043 – 1st place report
Tigris opened his eyes.
In front of Tigris were Charlotte and Irene, looking at them with worried eyes.
“uh? Instructor Tigris! Is your body okay?”
Tigris checked the surroundings without saying a word.
The stunned Gnolls were kept by Irene and Charlotte in a corner, and there was no apparent threat.
“Even if it was a little late, I thought I would call someone. Have you overcome the ordeal of the constellation?”
“okay. What is more holy than that?”
A lover’s holy sign is a twin sign.
Perschen and Adne.
The one in Tigris’s hand was Persian, and another one had to exist.
“That was right before Instructor Tigris opened his eyes, the other holy object suddenly turned into a halo and entered the necklace. It also changes shape a bit.”
Tigris looked at the relic in his hand with puzzled eyes.
After that, the appearance of the holy thing was strange.
Perschen and Adne were necklaces with red rubies studded with ordinary gold strings, but their appearance was different.
The square ruby grew a little bigger and turned into a round shape, inside which were embroidered with 14 white dots.
It was a place for lovers.
‘Is this what you meant to help?’
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Judging from the combination of Perschen and Adne’s necklace into one, it appears that Tigris has changed to a power other than the one he knew.The abilities of Perschen and Adne’s necklace are teleportation and danger sensing.
The person wearing the Persian was the ability to sense danger and teleport to the person wearing the Adne when he was in danger of dying.
Conversely, Adne was able to sense danger and move if the person wearing Perschen was in danger.
However, since the necklace was changed to one, there was a high possibility that it was changed to a new ability or a new ability was added.
‘I must visit Hwangseong.’
The only one who could discern the power of this holy object was Matteo, the treasurer who guarded the treasure house of the imperial palace.
Anyway, I had to choose a holy relic from the 1st place report, so I decided to stop by.
“If nothing goes wrong, let’s go back right away.”
“yes.”
* * *
The maintenance of the forest for the 4th day training was completed, and the 5th day passed without any problems.
The two instructors, who were tasked with searching for monsters inside the Training Forest with Tigris, had their teeth cut when they heard that Tigris had obtained the Holy Relic, but that was all.
Although the two men were strongly scolded by Tigris on the first day of maintenance of the Training Forest, they did not perform their duties properly.
If the two had meticulously searched the forest of water lilies, they might have discovered the relic before Tigris.
Of course, I don’t know if I’ve overcome the ordeal of the constellation.
So welcomed Monday morning.
As planned, Tigris headed to the treasury of the Imperial Palace with the lover’s seat relic.
“Hmm···. It’s the first time this has happened, so I’m embarrassed.”
The Report Keeper Matteo checked the relic of the lover Tigris gave him by turning it around.
Originally, the sacred relics of the lover were called Perschen and Adne, respectively, but since they were merged into one, it was impossible to know what to call them.
“How do you test your abilities in this case?”
“There is a separate relic called the ‘Adventurer’s Magnifying Glass’ that reveals the power of the relic. I use it often because I can also check whether it is a genuine relic or not.”
Mateo returned the lover’s seat relic that Tigris had brought.
“Before we go into the first place report, we need to first check what this relic is. If it is a relic that affects other relics, there may be problems.”
Matteo pointed to the bench in front of him.
“Would you mind sitting and waiting for a moment? I’ll bring you the adventurer’s magnifying glass soon.”
“I see.”
As Matteo entered, Tigris sat on the bench and waited for a moment.
And I thought for a moment.
Aside from figuring out what the Holy Relic’s powers were, I was worried about which relic to choose from the 1st place report.
Tigris had a chance to enter the 1st place report before returning.
Six years later, he was awarded the Order of the Golden Cross for his great contribution to preventing the Great Invasion of Victory that occurred in March of the 344 year of the imperial calendar.
At that time, I had the same opportunity to receive a holy relic from the 1st place report, but because Beowulf died and all the mines owned by the Norberd family were destroyed by the Chimeras and monsters, the force was severely skewed.
So, instead of a first-class pass, he received 500,000 gold coins and a 20-year tax exemption from the Empire.
At that time, Tigris also had Dwin’s sword, the treasured sword of the Norberd family, and it was decided because the survival of the Norberd family was more important than the relics in the 1st treasury.
However, the very next year, Rota and Arpem waged an all-out war against the Empire.
Norbert was the number one target of attack.
They sent four men to kill Tigris: Tempe the Gluttonous Slayer, Feira the Rage Slayer, Levis the Mouth of Lota, and Schwitz the Horn of Lota.
At that time, Tigris survived and fled to the emperor Victoria, but Norberde was taken by them and all the knights of the Norberd family were lost.
And he fell for Arphem, and Linia became a mourner of sorrow.
If I had known that it would be like that, it would have been better to bring a good relic from the 1st place report.
If he had, he would have been able to run away by killing not only Lota’s Mouth Levis, but also Feira, the wrath-shaper.
At that moment, I felt a presence behind me.
She was Princess Rain Rover.
Tigris bowed to Rain Rover.
“I see the great golden clan.”
“Example. Tigris.”
Normally, I would have said why are you so stiff, but today it wasn’t.
It felt like an unknown wall had been built between Tigris and Princess Rain Rover after the Chimera Lab incident.
Tigris got up.
The princess opened her mouth after looking at the lover’s relic in Tigris’ hand.
“Is this a relic found in the water lily forest?”
“Yes. That’s right. It is a holy relic of the lover’s seat.”
“I knew there were two relics of the lover because they were twin relics, but why only one?”
Tigris briefly explained what happened in the Water Lily Forest.
Of course, he did not talk about Uno, only that he had met the constellation and that Perschen and Adne had changed the story.
“The story of Perschen and Adne could end with a happy ending.”
Rather than Tigris meeting the constellation, Rain Rover was more surprised that their love story could end in a happy ending rather than a tragedy.
“It must have been possible because it was Instructor Tigris, right?”
“If you’re like Count Friharden, you can see the story I’ve seen.”
“Well···.”
The princess suddenly asked a mischievous question, ‘Are you saying that Tigris and Count Friharden’s skills are similar?’, but she didn’t ask.
Tigris’ social status was too high for such a playful and light conversation to take place.
Tigris became a hero who saved the emperor Victoria from vicious chimeras, and became so famous that no one on the continent does not know the name of Tigris.
The imperial government actively stepped in and planted this image of a hero in Tigris as a distraction to hide the imperial defense and security capabilities.
However, the fame of Tigris grew so rapidly that it threatened the Empire more than the Empire had expected.
Currently, numerous wandering knights were flocking to the Norberd family to gain honor, and even prospective graduates of the Imperial University were overflowing with people who wanted to go to Norbert, not the Empire, regardless of their major.
Norberd had enormous financial resources to embrace all of those outstanding talents, so there was talk that he might have to contain Norberd from within.
In a word, Tigris and the princess now have a hard relationship where they have conversations that move the world, rather than a light relationship where they can share light jokes.
That was a little sad.
Princess Rain Rover decided to get to the point.
“The reason I came to Tigris was none other than to ask you one thing I’m sorry about.”
“What kind of request do you have?”
“Please find Viscount Kayle.”
Viscount Kayle was now the most famous wanted bounty in the Empire.
It was because Victor was the person who built the Chimera Laboratory by bribing the chief figures of the Empire, such as the police chief, the water bureau chief, and the eunuchs.
I have interrogated the Commissioner of Police and the Commissioner of Waterworks, but I can’t figure out why Viscount Kayle had set up a Chimera Lab in the zodiac.
All of them were just a bunch of nerds who pretended not to know about the Chimera Lab.
To delve deeper into the cause of this incident, Viscount Kayle had to be found and interrogated.
“Currently, the Inquisitor is overloaded. The police are more corrupt than I imagined, so I can’t trust them… The only person I can trust is Tigris. Could you please catch Viscount Kale?”
Tigris responded immediately.
“Yes. Okay. However, there are conditions.”
“Conditions?”
“I want to hire a person from outside.”
“Who is the outsider? Oh, maybe…”
“This is Rakan.”
Tigris knew his limits.
The reason Tigris was able to find the Chimera Lab was because he knew the location of the Chimera Lab was a sewer.
But Tigris did not know where Viscount Kayle was hiding.
Rakan’s help was needed to find Viscount Kayle.
Rain Rover nodded.
“I will permit it at my own discretion. If it’s Rakan, you can trust it.”
It was because Rakan was a very strange guy, but after talking to him, he realized that he was a pretty decent person.
Of course, not only were people shy and good, but they also had abilities.
While Rakan stayed in the Imperial Palace for a while, he caught an eunuch who communicated with the Chimera Lab, and in the field, he captured three factories that supply supplies to the Chimera Lab.
For that reason, the Inquisitor was thinking of hiring Rakan as soon as the research on Rakan’s tendencies and past investigations was over.
“By the way, are you planning on taking Rakan?”
“Are you asking if you want to make Rakan your vassal?”
“yes. Right.”
Tigris thought for a moment.
What will Rakan achieve if he stays under him?
‘Rakan should go to the Inquisitor.’
It was better for Rakan to enter the Inquisitor to fully unleash his talents.
There, you will be able to learn investigative techniques, break various quests, and grow quickly.
“no. Rakan would be much better off growing somewhere else than under me.”
“That’s fortunate. In fact, we are having an internal meeting about whether to hire Rakan from the Inquisitor.”
“If you’re Rakan, you’ll be able to adapt well to the Inquisitor.”
He played well before returning, so Rakan will be able to bring his talents to life in the Inquisitor.
“By the way, Instructor Tigris is secretly taking care of Rakan, isn’t it?”
“It is easy to find talented people, but hard to find people loyal to the empire.”
At that time, Rakan gave Tigris the opportunity, although apparently he could have returned to the past.
Tigris still did not dare understand how Rakan had given him this opportunity.
For it is usually impossible with courage to entrust oneself and the fate of the empire to others.
“Rakan is a talented person who will sacrifice his life for the sake of the Empire. So we have no choice but to save.”
In Rain Rover, Tigris’ voice and eyes could feel a piece of unknown emotion.
I was speechless because it was a kind of deep, bitter kind of emotion that Rain Rover wouldn’t dare share.
“I have one question for you.”
“Please ask. majesty.”
“Why does Sir Tigris love the Empire so much?”
“If you ask the reason for patriotism, I cannot give you an answer. Because that’s the realm of emotion, not reason.”
In response to Tigris’ answer, Rain Rover suddenly ran through the words of His Majesty the Emperor a few days ago.
-If you have to marry Tigris, can you do it?
At that time, the Rain Rover replied, ‘I will do it for the sake of the Empire.’
Not because he liked Tigris, but because he was willing to sacrifice himself for the future of the empire.
Rain Rover knew that everything she enjoyed as a princess was not given for free, but had to be paid.
So, if I were to marry Tigris, I was approaching it from a merchant’s point of view that I had to repay what the Empire had given me.
But when I heard Tigris’ answer, I felt my eyes opened.
When I thought of patriotism as feelings like love and joy, not reason, I realized the real reason why the princess accepted the marriage to Tigris.
The princess loved the kingdom.
It was because he loved him enough to marry someone he did not love for the sake of the Empire.
-If you have to marry Tigris, can you do it?
If His Majesty the Emperor, no, if the father had asked that question again, the princess would have answered like this.
Anytime Tigris is ready.
Rain Rover left his love for the Empire and fell in love with Tigris today.
It was because she had the eyes of a hero who was ready to lay down her life for the kingdom and its people just as she loved the kingdom.
Rain Rover fanned his burning face.
“greatness! The time has already come. I just want to go.”
“···Is that so?”
“Ah yes. Originally, I was going to go just to see your face for a while. So don’t be too upset.”
Tigris tilted his head.
It seems strange, but I thought there was a good reason for the fact that His Majesty the Princess was busy.
“Next time I have a chance, I’ll have a cup of tea and relax. then···”
“Princess.”
The princess was about to leave in a hurry, but her feet stopped.
“yes?”
“When do you want to see the play you promised before?”
The princess’s face grew even hotter.
I never imagined that Tigris would remember that.
“… June 11th is my birthday. I will go see you that day.”
“Yes. All right.”
“Then see you later.”
The princess left at a leisurely pace.
As soon as the princess left, Matteo came out.
To be precise, it was waiting for the princess to leave.
Matteo did not overheard the conversation between the princess and Tigris, as he was from the Gram family, which served the royal family.
It was just waiting for the princess to leave.
It seemed that he had to have this kind of sense to become a treasury guard protecting the treasury of the imperial palace.
Matteo came with an ordinary magnifying glass.
“Can I inspect the relic now?”
Tigris handed the lover’s relic to Matteo.
Matteo looked closely at the relic of the lover’s seat with a magnifying glass.
And immediately nodded.
“The examination is over. Fortunately, it is not a relic that will affect the relics or artifacts in the treasure.”
“Is it over that fast?”
“That is the power of this holy thing. See also Confucius Tigris. Just look at the relic with a magnifying glass.”
Tigris took the magnifying glass and the lover’s relic from Matteo and looked into it.
Then I immediately understood what the powers of the Holy Spirit of this lover were.
“This relic is very unique.”
It was not meant to be a holy relic of a lover, but this adventurer’s magnifying glass.
In the same language system as the common language of the Empire, it did not explain what the powers of the holy things were, but just intuitively understood them.
“What is the exact power of this relic?”
“This adventurer’s magnifying glass is the only relic that has not been precisely identified.”
“…it was the right door.”
You need this adventurer’s magnifying glass to know what the Holy Spirit’s abilities are, but this adventurer’s magnifying glass could not confirm the adventurer’s magnifying glass.
I could only explain it as a tool to check the relics.
Anyway, thanks to this adventurer’s magnifying glass, I was able to see what the powers of this lover’s holy object were.
There was no significant difference in the abilities of Perschen and Adne, the holy things of the existing lover.
It was the ability to sense danger when the opponent was in danger and to teleport to the vicinity of the opponent.
A third ability was added to this, and that was the ability to clone.
It was the ability to duplicate up to 5 total of these lover’s relics themselves.
It was a pity that the replica’s danger detection and teleportation ability could only be activated by the person holding the original, but that was enough.
‘Once you hand over the replica to Linia, Charlotte and Rakan, there are two guns left.’
The remaining two spares seemed to be used according to the situation.
“Then do you want to go straight to the first place report?”
Now that I know what the power of this holy thing is, the only thing left is to receive one of the holy things from the 1st place report.
“I do.”
Tigris entered the treasury.
Passing through the dark and winding interior as before, we arrived at the No. 1 Treasury located on the 3rd floor.
The inside of the 1st place report was very different from the 2nd place report.
First of all, the 2nd treasury felt like a library full of various relics and artifacts, while the 1st treasury was like a work of art hanging in a museum.
It was small enough to count if only 10 minutes were given, but a magical energy was flowing from each of the holy relics and artifacts.
Matteo handed Tigris the adventurer’s magnifying glass.
“It would be much better to check the abilities of the relics in the first-class treasury with that magnifying glass than to explain them verbally. If you’re looking for artifacts or elixir, I’ll explain.”
“I see.”
There was no need to see the elixirs or artifacts.
Tigris knew the location of a useful elixir, and the artifacts were useless to Rota and Arphem’s clan, which had many high-level wizards.
The only thing Tigris could choose was the Holy Relic.
Tigris headed to the place where the holy relics were gathered.
Since all the holy relics in this house contain the narrative that saved the country and the people, it was clear that they had tremendous power.
Among the dozens of relics, there was one relic that caught Tigris’ attention.
It was a narrow long sword that spewed out a beautiful silver light.
‘The sage’s sword was here.’
It was the main weapon that Rakan used before his return, and it was a holy relic that symbolized the position of the ‘Sage’s Eye’.