Chapter 65: Late-Night Snack
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 65: Late-Night Snack
The moment Kang Hyun-woo’s sword strike turned the Rusty Knight to dust, Noel, who had been ready to charge in at any moment, couldn't hide her bewilderment.
No way...
Although the app had placed restrictions on her power, Noel’s intuition for gauging opponents hadn't disappeared.
The Rusty Knight was by no means a weak adversary. If she had to classify it using Kang Hyun-woo’s ranking system, it would have been at least a B-minus.
For a mere 2nd Circle mage to defeat such an opponent without much difficulty... it wasn't just surprising, it was utterly dumbfounding.
After its summoned creature, in which it had invested most of its mana, was destroyed, the skeleton, presumed to be a necromancer, was finished off by Kang Hyun-woo without putting up much of a fight.
This made it certain.
Kang Hyun-woo was on another level.
Not only did he layer multiple support spells with an unbelievable amount of mana for a 2nd Circle mage, but he also fired off four consecutive high-powered spells that could hardly be called Fireballs. It wasn't a performance possible for someone of the 2nd Circle.
Of course, she could understand that much to some extent.
He was the owner of the app, after all.
But what in the world was that swordsmanship, which was completely unbecoming of a mage?
A mage fighting a knight in close combat by ridiculously boosting the output of his support magic to compensate for his lack of physical ability...?
The reason support magic consumed so much mana was that it drained it continuously.
And he used several such spells simultaneously while also increasing their output?
At this point, even trying to gauge the limits of Kang Hyun-woo's mana seemed foolish.
With things having come to this, the facts she had found strange until now began to make sense.
When he claimed to be minimizing mana consumption while blasting high-powered magic from the rear, he was truly using what he considered a moderate amount of magic by his own standards. And the reason he, a mage, never skipped maintaining his sword during breaks was because he was, in fact, a swordsman.
Noel stared blankly at Kang Hyun-woo as he sheathed his sword.
The sight of him wiping the sweat trickling down his chin with the back of his hand particularly caught her eye.
“What are you doing? Hurry up.”
“...Yes.”
*
Tiring—
[You have defeated the High Skeleton Mage.]
[First Kill Reward: 300 Coins]
I had defeated a new monster, but I had no interest in the first kill reward.
300 coins at this stage? Honestly, it was far better to hunt several weaker monsters if I wanted to farm coins.
Besides, for a so-called dating app, the coins I received as a reward for meeting Iris or Cheon Yeo-hwa seemed unusually low.
Still, since the coins themselves didn't have many uses, I didn't have any major complaints.
In fact, I was more interested in this than the coins.
[Information on the newly acquired item is being collected.]
[Cursed Obsidian Pendant]
[Grade: Rare]
[Consumes mana to imbue magic and weapons with the dark element.]
[Allows the use of 'Black Curse'.]
[Allows the use of 'Weak Domination'.]
Unlike the dagger from last time, this was a jackpot.
I had gotten an artifact I could use right away.
Honestly, I was worried I might get the staff the skeleton was using, so this was a huge relief.
As far as I knew, staffs were not mainstream among mages these days.
They preferred wands, so staffs didn't sell well on the auction house, and even if they did, they didn't fetch a good price.
“The dark element, huh...”
The dark element was one of the rarer elements, much like the lightning element.
Because of that, not much was known about it, other than that it was the antithesis of the light element and a tricky one that rejected divine power.
As proof, I tried to imbue Gilenium with the dark element, but...
[The demon-breaking energy within Gilenium rejects the dark element.]
It was rejected just like that.
Furthermore, imbuing my magic with the dark element didn't work well either. I was already using the fire element, and trying to overlay another element on top of it was like pouring a bucket of water on a campfire and hoping it wouldn't go out.
“Sigh.”
Dual Casting would be far better.
Of course, there was the problem of it consuming more mental resources than conventional magic, but it was a better situation than trying to cram two elements into a single spell.
Looking at the necklace that didn't even assist with auxiliary calculations, I wondered if this was really an artifact.
With a deep sigh, I put the pendant into my inventory.
What was important right now wasn't the artifact, but heading to the 3rd layer.
I brought the key I got from defeating the High Skeleton Mage to the stone door.
Kuuung—
With a great vibration, the stone door opened to the left and right.
Once again, a massive cloud of dust swirled out, revealing a spiral staircase leading down.
“Wow... it looks incredibly deep.”
Did Noel, who was looking down the stairs with a fascinated expression as even her small voice echoed endlessly, know?
That we had to go down there starting now.
*
“Pa-pant... C-Customer... can't we rest for just a little bit...?”
“Just bear with it a little longer.”
As I expected, it wasn't long before Noel started whining.
At first, I thought she was just faking it, but looking at her expression, she seemed genuinely exhausted.
If she just wrapped her legs in mana, a march like this should be a piece of cake, right?
“My legs huuuurt...”
“I told you to use your mana.”
“I'm almost out of mana!”
“Then use it all up. We're going to rest for the night when we get to the bottom anyway.”
“...I still can't.”
“Why?”
The sound of footsteps following behind me stopped.
When I turned my head, Noel was fidgeting, her face somewhat flushed.
“...I'll be naked.”
“What?”
“I-If I run out of mana, I'll become naked...”
“...?”
For a moment, I felt like I'd been hit over the head with a hammer.
“The leotard I'm wearing is a magic tool... It enhances my physical abilities in exchange for consuming mana, so...”
In other words, if her mana runs out, the leotard disappears along with it, leaving her naked.
Why in the world would she wear something like that?
“You're not wearing any underwear either?”
“...”
Ha, what am I going to do with this perverted rabbit?
“Huu... Change into this.”
I took a suitable set of clothes out of my inventory and handed them to Noel.
I had brought this for Iris, but since I had plenty of clothes, one set of top and bottom was fine.
“...Um.”
“What?”
“Do you have any underwear...?”
I did, since I'd bought them for Iris.
However, they were a size that only foreigners would probably buy. No, according to the department store employee, even foreigners didn't buy them, so they had been stuck in the warehouse.
Noel was certainly well-endowed, far surpassing the average Asian woman, but she was not on Iris's level.
“...Just wear this.”
“Gasp! A-A pervert who carries around women's underwear...?!”
“Then just go around naked.”
“Eek?! I-I'm sorry!!”
When I pretended to forcibly strip off her leotard, Noel freaked out and ran away. The sight of her snatching the panties from my hand as she fled made me let out a hollow laugh.
Thanks to the spiral structure of the staircase, a separate changing room wasn't necessary. If you went up just a little, you couldn't be seen from below.
“How do I look?”
Noel, who came down the stairs with a blushing face, was wearing a white hoodie and shorts that clearly showed off her thighs.
The bunny girl outfit she was wearing before was nice, but this suited her quite well too.
I looked her up and down for a moment before averting my gaze.
“From now on, use your mana and follow me. The faster we get down, the longer we can rest.”
“...Yes.”
*
I wasn't certain, but there was one place in this dungeon that could be called a safe zone.
“It's safe here, right?”
“Probably?”
So far, we had never encountered a monster while passing through the stairs.
Even if a passing monster happened to come down the stairs by chance, I had set up an alarm spell in advance, so there was no need to worry.
After a quick meal, I set up the tent.
I had bought a 4-person tent just in case, so it was convenient not to have to set up two separate tents.
“We have to leave again in five hours, so don't mess around and get to sleep.”
“Okay.”
As soon as I lay down in the tent, drowsiness washed over me.
[Remaining Matching Time: 132:34:17]
There were only about five days and five hours left.
It seemed like more than enough time to deal with the 3rd layer's boss and escape from the underground cavern.
I was worried about what would come after, but the accumulated fatigue hit me all at once, and my eyelids grew so heavy that it became increasingly difficult to stay awake.
My vision went dark.
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Before long, Kang Hyun-woo fell into a deep sleep.
Noel, on the other hand, was more alert than usual.
“Hah, hah...♡”
Her lower abdomen was throbbing, making it impossible for her to sleep.
It certainly hadn't been this severe just a little while ago, but the situation changed drastically once she lay down in the same tent as Kang Hyun-woo.
“Snnniff... haah...♡”
The thick, male scent that instantly filled the tent not only made her nose tingle but also made the space between her legs itch.
Unable to bear it any longer, Noel carefully got up from her spot and approached Kang Hyun-woo.
“C-Customer, are you asleep...?”
She called out to Kang Hyun-woo in a voice as faint as a crawling ant, but he didn't even stir.
Just in case, she poked his cheek with her finger, but he remained sound asleep.
Gulp...
Noel swallowed dryly, then settled down and lay beside Kang Hyun-woo.
At first, she lay down with about two handbreadths of distance between them, but as his body odor grew stronger, Noel eventually closed the distance bit by bit until she was pressed right up against him.
Noel peeked at Kang Hyun-woo as she slowly pulled down her pants, but whether by mistake or intention, her snow-white underwear came down with them.
In an instant, Noel's face turned as red as if it were about to explode, having exposed her pussy in front of a strange man.
She had no idea how to describe this feeling of revealing her most private part to a man.
A sense of immorality? A sense of liberation?
She didn't know. But regardless of that, she couldn't stop her own hand from moving down between her legs.
Squelch—
“Hngh?!♡”
Having already lost all self-control, Noel rubbed the area around her vaginal opening with her slender fingers, continuing to masturbate as usual.
Normally, this would have been enough to bring her to climax, but today, she felt unusually dissatisfied.
She was definitely far more sensitive than usual, yet the pleasure she felt was minimal.
Compared to when Kang Hyun-woo had rubbed her lower abdomen, this felt like child's play.
But she was too scared to even think about putting her fingers inside.
W-What should I do...
Even as she pondered, her flushed body seemed to throw a tantrum, the throbbing in her lower abdomen growing hotter and hotter.
In a situation like this, where she didn't know what to do, the only thing she could trust and rely on was her own instinct.
The instinct of a beast-kin, a rabbit-kin with a powerful libido, compelled her to move.
Her body moved towards the place where the scent that had been making her lower abdomen throb was strongest, and that place was between Kang Hyun-woo's legs.
“...H-He won't wake up, right?”
With a plea directed at no one in particular, Noel reached for Kang Hyun-woo's pants.
She undid the tightly fastened belt and button, and after pulling down his tight underwear as well, a male genitalia, something she had never seen before in her life, was revealed.
Even though it was flaccid, its size was immense.
Without realizing it, Noel imagined that python-like dick mercilessly plowing into the space between her legs.
Just that thought alone made her pussy gush with love juice.
Moreover, the scent coming from the penis was so potent that for a moment, she thought her nose would break.
“Hah, hah... hnnngh... phuah...♡”
Her mind knew this was wrong, but her body simply wouldn't listen.
She buried her nose in Kang Hyun-woo's balls and took deep breaths.
It felt like her mind was going blank, but she didn't stop.
Instead, she boldly rubbed her pussy, comforting herself.
Squish, squish♡
With a sticky, wet sound, Noel took his dick into her mouth.
She put the still-flaccid dick in her mouth and licked and sucked it all over.
Then, as if it was gradually being stimulated, the dick began to swell inside her mouth.
It was only half-hard, but it was already so big that it was a struggle to hold in her mouth. Nevertheless, Noel did not spit it out.
“Gack, gck... gurgle...♡”
The head of his dick poking her uvula was agonizing, but the amount of love juice flowing from her pussy increased several times over.
Fshuuuuu—
“G-gasp, gurgle, ghk...?!!♡”
Finally, with a touch from her own hand that went from pinching to twisting her clit, Noel felt an ecstatic pleasure and reached her climax.
Spurt— Splurt—
At the same time, Kang Hyun-woo's dick spewed thick semen.
It was an amount too great to swallow, let alone hold in her mouth, but as I said before, there was no way Noel would spit it out.
“Slurp, schloop... g-gulp, gulp, gulp...♡”
All that semen moved down Noel's slender throat and flowed into her stomach.
Even after that, Noel sucked out the remaining semen from his urethra, finishing off her satisfying late-night snack.
But her lust was not yet completely sated.
To soothe her body, which was now even hotter than before, she once again took Kang Hyun-woo's dick into her mouth, but...
Grab—
Someone's hand seized her long ear tightly.
“What are you doing?”
“...Hic?!♡”
The poor rabbit, whose ear was caught in a rough grip, let out a stream of love juice from between her legs and trembled lightly.