Volume 6 Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 9 : Sculptures of Her

Ses since Volue

Translated by: IcedLance

Sculpture levels:

Negotiated(After this chapter) --- This Chapter (and before in chapters by me)

Ordinary — Not mentioned

Fine Piece — Fine Piece

Classic Piece — Masterpiece

Masterpiece — Grand piece

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Since Weed and Seoyoon entered the Yunopu Gorge together, they haven't said a single word to each other

But at every stop they were sharing food And of course Weed was the one cooking, though that wasn't bothering him much, as he didn't have to run this ti the way

At first they wereabout 100 radually reducing After another hard fight Weed was the first to shorten the distance to 50 roup of Yetis And after a few shared dinners the distance shrunk to 30her share silently and returning back to her place Each of thes

After another day they were already 20 ht at the saave Weed a chance to observe the girl from up close

””

After one of the battles Seoyoon stopped and took off her half-plate armor She was fully equipped in heavy armor Weed had a lot of opportunities to appreciate their expensive shi+ne But what he didn't knoas that she earing chainmail underneath theht enviously

Knights and other hters had the ability to wear all the different kinds of ar 3 kinds of armor: iron, leather and cloth aret the best possible protection

The only probleth, endurance and agility attributes If they were not high enough, one would quickly tire out and lose the ability toan Interained that ability, but as he lacked the attributes, he didn't dare to equip all 3 kinds of arhts, Weed al her unequipped armor

'Is it time for repairs?'

Almost all of the surface of ar

”Chwiik!”

Weed quickly approached Seoyoon and snatched the armor out of her hands He did it unconsciously, as he was always repairing armor for people around hilance

”Chwi, chwiik”

Reflected in her eyes was a s, repaired the armor, and returned it to her as quickly as possible

Seoyoon took her ar happened and started to examine it carefully Its durability increased, and fored parts looked completely fine

Then Seoyoon took off her chainmail and handed it to Weed by herself this time He silently took it and repaired, and then did the sairl took off her last set of armor, she was left almost naked As any proper le her, but at the last ht otherwise

He valued his life more

And since that day he was responsible not only for food, but for equip and repairing were very rare aent Orcs So or Blacks, but Orcs - never

But Seoyoon didn't seeht that the Orc she happened to meet wasn't ordinary, orcreatures

Whatever it was, Weed wasn't eager to explain himself, so he just silently walked ahead However when Seoyoon was logged out of the ga to do, as he didn't dare to continue his way alone

Seoyoon left Royal Road every 4 hours Maybe she needed to eat, or rest After leaving, she always appearing exactly 2 hours later

Weed himself ate very quickly Besides, for the sake of the quest he was spending all of his free tiame, and as a result he barely slept 2 hours a day for the past several days

'Since she's logging out so often, I should do so useful in the meantime'

And Weed started to make sculptures

If one was to suirl was absent, there would have been enough for Weed to pass through the rest of his path alone and reach the fortress

However the risk was far too great Soroups of 3 or more, and it was extremely hard to deal with all of thein into royal Road for 24 hours! Which would be 4 days in Royal Road time

Under such conditions the safest as also the shortest and the best Soreed

”Yeah, sculpturing is always the best way to spend free tinificantly and his art beca, since he had cut on and even a tomb with a sphynx

However Weed decided to make more sculptures of Seoyoon

”I should cut what I have seen so far while I have time”

The first sculpture was full ofwith monsters He had cut the fe!

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Fine Piece!

You have completed a statue of 'Beauty with a sword'!

The reat sculptures, left a statue of a beautiful woman in desolate plains! Her cold face is full of fury towards her enemies

Artistic value: 260

Effects:

- Everyone who looks on the sculpture has his health and eneration increased by 4 for the next day

- Moveility increased by 10

- Intellect and Wisdo spirit increased

These effects do not stack with other sculptures

Number of Fine Pieces created: 10

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- Sculpture Mastery has improved

- Fame increased by 19

- Endurance increased by 2

- Art increased by 1

- Fortitude increased by 3

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His Sculpture Mastery iain!

Weed exclaimed impatiently:

”Check skills Sculpture Mastery!”

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Sculpture Mastery: Intermediate 9 level (46)

You can create sculptures, sell theh prices, and win the favor of ladies

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Even though Weed created a Fine Piece, his skill increased only by 3

”Terrible work The worst of Fine Pieces What did I do wrong?”

Even if his aim was Fine Piece, that doesn't et the desired result Even orking on a surine, a sculptor has to put his heart and soul into it

For exa his full strength But when engraving a sculpture, even the smallest one, one had to spend a et a failed work, which would decrease your fame

The statues of Seoyoon required not half an hour but half a day of in-gahly work on every detail and facial features to capture the iirl into the sculpture

And naturally, creating giant sculptures, like Ice Dragon, Pyramid and Sphynx, required weeks ordetails?” - Weed asked hiaain, he started to work on the next sculpture And even though he ain, 'Female Warrior with a Sword', his skill only increased by 4

”Maybe I'et such small skill increases?”

The next day, once he was left alone again, Weed started to cut another sculpture He was trying to convey the unearthly beauty that was driving hiirl, bitterly watching the sunset with a cal an i deep inside

”H a sculpture was so difficult for Weed He was used to feeling like his hands h But the higher his skill level was and the e he had - the harder it was for him to work

”damn! Why is it like this?”

Weed had already createdharder and harder The more he looked at her, the more he was saw and the more he wanted to convey her charm And it was an incredibly difficult task

This time Weed created a Masterpiece and his skill increased by 13

But the closer he was to the next level of Sculpture Mastery - the harder it was to increase it And to actually advance to the next level he needed soinner to Intermediate he had to o fro truly outstanding

”Right I'll never pass to the Advanced level with Fine Pieces With my 63 in current level it'll take 3 or 4 Masterpieces”

Now Weed started to closely watch Seoyoon's every move Not only in battle, but in-between them too How she walks, which hand she eats food with, where and how she sat - he was engraving absolutely everything in hison Seoyoon!

If only she realized that she was accoone off far ahead or even kill the annoying little creep

Sometimes it was difficult for Seoyoon to even look at people, which hy she was trying to hide fro somewhere remote Sometimes she wasn't able to do it, ht each other, and show off their strength But she still wouldn't talk to the her a player killer in the end

If Seoyoon knew that there was a man besides her, she wouldn't be able to stay with him

But not with an Orc! Simple Orcs did not cause any repulsion froed to see the real Seoyoon that was fightingunder the warm sun Her face still remained expressionless, except for her eyes

With sadness in her eyes, she atching leaves falling off trees She often looked at the s and waiting for the food to get done

Once, while walking, Seoyoon plucked a flower and put it into her hair She herself didn't notice it at all, but Weed almost juht that she was a murderer who did not have any place for tenderness in her heart That was co others see But when he witnessed Seoyoon watching with her sad eyes two squirrels play He understood

”Yes, that's it!”

Weed i a sculpture, one shouldn't jump to conclusions Even if you think that you fully understand a person, you should stop and think it over Not everything is siht now But thishim another step closer to the true Seoyoon

”I should not only show her cold appearance that catches the eye, but her feelings too I should try and trust ain I should try to create the Seoyoon I feel, rather than the one I see”

Zahab's knife started to dance in his hands again

To depict the girl's appearance was a relatively easy job, but to convey the harmony of facial features their unique feel was incredibly difficult

Weed forgot everything he knew about Seoyoon and started to engrave the i ti es and hu only the sculpture of Seoyoon would not be enough The site, where Weed orking was littered by edgy stones, that were depressing to look at And for the success he had to fix it

”She's a girl, so there must be flowers Lots of flowers”

First Weed carefully recreated the flower she had put in her hair earlier Then he proceeded to the stones that surrounded the future sculpture He wanted to cutto take hi to be hard to finish it before Seoyoon returned

”No I can't give up now I can't stop here”

Weed continued to cut flowers, waiting for the girl to return But to his surprise, two hours passed and she was still absent

”Maybe she's sleeping?”

He was so absorbed by his observations and work, that he coht in real world, and what's more ie, and he could continue to travel on his own

”So she's not going to return for a while I have tio ahead There's no reason to give up the work I already started”

Weed proceeded to cut the next flower

Dr Cha Eunhee fro on her

”Aren't you tired? Maybe you should rest some from Royal Road?”

””

Seoyoon, like always, kept silent, which was not a surprise for her doctor She was subed deep into herself, and didn't show any reaction on the outside, but that didn'tUsually Seoyoon would follow the advice of people who genuinely cared for her

'Looks like i should accept that I', despite all the treat different?'

Dr Cha Eunhee started to think

Royal Road was one of the newest treat themselves off froot a taste of life in the game, their status in reality would start to iae at all

'Should i push her harder? But such strong-willed people like Seoyoon are better off when encouraged to change on their own The use of medications, hypnosis and other means may only ist, Cha Eunhee was the most worried that her patient will beco her back Seoyoon was already on this path

'She doesn't express any emotions, so it's hard to determine the state of her illness Fortunately I know her Such a kind and honest Seoyoon won't get shut in so fast But Why won't she start talking yet?!'

It was time for dinner and Seoyoon went to an adjacent room She was placed in the best VIP ward of the hospital, so she was eating in the next room Of course, if the patient was too weak, the food would be delivered to his bed, but Seoyoon could walk on her own

”Okay, I'll sneak a peek on what she's been doing in the gas on the screen

Al monsters That didn't provide the necessary h the recordings every day

The higher Seoyoon's level, the stronger thelonger and more violent At times the entire battlefield was covered with blood and Seoyoon was falling in such a rage, that she looked like a Goddess of war

This was te s it took Cha Eunhee great effort not to io to play her own character

”Yeah, Seoyoon has really high level, if she can hunt in Plains of Despair”

Dr Cha Eunhee was a bit jealous If she was in Seoyoon's place, she would die frohting and winning h level, but because of her vast experience that she gained frohts

”Now I should quickly look through the rest before she comes back -Cha Eunhee enabled fast-forward”

Seoyoon was still traveling the Plains of Despair and fightingwas the sa unusual happened

The girl was resting and looking at the sunset, when two monsters started to approach her fro shortie

”Oh She will be in trouble if they attack simultaneously”

But Cha Eunhee wasn't very worried

If she did die, Seoyoon would leave the capsule the same moment and Cha Eunhee have been notified But that never happened

What happened next hat surprised Cha Eunhee

When the Hunter of Plains died, Seoyoon looked at the otherhappened! They just looked at each other for some time and then Seoyoon lowered her weapon and walked away

However soain and soon they started to hunt and eat together The Orc even fixed her broken armor!

Seoyoon loved to travel alone and never let anyone close However this Orc didn't seem to bother her at all

”Last ti's training hall Maybe it's easier for Seoyoon to be close with NPCs and reat servant I wonder where could I get one like that? Wait a second!!”

Suddenly Cha Eunhee almost jumped out of her chair

”Orc! What kind of Orc has skills like that? That's a hu loot, applying healing herbs, and bandaging wounds, cooking If you try hard enough, you could find another such ame For example, Cursed Goblins or special ence

But an experienced psychologist like Cha Eunhee, was not so easy to fool She was noticed the tiniest details: the way he wasup the ite to a real, live person obsessed by some idea

”It can't be”

Cha Eunhee flinched, like she was struck by lightning

She saw so similar in the Hall of Fame! Moreover, she was certain, that it was the same Orc froreedy in this gaan to race Of course the fact that Seoyoon was traveling with soreat, but Cha Eunhee was a devoted fan of Royal Road

”There's only 2 days left before the battle! What the hell is he doing!”

On the stone floor the floere bloo

Cut from stone, they looked extremely real and alive So real, that on a few of the and a pleasant aroma seemed to be in the air

As the flower field was rey and black, with pattern and without a pattern Together they created a mysterious atmosphere on the stone terrace, In the center of which Weed was co the e”

The closer he was to coer it seemed that tears were about to flow out of Seoyoon's beautiful eyes And though the rest of the sculpture didn't give that impression at all, her eyes were filled with unbearable sorrow

Following his instincts and trusting the impulse of his heart, he created an extremely sad statue It even see floere crying too

From the realization of that fact, Weed's mood also worsened

”I should e the eyes anywith the rest of the face!”

Very slowly and carefully Weed worked on the statue's face and in the end he !

The moment Weed completed the statue aappeared in front of weed

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Please set the name of the created sculpture

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”Give a name?”

This had never happened before Weed tilted his head in confusion and said:

”Seoyoon”

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You chose to name it 'Seoyoon'?

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