[Quest][Hidden]
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[Explanation]
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[Reward on Success]
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[Condition]
― A playable character that has met more than half of the awakening conditions [4/8]
(* The higher the number, the more hidden information will be unlocked.)
― Important information will be unlocked when certain character’s awakening conditions are met. [2/3]
As soon as I saw it, I knew what the hell this was.
… First of all, what does this quest mean?
Judging from the contents that just came to mind or the contents of the quest window that came to mind, this quest was created by the awakening of at least four people, and I wondered if the hidden contents would be revealed each time one additional person awakened.
Those who have met the awakening conditions so far are Jin Ye-seul, Choi Hyun-woo, Lee Yu-na, and Lee Ye-eun in that order.
There were four people like this.
In the case of Han Su-young, Ivan Hunt, Ahn Do-hoon, and Cass Lyle, they did not meet the awakening conditions yet, but as soon as I saw the ‘a specific character’s awakening condition’ written in the condition column, I knew who they were referring to.
Han Soo-young was clear.
In fact, unlike other people, she was mentioned several times in the notification window that she had to meet three conditions to wake up, and it was because she had met a total of two conditions so far.
There, in the quest window, two out of three had been fulfilled, so it was clear that she was referring to her.
She was the key and key to everything.
No, if you think about it, it’s only natural for her to be the main character in this world.
‘After all, if you want to know what it is, you have to awaken everyone… .’
Appearing in such a situation, it was clear that he was hiding important information, but he could not help the awakening of four people right now.
There was almost no contact with Ahn Do-hoon, Cass Lyle was not the kind I could help with, and Han Soo-young’s conditions were completely different from the original, so there was nothing I could do about it.
If I had to pick one that had the potential, Ivan was, but the conditions were not satisfactory for that one.
‘No, wait a minute. perhaps… .’
“Jihyuk?”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
After thinking for a while, Yeeun Lee spoke to me.
She was tapping me as if she wanted to leave.
“Let’s stop now. Said I had to go quickly to the place I had promised with others… yes?”
She got up from her seat and looked around in bewilderment.
“Uh, huh? Where did my shoes go?”
“What’s wrong?”
“My, my shoes are gone. I was wearing it when Jihyuk came carrying you… .”
She continued to look around as if she was genuinely perplexed.
Then, with his face blushing in embarrassment, he sat down and covered his feet with his hands.
I wondered what the hell was the problem with that, so I got up.
“Didn’t you disappear from the ordeal earlier?”
“What kind of ordeal is it that you take off people’s shoes?”
She asked me back as if it was ridiculous, and muttered quietly.
“Maybe I did something wrong without knowing it? He said that he was a descendant who was too cute to give up on me… .”
She shrugged her shoulders as if she was gibberish.
“I can just carry it with me when I go out. After all, when they came in, they were carried by me.”
“Ugh, though.”
Even with my words, she seemed unwilling.
Carefully stroking her feet, she murmured in a low voice.
“… It’s a shame because I’m barefoot.”
I thought, ‘Come now?’ in my head, but I didn’t say anything.
It was because her face was really red as if it was about to explode.
It may be that the green hair made her stand out, but at least it was because it was true that she was genuinely shy.
“Sleep, come on.”
When she leaned back, she came up on me as if she couldn’t help it.
I got up from my seat without difficulty carrying her and walked back through the place I came in.
“But the World Capital is a bit strange. I don’t have anything to take with me, so my descendants’ shoes… Ouch!”
As I flinched and trembled at the tingling sensation, Ye-eun Lee, who had been quietly carried on her back, was surprised and asked me.
“what’s the matter?”
“it’s nothing. A mouse must have come suddenly.”
I heard Sbangali’s voice in my ear as I spoke with a small smile.
[uh… There’s something inside that woman’s body, do you know?]
He nodded slightly at his question.
That’s why my body just stinged.
As she kept walking while carrying Yeeun Lee, a branch of the world tree secretly came out of her arm.
It soon creaked in a position that would not be visible to Yeeun Lee, creating a single sentence.
[Don’t tell the child.]
Then the branches wriggled and the sentence changed.
[In return, I made it possible to awaken the last power.]
In front of her, a notification window about the branch of the World Tree that had the last ability that came up as it was said appeared.
Branch of the World Tree (Bond / Parasitic / Legendary)
[Effect][Active]
― You can take root in your source itself and make the whole area your territory and part of it and place it under your power.
Yeeun Lee asked me again as if whispering.
“… Jihyuk, are you okay? Is there anything else?”
“no.”
I answered her with a shichimi.
“Nothing is happening.”
As soon as I answered, I swung and fixed her without notice.
She made a small screeching noise, and when she burst into laughter at the sound, she clenched my throat and strangled me as if protesting.
As we walked out, someone was waiting for us.
It was a woman named Seo-ryeong who was a close aide to Ye-eun Lee and served her.
“Lady, and Lord Sodang. Guests are waiting for us in the Byeol-dang.”
She bowed her head deeply to us, raised her head slowly and spoke in a businesslike tone.
“By the way, that… There were some unusual guests, so there was a bit of a commotion, but we took them to a separate hall because we had the Sodang Master’s token.”
“It was a lot of work. But surely I should have told you?”
At the thoughtless question, she quickly bowed her head.
“No face! It must have been clearly stated, but there must have been some misunderstanding… ! I must be responsible for this… .”
“No, you don’t have to. If you do, you can.”
Until then, I only thought that Seo-ryeong was a little immature compared to Shin Woo-seok, or that he or the person below him had made a mistake.
However, when I headed to the separate hall where guests were waiting for me, and saw the first guest I encountered, I immediately realized why the commotion had arisen.
“Ah, finally seeing you in person like this.”
Someone who had been sitting on the rock slowly stood up.
From the sound of his voice or his thick beard, he could easily tell that he was a man.
The problem was that the person’s physique was not that of a normal person.
No matter how tall a person was, he could never be close to three meters tall.
There, as he got up from his seat, he stretched out his arms as thick as a log and picked up something, but only after examining it over and over again that it was the wizard’s staff, he knew.
“Nice to meet you, you said that you are Gina’s older brother… Oh my God, how is it that the two siblings have the same eyes.”
He smiled as if he was really happy to see me and said so.
Lee Ye-eun, who was on my back and me, couldn’t laugh.
“I’ve heard many stories from Gina, so I know quite a bit about her story… Oh man, I was so glad that I made a mistake. My name is Kritolki. As you can see, he’s a mediocre sorcerer, Naboorin.”
“… My name is Yoo Ji-hyuk.”
“Oh, this is true.”
Kritolki snorted and wept, then wiped it away with his fingers.
“You’ve been sulking. When I looked over there, without realizing it, I was reminded of the sheep Gina… He was a really nice and good kid. sure.”
He said so and nodded.
“I will do my best to help you, this Kritolki, in order to see your friend’s voice and smile again.”
With those words, the troll wizard reached out to me.
I smiled kindly at him and grabbed his outstretched hand.
In fact, it was just a finger hold rather than a hand, but he waved his fingers indifferently.
“And now I can hand you this.”
After shaking hands, he took something out of his arms and handed it to me.
“… Ms. Gina asked me to make sure to give it to my brother.”
What he took out was a box tightly sealed with chains and amulets.
As soon as he tapped and touched the lock, the lock, chains, and amulets were blown away as if they had never been there.
As I opened the box I was handed over, I swallowed my breath without realizing it.
Inside was Gina’s cell phone.
A cell phone half-smashed and cracked on the screen.
And why?
As soon as I saw it, the game console, the culprit that came to this world, came to mind in my mind.
* * *
Not long after, the party, including Han Soo-young and Choi Hyun-woo, arrived.
Even as Krytolkina was surprised to see the gargoyle that introduced herself as Kwakal, Choi Hyun-woo’s gaze was only on Yoo Ji-hyuk.
As soon as he got up from his seat and approached him, Hyun-woo Choi took a small deep breath and approached him.
“Long time no see.”
“I know.”
Choi Hyun-woo nodded at Yoo Ji-hyuk’s greeting.
He hesitated over and over again as if it was awkward, and then opened his mouth with difficulty.
“sorry.”
“You should tell Sooyoung or the old man about that, not me.”
“I will. But Jihyuk wanted to apologize to you too. As well as others.”
During the conversation, Yoo Ji-hyeok, seeing a cut on the corner of his mouth, smiled lightly.
“Anyway, sincere bastard. … Aren’t you sick?”
At his words, Hyunwoo Choi also burst into laughter.
“Aren’t you in pain?”
After such a short break, Choi Hyun-woo asked Yoo Ji-hyuk.
“But I… Who are they?”
Yoo Ji-hyuk, who realized that Choi Hyun-woo had never met Leto or Charisna unlike the others, answered immediately.
“My brother’s colleagues.”
“ah.”
Choi Hyun-woo nodded his head as if he knew the answer and shut his mouth.
Charisna, who had been waiting around for the story to end, approached them right away.
“What are you going to do now?”
“Sharisna-san.”
“It’s okay to just call me Charisna.”
Charisna fluttered her large, wild-looking wings that contrasted with the beautiful human figure.
“As you know, the seal of Yuno is in Antarctica. Even if I hold or lift it and move it, at most one or two people… It seems that there is not enough time for all these personnel to move to Antarctica together.”
“Ah, let me tell you in advance, I’m too unreasonable. Yoo Ji-hyuk.”
Even though she was far away, Belluna raised her hand and waved as if she had heard the story.
“In Antarctica, the power of spirits is extremely weak. Maybe I’m going to go ahead and knock you down.”
Even with those two words, Yoo Ji-hyuk looked as if he didn’t care.
And he said, looking at Sharisna as if to listen to the party.
“To be honest, it’s unreasonable to go on time. Since the blacksmith of Yado, who made the seal, was in the hands of Ariman, he was probably heading to the South Pole by now. Maybe they’ve already arrived or they’re breaking the seal.”
“then… .”
“It sounds like it’s nonsense to say that you’re going on time in the first place.”
He added that the fact that he was going to a place with a seal was important in itself, and looked at Belluna.
“Mr. Belluna, could you transport us all to Antarctica?”
“Uh, Yoo Ji-hyuk? It must have been explained earlier that no.”
“Yes, I heard. You said it was difficult right now. So… Is it correct to say that the ‘current state’ you mentioned does not have a contractor?”
In response to his question, Belluna just stared at him with an eerie smile without a word.
If there is no legitimate contractor, the spirit cannot use all of the power it possesses.
And Yoo Ji-hyuk was well aware that Belluna Hunt’s only contractor was her husband, Briggs Hunt.
“no way… They want to sign a contract with me, aren’t they talking about something like that?”
Belluna was still smiling and looking at Yoo Ji-hyuk.
In response to her reaction, Yoo Ji-hyuk also remembered that Belluna loved him so deeply that she tried to kill herself after losing Briggs Hunt.
“Of course not.”
Yoo Ji-hyuk reached out to her as if to calm down.
Belluna shook her head and looked at him for a long time.
“… Once you answer the question, you’re right. Because there is no contractor, I can’t properly generate power. yes that’s right. But even so, if you’re thinking that signing a contract will solve all your problems, I’d like to tell you to put it out of the way.”
She added in a voice that was sharp as if she would cut it if she touched it.
“A mediocre human won’t draw out my power, but rather hinder it, and above all, after I lost him, I swore that I would never make a contract with a human again.”
“That means there is a possibility unless it is pure human beings.”
Yoo Ji-hyuk said so and slowly turned his head.
At the end of his gaze was Ivan Hunt.
The fact that he is a mixture of human and spirit blood.
And the fact that Ivan Hunt’s awakening condition is that he will ‘sign a contract with a spirit of the Spirit King’ was also clearly remembered by Yoo Ji-hyuk.