Possessing Nothing

Woohoo!

It seemed like the ocean was howling.

Undead, the Ominous Himself, stands at the center of the deck with the attention of all.

A red glow flashes through the veil slowly.

What stopped his gaze was the backdrop that lay on the ground. The Deathnight approaches.

“Hee… hee……. ”

The area of the backdrop began to scrape the floor with my fingers.

Shhh.

A sword was drawn from Desknight's waist. Unlike the old armor, the blade stands as if it were a veil just by looking at the black that Desknight drew.

A mercilessly cut sword pierces through a white area of the body.

“Grrrgh!”

Lee did not restrain Desknight's behavior. It was because there was no loyalty to stand up and protect the white area.

The white area flutters like a fish caught in a harpoon. Desknight twists his piercing sword as he looks down at the backdrop.

With a terrible sound, the area of the body is torn apart.

Soon, the white area sagged without even screaming. Desknight draws his sword across the backdrop and begins to move again.

Everyone can't even breathe and watches Desknight move.

The place where Desknight was headed was next to the maids with white areas. Just as the backdrop died, so did they.

Desknight, who executed his painful death, creaks and moves again.

Desknight sees sailors and mercenaries on deck by deck.

Jord seemed to be losing his mind. It was a promising voyage, and I thought I would make a connection with the Derad family when I met Angry.

It's all twisted, and now I'm confronted with ghost ships and armor monsters who don't know what they are.

This is a terrible nightmare. Jord grips his trousers with a slight tremor. I changed my pants, and I wet them again.

“You.”

It was Lee Sung-min who stopped Desknight's gaze. With the red glare shaking, a bass like that emanates from the cave.

“Are they your food? ”

Desknight asked.

Lee Seong-min tilted her head without understanding Desknight's words. Desknight calls back, looking at Lee Sung-min standing still.

“The humans I killed. They were trespassers on our territory. I fled, followed, and killed. Dissatisfied?”

“No, I don't care. ”

“Those people. I wouldn't touch your food. ”

Desknight didn't want to fight with Lee Sung-min.

Is it because he feels that he has reached transcendence?

He tilted his head because he didn't know.

[No. Not because you're transcendent, but because you think you're a monster.]

Heju said, Lee Sung-min reasoned and nodded his head.

Desknight belongs to the Order. They are the monsters who died because of the Horseman King's contract and the unmanned. Similar to Rich, but worse quality.

“...... They are my food. ”

However, he didn't really want to eat it, but he said that because he didn't want to get involved with Desknight for no reason.

One of those Desknights didn't seem to have much of a problem, but I was reluctant to see the phantom ship adjoining Zod's trade ship.

Desknight turns away. His body stops stiffening, trying to climb back up to the phantom line. He turned his head to look at Lee Sung-min.

“Wait.”

Desknight looked at her.

“The captain wants to see you. ”

“What?"

“I won't hurt you. ”

Captain? Lee Sung-min looks over at the phantom ship. Seong-min hesitated to answer, and Desknight said again.

“I don't want you to say no. Captain's orders are absolute. If you refuse, I will be forced to take you to the captain. ”

“…… Are you saying that because you are confident? ”

“No, I'm not confident. ”

Desknight shook his head at Lee Sung-min's question. Every time he moves his head, his armor squeaks.

“I can't force you. But if I fall to you, all the Desknights on that ship will come down and take you away. ”

[Wouldn't it be better to follow?]

You want me to get on a boat full of Death Knights? ’

[You don't have to be so negative. Desknight will not hesitate to kill a human, but not so aggressive against the same extinct race.]

“The captain said. I'm not gonna hurt you on that ship. This promises the captain his name, Volander Ebrail. ”

Desknight has spoken again.

[…… Volander?]

Huju reacts to Desknight's words. Do you know the name? Lee Sung-min asked Heo Ju. After a brief silence, Heju nods.

[You can trust Volander if he made a promise in his name.]

Who is he? ’

[Predator's Black Star.]

Vampire Queen Genniela, Arc Rich Arbes.

Yana killed the enemy who was the leader of the monsters, and Jana couldn't climb the Predator's Black Star because it wasn't a monster that originated from humans.

The king of Lycanslope has yet to meet, and he hasn't even heard of him.

Lycanslope, who Lee Sung-min knows, was once called a Vagabond.

[Volander is the leader of the Desknights. Hundreds of years have passed, huh! I never imagined he'd be out at sea.]

Can I trust him? ’

[The decision is yours. But Volander, as I know him...... never breaks a promise made in his name. Well, just in case. Hundreds of years later, he might have gotten good at lying.]

“I'll follow.”

Lee responded to Desknight. Even though Bolander may have become something different from what Heju remembered after hundreds of years of being a fool, Lee was still trying to trust the opinion of Hesitar.

[Baby, that's cute.]

‘Shut up.'

Lee Lee jumped off the deck with Desknight and fell onto the ghost ship.

The darkness that made this area night flows around the phantom line.

Neither the Darkness nor the face-to-face Desknight…… but when it fell on the ghost ship's deck.

Lee realized how insignificant he felt in them.

Above the deck of the phantom ship was a harsh aura of death reminiscent of hell.

There's a rumbling sound coming from everywhere. Lee searched the direction of the sound of the sieve that opened his senses.

The sound first, and then the appearance.

The wandering darkness becomes your body and your armor covers it. Hundreds of Desknights stood on the deck and surrounded Lee.

“I am a guest of the captain. ”

Desknight who guided Lee Sung-min said. The Desknights take a few steps back.

They recalled death by their own existence, but rational people noticed that they were curious, not alive.

“This way.”

Desknight walks ahead. Lee Sung-min followed behind Desknight, touching the spear behind his back.

It was a massive...... troop. To be honest, I was appalled. There are hundreds of Desknights on this big ship.

There are already dead knights who do not fear death.

How many of them are on the verge of a supernatural feast? No matter how little I held it, it was a tenth of a second peak.

[It's a different time.]

Heju mutters.

[They have been knights and unmanned since their lifetime, and have been corrupted and become Knights and unmanned by the Magic Power of the Demon King. That is why it is strong.]

"Ridiculous."

[What is absurd? Human weakness? Isn't it rather absurd that humans are stronger than those that live for hundreds of years?]

Heju grinned and laughed.

[Don't get me wrong. Humans in this world are not just outnumbered, they have great advantages. If the Elves had an excellent reproductive rate, the world would have been Elven's, and if a monster had been born easily, it would have been a monster's. There are many others who can take their place.]

‘I know.'

[It appears this ship is the fortress of Volander. The level of Desknight gathered is unusual. Surprised?]

‘Yeah.'

[Hahaha! Desknight will be compared to Lycanslope if he sees it as a force among the Predators. If he's the strongest of the five stars, he's one of three. Gennielana Bolander, the king of Lycanslope.]

Lee remembered Jennifer. Geniella, whom I met in Travia, was one of the greatest monsters that Lee Sung-min has ever met.

We didn't understand that the power of samuraism was so unknown, but the power of Geniella, who ruled the space in terror by being alone, was more than just sword.

[Of course. If Predator's Five Stars were no better than the Six, then the crown would have destroyed Predator instantly.]

Desknight and Lee Sung-min entered the corridor that leads to the cabin.

There was no decoration in the hallway. The floor of the corridor squeaks whenever it walks, and that creak makes the sound of Desknight's armor tangling with the sound he doesn't want to hear.

Soon the steps of Desknight stopped. Desknight takes a few steps back without a word.

“Go in. The captain awaits. ”

The door is open.

Lee Seong-min slowly went inside. Ah, Lee realized his thoughts were wrong.

Darkness that made the oceans around here night.

The harsh energy of death that wandered on the deck. I thought it was all running around the ship, but it wasn't.

Darkness, death. Standing at the center of it all was that Death Knight.

Volander sits in an old chair. His armor was inscribed in red with a clear black color.

Inside the helmet, a golden glow flashes.

Lee Sung-min felt his heart pounding from the moment he encountered Volander.

The black heart in Lee Sung-min's chest was responding to the aura of Bolander.

“You're not a monster. ”

Volander mutters.

“The body is a monster. I don't feel like a freak. ”

“What's that weirdo feeling? ”

“It smells human. ”

Volander replies.

“Most monsters eat man. There's a difference between a lot and a lot. ”

“Maybe I'm a monster who doesn't eat people. ”

“It makes no sense to have such ferocious vices and not eat man. I see. So you're the one with the haze Jenniela was talking about. ”

[Time flies.]

Hungry grumbles.

[When I was alive, I met some of Predator's monsters. Xeniella and her attendants, hospitals, volanders, enemies, etc. Volander was strong at the time, but he became stronger hundreds of years later.]

“Why did you call me? ”

“Curiosity.”

Bolander answered Lee's question without hesitation.

“I didn't mean to hunt you down. I don't like brute force killing very much. ”

“I heard you wiped out the pirates for trespassing on their territory. ”

“That's a different story. If humans invade our realm, don't we consider them enemies? ”

“I don't always kill. ”

“We are not humans. They used to be Humans, but now they're corrupt monsters who aren't. ”

“That's why you killed him? Because you're not human?”

“You're misunderstanding something. I wiped them out because they were" pirates "invading the realm. If they were merchant ships or fishing boats, they'd have sent a warning and thrown them out of their territory. But they were pirates. That's why I killed him.”

Volander raises his head, saying so.

“It has the body of a monster, but it's not a monster...... It even smells like dragon energy. ”

“…… what? ”

“You have the power of a dragon. ”

Volander stares at Lee Sung-min.

“The arrogance of a dragon being superior to all beings in the world. The pressure it has is coming from you in secret. Don't tell me you're a polymorphic young dragon. ”

“No.”

“Then what are you, a monster and a man, and the breath of a dragon? ”

Volander slowly approaches Lee Sung-min.

“That's a strange thought. ”

Volander stops a few steps away from Lee.

“I think you might be a carnage. ”