- Synthesis successful!
- Grade: ★★★★★★
- Race: Succubus
[Traits]
- Queen’s Dignity (S): Possesses a dignity none would dare approach.
- Seductive Smile (S): A smile overflowing with charm. Stimulates the hearts of men who see it.
- Devil’s Whisper (S): Stimulates the target’s heart with sweet whispers.
[Basic Information]
Vitality: A
Attack Power: A-
Defense: A
Magic Power: S
[Skills]
- Nightmare (S): Bestows the worst nightmare, one the target cannot wake from.
- Dream Manipulation (A): Manipulates the target’s dreams and gives them hope. In exchange, absorbs the target’s essence.
- Charm (A): Targets exposed to Charm cannot feel attraction toward any woman other than the caster.
Every hour, they enter a state of heat.
“Wow. So this is why people whale.”
The lieutenant who had started as 3-star had become 6-star.
Even her appearance had changed in many ways.
Her once grimy, long silver hair had become smooth. The black horns that had slightly risen on either side of her head had grown larger, extending down past her ears.
Her face, too, had looked somewhat anxious when she was 3-star, but now she seemed composed. It even felt as though that composure had increased her charm.
First, I had used the 5,900 won package to make her 4-star. Then a new 15,900 won 5-star synthesis package appeared, so I bought that as well.
And once I made her 5-star.
Sure enough, another new package appeared that could make her 6-star.
The difference was that this one was fairly expensive.
‘59,000 won?’
It seemed the developer of this game really was obsessed with money.
Normally, I would have just turned the game off, but as if possessed by something, I bought it as it was.
And the result was a 6-star dungeon lieutenant.
Maybe cash spending was cash spending for a reason, because looking only at the results, I was satisfied.
The initially unimpressive stats had risen in an instant, and the skill list had been added to as well.
With specs like this, wouldn’t she be able to not only protect the dungeon, but also stop the Order’s holy knights if they came?
That was how large the gap between 3-star and 6-star was.
“Just how strong is 6-star?”
By Earth standards rather than game standards, it would probably be roughly similar to an S-rank monster.
As Hunters who traveled between Earth and the continent of Eldorad gradually appeared, a rough chart had been made.
1-star was considered F-rank to E-rank by Earth standards.
2-star was D-rank.
3-star was C-rank.
4-star was B-rank.
5-star was A-rank.
After that, since they were not common monsters, only rough settings had apparently been established.
Usually, 6-star was presumed to be S-rank.
However, S-rank monsters were truly rare, not only on the continent but even on Earth.
And the number of Hunters who had reached S-rank was even smaller.
“Still, I can just think of it as having obtained an S-rank succubus.”
If there was one thing I regretted, it was that I had bought the dungeon concealment item at the start.
Thanks to that, the dungeon’s location would be hidden for a week, so there wouldn’t be any intruders for the time being, but still.
If I had known I would become this strong from the beginning, I regretted buying it for no reason.
As I smacked my lips and looked around the game interface for a moment, a window appeared.
I wondered if that damned developer was bringing up yet another package, but this time it was a different window.
- Lieutenant “Celia Ishahar” expresses her gratitude to Master.
- Lieutenant “Celia Ishahar” cautiously asks if she may know Master’s name.
Along with the text, a field for entering a name appeared.
“My name?”
A moment ago I had named the dungeon, and now I was naming myself?
This time, I did not think for long.
I was simply too lazy to come up with a name, and nothing suitable came to mind.
In the input field, I wrote my own name as it was.
‘My name is.’
- Lee Ganghyeon
After I entered the name like that.
- “Celia Ishahar” rejoices upon hearing Master’s name.
- Loyalty 100 achieved.
- Loyalty has surpassed its maximum value. From now on, “Celia Ishahar” will obey any command from Master.
“So there’s a system like this too?”
I felt good hearing that her loyalty had exceeded the maximum from the very beginning.
This, too, must have been the power of cash spending.
By the way, she would obey any command?
Celia Ishahar was too long, so I decided to shorten it to Celia.
In any case, she had shown loyalty to me.
“This is what a lieutenant should be. Yep.”
For now, there was nothing in particular to order her to do.
There were no intruders in the dungeon, and perhaps because it was still the beginning, I didn’t see any content worth doing.
“Is it kind of like an idle game?”
A brief question arose, but now that things had turned out this way, I decided to end the game there.
Ah, before that.
“You take care of the dungeon on your own.”
There were various action categories in the lieutenant settings tab, so I clicked and activated “Dungeon Management” and “Dungeon Defense.”
The lieutenant nodded with a happy expression and began walking around various parts of the dungeon.
The dungeon was, at best, a cozy little cave, but I could probably expand it more in the future.
A moment later, I pressed the exit button and closed my eyes.
After thinking for a moment.
“It’s been a while since I came back to Earth, so I should order some chicken.”
I had something to do.
A very important matter called eating.
* * *
Celia Ishahar.
She was a succubus. At the same time, she had been deep underground beneath the White Order.
If one asked why a monster was in the Order, to be precise, she had existed there in a sealed state.
How much time had passed since she had been sealed?
Fortunately, her consciousness, at least, had remained awake. In other words, she had spent day after day unable to move.
It was agony.
At some point, she had even forgotten to count the days.
If she had not, she would have gone mad.
Why did she have to suffer such a fate?
Doubt and anger twisted together.
Because she had no memory of harming humans, she could not understand her current situation.
Commonly, when one spoke of a succubus, they were said to stir through the dreams of human men and steal their essence.
In that process, many men paid with their lives.
On the other hand, she had not once taken essence from a human.
She was softhearted and did not want to do so, and besides, she pitied them.
That standard applied not only to humans but also to other monsters, so rather than absorb essence, she simply starved.
Fortunately, unlike other succubi, there was nothing seriously wrong with her body even if she did not consume essence.
The problem was that, because of that, she could not grow as a monster either.
At least from the humans’ point of view, Celia was not a threatening existence.
And yet the White Order had sealed her first. She was even the only succubus sealed here, so from Celia’s perspective, it was nothing but unjust.
Before she was sealed, she had once become the disciple of the Succubus Queen.
Entering the service of the queen who ruled over all succubi was an honorable thing.
However, she knew her own place.
Why would the queen take someone with no abilities, someone who, despite being a succubus, sympathized with other humans and did not steal essence, as her disciple?
She remembered once asking the queen about that. In response to her question, the queen answered like this.
‘You have potential.’
She did not know what kind of potential she had.
Even now, she still could not know.
The only thing certain was that the queen had wanted something from her.
After making her a disciple, the queen began to do something strange.
Every day, she started drawing Celia’s blood.
Celia already did not consume essence. In that situation, when she even gave up her blood, her condition was obvious without having to look.
Even so, the reason she stayed still must have been a sign of gratitude for taking in someone as useless as herself.
But such days did not last long.
One day, the queen spoke to Celia.
‘You are no longer needed. Get out of my sight.’
What did that mean? The queen had suddenly notified her.
Celia’s thoughts stopped in that instant, and with that as her last memory, she was sealed in the White Order. It happened in the blink of an eye.
At first, she thought the queen and all the other succubi had been sealed as well.
But the only succubus sealed beneath this White Order was herself.
Just what had happened back then?
No, perhaps she knew.
That she had been betrayed.
By the Succubus Queen and her followers.
She did not know how they had joined hands with the Order.
‘…….’
However, if she escaped this place, if only she could escape, she would forgive none of them.
The queen, the Order, all of them.
But the seal was solid.
No matter how much she struggled, she could not break free.
The Order’s seal was thorough, and inquisitors even took turns patrolling.
It was a space where even magic would not work unless it was divine power. That was this place.
Unless someone came to save her, she would likely have to spend her entire life unable even to die.
That did not mean she had even the slightest hope that someone might come to save her.
Who would dare risk their life to oppose the Order?
That was how great the power of the White Order was.
And just as she was resigning herself once again.
Suddenly, the underground space began to distort.
To be precise, right in front of the place where she had been sealed.
‘…….’
She felt no presence.
It was surely a place no one could infiltrate.
It had been so in the past, and she thought it would continue to be so in the future.
However, the intruder before her eyes had easily infiltrated the Order’s underground.
They were an existence of a level she would not dare approach.
Why had that existence come here?
Had they come to release someone else who was sealed?
Celia thought that, since they had come all this way, it would be nice if they helped her escape as well.
Her prediction missed spectacularly.
That existence spoke to her.
【Celia Ishahar, become my slave.】
An unapproachable existence had called her name.
‘Ah…’
That existence wanted her.
【I will ask once more. Celia Ishahar, serve me.】
The word slave had already vanished from her ears.
The only thing certain was the single fact that the existence before her eyes wanted her.
If it was an existence with such a level of dignity, it could have taken her by force, yet it asked for her will first.
If only she accepted, she would be able to leave this sickening place.
How much time had passed?
While she had been here, her emotions had worn away.
The sympathy she had felt for humans had disappeared.
Anger had settled toward the Succubus Queen who had accepted her and toward the rest of her kind.
Only from here.
If she could only get out of this place, she would begin everything anew.
To such a woman, a lifeline had descended.
She did not hesitate for long.
‘Please… grant me that chance.’
With that thought as the last, her vision went dark.
When she came to again, she realized she was in a different place, not beneath the Order.
“This place is…?”
Her voice came out.
Her seal had been undone.
Overcome with emotion, tears flowed from Celia’s eyes without her realizing it.
“Sniff.”
She wiped her tears and looked around.
She instinctively realized that the place she was in was a dungeon.
Though it was only a small cave despite being called a dungeon, if there was labor, it could be expanded at any time.
She saw no existence other than herself.
It was not managed at all, but she was not disappointed.
He was the benefactor who had saved her. No, he was her Master.
She intended to devote herself to the Master who had saved her.
“…….”
However, the surprise did not end there.
【Become strong enough to match my level.】
The voice of the existence who had released her from the seal rang out.
There was clearly no one here except herself.
Could it be that the voice was everything? Or perhaps he was testing her.
As she hesitated for a moment, she felt something change within her body.
Ah.
How ecstatic.
Her entire body was swept up in pleasure.
It was said that succubi felt pleasure when they coveted human essence.
Celia herself had never coveted essence, but perhaps that pleasure would be nothing compared to the pleasure she felt now.
And by the time the ecstasy ended, Celia felt it.
She had become a level stronger.
She had clearly heard the command to become stronger.
“Could it be that Master made me this way?”
No answer came to her question.
Instead, only the words to become stronger echoed.
【Become even stronger.】
Once again, a powerful wave of pleasure surged in.
When all of it ended, Celia had transformed into a completely different existence.
A faint light shimmered in her silver hair.
The small horns on her head had grown larger.
Celia knew instinctively.
The rank of her existence had risen.
She might even be comparable to the Succubus Queen of the past.
Without being told, she knew who had done all this.
“M-May I dare to know my noble Master’s name?”
Celia’s voice trembled.
Would he think her rude?
Contrary to her worries, a voice echoed through the dungeon once more.
【Lee Ganghyeon.】
It was no ordinary name.
With a smiling face, Celia answered, “Yes!” and vowed to be loyal to him for the rest of her life. She also thought that she would carry out his command to manage and protect this place no matter what.
No matter what.
* * *
The inquisitors of the White Order were thrown into chaos.
Deep underground, where beings harmful to the world had been sealed.
That place, which should have been under strict security, had been breached.
By the time they became aware of that fact, one of the sealed beings had already disappeared.
If there was any consolation, it was that the being that had vanished was a succubus.
Everyone thought they had at least avoided the worst-case scenario.
Except for one person.
“Inform the Queen. Ishahar, who had been sealed by the Order, has been released.”
Within the Order.
Someone secretly delivered those words.