Chapter 34 - Way of the Sovereign (1) (1/2)
The next day at noon.
There was a large and luxurious bed.
A man and two women were sleeping. All of them were naked. The room was littered with bottles and underwear. It was easy to guess what happened here last night.
“Um!”
The man opened his eyes. He was a handsome man in his 30s.
“Euh! My head hurts. I drank too much last night.”
He got up and staggered around to get water.
Snap! Snap!
The cold water refreshed his spirit. At the same time, the messy room caught his eyes. The two women were still asleep.
The man woke the two women up.
”He woke up already?”
”Yawn! I want to sleep. This bed is too soft.”
The man stuck a cigarette in his mouth and exclaimed.
”Get up and leave.”
“What?”
”Oppa! What did you say just now?”
”Shut up and get lost! Haven’t you heard things about me? I am just a bad man.”
The women were furious. The man from last night seemed completely different to the person in front of them now. Of course, the girls didn’t follow him because of kindness. They came because he paid one million per person.
“f.u.c.k!”
”I have the worst luck!”
The women grumbled as they clothed themselves and left.
The man didn’t show any interest as he smoked a cigarette on the sofa in his living room.
After a while. The man got up and looked out the window.
Noon. The streets were crowded with people. It was lunchtime so workers were looking for restaurants.
But the man’s eyes were on the surrounding buildings, not the people. The reason was his recent mission.
Mission 5- Scout the neighbourhood to find a nearby, hostile sovereign.
-Compensation: Experience, 1000 nodes
That’s right. He was Jung Kw.a.n.g-hyeon, a sovereign in the world of Hwanmong.
'I thought the whole dream and reality thing was ridiculous at first. I became a sovereign in a place called Hwanmong.’
There was a meaningful smile on Jung Kw.a.n.g-hyeon’s face. He was a power runner and had rugged muscles.
'Huhu, these muscles! I didn’t even exercise to gain these muscles!’
A perfect, muscular body that ordinary people would find hard to reach! Even his energy increased.
This was all due to the power of Hwanmong.
After pa.s.sing the first mission of gathering 100 black magic energy, he had gone through the flesh construction process.
The second mission required constructing a barrack. The compensation for this was 500 nodes and inferior knowledge about goblins and orcs.
Thanks to the barrack, he could summon the goblins and orcs. They were disgusting monsters that normally only appeared in fantasy books. He honestly found them so disgusting that he didn’t even want to look at them. However, strong troops would make the sovereign more powerful.
So he had two barracks and he upgraded them to stage three. The stage three barracks could accommodate 30 monsters each. It was also the third mission.
The problem was the cost to summon the monsters. Fortunately, this could be covered by his taxes.
Every time he entered Hwanmong, he would be paid 1,000 nodes as taxes for his territories. Thanks to that, Jung Kw.a.n.g-hyeon managed to summon 30 goblins and orcs in each barrack. That was mission 4.
He got the t.i.tle of Sovereign Herod as a reward. A sovereign with a total of 60 creatures!
He also received the Wyvern Ring that made the wearer immune to fear and confusion.
[Wyvern Ring]
-Rating: Only one
-A sign that you are a sovereign in Hwanmong.
-Strength +5 when worn.
-Immune to fear and confusion when worn.
-Sovereign t.i.tle: Herod
His power rose tremendously thanks to the power of the ring.
Furthermore, his level rose! He had never done a combat mission, yet he was still Lv6.
He had no intention of fighting directly with monsters in the future. He had no reason to risk death in fights when he could just raise his level through the missions. He would leave the fighting to his subordinates! A sovereign was meant to give commands.
He thought about it.
'This time, I will add one more barrack after entering Hwanmong. I’m not sure how strong the sovereign in the area is, but it will be game over with my forces. Huhuhu!’
It would be enough with the tax money. Complete victory! Once he found the location of the hostile sovereign, his troops would sweep through in minutes!
So he had to make a plan.
Susuk.
A man wearing a black hood appeared in front of him. The man lay down and cried out.
”I seek an audience with Lord!”
Jung Kw.a.n.g-hyeon glanced at him and asked.
“Colt, do you know where the hostile sovereign is?”
Colt could exist in both reality and Hwanmong. He was an intermediate ghost that immediately swore his loyalty after Jung Kw.a.n.g-hyeon became a sovereign.
”I didn't find them yet. The wandering ghosts in the area don’t know.”
”Look for any even slightly suspicious buildings. We have to find that person first.”
“Yes, Lord.”
Colt disappeared somewhere.