Chapter 51

Episode 51

– Is this right?

– Your brother. For the time being, you have to catch hens and roosters while growing up. Don’t push the villagers’ quests. that’s the fastest

– i get it. See you on this continent.

– Fighting~.

“Hmm.”

Damian whispered to Minjun, who started the game, then looked at the wooden board.

It was the < Sign of Heresy > given to him by his teacher, Kiran.

At first, I didn’t think it was a big deal, but Kiran said that he would be able to overcome the penalty through < Sign of Heresy >.

So, Damian recalled the conversation he had with Kiren, while keeping his eyes wide open, he glared at the < Sign of Heresy > in his hand.

「This... might be the answer?」

「I think so.」

「What the hell is this?」

「It’s the rune of dominance. To be precise, it should be the power of someone with a similar origin to yours.”

“Ah...”

The purpose of the plaque he told Damian was not simply to prove a certain identity or something like an occult, but to engrave < Rune of Dominion > on it. As a means of a kind of ministry that has been carried out.

Through it, it is used as a catalyst to amplify the power of witchcraft or complete incomplete magic.

“The power of the same kind as me...”

Damian pondered as he kept the < Sign of Heresy > in his bosom.

It wasn’t terribly incomprehensible.

If this penalty you are experiencing is a kind of < curse >, finding the origin of such a nature and destroying it is a common method of harm.

It was unknown whether < Curse >, which was merely a system in the game, could affect Jinseong in real life, but it could not be ignored if someone guessed his physical condition anyway.

It was worth the bottom line.

Moreover, if that person was by no means an ordinary person, but a member of the seventh god’s household and the high priest, it would never have been possible to just hear it in passing.

[Traces of heresy]

You can feel unusual energy from an object obtained by chance. According to Keren, it is a power with the same origin as mine...

Category: Epic

Content: Let’s find out the identity of the group that uses the < Sign of Heresy >.

Progress: 0% (0/1)

Reward: ???

Please note: This quest cannot be abandoned!

As Damian confirmed that the series of quests Karen had left behind were the second most important < Epic Quests > after the main stream, he suddenly felt a hypothesis pass through his mind.

‘Maybe... I might get away with this damn penalty.’

As Damian pondered, as long as he uncovered what was involved in the < Sign of Heresy >, he would of course get a -9999999999 disposition penalty on his body.

It was because it could have been sufficiently freed from the various restrictions imposed by the misinformation system.

‘I don’t know if I can unlock the secret of how I was able to return to 10 years ago.’

Back!

And Damian clenched his fists.

* * *

“Who is this? Aren’t you a rookie?”

“It’s been a while, Hassan.”

Damian seemed embarrassed by Hassan’s words and greeted him.

It was a nickname that came about after he completed his mission.

Damian, who warped to Terra using the < Book of the Black Oath Calling the End >, was able to advance his return from Conneil by several days, and Hassan called him < Rookie > when he heard that the village’s problems had been solved.

And before he knew it, the name became commonplace even within the guild, and all the staff at the guild called him Rookie.

It was an unintentional name.

“I don’t know if you liked the reward. I noticed that the government officials seem to like it because your work is neater than I thought. Do you have any plans to work directly with the authorities?”

“It’s only the gold tier. Thank you for your words, Hassan.”

“Oh look at this dude. Do you know where gold level adventurers are common? If you want, I can also connect you with a prestigious family or royal family.”

“okay. Aren’t they enough to be easily dealt with by an adventurer of your level? But I don’t understand why they were annihilated.”

At Damian’s words, Hassan nodded.

It was not a situation that made common sense.

As he said, it was a dangerous place, but that was only for low-level adventurers and ordinary people.

If it wasn’t a party of three or four, but a medium-sized party with at least ten people, there would be no way they would have been annihilated in the < Kirikorum Swamp >.

“It was an expedition with a total of 20 people, including many silver-level adventurers. At times, there were opinions that it was a waste of power because it could defeat even huge monsters. Because the main purpose was exploration, not subjugation.”

“But the results were strange.”

“that’s right. Maybe... a dungeon appears...”

‘This is it.’

flash!

Damian’s eyes lit up at Hassan’s words.

It was the kind of news he was looking for.

Although it may not have anything to do with the < Traces of Heresy >, a quest received from Keren, most of the things that lead to big incidents usually start from trivial things.

And Damian sensed a strange smell coming from the incident in the Kirikorum Swamp that Hassan was talking about.

The persimmon of the 10th year of my life was suddenly sticking out its head.

“What about additional expeditions?”

“well. Nothing concrete has been decided yet. Since one expedition has already failed, we should recruit adventurers of comparable scale and level.”

“aha.”

Damian nodded at Hassan’s words.

It was a part that I thought it was a good idea to ask Hassan.

Of course, the answer was standard, but I could see what was going on roughly.

In other words, the reason he asked Hassan for news from the beginning was that he could relatively easily get in touch with information that is difficult to hear from ordinary receptionists or adventurers.

It was also because he knew that the information that came out of the mouth of a person who became the branch manager of the guild was very rare information.

“Hassan.”

“Anyway, that’s why I’m having trouble inside right now... Huh?”

“Can I do that?”

“What do you mean?”

“To find out what happened to the swamp.”

Fuck!

And Damian gave Hassan a friendly smile.

* * *

[To Kirikorum Swamp!]

I don’t know what happened, but I can’t think of a suitable person other than you. Please find out what happened there.

Category: General

Description: Head to Kirikorum Swamp and find out what happened there.

Progress: 0% (0/1)

Notice: The difficulty of the quest is high. Form a party with colleagues who will help you!

“...surely strange.”

Damian scratched his sideburns while looking at the quest window that appeared in front of him.

It was a mission he received from the adventurer’s guild.

Even though it was carried out with Hassan’s solo mission issue, Damian wasn’t thinking of having a party either.

Could it be that even the system window warns about quest difficulty and emphasizes making a party as much as possible?

Having played the game for the past 10 years and encountered almost every type of quest in AC, Damian instinctively realized that the warnings in the system window were not light warnings that could be ignored.

“At least at my level right now, it’s difficult.”

The Kirikorum Swamp that remained in his memory was not a place that required a high level, as Hassan said, but it was a place where hidden streets and dungeons that had never existed before often appeared.

It was also a place where Damian had suffered many times.

“ah-. iced coffee-. Is this coming out right?”

Tring!

And Damian opened a system window in front of him.