Chris was mentally very exhausted today. It was fortunate that she didn’t bite her tongue.
The sight of Snow White Rain lying on the bed with narrowly opened eyes seducing her demanded superhuman patience from Chris.
Every time Rain let out a moan with her nightingale-like voice, Chris’s chest was violently attacked by sharp and powerful Flash Strikes.
As expected of the excellent swordswoman Rain, she dealt tremendous damage to Chris.
Chris couldn’t help but have her heart stolen anew.
While touching Rain’s soft body, Chris simultaneously fought a fierce invisible battle with herself.
Rain is a physically challenged child. Even if she had sent gestures saying ‘Please devour me whole’ without knowing anything, Chris couldn’t just say ‘Oh thank you’ and go along with it.
“Haah.”
While Chris was sighing in front of ‘Berbeia Ancient Temple’, Rain’s figure appeared from the direction of the mine entrance.
Thump thump.
Along with confident footsteps entering the cavern where the ancient temple entrance was, Rain’s figure came into Chris’s view.
Flinch.
But Rain, after confirming the people gathered at the dungeon entrance, soon began to move carefully to a corner.
Chris approached Rain with a smile.
“I thought it couldn’t be, but you were really soloing.”
Chris entered ‘Berbeia Ancient Temple’ with Rain. It’s an instance dungeon for just the two of them, Chris and Rain.
Even though they started living together in reality, Rain was still a child whose depths couldn’t be fathomed.
“You understand, right? Today, employer Chris is receiving Rain employee’s bus service. You shouldn’t participate in combat.”
“Okay, I got it.”
Chris nodded seeing Rain’s determined gaze.
Woong.
As soon as they entered the first cube room, a platform puzzle soon appeared in front of Chris and Rain. It was a puzzle gimmick room.
Rain was about to step forward confidently, but she slightly stepped back and grabbed Chris’s sleeve.
“…?”
Rain looked up at Chris with pitiful eyes.
“Unnie, please solve this puzzle.”
“Khuk, hehehe.”
Chris held her stomach laughing as she solved the puzzle gimmick.
Today was a day of many mental shocks for Chris.
She thought she knew and could utilize most of the structure of the game ‘Astria Online’.
But Rain was a child who shattered all common sense.
Solo play? It’s not that Chris hadn’t simulated it. Clearly, the possibility of solo play was open for all elite dungeons. Many skilled players had already tried after finishing farming, and some had succeeded and uploaded videos.
However, the elite dungeons they succeeded in soloing were at least two stages behind the latest elite dungeon. There was a tendency to brute force through gimmicks that were difficult to handle alone with specs.
But Rain achieved first clear of the new elite dungeon with solo play. It was an achievement hard to believe unless seen with one’s own eyes.
And Chris was now seeing that answer right before her eyes.
Flash!
Oooooh-!
Thud.
Along with Rain’s Flash Strike that pierced down like a beam of light from the air, the Minotaur laid its huge body on the ground.
The skills of ‘Astria Online’.
When used, they make you take appropriate movements, and deal damage according to stats and attack power. This applies to Fighter skills, and Swordsman skills like Moonlight Slash, Starlight Slash, Flash Strike, etc.
But Rain’s sword moved gracefully without a set sword path. Not bound by the constraints of ‘skills’, it merely borrowed that power to move the sword.
Flash Strike can be used in the air?
Chris shook her head. It’s a usage method she had never heard of or seen.
If it were a Swordsman user other than Rain, could they even properly balance themselves when their body floated in the air?
The shell game gimmick with moving walls was no problem at all for Rain. She didn’t seem to have memorized the wall patterns. As if it were natural, she tracked with her eyes and captured them accurately.
The time-based enrage pattern that had wiped out Chris’s Raid Party wasn’t threatening at all. No matter how fast and strong the Minotaur’s attacks became, they were just empty swings that couldn’t hit Rain’s body.
Pitter-patter.
That being who showed a possessed battle approached Chris lightly.
That adorable appearance didn’t look at all like the swordswoman who had been flashing sharp eyes.
Chris stroked Rain’s head, who had approached as if asking for praise, with a forced smile.
“What? They said 2nd Named solo was absolutely impossible.”
Chris complained lightly.
Even Deathly Death’s boasting didn’t apply to Rain.
Rain responded to the attacks of 2nd Named Arkan and three mob golems as if breathing. While solving the charging gimmick alone and blocking and avoiding all ranged projectiles, she didn’t slow her offensive against Arkan at all.
Flash!
And the 3rd Named, Archangel and Fallen Angel battle unfolding before her eyes now was the same.
The light sword and dark sword pattern that Chris’s Raid Party had neutralized with difficulty was simply induced and neutralized by Rain’s quick movements.
Twirl.
Between the Fallen Angel’s dark blades and Archangel’s light blades pouring down ceaselessly, Rain’s body danced gracefully, shedding starlight and moonlight.
Chris raised her hand for a moment at the boss room entrance corridor and looked down at that palm.
It’s the frail body that was in her hands today too. A disabled body that can’t even properly support itself without a wheelchair.
Chris found it hard to readily accept that Rain’s soft body without a single muscle was moving like that right before her eyes.
In Astria Online, users can clearly move faster than in the real world through their agility stat.
But it’s an agility value that even Deathly Death with amateur boxing experience couldn’t properly utilize. No matter how fast a racing car you ride, someone who can’t adapt to that speed can’t handle it properly.
And that adaptation to speed is systemically blocked by synchronization rate. Instead, Astria Online has invincibility skills and counter skills to assist with that.
Of course, Rain didn’t avoid all patterns with pure physical ability alone either. She actively utilized invincibility skills and used counter skills. But when she needed to take the offensive, she boldly avoided patterns with just movement.
As if handling this level of speed was natural.
As if she had been fighting through quick movements as easily as breathing.
Chris also thought there might be hidden gimmicks that could only be utilized in solo play. But that expectation was beautifully off the mark. There were no gimmicks that could only be utilized in solo play.
Rain was simply clearing the dungeon alone with pure physical ability.
Oooooh-!
Rumble.
Swish.
As the Archangel left alone fell after desperately emitting light covering the battle area several times, Rain swung her sword once as if shaking off starlight before sheathing it.
Chris approached Rain, who was fidgeting with a shy expression, with a smile.
“Rain, unnie doesn’t know how to think about this.”
Rain’s eyes were tinged with puzzlement.
Chris stroked Rain’s head and fell into thought for a moment.
Putting aside how Rain can naturally control fast movements, one thing has become certain.
She had been unsure when running dungeon buses together, but seeing the solo play with her own eyes, she could be certain.
Rain’s synchronization rate is abnormally high.
She has already far surpassed the system limit of ‘Astria Online’ which is about 20%.
Is it around 60%? It’s definitely not below 50% at least.
Rarely, the synchronization rate can be slightly higher due to the mental influence of the capsule user. But there has never been a case of far surpassing the system limit.
If the fact that such a problem occurred becomes known to the public, the game won’t be able to be serviced. It’s clear that if the user’s brain feels great pain, it will have a considerable impact on the real body too.
It’s a combat game where users can even die. What happens if you experience several deaths accompanied by terrible pain?
The reason Rain collapsed before. The doctor said the influence of past mental pain and current body’s nutritional deficiency was significant, but the synchronization rate must be related too.
At that time, Rain was severely injured in the game. Afterwards, her condition worsened to the point of being kicked out of the game by the capsule protection system.
What should I do?
Rationally, I should stop Rain’s game immediately and take measures regarding the synchronization rate, but.
“No Yin-Yang Jade for unnie… Ah, uwah…! It’s a revealing outfit…! This time it’s black!”
Hop hop.
Rain, who was checking the dungeon clear rewards, blushed and jumped up and down.
Chris watched her with a smile.
Rain loves this world.
She’s enjoying thrilling adventures and challenges.
She’s healing past wounds in this continent.
On a rocky mountain she visited with Chris, she smiled pleasantly while facing the strong blowing wind.
At a stream she visited with Chris, she was overjoyed by the sensation of water touching her feet, which she couldn’t feel in reality.
She was freely moving her legs here, which don’t move in reality.
No matter how much it’s for Rain’s body, does Chris have the right to take away Rain’s sense of reality?
Isn’t there a way to protect her body without taking away Rain’s happiness?
Chris simply couldn’t stop Rain from finding joy here, from acting to heal her mental wounds.
“Unnie, want to try this on? Eep…! Is it couple outfits with unnie? I-it’s a bit embarrassing, but if it’s in front of unnie… I have a white one, you know? Let’s wear them as a set and take a screenshot!”
Chris, who received the ‘Fallen Angel Baliel’s Clothes’, ended up wearing them after giving in to Rain’s pestering.
The black angel outfit was certainly revealing. Though Chris enjoys wearing revealing outfits in the game, this outfit had cloth pieces that were too small even for her.
Chris carefully opened her mouth while looking towards Rain.
“Rain, if you ever feel a lot of pain while gaming… Ahhhh…!”
At that moment, Chris’s eyes widened as if they would pop out.
Rain was already wearing a pure white angel dress that matched her silver-white hair.
Between the white cloth pieces that barely covered her small chest and just slightly covered dangerous areas, Rain’s fair thighs were clearly visible.
In that state, Rain was sending Chris a shy smile.
“I-isn’t it too revealing? How can they tell us to wear such outfits. L-let’s just take a screenshot quickly and take it off. Let’s take a screenshot together.”
Rain clung tightly to Chris.
Rain’s thigh touched her thigh.
The sensation of that bare skin was soft.
Chris could only let out a moan with a blank expression.
“Ah… Aah…”
Chris decided to stop thinking.