Meeting (1)
Meeting (1)
After that, Adelange fainted about three more times before she could finally regain her senses.
"You're a beast."
"...Sorry."
"To ravish a handmaiden who lost her reason—fine. Were you only able to approach a woman after she lost her reason?"
"No, that's not it..."
"Then why did you lay hands on this handmaiden?"
As befitting a noble who'd lived for hundreds of years, Adelange began cornering Dojin with speech that was awfully hard for him to fully grasp, lofty and refined.
In truth, Dojin couldn't understand half of what she was saying, but he got the gist from the atmosphere of her tone, her expression, and all that.
She was pretending to be angry. She wasn't actually mad. So if he just played along to a certain extent and yielded, he could slip out of this situation.
"Well, vampire bodily fluids have special components..."
"Yes, this handmaiden's saliva has the power to paralyze the target."
"...And the vaginal fluid?"
"...As if vaginal fluid would have any effect. What vulgar nonsense—"
Seeing Adelange flustered, Dojin realized she herself didn't know about the power she possessed.
Well, how would a virgin know her own vaginal fluid had the power to seduce other beings?
Moreover, that seduction wasn't just some chemical reaction. If it were merely an aphrodisiac on the level of an aphrodisiac, Dojin's Man-dok-bul-chim would have nullified it.
'It reaches the soul.'
Once the soul is drawn to her, no amount of physical resilience matters. His mind shifted to crave her as if he'd become her slave.
Thanks to Dojin's soul of the Immovable Wisdom King and his arsenal of skills, he'd barely managed to just pin her down. Had it been otherwise, Dojin would have become her slave, utterly subservient to her.
"—Anyway, what's with this 'handmaiden' talk all of a sudden?"
"What do you mean? Didn't you just deflower the virginity I've preserved for hundreds of years?"
"...True."
"This virginity was saved for my true love, so isn't it only right that you, who shattered it, become my true love?"
It sounded plausible at first glance, but ultimately, it was just her saying he had to take responsibility.
Having already committed too many sins to be tied down by one vampire, Dojin shook his head and pushed her away.
"Sorry, but... getting married over something like that is a bit much."
"Married? What are you talking about?"
"You said true love—doesn't that mean marriage?"
"You seem to be under some misunderstanding."
He'd thought she meant marriage, but Adelange was saying that wasn't it.
'Well, she's a vampire, after all...'
Marriage was a trust-based contractual subservience invented by humans.
A fictional concept that didn't really exist.
Adelange covered her mouth and let out a chuckle.
"The contract between you and this handmaiden has already been forged."
"...A contract?"
"Blood is the currency of souls. We, connected by blood and blood, are bound more tightly than any other relationship."
As she said that, Adelange extended her nails long and lightly slashed Dojin's palm. It was a feat possible because she'd sucked his blood all night, strengthening herself.
She then brought his hand straight to her mouth and began lapping at the wound with her tongue. Dojin shuddered, feeling a creepy sensation as if she were licking his very soul.
"See?"
When she finally pulled his hand away, the wound on Dojin's palm had completely vanished. He already had impressive regenerative powers, but even accounting for that, the speed was astonishing.
"Congratulations. Now you'll see the end of this world alongside this handmaiden."
"...What do you mean."
"You've become immortal."
Dojin had finally given up on being human.
Though Adelange told Dojin he'd become immortal, he hadn't actually given up on being human.
'She's just trying to spook me.'
[Immortal Lover]
—This love is immortal until one side dies.
A new skill that appeared on Dojin's status window. It had emerged from his relationship with Adelange.
Unlike other skills, its name and description didn't immediately reveal its power, but Dojin, who'd acquired several skills by now, had a rough idea of what it did.
'Skills manifest in the direction the other person desires.'
When Dojin connected with Seoyun, she yearned for someone warm to melt her heart.
Thus, he gained Extreme Yang Body.
When he connected with Aram, she wished for someone by her side who would never change.
Thus, he gained Indestructible Body.
'Immortal for hundreds of years while staying a virgin... no wonder her head's full of flowers.'
Adelange had rotted away as a virgin for centuries. It wasn't strange at all for her to crave not just any lover, but a fated one.
And the most important thing she desired above all—would surely be her lover's lifespan.
'She's a vampire, so unless she's turning me into one like her, lifespan matters.'
There aren't many long-lived races in this world that aren't vampires.
Elves, whose sex drives are so low they push away even their own kind.
Spirits or fairies, who don't even have the concept of lifespan.
Or the undead, who outright reject death and live as the walking dead.
All three were races far removed from vampires.
'So this ability... at least lets me live the same life as her.'
A superpower granting human Dojin the same regenerative power and lifespan as a vampire.
'...Not bad?'
It only took the vampire's abilities, so sunlight wouldn't be a big issue.
Unlike other humans who had to live as cripples if they lost a limb, Dojin could regenerate his like Piccolo.
For an adventurer tackling a death trap like the dungeon, this was an advantage beyond anything else.
'Aram can do it, but...'
Her ability was strictly equivalent exchange. Fixing one arm meant sacrificing her own—an ability with the worst cost-performance imaginable.
It was reliably effective, sure, but unless it was some unhealable curse, potions and Divine Power could handle healing just fine.
"With this ability..."
Dojin reflected on his current state.
Superhuman physical prowess.
Master-level swordsmanship.
And on top of that, the power of all his various skills.
'Right now...'
He might even reach the Ruler of the 30th Floor, that nameless giant wolf he'd seen before.
Dojin grinned wickedly as he recalled that time.
His hands itched. He wanted to smash some monsters right now.
'Any reason to hold back?'
He didn't. He bolted straight to the dungeon alone.
For some reason, he craved blood.
Seoyun was having tea with Aram at a restaurant, chatting about this and that. For Aram, whose daily routine was reading books, the only people she could really talk to were Seoyun and Dojin.
"So, according to this book... to satisfy Dojin..."
"Hmm, I'll give it a try."
"Make sure to tell me how it goes. If it tears, I can heal you."
But above all, the two shared the common point of Dojin. Thus, most of their conversation topics revolved around him...
And this time's subject was techniques to satisfy Dojin. Starting to feel like his interest was waning, the two were researching ways to recapture it.
Technique discussion was one such method.
"But... do we really have to go this far?"
"We do! Remember the last time we were with Dojin?"
"About a little over three weeks ago?"
"Same for me!"
Considering normal couples have sex once every 1-2 weeks, and Dojin was involved with both of them, it wasn't that bad a gap to call his interest lost...
But the other party was Dojin. The incarnation of virility who could ejaculate semen over a dozen times a day.
"He must be totally bored of us... so to get his attention back on us..."
"No, I don't think so."
"Why not?"
"Gut feeling."
"...Gut feeling?"
"And... if he has any conscience, he won't add more girls. Right?"
As she said that, Seoyun tallied up the women trying to hook up with Dojin. Herself and Aram, Eunha, Orion, the Elf Queen, the Saintess, and all sorts of riffraff.
She couldn't even count them on one hand, and even Ga-hee was subtly signaling Dojin.
It was already overflowing as is—adding more girls? And ignoring them in the process?
If that happened.
"If he doesn't wanna die, he will."
Dojin might lose his life to her hand.
However, Seoyun didn't know.
That while the two were leisurely sipping tea, Dojin had been fucking the vampire at the mansion...
Dojin entered the dungeon, confirmed no one else could see him, and instantly teleported to the 30th floor.
A power gained after obtaining Dominion Authority over the dungeon.
Regrettably, he could only go up to the 30th floor and back; anything beyond required walking...
'Still beats nothing.'
Other adventurers had to trek from the 10th floor up—that made this plenty worthwhile.
Upon landing on the 30th floor, Dojin drew his sword and took a deep breath. The smell of blood, dust, and mud-caked dungeon.
His body naturally prepared for battle as he inhaled the bleak, humid stench.
No matter who appeared, he was ready to draw and swing in an instant, confident the blade would sever any enemy monster's neck.
'Come on.'
Thinking that, Dojin stepped forward. The vision-obscuring dark curtain shifted slowly with his movement.
Each step on the blood-soaked floor squelched, and his shoes sank deeper into the muck.
A thoroughly disadvantageous situation, a golden opportunity for any monster.
If attacked now, even a monster might have a slim chance. Dojin heightened all his senses, considering that.
Tadadadak-!
Something charged from behind. The footsteps grew closer with each one.
Exactly 0.1 seconds after the first footfall, the sound reached right behind Dojin's back.
Sseureung—!
Dojin drew his sword and spun, slashing behind him in a flash. Wondering if there was a monster this fast on this floor was secondary.
In a dungeon where everyone but your entry companions was a monster, complacency was forbidden.
Naturally, he assumed the approaching sound from behind was a monster.
Kagagagang-!
The first strike was blocked by a massive greatsword, and just as he prepared for the next clash, Dojin got a look at his opponent's face.
Platinum blonde long hair, beauty rivaling even Iris or Celestia.
"A woman?"
"...A person?"
The opponent lowered her raised sword and gazed steadily at Dojin.
In a place where they shouldn't exist, they'd gone and sought out a meeting in the dungeon.