Chapter 142 Expedition (1)
[I faced the risk of dying countless times in the endless sea. A huge sea with no direction at all. And unknown monsters that appear every moment there. There’s even a storm that changes rapidly in an instant. If it weren’t for these two mysterious artifacts I have, I probably wouldn’t have lived to write this down. I am grateful to my ancestors who handed down these things.]
A voyage left by an unknown person. The two relics mentioned in it were already worn out and rusted, failing to survive the passage of time.
Whoops.
In order to restore it, the help of a high-ranking mage with extensive knowledge of this artifact is required. However, the enormous power that resonated with the gray light in Jaeyoung’s hand ignored such a proper process.
“How can this be…?”
As if the hands of a clock were turning backwards, the faded, rusty, ungainly compass and telescope were slowly changing. The cracked lens was shining cleanly, and the compass, which had been spinning round and round without finding a direction, stopped moving and started pointing straight in one direction. Just like that, the two items shine neatly as if they were new items.
Seeing this, Carlos and the other pirates looked at Jaeyoung with astonished eyes.
[Item restoration has been successfully completed.]
[Probability 200000 consumed.]
[Item ‘Broken Old Compass’ is changed to ‘Dreamer’s Milestone’.]
[Item ‘Cracked Spyglass’ is ‘Watcher’s Eye’ ‘]
[The quest Restoration of an old magic artifact has been completed]
[The linked quest ‘Legend of the Forgotten’ has been completed]
[The title ‘The Child Who Progressed Too Fast’ has been obtained.]
“…. ?”
A strange title that seems to be sarcastic by pinching Jaeyoung himself. However, knowing how absurd this process he was going through now, Jaeyoung nodded as if he understood.
“This crazy… warping time just to restore those things?”
“It’s nonsense….. to use time regression to fix things…”
However, Tan and L muttered while looking at Jaeyoung with absurd eyes. Seeing the strange reaction of the two, Jaeyoung asked with a puzzled look.
“what’s the matter? Any problem?”
Tan and L look at him with absurd eyes when he asks with a completely ignorant look. Then, he reacted violently and made all sorts of fuss.
“Is there any problem? Are you asking because you don’t know what the owner just did?”
“Time regression isn’t such a simple power to use to fix things.”
time regression.
The transcendental power that reaches the realm of an absolute god that twists the already past time and returns it to the previous past. They looked at Jaeyoung as if they were looking at a monster, as if they were looking at a monster.
“No, I’ve been curious about it before… What the hell is the owner? From the moment I, the demon king, was summoned to the status of a familiar through a forced contract, something was strange…”
“Have you ever signed a contract with another transcendent being? I don’t feel any other special power…”
Tan and L have accumulated endless knowledge while living for an eternity. However, Jaeyoung’s existence was beyond common sense even to them, far beyond the scope of understanding. And at the question of the two (?), Jaeyoung recalled the previous moment.
[Please do your best in the future. Like I’m doing right now.]
A developer who gave himself a job as a wanderer in troubled times and made a really crazy request. He had been curious about the identity from before, but Jaeyoung was able to draw an inference by listening to the two.
‘That person… was never just a normal developer…’
At first, I thought it was simply a quirk of one of the development staff developing the hidden class. However, Arcadia’s management, who can’t even figure out the details of the item and Jaeyoung’s job even if he makes the only item, has a special stat called probability as collateral. Looking at the fraudulent ability to do it, I learned that the things that cause a major accident that almost ruins the game in the name of a mission are not at the level that one development staff can create.
In addition, the fact that even Tan and El could express power so powerful that even Tan and El were astonished at it, made such an inference clear.
‘It must be the work of the main developer or a core developer comparable to him…’
I don’t know what the heck he was doing to create such a job and watch his play, but Jae-young must be watching himself as a piece in a huge chessboard somewhere. Imagining the developer, he smiled as if he was having fun.
“master? Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”
Looking at exactly what Jaeyoung was doing right now, I couldn’t tell what the mysterious developer was thinking, but he muttered to himself as if resolving an unknown sense of triumph that suddenly surged in his heart.
“If you put the board on and you can’t play with excitement, it’s not Dex.”
Previously, Jae-young was worried that he would hit a van for crossing the line. Lately, I haven’t even worried about that, but I’ve been keeping my own commercial morality (?) to some extent.
But now, as if he had made up his mind on something, he stood up and asked Carlos.
“Hey Carlos. Now these two things should work without a problem.”
Carlos and his men stand still with blank eyes as if dreaming. They were embarrassed and coughed as if they had suddenly regained consciousness at Jaeyoung’s words.
“Ummm… that’s right.”
“No… how the hell…?”
A compass and a telescope that show off their appearance as if they were brand new. Jaeyoung asked, leaving behind the subordinates who picked them up and looked at them curiously.
“So is it possible now? To cross over to another continent.”
At that, Carlos nodded.
“Oh sure. I didn’t expect it to go this fast… Everything here in this logbook is ready. All we need now is a ship and a crew.”
Ships and crew needed for sailing.
A situation where you have to cross a huge ocean rather than simply heading to the coast a little away from the land. Therefore, a ship with not only outstanding sailing skills but also numerous experiences and excellent crew members was needed. And in this part, the perspectives of Carlos and Jaeyoung were completely different.
“I will prepare a battleship for you to ride by tomorrow. You don’t have to worry about sailing because we’ll choose the guys with the best skills in the Caribbean.”
A ship and a captain. And Carlos, who will prepare competent sailors. However, Jaeyoung questioned his words.
“What do you mean?”
“What do you mean?”
“Carlos, I thought you were leading the ship to the New World.”
A being with the most outstanding sailing skills in this Caribbean. It was the pirate king Carlos himself, who had been with the ship his entire life and established himself as the undisputed absolute leader of the Caribbean through countless battles and voyages. However, at Jaeyoung’s question, the atmosphere in the room subtly changed.
“I see what you mean. However, it is actually too much for me to go directly to the ‘endless sea’ that I have not yet been to…”
“Are you afraid?”
flinch.
Jaeyoung interrupts Carlos and asks. When asked if he was afraid, Carlos’ subordinates suddenly turned aggressive and tried to pour out harsh words at Jae-young.
“This bastard… how dare you say something stupid about Carlos-sama…”
“Are you saying this because you don’t know that if the ruler of the Caribbean ever dies, you will go back to those days in the past?”
Pirate King Carlos is in a position that is too important to rush directly. The symbol of the entire Caribbean and a strong support, it was absolutely impossible for him to die, but the moment he gave many reasons like that, he could never hold the rudder commanding the ship again.
“…..”
Carlos kept his mouth shut while looking at Jaeyoung with a subtle expression. Jaeyoung said without blinking an eye despite the threats of other subordinates.
“I gave you another chance. A chance to become the ruler of the Caribbean, full of heart-pumping romance and exciting adventures, although it is threatening and dangerous, and fly the sea again, waving the black flag of pirates.”
[The turning point of the main scenario has been reached.]
[The direction of the scenario may change depending on the player’s actions. Be mindful of the play.]
Originally, a scenario in which you have to go through a rough journey on a ship provided by Carlos to reach the new continent. But now, Jaeyoung was warming up Carlos’ heart, which had already cooled down.
“I didn’t expect you to kick that opportunity yourself, Carlos.”
“Do you know that it’s an easy thing to do as you say!”
Carlos shouts at Jaeyoung’s ridicule. Looking at his face mixed with complex and subtle emotions, Jaeyoung noticed that Carlos himself was also confused. And seeing him like that, Jaeyoung said without backing down a bit.
“It’s easy. As the ruler of the Caribbean, no one can stop or stop whatever you choose. It is just denying that it is scary by giving in to the temptation of worrying hearts around you and attaching various excuses.”
[Negotiation skill is activated. Activation target Carlos the Pirate King.]
[You have accurately penetrated Carlos’ intentions.]
[The target of the additional bonus feels skeptical about their decision.]
[The skill bonus player’s favorability for the options presented increases.
] negotiation skills. At that moment, Carlos’ eyes began to fluctuate as if to show off.
“So… what the hell do you want from me…”
Carlos seemed to have been thinking about this for a long time. At the self-deprecating murmur mixed with lamentation from a tired face, Jaeyoung whispered in a devilishly sweet voice.
“You are going to another continent with me. It’s not just going with one ship, it’s the Black Pirates, the pride of the Caribbean, and all the ships that can cross the continent, flying the black pirate flag, and crossing the damned ‘Endless Sea’. And at the end of it, on a new continent we have never set foot on…”
Carlos is making a hazy expression as if imagining that moment. Jaeyoung gave him the final blow.
“Plunging the flag of the Black Pirates. Whether it’s the pirates who will be there or the proud pig-like lords. Everyone kneels in front of you and declares it proudly.”
“Criminals and pirates treated like bugs and subhumans have discovered and conquered a new continent beyond the endless sea, a feat that no kingdom or empire has ever achieved.”
At those words, Carlos trembled. A dream like his own imagination that came to mind while listening to Jaeyoung’s words that the new continent actually exists in prison. Although he knew that it was impossible due to various realistic problems, Jae-young’s words seemed to rekindle his passion for that futile, delusional dream.
Whoops.
And a jet-black cutlass weeping at his waist. Looking down at it, Carlos seemed to have made up his mind about something and ordered his men.
“Everyone prepare to go out.”
