Thirty-Six Stars
A vampire had vanished, and the number of people gathered had reached forty.
At this point, failure was becoming harder than success. As more players joined, the pace naturally accelerated.
They were already shouting and bickering among themselves, each claiming they were the best leader for the group.
“We need to choose a leader. By the way, how about me leading this bunch? I’m pretty strong and I’ve tried the challenges a few times.”
The old beastman leaning on his staff spoke up, his bird-like head tilting as he spoke.
“Shut the fuck up. Failure isn’t a challenge. You’d better admit you ran away because you were scared of dying.”
The arrogant orc’s overbearing attitude made everyone’s eyebrows furrow.
“Stop talking and hurry up and leave. Even listening to you all prattle on takes time.”
“How about deciding through a duel? The leader should be the strongest one, right?”
“We’re forty-something. Why not just go?”
Players began grumbling more and more as time passed.
The players who had been fighting over who would be leader started watching each other warily.
Finally.
“Alright, let’s go then.”
Just before departure, the forty-strong group had swelled to sixty.
It was because the hesitant players had joined at the last moment.
Normally there were only around twenty on average, but when forty or more gathered, even the veteran Third City residents started drooling.
“We won’t get anything at all.”
Sixty people had gathered. With this number, even if we caught a golem, nothing would drop.
Yoo Dahui said.
“There’s plenty of opportunities. We’ll eventually catch them ourselves.”
Yoo Dahui was right. As time passed and stats rose, we could easily handle even the first-floor boss.
The reward we’d get then and the one we could aim for now were obviously different in level.
We arrived at the plain.
The golem was watching us.
A player who didn’t know who we were shouted.
“Aim for the golem core! It’s a rock, goddammit!”
It was just catching a golem. There was no need to follow the methods of the upper floors.
One man was sent flying by the golem’s kick.
“Kueeeeek!”
Even though he was covered in blood, he was still alive, so he was qualified to reach the second floor.
“Let’s go! Hit his legs! Smash his legs!”
“Watch your surroundings, idiots!”
“I’ll grab the golem!”
The dryad who wrapped her entire body in vines stepped forward.
As she extended her hand, vines burst through the ground and grabbed the golem’s arms.
Before the golem could tear them off, numerous players rushed it.
“Waaaada dada dada!”
The dwarf leaped onto the golem’s back and swung his double axes.
“Ugh! It hurts! Don’t tear them!”
The dryad screamed in pain, sharing the sensation of her vines being ripped away.
“Oh, we can win! We can win!”
The bird-like beastman flapped his nearly featherless wings in the air, cheering.
Despite the total chaos, we somehow caught the golem without taking a single hit.
—- [1st Floor Boss Monster Hunt Settlement in Progress…….]
—- [1,000 Coins Acquired.]
—- [1st Floor Cleared.]
—-
A reward worth less than a bean sprout. Since I had already expected it, it didn’t feel empty at all.
No players had died.
A portal appeared on the plain, and the players poured through it one after another.
Yu Dahui and I also leaped in without hesitation.
The second floor welcomed us.
Since it was randomly summoned, Borte’s shack was better off abandoned.
[‘Pluto’s Slave’ has been confirmed within a certain range.]
The moment we stepped onto the second floor, Isilia was confirmed.
Since I had left commands before regression, she had surely handled Wang Gohan’s gang on her own.
“Let’s head toward the shop. We can go up from here.”
We just needed to climb the island. Eventually a shop would appear.
The shop felt like a rest area built right before the main mountain path, located along the route to the second-floor boss, the Giant Lava Worm volcano.
We caught two green worms on the way.
Then three more.
After about ten kills, the fence Wang Gohan’s gang had installed came into view.
‘What the hell…?’
But something felt off.
Yoo Dahui muttered.
“It’s in good condition.”
Isilia, who was supposed to be waiting after occupying the shop, was nowhere to be seen.
Even though I hadn’t mixed in my commands, I thought she’d follow them.
“We’re screwed…”
Naturally we climbed over the fence and approached the shop.
The sentries guarding the shop looked at us.
“Hooh… So she’s a beauty?”
“Hehehe, which village is this? We weren’t told we’d have to deliver a woman.”
“Already drooling?”
“Shut up. Our Heavenly Demon will taste her first, then it’s our turn. Hold it in.”
“I know that. I don’t want to die either.”
The sentries scanned Yoo Dahui from head to toe and licked their tongues.
One scratched his crotch and adjusted his pants, his posture anything but casual.
It looked like they were all hard.
Yoo Dahui scrunched her face and muttered.
“Ah, it’s annoying.”
The more benefit one got from appearance, the more uncomfortable it became.
Any man would want to lay Yoo Dahui down on a bed.
I understood, but…
“Even with such a sour face, she’s beautiful. It’d be funny to see a martial artist get beaten.”
“Have you ever seen a martial artist? You just play the role of getting beaten in the sect…”
“Do you know how successful I am? Haha, you don’t know, right? When I was active, you lot weren’t even born yet.”
“You all know what a martial artist is, right? So shut up.”
The sentries slowly approached us.
Each one drew their weapons, clearly trying to wet their dicks.
At that moment, as expected.
One of them pointed at the sky.
‘These bastards are better at air defense than our squad.’
The tips of their fingers were trembling.
The sentries’ gazes converged, and they all shouted as one.
“A dragon? Is it a dragon?”
“A dragon’s flying this way!”
“Call the Heavenly Demon! Now!”
A white dragon flew toward us.
Having just finished a pounding earlier, Wang Gohan appeared, his dick swinging heavily as he flew.
“What’s going on?”
“A dragon is flying from over there.”
“A dragon….”
Wang Gohan’s gaze was fixed not on the white dragon but on Yoo Dahui.
“This beautiful woman could be called a dragon. Um, I’ve only tasted her with my eyes, but I’ll howl about wanting to impregnate my own seed…”
“Too blatant now, even my anger’s gone.”
At Wang Gohan’s words, Yoo Dahui let out a laugh.
Every man spewing filth was draining her motivation.
“Isilia will handle it on her own.”
“Wait, hold on….”
The white dragon opened its jaws wide.
White energy gathered, and Isilia spat it toward us.
‘Command performance is reliable.’
She immediately reacted when I commanded her to breathe with killing intent toward me.
Thanks to that, I was actually in danger of dying.
“Dodge! Get to the shop!”
“Move! Move, you bastards!”
The sentries scattered in panic from the dragon’s breath.
The shop wasn’t a safe zone, but the shop itself was protected by the System.
Only players couldn’t be protected.
“Follow me inside.”
“Yaaah!”
I grabbed Yoo Dahui’s hand and ran toward the shop.
At the moment Yoo Dahui activated her true power, I was still being held in her arms, but…
‘So what.’
I stared at Yoo Dahui.
In my imagination, Yoo Dahui was strong.
Yoo Dahui blushed and looked away from my gaze.
“She’s incredibly strong? What’s her agility exactly? May I ask if it’s alright to inquire about Dahui-nim’s stats?”
“…46 levels….”
“S-Six… forty-six? For real?”
Yoo Dahui gave a slight nod in response to my doubt.
‘Is this possible?’
In terms of a reader who had read the entire novel to its end, Yoo Dahui’s growth rate was clearly abnormal.
She had only regressed about thirty times, yet she had reached 46 levels?
‘In the novel, Yoo Dahui was barely level 20?’
It had been about half a year since she was summoned to the Tower of Struggle.
Sodahui had reached only 20 levels in half a year.
But Yoo Dahui had done double that.
I stepped down from Yoo Dahui’s embrace.
Every eye in the shop turned toward me.
A man being held by a woman—there was no sight like this to see.
Luckily, the stares on me didn’t last long.
Someone had lured them away on my behalf.
Clack clack—.
A woman in a pure white dress walked into the shop.
A woman with only a pair of horns visible as handles.
Aicilia Von White.
“Pluto! No, Kim Jinwu! Please do me one favor!”
Isilia immediately started complaining the moment she entered.
She didn’t listen to my orders at all and was just talking about whatever she wanted to say. It was funny.
As Isilia entered, tension filled the shop.
“A dragon… A dragon’s broken in!”
“Ambush! It’s an ambush! Catch the dragon right now!”
“Follow Heavenly Demon Wang Gohan!”
The group led by the Heavenly Demon Wang Gohan, who had been controlling the shop, drew their weapons.
Some were naked, some had something dripping from the corners of their mouths.
In the corner, naked women lay with their legs spread like corpses.
“For now, let’s step outside and talk for a bit?”
I took Isilia outside.
Wang Gohan’s gang kept glancing at us alternately, trying to assess the situation.
I’d feel the same if it were me.
Isilia turned her back on us and walked out proudly.
I and Yoo Dahui followed.
Outside the shop, the entire island was covered in white snow and ice.
Isilia said.
“I have one request.”
“I’ll speak first.”
“Huh? No, please hear my request first….”
“I won’t hear it.”
“H-How do you know that….”
“Isilia’s face suddenly hardened.”
“In exchange for letting me give birth, please remove the Submission Oath and make me swear the Mana Oath, right?”
“How do you know….”
“Why would I not know? I already know the answer.”
I should drop that pathetic thought.
That I alone am the regressor or that only I retain memories—those delusions don’t help with any reasoning at all.
Isilia’s eyes trembled slightly as if she was surprised.
“No way… you too….”
“Yeah, does the general feeling come to you?”
You’re not the only special one. To be precise, only Yoo Dahui is special.
“Anyway. Do you remember what I said to you?”
“What did I say to you? The only thing I did was grab your horns and forcibly shove my dick into your mouth….”
“Shh. Quiet, you crazy bitch.”
I tried to cover Isilia’s mouth belatedly, but was that really too late?
Thinking that, I glanced back—and a chilling sensation suddenly brushed my spine.
Wang Gohan’s gang was walking toward us, fully equipped.
“Huu, it must have been because of that side.”
I had momentarily mistaken the chill for being caused by Wang Gohan’s gang.
Yoo Dahui threw a sharp remark from behind me.
“Kim Jinwu, we should have a separate talk later.”
“Yes, yes…”
Yoo Dahui stood in front with her sword and shield raised.
With agility at 46 levels, what was her strength level?
I wasn’t slow either, but I no longer had the confidence to catch up.
Isilia stood beside Yoo Dahui and said.
“Human. If you go alone you’ll get hurt. You don’t want to have a baby, do you? You must always cherish your womb.”
“…Will you stop pretending to be close?”
“You’re so rude. Still, you’ll help me persuade Kim Jinwu, right? Huh? You said you’d help me.”
“Shh…! Quiet!”
Yoo Dahui urgently covered Isilia’s mouth.
Isilia showed a gesture of understanding and pushed Yoo Dahui’s hand away.
“What are you doing? Negotiating?”
“There are two women… Today we can toy with them all day.”
“Ohoh! The Heavenly Demon said he’d toy with these two women all day!”
Wang Gohan’s gang had already surrounded us.
There were over two hundred of them.
If all of them were Wang Gohan’s direct subordinates, they were the highest level single force.
“Kim Jinwu, did you hear what I said earlier?”
“What? You want to negotiate?”
“You didn’t hear? What Isilia said…”
“I didn’t hear.”
“Really?”
Yoo Dahui sighed in relief.
“Wow, these bastards. They still have time to chat?”
“Even while getting their dicks stuck, they can keep talking!”
Wang Gohan’s gang charged toward us.
This might be a bit much….
Yoo Dahui and Isilia confidently aimed at Wang Gohan’s gang.