Chapter 610 – The Doll’s Knight
『It is a secret technique that the ancestor, the doll knight, made in his later years. It’s a secret technique to carve trees into guardian dolls.”
‘Oh… Isn’t that what I was looking for?!’
Seong-il listened excitedly to the conversation between the two. Unfortunately, the kaleidoscope no longer shows the scene, ending the flashback scene.
“It’s a bit unfortunate…”
Seong-il wanted to take a closer look at Aira’s ability as it is an ability that can have a big impact on him. However, when the kaleidoscope doesn’t give him another chance, he regrets it greatly.
“Anyway… I guess we should consider capturing Aira and helping her mother tree as our top priorities.”
Seong-il summons his followers with a more relaxed expression when he is somewhat confused about what to do next.
“…So, for the sake of your world, I want you to check the mother tree carefully every day in the southern country.”
“Ohhh… The kaleidoscope’s future foresight… That’s interesting.”
Elaine et al. For a description of the holy day. Followers of the Mythology world seem to be very interested.
“…Then, you’re saying that we just need to get a special plant nutrient from Elisha-sama every day and sprinkle it on the mother tree little by little?”
“Well… That’s how it is. Then when the mother tree wakes up and asks you for help, send me a message. Then I’ll go to help right away.”
“All right.”
It’s nothing else, it’s related to saving their own world, so Claudia and the others nodded their heads in agreement.
“Please protect the flute and the store.
“Of course. Please leave it to us.”
“Ah, but just in case, think about a scenario in which you will be imprinted without a doubt during the spare time. If you only trust the kaleidoscope, problems may arise.”
“All right.”
Followers of the world of misology nodded with an expression of understanding at Seong-il’s reasonable request. Seong-il, who entrusts them with the two jobs he saw in the kaleidoscope, sends them away and turns on the game master to open the game purchase list.
“Puppet Knight… Where is the Doll Knight…”
Seong-il carefully reads the game list with super concentration. Then one game catches his eye.
“Ohh!! There is!!”
A puppet knight located in the A-rank game section. Seong-il puts on a strange expression when he is placed in the A-rank column in the 2D game that came out decades ago.
‘Well… Because it was a mega hit game at the time of release…’
Come to think of it, considering that the cursed throne, which is also a classic game, is also A-class, it seems that graphics and ratings have nothing to do with it.
‘Is it based on awards or volume…?’
Thinking about useless things for a while, Seong-il presses the purchase button on the doll.
‘Han Seong-il grew up a lot. Not too long ago, I was terrified of buying a game worth 10,000 points…’
Recently, Sung-il has accumulated nearly 600,000 points by breaking hidden/special missions all over the world.
He recalls the time he shed bloody tears not long ago because he had no points, and is amazed at his pockets.
“Wow… Even though I bought the game for 100,000, I still have 490,000 points left? Follower branch points are coming in soon, so… For the time being, I won’t have a headache due to the lack of points.’
Amused by the sudden change of pocket situation, Seong-il tries to enter as a knight of a game doll.
“Hmm? A tailcoat…?”
After entering the game, Seong-il instinctively scans his body and looks at his clothes. In the meantime, when his clothes are transformed into a tailcoat suitable for a wedding or festival, he looks at his body here and there in a panic.
‘Looking at my physical condition, I don’t think I was reincarnated as Theo, the main character… Is it an NPC? By the way, this game world is a fantasy world, but was there a human wearing a tailcoat? I don’t remember…’
At that time, Seong-il was embarrassed by his absurd attire and tried to open the status window. Behind him, someone opens the door forcefully and starts running in.
“Here he is!! He is here!!!”
“…?”
When someone looks at him and yells at him to tear his throat, Seong-il examines him with a puzzled expression.
“You bastard!! You dare fool our Ministry of Magical Security by sending a notice or something?”
‘Ministry of Magical Security…?’
Seong-il frowns at his words, saying that he must have seen the word somewhere, but it doesn’t come from his memory.
“Eat this!!”
When he stood still for a while. With a loud cry, the man in light armor takes out a bow and starts pulling the string.
‘…Ah, Ministry of Magical Security!! I fucking remembered.’
When Seong-il remembered the institution and hardened his body. The man who draws an empty string produces a glowing magic arrow from the bow and shoots it at Seong-il.
“Chit!”
Seong-il waving his hand vigorously with an annoyed expression. Interestingly, the arrows that fly fiercely at his light gestures bounce back powerlessly.
“You bastard… How?!”
In fact, it was a powerful telekinesis projected from the hand, but to the man, it seemed as if Seong-il had deflected the arrow with a light gesture, so he looks shocked.
‘Let’s bounce first.’
I don’t know what the situation is, but it’s definitely not a good situation. For this reason, Seong-il, in order not to be captured by the enemy, rushes to a high place after infusing his body with one round of energy.
‘Huh… What government office is it? The height of the building is incredibly high.’
The inside of the building is clearly not an ordinary building. Seong-il clings to the tall wall of a building like a spider and scatters emotions around him.
‘Wow… Isn’t it wide? There’s even a huge three-story high hall in the center…?’
That time when I was running fast and trying to grasp the surrounding terrain and the current situation. A while ago, the man shot an arrow at Seong-il and shouted loudly.
“The phantom thief is here!! The phantom thief was in the warehouse!!”
‘…A phantom thief?’
At the man’s words, Seong-il feels dizzy. Then he finally realizes what kind of existence he has been possessed by the world.
Tiring!!
As soon as Seongil grasps the situation, a message from the game master sounds as if he has waited. Seong-il quickly turns on augmented reality and examines the contents.
『Emergency Quest! Late night performance art! Will you accept the quest? (Y/N)』
‘Fuck… What is this again?’
The reappearance of an urgent quest that has been burned once in Mythology Academy. Seong-il doesn’t immediately click accept as he’s been through this before, and reads the detailed explanation while carefully avoiding the attack of the guards who are spraying more arrows.
『Treasure hidden in Atlas Hall: Steal the doll key & diary left by the doll knight within 3 hours! If you succeed, you will receive 10,000 points and a memory fragment as a reward!』
※ In case of failure, collect only 3 points!
‘I can do it…?’
I don’t know what the memory fragment is, but it must have been an information-related item, and I could receive only 1 additional point.
Seong-il thinks the difficulty of the mission is okay because even if he fails, he only loses 30,000 points as a penalty.
‘There’s 500,000, but it’s around 30,000, so…’
Seong-il, who thought so, clicked accept the mission at once.
Piyuung!!
“Tch…!!”
While reading the mission for a while and doing acrobatics, the number of arrows increased even more. Seong-il looks down from the roof with an annoyed expression.
“Phantom thief!! Surrender!! If you surrender, I will save your life!! I say it again!!
‘Uh… When did they come over there?’
Figures of soldiers clad in light armor and holding shortbows. They threaten Seongil by pulling arrows with magical power.
‘Magic arrow… Then this must be one of the five kingdoms?’
According to the setting of the Doll’s Knight, the Eldin Continent had a huge Grand Empire and five kingdoms fighting against it for survival.
Both factions possessed strong military powers, with the empire famous for its powerful enchanted heavy armor and melee weapons. The kingdom was famous for its powerful ranged weapons.
Because of this, Seong-il was able to be sure that this place was not an empire, but one of the five kingdoms, when he saw the menacing magic arrow flying at him.
‘First of all… It would be better to disturb them.’
Seong-il could have done enough to subdue the guards in front of him, but he didn’t want to hurt innocent people.
Because of this, he decides to deceive them using magic and the power of illusion.
‘First, the smoke screen!’
Seong-il randomly sprays a special smoke bomb made by Erisha and Yuna in concert to block the peripheral vision.
‘First of all, from this cheap mask…’
Seong-il uses the smoke screen as a shield and throws off the ordinary mask he has been wearing since the beginning, and puts on his most treasured artifact, the soul mask.
‘Go, children!’
To confuse the enemy, Seong-il scatters jewel-encrusted stuffed toys all over the place to create an alter ego, and then scatters the alter ego in all directions.
‘After this I go into hiding…’
Seong-il quickly led the shadow and hid in it. Soon after, as dozens of alter egos resembling Seong-il start running around, the hall begins to fall into chaos.
“What… What!? Go… Suddenly a phantom thief…?!”
Pew!! Pew!!
Bewildered guards. When they stop pulling their bowstrings in confusion, the alter ego detonates them by exploding smoke bombs received from Seong-il everywhere.
“Gather in the central hall!! Protect the goods there!!”
A man who appeared to be a low-ranking official shouted. After hearing that, Seong-il thinks with his eyes twinkling in the dark.
‘Oh? Is the target hidden in the concourse?’
Because of this, Seong-il was about to move naturally to the central hall while looking at the map made of the information he had identified through sensory and augmented reality. A strong thought runs through his mind.
‘Wait… Is this… The map…?’
A familiar looking interior. Seong-il realizes that this map is an area he visited while playing a game in the past.
‘Here… Isn’t this the place where the main character comes to do a sub-quest? Meeting the thief for the first time…’
Seong-il sees this and succeeds in grasping the situation perfectly.
‘Isn’t it the hall in the city where the group of protagonists meet the phantom thief for the first time? Then… The treasure will be ‘there’.’
Seong-il had already experienced the event while playing the game. He turns his body in the direction of the concourse and quickly takes his steps to where the real item is hidden.
‘I’m trying to trick you into thinking I’m aiming for the central hall…’
Seong-il takes out the jeweled stuffed toy again, summons several alter egos, and gives them various smoke bombs.
“Rush into the central hall immediately and add to the chaos!”
“Huh!!”
At Seongil’s words, the alter egos rushed without hesitation. Seong-il, who has been looking at it for a while, quickly moves to a secret storage room located in the basement.
‘This is probably it…’
Not long after he carefully moved his steps, following his memory and strategy, a small library with a dark atmosphere appeared in front of Seong-il’s eyes.
‘Was it here?’
It was a dark space without a single light, but Seong-il was able to see the dark place perfectly because of the power and sensitivity of infrared vision bestowed by the ring of incomprehensibility.
Because of this, he moves his body without hesitation and pushes his bookshelf away with telekinesis and finds a hidden secret door.
‘…Is it really the same as the game?’
Being curious, Seong-il uses telekinesis to open the door.
“I see!! The phantom thief!! You saw our trap?”
As soon as the door opened, a woman shouted loudly as she looked at Seongil who had appeared.
‘Oh… Is it pretty?’
A beauty in a tight uniform with bobbed brown hair, a dot under her eye, raised her signature magic wand, glaring at her holy day.
‘Ah! There he is…!!’
And the figure of the book and the key that the doll is holding behind her. Seeing this, Seong-il realizes that she has come to the right place and smiles in repentance.
