”Yeah. I feel…” Zach stood up while looking at his hands and body and said, “I feel fine.”
’I don’t feel any pain whatsoever.” Zach looked at the tip of the spear, which he had coughed a while ago, and noticed it was slowly turning into ash.
”No, no!” Zach grabbed the tip, but it turned into ash in his hand.
SIGH!
”My Lord, please sit under the gazebo and have some rest,” Ninia suggested.
”Yeah.”
Zach and Ninia sat under the gazebo, but Ninia sat beside Zach and hugged his arm.
After a few minutes, Aria and Misha arrived, and when they did, Ninia let go of Zach’s arm and pretended that never happened.
”Oh! You are awake now?!” Aria sighed in relief and said, “We couldn’t find anyone. We interrogated every player and NPC we saw, but…”
”It’s fine. Whoever it was, I am sure we will find that person again.” Zach turned to Misha and said, “You should go home. It’s not safe out here.”
Misha bit her lips and nodded before saying, “Okay. I will drop by the church later.”
After saying that, Misha left with a gloomy face.
Zach glanced around and asked, “Where is Victoria?”
”She went to call someone for help,” Ninia responded. “I will go inform her—”
”There is no need to.” Zach opened his menu and messaged Victoria to come back.
Immediately after a few seconds, Victoria replied with, [On my way.]
Zach messaged her again with: [Come directly to the church. We are heading there too.]
Aria, Zach, and Niania returned to the church, and Victoria arrived a few minutes later.
She checked Zach’s body by patting him everywhere and asked, “Did Ninia heal you?”
”She did heal me, but my condition got better because of that spear,” Zach responded.
Victoria turned to Aria and asked, “Did you find that person?”
Aria simply shook her head in response.
”How do you feel?” Victoria asked Zach with a straight face, but she was hiding her emotions behind. She wanted to cry and fall into Zach’s embrace, but she didn’t want to be selfish.
”I feel a lot better. Just a little numb. Kind of like how one feels after recovering from a fever.”
”Go rest in your room. We will call you when the dinner is ready.”
”…”
Now that Zach was completely free from the side effects, he wanted to resume his ascendence and challenge the main Realm Boss. However, he quietly walked into his room and lay on the bed.
SIGH!
He looked at the ceiling and muttered, “What am I doing? I wanted to take all the hurdles away from their path, so I decided to go alone. But I ended up worrying about them more.
I am… reckless. But I can’t ascend without being reckless. Everything in this game is reckless. Some players in this game are risking their lives to ascend and clear the game. They are normal humans, unlike me, who is a monster hybrid. I should do better than them. I should be the first one to—”
KNOCK~ KNOCK!
”Come in.”
The door slowly opened, and Ninia walked in with a flushed face.
”Did I disturb your sleep?” she asked calmly.
”No. Of course, not.”
She walked to the bed and said, “Is there anything I can help you with?”
”Hmm~” Zach pondered for a few seconds and said, “How about you talk with me?”
”….” Ninia puffed her cheeks and muttered, “What type of request is this?”
”Then why don’t you ask me to do something?”
”You promised some things when you started your religion…” Ninia quietly muttered.
”Oh. Are you talking about the goals I set?”
”Yes. You said if you got 5000 followers, you would make me your prophet, and you did. And then you promised if you get 10,000 followers. Now, you have almost ten times that amount of followers. So don’t you think it’s about time you change your NPC followers into players?” Ninia asked calmly with a slight smile on her face.
”About that… I don’t really know a way to do that. But I promise you, I will find a way before I ascend to the second main realm,” Zach stated with a confident look on his face.
”You also have to find a way to mark your player followers. They are too much in number to be manually able to do that,” Ninia remarked.
”Yeah. I have already thought of a way.” Zach moved his hand towards Ninia’s face and touched her soft cheeks before saying, “I will use my undead army. They are more in number, and they don’t feel exhausted either.”
Ninia closed her eyes and leaned her face on Zach’s hand. She rubbed her cheek on his hand before opening her eyes and staring directly into Zach’s eyes.
”…”
Zach slowly moved his thumb to Ninia’s pink, juicy lips without saying a word. He gulped down nervously and continued rubbing his thumb on her lips.
On the other hand, Ninia looked into Zach’s eyes with an alluring gaze. Her face showed no sign of feeling uncomfortable. In fact, it was blushed red.
Zach’s gaze moved from Ninia’s lips to her chest. She was wearing her night clothes, and since she was in Zach’s room, she hadn’t covered her body like she did when she was out in public.
He looked at her cleavage and gulped down before glancing back and forth between her eyes, lips, and chest.
”My Lord…” Ninia finally broke her silence and called out to Zach.
Zach pulled his hand back, thinking he had made Ninia feel uncomfortable.
”Yeah.. sorry. I was just…” Even Zach had no idea what came over him.
’I always found Ninia attractive and hot, but since when did I start…’ He recalled a few events where he had become extremely close to Ninia, such as when he had woken up from a slumber. At that time, he had felt her voluptuous soft body, which had awakened something inside him.
”Why… did you pull your hands?” Ninia grabbed Zach’s hand and placed it on her breasts as she said, “Please continue.”
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