Chapter 305
Chapter 305
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 305
Chapter Title: God's Atlantis
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'Torture target...? What’s that?'
That question was answered immediately.
The torture devices near the bathtub began moving on their own, targeting me.
The first one to move was the iron chains dangling from the ceiling. Sharp hooks like fishing needles came rushing toward me.
Yeongcheon-ryu Sal-eum.
The two hooks were silently sliced by my swinging blade.
'The torture tools are moving because of Erzebet’s ability. If I subdue Erzebet, the torture tools should stop too.'
I had to subdue Erzebet without killing her. If I just killed her because the fight was tough, I’d regret it and beat the ground in frustration.
I swept across the floor, jumping to dodge the massive scythe flying at me, then swung my sword to deflect the incoming hammer, tongs, stamp, awl, and more as I closed in on Erzebet.
Giiiiing.
I wrapped my blade around the thin steel wire that was hard to see and flung it aside. Then I bent my upper body all the way to the floor to dodge the flying torture chair.
"Ho. Like a circus monkey. How amusing. Very amusing."
"It’ll get even more amusing from here."
I thrust my sword toward her. Subduing her perfectly would be hard. So, though I didn’t like it, I’d at least have to sever one arm.
Erzebet flung her fully opened fan at me. Sharp, circular blades popped out from the ends of the fan.
'That’s a weapon too!'
I positioned my sword vertically and flicked the fan away. At the same time, I extended my left hand toward Erzebet.
'Grab that neck and knock her out... Ugh!'
Crack.
A hammer flying from the side struck my wrist. The bone didn’t break, but the pain was so intense it shattered my focus for a moment.
'This level of pain isn’t normal. The heightened pain must be part of Erzebet’s ability too...!'
I deflected the incoming torture tools with my sword and dived toward Erzebet.
"So eager in your courtship... If you weren’t a monkey, I might have entertained you once."
Erzebet smiled seductively. It was a smile that suited the term wicked woman perfectly.
'...She’d fit right in as a villain in a trashy Korean drama.'
It was the moment I tried to pull Erzebet’s body into an embrace. The blood in the bathtub surged up, enveloping her body and beginning to transform into dark red steel.
Startled, I tried to dodge to the side, but Erzebet grabbed my wrist. I hastily unleashed brain lightning, but she didn’t change expression at all and spoke.
"If you want to hold me that badly... Very well. I shall let you embrace me once. But in exchange, offer up your blood."
The steel mass encasing Erzebet split wide open. Inside were long, sharp spikes. The most famous torture device associated with Bathory Erzebet—the Iron Maiden.
Erzebet inside the Iron Maiden grabbed my wrist with one hand and my shoulder with the other, pulling me into the steel.
A chill ran down my spine. Instinctively, I knew. If I entered that steel coffin, it was over.
"Sorry, but I don’t have that kind of hobby!"
I unleashed brain lightning with all my power.
Bzzzt!
Dozens of lightning bolts poured into Erzebet.
"Ugh!"
Erzebet’s grip loosened. I didn’t miss the opening and put some distance between us first.
'The Iron Maiden makes close approach impossible. If I try to get near, she’ll try to kill me with it.'
Clang! Clang!
From a distance, the torture tools came flying.
Dealing with Erzebet was incredibly tricky.
'...Let’s give up on knocking her out.'
There was a way. I could attack from range without approaching. Like shooting lightning. But that made controlling my power difficult. There was a high chance I’d kill Erzebet.
'She has to bear my child. I can’t kill her. So, I’ll weaken her without killing.'
If precise power control was impossible, I’d just attack weakly. For now, high-lethality techniques like lightning were sealed.
I decided to first kill the annoying ones—Erzebet’s vampire minions. Unlike the torture tools, those vampire bitches didn’t move simply and were a real nuisance, waiting for an opening.
Bzzzt!
I killed the vampires one by one with brain lightning and my sword.
Erzebet tried to interfere midway, but her mobility was extremely low due to the Iron Maiden. All she could do was hurl torture tools, so I steadily reduced their numbers.
After three minutes like that, the vampires were completely wiped out by me, Yoo Seo-hee, and Joo Seo-hyun.
I said to Yoo Seo-hee and Joo Seo-hyun,
"You two, stay back and rest. That woman’s my opponent."
"I want to help you, Yu-jin, but... I used up all my essence, so I’d just be a burden. I’ll cheer from behind."
"...You think I don’t know your intentions? Your goal is to fuck that woman anyway."
Joo Seo-hyun frowned as she spoke. But she sheathed her sword, so she didn’t seem intent on interfering. Maybe she wanted to gauge my skills now.
"Hm. Trying to show off in front of the ladies? Men are all the same..."
"Whether it’s bluffing or not, you’ll see soon enough. More than that, you seem pretty relaxed even with all your minions dead."
"You mean these?"
Erzebet’s gaze turned to the floor. She looked at the dead female vampire corpses like roadside weeds.
"They’re no different from servants. If they’re gone, I just make more."
Bzzzt.
I generated brain lightning in my hand and hurled it at Erzebet in a surprise attack.
Clank!
One door of the Iron Maiden closed, blocking the lightning. The lightning couldn’t conduct through the Iron Maiden. It wasn’t ordinary steel. The Iron Maiden, originally blood, was infused with immense mana.
"Ah... I’m so thirsty."
Erzebet licked her lips while looking at Yoo Seo-hee and Joo Seo-hyun. I bent my knees and moved sideways. My target wasn’t Erzebet—it was the torture tools.
'The hook chains I cut earlier stopped moving. If the torture tools are destroyed, they can’t move.'
I stabbed my sword into the torture chair. Focusing and channeling sword energy, I sliced the iron chair in two.
Erzebet’s eyebrow twitched.
'She didn’t react at all to her minions dying... Heh. So this was the right answer.'
I then sliced the thorn whip aiming for my neck with my sword.
"What are you doing to my babies!"
Erzebet shouted.
Clank!
The Iron Maiden burst open, firing dozens of sharp steel spikes at me.
'Brain Lightning Net!'
I created a net woven from blue lightning in front of me. The steel spikes couldn’t tear through the lightning net and clumped together. I used magnetism for it.
'It requires fine control, so it’s hard to use freely, but this much is possible.'
Thud.
The clump of steel spikes fell to the floor and turned to blood.
"Eeek!"
Erzebet made a venomous face and fired more spikes at me. I deployed the lightning net again, neutralizing the steel spikes.
'It turns back to blood but she doesn’t reuse it... She’s not incapable of thinking of it; must be a range limit. Her blood control distance is about 6-7 meters.'
Keeping Erzebet’s range in mind, I destroyed her torture devices. When I’d wrecked about a third, I noticed part of her power had vanished. As expected, she was weakening as her torture tools disappeared.
"Y-You bastard! How dare you to my babies!"
Infuriated, Erzebet abandoned her elegance and glared at me with murderous hatred. She turned the Iron Maiden she wore back into blood. The blood didn’t fall to the floor but floated in the air around her.
Erzebet charged at me.
I ignored her and chased down the fleeing torture tools, smashing them one by one.
"Stop! Stop it!"
Erzebet pursued me but couldn’t catch up. Her physical abilities weren’t that strong.
Splash!
She swung a blood-made whip at me. But I dodged easily. Her attacks were too straightforward. No way I couldn’t dodge when she telegraphed them so obviously.
'Her lack of combat experience is so obvious. Well, Bathory Erzebet was a noble who held power, so she probably never fought herself.'
I destroyed every torture device here.
"......"
Erzebet glared at me silently, her face filled with rage.
I grinned and snapped my hips once. My crotch was, of course, bulging prominently.
"You... Insolent fool!"
Erzebet turned her blood into hook chains and hurled them at me. The eight hook chains came from different directions. Erzebet had predicted I’d dodge and aimed accordingly.
'Then I’ll just act opposite to your prediction.'
I charged straight at her. I deflected the hook chains flying head-on with my sword.
"......!"
Startled, Erzebet hesitated and turned the hook chains back to blood. She planned to recover it.
'Weakened, she doesn’t have her previous speed. I’m faster.'
Yeongcheon-ryu Noe-eum-bo.
With a thunderclap, I arrived in front of Erzebet standing atop the blood puddle.
"The blood right now... Ugh?!"
I grabbed her neck with my hand and threw her backward. Then I stabbed the Hwaryeon Blade into the blood puddle.
Bzzzzzt!
Red lightning fiercely erupted centered on my sword. I controlled it so hundreds of lightning bolts wouldn’t touch Erzebet while ramping up the output.
'Without torture tools or blood, Erzebet can’t do anything.'
I instantly vaporized the blood with brain lightning. Using it to the limit made my head dizzy, but it’d pass with time.
I walked toward Erzebet, who had fallen on her butt, while taking off my pants. The blood around her was less than 1L.
"You... Barbarian! Don’t come near!"
She fashioned a knife from the less-than-1L blood and gripped it. A crude knife with a blade under 10cm.
I extended my hand toward her without hesitation, my member twitching.
Riiip!
Tearing her gorgeous black dress revealed jade-white skin.
Erzebet gritted her teeth and swung the knife at me, aiming precisely for my neck.
'Her physical abilities are now at the level of a fresh exile to Atlantis.'
I grabbed her wrist, snatched the knife, and tossed it away. Then I seized Erzebet’s legs and spread them wide.
"Aaaah! Let go! You barbarian! Don’t touch my body with your filthy hands!"
"What nonsense. You crazy bitch."
Erzebet struggled fiercely. She extended her nails long and swung at me or lunged to bite my neck. I grimaced at the clicking of her teeth.
"Yoo Seo-hee. Grab this bitch’s hands."
"Sure~."
Yoo Seo-hee approached lightly and pulled Erzebet’s arms up. Erzebet’s arms went above her head, exposing her snowy-white armpits.
Smooth skin flowing from armpits to voluptuous breasts. A dizzying sight impossible on a small-chested woman.
'This bitch may be worthless otherwise, but her figure is top-tier.'
I gripped her constantly trying-to-escape ankles and pinned them to the floor.
"Joo Seo-hyun. You come help too."
"Shut up. You think I’d help you?!"
"This bitch, you haven’t forgotten Erzebet’s atrocities, right? She deserves death."
"...Why do you have to say it? Better to kill her quick and go help Kang Myung-jin!"
Go help Kang Myung-jin? Was that necessary? He’d handle it himself.
"Jeez... You don’t listen. Ignore me now, and I’ll fuck you nonstop for 24 hours later. And you, you lost to me last time. Aren’t you supposed to obey my orders?"
"Kuh..."
Joo Seo-hyun bit her lip and approached me. She valued contracts and promises. If she’d sworn to do so, she’d bend her will to some extent.
Joo Seo-hyun grabbed Erzebet’s legs.
"Aaaaaah! You barbarians!!!"