The Vampire Queen
The hunters finished their final preparations in their respective waiting rooms. Thirty-one hunters gathered in front of the A-rank Vampire Gate.
“...Alright, let me go over everything one more time. The map appears to be the interior of a massive mansion. It doesn’t seem fully confirmed, but it looks like an open-field type. The monsters that will appear are...”
While listening to the Association staff member’s briefing, each hunter gave their weapons one last check. The enemies were monsters from a near S-rank gate. And among them, highly intelligent vampires. Even these veteran hunters with outstanding stats and deep experience looked visibly tense.
“Ah, I’m so excited.”
“Sunbae, you still need to be careful not to die, okay?”
“Obviously.”
Of course, there were also people who weren’t nervous at all. In fact, one person seemed downright thrilled.
Fucking bastard.
Yamazaki Teru scowled the moment he saw Park Jihun acting like that. The guy was riding the bus, yet he looked so relaxed. Well, since he was riding the bus, it made sense he’d be this carefree. It pissed him off immensely.
He said something about turning the A-rank vampires into his familiars.
Yamazaki Teru recalled what their leader, Ken, had told him. That even if it meant giving up on the rewards, the guy seemed intent on increasing his familiar forces.
I’m not letting that happen.
There was no way he was going to hand over sweet rewards to a shameless bus-riding leech. The moment they entered, Yamazaki Teru resolved to wipe out every last vampire without leaving a single one behind.
He was a high-ranking hunter with combat power in the upper tier of A-rank. A hit-and-run evasion-type dealer who specialized in using his overwhelming speed to toy with opponents up close. Against human-sized enemies like vampires, he was especially strong. His confidence was completely justified.
“Then we’re heading in.”
That was why he strode forward with absolute confidence, taking the lead alongside the tankers. It was a clear declaration that he wouldn’t leave a single monster for Park Jihun.
You have entered the A-rank Gate ‘Vampire Queen’s Castle’.
Once the gate is cleared, or after 30 minutes have passed since entry, you may exit through the gateway.
Vampire Queen’s Castle. He had already heard the name from the survivors.
The bastard looked so fucking happy when he heard the gate’s name.
Park Jihun and Shin Jiyeon had actually let out quiet cheers the moment they heard it.
Perverted piece of shit.
Now that he thought about it, every familiar Park Jihun kept was female. He even had a succubus. It was obvious what he was doing to the monsters he turned into familiars.
Yamazaki Teru found it both incredibly enviable… no, utterly despicable. Monsters were threats to humanity that needed to be exterminated. Yet this guy was only taming humanoid female ones to satisfy his own desires.
The more I see him, the less I like him.
Even as he thought that, a small part of him couldn’t help but feel secretly jealous of Park Jihun, surrounded by familiars who possessed beauty and charm impossible for ordinary humans.
Pretty monsters, huh…
Just as Yamazaki Teru was thinking that, a cold, chilling voice echoed directly inside his head.
“As expected. You’ve come this way again.”
“Huh…”
The scene that unfolded before their eyes the moment they passed through the gate’s rift was a corridor that looked like it belonged to an ancient castle. For some reason, countless pale-skinned men and women stood there. And right in the center, a woman who clearly ruled over them was staring directly at Yamazaki Teru and the other parties’ tankers.
Blood-red eyes and lips. Short silver hair. Skin so white it seemed to glow under the light. She wore a provocative black leather dress that boldly exposed her cleavage and the sides of her breasts. Even the lower part was made of semi-transparent mesh, revealing her waist, thighs, and even the lines of her pubic bone. Below that, she wore faintly visible black stockings.
An overwhelmingly beautiful figure. No—so incredibly sexy that the moment their eyes met, it felt like their lower bodies might spring to attention. A woman of extreme allure.
Yamazaki Teru and every tanker who had entered the gate were certain the moment they saw her.
She was the master of this gate. The Vampire Queen.
Boss monster has appeared!
Boss Monster — Vampire Queen Trene has emerged!
There was no time to wonder why the boss was appearing right at the gate entrance or what the hell was going on. Although they had been momentarily entranced by the Vampire Queen’s breathtaking beauty, there were only two things they needed to do right now: preserve their own lives and warn the people coming in behind them.
“Goddammit…!”
Yamazaki Teru, the fastest mover among them, immediately tried to pull back while spitting out a curse. But at that exact moment—
Crunch!
“Guh?!”
A blood-red hand suddenly appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him by the throat. It was literally a hand made of blood. A spell created in mid-air.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
That voice. It was the same one he had heard the moment they entered the gate. The owner of that voice was none other than the seductive and incredibly sexy Vampire Queen, Trene.
It seemed to be a magic that transmitted her will directly… or something like that. Thanks to a nearly passive translation spell, her words were perfectly understandable.
“How annoying… Doesn’t the time you can leave get delayed every time you lot come in?”
Her tone suggested she knew perfectly well that they needed time to cause a gate overload in order to escape outside. It even sounded like she had been waiting for exactly that.
Huh? That can’t be right. This isn’t even a special gate…
The moment Yamazaki Teru felt something was off by her words—
“So die as quickly as possible…”
Crunch!
At Trene’s gesture, the hand of blood gripping Yamazaki Teru exploded. At the same time, his neck and head were severed and fell to the floor with a dull thud.
“…!!”
The tankers’ eyes widened in shock at the horrific sight. That blood hand earlier—they hadn’t even seen where it came from.
“Hmm.”
The only silver lining was that the blood hand attack apparently couldn’t be used consecutively. The Vampire Queen simply watched the tankers who hadn’t moved, leaving them untouched for now.
“What the hell? What’s going on?”
At that moment, the rest of the hunters began pouring in through the rift one after another.
“T-Teru?!”
“…!”
Seeing Yamazaki Teru collapsed with his head severed, they hurriedly got into combat stances. It meant there was an enemy powerful enough to take out an A-rank hunter’s head in mere seconds right in front of them.
“Fuck, where the hell does the boss spawn at the entrance?”
“This is insane.”
The tankers from each party quickly briefed the others on the situation. The raid teams who grasped the current state in a short time immediately assumed their positions.
All of this had happened in roughly three seconds since entering the gate.
“Sweep them away.”
Having confirmed the scene, Vampire Queen Trene gave an order to the dozens of vampires gathered before her. To wipe out the enemies.
“Kyaaak!”
“Kuhuhu, humans! Give us your blood!”
“Summon thralls.”
“Shit, they’re coming!”
“It’s a boss fight right from the start! Everyone focus!”
“Wait, why are there so many mobs in a boss fight…!”
“I’ve never heard of anything like this!”
Thirty-one hunters. Roughly sixty vampires under the command of the Vampire Queen. And the hundreds of thralls they had summoned.
A total war had begun—a type of battle extremely unfamiliar to the hunters.
“Whoa.”
Park Jihun and Shin Jiyeon let out sounds of admiration as they watched the scene. A large-scale battle rarely seen by hunters? Grotesque four-legged thralls crawling around? No.
What they were truly admiring was—
“The vampires are fucking gorgeous.”
The vampires. Especially the female ones were far more beautiful than they had expected. Skin so pale it was almost pure white. Stunningly refined features. And bodies with perfect proportions. Every single one of them was top-tier beauty by human standards.
But the absolute best among them was, of course—
“Holy shit. Your Majesty… I feel like this is my grave already.”
“Same here, Sunbae. Please engrave on my tombstone, ‘Vampire Queen-nim is so fucking hot.’”
Even in the middle of the chaotic melee, the two of them were busy staring at Vampire Queen Trene.
“…?”
Trene suddenly felt a gaze and her eyes met Park Jihun’s.
“Ah. I can’t hold back anymore.”
The moment their eyes locked, Park Jihun could no longer suppress his desire. That. That was exactly what he wanted! Not some weird reverse-rape fetishist pretending to be an overlord with zero charm, nor some fish monster that was supposed to be a siren but turned out to be a grotesque shock monster. This!
Pale skin, red eyes, sparkling silver hair. Sharp fangs that peeked out subtly whenever she spoke. All those racial traits intact, yet insanely sexy and beautiful. This was what he had wanted.
“I’m definitely making that woman my familiar. If I can’t, I’d rather just die here.”
His eyes burned with passion. Shin Jiyeon nodded as if she understood perfectly.
“I’ll support you with everything I’ve got.”
Hearing that, Park Jihun summoned all of his familiars at once.
“All of you, bring out every single one of your thralls too. Looks like it’s a war of numbers, so for now, try not to kill the female vampires if you can help it. Leave them be.”
After giving that order to his familiars, Park Jihun added one more command.
“Oh, right. I’m going to go have a little ‘familiar interview’ with the boss, so make sure no other guys come after me. If it gets dangerous, I’ll call you, so come then.”
“Huh…? W-what are you asking us to do…?”
“Kyarung? Can we just fight?”
“…You just fight for now.”
“V-vampires… are they going to suck my blood? Hieek… What if I wet myself? It’s so embarrassing I feel like I might pass out.”
“Hmm~ A vampire queen, huh. She definitely has the kind of looks that would make Jihun lose his mind.”
Briana looked extremely flustered, but Park Jihun didn’t say anything else. He simply told them he was leaving it to them, then took Shin Jiyeon and ran straight toward Trene.
“…Ah, um… Haa.”
Briana looked like she had a mountain of things she wanted to say, but she knew her master wouldn’t listen anyway. So she obediently summoned her own thralls and jumped into the chaotic battle between the hunters and vampires.
“We are the familiars of Hunter Park Jihun! Please do not attack the goblins, lizardmen, trolls, or succubi!”
“Kyarurung~!! Vampires! I saw them in movies! Vampires are the enemies of wolves!”
“You idiot, separate movies from reality! Though yeah, they’re enemies right now.”
“Haa… haa… I heard getting caught by a vampire and having your blood sucked feels so good you lose control of your bladder…”
“Go on, my succubi. Seduce the vampires and suck them dry instead.”
And so, a chaotic battle unfolded with monsters, hunters, and vampires all mixed together in one messy frenzy.