Chapter 552 – The Cursed Throne
With the help of Edward, the audio-visual material has been transformed into a classic game theme in a high-definition format. Shocked, the group starts looking at the simulation Seong-il handed over.
Weeing!!
“…?”
The sound of a notification on your phone while your colleagues hold the jewel and read the memories.
‘What?’
It will take some time for his colleagues to watch the video, so Seong-il moves to the coachman’s seat for a while and turns on augmented reality to look at the message.
『Core synchronization complete. Receive your reward.』
“…!!”
A message popped up in augmented reality reminds Seong-il of a fact he had forgotten.
‘The core I got from the dungeon where I went to get the Ark’s Hunter license in reality…!! Is digestion complete?’
Excited Seong-il quickly clicks on the message to check the reward.
Wooooo!!!
When you click on the reward, Seongil’s hand suddenly starts to emit intense light. Surprised, Seong-il looks around, but fortunately no one seems to notice this special situation, perhaps because it is an ordinary road without people.
“This…?”
And after a while, the light faded. Then Seong-il confirms that a familiar house is in his hand.
“…Another Pineapple House?”
Seong-il looks at it with an absurd expression at the sudden reappearance of the object.
“What do you mean…?”
Seong-il was embarrassed, but I don’t think the game master gave him anything meaningless.
So Seong-il puts his embarrassment behind, picks up the pineapple house and uses his emotions to check his abilities.
『Little Pineapple House』
* You can now install a minor grade version of the Pineapple House on uncleared game worlds. (Reinstallation cooldown 30 days)
You can appoint one of the followers to the installed house as a manager, and the appointed follower can enter and exit the Little House at any time through the Pineapple House.
In addition, the manager is given a special code that can only be used in the world where the house is located, and the manager can use that code to teleport to the house once a day.
* As it is a deteriorated version, unfortunately, the special abilities provided by the Pineapple House are not provided.
(However, comfort is still there!!)』
“Oh…”
The appearance of an item that allows you to bring followers to the game world that you have not cleared in the future. Seong-il takes a look at an item that looks quite useful.
‘Are you okay…? If you can bring in strong followers in a new game, clearing will be easier. Even if I bring Eunwol right now… Oh!’
Instinctively thinking of Eun-wol, Seong-il finds a loophole in the house.
‘…Eunwol isn’t my follower yet, and besides him, there’s no other follower who can help me combatively?’
Seong-il looks at the pineapple house with a puzzled expression when he gets a good item by luck and doesn’t seem to be able to use it properly.
“Keuk… This is a complete gyereuk…”
Still, it’s not something that can’t be used, so Seong-il puts the house in his inventory and moves to the break room again.
***
“Did everyone see the contents?”
“Hmm? Umm…”
The party member closes his eyes and examines the video contained in the bead, then opens his eyes to see if he has finished reading, and makes a strange expression.
“How do you feel?”
“Well… How to say, some were battle videos of a high level that made us wonder if we could do it, and some were our future… It was like a battle of hardship.”
“Good job! Then look at this too.”
“…?”
Colleagues are puzzled when they take out another jewel after seeing one jewel for how long. Either way, Seong-il urges them to read the orb containing another possibility.
“Um…”
You start looking at the next one before the shock of the first one wears off.
And countless scenes of failure that can be seen in it. Everyone’s expression starts to harden at the scene that makes the spine shiver.
“Now, have you seen everything?”
“Ugh… I saw it.”
Perhaps because of the bloody failure simulation, Sena answers with a sullen expression.
“Now, let me explain why this battle failed…”
As befits a deceased person, Seong-il explains the reason for the failure in frames to the grouchy party.
“…In this case, the priest was concentrating on the battle in the vanguard, so the problem was caused by not being able to solve the confusion in time.”
“Eeeing? I don’t think so.”
At Seong-il’s words, Bruno refutes with a dissatisfied expression. However, rather than being displeased with that appearance, Seong-il begins a discussion with him as if he had been waiting.
“Then what do you think you should do?”
“That’s it… So that this doesn’t happen…”
Seong-il listened to Bruno’s refutation. He smiles and takes out a marble with a video of a failure that accurately refutes that opinion and hands it to Bruno.
“Look at the memory in that marble. Then you’ll know why I said that. Also why I was wrong in that opinion.”
“…”
As soon as his own opinion comes out of his mouth, Seong-il brings out the rebuttal material, and Bruno looks bewildered. However, even for a while, he calmly checks the video holding the materials Seong-il handed over.
“Okay…”
“Next comment!!”
“Um… I am…”
Senna spits out her opinion while leaving the downcast Bruno behind. Seong-il, who has heard the story, shows a related video with a short rebuttal.
Almost half a day to do that. After intense strategy discussions with the party, Seong-il eventually succeeds in teaching them how to attack the dragon.
***
After the intense discussion, the colleagues who came to believe that the knowledge Seong-il spewed out were really reliable, and repeatedly asked questions meticulously after watching the video.
Thanks to this, Seong-il, exhausted, lies down on the sofa in the lounge while they study on their own while watching the video.
“What are you doing?”
“Kkeuh… I’m tired after brushing my mouth for half a day. I’m going to rest.”
“Huh… Wasn’t it a joke to see what you’re wearing today?”
“I see.”
Seong-Il gives a blunt answer to Sena, who smiles and asks a question.
“We must have looked like fools all this time, right? To you…?”
“No way.”
“Huh? Why? The hidden power was great, and the knowledge seemed to be deeper than I thought?”
The way he spoke was soft, but he felt weak inside. Seong-il loosens her posture from lying in the emotion and raises her head to look at Sena.
“It was nice to be able to travel with you guys. It was a way out of my fucking life.”
“To…?”
Sena, who had come to complain about her floating words, stares blankly at Seong-il in embarrassment.
Either that or not. Due to the destruction of her civilization on her holy day, she muttered while looking warmly at a game character that made her childhood, which was difficult to say happy, even briefly enjoyable.
“There is. Something like that.”
“Ah, well… Anyway, you said you liked traveling with us?”
“Okay.”
It’s hard to see her as pretty, but when she sees Sena’s cute smile, Seong-il feels that her heart is weakening and opens her inventory.
“Take it.”
“To?”
As her Holy Day opens the strange crack again and takes out her things and hands them to herself, Sena opens her eyes wide and looks at her things and Holy Day alternately.
“What’s this?”
“The rod is a magic wand. The red potion is a restorative.”
“Why is this…?”
Sena looks at Seong-il with a bewildered expression when she sees Seong-il only taking care of herself.
“Ah~ Mister, can you? Me?”
“Don’t fuck. It’s because you’re the weakest.”
“Sheesh.”
Sena seems to be a little saddened by Sungil’s knife-like reaction, but seems to think so.
“I know. Me too. Compared to the other colleagues, I am weak.”
“Instead, you are the one who stands at the head of the group. You are not only the one who has an important role, but also the one who is brave. Be proud of yourself. Each one has a different mission.”
“Lol…”
Since she actually thought and thought of a good utility job like a thief, her voice was sincere, and Sena nodded her head vigorously as if it boosted her confidence.
“That’s right! Everyone has something they’re good at!!”
“Yeah. In the meantime, this too…”
“…”
When her Sena’s mood seems to be relieved, as if she’s been waiting for her, Seongil takes out her 『Devil’s Tooth』 From her bosom and hands it to her.
“It’s a throwing magic dagger…”
“Ah… Indeed…”
The time when Sena was embarrassed and grateful at Seongil’s behavior of treating herself as her youngest brother.
Ban and the rest of the team opened their eyes again to see if they had read enough of the memory orbs.
“What are you doing?”
Seong-Il is out of the blue lying on the sofa in the break room and chatting and playing with Sena, Bruno asks in a brusque tone.
“She was lending an artifact to Sena. She should protect herself.”
“Oh, what…”
Seong-il’s words seem to have hit the mark, and Bruno scratches his head uncharacteristically and evades his words.
“Everyone!! Is there anything more theoretically curious? Discussion is good!!”
“Umm… I don’t have one because you organized it so neatly. Jjiik.”
“So am I.”
Except for the original party, the rest of the colleagues show that learning has been completed. Seeing this, Seong-il laughs bitterly and decides to conduct the last training session.
“Then it’s your turn to go through the actual battle?”
“Practice… You mean?”
Ban is puzzled by Seongil’s sudden words. For them, Seong-il finally decides to discard her hand.
“Hey. How long until the Ghost Steed is resummoned?”
“Recharges every day at noon. Jjiik.”
“Good. After a good night’s sleep, training from morning to noon would be perfect.”
Currently, there are only six members of the team. Seong-il decides to take her colleagues to the Inner Plain in addition to writing a new house.
“Training…?”
“Yes. From now on, don’t deny the power I radiate and stay there. I’ll show you something fun.”
“What…”
Ignoring the bewildered colleagues, Seong-il grabs a nearby colleague and casts Inner Plane. Then, the colleagues who flashed and disappeared.
“…!!”
And the mysterious space seen there. As an endlessly huge, impressive, pure-white, bizarre space unfolds before their eyes, all of their colleagues look around with surprised expressions.
“Originally, I was going to test a mock battle based on my experience today… But today, everyone is studying the theory, so it’s a bit late, so let’s take a break.”
“Eh? Where? Just lying here? It’s not hot or cold, but…”
When Seongil leaves the resting room, which is perfect for taking a break, and tells her to take a rest in a space with nothing like this, Sena frowns and spits out negative opinions.
“Is it really so?”
“…?”
The party members are puzzled by Seongil’s puzzling answer. Instead of answering, Seong-il puts the little pineapple he received earlier on the floor.
“Come, follow me to this house.”
“Jjiik… Should I use shrinking magic? But that doesn’t last long…”
Perhaps he couldn’t throw away his arrogant habit, but the hamster secretly listened to Seongil’s orders and became sarcastic.
Either way, Seong-il, who is used to the pineapple house, ignores the nonsense and starts walking towards the pineapple house.
“Walk forward thinking, ‘I want to get closer’ to that little house. Then you’ll know I’m not talking nonsense.”
“What… Huh?!”
Seong-il, after speaking, made strange noises and approached the bizarre building, and Ban was embarrassed.
In the meantime, Seongil’s body suddenly began to shrink, transforming into a much smaller size than before and entering the building.
“B… Bruno. This… What is this?”
“…I don’t know either. But, that savage isn’t actually an ordinary being. Let’s do what he said.”
“…”
After witnessing the miracle Seong-il performed, the colleagues quietly start walking toward the building, thinking as Seong-il ordered.
Then, surprisingly, the figure of himself starting to get closer to the building that is getting bigger and bigger.
And not long after, they realize they’ve reached a building shaped like a grotesque pineapple.
“Come in first. Let’s rest.”
“Wow…”
Perhaps because the current situation is so strange, unlike her other colleagues who are wary of her, Sena enters the building, looking around her with her round eyes.
“Wow!!! Cool!!”
A splendid drawing room spread out in the building. Senna exclaimed in exclamation at the appearance of the interior lined with antique furniture.
“Let’s all have a meal.”
In front of his coworkers who are dumbfounded, Seong-il arranges the Matna series on the table from the monthly free lottery.
“Let’s rest for now! And you’d better prepare for tomorrow.”
