Chapter 533 – The Cursed Throne
『Incomprehensible Ring: 200,000 points.』
“…Fuck.”
The price of the ring beyond imagination. Seong-il opens his mouth and spat out swear words.
Seong-il stared blankly at the ring for a while. Then he sighs lightly and puts the ring on his finger.
“It’s okay… Isn’t it natural that such a fraudulent item isn’t cheap?
“Are you done?”
“Oh right.”
After listening to the cursed sword’s advice, Seong-il blocked Argent’s senses by temporarily enclosing his emotional telekinesis in order not to be caught trying to use it as an amulet.
He answers him, realizing that he forgot the cursed sword because of the tension that was completely released after the situation was over.
“Oh, sorry. I forgot to tell you at the moment because I was so nervous. We succeeded in sealing him in this orb as we planned.”
『Wow!! Crazy!! Really?! Hey!! Let go of your feelings!! Right now!!”
“Huh? Eh…”
In response to the cursed sword’s violent reaction, Seong-il suddenly removes the telekinesis-mixed reaction as he said.
『Wow!! Fuck!! Really!? I can’t feel Argent’s senses!! You really did!! What a great guy this is!!』
Seong-il gets an idea from the cursed sword’s reaction and opens his inventory and takes out the black ball.
“Hey. I put him in here now, can you feel Argent?”
“Hmm…? Oh oh…!! Can’t you feel it at all? What the hell is that bead that can seal an ancient monster so completely!?”
“Well? I didn’t make it, so I… Anyway, it’s good that it’s perfectly sealed.”
After answering like that, Seong-il puts the ball back into the inventory and explains the current situation to the cursed sword.
『Hmmm… An indescribable existence…』
“Can you guess that there is such a thing?”
“Well…? Could it be one of the gods…? The high rank…?』
Despite Seong-il’s detailed explanation, the cursed sword doesn’t seem to catch on.
“Um…”
When Seong-il sits on the floor contemplating his answer, the cursed sword points out an important point to him.
『By the way, did you confirm that you were doing that “Quest” Or something? There might be hints there. Last time, in a case like this, they said something special came up.”
“Ah…!!”
Obviously, but very sharp advice. Seong-il realized that he had not checked the quests in this world and hurriedly checked the status window.
[ Quest list ]
◎ The Cursed Throne Part 2
1 out of 2 main quests (0/1) – 0 completed
– Stop the Resurrection of Evil God Grizna
– Help Van Rashad eliminate Sharun Haradin
Subquest (0/4)
– Destroy the Church of the Underground Star in Solanium
– Eliminate the apostles of the Eastern Shadow Church of the Solon Empire
– Remove the Red Dragon Kasarak’Tarun and recover the holy relic
– Drive the invasion force out of the northern fortress
Special Quest (0/1)
– ? Or perform the mission of ?
‘There is…!!’
A special quest at the end of the quest list. Seong-il instinctively senses that the special quest is the ‘giyeon’ he heard in the fortune-telling.
“Keuk… Hmm? A or B…? Could it be that there are only two beings who give out quests…?”
The content of an interesting quest. However, the ? Listed in the quest? Because of this, Seong-il complains of frustration when he cannot confirm the proper contents.
“Fuck… But the content is too superficial. Give me a quest without even thinking about it…”
Annoyed, Seong-il clicks on the special quest floating in augmented reality.
* Visit the cursed temple beneath Solanium.
“…!!”
A little hint in the details. Seong-il, a deceased person, looks at the brief hint with interest.
“…If it’s the Solanium basement. It’s probably the place you and Ban and the others want to go this time? But… Wasn’t that a ruin? It was a temple? Cursed?”
A setting I’ve never seen before. Seong-il looks surprised by the explanation written in the quest rather than anything else.
‘I’ve seen this game ending over a hundred times, but I’ve never seen a setting like this?! There was once a person who played the game like a madman to the point of memorizing even the lines of the game…’
Seong-il, who played Cursed Throne when he was young and was fascinated by the game, held on to it for almost a year and had the experience of playing it deeply.
Even during that period, Seong-il boasted a deep understanding of games to the extent that he discovered a unique bug for the first time in the world. When such a setting that he did not even know appeared again, Seong-il is very interested.
‘As far as I know, it’s just an underground ruin…?
Solanium is set as a historic city from ancient times. After repeating war, destruction, and reconstruction for so long, it is said that there are countless ruins buried underground in Solanium due to the setting.
Because of this, Seong-il knew that the underground ruins appearing in this sub-quest were just ruins built by a force that had perished in ancient times.
‘But a temple…? Cursed too…?’
As a terrible deceased person, Seong-il knew how the style of each temple that enshrined the gods was built through countless game plays.
Because of this, Seongil thought of the ruins that had no resemblance to traditional temples as just ancient ruins infested with undead.
When the game master refers to such ruins as a ‘temple’, he is very interested in that point.
‘Even if I tried all the routes in the game, it was always just a quest to explore ruins passing by. .’
When he thinks that such ruins may contain secrets he does not know about, Seong-il feels the blood of a gamer he had forgotten about boil.
‘As a deceased person, there was something I didn’t know? Fuck I can’t stand this!!!’
Seong-il clasped his hands tightly and made a useless resolution. Then he looks at the rest of the main quest and tries to check his future steps.
“The main quest is… Ah, this is classic.”
The main story of Cursed Throne 2 could be divided into two main parts.
The first is to kill the apostle of Grizna who is causing the world to fall into chaos and prevent his resurrection.
Grizna, the evil god and creator of all humanoid races.
He created humanoids such as orcs, gnolls, goblins, and lizardmen to take over the main material world, and in Cursed Throne 2, he was trying to gather the faith of the creatures and incarnate in the main material world.
Because of this, in the beginning of the game, quests to remove the secret associations and conspiracies of the guy who ran rampant throughout the Solon Empire used to be the main focus.
The second was to prevent the army invasion of the bloody baron Sharun Haradin, son of Baldur the Grim Reaper and one of the spiritual half-brothers of the protagonist Van Rashad, and kill him to bring peace to the world.
In fact, I was able to see the ending even if I only achieved the second goal except for the first one… But the problem is the result of the ending.
If the first goal is not resolved, the player will never see the good end because the descending Grizna will turn the world into a living hell.
Because of this, the Cursed Throne could see the true ending only by blocking the resurrection of Grizna or by removing the revived avatar and removing Sharun Haradin.
‘But, that’s the main character’s circumstances… I have to break the quest, leave this place, and stop the time of the world forever, so that part is none of my business…’
Seong-il nodded at the clear conditions that were not too excessive and looked at the rest.
‘The serve is…’
A cursed game of thrones with hundreds of quests big and small. Seong-il checks which of the quests are included as sub-quests.
“…I left only the dirty and tough ones as subquests.”
The content of the sub-quest that makes Seong-il curse words come out of his mouth. If you don’t know the strategy, only the quests that are more difficult than the main quests were filling the sub-quests.
“…It’s true that it’s in the basement of Solanium. The Order of the Stars there is designed to be impossible to access unless it’s late in the game.”
“What’s wrong? Eliminate the Apostle of the Shadow Church? Cub… It’s good to say that the Apostle is eliminated. The Apostle’s true identity is the Shadow Dragon, you crazy bastard…!!”
A list of bloody sub-quests that made me doubt if they were giving me to break this. As much as Seong-il, the deceased among the deceased, he repeatedly curses at the game master.
‘Sacrificial Rescue Mission… Even if you don’t look at it, it must be the story of Tarun, a worm-class red dragon, Kasarak’. By holy relics, I’m going to say the holy sword [Seeker of Light] And the [Broken Holy Sword of an Unknown God] Stolen by this crazy dragon…’
‘Fuck… I knew all the tricks in the game, so I was able to catch Kasarak’Talun in the early stages…But it would be impossible to catch him now, when I have to challenge myself with the standard…’
Seong-il feels a sigh as he reads the third mission.
“…Is it realistic to drive out the invasion force from the northern fortress? Sharun Haradin is the commander-in-chief of that force.”
When you clear the main quest, you will naturally go to the northern fortress. Seong-il reads the mission and starts to get a feel for how to manage the party in the future.
‘First of all, I’m going to go to the northern fortress with my party while watching the situation. I need to join the war there, stop the invading forces, and advance the game towards eliminating Sharun Haradin. Then at least I can clear the main and sub at the same time.’
After organizing his thoughts, Seong-il sighs lightly and goes back to his dorm to wash his body and go to sleep.
***
“Mister!! Barbarian Mister!!”
“…Hmm?”
Seong-il had a chat about the cursed sword and what to do in the future until dawn. Then, when someone wakes him from a difficult sleep, Seong-il gets up from his bed looking very tired.
“Write it… Wait a minute.”
Seong-il puts on the equipment he was wearing when he accessed the world of the cursed throne and moves toward the door.
“What…”
“What is it!! We decided to go to solve the request from the Temple of Justice and the city council today!!”
“Um!! That’s right… Let’s go!!”
In front of her own eyes, she strokes her red-haired cute lady’s head, and Seong-il goes downstairs with her.
“Are you here? Savage?”
“Hmm!!”
As a deceased person among the deceased in the cursed throne, Seong-il knew the character of ‘Balak’, the barbarian in this work, so he copied Balak’s tone without difficulty.
“The crazy guy… He usually wakes up early in the morning and eats, but why are you sleeping late today?”
“I was tired!!”
“… Damn it. I don’t know if you were tired two days ago when you beat the necromancer. Why, after the situation is over… You guys are really…”
Bruno muttered as he glared at his holy day with a slightly puzzled expression. As if the bickering between the two is familiar, Ban pats Bruno on the back to soothe him.
“Bruno. Fatigue might have come late. Anyway, that’s not the point, right? Let’s go and solve the request from the temple.”
“Okay.”
Bruno nodded as the leader, Van, spoke softly. They flutter like baby birds and leave the inn following Sena, who leads the way.
***
“Hey… Did strange structures really rise in the slums?”
Seong-il and his party arrived at the Solanium Slums to solve the request given by the Temple of Justice. In front of them, a monstrous spire-like structure of metal rose through the ground.
“Umm… That’s not good. The evil spirits flowing from the ruins are contaminating the area.”
“I’m sure it is, Bruno. If you don’t purify it, evil spirits will soon appear nearby.”
“…That problem will be solved by the priests of the Temple of Dawn and Mercy, who are active in the vicinity, without us having to step in. The problem is the cause. Even if the priests of the dawn purify this place, the contamination If the cause is not removed, the contamination will repeat itself like a plague.”
‘It looks much more serious than the game.’
In the game, the pollution was not particularly noticeable due to the large granite blocks embedded in the floor, but in this place where Seong-il was realized in reality, we could see that the soil between the blocks was rotting black.
Sigh…
‘Hmm… Is the ground cold? Also, do you feel the grudge against the living?’
Seong-il picks up soil out of curiosity and projects his emotions to examine information. Then Bruno, who saw that, was terrified and yelled at Seong-il.
“Crazy bastard!! Gigi!! Don’t eat that!!”
‘…What is this man saying?’
When Seong-il is treated as an idiot for picking up soil out of curiosity, Seong-il can’t hide his absurdity and stares blankly at Bruno.
“Stop for a moment!!”
“…?”
While Seong-il is contemplating whether to say something to Bruno, a thick voice resonates near them. Then, the party who had been bickering closed their mouths for a while and looked in the direction the sound was coming from.
“This is a controlled area. Go back immediately.”
Three soldiers wearing plate mail and holding halberds. Instead of arguing with the familiar soldiers, Ban pulls out a document from his pocket and hands it to them.
“Hello Sir. I am Ban Rashad, a paladin belonging to the Temple of Justice who has been requested to cooperate by the city council.”
“Ah… You’re half a paladin. Sorry for yelling at you rudely.”
As soon as he received the documents, the guard bowed his head and apologized politely. As if not half of it, he shook his head and accepted his apology.
“Could you wait for a moment? There are some people who have been waiting for the class of Paladins since early in the morning.”
