[ Episode 285. Reward of the Ancient Kingdom]
I stepped in first while everyone was flustered and just kept vigilantly.
I walked casually and set foot on the island.
-Titling!
[You have entered a place with unknown energy.]
The entire island was covered with mana anomalies.
So, the party also had something prepared before departure.
After checking the message, I immediately spoke to the ghost.
“Thank you for the welcome. My name is Adrias Cromwell.”
“Nice to meet you, Lord Cromwell. I am Mejour, the former court manager. Where are you from?”
“I came from another kingdom across the sea.”
I could feel a commotion going on in the back of the natural conversation.
Usually, it was close to impossible to have an ego unless it was made from the corpse of a superhuman called undead.
And even if they had an ego, most of them were weak enough to perform simple actions.
The undead who could interact with people and name themselves in this way were contrary to the common sense of this world.
“It must have been hard for you to come from across the sea. It’s not like this, everyone come this way. We will treat you as if you are a guest who has been here for a long time.”
Mejour, probably a type of banshee, politely beckoned.
It was rather creepy because it was no different from a living human being.
“What do we do?”
“Disrespectful, disrespectful. Huh……”
While the people hesitated, Luna ran first.
“let’s go! It’s an adventure!”
Seeing Luna so excited, my party followed her and entered the island.
“Come on. You can’t just watch it like this.”
In the end, when Paish’s party came along, the rest of the people were troubled.
“Is this really good?”
Muto glanced at Mejour and asked me and Paisy.
Then Pycey replied casually.
“I have to go first. And in the first place, the record of this place I found was the Island of the Dead.”
“No, you said you only knew where the ruins were and didn’t know any other information, right? Did you hit the goura?”
“so? Are you going back like this?”
The complexion of the Kinein mercenaries hardened at Pysh’s shameless words.
However, as if she had no intention of going back to what she said, she ended up crossing the icy road.
“Going back would be a problem.”
Muto, who had crossed over, turned around and looked at the frozen ship in the distance.
Thinking about what was to come, it was a useless worry, but Muto doesn’t know.
The interior of the island was also shrouded in fog seen from the sea.
Thanks to that, I walked diligently following Mejour in a situation where I couldn’t see clearly.
“Can’t you just take this off?”
Noah frowned.
You might be able to remove it with magic, but this is the fog caused by the mana anomaly, so it will come back soon.
“Can I follow you like this? How can I be nervous…….”
Muto, who was walking with me, looked at Mejour and muttered.
Hearing those words, Mejour looked back at Muto and smiled.
“Do not worry. Soon our kingdom will come.”
There was no malice in those words.
However, knowing the true nature of Mejour, I found the acting laughable.
He is a servant of a huge city called this kingdom.
It’s not a loss to follow him right now, but I’m going quietly, but we’ll see what happens later.
“Adrias.”
Looking at such a mejour, Paisy secretly called me.
“Can you control that too?”
“well.”
It’s not impossible, but since it has an ego, it will consume as much mana as using it on normal creatures.
Perhaps Pycy thinks that my linguistic magic only works on inanimate objects, but it was a good misunderstanding for me.
“Oh oh!”
After walking along the road for a long time following Mejour, Gardion, an officer of Shahi Shamad, suddenly shouted.
His eyes were tinged with a strange light, and as far as I know, his ability is related to vision.
He must have begun to see the palace through the fog.
“What’s going on?”
When Muto asked, Gardion closed his mouth and only smiled.
“it’s nothing. I was just amazed at how fresh the air on this island is.”
That guy was also nefarious, so he was the target to be dealt with as soon as possible.
It’s a villain that only brings a crisis rather than help, so I’ll have to seize the opportunity and quietly swipe.
“You believe that?”
“That’s right. Isn’t this air and fog created by God amazing? haha!”
“god? Are you talking nonsense to find out?”
The effects of finally entering the island are slowly beginning to manifest themselves.
The atmosphere of Muto, who suddenly created a threatening atmosphere, and the people watching him was strange.
“Muto.”
“What are you bastard!”
“Eat this.”
I handed Muto the potion the size of a fingernail I had made earlier.
Then, Muto, who was glaring at the potion, immediately received it and began to drink it without hesitation.
It seems that Muto himself felt that something was strange, unlike the fact that his emotions had intensified.
“gulp. Whoa.”
After drinking the potion, Muto frowned to see if it worked right away.
“What the hell is this?”
“I gave you a potion because it looked strange. I’m glad.”
“For a moment, I got angry over something insignificant. Could this be a mana anomaly?”
Muto scanned the surrounding fog with wary eyes.
However, I shook my head knowing that it was not the fog, but the island itself.
“It is the magical power that is felt on this island itself. It’s not because of the fog.”
“Because he is a warlock, he is quick to judge the situation. Do you have any more potions left?”
“I have a few extras.”
People who overheard our conversation soon looked at each other anxiously.
It wasn’t anyone else’s story as much as I’ve seen Muto, the Aura Master, become strange in an instant.
The island’s anomalies were applied regardless of the level of force.
‘Thanks to that, when I played Agata, Muto killed me three or four times.’
The abnormal phenomenon on this island is the amplification of emotions.
I didn’t know what kind of emotion it was until the phenomenon occurred.
In fact, there was a time when Agatha, whom I played, suddenly felt great despair and took her own life.
But this time, I was fully prepared.
Crafting artifacts and even potions.
In the case of artifacts, I was only able to take care of my party because I didn’t have enough time, but I was able to make quite a lot of potions with my skills.
“If, by any chance, someone around you becomes unwell, tell them right away. Even if I get weird, tell me right away.”
Muto nodded at me while talking to his mercenaries.
“thanks. Thanks to you, I got through the crisis.”
“no.”
I didn’t know that Muto would be the first to take it from the beginning.
It was also random who had the symptoms, so we need to be careful.
“All of you are almost here, so please cheer up a little more.”
Regardless of our commotion, Mejour urged us.
It was a bit bizarre because it felt a little out of touch with the current situation.
“No matter how you look at it, it’s award-winning. Should I just kill him?”
Muto, who had been caught in an anomaly a moment ago and was almost mistaken, muttered in a bleak voice.
Pysh dried up at the look in his eyes that seemed to be killing.
“Wait for now. You haven’t done any harm yet. He might be the one you need.”
“Look at that. You’re listening and pretending not to hear.”
Muto continued to grumble if he didn’t like the mejour, but soon began to walk quietly.
After overcoming a crisis like that, we were finally able to arrive at the huge castle that Mejour called a kingdom.
“Wow, I didn’t even know something like this existed because it was covered in fog.”
“Is the height crazy? It will be higher than most fortresses in the empire.”
A blue castle wall that I don’t know what it was made of.
Standing in front of it, we looked at the mejour and the castle gate, waiting for it to open.
“Guests.”
However, Mejour called us on the contrary, as if he had no intention of opening the castle gate.
“Sorry for the suddenness, but our kingdom is in trouble right now.”
“problem?”
“Because the people of the kingdom are half crazy. If you go in like this, you will be in big trouble.”
Everyone showed a threatening look when they saw Mejour who came to the gate and changed his words.
“Look! It was weird from the start!”
“Then why did you bring us here?”
Mejour continued speaking calmly despite the people’s anger.
“The gates can be opened. But inside, as I said, there are many people who are insane. That’s why I’m telling you, are you willing to accept my request?”
“Couldn’t that request be asking you to deal with crazy things?”
“You saw it right. The kingdom is currently understaffed, leaving its maddened people unattended. Please, if you solve this problem, we will give you a corresponding reward in our kingdom.”
Whoops ———!
As soon as he finished speaking, the huge gates began to open.
Pysh said urgently at the sudden progress.
“We haven’t said we’re accepting the request yet.”
“The door has already been opened. You will have to carry out the request even if you don’t like it.”
Just as Paisy was about to say something again, something quickly began to protrude through the crack in the gate.
-Kurreuk!
They were ghouls that could be described as crazy.
“Prepare for battle!”
“Something like this dog! I said! I couldn’t believe that guy in the first place!”
While everyone was talking hard, I used the magic I had been preparing since the moment the gate seemed to open.
Roar—!
A huge fireball with a long tail.
Even me, it was an advanced complex magic meteor strike that required a long casting time.
Kwaaaang——–!
The magic that exploded in an instant blew away the ghouls that were coming out of the castle gate.
The sight drew people’s eyes to me once more.
“You are saying no.”
I ignored the tackle coming from a strange corner and told Mejour.
“What is the pay?”
“……When the crazy people disappear, they leave behind blue stone fragments. If you collect them and bring them to me, I will reward you according to the number.”
Finally, the true ruins expedition began.
The price of the kingdom that Mejour takes care of is ancient items and antiques.
The reward was not light at all.
Truly a land flowing with milk and honey.
In particular, I had the experience of attacking the kingdom of these corpses several times, so I was confident in sucking all the honey called honey.
‘I know the Hidden Peace too.’
It was a unique place that only rewarded me if I was careful about the mana anomalies.
“Souls are trapped.”
Luna said, picking up a piece of blue stone from the trail of the ghouls.
It wasn’t surprising because I also knew the identity of the stones and why Mejour was collecting them while solving the hidden pieces.
And to properly resolve the hidden peace, Luna was brought in.
“Now that that’s the case, let’s each take action from here on out.”
When I said it, people shook their heads.
“I know what will happen.”
“It is too dangerous.”
But sharing the reward here was something I didn’t want.
I took out half of the potion I had brought from my bosom and held it in both hands.
Even if it’s just that number, it’s enough to be dozens.
“It is a potion that cures the symptoms Muto experienced a moment ago. I didn’t know, but I didn’t know it would be used like this. I’m going to distribute this to each group, so each party acts separately. Wouldn’t that be better than sharing the reward?”
Pycy nodded at my suggestion.
“We divided the percentage for the stake, but it was for joint discovery. It would be more efficient to act separately if we laid a platform for each of us to play an active part like this.”
“I agree.”
Muto nodded, and the mercenaries looked at him slightly uneasy.
Then Muto’s younger brother, Suzan, shouted.
“You guys! Why are you so scared! Are you still members of the Kinein Mercenary Corps!”
“sorry!”
In the end, all that was left was Shahi Shamad.
He looked the weakest among us, but Gardion surprisingly didn’t hate it.
“If everyone thinks so, I will follow. Instead, set aside a time and have everyone get together once a day. How is it?”
“That would be nice. How about Earl Cromwell?”
I nodded my head because I was going to suggest that in the first place.
“You do that. Everyone should have a watch, so let’s gather at the meeting place at noon every day. The meeting place is…”
I pretended to be worried for a while before saying.
“First, let’s all go inside and find a suitable place for a meeting. Then let’s do individual action.”
“Do that.”
When the story was over, Mejour sneaked out.
“I also have to go in with you and go to my place of work to reward you. First of all, we have to make a road to the place where the palace is located.”
In a word, it meant that he could not penetrate the road, so he had to open the road to the palace first.
At Mejour’s words, Muto laughed at him with the tone that he had finally noticed.
“Now I see, he was trying to use us since he couldn’t go home.”
“It doesn’t matter if you think so.”
“So, can you give us a proper reward?”
At Muto’s question, Mejour looked at me.
“How many stone fragments did you just get?”
“About thirty.”
“Then……”
Mejour searched for herself and pulled out a pocket watch.
It’s strange that a ghost can take things out of its own body.
“If you are willing to exchange it now, I will exchange 30 pieces of stone for this pocket watch.”
“What is it, just a watch?”
Muto interjected, then suddenly shut his mouth.
Maybe he noticed too. That this watch is no ordinary watch.
But I had no intention of using a piece of stone right now.
“I’ll collect more later and see other items.”
It was definitely that watch and it was a good item.
What an ancient artifact.
However, I put up with the things Medjour gave me as a reward.
“Aren’t you going to change that?”
Pycy, who was watching from the side, finally said a word.
Muto was still staring at his watch, becoming a mute who had eaten honey.
“yes. I will not change.”
“All right. I’ll show you the other stuff later.”
The top priority exchange item was the item where the hidden piece of this kingdom was hidden.
And among the items Medjour exchanged, there were many better ones than that watch.
“You will do well.”
As Muto and Paisy still looked at each other strangely, Noah finally opened his mouth.
Then he glanced at the open gate.
“Looking at the signs, the inside is still full, right? Why don’t you go and collect 30 of them right now?”
“Yes, since you don’t have it, I can take it.”
Muto laughed and shouted.
“let’s go! Sweethearts! Let’s sweep it all away!”
“Oh oh!”
Looking at the Kinein mercenaries rushing by, Pissy said as if she couldn’t lose.
“We are going too.”
It was spectacular to see them immediately summoning the undead and advancing.
Leaving them like that, I moved leisurely.
You shouldn’t lose your strength already.
As I said, this is the kingdom of corpses.
What a kingdom.
“I will go with Lord Cromwell.”
Mejour stuck to us with strange eyes.
Right now, it’s an NPC that gives us honey rewards, so it was right to protect it, but I don’t like sticking to it like this.
“We will go first.”
Soon, Gardion spoke to me and passed the gate ahead.
By that time, Vivian was looking at me worriedly, but I still didn’t mind.
“Mejour, I will take you to the palace for now.”
“Thank you Lord Cromwell.”
“Is there any compensation for taking me there?”
“……I will prepare.”
“thank you.”
This was a bargain that was not possible in the game.
Also, the reality is different.
“Shall we go too soon?”
“let’s go!”
Luna looked at me until the end and shouted at the end of her patience.
Soon, my party and I proceeded toward the gate like the others.
In fact, the reason I stayed until the end was to see Agatha’s reaction, not anything else…
‘It’s going to get complicated.’
I tried to guide her, but I was able to notice that I was only focusing on her.
She definitely left something here.
Maybe it’s the coordinates.
but rather good
If you come to stab me in the back…
‘I’ll show you the hell.’
[ Episode 285. The Ancient Kingdom’s Reward ] End
