Chapter 193 - Edda Chronicles 2 (1/2)
[Restored Edda Chronicles]
Type: Personal Item
Effect: Spirit +50. Can be used to watch recorded myths and stories about heroes in an imaginary world. If certain conditions are met, the epic quest will be activated.
'Certain conditions...’
Basically, Epic Quests were only given when the user’s overall stats were very high.
Of course, there were other requirements, such as interacting with specific places or objects.
'It seems there are no hidden texts in it.'
If there were, there would be clues and hints inside it written in visible characters.
As Woohyuk went through the book, someone knocked on the door.
Knock knock.
“My Lord, I have brought the people you asked for.”
It was Sieg behind the door.
Woohyuk retracted his gaze from the book and answered.
“Come in.”
Creak.
The luxuriously decorated door opened, and familiar faces entered the office with Sieg.
Helena, Brynhild, and Alejandro.
“Are you used to your new lifestyle now, Alejandro?”
“...”
Alejandro looked down to his now empty groin and bit his lips.
Seeing his reaction, Helena jabbed at him.
“He reaped what he sowed. If you do terrible things in life, you’ll get your fair share of it yourself. Karma’s a bitch.”
“Don't bully him too much, Helena. I understand your feeling of wanting to take revenge for your parents, but still.”
Brynhild patted Helena on the shoulder to comfort her.
As the chatter continued, Woohyuk lightly tapped on the desk to draw their attention.
“In any case, we must proceed through the Epic Quest as soon as possible, but using every means possible.”
Alejandro was the second-in-command of the Golden Rose Society, so he knew many secrets.
As everyone's eyes focused on Alejandro, sweat dripped down his neck.
“You won’t torture me again to hypnotize me, right? I still have value to you as a prisoner.”
“Of course you do. However, if necessary, I can always cut additional body parts of yours.”
A sharp glint shone in Helena’s eyes and she released her murderous intent.
She had already sliced off a grown man’s phallus, so there was nothing she couldn’t cut now.
Eventually, Alejandro realized that nothing was holding her back, and decided to surrender.
“Ask, ask anything you want. All of this must’ve been planned by Lord Aleister either way...”
“What a pathetic excuse. Just say you're afraid of being tortured.”
Brynhild crossed her arms with a dark glare.
As a Valkyrie, she was not happy about the existence of the Golden Rose Society.
“What do you know about the Edda Chronicles? Since the Witches have been aiming for it for a while, you must know something about it.”
“… A certain Homunculus is the key to triggering the Epic Quest. However, we don’t know what kind of entity it is. It’s also impossible to estimate what the final reward for completing the quest is.”
Epic Quests were designed by the Creator himself, so even the gods or demons could not figure out the contents of the quests within the system.
At Alejandro's explanation, Woohyuk nodded.
“If you people knew everything, you would have restored the document first in the past. Then the second question. Where are the rest of the Golden Rose Society members and what are they doing?”
“… Even I can't figure out where Lord Aleister is. And all of our other bases are located in cold regions. Specifically, the Enoa Kingdom and the Aize Kingdom in the east.”
Excluding major cities, the population density in cold regions was low and exchanges with the outside were low.
The Golden Rose Society used that information to their advantage to set their bases in those two kingdoms.
It was the same idea as the Isle of Chaos.
“Good. I was going to visit them sometime soon anyway. Now, tell us what role the Edda Chronicles plays in your plans.”
He had been wondering about it for a long time.
Why didn't Lilith and Aleister advance at full strength even though their subordinates were being defeated?
If their purpose was to grow his strength for the advent of the Demon god, how did they plan to stop Eteria Rodinus’ plans?
While he had his own hypotheses, he wasn’t sure about many points.
So, he was going to use this opportunity to hear more details from Alejandro.
For reference, since he had the ability to detect lies, he had no fear of being misled by false information.
When Woohyuk glanced at him and asked for an explanation, Alejandro slightly hesitated before talking.
“It is difficult to understand all of Lady Lilith’s intentions... Even Lord Aleister is just trusting her and following her lead. However, we know that the Three Ancient Chronicles, including the Edda Chronicles, are important factors in determining the future.”
“It must be because of the Ark of Knowledge and the Epic Quests. I also know that the Epic Quests are necessary to prevent the three Great Catastrophes. Tell me the details about the Ark of Knowledge.”
In truth, Woohyuk was aware of the Nameless Tome’s contents thanks to Helena and knew what the Ark of Knowledge was.
It could be called a material necessary to reconstruct the existing world.
If the Demon God and the Holy Grail interacted, the world would be reinitialized.
But if the Ark of Knowledge were to be added to the equation, partial modification would become possible instead of complete reinitialization.
That was why Boetius had said that in order to change the future to a desirable direction, they needed the Holy Grail in perfect condition, the Ark of Knowledge, and the Power of the Demon God.
However, the fact that Lilith knew the contents of the prophetic book still bothered Woohyuk.
'Maybe, what Eteria Rodinus knows is not everything.'
Even in the Nameless Tome, the origin of the Ark of Knowledge was not mentioned.
This was because the Forbidden Library already existed even before the divine lineage was transferred to the Eeth Continent.
It is also known that the Holy Grail and Lemegeton were given to the Wise King Solomon by the Creator himself, but there was no information about whether they existed before.