Heat?

The Shadow Lord’s height is about 3M, and my height is barely rounded up to 140.

The height difference alone is almost more than double, so the composition of confronting the Shadow Grandpa reminded me of a scene I’ve seen somewhere.

‘If I lose, is this going to turn into one of those situations from Litomi?’

The underworld, auction houses, slaves, 19+, and various other scenarios flash through my mind. It’s not like I didn’t have any of that back when I was a guy, even if I can’t feel sexual desire now.

Of course, I have a lot of knowledge about those kinds of situations.

But the possibility of that happening is 0%.

“Are you ready?”

Despite his enormous body, the Shadow Lord disappears right before my eyes.

Actually, an attack that disappears right in front of you isn’t a very advantageous attack. Because in the end, the place you’re aiming for is fixed.

Besides, it’s just expressed as disappearing, but he’s actually entering the shadows.

Paang!

A clean parry.

“Hooh? To block that.”

I was slightly disappointed by the Shadow Lord’s admiration.

The Shadow Lord’s skills weren’t as bad as I thought. Despite his huge body, his assassin-like speed and the strong power coming from his large frame would be too much for most users to handle.

But I was disappointed. Shouldn’t someone with that kind of visual have at least enough skill to make me excited?

Of course, this can’t be helped. It’s rude to compare the strength of players who can keep resurrecting no matter how many times they die with NPCs who are done for once they die.

Moreover, players keep getting stronger through leveling up and equipment.

I thought he would be much stronger than the elf I met earlier, but he’s about the same.

‘Come to think of it, isn’t it amazing that a human has skills comparable to an elf who lives for hundreds of years?’

The Shadow Lord’s expression starts to worsen.

He’s attacking like crazy, but I’m calmly dodging or blocking all the attacks, so it’s only natural.

“Huk! Huk! Is, is this even possible? What the hell are you!”

It’s so boring that I’m about to sigh. I’m not even in Awakened Miko state right now, just a normal Swordmaster user.

I was watching to see if the Shadow Lord was a hidden class or something, but it doesn’t seem like anything’s coming out.

Shadow Lord. Just the words themselves sound cool. But someone with such a cool nickname is just a normal Grim Reaper assassin?

Honestly, that’s a big disappointment.

“To make that kind of face in front of me?”

Ting!

A syringe appears in the Shadow Lord’s hand, and the part protecting the syringe needle flicks off, making the sharp needle glint.

The liquid inside the syringe was a purple color that anyone would feel ominous about.

The Shadow Lord suddenly takes out the syringe and sticks it straight into his neck.

‘Is that the drug the crow was talking about?’

I could see the purple liquid flowing down and spreading throughout the Shadow Lord’s body along his neck.

The Shadow Lord’s eyes start to become bloodshot.

“I’ll make you regret this.”

‘Oh?’

Is he finally showing it?

Kkuuk!

The Shadow Lord disappeared from my sight for a moment, then appeared in front of me and stabbed a dagger into my abdomen.

‘A dagger instead of a scythe?’

The stabbing force was so strong that the dagger pierced my stomach, sending my body flying backward.

Kwang!

Even while flying, the Shadow Lord followed me and started stabbing the dagger into my body like crazy.

‘This is what an awakening drug is like?’

The speed and power have almost doubled compared to before.

Even though I was being careless, I allowed him to attack me.

Kwaaaang!!!

I flew through the wall and tumbled onto the floor. My health instantly dropped by 60%.

“Kuluk!”

Even though he could have killed me if he kept attacking, the Shadow Lord was spitting blood and catching his breath.

Well, it’s only natural that a drug that makes you that strong in an instant has side effects. Like the crow said, there are side effects, and the feedback seems to be coming faster than I thought.

“I’ll make you pay for killing my kids and for the damages by making you work your body thoroughly. Kuek.”

Thinking he had won, the Shadow Lord spoke confidently, and I stood up abruptly.

The moment I was about to wrap myself in despair.

My vision swayed.

‘Huh?’

I can feel my body getting hot. I start sweating, my vision flickers, and my field of vision narrows.

I immediately shifted my gaze to check my debuffs.

[ Heat ]

Heat? Are we talking about the heat I know? That thing that makes you want to do it.

I’m honestly very flustered by a debuff I’ve never seen even once in Leore.

[ Heat ]

A very powerful aphrodisiac created in the underworld to erase a person’s personality and make them act as a sex slave.

A simple and clear debuff explanation. Well, it wouldn’t make sense if there were no aphrodisiacs in the underworld when there’s an awakening drug. But I’m a little flustered because it’s a debuff I’ve never seen while playing Leore until now.

It’s called an aphrodisiac, but I don’t feel like I can’t control my sexual desire and want to do it. It just feels like I’m getting hit with multiple debuffs at once.

If Leore was a 19+ game, it would really bring out the heat feeling, but it’s not, so it seems like it’s been replaced with a similar debuff.

Or.

Maybe I, my body, my mind, can’t feel sexual desire.

It might not be that I feel desire, but that I can’t feel desire.

But Leore is a 15+ game, so they probably didn’t make the heat debuff in that way.

If it really makes you feel the heat feeling? That’s a very big problem in its own way.

Either way, it’s a powerful debuff that makes it impossible to move normally.

It seems difficult with a normal Swordmaster.

I focused my mind and drew up despair.

As despair entered my body, the debuff effect was reduced in an instant due to the boss effect.

“Hu.”

Heat debuff. This is such a ridiculous debuff.

I’ve received countless debuffs while working as a boss, but the heat debuff is overwhelmingly the best.

It’s like that dizzy feeling when you have a really bad fever.

==

“When the hell is this goddamn debuff going to turn off.”

“Keuheo··· Keuheuk···.”

The Shadow Lord was spitting blood at Arang’s feet with his arms and legs cut off.

Arang staggers, holding his head with his hand.

It’s not painful, but it’s a very uncomfortable and unpleasant debuff.

“Master-nim!”

“Aish…”

Arang sighed deeply at the sudden surge of numerous NPCs.

Arang stabbed his own abdomen with his sword to awaken the spirit that was barely being maintained while being stabbed by the Shadow Lord’s dagger earlier.

Jiiiiiiiiing!!!

The huge vibration caused by the boss-level damage entering in an instant shook Arang’s entire abdomen.

The vitality in Arang’s eyes began to disappear due to the vibration that directly hit the particularly sensitive abdomen, the entire abdomen at that.

If it’s hard to concentrate, just separate the mind.

Arang deliberately turned on Awakening Mode and began to massacre the surroundings.

==

“Ah, I feel a little better now.”

It was like the hangover feeling the morning after drinking heavily.

Arang looked at the devastated mansion and was about to look for any useful items when he was startled by the quiet mansion.

“Wait, don’t tell me he’s dead!?”

He hurriedly went to where the Shadow Lord was.

He quickly brought his index finger to the Shadow Lord’s nose, who wasn’t even twitching.

Slightly felt breathing. But it was such a faint breath that it could stop at any moment.

“Oh, this is bad!”

Arang hurriedly started sending Pinku Berry a quick whisper.

Pinku Berry, who was making food and doping potions to use for the raid as the raid season was slowly returning, was startled by the suddenly ringing notification.

The introverted Pinku Berry doesn’t easily make Leore friends, even if they are guild members.

Even though she has been playing Leore for a long time, the friends in her friend list barely exceed 10 people.

The alarm was ringing like crazy in Pinku Berry’s chat, so she stopped what she was making and opened the chat window.

“It’s Arang, as expected?”

Pinku Berry, who was expecting it because this kind of wadadada chat is always from Arang.

As soon as she asked what was wrong with Arang’s whisper that felt quite urgent, the coordinates came up.

“What kind of huge accident did he cause this time that Arang whispered me?”

There is only one case where Irang whispers.

When he caused an accident. If not, there’s no reason to whisper.

Because they eat together, take walks together, and watch TV together every day in reality. They are not family, but now they live like family with Anna and Arang.

And Arang basically likes to talk while looking directly at someone when talking to someone.

In the first place, meeting in the world of Leore, where there is a skill called teleport, doesn’t take much time or cost money.

But Arang is whispering, and even sending it urgently?

This is 100% an accident. I thought it was an accident just by whispering, but the coordinates came up? This is a sign that he caused an accident, so please come here, so Pinku Berry immediately stopped the production itself and got up.

If you stop, all the materials needed for production will fly away, but Pinku Berry, who stopped without any hesitation, immediately checked where the coordinates Arang sent were.

Pinku Berry arrived quickly because it was in the city, not in the field.

The exterior is a pretty nice mansion, so she wondered what Arang came here for, and when she went inside, she saw a mansion where not a single place was intact and Arang was waving his hand urgently.

“Pinku Onee-chan! Q, quickly, his breath just stopped!!!”

‘Arang is trying to save an NPC? It must be an important NPC.’

Pinku Berry immediately used heal on the NPC that Arang was pointing at.

“Whew. Thank you, Onee-chan. I almost killed him without thinking.”

“What kind of NPC is this?”

“He’s an NPC called the Shadow Lord, and I’m kidnapping this NPC as a quest. He can’t die. I thought he was going to die without thinking, so I hurriedly called Onee-chan.”

“The quest is important. Is it a world quest?”

“I don’t know the details, but I think it is.”

“Probably?”

Pinku Berry said while restoring the Shadow Lord’s body.

“I need to find out for sure if the underworld is related to the black magician and the second world manager Miko to know if this is a world story or just a story.”

“But isn’t it almost certain that Miko is involved?”

“That’s true, but there’s no evidence. First of all, Pinku Onee-chan, let’s go to the crow together.”

Arang naturally handed the Shadow Lord, whose arms and legs were cut off, to Pinku Berry.

==

Fluffy Arang