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“Ruthless beasts! How dare you barge into my quarters without permission! done! I personally… … Wow! no… … father… … report… … want… … .”

The boss of the Gloomarch Castle dungeon, ‘Princess Elena of the Underworld’, collapsed without even finishing her lines.

Naturally, I didn’t feel any joy from defeating the boss.

It’s natural. That’s because I’ve already killed this boss for the 100,000th time.

“A was a beggar again.”

I made a tsk sound as I rummaged through Elena’s body, which contained only a few gold coins and a soul stone.

Actually, not dropping anything is nothing special.

Elena is a boss in the early part of the game, and is a boss preferred for grinding due to her easy difficulty level and short clear time rather than the quality of her rewards.

“But this is the last time, don’t you think it’s too much to not drop a single drop item?”

I touched the fallen Elena with my foot.

Soon, the rag-like clothes she was wearing came loose and she was almost half naked, but all I felt from that sight was pure irritation.

Long silver hair, pale skin, and sparkling green eyes.

Looking at it objectively, I think Elena has a design that can be classified as quite beautiful.

But if you watch it over and over again a hundred thousand times, that disappears.

Above all, Elena is an undead, as can be seen from the title ‘Princess of the Underworld’ attached to her name.

Let me be clear, I have no hobby of fucking corpses.

“Anyway, this is the last time here too.”

Normally, I would have already gone outside and run through the dungeon again, but not now.

It was too late to run through the dungeon, and I had decided from the beginning that I would catch Elena only 100,000 times and not catch any more.

Elena is the boss of the early area, but she is a boss who is quite efficient when you work hard, as she drops a rare item called ‘Princess’s Tiara’, and like me, there are many cases where she catches it repeatedly.

The game I accessed, ‘Tree of Eternity’, is notorious for its level design that makes it impossible to play normally without being wise.

From this point of view, the so-called ‘Elena Run’, which involved running endlessly through the Gloomarch Castle dungeon to catch Elena and raise funds, was a completely normal activity.

Of course, even if that were the case, it would not be normal to run through the same dungeon a hundred thousand times like I did.

If there is someone who tries to follow the same behavior as me, I would like to actively stop them. This is truly hard labor that wastes time, money, and stamina.

But why did Elena keep reaching 100,000 kills?

“C’mon, what’s the reason for having fun? Just doing it.”

I mumbled and laughed like that. The inventory contained 99,999 Elena’s Soul Stones, as if to prove my efforts so far.

Now all I have to do is pick this up… … .

[congratulations! By meeting the conditions, you have achieved the first hidden achievement on the server!]

“Wow, what a surprise!”

I almost got bored.

I hesitated and took a step back when the system window suddenly appeared in front of me.

The system window that filled the screen brightly reflected my achievements, as if showing off my presence.

But what? Hidden achievement?

I was immediately intrigued. This virtual reality game I play, Tree of Eternity, is honestly a shit game with no answers, but there are some unnecessarily sincere aspects such as hidden achievements.

A play that was thought to be a bug turned out to be a hidden skill combination hidden by the production team, or a hidden quest that had not been discovered for years was discovered for the first time, or something like that.

Perhaps this achievement I have achieved now is one of those things. Perhaps the condition was to kill Elena 100,000 times?

I squinted to see the details of the feat.

Achievement Accomplished – One who carries the resentment of the Princess of the Underworld

Achievement condition – Collect 100,000 soul stones of Elena, Princess of the Underworld.

Achievement Completion Reward – Having your soul stolen by Elena. good luck!

what’s this? I rubbed my eyes at the strange phrase that I couldn’t understand.

However, the text written in the achievement window that appeared before my eyes did not change. In fact, it only became clearer because I rubbed my eyes.

I don’t know what kind of bullshit this is. The achievement condition was, as expected, defeating Elena 100,000 times. But what is the reward?

“Your soul is stolen by Elena. What kind of reward is this? Isn’t this a bug again?”

I looked at the achievement window text with suspicious eyes and quickly logged onto the community.

Let’s see… … If you search for Elena, wouldn’t something come up?

I looked at the search results with subtle anticipation, but soon regretted it.

[Honestly, doesn’t it make you want to fuck Elena? Every time Elena runs, it hurts Juji to see Elena’s response exposed;]

ㄴ This ㄹㅇ I don’t know when to refute it.

ㄴㄴ’Your next corpse’

ㄴㄴㄴ’Your next idiot’

ㄴㄴㄴㄴ’You like that kind of thing and then you get sick.’

ㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴ’Every time I see it, it looks springy and chewy, but I don’t really want to find it and eat it. ‘It looks like it’s cold’

ㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴ’I don’t like it cold… … .’

I feel this every time, but it seems like only crazy people are left in this gaming community.

Annoyed, I closed the community window I was viewing with a bit of a rough movement.

In the end, I couldn’t find any useful information, and could only check out a bunch of posts about abnormal sexual desires.

I think I felt strange after reading a strange article.

After letting the character rest, I thought about the text in the achievement window.

Normally, things like this should not be taken literally. No matter how strange the reward, you never know what effect it will have in ‘Tree of Eternity’, a shit game where the line between hidden and bugs is vague.

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t figure out what the phrase in the achievement window meant, but I could figure out one thing for sure.

That is, you should not leave the dungeon thinking about other things for a long time.

Looking back now, maybe there was a way to avoid it.

If I hadn’t spent time searching the community, or if I had left the dungeon and thought about the text in the achievement window in a safe place, the story would have been a little different.

But I couldn’t, and it had fatal consequences.

“… … Deer caught. You piece of trash!”

I was startled by the sudden voice and turned around.

What on earth is that? Does that look exactly like Elena? But why is Elena coming towards me? Elena is definitely dead!

I tried to run away quickly. But my body didn’t listen, just like it had from the beginning.

It felt as if my whole body had turned to stone. Holy fucking move, move!

Even though I got angry, begged, and screamed, it was no use. Among them, Elena was approaching me at a steady pace.

Elena, with pale skin, twists her whole body and approaches like a zombie. I got goosebumps at the realistic appearance, which made it hard to believe it was a game.

“You should feel the same pain as me!”

“Ugh!”

I closed my eyes tightly as I saw Elena running towards me with her mouth wide open like a wild animal.

Am I alone in thinking that she smiled at the last moment, right before she opened her mouth?

I didn’t know, but I didn’t think I needed to know any more.

Mother, this is how my poor son leaves. But I didn’t know that I would die like this while playing the game.

Please eat well even if I am not there. My son was lonely in a damp and cold dungeon… … .

No matter how long I waited, I did not feel the pain I had prepared for.

Something was strange. Although I have no experience of being bitten by a person, isn’t it normal to feel something in a situation like the one we just had?

It hurts even when bitten by a dog, so how much does it hurt when bitten by a human?

“Oh… … Doesn’t it hurt?”

I muttered to myself while thinking such nonsense. Immediately I was startled.

“Who, who are you?”

No really, who is it!

Only then did I open my eyes and quickly look around.

A dark place where you can’t see anything. what? Did I get a bug? I was definitely playing the game normally just a moment ago, right?

No, more than that, where on earth does this woman’s voice come from?

“Uh. I don’t know where you’re hiding, but come out quickly. I am… … uh? Huh!?”

What on earth is this? I heard a voice coming from closer than I thought, so I raised my hand and urgently touched my neck.

“Kya!”

I screamed in shock at the feel of the cold skin that gave me goosebumps. But wow? Wow?

I tried playing with my hands even harder. This time, not just the neck, but the entire body.

It can’t be like that, it can’t be like that.

But the more I touched every corner of my body, the more my doubts turned into confidence.

Cold but soft skin, soft thighs without any muscle at all.

No matter how you look at it, this appears to be a woman’s body. No, it was definitely a woman’s body.

Eventually, the outline of my body began to slowly become apparent to my eyes, which had become accustomed to the darkness.

In the whitish darkness, the shape of a voluptuous breast was visible. A narrow waist and wide hips extending below.

It is a body of a very familiar shape. Of course, you have no choice but to get used to it. It’s a body I’ve seen over and over again a hundred thousand times.

“I became Elena?”

A female voice, barely distinguishable from a scream, came from my throat.

It seems that I have possessed the body of a dungeon boss that I have killed 100,000 times.