Eunuch's Rebirth: I Reincarnated With My Manhood as the Young Master - Chapter 39: Vanitas von Noctvain 2

As soon as Gray took out the Sunless Sword, a huge amount of Abyssal energy surged from his body and shot upward.

THRUMMMM! WHOOOOOM!

The sky above was already dark because of the tentacle creature’s power, but Gray’s Abyssal energy ripped through it—clearing the clouds before slowly engulfing the heavens in an even more sinister darkness.

As the sky was devoured by Abyssal energy, the sun went into eclipse, and the entire area glowed with a crimson hue.

This phenomenon wasn’t happening because Gray used the Sunless Sword Art—the one he had previously used against the masked man in the forest—but simply because he had drawn the Sunless Sword itself.

“What is….!!”

“How can this be?!”

The prospective students were frozen in a mix of disbelief and awe. None of them had ever witnessed such a bizarre sight.

The masked men and professors were also in disbelief. Unlike the prospective students, they understood just how profound Gray’s energy was. Some professors even recalled reading about this kind of phenomenon in ancient historical texts.

Just then,

Some of the prospective students from Magic, Knight, and Scholar suddenly slammed their heads to the floor, bowing in reverence.

The others looked at them in confusion. It would have been understandable if they had bowed out of fear; however, their faces showed no trace of terror toward this ominous phenomenon—only deep reverence.

Some of them were crying, while others laughed. It was such a bizarre and unsettling sight, as if they were bowing before their God.

While everyone was confused by their strange behavior, a girl in the corner looked at them with disgust.

She had short white hair and a strikingly mature appearance. She was one of the Knight prospective students.

’Disgusting cultists,’ the white-haired girl clicked her tongue inwardly.

Then, a memory suddenly surfaced before her eyes.

In the memory, she saw herself much older, hanging in midair with a hand piercing through her heart. Below her, a huge crowd of people was bowing in absolute reverence.

Those people looked exactly like the prospective students bowing now.

The white-haired girl struggled to breathe as she was hanging. In front of her was a man with long, silky white hair and crimson eyes, looking at her with emotionless eyes.

Then, the man grabbed her heart and tore it out.

Gssskk

As the man pulled his hand out, she slowly fell downward, and in that moment, as she neared death, she saw the man raise her torn-out heart above his head and crush it, making the blood spill over his head.

Filled with rage, she shouted, tears welling in her eyes,

“VANITAAAAS…”

The man who had pierced her heart was none other than Gray von Ashborn, and he was in his older self.

The white-haired girl bit her tongue as a cruel memory resurfaced.

Blood flowed from her soft lips. She glared at Gray, who was preparing to strike the tentacle creature, and spoke through clenched teeth,

“In this life I’ll kill you, Vanitas von Noctvain.”

* * *

Gray narrowed his eyes, as he expected the sword to go overboard.

The Sunless Sword is still restricted, and Gray can’t fully use it. Yet it was so ominous and strong that it engulfed the heaven.

The whole sky had turned dark, and the tentacle creature was looking at him with a horrified expression.

Gray took a deep breath and stomped midair to rise even higher, moving toward the tentacle creature.

The tentacle creature is a being of ancient times, a creature that had long been extinct from this world. So it was surprising to encounter one.

Gray sighed. First the lesser Soulborne, and now a creature of ancient times. Just who is Nefarius associated with?

Gray speculated that Nefarius wasn’t the mastermind, since he was too weak to command such a monster. Even the Dean, who is one realm above Nefarius, couldn’t possibly be guaranteed to control such a creature.

’So there must be someone else,’ Gray thought. Then he shook his head and focused on his main quest instead of overthinking.

[Main Quest: 02]

[The Appearance of Vanitas von Noctvain]

[Scenario: The Rajuk Caeloria Academy has been attacked by Nefarius, accompanied by a “Creature of Ancient Time”. It has nullified the Dean’s mana, and the Dean is at risk of dying. Thus, hide your identity to instill fear in the third-eyed being, and sever the spell cast on the Dean by the Creature of Ancient Time.]

[Requirements: You must hide your face and present yourself under the persona of Vanitas von Noctvain.]

[Reward:]

• Vitality 1

• Mystery Box

• An exclusive skill

[Upon Failure: Death by Castration.]

The mission was to serve the spell that the tentacle creature had cast on the Dean, helping him regain his mana and allowing him to handle Nefarius.

The Dean was strong enough to kill Nefarius, but since the tentacle creature had sealed his mana, he was defeated unexpectedly.

Whooosh

Gray moved closer to the tentacle creature. It had sixteen tentacles and one huge eye.

Gray took a deep breath and used a sword technique that his future descendant would create: the Sunless Sword Art.

It was a sword art that Aether von Noctvain had made, researching the Sunless Sword to unleash its true potential.

Ding’

[Activating Exclusive Skill: “The Sunless Sword Art.”]

[The sword technique and the Sunless Sword have great compatibility.]

[Unleashing the sword’s maximum output.]

[The sword is being restricted by an unknown power.]

[The sword’s output is lowered to match the user’s realm.]

Seeing the system notification, Gray frowned. He knew his sword was restricted, so this information was unnecessary.

’This system is truly useless.’

Then, Gray held his sword tightly and unleashed the Sunless Sword Art’s second form toward the tentacle creature.

’The Sunless Sword Art Second Form: Sun Sinking Eclipse.’

Gray struck upward from a low position, and the tentacle creature was above him, causing his unleashed sword strike to travel upward and vanish into the sky rather than causing destruction on the land.

However, as soon as he unleashed his strike, a black fog engulfed him.

’!?’

And as the fog cleared, he found himself in another place. In a battlefield.