Chapter 85
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Translator: True Detective
Chapter: 85
Chapter Title: Fallen Hero
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In raids where the entire party wipes, the class that dies first is always the tank. They take the brunt of the boss monster's powerful attacks. But ironically, tanks also make up the overwhelming majority of those who die last.
It's because tank heroes have such solid defense and massive health pools. Especially when geared up, a tank's HP dwarfs that of dealers or healers.
"Huuu..."
A hot breath escaped from Mutsuki, the main tank of Hitomi Clan's second division. Her head was starting to spin.
Mutsuki gritted her teeth and took slow steps forward. Wherever she passed, droplets of liquid fell like dripping water, leaving wet spots behind.
'Damn it.'
While facing the Incubus – Raham, Hitomi Clan's second division had wiped nine times. Sometimes Mutsuki died first as the tank, other times the rest of the team fell before her.
And then, in the situation where Mutsuki was the sole survivor, it all went to hell in an instant.
[Kyahaha! You're the last one left!!!]
The incubus charged at Mutsuki with its massive member erect. If she'd ended her life without hesitation right then, maybe nothing would have happened. But she panicked at the sight of something far bigger than any normal man's, and that was her mistake.
'Just the tip... I thought only the tip went in...'
The incubus's cock had plunged into her. Snapping back to her senses, Mutsuki bit her tongue to kill herself. She revived with a Revival Stone, but by then, her mana was already corrupted.
"What's wrong, Mutsuki? You've been walking slower lately."
Mutsuki looked up to see the raid leader, her contemporary, gazing at her with concern.
"Did something happen? Are you hurt?"
"I-it's... "
Mutsuki's voice trembled badly. No doubt about it—her mana was corrupted.
With that certainty, she looked up at the raid leader through teary eyes. Her body had felt off for a while now. Bit by bit, her mana wasn't responding to her will. She needed to stop the raid and get treatment immediately.
That was when an irritated voice cut into their ears from up ahead.
"It's just a 【B-2】 dungeon—aren't we dawdling too much? Let's finish up quick and head back to rest."
The voice belonged to Shiranui Mai. As the clan's star and Japan's former number-one ranker prospect, she was spoiled rotten by everyone despite her low seniority, which made her personality far from pleasant.
She was already infamous in the clan for disrespecting seniors she deemed inferior. And her outburst didn't stop there. Mai turned her gaze on Mutsuki.
"Mutsuki. How do you expect to handle even a 【B-2】 as a five-star hero? That's why you're stuck in second division with all that experience. Hurry up and make first division."
"Shiranui! What the hell?! Have you no respect for your seniors?!"
The raid leader, Mutsuki's contemporary, raised her voice at Mai's over-the-line words. The heroes ahead sensed the tense atmosphere and halted.
Mutsuki, who was over eight years Mai's senior, bit her lip at the insult. Thoughts raced through her mind. Then, after a moment, she flashed Mai a bright smile.
"Sorry, our super-prospect. I'll push harder so we can take down the final boss quick."
Mutsuki's original plan had been to tell the raid leader about her condition and abandon the clear.
With her corrupted mana on the verge of rampaging, raiding was impossible. Continuing like this would likely turn her into a monster's slave.
But Shiranui Mai's barbs had stung her pride. Now, she didn't care what happened.
They arrived at the grand hall with its jade throne, home to the Succubus Queen – Ludia. But the usual cheerful vibe was gone. The air was stiff and heavy.
Mutsuki had kept quiet since earlier, and the Hitomi Clan second-division raid leader was too disappointed in Shiranui's arrogance to lighten the mood. Briefing ended, and the raid began.
Soon enough, the Succubus Queen – Ludia said something unexpected.
"Oh? My slave came walking right in!"
Everyone jumped at Ludia's eerie words pointing at Mutsuki, the word "slave" hitting hard.
But Mutsuki calmly thrust out her shield, blocking Ludia's attack. Seeing that, the others resumed their assault. Ludia smiled silently at Mutsuki.
Whether intentional or unaware of her state, to Ludia, Mutsuki looked like an offering presenting prey.
"Oh dear. What rotten luck. Attacking me? Not a wise choice."
The raid leader, a healer hero, constantly used recovery skills against Ludia's ongoing AoE damage. Dealers unleashed their mana, swinging weapons at Ludia.
Then it happened. As if on cue, Ludia's intense gaze pierced Mutsuki.
"Kahak?!"
The moment their eyes met—Ludia's red pupils—Mutsuki knew something was wrong. Her body wouldn't obey. And without realizing, her pussy had spread wide, hot juices flowing like tap water.
"R-run...!"
Even with corrupted mana, was it a tank's instinct as the party's shield?
Mutsuki's shout to her teammates burst out reflexively. But before she finished, Ludia's long tail split open like a hellish maw, engulfing Shiranui Mai, who was closest and attacking.
It hurled her behind the throne and bound her with dark mana.
"Of all things?! T-take out the tail first!!! Save Mai first!"
The raid leader barked orders.
That attack was one of Ludia's main patterns. But it was also the Succubus Queen boss deliberately targeting Shiranui's mana for corruption.
"Where do you think you're running, dodging my wings?"
Before Hitomi's dealers could close in, Ludia's claws pierced their chests. Mutsuki was already lost in pleasure, immobile.
"N-no...! S-save me! Hurry and save me!!!"
Shiranui Mai screamed hoarsely as comrades dropped one by one. She struggled to escape, but Ludia's web-like mana held firm.
They weren't high-rank heroes; second-division couldn't handle Ludia alone. The raid leader glanced at Shiranui, clenched her jaw, then rushed Mutsuki and stabbed her throat with her staff. She suicided immediately after.
But Ludia didn't stop her.
"One meal is enough."
Having slain four heroes, Ludia grinned at Shiranui Mai and approached her bound form with seductive steps.
"N-no. No. Nooo!"
Mai's face twisted in terror as Ludia drew nearer.
Her eyes reflected the tail at Ludia's perineum slowly parting. Soon, a living green tentacle writhed out, shaped like a man's cock.
"Please! Please! No! I'll die! I want to die!!!"
Ludia chuckled at Shiranui's frantic thrashing, then blinked. All heroes she'd corrupted acted like that at first.
"Think of it as an honor to be tainted by me, human hero. I'll teach you what true female pleasure is."
"W-wait?! Guhk!"
As Ludia's words ended, Mai's body jerked violently.
The cock on Ludia's tail had impaled her pussy. Mai's head snapped back. Her hero gear offered no protection.
"Ah, aaah, aaaah...!"
Tears welled in Mai's eyes from the deflowering pain. But soon, Ludia's dark mana invaded, melting her brain in ecstasy. Her body convulsed nonstop.
"Aah! Aaahh!! Aaaang!!!"
Overwhelming pleasure flipped Mai's eyes back. Her world shattered in sensation. Her body spasmed, shuddering, squirting endlessly.
"Kyaaaaah!"
Ludia licked Mai's juices from her face off her finger, then sighed disappointedly at the squirting prey.
"Would've been better if you were a man. Weirdly, this world has hardly any."
Anyway, she'd enjoy Mai's body until her comrades came. As Succubus Queen, she could make Mai climax every ten seconds.
"Haaak! Ah! Aaaah!!!"
Even as Ludia muttered, the tentacle thrashed inside Shiranui.
"Please, please!!! Euhuhuhu! M-more, more!!! Lady Ludia! Comfort my body more!"
The tentacle stretching her pussy kept heating Mai up. Eventually, reason lost to pleasure, Shiranui begged Ludia for more.
Shiranui Mai was rescued nine hours after Hitomi Clan's second division wiped—when Memoria Clan's first division mobilized, cleared Night Citadel, and found her on Ludia's throne, covered in viscous semen.
"This is..."
"Japan's super-prospect, right? Too bad—she's completely gone."
Memoria heroes pitied Shiranui Mai, ass high, shaking front to back with moans. She'd become a Working Girl.
Working Girls, who went into periodic fits, were shunned even by major clans. They couldn't follow schedules, and mid-raid heat could corrupt others' mana.
No clan mixed Working Girls with normal heroes in parties—maybe all-female ones, but not otherwise. The super-prospect's rise ended here.
The fact that Hitomi Clan's second division wiped, turning tank Mutsuki—and Shiranui Mai—into Working Girls was hushed up. It concerned Hitomi's honor. Even Japan's government contacted Memoria directly.
Naturally, the news reached Kim Tae-yeon, Memoria's former guild master.
Thanks to that, R’s Clan's newbie Team GGW got clearance to tackle Night Citadel the day after the incident.
"Japan's ranker clan second division must be skilled. First clear on Night Citadel in two days."
"So what? They're all at least four- or five-stars. Two days is the weird part."
Hyun-ah shot back loudly at Yuna's words.
Hyun-ah figured if she and Minguk had that spec, they'd clear in half a day, not one—definitely faster than Hitomi.
With Hitomi Clan withdrawing from Night Citadel, Team GGW's dungeon run resumed.
