Chapter 115
Chapter 22 Party Play (6)
In the northwest of the old kingdom of Cairoth, the city called Timal was surrounded by a modest outer wall.
It was a simple fortress wall that did not have a moat in mind from the time of construction.
As a result, Timal Castle was not suitable for siege either in size or structure.
Maybe that’s why it was also an area that collapsed very easily when the Kairot kingdom was destroyed in the past.
The Ain species disappeared from Timal Castle, and a large colony of polluted land was formed as Meseo increased.
One day the monsters who settled there ate each other and called their numbers.
Around the time the dark sky began to brighten, a bright group of lights arose near Timal Castle.
It was a mass movement magic that could be used at outposts.
The same system window appeared in front of the players who moved through the magic.
RELIGION MISSION – PALAO
[Purification of polluted land ★★★★(06-2333)]
Destroy all enemies within range and destroy Meseo.
• Meseo (0/18)
Retrieve the sacred relics of the Church of Palao that were lost in the contaminated area.
• Relic – Staff of Gilon (0/1)
[compensation]
Participation Rewards: Choose from the rewards below.
• Magic 120, Fame 6
• Property Magic 60, Fame 12
Ranking Rewards: The following rewards are given differentially according to the ranking (ranks 1-10)
• Random Box?
• Achievements ?
※ The ranking is calculated according to the degree of contribution to the mission.
[Do you want to participate in the mission? (Y/N)]
Unsurprisingly, Joseph pressed the Yes button.
As if the others were the same, soon numbers began to appear at the top of the mission window.
It seemed to record the number of players participating in the mission.
The steeply increasing number stagnated after a few minutes, and the number was about two hundred.
About 20% of those belonging to the church responded to the order to assemble.
‘It came more than I thought.’
Personally, I expected about 100 people.
The participation rate was higher than expected because it was the first denomination mission.
After checking the number of players, Joseph slowly looked over the contents of the mission.
‘Random in the relic, random box… … .’
It seems that you have to be in the rankings to get the random box.
‘Isn’t the competition rate a joke?’
To be in the top 10 out of 200 people?
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Joseph clicked his tongue at the fierce competition.
Of course, I have no intention of falling behind because of the tough competition.
Players, including Joseph, slowly warmed up their magic for the upcoming battle.
Around that time, as if announcing the start of the mission, an article appeared on the church’s homepage.
「Title: Vicheta RELIGION MISSION – PALAO (06-2333) Progress – Author: Francesco
Content: This is a post to update the war situation in real time. Players participating in the mission, please take note.
– Saddam restraint
– Delete without notice in case of abuse of comment window
– Selected as blacklist in case of providing false information (five-fold increase in denomination point accrual rate)”
And as soon as the post was uploaded, comments were posted.
– Jane Austen: Information, Exploration Team 6 found a dog hole east of Timal Castle.
– Foie Gras: Information, 2nd Exploration Team found a large meseo colony south of Timal Castle.
As soon as they arrived here, they were the captains of the search party that started scouting Timal Castle.
The raid captains, pre-arranged the night before, also joined the comment procession.
– Millionaire: Current status, scheduled to enter south of raids 1-3.
– Foie gras: Information, Exploration Team 2 found an evolved species south of Timal Castle. An estimate of 3 hundred.
– Chess King: Current status, 10~11 Raid to enter south.
– Onion Soup: Current status, scheduled to enter the south of raids 17-20.
– Conan Doyle: Information, 1st Expeditionary Battle begins east of Timal Castle.
– Webfoot octopus: current status, scheduled to support 9th raid east side.
– Olive: Status, support team deployment complete. Blocking external evolutionary species and external monsters from entering the interior.
Those who grow slowly and do not have attribute magic and skills are entrusted with hunting monsters in other contaminated areas from the outside and blocking external monsters from accessing the inside.
The mission, carried out calmly in each position, seemed to go smoothly.
‘It’s good.’
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Joseph decided to calm down until the information on the north side of Timal Castle, where he was located, came up.
There were countless experiences of hunting in contaminated areas, but I couldn’t help but feel nervous.
The place he is now standing was enough to raise that tension.
The number of monsters distributed in the polluted area is similar to the existing 2-star missions, but the level is very different.
‘Are those 2,000 all evolutionary species?’
They are difficult to handle alone.
Isn’t that the reason why raid groups gather together to carry out missions?
The moment Joseph secretly gulped and swallowed, the comment Joseph had been waiting for came.
– K: Information, found Meseo colony in the northwest city of Timalseong.
– K: Information, evolutionary species found in the northern gate area. An estimate of 200.
– K: Current status, plan to secure an access road north of Timal Castle for raid 0.
It was Kay, the player assigned to the raid as a single person.
Fighting alone as a raid team, as well as volunteering as a search team.
Looking at the radius of activity, it can be said that the most threatening person in the ranking competition in this mission is Kay.
Evidence of this was the explosion that occurred near the northern gate shortly after the comment was posted.
‘Fireball.’
It is only a 2nd grade basic elemental magic, but the power varies greatly depending on how much mana is invested.
Watching the roaring fire made me stick out my tongue.
‘I can’t even imitate that.’
It has the same flame type of magic, but with the amount of magic that Joseph has, it will be difficult to imitate even half of that power.
“It was hot right from the start. Are you turning him off with aggro? Can you come in us?”
Girishi, who was standing next to him, whistled and exclaimed.
Either that or not, Nadia, who became the representative of the raid group gathered in the north, said in a calm tone.
“Kay said he’s securing the driveway, so let’s go.”
Afterwards, comments were registered stating that the 15th and 16th raids were heading north.
At the same time, other raid groups waiting nearby also commented on their entry.
“Prepare the display and prepare elemental magic in the order of fire and wind!”
The moment she was preparing magic at the direction of Nadia, who was running in the lead.
The door had fallen off, and a glint of light leaked from beyond the gate, which gave a clear view of the interior.
The closer it got to the gate, the more intense the light.
After confirming the starting point of the light, Joseph stuck out his tongue.
‘It flies very much.’
Literally, there Kay was flying around avoiding the evolutionary species that filled the ground.
Stepping on the red barrier in the air, I worked hard.
‘How the hell did he make that?’
Kay was the only one who could split the shield around Joseph like that.
Every time I saw it, my eyes were taken away by the mysterious sight.
Watching Kei like that made my eyes hurt from the flashing light every time he speared me.
He was dealing with an evolutionary species alone that would require four or five players to gather together.
Even several of them at the same time.
Although the number of kills may not be large, they are holding back the evolutionary species by attracting aggro.
I knew that it was a skill that allowed me to fight with the Paladins of the Order.
Seeing Kei’s movements with his own eyes, the feeling was different.
‘The more I look at him, the more he’s amazing.’
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Joseph was also a talented person who grew up taking an elite course.
He went to study at a famous university in the United States, and even got a job as a lawyer at the top law firm in his home country.
In all my life, it was rare to experience being left behind by someone in the competition.
But why do I always fall behind in front of Kei?
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Joseph, who was looking at the tip of Kay’s spear with faint frustration, raised his sword and bit his teeth.
‘I can’t lose.’
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Just in time, Kei, surrounded by three evolutionary species, swung the spear pole horizontally.
Two of them fell out after being hit by his spear, and Kay’s spear pierced the eye of the remaining one.
“Keeek!”
Right after that, a whirlwind of flames began to rage around Kei.
It was a third-class magic, a flame storm, implemented with fire-type magic and wind-type magic.
Backed by the wind, the stronger flames swallowed the evolutionary species in one bite.
Taking advantage of that gap, players including Joseph succeeded in entering the castle.
From then on, a head-on collision between the two sides began.
“Bake them all!”
“Don’t deal with it alone!”
Different raid groups swung and brandished their weapons from their respective positions.
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Joseph also lowered his sword, which was engulfed in fire, into the bell.
Cagan-!
The monster’s arm, which looked like a hook, blocked his sword.
“Huap!”
Girishi, who was chasing him from behind, put a hammer into the monster’s side.
He said, and saw that the leather was distorted.
“Keek!”
Thanks to this, the attitude of the evolutionary species collapsed.
“Poke right away!”
“I know even if you don’t say anything!”
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Joseph grabbed the monster’s arm, and while Girishi broke the Evolution Specter’s posture, another player, who had gone back, thrust a sword into the monster’s back.
“Keeek!”
A normal monster would have pierced the chest right away.
Unfortunately, the body of the 4-star evolutionary species was a little harder and thicker.
On average, it is a level that can be penetrated only when the ability to materialize magical power is at the level of concentration.
Among the players, only three or four players, including Kei, could gather magic.
As a result, the player’s sword penetrated the monster’s back, but did not completely pierce the chest.
But it wasn’t a big deal.
It was because the raid team was created to make up for that shortcoming.
While the monster was stabbed in the back, a gap opened up, and Joseph pushed his flame-covered sword through the gap.
His sword entered the monster’s mouth as it screamed in pain, piercing the roof of its mouth and driving it deep.
It was the moment when the trembling evolutionary species collapsed.
‘Caught one!’
After successfully hunting in a melee, his confidence rose.
“Apply at 8 o’clock!”
“More coming from 3 o’clock! Stop the tanks!”
The time when players were slowly killing evolutionary species with pincers.
A rumbling sound was heard in the distance.
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Judging from the fact that the ground actually vibrates, it seems that another battle area broke the wall.
‘It must be south.’
The tank line was unique to the raiding party on that side.
As expected, upon checking the church’s homepage, it seemed that the raiding party that entered the south had cleared the fortress wall as an obstacle.
From the beginning, Joseph clicked his tongue as he watched the raid move quite radically.
It was because the reason why the players in the south were aggressively proceeding with the mission was obvious.
‘Do you want to run from the beginning?’
It seems that their competition to rank in the rankings will be fiercer than expected.
If you want to receive something called a random box, you can’t fall behind here.
This was the moment when Joseph, who was a demon, corrected his sword and raised his magic power.
“uh? Why has the number of Meseo decreased already?”
“what?”
Girish smashed the head of the evolutionary species with a hammer from the side and heard a muttering.
Surprised, Joseph opened the mission window and his eyes began to shake.
It was only then that I realized that the cluster of lights that had been shining in my vision a little while ago had disappeared.
He looked around, but the person he was looking for was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, Kay left.
It seems that the attack group has safely entered the castle without interference from evolutionary species, so it seems that there is no need to defend their position.
As soon as I realized that fact, the number on the mission window changed again.
• Meseo (2/18)
In a short time, Meseo disappeared again.
Now that the battle around the walls is in full swing, how many people can get close to Meseo and destroy it?
At least Joseph thinks there is only one.
‘This bastard?’
Recalling a familiar face, Joseph screamed in anger.
“Hey you bastard, let’s share some!”
Unfortunately, the person who should have listened to his cry was not there.
* * *
The battle that started yesterday morning lasted all night and ended only after dawn today.
When the mission is over, I have 5 random boxes and 100 achievements.
It was a reward given only to the 1st rank, and from the 2nd rank, achievements and random boxes were reduced.
Among them, the random box is the same as 1 from 5th to 10th, and the only difference is the achievement.
‘Really salty.’
It was a mission with as many as 200 participants, and it was a reward on a scale that made me frown.
From 4 stars, it seemed that the additional rewards, the loot left in the castle, would act as a greater reward than the mission rewards.
‘There’s someone in charge anyway.’
There was a separate person in charge of distributing loot in the church missions.
It can be said that an administrative officer was elected to collect and classify the spoils in the castle and distribute them fairly.
‘Since the system measures the contribution, gossip will be minimized.’
Loot allocations will be made within a few days based on the contribution used to calculate the ranking.
Thanks to this, there was no need to remain in the mission paper after the clear message appeared.
So I immediately went back to Vicheta Castle, and I was able to face the priests who were waiting for the player’s return to the castle gate.