## Chapter 427 – Undine, the Water Spirit
Having bought the house, I steeled my inhuman heart and woke up before dawn to prepare for departure, as this was my first job since then.
It was a kind of commemoration and ritual.
Lately, all I had done was clean the house, move, train, and engage in sexual activity. I couldn’t deny that my mind had become lax, sinking into a swamp of sweetness and peace.
Even though I had been training, it was nothing more than rest since it wasn’t actual combat.
Let’s get a grip now.
ㅡPapat!
A sharply refined sense of ki.
ㅡBoong-jjeung-boong-jjeung!
Fierce power emanating from my trained body.
“ㅡKui kui.”
‘Chairman Kwon’s Combat Arts,’ honed in life-or-death battles, struck the air with an extremely combative and brutal force, despite having indulged in comfort in recent days. The fist ‘abused’ the ‘world,’ and the leg ‘trampled’ the ‘inferior insects.’
From a series of fluid and natural movements, Jongma Kim Kkat returned to being Cheonma Kim Kkat. Thus, the true truth of Fusion Confucianism awakened, and an inhuman feeling welled up.
ㅡI am Cheonma Kim Kkat.
Even flesh-eating serial killers will never survive before my blade. You can assume that Undine’s life is already over.
“That damn darkie is at it again from morning. So full of energy.”
“Hehe. It’s nice to see, though? Don’t be too harsh. At least he’s not singing.”
“Yeah, well, as long as he doesn’t sing. Good job, darkie.”
That was Winia and Cloudi’s reaction to seeing the destructive series of Chairman Kwon’s Combat Arts. Winia is a mage, so she doesn’t know the importance of martial arts. And Cloudi will later suffer the infinite compass punishment when they go out together.
“Winia is too much.”
“Are you sulking?”
“Comfort me.”
“Hehe. Come here.”
I nestled into Winia’s chest with a smile on my face. With this, I regained my original strength. I had all my equipment, so all I had to do was leave.
Around that time, Karin and Risha-nim came upstairs after washing up. I woke up a little early to prepare for departure.
They woke up a little later than us.
“Are you leaving now?”
“Yes, I’ll be back soon.”
“…Be careful.”
As I grabbed my backpack, Risha-nim came close and kissed me. Karin stretched for a moment and said to me.
“Hey, hubby.”
“What.”
“I’ve been thinking, and it would be nice if you could schedule your work around my days off. It’s okay since I’m opening the guild in three days, but I’ll be lonely if you’re not here on my days off.”
She meant that she wanted me to work on the days she opened the guild and rest with her on her days off. Of course, I would do that if possible.
“You will, right?”
“I should if possible. But I don’t know the schedule.”
“You’re dead.”
“Ah, I understand. I will.”
“Good. You’re pretty when you listen.”
Anyway, I came outside while being seen off by Karin and Risha-nim. On the way out, Winia reminded Risha-nim about the Alraune.
Now that everything was ready, all I had to do was take the carriage.
“Okay, darkie, let’s head to the gate.”
“It’s really convenient to have a carriage.”
This is why I’m better than a C-class adventurer.
I headed towards the gate at a slightly faster pace and soon arrived. It was early morning, just after dawn, but the diligent coachmen had already lined up their carriages.
Winia looked around and found the carriage that the guild had arranged. She quickly found it and boarded the carriage. The coachman said that if we left now, we would arrive around noon.
“Oh, it’s not that far. Maybe we can come back tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow? If we catch Undine as soon as we get there, maybe.”
If we encountered Undine as soon as we arrived, as Cloudi predicted, we might be able to return tomorrow. That would be ideal.
ㅡClatter clatter.
Soon the carriage departed. Strangely, I get sleepy whenever I ride in a carriage. Sleepiness poured in instantly, and my body collapsed.
“Darkie, don’t fall asleep. Listen to me.”
“Ugh… okay. I’m not asleep yet.”
“You already have your eyes closed. Listen to the explanation first.”
Winia started briefing.
“Undine is basically a monster that lures men and drowns them.”
“Hehe, really? What a pushover.”
No one can seduce me.
But listening to this, does Undine feel like a water ghost? It’s so distasteful to enjoy drowning people.
“Well… I’m not worried about that. But you have to be careful because she uses various water magic or summons water elementals.”
“Water elementals?”
“Water attribute summons. A monster that drowns people.”
“What a bastard.”
Since she’s a monster that lives in the water, drowning is just the default. If not drowning, she just kills them all near the water.
“And to elaborate on the seduction, she’s basically a spirit, so she’s pretty, and she can use basic hypnosis magic. The main pattern is that men with weak mental strength are helpless.”
“She can’t be prettier than you.”
“Hehe. That’s obvious.”
There aren’t many women as pretty as Winia.
“Anyway, that’s Undine’s characteristic. Of course, there are individual differences, so the skills vary greatly. There are records that Undine with good skills can drown people by shoving water cannons into their mouths or cause pneumonia, so be careful.”
“Oh, shit. Suddenly scary.”
If water fills the lungs, it won’t end easily.
And this is a unique thing about spirits, but Undine and Naias are not single entities. There are countless spirits that look similar, and they seem to be scattered everywhere.
Of course, the names are different in each region, but they all look similar. It is unknown whether these spirits share consciousness or knowledge.
The only ones who can find that out are the cruel serial killers, the spiritists.
Because they are the only beings who can communicate with spirits.
“Kkat, don’t worry. That kind of spirit can’t be your opponent.”
“That’s right, rehu.”
All three of them closed their eyes. A great adventurer sleeps well even in a carriage. And when we woke up again, we arrived at the villageㅡ
“ㅡAdventurers! Something terrible has happened!”
With the carriage stopping, the coachman shouted like lightning, so I immediately drew my sword and jumped out. “Aaaaaah!” “Heeeee!” The coachman and the horse were in shock.
Well, it’s nothing.
ㅡWoof! Woof!
ㅡWoof woof!
It turned out that we had encountered a group of gnolls. Of course, when you ride a carriage, monsters sometimes attack. It’s a common occurrence, but the coachman seemed surprised to see a large number of gnolls.
“Coachman. Rest assured and take good care of the horse.”
“Ah, okay!”
ㅡPaaat!
I left the rear, left, and right to Cloudi and Winia and immediately jumped out. There were a total of five gnolls. As I rushed towards them without hesitation, they barked like dogs and howled with their tail hairs standing on end.
ㅡKeoheoheoeoong!
I immediately swung my raised sword.
ㅡSwaeak!
Perhaps due to the training I had done at the Swordsman’s Guild, the speed of the sword felt faster. The power surging from my muscles was also definitely felt.
“Dejaaaaaaaat!!!”
Since mana had melted into my bones and flesh, the limits of my physical abilities, as well as durability and strength, had gradually increased. Training can be said to be the work of fixing the increased physical abilities to the body.
ㅡChwaak!
With a single swing, three gnolls were cut off.
ㅡKeoheongheong!
ㅡWoof!
The sword lightly cut through the gnoll’s body and scattered blood cheerfully. Of course, I quickly gave the remaining gnoll a cut in the chest.
Slaughtering these monsters is just post-meal exercise.
“Oh, oh… you’re really good.”
“It’s basic. Then let’s go.”
“Okay.”
After experiencing this kind of happening, we finally arrived at the village.
Killing a few 잡몹 is nothing. Laundry is harder.
After getting off the carriage, we immediately grabbed a resident and asked for the location of the village chief’s house. Since we came to request money, it is essential to meet the client, the village chief.
The structure of the village requesting the Adventurer’s Guild is that the village chief takes the lead in collecting money and sending people to the guild. In other words, the village chief is the one who gives the money.
“Oh… you came in three days.”
“Don’t tell me there are more victims?”
I spoke with a heavy tone, as if blaming us for being late, and the village chief shook his head and replied.
“That’s not the case. We are controlling the road to the spring… but it’s very inconvenient because we can’t use the spring.”
The village chief told us about the identity of the dead person, the location of the spring, and the sighting information of Undine.
He added that one of the bodies of the sacrificed young men had not yet been recovered, and asked us to recover it.
“I hope you can find and recover that body.”
“Hmm, that’s not in the request.”
Body recovery was not in the request.
What was specified was only the disposal of Undine, who was in control of the village’s spring.
“If we find it, we will take it out as a matter of course, but our duty is only to dispose of Undine. I don’t know how long it will take to recover the drowned body. It’s best not to expect that. If we dispose of Undine, then the village can do it.”
“I, I see. I understand.”
I refused firmly and got up from my seat.
I don’t know how many days it will take to recover the drowned body. I can’t do that. In the first place, Winia wouldn’t have accepted it if there was such a thing in the request.
I immediately moved in the direction he told me.
“Funny. Why would you ask for something like that?”
“I know, right? That person has no manners.”
Winia grumbled that the village chief had no manners. Originally, you shouldn’t ask for something like that. Well, he’s still the moneybags, so all we have to do is refuse.
I immediately went into the forest and looked for the road. Since I was only going in the direction he told me, it wasn’t that difficult to find the spring.
In less than 30 minutes, I found a waterway, and as I went up it, I found a fairly large spring.
The central part seemed quite deep, so if you fell in while being seduced by Undine, you would definitely be dead in less than 5 minutes.
Still, it looks like the outer part is only up to the knees. Let’s be careful for now.
“Eung, is Undine not here?”
Cloudi, who had been looking around, said.
As she said, Undine was not seen nearby. Judging from the connected waterway, she might be somewhere else now.
“Is she sleeping now?”
I looked for a long time, but I couldn’t find Undine. I tried to call Undine by throwing stones into the spring with Winia, but it didn’t work well.
Cloudi seemed bored and went a little further back, saying she would look for other waterways.
Well, if we can’t find her today, we can just look for her from dawn tomorrow as originally planned.
ㅡBubble bubble.
ㅡPeek.
As soon as I thought that, a girl’s head with impressive sky-blue hair rose from the central part of the spring. She wouldn’t be a child from the village who came out to play. If she was a person, she couldn’t suddenly raise only her head from that deep place.
Undine appeared.
“Human?”
“Are you Undine?”
Winia silently took out an oil bottle, and I took out a rope and poured glue on the sword at the same time, calling Undine’s name and carrying out the identity verification process.
“Yeah… do you know me?”
“Of course I know you. You’re such a celebrity. You’re just an idol, an idol.”
A murder idol.
I immediately told Winia quietly.
“Winia. Call Cloudi. I’ll stall for time, so let’s gather three of us and make a surprise attack.”
“…Okay.”
Winia carefully took a step back and disappeared behind. I loosened the string of the bag containing the spirit repellent powder and continued.
“I came to see your face because you’re so famous. Wow, you’re as cute as I heard?”
“…I see. Hehe. I am cute.”
At that, Undine completely revealed her upper body.
Contrary to expectations, her elastic body did not seem to be made of water. Her skin and the large breasts attached to it only seemed to be made of flesh.
I was thinking of a semi-transparent water ghost, but it’s a bit unexpected.
“But you look too scary.”
“I look scary? Bullshit. That’s because you’re looking from afar. Come closer and look. Where else is there a man as handsome as me?”
I wiggled my fingers, thinking of solving the problem with words.
It would be ideal if the stupid spirit came out to the land.
“Come closer.”
I didn’t forget to tie the rope to the sword while muttering appropriately.
“No. You come here.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Why would I go there?”
As expected, no problem is solved with words.
In the first place, there’s no way I can communicate with a damn spirit. I’m not a spiritist, so there’s no way I can communicate with this kind of guy.
As I said that, Undine frowned and revealed her upper body, followed by the upper part of her thighs. I thought she was a girl, but she’s surprisingly tall and has blue hair down there, so she’s just an adult woman.
As I heard, she’s quite pretty and has a good body, so the young men in the village are likely to be seduced. Because she has quite big breasts.
“You’re not going to listen…? Then I’ll make you my slave too. Let’s go into the water together.”
She’s revealing her true nature.
“Should I give you gills?”
“Eung… no?”
“Then fuck off, you idiot.”
ㅡKaak, ptoo!
When I spat phlegm at the spring, Undine’s face was sulky.
“What are you doing! How dare you try to pollute the water with that dirty thing! I want to see your face bloated with water!”
“You’re factory wastewater, you 개색갸.”
I immediately sprayed medicine on the sword.
