Chapter 452: Knights' Assembly 1
The morning after Han Se-ah tried using me - an NPC in a virtual reality game - to masturbate but "accidentally" failed to reset the day.
Being both a professional streamer and natural entertainer, she logged in looking composed after sorting out her feelings overnight. As her hidden quest window had indicated, a gate appeared on the previously empty cave wall with text stating this much time had passed, so this cold should now belong to you.
Though ironically, the magic armor piece granting that "cold" slept peacefully in Han Se-ah's inventory before being gifted to Katie.
"Inside there was this huge wolf made of mana stones. Just getting close, the cold it gave off felt like it could tear your skin."
"Really? ...Ugh, I should have seen that with my own eyes!"
After that came a natural return. Rather than wandering the snowfields for days, we found the dungeon surprisingly quickly and got what we wanted. The retired adventurer trio's grins stretched wide as they drove first the dog sleds then the carriage, feeling they'd earned easy gold.
Katie beamed at receiving her ancestors' treasure, Grace and Irene smiled at our safe return, and Olek and Alisa grinned too, perhaps having made progress while waiting.
Only Han Se-ah occasionally shot complex looks my way. She cleverly kept the camera away when doing so, avoiding viewer suspicion. Seeing those looks, I felt the first step of my plan had succeeded.
"So Roland grabbed it in a headlock, and when I controlled mana to melt it, there was this flash of light and it turned into this armor piece."