Are You Sure You're Ready?

"Cough... cough cough..."

Covered in mud, Kuru lay sprawled on the ground, coughing as she stared pale-faced at the corpse of the venomous lizard not far away. Fortunately, it was already dead. Otherwise, she really would have died just now.

But even with it dead, Kuru still felt terrible. The entire Bottomless Swamp was filled with all sorts of human and animal corpses, as well as excrement and disgusting foul mud. Kuru was already miserable beyond words. She desperately wanted to find somewhere to bathe and change her clothes!

"Now do you understand that this is different from a game?"

Watching Kuru with amusement, Fang Zheng shook his head.

"You need to understand, this was only the lowest-level mission, and reality isn't a game. There's no chance for you to reload a save and start over... How do you feel now?"

"So disgusting... ugh..."

Fortunately, Kuru had not eaten much lately. Otherwise, just looking at the filth covering her body would have made her throw up.

"You should count yourself lucky. That venomous lizard only tried to eat you."

Fang Zheng snapped his fingers. The mud and other filth covering Kuru instantly vanished, restoring the girl's original radiant appearance.

"If it had been Goblins, they wouldn't have been so kind. They would have pounced on you, stripped off your armor, and played with your body... Do you need me to explain in more detail? If necessary, I can use five thousand words to describe the entire process."

"No, no need..."

At those words, Kuru's face turned even whiter. Though she was usually carefree, she was still a girl and naturally understood what Fang Zheng meant. Still, after hearing him, Kuru found it hard to believe.

"Is this world... really that dangerous?"

"Of course. How do you think the mercenary you