Chapter 219 – Guardian of the Dungeon
“Ah…! You’re the new Great Warrior.”
“Huh?”
At the moment Seong-il is chatting with the sword at the entrance of the temple, he hears someone talking to him from the direction of the marble.
Seong-il, puzzled by the sound, looked at the marble, and there was a goblin with a gentle expression standing in front of the marble, talking to Seong-il.
“Oh… Are you…?”
Seong-il, who knew roughly who the being was, started asking questions in a slightly welcome tone at the appearance of the goblin.
“Yes. I am a servant bestowed by God. I look forward to seeing you in the future.”
“Yes, yes.”
In the original work, the first servant was not a normal monster, but a role that helped the player with missions and gave advice, so it was set up as a very smart being, ignoring the characteristics of the species.
‘Hey, this guy, he’s a goblin now, but if I invested enough, he’d change into a more powerful guy, right?’
Knowing that the goblin in front of him is not just a goblin, Seong-il pretends not to know and starts asking him more carefully.
“By the way, you don’t seem like a normal goblin, so what can you do?”
“Oh! You’re so smart! I’m Lassala. I’ll help you to develop the sanctuary here!!”
“Ohhh…”
Seong-il already knows everything, but he pretends to be interested and matches him.
Seeing him excited, the goblin explained with enthusiasm and sincerity what he could do, and Seong-il nodded in agreement without denying his words.
“…So I can’t leave this place, but it means I can do a lot.”
“I understand.”
A goblin that is essentially a quest NPC and butler. Later on, it plays the role of a powerful guardian, but the goblin refrained from answering that word because it was not yet time.
‘…Well, in the original game, he showed his true face in the middle and late stages, so it’s only natural.’
Just when he was thinking such nonsense, the goblin began to demand something for the holy day.
“In that sense, could you help me gather more minions?”
“Huh…? Ehh? Ah, yes. Work. I have to work.”
Seong-Il is distracted by the words of the goblin Lassal, thinking about something else. When the goblin spits out a quest in earnest, he responds in bewilderment.
“Whoops! Thank you! First of all, please restore our sanctuary and supply 10 goblins so that we can welcome the followers who will come from outside soon.”
“Hmm? How?”
“It’s simple. You just have to hunt the goblins with the marbles I made.”
In fact, Lassal’s order to hunt down a hundred goblins. Despite having to hunt down quite a few enemies, Seong-il nodded his head in agreement without much annoyance.
“Yes. All right. I’ll do it right away.”
Anyway, only in the beginning, you roll your body and do the quest directly, and if you have enough minions, you don’t have to work as a guardian of the dungeon. Because of this, Seong-il agrees to Rassal’s words without hesitation, and then he moves outside.
Weeing!!
“Huh?”
Sudden alarm. He takes out his smart phone from his pocket and checks the contents.
『Take advantage of the sub-quest mode.』
“!!”
A notification from the gamemaster recommending a long-forgotten quest mode. Seong-il takes out his phone and tries to activate the quest mode that he had disabled.
[ Quest list ]
◎ Guardian of the Dungeon
Main Quest (0/3) – 0 Achievements
– Raise the sanctuary to the highest level
– Block 7 attacks of the god of light (0/7)
– Kill or capture the warriors of the god of light (unfinished)
Sub Quest (0/1)
– Hunt goblins and collect their souls with soul orbs to turn them into minions (0/100)
“Ohh…”
Quests organized for easy viewing at a glance. Seong-il thinks that the game master advised him to try the quest mode because sub-quests are important, unlike other worlds.
‘…Recently, the game master has been giving me direct advice more often.’
After acquiring the dungeon core a while ago, the game master starts giving more advice than before. For this reason, Seong-il thinks that sooner or later he will have to collect more dungeon cores.
‘…I have to collect cores and connect them to the world of alchemy.’
Seong-il wonders what kind of synergy effect will be obtained if he suddenly gathers talents such as Yuna and Erica in one place and gathers their strength to set up a workshop.
‘Hmm… I really should consider it.’
Seong-il wandered around the dungeon thinking useless thoughts. Four or five goblins appeared in front of him, and the activated 『Emotion』 Gave him a sharp warning.
“Found!”
『Ah, are you a goblin again? Foolishly…”
“…There is an order to things. So be patient.”
“Joy! If you can’t speak…
However, when Seong-il starts to attack the goblins with his arms up, he starts pointing out Taegeukgeomgyeol to him instead of saying trivial things.
“Hey, that’s not it!!”
『Aigoo… Your posture is young…』
“Extend your arms more! Eight!!”
“Aaaaa!!!!”
Due to his intellectual quality, Seong-il puts up with it, and in the middle of the battle, the stress builds up and starts to run wild, playing with the knife around him.
“Ke…Kehehe!!”
Seeing Seongil rampaging like a berserker, the goblins were frightened and started to run away, and Seongil spread out his newly trained ceremonial magic, Pungsinbo, and destroyed all of them without leaving a single one.
『Whoops! Do you think this body’s advice worked a little? You processed it faster than before?』
‘…This bastard.’
To be precise, he frantically opened the arena of slaughter because he didn’t want to hear his nagging, but Seong-il answered the cursed sword’s words for no reason, but gave up the answer, wanting to hear more annoying sounds.
‘Still, I did it quickly.’
Seong-il wanted to get out of the situation quickly because of the nagging of the cursed sword. He thinks that this situation is very unfortunate and starts to move to the sanctuary calmly.
“I’m gone.”
“Oh… Are you here already?”
“At most, I’m a goblin.”
“Oh oh…!!”
At Seong-il’s pretentious words, Rassal exclaims and makes a respectful expression. Seong-il begins to sacrifice the souls he has collected according to his guidance.
“Oh…”
Interestingly, limbs start to protrude one by one from the round energies protruding from the marbles, and they change into goblins resembling Lassal.
“Kehe…!”
However, unlike Lassal, the goblin looks lacking a lot. And in their appearance, Lassal started to explain as if he was the first to come forward.
“Ah, by the way, I’m a very special individual. You shouldn’t think of me as a goblin on a similar level.”
“Okay.”
However, Lassal did not have the means to know the circumstances of such a holy day, so he explained the situation very carefully.
‘…Jeop, I can’t tell the truth.’
Seong-il, who didn’t want to make a variable with useless words, pretends to learn by nodding his head at his words as if he doesn’t know anything.
So, with the help of the goblin Lassal, Seong-il began to develop the sanctuary in small ways for a few days, and before he knew it, dozens of goblins began to guard the sanctuary.
‘…It’s quite rewarding.’
He creates minions based on the souls he has collected, and the minions follow his orders and do something.
“Hmm… If you go in this direction, you’re saying that there are gnolls?”
“Yes, gnolls, as you know, are similar in intelligence to goblins, but due to their larger size, they are a better race than these guys to do rough work.”
“Sure.”
“However, gathering troops to defend the sanctuary in this way is only possible for races such as ogres and trolls.”
“…Why?”
“Because they are wild beings rather than intellect. Reincarnating a species like humans, where knowledge is important, doesn’t mean much if they are reborn like goblins.”
“Ah… I see what you mean.”
In a word, Lassal said that it would be enough to catch and kill a minion who fills it with the body and regenerate it by collecting the soul, but that is impossible for a higher race.
Seong-il knows that higher beings can be summoned from other dimensions or hired in dungeons anyway, so he understands his words in an instant.
While I was talking excitedly with Lassal about the sanctuary’s development, the goblins who had been patrolling the area rushed into the sanctuary and started making a fuss.
“Keek! Captain..! Enemy!! Danger!!”
The goblins warn Seong-il by acting exaggeratedly with a clumsy tone. Although they were very timid, Seong-il had never caused such a riot, so Seong-il hardened his expression and asked them about the situation.
“Whoah. I see. Calm down and tell me what’s wrong.”
“Kee! Humans with iron on their faces and bodies are coming here!”
“…!!”
Seong-il hardens his expression at the description of an unusual intruder just by hearing it, and looks at Lassal. Such Lassal also looks at Seongil with an expression that something has come.
“…That’s what I know, right?”
“Yes. They look like the servants of the God of Light.”
“But have you already figured out the location of our sanctuary?”
“Um…Well, they might have figured out that we lost the war and fled here.”
Seong-il and Lassal calmly discuss the identity of the intruder. The goblin, who had been dumbfounded by the conversation between the two, stood still with a dazed expression.
“Oh, right. How many people were there?”
“Kee? This much!”
A goblin spreading his two hands and showing the number seven. At his words, Seong-il frowned and murmured.
“It’s ambiguous to call them troops at that level, and they must be explorers.”
“Ah… Maybe so.”
At the beginning of the game, Seong-il’s main goal is to defend against the adventurers who come to explore the Great Labyrinth where the Holy Land is hidden, so Seong-il naturally identifies the enemies.
“Kee… But it’s not good between them. They fight among themselves.”
“!!”
At the goblin’s words, something flashed in Seong-il’s mind, and he began to ask the goblin detailed questions.
“What?! A fight?! Tell me exactly what’s going on.”
“Uh… I fight two of them and the rest. Ke…”
“…There must be two of them. Anyway, what happened?”
“Ke… Looks similar to the captain…”
“…”
Maybe from the goblin’s point of view, humans seemed to look like there, but they were parents and couldn’t explain properly. The moment Seong-il put the sword he had put down out of frustration at the waist. The goblin opened her mouth and started talking to Seongil.
“Ke! Come to think of it, I was being chased by a female! It was a female!”
“…!!”
‘Oh…!! It’s a random companion event in the beginning!!’
A few companions with jobs that appear to take care of the early sanctuary. They appear 100%, but it was luck that they appeared in the beginning because their job/gender was random.
‘…And there’s a woman!! I have to save it unconditionally!!’
Seong-Il’s eyes are turned over when he hears that he prefers to be female rather than male, and that his colleague is a woman. He quickly grabs his weapons and leads the goblins to the location of the incident.
“Um… Isn’t it?”
Is it because a lot of time has passed? Invisible intruders. However, fortunately, there are many traces left, so Seong-il starts to track them using 『Emotion』.
Seong-il, who had been searching for the intruder for a long time, chasing the emotions and traces. At that time, I was slowly exploring the surroundings for about ten minutes. He hears shrill voices and shrill metal sounds spreading in all directions.
“…!!”
Seong-il quickly ran to the place at the sound. He uses the shadow he received from his alter ego not too long ago to cover his body with shadows and move to the place of disturbance while half-hidden.
“A thief who believes in a fallen god!! If you surrender quietly, I’ll save your life!”
‘What lines…’
Seong-il, who makes an absurd expression at the words of an enemy wearing plate mail who spits out lines like too common villains. In front of his eyes, a long-haired woman with her hood pressed down shouted at him with a shrill voice.
“Shut up! Whoever I trust is my freedom! What do you know!”
“Heh..! You’re a corrupt elf who believes in a cult!! If that’s the case, I’ll take you as a corpse.”
“Ha! Do it if you can!”
‘…What? Elf?!’
When a knight in plate mail spit out the word elf to a woman wearing a hood, Seong-il rolls her eyes and unknowingly examines the woman wearing a hood.
