After completing the sculpture, the notorious murderer state showing Weed’s name in red above his forehead completely disappeared.
“Great. Finally.”
The notoriety wasn’t completely gone, but the murderer state was removed. There are many awkward things about being in the murder state. Morata, speaking frankly, was not too strict about security.
Unlike Morata, other cities have castles and religious buildings whose guards will deny entry to those in the murder state. Of course, it’s obvious, that you couldn’t meet with Kings or Nobles.
No matter how high your fame is, if you couldn’t be trusted, you wouldn’t receive requests easily.
“Now to expand the range of the sculptures.”
As part of his plan for getting away from Jigolaths he needed to be rid of the murder state. His preparations were just about complete.
“I’ve sent out a ton of floating glass bottles but I’ve no idea how many of them arrived.”
Seo Yoon and Yellowy were coping well having to endure hiding in a small space. Seo Yoon watched the sculptures being made, Yellowy could bear it if he could just somehow survive.
A furious and determined desire to survive!
Hiding deep inside the dungeon, sparingly eating provisions while making sculptures, their current appearance looked no different than refugees. Weed made sculptures while occasionally also making time to utilize his tailoring skills to make preparations
“For clothes, twenty should be enough. Even if I use lower quality fabric the clothes will… no. There’s no need to use the poor quality fabric and leather for these clothes. I can always sell them later to recover the cost. However, since it will be difficult to make the clothes that I will wear exactly the same, making them look close will be important.”
Weed was making articles of clothing and aristocratic outfits from the Niflheim Empire era, he had learned the style while in Morata, mainly to increase his sewing skills. Based on the era clothing of the Niflheim nobility, slowly only a bit at a time, these clothes were ready to conquer the pirates.
“I don’t know why Pirates bother dressing so well, Pirates should just be Pirates and wear cheap rag tag clothes.”
Weed’s sewing skills, already high, reached new levels while making these outfits making its final look a bit excessive. Well, it wouldn’t hurt to look a bit refined.
Money, skills, and levels, such things will never betray you in life.
Between sculpting and sewing to continue lowering his notoriety, Weed used his crow form to make daily trips to the sea. On the day when there was only a little notoriety left, the distant horizon of the sea was filled with phantom ships.
“They’re here. Now I can really get started.”
When it comes to text messaging, glass bottles had Weed’s undivided and absolute faith. However, since a phantom ships duty was to idly wander at sea they had no reason not to come.
Even if the ghost ships hadn’t come, Weed would have just proceeded with his much more difficult backup plan, but since the ships had been seen as soon as they arrived, the plan became a lot easier.
Of course this plan did not include having phantom ships enter the Unfreezing River, that was only asking for problems.
Although the number of ships isn’t exactly known, having a large number of phantom ships enter a narrow river is not a recipe for a success. They would just be eaten on one side by the Haven Kingdoms 2nd fleet or on the other side by the Pirate fleet. You truly don’t want to feed your enemy.
*****
The day Weed escapes Jigolaths with Seo Yoon and the sculptures of life.
Weed along with Silver Bird and Golden Bird landed on top of the Sculptor’s Tower. Standing besides him as escorts were the coal covered Golden bird and Silver Bird.
“It can’t be right.”
They had come here to check out one last thing that Weed was suspicious about.
“There’s no way it’s possible.”
Even among Weeds adventures, the hardships that occurred in Jigolaths had been particularly severe.
When Weed had arrived he knew a normal approach wouldn’t work so he used his Lich and the Undead, along with every trick he knew… yet it hadn’t worked.
Weed had tried the Copper Plate of Rest, but it had fallen short of success. If Seo Yoon hadn’t made her timely appearance the quest might have failed. If it had failed, it would have failed in a very public way!
The combat difficulty of this sculptor quest was extremely high, Weed had then reasoned that perhaps he was supposed to, or needed to, make use of Emperor Von Arpen’s Sculptural Life Bestowal skill.
A shabby sculptor that came to the Jigolaths empty handed by following Golden Bird. He then bestowed life to a sculpture belonging to that Emperor to create the subordinate Silver Bird. How could all that not be leading to an epic quest accomplishment.
If you don’t do at least that much it would hardly be a quest. The problem was the point of that understanding came only after the middle of the quest.
“Some of the sculptures are on the low quality side, not worth very much. Still even if you leave the lesser work there are lots of sculptures that are just too good to leave.”
The Sculptor’s Tower is filled with amazing art, it contains masterpieces several times over.
Except for within the private palaces of Versailles or within the Dwarf nation, nowhere else would you find a collected treasure of sculptures like the ones within this forgotten tower in Jigolaths. There are not many places like this in the world, an abandoned tower full of treasure and no one with a claim to it, a treasure with no heir.
If he couldn’t take all of them, Weed wanted to at least take several of the good ones, even if he had to give up levels.
Weed thoroughly searched the surrounding area near the tower for any Hermes Guild members. Fortunately, there were only two pirates keeping watch at the tower.
To receive the benefits of the Sculpture Tower members of the Hermes Guild would come here every morning. However, since looking at it more than once does not duplicate the effect, they did not come more than once a day.
The Sculptors Tower is eye catching by its very nature and was located on a flat terrain where it was difficult to hide yourself, so there wasn’t any suspicions that Weed would show up here.
Weed was, however, paranoid and he had plenty of experience fighting against guilds. Killing him by using tricks, traps, or surprise attacks was fairly difficult.
So far hiding in the Jigolaths dungeon had been hard but they endured and were able to avoid their enemies successfully.