Episode 45-Wind of Change (5)
‘okay. This can be happen.’
When I thought about it, it was only natural. Because not everyone in the world has the same wallpaper as me.
The monitor and computer I bought just to enjoy games, and even the desktop with all kinds of games installed were all a result of my taste.
I didn’t know about the conditions for meeting the master program and becoming a ‘user’ in the first place. Of course, there are standards, but there may also be ordinary people like me, elderly people who are not good at using computers, foreigners, and children.
-Why are you installing the game? I don’t play games, so I only use this computer for work.
As I expected, this person was someone who didn’t play games. My intuition tells me that he doesn’t look old, but there are plenty of people my age who don’t play games.
“We can use the master program to activate games of various genres and types and use them to help residents. “It is useful not only for games but also for other applications.”
I advised that it would be a good idea to install various programs, including games, to the person who only uses the computer to work on documents.
Including programs such as desktop destruction. After inquiring a little more, it seems that the other party is also nurturing ‘guardians’ at the village level.
‘Are they a sedentary people?’
From what I heard, the residents the other person was fostering seemed a little different from my nomadic residents. Of course, even if that were the case, resource farming through games is much more efficient than actual farming or hunting, so I recommended Sandbox Crafting, the game I activated first, to my opponent.
It was a game where you could obtain not only simple food resources, but also really basic resources such as the mana awakening of residents.
-This is a game I’ve heard of.
The other person said it was a game he had heard of and that he would try it as I said. Looking at that, I suddenly became curious about the other person’s identity, but in the end, I couldn’t bring up the story.
Thinking backwards, I was worried about whether I would be able to answer when the other person asked about me. It’s true that I felt a sense of kinship, but that’s it. There’s no way I would want to reveal information to someone I don’t even know who I am right now when I first met them.
-Let me give it a try. Can I contact you again then?
“It doesn’t matter.”
Even after finishing the conversation, it seems that the other person also has some room left. The person who said he would give it a try as I told him seemed somewhat desperate. You can clearly feel the feeling of not wanting to miss the hint you managed to find.
‘Will there be more in the future? They say it’s better if you hold a blank piece of paper, so it might get better.’
I too feel a strange mixture of joy and instinctive caution. Moreover, I was convinced that this was just the beginning.
“…It seems you have sufficient qualifications as a hunter.”
That feeling of confusion continued even when I returned to the game and proceeded with the chapter with Riena. Thanks to this, I didn’t get to see the armor craftsman’s words as he grumbled after receiving the skin of the demon beast we had captured.
It seemed a little different from the original line.
“Did you say you were looking for evidence of the devil? “I’ll show you.”
The armorer stood up and led us inside the house that was attached to his workshop. Still, the quest worked properly. By completing this quest, which involves the armorer’s resentment and sadness, you can obtain special equipment independent of the story progression.
A kind of cycle in which resources are supplied through sandbox crafting, which focuses on free farming and crafting, and skills and equipment are acquired through quests and story progression in this action RPG game.
Even thinking about it now, games are essential. You can never win against bugs without the help of games.
“—!”
“He is my son.”
It is a rather large house as it is attached to a workshop. The place the armorer took us was in the basement. It was the same as what I already knew. And just as it said, there was a body lying still there.
But it was no ordinary body. It was so dry that it looked like a mummy.
Surprised, Riena flinched and slightly bumped into my character.
“I suffered this without any crime.”
In fact, the armor craftsman just looks down at the corpse with a bitter look on his face. This is also a scene I was already familiar with through the strategy video.
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However, his expression was somewhat different from when seen in the video. What it is is a sorrow so intense that even I, looking at it through the screen, feel depressed.
‘Is this reality?’
I was playing it as a game, but ironically, the world over there was a stark reality. You’re fighting and rolling around doing quests and all, but those game elements actually don’t have much meaning.
It’s really like going to another world and fighting against the demons of hell.
“I didn’t tell anyone. I am afraid that instead of saving my son, he will cause other harm. That’s how unreliable the current denomination is. And this is not the end.”
The armor craftsman gave us a new quest, or rather a favor. The content, as I knew, was that my son and his twin daughter had been captured by a being suspected of being a devil, so I asked them to save me.
“—.”
Riena looked back at me. Looking at his expression, it seemed like he wanted to take on this mission. In fact, it will be more important to the girl in there, as she did the sub-quest in Chapter 1.
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‘The devil… trying to invade the world.’
Monsters called devils are trying to crawl out. However, people in the world have forgotten the danger and are falling into greed and complacency and are focusing all their energy on fighting and fighting with each other.
Riena’s face darkened after learning roughly the background of the game. For some reason, it didn’t feel like anyone else’s business to her.
The wind of change that suddenly blew through her hometown caused upheaval and numerous casualties. The turbulence, the cause of which is not yet known, could perhaps be said to be an external enemy.
However, rather than joining hands, the tribes of the grasslands chose to invade other tribes for their own survival. In the process, victims such as the children of armor craftsmen arose. Riena herself was one of the victims.
‘We have to face it.’
She tried to fight back. Because I have the power now. I actually had the experience of defeating the incarnation of a demon lord who was trying to manifest.
The armorer’s quest was only part of that struggle.
“Uh, is it that one? “How on earth do you know…”
Riena’s will was actually the most important thing, so he ran for the quest without hesitation.
She was confused as she ran after him, who ran without hesitation as if she already knew everything, but as always, his choice was not wrong.
‘What is that?’
I left the city and continued running. Since both of them were beyond humans, they were able to run without getting tired even while wearing armor. Even though he rolled and jumped wildly without anyone watching, he was faster than Riena.
The place we arrived at was an empty lot located on a hill a little far from the city. There was a shimmering portal there, similar to the one in the city. Riena was surprised to see that.
“for a moment!”
He jumped towards the portal without hesitation, as if that was his goal. As he disappeared into the portal, Riena was very embarrassed and bit her lip.
Because she was a faithful believer who had already decided to throw herself where he went.
“Ugh.”
Riena threw herself into the portal. Jumping just like him. At the same time, the space changed and the surrounding scenery changed.
[The food is walking in on its own feet]
Velas, the game’s elite monster and low-level demon. It is a monster in the shape of a spider with the torso of an old woman on top of its head.
The boundary between hell and earth became blurred, and when the demon lords came out and tried to break down the boundary, Velas, who escaped through the collapsing crevice and gained momentum, grinned at the people who invaded his nest.
The earth, filled with believers who had inherited the power of God and bloodlines of heroes, was certainly a dangerous place even for them, but since the situation was not normal, they were caught.
Here, Velas, who was only a low-level demon, existed as the embodiment of fear and was able to increase his power.
[Come, foolish…huh?]
But that only applies to people in this world.
To some, Velas is just another monster that appears in Chapter 2. No matter what Velas, who had come to earth with ambition and aspirations and was growing stronger, no matter what he said or what he did, he just waved the staff in his hand and spewed out hot magic.
[What the…! Talk, listen! Words… ugh!!]
No matter what words Bellas, who was confident in playing with his tongue, tried to seduce, there was no way it would work on someone who had already decided on an answer before acting.
Even the black-haired female knight who ran after him turned a deaf ear to Velas’s words and only used her skills and swung her sword. Unfortunately, thanks to the light of heavenly protection and protection that the two possessed, even their unique hypnotism did not work.
[This can’t be happening!!]
Bellas, who was unable to withstand the combined attack of him and Riena, screamed in disbelief as he watched his body melting. It’s because I couldn’t even imagine that I would be punished without being able to say a single word.
“Go away, devil.”
[This b*tch, I remembered your face…]
All Riena uttered in disgust as she slashed her sword at Velas’ face as it melted on the floor.
And with that, the quest ended.
While Riena was catching her breath, he, who had no physical problems, walked forward and rescued the victims wrapped in spider webs. Among them, of course, was the armorer’s daughter.
‘This is the solution for armor. Now, the only thing worth farming in Chapter 2 is skill points.’
He brought Liena and the victims who were being held together to the city. Now, once you receive the reward from the armor craftsman, the quest ends.
After that, I planned to go somewhere else for my next acquisition. No matter how realistic it was, compensation was ultimately the most important thing to him.
“Where are you from? Grasslands? So did you come from far away? Oh, what kind of relationship do you have with that person?!”
However, the road back was not as quiet as it could have been.
The daughter of an armorer named Sophia naturally took an interest in the demon hunters who saved them even as they were being depleted alive, and her eyes sparkled to the point that Riena felt burdened.
Instead of being silent and not speaking, all the attention of those who were rescued was focused on Riena.
In fact, Riena’s eyes were spinning at such passionate interest in a woman who could be said to be a foreigner.
“These days, even if people say that the rumor is the work of an evil devil, they get kicked out and told to stop talking nonsense. I was despairing of not being able to trust anyone. But the light has not completely disappeared from this world yet.”
After that, the father finally got his daughter back. Even the eyes that were sinking in despair, dead and cynical, finally sparkled when they saw the light of hope.
“I just thought it was something I had to do.”
Riena, who was feeling proud, looked at the reunited father and daughter with satisfaction, and without thinking about it, said something that would be upset if he heard it from the man who had approached him from the beginning with the goal of getting compensation.
“Favors must be repaid, they do not come back as karma.”
Still, the armorer did not just say thank you without receiving any compensation. The armorer who brought them to the secret space of his workshop gave them a special armor that he already knew as a reward.
‘Is it really one? It doesn’t matter. If Riena wears it.’
When he saw it covered with cloth, he smiled bitterly. I expected there to be two, but unlike the Heavenly Guardians, which came with two, the armor craftsman prepared only one reward, as originally arranged.
“Maybe it’s because there’s only one. “How is this for you?”
But at that moment. The established flow was distorted. Since Riena did not accept this as a simple quest, the armor craftsman who gave the reward also did not consider the mission to save her daughter to be a simple quest.