Yeon-hee started chatting randomly as thoughts popped into her head.
“Phew… should we move around mid-March? By then, we’ll have enough funds to buy a much bigger house than this one.”
“Hmm…”
Even now, when we explore a dungeon, we at least earn over ten million won combined, so with our current savings, plus the income we’ll make in a month, and the profits from the mine starting next month, we should be able to gather over 400 million won easily.
Just earlier this year, I was barely making a hundred thousand won a day, and isn’t this what they call a life turnaround?
Scritch-scratch—
She shifted my bangs and switched the topic to me.
“If Il-wol wants to do a job change quest, wouldn’t it be better to head to a place with lots of monsters?”
“Hmm!”
“Hmm… then wouldn’t the wolf den be better than the orcs? The experience points might not be great, but those wolves really attack in packs during boss battles. The place with the most monsters in the D-rank dungeon we can access should definitely be there.”
“Hmm!”
“Ah… come here.”
“Ugh…”
Unable to hold back her cuteness, Yeon-hee launched another chest attack, making it hard for me to speak. But right now, the wolf den was indeed the best place for a quest. It was generally known like that.
However, the place with the most monsters in D-rank was actually Nargul’s dungeon. I remembered the undead charging like wild dogs, but I wondered if the other party members could hold out against that.
‘Such a dilemma.’
Squish-squish—
Her hands squished my face like dough, and thanks to her sweating leg resting on my backside, my butt was getting damp, but somehow I managed to endure for 30 minutes.
Now only one minute of my transformation time remained, so I pushed her away with difficulty and stood up.
“Yeon-i—(Yeon-hee.)”
“Yeah! What is it?”
“Hey— just wait and see tomorrow.”
“Huh? What do you mean? Anyway, okay!”
“Ugh.”
I nodded as I left her room, but suddenly felt a gaze and turned back.
There lay Yeon-hee, sprawled sideways, displaying her waist and hips in a seductive pose, looking up at me with a bright smile.
‘Ha… what a mesmerizing creature. Truly mesmerizing…’
As I left the room with such thoughts, my transformation time ran out, and I returned to my original form.
Swoosh—
‘Phew— this form is just so comfortable.’
Not only my body but my mind felt as clear as if it had been rinsed with crystal-clear water.
‘… The characteristics of the transformation target seem to merge too… What a crazy skill.’
I definitely wasn’t myself just a minute ago. Looking back, it was utterly ridiculous. Why should anyone be so embarrassed just because we’re under the same blanket? Seriously.
During transformation time, I become not me. That was something to keep in mind for using the transformation skill in the future.
‘Next transformation target…’
〔Transformation Possibility List〕
1. Guide Yoon Han-gyeol
2. Summoner Lee Yeon-hee
〔Information Gathering…〕
1. Sorceress Bae Joo-ah
2. Knight Baek Ah-rin
3. Ice Mage Noh Ha-yoon
4. Lizardman 1
5. Dotti 1
In just a few days, the order of information gathering had completely changed. Now it was finally a somewhat justifiable ranking.
‘Bae Joo-ah… somehow I feel that increasing the list of transformation targets will level up [Transformation]. When will I transform into Bae Joo-ah?’
If the transformation level goes up, I could use the target’s powers, meaning I’d be able to try out Bae Joo-ah’s rock magic.
‘If I use it just once, I feel like I’ll get the knack for it? I have the potential for rock magic, you know.’
1. Sorceress Bae Joo-ah
– There are moments when you have collaborated to achieve feats with the target.
– The target’s affection level towards you is ‘a little high’.
– Information gathering is 16% complete…
‘Hmm… the affection level is actually lower than Noh Ha-yoon’s. That information gathering seems to have some plus alpha related to my trustworthiness.’
Anyway, it doesn’t seem like something I can intentionally increase, so I thought I could put that out of mind for a while.
‘But what should I do about this…’
When I first used [Transformation], the distance to the targeted ones was much closer than the second time, so I thought I might not surpass my perception range, but guess what.
‘There are groups of them gathered this close. What are these guys doing?’
About 300 meters away in a basement, precisely 22… no, 23 people were gathered. The location I sensed when Yeon-hee was showering earlier, where an old house was located.
What’s amazing is that the dots marked on the mini-map in my head also numbered twenty-three.
‘Didn’t I just tag one bad guy? Well, they were described as a sinister bunch, so I was the one with the misunderstanding…’
Even though my transformation ability had faded, those inside my sensory range continued to stay in the same spot.
Maybe because they were in a basement, I couldn’t grasp exactly what they were doing.
“Can I go out for a sec? Keep an eye on the house.”
As I perched on the window sill and conveyed my thoughts in the language of my summoned creatures, Ran burst into the air excitedly.
“Alright. That Il-wol is stepping out again. While that guy’s away, I’ll take over as the temporary squad leader. You there! Lizard squad, come here first. Let’s start the mental training.”
“A little bird as the deputy? Let’s settle this with a duel.”
“Hah! How foolish! This is why the youngsters need training—”
The tension between Ran and Lizardman 1 was quite the spectacle, but right now, there seemed to be something way more fun just 300 meters away.
I jumped outside. Partly because of curiosity, but also because it felt awkward that such filthy things kept showing up near our house.
Like a mosquito buzzing around in a dark room, it felt annoying, irritating, and downright bothersome.
Flap—
Using high-speed flight, I swiftly arrived at the location of that house.
I hovered in the sky and looked down.
‘The house is small… but did they dig down a basement under here?’
Just like the blue-eyed organization members who used to make tunnels near dungeon entrances, these guys also feel right at home digging underground like rats. Such pests.
The problem is that they had locked the door tightly. While I could just break it down and have a brawl, that’s the absolute last resort.
I wanted to sneak in first and see what they were up to.
‘There’s only one entrance, but I have this.’
Ground Digger Lv.1
– You can dig through all terrain similar to the ground much more easily.
– Your digging speed while tunneling increases by 25%.
– Your senses for detecting enemies above ground are heightened.
– When targeting enemies from underground, your defense increases by +45.
This was a skill that fused [Tunnel Digging] with the ability gained from killing Cliff Worms.
‘I get to use it sooner than I thought.’
I landed in the yard of the house and surveyed my surroundings.
It was an extremely old and shabby detached house. With one semi-basement room, a living room and three rooms elevated to about 1.5 floors after climbing a few stairs from the yard.
And those guys were situated even lower, digging down from the semi-basement room.
Ordinary people probably wouldn’t be able to dig that deep. Did they have some kind of expert on hand? Their skills were impressive.
Using the rune of concealment to mask my presence, I positioned myself as far away from where they congregated as possible.
Then, I placed my hand on the ground and used [Ground Digger].
Swoosh-swish-swish—
‘Oh wow— this is complete ASMR.’
If exaggerated, it was as if the ground was being spooned out like pudding.
‘Wow, this definitely feels powered up.’
The performance was on a totally different level from the [Tunnel Digging] I used when I killed Earth Puppies. With this, I could even go against Wang-wang.
I dug feverishly into the ground, and if anyone were to see me now, a skeletal figure digging like a mole, they could probably fire a gun at me without flinching.
Swoosh-swish—
‘Hmm… this feels oddly… fun?’
The sound of digging away like ice cream being scooped out purified my mind, which had been overwhelmed by Yeon-hee’s teasing.
‘Ah! This is so healing! I had no idea I was missing out on this.’
I unexpectedly discovered a method for mental satisfaction. Finding happiness in digging! What a proper insanity for a skeleton. But it’s just too fun!
The emotions I felt right now might have been influenced by the skills of the Earth Puppies and Cliff Worms.
I remembered how Wang-wang always seemed to have such energy when he dug. The same probably went for the Cliff Worms, right?
I had thought the poor worms stuck in cliffs had a miserable life, but surprisingly, they were living happily, huh?
For Wang-wang’s sake, if we could move to a place that reeked of a suburban house— of course, not far from the city— that would be a boost for the welfare of the summoned creatures. It’s not that I wanted to move just so I could dig around… but Yeon-hee brought it up as well.
Anyway, I wiggled like a worm, digging down, and eventually reached near my target location.
Pitter-patter—
‘Eek, eek… careful, careful.’
As I dug deeper below, I could practically see the behaviors of the guys even without needing to look.
‘I knew it felt hazy up there; they had an illusion barrier laid down.’
But by condensing all the sensory waves down into the basement, that kind of barrier was a piece of cake to penetrate.
‘Let’s see— what were they up to… you vile creeps— hmm?’
What I expected to be some bloody scene was shattered by what I actually witnessed.
– Aang… uhhhhh…!
– Ugh…!
In the basement, the moist sexual moans of men and women filled the dark room. What on earth were these idiots doing, at this late hour, in a damp basement where they’d start leaking just lying there?
And it wasn’t just one couple going at it. All twenty-three of them were intertwined, naked, exploring one another’s bodies.
At the center was a middle-aged man with a thin beard, whose face seemed oddly familiar. His distinct face clicked in my memory.
‘Ah… I’ve seen that face somewhere. Hmm… where was it… that signature pointed beard, the big mole on his nose…’
Pulling together the disordered pieces from my past life’s memory shelf took time. But soon enough, from the blurry recollection, I found out who he was.
‘Ah! Nam Yong-seok! It’s that bastard! What’s he doing here?’
To think I’d see this future infamous villain here. No, it was an understatement to call him a villain.
His skills were so unique that even when he died, it wouldn’t be revealed accurately. I recall something in the middle ground between hypnosis and aphrodisia.
He used his unique abilities to draw people he befriended at church into depravity, then consumed their essence through copulation, gradually growing stronger—a grotesque ability.
There had been numerous victims, and he didn’t discriminate between genders; I remember the media covering it extensively for a while.
Even now, I could see some men mixed in the scene. Ugh… they haven’t even eaten anything but seem ready to pop. Disgusting freaks.
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