The Exiled First-born of the Noble house. Rising to the top with the Worthless Skill [Null Poison]

Chapter 432

The Effect of the Poison.

He was a little suspicious upon seeing me suddenly swallow a potion at this moment but, even he obviously didn’t think that this in and of itself was an attack so Klaus simply looked a bit dubious and nothing more.

Having fully swallowed the poison, I quickly took a stance with Vendettatein again and created a distance from him as I waited to see some kind of symptoms show up in Klaus’ body.

While I already had my doubts, I didn’t see any effects occur even after some time and meanwhile he smirked once again, and was about to lunge forward again to attack me again when suddenly—–

It would seem the poison suddenly took effect, as a Klaus began to bleed from his nose at an alarming rate.

“He-[Hero’s Blessing]”

Not just the nosebleeds, he must have been feeling dizzy as well as he stumbled over his own words before activating another one of his skills again.

Considering the timing, I imagine it’s a skill to counteract against bodily abnormalities but still, just how many more skills does this guy still have?

Every single skill he had used up till now were all top class, plus there’s a good chance, all of them are unique skills as well.

And even the [black mist] a unique skill that I had struggled very hard to get through the fruit of skill had been very easily seen through by him as well. It was getting hard to just figure out what the gap between us really was like.

“—–nghuu……….C-Chris, you bastard, what did you do to me!?”

“Nothing at all. If anything I’m the one surprised. Suddenly getting a massive nosebleed like that.”

His eyes were completely bloodshot as he glared at me but I feigned ignorance.

I’m sure [Hero’s Blessing] is a very effective abnormality curing skill but, it doesn’t seem like it can completely nullify poison either as he still seemed to be struggling and in pain.

I was right to drink the entire container I think, or maybe the poison I bought was just that incredibly strong.

In either case, this was my chance to attack him, that was a fact.

I put my hand in the vampire jewel embedded on the Vendettatein.

I could feel my stamina quickly being drained but, with this I have imbued a Drain effect on Vendettatein as well.

The more I cut him, the more I’ll recover my stamina as well, and while I don’t know just how much stamina Klaus has, surely after using so many unique skills, he has to have used up quite a bit.

Since I already knew for a fact that the higher the stamina pool of the enemy on whom drain is used, the more stamina is leeched off, I’m sure this recovery effect will help me a lot in this battle.

While he still seemed to be groaning in pain, he could still move so rather than aim for his vitals, I’ll focus on landing as many hits as I can and wound him as much as possible.

Aiming the Vendettatein towards Klaus, the positions from when he chased me around and made me run all over the place had been completely overturned.

This time, it was my turn to swing my sword at him.

Starting with a downward swing, into a reverse slash. Then came a swing from the right followed into a diagonal cut. I struck again with a upward swing this time chained into a forward thrust. Then came another slash into a another horizontal swing from the left side.

None of these were simple or basic attacks, these were the sword motions that had been beaten into me from childhood by my father.

Klaus had also honed his technique in this time but, it was clear that I was still far above him in that regard.

He was able to cover the holes in his technique with brute physical prowess but, like I had originally intended, he was getting small cuts all over his body.

It did feel a little less than I had imagined but, the drain effect was replenishing my stamina gradually as well.

If I can continue to overwhelm him like this, I thought he would sooner or later lose the ability to move his body after getting ravaged by the poison but——things never do go the way you want them to.

“AGH, FFUUUCCK THIIIIISS!! [SACRED SLASH]!!”

To break past this one sided beating, Klaus suddenly unleashed his big super move.

[Sacred Slash] was the very same skill he had used to try and kill me all the way back when we fought at our home.

Perhaps because that was the first time I saw a powerful attack skill, that too aimed at me, I would still see it sometimes in my nightmares and it had become a bit of a trauma for me.

I had nothing but bitter memories connected to this skill but, precisely because I would often see it even in my sleep, I had already driven it into my brain as to what my next movement should be whenever I face it in real life again.

Judging the angle of the sword when he begins to gather the energy, I will then use that to calculate and predict the area of effect and range of the Sacred Slash before it gets actually fired at me.

The time needed to ready the attack had been greatly reduced since the last time I saw it though, as was the intensity and quantity of light that was being gathered in the red blade but———even so, this was not beyond my expectations.

As he swung his sword horizontally with all his strength, a slash of pure light burst out and rushed towards me.

Having already judged its range, I dodged to the side just enough to let it pass by me as the slash of light continued onwards and slammed into the walls of the arena with a massive explosion.

This [Sacred Slash] was basically Klaus’ best attack skill.

And he had honed it further decreasing the prep time while increasing its power, and yet, unlike before, I had dodged it not due to luck but due to pure skill.

The poison continued to spread, and his stamina continued to run out and now his big attack had been rendered useless as well.

I doubt he even has the willpower to continue fighting anymore.

Expecting that I looked towards Klaus, only to see him kneeling on the ground on both knees, pressing down on his stomach, completely crouching over in an attempt to suppress the pain.

“SHIT, SHIIIIIIIITTTT!! I am the fucking [Sword God]…….Ghufu……..And Chris, is just a [farmer]!! So why!? Why am I, the one chosen by god, getting pushed back like this!!?”

He slammed his hands on the ground as his screams echoed in the arena.

“I will not……….accept this!! If god’s not enough——I’ll sell my soul to the devil instead.”

He suddenly faced forward and muttered that to himself.

I had been wondering from our previous conversation as well but, sometimes he’d give off this extremely unpleasant aura that sent chills up my spine so I quickly rushed at him and swung my sword down with the intent to fully cut him down and kill him.

Perhaps because I did it in a panic, I didn’t step close enough and I failed to cut him in half but my sword still dug deep into his body enough to deal a fatal wound.

I could feel a large amount of stamina being drained from his body, as I looked down on Klaus who remained collapsed on the ground but———still, that ill omen I felt refused to go away.

This may seem like overdoing it but I aimed the sword at his corpse again and swung down Vendettatein just to make sure and cut off his neck as well. It was at that moment.

Something dark black began to gush out from Klaus’ collapsed body, and completely enveloped him as if to try and protect him from me.