Chapter 38
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 38
Chapter Title: Deep Layer
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With Han So-hee tucked under my arm, and occasionally groping her breasts as we went. As soon as we stepped outside, Kim Yu-rim and Joo A-hyun approached with sly smiles.
"Pretending to be all haughty, but you ended up doing it anyway?"
"Good for you. Now we can all have fun together."
"Yu-rim unnie, how can you be so casual? We've got more competition now."
"Huh?"
"But So-hee, why are you wearing clothes? You're gonna be doing it with oppa all the time anyway. Why not go naked and cool like us?"
Han So-hee narrowed her eyes at Joo A-hyun, who wasn't even wearing panties.
"...It seems you've misunderstood. Nothing like what you think happened."
"Ah, embarrassed because it's your first time? It's fine. No need to be shy among pillar sisters."
"I'm serious."
"Yeah, sure, sure."
"......"
Han So-hee's face twisted in frustration as she tried to clear up the misunderstanding, but Joo A-hyun wasn't listening. No, she didn't believe her.
She was more interested in Han So-hee's breasts than her words.
"But damn, So-hee, those areolas are huge. Unnie, you see this?"
"Whoa, what a slutty pair of tits."
"Right? That's what I'm saying."
Big tits as expected. The aggro was no joke.
Han So-hee hurriedly pulled her top down. I tugged the fabric back up, putting her breasts on display for the two women.
Han So-hee grabbed at her clothes and said,
"What are you doing? Stop it."
"You really want me to stop?"
I tapped the ring, and her expression crumpled.
The contract is the contract. With that meaning in my gaze, Han So-hee bit her lip hard and released her grip on the fabric.
"Hmph."
Seeing that, I hugged her from behind like a trophy, grabbing both her breasts firmly.
I kneaded those large areolas and milked her tits toward the two women like squeezing a cow.
At the same time, I poked her ass firmly with my stiff cock, and Han So-hee's ears gradually turned red.
"Eek. You can do whatever with my breasts... but maybe control that thing. Your cock is poking my ass."
"It's just a physiological reaction, so bear with it."
"Such convenient excuses."
"Come on, you two help out."
As I squeezed her breasts and asked for assistance, Kim Yu-rim and Joo A-hyun came over, each latching onto one breast with their mouths and tugging hard.
"Ha-eek. S-stop. Stop right now."
"So-hee, we have a contract, remember? Just stay still."
"D-damn it."
Han So-hee floundered helplessly as the two women toyed with her breasts every which way.
'Gotta train her regularly. Otherwise, she'll try to weasel out when we're alone.'
"Wow, such pretty tits!"
"Ooh. Jealous. So jealous I wanna bite 'em hard."
Crunch.
"Hiiik?!"
Her springy breasts were stretched and abused by the mischievous pair.
"P-please, ah-euk... n-no biting with teeth, have mercy..."
"Like this? You want me to bite like this?"
"Eeng?!"
"Chomp chomp. You want me to pull this hard? Hya! Hya! Go on, cum! Cum as punishment for being born with such lewd tits!"
"N-no! Stop! Aaaah!"
After about twenty minutes of playing around to our heart's content, Kim Yu-rim and Joo A-hyun finally backed off with satisfied looks once Han So-hee climaxed from her breasts alone.
"Ah-euk. Ha-euk..."
Twitch twitch.
"Hoo. So, Min-jun oppa, what's the schedule for today?"
"Duh, unnie. Eat, fuck, eat, fuck again, right? Isn't that it, oppa?"
The women whose daily routine had become fucking. Unfortunately, not today.
"We're going to check out the stage area from now on."
Their movements halted.
"The stage? Why there?"
The playful mood from moments ago vanished, the women shrinking back as if recalling past events.
"To find Yoo-hae."
"No guarantee she's there."
"True. But we've searched everywhere else thoroughly."
Kim Yu-rim and Joo A-hyun had roamed for 8 days, Han So-hee for a whopping 12. No reason left to search the middle layer.
"That's true, but... still, there are tons of specters there. I'm not a fan..."
"Don't worry. With me here, what's there to fear?"
Ah... Their faces finally brightened.
Seemed like showing off my prowess these past few days had helped.
"But do we have to go today? Can't we have fun all day and go tomorrow?"
"You think so too, A-hyun? I was just thinking the same."
The reason I insisted on today?
Simple. Their mental strength was reaching its limit.
Even with accessories boosting magic resistance for safer conditions, the signs were showing.
"Forget that, let's do one round before eating, unnie."
"Yeah, great idea!"
Even now, they prioritized lust over leaving.
Pleasure over sustenance.
Obsessed with ecstasy instead of survival or crisis resolution. Not a good sign.
'Can't let these connections I've built go to waste.'
Once out and resting in the sun at the rest area, they could still recover.
Of course, calling the Saintess for a heal would fix it instantly.
'But showing these girls to Shin Seo-yeon and the Saintess? Who knows what'd happen.'
Above all...
I glanced downward.
While I was lost in thought for a moment, Kim Yu-rim and Joo A-hyun had pulled down my pants and were slurping on my cock and balls, flashing me playful smiles.
This brazen behavior was a problem too. The Saintess might get shocked and dump me.
"Cum quick, please. Fill Yu-rim's mouth with your load."
"Cum in A-hyun's mouth-pussy, oppa."
'Our bonds are solid enough.'
We've fucked plenty, molded their pussies to my shape so they'd never forget my taste.
Time to send them to the rest area.
I called over Han So-hee, still trembling in afterglow, and had her suck the remaining ball.
"Cumming."
I fed morning loads one by one into the mouths clinging to my cock, then headed to the chapel.
Swaaah—
The chapel was shrouded in darkness and fog.
Fog poured down like waterfalls from the five-tiered pews on either side, blanketing the stage area thickly and blocking any view from outside.
But I knew. There was an entrance to the deep layer inside.
"Ugh. Oppa, do we really have to go today?"
"I feel off somehow."
"......"
Hard to believe these were the same women who'd charged at me moments ago begging for a round. They huddled tensely.
"And the fog's so thick there, you can get lost. Happened before. Maybe prepare more and come back?"
"No worries there."
I pulled rope from my backpack. Ah, Kim Yu-rim let out an exclamation.
"You're so thoroughly prepared."
"Something like that."
Fog was common in trial zones. I'd stocked related gear in advance.
I handed out the rope and said,
"Don't stray off alone—stick right behind me. Never let go of the rope no matter what. If a specter approaches, don't fight recklessly; tell me. I'll handle it."
With that, we advanced into the chapel.
Crunch. Crunch.
The fog thickened toward the stage.
10 meters, 5 meters, 3... down to 1 meter visibility. We used fleeting glimpses of seats and the downward slope as guides, pushing to the fog's heart.
「Ahhh....」
We encountered specters here and there midway, but they were no threat anymore. Still, the group's expressions were grim.
"Eep. More corpses..."
Numerous bodies lay scattered, petrified like fossils.
Over forty just from what we'd passed.
Accounting for fog-hidden ones, hundreds, maybe thousands littered the chapel.
"Look, unnie. All the corpses have crushed chests. Think an alien lives here?"
"Don't even joke. I'm terrified of that movie."
Kim Yu-rim, uncharacteristic for an ex-soldier, trembled and clung to my back. I snorted and examined the bodies.
'Isera swept through here too.'
Not just chests—the hearts were obliterated. She might be in the deep layer now.
'Anyway, entrance should be nearby.'
Isera said there was a hole in the floor. I roamed the fog-shrouded stage, probing the ground.
But it was vast. Hard to find.
'Chapel's bigger than a soccer field, so the stage is huge too.'
This'd take forever. As I pondered, someone tapped my shoulder.
"Over here."
It was Han So-hee. She strode ahead, tugging the rope.
Following, we found a hidden square entrance on the stage's edge.
Whoooosh—
The surroundings were dark, but that hole was pitch black.
Like a deep abyss gaping its maw.
"...Kinda doesn't look inviting."
"Yeah. Gives me the chills, unnie."
I climbed the ladder there. Creak—eerie screams echoed as chilling cold pierced my gloves into my skin.
I distributed spare leather gloves from Earth to the women and said,
"I'll go first. Follow right away. Don't dawdle or specters'll notice and it'll be a pain."
Nod.
We descended the ladder step by step.
Clack. Clack. Clack.
The ladder was long.
No sense of the bottom.
Just my footsteps and theirs echoing calmly into the darkness.
But soon, the ground neared.
「Need blood.... more....」
「Light... why hast thou forsaken us....」
Rustling below, and wraiths' murmurs filled my head.
"Oppa, this..."
"Relax. They can't see if we can't."
The skulls and specters here relied solely on sight.
Why? No idea.
But first trial penalty for sure.
Later ones hear footsteps, smell, sense life force and charge.
Those wraiths... even I couldn't ignore.
'Key point: lighting a fire blindly in darkness screws you over.'
「...Not dead. We... live....」
Confirming the voices faded, I descended further.
Thud.
"Okay, hit the ground."
I stepped aside for the others. Then surveyed.
'A tunnel.'
A 10-meter-wide tunnel stretched left and right into deep darkness.
At the far end, faint red light—like a distant lighthouse piercing night seas—outlined the surroundings faintly.
I looked around and clicked my tongue.
'Interesting. Floor's dirt, but...'
The walls mixed in something else.
"Hmm, what's this... Eek? Kyaaak!"
"W-what? A-hyun, what is it? Hiiiik!"
The two women screamed upon spotting it.
Buried in dirt mounds forming the walls: skulls.
Innumerable skulls embedded, grotesquely posed as if bursting free with dynamic expressions.
'So that's what ossuary means.'
Right on cue, a notification confirmed our arrival.
You have entered the Deep Layer of the Lair of Evil Spirits.