According to his level and skill mastery, he’s going to revive as an undead. As an undead soldier who rules over black magic and the power of death.
When he dies, at the least his cold will disappear.
‘I’ll just have to level up and get masteries back up like a mad person for a while.’
With his eyes closed, he waited for death.
Without hunting or using his sculpting skill, this was first time he just lied down and rested completely like this. When fighting or resting for Life and Stamina to recover, he was always making a sculpture. The reason for Weed’s fast growth was because of such focus and effort.
But even as time passed, he didn’t die.
‘What’s happening?’
Weed opened his eyes partially.
His body ached all over and opening his eyes caused dizziness, but he wanted to check the situation.
And now he could see the reason!
Seoyoon!
She disappeared to somewhere and brought mountainous amount of firewood.
‘It wouldn’t have been easy......’
Around here, there isn’t much wood that can be used for a fire.
To get firewood, she would have had to go through blizzards and walked far.
Seoyoon stacked up the wood and lit the fire.
As the surrounding air became warmer, Weed could feel a bit of warmth seeping into his flesh.
Seoyoon took out a small iron can.
It had become black from using it so often for cooking over an open fire.
It is sold for 4 coppers in a general store, but it was dropped when hunting a fox near a castle. It was something not even beginners used.
Seoyoon glanced at Weed as if she was embarrassed for taking out beginner's iron can.
Weed closed his eyes again.
It was because his dizziness became worse as his body temperature rose.
‘Thirsty.’
Weed had a serious thirst and lots of pain. The thirst was due to the sudden burning heat of the flames.
But soon, something touched his lip.
‘What is this?’
An unknown scent came from it.
Weed opened his mouth.
Then, something dripped into his mouth little by little.
It was porridge.
Using the cooking skill she had, Seoyoon had made porridge and was feeding Weed. The problem was that the porridge was extremely salty and spicy! ‘Stop feeding me that stuff!’ Weed screamed inside his head.
She was feeding him the worst porridge possible, and it didn’t even taste right! Plus, the porridge smelled fishy.
Weed could guess what she used to make it.
‘She put smelt in it.’
Seoyoon put rice she had for emergencies into water along with smelt to make porridge.
The porridge was made as if she tried to fry the smelt, but because she didn’t clean the smelt properly, the fishy smell remained strongly.
The rice wasn’t fully cooked either, and tasted terrible.
Seoyoon was forcibly feeding Weed bad porridge such as this!
“Urgh!’’
Even when Weed closed his mouth, Seoyoon opened his mouth with force and poured the porridge in.
If he had strength to speak, he would’ve stopped her.
But Weed’s dimming strength was literally halted right before he died, so he couldn’t speak even a word.
After eating bit by bit, his hunger disappeared.
It was a torture to eat, but his hunger and thirst was still satisfied.
But Seoyoon didn’t stop at just feeding it to him.
Weed realized then.
‘You murderer!’
All along, listening to him obediently and acting nice must have been an act.
‘She was looking for an opportunity! She was planning to torture me like this while I didn’t have the strength to resist,’ Weed thought.
He could do nothing but to regret the situation.
In his defenceless situation, he had to endure Seoyoon’s tyranny.
The porridge she kept feeding him, spoonful after spoonful!
A great danger approached Weed.
‘Let’s just die. I just have to die. Then everything will be over.’
Weed wished he could die now. He hated suffering from fever and dizziness. If he revived as an undead, his level or skill mastery would fall, but at least he would be more comfortable.
But even if he wanted to die, he couldn’t.
‘Someone please kill me.’
Weed’s cheeks were filled with food.
Seoyoon fed him 150 spoonfuls of porridge. It equaled four full bowls!
She fed him not only to be satisfied, but to the point right before he would explode from being overfed.
After eating enough, anyone wouldn’t want to eat anymore, but she was feeding him more forcibly. No one would understand what a nightmare it was.
Step. Step. Step.
He heard Seoyoon walking towards Alveron.
Because of the heat, he felt dizzy, but he could hear the sounds very clearly.
Since it was the sound of the devil that was torturing him, he just couldn’t help but hear it.
Weed prayed. ‘Amen. Alveron, you suffer a bit too.’
Even in such a situation, another’s misfortune was Weed’s happiness.
Opening his eyes a bit, he watched Seoyoon feeding Alveron her porridge.
She carefully fed Avelon.
Weed shivered.
‘Really cruel. She’s a devil in human disguise.’
From the effort to not spill a drop and feed everything, Weed saw pure evil.
The way how Seoyoon moved her hand reminded Weed of the careful way of handling poison.
But, it didn’t take that long to feed Alveron.
She cooled the porridge by blowing on it when she fed Weed, but she just fed Alveron.
And there wasn’t much left either. Weed was force fed almost two-thirds of the can, so Alveron didn’t have to eat as much.
Weed thought, ‘So I was her main target. She wanted to torture me more.’
Although he ate some porridge, he still had no strength left. His fever and dizziness became worse.
It was worse than the flu. It took away the ability to move.
If he had fallen in a place that was full of monsters, he would’ve died soon afterwards, but because he fell after moving into the cave, he didn’t die as quickly.
He recovered some life because he ate some food, but as if to prove that the cursed cold wanted to be stubborn, it only became worse.
Due to his worsening condition, Weed closed his eyes, unable to endure anymore.
‘Yeah, there’s nothing more depressing than getting sick.’
When he closed his eyes and rested, sleep overcame him.
The thought that he’d die made him feel comfortable.
Since he couldn’t do anything anyway, he relaxed and fell asleep.
If he wanted to, he could sleep in Royal Road.
There were many people who slept at a place with great scenery, listening to birds chirping.
Virtual reality had many uses, but it was first time Weed fell asleep.
Since he always had something to do, he thought sleep was a waste. But that is why he dreamt a dream so sweet; a dream that no one would want to wake up out of.
Someone nursed the sick Weed.
She melted snow to make water, and put a soaked cloth onto his forehead.
When Weed woke up from time to time from his fever, he could feel someone’s care.
Although he almost reached the end of his life, he didn’t die. Someone nursed Weed like a mother would her child.
This someone was the most beautiful but also the most evil woman. Seoyoon was looking after Weed.
***
When Yurin heard of Balon’s request, she felt happy.
‘So this is the real quest!’
After building up the relationship, she got a quest.
Although the reward wasn’t much, Yurin became excited at the thought of her first real quest.
“I will return this book for you.”