Power in the Shadows 91-100

All of them are frantic about today’s survival, dealing with the customers before them, the prey before them.

In such a way, I met my commemorative 10th pickpocket of the day.

I purposely keep my wallet in my trousers pocket so it’s easy to pickpocket, but whenever it gets pickpocketed I make sure to pickpocket the pickpocket who pickpocketed me.

In other words, my wallet gets recovered, while I recover the other side’s wallet.

This world is, after all, survival of the fittest.

Within this short period of time, the contents of my wallet has already grown from 40k Zeny to 110k Zeny. The world sure works in mysterious ways.

[SID IS A GREAT PICKPOCKET, BEING ABLE TO CONSISTENTLY PICKPOCKET THOSE WHO PICKPOCKET HIM]
- CHAPTER 94
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“The Red Moon significantly boosts the strength and abilities of vampires and their kin. On the night of the rise of the Red Moon, the vampires who had been driven into a corner rose up in revolt. The Red Moon lasted a total of three days. Within the first night, one country was obliterated. Within the remaining two nights, three more countries were damaged beyond the point of recovery. When the Red Moon finally went down, the Queen of Blood and her kin abruptly withdrew and hid themselves, waiting until the day when humans forget about them entirely……”

[VAMPIRE CLANS UNDER A RED MOON CAN TAKE OUT COUNTRIES]
- CHAPTER 96
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Mary covers herself with her bedsheets and peers outside.

“How, how can this be…… this is terrible……”

Sure enough, the road below is stained with glistening blood.

Lumps of meat strewn all over. Ghouls rampaging about. Prostitutes who ran too late being attacked.

“Watch ou-……!”

Seeing her senior among those being attacked, Mary cannot help but to cry out.

However, the next instant, the pouncing ghoul is reduced to lumps of meat.

“The Rampage is upon us…… A tempest of blood demands its due……”

Beside her is a man in a jet-black longcoat.

“ae?!”

Mary whirls around, only to discover that there is no longer anyone standing beside herself.

“Run, lest you be swallowed up by this madness……”

“You, are you……”

That moment, a scream echoes out from somewhere not too far off.

The instant Mary’s attention is diverted by it, Shadow disappears once again.

“…… the Rampage is…… blood…… run……”

With a voice that seems to emanate from nowhere specific, parts of a ghoul are sent flying into the sky.

When she takes a second look, Mary realizes that the lumps of meat lining the street all came from ghouls.

She can no longer see the man himself, but the chain of explosions of ghoul parts is steadily growing further away.

[SHADOW DICING GHOULS AT REPEATED FTE SPEED TO ONLOOKERS]
- CHAPTER 97
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One foot slips on the ground slick with blood. A ghoul pounces.

Then a magic swordsmen clad in jet-black descends before her.

“Be annihilated…… Jet-Black Whirlwind.”

The sword in the jet-black magic swordsman’s hand grows to a length several times his height. Or so she thinks, the instant before a jet-black whirlwind roars all around.

All the surrounding ghouls are sliced into pieces. Within a literal blink of an eye, what previously seemed to be an endless sea of ghouls has been entirely annihilated.

[SID'S AIR SLICES ANNIHALATE A 'SEA' OF GHOULS WITHIN 'A LITERAL BLINK OF AN EYE']
- CHAPTER 98
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Tyrant stands before the door, then destroys it with a single swing of his giant nata.

“Hi?!”

The White Demon cowers to the side and waits for Tyrant to pass, before looking at the tragically destroyed door.

It used to be a sturdy door braced with iron. Even magic swordsmen would not be able to break it easily. The man who was able to break such a door with but a single swing has just entered the Red Tower.

[TYRANT DESTROYS AN IRON REINFORCED DOOR WITH A SINGLE SWING]
- CHAPTER 100
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As expected, before his eyes is an unfamiliar man in a black coat.

He has on a jet-black longcoat, his hood is pulled forward deeply, and his face is hidden behind a mask.

However, this man’s strength cannot be read from his bearing. When someone reaches the level of the White Demon, they would be able to generally read their opponent’s strength even before the fighting starts. However, not a hint of strength can be read from this longcoat man.

But how much can he amount to in comparison to Tyrant and Enchantress?

“…… Hihi!!”

The instant the man in black enters within striking distance, the White Demon slices with his sword.

He’s dead.

The next moment after thinking that, the White Demon finds himself looking up at the night sky.

“Hi……?”

As he looks around in sheer confusion, he sees the lower half of his body still standing.

His lower body has been separated from his upper body. It crumples to the ground while spurting copious amounts of blood.

With that, the White Demon finally realizes that he has been bisected.

[STRENGTH IS UNREADABLE AND BLITZES A FAST BOI]
- CHAPTER 100
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Just as he expected the man in black who had bisected him to enter the Red Tower, he instead plants a foot on the wall of the tower, then runs up it perpendicularly.

“Hi?!”

The White Demon doubts his dimming eyes even while losing blood.

However, that was not the end of it. The man in black suddenly stops halfway up the tower, punches a gigantic hole in the wall, then goes inside from there.

What sheer absurdity.

The White Demon understands that he had raised his hand against a living creature that he should never have raised his hand against.

“Hi…… hi……”

The very last instant before his life leaves him, he thinks, “Wait, isn’t that area where the treasure room is?”

[SID CAN RUN UP THE SIDES OF BUILDINGS WITH NO ISSUES AND CASUALLY PUNCHES A GIANT HOLE IN A WALL]
- CHAPTER 100
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