Chapter 15 : Result

Early morning.

Still half-asleep, Sera rubbed her drowsy eyes and got out of bed in her pajamas.

After washing up, she got dressed.

“Ughhh…!”

As the earliest riser, she began her morning by taking the sunstone lamp hanging in the second-floor hallway and placing it where sunlight would hit the inn’s outer wall.

Sunstones needed ample sunlight during the day.

For the few guests having breakfast, she pushed a pot of soup near the wide, fireplace-like hearth, stacked kindling like hay and dry leaves onto the half-burned firewood, and struck a flint against steel to light the fire.

“Is Yueon still asleep…?”

Sera knew he usually moved around after breakfast.

In medieval times, two meals a day were the norm, but in the labyrinth city, many ate three.

Yueon had been out late last night. It was barely past 8 AM—no way he was awake yet.

‘I should tell him to eat breakfast and go back to sleep.’

As she climbed back to the second-floor hallway and opened the door to Yueon’s usual room at the very end—

“Eek…?!”

There he was, sprawled on the bed, wearing nothing but underwear.

“Oh, oh my—! S-sorry, Yueon…!”

Covering her eyes slightly, she peeked through her fingers.

“H-he’s really asleep, right…?”

Unlike her own, his thighs and calves were firm with muscle.

Deep, defined abs and a sharp V-line peeking from his slightly tilted posture.

Broad, shallow pectorals with fine ridges, and thick forearms veined like spiderwebs.

Even on the same bed, his wide shoulders made it look cramped.

But what bothered her most—

‘T-that’s his… penis…!’

Inside his loose trunks, his erection strained against the fabric like a prisoner trying to break free.

Yueon slept soundly, but why was his member so excited? Sera couldn’t understand.

‘Doesn’t that look uncomfortable..?’

To her, it seemed painful.

His underwear was too tight for his size, trapping his arousal.

Reproductive organs were sacred, regardless of gender.

Knowing this, Sera stepped forward to “rescue” Yueon’s imprisoned member.

‘J-just freeing it… because it looks painful…’

Elastic materials were rare in medieval times, so his trunks were tied with a drawstring instead of a waistband.

It was a simple knot, but one tied by Yueon’s strong hands.

‘W-why won’t it loosen..?’

Her thin fingers tugged at the knot, but—

‘Eek..!’

Though only five seconds passed, it felt like an eternity.

If Yueon woke now, how ridiculous would she look?

No—ridiculous was an understatement.

Trying to undress a sleeping man’s groin?

Rumors would spread that she was the labyrinth city’s biggest pervert.

Sliiide—

‘Ah! It’s loose!’

Her pounding heart nearly exploded as the knot came undone.

She expected his erection to spring free—

‘So stiff..!’

But the underwear narrowed at the waist, keeping it trapped like a coiled snake.

Instead, something else escaped.

‘T-this is…’

Trapped air, now freed, carried an indescribable scent.

“H-huh…?”

Blushing crimson, she instinctively leaned closer—then jerked back.

‘I-I’ve lost my mind..!’

But she reassured herself.

‘This should be less uncomfortable… right?’

Her original goal wasn’t to gawk—just to ease his discomfort.

…That was a lie, of course.

She wanted to see it.

‘G-get a grip! Should I stop now..?’

After all that effort untying the knot, should she give up?

Or go further—pull down his underwear and really look?

But it wouldn’t be easy.

His erection stood stubbornly upright.

She’d have to press it flat against his stomach and tug the underwear down—a tricky maneuver.

The biggest problem is, regardless of difficulty, the fact that Sera’s own finger must touch Yueon’s penis.

“Ugh…!”

Lost in deep contemplation, Sera finally made up her mind. The moment she placed the tip of her left index finger on Yueon’s penis, she realized—

‘Ah…’

Among Yueon’s masculine body parts, the most masculine performance was coming from his erection.

With her slender arms and delicate fingers, there was no way she could pull down Yueon’s towering manhood, standing proudly toward the sky.

In fact, just in thickness alone, Yueon’s penis was thicker than Sera’s forearm.

She had been prideful, thinking she might be strong due to the slight muscles she gained from helping at the inn, but Yueon had just taught her the difference in strength in a very masculine way.

To pull his manhood down toward his abs, it seemed she would need at least a full hand—her entire left hand.

Only by wrapping her soft palm around the tip of his penis and gently gripping the rest with her slender fingers could she even attempt to push it down.

If it were just the tip of her finger, maybe—but pressing her entire palm against the fully swollen glans of a man? That was almost like…

“A, a proxy masturbation…!”

No matter how curious she was, Sera had no intention of arm-wrestling with a penis.

“He looks handsome even when sleeping…”

After staring at his sleeping face for a long time, she finally went downstairs to the kitchen.

With her cheeks burning red, she sat blankly for a while, staring at the flames.

“Ugh, I slept well.”

After practicing skills all night, I fell asleep around dawn when the eastern sky began to turn red.

I wanted to wash up since I had sweated a lot from moving around all night, but the bath wasn’t even lit at that hour, so I just slept.

“Did I loosen the knot in my sleep?”

After adjusting my slipped panties and getting dressed, I went downstairs.

“Sera. Good morning.”

“Ugh… I-it’s 1 PM…”

“Guess I woke up too late.”

“N-no… It’s fine…”

The results of last night’s skill practice were astonishing.

As Ravi predicted, I succeeded in using the skill the way I wanted.

Thanks to that, I managed to replace an entire forearm or leg with a Direwolf’s muscles.

And the most surprising thing was this—

‘A third perspective?’

The vision from the Direwolf alpha’s eyes. It was like a thermal camera, where humans appeared brightly glowing.

I had no idea what this was at first.

But I eventually figured it out—these were mana-detecting eyes, capable of seeing magical energy. Of course, staring too long gave me a headache, so I had to switch back to a normal wolf’s eyes.

It seemed that using an ability I didn’t originally possess put a strain on my brain.

After much deliberation over whether to attempt it due to potential side effects, I finally succeeded.

Thump-thump-thump

Even while idle, the Direwolf alpha’s heart boasted incredible pumping power.

And its lungs absorbed far more oxygen. Both were incredibly high-performance.

Of course, I couldn’t use them all the time.

If I kept the alpha’s heart and lungs active while doing nothing, the excess oxygen made me dizzy, like blowing air into a tube with my mouth.

So, I decided to only use them in combat, when my body needed more oxygen after extensive muscle use.

This was a tremendous achievement. To summarize my skill’s effects:

1. I can recreate the body parts of animals I’ve eaten with my mouth. Plants don’t seem to work at all.
2. Cooked parts can be recreated but not used. Chewed and swallowed is fine, but cooking alters cells, making it impossible.
3. I can control this at will. Injured parts turning into Direwolf muscles were due to my body’s instinctive will to recover.
4. Internal organs can also be altered, and their size adjusts to fit my body.
5. Drinking blood lets me absorb the target’s mana. Exceptions may exist for bloodless or mana-devoid creatures.

Not a bad skill at all. The best part after understanding it was realizing I no longer needed to get hurt.

Before, I thought injured parts were replaced by monster organs, but now I know better.

“With this… I can make insane money.”

I’m itching to head to the labyrinth. If I meet a monster with strong physical power, I’ll eat its muscles.

If it has strong mana, I’ll drink its blood.

“Cobalt isn’t just a distant dream anymore.”

Even reaching Cobalt—the bare minimum for a high-rank explorer—is within grasp.

“Sigh, time to head to the labyrinth.”

All that’s left is to grow stronger.