Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant

Chapter 533

'Whoa... it’s not a Black Flame Dragon, it’s a Black Shadow Dragon?'

Looking at the Black Shadow Dragon, Su-ho was reminded of the Spirit King from his previous life.

Because the Spirit King also had a dragon-type divine beast like the Black Shadow Dragon in front of him.

'The one he used... was it called Black Dragon or something...? If we’re talking naming sense, Black Dragon might actually be better than Black Shadow Dragon?'

Of course, the pressure it gave off and the power it carried were far more overwhelming for the Black Shadow Dragon.

The same went for its appearance.

The Black Shadow Dragon, far larger than the Spirit King’s Black Dragon, rose up from the Shadow Land and practically filled the inside of the castle the instant it emerged.

"KYAAAAOOOOOO!!"

[ The shadow divine beast Black Shadow Dragon uses boss monster-grade Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear does not apply. ]

Man, it’s got lungs.

Still, if it’s the strongest shadow divine beast, I was expecting at least Ruler-Class, but it’s still only boss monster-grade?

Then it’s not something I need to care about.

Su-ho lifted his sword, then lowered it again.

Instead, he called something else.

"Dung Dog."

"Yes."

What he summoned was Dung Dog the Roynan.

Su-ho spoke to Roynan, who took a waiting stance at his side.

"What do you think about that pitch-black lizard?"

"Seeing it dare to open its mouth at you, Master, it seems it needs a proper lesson."

"Right? I’ll temporarily attach command authority over your three old subordinates, so go take care of it."

"Yes, understood."

"You guys heard that too, right?"

At Su-ho’s question, Shuraia, Seorio, and Periotin were also summoned and answered with proper formality.

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Yes."

Su-ho nodded leisurely.

Then he tilted his head.

"Go rip it apart."

Shushuk!

Faithful to Su-ho’s order, the four vampires became a quartet and lunged at the Black Shadow Dragon.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—if you’re going to deal with summons, shouldn’t you answer with summons?

Around the time Su-ho took a relaxed step back, the vampire quartet split up, scattering to divide the Black Shadow Dragon’s attention.

[ Roynan uses Bloody Mary. ]

[ Shuraia uses Bloody Mary. ]

[ Seorio uses Bloody Mary. ]

[ Periotin uses Bloody Mary. ]

Starting with Roynan, the remaining trio followed Roynan and used the same skill.

The skill’s name was Bloody Mary.

The moment the skill activated, blood-red whirlwinds swept out, and from each direction, they began grinding into the Black Shadow Dragon like a set of shredders.

"KYAAAAOOOOOO!!"

The Black Shadow Dragon beat its wings hard and let out a roar.

Fear activated, and spirit pressure poured out.

But compared to the enormous Black Shadow Dragon, the tiny vampires were, surprisingly, unaffected by its spirit pressure.

Because they were under the influence of Su-ho’s mana.

And that wasn’t all.

Contrary to the expectation that their small bodies would get pushed around by the Black Shadow Dragon, the Black Shadow Dragon—like an elephant panicking and toppling at the sight of a mouse—couldn’t properly chase the nimble vampire quartet and was too busy flailing and kicking at air.

Right around then, a growl came from somewhere.

"Krrr...."

A growl.

It wasn’t the Black Shadow Dragon’s.

The source of the sound was, unbelievably, the Guiyeong Spear.

When Su-ho lightly tapped it as it trembled along with that growl, the Guiyeong Spear instantly changed into Guiyeong.

"Guiyeong?"

"Krrrng!"

It was wildly excited.

A very rare sight.

The reason became clear quickly.

Su-ho let out a hollow laugh and asked,

"What, are you getting worked up because you’re from the same divine beast stock?"

"Krrng!"

"You want in too? That’s why you’re growling, right?"

"Woof-woof!"

"Fine. You’ve got to do things when you feel like doing them for your real skill to come out. Go. Go bite its neck clean off."

"Kwoooong!!"

The moment its master let the leash go, the once-gentle Guiyeong went crazy with excitement and charged the Black Shadow Dragon.

The quartet had now become a quintet.

Satisfying.

There were still a few more summons he could bring out, but he had a feeling this would be enough to handle the Black Shadow Dragon.

"KYAAAAOOOOOO!!"

[ The shadow divine beast Black Shadow Dragon uses Black Breath. ]

Around then, the Black Shadow Dragon used its breath.

But unfortunately for it, there wasn’t even a chance of that breath touching my quintet.

A barrage of vicious attacks.

Guiyeong and the vampires were fighting together for the first time, but maybe because they were all outstanding warriors, there was no need to worry—they naturally produced the best synergy and hammered the Black Shadow Dragon without pause.

After some time passed like that, the tree-trunk-like momentum of the Black Shadow Dragon was finally completely crushed.

Thud!!

The Black Shadow Dragon fell.

But Guiyeong didn’t let its guard down until the very end—and it didn’t allow mercy, either.

Crunch! Crunch!

The Black Shadow Dragon had its nape torn open.

Watching Guiyeong tear into its neck, the vampire quartet smiled in satisfaction.

"It’s just a lizard, after all."

Roynan, in particular, looked the most pleased.

Because it had gotten to vent the stress it had built up from Su-ho properly.

As the Black Shadow Dragon lay on the ground twitching, Su-ho naturally glanced up at the sky and let out a snort of laughter.

Well?

What’s the next card?

However, Umbrada—and even Umbrada’s avatar—still didn’t move an inch, just watching the twitching Black Shadow Dragon.

In that moment, Guiyeong bit down properly on the Black Shadow Dragon’s vital point, and from the sharp pain the Black Shadow Dragon howled.

"KIEEEEEEEEE!!"

[ The shadow divine beast Black Shadow Dragon uses boss monster-grade Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear does not apply. ]

Boss monster-grade Fear.

The system notice definitely said that, but unlike the ones he’d heard up to now, the instant the Fear rang out, goosebumps ran up Su-ho’s entire body.

That was when—

Tsuzuzuzuzut!

Black smoke rose from the toppled Black Shadow Dragon.

It wasn’t ordinary smoke.

The rising smoke quickly coiled around Guiyeong, which was standing by its nape, and Guiyeong, wrapped in that smoke—

"Kya-gaeng!"

Howling in pain as if it had touched lava.

So Su-ho immediately unsummoned Guiyeong.

"Yeah. I was thinking there’s no way a dragon ends this empty-handed."

In that moment, the fallen Black Shadow Dragon melted into black sludge and flowed down beneath the swamp-like Shadow Land, and the Shadow Land that had swallowed it began to billow—then, from its center, a black waterspout of draconic energy shot up.

[ The condition has been fulfilled. ]

[ The avatar of Shadow Lord Umbra offers the shadow divine beast - Black Shadow Dragon as a sacrifice and summons the shadow divine beast king - Shadow Giant. ]

A system notice.

Amazingly, it was the summoning of a new shadow divine beast.

And even the name was something else.

Not just a divine beast—a divine beast king?

The Shadow Giant’s body looked like it was constantly burning, black flames without end—and its name even included giant.

'If it’s a giant of all things, it definitely deserves a king-class title.'

It kept rising, showing no sign of knowing how high was too high.

And then, in the end—

Boom!

Kugugugung-

It smashed through the absurdly high ceiling of the Demon King’s castle, and from there it stretched out long arms like giant trees, tearing apart the inside of the castle as it expanded its range of movement.

"Gwooooooo...!!"

[ The shadow divine beast king Shadow Giant uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear does not apply. ]

[ Due to the effect of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on players are removed. ]

The Shadow Giant’s Fear.

Its Fear was Ruler-Class Fear.

As a result, all of Su-ho’s buff effects were removed.

But it was fine.

The buffs were gone, but Su-ho still had no intention of stepping in himself.

"Dung Dog."

"Yes, Master."

"You still confident this time too?"

"Just leave it to me."

Roynan’s eyes gleamed.

For some reason, it looked excited.

Like a child who’d just gotten a new toy.

Roynan shouted brightly.

"Let’s go!"

"Yes!"

Its old subordinates flew after their old lord toward the new enemy.

They’d just taken down a great dragon, so their morale was sky-high.

They would win again.

Even if they looked like this now, once upon a time they had been proud Nobles and Royals, and the infamous wardens of Helldown.

Guoooooo!!

A hand came flying toward the vampire quartet.

It was less a hand than a massive tidal wave, but that didn’t matter.

Roynan curled its lips up.

How dull. Big body, but with an ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) attack this weak, it wouldn’t even brush a single thread of my collar.

With that thought, it tried to twist away—

Boom!

An immense pressure wrapped around its body.

A mad, crushing weight.

Gravity that felt like it was about to slam them straight into the ground.

The source was the spirit pressure the Shadow Giant was giving off.

'What the hell—!'

It twisted its body to survive.

It struggled desperately to break free.

But it was impossible.

Even drawing on its master’s power to the fullest—the power of the Silver Color-grade true demon horse—the unknown force coming down with that giant’s strike bound them completely, so they couldn’t move a single hair.

KWAaaaaang!!

The Shadow Giant’s hand detonated over the vampire quartet.

From a distance, it looked exactly like an adult’s hand swatting a mosquito.

Roynan squeezed its eyes shut.

Damn it.

So in the end, am I going to wind up as something that’s neither this nor that?

The moment that thought crossed its mind—

[ Sky Cleave is activated. ]

Srrrk!

A massive slicing sound.

At the same time, pitch-black darkness was swept away, and light poured down again.

The one who made that light was none other than Su-ho.

"M-Master?"

"Tsk, tsk. You got your feet pinned by spirit pressure that weak?"

"I-I’m sorry... I’m so feeble that I couldn’t be of help to you, Master."

"I know. But you did good. So now fall back."

[ Saint Dome is activated. ]

When Su-ho deployed Saint Dome, Roynan was finally freed from the Shadow Giant’s spirit pressure, and it quickly pulled its old subordinates back to widen the distance.

While the summons retreated, Su-ho rested his sword on his shoulder and stared straight at the Shadow Giant.

"Feels like it didn’t take much damage?"

He meant it.

Seeing the vampire quartet about to get flattened like mosquitoes, he’d intervened and sliced the forearm.

But even though that huge forearm had been lopped off cleanly like cutting a radish top, the Shadow Giant didn’t so much as let out a single scream.

Was its willpower that incredible?

No—more than that, the Shadow Giant simply didn’t feel pain from this kind of attack.

Like a slime that endlessly repairs and regenerates as long as its core isn’t destroyed, that was the trait of its body.

Soon, black smoke rose from between the cut surfaces.

The smoke pulled at itself like magnets, and the closer the surfaces got, the faster it became—at a terrifying rate.

Thud!!

The severed surfaces reattached.

The Shadow Giant looked down at Su-ho with its distinctive burning blue eyes.

Su-ho looked up at it as well.

"Yeah. Going by the feel of it, you’re probably the last round."

Then I should give you treatment worthy of that.

Su-ho raised his sword.

[ Weaken is activated. ]

[ Seal of Pain is activated. ]

[ Enrage is activated. ]

[ Blessing of Rage is activated. ]

[ Curse of Rage is activated. ]

Debuffs poured down.

And then—

[ Giantification is activated. ]

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

And giant for giant.

Su-ho used Giantification to match the enemy’s massive attitude.