Chapter 206

The Tempestuous Grasslands, home to beastly monsters ranging from level 250 to 270.
“Give me the heels!”
“Yay! By the grace of Yamos!”
“Strike four!”
In the Windswept Meadows, Guildmaster Margaret of the Pacific Guild and her party were currently hunting.
“Mammoth Attack!”
Margaret exclaimed as she ran toward the muscle bunny.
Siaak
Then the image of a giant mammoth appeared around her body.
Bam!
-quack!
The mammoth figure then slammed into the muscle bunny with such force that the muscle bunny screamed and flew backward, crashing to the ground.
-kew..kew..
After falling to the ground, the muscle rabbit couldn’t get back up easily.
“Finalize the deal, please!”
Seeing the cowering muscle rabbit, Margaret decided that it would be a waste of damage for her to make a finishing attack, so she spoke to the user in charge of finishing, turned her attention to the other muscle rabbit, and charged at it.
“Thanks for your work, we’ll take a three-minute break and get right back to hunting.”
After a while, when all the muscle bunnies had fallen, Margaret looked at the party and said, “I’m sorry.
“Yes!”
“Man, that was a fast hunt!”
“It’s good for experience!”
At her words, the party members sat down, smiled, and started talking. Of course, it was her turn to talk, too.
“Keep hunting, keep leveling up, and when the Devil descends… we, the Pacific Guild, will have the greatest achievement.”
“Great!”
“Hmph, I’m really looking forward to this.”
“The Devil descends. Hahahaha!”
After talking for a while, Margaret realized it was time and stood up. As she stood up, the rest of the party naturally stood up as well.
“I’ll resume the hunt…”
Once all the party members had risen from their seats, Margaret, thinking she was ready to begin the hunt, opened her mouth to say something, but the message that appeared prevented her from finishing her sentence.
[Demon Castle’s magicka is now zero].
“…?”
When Margaret saw the message, she couldn’t help but wonder. Margaret looked away from the message and back at her party. They, too, were staring at something puzzling. Margaret looked at them and said, “I’m sorry.
“Did you guys get the message too?”
“Yes… it popped up.”
“The magicka of the Demon Castle has dropped to zero… what does this mean?”
“Yeah…”
Margaret and her party stopped and began to talk about the message, not even thinking about hunting.
That was the moment.
[The first expedition of the Helioca Empire defeated the death demon Agranecto].
[Agranecto, the Demon of Death, has been destroyed].
“…Huh?”
“…What?”
“…What?”
“…Huh?”
Margaret and the rest of the party were stunned by the two messages that followed the one about the Demon Castle’s magicka being down to zero.
“…That’s ridiculous!
Regaining her composure, Margaret quickly opened the quest window to see the quest Defense Against the Demon Descent she had received from the Temple.
“…!
She opened the Quests window to check her quests, but didn’t see the Defend Against the Demon Descent quest. Margaret quickly whispered to her brother, Soma.
-To Soma: Big brother!
-Soma: Uh, you saw it too, right?
-To Soma: What happened?
-Soma: I don’t know… Someone must have found the entrance. From the message, I’m guessing it’s our empire. Is there somewhere in our empire that we don’t know about?
-Soma to Soma: Once. I’ll find out.
Whispering to Soma, Margaret looked at the party members staring at her.
“The hunt… I’ll end it now. I think we need to get to the bottom of this.”
“Yes.”
“Yes!”
“I see.”
After telling the party, Margaret bit her lip and thought to herself.
‘What the hell… Who…’
* * * * *
The Kaiser’s residence.
In the Kaiser’s chambers now, Demetos, Magan, and Dobrak were gathered, waiting for the Kaiser.
Profit
Soon after, the door opened and Kaiser, the owner of the room, entered.
“What happened?”
Kaiser walked into the room and looked at Demetrius. Demetos sighed, shook his head, and said, “I’m sorry.
“I don’t know. I’m looking into it, but… this. Oh.”
The Kaiser smiled bitterly at Demetos’ words. Then Magan, who was beside him, opened his mouth to speak.
“What kind of people… aren’t they the Rebel Alliance?”
At Magan’s words, the Kaiser and Dobrak’s eyes turned to Demetos, but Demetos shook his head.
“If it was them, I would have figured it out long ago.”
Dobrak spoke quietly at Demetos’ words.
“Some…”
It meant that some of them had done it. Demethes shook his head again.
“No. Even the Pacific Guild, who are the brains behind them, are trying to figure out who cleared it right now.”
“Okay, keep looking. If they’ve got a demon. it won’t be a normal one.”
Demetos nodded at Kaiser’s words.
“Ah!”
Then a thought occurred to Kaiser, and he turned back to Demetrius and said.
“What happened to that?”
“That?”
“You know, the blacksmith user I told you about.”
“Oh, that user named Ming Hu? I can’t find anything. It’s unbelievable. The feeling that someone is intentionally blocking information? I’m still looking into that.”
“Got it.”
Hearing Demetrius’ words, the Kaiser returned to his seat and sat down to think.
‘What the heck. Who.’
* * * * *
Subject: Hey, what the fuck is this?
By: Saje Kim
The first expedition of the Helioca Empire? What the fuck is this, you assholes? I’ve been waiting for the Demon’s Descent for so long, and you assholes want to wipe it out? You know how long we’ve been waiting for it. What kind of assholes are you? You Helioca Empire assholes really shouldn’t have a party.
-BoboBobo: You swore at the devil’s descent, but now that he’s caught, you’re swearing again?
-Priest Kim: Asshole, that was for a quest, and now you’ve been fucking temping him for the Demon Descent, and you’re screwed.
Subject: Helioca Empire bullshit.
Author: Jizon Chan Chan
Destroying a demon. That’s incredible.
Agranecto may be known as a weak demon, but he’s still a demon.
What a great group of people…
I’m curious to know who it is, because it seems like a small group.
Subject: Sudden death… where is it?
By: Bounty Hunter
Where is it?
-Peace like a river: if I knew, I’d get him. I don’t think he’d be hanging around in this situation, he’d probably go under.
-Bounty Hunter: No, I don’t think he’s diving. I got him once, and now two quests I got have been canceled. I think he was caught because someone completed them.
-Peace like a river: huh, real? That’s awesome. I’ll have to look it up.
-Bounty Hunter: If you find it, send me a message and I’ll give you a share of the bounty.
-River of Peace : You too, I’ll give you some of the bounty.
* * * * *
Myung-hoo, Ji-yeon, and Min-hyung were walking toward the warehouse.
Jab!
After walking along the path for a while, the trio stopped when they came upon a giant door and the monsters guarding it.
“Is that… A warehouse?”
“I guess so?”
“I think so, too.”
One by one, the three of them moved toward the door again.
Puck! Puck!
-Income…
-take -take -take.
After dealing with the monsters guarding the gate, Ming Hu went straight for the door. The door opened, revealing a new path. Fortunately, this time I could see the end of the road, and there were three doors at the end. Perhaps that was the real warehouse.
“Let’s go!”
“Yes!”
“Gogoshing!”
Ming Hu, Jie Li, and Min Hyung quickly ran along the road to the end of the road where there were three doors. Arriving at the end of the road soon after, Ming Hu first approached the leftmost door and opened it.
“Yikes…”
“It’s a weapon!”
“This place must have been an arms warehouse.”
The first warehouse, on the far left, was filled with weapons of all kinds. The three of them began to look at the weapons in the warehouse with admiration.
“Minghu.”
As they were looking at the weapons, Minhyung walked up to Myung Hu and said, “I’m sorry. Myung Hu looked at Min Hyung, and when Myung Hu looked at him, Min Hyung continued to speak.
“You said you’d give me 20% of what you get here, but now that I’m here, I realize that’s not quite right. I think if I sold everything here, I’d get at least a few billion… I don’t think it’s a lot of money for nothing. It’s a bit of a conscience, and it’s a burden. It’s just… I’ll settle for the bounty.”
It made sense. Why hadn’t I thought of it as a burden? Ming Hu thought for a moment, then opened his mouth to speak.
“No, but it’s still the same expedition.”
“I didn’t do anything…”
“Why haven’t I done anything? I have something to do now.”
“Huh?”
Myung-hoo chuckled at Min-hyung’s retort.
“You’re going to take what’s here and sell it all to me!”
“…Thank you.”
Minhyung couldn’t help but be grateful to Myung-hoo for thinking of him, but he still couldn’t afford the 20%. Minhyung opened his mouth to speak.
“Still, 20% seems like a lot. Let’s go with 5%.”
“Ten percent. No more. I’ve still got two more warehouses to sell, and the amount you’re going to have to sell is insane. It’s good for your mental health to take 10%.”
“…Thank you.”
Minhyung thanked Myung-hoo once again. At Minhyung’s words, Myung Hu smirked and opened his inventory, adding a weapon.
“Pack it up, let’s go out and settle up.”