Chapter 133.1
Castle Where Darkness Dwells (2)
In the sunlight, I climbed up the stone walls that made up the ramparts with my fingers.
The former residence of a baron, the castle appeared to be an old-fashioned fortress, a rugged, defendable structure similar to Dandol’s castle. It was difficult to enter from the front. It was a fortress, so it was difficult to climb over the walls. It was still better to climb up the walls, even if they were as high as the roof of a three-story building, than to open the huge gates, which were still locked after all.
Even if it was still early in the morning and dimly illuminated, the possibility of being discovered by a “failure” who could move in daylight made it difficult not to be caught off guard, even if a Vampire was not outside. Daytime could offer While climbing up the stonewall in the sunlight, I perfectly matched my magical power to the surrounding magical elements, and using the magical element of light, I blended myself into the landscape of the stone wall.
I jumped soundlessly onto the passageway above the castle wall and started to move along the wind currents. I snuck up to one of the failures patrolling the passageway with a lifeless face and snapped its neck with a single turn by wrapping my arm around it from the side.
“…”
Even against the Undead, my Concealment could be perceived. I also understood how far I had to damage it before it would die. Once I knew that, I judged that there would be almost no one who could oppose me under the sun. The power of a failure depended on its ability before it transformed, but if it had the ability to fight me, there was a high probability that it would have transformed into a Vampire.
I spent the next hour or so destroying the failures that were roaming around the courtyard. The reason I was eliminating these guys first was because I didn’t want them to get in the way of my battle with Grave.
But I had a feeling that we were a little outnumbered. If they were raiding remote settlements like that small village to increase their numbers, there should be a few more of them. Would most of them be out there? Or did Nero’s presence drive the Undead inside the castle toward that location as well?
It was also possible that they were concentrated in the catacombs of the chapel where Carla was headed, but if they were concentrating their forces there, it seemed to me that Grave had probably anticipated my arrival and was intentionally spreading them thin.