Quest

Seriously, I’m using stealth, and you turn your shoulder while passing by?

This proves that it wasn’t a coincidence, that woman is a witch.

‘I should follow her slowly.’

The witch’s appearance wasn’t conspicuous in the slums.

The witch is dressed similarly to me. She’s wearing a cloak that covers her whole body, but mine is a legendary stealth cloak, so it looks cool from the outside, but the witch covered her body with a rather shabby, ragged cloak to avoid standing out here.

On top of that, her face isn’t clean, and she has a mask covering her nose and mouth, but I recognized her at once.

This witch is a beauty.

I wouldn’t have known at all in the past, but after meeting and spending so much time with pretty beauties, I can now tell whether someone is a beauty just by looking at them.

The witch goes deeper and deeper.

Around the time when people started to disappear even in the slums, the witch contacted someone.

A giant who looks over 2M tall, with tattoos all over his body. From his face, which looks like a delinquent, and the many scars, I can tell that he’s quite successful in this slum. No, I should say NPC.

NPCs are so realistic now that I get confused.

If I didn’t have the game UIs in front of my eyes, I wouldn’t be able to distinguish it from reality.

“Did you bring the goods?”

The man said, grinning at the witch.

“Here.”

The witch handed the man a pouch about the size of a man’s fist.

The man opened the pouch and checked the contents, then handed another pouch to the witch.

There was a clinking sound from the pouch, so it must have been money.

“What is this? Why is there only 5 gold? You clearly promised 10 gold!”

“Ah, sorry, sorry. These days, all the people who buy this are dying in the war, so there are fewer people who want it, you see. It’s not selling well.”

“Don’t bullshit me…! I know that more people want it because of this war!”

“Hmm. I don’t know about that? We can only give you 5 gold. If you want to sell it somewhere else, go ahead. We’re probably the highest bidders.”

“You trash-like bastards.”

“Trash? You’re the one participating in trash-like deeds with us, who are trash?”

“Tch.”

The witch reluctantly accepted the pouch containing 5 gold, glared at the man, and turned around.

‘I’m curious about that place too?’

I quickly whispered my current coordinates to Baedeopgae-nim.

Iarang: Unnie, I think there’s a slum organization here, please investigate.

Iarang Baedeopgae: Okay!

I was following the witch, and she started going deeper into a creepy place where there were fewer and fewer people.

‘It seems like she noticed I was following her and is deliberately going to a place where there are no people.’

If I only had one life, I would have given up on following her, but since I come back to life even if I die, I just went ahead with it.

She went down to the basement where even sunlight didn’t reach, and the moment the witch turned the corner, I tried to approach quickly.

A sharp magic appeared in front of me.

Paang!

I nonchalantly deflected the magic with my one-handed sword.

Pajik-!

The stealth on the legendary stealth cloak made a sound like glass breaking, and the stealth was broken.

‘It wasn’t an attack magic, but a stealth-解除 magic?’

“A child!?”

The witch shouted as soon as she saw me after the stealth was解除.

“No. What the hell is your identity?”

“Huh? A child.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. A child wouldn’t have a legendary stealth cloak and deflect that fast magic with a sword.”

“That’s true, but… how should I explain this.”

“It’s okay if you don’t tell me your identity. I’ll just kill you.”

“Uuuueuum… How can I let her know that I don’t have any hostility…”

“There’s no such way. The fact that you followed me is reason enough to kill you.”

“Uuuueuum…”

I can’t see any way to get rid of that hostility.

Holding a staff, countless magic spells are shining behind the witch as if to kill me.

Ah.

I suddenly came up with a good idea.

A way to immediately let her know that I don’t have any hostility.

I consciously activated and overloaded the senses in my arms and legs. And as the number of users in Leore has increased recently, the overload was easily triggered, and my arms and legs went *peong!* and exploded into particles.

Having lost my arms and legs, I fell to the basement floor with a *kong.*

==

The witch actually felt death.

Death slowly following her from behind.

She was exuding such an enormous presence that she felt like she would die just by talking to it, or even just by touching it.

Although she couldn’t see it, she couldn’t help but look at the place where she felt that presence because of its presence.

This was a talent that only she could feel, which other people couldn’t feel.

And as she walked, that presence of death wasn’t moving out of the way.

She had to pretend not to notice, but she felt like she would die the moment she collided with that presence of death, so she unconsciously moved her shoulder inward to avoid it.

Because of that, the presence of death started following her.

The witch had no choice but to make that presence of death follow her as far away from where she lived as possible.

Because there are many war orphans she’s taking care of at home.

But the witch didn’t intend to just die either.

But…

It was a child.

She was flustered when the stealth was解除, but even so, the presence of death felt from that child didn’t disappear.

The witch thought that child wasn’t just a child, but a being disguised as a child, and she was prepared to risk her life.

But…

Suddenly, the death in front of her fell to the floor.

To be exact, she fell to the floor.

The witch was momentarily flustered by the sudden event, but she quickly assessed the situation.

‘Suddenly her arms and legs disappeared and she fell to the floor… Why did her arms and legs disappear…?’

Now, Arang, who was struggling on the floor, has become accustomed to living without arms and legs, so she quickly got up.

“How is it? Do you know that I don’t have any hostility now? I can’t do anything in this state.”

“What the hell is your identity…”

“Uuuueuum… I just had something I was curious about and wanted to ask you, so I came to find you.”

“A being like you has something you’re curious about with me?”

“What do you think of me? I’m just a 16-year-old girl.”

“Don’t lie. The energy emanating from your body is not something to be seen as a simple girl, but as a being that could end the world.”

“Ah. Does it look like that? Uuuueuum… That’s also true.”

“Wh-What!?”

She raised the hand holding the staff, which had been lowered for a while, and pointed the staff at Arang.

“But, do I look like that kind of person?”

“That’s…”

No.

Anyone could see that the being in front of her now just looked like a powerless child without arms and legs. If it weren’t for that aura of death behind her.

“Um, my arms and legs will probably grow back in a bit? So don’t be surprised. Okay?”

Arang’s arms and legs, which had been overloaded, grew back again.

Arang shook off the dust on her body as she fell to the floor.

The witch didn’t let her guard down even at Arang’s actions.

“Um, first of all, is there a place where we can talk comfortably?”

“… Isn’t it enough here?”

“It’s not comfortable to stand.”

“… Follow me.”

==

Fortunately, the witch has let go of her hostility towards me.

As expected, arms and legs

The place I arrived at following the witch looked like a workshop.

The witch was probably making what she was selling to that organization in the slums here.

Following the witch’s guidance, I sat on the sofa and asked the witch her name first.

“… Wina. I’m called Wina.”

Wina, who seemed to hesitate for a moment but told me her name.

The fact that she’s being called that means that she has a separate real name, but she doesn’t seem to be lying, so she probably abandoned her real name and considers that name Wina to be her real name.

‘She must have abandoned her real name while escaping from that village.’

“Wina. I’ll get straight to the point. Do you know this?”

I took out a black liquid from my main item inventory.

The black liquid flowed stickyly onto the desk from my hand.

“Ugh…! Th-This is…!”

“Do you know it?”

“I have no choice but to know…! Isn’t this the Demon King’s power that’s trying to destroy this world? Are you, could it be…!?

The moment Wina tried to grab the staff next to her.

I glared at Wina.

“Ugh…!”

I wanted to go kindly, but I thought the same situation would happen endlessly if I did that, so I just suppressed her with force.

“If I was going to kill you, I would have already killed you. If you bother me one more time…”

“O-Okay…”

“Wina, you know how to use black magic, right?”

“… How did you kno- Haa… That’s right.”

“It’s not that, I’m looking for a way to enhance this.”

“The reason is…”

“This has been purified.”

“If I refuse…?”

“Um… It’s just a waste.”

I said that and put on unspoken pressure.

Witch Wina.

Bright red hair and bright red eyes. She’s wearing shabby clothes, but her body is still asserting itself.

She’s quite a likeable NPC.

I like this NPC’s story and appearance.

‘You’re mine.’

Black magic.

It’s a magic that hasn’t been mentioned much in Leore so far.

There are so many jobs, but there is no job that uses black magic.

Maybe.

If I learn more about black magic, will a job called black magician be created?

It’s definitely possible in Leore now.