Dark Mage (1)
Dark Mage (1)
Whoosh! In the darkness, an unidentified tentacle flies through the air. However, since monsters can't see what's ahead either, its accuracy is severely off.
Crash! The flying tentacle smashes through a wall, and light pours in from beyond the shattered wall. Only then could Ilone clearly see the monster's form.
'A slime......?'
It was a massive slime. However, it was a far cry from the common slimes typically seen in dungeons.
Its bulk was so huge it could fill the warehouse and still have room to spare, and its body was pitch-black and opaque, as if made of sewage.
"What the hell! Shit, why did it wake up!?"
"Call the boss, hurry!"
Voices came from beyond the shattered wall. Likely the criminals stationed here.
'Damn it, if only my communicator hadn't broken.......'
But since it was already broken, there was nothing to be done. Ilone swiftly launched her body and dashed toward the area beyond the shattered wall.
The criminals who spotted her shouted and rushed at her, but she hadn't risen to the position of Guard Captain as a woman through luck or mere skill.
It was a position earned rightfully through ability. Her physical prowess ranked among the very top within the Guard Force, regardless of gender.
She ran. Just by running, she instantly slipped from their grasp. As long as she could just get out of the building, she could fire a signal flare.
'Just a little more......!'
Thud─
Ilone, who had been sprinting, tripped over something. She managed to quickly push herself up, but the moment she planted her foot, she fell forward again.
'What......?'
Turning to look back, she discovered her own severed leg lying in the distance. And in that moment, her mind went blank.
'My leg, why......?'
The pain arrived belatedly, the moment she became aware of it. She let out a scream too vulgar for a woman's mouth to utter and clutched her severed leg.
A pain that shouldn't be felt from the empty space below her thigh was felt. A pain as if her leg were burning, as if her head were being ripped apart.
As she was writhing on the ground, choking on the pain, a man wearing a robe appeared. Dajian clicked his tongue upon seeing the ruined warehouse.
"I said you could cut off limbs as long as you didn't kill her. To fail to capture a single woman and cause this mess, what kind of work is this?"
"S-sorry. Boss......."
"Sorry? So you admit this is your fault."
Dajian immediately blew off the head of the man who had just apologized. Then, he tossed it to the writhing slime in the distance as food.
Watching the slime wriggle and digest the corpse, Dajian approached Ilone.
Pulling the magic tool from her bosom, Dajian grinned creepily as he examined her face.
"Guard Force? How did you get in?"
"Ggrrhh, b-bastard, do I look like, I'd tell you?"
Tch, tch. With veins bulging as if about to burst, Ilone spat toward Dajian. Dajian wiped off the spit and placed his hand on her head.
Then he began chanting an incantation.
"Interestingly, the human body tries to become happy even when it's very sad and suffering."
He didn't know it was a biological instinct to maintain homeostasis, but Dajian knew that too could be excellent material.
"Kyaaaaahhhhk!!"
As the narcotics within her brain, which had been alleviating her body's pain, disappeared, Ilone once again groaned in pain and rolled on the ground.
"What's wrong? It's fun magic time. It's a very precious lecture that mediocrities like you would never hear in your lifetime."
Her body feels pain and convulses. Mistaking that the quantity of narcotics it sent was insufficient, the brain secretes brain narcotics once more.
Dajian stole them again.
Ilone screamed again.......
"My, has she fainted."
Finally, she crosses the limit. To prevent shock death, her body shuts off consciousness. But it's fine. There are many ways to extract narcotics even from an unconscious subject.
Just as he was pondering how to move her, a commotion was heard from outside.
"B-Boss! Outside, the Guard Force is......."
"Guard Force?"
Hearing that, he clicked his tongue softly. It seems all the magic tools on her body were shattered by the barrier installed in the building, but it seems they couldn't block a direct tail that followed her here.
Feeling regret, Dajian picked up Ilone's severed leg and threw it to the slime.
Watching the slime devour the leg as if it were delicious, he cauterized and sealed the severed cross-section.
"To fuck with someone else's business."
With the meaning that you should eat shit too, after crippling Ilone, he swiftly slipped out of the building.
A short while later, the Guard Force swarming in like a tide discovered the injured Ilone.
"Captain! What in the world is this......!"
A few Guard Force members were selected from those who found Ilone to transport her. There was also a practical reason for not killing her.
After all, it naturally takes more manpower to save a living comrade than a dead comrade.......
─You have acquired the skill, Sense Sharing.
'Sense Sharing......?'
Waking up to the notification of acquiring a new skill, I kneaded Aram's buttocks lying next to me, who was muttering in her sleep, as if kneading rice cake dough.
Perhaps feeling my touch, Aram cautiously sat up and rummaged through the table looking for her glasses.
"Don't you not wear glasses anymore?"
"Ah... right. That's true, I remember."
Aram, who used to wear glasses, had her vision restored to normal after leveling up and threw her glasses away.
And ever since then, the Class President's beauty began to stand out.......
Rubbing her eyes and wiping away the sleep, Aram slowly stretched, proudly displaying her magnificent chest.
"Haaahm......?"
While stretching like that, she realized I was staring sharply at her and grasped what state she was in now.
Her upper body was naked, with only her lower abdomen barely covered by the blanket. The moment she realized it, her face flushed red first. Then, like a boiling kettle heating up, she began to boil over too.
"Kyaaaak!"
"......You're loud."
In the morning, the weak Seoyun heard her scream and slowly sat up. As she tried to sit up, she pushed only her arms to lift her upper body, shivered violently, and then flopped face down on the bed again.
"Ah... hey, come up and knead me...."
"Suddenly?"
"Because it feels good when you knead, I can't help it...."
Hearing that, stroking her twitching lips, I climbed onto Seoyun's back.
Caressing her soft skin, I slowly pressed down firmly on her lower back. In rhythm with that, Seoyun let out moans as if keeping time.
"Ngh, hngg, there, hng, good, ahngh."
Whether she was doing it on purpose in the morning or it was an instinctive coquetry, hearing her moans caused my thing to get erect on its own and slip between the twin peaks of her buttocks.
Seoyun, perhaps knowing that my thing had slipped between her buttocks, turned her head and gave a sly smile.
"What? You got horny in the morning?"
"......."
I couldn't answer anything and could only rub my thing against her buttocks. Because if I tried to insert it, she, who hadn't heard an answer, would use her ability to abruptly block and halt my movements.
"You want to put it in?"
"......I'm horny."
"Huh? Can't hear you well."
"I said I'm horny. Fucking horny."
"Heh, I see."
Hearing the answer, Seoyun slowly turned her body. Then she began to slowly press down on my thing with her foot. But my thing, already horny, slowly began to feel it even under her stepping.
"I can't let you touch a body that gets this horny so easily."
"......What do you want?"
"Hmm... first, a leg massage?"
Hearing that, I grabbed Seoyun's legs and slowly began to spread them. The expression of Aram, who was watching from the side, turned lewd, and it felt like a second round was about to start in the morning, but.......
Knock knock.
"......Excuse me. A guest has arrived."
The Attendant knocked on the door and called for us. Grumbling internally, I hastily gathered my clothes, got dressed, and went outside.
"Who is it?"
"The Guard Force, they say."
"Guard Force?"
The only Guard Force member I know is Ilone. And there aren't many reasons for her to come looking for me in broad daylight.
I gave Seoyun a sorry look for lighting a fire and then followed the Attendant to the reception room.
And there I met a Guard Force member I was seeing for the first time. It was a man.
"......Who are you?"
"I read the note Captain Ilone left and came. Are you Dojin-ssi?"
"Yes, but what about it?"
"Captain Ilone has collapsed. The note said that if she ever fell into a critical condition, I should come here and ask for help."
"......What did you say?"
Shhk— shhk—
Looking at Ilone, who was lying in bed breathing shallowly, I let out a sigh. The Guard Force member standing beside me reiterated her critical condition once more.
"The severed leg is deeply tainted with demonic energy, so regeneration is impossible. She might have to suffer in pain forever......."
"What about you guys."
"Huh?"
"What did you guys do?"
"......We were on standby for support."
"Sounds like you did nothing."
Swoop, I place my hand on Ilone's head. As if she's having a terrible nightmare, her expression naturally contorts.
It's a serious injury. An injury that means she must live her life with a disability and pain... it wouldn't be wrong to say her life is over because of this.
The otherworld is cruel to the weak. Even more so if they are disabled. For her, who strived as the Guard Captain, losing a leg doesn't just mean losing her job.
'Because of me.'
She embarked on this mission because I gave her the information. What if I hadn't given her the information? She would have proceeded with the investigation very slowly, and then realized that the opposing organization was a very dangerous group.
She would never have gone in alone. Even if she had gone in alone, she wouldn't have been injured like this.
"......There was a mage. A black mage. So the communication magic tool was shattered."
"I guess you didn't consider that there might be a mage?"
"Realistically, we can't conduct investigations while thinking about such possibilities."
"So, it's only natural that Ilone ended up like this?"
"That's not what I meant......."
"That's enough, please leave."
"......Yes. Understood."
I said that and examined the face of the man leaving. Wondering why he was being so submissive, he was the duty soldier I saw when I headed to the Guard Force with her.
He probably thinks she and I are lovers.
Unfortunately, she and I are not lovers.
"......Aram."
"Are you really going to do it? Even so, an injury of this degree is......"
"It's fine. Just trust me."
At my call, Aram, who was standing behind, stepped forward. She frowned slightly looking at Ilone wrapped in bandages, but slowly raised her hand.
And on her shoulder behind her, I placed my hand.
"S-shall we begin?"
"......I'm ready."
Her ability is to revert things her hand touches to their original state. An ability of localized time regression.
It's fine when reverting the time of inorganic objects, but if it's a living being. In other words, if she heals injuries or resurrects the dead, it's an ability with the penalty of transferring the reverted injury across her entire body.
Now that she's leveled up, fractures can be received as light bruises. But healing an injury of a severed limb means she also has to bear considerable risk.
No matter how much connection has built up with Ilone, I couldn't burden Aram to that extent.
Originally, I wouldn't even have made such a request to her.......
'But now it's okay.'
The ability gained through forming relationships with Seoyun and Aram. Sense Sharing made it possible to fully transfer the burden Aram would bear.
"Hooooo......."
Aram exhaled and reverted Ilone's injury. Ilone's injury transformed into damage of the same level and covered Aram's body.
And faster than that, I shouldered that burden.
Crunch, crack!
'Ugh—!'
The sound of bones throughout my body slowly shattering could be heard. Even divided across the whole body, the injury of severed limbs wasn't easy to bear.
'It's okay.'
─Skill Indestructible Body activates.
Shattered bones tend to gradually harden. Vajra is indestructible, so they never break to an irreparable extent.
─Skill Extreme Yang Body activates.
My body is hot. Due to the suddenly incurred injuries, intense heat radiates from my entire body. It feels like my brain might cook any moment from the injury, but I couldn't lose consciousness now.
I know that the moment I remove my hand, this pain will head toward Aram. Thinking that, I absolutely cannot collapse.
─Ruler of Women's Hearts is active!
─Evolving into a better body to dominate women.
Crunch, crack!
The bones throughout my body begin to shatter bit by bit. But as my body shatters, Ilone's injury gradually disappears.
─Bone Cleansing begins.
Then, by the time Ilone's injury was completely healed, I lost consciousness.
Knock knock.
Late at night, Deokgu, who was resting in his room after suddenly dealing with an incident, spoke upon hearing the door being knocked.
"Who is it?"
The other party didn't answer the question and opened the door. A moment later, seeing the person who opened the door and entered, Deokgu gave a sly smile.
"You woke up?"
Deokgu pulled out a paper he had prepared in advance from under a drawer. The man who entered the room put that paper into his bosom and turned his body.
"What, not even eating?"
At those words, the other party cautiously turned his head. Then, he scribbled with a pen on a paper on Deokgu's desk.
Deokgu looked at the man who suddenly wasted paper and left, letting out a hollow laugh.
"Ha, who does he think he is, Guan Yu?"
Then he put down the paper Dojin left behind again.
─I'll be back before dinner gets cold.