Chapter.6 In the name of glory (8)
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Sigh-
– Noru Drug: Wow, I just opened that thing.
– takealook: That spirit that goes 10 times in a gacha game without even giving up any money! After all, if you want to become the head of a group, you have to have distribution like that!
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: ★★ Low-level
heretic fanatic This is not a mobile game from the old world, but Gedreuz’s game that boasts the best realism in human history, so where is there room for such folk beliefs?
‘Senadis was definitely saying something about the archbishop. That means this suicide mission was planned by the headquarters of the Gwangmyeong Church. ‘It’s not the size to just throw a jab.’
The headquarters of a denomination like the Gwangmyeong denomination has a tremendous amount of work to do. We need to expand our religious circles and defeat heretics. To do that, we need to train our Holy Knights hard, and since they have the power of faith, we need to overcome the political turmoil of the capital’s nobles. It is a plan that such people make by splitting their time. This means that they must have prepared enough to penetrate into the heart of the enemy.
Tak-
What caught the eye of the professor who opened the door with such anticipation was-
Wow!
“Kyaaaaaak!”
“This…heretic beast! You’ve finally revealed your true feelings! die!”
A scrawny bald monk in a white robe and a furry man running wild around him.
“I’m hungry…”
“Ahhhh… Master, I’m going back to Mana’s embrace…”
“No! Hey! Is there anyone there? “Everyone, please give me water and food!”
Even though there was clearly a well-prepared table and bread prepared in one corner of the room, a group of people were wandering around in death, looking desiccated as if they had not starved for several days.
And…
sniff sniff sniff.
“That’s it?”
I thought it was some kind of metal sculpture, but it moved and looked back at me. Arms and legs as thick as pillars and large armor worn on top of them. Light green skin visible through the armor.
A light green face with long tusks and a snub nose suddenly approached the professor, sniffed the air, and made a happy face.
“Little… big human?”
“Are you… Are you Notum?”
“Little big human! “We met again!”
Notum welcomed the professor, who had an expression of disbelief, with a wide smile.
It was definitely true. The troll affectionately calls him Little Big Man. The armored troll in front of him was Notum, the talking troll hero unit he had met in the forest when he first entered the game.
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Woe! Whoa!
The professor decided to put aside the joy of reuniting with Notum and first figure out the people here. After the mental breakdown turned into an overcome mental breakdown, the terrible headache disappeared and the information around me was now naturally flowing into my head.
Contrary to what I thought, I took a quick look and found that most of them were people I knew well.
First of all, the group that is starving to death is the easiest to understand.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu see. Did you just come in from outside? “Ho, do you have anything to eat?”
An old man with rough skin and bones. Although there was a lot of delicious, though dry, bread on the table, the old man did not even look at it and was clutching his hungry stomach.
“Otman. “Are you Ottoman Baudelaire, the wizard of the Reed Flow school?”
“Do I know myself?”
The professor sighed and nodded. You know, then. You might not recognize me in my current form.
Ottoman Baudelaire. I said it was a familiar face from when I first came in, and it turned out to be old man Lee, the wizard I met that day at the Magic Tower. A good wizard grandfather who was willing to die for his disciples who had just grabbed and shook him from the tower because I was taking hostages against the Tobruun troops.
“The people in the back are my disciples.”
“This… I guess he was sent by the church, seeing as he knows everything.”
The old man with a slightly disappointed face suddenly opened his eyes! He shouted and hung on to the professor’s trouser legs.
“Then, please tell the church to reconsider the people of our Reedflow school! The experiment was the arbitrary work of Isaac and his students! The tower owner was also away from the magic tower, so that guy, Isaac, who was the next highest in the hierarchy, was manipulating the magic tower as he pleased-”
Otman’s desperate excuse did not last until the end. Because the professor took out a bunch of leather bags filled with fish and clear water from his inventory.
Jump up!
“Rain smells fishy!”
“Something to eat!”
“It’s food you can eat!”
Before coming to Tobrun, I caught a few fish from the river and put them in, and I carried a lot of clear water with me to use as a sedative in case of emergency.
As soon as he took them out of the inventory, the professor was convinced as he saw them running towards them like wild dogs that had been starved for three days. The group of beetles gathered on one side were the wizards of the Reedflow school that I had seen at that time.
The professor stuffed the raw fish, which was as raw as an animal, into his mouth after a day and had a very strong fishy smell, and saw the wizards shedding tears like a waterfall, and Otman was just watching with an earnest expression on his face next to him. I handed one separately to the wizard.
“May our lives flow like a flowing river. Enjoy it, Otman. “I am also one who walks the path of water.”
“Just like a river heading towards the sea, may we head towards the same place at the end of our meeting. Oh oh oh, the flow really guided you! Thank you! “Thank you so much!”
As the professor said the greetings of the water magic tower people and raised a small water droplet onto his hand, Otman’s expression, which had been wary of him until now, suddenly relaxed.
Watching him ravenously, but unlike his students, skillfully eating raw fish with his bare hands, the professor was able to roughly guess what was going on.
“Does the church… suspect the Reedflow School about what happened that day?”
In response to the professor’s question, Ottman shook his head with a face full of concern.
“It’s not doubt, it’s confidence. “After that red mute built the magic tower and ran away, not long after, the Holy Knights of the Light Church attacked.”
“You mean you stayed in the tower? From what I heard, a huge amount of water poured out of the tower and swept away all the people around…”
“Oh, that’s just normal people. Aren’t we water wizards? Even if our mana is blocked and our bodies are tied, our enlightenment will not go anywhere. Since they were heading outside, I thought it would be safer to stay in the familiar magic tower, so I let the water flow around us. “I also used water pressure to untie the rope.”
hmm. I feel ashamed of myself for going around thinking I was a wizard just because I could barely use level 1 magic. This is truly the time of a wizard who devoted his life to water magic. It was right next to the Gongma Crystal, so even though I couldn’t use a single bit of mana, I was sitting calmly instead of being swept away by the huge water pouring down.
I roughly heard the story, and after the paladins came and dragged them away, they asked questions like [Why did you stay so calm at the spot where Mute attacked?] and [Why did they, the enemies of humanity, just run away without killing you?], but they couldn’t answer. They said they had been detained here since.
“We are so wronged! How can we be on the side of monsters when they are the ones who destroyed the Great Joint Magic Tower? I looked out the window and saw your priest coming in on his own feet! What did you hear from the church? yes! Please save us! Old people like me may not know, but young people with a bright future need to live! What a heresy! “This is nonsense!”
Same as last time and this time too. Whenever he had the chance, this old man tried to save his students first.
– takealook: Level of professor dislike.
– Jokass: professor Do you have no conscience?
– takealook: Who is it that drove that greedy old man and his disciples, who teach magic to his extremely good disciples and just enjoy eating raw fish and drinking a glass of water, into this abyss of hell?
– Highway Nacho Man: Standing ovation from all of Satan! Our hell is looking forward to the day the professor dies! After his death, when the transfer season comes, I will serve the professor under the best conditions –
‘Hmm… I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have any feelings.’
Honestly, I had no idea these wizards would become like this. The Magic Tower has become completely unknown, but you’re still a noble and a wizard, right? I didn’t think they were people who would go somewhere and starve.
But suddenly, he was accused of being a heretic and arrested by the religious sect. It’s obvious even if you don’t look at it. I’m looking for talented people to use for my organization, but why are so many wizards involved in heresy cases? They kidnapped me by saying they wanted something for a reason that was not at all plausible.
The professor looked at the wizards who had already eaten more than six fish and were now looking at him with an expression of survival. Five people, including the Ottoman wizard. There were more than 15 wizards held captive at that time. Why are there only these people? Could it be…is it really because of me?
“Is this… all the wizards of the Reedflow school? As far as I know, I think there were more than this. No way… the church… kills those people…!”
As the professor blurted out his thoughts while imagining something terrible, Ottman frowned and said,
“Fortunately, nothing is like what you think. The rest of the children were taken in by people from the clan. “The remaining children here are all commoner wizards.”
“Not everything. Otman-nim also sent someone from his family, but this person voluntarily stayed here.”
“Hey you guy. What are you talking about like that? Take it for granted. “How can I go home and sleep, leaving you alone in this suspicious place?”
“Demon wizard!”
“I’m a teacher! “I will treat you like a father for the rest of my life!!”
Wow!
The wizards were hugging each other and shedding tears as if they were feeling better now. For now, I don’t think there’s any need to find out more about them. The exact combat power will be confirmed later.
Let’s move on. Next is Notum, who has been looking at me with a happy face since before.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: This guy is a real guy.
– Speed Wagon: Ask me in detail what happened to him. This is also a hero unit with no information. He obviously failed to recruit, but seeing as he was forced to become a companion through an event, he seems like a pretty important guy.
– Jokass: I feel once again how much Cheonryuje that person cleared World 3 in a single day. Just looking at it, there isn’t a single piece of information on any important hero unit. So World 4 has been stagnant for several years.
– takealook: Armed troll! Armed troll! Armed troll! Armed troll!
– Highway Nacho Man: 4 stars is enough for a hero unit armed troll.
okay. I was also curious about his story. That’s because at that time, I broke away from him and went back to the forest, saying I was on my own and all. But no matter how hard I try, I still don’t know why I’m being held in the cult?
The professor was still hugging him, leaving behind the wizards who were muttering the same thing about forever… forever… father… betting on mana and heading towards Notum. Notum patted the seat next to him with his thick hand. . He still seemed to be very friendly towards me.
As the professor sat down next to him, Notum lifted his hand and stroked his head.
“Little big human. It has grown wonderfully. Little middle man now? ….hmm. no. It is still smaller than Notum. Still a small big human. Still, a lot has changed. It is very difficult to stand alone. A lot of small, big humans were injured. “Did it hurt?”
“Uh…um….”
Tuktuk.
“I worked hard. “He grew up well.”
‘Keuheuk!’
As I was looking at Notum, who was looking at the scars on his body with a happy expression, tears suddenly came to my eyes. A colleague who cares about him unconditionally in this cruel world of GG. This guy has a knack for impressing people.
The professor followed Notum’s footsteps and hit Notum’s knee with his fist without saying a word. As expected, this guy seemed like he could be a good friend.
The professor, wiping his finger under his frowning nose, happily asked Notum.
“But you’ve changed a lot too. How did you end up leaving the forest and coming here? “What is that armor again?”
At the professor’s question, Notum’s face, which had always maintained a calm expression, frowned.
“This is not what Notum wanted.”
That’s right. Just by looking at it, this building looks too narrow for a troll over 3 meters tall to live in. It’s too narrow for me, but for Notum, it would feel like I’m trapped. No one would want to be in a place like that.
“Notum just wanted to receive the hundred horses he had promised.”
Hot!
I flinched unconsciously at Notum’s words.
‘…Now that I think about it, I owe that guy a debt too! A hundred horses! They said they would deliver it the next day, but it just jumped out!’
When I looked into the chat room, people in the community seemed to remember what happened back then and were talking about it.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Is this also karma?
– Roru Drug: Now that I think about it, it was the harvest season when I first started, so it is fall now. The events that started from our first meeting come back again and again. Isn’t this a magical fall or something?
– takealook: If you don’t give up 100 of the professor’s horses, you will experience the wrath of the fearsome and powerful armed troll!
Even so, as soon as the word ‘horse’ came out of Notum’s mouth, he was counting how much 100 horses would cost. The money left over from paying off debt…
Tiring-!
[Money in possession: 367210 sil]
….? Did I see it wrong?
Tiring-!
[Money in possession: 367210 sil]
Huh? Ugh, why is this happening! 360,000 shillings? I think I earned about 1.8 million and used about 1.1 million to pay off debt! Why is there 340,000 empty?
While playing a game recently, I haven’t seen the status window even once. There was no need to spend money and the status window was something I didn’t need to look at. But there’s no way I could spend 360,000 when I didn’t spend much on it, right? Lastly, I took money out of my wallet and sent it to the exchange to pay off my debt…
‘Ah! remittance! exchange!’
– professor: Hey hey hey!! Game Now – Does anyone know how much the exchange exchange fee is?
– Jokass: It exceeded 30% not long ago. I heard that the Dome recently started operating the Under Dome workshop 24 hours a day to supply seals, probably because they had to spend a lot of money. Thanks to this, the commission was blown again.
‘Damn it! ‘That was it!’
I remember that fee was in the 10% range until a few years ago. It is said that when Gedreuts created the game, he prepared for inflation by increasing the exchange fee according to the amount of shilling transferred from the in-game to the exchange account in case a macro workshop was created. As the world became like this, a huge amount of shilling was transferred to the exchange and in-game The fees were exaggerated by going back and forth between the two. There is a fee for the shilling taken out of the game to be used on the exchange, but on the other hand, no fee is charged for the shilling put in in-game from the exchange account, so anyone can see that it is a system to reduce the shilling used on the exchange. The more you produce, the more it evaporates into thin air as a fee.
What is important is that the ambiguous Professor Park was hit hard by the tyranny of such large corporations.
‘The cheapest old and sick horse alone costs about 25,000 shillings. How can I do this…!’
terup.
The professor was fidgeting in embarrassment, but Notum put his hand on the professor’s head again with a calm expression.
“It’s okay little big human. I learned a lot from living with the Notum humans. “Some things in this world are unavoidable.”
‘Keuheuk!’
Notum, you really are…!
“It is not the little big man who is at fault. “Those ‘bad guys’ are the problem.”
“Bad guys?”
“okay. Bad guys. Even though Notum waited, the little big man did not come, so he went to the stone nest to receive the horse himself, and met the bad guys that the little big man was talking about. “Bad guys stealing horses.”
Phew!
Notum snorted loudly and made a fierce expression, as if he was angry just thinking about that time.
“Uh… Is that so?”
The professor, who was floating on the waves of emotion for a moment, heard Notum’s words and searched through his memories of when he met Notum a long time ago.
‘weird. I’m sure I said that to Notum, but I made that up, right? How did you meet? Did I really meet a horse thief by some ridiculous coincidence?’
no way. It couldn’t possibly be like that. Let’s see. I parted ways with Notum, entered Turan, slept at the Silver Cry Mercenary Guild for a night, and was conscripted around noon the next day and sent to the battlefield –
percussion!
‘Holy fuck Eureka!’
“Mute! “You met Mute!”
“Mute? hmm. I’m sure I heard the iron men make that cry before they died. Mute. “Mute.”
Notum waited a day as promised, and when the horse he had been waiting for did not arrive even after sunrise, he set out for Turan to receive the horse himself. And while moving, he encountered several mutes that were advancing towards Turan!
‘With the exception of Edeorna, it was an attack made up of mostly 8th grade Mutes! Since they run without control and only look ahead, it wouldn’t be surprising if a few of them ended up on the forest road! Notum was attacked by those who broke away from the main army while on the way to Turan!’
The professor slapped his knee without realizing it. This is amazing. The forest where Notum was originally located is in the middle of the road to Turan. If Notum had remained there, he would have encountered Mute’s main force and died. But because of those words, Notum came out of the forest and was able to save his life.
– Jokass: It’s a scoop. It’s a scoop~ Adding a hero unit event~
– takealook: What kind of professor is pulling out unconfirmed information one by one on an hourly basis? A big guy too.
– Muqaba: The conditions themselves don’t seem that difficult? Rather than killing Notum, all you have to do is provoke it in some way and run away to get it to come out of the forest.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: There have been quite a few people who have dragged out Notum.
– Mukaba: Are you like the professor who tearfully parted ways with the guys who cut off the tendons of his arms and legs and sold them to the circus troupe, saying, ‘You have to live well~’?
– Speed Wagon: Shut up everyone. Notum keeps talking.
“So what happened!”
Notum, who was scratching his head for a moment and reminiscing about the past, continued speaking in a slow voice.
“The ones that walked on all fours were weak, but they were numerous. Notum is wise. Even if there are many dire wolves, they are dangerous if they attack in a group. Running away is wise. “More than anything, I was hungry and had no strength.”
Notum stopped talking and licked his lips. Come to think of it, there was only a lot of bread here and no meat in sight. Trolls are omnivorous, but they probably prefer meat over bread.
“I was running away like that… “I met humans fighting bad guys.”
Before we knew it, the bald priest and the beastman who were fighting each other as if they were going to kill the wizards in the corner were also listening. In a world without TV or the Internet, stories are the only entertainment here.
The story of a talking troll who came out of the forest and came to live with humans was a story that would captivate anyone’s ears.
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