Chapter 318: Stigma (2)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 318: Stigma (2)
Darkness had settled thick in the empty classroom.
In that space, quiet as a mouse yet filled with a strange thrill and tension, I had sex with Im Na-eun.
“Hah, hah…, Master♥”
A perverted bitch who was dying to call her friend ‘Master’.
That’s also what made her so lovable.
“Shut up and get ready to clench your pussy.”
“Yes, yesss…♥”
“If you let even a single drop leak, there won't be a next time.”
“I-I'll try my best…!”
She was the type who, if I told her to, would go beyond pretending to die and might actually try to kill herself.
She was usually the picture of innocence, so the dissonance I felt whenever we had sex was exquisite.
“Hooo…”
After I unloaded my semen into her three times in a row, Im Na-eun convulsed, draped over a classroom desk.
Even so, seeing that not a single drop of semen came out of her pussy, it seemed she was really clenching tight.
It was impressive, considering her mind must have been hazy from how hard I was fucking her.
“You can let it go now.”
At my long-awaited permission, Im Na-eun instantly gushed out the semen that had filled her pussy.
Squelch.
With a cute little sound, she spurted out the semen in gushes, not forgetting to thank me.
“Th-thank you…♥”
I used my mana to summon a breeze to cool my sweat, then put my clothes back on, which I'd tossed to one side.
I waited for Na-eun, who was sprawled out without even the strength to move a muscle, to recover her stamina.
“Now, lie on your back.”
“Yes, Master.”
I had her lie down properly on two classroom desks I'd pushed together.
The reason we had such intense sex here today was partly to take care of her, since I hadn't been able to pay her much attention because of the qualification exam, but there was another, real reason.
“Like I said before, I'm going to carve my mark on your body.”
A mark.
To leave the same symbol on her that I'd previously left on Yoon Ji-an and Shin Yu-jeong.
I asked one last time.
“Are you sure you won't regret this?”
It was nothing more than a formality.
If she said no, my only plan was to fuck her and fuck her again until she said yes and changed her mind.
But that probably wouldn't happen.
“Yes… Please leave your mark on me, so I can live by your side forever.”
Her face was flushed, not from sexual excitement, but from a different kind of emotion.
My words, which would have made others jump up and call me a pervert, might have sounded like a marriage proposal to her.
“Alright.”
Willingly accepting her feelings, I placed my palm, packed tightly with mana, just below her breasts.
“This will hurt a little.”
“I can bear it.”
Na-eun's eyes were wide open, her expression utterly resolute.
She looked as if she could endure even a pain that felt like death itself.
It wasn't that painful, though.
I chuckled lightly and drew up my mana.
I no longer needed to use a Magical Tattoo to engrave the mark of my ownership.
That was because…
「Stigma of Greed.」
I'd acquired an incredible tattooing skill that was beyond comparison.
My palm began to emit a faint, dark red light.
When I pressed it firmly against her skin just below her breast, like stamping a seal…
Paaat!
“Aah…!”
With a moan from the stinging pain, a symbol was drawn onto her pale skin.
A red heart, bound by a single long chain.
Proof that she was mine, and a symbol of the power that would make both of us stronger.
“There, it's done.”
“Nngh…, is it over?”
“Yes.”
She sat up on the desk and checked the symbol engraved below her breast.
As Na-eun stared blankly at the red heart, a film of tears suddenly formed in her eyes.
What the.
Why is she suddenly acting like this?
“Hic… I'm so happy. To think that now, my body and my heart truly belong to you, Master…!”
“Uh, um.”
So they were tears of joy.
My slave likes it when her master gives her orders, but she doesn't like being treated roughly all the time.
A proper balance of carrot and stick.
The closer that balance is to the golden ratio, the happier she becomes.
So this time, it was the carrot's turn.
“Come here.”
“Masteer.”
Completely naked, Im Na-eun ran into my arms, her breasts bouncing.
I gently patted the sobbing girl's back and whispered in her ear.
“You're mine forever now.”
“Yes, I'm so happy.”
After holding her warmly for a few minutes, I released her from my embrace.
“Now, get dressed and let's go. There's a place we need to stop by.”
“Yes, Master.”
Without a word of complaint, my slave gathered her scattered clothes and put them on.
Then, the last item.
She held up her mercilessly torn stockings, showed them to me, and laughed awkwardly.
“I can't… wear these, can I?”
“…Just throw them away.”
Did I rip them up too much?
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A sub-trait.
A trait engraved below the one gained upon awakening; an acquired trait, not an innate one.
There are generally two ways to obtain such a sub-trait.
One is for it to be derived from an existing trait.
The other is to surpass the stat limit of 100.
The ‘Stigma of Greed’ I just acquired was achieved through the former.
So, what power did this Stigma of Greed hold?
“The place we're stopping by is… a training room?”
“Yeah, that's right. I have something I need to test.”
The place I brought Na-eun to after we finished having sex was none other than a training ground.
“Make a Fireball right now.”
“Nngh…, okay.”
It was a simple, beginner-level spell.
As she immediately began drawing a magic circle to cast the spell…
I activated one of the effects of the Stigma of Greed.
The chant followed.
「Fireball.」
A flame erupted from Im Na-eun's palm.
Fwoooosh!
And it was a flame of enormous size.
Seeing this, Im Na-eun's eyes went wide.
“M-Master… something's wrong with my Fireball…”
The Fireballs she usually created were about the size of a soccer ball.
But the one in her palm now was at least three times that size.
“No, that's normal now.”
“This is…?”
“To be precise, it's a power you gained after I engraved my mark on you.”
“The mark, you mean… the one from before?”
“That's right.”
[Status Window]
Name: Kim Do-jin
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Height/Weight: 185cm / 80.6kg
[Strength: 74] [Stamina: 77] [Agility: 74] [Mana: 89]
Trait: Bearer of Karma
[Gluttony]
[Stigma of Greed]
[Mutual Non-aggression (2022.06.09.~2025.12.31)]
[Disclosure Prohibition (2022.06.09.~2025.12.31.)]
My stats had risen to a point where they were incomparable to before.
Among them, if I pressed on the newly acquired Stigma of Greed…
[Stigma of Greed]
[Grade: ???]
[Engraves an indelible stigma on a submissive target.]
[While the stigma is engraved, the following effects are active:]
[1. Mana Sharing]
[2. Locked]
[3. Locked]
[※New effects are unlocked when specific conditions are met.]
The stigma served as both a mark of my ownership and a channel.
While all the other abilities were locked, ‘Mana Sharing’ alone was open.
As the name suggests, it's an ability to share mana through the channel of the stigma.
To explain in more detail, if I'm low on mana, I can take it from the target, and if the target is low on mana, they can take it from me to use.
Of course, they couldn't just take it as they pleased.
No, to be precise, I could take as much as I wanted, but the target needed my permission.
If you were to ask why, well…
I suppose it's because I'm the one who engraves the stigma, and they're the ones it's engraved upon.
This was exactly why the power of the spell she used had suddenly increased.
I had shared my mana while she was casting the spell, lending her my power.
An ability that was anything but ordinary.
That's why, no matter how close we were, I wanted to keep quiet about the ability, but…
“So, if you're ever low on mana, feel free to take mine.”
This time, I had no choice but to tell her.
Since it was a shared ability, being aware of it would allow for more versatile applications.
My only concern was that the number of people in my party who shared the stigma had now increased from one to two.
At this rate, are they going to find out before I get a chance to tell them myself…?
*
Son Seo-yeon, Shin Yu-jeong, Im Na-eun, and Elena.
After the four of them were issued official licenses, the so-called ‘Kim Do-jin Party’ began to make its move.
They started off lightly with C-rank dungeons.
A dungeon that took an average of 2 hours and 30 minutes to clear, they conquered in a mere 30 minutes.
Of course, this couldn't be saved as an official record.
Because Kim Do-jin, an A-rank Hunter, was part of the party.
“This is boring, so boring.”
Just as Shin Yu-jeong said, the C-rank dungeons were boring.
Frankly, they could have cleared them without a single scratch even if they each fought without using one of their limbs.
So they raised the difficulty by one level.
But it was the same there, too.
“Chaat!”
Shin Yu-jeong, whose total mana and application skills had noticeably improved from sharing my mana, sliced through the monsters blocking her path as if they were tofu.
「Wind Cutter!」
Likewise, Im Na-eun's magic, which had also seen a dramatic improvement, wiped out the surrounding monsters.
Son Seo-yeon, who was already an active B-rank.
And Shin Yu-jeong and Im Na-eun, who wielded B-rank power despite being C-rank.
Thanks to the three of them, they devoured every B-rank dungeon that was close to C-rank, and by the time they were three months into their Hunter careers, they had accomplished the feat of conquering even the highest-level B-rank dungeons.
Their momentum was truly unstoppable.
However, there were also those who did not look upon them favorably.
“They're just riding Kim Do-jin's coattails.”
“Honestly, if Kim Do-jin wasn't there, they couldn't clear dungeons at that speed. You agree?”
“Yeah, I agree.”
Whenever people tried to pick a fight, the one thing they always brought up was Kim Do-jin's presence.
Their argument was that with an A-rank Hunter like Kim Do-jin around, of course they could clear B-rank dungeons easily.
‘Well, they have a point.’
Kim Do-jin also fully sympathized with their opinion.
But did they know?
“Go get 'em, girls!”
That whenever his team members were fighting in a dungeon, Kim Do-jin's only role was to squat in the back and watch.
He even held popcorn and a cola in his hands.
“…That annoying bastard.”
“Sometimes when he does that, I just want to flick him on the forehead.”
“Heehee, he's cute.”
Despite voicing their complaints at his annoying behavior, the team members silently continued to fight the monsters.
And so, they conquered more dungeons, faster than anyone else.
【All of Kim Do-jin's ‘Girls’ Promoted to B-Rank! What Made Them So Different?】
【Kim Do-jin's Kids, All Promoted to B-Rank in Just Half a Year—What's the Secret to Their Growth?】
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Shin Yu-jeong, Im Na-eun, and Elena, the three who had been at C-rank, all successfully promoted.
They set an astonishing record, doing so only three months after taking their first steps as Hunters.
In the photo taken to commemorate their promotion, where the five of them stood side-by-side, everyone was smiling.
Except for one person.
Elena.