## Chapter 56 – 56. Wow…
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#56. Wow…
[Moving to planet EB-17]
[Confirmed 3 matching targets]
[Matching time greatly increased for smooth dating]
[Hope you have a happy time]
A familiar sensation swept over me, as if the surrounding air was changing.
Before I knew it, my surroundings had changed from my musty studio apartment to an underground passage filled with a pungent fishy smell.
And not far away, a familiar face was greeting me.
A gruesome lizard head, pure white skin that could easily deflect bullets, and an enormous muscular build that looked to be 3 meters tall.
-Krrr…
It was the Lizard Warrior, the gatekeeper of the first floor of the underground dungeon.
When I first saw it, I had vague doubts about whether I could catch it, but not anymore.
The magic stone attached to Gillennium began to glow.
[Strength]
[Haste]
[Balance]
[The steps of fire]
Auxiliary magic is basically common magic.
Elementalists, ideologists, and alchemists can all use it.
However, it consumed a lot of magic power and had the problem that it could not be cast on others.
Moreover, it put a strain on the magic circuit when cast on oneself, so it was not a magic that attracted attention from wizards. Rather, it should be seen as half-buried magic.
But it didn’t matter to me.
Magic power? It fills up quickly with just a little meditation, and my magic power has long surpassed the level of the 2nd circle.
Besides, thanks to the holy water I drank last time, my magic circuit has become stronger, so there was no reason not to use auxiliary magic.
-Kuaaaa!!
The Lizard Warrior couldn’t stand it and charged at me with the only remaining spear.
It was a pressure that was hard to believe was C+ grade.
[Thought Acceleration]
Nevertheless, it was far from enough to compare to the Ice Golem.
In the time that had slowed down by nearly twice, I invested most of the remaining magic power in the barrier magic.
I gave up on the idea of blocking a wide area.
All I had to do was cover the Lizard Warrior’s spear blade.
Just like when I created a barrier only on my forehead in an extreme situation before, this time I thought about the barrier in the form of covering the spear blade, constructed it, and deployed it.
Bang!
-K, rle?!
The Lizard Warrior, who was rushing in at an incredible speed, had the spear itself fixed in the air by the barrier that covered the spear blade, and struggled to break the barrier while holding onto the spear shaft.
[Weakness Detection]
Such a desperate effort was no different from kneeling down and asking me to attack him.
I rushed towards the most brightly lit part, excluding the brain, forehead, neck, and heart.
Perhaps because my speed towards him was unexpected, the Lizard Warrior dropped the spear shaft.
The guy who abandoned his weapon tried to retreat to avoid the attack, but I was not so unskilled that he could avoid it in a broken posture.
Although it was a short week, I received 1-on-1 coaching from the wolf girl who drew out sword energy.
I also gained practical experience in the B-grade isolated gate.
I practiced magic power from time to time, and strengthened my magic circuit with holy water.
Even if there was no increase in realm, I was now strong enough not to run away in front of the Lizard Warrior.
Thwack!!
Gillennium, emitting a blue light, moved like a flash towards the guy’s side and pierced through it.
The Lizard Warrior, with a tire-sized hole pierced through him, collapsed, spewing out endless dark red blood instead of an unpleasant cry.
Ting-
[You have defeated the Lizard Warrior]
[First kill reward: 200 coins]
The reward coins didn’t matter.
The sense of accomplishment from defeating the Lizard Warrior was better. Besides, I already had over 2,000 coins.
Now that there were no items worth buying in the store, coins were not very important.
Still, I bought health and magic power potions, and vitality potions that seemed to be a lower version of holy water, as soon as they came out.
I didn’t want to save them and have them become poop.
As a result of turning on magic power detection, there were no monsters around.
I was wondering if I should fill up my magic power with meditation, but just in case, I drank a magic power potion first.
I didn’t want to save it and have it become poop.
The magic power potion tasted like a familiar ion drink.
While taking a breather, I lowered my head to collect the Lizard Warrior’s magic stone, and then I discovered something sparkling around the corpse.
It was a small key and a dagger.
The use of the key was obvious. It was probably the key to open the stone door in front of me.
Right now, I was more interested in the dagger than the key.
“Could it be an artifact…?”
It was equipment that came out after catching a monster.
I couldn’t help but expect it.
After forcibly calming my heart, which was pounding on its own, I grabbed the dagger and concentrated.
A while ago, I found out about a new function of the app.
It was an absurd function that allowed you to grasp the information of the item simply by holding a magic tool or artifact in your hand and concentrating.
Ting-
[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.
Grants a certain chance to inflict poison on the target upon hit.
Allows you to use ‘Wind Walk’]
“It’s an assassin item.”
After skimming through the explanation, I put the dagger in my inventory.
I already didn’t like the current situation where I, a magician, was wielding a sword and cutting off monsters’ necks, but now I’m going to go down the assassin tree.
Where in the world is there such a failed character?
Of course, it’s true that if you can do magic, swordsmanship, and even assassination, you are theoretically invincible, but as I live in reality, I must always look at reality with an objective eye.
It wasn’t for nothing that high school students were divided into science, humanities, and arts to go to college.
Still, the good thing was that the dagger seemed to be an artifact.
Except for Gillennium, I had never seen equipment with so many effects attached to it.
At least it wasn’t a common magic tool.
I was going to dispose of the wand and magic sword that I probably wouldn’t use anymore soon anyway, so when I go back to Earth later, I’ll have to go around a suitable gate to create a source for the items.
“Should I go up first?”
I was too caught up in other thoughts, and I wanted to see Iris too much right now.
***
Finding the way up wasn’t too difficult.
In the first place, all I had to do was follow the map I had mapped out last time, and it would be strange if that was difficult.
However, the way back was full of the corpses of the monsters I had dealt with.
As the stench constantly pricked my nose, my gaze naturally turned elsewhere.
[Remaining matching time: 166:42:36]
Is this what it feels like to be full just by looking at it?
As the number of matching targets became 3, the matching time also increased dramatically.
I was a little surprised, but considering that the matching time had been ridiculously short until now, even a week was not 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 while being caught up in such miscellaneous thoughts, it was soon time to arrive at the stairs leading up.
It took me a little over 2 hours to get here.
In the first place, there was no need to think about monsters and traps, so it was natural to arrive quickly.
I thought about taking a break before going up, but I immediately chose to climb the stairs because of Iris.
As I climbed the stairs one by one and headed up, I suddenly remembered a friend from high school who kept skipping night self-study because he wanted to see his girlfriend.
He had no tricks, so he was always caught by the homeroom teacher and beaten every time he skipped.
What’s really funny is that he didn’t stop skipping night self-study even though he was beaten every time.
At one point, I asked him if he couldn’t just meet after night self-study, and my friend said this at that time.
-I’m enduring the urge to go 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 so hard that I was out of breath, I was looking for a way to get up even faster.
That’s how desperately I wanted to see Iris.
As I was running for a long time, my heart fluttered without me knowing when I saw a faint light coming in from above.
It wasn’t because I was tired.
I slowed down and climbed the stairs one by one.
The moment the light became more and more intense and the air changed.
“Hyunwoo-ssi…?”
I met the eyes of the person I wanted to see so much.
“Iris!”
Iris, whose eyes widened, immediately ran into my arms.
I also hugged Iris tightly so that she wouldn’t fall.
From my perspective, it had already been 2 weeks and several days since I had 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.
That look was so cute that I had no choice but to punish Iris.
It was a life sentence that she couldn’t leave my arms until I was satisfied.
“H, Hyunwoo-ssi, I can’t breathe…!”
Iris was suffocating, but she was digging deeper into my arms.
As if it was compensation for being apart for so long, we stuck together for a long time.
Then, I suddenly realized that the World Tree was quiet.
“Iris, where is the World Tree?”
I could just call her the World Tree, but I couldn’t do that in front of Iris, who was a devout believer.
It was the same principle as a man who lived as a non-religious person going to church because 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 stick with Iris when the World Tree was next to me.
It was like having skinship with your wife in front of your mother-in-law.
Well, according to the myth that Iris told me, the World Tree created the elves.
Thinking about it that way, it wasn’t a completely wrong example.
Anyway, my mother-in-law is a tree, so I don’t think I’ll ever use wood as firewood when I light a fire in the future.
“Hey, Hyunwoo-ssi. Have you been to the world you used to live in?”
“Uh… is it obvious?”
“Yes, your magic power is much more stable than before. Your overall magic power has also increased a lot, and your magic circuit has become stronger? Besides…”
Iris suddenly blushed.
“Y, your body has become more toned.”
“…”
At that moment, my goal was set at 3 reps of 800.
It wasn’t easy to lift 800 without using magic power.
“You’ve worked hard.”
While I was lost in thought for a moment, Iris gently stroked my cheek with her soft hand.
“What hard work.”
It was a word that wasn’t worth listening to until I got Iris out of this shithole.
“Shall we eat first?”
I packed several courses from the most famous vegan restaurant in Gangnam for Iris, who is a vegetarian.
My inventory became a little short, but it was okay because I took out some unnecessary survival supplies and had some room.
Nothing was more important than what went into Iris’s mouth.
“Okay!”
Look at this, she’s happy with a bright smile and her cute ears are even flapping, so is it a big deal that I took out some survival supplies?
While I was looking at Iris with a proud smile, Iris’s dress, which was torn in places, caught my eye.
I felt a little sorry.
It was me who made the clothes like that.
It didn’t seem like she couldn’t wear it at all, but it was a bit much to keep wearing it like that.
I was glad that I brought a few clothes that Iris could wear just in case, otherwise Iris would have had to keep living in that state.
I didn’t know much about women’s clothes, so I just swept up everything the department store employee recommended. I hope Iris likes a lot of these.
Fortunately, clothes were grouped into one category regardless of top and bottom, so I could put dozens of clothes in one inventory slot.
‘This dress would look good on her too… and there’s a tight-fitting knit with jeans? Wow, should I do this?’
Still, if it was the first time she was wearing modern clothes, I wanted to make her wear clothes that suited my taste.
Of course, I had no intention of forcing her if Iris didn’t like it.
While I was rummaging through the inventory with the eyes of a male who was looking through porn sites for dozens of minutes to find a nut, I felt an instinct that I couldn’t resist.
Honestly, it wasn’t clothes that the innocent Iris would like, but I wanted to see Iris wearing this even just once.
“Iris.”
“What’s wrong?”
Iris, who was nestled in my chest, raised her head at my call.
The moment I saw her infinitely clear eyes, a sense of guilt that I couldn’t describe bubbled up.
But I couldn’t give up here.
“W, shouldn’t you change your clothes?”
“Yes? Ah…”
Iris glanced at her chest and back, where her clothes were in bad condition, and then 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, who was happy like a child at the mention of new clothes, a simple sense of guilt evolved into mental anguish that seemed to squeeze my heart.
Nevertheless, now that I’ve come this far, I couldn’t back down.
I carefully took out the clothes and handed them to Iris.
Iris, who received the clothes, was horrified by the bold design for a while, but after my earnest request to wear them just once, she shyly nodded and quietly went out of the temple.
Was it 3 minutes that felt like 3 hours?
“H, Hyunwoo-ssi…”
“I think the clothes are a little small…”
The moment I saw Iris, who had changed her clothes, I couldn’t say anything.
The tight-fitting tank top and dolphin pants were emphasizing her violent figure.
Her breasts that seemed to burst, her wide hips, and her big, bouncy butt and thighs.
In the end, my patience ran out.
“H, Hyunwoo-ssi…?”
It was a natural step for me to grab Iris’s wrist and take her out of the temple.
Now that the World Tree is away, there was only one thing I had to do.