Chapter 547 – The Cursed Throne
As befits a descendant of the star and a native of another race, a fierce enemy, Gaaz reacts violently to Seongil’s words.
The hatred was so intense that Seong-il almost broke his poker face at the moment when the emotion was conveyed through emotion.
But, that’s for a while. Seong-il asks Gaaz after putting on the expression of a naive barbarian who doesn’t know anything.
“Ask for information related to the Church of the Star? Not anywhere else, but the information of the request that the Temple of Justice directly entrusted to me? How can I trust you?”
“You. Don’t you know the blood grudge between the offspring of the stars and those who grew up outside?”
‘Of course I know.’
As an avid fan of the Cursed Throne series, Seong-il knows the details of the related settings. However, in order to lead the negotiations in an advantageous way, he answers Gaaz with a sullen expression and pretends to know nothing.
“I don’t know? Why should I know that?”
“Of course. You may not know. You are neither an out-bred nor a descendant of a star. But, if you know the grudge between the two races, you won’t be able to easily say that you can’t trust me.”
Gaaz, who answered with a solemn expression, calmly explained to Seongil the history of how tough the relationship between Ta-Zaran and the descendant of the star was.
Seong-il, of course, knew all about it, but he pretended to be hearing it for the first time and put on an expression of wonder.
“…So our species never acts to benefit the children of the stars under any circumstance. They just want to tear them apart somehow.”
“Yes, well… I can believe that you and your kind can never be servants of the [Church of the Stars]. But, that’s why I have to share information about the [Church of the Stars] With you. It’s not.”
“Why?”
“That’s it… First of all, is it stupid to give away the information I’ve worked so hard for to others for free? And the target listening to that information might be my potential competitor.”
“…”
Gaaz watches him with an expressionless face without any emotion at Seongil’s words.
‘Uh… Mister is very angry.’
However, Seong-il, who was checking his emotions in real time through emotion, felt with his whole body how angry Gaaz was inside.
“…I am not your competitor.”
However, Gaaz’s voice was the exact opposite of the overflowing emotions. He calmly persuades Seong-il with an ice-cold voice.
“I need neither honor nor monetary reward. All I need is to kill the children of the stars and offer their blood to our ancestors.”
‘It’s more scary because it’s sincere.’
The cold hatred felt in the clear and distinct voice.
“If it becomes a problem. I’m ready to give it all to you. I can write a document if need be.”
“…Can’t you just do your own research?”
“It is all too well known that we out-breds hold a blood grudge against the Starspawn. So if we clumsily venture into the underground aqueduct ourselves, they’ll be wary of us and hide deeper. Then we can expect The time for revenge will be delayed.”
“…So?”
At Seongil’s words, Gaaz looks at him with ice-cold eyes and pulls out a dagger from his bosom.
“…?”
His erratic behavior. Through emotion, Seongil didn’t feel any hostile feelings from Azu, so Seongil didn’t do anything, but he couldn’t help but feel embarrassed inside.
Swoop.
Ga-Az, who accidentally stabbed himself in the palm of his hand, started making strange noises from his mouth. Then his blood turned black.
“I, Gaaz the Ta-Jarran, swear by my blood and soul. Should I injure you while pursuing the Star Spawn, I will compensate you in any way. If I break this oath, my soul will never be saved.”
‘Wow… That he behaves like that?’
In fact, Seong-il, who only read history through the text, did not properly understand the hatred of other people for the descendant of the star. Because there was a difference between seeing with eyes and reading in writing.
In the meantime, when Gaaz recited the terrifying oath spell in front of his eyes, he was able to personally experience how deep their grudge was.
“Can you believe me with this?”
“…What I know isn’t that great. You might be disappointed? And how do you know what I’m saying is true?”
“I judge what is important and what is not important. And I have a recipe for detecting falsehoods in others. So neither matter to me.”
“Hmm…”
He puts on a troubled expression on the outside, but Seong-il feels happy on the inside, feeling that he led the conversation the way he hoped.
“…If I give you the right information, can you sell me some good stuff? Better than now.”
“I promise you.”
‘Done!!’
Seong-il cheers inwardly when he thinks that he might get a new high-end item that he hasn’t seen in the game.
“Will you wait for a while? I’ll discuss with my paladin colleague on the first floor, and if he agrees, I’ll hand over the data right away. I have to ask him for his understanding, so…”
“Sure. I’ll wait.”
“Wait.”
Hiding his bubbling joy, Seong-il starts going down to the first floor, pretending to go to talk with a colleague.
‘At this point…’
When he feels no presence on the stairs leading to the first floor, Seong-il picks up his smartphone and tries to return to the real world after a long time.
“Edward.”
“Yes. Master.”
“…Do you have a printing function?”
“Sure. If only you could give me a piece of paper…”
Seong-il asks Edward a trivial question and lightly explains his current situation to him.
“Ah, if that’s the case, it’s easy. If the owner displays the game-related data you wish to print on the augmented reality, I will organize and print them.”
“Oh. That’s right.”
At Edward’s words, Seong-il uses his phone to quickly search for related materials.
‘…By the way, wasn’t the Inner Plane a different dimension? But how does the Internet work in Pineapple House?’
One of the questions I have while searching for data on my phone.
‘Well… This must be the game master’s ability after all. One or two strange things…’
As a game master who acknowledges even absolute beings like Space Meow, Seong-il thinks that searching the Internet with his phone in another dimension is actually no big deal.
He had been thinking about such useless things for a long time to collect data. Soon after, he succeeds in preparing materials to a fairly satisfactory level.
‘If I give too many details, it will look strange…’
If the facilities inside the [Church of the Stars] Or the personnel residing there could be misunderstood, Seong-il left out the information and simply handed Gaaz the coordinates of the sewer where they were hiding and a map of its surroundings. Make up your mind
“Edward. Can you write a report based on this data?”
“Of course. Based on the data you gave me, I will make a report suitable for the world there.”
“Oh…”
Edward’s answer was so trustworthy. While he starts working, Seong-il lies down on the grass in the garden of the goddess and closes his eyes for a while.
“…Master. Have you finished your work?』
“Oh… Already?”
When Edward says that it has been a while since he closed his eyes and that he has already finished the work, Seong-il looks surprised and checks his data.
“…Is that plausible?”
Surprisingly, Edward drew a map of the groundwater on parchment. He even uses the technique of depicting the map in a crude drawing style so that it does not feel too mechanical, making Seong-il admire.
“Ah, I’m glad you were satisfied.”
“It’s perfect…? Okay. I guess we can try to make a deal with Gaaz.”
So Seong-il puts Edward back into his inventory and moves to the world of the cursed throne.
***
“Take this.”
Seong-il gives the bundle of parchment he received from Edward to Gaaz, a merchant who grew up out of town.
“Hmm…”
Gaaz calmly begins to read the report he handed over. In fact, the amount was so small that it would be embarrassing to call it a report, but the content was so detailed that it surprised Gaaz.
“How can you be so sure there are stellar children hiding here?”
“…There’s a double agent. He tipped me off that there was a passage nearby that was secretly hidden by the children of the stars. Based on that information, I and a colleague explored the area thoroughly. And I In fact, traces of secret and advanced concealment magic could be found there.”
Seong-il recalls the event going to the Church of the Star through gameplay and briefly explains it to Gaaz.
His words sound quite lively because he describes a route that actually exists.
“…I can’t do that.”
“…?”
However, despite Seongil’s meticulous explanation, Gaaz hardened his expression and denied Seongil’s words.
“Each of the offspring of a star is a powerful psychic. That’s why they can keenly grasp betrayal. Your words are misleading.”
Gaaz sharply points out the loopholes in the logic of Holy Days. However, Seong-il refutes his hypothesis without difficulty because he knows through gameplay that deception is indeed possible.
“You’re welcome. Did you forget where this place is? Solanium. It’s where the Pantheon is located. With the power of the gods, you can deceive them as much as you like. The temple isn’t far away either. If you doubt the authenticity, go to the Temple of Dawn. Because they can bless you with deceiving psychic powers with Dawn.”
“Umm… It’s dawn… Sure… If it’s there.”
He only spit out the knowledge he gained from the game in moderation, but interestingly, Gaaz makes a face that understands Seongil’s words.
“…Just in case, don’t think about trying to solve the problem among you guys. If you do that for no reason and the Church of the Star hides deep underground, things will get complicated.”
“Okay.”
“The case that the Temple of Justice, Hammer and Anvil commissioned me directly. If you cause trouble, you’ll have to worry not only about me, but also about the prosecution of the two temples.”
Seong-il is worried that Gaaz might do something useless and twist the quest, so he warns him half-threateningly.
Surprisingly, however, Gaaz doesn’t seem offended by his demanding demands.
“Are you going to continue the mission after that?”
“Of course. However, I was commissioned to urgently retrieve the sacred relics, so I’m not planning to solve the problem and investigate their lair.”
“Hmm… Isn’t it the Order of the Stars first? They’re really dangerous.”
No matter how precious the holy relic is, the enemy is none other than the “Cult of the Stars”. When Seong-il says that he will give priority to other missions while leaving the evil beings that have been rioting throughout the universe, Gaaz expresses an incomprehensible expression.
“Well? The one I have to fight now is the Red Dragon. If it were him, he’d have enough priority over the offspring of the stars.”
“…You, a human, are a dragon?”
Gaaz shows emotion on his face for the first time at Seongil’s absurd remark.
When he tells Seong-il that he will hunt the dragon, which is the strongest among mortals, he looks dumbfounded.
‘…Emotion whispers to me to implement a gamble here.’
‘Anyway… Ms. Yulina is away for a while, so Gaaz is alone here! In this situation…’
Anyway, his abilities must have been revealed when he was revealed to his teammates because of his meow. Seong-il decides to open up all his abilities in front of Gaaz in order to earn Gaaz’s trust.
“!!!”
When the barbarian in front of him suddenly exudes strange power from his body, Gaaz widens his eyes in shock.
“You… What the hell?”
The appearance of Seongil, floating in the air using telekinesis, radiating bright light like the sun from his right hand and emitting evil like pitch black from his left hand.
Even a being that appears to be a mighty spirit emerges from his shadow and starts wandering around him.
“Does it still look funny to me going to fight a dragon?”
“…”
As the warrior in front of him displays transcendent deity, Gaaz feels his doubts melt like snow in his heart.
“…There’s no way a strong person like you could be an ordinary person. There’s no way what I’ve said so far is a lie.”
“So?”
“I offer you a deal.”
‘At las!!’
Seong-il cheers loudly inwardly when he gets the answer he wants after a long push-and-pull. However, he asks with a grave expression, hiding his joy as much as possible.
“What deal?”
“…When you go to subdue the Church of the Star. Please accompany me and my comrades.”
“…Do you have any companions?”
“Of course. Why do you think I’m doing business here for no reason?”
“…!!”
Story I’ve heard for the first time. In the game, Gaaz is only described as a merchant who comes out when you install DLC, and there is no explanation other than that, so Seong-il looks surprised at the words that come out of his mouth.
“There is only one reason why me and my companions came here. To wipe out the Order of the Stars and inflict the most severe pain on them.”
‘It must have been like that.’
While playing the game, Seong-il wondered why a merchant from another dimension appeared when he installed the DLC out of the blue.
However, he didn’t think much of Gaaz’s appearance as it was just an Easter egg added by the production team so that players who played the previous game 『The Seeker of Death』 Could have unexpected fun.
However, when the hidden truth comes to him, he asks Gaaz with an interesting expression.
“Are you and your comrades strong?”
“Of course. My companions and I are the ‘Enforcers’ of Ta-Zarran. They are the most powerful beings in our race. They have killed countless children of the stars.”
‘Sir… He wasn’t just a merchant, he was an enforcer?!’
Seong-il had already had experience fighting other-grown enforcers in 『The Seeker of Death』, So he knew roughly how strong they were.
‘Aren’t those enforcers bloody bastards, each one a killing machine? When I went down the Corruption route in 『Death Seeker』, I had an experience of hanging out with them and seeing blood…’
Knowing the strength of the other enforcers, Seong-il thinks that the sub mission to subdue the “Church of the Star” Might not be difficult, surprisingly, if Seong-il takes advantage of this opportunity and receives their help.
‘If I’m good, I might be able to eat one of the sub quests raw.’
At that time, Seongil was immersed in pleasant imagination. Gaaz finally reveals his condition to Seong-il.
“If… You join me and my comrades in subjugating the [Church of the Stars], I will give you a powerful item that I never sold to anyone at a low price.”
“Oh…? What kind of thing is it?”
Fortunately, when Seong-il becomes intrigued, Gaaz takes Seong-il three sensory stones from her arms and hands them to him.
