Invisible Cloak Training: The Barbarian's Secret Mission
‘This is by no means simple perversion. It is clearly training to test and familiarize myself with the legendary artifact.’
Step, step, step. Geum Taeyang left the room while cloaked. What on earth was this man planning to do?
‘I think the attendants’ quarters are over that way. Wonder if anyone’s bathing at this hour?’
That was right. He intended to enjoy playing the invisible man. Using the cloaking function of the legendary artifact, the Life Water Cloak, he planned to do all sorts of lewd things to the female attendants of the Nahoja household.
‘Look, this is definitely training!’
Shhhhhhh…!! Geum Taeyang moved toward the attendants’ room he had scouted earlier, lifting his heels and even the tips of his toes slightly. The skill [Silence Walk] was an additional option skill usable while the Life Water Cloak was in cloaking state. As the name suggested, it allowed completely silent movement. In other words, Geum Taeyang’s excuse was that he needed to practice these techniques as if they were real combat, and the perfect situation had presented itself right now.
‘Oh! That woman’s still awake.’
Geum Taeyang headed for the attendants’ room. The person he found there was a woman he had taken notice of since arriving here. She seemed to have just finished her night duties and was preparing to wash up.
‘She’s quite the psychic. Time for the second mission.’
So why had Geum Taeyang been watching her? ‘[Silence Mana Control]’ He wanted to utilize and familiarize himself with the auxiliary skill [Silence Mana Control]. [Silence Mana Control] was a technique that suppressed one’s mana presence, preventing even skilled psychics from detecting the mana of the Life Water Cloak’s cloaked wearer.
‘Ooooooh…! She hasn’t noticed my approach at all!’
Shhhhh…! Shhhhh…! Geum Taeyang activated [Silence Mana Control] and used [Silence Walk] to approach the psychic woman who had begun showering. So far, everything looked fine. But of course, Geum Taeyang’s insane antics disguised as skill practice did not end there.
‘Alright… let’s get this cock standing…’
Shuuuuk…! Shuuuuk…! This depraved man was wearing only the cloak. He opened the front of his lower garments and positioned himself right behind the showering psychic woman, repeatedly making his filthy cock stand erect.
‘As expected… [Silence Bio Rhythm] is working perfectly too… Hehehe…!’
What a pervert among perverts. Still, he had a superficial justification. When was a man’s body most activated? Obviously, during rapid erection. [Silence Bio Rhythm] was a skill that hid bodily movements and rhythms such as heartbeat, aside from mana. If he could hide the bio rhythm of his erect self, that would count as successfully casting the skill. Geum Taeyang was enjoying perverted acts disgusting enough to make one frown, all under the pretext of testing and familiarizing himself with [Silence Bio Rhythm].
Even so, one might think the real purpose was training at this point, but— ‘Kuh, fuck…! Shoving my cock in might be against decency, but touching her tits a bit should be fine as a greeting, right?’
As expected, Geum Taeyang’s inevitable lust whispered to him: No, you’re just horny~
‘Yeah, I’m a barbarian. What’s the big deal if a crude barbarian touches some tits a little!’
In the end, Geum Taeyang pulled out his all-purpose shield—the barbarian card. Squish! Squish!
“Kyaaaaah!”
He finally grabbed both of the voluptuous breasts of the woman who had been enjoying her shower while washing her hair.
“Who is it! Who’s grabbing my chest!”
Flail! Flail!
‘Time to run!’
—Tap tap tap tap tap!
Having completed his mission, the perverted male Geum Taeyang used [Silence Walk] to flee at lightning speed, avoiding the flailing woman’s hands.
‘Hah! Hah! Look at my heart racing! Even after pounding so many women, I still get this excited! Fuck, as expected!’
Having escaped the room, the Life Water Cloak barbarian Geum Taeyang leaned against the wall, feeling his wildly pounding heart and enjoying the sensation.
“Good! Then it’s time for the next mission! Let’s head straight to Josephina’s room!”
Geum Taeyang was not the type to stop at just this much. He had already thought ahead to the next stage of his mission, which would continue seamlessly as if shifting gears.
‘Josephina is one of my main heroines anyway, so there shouldn’t be any problem if I grope her a bit more lewdly, right?’
That was right. Not only Marianne but Josephina was also one of Geum Taeyang’s main heroines.
‘Josephina’s sleeping habit is to sleep without any clothes on. I’ll slip into her bed and give her a thorough groping!’
Josephina, who trained in swordsmanship until bedtime to become a disciple worthy of her master’s stature, would get hot and strip completely naked when sleeping. Geum Taeyang, who already knew this from playing [World Conquest Record], was well aware of it.
‘This is where the real challenge begins. To reach Josephina’s room, I have to pass by Sword Empress Marianne’s room. I planned this stage really well. This is going to be thrilling!’
Geum Taeyang, who had been on the fourth floor, descended to the third floor. Josephina’s room was there, but beyond that lay none other than the final boss of this mansion—Sword Empress Marianne’s room. Only by crossing without being detected by the final boss could Geum Taeyang molest Josephina.
‘Alright… I’m activating [Silence Mana Control] and [Silence Bio Rhythm] to the extreme…’
Geum Taeyang’s eyes grew more serious than at any other point today. His opponent was the Sword Empress, after all—an existence he could not afford to be careless with by activating his techniques half-heartedly.
‘Carefully… carefully…’
Shhhhh…! Geum Taeyang fully activated all the auxiliary skills of the Life Water Cloak’s cloaking mode and slowly approached Marianne’s room.
‘Huh???’
His eyes widened in surprise.
‘That’s the sound of conversation?’
Voices could be heard coming from Marianne’s room.
‘I thought she’d be reading a book, but who’s she talking to?’
From playing [World Conquest Record], Geum Taeyang knew two characteristics of Sword Empress Marianne at this hour. Because of matters related to Josephina, Marianne slept with her door open. Second, she would read books until around three in the morning before sleeping. It was her way of enjoying a moment of personal time after finishing all her tasks, and during this time she valued greatly, Sword Empress Marianne was apparently conversing with someone.
‘In that case, I have no choice but to change my plans. The next mission will be to check inside Marianne’s room!’
His instincts were tingling. She was clearly conversing with someone very important, and they were likely sharing information that would be useful to him as well. This was no time to be distracted by lewd thoughts.
‘Let’s see… Shall I take a peek inside?’
Peeking…! Having reached the entrance of Marianne’s room, Geum Taeyang poked his head inside.
‘Oho! That woman!’
What met his eyes was Marianne’s back and the woman sitting in a chair in front of her. She seemed to be someone Geum Taeyang had already met before.
‘S-rank Archmage Kesker! So that’s who came?’
It was Archmage Kesker of the Darmina faction.
‘Ah, I remember now. Before I possessed this body, the original Geum Taeyang had encountered her a few times at the academy. She was a regular magic professor at the current Empire Academy!’
Upon recognizing Archmage Kesker, Geum Taeyang’s [Clairvoyance] activated. As a result, memories of the original academy Geum Taeyang before the perverted Geum Taeyang’s possession came flooding back in a rush.
After all, even though they were both mages, alchemist mages and regular mages did not get along well. That was simply the nature of mages—they all believed their own field was the best. That was why, despite being a regular magic professor at the same Empire Academy, there had been little inter-departmental exchange, so he had rarely seen her in person and had forgotten about her.
“How is it? The medicine I made for you—does it have a significant effect on the Gu-eum-jeol-maek disease?”
“Hmm… I’ve been taking it diligently as you instructed, but unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any improvement.”
“Hahaha! My, what a strange illness. I thought since blood vessels seemed similar to mana circuits, we’d definitely be able to find a solution.”
“It’s fine, Kesker. I’m living well enough as it is.”
Geum Taeyang listened carefully to their conversation.
‘If Marianne is even talking about Gu-eum-jeol-maek with her, then Kesker must be an incredibly close friend. Wait a moment… The story where Marianne and Kesker are described as being this close…’
Even between the same people, relationships in [World Conquest Record] could vary subtly depending on the story route. And if relatively important supporting characters were involved in such cases, there was a high chance a major event was connected to it.
Geum Taeyang pondered his playthrough stories.
‘Hmm, I remember now.’
Geum Taeyang, who had returned from lewd mode to serious mode, quickly recalled it.
‘It was when Kushan was exerting its power as the main villain nation.’
Kushan had once been a nation that formed a dual superpower alongside the Darmina Empire in the past. Back then, Kushan had been an empire, not a kingdom. However, after being destroyed by the Darmina Empire, some of its territory was now under Darmina’s control, split between Kushan and Neo-Kushan.
‘Kushan was originally an empire where black magic was highly developed, but after losing to Darmina, black magic went underground. And if this is the story where Kushan emerges as the main villain, then around now would be when those black magic forces are starting to slowly devour the Kushan royal family again.’
While Darmina had been a typical empire, Kushan had been closer to a mystical empire. All sorts of magic and mystical arts had flourished there. Then at some point, black magic had prospered greatly, and using that as a pretext, Darmina had invaded Kushan.
“There’s information that a large amount of Dark Cloud Iron from the northern Isgandal Mountains has been flowing into Kushan. At that scale, they’re probably attempting demon summoning.”
“Do they already have the summoning capability, or are they practicing for it?”
“By common sense, since there haven’t been situations like a red eclipse occurring or totems reacting, the latter seems more likely. Still, we can’t rule out the possibility that after sharpening their blades for decades, they’ve developed more advanced techniques.”
“Hmm…”
As expected, Kesker was explaining Kushan’s movements to Sword Empress Marianne. Marianne, an S+ rank Sword Empress, was an extraordinary force. Though she rarely flaunted her power externally due to her sense of responsibility regarding great strength, she was the type to try to play a role when the continent faced chaotic situations. In that case, someone needed to inform her of the current state of affairs. That was the role Kesker was fulfilling.
Kesker had come to Marianne’s room in the middle of the night using gate travel through a totem.
‘The Darmina Empire has grown quite lax. Well, when things are going well, vigilance tends to crumble. To allow such a large amount of Dark Cloud Iron to pass through…’
Geum Taeyang clicked his tongue at Kesker’s words. Roughly a hundred years ago, at the final stage of the fierce battle between the Darmina Empire and the Kushan Empire, the cornered Kushan had unleashed black magic with full force. The power of that black magic had shocked not only the Darmina Empire but even neutral nations that had been watching the clash between the two empires from across the river. After their final victory, Darmina had strictly managed Dark Cloud Iron—the key material for summoning arts, the essence of black magic—for a long time. However, after spending decades dealing with the aftermath of defeating Kushan and establishing the First Emperor system, Darmina’s golden age of roughly sixty years had begun to slowly loosen.
‘Good. I’m glad I found out in advance. Is this also the [Fortune’s Favor] trait activating? Once Morion is fully developed and its effects become known, Kushan will definitely target us as well.’
After Morion became commercialized, Dark Cloud Iron would plummet in value because Morion demonstrated superior capabilities in summoning arts. In other words, Kushan’s trolling that would occur in the mid-game was also related to Morion.
Just as Geum Taeyang was self-praising himself for having done well to play the Life Water Cloak barbarian, —
“!!!?????”
Geum Taeyang’s eyes widened as he turned to the side.
“Hee…!? There’s a ghost…?”
Because Josephina had approached and was now standing there.