Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant-Chapter 469
Su-ho narrowed his eyes and looked at their name cards.
Plague Fairy Lv.251
Plague Fairy Lv.257
Plague Fairy Lv.255
Plague Fairy Lv.254
......
Damn.
It’s pure moving emotion.
To think their name is “fairy.”
The ones called Plague Fairies were fairies with a visual that was completely different from the small, cute fairies we commonly know, like Tinker Bell.
Yeah.
If he had to make a comparison, they looked like flies.
No, their faces were flies.
They had fly faces, fly bodies, and fly wings, and yet, strangely, they had arms and legs like humans.
They even held a tiny wand-like thing in their hands, and they cast magic through it as a medium.
What they’d shot at Su-ho earlier was also magic closer to a projectile.
Its name was Plague Spear.
A spear made out of swarming contaminated germs would explode the instant it made contact, and along with all kinds of plague debuffs, it would cause assorted curses like poisoning and paralysis.
Su-ho immediately swung his sword toward them.
[ The Inferno Sword activates. ]
Hwahwahwahwahwahwah!!
A sword slash studded with light and fire attributes mercilessly erupted toward the Plague Fairies clustered like a swarm of flies.
Kwaaaaaang!!
A massive boom.
Like how an explosion occurs when fire catches in a gas-dense area, the moment fire and light touched the filthy fairies, a huge explosion erupted.
And that wasn’t all.
Because of the explosion, they couldn’t even die all at once—instead, holy fire clung to their entire bodies, and they began screaming in agony.
“Kkieeeeeee!”
“Kkaaaaaaaa!”
“Kkueeeeeek!”
Ugh, to think something like that is a fairy.
He’s looking at them with his own eyes, and yet he still can’t believe it.
Before long, they didn’t last long at all.
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
......
They died a glorious death.
It was such a hollow death you couldn’t believe they were level 250 monsters.
It couldn’t be helped.
Putting aside the fact that Su-ho’s level was much higher, the stat difference was enormous, and the attributes themselves were a hard counter.
“Kkeuaaaaaa!”
“Kkueeeeeeee!”
“Kheuheoooooong!”
Screams were flying everywhere.
Yeah.
This place was hell.
Which made it even more ironic.
Because a calamity called Su-ho had fallen on this peaceful Island of Death and turned it into real hell.
However, Su-ho didn’t pity them in the slightest, and he continued the indiscriminate slaughter.
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Contaminated Dolbirak. ]
[ You have slain a Contaminated Dolbirak. ]
[ You have slain a Contaminated Elephant Bird. ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) ]
[ You have slain a Contaminated Elephant Bird. ]
[ You have slain a Contaminated Baobab Ent. ]
......
The death’s residents of Madagascar kept dying in droves.
Of course, he didn’t do nothing but slaughter.
Like a slash-and-burn farmer, every time he expanded the cleared area, if he found Gates, he checked what was inside one by one.
But the results were mostly disappointing.
[ Loading Gate information. ]
[ Forest of Dead Trees ]
Entry Requirement : Level 230 or higher.
Variable Condition : Maximum entrants is 5, but every time the number of entrants decreases by 1, overall difficulty decreases by 20%.
[ Loading Gate information. ]
[ Playground of Contaminated Rats ]
Entry Requirement : Level 240 or higher, clear of the prerequisite Gate.
Variable Condition : Maximum entrants is 10, but every time the number of entrants decreases by 1, overall difficulty decreases by 10%.
No matter how desperate he was for growth, Madagascar’s island area was six times his country’s territory, so he had no intention of clearing every single Gate.
There was only one place Su-ho wanted.
Meeting the fairy-race queen.
Su-ho recalled the information for the sealed Fairy Blood.
[ Fairy Blood ]
Grade : F-
# The bloodline of the fairy race called fairies.
# It is in a sealed state.
# To break the seal, you need the fairy-race queen’s bloodstone.
The fairy-race queen’s bloodstone drops only from queen-rank fairy-race monsters.
In other words, at minimum, it had to be a boss monster.
So, to put it extremely, it meant Su-ho only had to clear the Gate that spewed out Plague Fairies.
‘Even if it takes time, I’ll find it for sure.’
It was the third day of rummaging through Madagascar alone like that.
“Wow, I found it.”
After checking the Gate information, Su-ho let out an exclamation without realizing it.
[ Angels of Death ]
Entry Requirement : Level 270 or higher.
Variable Condition : Maximum entrants is 10, but every time the number of entrants decreases by 1, overall difficulty decreases by 10%.
Angels of Death.
Yeah.
According to his memories of his previous life, it was said that Plague Fairies began appearing in Madagascar from after this Gate formed.
‘What’s amazing is that even before this Gate existed, Madagascar was already wiped out.’
But it was true that once Plague Fairies were born, the island’s theme changed into the Island of Death.
Because Plague Fairies turned all the ordinary, normal monsters into contaminated monsters.
That was why he remembered the difficulty being quite high.
[ Would you like to enter the Gate? ]
The System’s question.
There was no reason to refuse.
[ Entering the Gate. ]
When he accepted the question, Su-ho’s vision flickered and the surroundings began to change.
And at the same time the scenery changed, the first thing that greeted Su-ho was.
Thudduk- Hudududduk-
Rain.
Su-ho looked up at the sky as he felt thick raindrops that had begun falling, like the start of a downpour.
The sky was dark and murky with heavy clouds.
It was then.
[ You have been hit by contaminated rain. ]
[ You have contracted an infectious disease. ]
“Oh.”
As expected.
This was a place with an entry requirement over level 270, and he’d wondered why the opening looked like ordinary rain.
But Su-ho wasn’t too worried.
It wasn’t because he trusted heals or recovery, or his high stats.
[ Dragon Blood activates. ]
[ Due to the draconic effect of Dragon Blood, the infectious disease does not apply. ]
The corners of Su-ho’s mouth rose.
Yeah.
A body that has Dragon Blood.
He isn’t affected by any mental-type debuffs, infections, or contamination effects from anything below dragons.
‘Because of this, my vampirification didn’t even progress, and now you’re talking about an infectious disease?’
So the contaminated rain falling here was, to Su-ho, nothing more than ordinary rain.
Su-ho continued by starting his own buffs.
[ Blessing activates. ]
[ Holy Enchant activates. ]
[ Mana Detection activates. ]
[ Endurance activates. ]
[ Enhancement activates. ]
[ The Eyes of a Night General activates. ]
He didn’t take out his weapon.
Because he still couldn’t see any monsters.
Su-ho then summoned the Iron Steed and mounted it.
“Let’s go.”
“Hihihing!”
Riding the Iron Steed, Su-ho flew high into the sky.
The contaminated rain was lightly ignored by both Su-ho and the Iron Steed.
Once he rose into the sky like that, the so-called Madagascar Gate’s field came into view at a glance.
‘It feels like they shrank Madagascar Island down a bit.’
Su-ho narrowed his eyes and examined the surroundings carefully.
And not long after, he found a place where mana was gathered especially thickly,
‘There.’
Once he’d found a suspicious place, there was no reason to hesitate.
It was when he began steering the Iron Steed and flying toward the place where mana was unusually thick.
[ The Angels of Death do not welcome your presence. ]
[ The Angels of Death are displeased by your approach. ]
[ The Angels of Death begin the Song of Death. ]
A few System notifications appeared.
At the same time, from far, far beyond Su-ho’s line of sight, something like smog began to condense, and then it started approaching Su-ho.
When he narrowed his eyes and looked closely, it wasn’t smog, but Plague Fairies clumped together like a swarm of bees.
Plague Fairy Lv.259
Plague Fairy Lv.261
Plague Fairy Lv.260
Plague Fairy Lv.262
......
It was real.
Their levels were even higher than the ones he’d seen in the field, and even their numbers were on a different level.
It looked like someone had stirred up a beehive and every bee inside had burst out.
“Yeah. You’re saying you’re not going to let me meet the boss right away, huh?”
He hadn’t expected it in the first place.
So he immediately summoned his weapon and held it.
[ Summoning the Club of Heracles. ]
[ Summoning the Lion-Head Helm of Heracles. ]
He started with Heracles’ armaments.
Of course, he had no intention of using the Club of Heracles as-is.
The Club of Heracles was definitely a good weapon, but Su-ho wasn’t a blunt-weapon warrior—he was a swordsman who used a sword.
So he additionally activated Blood Armory.
[ Blood Armory activates. ]
Shuaaa!
As Blood Armory activated, blood burst out of the Great Blood Prison and mixed with Su-ho’s mana, beginning to wrap around the Club of Heracles.
Then, matching what Su-ho imagined, a gigantic blade seemed to be overlaid and attached, centered on the Club of Heracles.
So the Club of Heracles became not a club, but the handle of a much larger blood sword.
It couldn’t be helped.
For Su-ho, the blade mattered more.
Looking at the newly transformed blood sword, Su-ho smiled faintly.
“It’s a design that becomes Blood Sword Season 2.”
Of course, because his imagination was a bit lacking, the design itself wasn’t without a somewhat plain side.
But it was fine.
Even if the design was a bit plain, the power the new blood sword carried would definitely be different.
[ Sword Aura activates. ]
Tststst-
A blue haze rises.
This much preparation is enough.
Su-ho swung his sword toward the Plague Fairies rushing in like smog.
[ Sky Severing activates. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ Sky Severing’s power becomes even stronger. ]
A blasting sword slash.
The blue crescent rode the new blood sword and shot forward, and soon it erupted into the smog-like Plague Fairies. But in that moment.
Puhpuhpuhpuhpuhpuhpung!!
From the Plague Fairies hit by Sky Severing, massive shockwaves began bursting in rapid succession.
Even though Su-ho was definitely at a very far distance, at the distinctive physical shockwave sound that tore the air, the corners of his mouth rose without him realizing it.
“Damn, it works.”
Shockwaves bursting together with the detonating Sky Severing.
That was the physical shockwave that triggers on impact attached to the Club of Heracles—namely, the “Shock Wave” option.
Was that why?
Powerful but simple sword slashes caused shockwaves the instant they touched the Plague Fairies, creating a chain of explosions, and their collaboration.
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
[ You have slain a Plague Fairy. ]
......
Soon created an enormous number of deaths.
“Haha, this is it.”
After that, with a few additional cuts, Su-ho was able to deal with all the Plague Fairies that had risen like a swarm of bees.
[ Your level has increased. ]
[ All stats have increased by 1. ]
[ You have gained 1 bonus stat. ]
“Huh?”
In the meantime, his level went up by one.
The level that wouldn’t rise no matter how desperately he killed monsters for the past three days finally rose by one.
“It’s a good start.”
Sitting on the Iron Steed like an immortal, Su-ho slowly advanced forward.
And around the time he arrived at the place where the Plague Fairies cut down like a tidal wave lay.
[ You are entering the boss monster’s area. ]
At last, he was able to enter the fairy-race queen’s area.
