Chapter 67

Only after receiving punches to the stomach, shoulder attacks, and a great sword strike did Hyeseon’s words come to mind.

She clearly said, “Your period might be over, but since it’s Arang’s first time, you still need to be careful with your stomach. Got it?”

I thought it didn’t matter since in Leore, pain isn’t felt, and everything is processed as vibrations.

Until I got hit.

In normal raids, each attack is a matter of life and death, and dealers usually only get hit by area attacks, so it wasn’t a big deal.

But PVP players’ attacks are different.

They don’t attack in set patterns like bosses; they attack in real-time with feedback.

Because of that, I, who am not used to PVP, couldn’t respond to the great sword user’s attack and ended up taking a punch to the stomach.

Leore converts pain into vibrations.

The great sword user’s large fist sank deep into my small stomach.

Zzzzzz! It shook my entire stomach. Okay. Up to this point, it wasn’t a big deal.

The problem was the great sword user’s follow-up attack.

To create distance from the great sword user, I was in mid-air when I took a shoulder attack, and in that state, I got stunned and allowed the great sword user’s single attack [Spear] to hit me.

A great sword as tall as me pierced through my stomach, exploded, and sent me flying.

If the punch and shoulder attack were just a “Ugh!” level of vibration, the great sword stab was a “Yuck!”

If the vibrations from the punch and shoulder felt like a vibrating phone placed on my stomach, the great sword attack felt like someone shoved a massage chair set to maximum vibration inside my stomach.

No matter how much it was just vibrations, once the intensity crossed a certain level, it started to feel like actual pain.

Even though my period was over, the aftermath remained.

The strong vibrations that shook everything in my stomach, starting from the most important area for a woman, woke up Arang’s negative emotions that had calmed down after her period.

It wasn’t about the period.

It wasn’t that Arang’s negative emotions rose because of her period, but because the pain in a woman’s sensitive area due to her period caused the negative emotions to rise.

In other words.

“It wasn’t because of the period, but because pain in the uterus triggered it.”

I don’t dislike Arang’s negative emotions.

When I first felt them in reality, I couldn’t speak well, couldn’t express emotions, and felt like a living corpse, which was uncomfortable, but now it’s different.

I’ve become familiar with feeling and understanding all of Arang’s emotions.

This time, the negative emotions invaded even the virtual world during her period, but I could speak at will and express emotions, even if it was just tears in reality.

The downside is that I feel my spirit sinking, and I don’t want to feel it for long.

My spirit sinks.

This sensation of my spirit plunging into the deep sea.

My spirit, emotions, and thoughts all sink into the cold, pitch-black depths of the deep sea.

“Phew…”

This is it. This sensation I tried to follow.

I gripped my dagger tightly and charged at the great sword user rushing towards me.

The great sword user’s movements seemed to slow down, and all the information entering my vision flowed into my head.

I decided to call this ability “super senses.”

In normal situations, it’s a high-risk ability. Just using it makes my head tingle, and I’ve reached a level where I can control it, but now I don’t need to control it.

Right now… let’s call this state “Awakening Mode.” In Awakening Mode, my spirit is calm, and I can use super senses at 100% without any issues.

With super senses at 100%, every single action of the great sword user entered my mind.

The red, large effect from the great sword and that large stance.

It’s the great sword user’s max-level skill [Wave]. It’s a skill that covers the entire area with countless slashes at an incredibly fast speed, making it seem like the space is being shredded.

My remaining health is just 5%.

I can’t get hit even once. Normally, I’d give up, but thanks to Awakening Mode and 100% super senses, I’m confident.

I ran towards the slashes coming at me like a wave without stopping.

It seems like there’s no place to dodge, but mixing in parries seems sufficient.

If I don’t directly parry the great sword but just the slashes from the skill, I won’t get stunned.

The great sword’s heavy, large, and strong blade is scary, but the slashes aren’t.

Simply offsetting the slashes isn’t enough. I need to move forward.

The daggers in both hands glow a dark red, and I block and parry the great sword user’s slashes faster and stronger than they come flying at me to kill me!

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‘Is this for real?’

The atmosphere around Arang changed. And to finish her off, the great sword user activated their level 60 skill [Wave].

Arang didn’t get hit by a single slash that could swallow everything and started breaking through [Wave].

Her movements were like gymnastics—light, fast, and flexible—dodging slashes and deflecting unavoidable ones with her two daggers.

The great sword user watching this was dumbfounded.

They had seen the video of the 1v1 Makkora mechanic.

The best physical Arang, who didn’t lose a single exchange against the highest level of modern AI and eventually won, was unfolding before their eyes.

But the great sword user isn’t just a foolish player.

They immediately thought of the next move and charged at Arang, who hadn’t completely countered [Wave] yet.

At that moment, Arang retreated for the first time while countering [Wave].

‘Now, suddenly?’

-Swish.

Arang disappeared from sight. The slashes passed through where she had been in less than 0.1 seconds.

‘She calculated the time for the slashes to reach and the short casting time, then retreated and used a movement skill!?’

The fact that Arang still wasn’t in the great sword user’s sight meant…

‘Behind!’

The great sword user immediately canceled their skill and swung their great sword behind them.

‘Oh no!’

The great sword user realized their great sword passed over Arang’s head and became aware of Arang’s height again.

Arang’s height is so small that it’s no exaggeration to say she’s the shortest in Leore.

The great sword user’s attack, accustomed to long-time PVP, slashed through empty air.

‘Anyway, an assassin’s attack can’t pierce heavy armor. There are still plenty of chances.’

The great sword user has an overwhelmingly favorable matchup against assassin-type classes. Assassin-type weapons are all light, so they can’t pierce heavy armor.

But.

Arang defied all the great sword user’s expectations.

Arang attacked with speed invisible to the eye. But something was strange.

The great sword user’s health was rapidly decreasing.

Having never experienced their health dropping this much against an assassin, the great sword user anxiously swung their great sword at Arang as soon as the cooldown ended.

With a broken stance, there’s no way the great sword could have full power, and Arang, noticing this, gripped both daggers in reverse and parried the great sword.

Kaaaaang!!!

A perfect parry. The great sword was deflected heavily, and the great sword user was stunned.

‘I’m dead…!’

At that moment, the great sword user met Arang’s eyes and felt fear in her hollow gaze.

The great sword user, desperate from the continuously decreasing health, hastily moved their leg back.

Thud.

Arang immediately noticed and threw the dagger in her left hand at the great sword user’s heel, causing them to lose balance and fall backward.

‘Crazy!’

Arang immediately climbed onto the great sword user’s body and plunged the dagger in her right hand into the gap between the helmet and chest plate, the biggest weakness of heavy armor.

“Guh!”

With the dagger stuck in their neck, the great sword user’s health dropped drastically, and they were stunned.

Arang didn’t miss the opportunity and twisted the dagger, pulling it out, then stabbed it into the great sword user’s neck until they died.

Bang!

The great sword user couldn’t withstand Arang’s critical attack and disappeared with particles exploding.

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“Phew… Phew…”

That was close.

Starting the PVP with all my health gone consumed a lot of mental energy.

Even in Awakening Mode, my head is throbbing.

To wake up my spirit sinking into the deep sea, I immediately warped to the guild house.

Entering the guild house, I heard clanging sounds from the basement and went down.

Sure enough, Baedeokgae was making something with her blacksmithing profession.

Baedeokgae immediately noticed my arrival.

“Huh? Arang, what’s up?”

“Baedeokgae unnie…”

“Yeah, Arang. Huh? Didn’t you say your period was over?”

Baedeokgae stopped what she was doing and ran over to hug me.

“Well, something happened… Can you rub my stomach a bit…”

“Stomach!? Oh, okay!”

Baedeokgae nodded her head at an incredible speed and immediately went to her room, climbing onto the giant bed that took up half the room.

Like she cared for me during my period, Baedeokgae hugged me from behind.

“Huff… huff… huff…”

The sound of her breathing from behind made me slightly regret relying on her, but honestly, it felt good since she took care of me during my period, so I fully leaned on Baedeokgae.

“Can I touch you?”

“Yeah.”

Swish, swish.

“Soft, squishy, smooth, haa… haa…”

Squish, squish.

“Your slightly protruding lower belly is just the best…”

Hmm… I think I regret it.