Awakening Mode? (Revised)

Only after getting punched in the stomach, shouldered, and attacked with a greatsword did Hyesun-unni’s words come to mind.

She definitely said, ‘Your period might be over, but Arang-i is having her first period, so you still need to be careful with your stomach. Got it?’

I thought it didn’t matter since you don’t feel pain in Leore, and everything is processed as vibration.

Until I got my ass kicked.

Usually in raids, one single attack is directly linked to life or death, and when a dealer gets hit, it’s mostly by area-of-effect attacks, so I didn’t pay much attention.

But attacks from PVP users were different.

Unlike bosses, they don’t attack with fixed patterns but give real-time feedback and attack.

Because of that, I, who wasn’t used to PVP, couldn’t react to the greatsword user’s attack and ended up allowing a fist attack to my abdomen.

Leore, which turns pain into vibration.

The greatsword user’s large fist came deep into my small stomach.

Vrrrr! It vibrated, shaking my entire stomach. Okay. Up to this point, I wasn’t too concerned.

The problem was the greatsword user’s follow-up attack.

To create distance from the greatsword user, I floated into the air and took the greatsword user’s shoulder attack head-on, and in that state, I got stiffened, so I allowed the greatsword user’s single attack [Spear].

A giant greatsword, similar to my height, pierced my abdomen as it was, and an explosion occurred, blowing me away.

If the punch and shoulder attacks were just at the level of “Ugh!” even with the vibration, the greatsword stab attack was “Ugh!”

If the vibration from the punch and shoulder was like having a phone set to vibrate on my stomach, the greatsword attack was like someone putting a massager with the vibration turned up to the maximum inside my stomach.

Even if it’s just vibration, when the size of that vibration exceeds a certain level, it becomes something you can mistake for pain.

Even though my period was over, the aftereffects remained.

The strong vibration, starting from my stomach and shaking everything in my most important female area, awakened Arang’s negative emotions that had subsided with the end of my period.

It wasn’t a period problem.

It wasn’t that Arang-i’s negative emotions came up because of the period, but that negative emotions came up because of the pain in a woman’s precious area due to the period.

In other words.

‘So it wasn’t because of my period, but it just comes out when I feel pain in my uterus.’

It’s not that I dislike Arang-i’s negative emotions.

At first, when I felt it in reality, I couldn’t speak well, couldn’t express emotions, and was just a living corpse, so it was uncomfortable, but it’s different now.

I feel, understand, and have become accustomed to all of Arang-i’s emotions.

During this period, negative emotions even invaded the virtual world, but I spoke according to my will and expressed emotions, even if it was just tears in reality.

The downside is that I feel my mind becoming depressed, so I don’t want to feel it for a long time.

My mind is sinking.

This feeling of my mind falling into the deep sea.

My mind, emotions, and thoughts all fall into the cold, pitch-black deep sea.

“Hoo…”

This is it. This is the feeling I was trying to imitate.

I gripped the dagger tightly and charged towards the greatsword user running towards me.

The movements of the greatsword user in front of me seem slow, and all the information coming into my field of vision enters my head.

I decided to call this ability Extrasensory Perception.

In normal situations, it’s an ability with considerable risk. Just using it makes my head tingle, and I’ve reached the level of controlling the ability, but right now, I don’t need to control it.

Right now, so… yeah, let’s call this state Awakening Mode. In Awakening Mode, my mind is calm, so I can use Extrasensory Perception at 100% without any problems.

When I raise Extrasensory Perception to 100%, every single action of the greatsword user enters my head.

The red and large effect visible on the greatsword and that large stance.

It’s the greatsword user’s max-level skill [Wave]. It’s a skill that slaughters the target with dozens of slashes at such a fast speed that it feels like it’s covering the entire area.

Remaining HP is only 5%.

I can’t even get grazed once. Normally, I would give up, but thanks to Awakening Mode, I’m confident if I’m in 100% Extrasensory Perception state.

I ran without stopping towards the slashes that were covering me like waves.

There seems to be no place to avoid, but it seems enough if I mix in parries.

If it’s not directly parrying the greatsword but simply slashes from the skill, I might not get stiffened.

It’s the heavy, giant, and strong greatsword that’s scary, not the slashes.

Simply offsetting with slashes won’t work. I have to move forward.

The daggers held in both hands glow dark red, and faster and stronger than the greatsword user’s slashes flying to kill me, I block and parry the slashes!

==

‘No way, is this real?’

Arang, whose atmosphere has changed. And to finish off such Arang, the greatsword user cast the level 60 skill [Wave].

Arang didn’t get hit by a single slash that seemed to swallow everything and started to break through [Wave].

Movements like doing gymnastics. With light, fast, and flexible movements, she’s dodging the slashes, and in situations where she can’t avoid them, she’s deflecting the minimum number of slashes with two daggers.

The greatsword user watching that scene was dumbfounded.

He also saw the video of the 1v1 Makgora gimmick.

The figure of Lee Arang, the best physical player who didn’t budge even a single move against the highest level of modern AI and eventually won, was unfolding before his eyes.

But the greatsword user isn’t just a stupid user either.

The greatsword user immediately thought of the next move and charged at Arang, who hadn’t completely deciphered Wave yet.

At that moment, Arang retreated for the first time while deciphering Wave.

‘Why now all of a sudden?’

-Shuk.

Arang disappears before his eyes. Slashes passed through the place where Arang was just a moment ago in less than 0.1 seconds.

‘She calculated the time it takes for the slashes to reach and the short casting time, retreated, and used a movement skill!?’

The fact that Arang is still not visible in the greatsword user’s field of vision means.

‘Behind!’

The greatsword user immediately canceled the skill and swung the greatsword behind him.

‘Ah, shit!’

The greatsword user realized that his greatsword was passing over Arang’s head and recognized Arang’s height again.

Arang’s height, which is no exaggeration to say is the smallest in Leore.

The greatsword user’s greatsword cut through the air in an attack that he had become accustomed to after playing PVP for a long time.

‘Assassins’ attacks can’t penetrate heavy armor anyway. There are still many opportunities.’

The compatibility between greatsword users and assassin-type jobs is overwhelmingly in favor of greatsword users. This is because all of the assassin-type weapons are light and cannot penetrate heavy armor.

But.

Arang ignored all of the greatsword user’s predictions.

Arang is attacking with a speed that is invisible to the eye. But something was strange.

HP decreasing rapidly from Arang’s attacks.

The greatsword user, who had never experienced this much HP decreasing against an assassin before, hurriedly swung the greatsword at Arang as soon as the after-delay ended.

There’s no way there could be full power in the greatsword with a collapsed posture, and Arang, who noticed that, held both daggers in reverse grip and parried the greatsword as it was.

Kaaaaang!!!

Perfect parry. The greatsword bounced off greatly and became stiffened.

‘I’m going to die…!’

At that moment, the greatsword user made eye contact with Arang and felt fear in Arang’s empty eyes.

The greatsword user hurriedly stepped back to retreat as his HP continued to decrease.

Thud.

Arang, who immediately noticed that, threw the dagger in her left hand at the heel of the leg that the greatsword user had started to move, and the greatsword user’s body, caught on that dagger, lost its balance and fell backward.

‘Crazy!’

Arang immediately climbed onto the greatsword user’s body and stabbed the dagger in her right hand as it was into the gap between the helmet and chest armor, the biggest weakness of the heavy armor.

“Keuk!”

The greatsword user, whose HP was massively depleted by the dagger stuck in his neck, became greatly stiffened.

Arang didn’t miss that time and twisted the dagger as she pulled it out, then stabbed the dagger into the greatsword user’s neck until he died.

Paang!

The greatsword user eventually couldn’t withstand Arang’s vital attacks and disappeared as particles burst out.

==

“Hoo… Hoo…”

That was dangerous.

The PVP that started with all HP gone from the beginning consumed quite a bit of mental strength.

Even in Awakening Mode, my head is throbbing.

To awaken the mind that was sinking into the deep sea and becoming depressed, I immediately warped to the guild house.

As soon as I entered the guild house, I immediately went down to the basement where I heard the clang! clang! sounds coming from.

As expected, Baedeopgae-unni was making something with her life profession, blacksmith.

Baedeopgae-unni immediately notices that I’ve come.

“Hmm? Arang-a, what’s wrong?”

“Baedeopgae-unni…”

“Yeah, Arang-a. Huh? Didn’t you say your period was over, Arang-a?”

Baedeopgae-unni stopped what she was doing and ran to me and hugged me.

“Something happened… Please stroke my stomach…”

“Stomach!? Ah, okay!”

Baedeopgae-unni nodded her head at an incredible speed at my words and immediately went to her room and climbed onto the giant bed that took up about half of the room.

Baedeopgae-unni hugs me from behind, just like she took care of me during this period.

“Hoo-wook… Hoo-wook… Hoo-wook…”

I almost regretted leaving it to Baedeopgae-unni because of the breathing sounds coming from behind, but honestly, I felt good that she brought me various things and took care of me during my period, so I leaned my body entirely on Baedeopgae-unni.

“C-Can I touch it?”

“Yeah.”

Ssuk, ssuk.

“Squishy, soft, smooth, haa… haa…”

Rub, rub.

“And the slightly protruding lower belly is the best…”

Hmm… I think I’m regretting it after all.