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Grimoire of the Great Library (2)
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Just as I cannot interfere with the spiritual body, the spiritual body cannot interfere with me.
I, who cannot recognize the spirit itself according to the precepts, am invincible against the spirit body.
‘Energy drain, soul crusher, overflowing honey of nightmares… was it?’
These are the skills that the special magic spirit sealed in the secret library pours down in phase 1.
A heinous combination that immediately puts you in CC state if anti-ema resistance is above a certain level, and one party member becomes groggy until the end of the battle.
If you go to Phase 2 there, possess one of the party members and attack your allies.
A notorious difficulty where the party is cut in half in an instant due to possessing a player or a member who is not in CC status.
It wasn’t made to break in the first place. It is the beginning of a quest that begins only after being subdued once, and it is an episode that properly shows the power of the ‘special express’, which is praised outside the standard.
However, I am not under any kind of attack in this place where the special demons are located.
you must be confused
Did you know that seagulls are just beach chickens?
You won’t be able to understand Why doesn’t his attack work?
“Sevancia Duke.”
────!
I can’t hear his reaction. But the demon must have been startled upon hearing my voice. About how you know your name.
The surprise is from now on.
“800 years ago, the general who commanded the southern continent.
Originally, it recites the life history of the demon that you will learn through the quest.
would you be angry? I honestly don’t know. The dialogue in the game wasn’t very long, and I was possessed by a demon in the previous episode.
That’s why I don’t have any memories left, and I don’t have anything other than what I heard from Park Si-hoo and my colleagues while going on a quest.
“Even in the South, your anecdote is so famous that it still exists. There is even a book called The Truth of Chafre Castle.”
············
“You were an ‘awakened’ vampire.”
In this world, there is an element called ‘factor’.
The source of deterioration in which an ordinary human awakens to a demon at some point. To be precise, it is close to changing the elements that make up the body.
Seeing the full moon turns you into a beast, grows horns, or feels the urge for blood.
It’s not impossible to control, but ‘non-humans’ who have been ostracized for a long time because of their violence, ferocity, and alien form.
“You awakened as a vampire, and you felt the vampirism. The servant was your first victim. You must have known that if you ran out of the castle, no one would be able to stop you.”
Except for the first victim, Sevancia tried to suppress her vampirism by sucking blood from dogs or pigs.
In order not to be seduced by temptation, he sent all his family members out of the castle except for his wife and daughter and locked himself in his room.
“You tried many times, but you couldn’t find a way to suppress your vampirism. Even your frightened wife and daughter were but prey to you.”
he was afraid I wondered if I might be eating my own family as I became increasingly impulsive.
“You evacuated even your family and closed Chafre Castle. And you sealed yourself with magic. In that book over there.”
That is the true identity of Grimoire in this library. To be precise, it’s just the one book I was trying to acquire.
············
It’s time to slowly bite. I didn’t know it, but I could feel that he was listening carefully to what I was saying.
The special demons here are first-class mobs, but the tag still has ‘Good’ attached to it, and we were defeated in the previous round, but didn’t die.
Originally, this quest would start by listening to his story after being subdued.
“Ruina Duke. Cecilia Duke.
······!!
how do you name it? you’ll want to ask. It must have interested me as much as knowing his name.
“Why don’t we talk soon? I can’t see the spiritual body.”
After saying that, I approached the fainting Lark. And pair ears! and hit Just enough to get a little conscious.
“Ugh…?!”
Lark’s pupils, which had been making a dreamy expression, suddenly widened.
A few seconds later, Lark’s mood changed.
“bantling······.”
“Sevancia Duke.”
Did you know that seagulls are just beach chickens?
Yes. What is inside Lark is Sevansia Duke, a special magic spirit sealed in Grimoire.
“how······.”
“It’s not important. Are you curious? What happened to the two of you?”
His wife, Louisa Duke.
daughter, Cecilia Duke.
The side quest given by the special magician in the library is to investigate the back story of these two people. Thanks to that, I went on a business trip to the southern part and suffered quite a bit.
“Can you tell me…”
Did you know that seagulls are just beach chickens?
You cannot make up a false story. This ancient vampire has the power to see through lies.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter how much the player leveled up their speech skills, they couldn’t fool the Demonic Spirit Sevansia Duke.
“Louina Duke ran away with Cecilia Duke. But the world was rough for a noble woman who grew up beautifully.”
This is a story that I found out through my own research in the South. Because there was a ‘diary’ left by his daughter, Cecilia Duke.
“Louis or Duke was swindled. She worked desperately to pay off her debts for her daughter. She didn’t have long to live and died from overwork.”
The expression of Sevancia, possessed by Lark, twisted in sorrow.
He gave his wife and daughter quite a few jewels, but neither of them had the strength to protect them.
“Daughter… what happened to Cecil?”
“Fortunately, her story has a happy ending. She had a rough childhood, but she became a wizard and was active as the best adventurer of her time.”
“How can I believe that…?”
“I read her diary. Can you tell if this statement is false or true?”
“… Who the hell are you? How do you know me and even know my authority?”
“It’s just… I’ve experienced a little more than others.”
I couldn’t say that I read it as a game story, so I expressed it in a lump.
“What do you want? Is that book?”
Sevancia pointed to the red side of the two books of Grimoire. That is Grimoire, where Sevansia was sealed.
“Of course I’ll take that… All I want is your glass.”
“wreck?”
“Because I have to fight a lot in the future. I need your Soul Dust to make a ‘spear’. So I hope you calmly attain Buddhahood.”
He talked about the powder left behind when the spirit disappears. This dust became a material for crafting weapons and equipment, and the more powerful the demon, the greater the value of the dust that drops.
The highest level of Soul Dust is essential to create items of Legendary grade or higher.
“······Did you even know my grudge?”
The ultimate goal of this quest is to achieve the Buddhahood of the mighty vampire Sevancia Duke.
However, there was another condition in addition to simply dissolving his grudge.
“However, you are too weak. Neither the body, nor the aura, nor the magical power have anything proper. A weak person like you will not be able to handle this power.”
“Oh······.”
Hit me with facts
Does the pre-quest level work this way? It was a fact that Park Si-hoo received this quest and did not know about it.
“I will become stronger in the future.”
“It’s something anyone can do with their mouths.”
Seeing is not worth a hundred words. I took off my top to reveal the precepts engraved on my body.
“Can you read it? I know it was a common character 800 years ago.”
Runes are magic that has become obsolete due to the decline in efficiency with the development of magic. 800 years ago, there was no system like now, so it must have been in good health.
Sevancia also read the runes engraved on my body and immediately stared at me with a serious expression.
“······Legal. It’s the power used by the great warriors of the shadow paradise. Putting in such crazy content… You bastard, what are you really doing?”
“Do you believe me now?”
“Your father has an unreasonable longing. Is the world in danger in the near future?”
“certainly.”
“Then you have no choice but to become stronger. This is such a contract. Ideally related to the fate of the world, being backed up by the world… can you handle it?”
“You can handle it and sleep, and if you can’t do it anyway, you’ll all die. Then you should go all-in.”
Sevancia seemed to like my answer, and pointed at Grimoire with a big smile.
“Read it. That will be a small help in achieving your long-awaited goal.”
Without hesitation, I walked over and read Grimoire, where Sevancia was sealed.
I stroked the luxurious leather with a blank title field and turned the page.
It is not the first time I have read Grimoire. Because Park Si-hoo often gave me books obtained through quests.
I fell in love with the luxurious handwriting that Sevancia probably compiled.
『In this world, superpowers represented by attributes, magic, etc., are divided into prenatal and postnatal types.』
Readability is good. Some Grimoires had bad handwriting and poor readability, so there were many that could not be read.
『I saw a warrior dying. He stood in the middle of a bloody battlefield, chained to a rock with intestines.
I asked.
“Warrior, shall I cut your throat?”
he replied.
“I’d be grateful if you could quench my thirst.”
Out of respect for the strong warrior, I scooped up water with both hands from a nearby lake and quenched his thirst. Then an amazing thing happened.
his flesh has grown.
············syncopation···············”
why are you so hardcore what? Standing strapped to your intestines? Admiral Yi Sun-sin is going away from being upright.
「·························
After reading the book, I felt a change in my body. It’s a strange feeling like the intestines are procrastinating.
“done.”
The ‘characteristic’ that can be learned with this Grimoire is
“Just as the warrior never lost his fighting spirit, as long as you maintain a great will for yourself… your body will eventually recover.”
“Don’t be ambiguous, can you explain it properly? Are you saying you can’t recover if you pass out?”
“······ As long as your vitality remains, recovery will be maintained. Not to mention that your vitality has increased compared to others.”
“Oh.”
It was Park Si-hoo who learned
Since Sevancia confirmed it, I should be able to use this ability more effectively.
“Hu~ I read it well.”
“Hmm… don’t you read that? I didn’t write it, but there’s nothing wrong with reading it.”
Sevansia’s gaze turned to the remaining Grimoire.
It must have been that the Grimoire had a permanence spell called
“I have no magic talent.”
It’s a permanence spell, so I don’t even recognize it. Even in this life, I gave up on the path of magic.
Because I didn’t have the talent to intuit or calculate formulated magic.
If the letters themselves act as magic like rune magic, I can’t use general magic at all.
One day, I asked Park Si-hoo how to use magic, and he said just do well in math.
The last math study I did was in my freshman year of high school, and my nickname was Gyu-soo Yang’s family. The report card was only for Yang and Yang among the Suumi and Yang families.
“Hmm… even in this era, Grimoire would be valuable? Taking it and selling it would be helpful.”
“That’s up to your friend who went in. I decided to give it to you.”
“Is it because of the oath of the contract hanging on this kid?”
“yes.”
Indeed, as much as he was once called a hero, he seems to have noticed the contract magic between me and Lark.
“That’s right, Mr. Sevancia. I have a question for you.”
“Something?”
“The vampiric impulse of a vampire. Can you withstand it? For example, eating only animal blood…”
“No, it’s impossible. That impulse… I don’t want to recall it, but it didn’t seem like it was me. It’s really eccentric.”
“······is it.”
“Vampire’s vampirism is not simply an act of filling one’s stomach with blood. It is a magical act in itself. Both the power of blood and the authority are awakened by vampirizing human blood.”
Sevancia pondered for a while before coming up with a possibility.
“If there is someone who can do it, it’s not usually someone with talent.”
“Okay. And a few more…”
After asking Sevancia Duke a few more questions, our question and answer ended. I was about to finish it, but Sevancia asked me a question instead.
“······Does my castle in the south still exist?”
“Huh? Are there any left?”
“If you happen to be there, take a good look at my office. I don’t know if it’s still there.”
“Huh? What’s there?”
Didn’t find anything in the last episode?
“Look for that yourself. Rune magician. I hope you have the same prowess and courage as that warrior.”
“I don’t want to bind myself with intestines…”
“If you have that kind of courage, you can’t do anything. Well… you already have it.”
“Overrated?”
“This is an evaluation as it is. Didn’t a man who was neither a hero nor a wise man swear to save the world?”
“…it just didn’t have a choice.”
If the country doesn’t do it, the world will perish.
“No, there is always the option of running away. But you did not choose to run away. I will respect you.”
“·······.”
“Lastly, thanks. Tell me about your wife and daughter.”
At the end of those words, Lark’s body disintegrated. I held it because I thought it would break my nose if I fell down, but golden powder piled up on the floor of the library.
Epic grade soul dust that you would have mistaken for gold dust if you didn’t know.
I left Lark roughly on the floor and moved Dust into the cloth bag I had brought.
It’s easy to mistake it for powder, but dust attracts each other and the rest of the powder follows neatly when you squeeze it a little.
It wasn’t until level 50 that you got the first-class material you get in the main scenario at the beginning.
“Ugh…”
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“Are you awake?”
“I think my head is going to break.”
“Because a demon possessed it until just now.”
“Does your jaw hurt too?”
“It must be because of my mood.”
I quickly handed the Grimoire to Lark, who was holding on to his slightly swollen chin.
“This, is this Grimoire?”
“Eh. Read it quickly. I have to leave.”
Lark grabbed Grimoire with trembling hands.
“Really… can I read it?”
“What are you talking about? That was a contract.”
“Yeah, but…”
Wasn’t the contract too advantageous for him in the first place… Lark seemed to want to ask.
“Sometimes it’s okay to reward a guy who works hard.”
“·······.”
After a while, we left the library. Lark was moved by the fact that he had obtained the lieutenant magic he hadn’t been able to obtain despite all his hard work.
“Thank you! I won’t forget you! Thank you so much! I mean it!”
“OK.”
It’s not my fault that he met a miserable end in the previous episode. Still… I felt like the strange feeling of debt had been resolved.
I fed them with a spoonful, so it’s your share from the second time. I can only hope that in this life the boy will not fall into despair and self-loathing.
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“Mmmmm…!”
It was then. The sentence of the precepts engraved on my body became hot. Ugh… it feels like being burned by fire.
“You succeeded.”
duty of precepts. It seems that he succeeded in not ignoring misfortune. I checked the system message that flew in for the first time in a while.
[Duty Execution – Sevancia Duke]
※ Difficulty: B
※ Reward: 80 points equally distributed
Something popped up, but what do I know about the equal distribution of 80 points? Could you kindly explain?
“······Stat window.”
[You do not have permission to read.]
Ayesitpal! real thing!
“after······.”
There is, but I can’t tell because of the mana one system window, but that’s probably referring to the character status points.
Depending on the skill tree you want to develop, it was a national rule to take 3, 1, 1 like this.
‘Are you not able to take stat points…’
All-in the 5 points given each time you level up to the necessary stats is the most efficient method of training… Huh? 5 points?
“You got 80 points?”
80 points is a point that can be obtained by leveling up to 16 in game.
There was no separate level up notice for me, so the quest reward was just 80 points.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter how difficult the Sevancia Duke Quest was, it didn’t give a huge amount of experience to level up 16.
-gulp!
Even though there is a penalty called equal distribution, isn’t this… maybe there is no limit?
Is it the synergy created by the effect of system correction and precepts?
In return for the good deed, I got Epic grade soul dust and attributes… and even a massive status increase.
“Hehe… Daeba… Huh Eok?!”
my, what do i say? I almost imitated that disgusting guy’s mouth!
‘It’s terrible.’
I’m different from that psycho. Let’s not do anything to imitate his mouth. because i feel bad