114. Real purpose
“It was suspicious from the start.”
Common thieves make money by raiding passing travelers, robbing luggage and selling expensive items.
“Scrolls are items that disappear once used, so it’s normal to sell them.”
However, Red Lord attacked people by generously using expensive items such as the [Chain of Magical Pollution] scroll.
“I wouldn’t do such a thing if money was the goal.”
“…”
“From my point of view, it seems that they were trying to attract aggro to Camar by raiding people as if money was the purpose.”
In fact, thanks to their ramblings, Kamar was grinding her teeth while looking for the Red Rod.
“It’s not normal to attack people in a city with a mage tower behind them, but there’s a reason why they intentionally turn off aggro.”
Turning Kamar into an enemy is practically the same as attacking the Crimson Mage Tower. The scale was too big to think of it as a prank by immature young people.
“So tell me the truth.”
“….”
“What is the identity of this hideout and what is the real purpose of the Red Road?”
After Kang Seung-hyun finished speaking, Rosent lowered his head as if he had come. He looked very distressed, but soon opened his mouth with a determined expression.
“…okay. I will tell you everything.”
“It’s nice that the answer is quick.”
“But I don’t know too much about it. Will you be okay though?”
Evaluation is up to the listener.
After hearing Seunghyun Kang’s answer, Rosent nodded and sighed.
– “…originally, there were no caves around here.”
“There was no cave?”
“This was an empty lot with nothing.”
There was a reason the Trakoti people didn’t know about this cave. This was because this place did not exist in the Red Forest in the first place.
“But about three months ago… a cave suddenly appeared.”
Apparently, a cave suddenly appeared in a place where there was nothing until the day before. It is also a dry sand cave that does not match the environment of the forest at all.
“The kids, of course, thought it was strange. Because a cave they had never seen before appeared in the place where they played every day.”
The first person to discover the cave was the leader of Red Road’s gang. The guy kept it a secret and investigated the cave with his colleagues.
“They say there were monsters and items I hadn’t seen before in the cave.”
“Monsters and items? Then maybe…”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Rosent nodded and said.
“This cave… is a kind of dungeon.”
While investigating the cave while dealing with monsters, Red Lord realized that the identity of this cave was a dungeon.
It is also a fairly large dungeon.
“As expected…”
Kang Seunghyun nodded and thought.
‘The fact that this cave suddenly appeared one day, the scarabs that can only be found in dungeons are buried everywhere, and the reason why I play separately from the forest alone.’
It’s not strange to think that this is a dungeon.
All of them were basic characteristics of dungeons.
‘But it won’t be an ordinary dungeon.’
General dungeons are in subspace, so you can’t enter them unless you go through a portal.
The problem is that this cave is not located in a subspace, but is embedded in the red forest, so you can enter it simply by walking.
“I’ve been looking into this kind of dungeon since then, but Le Peni… Captain says it’s a transition dungeon.”
‘Transition Dungeon? I’ve heard of it somewhere.’
Kang Seung-hyun searched for his memory.
Although it has only been 3 years since he came to the Azul Continent, he has acquired all kinds of knowledge to make a living as a wild healer. Knowledge of dungeons was one of them.
‘I remembered. For some reason, it was a word that meant a dungeon created in Azul Continent, not subspace.’
Unlike normal dungeons that enter sub-space through portals in the Azul continent, the entire dungeon that should be in the sub-space has been moved to the Azul continent.
These dungeons are called ‘transition dungeons’.
‘But they said it was last seen several hundred years ago and hasn’t happened since.’
According to Kang Seung-hyeon’s memory, the transfer dungeon is a dungeon that hasn’t appeared in hundreds of years.
So, it was forgotten knowledge of the past that ordinary Azul Continents did not know, and only scholars and wizards who studied dungeons knew.
‘It suddenly appeared in the Red Forest. Could it be that the large amount of mana leaked from Kamar affected the surrounding environment?’
However, the Red Road gang discovered the dungeon three months ago, and it was only three days before the Kamar Barrier was destroyed due to the Mage Tower incident.
It doesn’t seem that magic has affected it.
“Then why have you not been caught by the people of Camar or Tracotti until now?”
“There is a special hiding barrier in the dungeon. Unauthorized outsiders cannot see the dungeon or even interfere.”
Only the first discoverers of the dungeon, the Red Road gang, and the people accompanying them can enter and leave this barrier.
Kang Seung-hyeon and his party were able to pass through the barrier thanks to moving with the Red Road gang earlier.
“That’s why no matter how much the Kamars searched the forest, they couldn’t find a single trace of the hideout.”
“For outsiders to enter the barrier, they must come with us.”
Red Road, who learned of the existence of the barrier, made the cave his hideout and searched everywhere to obtain rewards.
In the process, while killing monsters and unlocking hidden traps.
“Then the items Red Lord uses must have been obtained from the dungeon.”
“that’s right. Everything was found in here.”
Among the rewards obtained in this way were powerful and rare items such as the [Chain of Magical Pollution] scroll and [Milky Quartz hidden in the fog].
The Red Road gang took the items obtained from the dungeon in order.
“I was really happy when I found this. It was the first thing I had in my life.”
Rosent took out an item.
It was a type of armor worn on the wrist.
[Observation Eye]
Quickly turn on the [Observation Eye] and take a look.
[ Guardbeatle’s bracelet]
[???]
[Reduction of ranged damage]
[???]
[Automatic defense]
[???]
I found out that it was a pretty good item.
“Looking at his gloomy expression even with such good items, there must be something wrong.”
“…”
Rosent continued as she took a sip of water with a bitter face.
“If ordinary people like us carry expensive and powerful items, people around us will be suspicious, right? So I made up some rules.”
-Obtained items should only be used in dungeons.
-Do not write or brag in front of others.
The Red Road gang followed this rule thoroughly. Thanks to this, the existence of the dungeon was not known to anyone and was their own secret.
“Then it happened when I got the [anti-magic] scroll in the dungeon.”
The member who received the [Anti Magic] scroll that day was the youngest in the Red Road.
“He said he wanted to buy something, so I went to Camar with another member, and there got into a fight with some wizards.”
Wizards look down on people who can’t use magic or who have low magic power. Among them, it was a daily routine for the villains to threaten and harass commoners with magic if they felt that they had no strength or strength and were easy to deal with.
“Kamar wizards are famous.”
In particular, since Kamar is a city where wizards gather, the intensity was severe compared to other places.
“Even if you are a citizen of Kamar, people are discriminated against based on the amount of magic.
Kang Seung-hyun recalled the Katyler family.
In the city of wizards, people who steadfastly defended their beliefs regardless of magic.
“that’s right. That’s why commoners like us can’t beat wizards, so we usually bow ourselves, but that day was different.”
The effect of [Anti Magic] is the ability to nullify surrounding magic for a certain period of time. Using this makes the mage an idiot.
“He used [Anti Magic].”
“I like the plot.”
When the wizards could not use magic due to the effect of [Anti Magic], the Red Lord boy did not pay attention and was beaten.
“Originally, we had to punish the members who broke the rules, but all of them were children who had accumulated a lot of wizards…”
From then on, the Red Road gang began to attack the Kamar wizards with items obtained from the dungeon.
I promise to repay you for what you’ve done so far.
“It was fine so far, though. Because only really bad wizards scolded me. The problem comes next.”
Red Lord continued to search the depths of the dungeon to obtain new items.
However, the difficulty of the dungeon gradually increased.
“A person who was injured came out of the dungeon.”
“Are you seriously hurt?”
“It was not life threatening, but I had to wear a cast on my arm for a while. both.”
“What the hell did you do in the dungeon…”
From then on, Red Road excluded weak members from the search. Only executive-level members, such as captains and deputy commanders, participated in the search team.
“Because I don’t want another injured child to come out.”
“There are a lot of difficulties without a healer.”
The executive level members were strong enough to be incomparable to the regular members, so there was no problem in bringing them rewards.
“…The real problem started two weeks ago.”
The search team, which had returned from a dungeon search as usual two weeks ago, was strangely excited.
-I found something amazing inside.
-I can’t use it right away due to circumstances, but if I wake it up, I can blow away the wizards… No, Camar!
Having said that, the search team took a short break and went back into the dungeon.
“Blowing up Camar? Then the real purpose of the Red Lord is…”
“To destroy Camar.”
The real purpose of the Red Lord was the Khamar Terror.
They were planning to attack Camar using the items they found in the dungeon.
“No matter how much you think about it…”
Rosent said with a confused face. He wanted to stop the members, but he couldn’t. Everyone was savored with anger toward the mage and Kamar.
“It’s completely turned. What did you find there?”
“Sorry, I don’t know that much.”
Rosent, who did not participate in the search, did not see the ‘something’ the search team found. But I knew intuitively that something was dangerous.
“From that day on, the hideout felt strange.”
It’s like opening a door that shouldn’t have been opened.
In fact, from that day on, the number of members who had nightmares or defended their tiredness increased significantly.
“…If your sanity is low, you’ll get tired quickly and have a higher chance of having nightmares.”
It seems that the phantom pain incident is related to the ‘something’ that the Red Road search team discovered.
