Chapter 92: Alright, fall for me 1 (1/2)
Chapter 92: Alright, fall for me (1)
[Talent for Plunder, Seo Ju-Heon (~22 y/o)]
[Number of artifacts in possession: 50]
Pandora members who saw that were astonished. His talent for plunder was one thing, but the number of artifacts in possession!
“My goodness, 50?!”
“Furthermore, please look at the detailed data. That number is the amount he has on him.”
This was an unbelievable amount.
It wasn't as if Pandora had been sitting around sucking their thumbs all this time; they had quickly started to move from the moments artifacts first appeared.
Chairman Kwon who had 21 artifacts was proof of one of the people who had started to move early on. Furthermore, Chairman Kwon only moved in cooperation with Pandora, which meant that he had not collected all 21 on his own.
However!
“50 artifacts alone?”
“Who the f*ck is this bastard?!”
The Pandora members were shocked. The detailed data didn't show anything that said Ju-Heon was a talented excavator no matter how many times they looked.
“That is why this data makes no sense!”
“We need to deploy thousands of Pandora soldiers to maybe come back with ten of them.”
“Did he maybe form an excavation team with the Holtens?”
“Are you joking? Excavation teams have a few hundred people at minimum. General Keira would have crushed them if she noticed such a large movement!”
“Ah, if his talent is in plunder, maybe he stole them from others……”
That made Pandora’s members sulk even more. They were afraid that they might end up getting their artifacts stolen.
“A, anyway, please keep the information about the seven tombs a secret from the press. We cannot allow anybody else to take them.”
“Pandora and its partner nations must take them all.”
“We can’t let the others on this list find out, but…… We must absolutely make sure this Seo Ju-Heon doesn’t get any information about it at all.”
They nodded their heads.
However, their cautious actions would end up being useless.
Why?
[There are sudden tombs that have appeared throughout the world. Thankfully, they are small tombs but a total of 1,690 tombs have appeared……]
“What the hell? That’s the precursor to the 7 Great Tombs.”
It was because the person they were worried about had already realized what was going on. Ju-Heon looked at the map that popped up on the news and started to squint.
‘Is it time for those things to slowly pop up?’
However, Irene tilted her head in confusion at Ju-Heon who was smiling while watching the news.
“Mr. Ju-Heon?”
They were currently in the New York penthouse. She was currently being taught by Ju-Heon.
Yoo Jaeha who was also getting taught about artifact usage with Irene asked a question.
“What do you mean by 7 Great Tombs?
Captain-nim, is something weird coming out again?”
Ju-Heon pointed to the map on the news instead of responding. The locations of the tombs were visible on there and they were connected like a round ring.
“That’s called the Ring of Tomb.”
“Ring of Tomb?”
It seemed to be similar to how they called the earthquake region in the west the Ring of Fire. And the large tombs would appear in the locations within the ring that had the strongest aura.
There would end up being a total of seven of these tombs.
That was one of the reasons they were called the 7 Great Tombs, but the artifacts inside played a role as well.
It was because the 7 Great Tombs had characteristics of the Bible’s Seven Deadly Sins (Avarice, Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust).
“Basically, seven large tombs will appear in the future. Each of them will have an artifact corresponding to a deadly sin. The order is random. But based on the type, they can be extremely precious tombs that could change the world.”
Most of the people who conquered those tombs ended up solidifying their positions as majesties. That was the strength of these artifacts.
‘Well, they originally showed up a few years later.’
The events of the future were being pulled forward a couple years in advance. Maybe it was the risk for his return. It was as if it was slowly tightening its grasp on him.
But Ju-Heon just found it ridiculous.
He might need to rush the preparations, but it was more advantageous for him if the future events occurred earlier.
Why?
‘It’s obvious there are less competitors now than in a few years.’
It was as if it was trying to help him.
Furthermore, the 7 Great Tombs were special to Ju-Heon. One of these tombs was where the past Ju-Heon earned the Archaeologist's Artifact and became an .
‘I remember it was the Tomb of Avarice.’
It had been greed for historical knowledge.
That was the reasoning behind how that possession-type artifact came to be.
However, Ju-Heon got a headache thinking about the past.
There was a simple reason for it.
‘Everything was great about that artifact except the retarded risk.’
That Archaeologist's Artifact's risk was related to written text addiction, viewing addiction, knowledge gathering addiction, basically, it made him addicted to research.
It was normal for people to be extremely tired after barely making it out alive from a tomb.
But this damn artifact wouldn't even let him sleep, forcing him to go to libraries, museums, and art galleries throughout the world to shove historical and artistic knowledge into his brain.
Not only that… There was a time when the risk struck him while he was about to do the deed with a woman he liked in France.
He could not forget that terrible memory of how he suddenly ran toward the Louvre telling her, ‘I suddenly want to see the Mona Lisa for a moment.’
That woman probably looked at him as if he was crazy as well.
‘Forget being my partner-artifact, I wanted to destroy that shit during those times.’
The Tomb raiding team members laughed at him so much about that.
‘Especially this bastard Yoo Jaeha.’
Ju-Heon started to grind his teeth thinking about that.
Maybe that was the reason. Ju-Heon said the following to Yoo Jaeha who was in front of him.
“Number 1. Finish restoring all artifacts by the end of the day.”
Yoo Jaeha foamed at the mouth hearing that completely unbelievable order.
”Excuse me?! What do you mean? You said you'll give me a week because I've suffered a lot lately!”
“Who cares. I'll kill you if you can’t do it. Get it done.”
“Damn it!”
He was half-joking, but Yoo Jaeha who suddenly had to pull an all-nighter started to sniffle.
Anyway, Ju-Heon had such shitty risk in the past but it didn't matter now.
He had this Tomb Raider skill he got from the Crow instead of the Archaeologist's Artifact. Either way, the Tomb of Avarice was the most difficult of the seven tombs to clear and had not been conquered for many years.
That was why Ju-Heon ended up gaining that artifact late in the game at 27 years old when he put his life on the line and went inside.
‘But the 7 Great Tombs…’
Wait a minute…
‘Then is the Archaeologist's Artifact coming out in the Tomb of Avarice again?’
Would the artifacts in the other tombs be the same as well even though they were random?
As Ju-Heon was thinking about that…
“Those don’t seem to be regular sized tombs. Hyung-nim, will you be able to go in there alone?”
Oh Seung Woo, the farmer who now had to take care of the Herb of Eternal Youth and grow tea leaves, had asked the question. Ju-Heon started to laugh as if that helped him realize something.
‘Right, it's a waste of time thinking about the Tomb of Avarice right now.’
Forget the Tomb of Avarice… It might be difficult to even clear the rest of the 7 Great Tombs as well. They were very particular.
‘The chances of survival are too low on my own.’
They were level 4, Disaster-Grade tombs. He would need at least one guide member and one or more battle members.
He needed people to support him when he was busy. He needed people who could be like his fingers.
Yoo Jaeha was a necessary member because he was a precious restorer but he was like a eunuch when it came to battles. His skills were far from Tomb Excavation.
It might seem funny that he was looking for a few people when others took hundreds of people to excavate tombs, but that was enough for Ju-Heon.
If it was his subordinates…
‘But I have no idea what any of them were doing at this time.’
He had met them in his late twenties.
That was why it was a bit disappointing. All those punks who died with him in that final tomb…
There were none as skilled as them in this world.
‘It's disappointing but oh well.’
He couldn't miss out on the 7 Great Tombs even if he wanted to go find them.
That was why Ju-Heon left the Oh Seung Woo group to find those people for him while he looked through his artifacts. It was so that he could do some image training.
‘If I use the 7 Great Tombs of the past to run some simulations……’
He currently had 50 artifacts.