Chapter 379

Chapter 379

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‘This is the last one.

Ming Hu picked up the last golden nugget on the floor and put it in his inventory.

[You have acquired a golden shard].

[Stealth magic circle destroyed].

[Hetonia’s Golden Chamber is revealed].

“…?

Ming Hu was puzzled by the message that appeared when he placed the gold in his inventory.

“Stealthy Magic Circle? Revealed?

Stealthy Magic Circle? Revealed?

“Was it hidden all this time?

Apparently, the message said that Hetonia’s Golden Chamber was hidden.

“That’s good, but…

There was tons of gold. It didn’t matter if the royals saw it, but it was a little creepy, and I’m glad they didn’t.

“But why did I see it?

But one thing didn’t make sense. If it was hidden by a magic circle, Ming Hu shouldn’t have been able to find it, but he found Hetonia’s chamber in one fell swoop.

“Is it because I caught a hetonia?

Was it because he killed Hetonia, the owner of the room and creator of the magic circle?

“Because of the proof?

With a sudden thought, Ming Hu opened his inventory and checked the information on the Mark of Refurem.

If you have Refurem’s Mark, you gain the following effects.

1. +20% movement speed

2. +20% resistance to all status anomalies

3. you can see NPCs and monsters in stealth.

4. Proofs cannot be discarded and cannot be traded.

“It’s just NPCs and monsters.

After checking the information, Ming Hu shook his head. The only signs of Refurem were NPCs and monsters in hiding.

“Is the room monstrous?

The chances were close to zero, but you never know. Ming Hu punched the floor with a just-in-case expression.

Thump!

[You have defeated the bonus monster “Hetonia’s Golden Chamber”].

[Earn additional rewards based on contributions].

[Gains only 200k prestige].

[You have earned a sack of gold].

[You have earned a sack of gold].

.

.

[You have earned a sack of gold].

[You have earned a sack of gold].

“…”

Ming Hu was speechless as his fist slammed into the floor and a message appeared.

“Was it a real monster?

Ming Hu looked away from the message and checked his inventory, not believing it to be a real monster, though it was a possibility. As the message said, there were tons of golden sacks in his inventory.

A sack containing 20 kilograms of golden nuggets.

“That’s a lot.

After confirming the information on the golden sack, Ming Hu closed his inventory and exited the room, turning to see Revil and the royals.

“My lord, are you all right?”

As Ming Hu emerged from the room, Revil approached, looking surprised. Apparently, she was worried about his sudden disappearance when he entered the room.

“Yes, that’s fine. Are we done talking?”

“Yes.”

“Then let’s get back to work.”

Hearing Revil’s reply that the conversation was over, Ming Hu walked ahead, followed by Revil and the royals.

“I tried to go back to scrolling.

As Ming Hu paced, he thought of the scroll in his inventory. The original plan was to use the scroll to return to the empire with Revil.

However, the kidnapped royals were a problem. The quest is complete, so you don’t really need to care about it, but the relationship with Revil and the mood of the place makes it hard not to.

“Too much. I should have brought more scrolls.

Ming Hu knew that Revil wasn’t the only one kidnapped, and he had brought a number of scrolls with him, but he hadn’t expected so many people to be taken, so he was running low on scrolls.

Profit

Soon, Ming Hu reached the end of the hallway and opened the door to enter the room. In the center of the room, Hetonia’s corpse and the Chimera’s corpse were still there, unmoving.

“Huh!”

“Suck!”

The royalty flinched at the sight of the corpse, and let out a series of groans and gasps. Ming Hu continued to walk outside, listening to the royalty’s gasps and gasps.

“Huh!”

“That’s an Iron Golem!”

“No, how can I get here…”

The royals’ reactions grew louder with each passing room. Ming Hu picked up his pace, feeling a little overwhelmed by the hot stares behind him. Soon enough, Ming Hu was able to pass through the first room of the building, the safe zone, and emerge from the building.

“Minghu”

As soon as he exited the building, Ming Hu stopped walking when he heard Revil’s voice calling out to him. He turned around and saw Revil. When Ming Hu turned around and saw himself, Revil continued.

“Do you happen to know where this is?”

“Oh, this is Yogel.”

Ming Hu replied to Revill’s question.

“Yogel… You mean the same Yogel that is the city of mercenaries?”

“Yes.”

The mercenary city of Yogel, the headquarters of the Bloody, a nation and city made up entirely of mercenaries with no royalty or nobility, and Hetonia’s temporary Rare, where the royals were being held, were located on the outskirts of Yogel.

“Great!”

Revil, realizing that this was Yogel at Minghu’s nod, exclaimed with a wide smile.

“…?”

It went well? What do you mean it went well? Ming Hu couldn’t help but wonder at Revil’s shout and smile. Ming Hu wasn’t the only one who was puzzled. Several nobles were also looking at Revil with puzzled expressions.

“Here.”

Seeing the puzzlement on the faces of Ming Hu and some of the royalty, Revil opened his mouth to speak.

“I know someone, and he’ll help you get back.”

“…!”

After hearing Revil’s words, Ming Hu could see why Revil smiled broadly as he told him that he had done well.

“I thought I was going to have to take you there.

It didn’t end with the rescue. If they were separated immediately after being rescued, we had to take care of them until they returned.

“That’s great.

I was very nervous about this and was glad to find someone here to help.

“Where is that?”

Ming Hu asked.

“Well…”

Revil glanced around at Ming Hu’s words, then back at Ming Hu before continuing.

“It’s not far from the main square. The problem is, I don’t really know where it is, so–“

Ming Hu smiled as Revil finished his sentence with a stutter.

“I know the way to the central square, and I’ll lead you there.”

After speaking, Ming Hu turned around and began to walk at a brisk pace toward the central plaza he had seen on his way here.

Ururu

And, as has been the custom, Revill and the royalty followed closely behind the leader.

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“Whoa, I finally made it.”

After finishing his work, Kim Moo-woong stood up with a sigh of relief and looked at Jang Moo-yeol across from him.

Jang Moo-yeol bowed his head and held his head in his hands. When Kim Mu-woong saw Jang Moo-yeol’s appearance, he smiled and opened his mouth to speak.

“Is there a problem?”

Sigh

Jang Moo-yeol, who had his head down, looked up at Kim Mu-woong’s question.

“Ugh.”

He let out a deep sigh and continued.

“I don’t get it, a user dueling tournament? That doesn’t make any sense, and honestly, if you hadn’t told me, I would have beaten you up long ago. Ew.”

Zhang Mue-yeol is thinking about the task his teacher has entrusted him with: the upcoming event, a user dueling competition.

“Why? Is there a problem?”

Kim Mu-woong listened to Jang Moo-yeol’s words and questioned him. It was Jang Moo-yeol’s job to do this. Moreover, Kim Mu-woong hadn’t been paying much attention to the user dueling competition because he was focused on his own work, so he didn’t understand Jang Moo-yeol’s reaction that it was ridiculous.

“It’s just a matter of dividing up the users’ ratings.”

“Rating? You mean competition rating?”

“Yes, competition ratings.”

Zhang nodded.

“What’s the big deal? There are different competitions for different levels of users anyway.”

If we had a level 10 player against a level 200 player, of course the 200 player would win, it wouldn’t be fun, and there was a good chance we’d get flamed. We knew that, so we split the tournament into multiple competitions. But why is that a problem?

“Yeah, dividing it into levels is great, but there are strong users who don’t fit into levels… black code, white code, etc.!”

“Oh.”

Kim Mu-woong let out a short gasp at Jang’s words.

“You’ve been worrying about the users of your code.”

“Yes.”

Kim Mu-woong could understand why Jang Moo-yeol was worried. Even if they were at the same level, or rather, at a lower level, code users could fill in the gap. No, depending on what kind of code you had, you could not only fill in the gap, but also overwhelm it. So in a way, it was pointless to divide it into levels.

“But why bother with that?”

When Kim Mu-woong realized what Jang Moo-yeol’s problem was, he smiled wryly. In Kim’s opinion, Jang Moo-yeol’s troubles were indeed meaningless.

“…?”

Jang Moo-yeol looked at Kim Mu-woong as if he didn’t know what that meant. Kim Mu-woong continued.

“It’s not like we’re going to get one or two coders involved. That’s a good thing, right? It gives them something to look at, and they’ll get excited.”

There was a chance that a user with no code could win, but that chance was extremely small, and a code user would probably win, but that doesn’t matter.

On the contrary, it would be a good response as there would be more things to see as more coders came out, and especially if it was a fight between low-level coders, it could cause such a huge response that the homepage server would crash.

“…”

Jang Moo-yeol was speechless at Kim Mu-woong’s words. As it turns out, Kim wasn’t wrong at all. Up until this point, Jang had only thought about the loss of the regular users due to the code user’s victory, not the enthusiasm and cheers. When Jang was speechless, Kim Mu-woong continued to speak.

“Well, there are some overwhelming code users, but…”

His voice trailing off, Kim recalled a few code users. The ones who are currently the strongest in the ‘legends’.

“When those users come out, we’re going to hit the jackpot.”

Perhaps if those users came out, the tournament would end on a high note, but the aftermath would be devastating, Kim was sure.

“Yeah, it’s going to be awesome when those users you mentioned come out, but are they going to participate in the tournament? They’re not even in the rankings.”

Jang Moo-yeol, who had been listening to Kim, said. According to Jang, if the top-level coders that Kim Mu-woong was talking about came to the competition, they would make a huge impact. But they didn’t register for the rankings.

In other words, they either don’t like the attention or they want to hide it. Would they show up to the competition?

“That’s.”

Jang Moo-yeol’s words made Kim Mu-woong open his mouth.

“That’s for you to figure out. It’s your job.”

The user duel tournament was not Kim’s idea. The user duel tournament was entirely Jang’s work.

“Think about it.”

Kim Mu-woong turned back to his seat and said to Jang Moo-yeol.

“Join without being recognized. Well, that’ll do.”