Kaiyan raised the newly taken-out item toward him.

“Who said there was only one? I have another! Mirror, mirror!”

The two items I prepared inside the veil to defeat him were exactly the same, Mirror, mirror.

Of course, Kaiyan thought maybe there might be another item that produced light, so he looked through the list. As a result, he found items with such descriptions.

The problem was that due to the unfriendly player system, Kaiyan couldn’t be certain of their effects until he tried using them.

“Uncertainty is worse than using something certain!”

Looking back now, I’ve relied on luck to solve a lot of problems. If he had made one wrong move, the probability of him being here right now would have been low.

Kre…huhuh… Shall we… negotiate…?”

After screaming for a long time, the Lich lowered his head and spoke in a small voice. A voice so small that if Kaiyan hadn’t activated Aura, he wouldn’t have heard it.

“Negotiate? What can you give me?”

“Any…anything…”

“What I want is a level up.”

“Le-level up?”

Kaiyan’s level increased twice when he first hunted the undead monsters and an additional 2 times when he aimed at the Lich with the light. As a result, his level was now an astounding 58.

“If I take you down, I’ll probably break through to level 60. So, stop struggling and die already!”

Paahh!

Kaiyan brought the mirror that shot from afar right in front of Lich’s face.

“Kih…kihahahag!”

The Lich, unable to endure the light any longer, began to crumble like the monsters that turned into dust and disappeared.

“I… I’ll come back… Mark My Words.”

“Sure, sure. I hope you gathered a lot of experience points that time too.”

Crack!

Thud.

With all his strength in his foot, Kaiyan brought it down on the Lich’s face, and the black bones shattered into pieces and turned into dust by the light.

Ding! [You have leveled up.]

Ding! [You have leveled up.]

Ding! [Level 60 breakthrough gift sent to the storage box.]

Ding! [You have leveled up.]

At the same time, a consecutive level-up notification, but there was no clear evidence that the Lich was dead.

But there was something strange.

“Level 60 breakthrough gift?”

Kaiyan had been leveling up steadily so far, but he had never received such a gift before, so he felt a little dazed.

The fact that the player system had chosen him and even gave him a gift for leveling up was already something to be grateful for.

“Storage box.”

With trembling hands, Kaiyan called up the storage box after a long time and took out the item he received as a gift. The item that appeared in his left hand was a stone tablet about the size of a book.

As soon as he saw the stone tablet, his heart that had been trembling slightly shook violently, as if an earthquake had occurred.

“This is…”

It was undoubtedly an item that he remembered. No, it was an item that he couldn’t forget even if he tried.

The guide, who provided Kaiyan with lots of information and directions to go when he awakened as a player and knew nothing.

Rieka, the beginner’s Guide who had left like the wind after a short encounter, had returned to his hands.

“Rieka.”

Ooong!

As if responding to his call, the stone tablet vibrated softly.

“Rieka… It’s really you?”

Ding! [Beginner’s Guide]

The text was written on the previously blank stone tablet, just like he had experienced before.

[Hello, Kaiyan-nim!]

“….”

It was the same. Even though it was clearly just text, he felt an odd sensation as if he could hear those words.

[Umm… Kaiyan-nim?]

“Yes, Rieka.”

[Haha! I hope you’ve been well! I didn’t expect to meet you again so soon! I thought it would take at least a year.]

Certainly, if he hadn’t experienced the battlefield and various other things, it might have taken a year or even more to reach level 60.

In that regard, how fortunate it was that his first experience was on the battlefield.

“I’ve had a lot going on in a short time.”

[Really? I’d love to hear what you’ve been through. It sounds like it would be fun!]

“I’ll tell you everything, even if it means staying up all night. But promise me one thing.”

Kaiyan was getting tired of goodbyes. Especially now that Jeff and Max weren’t here either.

Besides, Rieka was someone he could trust and share everything with, or rather, the stone tablet, and just having her by his side gave him great strength.

“Don’t disappear anymore.”

[Haha… You look embarrassed! This is the first I heard this. However, I can’t stay like this forever.]

“…You’re going to disappear again? Do I have to level up some more to meet you again? Is it because of other beginners, not just me?”

Kaiyan asked in a louder voice, as if blaming Rieka. It wasn’t her fault, but the fact that they had to part ways again was too sad.

[Kaiyan-nim! Please calm down. It’s not that… From now on, I’ll be with you!]

“But just earlier…”

[But this appearance is temporary, so to be with you, I have to go back to my original form. That’s what I meant!]

Her original form. That means she wasn’t this stone tablet, but rather the stone tablet was a fake.

“Alright. Anyway, you’re going to be with me!”

[Then… wait a moment.]

Ooong!

Whaahh-

The stone tablet in my left hand vibrated and rose into the air, emitting a warm light.

A light mass that gradually shrank and enlarged repeatedly.

Then, after a while, the size of the light became uniform, and it slowly descended to the ground.

“…So small.”

The light mass was only the size of my face.

Rieka said it was her original form, so he expected it might be a human, but it seemed Kaiyan was wrong. There’s no way a human could be that small.

Then, what would come out of that light mass?

What was Rieka’s true identity?

“Meow!”

“…A cat?”

As the light disappeared, a kitten with white fur appeared.

[Aah! Can you hear me?]

It was a clear voice that spread through his mind, or rather, Kaiyan should call it the pure voice of a young child.

“R-Rieka…?”

[Kaiyan-nim!]

“Uh…”

[Congratulations on becoming a cat owner!]

“…?”

As a reward for defeating the Lich, Kaiyan became a cat owner.

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