At that moment, Seo Yoon sent Weed a whisper.
There is a secret passage that can lead you outside the castle.
A secret passage?
A secret passage in the royal palace. I haven’t actually been there, but I received this from a knight earlier.
Seo Yoon gave him a piece of a map.
You have acquired the map to the secret escape route in the Rosenheim palace.
Weed hurriedly scrutinized the map and saw that it was an escape route used by the royal family when a crisis arose in Rosenheim Kingdom.
How did you get this map?
When I was heading toward the Star Palace with PK status, the knights in the palaces attacked me. I got it after I killed them.
…….
Usually, beating a palace knight to death in retaliation was something completely unheard of. And on top of that, to receive such a map suggests multiple opponents at once! But discounting the process of acquiring it, the map was absolutely necessary right now.
‘It’s a passage that leads outside Serabourg Citadel. There are even six escape routes.’
He felt there were many escape routes as it was for the king or the royal family to evacuate through.
‘The main problem is that the passage doesn’t take you very far away from Serabourg Citadel...’
Even if they did escape through the passage, the distance was short enough for the Embinyu Church to find them. But the most urgent thing right now was for them to escape the castle.
Weed decided to give hope to the despondent players first.
“We are now going to proceed toward the secret passage in Rosenheim palace and escape through there.”
He was confident that no matter the slim chance of survival, if there was weight to his words people would follow him.
The news spread through the crowd one by one.
“Weed-nim said he’s going the save us all!”
“What are you talking about?”
“We are escaping through the secret passage of the royal palace.”
“I trusted him from the start you know. I just knew, Weed-nim would save us.”
“Ah, what are you worrying for when Weed-nim is here. He's just not Weed-nim. He’s the God of War!”
The crowd had unquenchable faith in Weed. Usually, with such significant decisions where the lives of tens of thousands hanged in the balance, heated arguments arose and everyone had conflicting opinions. But as one, they all decided to follow Weed. The NPCs of Serabourg Citadel followed suit due to Selina’s quest.
“Then, let’s proceed.”
Weed, Seo Yoon, and other strong players ran ahead, leading the way to the palace.
“Uwah.. we are going.”
“Let’s go!”
As one, the players gathered in the square and ran toward the palace. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the situation looked like a riot.
“Hyung, where are we going?”
“Weed-nim is rescuing us. We just need to follow him.”
The players in the square ran as one and the residents of Serabourg Citadel followed as well.
Guards were still posted at the entrance to the palace, but they were too busy mobilizing to fight off the Embinyu Church. The knights guarding the palace were no where to be found, but they probably left to escort the king or the royal family to a safe place.
“Look, they ran away first!”
Weed had the map open in front of him as he moved. It was not difficult for him to navigate through the palace since he frequented the Star Palace recently to hunt.
“There are many escape routes, let just go toward the closest one...”
In any palace where the royals were staying, there was always an entrance to a secret passage.
“We will now proceed toward the third prince’s palace.”
“I understand. I will go ahead and scout the place out.”
As Weed laid out his plan, the high level players who stayed behind and the average players who could not join any other groups, volunteered to scout the place.
Through the scouts, they found out that there was no one in the palace or even any valuables left.
“Let’s go!”
While the third prince’s palace was considerably smaller than the others, it still had a well kept garden with several pieces of artworks. Even while leading the players, Weed still checked on the artworks and ripped off the expensive ones for himself.
“We can enter through here.”
In the prince’s bedchamber, the secret passage was located in the wardrobe. The players with adventure class had scouted out the place and had already opened the entrance to the passage.
“Let’s hurry.”
Dungeon, you have entered the Underground Passage of the Palace.
Privileges: Fame increased by 315.
Double experience and item drop rate for one week.
Monsters hunted for the first time will drop the best possible item it can.
“Ara, it’s a dungeon. Please wait a moment, I will check it out.”
Adventurer Nadal stepped forward and looked around.
“Identify Dungeon!”
Dungeon, Underground Passage of the Palace
An underground passage made for the royal family of Rosenheim Kingdom, for use in times of crisis. As the kingdom has not experienced any upheaval for a long time, the royal family has been using the passage for questionable activities. The wide underground passage has been occupied by monsters for an unknown period of time, but as they consumed the emergency rations they multiplied rapidly.
Difficulty: Extremely High.
Dungeon Size: Immense.
It was an identification skill that could be used after acquiring a certain amount of information about a special area through reading and conversations! Adventurers had an easier time of finding facts and information.
“Oh my, this says there are monsters here. Considering the difficulty, I feel the monsters here are around mid level 300.”
The adventurer spoke worriedly.
There was nothing for this, as Weed's allies had already informed him of the situation.. A group of fairies glowing like fireflies, appeared before him once he entered the dungeon.
The Queen sent us.
This way is dangerous. That way is dangerous.
Even then, Weed-nim here should be able to easily clear the way. Kyaa, the Ice Troll is cool. It’s so lovable.
I think you can go this way… Or was it this way?
The fairies flew around engaging Weed in conversations. Only a noble person could see the fairies, and if they wanted to, the fairies could even hide their appearances from the Spirit Shamans. Though Weed’s morality went back and forth, it was fortunate that it was currently on the good side. Also, because of the quest he accepted from the Fairy Queen, they appeared before him and offered their help.
TO BE CONTINUED
-- Previous Ch 9 Next Vol 26 Ch 1 --