23 – Hidden Quest (1)
“Three, Se Se-ah.”
“Ummm… ….”
My heart was beating like crazy.
Siwoon examines her face with her trembling eyes.
The signal of her body signal is…
‘I didn’t hug you because I felt a crush on you. Just drunk Judging by the twitching of the muscles around her eyes, she’s trying to force herself to cry…. It was very difficult and lonely. Did no one give Sejeong a hug?’
Se-jeong, with her eyes gently closed and her mouth slightly open, is quietly holding her Si-woon.
She looked down at her face.
‘Se Jeong-ah….’
Took.
Suddenly, she heard something fall on her head.
To-do-duk. Tuduk.
It started to rain.
Shoot ah!
The rain that started to fall became a shower and began to wet the floor of the street.
The air quickly started to get cold.
‘As expected, it’s raining…. It must be at a time like this!’
Hearing the sound of rain, Siwoon immediately went into her coffee shop holding Sejeong in his arms.
To get out of the rain for a while.
And she took out Sejeong’s cell phone. She called the number stored in her phone book as ‘Gisaeng Park’.
It must have been about 20 minutes since we finished talking.
Outside the coffee shop, a Bentley pulled in smoothly with its emergency lights on and parked on the shoulder of the road.
‘The admiration just comes out…. That’s Sejeong’s driver’s car?’
As expected.
There was a call on Sejeong’s cell phone. Siwoon answered the phone instead and confirmed that the car parked in front of the window was the driver’s car.
The driver opened and lowered his umbrella at the Bentley and approached the cafe.
Si-woon took Se-jeong into the umbrella opened by the knight.
***
For Siwoon, who rode such a luxury car for the first time, felt a fresh feeling.
As her sheet touches her ass, she can’t be this soft and luxurious.
The ride quality really killed me.
‘This is why everyone rides good cars….’
Sejeong, behind her own, propped her chin on her back and began to doze, dropping her head.
Sejeong is so innocent and beautiful to this extent.
The driver smoothly turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator, and started the car.
“Where does your lady friend live?”
“My home address?”
Siwoon told her driver her home address.
Then, the driver entered Siwoon’s home address into the navigation system.
I watched the raining street through the car window.
People didn’t want to get caught in the rain, so they covered their heads with both hands and hurriedly ran somewhere.
Some hurriedly stop at a convenience store to buy an umbrella and open it as soon as they step outside.
Siwoon witnessed a rare sight in front of a driver who was driving silently in a suit.
It is natural for cars to get blocked when it rains, but the cars driving in front of this car were clearing the way.
‘Wow…. Moses’ Miracle….’
Siwoon was about to feel a pleasant drowsiness at the comfort of the imported car.
‘I will definitely become a high-ranking hunter and drive a car like this.’
I was even more motivated.
Kikkik.
I arrived in front of the Shiun house before I knew it.
“We are here.”
“Thank you. Knight. Please take good care of our Sejeong.”
“Please go in.”
Siwoon glanced at Sejeong, leaning on the passenger seat.
She was unconsciously asleep due to intoxication.
“Sejeong, go in well.”
“… ….”.
She fell asleep and was silent.
Siwoon got out of the car and ran straight into the house.
As soon as I opened the front door, I went into the bathroom, brushed off my wet hair, and started taking a shower.
Shuaah-.
Water pours from the shower head. Siwoon wet her body with water and remembered the moment Sejeong hugged her earlier.
I was so determined to forget her, but I never thought I would feel so much excitement as soon as I made physical contact with her.
‘I can love her in this lifetime. To do that….’
God’s job. I became a hunter, a job that everyone treats, but I’m still just a newbie F rank.
If I become a well-positioned hunter like her Park Tae-seok, then I will approach her.
With solid abilities.
‘When that time comes, I’m sure Sejeong will also see me as a man. Wait, Se-ah. Because it starts tomorrow.’
***
Sweet!
The feeling of the blowing wind awakened her from her thoughts and opened her eyes.
The sight of Havana’s grasslands caught my eye.
The leaves of the tall trees in the meadow are dancing in the wind,
The corpses of monsters cut by knives are lying around, being eaten by flies that have sniffed them.
‘Chun Se-jeong. The reason I need to be more successful.’
I was determined to take a further leap forward.
So you can have her.
She inadvertently raised her head and looked up at her.
The moon has already risen in the sky and emits moonlight.
‘It’s already dark. However, there is still work to be done.’
All I had to do was a quest.
That’s right, the hidden quest in Havana Grassland.
The qualification condition for carrying out that quest is a level 10 or lower hunter.
However, it was a fairly difficult quest compared to the qualifications.
‘That’s why it’s a quest with the modifier hidden.’
As difficult as it was, the reward of the quest was savory.
In fact, there was only one Hunter who cleared this quest.
The person who cleared is Park Tae-seok.
I was able to know the truth of this hidden quest through YouTube run by Tae-seok.
‘I have to find that woman first.’
I had to find a woman first.
Park Tae-seok said that a woman with green hair and scratches all over her body will give you this quest.
The woman is anxiously looking for the man she loves.
It is known that the man she loves is in great pain and lives in hiding in the depths of the Havana grasslands, wearing a boar skin to cut himself off from the world.
Finding that man was the goal of the quest.
Men are known to be ferocious towards people.
And there was one more tricky thing.
It was true that it was very difficult to find a woman who would grant this quest.
‘Shall we look for it?’
Siwoon moved forward and inspected the ground.
On the soil full of soil, the footprints of wild boars came into view.
Occasionally, human footprints are also mixed.
Siwoon looked more closely with his two eyes that were better than others.
‘This is it.’
Across the rough footprints of the pigs, a different type of footprint could be seen.
It was like stepping on the ground barefoot without shoes on.
‘Let’s compare the sharpness of footprints.’
Most of the people who use the Havana Grassland wear shoes and walk through it.
However, I know that the woman you are looking for walks around here barefoot.
Therefore, if you look for her barefoot footprints, you will find her.
I bent over and crouched on the ground, examining her bare footprints.
“The clearer the footprints, the sooner you have stepped on the ground.”
The sharpness of numerous bare footprints on the ground was compared through visual acuity of 10 or higher for the left eye and the right eye.
A very subtle difference in the solidified soil around the footprints.
It was a subtle difference that ordinary people could never discern.
‘I went over there.’
Footprints followed in the east direction in front of Siwoon’s eyes, but with subtle differences, the footprints grew thicker in that direction.
In Siwoon’s mind, the path of her movement was drawn.
She walked down that path.
The giant wild boars were just dealt with by Siwoon, so not a single one was seen.
I kept walking.
After a while,
I saw three rocks as tall as a man.
The rocks were firmly attached to each other.
‘Footprints disappeared after this rock.’
That meant that she was right next to her.
The three rocks, piled on top of each other, looked very solid.
And there are scratch marks on the surface of the rock.
‘Could it be that she is in her soil under a rock?’
Bang-bang-bang!
She pounded the rock hard with her fist.
“Excuse me!”
“……….”
“Hey? Hey!”
Bang-bang-bang!
I tried to hit the rock one after another, but there was no response.
I moved my gaze to the surface of the ground around me.
‘Footprints disappeared after this rock. It’s definitely down here. There seems to be a passage under the rock.’
Three rocks protruded like a door leading somewhere.
Then you will have to open this rock.
In the information known from Park Tae-seok’s YouTube, it was only mentioned that the woman was rare and hard to find, and there was no explanation about the rock.
After Shiwoon stood up, he held up the Claymore.
Then she shook her head.
‘…… No. If I break this rock.’
I put down the claymore that I had lifted up with the intention of breaking the rock.
This rock appears to be a passageway connected to somewhere.
However, if you ignorantly break the passage with a greatsword and enter, it is unlikely that the woman will give you a quest purely.
Maybe the space in her rock is where she lives, but what if she smashes it and enters?
Instead of a quest, a fight could come flying.
‘I could open this…’ . Let’s find a way.’
I tried to hold the rock with both hands, pressed it here and there, touched it, and pushed the rock with all my might, but the rock didn’t budge.
“Okay…. It doesn’t open by force. It doesn’t even open by touch.”
I brushed the dust off my hands and observed the surface of the rock closely.
‘This rock cannot be opened by hand.’
I was sure.
Because no fingerprints were visible on the surface of the rock.
So, wouldn’t there be a switch to open this rock?
Shiun turned her gaze to the ground around the rock.
‘Ah! You can look where the last set of footprints is. Assuming there is a switch, I pressed the switch where the footsteps stopped, so if I stretch out my arm from where the footsteps are, the switch should be within reach.’
She took a few steps to the side.
‘This is it….’
Siwoon stood at the place where the footprints stopped and looked around, rolling his eyes.
As she stretched her arms to and fro, digging up the dirt in the ground.
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‘What is this?’
Some forms of certain patterns were visible in the soil.
I removed the soil covering the pattern with my hands.
Then I saw a lion pattern drawn on a square iron plate.
“If I press this?”
She pressed her hand against the metal plate.
“……….”
But there was no response.
‘Isn’t this also a switch? No… It’s definitely not the way to open it by hand. There are no fingerprints on it.’
I saw a lion pattern on a small iron plate.
There was one unique thing in the pattern.
The lion’s eyes were dramatically larger than its body. And in that eye, there was a space exactly for one ring.
‘It’s just the right size for a ring. If I put a ring here, does it react? Ah! For a moment.’
“Inventory window open!”
The inventory has been opened.
Siwoon took out the lion-shaped ring he had obtained by killing a wild boar a while ago.
[Lion-patterned ring][Normal]
A handmade ring made from wild boar bones. It contains someone’s earnest desire.
-Durability: 5/5
‘A trash ring with no stat boost. The name of this ring is the lion mark, so maybe it will open if I put it in.’
Siwoon put the ring into the space in the lion’s eye.
Surprisingly, the size of the ring and the size of the space matched perfectly.
Clap.
Then, red light leaked from the eyes of the lion in the picture.
Soon, the lion, which was just a picture, began to move while jumping on all fours.
It was like a moving video.
Kakakakakang!
“Are you okay?”
The ground began to twist violently.
The ground shuddered, and at the same time three rocks shook.
‘That’s it!’
At the same time, the three rocks began to bend like the petals of a flower.
Dududuk!
The rock made a sound and began to bend like an iron spear.
And then the gap started to open.
Siwoon went there.
Kikiiik!
Dust fell from the crevice of the rock and opened the space as if to tell Siwoon to enter.
A wooden staircase leading to the basement was revealed between the spaces.
‘As expected!’
On the surface of the stairs, which were covered with swarms, there were footprints that looked like someone had stepped on them barefoot.
‘Her footprints.’
I was about to step on the stairs and go down, but there was one thing that bothered me.
‘That woman… I heard she’s very rough.’
That’s right.
Park Tae-seok explained on YouTube that the green long-haired woman who grants the quest is very rough and her personality is like fire.
Moreover, she was like a wild animal, and if she didn’t like herself, she would just pick up her scythe and run recklessly at it.
‘I’m worried about entering, but this.’
It was then.
“Crab, who are you!!!!”
“… Huh!”
Siwoon was startled and she let out a small moan.
“Yuksiral, who opened the door to someone else’s door without permission!!!!”
The nurturing voices heard in succession from under the stairs,
It was creepy like a ghost, and the volume of the voice was so loud that the dust on the stairs bounced off it.
In addition, the spirit in her voice made Siwoon’s hamstrings numb.