He carved out human beings, men and women.
Having repaired a lot of sculptures, he could produce Masterpieces from his keen perspectives.
However, the unidentified voices revealed their disappointments.
-That’s not it.
-These aspects are not me.
-I thought you were a competent Sculptor.
For a while, there was no sound to his ears again.
Then, midst of repairing the sculptures, they came and whispers.
They want to be carved!
While being afflicted with these, Weed finished repairing all the sculptures.
As reward for the quests, he gathered from swords for Knights, gloves, armors, and a huge amount of loot.
Where one would drop them and nod off, he survives by adapting!
So then, Pale party and the Geomchis were standing before all the works by just one Sculptor.
They were completely overwhelmed.
‘The Emperor of physical labor.’
‘The fallen God of hard work.’
As if she understood something, Maylon nodded.
“The Weed of CoM. No reason why this shouldn’t be the case.”
If the goal is too much; instead of giving up, move your body and solve a bit at a time.
Such continual effort will build up and eventually, the quest will be squared away.
Weed told the party.
“Done. Now I can go along to do them.”
The Geomchis looked away and tried to whistle.
Pale and the party members looked sideways at each other.
‘Pale nim, go ahead.’
‘I’d rather Hwaryeong nim do it.’
‘I don’t want to say that to Weed nim and be hated.’
‘But still, we need to give him an explanation…’
Finally, Pale went.
“Will you go hunting?”
“Yes. I finished preparing. I obtained many ingredients while doing the sculpture repair quests in Todeum. I’m ready to cook. I gained a lot of grinding wheels too. We’ll be ready anywhere.”
While staying in Todeum, Weed had firmly prepared to go to battle.
But Pale broke his expectation and confessed as there was no round-about way to do it.
“Sorry, Weed nim. Actually, we broke all the decent quests.”
“……”
Weed’s face contorted.
The face was the worst Pale had ever seen!
Nevertheless, he couldn’t help but to explain.
“We did all the Grade C and D. The follow up hunting quests were easily achieved.”
“What about Grade B quest?”
“We were quite successful with them too…”
“……”
“Though actually, there were a few that we couldn’t do.”
“Is that so?”
Weed’s face dramatically lit up. But again, Fail’s voice resonated with depression.
“We were blocked from accepting them. They didn’t become quests because it was essentially from the other side. And several others, the risks were too high. We have had too many of Geomchi nims died, so we gave up cause we couldn’t move any further.”
During the time when Weed wasn’t around, they were hooked on quests.
In exchange for accepting the worrisome Vampires’ commissions, the paid reward and high level quests made them gleeful.
So instead of raising their levels solely through battles, they tend to do quests together as they were twice as efficient.
While receiving quest experiences, Fame, and compensations, their activities were wide spread among the Todeum’s Vampires, and the range of their activities increased.
The quests set the foundation for them with the Vampires! Then there were quests to negotiate with small ethnic groups also!
In between the Vampires’ slumber to awaken period, they had to find new grounds for the groups while avoiding the Vampires to escape their oppression.
Find a safe area for them.
Mapan’s quest was to procure supplies for these ethnic groups.
So within two months, they established a new order at Todeum.
Within the Vampire dominated land!
These minorities cultivate their lives in peace dwelling in caves or forests.
Quests to hunt dangerous monsters, necessities, or lost children were given.
Having already almost exhausted all the quests in Todeum.
And as the situation continually changes, new original quests were given.
The best advantage of Royal Road.
Even now, when there was no quest readily available; until the new order needed to be fully established, no big event will happen right away.
Grade F or E, or quests that were for beginners, they didn’t accept them if they were outside the requirement of their commissions.
The Vampire Kingdom Todeum was as vast as the Versailles continent, and the number of quests they could accept was limited, so they had to cut some out.
Weed said quietly.
“I only got quests to fix while you guys got good commission quests.”
“Yea, well…I guess. But Weed nim also got a lot of quests.”
Weed also acquired a lot of Fame; he regained about 2/3 of the Fame lost while hunting the Unicorns and Pegasus, and also got to develop his Sculpturing Skill further.
Advanced level’s proficiency was indeed hard to increase. And the requirement to do so wasn’t just a few.
Still, Weed’s stomach aches.
“How come ever since I came to Todeum, I’ve not received a single good commission…”
With the remark of regret made, Pale couldn’t come up with an excuse and was speechless.
In good conscience, it was Weed that attracted them to go come to Todeum or else they wouldn’t have.
In the middle of all sorts of jobs; from castle to castle, he still fought and with him, the Grade A difficulty quest was a success.
Weed’s impact during the ordeal was absolute!
Although he was disappointed that the party went and abandoned him for two and a half months, it was unavoidable.
Keeping that in mind, Pale felt it the most since he obtained the most points during the course of the quests.
But if they didn’t do the quests, they along with the Geomchis wouldn’t have had anything to do.
Not knowing when the repairs might be finished, they couldn’t just idle around indefinitely waiting on him to finish.
So they rushed through the quests without minding him at all.
Weed started looking around toward the Geomchis and asked.
“But Sahyeongs.”
“Hmm?”
“The number of Sahyeongs seems to have reduced a lot.”
“Well, some died midst of the fighting yo.”
After having finished fighting the Unicorns and Pegasus, the number of Geomchis remained was 174!
During the course of doing the quests, the number steadily declined and now, there were only 102 people remaining.
Along with these Geomchis, they could do something together.
While their level was also highest amongst themselves, Geomchi2 and the other teachers also survived.
Weed decided.
‘With this now, we can’t afford to take on anymore quests.’
The Todeum that was dominated by the Vampires, was a modest Kingdom.
Nevertheless, more quests still remained.
With Weed’s Fame and his ability to raise Familiarity, with just a twist of the dried-up quest towel, he could wring out a few acceptable quests.
Grade B still remained, and even A could also be hiding somewhere.
However, too much of the Geomchis died.
With no Bandages left, even with Sword Grind and Armor Shine, it was impossible.
He could not see the benefit of Cooking either, even if the remaining people had the best development.
This was a terrible sacrifice.
‘We have to stop here. If anymore of the Sahyeongs died, then we’ll be too weak. And we won’t able to climb the most important place.’
With that decision, Weed looked up to the highest tower in Todeum he had to repair.
“There is one final thing we can do.”
The ancient building, the Tower of Heroes!
As the unnamed Vampire has said, the Intermediate Training Tower was located somewhere.
Weed’s body burned.
In the City of Heaven Lavias after having separated from Dain, he went through the Beginner Training Center.
Where he learned how to Yell and increased his strength by 50 or so.
‘About 3800 people passed the Basic Training Center. And 400 among them passed the Beginner Training Center. And after that, I bet many more went through the training centers.’
Even the large number of Geomchis made it past the Beginner Training Center, and they accepted the Martial Artist profession.
On the Versailles continent, information among users isn’t something secretive.
Because of them, Lavias have already been open to the public so quite a few numbers should have passed the Beginner Training Center.
‘I’m not interested in how many people have passed the BeTC. The Intermediate Training Center is important. I can catch up to those who are ahead of me with this.’
The condition poses by Todeum made the Intermediate Training Center here very difficult.
Whatever test is waiting in there, a death spells expulsion from here. Meaning only one opportunity to pass through the test!
In Continent of Magic, Weed was the God of War. Every battle he led he won, he became the absolute existence.
That Weed’s blood boiled as if it had resurfaced.
Weed spoke.
“Before climbing the Tower of Heroes, there is work needed to be done.”
His voice was filled with strong conviction of resolution.
“First, I have to dismantle the loot’s tower.”
“……”
The piled high mountain of spoils that created a large sculpture!
Even if the japtem was only worth just 1 Copper, Weed would not ever let it go.