Chapter 588 – Farm Story: Vespin Town
‘Suddenly… I’m going to brainwash the last target.’
In order to end her goddess like that, her holy day calls her Pirina to call her.
***
“I’m here?”
“Yes! Gongja. I heard that the mayor of Mineral City has come?”
“Huh.”
After receiving an urgent call from Seong-il, Pirina quickly came to him with Edward’s help.
Instead of explaining, Seong-il extracts the memory of the conversation with Mayor Jom as a video and shows it to Pirina.
“Ah! I see what’s going on. Now we can brainwash the Mayor of Mineral City and invite guests in earnest, right?”
“That’s correct. Let’s go deal with it right away as soon as we figure it out.”
“Yes.”
The two men and women, bringing out a plan they had discussed in advance and lightly recalling each other’s memories, move to the mayor’s house in Bespin Town.
“Oh! President Pirina! What’s wrong with you suddenly not calling?”
“Hehe. Today, we finally finished our bar that will be built in the entertainment district. Did you come to inform the mayor? I apologize for coming so suddenly late at night.”
“Haha! What’s between us…”
A conversation between the mayor and Pirina, who promote coincidence through conversation as if the current situation met without an appointment.
“There are guests inside, but come in and have a cup of tea.
Thoroughly acting out a coincidence, the mayor invites Pirina to her house and tries to establish contact with the mayor of Mineral City.
“Hmm? Who is he…?”
While having a tea time after the meal, when an unexpected visitor visits, the mayor of Mineral City asks a question with an expression of half curiosity and half displeasure.
“Ah! We are planning to create a new tourism and entertainment complex in Bespin Town this time… He is a businessman who decided to make a big investment in the business!!”
The appearance of the mayor responding quickly as if he had waited for a question related to the piri.
“…An entertainment complex? In this country? Where are the guests, entertainment…?”
Since he is the mayor of the largest city on Aqua Island, he is the mayor of Mineral City, who always tries to carefully understand the situation in the surrounding cities.
To him, Bespin Town was just an old city in decline, so he asked the mayor of Vespin with a slightly puzzled expression.
“Whoops! Are you sure you heard it right?”
At the muttering of the mineral market, Pirina answers him with a waiting expression.
“No… Let alone the population of Bespin Town is small, the population leaks to the surrounding cities every year. What…? Oh! Mayor Duol, please don’t misunderstand. I didn’t mean to ignore it.”
‘Was the mayor of Bespin Town Duol?’
The mayor of Mineral City forgets to take offense at the rude visitor and asks a question in a puzzled tone, as if Pirina and her mayor’s words are so absurd.
“Ah…! I understand your doubts, Mayor Lupine.”
‘The name of the Mayor of Mineral City was Lupine.’
To the bewildered Mayor Lupine, the mayor of Bespin Town begins to recite the prepared lines to him.
“It’s possible because it’s not an entertainment district that makes our city’s citizens the main target.”
“…Then, against whom?”
Lupine asked back with a slightly confused expression, whether he felt something ominous about the mayor’s words.
‘Suddenly… I guess I’ll have to start working.’
In response, Seong-il feels negative emotions rising from Mayor Lupin’s voice, and begins to cast several low-level mental spells as he did to the mayor in the past.
“I’m sorry…!!”
Apparently, the size of the city is overwhelmingly different, so the lupine market has always suffered from heavy workload. His eyes start to loosen up quickly, even though his physical condition is weaker than Mayor Duol’s, even though he was only hit by a low-level magic.
“Oh, we’re trying to do business with the citizens of Mineral City?”
“What?!”
Unexpectedly, Mayor Lupin’s expression begins to harden rapidly at Pirina’s words that he will try to run an entertainment business against the citizens of the city he governs.
‘It doesn’t work. Then, more powerful mental system magic…’
Despite using magic to make the opponent feel good, Seong-il, who reads the mayor’s mixed feelings of anger and embarrassment, projects a powerful charm spell and the power of the Ethereal Stone toward Mayor Lupine.
“…That’s why building an entertainment district in Bespin Town is a big help to the Mayor and Mineral City, right?”
“Um… Is that so? But, it’s not particularly helpful for the citizens’ happiness and my re-election…”
Having been beaten by all sorts of mental magic, Mayor Lupin listens to Pirina’s nonsensical story with a more relaxed attitude.
However, I only listen to it in moderation. As Mayor Lupine still expresses his opinion in a negative tone, a tired Pirina glances at his holy day.
“Actively supporting the entertainment district will be of great help to the mayor.”
With Pirina’s words, Seong-il, disguised as her bodyguard, brings a box full of jewels and gold coins and unfolds it in front of Mayor Lupin’s eyes.
“No, I’m taking a bribe…”
“This isn’t a bribe. It’s just a ‘political donation’ for the mayor’s next election.”
“No… I… Ugh…!!”
When Lupine tries to turn down the bribe like the mayor of Bespin Town, Seong-il mercilessly projects the power of the Ethereal Stone onto the mayor’s mind, as he did before.
“Ugh…”
Mayor Lupin, whose heart was shaken a little by the huge bribe in front of him, he can’t stand the ruthless attack and begins to bend.
“Will you accept it? My donation.”
“Yes…”
Mayor Lupine struggles to nod his head with his eyes wide open. Seong-il, realizing that he has completely surrendered, gives Pirina a signal.
“Hehe!! Welcome to the decision to ride the same boat~”
“Go… Thank you…”
She prided herself on being a seasoned politician, but when the woman in front of her quickly lost her pace and the situation ended, Mayor Lupin only nodded with a dumbfounded expression.
“…Is it over?”
When the situation was over, Seong-il knocked on the door and gave Mayor Bespin a signal. Hearing the sound, the mayor opens the door and enters, looking inside and asking.
“Yes! Mayor Lupine has also agreed to join us in our cause?”
“Now… That’s good.”
Mayor Bespin was really surprised when Pirina said that she had really succeeded in persuading the mayor.
“…In that sense, we need the help of you two… Will you help?”
“Uh…Our?”
“…With the election just around the corner, it’s a bit excessive…”
The two mayors, who had a relationship with receiving a large amount of bribes, look at Pirina with slightly frightened expressions.
“Don’t worry about it. I’m just asking for something simple.”
“…Which?”
“We would like to promote the opening of the entertainment district through a local broadcasting station on TV and radio channels. We prepared the materials in advance, but it remains as it is.”
Celebrity-class beautiful women dressed as goddesses and dancing all over the town, and people drinking happily while watching the scene.
“Um…”
“Will you help? For the people of Mineral City’s ‘right’ to know.”
“…”
However, Mayor Lupine seems to be still burdened by Pirina’s request, and is silent with a slightly confused expression.
‘Where.’
Seong-il, who sees this, shows different welcomes to the two mayors using a lighted sky for the first time in a while.
『Mayor Lupine who accepted a large amount of bribes. Is it okay like this?”
『The scene adheres to this small town…』
The two mayors fall into extreme fear as vivid visions of their ruin pass before their eyes.
“Even… I’ll help. But, video ads are expensive…”
After seeing the vision with the destructive content, Lupine quickly changes his attitude as he feels a cold sweat flowing.
“Don’t worry! We’ll pay for the television commercials. Even the radio!!”
“Okay…”
At Pirina’s words that she will take care of all the economic aspects, the two mayors reply that they will publicize the entertainment district with an expression that they can’t help it.
“Phew~ I’m glad it ended surprisingly easily.”
“Yes. I’m glad.”
“…But you said you’re going to make a ‘Goddess Festival’ in the future. Is that okay?”
In order to break the negative minds of the two mayors, Seong-il promised to make a sunny festival like the ‘Goddess Festival’ in addition to lewd business in the future.
Pirina is shown to be concerned that her positive festivities will cause setbacks in beating her goddess.
“Don’t worry. The positive festival will be held after making the Goddess my slave. Once I make her my slave, I will manipulate the mayors to shut down the entertainment establishments and expand the Goddess Church.”
“Ahhh~ Young master-nim, did you already have your thoughts?”
“Then.”
As Seong-il seemed to have thought through all of her post-mortem measures, Piri smiled and nodded her head.
***
Noon the next day.
“You!! Are you ready?!”
Appearing from the beautiful spring on Seongil’s farm, the goddess of harvest shouts, glaring at her Seongil with an angry expression.
“Sure~ What kind of quest are you planning on giving me?”
『…I’ll wait and see if you’ll be able to relax like that after listening to me!!!』
Despite her own bluffs, whether her heat in her holy day’s demeanor with a smirk had been received to the tips of her hair, her goddess exclaimed as she glared at him with an enraged expression.
『Bring me the cursed meteorite buried somewhere on this island!!』
“…A cursed meteorite.”
『Whoops!! Are you scared? You have no idea what a cursed meteorite is, right? Aren’t you worried?! Get on your knees and apologize to me right now!! You seem to be a fairly usable human being, so if you become my faithful follower…”
“See you next week!”
Seong-il, who cut off the goddess who was trying to scare her, turned her back with an annoyed expression.
“Profit!! That’s so nasty!!!』
Leaving behind the innocent mutterings of the goddess, Seong-il opens a strategy book.
‘If it’s a cursed meteorite… Isn’t it the meteorite sealed in the 100th floor of the mine?’
‘As far as I know, it was impossible to mine meteorites during the gameplay…?’
A cursed meteorite that only appeared as a mysterious object in the game.
There was an event in which the main character faced the meteorite and was attacked by a strong curse emanating from it, making it impossible to attack the last floor of the mine.
‘In the game, there was only a setting that you couldn’t go down to the last 101st floor because of the meteorite until you wore the accessory of the goddess, but there was no talk of digging a meteorite…’
However, despite the appearance of a quest that Seong-il has never cleared, he does not seem to be afraid at all.
‘If it was a quest that I couldn’t clear, I’m sure the reaction would have given me a warning with a strong stimulus. But, this time, Gamyeong didn’t give me a special warning, right? That means…’
It won’t be easy, but Seong-il feels that there must be some way to clear it.
“Hmm… It’s a cursed meteorite…”
“Yes. You know from the strategy guide, right?”
“Eh… I read the settings roughly. It says that it is a meteorite that emits a curse that steals the vitality of living beings when approached…?”
When asked of her holy day, Erica replies her holy day from what she read in her strategy book.
“Exactly. That’s why Erica and Yuna need to prepare some potions to lift the curse or restore vitality.”
“…Honestly, there are many different mechanisms for curses, so you’ll have to see for yourself to get a feel for it…”
“I think the same way. As Erica-sama said, even if the curse looks the same, the mechanism that triggers it can be completely different.”
Yuna and Erica are all at a loss for Sungil’s orders. Seong-il thinks to himself as if he can’t help it.
‘Oh… I guess I have no choice but to go up to the 100th floor.’
The nameless curse must be formidable, but since he has an elixir, he can defend against it.
For this reason, rather than waiting for his followers to make items, Seong-il decides to try them first with his body.
‘First of all… Take Red’s party to the 99th floor. The 100th floor is only for me…’
Seong-il, who thought so, begins to gather followers to do the same.
