Chapter 59: The Beastkin Priestess
Chapter 59: The Beastkin Priestess
After finally dealing with the wolfdogs, I at last had a moment to speak with the priestess.
“Blonde….”
“Beastkin….”
For some reason, I felt a chill from the voices behind me, but she was the priority for now.
Why did she run away yesterday? Why was she in a place like this? I had a mountain of questions, but there was one I had to ask first.
“Are you alright?”
“Sniffle. Yes.”
The priestess was sitting on the ground, wiping her eyes with her hands.
Her body was covered in red gashes, but it seemed she hadn't suffered any fatal wounds.
“Here, let me treat you….”
“Ah, thank you. It’s alright. I can do it myself.”
Still, I couldn’t just leave her covered in wounds.
Guwon took a potion from his inventory to hand it to her, but she politely declined and began to chant an incantation.
A mystical light enveloped her, and her wounds healed in an instant, as if time were being fast-forwarded. Soon, not even a scar remained.
She’s only level 18, so her job level must be even lower, yet she has this much healing power?
I guess it’s true what they say—having a healer in the party is essential.
But once she was healed, I had a new problem: I didn’t know where to look.
Through the tears in her priestess’s robes, her fair skin was exposed.
Even in her loose-fitting clothes, her chest swelled as if about to burst, and the way it accentuated the curve of her waist was surprisingly erotic.
Of course, just because I didn’t know where to look didn’t mean I actually looked away.
As a self-proclaimed gentleman, I made sure to take this opportunity to sear this beautiful sight into my memory for as long as possible.
Mmm. I thought so yesterday, too, but that’s one incredible chest.
“What are you doing! Give her something to wear!”
“That’s right. You carry plenty of clothes around, don’t you?”
Though my viewing was cut short by Diana, who promptly smacked me on the hip, and Sara, who joined in to rush me.
“Ah… th-thank you.”
With no other choice, Guwon took a shirt from his inventory and handed it to her. The priestess immediately put it on over her robes.
With Guwon’s large shirt layered on top of her already loose-fitting robes, even the priestess’s magnificent chest couldn’t help but lose its luster.
Dammit. All that sexiness vanished in an instant.
“Hmph. So this is the priestess you were talking about? I see….”
“It’s painfully obvious why you were looking for her so desperately.”
Sara stared at the priestess’s chest for a moment before whipping her head around to glare at Guwon.
H-hey, I can’t help it! It’s instinct to look there! Big boobs are a man’s dream! It’s a world you, as a woman, could never understand!
“Hmph. If I were to grow to my full potential, I could easily surpass that!”
For some reason, Diana seemed to have her competitive spirit ignited.
She puffed out her chest and slapped it with both hands before declaring this with a serious expression.
Easily surpass her? Please. Even at your biggest, you’d only be the same size as her, or maybe a little smaller.
Besides, how many decades would have to pass for you to get that big?
Of course, if I’d said all that out loud, I couldn’t guarantee my life would be spared, so I kept it all to myself.
“So, um… you are….”
“Ah, my apologies for the late introduction. I’ve been so rude to my saviors. My name is Leia.”
“Not at all. The pleasure is ours. I’m Guwon. This is Sara, and this is Diana. So, Leia-ssi, why are you here all alone?”
“Huh? Th-that’s….”
It wasn’t a particularly strange question, but Leia blushed and hesitated to answer.
“The truth is… I heard that a new Wolfdog Transcendent Species was discovered here.”
Don’t tell me she came to hunt a Transcendent Species. By herself?
Wait, what? Yesterday, it seemed like her goal was to hunt Orcs.
“You’re a priestess, so you could have formed a party at the temple. Why did you come alone….”
“Well… all the adventurers were reluctant to hunt that Transcendent Species….”
I suppose it is a bit strong for a monster in this area.
It’s too powerful for the adventurers who frequent this area, and the adventurers strong enough to beat it have no business being around here.
“Hmph. Still, that was far too reckless.”
Diana was right.
Given that she’s a Beastkin, she might be capable of some combat despite being a priestess, but for a level 18 priestess to try and hunt that thing alone? There’s a limit to how reckless one can be.
“We can’t just leave her here. Let’s take her back to the Guild.”
“Yes, that sounds like a good idea.”
Going to the Guild and coming back would take time.
We might not make it to the secret base today.
Still, neither Sara nor Diana seemed to have any objections.
They can be cold for no reason sometimes, but they’re good people at heart.
“Um… that is….”
Leia hesitated for a moment, then suddenly bowed a full 90 degrees to the party.
“Please. Would you help me hunt the Wolfdog Transcendent Species? I know it’s shameless of me to ask this of the people who just saved me, but I’m begging you.”
“…What should we do?”
“Hunting it isn’t a problem, but….”
She was right. Hunting it wouldn’t be an issue.
It was on our way anyway, and if it had reappeared, we would have had to deal with it regardless of Leia’s request.
But if we hunted it with Leia, we’d have the extra trouble of escorting her back to the Guild, which would mean wasting the entire day.
“Is there a reason you want to hunt the Transcendent Species? I thought you wanted to hunt Orcs yesterday.”
“The parties that hunt Orcs prefer to take higher-level priestesses.”
That made sense.
A party going deep enough to find Orcs would naturally hire a higher-level priestess from the temple if they were going to hire one at all.
What Guwon was curious about was why the Wolfdog Transcendent Species had suddenly replaced the Orcs as her target.
“W-well… to get its penis….”
An answer I never expected came flying out.
Penis? Did she say penis? The monster penis that’s mainly used as a dildo?
This beautiful woman came all the way out here by herself just to get a dildo because she couldn’t stand the throbbing at night?
A thousand different thoughts raced through my head as lewd scenes flashed before my eyes.
In times like these, a real man is better than a dildo!
Alright, looks like it’s my time to shine.
As someone with the Saint job, I have a duty to show women what true pleasure is!
“If that’s what you need, then I can….”
“You desire a staff, I take it.”
“I believe we can help. A staff, you say. Of course, that’s a necessary item for a priestess.”
Diana, thank you so much.
I was about to hit on this beautiful woman with a completely random sex joke.
As I saw this morning, this world has a lot of fervent believers.
If a rumor spread that I made a sex joke to a priestess, who knows what would happen.
Right, I remember hearing it was used as a material for a priestess’s staff.
The impact of the word “dildo” was so strong that I’d completely forgotten.
“What do you want to do?”
If her goal was to obtain the penis, another problem arose.
To get a penis from a Transcendent Species, you have to kill it while it’s erect.
This was a secret I’d rather not share with others.
“I’m sorry, but we have our own business to attend to. We can take you to the Guild, but you should try getting the penis after you’ve leveled up some more.”
Diana, having noticed this as well, rejected Leia’s request.
And this was coming from Diana, who was the least interested in dungeoneering among us and should have been the most willing to help.
“…Is that so? Yes. Thank you.”
Leia couldn’t press any further and lowered her head.
The perky ears atop her head drooped as well, making her look even more pitiful.
“Cheer up. Someone like you should be able to gain those levels easily, Leia-ssi.”
“Indeed. Besides, are you not a priestess? Does the temple not have such things?”
“Yes….”
Sara and Diana tried to console her, seeing how dejected she was, but Leia only grew more dispirited.
“Is there something else going on?”
It might be considered a lewd question for a man to ask a woman, but Guwon was so concerned that he couldn’t help but ask.
“No. I-it’s, um, nothing….”
“Tell us. Maybe we can help.”
Perhaps he was prying too much into someone else’s business, but Guwon felt a surge of sympathy for her pitiful state and couldn’t stop himself from speaking.
Leia hesitated, but at the words “maybe we can help,” she seemed to make up her mind and finally spoke.
“The truth is… I can’t level up.”
“Wh-what?!”
What is she talking about now?
It would make sense if she were a man. A eunuch can’t level up.
But a woman who can’t level up?
“I-I don’t know why, but every man I’ve been with… has passed away….”
Leia said this through tears, as if ashamed.
…What the hell does that mean?
So, every man who’s had sex with Leia has died from it?
Never mind not knowing the reason, it’s obviously because she’s a master in bed, right? But is that actually possible?
Her level is so low, too. Just how much of a master does she have to be for that to be possible at her level?
“I-is that so? That’s truly unfortunate. I’m sorry, but if that’s the case, I don’t think there’s anything we can do to help.”
“Y-yes. That is something beyond our ability to handle.”
Sara and Diana looked extremely flustered as they tried to comfort Leia.
I could understand their shock—they’d asked out of curiosity and gotten an answer like that—but weren’t they overreacting a little?
Wait a minute. I’m a Saint. Isn’t this a problem I can totally help with?
“Huh? In that case, I think I can help.”
The moment Guwon said that, Sara and Diana whipped their heads around to look at him.
Why are you looking at me so scarily?
You two are probably too flustered to think straight, but I’m not just saying this without reason.
“N-no, you can’t! The temple even brought in a very high-level High Priestess to find the cause, but even she….”
In response to Guwon’s words, Leia said something even more terrifying.
She overcame an overwhelming level difference and still made her partner die from pleasure?
“Th-then you can’t, Guwon. I know you want to help, but….”
“Mm-hmm. To surpass a level difference of that magnitude… I’ve never even heard of such a thing.”
“But I’m a Saint, right? You don’t think I’d die from doing it just once, do you?”
I appreciate the concern, but I really don’t think I’m going to die from mere pleasure.
It might be a different story if my life force was drained to nothing over several days and nights, but this was different.
Besides, I didn’t die when I was with Diana before my reincarnation, did I?
For some reason, the expressions on Sara’s and Diana’s faces hardened drastically at Guwon’s words.
Cute. Are they that worried I’ll die if I get involved?
“What?! Wh-what do you mean?!”
Leia’s eyes went wide as she grabbed Guwon’s hand with both of hers and asked.
“Well, my job is ‘Saint.’ In short, it’s a job for having sex.”
At Guwon’s words, a bright light of hope flickered in Leia’s eyes.
“I-is that true? Then can you find out why this is happening to me?”
“I won’t know if I can find the reason until we try, but I’m confident I won’t die, at least.”
At Guwon’s words, Leia pulled his clasped hand toward her chest.
Mmm. What a nice feeling.
Guwon focused all his senses on his hand, savoring the sensation.
Come to think of it, she did this yesterday, too. Is it a habit?
“Pl-please. With me.”
“Of course. Don’t worry.”
Guwon answered immediately, as if there was nothing more to say.
If anything, I’m the one who should be asking you.
Not only do I get to be with a beautiful woman who is perfectly my type, but I also have the perfect justification of helping her.
It was only natural that Guwon was grinning from ear to ear.
“You look happy.”
“H-huh? Oh. Well, it’s a joyous thing to be able to help someone. Hahaha.”
“Hmph. Is that so.”
Sara’s and Diana’s gazes grew colder and colder.
If Guwon spent a day sleeping with Leia, it would naturally delay Sara’s and Diana’s leveling and skill research by a day, so I could understand their reaction.
But since it was a matter of helping someone, they couldn’t really stop me. They just watched with cold eyes, unable to intervene.
Sorry. I’ll make it up to you with all my heart and soul when it’s your turn.
But tonight belongs to Leia.
With a spring in his step, Guwon quickly headed out of the dungeon.