Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Experience points gained. Your level has increased by 1.
Since then, I had been repeating suicide and boss subjugation one after another to keep acquiring SP (Status Points).
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Every time I pierced my own heart, the vivid sensation traveled through both my hands.
And the heat of the pain, which felt as if it were trying to burn my whole body from the inside out, never became something I got used to, no matter how many times I repeated it.
The only reason I could endure it was because my seething desire for revenge held a much stronger heat.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Experience points gained. Your level has increased by 1.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
During this period, I learned something new.
First, the time it takes for this dungeon boss to respawn is about 100 minutes.
This is an estimation based on the fact that the cooldown for [Infinite Regeneration] is 60 minutes, but it should not be far off.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Conquest reward. You have acquired 10 SP.
Thinking about such things, it was the fifth day of repeating suicide and boss subjugation.
My status had already reached a level I could not have imagined before.
Shin 15 years old Level: 35
Title: None
HP: 350 / 350 MP: 103 / 103
Attack Power: 300
Defense Power: 275
Intelligence: 110
Agility: 265
Luck: 110
SP: 0
Unique Skill: [Infinite Regeneration]
Normal Skill: None
Perhaps thanks to continuing to endure the suffering, each parameter had increased incomparably to what it was a few days ago.
Intelligence and Luck had more than doubled, and Attack Power, Defense Power, and Agility, to which I allocated more SP, had swollen to more than three times their original values.
However, seeing that did not make me rejoice, and my heart remained calm.
“…It is still not enough at all. At this level, I am far from reaching Alto and the others, let alone the Necro Demon.”
How many more times will I have to taste this pain before I can surpass them?
Just thinking about it makes me feel heavy.
Then, suddenly, I felt a certain sensation.
“…I am hungry.”
That was to be expected.
Looking back, for these past five days, I had only been repeating suicide and boss subjugation and had not eaten any food.
Or rather, I thought that the problem would be reset when I regenerated from death…
But apparently, that was a misunderstanding.
It seems I need to eat to satisfy this hunger.
“But even if I say that, my luggage containing food was stolen by Alto…”
Right before activating the “Transfer Crystal for Escape,” Alto told me to hand over my luggage bag.
Since there were several magic items in there besides food, he must have wanted to collect them.
I never thought that interaction would come back to bite me here.
Still, I cannot keep being depressed forever.
I must find a way to satisfy this hunger somehow.
“I do not know if [Infinite Regeneration] will properly activate even if I die from starvation. Based on my experience so far, it will probably provide some degree of physical recovery, but it would be a disaster if I ended up dying again within 60 minutes after reviving.”
Murmuring that, I looked around.
However, this is the deepest part of the dungeon. There is no way food would be here so conveniently.
At that moment, the corpse of the Black Fang caught my eye.
“…Monster meat?”
I instinctively frowned.
Because, you see.
Normally, monster meat is not distributed for consumption.
The magical power within a monster is poison to humans; eating it causes various adverse effects, and in some cases, there is even a possibility of death.
However, the situation is the situation.
There were no other means.
“…Phew, I have no choice, do I?”
After exhaling a deep breath once, I made up my mind.
Even if I could endure the hunger for now, this is a problem that must be solved sooner or later.
If so, the earlier, the better.
Besides, even if I were to lose my life to poison by any chance—unlike starving to death, [Infinite Regeneration] should properly activate.
I dissected the Black Fang’s corpse with my dagger and performed the minimum amount of bloodletting.
Since there were no magic items for flames here, it was, of course, eaten raw.
“Alright, here I go.”
After swallowing hard, I ate the meat with literally life-or-death resolve.
Naturally, there was no flavor at all, and the smell of the beast spread throughout my mouth.
Even so, I desperately endured it and forcibly swallowed it into the depths of my stomach.
Then, one more deep breath.
“Whew, it is not delicious at all, but… well, I guess it is not unendurable?”
Besides, maybe I was lucky, no poison is taking effect—
“――――ッッッ!?!?!?!”
—It was at that moment.
Suddenly, chills and pain ran through my whole body.
I could not endure it and collapsed on the spot.
“Tch, guh, uuugh…!”
It felt like a strange object, as if a small beast was running around inside my body.
If the pain from piercing my heart was like being scorched at once by a high flame, this was closer to the feeling of being slowly melted from the inside by medium heat.
In any case, there is no doubt that it was a pain that would definitely lead me to death.
As a result, about 5 minutes later, after my physical strength was gradually whittled away—I lost my life once again.
Soul regeneration will now take place.
When I heard that system sound, what I was thinking was not resentment toward the unbearable pain—
(Haha, what… I see there was another way to die besides stabbing my heart.)
—It was something so vacant that it did not seem like the thoughts of someone at death’s door.
Perhaps my heart is already beginning to break.