370. World Story (6)

Usually, I don’t mess with my friend list.

Because there’s no real reason to mess with it.

But today, before going into the basement, I changed my status to offline on my friend list.

Usually, when you’re in a certain place, it only tells you the general area.

For example, if I’m in Yggdrasil Square, it doesn’t say “Yggdrasil Square,” but just “Yggdrasil,” and if I’m in the Yggdrasil Auction House, it says “Yggdrasil Auction House.”

It doesn’t give you specifics, like the 1st or 2nd floor of the auction house.

But the basement is different.

The auction house basement is similar to a prison and is treated as a special place.

Because of the mana blocking and other effects, if you’re in the basement, it shows up as “Auction House Basement” on your friend list or guild list.

Right now, the elf sisters are in the basement, and everyone knows that I’m rolling around with them in that basement.

The moment it shows “Auction House Basement” on my friend list, the fact that I’m rolling around with the elf sisters in the basement is broadcast to everyone.

If it were gaslighting or torture like last time, it wouldn’t matter, but right now, I’m transforming into a catkin and acting cute, so I don’t want to show this side of me to people around me.

No matter how much I’ve merged with Arang’s spirit, I’m still a 30-year-old man’s spirit.

Showing myself acting like a cat and being cute in that situation is too embarrassing.

My family and doctor *unni* who are waiting in my room 24/7 will see it forcibly, but I don’t want to show this side of me to anyone else as much as possible.

I’ve already been caught doing things that are on a different level from acting cute by my family and doctor *unni*, so I’m in the mindset that this much is okay.

A 30-year-old man meows and rubs his body against a woman’s body while acting cute.

It’s really embarrassing, but I also hate myself for somehow feeling good when I’m petted, but I rationalized it as being because of Arang’s spirit.

The basement is a perfectly sealed room that blocks everything from mana to anything else from entering or leaking out.

Therefore, unless someone opens the door directly, you can’t know what’s inside from the outside, or what’s outside from the inside.

Now that I thought the negative favorability was almost gone, to the point where the Eryusia elves were melting at my cuteness, and I was about to actively imitate a cat and act cute, someone came in.

And a male user witnessed the scene of me meowing and imitating a cat with my hands while acting cute.

,Who are you.”

The male user was also flustered by my appearance, and his gaze momentarily went diagonally downward.

That gaze going in that direction means he’s looking at the interface.

So, he’s sending a whisper to another user about my appearance right now?

I have to kill him.

I immediately took out Despair.

In an instant, the room turned black.

I didn’t know who it was, but now that I see him up close, I know.

He’s the leader of a Chinese guild that occasionally showed great teamwork in world boss events.

But that’s not important in the current situation.

He’s a user who saw me acting cute.

I have to kill him to destroy the evidence.

,C-Celestial Demon Arang!? Why are you here!?”

The Chinese guild leader, startled by seeing my face, hurriedly raised his one-handed sword and pointed it at me.

But that’s what I want to say.

Why is the leader of the Reverse Guild, who is in charge of the center of the Second Faction, in front of me?

I immediately stabbed Mind Reading Sword into the Reverse Guild leader’s heart.

,Keuek!”

Even though he was flustered by my presence, he twisted his body and reacted.

Ignoring the Reverse Guild leader who barely dodged, I rushed towards the users behind him who were hurriedly preparing for battle.

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The operation to save the elf sisters was going quite smoothly.

They perfectly marked the biggest problem, Bae Doe-ppgae, and seized the auction house with the Saintess’s buff and a much larger number of people.

They succeeded in dealing with or stalling the Munchkin Cat guild members and NPCs guarding the auction house.

Now, in the situation where they only needed to rescue the elf sisters in the basement, an unexpected person remained in the basement.

Arang, an existence that should never be present in this operation.

The Reverse Guild leader shouted in the midst of the battle.

,Shueri-nim! You need to come here right now!”

The best-case scenario was that Arang wasn’t there, but they didn’t only consider the case where Arang wasn’t there.

There was also a plan for when Arang attacked the auction house and logged into Leore.

The problem is that Shueri was supposed to constantly monitor when I logged in and prepare in advance with advantageous terrain and combinations as soon as she confirmed I had logged in, but there’s no time for that now.

Hearing the Reverse Guild leader’s voice, Shueri quickly ran to the basement with the Reverse Guild members guarding her.

Kwaaaang!

,Kkeuak!”

,No!”

She extended her staff towards the Reverse Guild members who were flying into the air to heal them, but they exploded into particles before the heal could reach them.

Kwang!

Reverse Guild members began to emerge from the door leading to the basement, and the guild leader appeared, being pushed back while defending against Arang’s powerful attacks.

The basement is a fairly narrow space, so it’s difficult to take advantage of numbers, so they came to a wider space, but even this isn’t a very good situation.

Because her reflexes are so good and her stats are boss-level, her speed is also fast, so a wider space only expands Arang’s reach.

But a narrow space is also not the answer.

Arang, in a situation where she only needs to look ahead, shows unbelievable performance.

She doesn’t need anything else and just pushes in with the mindset that she can parry everything because the attacks are only coming from the front, so there’s no answer.

Fortunately, in the current situation, the Reverse Guild has the Saintess, who has the same level of power as Arang.

,Oh? I see. I was wondering how you got all the way to the basement, but you had Saintess *unni*?”

Arang, who came out through the smoke from the explosion, looked at Shueri, who was buffing the Reverse Guild members with a tense expression.

The Saintess’s buff has unbelievable performance, possessing a monstrous buff that is about the combined power of 10 buffers and a heal that is about the power of 10 healers.

If you simply say, “If there are 10 buffers and 10 healers, are they similar to the Saintess?” then of course not.

In Leore, skills with overlapping effects cannot receive buffs in duplicate.

For example, Buffer A’s attack power increase does not stack with Buffer B’s attack power increase buff and is overwritten.

In other words, if 10 buffers cast attack power buffs, only one attack power buff is applied.

But the Saintess is a fraudulent class where the basic buff itself is more than 5 times that of a normal buffer and can even stack with other buffs.

The funny thing is that even if that class spreads buffs to countless users, it’s only enough to be on par with Arang.

Arang, whose Leore system AI has already easily surpassed the estimates that humans can make, was a truly Demon King-like existence that transcended humans, at least within the virtual world.

On top of that, Arang is currently menstruating and has taken painkillers, so her senses are heightened and she doesn’t feel pain.

Arang immediately rushed towards the Saintess Shueri.

Kwaang!

,You shall not pass!”

,Oh?”

The Reverse Guild members, who had faced Arang several times in world boss events, blocked Arang’s surprise attack.

Arang did not make any additional attacks and retreated backwards.

The reason is none other than knowing what their purpose is.

She knew from the Reverse Guild leader’s actions that they didn’t come to target her.

They raided the auction house, taking advantage of the timing when she was gone.

But they intentionally brought people to the basement? That means they’re targeting the elf sisters in the basement.

Knowing that, Arang retreated backwards to avoid getting too far from the entrance to the basement.

Seeing Arang’s appearance, the Reverse Guild leader also realized that Arang had noticed why they came here and opened his mouth.

,There’s no need to beat Celestial Demon Arang. We didn’t come to win, but to succeed.”

Knowing that meaning, the Reverse Guild members rushed towards Arang.

No matter how much of an Arang she is, it’s almost impossible to kill a user in one hit.

The Reverse Guild’s goal is not to kill Arang, but to rescue the elf sisters in the basement.

First, the tanks rushed at Arang.

It doesn’t matter if they die.

There are also tanks trying to ignore Arang and go down to the basement, so Arang quickly blocked the path down to the basement and swung her sword with all her might.

Kwang!

But the tank who used invincibility was not harmed by Arang’s attack and body-checked Arang as is.

As Arang fell backwards, Arang quickly grabbed the foot of the tank who was trying to ignore her and pass by.

A huge greatsword appeared in front of Arang, who stood up again after stepping on the tank who had fallen to the ground.

,Ah, shit!’

Arang was taken aback by the dealer’s awakening skill that suddenly appeared in front of her.

The Reverse Guild didn’t just start fighting. They had been fighting until now and encountered Arang.

Arang, who hadn’t thought that there were users who had already gathered the gauge for their awakening skills, hurriedly gathered her strength and raised her sword, but the Berserker’s awakening skill split Arang’s body, including the basement behind her.