DING!
‘A Suspicious Diary Somewhere’ Completed
The diary of Queen Evane was buried in the ground where she was happy with Zahab.
Fame increased by 17.
Experience increased by a very small amount.
Seeing Weed’s level was so high, the easy quest did not even give experience worth mentioning.
The handmaiden open the diary and read through it.
“My word, how could something like this...! So there was such a secret behind the Queen’s death. But I think it’s too late now.”
“What?”
“It would have been alright if you came 3 month ago… The royal knight Yiorlin died due to a monster attack.”
“.....”
“It’s too sad what happened to the Queen. Except for this diary there is absolutely no proof about the tragic death of the Queen… The relevant people are not even around now. There is only little old me and Sculptor-nim that I don’t know how we can avenge her.”
DING!
Quest, ‘Deliver the Diary’ did not materialize.
Suspension in the chain quest!
There was a great emptiness that came upon Weed.
‘I came too late.’
Embinyu Church was already spread widely in Rosenheim Kingdom. Also the related incidents already occurred. Because he came too late, the quest disappeared halfway.
“But if it wasn’t for adventurer-nim, than this old lady will always just brood about what happened. Although the Queen and Zahab-nim loved each other, they couldn’t be together and in the end we couldn’t even avenge the Queen.”
"……."
“Perhaps this was for the better. The Queen and Zahab-nim would not have wanted revenge. You must have experienced a lot of hardship because of my unreasonable request.”
Fame increased by 13.
Weed feebly left the old handmaiden’s house. He couldn’t even pack the poached potatoes this time.
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On the street, Seo Yoon asked.
“Will you return to Morata?”
“No. We came all the way here and also got the key, we should try going to the Star Palace.”
Weed went to the castle and with the key, opened Queen Evane’s Star Palace. While the castle in Rosenheim Kingdom had many players visiting to meet the nobles and officials, no one went close to the abandoned Star Palace.
Dungeon, you are the first to discover the Star Palace.
Privileges: Fame increased by 1,700.
Double experience and item drop rate for one week.
Monsters hunted for the first time will drop the best possible item it can.
Bravery increased by 3 for entering the Star Palace.
“Let’s hunt to our heart’s content.”
Inside the Star Palace, old artworks were hidden like treasures and there were rooms hidden with gold articles. This dungeon was luxurious!
Usually in dungeons where only low level monsters appeared, the whole place had to be search to earn a piece of bronze but here it was filled with treasure. After the death of Queen Evane, the palace was left to rot and turned into a dungeon through a mysterious curse.
The Star Palace was littered with souls of maids, knights and soldiers who died with regret. The reason was unknown but there was a lot of grotesque monsters called Burgle.
“This is quite a dangerous dungeon.”
At Weed and Seo Yoon’s level, the lingering souls were easy to handle. But the Burgle monsters charged with incredible speed and thrust themselves into battle, not only was their level mid 400, they were extremely dangerous. Fortunately the monsters did not rushed them all at once, so compared to hunting in the Grapass region, it was considerably easier.
“Call: Death Knight Van Hawk, call: Vampire Lord Torido!”
Weed summoned Torido and Van Hawk and fought together with Seo Yoon. When Seo Yoon wasn’t with him, he cautiously hunted the outskirt of the dungeon with Death Knight Van Hawk using Radiant Sword.
“KIEEEEK!”
Radiant Sword was effective against curse type monsters also the skill mastery increased easily but nothing new came out of the light yet. But still, the Burgles had great strength which made them difficult to deal with. Even if he used his skill, the Burgles bashed in with their shield and pushed in, whirling their great sword.
In the morning when the Radiant Sword became weaker, Weed went to the Square and made sculptures.
“Doing this reminds me of back then.”
Lost in his memories he started making sculptures of deers, foxes and rabbits. Truthfully, these were the shapes he sculpted the most, but it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say these shape laid the basis of his sculpting skill.
“Tsk tsk, you don’t make sculptures like that.”
While Weed was carving his sculptures, a player who looked the same age as him approached.
“Yes?”
“I am also a sculptor, shall I teach you some tricks?”
This player’s class was also a sculptor!
The place Weed was at was a good spot where people had to cross to reach the Square’s fountain. Blacksmith and seamstress were a given but especially, there were many sculptors sitting there and doing business. While players with other class wouldn’t be interested, Serabourg Castle in Rosenheim Kingdom was like a holy land to the sculptors! It was too the point that making and selling sculptures here was recommended in message board as a way for sculptors to grow.
“My sculpting skill is beginner level 4 but my specialties lies in making deers, foxes, rabbits and wolves. I have made over 10 thousand of them.”
“Why did you make so many of the same images?”
“This is a secret only the sculptors in Rosenheim Kingdom know, this secret is from the peerless hero birthed from Rosenheim Kingdom! The God of War and the Great Sculptor Weed did the exact same thing.”
Weed’s eye was bleak and for the first time looked around his surroundings, observing the different sculptors all making foxes and such sculptures. These were the many unfortunate sacrificial lambs copying his growth method.
Truthfully, sculptures were sold as souvenirs in Serabourg Castle so the sculptors financial situation became better. But compared to the sculptors, artist were still scraping by as they had to continually buy paint.
“While the public wouldn’t know, sculpting is a path that is harder than they can imagine.”
Weed nodded his head. Just continually making deers and foxes had truly no bottom or end, it was like walking perpetually to the same spot.
“Most people give up after only a few days, but to become like Weed-nim this is phase that must be passed.”
“So after you make the basic sculptures in the city, what happens next?”
“After we gather 1,000 sculptors, we are planning to make a pyramid and a sphinx.”
The wrong path of suffering and hardship that Weed laid down, was now walked on and expanded without any change by the next generation.
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Park Jin Suk met with chairman Jeong Deuk Soo.
“I don’t think Seo Yoon even notices me. She is so indifferent it’s hard to talk with her. Is there any good method that I can try?”
When she came back from university, she did not go out again. There was no reason for Seo Yoon to accept his proposal for a date at a sudden notice. He had to try and get to know her gradually but Seo Yoon had no openings. Rather Park Jin Suk became more fretful.
“Then how about playing Royal Road?”
“Royal Road?”
“My daughter spends a lot of time in Royal Road, meeting her there might be more comfortable. Perhaps you haven’t played it yet?”
“I am already playing it. These days there is no one that hasn’t played Royal Road.”
Park Jin Suk thought this was a brilliant idea. His class in Royal Road was a hunter. While hunters could not wear heavy armor, they could use variety of weapons, do archery, install and dismantle traps. It was a versatile class with comparable strength and vitality.
“You could go hunting with my daughter at least.”
“Then we could easily become closer.”
Royal Road was a game that made and broke apart many a couples. In Park Jin Suk’s case, just getting to talk with Seo Yoon was all he could hope for.