Chapter 64

Chapter 64

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

Episode 64: To The Third Floor (5)

It was no exaggeration to say that a Beastman’s excellence lay in their innate physique.

The fact that most people who worked physical labor jobs, starting from construction workers, and even hunters, were Beastmen supported this.

“Ah, don’t step there.”

Noel’s skills were impeccable.

While grumbling, she provided reliable tanking that didn’t let the mana beasts flow towards me, and she even identified the locations of traps beforehand and informed me.

She was competent enough that it was hard to complain about her eating a lot.

However.

“I’m so tired…”

This rabbit had terrible fuel efficiency.

One of her few shortcomings was that she would collapse after only 1 or 2 hours.

I clearly remember hearing that Beastmen also had good stamina.

Of course, people varied greatly, so it was not like all Beastmen would be the same.

Besides, I moved while adjusting my condition to some extent, but Noel had to move according to my orders, so it wouldn’t be easy for her to manage her condition.

In such a situation, it wasn’t right to push her to continue a forced march just because time was a little tight.

Moreover, it was thanks to Noel that we were taking the shortest route, the time it took to deal with mana beasts was faster than usual, and we were moving without worrying about traps, so it was right to see the situation as having some time to spare.

It would be okay to rest for a bit.

“But what are you doing now?”

“…Resting.”

Unlike when we rested while eating earlier, I was dumbfounded by Noel’s appearance as she confidently lay down, using my lap as a pillow.

A summoned beast’s life is the best life?

“I caught mana beasts, found traps, and even guided you, so this much is okay, right…!”

As if she wasn’t even sure herself, Noel trailed off and was busy avoiding my gaze.

“No, well… it’s not like it’s not okay.”

But why was she so confident?

If she was forcibly given a uterine massage by me in the first place, shouldn’t she be avoiding me?

It was just amazing how she was trying to stick to me even more.

“Heu, heu-heung…”

As soon as permission was granted, Noel even readjusted her posture and lay down comfortably.

In Noel’s head, who was even humming, completely different thoughts from Kang Hyeon-u were taking root.

Basically, the Rabbit tribe, unlike other Beastmen, tended to have strong sexual desires even when they weren’t in heat.

Of course, in that aspect, they were similar to humans, but sometimes they were even more so.

A case like Noel’s now, where she was ambiguously turned on, was exactly such a time.

The uterine massage, which was intended to establish discipline, had instead ignited her sexual desire. Since Noel had only ever gently rubbed her clitoris her whole life when pleasuring herself, it was driving her crazy.

She didn’t know how to extinguish the ambiguously lit fire, and the good smell emanating from Kang Hyeon-u’s body kept stimulating her, so it was inevitable that the area between her legs felt strangely itchy.

‘Ah, if my lower abdomen could be touched like before…’

Intellectually, the thought that it shouldn’t happen dominated her, but her increasingly heated body didn’t agree.

The fact that she was lying on his lap with her stomach defenselessly exposed was proof of that.

Wouldn’t he touch her if she stayed like this?

‘…I can’t resist anyway.’

With just one word from him, she was in a position where she had to lie on her back with her belly exposed at any time.

She couldn’t even think of resisting.

Besides, there was no way that pervert would end it with just touching her belly.

He would surely unleash his shameless and accumulated lewd desires on her, to an extent she couldn’t even bring herself to say.

Noel’s mind, which had never even had contact with the opposite sex her entire life, was chaos itself.

All the dark fantasies she could conjure were gathering and mixing in one place.

Her increasingly heated body was frustrating, but on the other hand, she found herself anticipating when he would press his large, thick palm on her lower abdomen and roughly rub it.

‘Heu, euht…♡’

Holding in a hot breath she couldn’t bring herself to exhale, Noel only looked at Kang Hyeon-u’s palm. At the same time, she subtly pushed out her lower abdomen.

However, her expectations were shattered miserably before long.

“Are you done resting now?”

“…Yes?”

“Get up.”

Kang Hyeon-u, far from forcibly violating her who couldn’t resist his orders, simply got up from his spot as if he had no interest.

Noel stared at Kang Hyeon-u’s back with a dazed look, her head pressed against the cold ground.

In determining the grade of a mana beast, there were some things considered in addition to its individual strength.

These included the accessibility of the habitat where the mana beast lived, the rarity of the mana beast itself, and mana beasts with special abilities.

“Uh… customer?”

What appeared before us as we traversed the dungeon, dealing with mana beasts, was a somewhat familiar stone gate and a single mana beast.

It was undoubtedly the boss of the second floor, the gatekeeper.

However, something felt strange.

Circumstantially, it was clearly the boss of the second floor, but the aura it exuded felt incomparably weaker than that of the Lizard Warrior.

Of course, if that was all we felt, we would have dealt with the mana beast immediately and headed to the third floor.

But we couldn’t move rashly.

We didn’t say it to each other, but it was clear we were feeling the same thing.

That it wasn’t a normal mana beast. The moment we faced it, something unpleasant brushed past us.

“What on earth is that…?”

All mana was unique.

Some mana was destructive, and some was gentle.

Of course, you couldn’t easily argue the superiority of mana based on that, and the same was true for mana beasts.

‘…Is that mana?’

Just the lingering scent of mana from that thing made me want to vomit, and a headache rushed in.

An overwhelming sense of disgust based on instinct stopped us in our tracks.

Finally, the creature raised its head towards us.

Beyond a robe so old it looked like it would crumble at any moment, no warmth of a living being could be felt.

The soul had departed, and a cold, stiff corpse was being moved by an unpleasant mana that evoked disgust.

The burning gaze and the emotion glimpsed beyond it sent a chill down my spine.

Despite having an appearance no different from other skeletons, there was an individual who wielded powerful magic and was confidently registered as an S-rank mana beast.

“…Lich.”

An immortal being created when a powerful mage contracted with an evil god for eternal life, it not only retained its martial prowess from its previous life but was also a monster that commanded thousands of undead alone.

With my current skills, it was a monster I couldn’t even dream of fighting, let alone escaping from.

However, ironically, considering I was facing such a monster, my brain was working perfectly fine. No, it felt even clearer than usual.

Thanks to that, I was able to assess the situation a bit more objectively.

Logically, there was no way a Lich would be here.

There was no way the World Tree wouldn’t have told me if an S-rank mana beast appeared on the second floor.

As I gathered my thoughts and examined the situation, I realized that the mana emanating from it wasn’t that intense.

Of course, if you only looked at the mana itself, it was disgustingly foul and evil, but the absolute total amount was actually less than mine.

It only looked like a Lich on the outside; it wasn’t a Lich.

It was probably just an elite individual of a Skeleton Mage.

“Noel!”

If that was the case, it was worth trying.

“You stay back.”

Noel was very tired from being the sole vanguard while coming here.

Besides, I was planning to fight the boss anyway, so it was right for me to take this one down alone.

The magic stone attached to Gillemneum’s pommel emitted a strong light.

[Strength Enhancement]

[Haste]

[Balance]

[Fire Step]

I used all the auxiliary magic I could, but the preparation didn’t end there.

After taking out a holy water from my inventory, I poured it directly onto Gillemneum’s blade.

Since there was no priest, I couldn’t imbue the sword with divine power, but the anti-evil aura inherent in Gillemneum and the holy water made by a bishop-level priest should work to some extent in an undead battle.

Of course, even while I was preparing, the creature wasn’t just standing still.

-d,c,k,rc…

A bizarre voice, like insects crawling, flowed out.

‘Could it be an incantation?’

I had only heard about it, so I was slightly late to react because I never imagined a mana beast would chant.

Before I could stop it, the creature quickly finished its incantation and slammed its staff onto the ground.

At the same time, a wave of the unpleasant mana I had felt earlier spread out from the tip of the staff in all directions.

I immediately put up a barrier around Noel and myself, but I knew.

That the previous incantation and the wave of mana weren’t meant to attack us.

Only then did I understand why I had initially suspected that skeleton of being a Lich.

A knight in rusty armor emerged from the very spot where the mana wave had swept through near the creature.

It was a similar size to the Lizard Warrior, but its heavily armed armor and massive greatsword stood out.

Necromancers, also called necromancers or spiritists, were a subspecies of summoners.

It was one of the forbidden arts to forcibly summon and command the souls of the dead, and it was magic usually used by high-ranking mana beasts with negative mana.

The moment I realized that the mana beast’s identity was a Necromancer, I immediately kicked off the ground and ran forward.

Even if a Necromancer had strong summons, its own martial prowess was ultimately more pathetic than that of a typical summoner.

This was because they had an absolute lack of mana to use for other magic since they had to forcibly manipulate the souls of the dead.

Of course, there were irregularities like Liches, but this one wasn’t one of them.

For now, I needed to figure out the level of that knight summon.

[Fireball]

I increased the power a bit more than when I dealt with the Lizardman. Since I had no intention of conserving mana when facing the boss anyway, it was a possible investment.

As a huge fireball, more than three times the size of a normal one, flew at a rapid speed, the rusty knight immediately stepped in front of the skeleton.

Bang!!

An enormous explosion and intense heat were felt, but the knight seemed fine except for being slightly scorched.

‘Its magic resistance is considerable.’

Its durability seemed similar to the Lizard Warrior, but in the end, it couldn’t overcome the penalty that summons possessed.

Summons had to protect the mage.

That meant they had to forcibly block even attacks they could avoid.

[Fireball x3]

I fired fireballs again within my mana’s limits.

Perhaps thinking this one would be difficult to block, the rusty knight charged towards the fireballs.

Gripping the greatsword with both hands, it swung the blade.

An incredible scene unfolded in my vision as the fireballs split to the left and right along with the immense wind pressure.

I could sense its determination not to allow any cheap shots.

“Trying to engage in close combat against a mage?”

It was a makeshift knight with no sense of knighthood whatsoever.

The rusty knight, undeterred by my sarcasm, charged at me.

Its speed was so fast that it was hard to follow with the eyes, but that wasn’t a big problem.

[Enhanced Dynamic Visual Acuity]

Mana-enhanced eyesight allowed me to keep up with the knight’s speed, and mana-enhanced strength from auxiliary magic allowed me to block its sword.

Gillemneum’s blade emitted a blue light and deflected the sword swung by the knight. Of course, I had no intention of taking the heavy greatsword head-on.

I continued to attack and defend, trying to avoid or deflect it as much as possible.

Sparks flew as sword clashed against sword.

[Thought Acceleration]

All time except for me slowed down.

The deployment, construction, and activation of magic. It happened as naturally as flowing water.

Its speed was as rough and rapid as a river after a storm.

[Flame Circle]

KWAH-AH-AHNG!!!

The rusty knight was blown away by the flames that exploded right next to its head.

I swung my sword down in the stance I had practiced tens of thousands of times under my eccentric master.

[The anti-evil aura contained in Gillemneum flashes.]

As golden waves and blue light gathered into a single point and shot up as a pillar of light, the rusty knight disappeared into dust without even thinking of resisting.

The burning gaze of the skeleton watching the scene flickered faintly.