Chapter 56

Chapter 56

I Installed a Dating App and Girls from Another World Became Obsessed with Me.

Episode 56: Wow…

[Moving to Planet EB-17]

[Confirmed 3 targets matched]

[Matching time greatly increased for smooth dating]

[We hope you have a happy time]

An unfamiliar sensation, as if the surrounding air was changing, brushed past me.

Before I knew it, my surroundings had changed from my musty-smelling room to a foul, fishy-smelling underground passage.

And not far away, a familiar face was welcoming me.

A ferocious lizard head, white skin that could easily deflect bullets, and a massive muscular build that looked to be 3m tall.

-Krrr…

It was the Lizard Warrior, the gatekeeper of the first floor of the underground dungeon.

When I first saw it, I wondered if I could ever catch it, but not anymore.

The magic stone on Gillenium began to glow.

[Strength Enhancement]

[Speed Increase (Haste)]

[Balance Adjustment]

[Fire Step]

Auxiliary magic was basically common magic.

Elementalists, Conceptualists, and Alchemists could all use it.

However, it consumed a lot of mana and could not be cast on others, which was a problem.

Moreover, casting it on oneself put a strain on the mana circuit, so it was not a popular magic among wizards. Rather, it was a half-buried magic.

But it didn’t matter to me.

Mana? It filled up quickly with just a little meditation, and my mana level had long surpassed the 2nd circle.

Moreover, thanks to the holy water I drank last time, my mana circuit became stronger, so there was no reason not to use auxiliary magic.

-Kuaaa!!

Not being able to stand still, the Lizard Warrior rushed towards me with the only spear left.

It was a pressure that was hard to believe was C+ class.

[Thought Acceleration]

Still, it was far from comparable to the Ice Golem.

In the slowed-down time, which was nearly twice as slow, I invested most of my remaining mana in the barrier magic.

I gave up on the idea of blocking a wide range.

I just needed to cover the Lizard Warrior’s spear blade.

Just like I created a barrier on my forehead in an extreme situation before, this time I thought, constructed, and deployed a barrier that covered the spear blade.

Clang!

-Krr, reuk?!

The Lizard Warrior, who was rushing in at an incredible speed, tried to break the barrier by grabbing the spear shaft when the spear itself was fixed in the air by the barrier covering the spear blade.

[Weakness Detection]

Such a guy’s struggle was no different from begging me on his knees to attack him.

I rushed towards the part that glowed the reddest, excluding the brain, forehead, neck, and heart.

Perhaps my speed, which was rushing towards him, was unexpected, the Lizard Warrior let go of the spear shaft.

The monster who dropped his weapon tried to step back and avoid the attack, but I wasn’t so unskilled that he could avoid it in a broken posture.

Although it was a short week, I received one-on-one coaching from the wolf woman who drew out sword energy.

I also gained practical experience in the B-class isolated gate.

I practiced mana training from time to time, and strengthened my mana circuit with holy water.

Even if there was no increase in realm, I was strong enough not to have to run away in front of the Lizard Warrior.

Thwack!!

The blue-glowing Gillenium flashed towards the guy’s side and pierced through it.

The Lizard Warrior, who had a tire-sized hole in him, collapsed, spewing out crimson blood instead of an unpleasant cry.

Ding-

[You have defeated the Lizard Warrior]

[First kill reward: 200 coins]

The reward coins were irrelevant.

I felt more accomplished in killing the Lizard Warrior. Besides, I already had over 2,000 coins.

Coins weren’t that important right now, as there wasn’t anything worth buying at the store.

Still, I bought health and mana potions, and vitality potions, which seemed to be a lower version of holy water, whenever they came out.

I used mana detection, and there were no monsters around.

I wondered if I should fill up my mana with meditation, but just in case, I drank a mana potion.

I didn’t want to save it and end up with nothing.

The mana potion tasted like a familiar sports drink.

As I took a breather and bent down to collect the Lizard Warrior’s magic stone, I found something sparkling around the corpse.

It was a small key and a dagger.

The key’s use was obvious. It was probably a key to open the stone door in front of me.

Right now, the dagger caught my eye more than the key.

“Is it an artifact…?”

It was equipment that came out after killing a monster.

I couldn’t help but expect it.

After forcibly calming my heart that was pounding on its own, I grabbed the dagger and concentrated.

A while ago, I found out a new function of the app.

It was an absurd function that allowed me to find out the information of a magic tool or artifact just by holding it in my hand and concentrating.

Ding-

[Information on the newly acquired item is being collected]

[Viper’s Fang

Grade: Rare

Increases the power of attacks from behind.

Reduces the user’s presence.

Inflicts poison effect on the target with a certain probability upon hit.

Allows the use of ‘Wind Step’]

“It’s an assassin item.”

I put the dagger in my inventory after skimming through the explanation.

I didn’t like the current situation where I, a wizard, was carrying a sword and cutting off monster necks, but if I went down the assassin route here,

Where in the world was there such a bad character?

Of course, it was true that you were theoretically invincible if you could do magic, swordsmanship, and even assassination, but as you lived in the real world, you should always look at reality with an objective eye.

There’s a reason why high school students were divided into science, liberal arts, and arts and sports to go to college.

Still, the good thing was that the dagger seemed to be an artifact.

Except for Gillenium, I had never seen equipment with so many effects attached to it.

It was not a common magic tool at least.

I was planning to get rid of the wand and mana sword that I thought I wouldn’t be using anytime soon, but when I go back to Earth later, I need to go around a suitable gate to create an item source.

“Shall we go up for now?”

I missed Iris too much to be distracted by other thoughts.

Finding the way up wasn’t that difficult.

In the first place, it would be strange if I couldn’t follow the map I had mapped out last time.

However, the way back was full of monster corpses that I had dealt with.

As the stench of rot constantly poked my nose, my gaze naturally turned elsewhere.

[Remaining matching time: 166:42:36]

Was this what it felt like to be full just by looking at it?

As the number of matching targets became three, the matching time also increased significantly.

I was a little surprised, but considering that the matching time had been ridiculously short until now, a week wasn’t enough.

‘I wish I could increase it to a month if I could increase it with coins.’

I was sorry that I couldn’t.

As I walked around in other random thoughts, I soon arrived at the stairs leading up.

It took me a little over 2 hours to get here.

Since I didn’t have to worry about monsters and traps in the first place, it was natural to arrive quickly.

I thought about resting for a while before going up, but thinking of Iris, I chose to go up the stairs right away.

As I climbed the stairs one by one, heading up, I suddenly remembered a friend from high school who kept skipping night classes because he missed his girlfriend.

He was clumsy, so he got caught by the homeroom teacher every time he skipped, and got hit with a stick.

The funny thing was that he never stopped skipping night classes, even though he got hit every time.

I once asked him why he didn’t just meet her after night class, and he said,

-I’m barely holding back from wanting to see her during class.

At the time, I thought it was nonsense, but now I could understand my friend.

That’s exactly how I felt now.

Even though I was running until I was out of breath, I was looking for a way to get up faster.

That’s how desperately I wanted to see Iris.

As I ran for a while, my heart fluttered at the faint light coming from above.

It wasn’t because I was tired.

I slowed down and climbed the stairs one by one.

The moment the light got stronger and the air changed.

“Hyeon-u…?”

I met the eyes of the person I wanted to see so much.

“Iris!”

Iris, whose eyes widened, ran into my arms.

I hugged Iris tightly, as if I wouldn’t let her go.

From my perspective, it had been two weeks and a few days since I parted with Iris, but Iris had only been separated from me for a few hours.

Still, I was grateful that she welcomed me so much.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

Iris, who had been in my arms for a while, looked at my body here and there with worried eyes.

She was so cute that I couldn’t help but punish her.

It was a life sentence where she couldn’t leave my arms until I was satisfied.

“Hyeon-u, I can’t breathe…!”

Iris was suffocating, but she was digging deeper into my arms.

As if it was a reward for being apart, we stayed close for a long time.

Then, I suddenly realized that the World Tree was quiet.

“Iris, where is the World Tree?”

I could have just called it the Tree, but I couldn’t do that in front of Iris, a devout believer.

It was the same principle as a man who lived as an atheist going to church when he loved his girlfriend too much.

“Ah, she said she was going to the divine realm for a while. I think she’ll be back tomorrow… I don’t know exactly.”

“Really?”

I didn’t show it in front of Iris, but when I heard that the World Tree was away, I thought the timing was good.

It was awkward to be close to Iris when the World Tree was next to me.

It was like kissing your wife in front of your mother-in-law.

Come to think of it, according to the myth Iris told me, the World Tree created the elves.

Thinking about it that way, it wasn’t a completely wrong example.

Anyway, since my mother-in-law was a tree, I didn’t think I’d ever use wood as firewood when I light a fire in the future.

“Hyeon-u, did you go back to the world you used to live in?”

“Uh… does it show?”

“Yes, your mana is much more stable than before. Your overall mana has increased a lot, and your mana circuit has become stronger? Besides…”

Iris suddenly blushed.

“Your body has become firmer.”

“…”

At that moment, my goal was set at 3 reps of 800.

It wasn’t easy to lift 800 without using mana.

“You’ve been through a lot.”

While I was thinking about something else, Iris gently stroked my cheek with her soft hand.

“What do you mean, I’ve been through a lot.”

It was a word that wasn’t worth listening to until I got Iris out of this hellhole.

“Shall we eat first?”

I packed a few courses from the most famous vegan restaurant in Gangnam for Iris, who was a vegetarian.

The inventory was a bit short, but I had some room left after taking out some unnecessary survival supplies.

Nothing was more important than what went into Iris’ mouth.

“Okay!”

Look at her, she liked it so much that her cute ears were fluttering with a bright smile, so what’s the big deal about taking out some survival supplies?

While I was looking at Iris with a proud smile, I saw Iris’ dress torn here and there.

I felt a little sorry.

I was the one who made her clothes like that.

It didn’t look like she couldn’t wear it at all, but it wasn’t good to keep wearing it like that.

I was glad I brought a few clothes that Iris could wear just in case, otherwise Iris would have had to stay like that.

I didn’t know much about women’s clothes, so I just swept up everything the department store clerk recommended. I hope Iris likes a lot of these.

Fortunately, clothes were grouped into one category regardless of tops and bottoms, so I could put dozens of clothes in one inventory slot.

‘This dress would look good on her… and there’s a tight knit with jeans? Wow, should I do this?’

If it was her first time wearing modern clothes, I wanted to dress her in clothes that suited my taste.

Of course, I had no intention of forcing her if Iris didn’t like it.

As I rummaged through the inventory with the eyes of a male looking through porn sites for dozens of minutes to find a pornographic film, I felt an instinct that I couldn’t resist.

To be honest, it wasn’t clothes that pure Iris would like, but I wanted to see Iris wearing this even just once.

“Iris.”

“What’s wrong?”

Iris, who was in my arms, raised her head at my call.

The moment I saw her infinitely clear eyes, an indescribable sense of guilt boiled up.

But I couldn’t give up here.

“Don’t you have to change your clothes?”

“Yes? Ah…”

Iris glanced at her chest and back, where her clothes were in bad condition, and blushed as if she was embarrassed.

“I brought some clothes from the world I lived in, would you like to try them on?”

“Really?”

Seeing Iris happy like a child at the mention of new clothes, my simple guilt evolved into a mental anguish that seemed to squeeze my heart.

Nevertheless, I couldn’t back down since I came this far.

I carefully took out the clothes and handed them to Iris.

Iris, who received the clothes, was horrified by the bold design, but after my earnest request to wear them just once, she shyly nodded and quietly went out of the temple.

After 3 minutes, which felt like 3 hours, passed.

“Hyeon-u…”

“The clothes are a little small…”

The moment I saw Iris, who had changed her clothes, I couldn’t say anything.

The tight tank top and dolphin pants accentuated her violent figure.

Her bursting breasts, wide hips, and big, bouncy buttocks and thighs.

In the end, my patience ran out.

“Hyeon-u…?”

It was only natural that I grabbed Iris’ wrist and took her out of the temple.

Now that the World Tree was away, there was only one thing I had to do.