I Became the Wrong Race

61 – Mines and Vampires (2)

The chase ended smoothly.

No matter how much the bandits dominate this area and know it well.

There was a significant difference between them and us.

Of course, the game Grim Darker was not a game with high levels.

Even if you are at the same level, your weaknesses are noticeable depending on the build, and you could die simply by allowing a character of a lower level than you to approach.

No matter how high your level is and how powerful your build is, depending on the difficulty level, if you’re lazy, you’ll die. Therefore, it was a game that had weaknesses that could be explored in any build.

To use Melody as an example, she was a level 20 bard, not a level 20 warrior, so she was lacking compared to a warrior of the same level.

Of course, his magical abilities and support abilities are excellent, but he is still at a level where he can compete to some extent with warriors of the same level.

It wasn’t at the level of covering up weaknesses.

If her agility was low, her performance would not be as good, and if she interfered with the spell casting, she could not do anything properly.

Just how her her her her three clans her tried to kill her. If it weren’t for me, she would have killed Melody.

That’s why I’ve been paying attention since I fell into this world.

Instead of looking down on the enemy or letting my guard down, I moved thinking that the enemy would attack my weakness anytime, anywhere.

However, despite such efforts, there were bound to be situations where that could not be done.

This can be compared to nature, not a game.

Just as a lion and a rabbit are not equal.

Just as a rabbit cannot outsmart a lion no matter what it thinks.

These guys, whether they were thieves or thugs, couldn’t escape against us.

That’s why we’re in the basement of the tavern now.

To say the least, the basement of the tavern was not clean. Rather, it was dirty.

Although I lived in a semi-basement, it didn’t seem like that because my older sister was strict about cleaning and I was educated by her.

Isla was frowning, and Lorian was frowning painfully, holding the bridge of her nose.

In it, I looked down at the gangsters steeped in drugs, violence, and various other dark things.

“How did you calm down?”

In particular, the level of shadyness of the gangster my question was directed at was different.

Although his head was shaved, it gave him an unfortunate impression rather than being neat.

The sleeveless leather armor wrapped around his body was soaked with all sorts of foul odors, and it was painful just to look at it.

The basement had a sweet overall smell, but if I smelled it for a long time, there was an unpleasant smell.

“Green grapes.”

There were things that caught my eye only after Isla spoke.

A blue liquid filled with a fermentation tank located in the basement of a tavern, and even something similar to a hookah that is smoked by drying the skin left after removing the pulp.

“… “Green grapes bloom here too?”

It was a drug.

Unlike alcohol made by fermenting the bluish flesh, the grape skin had a drug-like effect.

It has the effect of raising magical power, sharpening the mind, and relieving pain.

Usually, the skin was dried, crushed and smoked as cigarettes.

I didn’t know because I only heard and saw it in the game, but I guess this sweet yet unpleasant smell is the smell of those green grapes.

“How much can people like us have to sell here? If it’s green grapes, it’s still pretty… It’s moral.”

The bald thug’s eyes were suddenly not on me, but on Lorian.

The meaning of that gaze was obvious.

They say that selling green grapes is much more moral than what relatives blood do.

It was a show of hostility even though we knew that we were in control.

It was absurd. Did I lose my mind after chain-smoking Green Grapes?

However, Lorian did not lift his cheek even once, saying he was annoyed.

Instead, she stood silently in front of him.

A girl who is clearly a vampire. In reality, Lorian, who may not be a girl in age but looks like a girl, remained expressionless in silence.

He knew that it would be meaningless to show signs of agitation here and now. Instead, she placed her right hand on the dangling hilt of the sword.

A somewhat relaxed look. Acting as if he had no intention of pulling out the sword.

I nodded to Lorian, who immediately made eye contact with me.

“Have you seen your blood relatives before?”

“… Hmm, I thought it might be fake this time.”

A laugh that seems regretful. The meaning was obvious.

There is no doubt that Lorian is real, and that she has seen vampires before.

And I’ve already seen it several times.

“What does it look like?”

No answer comes back. It wasn’t that I didn’t say it.

You could tell just by looking at him that he had no loyalty to protect, and you couldn’t expect that from a gangster in a city like this.

Rather, it was a coercive effect.

He opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but had to stop as blood appeared in his neck. Even if he forcibly squeezed his vocal cords, all that came out was a groan.

“Prohibition.”

Lorian’s face turned dark and she anxiously fingered the hilt of her sword.

It was the same reason she couldn’t tell me much the other day.

The blood relatives have already forbid this thug from talking about them.

In a situation like that, you can’t forcefully dig it out. I put my hand on Lorian’s shoulder, who was looking troubled.

Shoulders that are pale and feel faint warmth.

Because it was a sleeveless dress, her bare shoulders she was slender, unlike the strong sword or honest nature she displayed.

Those shoulders are shaking slightly.

Does the mind follow the body? He also seemed weaker than when I first met him.

I quickly saw her shaking her eyes at me and shook her head and put her behind her.

“Are you in this city?”

I still can’t speak due to the ban. Nevertheless, I continued to ask.

“What’s your name?”

“Geldon.”

“Yes, Geldorn. From now on, let’s set the rules for this interrogation.”

A bald man with a puzzled expression. I said while looking at that lumpy face.

“If you think it’s true, stay quiet, and if you think it’s true, answer.”

A strangely distorted face. I opened my mouth while looking at that.

“Is the vampire who put a ban on you in this city now?”

*

“I don’t like it.”

The breath coming out of my face had a strangely sweet smell, perhaps because of the grilled fruit I had put in my mouth not long ago.

It smelled good. However, it also reminded me of the sweet smell of green grapes that I had smelled a while ago.

“What?”

“It feels like a trap.”

Isla frowned slightly as she said that.

Since he was speaking with his face almost glued to his her face her her her, only his lips were visible, but it seemed that way.

But I couldn’t tell him to stay away or try to keep some distance from him. Because there was no physical space for that.

“But it can’t be helped. If you are my blood relative… “It’s something you shouldn’t approach confidently.”

This time it came from behind me.

The girl’s voice feels somewhat harsh, different from Isla’s refreshing voice

Lorian, the owner of that voice, clung to my back and groaned slightly every time the surroundings shook.

I couldn’t help it.

Because we were riding in a narrow carriage.

“Do we really have to do this?”

It is natural that Isla rarely expresses her dissatisfaction. I tried to appease her while trying to convince her.

“There is no other way to obtain the blue mineral. Please understand.”

“That’s not it.”

Isla said that, but her words sounded empty. I pretended not to hear and think.

Blue minerals clearly exist in this area.

Since I came here to save it, I had to achieve at least part of my goal.

At least if you don’t feel like you made a fuss, you should at least find some fragments or at least know where they come from.

In the process, a vampire was just involved. In any case, vampires were a secondary issue.

How did we end up like this?

To summarize, it was like this.

The gangster accepted our offer and decided to let us into the mine.

The result was now.

I was standing between the cargo, looking like a sandwich ham sandwiched between two women.

“Friday, I’ll be arriving soon, so please be patient… ” .”

A whispering voice coming from the front of the carriage. Fortunately, the gangster who played the role of the coachman did not lie.

When the carriage came to a stop after shaking for a while, we discovered a huge mine shaft welcoming us outside the carriage.

“Well, I… ” .”

“Go back. “I don’t want to get caught up and die.”

The gangster gets scared and retreats in the carriage. I organized the information obtained through interrogation while looking at the long tunnel.

It was mainly information that I asked questions and confirmed as the gangster who introduced himself as Geldorn remained silent or even dyed his scalp red.

First of all, there are vampires in this nameless underground city.

They are real blood relatives, not just some idiot or a vampire born by sucking blood until the moment of death.

A vampire who appears to have taken on a fairly important role among the three clans.

For some reason, it exists in the mine shaft, and the vampire rarely comes out of the mine shaft.

Normally, if I had heard about such a thing, I would have given up or tried to find the blue mineral that had already been mined and stored somewhere, but that wasn’t the case for me.

On the contrary, I remembered one fact.

As long as you kill the vampires in the mine shaft, you can freely take as much blue minerals as you want in this city.

And for me, if I was going to benefit once, it was enough to suck out the marrow.

Even if you get hit by a tower and fall, it’s like destroying both the ganking jungler and the opponent’s tower.

I saw this as an opportunity.

It didn’t seem like there was anything else besides vampires.

As you already know, these three clans are not very united.

What I was aiming for was to pierce that gap and control the vampires as well.

In addition to this, I also gain experience points and amaze the clan to the extent that Lorian cannot even consider betraying me again, while also farming.

It’s truly a perfect way to kill three birds with one stone. So there was no hesitation in my steps.

“It’s spacious.”

“Seeing as the carriage came all the way inside… It wouldn’t be strange if there was a device used by the clan.”

As Isla and Lorian said, the mine shaft was huge.

Considering that the three clans were capable of even making mechanical devices, it was not strange. Maybe there’s a mining drill that fits the size of this mine.

“Let’s go.”

I led the two and walked.

The formation was me at the front, with Lorian at the back and Isla in the middle.

Even if the thugs betrayed me, there wouldn’t be a problem if I had Lorian in the back, who can even put up a shield, and I was able to block most attacks with my body.

Because there was no fear, our advance was fast.

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Our advance did not stop until the wide tunnel gradually narrowed to a frustrating size, and the small caves leading from mine to mine began to become tangled like a dizzying maze.

What stopped us was not a blocked road or a camp.

“… A child?”

He was a child playing in a mineshaft, stacking rocks.

“That is.”

Laurie Ahn, who was speaking, closes her mouth, and her complexion takes a turn for the worse. It almost feels like her pale face has already turned white.

And as soon as the child sees us, his eyes widen and he runs away.

Strangely, a child with pale skin and red eyes. An ominous premonition held me back, but I followed the child without hesitation.

For a child, he has quick feet. Run away through the winding and narrow tunnels.

But we were so fast that we couldn’t resist it.

In the end, we caught up with the child who was running away.

It was a cavity located between stone caves. A large cavity that is spacious, not too humid, and made into a living space by adding wood here and there.

The child who was running away from there was glaring at us.

Only then did I realize that I had been induced.

People appeared from the darkness in the form of wrapping a child.

They were diverse.

It did not discriminate between men and women.

There were even elderly people mixed in, and there were quite a few teenagers who were slightly older than the children who guided us.

They all had something in common.

The skin is pale, the eyes are red, and beneath the shabby clothes lies a body full of vitality.

I opened my mouth without realizing it.

“How…”

They were all vampires.

He is not a famous blood relative of the three clans, but a vampire with mixed blood.

I saw hundreds of victims surrounding us.