Chapter 278

Sigh
Ming Hu stood up, placing the map in his inventory.
“Good luck.”
Ming Hu rose from his seat, bowed to Korran, and walked out.
“Let’s just go back.
You’ve gained skills, received quests from the Emperor, and interpreted the map. His work in the capital was done. Ming Hu decided to return to his mansion and started walking.
“One week…
I couldn’t wait to get to the Aman Empire in a week.
“Oh, right!
Jab!
Coming out of the residential district and arriving in front of the Warp Gate, Ming Hu stopped walking as a sudden thought struck him.
Sigh
He turned his head and looked in the direction of the imperial palace.
“Elixir…
I was so distracted by the map that I forgot about the old man and the elixir.
“I’d better check it out.
There was no business to be done in the mansion. Ming Hu stared at the palace for a moment, thinking, then began to walk toward it.
* * * * *
Thrrrr
Ming Hu opened the door and quickly made his way down the path to the basement, entering the Guitar Warehouse and moving straight to the end of the warehouse where the Elixir Chamber was located.
Soon arriving at the end of the warehouse and in front of the elixir room, Ming Hu listened around him. There was no sound.
“He’s gone.”
Ming Hu confirmed that the old man was not present and tugged on the doorknob of the elixir room.
Profit
The door opened. Ming Hu looked at the interior of the elixir chamber through the open door.
“…Hmmm.
There were no elixirs in visible space. Of course, it didn’t mean that there were no elixirs in the space you could see, just that they weren’t visible.
Jumbled
Ming Hu walked into the room and looked around.
“…!”
Looking around, Ming Hu quickly fixed his gaze. The box the old man was carrying came into Minghu’s line of sight.
What was in the box was not definitely elixir; it needed to be confirmed. But Ming Hu was already convinced that it was elixir. Ming Hu approached the box. Arriving at the box, Ming Hu excitedly examined its contents. The box was filled with green pills that he suspected were elixirs.
‘If it were an elixir. An elixir of agility.’
Ming Hu picked up the green pill in the box and checked the information.
[Not Tradable]
Limitations: None
Permanently +10 Dexterity when taken
Merit required: 10000
It was as expected. The green pill was the Elixir of Agility.
“…Hmph.”
A smile spread across his face. Ming Hu smiled and lowered his head to stare at the box full of Agility Elixirs.
“Since your public profile is currently 1 million…
With the purchase of Grams’ Grassroots and Ramu’s Tears, Ming Hu’s current merit level was 1 million.
“100.
Each Elixir of Agility cost 10,000 merit points, meaning Ming Hu could purchase up to 100 Elixirs of Agility. Ming Hu decided to make the purchase right away, so he opened his inventory and added the Elixir of Agility.
[Do you want to purchase the Elixir of Agility? If you do, you will lose 10000 Merit].
A message popped up as soon as he put it in his inventory, and Ming Hu smiled and reached out to press confirm.
[You have purchased the Elixir of Agility].
[Merit decreased by 10000].
After pressing OK and completing the purchase, Ming Hu looked at the Elixir of Agility in his inventory with a smile, then turned his attention back to the chest and began purchasing the Elixir of Agility.
.
.
[You have purchased the Elixir of Agility].
[Merit decreased by 10000].
“I’ll have to buy the rest another time.”
After purchasing his 100th Agility Elixir, Ming Hu looked at the remaining Agility Elixirs in the box with a wistful expression and muttered to himself.
“They might come…”
Ming Hu turned around. He couldn’t wait to take the Agility Elixir, but he couldn’t do it here. The old man could come back for it. Ming Hu quickly decided to return to the mansion and left the elixir room and began to walk out of the warehouse.
* * * * *
The Imperial Treasury of the Helioca Empire.
The end of the Miscellaneous Warehouse, which contains various material items.
“Ew.”
Currently, at the end of the guitar warehouse, an old man, the leader of the Secret Knights, stood with a disgruntled expression on his face, looking ahead. Where the old man was looking was the Elixir Chamber, which contained various elixirs.
“You didn’t take it again, did you?”
The old man muttered something unintelligible and looked at the box in his hand. After looking at the box, the old man looked up again and walked toward the door.
Squeaky clean
Arriving at the door, the old man opened it and stepped inside, then walked to the left corner and casually put down the box he was holding.
“…”
The old man put the box down and turned his head to the side without saying a word. There were many other boxes in the room besides the one the old man had just set down. The old man turned his head and began to walk around and check the boxes.
“Ew!”
The old man checking the box furrowed his brow and exclaimed in disapproval: half the contents of the box, which should have been full of such things, were missing.
“What kind of a guy is he?”
He was curious indeed. The old man wondered who had taken the things in the box.
“He must be a nobleman.”
This was not a place where just anyone could enter. Even nobles were not allowed to enter without the emperor’s permission, which meant that the person who took what was in the chest was a noble who had been granted access by the emperor.
“Ew.”
But just because not just anyone could come in didn’t mean that there were fewer people who could, so the old man couldn’t guess who had taken it.
“I don’t know what you’re taking this for… I don’t have any ingredients anymore.”
There was nothing wrong with taking what was here, it was just that they had to pay a high enough price to get it.
Sigh
The old man stared at the box with a disgruntled expression, then turned around and walked out of the room, muttering to himself.
“Why doesn’t this guy have a report? He said he’d find it in a minute, eh?”
* * * * *
How time has flown by.
“It’s today.”
The day he’d been waiting for had finally arrived, and with a smile, Ming Hu opened the quest window to see the quest he’d received from Alkan.
“Can I…”
Muttering to himself as he looked at the quest, Ming Hu closed the quest window and opened his inventory, pulling out the map he had deciphered a week ago using 44 million Merit Points.

A map pointing to the temple of a forgotten god. You’ll have to go there to find out which god it refers to. Go to the red dot and you’ll get the following map.
Looking at the map, Ming Hu remembered the location of the red dot where he could get the next map.
“The Empress’s quarters…”
The red dot was pointing to the Empress Aman’s quarters, where you needed to go to get the next map.
“If only things would go according to plan.”
Ming Hu had already made several plans to get to the Empress’s quarters.
“If it doesn’t work, I can’t help it, but…”
Of course, there was a chance that the unexpected would undo all their plans, but that was the worst case scenario. Ming Hu didn’t think the worst would come.
“Worst case scenario, there’s a way…
Besides, there was a worst-case scenario. And of course, it was the worst way.
“By the way… we’ll have to stop for a while.”
Ming Hu closed his inventory and opened the Character window.
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Titles: Count
Age: 22 Occupation: Blood Knight/Strong Smith
Reputation: 35906000 Achievement: 7955770
Title: Hidden Hero (Effect: +50k Health, +50k Mana)
Level: 417
Vitality: 19087550
Mana: 2508420
Stamina: 7965
Strength : 796530 [79653(+7200)] Dexterity : 65715 Stamina : 62157(+500)
Wisdom: 61370 Wisdom: 61041
Dexterity: 500
Contribution: Elgav – 2000000
“I can’t believe you’re up 4,000 in a week.”
Ming Hu smiled wryly as he looked at his character window. Over the past week, Ming Hu had been on a merit quest, purchasing elixirs from the imperial treasury. As a result, Ming Hu was able to increase his Agility by 4,000.
“It’ll be piled higher when I get back.”
It wasn’t a sure thing, but based on what had happened so far, there would be more elixirs in the warehouse when he returned from his trip to the Aman Empire. Ming Hu closed the character window with a wry smile.
“Dad!”
As soon as he closed the character window, Ming Hu turned around at the sound of Lapid’s voice. Lapid was approaching. He wasn’t the only one approaching. The Red Dragons Eurena and Lulu, who were staying at the mansion, were also approaching, following in his wake.
“Take care while I’m gone.”
Ming Hu patted Rafid’s head and spoke to Eurena.