With each church and kingdom putting this as their central focus, they would have promised a great reward to come fight in Vargo Fortress instead of just hunting like Weed. If the situation devolved till then, hunting Balkan would have been much more difficult, but they might have had a chance as each kingdom might have sent their royal knights to fight together.
After defeating Balkan and his Undead Legion, receiving a great reward and being able to meet Teneidon. It could have been a story about priests helping Teneidon recuperate while playing an influential role and gaining huge profits!
‘It’s totally possible.’
But what happened was Weed mainly fighting the battle, but the ‘might have been’ quest to kill Balkan might have needed paladins and priests to form the core. Even now, Weed’s stomach was aching as he looked on at the scene of priests and paladins healing Teneidon and receiving many rewards.
It was harder to endure than suffering from acute appendicitis, the pain that poked his sides!
Weed took out a bandage. He wanted to use his Bandaging skill but he had to refrain himself from doing that. The bandage was big enough to suffocate the Fairy Queen.
Even with the full concentration of holy spells from the priests, Teneidon was not able to restore her full form. Her bodily injuries were healed but the torn wing did not restore itself.
─ Thank you, humans.
Teneidon’s voice was clear now so everybody could hear. The fairies clung to the priests and even tickled their nose. They were playful as they were happy to see their queen in better condition. The priests and paladins who participated in healing were now friends of the fairies and could press for special privileges.
Weed approached Teneidon and spoke.
“I am relieved to see human healing worked, your highness.”
Weed tried to discretely share in the achievements of the priests and paladins.
─ I will not forget the kindness the humans have shown.
Contribution to Teneidon and the Fairy race increased by 164.
As an evil grin almost appeared on Weed, he heard the other priests talking.
“My contribution increased by more than 600.”
“Mine is over 800.”
Weed’s expression became stiff again. His stomach twisting and turning with pain! It was more comfortable to be criticized by others than this.
“You think we can get items with the contribution?”
“Can’t the fairies give spirit weapons or something similar?”
“Well, I do need a necklace…”
“With this much contribution, I can make a fairy friend. I heard having a fairy around in a hunt helps a lot.”
These comments stabbed Weed’s aching heart with a sharp drill!
The pain he experienced in battle when his health was lower than 100 to increase his resilience felt way less painful. However, Weed continued to speak to Teneidon as the representative of the humans.
“But your highness, your wing didn’t seem to have recovered.”
─ That is because I am cursed. To repair my wing, I need to go to the Red Reed Forest and bring a certain object.
As he heard Teneidon’s words, the smell of quest waffed thickly in the air.
Weed thought to himself.
‘Even if it kills me, I must never do this quest.’
With the continuation from Balkan, Teneidon’s position, Weed’s level and fame it was most likely he could receive this quest. No matter what hardship it would be, the chance of it being another impossible quest was high.
By struggling through near death hardship, there would only be some benefits if it was successful. But expending the effort only to die was sheer mockery!
─ Humans, I have a great debt to you and already I dare to ask another difficult favor. I do not know if you could help me a little further.
Due to Fairy Queen Teneidon’s curiosity, she entered the dragon territory. And while playing to her heart’s content on the dragon Latuas’ territory, one of her wing was cursed without her knowing.
The curse of the dragon.
Latuas appeared before the Fairy Queen that insulted his dignity and spoke.
“A queen who likes to play tricks… I do not like intruders. If you want to free yourself from my curse, bring me the keepsake of the dragon that disappeared in anguish.”
Just as Weed predicted, it was a death quest related to dragons.
DING!
Curse of the Dragon
To heal the Fairy Queen Teneidon’s wing, you need to appease Latuas’s fury. Fairies ran about gathering clues and found the first step in the Red Reed Forest.
Difficulty: C
Quest Restriction:
Only those who are trustworthy.
Only those who helped the fairies.
‘Difficulty of C. But this will lead to unbelievable chain quests and it will be difficult to cope with later on. Even this scene will be known through broadcasts on the internet and TV.’
Weed finished his internal calculations.
Usually if he thought he could not manage a quest, he did not accept it in the first place. But there was the adverse effect of souring his relationship with the fairies by rejecting the quest.
In the battle against Balkan, he didn’t bring any Sculpture Lifeforms because of Undead Summon. It could be said it was because of his affection for them. He did not want to see his Sculpture Lifeforms reviving as Undead and fighting against him.
In the worst case scenario of accepting this quest, he could find himself and all his Sculpture Lifeforms being slaughtered. It was common sense to never accept such a quest and he did not have any heart to.
“Will he accept the quest?”
“It’s Weed-nim the God of War.”
“This will leave another record of Weed-nim amazing quests.”
The sound of envy could be heard from other players.
‘But on the other hand, those numerous people who are after me will know about me taking this quest. If I take the quest for now, I won’t be interrupted and will be able to take care of other things.’
Weed nodded his head.
“I will definitely cure the Fairy Queen’s wing.”
You have accepted the quest.
“Wow, he really accepted the quest!”
“Weed decided to carry out the request from the Fairy Queen!”
“My word! I can see the message boards going crazy already.”
It was obvious these players were surprised. They had no idea what Weed’s true intention was.
‘There is no time limit to the quest anyways so maybe I should try it next year? No, it will still be dangerous then. I might just roll myself off the cliff. Maybe the year after? Or maybe after my sister has graduated from university…”
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