‘Even this won’t be that hard.’
By creating the sculpture of Seo Yoon, he raised Zahab’s satisfaction level to the highest. And having experienced and observed Zahab live, it was just a matter of making the sculpture! It was like taking candy from a child, and their gum, and their lunch money, and drinking their milk on top of it.
Zahab wanted him to make seven different sculptures of him.
“My life cannot be defined by one sculpture. There are poses of sculptures I already thought of.”
Zahab directed the pose for the sculpture. While he had to make several sculptures, Weed had nothing to complain about as he could just sculpt as directed.
The first pose was Zahab working on a sculpture! It was pretty obvious that a sculptor would want to leave behind a scene of his main profession.
“I should make it as good as possible for the reward I can get after I complete the quest.”
As the model was an old man, his hands were very wrinkly.
Sak Sak.
There was no need to have decal like details on a sculpture.
‘This is not a work of art, rather, the person needs to love it on first sight.’
Color control was done on Zahab’s face to make it look like it had a touch of make up. The numerous wrinkles were adjusted, the disheveled hair style was fixed to give a natural feeling.
“Your skills are really not so bad.”
“I just needed to represent the good model in front of me.”
“Then I shall anticipate your best for the other sculptures as well.”
Next, he had to sculpt Zahab strolling through a forest. There was nothing especially difficult about it, but as he took care of the minute details he needed a minimum of two-three days.
Zahab in the evenings, usually hunted within the dungeons in the vicinity.
“Later, one of the sculptures you will need to make is about me battling. So I hope you observe me carefully.”
“I understand.”
As it was impossible to make Zahab hold a stance during battle, Weed had to follow him around and observe. Much could be learned by watching a battle. Weed could fully comprehend the unreachable strength Zahab had with his sword.
“Moonlight Sculpting Blade!”
Weed, using his tact, hunted only when the monsters were being meek. Putting faith in that Zahab will dispose of all the monsters swarming them, he explored the dungeons with him.
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‘It might be this way.’
Seo Yoon was searching for Weed in Grapass. She wandered alone, killing any monsters that attacked her.
‘I will finally be able to meet him here.’
Even within one of the 10 forbidden regions, Seo Yoon had very little problem as she normally fought high level monsters. She only hid from large groups of monsters, but most of the time she kept moving in order to find Weed.
She entered the main forest in Grapass and fought her way through. Her hopes of meeting Weed allowed her to forget all hardship and forge ahead!
Under the moonlit night, the roar of a large flying monster could be hear from far away.
“ROOOAAR.”
Dragon Fear!
The large silhouette shining under the moonlight was Bingryong! He was hunting with the other flight capable Sculpture Lifeforms.
“Bingryong...”
Seo Yoon called out but as Bingryong was flying high above, he passed her by. The tree tops hid her from Bingryong.
A wasted opportunity!
She picked up a stone and threw it.
“Kek! Who dares!”
As soon as the stone left Seo Yoon’s hand, it flew at top speed and hit Bingryong’s head. Reacting to the hostile action, Bingryong returned and scouted the ground. And then he found Seo Yoon.
“It’s Master’s friend...”
He remembered the time he travelled with Seo Yoon.
“Did you come here to meet master?”
Seo Yoon nodded her head.
“Then hop on. I will bring you to Master.”
Bingryong started his landing. With his large body, he crushed and felled many trees on his descent. As he lowered his head and took utmost care for her to hop on, Seo Yoon spoke in a quiet voice.
“Could you please call Wy-Three?”
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“Caw Caak!”
Riding on the rebellious Wy-Three, Seo Yoon arrived at Zahab’s cabin.
“What brings you here?”
To meet her like this in Grapass, Weed was really surprised.
Seo Yoon’s face reddened as she could not bring herself to say she wanted to see him, or be next to him. For the first time since she was able to speak, she did not talk and avoided all eye contact.
Weed only nodded.
“Well, it’s good that you came. It’s nice to see you like this.”
Greeting confidently but hiding his suspicion!
‘To come all the way here, what treasure did she think I was mining in Grapass? At least she has some sense of shame, with her red face and all.’
Seo Yoon came when he was having good time with Zahab, but her presence was not much of a disturbance.
“A woman possessing a similar appearance to the goddess of beauty.”
Zahab already had the best, first impression of her. Sculptors, painters, fundamentally all artist as one favored beautiful woman, so Seo Yoon received high intimacy with Zahab easily.
“Before I die, please allow me to sculpt your image. Will you let me?”
Zahab asked Seo Yoon to become the model for his sculpture.
A Quest!
The reward was unknown, but as it was a request from a Master Sculptor, it had to be something good. But Seo Yoon shook her head and showed clear rejection.
“I can’t do it.”
“I will give you any jewels or sculptures you ask for.”
“I don’t want to do it.”
Seo Yoon rejected the quest till the end. For her it was a thorny issue as Weed sculpted her often.
“Truthfully, I made a sculpture of you here...”
Weed confessed that he made a sculpture based on her. The sculpture of her was stored in Zahab’s workshop, so later if she found out about it, it was much easier to tell the truth now rather than making a scene later.
“Thank you.”
“Huh?”
“For sculpting me.”
“...”
Weed thought women were existences that could never be understood. His grandma said she did not want to eat cutlets or sweet and sour pork as they were oily food. Later, when he earned a lot of money and brought her to her favorite diner, she complained about not ordering cutlets and showed disappointment!
His little sister, when she was feeling immense dissatisfaction with how her hairdresser styled her hair. He tried to console her by pointing out how bad they were at styling her hair. Afterwards she shut herself in her room and did not come out even for dinner.
“One must never trust or believe a woman’s words.”
Zahab’s hunting trip now included Seo Yoon as well. After coming back from Jigolaths, Weed leveled up and became strong. He experienced a lot of battles, but Seo Yoon was way stronger than she was at Jigolaths. It still could not be compared to Zahab, but the Karajaks Weed was having such difficulties with, Seo Yoon could hunt them easily.
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The second sculptures of Zahab , of him strolling through the forest was completed.
“There are times I enjoy exploration. Going to uncharted territories, have you ever went to a place where no one had set foot yet?”
He sculpted Zahab exploring a dungeon.
“When you are enjoying a solitary lifestyle, you become enamored to create something endlessly.”
A sculpture of Zahab deep in thought was completed.
“Battle against monsters, it has been a part of my life.”
Zahab was a white haired senior, but he was overflowing with energy and his battle skill was outstanding.
Weed sculpted Zahab fighting against monsters. He already sculpted 5 pieces and only two were left.
“One… I want at least one sculpture from that moment long ago. Even for you, it will not be easy to make… It must have been fate that you,who knows about the incident back then, came to find me.”