Chapter 494
Shiiing!
Oscar unsheathed her Holy Sword: Fragarach.
“Okay~ Shall we get started?” Siegfried said with a sleazy smirk for some reason as he ungagged Ingrid.
“You fucking pervert!” Ingrid lashed out the moment the gag came off. Her voice was shrill and throaty at the same time, making it seem like she had been holding her curses in for a long time.
“Ack!”
“Hmm!”
Siegfried and Oscar grimaced and covered their ears.
“Dame Oscar!”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
Oscar hurriedly placed her Holy Sword: Fragarach on Ingrid’s neck.
Sseuuu...!
Fragarach emitted a bright blue light that enveloped Ingrid.
“W-What are you doing to me, you pervert?!” Ingrid cried out.
“You can think of it as an interrogation,” Siegfried replied with a shrug. Then, he added, “I have to extract information out of you before you revert to your old self. There’s a chance you’ll lose your memories once you’re no longer under their control, right?”
“What bullshit are you spouting?!”
“Who knows? Anyway, you’re only to speak the truth and only the truth from now on.”
“Ha! Don’t make me laugh!”
“I’m serious.”
“Shut up, you piece of trash!”
“P-Piece of trash...?”
“You pervert! Trash! Stinky asshole!”
Ingrid did not stop hurling curses at Siegfried even though she was under the effect of Fragarach.
“Huh...?” Siegfried muttered. Then, he questioned the efficacy of the holy sword, “Is that thing working?”
“Pardon me, sire? What do you mean by that...?” Oscar asked in response and trailed the end of her words.
“She keeps calling me a pervert and a piece of trash.”
“Uhm...”
“There’s no way she will say those kinds of things, right?”
“Y-Your Majesty... That is...” Oscar muttered with a troubled look.
“W-What’s with that look?! Are you trying to say I’m a perverted unsalvageable piece of trash?!” Siegfried exclaimed in sheer disbelief.
“That is not what I meant, Your Majesty. It seems that Princess Ingrid thinks of Your Majesty as a... perverted piece of trash... and is telling the truth.”
“Hahaha!”
“...?”
“Come on~ Hey, when did you get so good at telling jokes, Dame Oscar?”
“Jokes...?”
“She's been brainwashed, but there’s no reason for her to think of me that way!”
“...”
Siegfried looked at Ingrid and asked with a smile, “Right?”
Ingrid grimaced and replied, “No?”
“N-No?”
“I sincerely think and believe that you’re a perverted piece of trash!”
“...!”
“I’m sorry, but that’s the truth. I’m not lying at all.”
It was then.
‘Should I just die?’ Siegfried couldn't handle the shame and pondered whether to just bite his tongue and die. Just what did he do for people to accuse him of being a pervert? The fact that everyone was calling him a "pervert" was driving him mad, as he knew very well that he had done nothing to be on the receiving end of such accusations.
“I can feel that you’re a big pervert—”
“AAAAAAHHHH!”
“...?”
“I’m not listening! I can’t hear you! AAAAH!” Siegfried screamed with his ears covered.
“You look pitiful, owner punk... Kyuu...” Hamchi muttered and shook his head while looking at Siegfried with eyes full of pity.
***
The incident between the two finally ended.
“Ahem...” Siegfried cleared his throat and finally started to properly interrogate Ingrid.
“State your affiliation.”
“The Church of Osric.”
“Hmm? How did you know I’m in the Great Jungle? And what’s with the questions?”
— The whole world knows you’re there. I heard you stripped down Descartes over there.
Cheon Woo-Jin sounded as if Siegfried’s question was absurd to begin with.
“S-Stripped down?! That was a fair transaction, okay?!”
— What transaction? I heard you melted his weapon, too.
“That was... Ahem... Ahem...”
— News of that has already spread like wildfire, and your video is currently at the top of G-Tube rankings.
“R-Really?”
— Try to be mindful of your public image, and stop going around pulling stunts like that. I mean, don’t you think you went too far this time? I’m seriously worried you’ll get stabbed in some alley if you keep this up.
“I should increase my bodyguards then...”
— Haha! You crazy bastard. Is that the only solution you can think of?
“Anyway, I found out something.”
— What is it?
“So what happened was...” Siegfried shared the information he had extracted from Ingrid with Cheon Woo-Jin.
— Really? So the Boss over there will drop a fragment of Apocalius? That thing you called Ignite Soul?
“Yup.”
— So if we obtain that and destroy it...
“That Apocalius or whatever their name will never be able to resurrect, and the Church of Osric will never be able to pull any more stunts.”
— That sounds really good.
“So I was thinking...”
— Hmm?
“Nothing?” Siegfried asked with his index and thumb forming a circle, which was the universal sign for money.
— W-What do you want?
“I mean... This can be considered an extension of the quest you gave, right? And you’re saving a lot of time and effort thanks to me finding this out. Also, you won’t have to bother yourself if I find the Ignite Stone and destroy it.”
— Just kill me! I’m having it rough these days, too... Also, I can’t grant you anything without a quest, and you willingly gave this information before getting a quest, so there’s nothing I can reward you with.
“Tsk!” Siegfried clicked his tongue and pouted after hearing that he was not going to receive anything.
—Hey, can you take care of this one yourself? I’ll reward you more next time.
“Really? You promise?”
—Of course! Hey, did you only get scammed your whole life?! What do you think of me?!
“Why are you getting so worked up...? Anyway, I’ll call you back after I kill that Hennessy or whatever.”
—Thanks, and good luck.
Siegfried headed to the Bavarian Workshop after hanging up the call with Cheon Woo-Jin, and he upgraded the crystal in his Quad-Turbo Shoulders to a Top-Rank Ignite Crystal.
“This thing packs quite the firepower. The HP of your opponents will probably burn like a wick!”
“Oh!” Siegfried exclaimed in delight after checking the stats of the Top-Rank Ignite Crystal with his Rune of Insight.
He was about to arm himself and get ready to enter the Great Jungle once again when an earthquake sent powerful tremors throughout the earth.
‘W-What?!’ Siegfried instinctively looked in the direction of the Ishuka Ruin.
Flash!
A pillar of green light shot up from the Ishuka Ruin and took to the sky.
***
‘What the hell is going on this time?!’ Siegfried ran out from the mobile smithy and observed the pillar of green light. He had no idea what the pillar of green light was, but he was certain that something was about to happen.
‘Let’s see...’ He could not see anything else due to his distance, so he activated Inzaghi’s Clairvoyance to make sense of what was going on.
[Alert: You have used Clairvoyance!]
[Alert: The durability of Inzaghi’s Clairvoyance has reduced by 1! (98/100)]
A message popped up in front of his eyes, and the Inzaghi’s Clairvoyance shone brightly.
Woooong!
A mini-map appeared in front of Siegfried's eyes. The mini-map displayed covered a ten-kilometer radius around him, and the Ishuka Ruin was included in it as well.
‘What?!’ Siegfried was shocked after looking at the mini-map.
The entire mini-map was full of red dots. In other words, the number of monsters in the Great Jungle had increased exponentially to the extent of covering the entire mini-map
However, that wasn't the only change. The Ishuka Ruin—where Hennessy’s Cocoon was located—had changed as well. And the change that caught Siegfried’s attention was the changes to the boss monster.
The boss monster was a large green dot on the mini-map, and there were a bunch of words above the said green dot.
[Hennessy]
[Status: Hatching]
[Remaining Time: 167 Hours, 59 Minutes, 55 seconds...]
1. Bosin Tang is a stew consumed in Korea for vitality. The most popular main ingredient is... dog meat. Well, the government has finally banned it, so it’s not legal to consume it. ☜