Nightmare (1)
Exiting the grand estate. Through Titania’s black veil, I slipped out in an instant.
“Ms. Titania, see you next time. Thank you for letting me in today.”
“No big deal. And you’d better not run into Orde. If you come around the estate much, it won’t do you any good. Orde… really, really likes pretty girls like you.”
“Thanks for the advice. I’ll be going now. Think about what we talked about earlier.”
Yu Dahui waved at Titania.
Titania smirked at me and Yu Dahui, then vanished through the black veil.
It took less than three seconds from the grand estate to the Red Hair Mercenary Group’s guild house. Is there no way I could use that black veil myself? I really wanted it.
“Kim Jinwu.”
“Yeah?”
“How many succubi did you feed to them?”
Yu Dahui asked about the succubi who would regress next round. But I couldn’t answer. I didn’t know, so I gave a vague reply.
“Not sure. More than ten, I think.”
“…Amazing. Kim Jinwu, you’re amazing!”
Yu Dahui clapped.
It sounded mocking, so I scratched my head awkwardly.
“What do I do with my dick? Or… should I just get pregnant and cut it off?”
“T-That’s….”
“Joke.”
Yu Dahui raised her arm and showed her wrist. A Mana Oath was etched there.
“As long as this oath holds, I won’t touch you. It’s annoying and infuriating, but I have no choice.”
Yu Dahui was keeping up the act of being considerate. Actually, she was a netorase who got off on watching me get taken by other women. Stealth Mode: ON.
‘This succubus probably won’t refuse either. Just leave a recording when we fuck, and I’ll be fine.’Stealth Mode: OFF.
I could roughly figure out what happened between Yu Dahui and Titania. Just like with Elena, Yu Dahui had given Titania hell. She’s going crazy. Even while yelling at me not to eat me in front of her, she’s handing me out to other girls to get fucked. And then she’s lecturing me about why she got fucked while hiding her true feelings.
‘I could make her a loser….’
Devastating Sex Techniques energy enveloped my middle finger. After being hit by a succubus, my Sex Techniques and Estrus exploded in growth. Now I had reached a realm where women no longer scared me.
‘Titania….’
When I meet her again, I’ll make her long-forgotten virgin pussy loose and sloppy.
We joined up with Elena and Isilia.
Elena was still an out-of-play powerhouse. But from the third floor, Isilia was also combat-ready. She’d grow fast and become out-of-play, of course.
Elena approached Yu Dahui. They whispered to each other, and Elena kept glancing at me with contemptuous eyes, as if she’d expected it.
“Aren’t you two plotting something behind my back?”
“So what.”
Isilia answered dismissively.
“And if you go gallivanting with those other bitches, I’ll actually like it. I won’t touch you.”
“Yeah?”
I’d start with Isilia next time. Plenty of untouched places. Excluding her pussy, almost nothing had been developed. The untouched green belt. First, her ass.
I groped Isilia’s ass. Over the dress, I kneaded her plump buttocks wildly.
“Soon…!”
“What?”
Isilia squealed and grabbed my arm, but she couldn’t shake me off with strength. Without using my commands, Isilia naturally surrendered her ass to me.
“Huuuuh… There are Dahui and Elena over there….”
“So I’m just touching now.”
At first I thought her hands were numb from the cold. But as I kept touching, Isilia’s ass gradually warmed up like a human’s. The temperature changes during play with Isilia felt perfect. I kneaded her a bit more then pulled away.
Isilia glared at me with a grin.
“I’ll make it tighter later.”
“No…!”
“Even if you hate it, I won’t let you off.”
I naturally moved toward Yu Dahui. It was time to get serious.
“We’re heading to the underground dungeon. Let’s go quickly.”
“…Yeah.”
We headed out of the kingdom. Among the gates dividing east, west, south, and north, we chose the east. The gate closest to the Red Hair Mercenary Group’s guild house.
Right after leaving the kingdom, the safe-zone sign vanished. From here on was a lawless zone where PK was allowed. Of course, on the third floor, PK was rare because guilds stayed together. An alliance of benefit groups made random PK a detriment. The moment you got isolated, you could be cut off anytime. So justification mattered. Even if it was “cover your eyes and grab your balls,” it was necessary.
Heading east, I spotted the dungeon entrance. A hole leading underground shaped like an open-mouthed demon. It was weird.
“It has quite a vibe…?”
I knew it from the novel, but Yu Dahui was seeing it for the first time. She hesitated, overwhelmed by the atmosphere.
“Scared?”
“Scared? Who? Me? Haaah…!”
One word made Yu Dahui’s steps lighter. Watching her walk in briskly behind me, I barely held back my laughter.
Sasasa-
Passing the dungeon entrance, we descended the stairs. Light vanished, and darkness rose.
“U, uuu….”
Yu Dahui hated the dark. More precisely, she was terrified of bugs that might pop out anytime. Same for me.
“U, su….”
“Y-You said I was scared of you earlier, yet you’re acting the same?”
“Can’t help it. It’s terrifying…!”
Arm in arm, we slowly descended. My senses were heightened, so every small sound made me jump.
Sasasa-
“Uheeek…!”
“Y-You startled me. Don’t overdo it!”
“No, really….”
I pulled Yu Dahui tight and kept going down. Sharing body heat made it less scary. Maybe thanks to Elena and Isilia behind us.
‘Aren’t they scary too?’
I glanced back. Mana flickered in Isilia and Elena’s eyes.
‘Ah.’
With mana only strengthening the body, I’d forgotten finer techniques. Concentrating mana in the eyes could enhance vision. Mixing in the right amount, I could see as brightly as daytime.
‘Visible.’
The path was visible. Not as bright as daytime, but not scary at all.
“U, uuu….”
Yu Dahui clung to me, scanning around even though it was dark. Her face was filled with anxiety, and her swinging arms showed tension.
“Heeik…!”
I loosened my arm and groped Yu Dahui’s ass. Firm buttocks, the feeling of touching them was addictive.
Yu Dahui squealed.
“W-What are you doing…!”
“Too scary. E-Even touching my ass makes me feel better. Less scared.”
“What the….”
I answered awkwardly. No matter how I thought, it sounded weird. But Yu Dahui gave up thinking. Instead, she stealthily reached down and groped me.
“It seems… fine.”
Yu Dahui’s voice no longer trembled. It had been shaking before, but now it settled calmly. Touching my dick soothed her fear like nothing else.
“Miss Dahui.”
“Yes, Ms. Elena.”
Even from behind, Yu Dahui didn’t flinch. She answered calmly.
Unable to hold back, Elena explained the mana-in-eyes technique.
“Concentrate mana in your eyes. Then the path will start to appear.”
“Ah…!”
Yu Dahui gasped as if enlightened.
And soon mana gathered in her eyes, returning her to her usual haughty look.
“You can keep touching.”
“…No. Later.”
Yu Dahui’s hand moved away.
The real dungeon exploration began.
The underground dungeon on the third floor consisted of three underground levels. The third underground level was for awakening, so the actual huntable dungeon went only up to the second underground level. The underground dungeon was wider than the kingdom. One wrong move and you’d get lost, so thieves gained value on the third floor.
‘Thieves aren’t suited, I suppose. Guides are more fitting.’
Map value was also high. Each guild had different information, so fixed patrols were set. Guilds only going north would only go north, and those only south would only go south.
We were first-timers, so we’d only play near the exit stairs.
Huuhuuuhuu-
A creepy groaning sound echoed. The cave was surrounded by dirt on all sides, making it disgusting.
Monsters in the underground dungeon were bodiless ghost monsters and physically immune slimes. The term “ghosts” fit them perfectly.
Kkumkkul-
Slimes, translucent liquid monsters, had zero immunity to physical attacks and were a graveyard for mana-inept beastmen.
“So these are slimes?”
A slime the size of a person crawled. The translucent color made it easy to see.
Yu Dahui unleashed mana. Sword qi wrapped her blade.
Ppoing-!
The slime shot up and rushed at us.
Yu Dahui sliced it easily.
Seoreuk-!
Cheolpok-!
Slime fragments fell to the ground.
If you could only use mana, fighting slimes wasn’t hard at all. Of course, you had to be careful with their colors.
We hunted slimes and specters. Really, an easy hunt.
“They say the start is half the battle, but descending this far was the hardest part.”
Yu Dahui’s impression cut through our hunt. A hunt that didn’t seem to help growth at all.
“Shall we stop here?”
We earned a few hundred coins over two hours. Close to pocket change, enthusiasm was low.
“Rather, we should go big in a territory war,” Yu Dahui said, sinking into one-big-win thinking. She’d forgotten the joy of steady effort.
‘I get it.’
Even I wouldn’t find it fun.
We left the underground dungeon as we’d entered it—quickly on the way up.
The sun was setting in the west. Players returning to the kingdom were visible. Everyone looked tired, covered in dirt from the journey.
Then, a familiar back appeared. Blonde hair, broad shoulders. The final gate for the third floor, wearing holy knight gear.
‘Maybe even harder than the opposing magic king slime.’
Ryan was training outside the kingdom.
But this guy, was he originally training outside the east gate? When he allied with Orde and exterminated Ryan?
Where was Ryan then? I don’t remember well, but not the east.
‘This bastard….’
He was deliberately doing this. Countless female players had been trying to seduce him. Ryan had politely refused every single one. If you knew the truth, it was a horrific spectacle.
“Is that guy, Ryan or something, a faggot?”
“Yeah. I almost got my panties stolen by that bastard.”
Yu Dahui glanced at me.
“…You didn’t get fucked?”
“If I had, I’d bite my tongue and kill myself right there. What’s the point of living in such a cruel world?”
“Yeah, it’s good you’re still a virgin.”
Yu Dahui clicked her tongue. A disgusted reaction, but I ignored it.
“Hey.”
Ryan naturally called me.
My spine still tingled from the chase earlier. Wait.
‘Is this bastard waiting for me inside the kingdom after pulling off such a brutal chase?’ Something didn’t add up.
‘No way.’
He’d been fed to Titania in a dream. But the dream’s scope was vague. From the beginning, when Ryan started chasing me, to the moment I was saved by Titania, wasn’t the entire thing a dream?
“Can I have a word?”
Polite words from Ryan made me shake my head firmly.
“I have nothing to say.”
“Just a moment.”
“Enough.”
“Even a few words… I’ll give you ten million coins.”
Suddenly Yu Dahui shoved my hand toward Ryan.
I hurriedly pulled it back.
“Just a moment, right?”
“Y-Yeah….”
Ryan answered after Yu Dahui’s words. And then he rubbed my hand on his clothes as if something sticky had gotten on it.
Yu Dahui’s eyes turned icy.