A silver arrow pierced through a vital point, causing one vampire to fall without regenerating.
“…!”
Only then did another vampire, aware of my existence, hurriedly draw out her sharp red claws.
“Bang.”
But it was already too late.
Swish!
The crossbow, already loaded, shot the second arrow, piercing her neck perfectly.
She too could not regenerate.
[Oh]
[Lily handles the crossbow well]
[Wait, is she only shooting necks? LOL]
[Great accuracy]
[Why is Lily so good at archery?]
[One shot, one kill ;;]
[Nice aim]
I retrieved the silver arrow from the vampire’s corpse, brushing off the blood before placing it back into my quiver.
Those with the blood of the Celestial Race receive an excellent enhancement for all weapons, but most weapons they wield are those that are held and used up close.
Swords, spears, axes, hammers… and so on.
There are instances where throwing spears or weapons occurs, but shooting arrows is quite rare.
That doesn’t mean they can’t shoot bows, though.
Click!
With exceptional dynamic vision and very good hearing, coupled with senses that could detect everything in the vicinity, all these factors greatly contribute to shooting arrows.
Moreover, they possess a physique that can fully utilize those senses.
The reason they don’t use bows is that swinging a spear once is much more destructive and unpredictable than shooting an arrow.
“Isn’t this just basic skill?”
[LOL]
[That’s true]
[Big Lily]
[Could beat Laguiel too, right?]
[Lily is good at anything]
There are two gatekeepers of level one difficulty.
Having killed both, there were now no vampires left to block my entry.
As I entered the castle, the gloomy atmosphere welcomed me.
There were more broken parts than intact ones, and within the relatively large first floor, vampires roamed around.
“Hmm?”
“Who─”
“Intrusion─”
Of course, as soon as I drove arrows into each of them, the noise quieted down.
It was possible only because they were traveling in pairs.
I ascended to the second floor, not losing a single arrow, and entered a particular room.
Once used as the king’s audience room.
Inside were a man dressed in somewhat noble attire and six vampires.
They hadn’t realized I had entered yet, as they hadn’t caused much of a ruckus.
This would make assassination impossible.
[That one looks a bit tough]
[Is he a mid-boss?]
[Seven?]
I aimed not at the central man but the nearby vampires.
The moment two of them aligned in a straight line.
Swish!
An arrow was fired, puncturing one vampire and continuing to pierce another before finally stopping.
“…!”
“Intruder!”
“Who the hell are you!”
The remaining four vampires, aside from the man, turned to me, drawing out their blood-made weapons and charging at me.
The vampire saw me and charged at me, each wielding a weapon made of blood.
The one at the front approached quickly and swung its red claws at me.
Click!
Swoosh!
I swiftly brought my crossbow aimed at another direction and shot right at the vampire’s head.
The leading vampire crumbled down.
Despite showing physically impossible movements, the remaining three targeted me without missing a beat.
Not bad judgment.
Thanks to that, there wasn’t much time to reload.
“Hmm…”
“Die…?!”
“…!”
“You crazy…!”
With a light kick against the wall, I dodged all their attacks.
As if doing a backflip, I faced a world where the ground became the sky and the sky became the ground.
Click!
“One, for now…”
Swoosh!
I pierced its heart.
At the same time, red claws came flying at me.
I lightly bounced off the claws, using them as leverage to soar into the sky once more.
The reloading happened simultaneously with my series of movements.
The remaining two also couldn’t resist and fell apart.
Only when I had everything caught in mid-air did my flipped world return to normal.
[Oh wow]
[????]
[Crazy!!!]
[So awesome]
[That crossbow is badass;;]
[What’s badass? Lol]
[Not even using anything special and still taking them down is insane lol]
[Wow, that’s crazy]
[Floating in the air lol]
[Reloading must take ages but you still got it;;]
[Just watching makes reloading look frustrating lol]
[How can you shoot while upside down?]
[This is insane]
[Is your spec really nerfed?]
Clap, clap, clap, clap.
“Impressive. Truly fitting for a vampire hunter.”
What remains is the vampire, the subordinate, striking a pose while watching all its subordinates fall.
‘The mid-boss of difficulty level 1 is ‘Baron’ tier…’
Though the specs are lower than a ranker in the top 1000, a user skilled in combat could definitely win.
However, from the moment I entered this place, the user’s stats are significantly reduced.
It’s a boss that is quite difficult to defeat by ‘ordinary’ means.
“But can this Baron, Juéros, be defeated?”
“Let’s find out.”
“Alright. Come!”
The baron Juéros created a whip made of blood.
It looked ominous just to gaze upon the whip.
Its sharpness warned it would inflict severe wounds with just one hit.
Before he could approach, I fired a shot from my crossbow.
The arrow flying toward his neck was blocked by his forearm, and he frowned.
It wasn’t enough to inflict the kind of damage that could kill him in one hit like before.
[Not dead]
[Holy crap]
[Oh wow]
Crack!
“…This is silver weaponry.”
“It won’t pierce.”
“Isn’t it obvious?! Silver can’t harm this body!”
Juéros, having broken the arrow, immediately swung the whip.
Eros immediately swung his whip.
It came in pretty sharp, but it was still nothing.
I leisurely dodged the whip and hit him with two silver arrows.
“Ugh!”
But as he said, the silver arrows were no longer lethal.
The strike aimed at the vital point was consistently blocked.
It’s definitely an opponent too tough to handle at a ‘user’ level.
“Yahp.”
Swoosh!
“Yahp.”
Swoosh!
“Ugh…!”
So, I’ll just keep dealing chip damage.
No matter how much of a baron he is, he can’t survive 66 silver arrows specifically aimed at vampires.
I lightly jumped over the whipping attacks and aimed my crossbow.
Even if I can’t hit the vital spots, the damage keeps accumulating.
Have I hit him about 30 times?
The guy’s movement was noticeably slowing down.
Now, I don’t even have to try hard to dodge; I can avoid him with just a few steps.
“Ugh…! Fight fairly!”
“I’m fighting fairly.”
“What do you mean fair… Die!!”
“That’s just my afterimage.”
“Ugh!! You cocky human!”
[LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL]
[Lily dodging and dealing damage well]
[So funny, LOL]
[Where are you looking?]
[Can’t do anything, huh?]
[LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL]
[Must be frustrating]
[Poor thing]
There was quite a bit of blood streaming on the floor.
Just a bit more, and Juéros will die.
‘Slowly…’
However, I continued shooting while maintaining a safe distance.
Vampires with titles carry special powers.
Among them, Juéros, as a baron, has the power of…
“I won’t hold back anymore!”
The blood swirling around Juéros surged violently.
The blood from the fallen vampires nearby was also being sucked into Juéros.
[Phase 2?]
[Awakening!]
[Getting beaten up to awaken is a national rule, LOL]
Swish.
A third eye opened on Juéros’s forehead.
The red eye rolled around and a whip flew directly at me.
Crash!
“Oh no.”
My crossbow shattered.
[?]
[Oh no]
[It blew up in one hit]
[Whoa]
[Suddenly became ridiculously strong]
[Can we even break this? LOL]
[Are we not going to graduate?]
[It doesn’t seem like much without penalties though]
[Leo would probably finish it in one second]
Debris from the crossbow scattered from my hands.
I used it quite a bit.
I didn’t expect to shoot 30 arrows, but it did its job well enough.
“Go to a good place.”
“Go there.”
I shrugged off my attachment to the broken crossbow and pulled out another weapon.
Silver sword.
A sword made of silver that deals devastating damage to vampires is now in my hand.
Once again, the whip accurately targets me.
Swoosh!
“…!”
The whip splits in two.
As it touches the ground, it transforms into blood, which then turns into several thin whips again.
More than ten whips aim at me.
And.
“Huh?”
“Starlight Rush.”
The rush of a sword seemingly filled with starlight tears through all the whips.
Boom!
Juéros’s neck goes along with it.
[?]
[?]
[????]
[End?]
[Is this… 1%?]
[Is this Aisha’s technique?]
[What?]
[What’s with that swordsmanship? Damn it.]
[Another technique copy?]
[Aisha’s crying, lololololol.]
[Is he not using Sword Saint techniques?]
[His sword skills aren’t bad.]
Blood drips from the silver sword.
I swung the sword to shake off the blood and sheathed it at my waist.
“This is nice.”
I tried a bit of the swordsmanship of the 11th ranked, Swordmaster Aisha, and it’s quite usable.
The Sword Saint’s techniques aren’t bad either… but most of the Sword Saint’s abilities are based on magic, and the movements are sluggish, making them less efficient.
Right now, I’m playing as close to a regular user as possible.
I’m not using any holy abilities, and my mana and powers are practically zero.
“Since the crossbow is broken, let’s go the route of breaking the Blood Stone.”
There are three ways to clear the dimensional space.
One is to break the Blood Stone at the top of the castle, and the other is to defeat all the vampires.
With the crossbow gone, hunting them one by one with a sword as I search the castle doesn’t sound appealing.
It’s better to quickly break the Blood Stone.
[Progenitor’s Prestige? What about catching it?]
[What’s the route to catch the Progenitor?]
“Progenitor? That’s a secret.”
It’s not something I’m showing during the testing.
Above all…
“If I catch it, I’ll give you a special gift in a one-on-one lecture. Something really good.”
[Oh?]
[Really?]
[I’m going straight for it, lol.]
[I can’t resist a gift.]
[Wait, you’re saying I’ll get a one-on-one date with Lily?]
[Lily’s gift…?]
[Progenitor, just right, haha.]
[I can’t resist a date.]
[How strong can it be?]
[Seeing him confidently say that makes it seem like it’s a hard difficulty…]
You’ll see.
You’ll know just how monstrous the Progenitor, who is merely prestige, truly is.
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