163. Counterfeit
‘The masked group does not belong to the church? Does that make sense?’
They obviously knew about ‘Wizmel’ and were even cursed not to mention it.
‘Looking at Lit, there was no curse on his body.’
The instant death series curse is a skill that puts a strain on the body of the caster, so it is rarely activated unless it is in a situation where you have to keep your mouth shut even if you kill it.
‘But the fact that they put the instant death curse on them must mean that they have important information.’
In the first place, the masked group knew that their bodies were cursed and accepted it calmly.
‘Because throwing away one’s own life is something only church fanatics do.’
Kang Seung-hyun was convinced that the masked group belonged to the Wismel Church.
‘There must be a reason to hide this on purpose.’
There is one more thing to be concerned about.
Due to the nature of the Wismel Church, the masked group must be Tracotti.
However, the members of the Adventurer’s Guild, including Masen, reacted as if they were seeing a group of masks for the first time.
‘What the hell is that guy hiding?’
Seunghyun Kang looked at the pen grill with an expressionless face. He just brought the teacup to his mouth with a calm face.
‘He’s such a suspicious guy. After all, there is no normal person who speaks respectfully when you first meet him.’
It seems that Pengrill is sincere as much as he thinks of Tracotti. However, the secret he was hiding in the middle made him unbelievable.
‘This is how it happened… Shall we investigate that guy’s background?’
Organizing his thoughts, Kang Seung-hyun stood up from his seat while looking at his watch.
“The time is already like this.”
“Tea time passes quickly.”
“We will just go. It’s about time to give medicine to old Harvey.”
“I hope you can safely convince Master. I am looking forward to good news.”
Pengril smiled softly.
Kang Seung-hyeon, who saw that, thought, ‘It’s a psycho bastard who wants to convince the human he poisoned to kill’.
“You drank a lot of tea. It’s delicious.”
“…Excuse me.”
Kim Ho-jeong and Rebecca also stood up following Kang Seung-hyun.
“…”
Then Pengrill looked at Rebecca with a strange gaze.
It was a face I couldn’t read at all.
sudden.
At the same time, Pengrill reached out and took off Rebecca’s hood.
It happened so suddenly that no one could react.
“When you go, you should say hello and go, right?”
“omg…!”
The tightly pressed hood came off, revealing Rebecca’s bright red hair.
“You’re my only brother.”
“what? brother?”
“Oh, didn’t you know?”
Pengril opened his mouth with a calm face.
“Rwenna is my sister. Didn’t you tell me?”
“what? Who is Rwena?”
“That’s my real name…”
Rebecca opened her mouth with the sound of an ant crawling.
Rebecca’s real name is Lwenna Spencer.
They were brother and sister with Pengrill.
“Were you a noble?”
“…”
“Now he has run away from home to become an adventurer, but he is also a member of the Spencer family.”
Pengrill looked at Rebecca with cold eyes. Rebecca kept her mouth shut and bowed her head.
‘The family that said they were against being an adventurer was Pengrill.’
I think I know why he desperately tried to hide his identity. Of course, it was revealed in an instant without any hidden reward.
“You are still wasting your time unnecessarily. I told you that being an adventurer isn’t right for you.”
“…”
“And what is that clumsy disguise? Did you really think I would be fooled by something like that?”
Pengrill approached Rebecca and began pouring out harsh words.
“Ever since you were really young, no matter what you do, you can’t do anything right. I at least knew you would try to say hello to me first. I didn’t even think of it as a disguise.”
“…”
“You even ran away to become an adventurer, so why hasn’t anything changed from when you left? What the hell were you doing while I was setting up a workshop for Tracotti and preparing the church?”
“Hey hey… there’s nothing to say that much.”
Kim Ho-jung, who had not heard of it, tried to dry the pen grill.
But Pengrill said coldly.
“The only family I have left is Rwena. Isn’t it natural to be worried that your only brother has gotten into a dangerous situation?”
“Ummm…”
“I’d admit if I had accomplished something, but judging from what I’m doing right now, it seems like I’m simply wasting my time.”
“sorry.”
Kim Ho-jeong, who was originally a talkative person, could not refute anything and quietly stepped back.
“If you don’t have talent, you should at least try, but you don’t even try. Of course, you claim to be trying, but if your efforts don’t pay off, what’s the difference between doing nothing?”
“…”
Rebecca looked like she was about to cry.
“If you’re just going to live as an adventurer, beat me up. I’ll soon be busy with church affairs, so I can’t afford to take care of you.”
“Let’s go there.”
At that time, Seunghyun Kang cut off Pengril’s words.
“I don’t know about Rwenna Spencer, but my colleague ‘Rebecca’ is doing a great job at our party.”
“…”
“So please do that.”
“…Looks like you’ve met a reliable colleague this time.”
Pengrill smiled lightly and looked at Rebecca.
He still looked like he was about to cry, but he had quietly moved to Kang Seung-hyun’s side.
“Then let’s go.”
“Come on… let’s get out!”
Seunghyun Kang and the others left Pengrill’s room.
Pengrill looked at the three for a moment before moving elsewhere.
-Kang Seung-hyun and the others returned to the doll workshop. Rebecca fell on the table with a depressed face.
“This is why I didn’t want to meet my brother…”
“How come a guy like that is your brother? I didn’t look like you at all. Both the face and the personality.”
Kim Ho-jung comforted Rebecca with a sad face.
“And I don’t even like the talent. My brother is a genius, and I am a kid with nothing to do.”
“I didn’t mean it like that.”
“Actually, I also wanted to become a puppeteer.”
Rebecca sniffled and opened her mouth.
“Because our family has produced puppet masters for generations.”
However, it is said that her older brother, Pengrill, gave up her dream of becoming a puppeteer because she was gifted with overwhelming talent. It’s a bonus to be despised by Pengrill for being born with talent below expectations.
“So I walked the path of an adventurer in search of freedom out of frustration, but I was scolded for not being able to do this properly.”
Water droplets formed around Rebecca’s eyes.
“no! Who knows if he’ll get kicked if he works as an adventurer too? I’m sure he was beaten by a monster and cried…”
“Unlike me, my brother is smart, has excellent magic skills, and is good at hunting, so even if he became an adventurer, he would have succeeded, right?”
Rebecca was sobbing now.
Kim Ho-jeong looked at Kang Seung-hyun, unable to do this or that.
“Like my brother said, I think I should give up my adventurer job…”
“You have to decide your own life.”
Seunghyun Kang threw a stamina potion at Rebecca and said,
“From my point of view, Rebecca is a worthy adventurer. Adventure in the world, solve requests, not die, and stay alive…” If
Rebecca had really been an adventurer like that, she would have lost her life long ago.
“There’s no way a guy who only makes dolls stuck in a safe country town knows the life of a real adventurer, right? You can ignore what Almoth is talking about.”
“….”
“If you are going to worry about your career path, tell it to the Masen branch manager rather than to your older brother. At least that way will help you 1000 times.”
“Thank you…”
Rebecca wiped away her tears.
It was a very trivial thing to Kang Seung-hyun, but it was a very comforting word to her.
“Who is frowning loudly from earlier?”
Just then, a thick-faced Harvey appeared from behind.
As soon as he appeared, he quarreled with Rebecca for no reason.
“If you’re going to cry, go out and cry!”
“That master’s pupil…. The bad personality really resembles them!”
“I told you about lecacothecin poisoning earlier. He must have been very angry because he was on his way to destroy all the works he had made.”
“Even if that doesn’t happen, it’s like that.”
Kim Ho-jeong grumbled as if it were absurd.
“Oh, come to think of it… ‘former’ disciple asks for help, what do you think?”
“Am I crazy? Why would you help someone like that?”
Harvey shouted in great rage.
Hearing that the cause of Lecacothecin poisoning was Pengrill, his resentment towards his pupil had increased by about 10,000 times.
“They say they need help from the elders to revive the Church of Wismel.”
“You need my help?”
“Why? Do you know anything?”
“What do you know? Break your neck and die.”
Harvey, who had clicked his tongue, spat out.
“Well, that bastard can’t make a special golem with his skills, so that must have something to do with it.”
“A special golem?”
“The strange golem he created. It looks like you failed by trying to imitate the special golem I made.”
Harvey continued his story over a cup of tea.
“The special golem I create is a clay doll with an ego, commonly referred to as ‘ego golem.’ After all, it is an existence that is intermediate between animate and inanimate objects.”
The ‘Ego Golem’ is a pseudo-life that has no soul, but has a will, so it can think like a normal creature and move on its own.
Of course, making it is not easy.
This is because even the slightest mistake in the production process will turn you into a monster without reason.
“Of course, a person like me wouldn’t do that.”
‘Even in the midst of that, he doesn’t forget to brag about himself.’
“But the one he made… is a little different.”
Harvey clicked his tongue, looking very displeased.
“At first I thought he made something great, but when I thought about it, there were a lot of strange things.”
In order to create a life-like creature, an object to replace the body and an object to replace the mind are needed.
Harvey made a body out of clay and mixed the magical energy containing his will into it to replace the Ego Golem’s spirit.
“But the things he made don’t have magic, right? Compared to humans, it’s like a zombie without a soul. And yet, he had an ego.”
“That sounds like it’s not the normal way.”
“Of course it was a failure. If I do a little research, I can solve it in no time.”
If Harvey put his mind to it, he could solve the problem with Pengrill’s golem.
“But what am I doing to be nice to him?”
But the grudge against Pengrill was so deep that he would not help even if he died.
“It seems like he’s trying to complete the golem while poisoning you. What’s the reason?”
“You must be stupid, right?”
Harvey laughed at Kim Ho-jung and said.
“I’m trying to make that Wizmel doll.”
“A Wismel doll?”
“If I set my mind to it, it’s not even a job to make a ‘doll’ that looks like it’s really alive.”
If Harvey borrowed Pengrill’s technology, he would be able to create a golem so perfect that it would be difficult to distinguish it from a living thing.
“If I show the Wismel I made like that to the people of Tracotti, won’t they believe it as a god?”
Although they are dolls made of clay, if the Tracotti residents worship Wismel as their god, they can establish a Wismel Church.
“Then we wait for some time, and when the real Wismel appears, we stealthily destroy it. It’s obvious, it’s obvious.”
“As expected of the best puppeteer, he is fast when it comes to dolls.”
There are times when even trash can help.
Thanks to Harvey, I was able to roughly grasp Pengrill’s purpose.
“Then the question is… whether to stop the Church of Wismel or not.”
In order to restore the glory of the past, the god who loved Tracotti more than anyone descended.
Clearly, there was no loophole in Pengrill’s logic.
‘But my instincts say no.’
Kang Seung-hyun recalled Pen Grill’s whereabouts.
Far from rescuing his subordinates caught in enemy lines, he was buried.
Far from caring for his one and only blood relative, he mercilessly criticized and disregarded them.
He poisoned his teacher to achieve his goal and has no guilt about it.
‘The biggest problem of all is that no matter how well-intentioned they are, they try to trick the entire population of Tracotti by creating a toy god.’
Pengrill is a person with a character who does not choose any means and methods to achieve his goal, and has no mercy for those who are below his standard.
‘I seem to have a sincere heart for Tracotti, but a guy whose fundamentals are crooked will end up doing evil even if he tries to do the right thing.’
You don’t know what will happen if a guy like this takes over the town.
“More than anything else, I’m curious about the secret that Pengrill hides.”
“secret?”
“I know that old Harvey has great skills, but it doesn’t make sense to try to scout him while spending hundreds of millions just to make a toy.”
That is, the man’s purpose.
There must be a reason to borrow Harvey’s power to complete the doll.
“If that was the right reason, they would have explained it to us.”
“But if you look at hiding it…”
“It must mean that it is a reason not to let others know.”
I don’t know what it is yet, but considering Pengrill’s personality, it must be for immoral reasons.
“Then where should I start investigating?”
“That brother…he said he found information about Wismel-sama inside the house, right?”
At that time, Rebecca, who had noticed her surroundings, opened her mouth cautiously.
“Then why don’t we inspect our house?”
“If it’s Rebecca’s house…”
“The Spencer family’s mansion?”
Although not as good as the doll workshop, the Spencer family’s mansion is also one of the oldest buildings in Tracotti.
“Most of them have been taken to the Spencer workshop, but there may be materials we haven’t been able to find.”
