"Let me get it straight. Can I hug you and fondle those bazookas just one time ?"
"What the fuck? This madman really said it!!!" Of course, they understand Jaesang's wish as they see him observing it throughout the whole combat. Still, there is a difference between just wishing and asking straight to her face, especially when that target happened to be a literal walking weapon that could crush their skull with a pinch.
Hearing the exclamations from his teammates, Jaesang felt embarrassed, but he told himself that this was his only chance to touch such treasure before it disappeared from this world.
Just like this old man once said, he will miss every chance he didn't take.
"Isn't it fine?"
Then he saw the patriot inviting him after placing its weapon on the ground.
"Then, please allow me." Even though being the one who asked, Jaesang felt even more embarrassed seeing her innocent smile.
That said, Jaesang stepped forward and dived his head in between two mountains, each bigger than his own head. Immediately enveloped by a soft sensation followed by a faint pleasing scent, all of his perverted thought flew out and were replaced with a relaxing feeling.
"Look how exhausted you are. It may be short, but why not take a nap?"
With such a soothing voice, just for a moment, Jaesang felt he could find peace within her sweet embrace.
"Jaesang!Jaesang!JAESANG!!!"
"SHIT! I MEAN, I AM AWAKE!"
Immediately Jaesang jumped out from the patriot's embrace, woken up by his captain's words. At that moment, he felt like he had dodged from something even more dangerous than those freaks in the lab.
"You can stay a bit longer, you know."
"I am sorry, but we got the next mission to do! Let's meet again, soldier!"
"I gotta go to my next mission as well. Okay, good luck."
Seeing their most battle-hardened rude teammate almost turn into a saint in just a few seconds rest of his team quickly left the place while feeling both fear and jealousy toward Jaesang.
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After giving farewell to her targets Lumen began to ponder her previous action while returning to her base. He remembers that his sexual orientation was normal and straight.
This means it is a due mix of [Devotion], [Calming Pressense], and [Empathic].
Personality (Random) -10=>Obsession[Devotion] Effect +100 Lord's favor to anything related to Devotion.
Trait Calming Pressense Effect Emits a "warm aura" that is able to calm other units down with its peaceful presence and grants resistance to morale. And increases positive interactions with any character.
Personality Empathic Effect Improves interaction with a character from any alignment by 25. The loyalty of all of the characters in the Lord's faction won't drop below 50.
In fact, she can't say or do anything against them, as it's against her personality and the purpose of her creation to suppress and mock the strong and care and love for the weak. Which is even more stimulated by those three personality traits.
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No matter how angry, one shouldn't just ignore the plea of ordinary or living things that can be considered weak. One should always understand others' feelings and show care unless it's lost cause.
As such, it also became natural for her to do that. As if her personality completely changed, it felt as comfortable to do such actions never done and utter such comforting words that she was never said.
At the same time, Lumen could only imagine how she would react when faced with things she hated. Even just imagining a scenario depicting corruption and self-righteous behavior, she could feel scorn and contempt rising up.
Things he has done at the start of the game are all transcribed to her, both good and bad one. But it's okay, it something has already happened. She needs to get used to it. Now it's part of her.
With such thought, she aimed her other loaded arm into an incoming horde and activated a launcher loaded with shredder ammo.
Unlike its slug counterpart, it made a soft zipping noise then, followed by a loud slumping sound of flesh and blood as parts of Bandersnachers fell off and hit the floor with a thump. Even at their moment of death, they didn't know how they died.
Thankfully it didn't misfire as she thought.
*Click!*
After hearing a familiar noise, Lumen understood the time was up and prepared herself for an incoming shockwave. Then she saw an unknown bubble appear in the middle of the base and expand rapidly before completely enveloping her along with the base.
In just a moment, she caught four separate figures of four different colors in the bubble before her vision was replaced with a familiar pure white scenery.
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Tutorial stage Complete, please receive your reward from the random trait pool Boon of Harvest, Blessing of War God, Cut from Same Cloth, Terra's Blessing, Field Advantage.
From lines of rewards flickering in her field of vision, without any hesitation, Lumen chooses [Field Advantage].
Trait Field Advantage Effect Faction-wide resistant to terrain-related penalty. The Lord itself will be immune to all terrain-related penalties.
It was a choice that never went wrong, as the Zera faction always suffers all kinds of terrain penalties.
With her choice, Lumen finally got a chance to check the stash she got from her hard-earned points. With a smile, she went to her armory while failing to notice the invisible barrier reaching the sky surrounding her area.
Trait Ancient Relic Effect Lord's faction and surrounding region will be isolated from the world for 100 turns. During the isolation, the wave won't progress past ten but increases in number and strength in later waves until its isolation timer run out.
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Meanwhile, a brilliant light shot through the forest from afar, and a mighty whirlwind swayed the nearby trees. As the pillar of light touched the cloud, it disappeared similarly, leaving behind a large crater on earth as if one cleanly cut away a piece of mold.
A few moments later whole world took notice as a huge spatial storm surrounded Antarctica, cutting off the entire region from the world. Immediately, various countries and forces tried to cover the news from the general public, but the whole continent's isolation was far beyond their capability.
Research bases began to be built around Antarctica, managed by various governments and hunter guilds. It was set up as quickly as possible after the meeting. Other than monitoring the spatial storm surrounding the south pole, they were also here to study the uninhabited continent of Antarctica.
Eventually, Antarctica was added to the special dungeon list of the World's United Hunter Association.