[?]
[?]
[No, seriously lol]
[Is this…?]
[Didn’t I tell you not to use this?]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Rewind?]
I will be resurrected.
Surely, my shattered body, ruined by some distant holy force, is restored, and the blood I had spent is now far greater than before.
Filling, filling, until standing as a lord of vampires who transcends even prestige.
In my dizzying vision, a single message appeared.
《Progenitor, ‘Lasty Erbenus’ is using Blood God Rewind!》
…I said not to use it.
“…Lasty.”
“I’m sorry, sis. But if not now, when will we ever win?”
“You—”
My consciousness is fading.
Lasty approaches me.
Embracing me, Lasty gazes directly at the camera, feeling my warmth.
“Um… what should I say?”
Ah.
“Prospective Students? The Dean has to leave for work. So today’s viewing ends here.”
[?]
[?]
[?]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ?]
[What’s up with that?]
[Who decided this!]
[Wasn’t that an NPC?]
[Oh, they know it’s a broadcast.]
[????]
[Oh my gosh]
[Did Lily just get eaten by a centipede?;;]
[Isn’t this Lily’s first defeat?]
[Are you a user?]
[No way!!]
The chat window is in chaos.
Are they worried about me because they said it’s not okay, or are they just panicking since I said we’re going offline?
[Going offline already? That’s crazy.]
[Are we going offline?]
[???? How long has it been since Kinji?]
[Lily, do you want to see me die?!!!]
…They’re panicking over going offline.
“Don’t worry. I’ll be back soon.”
“……”
“Big sis will recover and return soon… sis?”
Lasty feels something is off and suddenly stands up.
Did you just realize it now? But it’s too late.
I exhaled a weary breath and reached out with a hand as pale as Lasty’s.
“Cough!”
Lasty collapses on the spot.
Not behaving like the Lord of Blood, she spits out blood and looks at me with trembling eyes.
What does she think this place is?
“Um, sis…”
“Haah… Lasty.”
Lasty is a being bound to my soul long ago.
Naturally, my past self made various arrangements to control the monsters that harmed numerous people.
They can become my strength, but they could also incite a rebellion while I’m weak.
Of course, I’ve weakened to the point where I can no longer use them…
‘This place is different.’
It’s a dimensional space I created, a spiritual world.
If the conditions are met, summoning the past arrangements is no big deal.
“Let’s talk later.”
Lasty fell, as if the connection was abruptly cut off.
Tee collapsed as if the connection was suddenly severed.
[?]
[Why did death suddenly happen?]
[ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]
[Instant death ㄷㄷ]
[To Lily]
[Turning this around in one move]
[Ah, lol, Lily can’t win]
[Huh]
[Administrator mode ON lolol]
[The host’s cheating map, huh lol]
[What did you do?]
“…What did I do? It’s nothing much.”
I just sent her back home.
The most basic and easy-to-use ‘reverse summon’ among countless arrangements.
Lasty didn’t resist or put up a fight; she simply retreated.
‘But it wouldn’t have mattered if she had resisted.’
“I just sent her back because she wanted to go home.”
[Home?]
[Sent back (forced)]
[? lololol]
[To me, it just seems like you cut off the connection]
[So is that really an NPC? She knew about the broadcast]
[????]
[The progenitor is incredibly strong]
[How did Lily barely beat her?]
“…Level 5 is a bit tough. But you could probably challenge up to level 2.”
Level 5 wasn’t meant to be cleared.
It was just a bonus stage, and honestly, no matter how strong Leo and Yena get, they won’t be able to beat the level 5 progenitor.
However.
‘Don’t use Blood Return…’
True Blood was okay. I was ready to acknowledge that.
I said I’d treat her seriously, and so I took it seriously.
But Blood Return? No way.
To deal with Blood Return, I’d have to use Sacred Transformation and the casket, employing all the tricks in the book.
But I couldn’t do that.
My state was too unstable for the casket or Sacred Transformation, and Lasty knew that well.
But if she insisted on using it, I’d also have to resort to slightly “crossing the line.”
[So who is Lasty?]
[???]
[Is she a user?]
[Not an NPC?]
[She seems like a user]
“…Lasty is.”
■
“…Ugh!”
Lasty opened her eyes.
Instinctively raising her body, she clutched her chest in response to a sharp, icy pain.
The seal engraved in her soul restrained her.
The use of power was suppressed, and properly managing her blood was difficult.
…It seems this condition was a bit lacking.
Kugung!
“I thought you wouldn’t do that. Surprising.”
“…Statue.”
Lasty looked up to see the sand statue with her red eyes.
The Pharaoh, wearing the Emperor’s mask as if he were dressed for a show, chuckled while looking down at her.
“Did you think of escaping? I thought you knew better than anyone.”
“Escape? No, I was just messing around.”
Our master, Lily, is significantly, no, immensely weakened.
I wanted to experiment with just how far that power could reach, and the results were clear.
‘…It seems True Blood doesn’t work either.’
No matter how weak she had become, Lily was still Lily.
In the end, she was stopped when trying to summon greater power.
The Pharaoh leaned against the wall with a thud from his golden spear.
By the way, where is this?
“Statue. Where are we?”
“This is the waiting room. Didn’t you hear we were gathering here?”
“I know that. I know you’re That Guy Uncle too.”
“…What a ridiculous title.”
The Emperor of the Desert is merely an Uncle.
The Pharaoh grumbled and scratched the golden spear.
With each scratch, the environment of the waiting room gradually transformed into a desert.
“Don’t do that.”
“This is my waiting room. Aren’t you a castle? Mind your own castle.”
“That castle just got destroyed.”
“Lily will probably build a new one.”
The Pharaoh said this nonchalantly, and Lasty nodded.
Yeah, castles come plentiful.
The statue before them was just like that.
“…Do you still want to go back to the desert?”
“Yes. I was born a great emperor of the desert. My will and my body, everything is in the desert, so how could I not want to return?”
“Your soul is with your sister.”
“……”
“I don’t think you’ll ever be able to go back. There are tens of thousands of humans you’ve killed; do you think your sister will let you?”
“If I’ve become a subject of the great emperor, then I would not die.”
“I don’t think you see humans that way.”
“I don’t understand. If I were less than you, it would be less; it wouldn’t be more.”
The golden eyes behind the Pharaoh’s mask were fixed on Lasty.
Though not as threatening as the Kraken, the Pharaoh’s golden eyes also harbored great power.
However, the Progenitor met that gaze directly without flinching.
“Yeah, you were worse. But I’ve laid it all down now.”
“Layed it down, huh? That sounds funny, considering you were quite serious about it.”
“…Do you want to die?”
The Power of Blood surged from Lasty.
Though her power was restrained, it wasn’t weak enough to lose to a mere statue.
The Pharaoh seemed aware of this as he cleared his throat and stepped back.
“…Anyway, Lily said to wait. She told me to explain to the little brats and then call her.”
“‘Lily’?”
“She hasn’t said anything yet.”
“Do you think she’s caught on?”
“Well, aren’t you the one who knows her better?”
Lasty turned her head.
She saw another Lily within the Space of Despair.
She had already been mentioned several times and had even appeared during the humans’ competition.
During the tournament, she made an appearance.
If it’s the sister I know, she should be figuring it out by now…
“I feel like she’s not really trying to let me know, though.”
■
“I’m your professor. I’ll be helping you with the lectures from now on.”
Back at the academy, I explained about Lasty while lying sideways in the infirmary.
The progenitor I created, Lasty Erbenus, was modeled after the vampire powers and appearance seen in various media.
Right now, she’s just an NPC, but I plan to materialize her using magic and magical stones to employ her as a professor.
…that’s the setting.
So far, I’ve been able to showcase magic and various techniques as part of my profession, but Lasty is different.
She possesses the opposite abilities of me, who handles the holy.
Having Lasty show up without any background would be problematic.
“I think it would be a bit too much for me to teach alone. And I can’t exactly ask Lord Leo or anyone else, since they’re just starting out.”
Most of the people I teach are ‘Rankers’.
They’re all top-notch in the field known as Deoen.
Teaching them would require more than just basic knowledge.
“Maybe I could manage as an assistant instructor.”
[Ooh]
[Can you really do that with magic?]
[??]
[Just a boy called Lily]
[So you’re saying you turned virtual reality into reality?]
[Creating a professor when there’s none, lol]
[So you just made an NPC? ;;]
[?]
[Even resurrecting them, wow]
[Isn’t that a cheat? Something like that can just spawn?]
[Is That Guy Uncle the same?]
“Of course, she’s not that strong. It’s deliberately made difficult for game balance, so in reality, she’s weaker than a first-level progenitor. The same goes for That Guy Uncle.”
Bringing out Pharaoh and Lasty in their full forms is impossible.
Even if you put them in a casket, if the casket is released, they would go back inside, so it doesn’t really matter.
[But I feel like she’d still be stronger than a Ranker]
[I kinda envy being able to create a summon]
[Oh my gosh]
[What can’t Lily do?]
[Is that?]
[Isn’t that too much?]
[Well, the Sword Saint has been first for almost four years now]
[The balance has been wrecked ever since Leo started wiping out kingdoms, lol]
[So what now?]
“I guess it’s time to meet someone else.”
Now it’s my turn to meet That Guy Uncle.
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