Resurrection Chapter 95 - There’s a Strange Scent

“Graaaah!”

It was then. Shinrion, who had been silently having his blood sucked as if dead, snapped his eyes open. At the same time, a deafening roar echoed.

Yoon Younghyun froze, and realized that the energy Min Gongchan had been scattering in all directions had significantly weakened. Instead, he felt a chilling sensation, as if someone were scraping his spine with their fingernails.

From all the walls, ceiling, and floor, vengeful spirits crawled out like mounds of mud. The pale specters formed a mass, and smelling the life force of the living, they all charged at Yoon Younghyun at once.

“Aaaaargh!”

Yoon Younghyun, terrified, rolled on the floor, but since they were incorporeal, it was not easy to block them. The vengeful spirits poured into Yoon Younghyun’s body, trying to possess him.

An unspeakably cold and unpleasant energy filled his entire body, but surprisingly, the vengeful spirits could not crawl up to his head. The circlet Yoon Younghyun was wearing, it was what protected his mind from the vengeful spirits.

The vengeful spirits did not leave Min Gongchan alone either. They swirled around him with a low hum, but they could not penetrate the Bloodline, one of the powers of a vampire. The area inside the Bloodline was Min Gongchan’s domain, so it could not be easily invaded.

While the vengeful spirits howled as if in frustration and circled around, Min Gongchan saw Shinrion, who had grabbed his neck tightly. As Shinrion’s upright and benevolent face contorted, his expression was truly familiar.

Min Gongchan gritted his teeth and spat out.

“Yaksha…!”

Shinrion, no, Yaksha, spoke in a voice hoarse from not having spoken for a long time.

“How did you know?”

Min Gongchan couldn’t reply that he knew because he was a regressor. It was a matter of course, as he was being choked.

He had intended to eliminate Shinrion before Yaksha awoke in Shinrion’s body. He had tried to suck all his blood to quench his thirst and kill him at the same time, but he was a hair’s breadth too late.

Yaksha tried to snap Min Gongchan’s neck right then and there, but he couldn’t just stand there and take it. Min Gongchan turned into bats and scattered in all directions.

Min Gongchan, who had transformed into hundreds of individuals, merged again and stood beside Yoon Younghyun.

As Yoon Younghyun entered Min Gongchan’s Bloodline, the vengeful spirits were driven out. Yoon Younghyun stood up from his spot, looking terrified, and Min Gongchan wiped the blood of Shinrion that was smeared on his mouth. Yoon Younghyun pointed at Shinrion, who was pulling out tubes and getting up, and asked in a trembling voice.

“That, that thing, don’t tell me…?”

“It’s Yaksha.”

Yoon Younghyun realized that Min Gongchan hadn’t been feeding because he couldn’t overcome his vampiric urges. He belatedly regretted that he shouldn’t have interfered, but now was not the time to dwell on the past. Yaksha, having removed all the life support devices, stood tall on two feet.

But Yaksha couldn’t stand for long. His atrophied muscles from not walking didn’t obey him, and he staggered. Seizing that moment, Min Gongchan shouted.

“Transform!”

Yoon Younghyun no longer hesitated. Without doubting Min Gongchan’s words, he transformed into a werewolf.

His already huge body swelled even larger, and his entire body was covered in fur. Armor fitted to his bestial body closely enveloped him. Min Gongchan also expanded his Bloodline. While the vengeful spirits screamed and were pushed back, Yoon Younghyun howled, drowning out all the sound.

“Awoooo—!”

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—The Golden Emperor warns that something unusual is happening deep underground.

I, who had teleported to the basement of the OSAMA Training Institute building, paused at the message sent by the Golden Emperor. In fact, it was something I could have easily guessed even without the Golden Emperor’s warning. It was because I could see a security guard collapsed in a corner of the hallway.

It was a clean job with no external injuries. The CCTV was still running, but it was clearly useless. Seeing how quiet it had been so far, it seemed the security room was not functioning properly. Probably everyone in the training institute was unconscious, just like this security guard.

In any case, seeing the Golden Emperor, who would have been engrossed in YouTube, come rushing out, it seemed something big was indeed happening. I asked the Golden Emperor inwardly.

‘Do you happen to know what is going on?’

—The Golden Emperor confides that he is seeing through your body, so he too cannot know what is happening. However, he says that he feels a vast, ominous, and powerful energy rising from the underground.

My mouth went dry at the speculation that Yaksha might already be here. Seeing my anxious expression, Heesoo hyung must have guessed the same, as he urged me, who was standing hesitantly.

“Let’s hurry.”

As we rounded the corner, a pile of dirt blocked the path. We pushed through the dirt and moved forward, and soon, at the end of the hallway, we saw a tunnel that seemed to stretch on indefinitely.

“Did these bastards dig their way in?”

Seeing that it wasn’t a metaphor but a real thing, it was clear that Shinrion was deep underground, in a place that could only be entered by digging a tunnel.

Seeing the vertically drilled tunnel, I cast a spell without delay. I couldn’t rashly use teleport without knowing the situation below, so I used another spell.

“Feather.”

With my body light as a feather, I jumped into the tunnel with Heesoo hyung. As we descended the vertical tunnel, an ominous sound came from below.

“Awoooo—!”

A chill ran down my spine, and my eyes widened. Meeting my gaze, Heesoo hyung nodded his head.

“That is indeed the howl of a werewolf. Yoon Younghyun has transformed.”

“Ah, this is driving me crazy.”

If Yoon Younghyun had transformed, I might have to kill not only Yaksha but him as well. It could even turn into a disaster where I couldn’t kill Yaksha and had to kill only Yoon Younghyun.

Stupid son of a bitch, what the hell is he thinking?

What is Min Gongchan doing!

Don’t tell me he’s already dead?

While I was worrying, the gaping concrete appeared again, and the floor came into view. As soon as we dispelled the magic and landed in the underground space, what we saw was utter chaos.

The bestial Yoon Younghyun was running rampant, and Min Gongchan was covering him with a railgun. But surprisingly, the opponent they were attacking was not Yaksha, but Shinrion.

I had seen his face so many times through all sorts of media that I couldn’t fail to recognize him. Still, since I had never met him in person, he should have felt unfamiliar, but that wasn’t the case.

‘Kim Yitae, you are mine.’

The sinister voice that had whispered in my ear came back to life, and I froze for a moment. The trauma etched into my body recognized who the opponent in Shinrion’s guise was, whether I liked it or not.

“Ya, Yaksha.”

Hearing me stutter, Heesoo hyung paused. He didn’t ask if that was really Yaksha. Instead, he drew his weapon with eyes glowing darkly. It seemed he was convinced that the opponent was Yaksha just from my reaction and the situation where Min Gongchan and Yoon Younghyun were fighting for their lives.

Hum!

As Kladenets vibrated, the vengeful spirits that were swarming toward us like clouds screamed and retreated. I belatedly came to my senses and saw the sight of vengeful spirits crying out, filling the entire area.

There is only one necromancer who can summon this many vengeful spirits.

I gritted my teeth in anger and astonishment and shouted.

“Did that bastard Yaksha steal Shinrion’s body!”

Only then did Min Gongchan, who had been completely focused on confronting Yaksha, notice our arrival. He tilted his head as if to look this way, but it seemed he couldn’t take his eyes off Yaksha.

The strange phenomenon swirling around him seemed to be suppressing Yaksha’s abilities to a great extent, but the phenomenon didn’t seem to be merely from an item’s power. As if in response to my ominous guess, Heesoo hyung, who had scattered Kladenets once, walked into the midst of the vengeful spirits pouring out like clouds and said.

“It is the power of a vampire.”

I realized that Min Gongchan had become a vampire while I hadn’t seen him and let out a cry of shock.

“Is he crazy?”

I didn’t know what kind of guts he had to become a vampire as an ordinary person, but in any case, his Bloodline seemed quite powerful. The Bloodline, one of the powers that only noble vampires possessed, greatly weakened all energy within its domain.

Yaksha and Yoon Younghyun, who had entered the Bloodline, were fighting with less than half of their strength, which gave the physically superior Yoon Younghyun an advantage.

Unlike Yoon Younghyun, who had become a man-eating beast, Yaksha was staggering around bare-handed, without even a decent weapon. Shinrion’s body, which had been in a comatose state for a long time, couldn’t be in perfect condition, and Yaksha hadn’t adapted to it yet, so no matter how great Yaksha was, it seemed difficult for him to overwhelm Yoon Younghyun.

Nevertheless, Yaksha was strong.

He was fighting with a thin pipe, presumably pulled from the life support device Shinrion had been lying on. The vengeful spirits clinging to it were protecting Yaksha while simultaneously blocking Yoon Younghyun.

Every now and then, when the tip of the steel pipe pierced Yoon Younghyun, blood spurted from his flesh. On the other hand, Yaksha was fine even when hit by Yoon Younghyun’s attacks. The vengeful spirits were acting as his shield, so no attack could land a decisive blow.

As if he were furious about it, Yoon Younghyun let out an enraged roar.

“Grrrr!”

Fear erupted from his entire body, which had completely transformed into a man-eating beast. The tremendous killing intent made the vengeful spirits momentarily forget the oppression of the necromancer Yaksha and scatter.

In that moment, Yaksha was exposed before Yoon Younghyun’s fist, and Younghyun did not miss the opportunity. The knuckle dusters spread a rainbow-colored light, unfitting for the urgent situation, as they struck Yaksha’s chest.

Clang!

It was not the sound of hitting a human body.

A deafening sound of striking steel echoed, and something flashed on Yaksha’s skin. The diamond-shaped pattern was very familiar to my eyes.

It was very similar to my passive skill, Golden Scales. Thanks to that, I instantly realized what it was, and why Yaksha had wanted to obtain Shinrion’s body.

I cried out in anguish.

“You obtained the Dragon Slayer title!”