Celebration Banquet – 1
The night after I returned from defeating the rock centipede, I sat down at my desk and grabbed a pencil.
Fluorescent lights on the ceiling, air conditioning, a modern desk and chair, an equally modern bed, as well as paper and pencils. Because of this, it felt like I was at home outside the game, not inside the game.
I don’t know why these writing tools exist. I asked if I had any tools to write with, and they gave me a pencil and eraser. I received it and was dumbfounded for a while.
Aurora used a feather pen that looked like it could only be used in the Middle Ages.
First of all, that wasn’t the important thing right now, so I shook off my thoughts and focused on the paper again. There was a need to organize the future situation once.
‘The main story I have to proceed with is, of course, the Knights side.’
I wrote the words Knights of the Silver Dawn, circled it, and tapped it with the tip of a pencil. Out of all the stories of Brunet 4, there was no story as easy and comfortable as the Knights route.
The number of bosses that must be caught in order to progress is clearly low, and the difficulty is relatively easy compared to other essential bosses. It wasn’t called a newbie-friendly story for nothing.
Its status was still the same even in the Dyalan mode, where the enemy’s specs and aggression were at a level of rampage as a whole.
In a real game, it would be a story that I wouldn’t have seen even if I looked at it because it wasn’t fun, but right now I only have one life. You should only walk the easiest and most comfortable path possible.
In addition, if you clear all the main stories, the player can become the 1st Knight Commander of the Silver Dawn Knights or even rise to the position of an escort knight directly under the emperor.
Since the path to success was guaranteed, even the future was bright.
The side quests are not complicatedly twisted, the story is okay, the number of required bosses is small, the difficulty is easy, and the ending is great. It was a route dominated only by merits.
‘Maybe I can go home if I catch the world eater… … It’s not like there’s a definite answer, so I need to be prepared.’
There was another reason I was worried about my future in this world.
The cliché of ice water is usually to go home after clearing the final boss or watching the main story to the end, but the possibility of living here for the rest of your life cannot be ignored.
So, there is nothing wrong with being prepared in advance. It is right to make sure what you can do, cut off all the buds of anxiety, and watch the next ending with full preparation as much as possible.
‘… … Then, what should I do with the emperor?’
I stopped my fingers for a moment when I saw the word ‘Emperor’ written at the top of the paper. He was like that in the game, but here he became a human many times more unpredictable.
If all the options I remember turned to useless, I didn’t have the confidence to choose the correct answer from the Emperor’s ever-changing Opening Ceremony.
Unless you move your base to the Holy Kingdom or choose a story that cuts ties with humans altogether, if you remain in the empire, you must be considered to be entangled with the emperor at least once.
However, the emperor was notorious to users in many ways. The difficulty of the boss, the meaning of the story, and the personality of the character.
‘Well, it’s meaningless right now, so I’ll think about it later.’
In fact, if the emperor’s personality had really changed, the act of preparing myself here alone was meaningless.
Right now, the dialogue options with the NPC that will be the source of Rize are also intact in my head, but that knowledge was of no use in the conversation with Rize.
At least Iris and Claudia had personalities that strongly resembled the original NPCs, but it was safe to say that Rize and Erica were completely different characters.
Is there anything special about being an emperor?
‘I don’t have to stop by Seongguk now.’
I turned my thoughts elsewhere. If we proceeded in a properly structured order, we would probably stop by the holy kingdom after the story progressed moderately, around the middle.
I have to visit that country someday. There is magic to be obtained from the pope there. It’s much easier to apply a buff with that spell if you want to beat a demonic enemy later.
But that’s only one day. There was a lot of work to be done right now, but there was no time to pay attention to the Holy Kingdom. Before that, there were too many things to do in the Empire.
You have to ask the knight commanders for help with the battle fatigue debuff ignoring rune, and you have to defeat the essential bosses of the main story.
‘There are a total of 3 required bosses.’
Spider Queen Arachnainera.
Burning Golem.
Blind Black Wolf.
In order to proceed with the main story of the Knights of the Silver Dawn, these three bosses were essential to defeat in the beginning. Everything else is either optional or added in the middle.
If you categorize them only by location, you can minimize the waste of traffic by first killing Arachnainera, the Spider Queen, then the Blind Black Wolf, and finally catching the Burning Golem.
Conversely, considering efficiency, it was advantageous to catch the burning golem first. It was because the magic that could be acquired by holding a burning golem was extremely effective in the Arachnainera boss fight.
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Mana was so low that even if you used magic 1 or 2 times, you would run out of mana, but it was not impossible to use magic itself.
No, if Erica did her part, the magic gained from holding the burning golem might not be necessary—
ㅡ Smart.
“newcomer. Are you inside?”
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My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a knock outside. Soon Iris’s voice was heard. Startled, I hurriedly hid the paper. Even if the truth comes out someday, that is not now.
“I have. why?”
“I have something to tell you.”
Hearing that he had something to say, he cautiously opened the door. In front of the door stood a silver-haired knight wearing a white sleeveless shirt and silver dolphin pants as usual.
To be frank, it was Iris.
“You want to tell me something?”
“A word related to Lord Aurora.”
“With the lord?”
“They said that all pending matters were dealt with. So, they said they would hold a celebration soon.”
“Ah, I guess you finally decided to do that.”
Until a few days ago, Aurora was worried that she could not see any time to subtract from the budget. However, in this short period of time, it seemed that all overdue work had been completed and even the budget distribution had been completed.
“He said he worked a little too hard while reducing his sleeping time. They said that such a celebration should be held before the joy is completely gone.”
There were three reasons for this banquet. The death of the lord, Aurora’s rise to the position of the new lord and head of the household, and the return of the Knights of the Silver Dawn to their original positions.
“So, I came to tell you to prepare.”
“I’m not asking if you want to participate, but you’re ordering me to participate unconditionally?”
“Lord Aurora said that all the Knights of the Argent Dawn must attend. Especially you, the newcomer who has contributed the most to this job. Regardless of the number of participants, there were only five of us, including the lord, so he said that even one member should not be left out. Is there any problem?”
“I didn’t mean to leave anyway, so it’s okay. So, what should I wear? Do you just wear what you wore in the Knights?”
A celebration like this was an event that hadn’t been seen in the game, and since I had no way of knowing the party dress code of nobles in the Middle Ages, I felt a bit uneasy.
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Men’s clothes are quite normal, but what about women’s clothes? I couldn’t even imagine how much of a dress it would be to take out.
“The lord said he would prepare everything. So stop worrying.”
The other day, when we had a conversation, it seems like Aurora’s perception has changed because of the mode. It’s not that you should stop worrying, it’s that you need to do more.
I was dumbfounded when I saw the other day praising the white sleeveless and dolphin pants as a really great uniform.
“… … once i got it When?”
“Tomorrow.”
“What?”
“They said it was tomorrow evening.”
“I understand enough, so you don’t have to go into detail. Rather than that, can the banquet be prepared in one day?”
“I heard you gave an order in advance to hold a banquet in time for the end of work. The actual preparations had been going on for weeks.”
Was it like that It is also Aurora-like work.
“All I have to say is that this is the end. Do you have any questions or anything to say?”
“No, nothing really.”
“I get it.”
After speaking, Iris turned around. And before the door closed, a brief greeting was handed over with a blushing face.
“Sleep well, newcomer.”
“… … ? Yes, once I got it.”
I barely said good night, but Iris’s face was red from the tips of her ears. After that, he disappeared into the hallway.
‘Why are you doing that?’
It was unknown to me.
and the next day.
‘I knew it would be like this.’
Looking at the dresses worn by the knight commanders, I suddenly realized the power of the mode.