episode_0010

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A side road several meters wide between steep cliffs. In the original game, it is a place where events occur. When you pass about halfway through that area, goblins appear from the top of the cliff and threaten you with arrows, demanding a toll.

Of course, there were no goblins in sight during the trip here, so there would be no event happening. I prayed for the rest of the goblins who would have been killed by slime and entered the narrow alley—just before leaving.

A severe, splitting headache struck me and I collapsed on the spot.

“Qu… !”

In my dizzy consciousness, memories I have never experienced come to mind at will. It was a short process until I, who charged in believing in my own strength, was defeated by Pearl Slime, whom I thought was nothing more than a monster, and became prey.

This was the first time I thought it might be a hallucination or a mental attack. Intuitively, I knew for sure that this was something that actually happened, or something that was going to happen from now on.

“Seraph.”

“What you are thinking is correct. It looks like the episode went on safely.”

Just in case, I called Seraph and immediately received a confirmed kill. Also added a detailed explanation.

According to Seraph, it is neither a parallel world nor future prediction, but a time regression. It seems that I was truly defeated by the boss slime, and then died due to the demon king’s resurrection and returned to this moment.

The reason why it is a speculative expression is because I cannot clearly feel the experience in my memory. As if I was reading a novel in which I was the main character, or watching an animation in which I was the main character, there was information about thoughts and actions, but it felt like someone else’s business.

Moreover, even that information has holes here and there. I clearly remember the process leading up to being defeated by the slime, but after that, while I was being violated, some screws were missing here and there. After climaxing twice, it was even fainter than the dream I had last night.

… And being abandoned by Seraph is a bit shocking.

“Seraph~… .”

“It’s no use looking at me with that crying face. Because I am prohibited from directly influencing your ‘ending’. And I clearly warned you.”

“Well, I said it was dangerous to come here. I thought you were telling me to be careful because the monsters here are high level.”

Seraph scolded with narrowed eyes, but I also have something to say. If I had known that there was a crazy monster preying on players, I would have gone back to the plains, even at the risk of staying overnight.

“It’s not a bad choice to experience a ‘round’ here. Since it is the beginning, the penalty will be small. You need to be more careful about your actions.”

“… I also act while thinking, right? And what is the penalty?”

“There are quite a few things, and it is not that difficult to explain as long as you meet the conditions. For now, I recommend finishing what you were doing first.”

“Ah.”

I forgot about it because the memories of the previous episode suddenly flooded in, but now I’m in the middle of a monster outbreak scene.

The boss slime must have dug a trap in that canyon because he was wary of me. If I change my strategy, there is a possibility that I will retreat or, in the worst case scenario, flee the area. That slime clearly has that level of intelligence.

It’s not bad in terms of avoiding fights, but I’m worried about the captured guild members. There is no need to miss out on this long-awaited performance. Moreover, if you leave the slime like this, the experience from last time will be useless.

After making up my mind to that point, the first thing I did was cut off the mana that was going into my spirit.

“Ugh, it’s sticky.”

After making sure that no one was around, I took off my leotard and found that even the inside was filled with pearl slime’s bodily fluids. Grumbling. The feeling of sticky milky white liquid flowing down your skin is unpleasant.

So, as soon as your resistance drops, you’re probably attacked by the weak medicine.

In addition, the criminal who lost his magic during the fight was also inside. Thump, thud. A couple of small slime cores fell out like bodily fluids.

Ultimately, as long as the core isn’t broken, these guys aren’t dead. Is it the core that I thought I disabled, or was it the one that dug in intentionally? The pearl slimes had inserted the core into my spirit and were absorbing my magic power. He also interfered when I was trying to kill the boss slime.

Realizing that they were caught, the pearl slimes tried to run away, but their lack of body fluids made them unable to move quickly. Kwasik, Kwasik. With each stomp, all the cores were shattered.

After that, remove the bodily fluids from your body, put on your spiritual robe again, drink the mana potion, and you’re ready.

Now is the time for revenge.

***

And the revenge ended dully.

Gigigikkigiik.

In front of me, the boss slime’s core lay in five pieces. Even after it was torn into pieces, the core twisted and made strange noises, but soon the movement and screaming stopped.

The remaining pearl slimes began to disappear one by one, as if they knew that their leader was dead. In this way, the abnormal occurrence of monsters in the canyon ended.

Actually, this is normal. Most mobs are killed in one hit. The boss resisted in his own way, but after using Hyeonwol and other tier 3 skills a couple of times, I was able to cut down all but the core.

The power balance is such that the game itself would not have been established if it were a typical RPG. Because of this difference in specifications, I was able to jump into the large army of slimes on my own. It is never thoughtless.

The defeat in the last round was due to being caught off guard due to not knowing Pearl Slime’s mana absorption characteristic. Other than that, no matter how many slimes come, they are not my enemies.

“Ugh… .”

“Oh. are you okay? Are you awake?”

The bodily fluids of a boss slime whose core was broken and returned to full liquid. Among them, one of the people who had fallen began to move little by little.

He was a boy who looked younger than me. White hair, as rough as a mane, reaching down to the nape of the neck, and even canine ears. In the game, they are a race called the beastmen.

When I first saw her face, I thought she was a pretty girl with white hair and wolf ears. Because of that, I looked downward for a moment and then just looked away.

“You… .”

“I’m the traveler who cut down that slime. are you okay? Can you stand up?”

“Ah, yes. that’s right. I was watching. Inside that slime… .”

Unlike the other two, who were not even conscious, this boy seemed to be watching me fight even while he was being captured. Okay, let’s present him as a witness when claiming contribution to the guild.

However, the boy was only conscious and could not properly control his body, perhaps because he had been in the situation for a long time. It would be difficult if things continued like that, so I searched inside the pouch I was wearing.

“Now, here. Open your mouth.”

“Thank you… .”

I carefully poured the potion that had been idle because I had no use for it into the boy’s mouth. It wasn’t that much, but fortunately, the boy recovered enough to move after a while.

The boy who stood up was the first to say thank you to me, but I had his colleagues take care of things first. Perhaps because everyone’s mana was sucked by the boss slime, only important parts of their clothes are torn and I don’t want to touch them.

I am thankful that the man who is crouching between his legs is the one who does what needs to be done quickly so that he can say thank you.

After giving him some work to do and sending him off, he was taking a leisurely rest. About an hour later, the boy came again.

“… On behalf of our party, we would like to thank you for saving our lives this time. We are a member of the Leather Tier Party who was dispatched by the Turkan Adventurer’s Guild to investigate this abnormality… .”

Fortunately, there was a way to fix something, and the boy was dressed normally. It would be considerate to pretend not to notice that your face is slightly red.

To summarize only the necessary information from the boy’s words, which were flowing with all the courtesy he could muster, the boy’s name was Ranian Pomeda. As expected, Ranian’s party was a group of people sent by the guild to investigate an abnormality, and it seems that they were saved by me from an incident that occurred in the meantime.

Ranian must have been a very sincere person, so when I asked for a witness for the performance report, he said it was basic and showed enthusiasm that he would do everything he could. In this case, as someone who helped, I don’t feel too bad.

“Oh, but I’m sorry. Since my colleagues are still not in good condition, I think it will be difficult for them to return later today. If you visit us tomorrow after returning to Turkan──”

“Then let’s go together. Aren’t you anxious about staying here on your own?”

“So, is that okay?”

I ignored it here and went alone first. If these guys die from a monster attack, there is nothing more foolish than that. Anyway, there is no guarantee that we will reach Turkan even if we leave now, so it is better to just protect these guys here.

I may say this on my own, but Ranian’s attitude was as if he had met a savior. Actually, it’s not that wrong. It always makes me feel excited to know that there is someone who looks up to me.

“Traveller TS Pranaya. Please take care of me until I return to the guild.”

“Yes! Please take care of us!”

Seeing Ranian nodding several times, I was convinced once again that I had done well to save him.

***

By the time the sun began to set, Ranian’s colleagues’ condition also began to improve. There was a girl of the same age as Ranian and a young man who looked a little older. At first impression, they all seemed like good people.

Ranian suggested that they sleep together as they would be on watch, but he refused. I had a good sense of it and didn’t need to be on watch, and the ostensible reason was that I didn’t want to alert them, but the real thing was something else.

Ranian Party’s residence is slightly far from where I am. After confirming again that I could not hear their words reflected in the campfire, I drew a magic circle on the ground with tree branches.

“Come, Seraph, yap.”

“… If you want to do something like this, I recommend learning the summoning spell. There is no magic in this world that you cannot learn.”

It looked a bit surprising, but the Seraph stood out from the doodle I drew. huh. I really like this part of Seraph.

In the last episode, Seraph ultimately failed to save me. But at that moment, the sadness and regret shown on Seraph’s face. I remember that much clearly.

Seraph is not my complete ally. However, it is also a being that came because it wanted to help me.

That’s why I believed that a Seraph would definitely give ‘the help she can give’.

“At first, I thought there wouldn’t be any famous mods that I didn’t know about. But when I looked at the pearl slime and thought about it again, I realized that wasn’t necessarily true.”

“… … .”

“That’s a ‘sex tree’, right?”

It is human instinct to play games even with the first generation iPod. An open world RPG with a high level of freedom. A subculture game with decent graphics. Developed mod market. There is no way to overlook these sweet elements in adult content.

Yggdrasil, the title of this game and the world tree located in the center of the continent. Numerous adult mods, ironically called ‘sex trees’, have been popping up all over the place.

“Yes, that’s right. Information referenced in this world. A total of six of those ten are classified into the series you mentioned called Seksamu.”

“Eh, that much?”

“In terms of number of plays, yes.”

How much did everyone do? No, I understand your feelings.

The reason why I couldn’t immediately think of Seoknamu is simple. I only knew it existed, but I’ve never actually tried it.

Almost all mod creators are foreigners. Plus, it’s adult content. Because Yggdrasil was minor in Korea, Seoknamu was neither translated nor produced when I was in its prime.

In other words, I was blocked by the language barrier. After all, it is only recently that the performance of translators has improved tremendously.

When I actually found out about it and looked back, there was something strange about the village from the start. The part about the protection of chastity and the part where Neville really came to take a peek at the bathhouse. If it’s a game, there’s just talk and no real glimpses.

If this happens, there is a possibility that the game itself will flow differently from what I know. Anyway, we have to face each other like this and find out, so the work to be done is the same, but when I think about what I will experience in the meantime, I can’t help but sigh.

“Ha… . I’ll have to take care of that part myself. That’s enough now. Please tell me what the penalty I mentioned earlier is.”

“As I mentioned, there are various types of penalties. However, in common, the degree to which it is granted is proportional to the ‘amount of memory up to the regression point’.”

In this case, it actually took 5 years for me to return, but the only memories I have are the first few hours of being violated by the slime. So it seems like the penalty is quite small.

One of the criteria for being remembered is ‘whether or not information is obtained to overcome the situation.’ After being committed, I found out that pearl slime absorbs magical power, so I remembered that, and since there was no new information after that, I forgot about it.

As an aside, when I asked about other criteria, Seraph kept his mouth shut and quietly shook his head.

“After that… , it would be quicker to see this in person rather than explaining it. Turn on the status window.”

“Has something changed? Status window.”

Tuk. The now completely familiar character of light appeared in front of me and Seraph. And this time, I couldn’t help but frown.

NEW!

The three letters that appeared countless times in the status window felt more ominous to me than any other word in the world.

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