#30. The Second Floor (1) – Golems, Play, and the Dawn of a Dream
Elysha still wore her traditional elf attire, its side slits exposing her hip and thigh while offering a touch more coverage than a swimsuit. ‘This is fine by me.’ My girlfriend, my wife, my daughter-in-law, and anyone else would be welcome to it. It was always a delight.
“We have to catch that golem,” Yoo Dahui said, surprisingly serious. After completing everything on the first floor, the only thing left was to take down the boss with us and climb higher.
With Elena’s chance, it would be easy to ascend. But even if we did, the thing waiting at the top would be Return by Death. Eventually, we’d only meet the real ending on the tenth floor, so we needed the strength to reach it. Step by step, growing from the bottom up. Every single growth, piled together, would break through the wall at the seventh floor and become the fuel that carried us to the tenth.
“Training. Let’s train,” I muttered. Boredom had set in again.
…And just like that, a month passed.
In that month, everything had changed. First, we’d moved from First City to Third City. The stilt houses were far superior to the mud huts. The air was fresher, less stuffy, less uncomfortable. The events on the second floor felt like a distant memory. The shacks and Wang Gohan’s house were already fading.
A month was a long enough time to train every day. My stats had shot up considerably. While Yoo Dahui simply rolled around, I’d found a more efficient method. The best thing for a regressor.
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic Lv.13
The door creaked open right before it shattered. Yoo Dahui stepped in and muttered irritably.
“…There’s some human lately who sneaks in and PKs.”
“Haha, yeah?”
PK. Far more efficient than hunting monsters. The System gave insane corrections, so even the same fight leveled you up like crazy. ‘That’s why PK is banned in the highest floors.’ But they left it completely tacit. The highest floors only wanted powerhouses to tear the current situation apart.
“Delimada.” PK was a great method, but it could also turn into a natural disaster that trampled superior breeds. The top-rankers either noticed and stayed away or picked out low-quality hybrids. They always chose one or the other.
I smiled awkwardly and said, “I’ll have to be careful.”
“…It’s you.”
Yoo Dahui let out a hollow laugh and stared at me like I was absurd. She didn’t react strongly, but her eyes were full of worry.
“So, how’s the progress?”
“Progress?” I tapped the seat next to me.
Yoo Dahui skipped over and sat down.
“Plenty. We could even go catch a golem right now.”
> Kim Jinwu (2★) updated
> Strength Lv.29 | Agility Lv.26 | Mana Lv.30
> Skills: Dark Magic Lv.20, Hard Skin Lv.20, One-Hand Sword Lv.20, Light Step Lv.17, Dark Shadow Spirit Magic Lv.13, Sub-race Martial Arts Lv.12, Camouflage Lv.10, Sex Techniques Lv.6, Estrus Lv.2
I mainly used one-hand swords while using dark magic directly and indirectly. At some point the shield had been absorbed into the sword, so my levels had skyrocketed. Sex Techniques was still hidden, but I used it whenever I needed to grow. Overall, I was growing balanced.
With Yoo Dahui by my side, I never wasted a single day. Countless players had died to my sword and dark magic, but none of that guilt or regret ever touched me. After all, when I regressed, everything except my stats would vanish.
Yoo Dahui whispered, “Then we can go catch a golem tomorrow.”
“Yeah.”
She pulled off her clothes as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Every time her pale skin was revealed, my vision blurred. Since I’d been holding back for experiments, Estrus Lv.2 had surged.
“How many days did I hold out…?”
“Three days…”
“Three days and you’re in estrus. Good.”
Yoo Dahui emphasized with both hands, showing her snow-white lower belly. Power flickered from her cute lower belly because of her uterus.
“It’s okay if I fill you up inside…”
Yoo Dahui dropped to all fours and shook her hips invitingly.
“Hold as long as you want.”
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
“Meow~!”
“Don’t make sounds like a dog… Ahhk!”
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
Dark Shadow Spirit Magic – Shadow Clone Active
Thwack—! I filled Yoo Dahui’s womb again and again. Driven by nothing but the desire to fill her uterus with my cum, I thrust nonstop.
[‘Estrus Lv.2’ ▶ ‘Estrus Lv.3’]
When I came to my senses, Yoo Dahui’s body was streaked with red all over. It was worth abandoning reason for this.
‘Estrus has leveled up.’ I couldn’t say it out loud. The effects were still too chaotic to explain. If I told her I could increase pregnancy rates by planting seed in her womb and boost stamina in estrus, how would I say it with my mouth? If we kept mixing bodies often enough, she’d notice on her own—I didn’t doubt it.
“…Jinwoo-ya.”
A natural arm pillow. Now sleeping apart felt stranger.
Yoo Dahui hesitated before continuing.
“Don’t push yourself too hard.”
“…Why?”
“Thanks to my blessing I don’t feel pain, but you do. It’s hard to watch you suffer.”
I’d been sneaking into PKs while wearing a mask. How wonderful it would be if I could always win perfectly. Sometimes I got cornered and lost my limbs.
“…H, even when excited I don’t feel as much pain.”
“That’s not the problem. I hate it.”
Yoo Dahui rubbed her face against me and snuggled closer. It felt like she was acting spoiled, and my heart swelled. But earlier she’d been all animalistic and possessive.
‘Why the sudden change in mood…?’ Sweet things were fine, but an inexplicable unease crept in.
Yoo Dahui fiddled with her fingers and grabbed my hand.
“I can climb the tower alone. No matter how long it takes, as long as you’re here with me, I can endure until the end.”
“Eh, eh…?”
Yoo Dahui crossed her fingers. On her left ring finger, an unfamiliar ring was sitting.
“Do you know what day it is today?”
Yoo Dahui’s birthday? No. Between all our loops, was there a memorial day? There couldn’t be.
“…What is it?!”
“Ovulation day. A dangerous day. And I took this too. Ovulation inducer.”
“Eh…?”
“Today, there might be a baby growing in my stomach? A baby that looks like you and me.”
“That…”
Eventually I’d have kids, but while I was trapped in regression, it was just a pipe dream.
“You know I stamped it clearly, right? Tomorrow, after we clear the golem on the second floor, there’ll be a little Jinwoo growing in my stomach. How does that sound? Excited yet…? Then….”
Tears of blood fell from Yoo Dahui’s face.
“Elena, Isilia, don’t touch meeeek!”
“Whoa! Shit…!”
“Nng… Why are you doing this, Jinwoo…?”
The horrifying scene made me bolt upright without realizing it. Whether because of me or not, Yoo Dahui rubbed her sleepy eyes and slowly sat up.
‘Dream? A dream?’
Where was the boundary between dream and reality? It was hazy.
Yoo Dahui scratched her head and pulled out a handkerchief.
“Whew, I’m all sweaty. Did you have a nightmare?”
“Eh… If it was a nightmare, then it was.”
She wiped my forehead and neck even though she didn’t know whose dream it had been.
“Thanks to that I woke up early. On the day we finish the first floor, and it’s not bad.”
Yoo Dahui laughed brightly and headed to wash. Her backside never got old, even after a month of seeing it every day.
“What the hell…?”
It seemed like estrus had fried my brain. I dug through my memories. Among the chaotic jumble, I pulled up only last night’s.
Since I’d found the ring, it had felt like a dream.
We hadn’t exchanged coupling rings yet.
“As long as you are with me, I can endure until the end.”
“If I say it like that, what do you think Kim Jinwoo is?”
“An alpha male.”
“Can an alpha male hide behind a woman?”
“I didn’t say hide. I said to be careful so I don’t worry about you.”
Yoo Dahui had worried about me while watching me run into danger.
With her voice full of worry, I couldn’t tease her anymore.
“I sometimes dreamed when I almost died for the first time. Your expression kept flashing in my mind. Of course now I do regressions, but…”
“It hurts. It really hurts.”
“Yesterday too. Elena suddenly ran over during sparring. I followed, and your limbs were cut off. You still smiled.”
“Watching that, my insides felt torn apart. I envied Elena for the first time. ‘Ah, Elena can be saved so easily…’. It was serious.”
Emotionally changed, Yoo Dahui spoke her true feelings in a voice unlike her usual tone.
“Jealousy… I felt a lot. You two seemed so close, and I got angry, but you didn’t notice, did you? You seemed completely clueless.”
“But if Elena hadn’t been there, how much longer would I have stayed on the first floor?”
The thought had hit me suddenly.
“I was thinking about it, and without Elena my plan would take much longer.”
I swallowed hard and asked about the plan.
Yoo Dahui tried to hide her flushed cheeks and whispered.
“We have to go home.”
Home… The word felt heavy.
Either way, the pregnancy attack had been a dream. I decided to think of it as a nightmare from mental fatigue.
‘The starting point changes at the fifth floor anyway.’
The best time to worry about pregnancy attacks was right before clearing the fourth floor. If I got pregnant then, the growing baby would sap my mental strength.
“There are only five of us today.”
“There were people from yesterday… Oops, they must have failed.”
The Third City plaza had an unspoken rule. Anyone hoping for a golem raid had to gather here and move together. You could only clear safely if you brought as many people as possible, so challenges were almost always massive. At least twenty.
“Can we do it?”
“…Probably not.”
We already had five. Plus our six made eleven. With Elysha not fighting, the real combat force was only ten.
“We need to gather more.”
To conquer together we needed at least twenty. If we couldn’t gather twenty, we’d need a species other than humans or green skins.
“Oh? Lately I smell something delicious…”
A familiar-looking man was walking toward us from afar. Even his ordinary gait looked elegant. The handsome man approached and let out a horrifying sound.
“That scent… It’s you.”
“You…”
“You know me?”
A vampire I’d seen a month ago. I didn’t know his name, but he was the blood I’d fed my dark magic to. How had he survived? Originally I or Elysha should have killed him while he was bossing around, right?
‘He must have run away.’
The vampire had led about twenty players to catch a golem. But things hadn’t gone well. The raid failed.
“…Since I don’t know who you are, it would be better if you gave us some space.”
“Haha, understood.”
“Thanks. I was this close to losing control of my rage.”
I had a disease that got angrier the closer someone got to me.
“Twenty-plus?”
Yoo Dahui recounted the players gathered in the plaza, including the ones the vampire had brought.
That bastard was using his charm everywhere.
Yoo Dahui, however, was completely unbothered.
“This isn’t bad, is it?”
“Worth challenging.”
It wasn’t bad. Yoo Dahui and I were far stronger than a month ago, and the other players looked confident too.
“Let’s wait ten more minutes. We’re close to twenty, so we can start soon,” a dwarf suggested.
The other players agreed.
We waited ten more minutes. Nothing changed. Today’s golem hunters were all us.
“Let’s go!”
The dwarf led the way. His bronze muscles rippled. Short, but with presence.
The path ahead was tense. Everyone walked in silence. Even the vampire stayed quiet.
“Just one more sniff and I’ll kill you before the boss.”
“How does this delicious scent smell so strong? After tasting my mother’s blood, this is the first time I’ve smelled it. Just one sip would be enough—I want to drink it.”