I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 187

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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I twisted the sword plunged into the boss’s neck. With a sickening crunch, its neck snapped, and Bloodlust activated, replenishing my HP.

I pulled out Wingless Nightmare. The boss’s corpse fell backwards with a thud. I felt no particular sense of accomplishment, as it was just a palette-swapped version of another boss.

I had skipped the original version, since it wasn’t necessary to defeat it.

Nix, who had been obediently watching the boss fight from a distance, ran towards me.

“Hee hee, is that the end?”

“That’s right. I just need to get this. Then what I told you about is finished.”

Nix handed me the staff she was holding. I took it in my right hand.

Since dark magic didn’t require a medium like a magic staff or holy catalyst and could be used with bare hands, it had only one purpose.

The Rune Removal spell.

‘It was embarrassing, even for me.’

When I visited the mages in a nearby city wearing Minerva’s ring, I received a similar reaction to when I had met the paladins while wearing the Pope’s brooch.

They were desperately trying not to offend me. It made me wonder if they were the same mage NPCs who were notoriously rude in the game.

They looked like they were ready to offer their entire workshop to me if I so much as uttered a single word of displeasure, so I quickly received the staff and the Rune Removal spell and ran away. This was the second place I had visited after that.

The rune dungeon for the final build of a melee character in Darkest mode. The place where you could obtain the so-called ‘Life Conversion’ rune.

I had already obtained the rune that negated the Battle Fatigue debuff on my first visit. It had been surprisingly easy, considering how long I had been putting it off.

‘Although Nix did all the work getting here.’

If it weren’t for teleportation, it would have taken at least several months just to travel back and forth. I was grateful for Nix, Minerva, and the Popes.

“Hee hee, why?”

Nix, seemingly sensing my gaze, looked up at me with a creepy smile.

“Hmm? Nothing. Just saying good job. For using teleportation.”

“Then what’s my reward?”

“Reward? What kind of reward?”

“Just one thing is enough for me. Hee hee.”

With a creepy giggle, a slender finger poked my right hand.

I switched the staff to my left hand and raised my right hand to place it on Nix’s head. Nix purred and clung to me as she felt the warmth of my hand.

Whether it was the informal Nix or the formal Nix, they both loved being petted, to the point where I was the one who found it strange.

I didn’t know what had happened to make them like this.

After petting her for a while, I removed my hand and approached the rune stone, holding the staff. I channeled mana into the staff, just as I had learned.

The tip of the staff began to glow blue.

The tattoos on the back of my hand also glowed in response. Just as I was about to remove the Mana Enhancement rune, a thought suddenly occurred to me, and I paused.

‘……Come to think of it, what happens when you remove a rune?’

In the game, there was a separate UI for storing runes, but not here.

This kind of magic or special device was only required for removing runes. Equipping runes was easily done through the inventory window accessible by pressing ESC.

I wondered what would happen when I removed a rune here. The only UI I had seen since possessing this body was the status window displayed by the stat-checking orb.

‘Well, it’ll work out somehow.’

I didn’t need the rune anymore, and according to the lore, runes would reappear somewhere in the world when their user disappeared. Even if the rune disappeared, a new rune dungeon would appear.

I focused on the back of my hand again. The tattoos were still glowing. As I looked at them, the type of rune each tattoo represented appeared in my mind.

I removed the ‘Mana Enhancement’ rune without hesitation. I didn’t need it anymore.

The black tattoo disappeared as if being absorbed into the back of my hand.

Nix, seeing that the spell was finished, extended her hand. I handed the staff back to her.

The long wooden staff was placed between her breasts.

“…….”

To be precise, she had simply hugged it to her chest, but since her breasts were so large and her outfit was what it was, it had naturally ended up between them.

Nix looked up at me with her usual creepy smile, seemingly unaware of how she looked.

‘……Right. She didn’t do it on purpose.’

If Lize or the Popes had done that, it would have been 100% intentional. But with Nix, I thought she might have actually done it unintentionally.

I couldn’t imagine Nix deliberately trying to seduce me like the other three. Even if she did, I would probably find it cute rather than lewd or seductive.

Probably.

“Why? Hee hee.”

“Nothing.”

I tickled her chin a few times and placed my hand on the rune stone. Then, closing my eyes and focusing, I channeled the power surging through my body into the back of my left hand.

A tingling sensation spread through the back of my hand. When the pain subsided, I opened my eyes. The spot where the rune had been, now empty, was filled with a new tattoo.

‘This is really the end.’

It felt strange to finally complete my final build.

It had taken less time than I had expected. I had thought it would take at least a few years to travel all over the continent.

Nix and Minerva’s help, especially Nix’s, had been invaluable.

The name of the rune I had just obtained was ‘Life Conversion.’ The effect was to change the resource consumed by dark magic from HP and mana to pure HP.

Dark magic originally consumed a small amount of HP along with mana. But this rune allowed you to use dark magic with only HP, without consuming any mana.

Instead, the amount of HP consumed changed from a fixed value to a percentage of your total HP. So if your HP stat was even slightly high, it would end up costing more in potions, which was why it wasn’t commonly used.

‘That’s only if your HP stat is high.’

Consuming HP as a percentage meant that the lower your HP stat, the more efficient it became. It went without saying that it was incredibly efficient for me, with my HP stat of 1.

The amount of HP consumed by the Life Conversion rune varied greatly, from a minimum of 7% to a maximum of 30%, but it wasn’t a big deal for a character with 1 HP.

My maximum HP was only 100.

Even if 30% was consumed, it was only 30 HP. Even if I used the most HP-intensive dark magic, Bloodlust’s 50 HP recovery was more than enough to compensate.

This was the final build for a melee character in Darkest mode. Now I just needed to figure out how to deal with the boss fights where I couldn’t use Bloodlust.

“Is it really over?”

The rune stone, having served its purpose, crumbled. Nix, who had been staring at me with the staff nestled between her breasts, approached me.

“It’s over. Let’s go back.”

“Hee hee. Okay.”

I didn’t want to test the rune’s performance here. I would be using it plenty from now on.

Nix used teleportation as usual, and we returned to my room at the top of the castle.

She said she had used teleportation to this location so many times that she could now pinpoint the exact coordinates.

“Huh?”

“Oh.”

As soon as we entered the room, we encountered someone completely unexpected.

Lana.

And she was on my bed, moving her hips.

Lana, who had been lying on the bed, moving her hips back and forth, turned pale when we appeared with a black flash of light.

Her fingers gripped the blanket tightly, and her lips were pressed together.

At first, I thought she was embarrassed at being caught in such a compromising position, but seeing her expression darken, I realized a moment later that Nix was the cause.

Nix, upon seeing Lana, immediately teleported away. Lana’s pale complexion returned to normal. I felt a little bad for making her teleport away as soon as she arrived.

I would have to pet her more intensely later.

“Good evening, Master Delta.”

Lana, seemingly having calmed down in that short time, sat up and greeted me with her usual stoic expression.

“Good evening, my foot. Why are you lying on my bed? And what was that you were doing just now?”

“It was my duty as a maid, for my master.”

“Your master is Aurora, right?”

“That is correct.”

Lana nodded. That made it even stranger.

What did her actions have to do with Aurora?

As if reading my expression, Lana continued in a matter-of-fact tone,

“There’s a possibility that my master might lie here someday. I was testing the condition of the mattress beforehand, to make sure she doesn’t hurt her back. She’ll be lying here for a very long time, and it wouldn’t do for her to hurt her back on a hard surface.”

“…….”

I didn’t even know where to begin. She was saying that she had tested the mattress beforehand, in preparation for me sleeping with Aurora here.

‘Is that right?’

“If you’re curious about how I tested it, I can show you.”

Lana lay back down on the bed and bent her knees, pulling her thighs up to her sides.

Then, spreading her thighs, she—

“That’s enough.”

“Yes.”

Lana sat up as if she had been waiting for me to say that. Her gloved hands smoothed out the wrinkles in her maid uniform. Her expression was still stoic.

“……Did you learn that from Aurora too?”

“I learned it on my own. My master is in no position to teach me such jokes. It’s all your fault, Master Delta.”

“Me? What did I do?”

It sounded similar to what the Popes had said.

“My master hasn’t been able to forget the pleasure of that time, so she’s been busy every night, playing with her—”

“That’s enough. Tell me why you’re here.”

“As you wish.”

I managed to stop her from revealing her master’s private life. She hadn’t been like this before, but she seemed to be changing more and more each day.

“We have a visitor from the Imperial Palace. I came to escort you.”

“A visitor? Who?”

Lize had just been here recently.

Who else would come to visit?

“They said to keep their identity a secret, but they told me to tell you to think about what you sent to the Imperial Palace. They said you would easily figure out who it was.”

‘……Minerva.’

It was probably because of the scroll.

Had she already finished researching the Crystal Scroll?

“Alright. Can we leave now?”

“Yes. I brought a carriage, I shall escort you.”

Lana, who had been about to walk out the door, stopped and turned around.

“Since we’ve already seen each other naked, this kind of joke is nothing—”

“Are you going to keep this up until the very end?”

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