Chapter 105 - Battle after Attack (1/2)

Ch. 105: Battle after Attack

Time passed, where the position of the moon told him that it was halfway through the night, Loren was looking up into the sky, sitting down and leaning back against the blade of his great sword, which he had stabbed into the ground.

Near him was Dia, still drinking wine, and next to her asking her questions was Lapis, who for some reason kept on glancing at him.

In the end, even though they set up camp, no one went to sleep.

As she had declared earlier, Dia planned on not sleeping at all, and Lapis, out of curiosity, was trying to extract as much information as she could out of her.

Loren felt a strong opposition against sleeping while his client was awake, so all of them were currently awake.

Part of Loren’s reason was Dia staying up, but the stronger one was the feeling that he shouldn’t let Lapis and Dia alone together.

Although she didn’t interact with people at all, Dia was someone who lived during the final years of the Ancient Kingdom, someone you usually wouldn’t be able to meet.

There was bound to be some dangerous knowledge within the things she knew, but since she was an Elder, things that were dangerous to humans might not seem so dangerous to her, so Loren was anxious that she would say something that could possibly mean the end of the world.

“You’re not trusted at all.”

When Dia said with a laugh as she saw Loren all worried, Lapis puffed out her cheeks slightly.

“He has faith in me so it’s okay.”

As Loren wondered if there was a difference between the two, he smelled something on the wind and slowly stood up.

“They’re here.”

“It seems so.”

Seeing Dia and Lapis stand up at the same time as he pulled his great sword out of the ground, Shayna, who took the form of a girl with wings, suddenly appeared in front of him.

‘Onii-san, I’ll tune our sights.’

Loren, who was but a human, didn’t have the power to see in the dark.

But when his sight was linked with Shayna’s, he started to be able to see things the same way as a no life king.

The dark of the night turned bright in the blink of an eye, and where he saw nothing but an empty plain before, what he saw now made him grimace and take a step back.

At the end of his sight was a countless number of beings.

The beings who were surrounding them didn’t have any expressions, but instead their faces looked like masks.

Their clothes were ones that ordinary people would wear in villages or cities, but they weren’t something that would be seen worn on the plains in the middle of the night.

As Loren asked himself why he didn’t notice until now, he saw the beings wavering red with hollow eyes within the no life king’s sight, he got a good idea of why.

It was because all the beings surrounding had become vampires.

Unlike living beings, the undead had a very thin presence.

Since they were moving, it wasn’t like they didn’t have any presence at all, but since he was with beings with very strong presences such as Dia and Lapis, as well as himself, he wasn’t able to differentiate them.

“Lapis, how did you not notice?”

“I’m sorry Loren. I was too busy talking with Dia.”

Lapis, whose eyes were prosthetics, were able to see through the dark and should have been able to spot the vampires faster than Loren.

But she was too busy trying to extract as much information as she could from Dia, she wasn’t paying attention to her surroundings.

“Don’t blame her. I didn’t notice until now either.”

Dia said to him as Lapis looked embarrassed, Loren had no intention of blaming Lapis ofr anything.

He had no intention of pushing the fact that he didn’t notice to someone else in the first place.

“More so, I didn’t notice because I wasn’t worried about them.”

“That should be something to be worried about…”

In a situation that decided whether or not she could be on her own or not, Loren thought that not paying attention to her surroundings was too careless.

But when he thought about it, normal vampires weren’t a threat at all to her, so it wouldn’t be surprising if she wasn’t worried.

“There’s way too many. They’re all vampires, too.”

“Not all of them. Look again.”

Loren looked again at Dia’s words and saw that indeed only a part of them had glowing red eyes, while the others were looking forward with dark, hollow eyes.

“I told you that only pure men and women could become vampires, right? If there were that many, what in the world have they been doing this whole time, won’t you think?”

“So you mean…”

Lapis wrapped her arms around her and looked around with her eyes wide.

Dia sensed what Lapis was about to say and nodded.

“The Elder probably attacked some village or town and sucked the life out of all of the people there. What a disgusting thing to do.”

At her words, the beings surrounding them slowly started coming closer.

With blank expressions and hollow eyes, and with their arms stretched forward as if wanting something, the beings started trudging forward, and seeing them, Loren hesitated for a moment, but quickly tightened the grip on his great sword.

He knew it was a sad thing that happened, but there was no way to save someone who had drained of their blood and killed.

“There’s no choice, huh.”

Even if they left them alone, they would find their way to someplace else and look for victims.

Rather than showing them mercy by not killing them, Loren thought that killing them here and letting them move on, not letting them kill anyone else, was a better mercy, immediately stepped forward and swung his great sword through the shoulder of one that was closest to him.

The heavy blade sunk into the poor victim’s shoulder and cut down all the way down to the stomach without any resistance, as if there wasn’t a difference between bone and flesh, and sprayed blood and flesh around.