Chapter 480: Skirmish (5)

Chapter 480: Skirmish (5)

The news was live, but one would have to be living under a rock not to know how to pause it.

No matter how many times he looked at it, the monster resembled the distinctive seal used by hyenas, a monster that the Demon King’s army dealt with. The photo was blurry and difficult to see, but Han-Yeol’s eyes were that of a Transcendent Master, so analyzing the image down to the micrometer was something he was capable of.

Snap!

Han-Yeol snapped his fingers as he thought of a good idea.

‘Hehe, I see, so that’s how it is. I’ve got a good idea.’

Han-Yeol immediately rushed to prepare for a trip to China.

“When are you going to leave?” asked Tia.

“I’ll have to stay for a while, so not right this second, but I’ll leave tomorrow morning.”

“Alone again?”

Han-Yeol shook his head at her.

“No, not alone this time. I’m trying to increase the scale.”

“Scale?”

“Yes.”

Tia cocked her head as she didn’t understand what he meant by increasing the scale. This only made her already breathtaking beauty shine even more, capable of stealing the hearts of anyone looking at her, although Han-Yeol was already used to it.

“Is that really necessary?”

“Hahaha, just wait and see. The biggest bait in the world will appear.”

“Well, if you say so.”

“Hahahaha.”

Han-Yeol’s smile was quite crooked.

After getting ready to leave for China, Han-Yeol took a break.

That night...

Tsss tsss!

Han-Yeol’s mansion was in the middle of nowhere, just outside of Seoul. It wasn’t a geopolitically important spot, so no outside traffic passed by. So as long as there was no business going on, it was a peaceful place that didn't generate much noise, as even the sound of grasshoppers could be heard.

“Hey, do you have a cigarette?”

“What, you’re done already?”

“Yeah, I was supposed to go buy some earlier, but I forgot.”

“Tsk tsk, you can’t start forgetting things already.”

“I know. I should go to a doctor even though I’m still young.”

The two members of the Gurkha squad in charge of the southern perimeter of Han-Yeol’s mansion were leisurely sharing a cigarette and chatting as usual.

They were standing guard at the perimeter of Han Yue's mansion as per their orders, but they weren't particularly wary. This made sense. After all, who would dare to invade Han-Yeol’s mansion? Only someone out of their mind would attempt such an impossible feat.

Rustle.

“Huh?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Did you not hear that just now?”

“Hear what?”

“Just now, I heard a bush moving over there. Didn’t you?”

“Really?”

“Yeah!”

One of the Gurkhas didn’t hear anything, but the first rule of wariness was never to miss the slightest sound of movement. However, a slight rustling in the bushes was not something to report to the situation room.

“Let’s check.”

“Cover me.”

“Ugh, do I really need to cover you... Okay.”

He thought his coworker was being a little dramatic, but as a soldier, it was the right thing to do to leave no room for danger.

Shhh.

They unsheathed their Kukri greatswords and one of them moved toward the bush where the sound had come from, and the other took cover from behind with his hand on the radio just in case. It wasn’t to contact anyone, but rather to press the emergency button on the radio, which would immediately set off sirens throughout the mansion.

“Hmph!”

Shaaa!

He squinted his eyes slightly as he thought that.

‘Who is he?’

Han-Yeol looked down from the air with a baffled expression.

“Hahaha, Master, this is the first time an enemy is attacking the mansion.”

Han-Yeol looked around and groaned, “Ugh, yeah. I had taken good care of it till now.”

The white-haired man and the dozens of beings weren’t the only ones who invaded the mansion. More than a thousand Hunters were circling the mansion, climbing over the walls.

Boom!

The battle had already begun.

“But what kind of grudge does he have against me to break in here?”

“Oh, do you know him?”

“We’re not close, but we’re both pretty famous... So I guess you could say we’ve both heard of each other?”

“Haha, really?”

“Yeah. That’s Count Dracula, the British lord of vampires.”

“Hmm?”

Tia was in the sky, holding onto Han-Yeol’s side. She looked down at Count Dracula with an intrigued expression.

[Khahaha! Mr.Lee, I, the great vampire lord, Count Dracula, will hold a blood festival tonight to defeat you and prove once and for all who is the strongest in the whole world. Then I will put the whole world under my feet.]

“What the hell is this bastard saying?”

Han-Yeol hated this type of guy, and based on how his eyes looked, he didn’t look normal, so Han-Yeol didn’t even want to bother dealing with him.

‘It’s no fun dealing with someone who’s on drugs anyway.’

Getting provoked was only fun when his opponent was normal and sober.

“Wait a minute, Master.”

“Why?”

Tia grabbed his clothes and said, “I’ll deal with him.”

“Huh, will you be okay?”

“Hey, do you think I’m incapable?”

The corners of Tia’s eyes rose slightly.

Han-Yeol flinched.

“N-No, t-that’s not it...”

Han-Yeol knew better than anyone that Tia had evolved into the Arachnid Queen and was at the level of a Transcendent Master. However, he sensed that the vampire lord in front of him was just as powerful.

‘It seems like just anyone can become a Transcendent Master-Rank at this point. Is this the power of the second dimension?’

He didn’t really understand, but since his opponent was also a Transcendent Master-Rank, he didn’t feel like he could leave this to Tia alone. But since Tia was acting like this, he had to trust her.

“O-Okay. I-I’ll leave it to you.”

“Haha, Master, you’re the only one who trusts me.”

Tia gave Han-Yeol a deadly, charming wink.

“Leave it to me, haha.”

Swoosh!

As soon as she got permission, Tia broke free from Han-Yeol’s side and launched herself at the vampire lord.

[Khahaha, how absurd. You dare to take me on alone when it won’t be enough even if the two of you attacked at once?]

Count Dracula sneered at Tia’s thoughtless behavior.

‘You're mistaken to think of this body as an ordinary Hunter body. This insane burst of power is real. A power that’ll be able to destroy everything, kahahaha!’

He was actually a Hunter in the peacekeeping force sent to China as a representative of the United Kingdom. But while he was there, he met a being who provided him with a strange drug that allowed him to reach what he felt was an impossible barrier, surpassing the Master-Rank into a Transcendent Master-Rank, and gaining powers beyond that. As a result, his own power, as well as the power of his Hunter servants, had grown much stronger.

[My children, attack! We will drink every last drop of the blood of the beings here and turn them into our vampire blood!]

[Yes, lord!]

[Khaaaa!]

Step, step, step!

As soon as Count Dracula gave his order, the vampire servants, mostly S and A-Rank Hunters, started running and hopping over the mansion's walls. On the other hand, the vampires who were elsewhere had already managed to climb over the wall and enter the mansion.