Chapter 208: Cave Makeover (1/2)
The new quest that came was something Rino felt like a windfall. What did he do to result in such a good turn of fortune? It has to be some kind of colossal joke that the gods decided to play on him for his refusal to behave.
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Daily Quest #25
Objective: Repair the Dwarven Mines
Time Limit: 15 Days
0/100 Broken Tracks
0/5 Minecarts
0/2 Lifts
Tutorial here.
Reward: Dwarven Language Interpreter
Penalty: Deduct 24 hours of sleep upon failure and [Curse of Overtime] until quest is forcefully completed.
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Dwarven. Language. Interpreter.
Whatever the hell that meant, Rino wanted it. The only thing stopping him from understanding that treasure trove of recorded blueprints and design journals was the stupid language! Even if Kragami was making progress, Rino was too impatient to wait for his teacher to finish decoding everything for the next twenty years.
He wanted that skill NOW!
Given fifteen days and a paltry number of tracks to fix, Rino could do it in under a day. Scratch that! He could do it in a few hours. He needed the rest of that time to pour through those stone plates to understand everything.
Harvesters. Civilisation. Technology. Artefacts.
If he wanted to understand why he was sent to this new world after his death, it might have to do with those stone slabs he couldn't read.
For the first time since the founding of this empire, excluding when he only had goblins to work with, Rino cancelled all his summons and brought everyone to Town Zera forcefully.
Noir wasn't expecting that huge threatening surge of mana while he was busy scratching the new scratching post that Rino customised for him using an unusually large piece of firewood.
Like a looming cloud of calamity, the mana aura that engulfed Town Zera made all the other monsters in the next hundred kilometres run for their lives. Nearby living caves that Rino did not already own were thrown into chaos by the overwhelming authority enforced over their area. The living cave bosses fought and killed anyone indiscriminately with their instincts forcefully triggered to defend.
Unaware of his power over this land, Rino simply groaned when the fields overflowed with summoned subordinates. Everyone from Cypress County, Spudville and even those on errands, with the exception of the Magic Trees and Kragami, were pulled to Town Zera.
Once again, Rino questioned why his hunting team leader was caught in a state of indecency. The lesser vampire had his pants down again, but thankfully, he wasn't the only one. The other hunters in the team were also naked, but unlike Fowler, they had the decency to wrap a small white towel around their nether regions.
Slap!
The cries of outraged women rained on Fowler and his team members, who evolved to lesser ghouls. They cried out pathetically and claimed that they were in the hot springs when this happened, but Rino found no pity for them in his heart. Seeing the torment Fowler and his friends suffered brought a kind of sadistic satisfaction and a brief reprieve from what he meant to do.
”Silence!”
The moment he spoke, silence washed over everything like a blanket of darkness - suddenly and all at once. Nobody spoke, and all eyes were on the monarch of solitude.