Vol 17 Chapter 1 (1/2)
ACT 1 The Quest that Shouldn’t have been Accepted!
Kyakak, kyakak, kyakak, kyakak!
A sound could be heard that irritated his peripheral nerve from all directions At the same time, dozens of red eyes appeared in the darkness like street lights turning onThe area underneath the eyes split apart to show a red space It was a huge s weren’t visible in the mouth Instead, small sharp projections like needles were densely packed on the tongue and glossy with saliva as it poked out He had laughed when it first appeared But now those features seemed like a horror move as it approached
“Dammit…!”
A ed from Ark’s mouth
‘I thought I could catch my breath…’
Ark confirmed how hting those guys Thus he needed a rest to recover his health and ood so he had run away But he had been surrounded again before he could He currently only had 50 health and mana left That wasn’t the only serious problem
“damn, what the? Is there another way?”
Clack clack, clack clack clack clack!
His faer from the battle
‘It is iht them in this state But……!’
Arkarea
……He had no choice
While escaping from the battlefield, he hadn’t taken terrain into account and just blindly proceeded Now even the route backwards had disappeared It was truly a dilemma The path to retreat had disappeared because of the area’s special terrain It…
Kukyakyakyakya, kukyakyakyakya!
The black forms narrowed the distance and shrieked The monsters had a number of features that Ark hadn’t seen before
“Anyway, I don’t have time to complain!”
Ark clenched Gwisal’s sword firmly and raised his voice It was the worse situation where he had to fight against dozens of monsters without a short rest! ‘Do I have to becouys in this place?’
“Racard, use Taunt to lure those guys to the other side!”
“U-understood I haven’t brushed my teeth for two days so take this spit attack! Spit! Spit! Spit! Spit!”
Racard spat wildly all over the place and shouted The black forathered around Ark turned their bodies Racard freaked out at the ensuring sharp tongue and ran away 5 of the black for after Racard
“Now Razak!”
Clack clack clack clack, ttadang!
Razak ran up to the his shi+eld and hit three
“Dark Strike!”
Ark had stuck close to Razak’s back and rushed out before striking with his sword The darkness assimilated into the blade rushed out and dealt a critical hit But after a brief ain
“Heok!”
Ark hurriedly retreated behind the shi+eld wielding Razak The ensuring violent collision caused Razak to be pushed back several ain, the rabbed hi his sword and hit the fellow But uys surrounded hi down Then they flocked like hyenas
Kang, kang, kang!
While Razak struggled to get up, those guys wrapped their sharp tongues around hiues
“Dammit…Razak, summon off! Summon Demon!”
Razak disappeared and then re-appeared near Ark Although the crisis was overcome, the situation was still serious Razak had beco the concentrated attackHis reain then he wouldn’t even last a minute
‘But there is still a way to use Razak!’
“Steel Loyalty!”
Razak’s body hardened and changed to steel When Steel Loyalty was triggered, the amount of loyalty was converted to defense and then added to Razak’s base defense Even if his defense rose, his health was still the same However, Razak’s loyalty was 952 Even with 15, the considerable addition of 952 defense nificant ae weakness It was impossible to move while the skill was activated
‘It is useful that an obstacle has foruys’
That was the reason why Ark suain and used Steel Loyalty The place Ark was fighting had no special terrain features With Razak turned to steel, it was possible to form a type of wallIn other words, he could reduce the ene from 4 sides to 3
‘But even so……’
It was only putting out a bit of the fire The fact that he was surrounded by dozens of opponents didn’t change
‘The problem now isn’t whether I live or die!’
Ark glanced uneasily at his body Arloves, shoes and cloak… With just one look, he could tell that all his equiped There was no time for an equipment check so the durability had reached the bottom If the impossible battle continued then several of his equipht aggressively He wanted to take off the equip but the battle had started before he had tie equipht
‘I need to find a chance to escape I have no choice but to endure it and look for a way to escape’
“Dark Blade! Dark…cough!”
While using Razak as a wall, Ark received a sharp iue covered in sharp projections struck his side, the edges i while a eappeared
-You have received a ‘Blow’ 300 dae!
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‘This is serious!’
Ark inwardly screae He only had 50 health left so Ark couldn’t ignore the dae However, Ark was in distress because of that He also was affected by ‘Bleed,’hi When blood appeared, the gaze of the opponents fixed on Ark They sathered around Ark, the opponents hadn’t been overly aggressive When surrounded by 20~30 monsters, Ark would instantly be turned into a dust cloth if they all attacked intensively But they were anized There were so the steel Razak while others were quite a distance away
‘Das…’
Ark rushed tothe Food Worshi+pper skill and stopped the BleedingBut after they smelled the fresh blood, all of them flocked to Ark It was literally a stampede
‘If I’m pushed like this than I’m screwed!’
If he was stauys then his health as well as his equipment wouldn’t survive
“No, absolutely not! Riposte!”
Ark hit the tongue in front of hiry expression He intended to push them to free up some space to move However……
Grrrrr
Suddenly the tongue faded like fog It was a special technique to avoid attacks, ‘Transparent!’ So his sword separated the sky in vain and he was hit in the chest by that tongue
-You have been hit by a Counterattack 400 dae!
Riposte was an attack which pushed the ene a counterattack for Riposte, the penalty was applied and Ark was thrown back 10 round Thanks to his fast reaction speed, the velocity that he was pushed back decreased But before he could sigh with relief, he felt so stone with surprise
‘Oh my God!’
Ark who had barely stopped hisunexpectedly on the edge of a cliff…… At the bottoThe river of lava which stretched over 100island with cracks in it was an surreal sightThe place Ark was hanging onto was the edge of that land Although Ark was in a crisis, this was the reason why he couldn’t escape from the area In order towas required Just onelike that wouldn’t be so bad But in this situation, the fire dae would destroy his equipment which had low durability
‘That absolutely can’t happen!’
Ark barely avoided diving into the lava by grabbing the protruding rock However, he couldn’t be relieved just yet While Ark was holding onto the stone rock, the ues
“M-Master!”
Racard belatedly realized the situation and screamed
“Ah, that’s right Racard, leave those fellows and lure the ones over here to the other side!”
“Eh? U-understood!”
Racard fleards Ark at full speed But that was a fatalTaunt, so when he fleards Ark than they also followedThen they collided with the athered to attack Ark There was no need to explain the results
“Master, I came! Eh? Eh eh eh…heok!”
“You idiot! I told you to get rid of those guys…wah!”
Ark belatedly grasped the situation and screaathered at the edge was pushed like dominos and fell into the lava A few of theo of the stone rock thanks to the impact
“I, I don’t know I just did what Master told me to!”
Racard shrunk away and tried to explain
‘D-da!’
Ark felt a sense of vertigo as his seen became blackHe shouldn’t have come to a place like this No, before that……
‘If I knew this was such a disgusting place then I wouldn’t have accepted the quest!’
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“This fellow!”
A rock fell as he heard a booe monster
“Stay away! This is the territory of the Fire Draconians This isn’t the place for a human!”
The giant form approached ArkWhile the upper part was a body, the lower half was a cos and fla over the tail, it was unon’s body And Ark had seen a monster with the same form before Then Racard reacted before Ark
“Hiik, V-Valderas!”
Racard screaht It was the final boss that appeared in the Event Quest, Valderas! But Ark realized the monster who appeared here wasn’t Valderas Even if the monster revived for no reason, it was impossible for it to appear in this distant placeThe more Ark looked closely, the more different it appeared fro plate armour ielded aMountain earing red leather armour It also felt a bit small when compared to Valderas
‘Did it say Fire Draconian just then?’
Ark came here in order to complete the <home of=”” the=”” fire=”” draconian=””> questIn other words, the quest destination was Valderas’ hometown It was natural that there would be an existence which resehly likely that the Fire Draconian in front of him was an NPC related to the quest However, Ark still couldn’t relax Even if he received the quest, what guarantee did he have that the Fire Draconians would be friendly?
‘Since it hasn’t attacked yet, it doesn’t seeressive but……’
Ark was the one who defeated Valderas There was no guarantee how the Fire Draconians would react to the person who killed someone in the same clan
‘Should I check the atmosphere?’
Ark thought for a while The Fire Draconian then lowered its upper body and asked
“Valderas? Did you say Valderas just now?”
“Huh? That……”
damn, did he hear Racard say the name Valderas just then? His eyes were quite sharp for so on his shoulder Anyway, it was difficult prevaricate now that the name Valderas was heard
‘I’ll just have to break through the front Well, if that guy attacks then I’ll just take care of him like Valderas’
Ark had already taken care of Valderas as a Fire Draconian Of course, there were thousands of users at that tiht the weakened Valderas underwater or else he would’ve had no chance of winning But Ark had been level 75 at the time Currently Ark was level 371 Even if it wasn’t underwater like with Valderas, he had confidence that he could win Was there a reason for hinified attitude
“Do you know Valderas?”
“Who are you to say his name?”
“I ao I came across Valderas and had no choice but to kill him with my own hands”
“Really… It was you? You defeated the revived Valderas?”
The Fire Draconian looked at Ark with new eyes After a while, he sighed and rubbed his neck
“I was passing through the southern part a while ago and listened to the news Unfortunately, Valderas’ spirit which should’ve passed on a long tihtmare But poor Valderas who had been captured by a curse was finally freed thanks to the brave actions of a human”
The Fire Draconian shi+fted his gaze to Ark and spoke again
“I am the oracle of the Fire Draconians, Luratitude for you”
“Thank you?”
“You killed ValderasBut that is wrong The great Fire Draconian warrior Valderas had died a long tio No, he was forced to disappear It was a terrible curse which resurrected hi Valderas broke the curse and sent his spirit to where it should’ve originally gone”
Valderas also said this just before he died Lu and murmured
“Valderas……Valderas…… Although he is the clan’s disgrace, he is also an object of sy Valderas captive, you have restored his honour As a spokesards and gratitude for your great achievement”
……The talk see well, Ark trembled and replied modestly
“I just did what I had to”
“Hureatest virtue of a human But it is a pity”
“Huh?”
“Youto the Fire Draconians behind your action of freeing Valderas’ soul Whether you want it or not, the Fire Draconians have an obligation to repay you”
“You don’t have to go that far……”
Ark waved it off with his hand while his eyes sparkled Luful about the death of Valderas but Ark was more interested in the ‘price’ of the repayment Repayment price! Wasn’t that a quest reward? The Fire Draconian was different fros, a draconian was the symbol of honour!
‘What kind of coiven…?’
Ark was full of expectations but Lumines’ words poured cold water on him
“It is slightly regrettableWhat you’ve done for the Fire Draconians is really great If I had gold of jewellery than I would hand it all to you But the glory of the Fire Draconians is nothing but awe have left is old armour and staffs”
‘What the? All that expectation just for a horrible reward?’
Ark looked around with an absurd expression Lu again
“As an oracle of the Fire Draconians, I a of Fire’ Come this way”
‘Blessing of Fire?’
Ark followed LuroundOnce the coic in the centre of the circle was completed, Lumines struck it with his staff and shouted
“I am the oracle of the Fire Draconians I order the sacred fire which has existed since the beginning of the world! Those who are unqualified will be burned to ashes and disappear while those who are qualified will receive the Blessing of Fire Come forth!”
Ku ku ku ku Ku ku ku ku!
It was at that time Suddenly there was a crack under Ark’s foot He was surprised by the sudden situation and retreated No, he tried to retreat but it was like his body was tied with a rope Then a white flah sed Ark
‘Huk, what, what the? That bastard surely didn’t…!’
Ark looked at Lu strange The flame which appeared from a crack on the floor was so hot it evenfroe to his health
“What on earth is going on? What just happened?”
Ark murmured and looked at the fire wound around him with stupid eyes Suddenly the fire around Ark’s body started dancing and quickly surged into his mouth His stomach felt hot for a moment before an informationappeared
-You have received the ‘Sacred Blessing of Fire’ from the oracle of the Fire Draconians
Although the Fire Draconians are classified as a draconian, their attribute is fire They were born in fire and will continue to live as the guardians of fire The oracle of the Fire Draconians has the power to use ‘Blessing of Fire’ on a chosen person When the Fire Draconians were flourishi+ng a long ti Mountain in order to obtain the Blessing of Fire
‘Ohhh, hat is this?’