I Became a Dark Knight the Empress Is Obsessed With

166 – The Order of the Moon – (4)

Casimir, the Apostle of Blood, shivered with the joy he had not felt in a long time.

He was the closest to the blood of the first ancestor of the bloodline, Emma. The first bloodline created by the first vampire. Being a direct descendant of the ancestor has a meaning beyond the social standing of the bloodline.

That is why Kazimir has greater vitality and power than any other jinjo. He has gained the qualifications of a monarch with infinite vitality, overwhelming power, and reigning over hundreds and thousands of vampires.

A life close to eternity is sweeter than anything else. However, the moment you continue to taste it, it loses its luster. It was natural for Kazimir to seek greater stimulation and pleasure.

No matter what I do, I am not happy. I am not satisfied. That is how I have always lived.

But Kazimir was feeling more stimulated now than ever before.

“Hahahaha!”

I looked at the duo in front of me with a big smile.

A sight that could be considered bizarre.

Around the two, nearly a hundred vampires rush in with mad movements. Blood-red blades and awls surge forward from all directions as the vampires extend their hands and spray blood.

But the knight’s movements with his sword shook off all of this. The tip of the sword moved sometimes smoothly and sometimes rigidly, and his well-trained body and simple technique perfectly assisted this.

The swordsmanship flowing like flowing water was imbued with a sinister red aura.

The knight’s bloody sword cut through the vampires without hesitation, and the blood magic was helplessly destroyed. The offensive had been going on for dozens of minutes, but the knight showed no sign of tiring.

“… … So it seems that you can’t defeat your ancestor with your insignificant blood relatives?”

Kazimir looked inwardly in awe at the knight in front of him, Fried Iscoval, and the black-haired woman standing back to back with him, who was no different from his mother.

Emma, ​​who had the stake stuck in her chest removed, was clearly showing what it meant to be the progenitor of the bloodline.

The vampires created by Kazimir lost control at the touch of Emma’s hand, and Emma’s enchantment on Fried’s blade granted equal death without discrimination even to vampires close to immortality.

If this isn’t a messenger, then what is it?

“If this continues, I might die.”

That was a different kind of stimulation for Kazimir.

A strange sense of anxiety that he might die while living forever. To Kazimir, who had already become insensitive to most emotions, this crisis also came as a new pleasure.

I started to understand Artral’s feelings a little.

The pride of a warrior fighting for life and death. At first, Kazimir couldn’t understand it at all, but when he saw the knight’s movements, he seemed to be somewhat sympathized with it.

“I guess we’ll have to stop our pointless attacks here. Even blood ties aren’t infinite.”

Kazimir drew blood.

In time with his movements, the vampires that had been rushing at him as if to kill him stopped moving and retreated.

The knight in front of him frowned and looked around.

“What? It’s over already?”

Fried grumbled, wiping the blood stuck to his lips.

Then he raised his sword and continued speaking.

“I can do this all day.”

“You are amazing. Even though you are my enemy, I will honestly admit it.”

“Idiot.”

“……yes?”

When Kazimir tilted his head, Fried Iscoval just shrugged his shoulders with a bitter smile.

“There is something like that.”

“… … .”

Kazimir felt quite uncomfortable with his laughter, which seemed to suggest that he was above all else.

*

Okay, so what should we do from now on?

I can taste the sweetness in my mouth. It was because I had used a lot of mana in a short period of time. I don’t know how long it’s been since I felt this weak. I didn’t use this much even when I fought Pedras.

“Are you okay?”

“Well, kind of.”

Emma places her chin on his shoulder and puts her hand on his shoulder.

In fact, it was all thanks to Emma that I was able to stand up until now. Her blessing, not a blessing, activated my body’s metabolism, so it was much easier to control my body. My resilience was also considerable, so even if I had time to catch my breath, my physical strength returned to its original state.

The enchantment on the sword also completely dispels the blood magic of those annoying vampires, making it a perfect supporter.

“The remaining number… … is still around a hundred. If you include the hidden blood relatives, it will be several times that number.”

“It’s not the Chinese army, haha.”

“Hollow… … What?”

“There is something like that.”

I wiped the blood off Ernst while I looked at Casimir. He was stroking his chin and looking at me and Emma with interest, but his expression was quite relaxed.

Well, in the current situation, Emma and I are at a complete disadvantage. If Kazimir takes action, the balance of power will collapse rapidly.

“Emma, ​​who is stronger, you or that guy?”

“… … I can’t give you the answer you’re expecting. That kid, Kazimir, is much stronger than Jim.”

“Can a blood relative’s mother be that weak?”

“Don’t many people say that there is no mother who can beat her son? Furthermore, Jim has been in a coffin for decades and has been weakened. He is no match for that child who has continued to accumulate power and blood.”

I clicked my tongue at Emma’s words. Still, it wasn’t like they were completely useless, so that was a relief.

“so.”

Kazimir nodded as if to say that the story was over.

“Can we begin?”

“Or so you say.”

Those words were a signal.

As Kazimir stomped his foot, the ground around me began to rise and blood began to spurt out. It was an aggressive technique from the start. It was incomparable to the power of the ordinary ones, which were limited to drawing blood and shooting it out in the shape of an awl.

“Huh!”

I raised my sword and prepared to strike, and at the same time, Kazimir moved. Before I knew it, a long, blood-red blade had sprouted from his wrist.

The moment Kazimir passed through the blood pouring down like a waterfall, the blade he was holding began to take on a bright red flame.

Emma opened her eyes wide when she saw this.

“Blood poison! I can’t believe it’s gotten to that level!”

At Emma’s shout, I reflexively swung Ernst, alert, and clashed with Kazimir’s bloody blade.

At that moment, I felt a pressure as if my wrist was breaking and I was thrown back.

Kwak-kak!

Kazimir’s sword strike did not end there. The black sword that flew in went up the diagonally standing Ernst and grazed my chest.

“Ugh!”

Blood spurted from my chest along with a hot sensation.

Feeling the pain, I quickly kicked the ground nearby and took a few steps back. Kazimir didn’t bother to follow, but just sat there grinning.

“shit.”

“Oh, oh. Was that a little shallow? I was thinking of aiming for the heart.”

Kazimir shrugged, cracking his bloody blade.

I frowned at those words and felt my chest with my left hand. Then, a maddening pain came over me.

Although he was wearing thick armor, it was useless against Kazimir’s attacks. The gaps in his armor were split like tofu, and the melted armor stuck to his skin, burning it black.

Was it clearly called blood flame? The flame of blood seemed to burn everything with just a brief touch.

“… …Fuck, you didn’t say you were a prosecutor.”

He mutters to Emma with resentment.

I thought he was a sorcerer because of his slim physique and his ability to use vampires, which reminded me of the Abyss Apostle Pedras.

“There was no close combat pattern in the original either.”

In fact, in Raising the Empress, Kazimir felt more like a necromancer who fought from afar by raising patterns and lower-level vampires.

But when I actually met him, I found out that he was a prosecutor. And he was extremely skilled at it.

I really don’t understand why Kazimir abandoned the fighting style he used in the original and wields the Blood Sword.

But if there’s one reason for sure, it’s the woman next to me.

Emma, ​​the mother of the blood relatives.

It seemed that Kazimir wanted to kill Emma with his own hands.

Emma, ​​however, trembled as she looked at the sword in his hand.

“… … That flame is dangerous.”

“What is that?”

“Blood Flame. It’s the pinnacle of blood magic. I never thought that Kazimir would use blood flame… … It seems he has absorbed a lot of blood.”

Emma looked at me as she explained, repeatedly emphasizing her point.

“Never, ever touch it.”

“Yeah. It looks like that even without me saying it.”

Even a passing glance would be considered serious injury.

Well, I had no intention of reaching it anymore.

Fortunately, perhaps thanks to Emma’s buff, I didn’t have any particular difficulties moving around despite the large burns on my chest.

“Now, let’s have a proper battle! A warrior’s fight!”

Meanwhile, Kazimir slowly began to approach me, extending his blood-red blade. The vampires that had been silent also prepared to rush in in time with his movements.

How can you see that as a warrior’s fight?

Looking at that sight, I asked quietly.

“That, Emma.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Are vampires weak to sunlight? Or strong light?”

“Normally I’m weak to both. But that Kazimir kid… … .”

“Just get to the point. Are you weak? Or are you not?”

Finally, Emma answered with a puzzled expression.

“If the light is very strong… … then it might be effective.”

“Okay then.”

I nodded.

Since it was information Emma was talking about, there was no way it could be false.

“Let’s give it a try.”

A slap to the cheek brings him back to his senses.

And at the same time that Kazimir took a running stance, I took an object out of my arms.

“huh?”

A look of doubt appears on Kazimir’s face.

A sparkling crystal the size of a fist. Inside was a rippling golden mana.

“Emma, ​​close your eyes.”

“huh?”

Before I could even hear the answer, I threw the crystal down. Then I lifted Ernst up and pierced him with the crystal.

The birth of mighty mana.

Kazimir, noticing the situation, shouted.

“……hearthstone!”

Kazimir hurriedly drew out his blood magic, but it was already too late.

From the golden magic stone floating in the sky, a bright light like the sun shines.

“It’s dark, let’s turn on the lights.”

A magic stone from Hylings Mountain, refined with the special mana of the Liantur family.

The name of the magic contained within is Shining Ray.

In simple terms, it’s a light bomb.

In other words, it was a total waste of money.