[?]
[???]
[?]
[금제?]
[예나 왜 저럼?]
[엥]
[예나땅?]
[옷 바꼈다]
[갑자기 이상해졌는데]
[뭐임?]
“Miss Yena?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you remember me?”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Of course, I’m not my friend Lily!”
Hug!
Yena wrapped her arm around my shoulder and laughed heartily.
Yena’s energy was usually high, but right now, she was off the charts.
Unlike the past, when she felt burdened by using cat language, there was no hesitation now, only joy and anticipation brimming on her face.
Most importantly, she wasn’t in the usual light assassin outfit but wore something like a martial arts uniform.
It was colorful and flowing, almost like a sorcerer’s attire.
It seemed that, just as shown in the cutscene, our outfits changed because we became sorcerers.
“Of course, it looks like there’s less fabric than the usual sorcerer’s wear.”
I, too, wasn’t dressed in the saintess’s outfit but in a long-sleeved sorcerer’s garb.
“Same level 6 sorcerer colleagues! You don’t remember taking the sorcerer exam with me?”
“Level 6 sorcerer means what level exactly?”
“Better than level 7! Way better than level 8! But not too high.”
“Can’t you see the little camera… no, the blue circle next to you?”
“Blue circle?”
Yena tilted her head, looking to the side.
It seemed she was broadcasting, with a streaming camera capturing her, but she still didn’t realize it and merely kept tilting her head.
“What do you mean by ‘something is visible’?”
“…Hmm. Alright, I get it. What exactly did we plan to do today?”
“Level 5 spirit! Didn’t we say we’d get permission and go catch it? You can’t seriously not remember?”
“Ah… Yeah. My memory’s a bit hazy all of a sudden.”
“Meow… Did something strange happen? You look in bad shape.”
“I don’t know… I think I need to move around a bit for my memory to come back. Can I leave the navigation to you?”
“Huh? I was going to lead from the start anyway. You don’t remember anything at all…”
Hmph! Follow me!
Yena seemed a bit sulky and began striding ahead, her outfit fluttering.
She looked sulky, but she was in a good mood, her tail swishing and steps light.
Now that I think about it, instead of the usual Green Hermit, Yena had a different dagger at her waist.
A weapon imbued with something mystical.
I had a small hammer tied to my back, which had a similar kind of spiritual power.
“Come on in, meow~ If you’re late, I’m going to gobble up Lily’s share too, meow.”
“Got it.”
As I followed Yena, I stole a glance at the chat window.
[????]
[What the hell, lolololol]
[I’ve never seen someone completely lose their mind like this]
[Yena, what situation are you in?]
[Is the penalty really this severe?]
[lolololol]
[Yena, no matter what she does, she can’t get her head back. She just threw 500 and didn’t even read it]
[Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa]
[Isn’t this serious?]
[Money-mad Yena isn’t reading her funds…]
[Lily, are you okay?]
“I’m fine. It seems like the information ban only affects Miss Yena.”
Why is it only Yena who’s affected?
If the system suggested memory as a penalty for training, both Yena and I should have been hit.
Yena and I had become too strong to be faced with a higher celestial being or a demon race, and even if our powers were limited, the ‘techniques’ would still remain in our minds.
No matter how much our power was restricted, we still had the ability to break the game, so the system chose to seal ‘memory’, the source of that technique.
Still, if Yena was affected and I wasn’t, it could only mean one of two things.
One is that the main of the training is Yena, so it only affected her.
Or, ‘my memory couldn’t be sealed.’
Whatever it was, the situation has unfolded, and I have to clear the dungeon with a Cat Beastman who’s under the delusion of being a Level 6 Sorcerer born and raised here.
If she can’t even see the streaming camera, she definitely won’t see the ‘log out’ button.
If I’m not going to let her live here, I have to clear it for sure.
“Come on! I’m really going to eat it all, meow?”
“Let’s go. Let’s go.”
[It is fresh, lololol]
[Yena, are you going to be stuck here for life?]
[Read Yena’s donations! Yena, read your donations! Yena, read your donations!]
[lolololol]
■
“We’ve arrived, meow~”
“It’s so gloomy…”
The place we arrived at, following Yena, was a village cloaked in an eerie aura.
There were no signs of human presence, as if people had long since abandoned it, with only bugs and rats scurrying about occasionally.
The sky was a dreary gray, with no sun, and there was an oddly chilling sense of malevolence lingering.
‘Is this inspiration?’
It felt distinctly different from the mana or holiness I was accustomed to.
‘Maybe it’s similar to a necromancer’s aura. A little fainter than that, though.’
As I was observing the village from outside, Yena returned, waving her hands while chatting with another sorcerer who was on guard in front of the village.
Yena, who had been chatting with another sorcerer, returned, waving her hands excitedly.
In Yena’s hands were two small prayer bead bracelets; one was on her wrist, and the other she handed to me.
“It’s done! You can now roam the village until sunset!”
“Where exactly is this place?”
“…You really don’t remember, do you?”
“Uh… I’m sorry.”
“No worries! If you truly forgot, it’s better to show you something familiar to help you remember quickly.
Cough!
“Back in the old~~~~~ days, there was an outbreak in this village. It was before Lily and I were even born, and they say an evil spirit caused it.”
“A ghost caused a plague?”
“Uh-huh. That’s right! Sorcerers like us have enough spiritual power to resist evil spirits, but the common folks don’t. So, when a big evil spirit appears, everyone suffers because of it.”
“Hmm…”
“Usually, just a fever is the basic symptom, but this ghost had a corrosive curse. Later on, a high-ranking sorcerer sealed it away with a jewel, but it was too late…”
“So that’s why the village became a ruin.”
“Exactly!”
[Aha]
[Yena has turned into a little explanation machine…]
[Why is Yena so cute?]
[Maybe this version of Yena isn’t so bad after all…]
[LOL!]
Flap!
As Yena stretched out her hand and mumbled, a small droplet appeared in thin air.
She swallowed it down and then wiped her mouth with a refreshing expression.
“So, the corrosive evil spirit is already captured, but the humans that were affected are transforming into evil spirits themselves. Since the souls of those humans are buried in the land without spiritual salvation, they keep coming out endlessly.”
“Oho… So we’re going to catch those evil spirits?”
“That’s right! Originally, the sorcerer who sealed it planned to eliminate the curse and the souls completely with a spell, but they say they left them for us low-ranking sorcerers to train on.”
“Isn’t there any salvation for them?”
“Of course, some of the affected are sent off, but the growth of sorcerers is considered more important, so… you know how it is…”
Smack!
Yena clapped her hands together.
She didn’t seem too keen on discussing heavy topics.
“Alright! Let’s go quickly!”
■
Kreeeeeaaaar!!
Smash!
I swung my hammer at the advancing evil spirit.
The evil spirit, literally an evil ghost, appeared to be a half-melted human but wasn’t fully corporeal.
It looked like a mix of an incorporeal ‘spirit’ and a corporeal ‘body.’
The form of En.
An ordinary ghost is 100% ethereal, so people can’t see or touch them, but this evil spirit is mixed with a body, allowing even those without spiritual power to see and feel it.
That sorcerer guarding the abandoned village isn’t there for no reason.
It’s to ensure that the evil spirits don’t leave the village and harm ordinary people.
“It should be around here… Found it.”
A small gemstone (鬼石) that can be obtained by catching an evil spirit.
It’s said to be a small stone formed from the gathered energy of the ghost, dropping as a ghost dies.
While it could potentially replenish spiritual power, gemstones are full of impurities, making them inefficient for conversion into spiritual power.
The reason for collecting them is to check how many evil spirits you’ve caught as loot.
Depending on the number caught, it helps with rewards and in advancing to a higher-level sorcerer…
Yena seriously explained this before entering the village.
“A bit excessive, really.”
[So refreshing]
[Still with the hammer attack, lol]
[Even as a sorcerer, the hammer is the best]
[Lily, let’s use some magic]
[Head~]
[Magic, let’s go go go]
“It would be nice if I could use it too… but there’s nothing they tell me.”
Normally, when roles are assigned, you’d be given background knowledge or techniques, but this dungeon didn’t provide any.
Aside from cutscenes, I didn’t know anything, and the only info I got was from Yena.
“Maybe this is part of the taboo as well.”
While swatting at another charging evil spirit, I saw Yena through the broadcast.
She had been hyped since earlier, told me to catch all of them and then come to the town center, and then rushed off.
Yena didn’t notice at all, but the camera was still filming her.
I was considering using the dagger usually at my waist, but she grinned at the charging evil spirit and opened her bare hands.
“Magic deployment.”
Huh…?
“Bimyo Tohwan Gyeok (Cat Summon Strike).”
A gigantic front paw appeared in the air and slapped the evil spirit.
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