case.
Since he had actually failed, he could not refute it.
After thinking for a moment, Su-ho shifted his gaze toward Alucard.
Then he picked Alucard up, opened the door to the Subspace House, and threw him inside.
That was when it happened.
[ Alucard’s High Priest’s authority activates. ]
A system notification.
At the same time, Alucard, who had been thrown into the Subspace House, was summoned back outside.
"Damn."
He had tried to kill him by cutting him off through space, but even that did not work.
Edersen, who had watched it, said,
"Alucard’s authority is more powerful than you think. It is something even all the vampires of Noctarion, including myself, could not do anything about. So rather than challenge the authority itself, I recommend simply giving up Red Maria."
"You mean destroy it and make it unusable?"
Edersen nodded.
Su-ho’s eyes narrowed again.
He knew.
He understood too.
But to give up that enormous treasury of energy for the sake of Alucard’s death felt far too wasteful, considering what was stored inside it.
At that moment, a good idea surfaced in Su-ho’s mind.
"Wait. Then I just have to make it so Alucard can’t use it."
"What do you mean by that?"
"It seems Alucard’s authority automatically draws on Red Maria’s blood. Then if there’s no blood left for it to draw on, that solves everything, doesn’t it?"
"In theory, yes...... Then are you going to destroy Red Maria?"
"Why would I destroy something that precious?"
Su-ho waved his hand and split the ground.
Then, looking at the enormous Red Maria sleeping beneath the ground, he said,
"I just have to make the contents inside unusable."
Then he activated the first skill.
[ Corruption Sorcery activates. ]
The beginning was Corruption Sorcery.
The target the sorcery would corrupt was none other than the blood stored inside the Great Blood Jade.
BUBBLE, BUBBLE!
He poured mana in and rapidly contaminated the blood.
Dirtying it was easy.
And sure enough, not long after, the blood inside the Great Blood Jade itself became contaminated blood poison.
Su-ho injected all of it into Red Maria.
The injection did not take long either.
Soon, after emptying out [N O V E L I G H T] all the blood, Su-ho placed both hands against Red Maria.
Then he activated Bloody Hand with his left hand.
[ Bloody Hand activates. ]
Once Bloody Hand activated, the blood inside Red Maria entered Su-ho’s body.
Su-ho immediately used Corruption Sorcery again, turning the blood entering his body back into blood poison.
Then he released the completely contaminated blood poison back into Red Maria through his right hand.
Jack, who had been silently watching, noticed Su-ho’s intention and laughed.
- You used your head a little.
"Yeah, exactly. I never needed to put all of it into my Blood Jade in the first place. If Red Maria is contaminated, using the authority will become impossible anyway, so why would I overdo it until both my hands explode?"
Su-ho became a human filter.
A human contamination filter that passed clean blood through his own body, made it filthy, and sent it back into Red Maria.
Of course, there was a tremendous amount of blood to filter, so it would take a long time, but even so, it was much safer and far more likely to succeed than the first method of trying to move all the blood into his own Blood Jade.
Edersen must have judged it to be a good idea as well, because he watched silently.
How much time had passed like that?
Red Maria, which had once been so red, was no longer Red Maria.
It had become pitch-black Black Maria.
A while later, Su-ho slowly took his hands away from Red Maria.
It was because he judged there was no blood left to contaminate.
After taking his hands away, Su-ho sank down onto the ground.
"Wow, this workload is no joke."
- You worked hard, master.
"Then shall we try executing Alucard again?"
The time for confirmation had arrived.
Alucard was still collapsed, pierced by the Blood Sword.
Su-ho drew the Guiyeong Sword instead of the Blood Sword.


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