The Absolute's First Appearance (2)
"Oh-ho! Those things are actually holding on?"
She flew toward the giant monsters as if she found them rather admirable, heading over to get a look at opponents who had, for the first time in a long while, actually withstood her attacks.
Those colossal beasts that had looked like the devil's own warhorses heralding the end of the world — those grotesque, spine-chilling embodiments of evil — were now gasping for breath, their entire bodies torn to shreds.
Kreeeh... kaaaah...
The giant beasts that had soared through the heavens, reigning like kings, now floated half-dead on the water's surface like discarded plastic bags. Seeing them like this, they almost looked pitiful — like some endangered species.
Clad in her hero costume, a crimson cape streaming behind her, she carved through the sky and threw a single punch at each of them.
CRUNCH!
The shell of the Black Tortoise's avatar, a thing like a mountain of living stone, shattered as pathetically as a potato chip. The dragon-like Imoogi was pulped and sprayed across the sea. Something that looked like an ancient weapon split in two and was destroyed.
The monster legion that Kim Jae-guk and the Sea of Solitude guild had prepared to unleash upon the entire world was smashed to pieces by a single person, as if it were nothing. To Selectio, they were nothing more than insects.
"That's it?"
She asked it with a look of mild disappointment.
"Noona!"
I gathered Ryu Su-gyeong into my arms.
Searching for a method to neutralize the venom of the Absolute God of Desire...
This venom is both a poison and a curse. Ryu Su-gyeong will perish within five hours.
Even the simplest method of breaking the curse requires transferring her to a medical research laboratory for detoxification.
If Marison Pontus, the Absolute Incarnation of Desire, is killed, the curse will also be lifted.
Fuck!
What the hell is this!
I'll fix this even if I have to burn every last S-Point I have!
"O great god."
At that moment Kim Jae-guk tried to pull another stunt, calling upon his god. If something massive happened again before I could heal Noona, neither I nor Ryu Su-gyeong would make it out alive. Right now that bastard was like a psychopath holding the switch to a nuclear bomb. If Kim Jae-guk pulled another one of his god's tricks, treatment and everything else would go up in smoke.
"Hey. Kim Jae-guk."
THWACK!
I stomped on Kim Jae-guk's head with my foot.
"Keep running your mouth with that weird bullshit and I'll crush it right here."
"Urgh! Please — please spare me."
To think Noona got taken down by this pathetic piece of shit!
"You son of a bitch. I'll let you choose — you can die in agonizing pain, or you can die in such unholy fucking agonizing pain you'll wish you were never born. Where the hell is that Pontus bastard?"
I'd send Selectio there immediately. Then everything would be over.
"........."
"Should I start with the torture first? You're sturdy, so you probably won't die easy."
"Grab the object in my pocket and speak the full name of the Great Being."
The idiot answered immediately, like the moron he was.
"I'm going to kill that thing myself."
Whoosh. Selectio, having already finished off the giant beasts, landed beside me.
"Make it as brutal as possible. And as fast as possible."
"Heh heh heh. For a friend? Anytime."
At times like this, she was unnecessarily reliable.
Then Kim Jae-guk's body twitched.
"There's no way you'd know the Great Being's full name. Even in our guild, only three people know it. My mother, the Master. Myself, the successor. And Bloody Low, our greatest warrior."
I pulled a sinister cube-shaped object from Kim Jae-guk's pocket. Every face of the cube was engraved with bizarre, bone-chilling patterns — a magical artifact.
"Guarantee my life. Then I'll take you to Him."
I handed the cube to Selectio.
"I already know your master's name. See you later — I'll kill you in such fucking agonizing pain."
"Hmph! Don't make me laugh. No matter how much you bluff, you won't casually speak His name. Get me on the phone with a member of the National Assembly. I'll turn myself in officially. Without a guarantee of my safety, I won't tell you His name."
So he was trying to latch onto the politicians he'd been in bed with.
"'Marison,' right? That's how your master's name starts."
"Wh-what?! How?! How do you know His name?!"
"A guy with a tiny dick like you wouldn't understand even if I told you."
"Khuh!"
Selectio quietly scanned the surroundings with her x-ray vision, searching here and there.
"At least there are no enemies nearby. Friend, you go treat that elf bodyguard. I'll go kill this Marison Pontus or whatever and come back."
"Yeah."
"When we're done, let's hit the sauna together."
"Huh?"
A chill raced straight down my spine.
CRAAAAACK!
An enormous energy shook the very space around us. The cube in Selectio's hand was radiating an aura of darkness.
"Oh, crap!"
Shin Tae-hee had opened a portal before I could even heal Su-gyeong. Had Selectio been that lacking in tension? Why had she said Pontus's full name out loud? Was it just a slip of the tongue? The world's strongest hero making a mistake that stupid?
Well. It was possible. The current situation was a huge deal for me and for ordinary people, but for her it was just another Tuesday. To her, today's events were probably just one of those Earth-ending omens that rolled around every year, or every decade.
But Selectio's expression was faintly... peculiar. As one of the few people who could read her emotions, I picked up on something unusual and subtle, different from usual.
Maybe.
Maybe Selectio — Shin Tae-hee — didn't want me to heal Su-gyeong Noona?
I couldn't be sure. She did a lot of crazy shit, after all.
But one thing was certain. A corridor of darkness was slowly opening from Selectio's hand, consuming the surroundings like a black hole. And if you so much as touched it, you'd be sucked in instantly.
FSSSSSSSH!
The black space swelled even larger, swallowing us. No — it was trying to swallow the entire island.
"Noona!"
"........."
Ryu Su-gyeong couldn't answer me. The fallen, the dead — all of them were sucked into the rift of the black dimension.
"AAAAAH!"
Black tentacles burst from the portal and began devouring everything.
"Selectio!"
"Friend!"
Selectio was no exception. And so the world was dyed in darkness.
Consciousness faded. Everything fell asleep. It seemed as though endless despair was swallowing all things. No one could resist the darkness. Everyone was being sucked into the rift of black space.
"Ugh..."
When I came to, I was inside a cave.
"Where is this?"
I looked around. There was no one.
Kieeek!
Then a monster's cry rang out from nearby.
"Die!"
WHOOOOSH!
I could see Cheon Yu-ha, the Flame Fox Wolf, fighting marine monsters.
"Huh?"
Her appearance was unusual. Normally, when she drew out her power, her hair would turn to flame and she'd grow fox tails made of fire. But right now she had actual fox ears and a real tail. Twitching genuine ears and a genuine tail as if she were doing a beastkin cosplay, she toyed with her opponents like a true predator.
"Hahaha! You dare lay a hand on the twelfth-ranked hero?"
Kieeek! It hurts!
CRUNCH!
She finished off the monster with ease.
"H-hey, Flame Fox Wolf?"
Cheon Yu-ha turned around. Our eyes met. Her face flushed red and she squeezed her eyes shut.
POOF!
A burst of smoke exploded where she stood, and she vanished.
"Yu-ha!"
"Kyarr, miya."
Where she had been standing, there was now a red fox.
The Eye of Truth has activated.
That fox is Cheon Yu-ha's true form.
"Gyaaah, gyarrr."
The fire fox rubbed its face against my leg, acting spoiled. So she really was a fire fox all along. The moment everyone else disappeared, she pulled this stunt?
Unfortunately for her, I had the Eye of Truth.
Heh.
The corner of my mouth curled up. A fun idea had just occurred to me.
"Aww, so cute. A fox just appeared out of nowhere. I must've imagined seeing Yu-ha. Upsie-daisy."
"Gyarrrr."
I picked up the fox. The soft fur felt amazing. I rubbed my face against the fox's belly and blew a raspberry.
Pbbbbbt.
"Gyarararara! Rrrrrrrr. Aaahn♡"
The fox wriggled in a pose that could have been pleasure or embarrassment — I couldn't tell which. I nuzzled my face against the fox's ears.
The ears are an erogenous zone, aren't they.
ZAP!
"KYAAAAAA!"
A human scream tore out of the fox's mouth.
"Let's find our way out together, with Oppa."
"Gyarrr..."
Level 22. Hmm. Impregnating a hundred and sixty people at once had raised my level by two. I received my level-up bonus.
Fluid Form (C)
"Whoa! A skill!"
Turns the entire body into something like slime.
Grants immunity to all strikes and blunt weapons.
All stats are reduced by half.
Hmm. C-rank made it a mixed bag. It was actually a pretty solid ability, but the trade-offs were cut and dried.
I received another level-up bonus.
Special — Ungraded
Randomly raises the rank of one skill you possess!
SSS-rank skills are excluded.
Holy shit! This is broken!
This is completely broken!
Should I use it now?
Hmm. Yeah. I should use it now. I don't know what enemies might show up from here, but the number of skills I have is only going to keep growing. Currently I have five skills at A-rank or higher, and four below that. That's a jackpot lottery ticket with better than even odds in my hands. If I wait until I have more C-rank or D-rank skills piled up, the effect drops off — so I have to use it now.
Transforms the entire body into a freely shapeshifting fluid.
Grants immunity to all firearms, blunt weapons, strikes, and bladed weapons.
Can transform only partially. In that case, only the transformed parts suffer a partial stat reduction.
10x suppression effect against women.
The tentacle monster's body is a natural aphrodisiac that melts a woman's mind.
• Pregnancy-Acceleration Secretion
• Estrus Secretion
• Willpower-Weakening Secretion
• Healing Secretion
"Well. That's a bust."
I'm already the perfect woman-conquering weapon. A skill this savage? It didn't suit me. Plus I'm already a walking aphrodisiac. What I needed was combat ability.
Then again, if the Absolute's authority just handed me whatever I needed whenever I needed it, that would be broken beyond the pale. What I needed was even greater combat power — and I got a sex skill instead.
At least when it comes to sex, I can confidently say I'm the strongest in this entire setting.
Eye of Truth (SS) · Ideal Type Mirror (D) · Dazzling Rhetoric (C)
Flawless Bewitchment (D) · Violet Sunset Activity Divine Art (S)
Taiyu Extreme Way (A) · Golden Cock (S) · Super Recovery (A)
Virility Is Power (A) · Tentacle Monster Transformation (B)
Absolute Obedience Ticket (A) · Body Correction Syringe (C)
"Tentacle monster, huh. My cock is already a natural aphrodisiac."
I already have two S-rank sex skills — Golden Cock and Violet Sunset Activity Divine Art — and I get another sex-related skill? Ha. So this man's fate isn't just sex — it's a life that exists for nothing but fucking? Am I supposed to live until I die as a rotten, sex-obsessed slut of a man who knows nothing else?!
Fuck. I am so goddamn blessed.
Thank you, God. When I die and we meet, I'll lick your feet!
"Yarrrr."
Cheon Yu-ha hopped down from my arms to the ground and sniffed around. Sniff. Sniff. Then she pricked up her ears, each one swiveling like an antenna as she searched for sounds.
"Woof! Woof!"
She's barking like a dog.
"You want me to follow?"
A nod.
I walked forward, following the fire fox. From the far side of the cave came the sound of weapons clashing.
CLANG-CLANG-CLANG!
"Shaft Air!"
"Watch out!"
KABOOM!
"Kill them! Uninvited guests have invaded the Great Being's nest!"
KRAAAAAH!
Hundreds of monsters had surrounded a dozen or so heroes and were attacking them.
CLANG!
Among them, a female hero in silver armor was putting on a show. The woman whose armor sprouted blades from her entire body was Shaft Air.
SHING!
Hypersonic sword-ki erupted from every blade on her body, tearing the monsters apart.
KRAAAH!
SLASH!
Wherever she passed, a storm of blade energy butchered the monsters mercilessly, as if she were generating sonic booms.
"Guess I should step in."
I ran forward and grabbed a monster's arm. It was a fish-man with fins. The fish-man whose wrist I'd seized twitched its eyes.
"A human?"
"Heavenly Fall."
BOOM!
"Guh."
The fish-man's entire body slammed into the ground and it lost consciousness. I didn't let go of its wrist. In Taiyu Extreme Way, you typically used the opponent's body as a weapon in situations like this.
BOOM!
I swung the fish-man's body like a flail, attacking the enemies around me.
"KRAAAAH! A new human!"
KABOOOOOM!
"Tsk!"
The fish-man in my grip was now nothing but a dangling wrist, its entire body reduced to a shredded pulp of blood and meat. I looked for a new sacrifice.
This time it was a crustacean marine monster with a hard carapace covering its whole body.
"Kh!"
The eight-legged monster didn't lose its balance even when I applied force.
"Blossom Break!"
KRARAL!
The opening form of Blossom Break made it lose its center of gravity.
"Heavenly Fall!"
KABOOOOOM!
"Guh!"
"Heavenly Fall!"
BOOM!
"Heavenly Fall!"
KABOOM!
"Khehk!"
My arms were going numb. I poured more internal energy into them, and the next slam cracked through with a force the last ones hadn't had. I definitely needed to use internal energy rather than raw physical ability to get properly powerful techniques out. My mana stat was high, so I didn't particularly care — especially since the effects of Violet Sunset Activity Divine Art made my techniques hit even harder. Though my stamina would drain faster this way.
In that case, I should call for a helper.
"Thalia!"
"Woooom!"
"It's a fight."
"On it~!"
BOYOING!
Thalia sucked them in like a tidal wave. Then she increased the water pressure of her own body and squeezed, and the marine monsters were crushed like dented cans.
The enormous commotion brought a massive number of reinforcements pouring in from the cave tunnel on the other side, a teeming, skittering horde.
"There's no end to them. Ugh!"
Shaft Air's armor was starting to crack, bit by bit. Wherever the silver armor had broken, pale white skin showed through without fail.
She's not wearing anything under the armor?
KABOOM!
She was driven back by an attack from an officer of tremendous strength. One of her breasts slipped out through the broken armor. That milky-white breast with its pink nipple violated my eyes.
"Hngh!"
She stuffed her breast back into the armor. But that soft breast wouldn't leave my mind. It was a tit that got me hard. An A-rank chest.
I need to see this woman's face.
BOOM!
"Eut!"
Well now. If she's injured, a doctor ought to treat her. And wouldn't you know it — I only see one doctor around here.
"I'll treat you!"
Shaft Air turned to look at me. Her breast slipped out through the cracked armor again.
"Hnn — where do you think you're looking..."
A shy voice, so different from her dazzling combat movements. The telltale trait of someone with low male-resistance. A bashfulness that warranted suspecting she was a virgin. As a doctor, I had no choice but to conduct an examination. That was my calling, after all.
"Is it a crime for a doctor to look at a patient's body?"
"D-don't look at it so hard."
"Look at your pussy?"
Thank goodness. We seemed to communicate pretty well — better than I'd expected.