chapter 22
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Philip checked the vampire’s posture.
From the prosecutor’s point of view, it’s just a gaping posture.
He kept his vitals open, as if he would allow an attack whenever and wherever he aimed, but Philip was not vigilant.
Originally, the starting point of all martial arts is for the weak to face the strong.
The Demons, who had been strong since the beginning of time, wouldn’t need such a thing.
The vampire looked at Johnnys and Cheryl, not Phillip, with his fangs exposed. It was said that for him, even a single bleeding test was not an obstacle.
‘okay. Be vigilant.’
Fogging, blood manipulation, high level black magic. A physical ability close to that of an Aura Master.
Philip had no intention of dealing with a vampire with all these things for long.
It was questionable whether it was possible in the first place.
Unlike humans, who have finite physical strength, the demons’ physical strength was almost infinite, and Philip’s physical strength was consumed by more than half before he even faced a vampire.
Philip wrapped the aura around his sword. A pale aura that split into two spiraled around Philip’s sword.
‘I didn’t know I could write this already… .’
This was the most powerful technique Philip could use at this point.
Its name is ‘Spiral Sword’. It was a fusion of a spinning sword, an aura whip, and a ‘wipe sword’. Philip assured me that no swordsman of the present generation would be able to master this skill in a few years.
Because if you don’t know physics, you can’t realize the principle itself.
Suddenly, the vampire’s gaze turned to Philip’s face. At that moment, Philip rotated the Aura at maximum speed, using his entire body to maximize the rotational force.
And a flash-like stab cut through the vampire’s chest.
Truly a stroke of repentance. If this attack did not work, Philip’s fate was uncertain.
‘… Did you catch it?’
It felt like something was stuck, but I wasn’t sure. The moment the stab using the ‘spiral sword’ pierced the chest, the vampire activated the ‘fog’ ability.
The vampire transformed into red mist moved forward instead of backward in an instant.
Its shape was more unstable than Phillip knew, so Philip could tell it had taken some damage.
But there was no time to be safe.
“Guard yourself! Johnny’s, Cheryl!”
Even without him shouting, Janice and Cheryl were already casting their shield spells.
Just before the red fog enveloped them, a translucent protective barrier blocked the entry of the fog.
But unfortunately, the quality of the magical power they possessed was different.
“Instructor! please!”
Philip gritted his teeth and swung his sword at the urgent and earnest cry, but his attack only slightly evaporated the red mist.
At least, the ‘Moonlight Sword’ had the power to deny evil, so the attack worked, and originally, Philip couldn’t deal a meaningful blow to it.
“ah… Ahh! Instructor!”
The spell cast by Johnny’s was shattered first. All that remains is Cheryl’s shield spell. Compared to Johnny’s, there was a difference between an iron shield and a wooden shield.
‘What can I do? What do we do?’
There was no answer to ignoring Philip and targeting the students in this way.
Cheryl’s defenses, enveloped in red mist, began to crack.
“… mom.”
She closed her eyes, and Philip gritted his teeth. This was the only way to gamble. He decided not to think about the aftermath.
Anything was better than the children dying.
His sword began to make a sharp scraping sound. Sparks flew between the auras that rotated in a spiral. Due to the friction between the Aura and the steel, the temperature of the blade rose instantly.
As he swung his sword in that state, the mist that had turned into a vampire fled backwards to avoid Phillip’s sword. It was wary of the evaporation of fog at high temperatures.
“Run back and don’t look back. Right now, get as far away from here as possible.”
“… yes yes!”
At Phillip’s instruction, Janice grabbed Cheryl’s hand and started running. She didn’t want to face that damned thing any more.
Seeing that they had gone far enough away, Philip sighed.
I could feel the steel sword changing its shape without enduring the temperature. Now this sword would not withstand his aura.
Philip threw the iron sword away. The sword hit the ground and bent in an ‘L’ shape.
Throwing the weapon at himself, the vampire immediately reconstituted itself.
“You really don’t know human life.”
Philip murmured with a dejected expression. He put his left hand forward and spread his legs apart.
“I never thought I’d be boxing with a vampire.”
The vampire grinned, exposing his fangs. Phillip tilted his head at the relaxed expression on his face.
‘Wait a minute, something is strange. Why don’t you follow the kids?’
Vampires The intelligence of vampires was outstanding. If Philip were in the vampire’s shoes, he would leave him alone and go after Johnny and Cheryl.
“Keeek!”
The vampire brandished a sharp claw. It was an attack aimed at Philip’s shoulder.
Phillip, who managed to avoid it by bending over, threw a fist at the vampire’s chin. The aura-enhanced blow hit the vampire’s chin properly, but it didn’t seem to have received too much of a shock.
In the first place, the durability of the body was different from that of humans.
This time the vampire’s eyes glowed red. Philip felt the blood drain rapidly from the wounds on his lower body.
His breathing became more and more rapid, and his eyes blurred.
‘Blood Manipulation’ If there is no basic resistance ability, Philip desperately resists the ability to extract all the blood from the bare body and attacks the vampire.
The aura-clad attack was received by the vampire with a frown. It wasn’t that there was no damage, but the power was too weak.
‘… I’m going to watch until my strength is completely drained.’
A sense of helplessness and despair crept in.
“okay. this bastard.”
But Philip did not give up. If he collapsed here, the vampire who consumed his blood would immediately go after Johnny and Cheryl.
“Sometimes, hit me until I die.”
In a desperate situation, Philip prepared for death. Even if it meant burning all remaining life force, he intended to inflict as much damage as possible.
“… You are a troublesome child.”
And then, a third voice stopped Philip’s rampage.
Philip involuntarily turned his head. In my dim vision, I saw a woman with dark blue hair.
“The human species is still incomprehensible. With that kind of talent, you should hold back until you’re strong enough, but to risk your life for a duty that’s not even worth a quibble?”
‘What is he saying now?’
Philip blinked.
“Kiyiik!”
The vampire turned and looked at the woman. It seemed that he had finished judging who was currently the most dangerous opponent.
“… ride and die It’s like a bug.”
The woman muttered in a cold voice and pointed at the vampire with her finger. Then, flames erupted from the vampire’s body.
“Kyik? Key profit! Kiyi profit!”
The sound of air escaping leaked from the vampire’s degenerated vocal cords. The cool-toned hide melted, and the smell of burning meat spread through the cave.
“Keeek!”
In just a few breaths, the vampire’s body collapsed into ashes. Philip looked at it with a stiff expression, then looked at the woman and asked.
“… who are you?”
“Ha, what do you ask when you can’t even see properly? Sleep quietly.”
The woman responded and snapped her fingers. Then Philip, who had lost consciousness, fell to the ground like a doll with a thread cut.
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“Ugh.”
When he came to his senses, Philip could see that he was lying on someone’s lap.
The person who lent him a knee happened to be looking at Philip’s face, and Philip opened his mouth in surprise when he met his eyes.
“… Priscilla?”
“Are you okay, Philip?”
Priscilla checked Philip’s condition with a worried voice.
“It’s not very good, what do you think?”
She hesitated to answer, then spoke in a low voice as Philip stood up.
“That’s not me… wait for a sec?”
She straightened her clothes and closed her eyes. Philip felt her presence grow thicker. The girl in front of me was the same, but it felt like I was facing something huge like a mountain.
‘What the hell is this… .’
Soon, Priscilla’s impression completely changed. The ferocious expression that could be seen on her face was gone, and the place was filled with terrible boredom and annoyance.
Almost instinctively, Philip recognized that she was someone other than Priscilla.
“Who are you?”
“… You’re a good kid.”
I don’t know why, but her expression was full of dissatisfaction.
“You should have avoided this place with that good feeling. Are you weak like a bug, ignorant of your subject, and prowling around?”
“… .”
“To think that the heir who appeared after 500 years is such a moth… .”
The word ‘successor’ made Philip startled. There was only one thing that could be said to have been inherited by him.
“When you say successor, do you mean the moonlight sword?”
She nodded.
“okay. Moonlight Sword. Didn’t you inherit that?”
The moment Philip confirmed that fact, he was convinced of the other person’s identity. He swallowed and carefully opened his mouth.
“… Then you must be a dragon.”
She looked straight at Philip and grinned.
“It’s fun. How did you know?”
“I already knew that the person who founded the Pribia Academy was a dragon, not a human. If the ‘Moonlight Sword’ was hidden in the academy, I thought that only the dragon would be able to manage it.”
“I don’t know how you figured it out, but you’re quite talented. okay. I am ‘Freevia’, the ‘Silver Dragon of Wisdom’. It’s a pitiful dragon bound by a human oath that can’t be helped even if it’s ground. And just because of you, I almost had another time with no promise.”
‘… It was real.’
Philip realized he was right and sighed. However, the dragon Privia seemed very angry.
She pointed her finger at Philip, and Philip’s body levitated.
“Fifty hundred years. It’s five hundred years. How well the damned man hid the moonlight blade, no one found it in five hundred years. But as soon as you showed up at the academy, you did a good job finding it. I thought about it. Now my duty will soon be over.”
Upon meeting her gaze, Philip felt his whole body lose strength.
“However, you are self-respecting, and instead of learning the moonlight sword, you are busy arguing without knowing how high the sky is. If it were three hundred years ago, I wouldn’t care if you gave up your life in place of the milky girls or fearlessly entered a dungeon made by demons, but now my patience is running out.”
“What do you mean by that… ?”
When Philip asked, the dragon Privia glared at him gnashing her teeth.
“If you can’t tell the difference between heaven and earth and run away, you won’t even guess how much longer I’ll have to be tied down to this narrow piece of land.”
And she said something shocking.
“I will lock you up on a remote island. You will never come out until you master the Moonlight Sword. I won’t put my heart on edge just because of humans.”
When Privia waved her hand carelessly, a portal opened above Philip’s head. Philip’s face turned pale when he felt the strong suction power there.
“Hey, wait! time!”