Chapter 546 – The Cursed Throne
‘You’re a DLC merchant!!!’
Seong-il feels that he has hit the lottery when merchants selling top-notch items he has been looking for have appeared.
“The lady on the left is Ms. Yulina. She specializes in selling the ‘high-ranking’ magic scrolls requested by the warrior earlier.”
“Oh.”
“And the one on the right is Gaaz-sama from an out-of-Zarran race known for wandering the dimensions. He only sells really ‘rare’ things. By the way, Gaaz-sama really hates being seen, so he probably won’t buy anything. I recommend not talking to them.”
“Careful.”
“Then I wish you a pleasant transaction.”
Seong-il listens to Rubal’s caution and nods her head in agreement. Seeing that, Rubal smiles and tries to move to the counter on the first floor again.
“Oops!”
Then Rubal quickly approaches Seong-il with an expression that he forgot something and takes out twenty sheets of luxuriously gilded paper and hands them over.
“This is our shop warranty, worth 1,000 gold coins per piece. What I gave you now is the amount of 20,000 gold coins excluding the 10,000 gold coins traded on the first floor, so you can trade with them with this.”
“Oh? Are you listening to my request?”
Rubal seems to have raised the price of jewels from 25,000 to 30,000 as requested by Seong-il. At Seong-il’s question, he shrugs his shoulders and answers Seong-il.
“Since the customer promised to use ‘all’ of these gold coins in our shop, I must show sincerity as well.”
“Oh. That’s a good attitude. I won’t disappoint you.”
“Whoops…”
At Seong-il’s cool answer, Rubal replaces the answer with a smile and then moves to the counter on the first floor again.
“Hello.”
“Hmm… It looks like a warrior… I’m a merchant who sells magic scrolls. Talk to Gaaz next to me about weapons and artifacts.”
“Then, you’ve come to the right place. Give me all the magic spells that are not recorded here, one by one of each type.”
“…?”
Lady Yulina looks confused when a man who appears to be her warrior comes to her and takes out a book that appears to be her magic book and asks for her spellbook.
“I’m not kidding. There are gold coins here too, so let’s skip unnecessary words and start trading quickly. We might run out of gold coins, so if possible, we’ll start with the order book from the precious 9th class.”
“…One by one?”
“Exactly.”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il’s incomprehensible behavior led Ms. Yulina to look at her authenticity with a puzzled expression.
However, as Seongil watches her with a serious expression, she realizes that he is not joking and starts looking at her spellbook.
“Hmm… The book only lists up to 7 class magic, right? If that’s the case, I’m saying that you only want to buy high-ranking scrolls… It’s worth asking for the 8 or higher class scrolls. It’s so rare that you can’t buy it without it.”
“It doesn’t matter. How much is it?
Seong-il firmly asks the price without wavering.
If you buy a spell book and record it in the magic book of all things just once, you can use magic forever as long as the magic book is not destroyed, so Seongil doesn’t regret spending gold coins at all.
“…A class 8 book costs five hundred gold coins. A class 9 book costs a thousand coins. For reference, I have 10 class 8 order books. I have about 5 class 9 order books.”
“It’s expensive, but not to the extent that I can’t afford it. I’ll buy all of them.”
“Hoo…”
When the warrior in front of her didn’t want to buy the order book even after hearing the high price, or even tried to cut the price, she boldly said that she would buy all the order book. .
“Payment with that guarantee?”
“Of course. I’ll pay the price right away.”
“Uhuhuh!! Rubal brought a non-regular customer for some reason, so I wondered what he was doing… As expected, his eyes for customers are amazing. Okay. Let’s prepare right away.”
“Hmm! I’ll be looking at something else in the meantime.”
“Okay. Please wait a moment.”
Even though she didn’t receive the goods, she must have liked the open-hearted trading attitude of the ten gold coin guarantees, and after Ms. Yulina showed a smile that hadn’t been seen before, she moved her steps somewhere to get the goods.
Then, Seong-il takes the remaining gold coins and approaches Gaaz, the last merchant.
‘Oh yeah… I guess I’m running out of gold coins.’
Seong-il regrets that he should have prepared more gold coins because he couldn’t buy all the goods Gaaz sold with just one gold coin.
‘No. Anyway, many of the items Gaaz sells are useless to me. Buy only what you need. Then there will be no shortage of gold coins.’
‘In addition… Even if you buy a lot of Gaaz’s stuff, you can’t take it to the real world or another world unless you pay the ‘tariff’, so there’s no need to buy a lot…’
In the worst case, there was a way to stop time and collect more jewels, so Seong-il sits in front of Gaaz with a more burdened expression and talks to him.
“Hello. I want to buy something.”
“Umm… Do you want something?”
‘He’s tall and has pointy ears…And his skin is frighteningly pale. It’s just as depicted in the game.’
Azu, a trader from an outgrown tribe, speaks to him with a slightly softer attitude, perhaps because she watched Seong-il trade with Mrs. Yulina from her side. He had an appearance with a strange charm befitting a race from another world.
“Weapon, armor, etc. Anything is fine. I have to fight strong enemies. Anything that increases my survivability is fine.”
“Um…”
Gaaz puts on a worried expression at Seongil’s words.
“…First of all, these are the things I have.”
‘Oh… Emotion stone?’
An appraisal stone, an item that played a very important role in 『The Seeker of Death』, Another game that had the same world view as 『The Throne of the Cursed』.
‘Ah, this… Isn’t it a crystal that allows you to read past memories that appeared in 『The Seeker of Death』?’
It’s a similar item to ‘my memory jewels’, but… Memory jewels allow you to simply ‘recall’ past times… But if you use this item, you can recall the past, of course Wasn’t there a characteristic that made me feel the ’emotion’ I felt at the time?’
When an item related to a game he really enjoyed playing appears, Seong-il accepts the stone with a happy expression and examines his memory.
Then you can see a grown-up warrior and his battle scene. He feels that the number of his lesser spells has increased just by holding his sword, and that feeling is conveyed to Seong-il.
‘This… Is the 『Sword of Chaos Refining』. A +3 magic sword that increases the number of wizards memorized just by holding it.’
While examining the items in his memory, Seong-il encounters a scene in which a grown-up warrior with a sword rushes at a humanoid monster with impressive tentacles and slices it apart.
‘That’s… A descendant of a star? Ah! Come to think of it… The character from another race was probably… One of the two key companions who assisted the main character in 『The Seeker of Death』, Right?’
The game Seongil once played, die, 『Death Seeker』. He recalls the background settings of other races he learned in the game.
‘Maybe the Ta-Zarran are the race that wages an endless war with the children of the stars?’
Suddenly one day. A race that is said to have suddenly appeared like a ghost and spread throughout all dimensions. Children of the stars.
Despite appearing overnight like ghosts, they possessed transcendental technological prowess and were notorious for possessing demonic, cruel tempers that did not match their great intellect.
And, befitting their notoriety, the descendants of the stars roamed the dimensions, waged wars with countless races and enslaved them, as well as fattened them and ate them like beasts.
Of course, their cruel rule caused fierce resistance from each race, and the slave races used to cause countless revolts.
However, since each descendant of a star has a powerful psychic ability, the power of the race is so strong that most of the revolts have failed. They used to turn their races into livestock and rule them more terribly than before.
The mortals suffering from such oppression prayed to the gods they believed in to stop the tyranny of the descendants of the stars, but the descendants of the stars cleverly acted within the limits of not violating the laws of the universe, so the gods were dissatisfied with their actions. , But did not directly intervene.
The first thing they had to abide by was the law of all things, not the comfort of mortals.
Then one day. The arrogant descendant of the star commits an irreversible fatal mistake.
It is because of the “Cult of the Stars” That the descendants of the stars created for their bizarre gods.
After foolishly establishing the “Cult of the Star”, The descendents of the stars made the worst mistake of forbidding other races to believe in gods other than their own.
To the gods, who were obliged to spread faith among mortals and prosper the law of the world, the steps taken by the descendants of the stars were tantamount to challenging them, and the gods, who had been grinding their teeth at the actions of the descendants of the stars, used it as an excuse. Begins a strong intervention in the world of mortals.
In particular, the gods of order, which were completely inconsistent with the ideology shown by the descendants of the stars, went beyond making apostles and punishing them, and in an extreme form of scattering their avatars in each dimension, smashing the brilliant civilization built by the descendants of the stars and mercilessly destroying them. It is said that he was brutally murdered.
In the end, it is said that the descendents of the stars, who were fiercely attacked by the merciless gods, eventually bowed down and hid into the depths of the chaotic dimension, avoiding the wrath of the gods and barely succeeding in civilization.
However, apart from that history, very few races used to win freedom in the war against the children of the stars without the help of the gods. The most famous of these races is the Tar-Jarran.
It is said that the Ta-Jarran were originally a normal race without any powers, so they were helplessly defeated by the attack of the children of the stars and had no choice but to become slaves.
Thousands of years of living such a painful life. Then one day, a miracle happens to the other race.
That’s when a prophet appeared. One day, the prophet captures the power of chaos, develops a secret technique that uses magic, and begins to spread it to his own people.
And based on that power, the Ta-Jarans, who had great power, revolted all at once, killed all the descendants of the stars, and succeeded in driving them out of their own dimension.
However, even though Ta-Jarran won the war against the Star Descendants, they hold a grudge against the Star Descendants so deeply that they set up a tribal plan to exterminate them from the universe.
In the midst of that, an incident occurred in which the power of the descendants of the stars rapidly weakened due to the war with the gods listed above, and it is said that Ta-Jarran dispatched legions in dimension units to mercilessly massacre the descendants of the stars as if they had waited.
‘…And the Gaaz in front of me is from another race.’
Seong-il recalled a long-standing setting related to the race he grew up with while examining the contents of the memory stone.
‘Hmm…?’
A strange feeling that overwhelms the holy day. The causal rate tells you that you can get additional benefits if you give information about the ‘Church of the Star’ to Gaaz, a merchant who grew up in front of you after spending gold coins at a certain level.
‘Ohh… Is that how it works? Then, should I just buy the net items?’
In this way, Seong-il silently looks for an opportunity by how the original owner uses the item he wants to buy at the appraisal stone.
‘Hmm… Originally, I would have thought about purchasing it… But… In a situation where the response informed me that there was a better opportunity, I don’t think there’s any need to buy a weapon like this.’
Seong-il thinks to himself while looking at 『The Sword of Chaos Refining』 With a memory stone. Because of this, he quickly puts aside his feelings about the sword and picks up the next stone.
‘Oh! Cloak of Powerful Protection! This would be pretty useful, right?’
‘Oh clothes!? This is the giant’s power girdle!! Isn’t that what gives the wearer the power of a giant?!’
The appearance of a cloak that protects against various elemental attacks and physical attacks, and a girdle that makes the wearer’s strength equal to that of a giant.
‘There are some good armor and weapons, but… There is something that the emotion gave me a hint earlier, so let’s just live up to this point.’
Although there were items he coveted, Seong-il decided to buy only those items that seemed useful even if he gave them to himself and his co-workers because of the hint he received.
“I’d like to buy this and this. How much are they?”
“Hmm… 『A mighty cloak of protection』, 『Girdle of the power of a giant』. Pretty good stuff. Each one costs 1,000 gold coins.”
“Oh. It’s cheap. Take it.”
“…”
Gaaz looks at Seong-il, who spends a large amount of gold coins as if writing a fairy tale. On the surface, it seems like nothing is wrong, but Seong-il feels that he is quite interested in him through his emotions.
‘Since I seem to have had enough good impressions, shall I spit out the hints that they gave me?’
At first glance, Seong-il pretends to check whether the appraisal stone and the handed object are the same, and brings out hints to Gaaz as if flowing.
“By any chance, do you have a weapon that is effective against psychic powers? Or something good to block psychic powers.”
“…Why are you looking for it?”
‘Oh. He’s definitely curious.’
The feeble curiosity behind Gaaz’s cold, mask-like face. Seong-il, who read the emotion with emotion, casually spits out an excuse he prepared.
“Um! It’s because I’ve been asked for a big mission at the temple this time. The mission to find the 『Church of Stars』 Hiding like rats in the basement of Solanium!! Need it.”
“…You. Did you just say the ‘Cult of the Stars’?”
“I did?”
Seong-il spits out the lines he has prepared in a sullen tone, as he thought in advance.
And the expressionless face of Gaaz, a merchant of Ta-Zarran, who heard that line begins to distort for the first time.
“The story. I hope you will explain the details to me.”
‘It’s eaten!!’
As befits a descendant of the stars and a descendant of the other race of enemies, Gaaz reacts violently to the words of her holy day.
The hatred was so intense that Seong-il almost broke his poker face at the moment when the emotion was conveyed through emotion.
