Chapter 563 – The Cursed Throne
As he wielded his sword like a madman, at some point he realized that the dragon’s movements had slowed down.
“Fuck… Is he dead?”
Since it is such a cunning creature, Seong-il is not vigilant, and projects a response to confirm that the creature has definitely stopped breathing.
“Whoa… He’s dead…”
Seong-il puts his mind at ease only after confirming the information transmitted through the emotion.
“Kuh… Fuck… It hurts so fucking…”
As soon as the excitement of the battle went away and he felt the blood of the dragon sprayed all over his body burning his skin, Seong-il frowned and muttered to himself.
“Are you okay?!”
Perhaps worried about such a holy day, his colleagues quickly ran to him and checked his condition.
“No… It’s okay.”
Seong-il responds briefly, then detonates a purification smoke bomb to remove the dragon’s blood from his body.
“Girls, clean up.”
“Huh?”
Seong-il’s out of the blue muttered something to be sorted out, and while the party kept an eye on him, the tired Seong-il ignored his colleagues and scattered jewel-encrusted dolls.
“Okay!!”
“…!!”
In an instant, several alter egos resembling Seong-il appeared, took his sword, approached the dragon and eagerly peeled off the scales on his chest.
“Come to think of it, why didn’t you summon your clone during the battle?”
“…I get tired when the wooden doll breaks.”
“To?”
The doll handed down by the investigation of the Yin-Yang Hall is something that can not be restored if it is broken, so he cherished the alter ego, but Seong-il, who was bothered by everything due to the aftermath of the battle, simply answered briefly and avoided the conversation because he did not want to talk.
“Everyone just follow me. I’m going to finish it.”
“Hmm? Isn’t it the end if you kill the dragon? What’s the end all of a sudden?”
“…Did you forget the purpose of coming here?”
At Sena’s innocent words, Seong-il glares at her with an expression of absurdity at the moment.
And Ban also speaks briefly to her with her slightly pathetic expression.
“Recovery of Relics.”
“Oh right!!”
“…”
Ignoring Sena, who is talking alone, Seong-il traces her memory and moves to the dragon’s treasure house.
Sreureung!! Chin!!”
‘Fuck… When I first played this game, I didn’t know if there was treasure hidden in this fucking place, and I just peeled off a few scales.’
‘I was cursing about the game where the dragon is a beggar…’
In the first playthrough, Seong-il doesn’t know the location of the hidden treasure chest, so he searches for it, recalling the painful memory of leaving the nest with only a few pieces of dragon vinyl.
‘This is probably it…’
Seong-il traces her memory and uses empathy near the treasure shed he has arrived at.
“It’s here…!!”
The space felt behind the wall. Seong-il uses telekinesis to open the secret wall.
Drooling…!!
“And…!!”
The appearance of all kinds of colorful treasures visible through the wall. Treasures such as jewels and gold coins, as well as artifacts that were unusual even at a cursory glance, were placed here and there.
‘That’s the holy sword 『Light that shines in the dark』.’
And among them, a two-handed sword that catches Seongil’s eyes. It was stuck like an Excalibur in the middle of a round stone table.
“Ssssscha…!!”
Apparently, the holy sword was one of the weapons Seongil used the most while playing Cursed Throne, so he was happy to pick it up from the table and pat it.
‘Wow… Killing me…?’
The appearance of a sword that spreads holy power softly around it. Seong-il, who fell in love with the sword’s powerful look, carefully uses empathy.
‘Kuh…!!’
When Seong-il tries to grasp the power of the holy sword by using the sensitivity, surprisingly, the sword emits a sharp wave, expressing strong disapproval of Seong-il’s actions.
‘Oh yeah… I’m not a paladin, and it’s hard to see that I have good values, so I guess the holy sword rejects it.’
Like a deceased person, Seong-il quickly figured out why the holy sword strongly opposes his actions.
“It’s… Half. Take it. It’s a holy sword.”
“Ah… Finally…!!”
At Seongil’s words, Ban puts on a happy expression and accepts the holy relic of the church from Seongil.
Ugh!!!
Then, an intense light emitted from the sword. The Holy Sword, which emits a bright light enough to fill the inside of the treasure house, expresses feelings of extreme joy in all directions.
‘It’s… It’s bitter…’
At the reaction of the holy sword, which is 180 degrees different from when he picked it up, Seongil looks embarrassed and checks the rest of the treasure.
‘Gold coins or jewels… Just take them from the infinite jewel pouch, so they’re not very useful to me…’
So, Seong-il puts the goods aside and starts looking at the rest of the items.
‘Ah, is that…?’
An enchanted letter and an orb are neatly placed on the desk in the corner of the treasure house. Seong-il picks it up and examines its contents.
‘Right.’
The condition of the object as you thought it would be. Seong-il picks it up and hands it to Gaaz, who is sitting quietly in the corner.
“Take it. It is a secret letter exchanged between the Dragon and the Church of the Star. The Orb is an object that allows you to enter the secret base underground in Solanium.”
“Um…”
When Seong-il hands over the goods, Gaaz carefully accepts the goods and the letter and starts examining the contents.
“I see… It was true. The dragon and the offspring of the stars are in a cooperative relationship.”
“Huh.”
“…And they built a secret base in the basement of the Solanium Temple area…”
“What!?”
Bruno, who was quietly listening to the conversation between Seongil and Gaaz. He intervenes in their conversation with an expression of astonishment when an unbelievably shocking word comes out of Gaaz’s mouth.
“Really. Read this letter. It contains related information.”
“It can’t be… Although the power of the children of the stars is quite strong, the power of Solanium’s pantheon is by no means easy?!”
Reasonable Bruno’s reasoning. He carefully examines the letter, as if he couldn’t believe it no matter how much he thought about it.
“Did you see these crazy people…!!
Bruno reads the contents of the letter and is so angry that his beard starts shaking. Seeing that reaction, Seong-il suddenly feels that a strange question pops into his head.
‘Come to think of it… Seriously, why are you undergrounding the Pantheon? Not even in the slums or under the administrative districts…’
In fact, as Bruno said, the Pantheon was a place where there were many powerful priests who were endowed with divinity, so even if a large number of dragons invaded, victory could not be easily guaranteed.
When playing the game, he didn’t think that was strange, but when Seong-il faced the current situation in reality, he wondered why they had built a base in such a dangerous place.
‘The game didn’t tell me why…?’
‘But I don’t know if they’re stupid… The descendants of the stars are a race that almost conquered the entire dimension at least once, but there’s no way they lack the ability to formulate a strategy, right? Was there something believable…?’
Seong-il thinks about the reason as he rolls his head. However, no matter how much I think about it, the answer doesn’t come to mind.
‘Eh… I don’t know. If you go there later and check it out, you might find out something. That’s it… The rest of the stuff…’
Seong-il, who decided to give up on thinking about a problem for which he could not find an answer, begins to carefully search through the remaining artifacts.
‘Oh… The pieces are over there. Uh? That’s…’
As he checked the piece of abyss and approached it with a happy heart, a broken sword caught his eye.
‘Was that object named 『Arunrabe』? At the time of gameplay, in the item description, it was simply described as a broken 『Reliquary』.’
The appearance of an object that drove Seong-il mad with curiosity while he was obsessed with 『The Throne of the Cursed』.
‘Fuck… It’s an item that has a [Name] Title attached to it, and no matter what I do, it’s an item that can’t be restored, so it drove me crazy.’
Seong-il picks up the half-broken sword and recalls the gameplay he used to play.
‘Seeing as it was placed next to the ‘Holy Sword’, with a ‘name’ attached to it, and ‘Holy Relic’ written on it, I tried everything to see if there was a way to use this as well.’
Seong-il recalls the bitter memories of not being able to restore the broken relic, although he tried everything possible in the past game.
‘Sir… At least, if you combine the 3 pieces of lingerie you can get while playing from 1 to 3, an Easter egg item is put on the board, and the ‘relic’ has a ‘name’ attached to it, making it impossible to repair. I mean… The producers are bastards. Why are you unnecessarily stimulating curiosity…’
Seong-il recalls the production crew that caught him in the past and curses them.
‘In the end, that item turned out to be a reward item that, if you bring it to a temple that matches the values of the main character, gives you rewards, reputation, and experience points. I can’t use it…’
Seong-il, who became a master just in case, used the editor to see if there were any restored items.
After failing to find the restoration item, he searched through the dummy data with one tenacity and opened up the data about Arunlabe, but he had an experience of despair because he could not find the restored Arunlabe.
‘Umnya… How is it… Should I return it to the temple…? But experience doesn’t mean much to me…’
When returning Arunlabe to the temple only in the game, he received a fairly large amount of experience to help his character grow, so he always returned it quickly, but now the experience is meaningless to him.
‘Let’s take care of it for now. Do you know My followers will repair the relic…’
Thinking so, Seong-il picks up the broken pieces of Arunrabe and Abyss.
『Did you succeed in recovering the pieces?』
“…!!”
A strange voice rang in the head from the ceiling of the treasure house. Since they didn’t feel any presence, the group looked at the ceiling all at once in surprise.
“S… Space space kitty!!”
This is our second encounter since we saw each other in the slum underground. At the appearance of the cat made up of space, everyone in the party bows to him with awe.
“…What kind of existence is that?”
In the meantime, Gaaz, who sees the space cat for the first time, is overwhelmed by the majesty he exudes and looks at the cat with a firm expression.
『Whoops… You are a descendant of chaos.』
“Kuh…!!”
Kitty only called him indirectly, but Gaaz felt unimaginably intense pressure and was in pain.
That time when Gaaz frowned in pain. In an instant, the world turns gray and white except for Seongil and Kitty.
“Hmm…?!”
Seong-il is embarrassed by an unexpected situation. Meowie smiles and continues.
『Don’t worry. The conversation we’re going to have now has nothing good to hear, so we stopped time and space.”
‘…What kind of scale is that.’
Seong-il looks startled at Kitty’s words that he stopped the time of the universe to have a secret conversation.
Either way, Kitty takes the piece from Seong-il, then opens her mouth wide and swallows it.
『Nyan… It’s delicious.』
‘…Nyan?’
At that time, Seong-il was confused by the behavior of a kitty that made a cute sound that was not like a god.
Kitten takes away the ruined sacred object 『Arun Labe』 That her holy day was holding and starts to float it in the air.
“That…”
『Ah, this is a ‘holy relic’ I made myself. That’s what I said last time.”
“…That is?!”
Even after clearing the game hundreds of times, he couldn’t figure out the identity of that relic, but Seong-il, who suddenly heard the true identity of Arunrabe here, puts on a look of astonishment.
As if that reaction was amusing, the cat lifts its front paw and touches his face, then starts explaining about the holy relic.
“Okay. Arunlabe is a sacred object made by removing a part of my essence.”
