15. hidden quest
The moment I was about to hit the last blow, the predator disappeared along with the light, and I sat down as it was.
“after… … !”
It was really dangerous. If he didn’t take his time, no, before that, a +5 Longsword of Sacrifice and True Berserk… And if I hadn’t used the ‘blood-soaked blade’ by squeezing out the last remaining life force, I wouldn’t have been able to pierce his mana shield. Even with the attack power amplified up to 1,000%, I can’t break it in one hit… … .
“Damn it, I am crazy.”
I was overconfident in my abilities, and I only understood the numbers that the viewers in the chat window said were about level 30. A guy who had only been playing the game for a few days praised him as a great talent for having achieved an achievement that others couldn’t, so his nose was raised and he looked down on high levels too much.
“You stupid bastard, it’s cheap even if you get hurt.”
I just worked hard on my calculations. A loot with a high dishonor score will regurgitate a lot of items when killed. If you follow the luck, isn’t it a piece of cake at once? Of course, I also had risks. If you die, the boss skills obtained through Skill Eater will be lost, and if you are unlucky, your equipment or belongings will randomly drop. However, he took the risk by believing in Seion’s system that, no matter how high the level was, he could be instantly killed if he hit the vital points properly. Well, it ended up like this… … . Promising never to look down on others again, he is cutting a lead sword when he hears a child’s voice next to him.
“sorry. be better The scary old man said he would kill you if you didn’t listen… black… … .”
An NPC kid whose leg was broken by a looter after stealing my bag and running away bows to me with tears in his eyes.
“Oh yeah. quest… … .”
I remembered a sudden quest that I had been forgetting about for a while.
“Are your legs okay?”
“Okay, it’s okay. be better… Aagh!”
When I touch the leg of the kid who says it’s okay, he screams.
“wait.”
I took a small potion from my bag and spread it on the kid’s broken leg.
“Aww… ugh… uh?”
The little boy, who was moaning in pain, looks at his leg in wonder as he rubs the stains of tears with his dirty sleeve to see if the pain has subsided. Well… Fortunately, it turns into a small potion.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes? Yes.”
“Then I should thank you.”
“Thank you.”
Limping, he stands up and bows his head to me.
“This, this… I will return it to you.”
“ah… … .”
As I waved my hand, the hesitant little boy held out a small leather pouch to me.
If I hadn’t met the looter, I’d have hit this odious little pickpocket over the head and got my money back. Because it was 20 gold. But somehow I feel bad.
“Little boy.”
“yes?”
“Why are you pickpocketing? Are there any adults at home?”
Maybe it’s a stupid question. To ask an NPC something like this… However, the little boy hesitated at my question and then spoke in a watery voice.
“at home… I have a mother and a younger brother, and my mother… He couldn’t get up because he was sick, and his brother was so… How young… … . But even though I want to earn money, adults say I’m too young… black… Whoa… … .”
The talking kid starts to sob.
“Shit… … .”
It’s just an NPC, but I don’t want to steal it mercilessly. Even if it’s just simple self-consolation from the pain of my childhood.
“Stop… what is your name?”
“Huh… Re, Remy.”
“Yes, Remy. Do you want to make a deal with me?”
“Yes?”
I took five gold coins out of my pocket and handed them to the boy.
“I’ll give it to you on the condition that you take what happened today to the grave.”
“Yes? why… … .”
“You don’t need to know that, and what are you going to do? Will you take this money and shut up?”
“Yeah, but… … .”
I look at the money bag and my face alternately.
“what are you doing. Take it quickly.”
“No, yes.”
Remy, who hesitated, received the 5 gold and put it into his bosom, and a message appeared indicating the completion of the quest.
[Surprise Quest-2 “Dangerous Alley” has been ‘perfectly’ completed.]
-Reward: Limited Hidden Quest-1 “Remy”
[Hidden Quest-1 Remy]
-Go to Remy’s house.
“Hidden Quest?”
I opened my eyes wide in surprise at the phrase “Hidden Quest.”
For many quests, the acquisition method has been revealed, but a hidden quest is a quest that does not have an acquisition method itself. Among the quests that appear through the interaction of the in-game environment and NPCs, there are quests that disappear the moment they are cleared, and among those quests, special rewards that cannot be obtained through normal gameplay are given.
I got up and approached Remy, who was limping out of the alley.
“Remy.”
“yes?”
“Don’t take me home. I can’t even walk on those feet.”
“Go, thank you.”
An expression of emotion intertwined on Remi’s face. I’m in the position to follow because of the quest, so my stomach hurts a little, but what can I do… … . Tsk.
* * *
“Are you here?”
“Yes.”
After walking around the stinky alley with Remi, they arrived at a hut barely maintaining the shape of a house made of rotten wooden boards. When I open the door, which seems to be broken with even a little effort, and enter, the smell of old mold and a sour rotten smell sting my nose. On a shabby bed placed on one side of the hut, lay a skinny and boneless woman whose complexion was bluish, as if seeing a corpse.
“son… Are you here?”
A woman who turned her head with difficulty at the sound of the door opening met my eyes, and for some reason, I was tinged with fear.
“Who, who are you?”
“Mom, it’s okay.”
Her eyes widened as Remy limped closer.
“What’s wrong with your legs!”
I look at my legs and my face, but I think I’m seriously misunderstanding something.
“Not that… … .”
“my… my son…ぅ… … .”
The woman’s eyes turned white as she spoke and fell under the bed. No, what kind of sunfish? Why do you want to die as soon as you see it? At least you shouldn’t have to speak your lines so you can understand!
“Mom!”
Remi hurriedly approached her and forced her to lie down on the bed and shook her shoulders, but the woman was unmoved. It won’t work.
“shit… … .”
I took a small potion from my bag, opened the cap, and put it in her mouth. I wondered why three small potions fell from the Gnoll Strider, but I ended up using them all here. After a while, the woman slowly opens her eyes, as if the drug had worked.
“Mom, are you out of your mind?”
“Yes… But why are your legs like that?”
“As for how this happened… … .”
Remy began to explain to her step by step why he had hurt his leg. Of course, I changed the pickpocket to a passerby so that she wouldn’t be surprised, and the looter was downgraded to just a knave.
“Thank you for saving my son.”
“no. You look a lot worse than that, but please lie down.”
“Yes.”
As the woman lies down on the bed, the door of the thatched house opens and a small figure walks in.
“Mom… Mom… … .”
She was a short, short-haired little girl, dressed in rags that looked like her hair had been cut off from the top of a flour bag. After entering the house, the child looks around and starts to cry when he finds Remy.
“Oppuah… black… I’m hungry.”
As the five-year-old child cries, I feel sorry for following Remi because of the hidden quest.
[Hidden Quest-1 “Remy” has been completed.]
Reward: Hidden Quest-2 “Lemmy the Boy”
[Hidden Quest-2 Remy, the head of the family]
-Help Remy.
-Reward: Intermediate Potion x3, 10 Gold, Normal~Legendary Skill Draw Ticket x1
After confirming the updated quest contents, I got up from my seat and spoke to Remy.
“Remy. I’ll go out and come back.”
I guess I have to put something in my mouth in order for the quest to proceed properly.
* * *
Two obsessed children are holding large loaves of bread one by one and eating them frantically.
“Yum Yum… … .”
“Eat slowly. No one is taking it away.”
Watching the two siblings frantically eating the white bread piled on the table, I boiled the soup in a large new pot. After a while, as it boils and gives off a fragrant smell, the two shoes clinging to the bread sniff and cling to the side of the pot, staring blankly at the boiling soup.
[You have completed the vegetable soup.]
-Vegetable Soup★: Porridge made with various vegetables, flour, and milk. [3 hours Will +2]
When the message that the vegetable soup was ready came to mind, I took out a new bowl from my bag, filled it with soup, put a spoon in it, and set it down in front of my brother and sister.
“Remi, wake up your mother and feed her.”
“thank you. Elderly… … .”
I keep lowering my head, but I keep thinking of my younger siblings from the orphanage, and I feel bad.
“What is an elder? Call me hyung.”
“Tongue, bro.”
Unlike Remi, who opens her mouth as if the word brother is awkward, this little kid named Lena holds my pants with one hand and looks up at me with bright eyes.
“I can… … .”
“You, hmmm… brother.”
“Five… Boo… … .”
Those little lips twitched and the back of my neck tickled when I said it was my brother.
oh shit… I’m weak against those eyes… … . After scrubbing her hair, she grins, grabs a large spoon, and blows the soup into her mouth. I also scooped a bowl and ate it, and the taste was so deep that I couldn’t think of virtual reality.
“It is delicious.”
Seion has a reputation for perfect expression of taste to the extent that it has patents related to the sensory system to realize the spiciness, which is the sense of pain. I’ve never eaten a proper dish because I’ve been busy with games, but after making and eating it myself, I think I know that the evaluation is not wrong.
When I tore the bread and dipped it in the soup, Lena, who saw it, dipped the bread in the soup and ate it. After some time had passed, the three families had a simple but rich meal.
“I really enjoyed the meal.”
“I ate well.”
“thank you.”
The two children rubbing their protruding stomachs are so cute that they immediately draw attention. I’m sure the NPC didn’t get diarrhea from eating too much.
Remi’s mother’s face turns red, perhaps because something warm went into her stomach. However, the completion message does not appear because feeding a meal is not the solution the quest wants. Something fundamental is needed.
“Remy.”
“Yes?”
“Come out for a minute.”
“Yes.”
I called Remy out of the house.
“What disease is your mother?”
“… … .”
Remi looked at the ground as if thinking for a moment at my question, then slowly opened her mouth.
“Mom is… You are cursed.”
“curse?”
“yes. When Lena was just born and her dad was alive… My father and mother were very famous adventurers in Fodina. One day, my father went missing after leaving the city hall with his fellow men to clean up the play colony at the request of the city hall, but he did not come back after a long time, so my mother entrusted Lena and me to find my father and followed the search party looking for the missing people. Then, my mother came back with a serious injury, and from that day on, she became like that.”
“Is that a curse?”
“yes. The priest who came back with me told me. I was chasing my dad’s trail and found the big gnoll village, but my mom recklessly followed the trail and ran into the chief gnoll, so she was cursed.”
“Warchief Noll… … .”
“yes. The gnoll warchief cast a curse on the blood, and it was a curse that would slowly dry life and kill it. It was so strong that everyone else died, but my mother said that she was originally strong and that she was at least able to hold on until now.”
“Do you know how to solve it?”
“Warchief Gnoll says he has a cursed medium that needs to be broken. But later, a larger raid wiped out the gnoll colony, but they couldn’t find the gnoll warchief.”
“I see.”
After Remy’s explanation, the Warchief Nol quest in the underground canal came to mind. It’s a quest to catch the warchief that randomly appears deep in the second floor of the underground waterway, but it’s much stronger than the gnoll chieftain, so it’s a quest that shouldn’t be challenged with a modest party.
At that time, the quest was renewed.
[Hidden Quest-2 “Boy Head Remy” has been completed.]
-Reward: Intermediate Potion x3, 10 Gold, Common~Legendary Skill Draw Ticket x1 Hidden Quest-3 “Remy’s Wish”
[Hidden Quest-3 Remy’s Wish]
– Defeat Warchief Gnoll and destroy the vector of the curse.
-compensation: ?
“I knew it… … .”
The impression is frowned upon. I’ve only caught the Gnoll Chief once in a party, but I need to catch a stronger Gnoll Warchief.
“Well, I’m not asking you to catch me right away.”
There is no time limit, so you can try after leveling up and upgrading your equipment.
“By the way, it’s a drawing ticket again.”
Now I just want to give it to you for something else.
“Come out with anything.”
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Jjiik!
I cleared my mind and won the lottery ticket. The expectation that something would come out of the lottery ticket was neatly abandoned.
pop!
But something is strange.
Puff!
what?
Cuckoo!
The card floated into the air and began to glow with a colorful halo of light. Red, blue, and white come together, and finally they wriggle together as one.
Was this effect so flashy?
[Ppamparabam~! Congratulations! Acquiring legendary skills!]
[Vampire Aura] [Legendary Grade] [Tier 1]
-Strength +10 Will +10
– Absorbs life force when attacking after aura is activated
– Absorbs 50% of attack power as life force for 30 seconds and inflicts a [Level 1] lethargy curse on the absorbed opponent
-1 minute cooldown
-required mana 100
“city… I tried!”