The Druid Who Devoured the Great Nature

One-hit kill. It was the habit of a werebeast to aim for the fatal vital points that would cut off the opponent’s life. Even if it wasn’t such a habit, Victor Laznik had tried to avoid battle as much as possible. Since they had started fighting, it was easy to predict that he would come out with all his strength from the beginning.

‘Werebeasts have a strength in physical abilities, so I was prepared.’

I had confirmed that he had a strength in explosive speed while observing the course of the battle with the underboss. He was a similar type to the head of the Frederic family in Brahms.

I had inwardly judged that I could unfold the battle in a similar way. But I didn’t know he had such an ability.

Was he using electricity? Magic is a delicate ability that has been academically researched. He wouldn’t be able to handle magic with the intelligence of a beast, so it should be seen as closer to a psychic ability.

‘It doesn’t matter how you get there, as long as you get to Seoul. Anyway, it turned out well…’

A werebeast having an ability similar to a psychic ability. It was a story that couldn’t even be used as a joke at a drinking party. That’s why my suspicion that he wasn’t an ordinary werebeast had turned into a conviction.

“Shadowfang has already achieved some success in restoring the pure bloodline.”

Such a unique ability is one of the characteristics of a pure bloodline. It was the reason why the mongrels of the current werebeasts were obsessed with pure blood and had even made the choice to confront the city government.

“It doesn’t seem perfect yet.”

Victor’s trembling limbs. Judging from the acrid smell of burning coming from him, it seemed that the electricity had burned his own flesh. He was not able to control his own ability.

It was proof that he had imitated the skills of a pure bloodline, but had not been able to reproduce them perfectly.

“It’s understandable that he wanted to avoid battle.”

He had fought against a fellow underboss and had even overcome a numerical disadvantage. If he had used electricity in the same way, he would only look fine on the outside, but his insides would be broken.

“Cough! Kehek! This, kaak! Disgusting!”

That hasty heart was the cause of the trouble. The attack was in vain, and his weakness was properly exposed. Victor was more tormented by the pollen than by the pain of his limbs being burned.

Beasts generally have senses that are several times more sensitive than humans. And this was a characteristic that werebeasts had inherited. The sensitive five senses were a poison to the pollen that tormented them like the gas of a tear gas bomb.

Victor coughed repeatedly as if even breathing was painful, and tears streamed down his face. As much as he had relied on his sensitive five senses, the blockade of his five senses would act as a fatal blow to him.

To put it simply, he was unable to properly control his own body. To me, he was just a target standing still, so it was an easy job to cook him.

As I poured out bullets like raindrops, one or two holes began to appear in his entire body. I hit his abdomen with a thick stem of the World Tree and choked him like a snake.

Damage slowly accumulated on his body. A battle where he was thoroughly toyed with, unable to utilize the advantages of a werebeast at all.

Did he feel that there was no room for a reversal at this rate? He stopped cowering like a turtle and roared loudly.

“Kaaak!”

Electricity swirled like a whirlwind. And then, the lights and electrical appliances inside the warehouse exploded. It was an overload due to the enormous current that had spread out like branches without staying in one place.

In the suddenly darkened space, only Victor, who was wrapped in lightning, flashed. The pollen that had been tormenting him was burned by the enormous heat, and the stem of the World Tree turned into black charcoal and fell to the floor.

“He chose to self-destruct rather than wither and die.”

It was a choice between two. To die helplessly, just wriggling like a worm, or to resist at least once, even if it meant sacrificing his own body.

Victor chose the latter. Thanks to that, he had overcome the immediate predicament. But it was only spectacular to look at, there was no substance.

He had released the electricity that burned even his own body so powerfully. Victor’s skin was festering with burns, and black smoke was even rising.

“Phew, phew. This, damn it, you bastard I’ll chew you up and kill you…!”

The current, which had swirled like a storm for a while, did not subside and still swirled around his entire body. Even though the electricity that had occasionally sparked inwards had burned his skin, Victor did not retrieve it.

“Damn it! I, huh! I’ll definitely kill you!”

It was a determination to drag me down like a water ghost, disregarding his own life. Was it a single-minded desire to take revenge on me, who had toyed with him, or was it a spirit of sacrifice for the revival of his clan?

I had no way of knowing. I wasn’t interested either.

The blue flash, which burned even the person who had released the electricity, raced across the ground. The ground where the lightning had passed turned into a muddy mess with black soot and heat.

I dodged, leaving several plants in place like lightning rods. My vision flashed, and the deafening roar of the lightning that fell right next to me took away my hearing.

Victor swung his hands as if he were dancing. At his gesture, the electricity stretched out, struck down, and discharged. Sometimes he swung it like a whip, and at other times he compressed it into a sphere and exploded it.

When he shot out a small, sharp, needle-like electricity, my blood ran cold. In response to him, who was pouring out an indiscriminate bombardment without weighing this and that, I showed an evasive maneuver close to acrobatics.

It was close, but if I just dragged it out a little longer, it would be my victory. The opponent couldn’t have not known this.

“How long! You can’t just run away like a rat…!”

The feeling of something sticking to the soles of my shoes. It was the mud that his electricity had melted. At some point, there was no place in the area where the electricity had not passed.

The mud, which still held the heat, stuck to my feet. The moment my feet stopped was only a moment, but it was a sufficient gap for him to aim for.

“……There won’t be!”

A ray of light ran. It was certainly a fast speed. But it wasn’t a speed that I couldn’t react to, like when he was deceived by the fraudulent wolf’s trick.

His physical condition had already reached its limit.

「Synchronization is in progress!」

I could see the trajectory of his outstretched arm. The color of the aura hidden between the flashes of electricity. I also wrapped my fist in aura and swung it back.

“I got you!”

The fists did not collide. Victor spread his hands wide, grabbing my wrist with one hand and my shoulder with the other.

“Hehehe! You can’t run away anymore!”

Sparks flew between the two of us. A prelude to pouring out electricity. As expected, I had wondered why he was rushing in so recklessly after driving me into a corner.

“Are you going to die with me like this?”

It was a suicide terror.

“Die!”

At the same time as I met his crazed eyes, hundreds of currents of electricity exploded from Victor. I felt a hot heat burn my body, and then all my senses went away.

The impact of the enormous explosion shook the ground and swept through the battlefield. As if he had deliberately let it run wild, knowing that he couldn’t control it anyway, a formidable power came out.

“Cough!”

The last blow, poured out with the single-minded desire to die together. Victor survived. It wasn’t that a miracle had occurred where he alone had survived with an astronomical probability.

His eyes were blank, as if he had witnessed an unbelievable reality head-on.

“How…”

“I’ve already experienced lightning once.”

Lignification. The electricity that he had poured out flowed through my body, which had turned into a tree, and into the ground. The reason Victor was fine was also because I had absorbed most of the electricity.

“It was a little thrilling.”

Perhaps because it was an ability that had been run wild, disregarding his own life, it felt a little more thrilling than when I had been hit by lightning before. But my current ability was at a level that was sorry to be compared to me at that time.

It was an impact that I could withstand enough.

“I received a gift, so it’s not right to just let it go.”

I grabbed Victor’s wrist, who was staggering and trying to step back.

“I’ll return it.”

I felt the divinity of the World Tree spreading through my body like a bloodstream. The powder of light circulated through my body and spread into the empty air and the ground.

The residual current left in my lignified body, the ones that were discharging in the empty air and scattering on the ground. Everything was under my will.

The current gathered at a point in the empty air above my head. It gathered into a spherical shape, obediently like a gentle child, without any resistance like when Victor handled it.

The flashing sphere of light brightly illuminated his face. Had he felt the insurmountable gap? It was a face filled with fear.

I lightly pushed his chest and shot out the sphere of electricity.

The sphere of electricity that had hit Victor unraveled into hundreds of currents and soared up to the sky. It was like a lightning that struck from the bottom up, defying gravity.

“……!”

Victor couldn’t even scream. This time, he was buried in the flash of light and scattered into a handful of dust.

“Phew.”

I let out a sigh, releasing all the tension and the stuffy smoke left in my throat.

‘If I had just waited, saying it wasn’t my job, it would have been a disaster.’

I didn’t know that he had become a werebeast who had partially awakened his pure bloodline. Who among the personnel mobilized for this operation, except for me, could have handled Victor Laznik?

Even if the surprise attack had been successful, the core of defeating the underboss of Shadowfang would not have been achieved. It wasn’t that the Blood Alliance was careless.

The problem was that Shadowfang had succeeded in restoring a part of the pure bloodline. This case was not something that could be solved by just attacking the branches of Shadowfang.

“Is it finally over?”

Hatig came over, leading his subordinates. It was a spectacular battle, so he probably couldn’t interfere and had been waiting. Hatig was the only one who was composed among the subordinates who were overwhelmed by the traces of the battle.

“You’ve gotten stronger. The level is different from when you took down the underboss before.”

“I don’t need your compliments. Have you finished looting?”

“Of course. I knew you would win, so I beat up all the wavering guys and made sure to loot everything.”

Hatig laughed heartily. I didn’t feel like laughing that much. It meant that he had trusted me that much, but it also meant that he hadn’t even thought of helping.

Well, I hadn’t expected him to help in the first place. It was better to be so brazen than to be a hindrance by being nosy.

“If you have hands left, take care of the corpses here.”

“Corpses? What for…”

“They’re important evidence. Just take them without any complaints.”

The value of their corpses was as evidence. Evidence that Shadowfang was trying to restore the pure bloodline and had even achieved some success.

‘It’s not something that can be easily believed without evidence.’

Since he was a vampire, a living history book, it was a claim that he would find even more absurd. Since the artificial restoration of the pure bloodline was impossible, the werebeasts had declined.

Even if the truth was revealed, he might not readily believe it due to his prejudice.

“If you’re done with your business, let’s leave quickly. It’s been a long time. Victor’s subordinates will come flocking.”

Now that Victor Laznik was defeated, there was no more business left here. Rather, I had to deliver the information I had found to the Blood Alliance as soon as possible.

The conflict between the Blood Alliance and Shadowfang. In some ways, it was a situation that was falling into a deeper quagmire than the civil war of the Brotherhood in FP.