Vol 9 Chapter 5 (1/2)

ACT 5 Different World? Netherworld?

Translator Notes: Based on this chapter, it seems that once the door to the dio through without the key

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“Now there’s a little bit more money to spare”

Raiden leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh He had been the Lord for 3 weeks It had been a terrible tiold in the castle’s public funds In addition, Ark had given all the public funds to the residents of the castle inside of fixing the infrastructureTherefore the estate was already on the verge of bankruptcy when Raiden became the Lord

‘That Ark bastard……!’

Raiden snarled as he recalled how Ark had fooled theh he wanted to chase after Ark, he was still the Lord of Silvana If he left it as it was, the infrastructure would be inoperable and half the territory seized by the government In the end, Raiden had to raise the taxes to prevent this fro

“The previous Lord gave us a bonus for co post But this one raised the taxes as soon as he became the Lord! Isn’t it terrible?”

“Why are they so different when it coement?”

“We’re not going to be the slaves of the Lord!”

“If he continues treating us like this then I won’t endure it anymore!”

‘God dammit, I have to raise the taxes because of the former Lord!’

Raiden inwardly screamed How on earth was he supposed to rectify what Ark did? Because of that, Raiden needed to raise the taxes Yet he received unfair abuse and complaints from the residents until he was almost in tears But he didn’t dare tell the residents that No, he knew that the NPCs didn’t consider hihly based on Berami’s attitude

“It’s difficult If this continues then there really ”

In New World, the ‘rebellion’ system also existed If he raised taxes too quickly or mishandled the infrastructure, his intimacy with the residents would fall And once the intimacy fell below a certain amount, the residents would start to rebel If he experienced a rebellion then it would be a serious issue He couldn’t collect taxes while quelling the rebellion But if he didn’t quell the rebellion then his estate would be in anarchy If that happened then other guilds would be able to attack the castle without going through a foruilds flocked like bees towards Heruarantee that they could defend the castle Eventually Raiden had no choice but to lower the taxes after a few days But the immediate problem wasn’t the necessary funds Raiden received inforhts and would siege the castle next

‘Hang in there It will be the end if I lose the castle!’

He had barely obtained the castle after paying Ark 4,000 gold and rare shoes But was that all? In order to s and sold his car If he lost the castle then he would vomit in a vaseIn addition, it was obvious that Heruild members for money to repair the castle walls and defense towers Fortunately, he was able to repel the Grey Wings’ attackAnd after 10 days had passed, Raiden could finally take a break The tax was lowered, the urgent funding issues solved and the Grey Wings’ power had weakened thanks to the failed siege Of course there were nuuilds in Silvana, but none of thes

So after 20 days, the area finally ed to becoed to enter the safety zone

“3 weeks! I poured a considerable a those 3 weeks!”

His anger rose again once he ed to rest He didn’t receive any profits in those 3 weeks, only debt

“That Ark bastard, I can’t forgive him for what he did!”

“Of course!”

Duke also exclaimed

“When I think about how uy………”

Duke looked down at his leather shoes Raiden had promised that he would buy better shoes after he became the Lord However, Raiden was in a crisis situation where he had to sell his car to raise souild couldn’t afford to buy Duke new shoes Thanks to that, Duke earing shoes sold in shops Although the shoes Raiden bought as an apology were still quite expensive, they couldn’t compare to his rare shoes

“Recently the castle is operating on track But we had to sacrifice so much to reach this point And all this trouble was because of Ark I can never forgive him!”

“I agree!”

The guild members shouted in unison

“He deliberately tricked us”

“That Ark will see that he can’t just uild”

“If I ever encounter him, I won’t be able to sleep until I’ve killed him many times”

“But do we knohere he is hiding?”

The guild loomy at those words

“He’s not an idiot and he would’ve already ran far away”

“What if he crossed the border and entered another kingdom?”

“You don’t have to worry”

Then Jewel interrupted with a confident face

“Do you think I would’ve obediently handed him Duke’s shoes?”

“What do you mean?”

“Before handing over the shoes I used ‘Mana Perfume’ on it”

“Mana Perfume?”

Jewel grinned and explained about Mana Perfume Mana Perfume was an exclusive skill of Jewel’s class that could detect traces of raved on the ite ‘Memory of Perfume’ then Jeould be able to track the item no matter the location Of course, this curse didn’t appear in the infore while under the curse, it wasn’t easy for a user to distinguish Jewel’s Mana Perfume was still an unknown skill So a user wouldn’t notice anything strange even if they checked the iteician created after he got robbed by a chaotic player Jewel used the curse and then handed the shoes to Ark Jewel had a hostile relationshi+p with Ark and saw a chance for revenge

“It is possible to find hiame”

“…………Then it’s decided”

A bloody smile flashed on Duke’s mouth

“I’ll teach hionize a pioneer”

“I’ll regain my shoes”

Raiden thought of so and unfolded his arms

“The reo It won’t be safe if Jewel tracks him alone……Duke?”

“Of course I’ no matter what”

Duke growled and replied Raiden judged that he couldn’t be stopped and nodded

“Okay But I still can’t be relieved with just two people He also has his colleagues in Dark Eden The war has ended so the NPC mercenaries won’t be with him anymore So he’ll probably have 10 users with him”

Raiden thought for a ain

“But I can’t just gather an excessive crowd to hunt Ark Although the crisis has been handled, I can’t just assume that the situation is stable yet Therefore I’ll ask for some pioneers outside Hermes to help Jewel and Duke”

“Will the other pioneers listen to Raiden’s command?”

Yes, the Heruild had 30 pioneers Naturally they didn’t have all the pioneers There were hundreds of users called pioneers And a number of the pioneers had superior skills and levels coh Jewel and Duke were pioneers, they were only in the intermediate rank of pioneers But rounds by themselves and didn’t attract any attention However, there were several pioneers that Raiden was acquaintance with and regularly kept in contact And if they joined Duke and Jewel than 10 opponents would be nothing No, even 20~30 enemies wouldn’t matter Then Jewel snorted and said

“They’re not necessary to beat Ark I’ to just sit down and wait for them That Ark bastard won’t be a athered are only low level Bringing a bunch of low level h to take care of theuild are not that weak”

“Gathering the lower level members……is that okay?”

“What do you ainst Ark”

Jewel replied with a trivial laugh Indeed, uild had recently passed level 200 Excluding the pioneers, even the lower ranked guild e level of 180~190 It wasn’t a standard to be worried about

“Okay, although it is not necessary, that Ark had uild If possible, I would like to use our strength to get revenge Duke, Jewel I’ll give you 8 guild o and destroy him”

“I understand”

Therefore Jewel and Duke along with their guild members started to track ArkAfter a few days, they arrived at the cabin in the red wilderness

“The mana trail leads inside this picture”

Jewel said, pointing to a picture on one side of the cabin Then a guild ated the picture and said

“This is a gate The gate leads to a place pretty far away And judging by the htly uncomfortable……what should we do?”

“Is it even necessary to answer?”

Duke plunged into the picture without any hesitation

“We’re going to stab Ark to death So we have to follow no matter what”

“Our journey for revenge won’t end until he dies”

“Okay, let’s go!”

Jewel and the rest of the guild entered the picture So once again a group of foreigners headed towards the other dimension

“What the hell, this is?”

At thataround with a stupid face In fact, he hadn’t felt like he was in a different di the snowynot to freeze to death to question it After he left the snowy mountains, he finally realized that the world was completely different

“Just before it was snowing but now it is a heat wave?”

The weather was thethe snowyheatBut after awith rain Then a cold wind stating blowing and hail began falling from the sky

“What crazy weather……”

The weather was not the only thing hard to adapt to The surrounding terrain was also strange The trees in the forest were all made of stone, the desert consisted of iron powder, the river see round and round He beca He felt like he had travelled into the mind of a person with a mental disorder The monsters were also weird There were hosts wandering in broad daylight that could not be harmed by normal swords……it was all monsters he never heard of before

Kaaaaaaa-

Now, there was a group ofabove his head It was enough to make him dizzy In addition, the er Their abilities were quite high and they would often use unique skills that ht difficult If it was in the past then he would’ve struggled But Ark had greatly raised his abilities in the snowy h the wilderness without any difficulties

“I’m finally accustomed to this landscape”

Ark was thinking that when so interrupted

Ssak ssak, ssak ssak ssak!

Radun’s legs that had been busysuddenly slowed down

“It is already this time?Stop Radun”

Radun slowed its pace and stopped Then it contracted like a balloon after Ark got off its back

“You cutie, you must have suffered”

Ark stroked its head and murmured as Radun’s eyes lit up His travel speed increased dra to RadunmaBut it couldn’t be used without restriction like a normal mount Radunma consumed 5 mana every 10 seconds until it ran out Ark had 3000 mana so they had to take a break approximately every hour In addition, Raduny and needed 4~5 servings of food to recover However, these downsides were no probleathered a lot of ingredients in the snowy redients

“Well let’s rest here for the moment”

Ark started building a ca a variety of ingredients and spices

“Eat, and tell me if you need more”

Ssak ssak ssak? Ssak ssak……

Radun sed its saliva and looked up at Ark The look in its eyes indicated that Radun felt sorry for increasing the food expenses

“It’s okay You’ve done enough to eat as much as you like”

Finally Radun began to wave its tail and consumed the food

Even after growing, Radun was completely loyal to Ark It was different fro badly as soon as he evolved Therefore he talked to Radun like Roco talked to a puppy Ark gave it a warredients

“Now, are you guys eating?”

The Dedric began gru complaints

“Sheesh, is this also an experiive Radun all the delicious food……this is favouritism!”

“What’s wrong with new food? Itto keep co about the dishes?”

After Ark shouted, Dedric becahtened and retreated And then he swelled up like a ball before saying

“I’ll be delighted to eat that dish!+”

“So now you’re happy about eating new dishes?”

“Ey, stop talking”

Dedric turned his head with a sulky look In fact, there was a good reason fro the wilderness in a different diredients for the first time Ark cheered because of that but Dedric and Deimos screamed instead Besides, now the situation was different from before In the old days, he had to look for a chance beforethem eat new dishes But now there was no free space in his bag If he wanted to gather new ingredients, Ark had tothem to eat it Dedric had been hit with bad penalties a few times But he didn’t dare resist violently now

There were 3 reasonsThe discipline he engrained in thee still hadn’t fallen And Dedric finally kne precious food was after starving on the snowyspoiled food that could cause diarrhoea was better than starving to deathArk made two different types of dishes and held them out to his summons

“These are new dishes Eat theratitude

“Okay, I get it I’ll eat”

Dedric licked the dish and looked relieved before pouring it down his mouth The last reason Dedric didn’t coredients froh probability that dishes with good effects would be cooked Thanks to that, his summons were able to raise their stats to level 130 However, there wasn’t a guarantee that there would be a good result As always, survival cooking was a system that relied on luck!

Clack-! Clack clack clack, clack clack clack clack

Dei and trembled

-Deimos has been struck by a headache!

You haveThe terrible headache will last for 10 minutes and no action will be able to be performed

It also gave these types of dishes

“Hahaha, stupid, you just blindly ate that dish!+”

Dedric rolled around laughing He was acting spiteful

”Soon it will be his turn and he won’t be able to act so spiteful’

Ark shook his head and laughed

‘But how long will it be until I find a town? No, does this place even have a town?’

Radun had been crossing the huge wilderness for 6 hours With the 500 movement speed taken into consideration, it was more like 30 hours But he still hadn’t seen a person or a village Normally it wouldn’t be a problem if there were no towns in this dioal was to obtain a clue about Magaro He didn’t want to just blindly walk around the whole dimension