Chapter 386

Chapter 386

Deren, the message clearly had the word Deren in it.

“If Derren…

Ming Hu thought of Deren, the boss monster of the Garden of Deren, a place he had visited before.

“You mean that Derren?

I couldn’t tell if the Deren in the message was the same Deren I remembered or a different Deren.

“That’s the same message I got back then.

However, the message that appeared now was exactly the same as the one that appeared then.

“…You’ll see when you get there.

If the Deren that appeared now was the Deren of his memories, he would soon find out. Ming Hu finished his thoughts, grabbed the items dropped by the helmeted seahorses, and began to walk in search of the center.

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Rare Dragonlord Akima.

Jab!

Monia, who had been pacing back and forth, alone with Rare, stopped walking.

“What do I do?

He looked at the spot where Akima’s portal used to be and thought.

‘The Lord told me not to come, but…’

Akima told Monia to wait before entering the portal. Monia did as Akima said and waited in Rare, but there was one thing that bothered her.

‘You looked very serious…’

The look on Akima’s face when he went through the portal to Eurena’s Rare was very disturbing. For some reason, Akima’s expression was very serious.

That was the moment.

Siaak

As Monia pondered what to do, a golden portal appeared. It was the portal to Akima, the owner of the rarity and the object of Monia’s troubles.

Jumbled

Soon, Akima walked out of the portal as Eurena’s Rare.

“Rod, are you here…?”

Monia, who opened her mouth to speak with a look of relief when Akima came out, had to stop mid-sentence and shake her head.

“…?

Monia looked at Akima with a puzzled expression. Akima’s expression, which had been serious before entering the portal, was now filled with bewilderment as she stepped out of the portal.

“What happened?

What on earth had happened? What had happened to cause Akima’s serious expression to turn into one of panic?

“after”

Akima let out a long sigh.

“Monia.”

He then called Monia.

“Yes, load.”

Monia replied, and Akima frowned slightly before continuing.

“Issue a muster order now.”

“…!”

Monia was speechless at Akima’s words. She merely stared at Akima in surprise, but after a moment’s reflection, Monia spoke up.

“So, you mean the mustering orders?”

Even though she knew she hadn’t misheard, Monia asked Akima again, so surprised was she.

“Yes, now.”

Akima saw Monia’s surprised expression and answered her question with a look of understanding.

“A mustering order?

Monia could tell the situation was very serious, and so could he. Lord Akima’s summons is no ordinary summons. All dragons must respond to Akima’s summons. Even dragons in their sleep.

“What the hell…

Even when the Demon King descended, Akima did not issue a summons. This Akima was the one who issued the call to arms. What on earth was going on in Eurena’s Rare?

“…I see.”

Monia thought she’d find out later, and answered Akima’s question. She then created a portal and stepped inside.

“Huh.”

Akima let out another long sigh as Monia stepped into the portal.

“You said Rafid, didn’t you?”

Sighing, Akima remembered Rafid, the boy from Eurena’s Rare.

“I never thought it would be a golem.”

When Akima first saw Lapid, he didn’t realize that Lapid was a golem. If Eurena hadn’t told him, he would have never known.

“It’s a growing golem.”

Rafid was no ordinary golem; he was a growthling, ever-growing golem. I couldn’t believe it, but Eurena had been with me for so long, I had to believe her.

“If you’re even stronger than you are now…”

Even now, Lafydd was incredibly strong. Akima frowned at the thought of Lafydd’s power, knowing that it would only grow stronger as time passed.

“Not good.”

Not good.

“Just like that…”

Akima’s face hardened as he remembered that day, so long ago, when the world turned upside down.

* * * * *

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[You have killed Deren’s Seahorse, current kill count: 20]

[Helmeted Seahorses are enraged by the death of an ally, increasing their movement speed by 20%].

[You have killed 20 seahorses of Deren].

[20 seconds later, Deren Faction Centurion Akufol will be summoned].

Message displayed after defeating a Helmeted Seahorse.

“…?”

When Ming Hu saw the message, he could only shake his head.

“Faction or Centurion?

Something wasn’t right.

‘I thought it was a clear message to keep an eye on…’

In Deren’s Garden, whenever you caught a certain number of seahorses, you’d get a message saying that Deren was interested in them, or that he was watching them, but the message you saw now was different from the messages you’d seen in Deren’s Garden before.

[Deren Faction Centurion Akufol is summoned].

Siaak

Twenty seconds passed while Ming Hu puzzled over the message, and then a new message appeared, along with a huge magic circle a short distance away. It was obviously a summoning magic circle. Ming Hu turned away from the message and looked at the summoning magic circle.

Thrrrr

-Bururururuk.

The summoning spell cried out and Akufol, the Centurion of the Deren faction, appeared, a seahorse three times the size of a helmeted seahorse.

‘So you’re a champion seahorse.

I thought it was a centurion, but as expected, Akupol is a champion pitching seahorse.

-Boo-roo-roo? Was that a human? -Boo-roo-roo!

“You can talk?

Is it because he’s a champion? Akupol was talking unlike any other helmeted seahorse.

“Do you want to ask?

As Akufol spoke, Ming Hu thought about asking about Deren.

-They killed our soldiers anyway. Boo-roo! Die. Boo-roo!

In the meantime, Akupol began to cry and run toward Ming Hu.

“Wait.”

While he was thinking, Akufol ran up to him, and Ming Hu quickly decided to ask, and opened his mouth to call out.

-Bururururur!

But Akupol did not stop moving at Minghu’s shout.

“I’ll just have to catch it.

Seeing Akupol running toward him, unmoved by his cries, Ming Hu finally gave up on asking. From the looks of things, conversation seemed impossible.

Jumbled

Ming Hu turned to face the charging Akupole. It wasn’t long before the Akupole was inside Ming Hu’s blood wave.

-Boooooooooooooooo!

A tremendous cry began to echo through the water, unlike anything I’d ever heard from a pitched seahorse.

Thump!

Soon, Akupol collapsed.

[You have killed Akufol, Centurion of the Deren faction].

[Only prestige 3 will increase].

Then a kill message appeared. Ming Hu turned his attention away from the kill message and walked over to the fallen Akupol’s corpse to check the items that had dropped.

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[You have mastered seahorse meat].

“…I wonder if I need to pick this up.”

As he picked up the items, Ming Hu frowned in thought. He looked at the items on the floor that he hadn’t picked up yet, and they didn’t look very good.

“Let’s just go.”

It wasn’t an important item, and he didn’t need the money. Ming Hu looked at the remaining items and closed the inventory. Then he started walking again.

Jab!

But it was short-lived, and Ming Hu was soon forced to stop walking.

“Octopus?

The reason Ming Hu stopped walking was because of the octopus monster in the distance.

‘What kind of monster?

It was a monster he had never seen before. Curious, Ming Hu slowly walked toward the octopus monster.

‘That’s weird. I feel like I’ve seen this before…’

The distance grew closer and closer, and Ming Hu could see the octopus monster in more detail, and he shook his head. This was definitely a new monster, but he felt like he’d seen it before.

That was the moment.

[The monster octopus eyes you].

The octopus that Ming Hu was looking at turned around and a message appeared. From the message, Ming Hu learned that the octopus’s name was Monster Octopus.

-Horrorock?

The monster octopus looked at Ming Hu and spewed ink. It was a thick, black ink.

-Horrorrorock!

The ink-spewing monster octopus began to run toward Ming Hu. Ming Hu was approaching the monster octopus anyway. The distance between them quickly narrowed, and soon the monster octopus was inside a wave of blood.

-Horrorock…

The monster octopus that entered the blood wave was instantly killed, and when it died, a message appeared.

[You have killed the Octopus of Lamphere; Current Kills: 1]

“…Lampere?