Chapter 249

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Tomb of the Seventh Fiendish Bones.
“Death Field!”
At the suggestion of Agranecto, the now defunct former demon lord of the Seventh Realm, Ssangsal, who had destroyed the Suppression Orb and nearly caused great chaos in Middle-earth, was currently hunting monsters in the Seventh Realm.
When I used to have the Mark of Agranecto, monsters would not move when I attacked them; they would just stand still and die.
-Chew!
-Crunch!!!
But not now. Without Agranecto’s mark, the monsters screamed and lunged for the kill.
“Death Ball! Death Ball!”
Of course, the monsters here weren’t all that strong in terms of killing. Or, more accurately, they were on the weak side.
Poof! Poof!
-curl…
-krrrr…
The monsters that had been running toward him began to slowly fall forward, moaning in pain as they were struck by his Death Ball.
Thump! Thump, thump, thump
The monsters fell, and Sansal walked over to them, raising his staff to point at the bodies of the fallen monsters and shouting, “The monsters are dead.
“Absorb!”
Siaak
Black energy erupted from the corpse of the monster he pointed at as he shouted. The black energy was sucked straight into Swoop’s staff.
[You have absorbed the energy of death. Gain 5 hit points].
“…”
As he absorbed the black energy, a message appeared. He smiled wordlessly at the message and walked back to the corpse to check for dropped items. Soon arriving in front of the corpse, he began searching for the dropped items.
-You have mastered the Bones of Death.
-You have mastered the Bones of Death.
-You have mastered the Bones of Death.
“That sucks.”
Three Death Bones were the only items dropped. With a disappointed look on his face, he closed his inventory and opened his character window.
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 25 Occupation: Death Wizard
Fame: 11000
Title: Public Enemy (Effect: -20% Death Penalty)
Level: 230
Life: 81000
Mana: 135280
Strength : 800 Dexterity : 340 Constitution : 900 (+350) Intelligence : 4734 (+1050) Wisdom : 2030 (+640)
His character information had changed drastically from when he first entered the Demon Realm. He looked at his character information with a cold glare and muttered to himself.
“Not enough…”
Compared to the beginning, the levels and stats had risen incomparably. It wasn’t just levels and stats. As I leveled up, I unlocked a few additional skills. However, I still felt like I wasn’t getting enough kills.
“Bounty hunters, you two bastards.”
It was no longer possible to play Sudsal normally. While he had anticipated this to a certain extent, the response from users far exceeded his expectations.
“Sooner or later, you’re going to have to hack it.”
Muttering to himself as he glared at the character information, he quickly closed the character window. He then resumed his search for monsters.
Jab!
But even then, he was forced to stop walking. It wasn’t because he’d spotted a monster. There wasn’t an ant in sight, but it was the ruined temple right in front of him that stopped him in his tracks.
“…”
Sansal stared at the ruined temple in disbelief, and then thought.
‘Then… If you hadn’t destroyed the suppression orb…’
What if he hadn’t destroyed it? Would he still be in the same situation? As he imagined what would have happened, Sansal shook his head with a bitter smile.
Sigh
Shaking his head, Sansal glanced at the ruined temple and turned away, then resumed his search for the monster.
That was the moment.
Off. Stop.
As soon as he took a step, he heard a sound that stopped him in his tracks. It wasn’t a hallucination, and he hadn’t misheard.
Sigh
Sansal turned around to see who the sound was coming from again.
“…!”
Turning around, Sansal couldn’t help but be surprised.
Off…Off…
The ruined temple was on the move. It was being restored, to be precise. Sansal looked at the ruins with a mixture of surprise and curiosity and muttered to himself.
“…Why?”
Why was the temple suddenly being restored from the ruins? I didn’t understand.
“…”
A short time later, the temple’s restoration was complete. Sansal stared wordlessly at the temple, which had been restored to its former glory before the destruction of the suppression orb.
Jumbled
After staring at the temple in silence, Sansal came to his senses and entered the temple with a questioning look on his face.
“This way, right?
Once inside, Sansal walked to where the suppression orb used to be, searching through his memories.
Profit
Arriving in front of the room with the suppression orb, Sansal swallowed hard and opened the door, stepping inside.
“…”
Once inside, Ssansal stopped moving as soon as he grabbed the doorknob. Pausing, he stares blankly at the orb of light, the Suppression Orb, floating in the center of the room.
“…What is it?”
After staring at the Inhibitory Ball for a while, Sansal came to his senses and looked at it with a puzzled expression on his face. Why did the suppression ball reappear? I thought about it, but I couldn’t figure it out.
“If you destroy this…”
But one thing was certain. He already knew what would happen if the inhibitory orb was destroyed.
Jumbled
Sharpshooter stepped in front of the suppression orb.
“Hmmm…”
Arriving in front of the suppression orb, Sansal looked at it and cursed.
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[You have completed the Manor Quest].
[Helioca’s merit has also increased by 30 million].
[Reverend Asren’s Stability increased by 40].
“Thirty million…
After returning from the mountain range and completing the quest, Ming Hu opened the character window to see the message.
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Titles: Count
Age: 22 Occupation: Blood Knight/Strong Smith
Reputation: 4606000 Achievements: 45007770
Title: Hidden Hero (Effect: +50k Health, +50k Mana)
Level: 323
Vitality: 18897550
Mana: 2508420
Stamina: 7870
Strength : 787030 [78703(+7200)] Dexterity : 61715 Stamina : 62157(+500)
Wisdom: 61370 Wisdom: 61041
Dexterity: 500
Contribution: Elgav – 1000000
“45 million…
After checking his achievements, Ming Hu closed the character window with a satisfied smile.
Sigh
Closing the character window, Ming Hu turned his head to look at the couch in front of his desk. The girl Rafid had brought with him was sitting comfortably on the couch, sipping tea. Ming Hu looked at her and thought.
“I’m stumped.
I was at a loss as to what to do with the girl.
“A real slave.
When she first heard Rafid’s words, she thought he was joking, but he wasn’t. Rafid was right, the girl was his slave.
‘I told you to go, but you won’t…. I want…’
Ming Hu wanted to send the girl back as soon as possible, and the reason he was so eager to do so was because of the girl’s identity. Of course, the girl was not human.
‘I don’t care if it’s a dragon….’
The girl turned out to be a dragon.
‘Why Hetzling…’
The problem was that the girl was a Hetzling under the care of her parents, not an adult dragon who had left her parents’ arms. If it hadn’t been for the hetzlings, the girl wouldn’t have cared whether or not she became Lafydd’s slave. But the girl was a hetzlings, not an adult dragon. Ming Hu thought, remembering the girl’s parent dragons, whom he had yet to see.
“…I’ll just go ahead and bake it.
How would he react if he realized his children were in the mansion as slaves? He wasn’t sure, but he suspected it wouldn’t be a good reaction. Besides, wasn’t he a dragon with a strong sense of self-worth?
“What are you looking at?”
The girl who had been sipping her tea looked at Myung-hoo with a pathetic look in her eyes.
“…”
At the girl’s words and the look in her eyes, Ming Hu said nothing, only smiled and looked at Rafid, who sat beside her.
Beans!
Under Myung Hu’s watchful gaze, Lafydd fed the tea-sipping girl the honey balm once more.
“Yikes!”
“You! What did I say!”
“Mr. Lee…”
The girl rubbed at her honeycomb and glared at Lafydd, a sight that made Ming Hu smirk.
“What happened to the slaves…
Of course, Rafid had explained how the girl had been enslaved, but now that he knew, he couldn’t understand how it had happened.
‘I wonder…’
As Lapid admonishes the girl, telling her not to do it again, and the girl glares at Lapid in frustration, Ming Hu wonders what to do.
That was the moment.
[User ‘Ssangsal’ has opened the gate to the 7th Demon Realm].
[You can get a special quest from the nearest temple].
“…?
Ming Hu couldn’t help but panic at the suddenness of the message.