162. Cause and effect 3
“I just followed because they gave me money to do as I was told! Please save me!”
about 5 minutes ago.
Lit, who felt that his life was in danger, confessed everything.
“So who is behind it?”
“It’s the Spencer Workshop! They did it!”
‘As expected, that child was the culprit.’
As expected by Kang Seung-hyun, Pengrill Spencer was giving money to adventurers and passing the contaminated soil to the doll workshop.
“I met directly with the workshop staff only once, and after that, I only transported items from a secret warehouse.”
“A secret warehouse?”
“It’s near the entrance to Spencer’s workshop. From the outside, it’s just a wall, but if you use a key, you can get in.”
Ritt took out the warehouse key from his bosom.
Unusually, it was a key made of baked clay rather than metal.
“I told you everything I know… are you going to save me now?”
“…”
“I knew roughly that they were playing with the soil, but I didn’t know that they mixed poison…. If I knew, I wouldn’t have done it either.”
“Then I’ll give you my life.”
Kang Seung-hyeon said as he put the key in his inventory.
“Instead of a three-week total injury.”
“Quaaaaaagh!”
“Common sense tells us that you can’t entrust an adventurer with a job while giving money for three weeks just to play a joke.”
then about 5 minutes.
Lit’s screams echoed incessantly from the alley.
– back to the present.
Kang Seung-hyun and his party arrived at Spencer’s workshop.
“Is this the Spencer Workshop?”
“The scale is big.”
Spencer’s workshop was not built in the existing workshop street area, but in the place where the Wismel Church building existed according to the record west of Tracotti.
“You have no intention of hiding this.”
“I’ve been aiming for the place.”
The workshop itself is a new group that has just been created, but it has grown rapidly in just two months thanks to Pengrill’s ability, the cooperation of the puppet masters of the existing workshop, and the support of the Spencer family.
“Where do you think the secret warehouse is…”
“Here it is.”
Kang Seung-hyeon activated [Observation Eye] and looked around the studio building.
[The door is hidden.]
[You need a key to open the door.]
Information emerged from the corner of the left wall of the studio building.
“Those eyes are really useful.”
“Because it’s my food line.”
When Kang Seung-hyeon touched the key to the wall, the hidden warehouse was revealed. Inside the warehouse, sacks of soil were piled high.
“how is it?”
“It’s all contaminated soil.”
[This soil is contaminated.]
[Gets ‘poisoned’ when in contact.]
[Lecacothecin is mixed in.]
When Kang Seung-hyun activated [Observation Eye], warning messages appeared on all the soil bags in the warehouse.
“Poisonous, poisonous. Are you going this far?”
“Healer Kang Seung-hyun! This way…”
Rebecca, who had been looking inside the warehouse, came running with a pale face. Following Rebecca, they found an enormous amount of vials.
Even at first glance, it was a vial full of dangerous feelings.
“It’s all lecacothecin. It’s not diluted, it’s the undiluted solution.”
It was an item that could not be obtained around here, and it would have cost hundreds of millions of gold to purchase this amount.
“Are you sure about this?”
“yes.”
The culprit of this attempted assassination case is Spencer Workshop Pengrill Spencer.
“Now that we have the evidence, we are going to meet the workshop owner…”
“I never thought he would find out this far.”
Just then, I heard a man’s voice from behind, which I didn’t want to hear. I looked back and saw Pengrill Spencer standing there with an arrogant look on his face.
“I always wanted to visit you, but it saved me the trouble of visiting you.”
“We found out your secret! What will you do now? Are you going to kill me?”
Kang Seung-hyeon and his party tried to prepare weapons with the intention of attacking immediately.
However, Spencer brought out an unexpected sound.
“Well, it’s tea time soon, so would you like a cup of tea?”
“what?”
“Actually, I also wanted to ask you a few questions.”
-Kang Seung-hyun and his party followed Pen Grill to the drawing room of Spencer’s studio.
Hot tea and snacks were placed on the drawing room table.
“Eat it. This is a tea brewed from Malia rose leaves, which only grow in the eastern provinces. It has a very strong scent and is a good variety.”
Pengrill held out a teacup to the three of them.
Of course, no one touched the teacup.
“Didn’t you take lecacothecin here?”
“Then I’ll have to drink it all.”
Pengrill smiled lightly and brought the second cup to his lips.
“Hmm, aren’t you poisoned? Then you should drink.”
Ho-jung Kim finally brought the cup to his mouth.
Kang Seung-hyun and Rebecca still haven’t touched the teacup.
In fact, Kang Seung-hyun can tell whether the tea is poisoned or not thanks to the [Observation Eye], but
‘I don’t want to drink the tea given by someone who wants to poison my teacher.’
It’s just that I haven’t touched it because I’m not good at it.
“Let’s get rid of the useless tea time and get to the point.”
Seunghyun Kang put the bottle down on the table.
It’s a poison vial containing the undiluted solution of Lecacothecin that you took out of the warehouse earlier.
“Why did you try to kill Harvey?”
“I think you misunderstood something.”
Pengril slowly opened his mouth, enjoying the scent of flowers.
“I have no intention of killing Master.”
“There’s so much evidence, so you’re going to get away with it?”
“I didn’t mean that, I just wanted to give you a cure at the right time.”
Then, he took out a vial from his pocket.
Kang Seung-hyeon knew that it was the lecacothecin treatment without using the [Observation Eye].
“What are you sick and giving me medicine for?”
“…why did you do this?”
“I didn’t want to go this far either, but Master is a very stubborn person.”
Pengrill said with a cheeky smile.
“I thought you would come under me when your body gets weak.”
“This is not a complete madman.”
Poisoned Harvey to scout him.
Pengrill was now arguing like this.
“What is your real purpose? The scale is too big for an act of scouting just one person.”
“You should already know.”
Pengrill pulled out an old book.
I couldn’t read the title because it was so old, but I could tell that there was a pattern symbolizing Wismel on the cover of the book.
“As expected, it was the Church of Wismel.”
The man behind the mysterious religious group that appeared in Tracotti was Pengrill Spencer.
“My purpose is to revive the Church of Wismel and welcome Lord Wismel. There are a lot of Wismel-sama’s data stored in the doll workshop… I have to get it no matter what.”
At first, I was thinking of formally inheriting the workshop and legally acquiring Wismel materials.
However, it was unlikely that Harvey would retire for at least 30 years, so he had no choice but to change his course to take the workshop.
“…Why do you want to establish the Church of Wismel so much? Even sticking a knife in Master’s back.”
“Whoop whoop.”
Pengrill took a sip of his tea, letting out an unlucky aristocratic laugh.
“Have you ever served someone as a teacher?”
“Not at all.”
Seunghyun Kang replied with an expressionless face.
“Or have you ever encountered a wall you could never get over?”
“No.”
“For me, Master was that kind of being.”
Pengrill was also a monster born with overwhelming talent and skills by the standard of ordinary people, but no matter what he did, he could not surpass Harvey.
“I worked hard to beat Master, but as my skills improved, I felt the difference in my talents.”
Pengrill realized.
He may catch up with his master someday, but then it will be after the master has passed away.
“No matter what I did in my life, I couldn’t surpass Master… It was really painful when I realized this.”
“Honestly, it’s fine.”
“I even thought about killing Master.”
“Why are you so extreme?”
“Then I remembered. If I can’t surpass Master, wouldn’t it be better to bring Master down to me?”
“what?”
“I’m serious?”
After hearing the story, Kang Seung-hyeon and his party hated it.
“If Wismel-sama reappears, the doll workshop and its owner, Master, who committed indelible sins in the past, will fall. If I get cursed and never work as a puppeteer again, then I can surpass Master before Master dies.”
Pengril spat out with a calm face.
“This kid is out of his mind.”
“This is crazier than Ziggs.”
Kang Seung-hyun and Kim Ho-jeong quietly withdrew from Pen Grill.
“Ah, this is my personal desire. The real reason I want to establish the Church of Wismel is for Tracotti.”
“For Tracotti?”
“Now look at Tracotti.”
Fengrill got up from his seat and looked out the window.
“There are new injured people every day, but hasn’t it turned into a poor village without a healer, let alone a proper treatment facility?”
“That’s right.”
“But Camar, the culprit behind all this, did nothing and left Tracotti unattended.”
The guys just hid irresponsibly.
Thanks to this, only the villages around Pitsta Lake are suffering.
“Not only that, but until recently, the people of Tracotti were persecuted because vicious bandits wore red hair. They’re not even from Tracotti!”
bang!
Pengrill slammed the window in great rage.
‘Should I have punished Red Road a bit more?’
‘Wow, I’ll kill you if you find out we helped Red Road.’
Kang Seung-hyun and Kim Ho-jung pretended not to know and kept their mouths shut.
“I hear that the leader of the bandits is from Kamar. But Camar only blamed Tracotti, who was innocent.”
Pengrill couldn’t stand it.
He thought he should cut ties with Camar for Tracotti’s sake.
“So you chose the Church of Wismel?”
“It’s not just the doll studio that hid information about Wismel-sama.”
After his parents passed away, Pengrill, who took over as head of the household, accidentally found Wismel’s information while looking around the mansion.
“It was a record left by my ancestors.”
“Ancestor?”
“He also belonged to a doll workshop, but he stole some data and hid it in his house, as if he couldn’t bear to abandon Wismel-sama.”
‘Betraying the doll workshop is a family history.’
Pengrill learned about the past in Tracotti and the forgotten god Wismel through the records.
He was furious with the doll workshop and Camar and decided to revive the Wismel Church.
“The Church of Wismel is the force that Tracotti needs right now.”
After finishing the story, Pengril brought the teacup to his mouth.
The tea was slightly cold.
“I’ve explained it this far, but if you’re going to interrupt me…”
“Oh, I don’t particularly want to stop you, I just need information about Wismel.”
Kang Seung-hyun said while drinking a stamina potion.
If you want to establish a church with really good intentions, Kang Seung-hyun has no reason to stop it.
‘Harvey will bite bubbles.’
Kang Seung-hyun’s purpose is to investigate Wismel and find out what his relationship is with the manager.
“Then, please cooperate with our church. If Wismel-nim descends to this land, you will get the information you want.”
“How do you want to cooperate? Hand out flyers?”
Kim Ho-jung asked while chewing on a snack next to him.
“Master’s help is absolutely necessary to bring Wismel-nim down. Please convince Master.”
“Harvey? why do you need it What tool is it?”
“I can’t tell you yet.”
Pengrill asked Harvey to convince him, but he wouldn’t go into detail.
It seems to have something to do with trying to scout Harvey.
“I’ll have to think about that.”
“You can think slowly. You don’t have to answer right away.”
Pengrill poured tea into a teacup with a smile.
Kang Seung-hyun opened his mouth without touching the teacup.
“Oh, there is one last thing I want to ask you.”
“Please speak comfortably.”
“Are the masked men also members of the Wismel Church?”
Kang Seung-hyun recalled the group of masks he encountered in the data room.
“Ah, those friends… they are adventurers hired with money, but they don’t belong to our church.”
However, Pengrill shook his head and denied it.
It’s not a full-time employee, but a part-time job.
“They sent me to investigate someone who was digging about Wismel-sama, and they were scum that attacked innocent villagers.”
“…”
“I was going to punish him separately, but he was caught by the adventurer’s guild and didn’t care.”
“okay.”
Until now, it was a long story, but Kang Seung-hyun was convinced by that conversation.
‘Is this guy telling obvious lies?’
Right now, Pengrill is hiding something.
