Chapter 248

Chapter 248

“If you wait, they’ll come.”

Arriving at the clearing, Ming Hu decides to wait for Rafid to return to the clearing.

“I wonder how many levels you’ve gained…”

To see Rafid’s information, I opened the Family window and clicked the Character Info button for Rafid.

Name: Rapide [Alcandeum Golem]

Age: 6

Level: 1

Vitality: 500000000

Mana: 100000000

Strength: 300000 [30000] Agility: 25000 Stamina: 50000

Intelligence: 20000 Wisdom: 30000

“…?”

After checking Lapid’s character information, Ming Hu could only shake his head.

“As it is…?”

Shaking his head, Ming Hu rubbed his eyes and looked again, wondering if he had seen the wrong thing, but he had not.

Rafid’s level was still 1, and his stats were unchanged from the first time he’d seen them. Ming Hu muttered in disbelief as he looked at Lapid’s character information.

“That’s ridiculous, I only caught a few orcs.”

Lafydd’s kill count was over 10,000 orcs. Still, there was something wrong with being level 1.

“Oh no… Isn’t that experience?”

Ming Hu frowned at the sudden thought. If it was experience, he should have already leveled up. Apparently, Lapid’s level didn’t increase with experience.

That was the moment.

[Founded the Green Orc tribe].

[Count Minghu’s reputation increased by 50,000].

[Manor Asren’s reputation increased by 100,000].

[Reverend Asren’s Stability increased by 10].

Ming Hu was pondering Lapide’s unclimbing levels when a pioneering message popped up, and he looked at it.

“Hmm.”

Upon seeing the message, Ming Hu let out a short grunt at the realization that even the Green Orc Clan had become a frontier. Then he opened the quest window.

[Territory Quest]

Slay the orcs of the Valguras Mountains as they make their annual incursion into the realm!

[red orc: 5089 / ???]

[green orc: 5272 / ???]

[steel orc: 5324 / ???]

Difficulty Level: B

Quest Reward: Helioca Merit ???, Manor Asren’s Stability + ???

“…”

After confirming the quest, Ming Hu had nothing to say.

“The reward… It’s gonna be great.”

Ming Hu stared at the quest blankly for a moment, then came to his senses and closed the quest window, muttering to himself. The number of orcs he’d killed was approaching 15,000. The quest reward was quite promising. After closing the quest window, Ming Hu checked Lafydd’s character information again.

“I’m sure.”

Rafid’s level remained at 1. This made it clear that Rafid’s level was not being raised by experience.

Ming Hu closed Lafydd’s character information. He looked in the direction the green orc had run and muttered to himself.

“Now come on…”

The Red Orc Clan, then the Steel Orc Clan, and just now the Green Orc Clan had all been settled. There were no more orcish clans to be found near the Valguras Mountains. Ming Hu thought that Lafydd would return now.

Jumbled

As expected, after a while I started hearing footsteps.

Sigh

Ming Hu reflexively looked in the direction of the footsteps. It was the direction the green orcs had been running. Lafydd was coming, Ming Hu thought.

Jumbled

“…?”

But Ming Hu couldn’t help but shake his head as the footsteps drew nearer, for he knew they didn’t belong to one person.

“…Two?”

Not one, but two footsteps. Ming Hu looked slightly puzzled and began to look toward the source of the footsteps.

Squeak

Soon, the source of the footsteps emerged from the bushes into the clearing. Ming Hu smiled wryly as he recognized the source of the footsteps. As expected, the source of the footsteps was Rapid.

“Dad!”

Lapid spotted Ming Hu and ran toward him, smiling broadly. Arriving in front of Ming Hu, Lafydd opened his mouth, still smiling, and spoke.

“Hey, I got a bunch of orcs!”

With that, Lafydd looked at Ming Hu with eyes that asked to be patted on the head, and tilted his head slightly forward.

Swoosh

Ming Hu smirked at Rafid’s behavior and patted him on the head. As he stroked Rafid’s head, Ming Hu turned his attention to the bush from which Rafid had emerged. Rafid had not come alone. The footsteps clearly belonged to two people.

“…?”

Sure enough, there was someone standing in the bush that Rafid jumped out of.

“Who’s that kid again?

It was a young girl who looked to be about Rafid’s age. Ming Hu patted Rafid’s head, trying to figure out who she was.

“Is this the NPC that was captured by the clan?

Ming Hu remembered that Lapid had been to the village and that the girl had come with him, and wondered if she was an NPC who had been held captive in the village. No, he was sure. No, he was sure, there was no other reason for the girl to be here.

Jumbled

The girl stopped walking and looked at Ming Hu and Rafid, but then she began to walk toward them.

“…?”

Ming Hu couldn’t help but wonder at the girl walking toward him; she was looking at him with a very pathetic look in her eyes.

“Why…?

Ming Hu was embarrassed when the girl he had never seen before looked at him with pathetic eyes. He turned his attention from the girl to Rafid and opened his mouth to speak.

“Is it Pid, by any chance, who is that?”

“Ah! That’s right!”

Lafydd, who had been smiling broadly at Myung Hu’s words, looked at the girl with an expression of sudden realization.

“What about him, huh?”

Lafydd was about to say something, but the look on the girl’s face stopped him, and he frowned slightly.

Cringe

The girl, who had been looking at Ming Hu with a pathetic expression, flinched slightly at Lafydd’s reaction.

Jumbled

Rafid walked up to the girl, and quickly struck her in the head with a honey balm.

Boom!

“Ouch!”

The girl let out a short squeal of delight and wrapped her arms around the sting, then glared at Lafydd and shouted, “I’m not going to let you get away with this!

“It hurts!”

At the girl’s cry, Lafydd called out, still frowning.

“You hit me for being sick! That’s not how you look at your dad!”

“Hmm…”

At Lapid’s words, the girl’s head drooped like a dead plant. Ming Hu smirked at their reactions and watched the situation unfold.

“If I ever see you look at me like that again, I’m going to punish you!”

Rafid said to the girl with her head bowed low.

“…”

Of course, the girl didn’t answer. When she didn’t answer, Rafid once again fed her the honey balm.

“Ouch! Why are you hitting me again!”

The girl, her head down, cried out as Lafydd’s honey balm once again stung her. Hearing the girl’s cry, Lafydd looked at her with a certain dignity and said, “I’m sorry.

“Answer!”

“…Hmm.”

At Rafid’s words, the girl looked at Rafid with an angry expression. Tears began to form in the corners of her eyes as she realized how upset she was.

“It’s cute.

Ming Hu smiled wryly at Rafid and the girl’s conversation and behavior. Rapid and the girl were serious, but to Ming Hu, they were just kids, and that’s what made them so cute.

“Huh? Wait a minute.

Ming Hu looked at them both with a smile, then frowned slightly at a sudden thought. Frowning slightly, Ming Hu shook his head and looked at Lafide.

“I don’t think his fists are usually strong…

I don’t know how much force I gave him, but Rafid didn’t hit Honeybee weakly. This was a sure thing. That was why it was strange. Lafydd’s strength was not normal, and yet the girl who was struck by Honeybomb only hurt.

“You’re not… human?

Unable to believe it, Ming Hu wondered if the girl was not human. He thought to himself.

‘Uh-oh. I hope not.

But Myung-hoo, who soon thought this was ridiculous, realized that the girl had been fed honey balm by Rafid with such force that she was almost sick.

“Is it a feed?”

“Yes, Dad!”

Waiting for the girl’s answer with a stern expression, Lafydd smiled broadly at her exclamation.

“Who is this kid?”

Ming Hu asked Lapid once more about the girl.

“Oh, and this one…”

Rafid trailed off and glanced at the girl, then back at Ming Hu before continuing.

“She’s my slave!”

“…?”

Rafid’s words left Ming Hu speechless for a moment.

“…What?”

Wondering if he had misheard, Ming Hu asked again.

“Oar! Slave! Hehe.”

He hadn’t misheard. Rafid was clearly referring to the girl as a slave.

“…No, slave?”

“Yes!”

Lafydd smiled broadly and nodded in response.