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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Simzy
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A Legendary-grade item.
I’d seen countless items with the Goddess’s Eye, but even I had never seen a Legendary-grade one before.
Of course, that was to be expected, given my life as a gutter-dwelling F-rank adventurer.
The White Witch was sealed inside the orb, it said.
Whatever it was, it was a Legendary-grade orb, so I discreetly slipped it into my pocket.
This place was currently a warzone, thanks to Lina and Natasha’s rampage.
Loud bangs and screams echoed everywhere.
No one saw me take the orb.
‘Legendary item acquired! Fuck yeah!’
I never thought I could obtain a Legendary item so easily.
Just how much money would this be worth?
Considering I had already obtained magic orbs and equipment before, it was safe to say my luck with item drops was through the roof lately.
‘As expected, treasures just rain down when you follow a regressor.’
However, now wasn’t the time to be lost in the joy of a Legendary item.
After all, the Legendary item would only be meaningful if I survived the monster battle unfolding before my eyes.
The Pig and the Skeleton men snorted and spoke.
“Just who are you bitches? Oink!”
“How did you find this place?”
Natasha, half out of her mind, growled like a beast, while Lina, seemingly disgusted, ignored them.
Lina and the Skeleton’s spears clashed.
A terrifying sound, befitting their abilities, exploded forth.
The Skeleton man seemed quite strong, but Lina appeared to have the upper hand.
The man was helplessly pushed back by Lina’s relentless onslaught.
‘The problem is Natasha’s side.’
“GRAAAAAH!”
Natasha roared and charged at the Pig man, completely losing control.
He snorted and retaliated with a terrifyingly large iron club.
Natasha seemed faster, but perhaps because she’d lost her reason, her movements were too straightforward.
She ran around wildly, unleashing ferocious attacks like a wild animal, but they were ineffective.
“You little runt! So annoying!”
BAM!
“KYAAAA!”
Natasha was struck by the club and went flying.
Hearing Natasha’s scream, Lina instantly sent the Skeleton man flying and rushed towards the Pig man.
“You bastard!”
“Oink? Your turn now, is it?”
The Pig man wasn’t easy to deal with either.
The Skeleton, man who had crashed into the ground, was also recovering.
The Skeleton man got up and shouted to the Pig.
“Huruuku! Orders from above. Retreat!”
“Huh? Can’t be helped. Alright. Oink.”
The Pig man glared at Lina with apparent frustration.
But there was nothing he could do.
He couldn’t defeat Lina alone.
Even together with the Skeleton man, victory against Lina wasn’t guaranteed.
Despite this, Lina didn’t pursue the fleeing men.
She simply gritted her teeth, watching their backs disappear into the distance.
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The reason why Lina chose to let them escape became clear a little later.
There were still remaining stragglers.
‘If Lina had chased those two… Natasha, who collapsed, would have died, and the old woman and I would be dead too.’
Lina easily dealt with the remaining stragglers.
‘Following a regressor is no easy feat.’
No, that wasn’t what Lina had expected of Kerry.
His role was to stop Natasha’s rampage.
Judging by Lina’s warnings before they set out, she must have been worried about this situation.
However, Lina blamed herself as she looked at Natasha lying in bed.
“…It’s all my fault.”
“…”
“I was careless. I knew that Natasha’s tribe had been massacred… I knew they performed human sacrifices… but I didn’t consider… that Natasha’s family might also be among them.”
Indeed, it was perhaps too much to ask someone to remain calm after witnessing such a horrific scene.
But it wasn’t entirely the regressor’s fault.
A regressor couldn’t know or predict everything.
“No, it was an accident. It’s not your fault, Lina. It couldn’t be helped.”
“…I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been for Natasha. I would have gone berserk too.”
“…”
The old woman also wore a distraught expression.
Natasha’s father was family to her as well; there was no way she wouldn’t be grieving.
“It’s enough that she survived…”
The old woman murmured.
Lina nodded in agreement.
They had let the two escape, but they had stopped the ritual.
The chance to catch them wasn’t completely gone.
Lina’s determination burned.
‘The White Witch is more troublesome than those two. For now, I have to be satisfied with stopping her resurrection.’
The White Witch’s power in her previous life was too much for even Lina to handle.
‘But the Seal Orb, where she should be trapped, was nowhere to be seen.’
Lina had discreetly searched for the orb containing the White Witch, but couldn’t find it.
‘Those bastards haven’t given up on resurrecting the White Witch yet.’
Lina was certain they had taken the Seal Orb.
This was a grave mistake.
She had to prevent the White Witch’s resurrection at all costs.
“…”
A gloomy atmosphere lingered in the sickroom, but Kerry couldn’t stop the corners of his mouth from turning up.
This was especially true since Natasha’s life wasn’t in danger.
Honestly, he wanted to rush out of the room and examine the orb closely.
‘Legendary rank! Unbelievable!’
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The Pig man who had escaped using his subordinates as bait was named Huruuku, and the Skeleton was named Nasen.
“Just who were those bitches? Oink… oink…”
“Never mind that. Just run. The blonde was ridiculously strong. Even the two of us can’t guarantee a win. It’ll be a pain if she comes after us now.”
“Ugh. This is all because the higher-ups didn’t give me enough food. If only I’d eaten properly and built up my strength, those bitches would have been…”
“Now’s not the time to talk about food.”
“Oink? There’s nothing more important than food in this world.”
“You pig. Forget food, we might both be dead soon.”
“?”
“The White Witch’s orb. Forgot about it? That blonde was so fierce we couldn’t even grab it.”
“Oiiiink? That’s no good! If we lose the White Witch’s orb, we might not get any food! We have to go back!”
“Stop! You won’t find it even if you go back now.”
“The higher-ups said they absolutely need the White Witch! That was the last ritual! We were offered over 500 pieces of food!”
Huruuku oinked and raged, saying he would risk his life to go back.
He was throwing a tantrum over missing out on food, but Nasen felt the gravity of the situation keenly.
‘If things go wrong, we might both be kicked out of the organization.’
They might even be offered as sacrifices, just like the humans they had offered in their rituals.
‘Surely no one would unseal the orb, right?’
He wanted to believe that wouldn’t happen.
No, if they were lucky, they might find the orb rolling on the ground when they returned.
It just looked like an ordinary orb, after all.
Nasen prayed for good luck.
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Kerry placed the orb on the floor in his room and stared at it.
“So, what do I do with this now…”
It was an ordinary-looking orb.
Anyone would think it was just a normal orb.
At first glance, it looked like a polished street stone.
But its rank was Legendary.
As Kerry stared intently at the orb, a hologram resembling a door lock appeared, along with a keypad for entering a password.
“It’s like a real door lock.”
He couldn’t tell if it was only visible to him.
He decided to check the “Details,” not the “Summary,” of the Seal Orb information with the Goddess’s Eye.
At that moment, messages popped up before his eyes.
The Goddess’s Eye had readily revealed the password, along with other miscellaneous information that didn’t seem particularly helpful.
Should he just close his eyes and enter the password?
He was worried since it was something he’d never seen before.
What should he do?
He’d been agonizing over the orb for hours.
His reason kept asking if it wouldn’t be better to wait until he knew more about the orb.
But this was a Legendary-grade item, something Kerry, a former F-rank adventurer, had never seen before.
He couldn’t help but be fascinated.
“If I don’t do something… this situation will just continue, right?”
It was too precious to just let a Legendary-grade item go to waste.
Was there a safe way?
A safe way to learn about the orb and the White Witch?
Kerry pondered seriously over the orb.
His reason and instinct continued their tense tug-of-war.
He wanted to press it!
He desperately wanted to press the numbers 5147.
Maybe the White Witch would be so impressed by his magic talent that she would take him as her disciple.
If that happened, his life would truly blossom.
Just then, he heard Lina’s voice.
“Kerry, may I come in for a moment?”
He couldn’t let Lina see the White Witch’s Seal Orb.
He was startled when he heard Lina’s voice.
However, Lina was polite; she wouldn’t enter someone’s room without permission.
So, he could relax.
He was safe.
But then, why did his fingers press 5147 on the keypad?
‘Shit. I’m fucked.’
At that moment, a sound like a door unlocking emanated from the orb.
Kerry’s surroundings rapidly changed.
It felt like the entire space was shifting, just like in a movie.
His left hand had gotten him into serious trouble.
He saw a room covered entirely in white.
The walls were white, the lace-draped bed was white.
‘Shit. This doesn’t feel good.’
Anyone who lived in a room like this was highly likely to be severely mentally disturbed.
Weren’t mental hospitals all white too?
Kerry cautiously looked around.
“…So, the White Witch isn’t here right now. Phew. That’s a relief.”
“Mmm… mmm…”
“Eek!”
He heard a sleepy mumbling sound from the bed.
Could someone be in there?
He wanted to check, but the lace curtains prevented him from seeing inside.
‘I need to stay really quiet.’
If he was unlucky, or rather, with a high probability, the woman in the bed was the White Witch.
‘This is terrifying… but stay calm. She hasn’t noticed me yet. She’s a psycho bitch who lives alone in an all-white room, but she’s sleeping right now, isn’t she?’
He needed to calm down and find a way out.
He still had a chance to survive.
Don’t underestimate the resilience of someone who’s been an adventurer for two years.
He wouldn’t die in a place like this.
‘Calm down. The first thing I need to do is… secure an escape route back to the original world.’
Just then, someone sat up abruptly in the bed.
“!”
And they began to pull back the lace curtains.
It was a moment where his life flashed before his eyes.
‘Oh… father… mother… your unfilial son departs from this world like this…’
However, what he saw as the lace curtains were pulled back was an unexpected sight.
A beautiful woman with long, flowing white hair was rubbing her sleepy eyes.
Kerry was frozen, not from fear, but from the sheer awkwardness of the situation.
The woman on the bed was completely naked.
He couldn’t take his eyes off her naked form revealed by the drawn-back curtains.
Snow-white hair, red eyes…
Her exposed white skin and S-line figure were so unrealistically beautiful that they defied description.
‘I want to have sex with her! No, I want to live!’
His captivation by her beautiful naked body was short-lived.
His powerful survival instincts crushed his desire.
Judging by the extraordinary atmosphere, it wouldn’t be strange if this woman was the White Witch.
The woman, who had been sitting on the bed rubbing her eyes sleepily, stretched and stood up.
Her completely hairless buttocks came into full view.
Even in this situation, Kerry, the beastly, manly man, couldn’t help but look.
In the midst of desperately wanting to hide somewhere, his eyes met hers.
“…”
“…”
After a few seconds of silence, an ear-splitting scream echoed through the room.
“KYYYYAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Kerry was at a loss in the strange white room.
Fortunately, the disastrous scenario of his head being magically severed in an instant didn’t occur.
‘…Am I alive?’
The White Witch fled behind the bed, then reappeared wearing clothes.
As if to prove her insanity, her clothes were also entirely white.
“Who… who are you! How did you get in here? This is… this is my bedroom! How dare a man just barge in without my permission…”
“…”
It was a rather normal reaction for a psycho who lived in an all-white room.
At least she hadn’t immediately tried to blast his head off with some unknown magic.
It felt like he could reason with her.
‘What should I say? Should I be honest?’
Would she believe him if he said he had a good eye and happened to press the numbers on a hologram that looked like a door lock, and then ended up here?
He wouldn’t believe it himself.
As Kerry pondered how to save his life, the White Witch, displeased by his silence, shouted in further agitation.
“This is the inside of my Multi-Dimensional Unique Barrier! No one can enter without my permission!”
‘What the hell is a Multi-Dimensional Unique Barrier… it’s just a door lock.’
“Even the greatest mages couldn’t invade this place… just who are you?!”
‘I don’t know either!’
“Don’t just stand there blankly! Answer me! How did you get in here?! It’s absolutely impossible to enter this place unless you’re one of my followers!”
There seemed to be no way to survive.
Kerry’s motto was to live a long, if meager, life.
But now, there seemed to be no way to survive, even meagerly.
Then, one phrase stuck in Kerry’s mind.
‘Followers can enter?’
A sliver of hope.
There was no proof, but it seemed like his only chance of survival.
“Oh, great White Witch.”
Kerry, without hesitation, grabbed onto that slender thread of hope for survival.
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