Ruler of the Game 150

Chapter 150 – The Cursed Throne

A male in an aquarium whose eyes are sewn up with stitches. He begins to talk to the party despite apparently having a tube forcibly inserted into his mouth. Then, seeing him like that, the class panicked and started asking him questions.

“No. I’m not your master… But what are you…”

『Above.. Aren’t you the great mage, Ikanis?』

“..Yes, but..”

“Please!! Please!! Please kill me!! I beg you like this!!』

A man servilely begs the party to kill him. Towards him, Ban asks him.

“Who are you? Why are you like that?”

At his words, the man explains his situation and begins to ask for mercy.

『Huh… I was a lowly guy who studied magic under the great Akanis…』

“…Are you saying you were the teacher of the one you just called master?”

『This is an absurd statement…! How could a bug like me become the teacher of such a great person!!”

The man trembles in fear as if he is unworthy of Ban’s question, and is afraid of denying his position as a teacher desperately.

“…Anyway, how did that happen?”

“…I made a mistake and ended up like this. You have committed disrespect to the great mage…』

The attitude of a man who is probably afraid of saying disrespectful words to a mage because his mind has been ruined by thorough torture. Consoling him, the group continues to ask questions.

“If you keep avoiding conversation like that, we can’t help either. We’ve been kidnapped by the person you call a mage, so we have nothing to do with him.”

“…Really?”

“I swear by the name of the hammer and anvil god I believe in.”

Bruno volunteers to swear an oath to such a man. At Bruno’s attitude, the man begins to answer with a fearful expression.

『I… I was Akanis-sama’s teacher. The name… I can’t remember. I was tortured and experimented on for too long…”

“What experiment…?”

『It was a magic related to the soul that I studied in the past. It was an enchantment related to necromancing.”

“..!!”

『Also, Akanis-sama was my student and assistant, but he coveted my research and one day tricked me into trapping me and abolished the magic, then cut off my limb muscles and put them in this barrel to use as a test subject.』

“My God… What kind of experiment did he covet?”

With a painful groan at the class’s question, the man begins to answer.

『Well… All I remember is that later, whenever Akanis-sama needed useful ‘materials’, he would either split my soul or cut off my brain and take it with me. Now my memory is not perfect. I can’t even remember the name…”

It is not enough to betray the teacher and steal his research, and the group is at a loss for words at the evil deeds of the mage who seems to have used it as a test subject and material while torturing him.

When everyone was silent Seong-il begins to ask him questions to find out the behind-the-scenes story that is not shown in the game.

“You don’t remember anything? Nothing?”

『Yes… It’s just magic that copies the spirituality of the soul…』

‘Hmm… I was curious about the contents of the experiment because it didn’t come out separately in the original work, but… It seems that it was an experiment related to the soul.’

Akanis, a necromancer who kidnapped the main character and his friends who had invaded his secret dungeon in the beginning and experimented on him. While touching the essence of the main character’s soul, he realizes that he was born from a fragment of the soul of an evil god, and wants to steal his spirituality and become a god.

Afterwards, in order to prepare for an experiment to steal the main character’s divinity, he tries to extract the essence of the remaining soul by stealing a fresh corpse from a cemetery.

The problem is that he invades the realm of the vampire society while touching the cemetery, and is invaded by an enraged society.

‘Soul…’

Seong-il has been hearing a lot about spirit-related skills lately. He feels a strange feeling and continues to question the man.

“Um… Sufferer. You asked me to release your pain… How can I do it?”

The man in the barrel reacts violently to such a question on the holy day and begins to beg him.

『It’s easy!! Easy!! You are a great man! All you have to do is pull out the driving jewel embedded in the power source under the machine…』

When he begged his party very earnestly, Sena with a very sad expression said to Ban.

“Let’s pull it out! Ban! Even if this person was a necromancer in the past, if he suffered this much, he must have paid the price for his crime.”

At her words, Ban looked at Bruno and Seong-il instead of her answer, and both of them nodded as if they had promised.

“Then…”

Ban said that and tried to pull out her hand, but Seong-il quickly stopped him and called out to her.

“Let me do it!! Justice wins! To save the weak, this northern warrior wants to show mercy!!”

‘… I’ve been hanging out with fucking Charlotte for so long, it’s so natural for her to talk like a madman… Is that a good thing? Is it bad…’

However, whatever Seong-il’s heart was, his crazy (..) Words moved the hearts of the party. Seeing such a holy day, Bruno tells Van.

“…Let me do it.

Since he was a barbarian who came out as a really nice madman (..) In the original work, the other two members look at Ban and make a look on his face telling him to yield so that his madness doesn’t flare up.

“…Yes. It seems that you, the righteous, are doing the right thing.”

‘Done!!’

It was forced to get the hidden piece, but Seong-il thought, feeling satisfied that the concept quality worked well.

‘In the future, if I ever get speechless or don’t know something, I’ll just imitate the way Charlotte talks and pretend I’m crazy. It seems that it will pass like this even then…?’

With such thoughts in mind, Seong-il rummages through the space under the man in the barrel to find the driving jewel he said.

‘Oh! There is! There is!!’

A mysterious jewel the size of a thumb is written with intricate hieroglyphs. Interestingly, the letters embedded in the jewel were glowing in a mysterious light blue color.

“Ah Gyaa!!”

Suwook!!

Seong-il, who gives strength with all his might and picks up jewels. When the formidable muscle force is applied to the jewel, the jewel is pulled out powerlessly shortly after.

『Hehe… Go… Thank you… They are merciful…』

Saying that, the man languishes weakly in the barrel and dies. Bruno silently puts his hands together and starts praying towards him.

Weeing!!

Then, the alarm of the smartphone rings in the bosom. Seong-il is unmoved by such a phone alarm and thinks to himself.

‘Hmm… If you clear the original quest, do you get the points naturally? I’ll check later.’

“Come on. Let’s all move.”

After seeing Bruno’s prayer end, the leader, Ban, shouted to the party. They nod lightly, grab a few items from their surroundings, and start moving.

‘Ifrit’s lamp was probably hidden in the mage’s bedroom if you keep going like this, right?’

Seongil has already acquired two of the three items that can summon the hidden magic sword. He naturally leads the party to the Necromancer’s bedroom to get one last thing.

“Half!”

“…?”

The main character looks at Seong-il with a puzzled expression when he suddenly calls out to him. Seong-il continues talking to him.

“Listen, there are other intruders besides us, so why don’t we take a look at the Necromancer’s stronghold!!”

“…Wouldn’t that be dangerous?”

“If the enemy invaded from the outside… Of course! The main forces inside would have gone to meet the enemy! Rather, isn’t this the best opportunity for us to resume our mission!!”

When a plausible plan comes out of the mouth of Seong-il, whom everyone thought was just a madman, everyone looked at him with a look of surprise.

“Oh… I guess the madman makes sense this time?”

“That’s right! Van!! Wizards who usually commit evil deeds don’t have a lot of hairy… But a lot of dirty things! Let’s investigate!”

When even Bruno and Senna agreed with Seongil’s words, Ban nodded his head as if he couldn’t help it and replied to them.

“Um… I can’t help it. Then, Senna, will you lead the way? If you rush into a place you don’t know, you’ll move in the opposite direction from the exit, so you’ll be able to reach the core area of ​​the dungeon created by the necromancer.

So we explored the necromancer’s dungeon for a while, and soon arrived at what seemed to be his bedroom.

‘Come!!’

Seong-il exclaimed with delight upon arriving at Akanis’ core residence. Then he started talking to the group.

“Hmmm!! It smells like wicked evil!!”

“…I guess so.”

In fact, the bedroom of an ordinary person who seems to have nothing to do with evil. Necromancers usually lived quite neatly, but the inside was surprisingly clean.

“Hmm… Well… I don’t think there’s anything special?”

Senna rummaged inside for a while. As her thief looks around and sees that she has nothing to offer, a disappointed woman replies to her party.

“No. If you bring the Necromancer’s diary or other materials, you will be very satisfied at the Temple of Justice.”

Ban acts according to FM and takes care of Necromancer’s data. Everyone nods to his actions and starts collecting items that have something written on them.

‘Hmm… Where is it…?’

Seong-il searched the room for a long time. An antique-looking lamp appears in front of him.

‘…Could that be it?!’

It was an ordinary-looking lamp, but Seong-il had a strong sense that the lamp was a magic tool that sealed the spirit of flame. He pretends nothing is wrong, then casually picks up the lamp and hides it in his bosom.

‘I guess it didn’t catch…?’

Seong-il was sweating cold inside as he looked at the party. Fortunately, the party didn’t seem to doubt his appearance. Seeing this, Seong-il sighs in relief and starts pretending to search for something quietly again.

“Hmm… I think you’ve got everything?”

At the words of his colleagues who seem to have packed all the books around him, Seong-il also nods his head and agrees.

“Hmm! Looks like you’ve got everything! Now let’s go escape!”

“…Yes. Now, if you move towards the entrance again, you will be able to meet the Necromancer again.”

After saying that, the party started to move towards the entrance, walking back the way they came.

‘Hmm… I guess this is it…’

After passing through the library and arriving at the place where the experiment is made, Seong-il begins to get nervous when he can’t see the stone statue of the devil that he should have seen. While contemplating whether or not to go back and explore the road alone, Senna, a fellow thief, shouted to the group.

“Uh! What is that…?”

The appearance of a stone statue of a gigantic demon. Seongil cheers inwardly and thinks.

‘It’s out!!’

Seong-il thought so, and naturally moved to the devil’s statue. Ban is surprised by his appearance and chases after him to dissuade him.

“Seongil! What are you doing!!”

“Hmm? Isn’t it just a stone statue?”

Seong-il pretends not to care and continues to approach the stone statue. Seeing him like that, Bruno and Senna are also surprised and approach him.

“You crazy bastard!! You know what that is!!”

However, unlike the paladin Ban and combat priest Bruno, the thief Senna, who had no objection to particularly evil things, approached the stone statue without hesitation and began examining it.

“Teacher, friend, soul fragment of a slave. The heart of a faithful subject. A gift will be given to those who offer a bodyless slave…?”

Bruno and Ban, who had been scolding Seong-il for Senna’s muttering, also start looking at the stone statue, curious.

“Hmm… It looks like the seal the Necromancer made to hide something…?”

“A seal award? What is a seal award?”

At Ban’s question, Bruno brushes his beard and begins to explain to him.

“Simply put, it’s like a magic safe made to protect something important from outside intruders. It has a self-destruct function if you try to steal the safe or stuff without following the correct steps magically prescribed.”