by Park Saenal
Zibal and the leaders of the seven guilds couldn’t carelessly take action. They were worried for the past few months, but had to wait.
Then a chance arrived. According to a scouting team dispatched to the western part of the Eternal KIngdom, Grid had recently disappeared and the Overgeared members had left Reidan to develop a mine.
Currently, Reidan was completely vacant. What if they invaded and destroyed the facilities? It would be a huge blow that Grid would find difficult to overcome.
“Head to Reidan right now. Put on a helmet or mask to hide your identity and move as secretly and quickly as possible.
At the same time, Reidan.
“This is Grid’s city…!”
The sight of the endless fields and walls made Damian overwhelmed. He had travelled to many big cities during his adventures, but in terms of size, Reidan was the best.
“Being a duke is really great! Ruling this great city! Amazing! The population must be at least over 100,000!”
Damian looked around at the surroundings and admired it.
Were visitors unwelcome? Two farmers suddenly arrived in front of him and asked him a question.
“Who are you?”
“…?”
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Chapter 247
Damian was just walking along. He couldn’t think of anything in his behavior that would’ve caused wariness. So why were these people blocking the road? The attitude of the farmers didn’t make sense.
Damian thought about it before making a reasonable guess.
‘They don’t like me because I’m an otaku.’
Damian’s equipment were engraved with all types of phrases. The phrases written in gold looked very nice, because they had a sense of harmony with the white color of the gear. However, this changed after seeing the contents of the phrases.
I love you Rin-chan, beautiful Isabel-chan, cute Luna-chan, Rebecca’s Daughters forever, and so on.
The contents of the phrases were things that invited disdain. Some people were so disgusted that they caused a fight because they didn’t want to see it. In reality and in games, an otaku was a target of hatred and derision.
But Damian didn’t give in. He wanted to freely express his love for Rebecca’s Daughters. He couldn’t understand why he should be criticized for the act of loving someone so purely and enthusiastically.
“I’m a paladin of the Rebecca Church. Why are you asking me who I am?”
Damian’s attitude was cold.
One of the farmers smiled. “You don’t seem to be an ordinary paladin.”
Damian exclaimed. “Yes! I am not an ordinary paladin, I’m an otaku paladin! So what? Do you want to beat me up?”
“Otaku? What is that? Anyway, won’t you fight me? The divine power that I can feel around you is very interesting compared to all the paladins and priests I’ve met so far.”
“This…”
Damian finally figured out the situation. These farmers weren’t mad at him for being an otaku. They were just crazy. A farmer who detected his powerful divine power and wanted to challenge him? It was safe to say that he had crossed a line.
‘He’s crazy.’
Damian felt compassion for the farmer. Then he sincerely prayed.
“Goddess of light, please bless these poor people…”
After a moment. Damian finished praying and said goodbye to the farmers.
“I hope that you will restore your spirit under Goddess Rebecca’s divine favor. Then I’m going now.”
Damian didn’t look back. He didn’t want to encounter these crazy farmers for long, so he hurried towards the gate.
‘I need to meet Grid as soon as possible.’
He needed to ask Grid to seal Lifael’s Spear. He just wondered if the greedy Grid would do it.
‘I will save Isabel-chan, even if I have to give him all my possessions.’
He would devote his soul for her. It was when he was making a pledge again.
Peeng!
There was a loud sound. Damian turned his head to see a hoe flying towards him.
“Heok?”
There was clearly killing intent. An overwhelming qi. It would cause great damage if he didn’t block it. Damian instinctively sensed and hurriedly raised his shield.
Chaaeng!
A strong shockwave occurred as a result of the hoe and white shield colliding. The whole wheat field shook. Damian was appalled.
‘Strong!’
It was incredible attack power. It was enough to make his spine chill, the first paladin of the Rebecca Church. As he was feeling confused, the farmer pulled back his hoe and threw off his straw hat.
An NPC called Piaro. He looked amused as he held a hoe in one hand and a hand plow in the other.
“Good defense. I’ll have to use Supreme Swordsmanship.”
Piaro was excited. First there was Duke Grid, the Overgeared members, Kraugel, and now Damian. He was excited by the fact that he met powerful people who couldn’t be overpowered with the Imperial Swordsmanship.
‘I have to deal with him seriously, like when I am fighting Kraugel.’
When he competed with Duke Grid at Loran Falls. At that time, Piaro hadn’t been in the proper mental state. He wasn’t able to demonstrate his skills properly. But after being with Duke Grid for the past few months, Piaro had become emotionally stable. Now he could exert his full skills.
“Then let’s start.”
“I don’t want to!”
Damian quickly rejected. There was no reason to fight. But Piaro was stubborn.
“You must take me down in order to enter Reidan.”
“What’s this?”
Damian thought it was ridiculous. It was a city where a farmer was the gatekeeper. The other farmer standing silently suddenly whispered to Piaro.
“Please do it moderately. I also want to fight with him.”
He was Kraugel. He had been working in the fields and training with Piaro for a fortnight. Thanks to Piaro, he had certainly become stronger than before. Now he only lost half his health when confronting Piaro. Even that monster was looking forward to a fight with Damian.
An exceptional person who rose to become the number two paladin, despite being a paladin of the Rebeccan Church. But one day, he suddenly disappeared from the rankings list, so there were rumors that he obtained a hidden class.
That person was Damian. Damian was famous, so Kraugel was interested in news about him. But Damian himself was unaware that he was a celebrity. He was only interested in Rebecca’s Daughters.
Anyway, that celebrity was currently in a desperate crisis.
The continent’s strongest swordsman, Piaro.
The peak of two billion users, Kraugel.
He was destined to fight those two in turn.
***
The Ice Flower Guild was one of the axis of the seven guilds. They had 30 members. They were few in number, but all 30 members were elites in the top 100 of the magician rankings.
In particular, their guild master Bondre was an overwhelming talent. He was the first ranking magician and 11th on the unified rankings just a month ago. Thanks to the Overgeared members, his ranking was pushed to 17th. However, there was nobody who would disagree that he was strong.
Ah, there was Grid. In the National Competition, Grid had logged out Bondre in four seconds.
But that was then and this was now. After his disgrace in the National Competition, Bondre struggled to acquire more S-grade magic. He poured all his money, time, and effort into it. As a result, Bondre was now much more powerful than he was in the National Competition.
He had three S-grade magic spells. Nine months later, the Second National Competition would be held in France, his home country. At that place, he planned to thoroughly get revenge on Grid.
“I will log you out in three seconds.” But before that. “Today, I will shatter your estate.”
That damn Grid was the lord of Reidan. Bondre would make it a vacant lot. The development of
the city that occurred in the last few months would be in vain! Cruelly! Perfectly!
“I will make you crumble! Kuhahahaha!”
“The disease has returned.”
The guild members talked among themselves as they watched their guild master having an outburst. Their guild master was often like this after being defeated by Grid in the National Competition. They missed his past appearance.
“Huh? What is that?”
There was a strange forest filled with thorny vines. This was currently the west of the Eternal Kingdom. The desert would soon appear in front of everyone. The Ice Flower Guild suddenly stopped marching.
It was because there were hundreds of people in the distance. They were blocking the forest’s narrow path.
“Don’t they seem like refugees?”
“Their timing is dirty.”
The guild was close to Reidan. However, the 900 refugees made their march slow down, so the Ice Flower Guild became irritated.
“Just kill them.”
Bondre witnessed it and spat out terrible words. The guild members winced and calmed Bondre down.
“Our infamy will shoot through the roof if we kill so many people. It will be impossible to play the game normally for a while.”
“Yes, Master. Please take it easy.”
“Shit! Shit! Shit! I want to smash Reidan right now!”
“Look! We can fly in the sky!”
Bondre was losing his mind because his enemy’s empty house was right in front of him. The guild members tried to calm him down. They could fly in the sky using magic.
“Let’s fly through the sky until we escape the forest. How about it? Okay?”
Bondre barely recovered control and nodded.
“Sigh… Okay. It’s unfortunate that mana will be consumed, but it’s still less than killing those people.”
Float.
The moment Bondre was using Fly along with his guild members. A hand sprang out from a thorny vine and grabbed a guild member.
“…Eh?”
The Ice Flower Guild couldn’t grasp the situation. They were stunned as they received a notification window.
[Your party member Ren has died.]
“What?”
“This is crazy!”
What was going on? Bondre aimed magic in the direction that the mysterious hand protruded from.
“This bastard!”
Kwajajajajak!
The ice bombs rapidly cooled the vines and destroyed them. Then Ren’s dead body came into view.
‘Where?’
They had to find the person who killed Ren. Bondre and the guild members searched the area, but they couldn’t find the enemy.
Puk!
“Kyak!”
[Your party member Silver has died.]
Bondre and the guild members paled. A companion standing near them had died and they still couldn’t detect the enemy. It was like there was a ghost.
‘Assassin.’
A strong assassin that the level 303 Bondre couldn’t detect, that was powerful enough to kill magicians whose levels were in the late 200s. Yes, like Faker.
‘Faker?’ A chill went down Bondre’s spine. ‘It can’t be.’
Was it really Faker? If so!
Bondre hurriedly exclaimed. “We shouldn’t be here! Get out of the forest now!”
An assassin was the counter of a magician. Magicians had low health, defense and agility, so they couldn’t afford to go against the swift assassins. It was worse in a dark place like this with many obstacles. They had to move to a wide area. The Ice Flower Guild made this judgment and instantly used Haste. It was to escape the forest after increasing their movement speed.
But the person in the darkness had no intention of letting them go. He threw daggers aimed at the magicians.
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Chapter 248
If the Overgeared members were asked who they trusted the most, they would answer without hesitation: Faker.
He gazed into the shadows that his companions couldn’t see and, with the tip of his weapon, destroyed any who was brave enough to try and harm his companions. His reason for being silent was caution, and his remarks became reality.
“You will die here today.”
Five minutes after the battle commenced, Faker finally revealed himself. A terrible anger appeared on Bondre’s face as he exclaimed, “Faker, this guy!”
It was only five minutes, the amount of time it took to go to the bathroom. That was it. During that period of time, 11 of Bondre’s colleagues were killed. The dagger had a dispel function that made the shields of the magicians useless.
“What are you doing here? How did you predict that we would be going through this place? No, how did you know that we were going to invade Reidan in the first place? Did you plant a spy?”
Spy? There wasn’t enough manpower in Reidan for that. It was just a coincidence. Faker had to avoid the gaze of the empire while he was transporting the refugees. He chose this narrow thorny vine forest as his route and encountered the Ice Flower Guild.
This could be called luck. Did he need to explain all of this to Bondre? No.
Bondre’s face turned red as Faker remained silent.
“Damn bastard! Are you ignoring me now?”
Chwachachachak!
Six ice pillars emerged from the ground. He had used S-grade magic a little while ago to completely devastate the forest and make Faker reveal himself.
It was the moment when magic of the same level was manifested. Bondre stood in the cold air and smiled as he said, “This is one of the spells I prepared to kill Grid. Can you hold on?”
Ice Dragon’s Fury: an S-grade spell.
Six huge ice pillars swirled in the air like a flight of Dragons.
“I’ll kill you before trampling on Reidan!”
Kwa kwa kwa kwang!
The six ice pillars attacked Faker from all directions. Power, speed, and range. Nothing was lacking. The only downside of this magic was that it consumed a large amount of mana. However, it wouldn’t completely deplete the mana of a top grade magician.
‘As long as his cover is gone, he will die! Come on! The person who took the 11th rank that was originally my position!’
Bondre was sure of his victory. He knew he could neutralize an assassin’s swiftness with a wide area magic spell.
Don’t give an assassin time to avoid. The relatively weak attack power compared to a single damage skill? It didn’t matter. Assassins had low health, just like magicians. Once hit by the spell, the only result was…
“Huh?”
The confident Bondre’s eyes shook, refusing to believe the spectacle unfolding before them.
Left.
Kwajak!
Right.
Kwajajak!
Left again.
Kwa kwang!
This time it was up. While six ice pillars rotated like the saw blades in a blender, Faker moved so fast that only afterimages were left behind. What about the cold air that caused the speed to drop?
‘How high is Faker’s agility?’
In fact, it wasn’t just a matter of agility. High speed that couldn’t be controlled was akin to having a pearl necklace around a pig’s neck. But Faker was in complete control of the speed that transcended common sense. No, it wasn’t just at the level of control.
‘Godly co…!’
Godly control. It was a modifier that only existed for Kraugel so far! As Bondre was in shock, Faker expressed his gratitude to Grid.
‘I always admire the items you make.’
Wind God’s Leather Armor. It was the armor that Grid made based on the production method that Faker had obtained. Originally, this armor increased the wearer’s agility by 6% and all speeds by 12%. However, Grid’s recreation of the armor increased agility by 8% and all speeds by 15%.
Susuk. Sususuk.
The afterimages increased.
One of the third assassin classes, ‘Master of Swiftness,’ the class that requir
ed the highest level of control among all the classes in Satisfy. After meeting Grid’s items and Faker’s control, its capabilities were increased by 200% .
“Unbelievable!”
The six pillars gradually lost momentum, while Faker’s speed increased. Anyone looking at him was likely to feel dizzy. The guild members tried casting magic in order to limit Faker’s movements.
“Shit!”
Daggers flew and stopped their casting. There wasn’t a pattern, but he avoided the big magic that dominated the whole area while stopping other magic casting.
‘This is a scam!’ It was strange. Faker’s skills were more than rumored. ‘Weren’t the original rumors exaggerated? So why is it the opposite?’
The duration of Ice Dragon’s Fury finally ended. Bondre hurriedly exclaimed, “Use the spells in your orb!”
They could use the spells stored in their orbs without any casting. But the magicians were reluctant to use it. It was a last resort. Now it was time to use their last resort.
Pepeng! Pepepepeng!
Kwajik! Kwajijijik!
Magics with all types of attributes immediately appeared and aimed for Faker. As he flew around the ice pillars, the spells struck his body.
“That’s it! We did it!”
No, it was a misunderstanding. Their spells had hit an afterimage, not Faker’s body. Faker’s condition was relatively fine.
“This damn thing!”
Bondre cursed as Faker only suffered minor damage. He invoked ‘Double Casting’ and used two spells at the same time.
Kuuong!
After minimizing Faker’s activities radius using an ice barrier,
Jjejeok! Jjejejeok!
Then he unfolded the Ice Spider Web. The other guild members cast spells at the same time.
‘What will Faker do now?’
The Master of Swiftness class had clear limits. It couldn’t move through the shadows like a Master of Shadows, nor did it have defense abilities. The only advantage was speed, so it was possible to disable the class if speed was suppressed.
Peeng!
Faker threw smoke bombs.
Due to the thick smoke, Bondre and the magicians were unable to see Faker.
Bondre laughed.
“Kuhahahaha! This guy! You can’t do anything with the Ice Spider Web pressuring you!”
