Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 207

# 208

He hit him, and he died. 2

The Vampire Kingdom of Elsa was thrown into chaos.

Not long after the king, the kingdom’s absolute ruler, collapsed, the crown prince was also killed.

The killers were humans.

At first, it didn’t make sense.

Why would humans target the crown prince?

That question sparked a serious debate. Some argued, “We must declare war on humans!” Others countered, “We must not act rashly before accurately understanding the situation.”

The two sides clashed fiercely.

Then, Spielberg stepped forward.

“Why they killed my brother is a secondary issue. What matters is that mere humans dared to kill my brother and mock my father! We have endured enough! Unite, everyone! Rise up! We must go out and fight! Let’s escape this wretched polar region! Let’s avenge our two rulers with human blood! Let’s drink human blood, increase our power, and take revenge to our hearts’ content!”

Most of the vampires rallied to his call.

The wretched polar region…

The endless battles with the Lycanthropes [werewolves]…

And the suppressed longing for blood.

Vampires hadn’t forgotten their instincts; they were merely enduring them. Spielberg reignited their desires.

The greatest advantage vampires possess is that they don’t necessarily need supply lines like humans.

Vampires can fight for up to fifteen days without drinking a single drop of water.

The True Ancestors, whose blood power is stronger than that of the Apostles [powerful vampires], can operate for more than twice as long without feeding.

Above all, human blood is sufficient nourishment.

The battlefield becomes a place that supplies provisions. By using human blood as nourishment, vampires gain stronger magic power, and the humans whose blood is sucked become beings who cannot even die, transforming into vampire soldiers.

“Let’s plunge the humans into a nightmare!”

Spielberg roared.

“Uwaaaa!”

The vampires responded, gathering formidable magic power.

When the vampire legion moves, it will invade the human world with unimaginable speed.

At least three or four kingdoms will be unable to prevent their destruction.

Also, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of undead infected by them will become another enemy attacking humans.

They are soldiers of the night.

The moment of terror that will begin with the night began to engulf the human world.

* * *

Third floor of the underground prison.

The first floor is for petty criminals.

The second floor is for serious criminals.

The third floor houses the torture chambers.

The Daejeon Cannon Treasure Hunters were all captured on the spot.

They couldn’t even think of retaliating. The vampires surrounding them numbered over several thousand. Escape was virtually impossible.

So-

They created a slight commotion, and in the meantime, they barely managed to get their youngest, Tando, to escape.

Tando looked most like a vampire.

She was pretty and had pale skin. If she walked around outside alone, she was almost indistinguishable from vampires.

They hoped that Tando would bring reinforcements.

But looking at the situation, their chances of survival seemed slim.

The four hunters were dangling in the air, their arms tied to wires. Their feet were about 30 centimeters off the ground. The blood they shed dripped to the floor.

Vampire torturers, having released their bloodsucking urges, licked the hunters’ blood that had fallen on the floor with their tongues.

As they drank the blood, their magic power increased rapidly.

Their backs cracked open, and black wings unfurled.

The vampire torturers flapped their wings and flew up. They grabbed Napalm’s cheek and stuck out their tongues. Surprisingly, their tongues stretched out and swallowed the blood on the hunters’ cheeks.

It was a grotesque and disturbing sight.

“Ah, this is driving me crazy. I just want to suck all the blood from her body.”

“Stop it. I can hardly bear it either.”

When one of the vampires seemed to be getting too excited, the torturer next to him quietly stopped him.

“They’re holding out quite long. The pain is enough for now. How about we start revealing who’s behind them?”

“Heehee, you really don’t understand. I told you, there’s no one behind us.”

Napalm answered, her voice strained.

“Without anyone behind you, the four of you came into our Blood City and assassinated His Highness the Crown Prince? You’re telling me you did such a crazy thing on your own?”

“This is driving me crazy. We didn’t kill him.”

“As expected, humans live with lies on their tongues. There are more than one or two vampires who witnessed you assassinate His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“How did we assassinate the Crown Prince? Who saw it?”

“Yes, we’ve already confirmed it. You knocked over the carriage and killed the coachman. He died so horribly that he couldn’t even regenerate. You knocked down trees to block the road to prevent the escorts from approaching. In that short time, that girl and that girl climbed down the rope and assassinated His Highness.”

The circumstantial evidence was overwhelming.

“Hoo.”

Napalm sighed deeply.

There was no way out. Even if they were executed, there was nothing they could do. But it was too unfair. She didn’t want to be accused of a murder they didn’t commit.

“But we really didn’t kill him!”

“Shut up! You bitch!”

The torturer slapped Napalm’s face with the back of his hand.

Napalm’s head snapped to the side, and blood splattered everywhere.

“I guess this won’t work.”

The torturer grabbed Ram’s hair and shook it.

He opened his mouth. Countless sharp, triangular teeth sparkled eerily.

“I’ll turn this girl into a zombie. If she’s lucky, she’ll become a ghoul, and if she’s a virgin who hasn’t experienced a man, she might become an Apostle.”

Ram shed tears.

“Sister, I can’t become an Apostle.”

“Who doesn’t know that? Just be quiet!”

“Okay. Anyway, I won’t be able to become an Apostle. I’ll probably become a zombie. Please take care of me.”

The torturer looked at Ram and Napalm alternately, dumbfounded.

She looks like a man, but she’s already jumped the gun [lost her virginity].

“I’ll ask you one last time. Who’s your backer?”

The torturer opened his mouth wide. He was about to bite Ram’s neck.

It was clear that it wasn’t a threat.

Before the torturer’s sharp teeth pierced Ram’s neck, Napalm bit her lip and said.

“Okay. I’ll tell you.”

The torturer hesitated.

“The name of the person who ordered us is Don Deckman. The one called the Butcher of Death. We were forced to do it because our lives were threatened. But we really didn’t kill him. That Don Deckman had already killed him and set us up. Really! I heard him talking to a woman named Sharon. I don’t know more than that.”

The torturer’s expression hardened.

“What did you say just now?”

“Don Deckman, the Butcher of Death.”

“No, the woman’s name.”

“Sharon?”

“Yes, did you really say Sharon?”

“That’s right. My memory is pretty good.”

The torturer looked like he was about to collapse.

The vampire torturers seemed more shocked by the name Sharon than the name Don Deckman, who was said to be one of the kingdom’s seven strongest.

* * *

Don Deckman didn’t even understand where he was. He was so exhausted that the flesh on his face seemed to have fallen off.

The same was true for Jack Nicher.

The two leaned back and gasped for breath.

The melee with the ten vampires who had blocked their path was too difficult for their tired bodies.

“What the hell is going on?”

Don Deckman had been finding it difficult to understand things for some time now.

He hadn’t done anything….

He was being chased by black magicians, the kingdom’s tracking hunters, and now, even vampire groups.

He was barely holding on, and he didn’t know when his stamina would run out and he would be killed.

In particular, he couldn’t understand what the vampires were saying at all.

“The enemy of His Highness the Crown Prince!”

“You die the same way!”

*So what* enemy? Why would I kill the vampire’s crown prince? I’ve never even seen his face. And even if I didn’t do that, it’s hard to make a living these days. Why would I dig my own grave!

Don Deckman looked at Jack Nicher and asked.

“Do I have sleepwalking?”

* * *

Legion, Dreiser, and Sharon were hiding in Beyond’s mansion, unable to move due to the sudden shift in the atmosphere.

Sharon had also heard the bad news.

The day they retreated-

It was the news that her older brother had died.

Sharon locked herself in her room and cried all day. Even if they didn’t have a good relationship, they were still blood relatives.

Moreover, he was the crown prince who would lead the kingdom.

No one expected him to die so futilely.

After crying for a day, Sharon came out of her room. Her eyes were noticeably calmer than before.

She called a meeting.

So Legion, Dreiser, and Beyond sat at a round table and waited for Sharon to speak.

“Tell me the situation.”

Sharon looked at Beyond.

Beyond is a civil servant. He has more freedom to enter and exit anywhere than ordinary citizens.

Originally, as soon as he returned, he should have been punished by the dead Hanks for not following orders. However, Hanks died suddenly, so he was not punished.

His direct superior was also in a panic and could not give any instructions to his subordinates.

Taking advantage of the gap, Beyond surveyed the atmosphere in the royal family and the kingdom.

In short, the atmosphere in Blood City was boiling like a volcano.

It was a situation where it could explode at any moment.

Even Beyond, who had been watching why it was boiling so quickly, found it difficult to understand. It was as if someone was putting firewood in and blowing air into it.

“The humans will be executed the day after tomorrow.”

Beyond opened his mouth.

Legion didn’t care at all whether the humans died or not. They were people he had never seen before.

The problem was elsewhere.

“They mentioned the names of Don Deckman, Sharon, and Jack Nicher.”

Only Sharon knows the identities of Legion and Dreiser.

The others knew them as Don Deckman and Jack Nicher. Thanks to this, the bad reputation about them is spreading rapidly.

“You are wanted as masterminds who ordered the assassination of His Majesty the King and the late Hanks from behind. 100,000 gold in human money. The biggest bounty in Blood City history.”

“Why the hell?”

Legion growled in the voice of Sergeant Kim from hell [a reference to a strict and demanding military figure].

“Because they mentioned your names.”

“We don’t know them. We don’t even know their faces. We’ve never even heard their names.”

“I don’t know the reason. What’s important is that your real names and the Princess’s name were mentioned from their mouths. Your appearances are too striking. There are quite a few people who remember your appearances. Thanks to this, portraits were easily made and distributed throughout the city.”

“Oh, what the hell is going on.”

Legion scratched his helmet.

They were wronged.

But when you think about it, the people who were really wronged were the Daejeon Cannon Treasure Hunters.

If Legion had acted first, even he would have been surrounded by thousands, tens of thousands of vampires and would have been captured.

And his armor would have been forcibly removed….

He would have become a slimy human slime.

It’s better to live as a pig. What the hell is human slime?

Of course, Legion had no way of knowing that fact.

“This is the situation we’re in. I’ve now lost all my power as a princess. No one will help me. What’s more serious is that all the people of the Vampire Kingdom want war. Beyond.”

Sharon turned her head to Beyond.

“Yes, Princess.”

“When do you think the departure date will be?”

“In fifteen days.”

As expected, they are vampires.

If they were humans, they would have declared war, and it would have taken at least 2-3 months for the departure date to be decided.

They are incomparably faster than humans.

The situation is very serious.

Legion thought about which territory was closest to the polar region. He didn’t need to think twice. If you draw a line straight from here, you’ll find the Dusselrup Mountains.

If you go further, you’ll find the orc village and the goblin village.

If you go half a day further from there, it was his territory.

Tens of thousands of True Ancestors.

Even if his territory and the orcs have become stronger than before, it is impossible to stop all the True Ancestors. To think that his territory would be the first dinner for the vampires, damn it.

-This atmosphere is not good.

I know.

Legion was also starting to get a headache.