Chapter 400

Chapter 400

“One, two…

Ming Hu checked the number of renegades that had appeared around him.

“Six in total.

There were six of them in all. Ming Hu stopped walking and looked at the defectors staring at him and Haran.

‘I don’t think there will be any blood waves or blood explosions.

Scopes such as Blood Wave and Blood Blast can be used to catch renegades quite easily. However, Ming Hu was unable to use the scope because of Haran. Haran was neither a party member nor Ming Hu’s pet.

It might not be affected, but it could be. There was no reason to use scopers when we didn’t know for sure.

Jumbled

Ming Hu still stood his ground and began to walk toward the nearest of the renegades who looked at him and Haran with a serious expression on his face.

-I thought this day would come someday.

-His prophecy.

-Naturally.

The renegades stood still and watched, but when Ming Hu moved, they spoke up again.

Ouch… Ssshhhh…

As he spoke, the renegades’ bodies began to emit a darkness that was the opposite of Haran’s light. The darkness quickly flew toward Ming Hu. Ming Hu opened his mouth to speak as he saw the darkness flying toward him.

“Moving Strike.”

Using a moving strike, Ming Hu was able to arrive in front of his target in a flash. Because he had moved directly forward, the shadow of the renegade in front of him turned and struck Ming Hu. And at the same time, Ming Hu’s fist slammed into the renegade.

Boom!

[You have killed the renegade].

[You have acquired a shard of the curse].

[Currently Gathered Shards of Curse: 1]

A fist crackled and a message appeared. The message said that the renegade had been defeated. Ming Hu turned away from the message and looked at the renegade.

Srarak

The Renegade’s body has begun to turn to dust and disappear. Is it because the renegade is disappearing? The darkness that had enveloped Ming Hu was fading as well. Ming Hu turned around. There were still five traitors left.

-Hmm. Strong.

-It looks like the prophet was right.

-I don’t know if I should call this a good thing…

Turning around, Ming Hu turned and moved toward the next renegade, listening to the darkness and the words of the renegades as they flew toward him. And so, one by one, Ming Hu began to slay the renegades.

Boom!

[You have killed the renegade].

[You have acquired a shard of the curse].

[Currently Gathered Shards of Curse: 6]

After defeating the last renegade, Ming Hu looked around.

“You didn’t drop any?

I killed a whopping six Renegades, but I didn’t see any drops around me.

“All I got was a shard of the curse.

Of course, it wasn’t all for nothing. Ming Hu earned a Shard of the Curse by defeating the Renegade.

“Ugh.

Ming Hu sighed to himself and opened his inventory. Why Ming Hu sighed and opened his inventory.

“Where’s the shard of the curse I thought I’d gotten?

That was because the shard of curse he had acquired was nowhere to be found in his inventory. Ming Hu frowned and closed the inventory. Then he turned and looked at Haran.

Ouch.

The wavelength of light emanating from Haran’s body began to diminish, perhaps because the renegades were gone. The diminishing wavelength of light soon disappeared completely, and Haran opened his eyes.

-…Thank you.

Haran said. There was a sadness in Haran’s eyes that had never been seen before. It was clear that it was because of the renegade.

Jumbled

Haran thanked Ming Hu and started walking again, and Ming Hu followed, opening a quest window.

The massive castle that sank into the center of Lake Belkan was the castle of the second Lord Bartash. Bartash’s castle is currently under a curse. Haran strongly believes that you will be the one to remove this curse. To do so, you must weaken the curse by destroying the curse pillars that are embedded throughout the castle. Follow Haran to the first curse pillar on the south side of the castle to weaken the curse!

Quest Difficulty: SSS

Quest Reward: ???

Quests cannot be canceled

Opening the quest window, Ming Hu recalled the shard of curse he’d gotten after defeating the Renegade.

“I think this has something to do with it.

The cursed shard, a shard of curse that appeared to be earned but was not present anywhere in your inventory, was probably related to the special quest “Cursed Pillar of the South” that you received.

“I wonder what it’s for.

They weren’t in my inventory, but they were piling up, so it was clear they were being used somewhere. The question was, where?

“Will it be used to weaken the curse?

A sudden thought struck Ming Hu, and he looked away from the quest window to look at Haran. In order to weaken the curse, the pillar would need to be destroyed, and it was possible that the shards of the curse would be needed to destroy it.

“Well, we’ll find out later.

Ming Hu dismissed the idea and closed the quest window. Everything he was thinking about right now was speculation, not confirmed anyway. Time would tell what the shards of the curse were used for.

Jab!

Just then, Haran stopped walking.

“Renegade?

When Haran stopped walking, Ming Hu stopped walking and thought to himself. Haran couldn’t have just stopped walking. There must have been a traitor.

-The renegades are coming.

Said Haran, stopping in his tracks. As expected, the renegades had appeared. Ming Hu listened, and soon he could hear their footsteps.

‘There’s more of them.

The footsteps varied in size, and Ming Hu realized that there were more renegades approaching than at first.

-Please.

Just as he sensed the renegades’ near arrival through the growing sound of footsteps, he heard Haran’s voice and turned to look at her.

Siaak

Haran was suddenly radiating waves of light.

[Haran’s favor has been proclaimed].

[30% less damage taken from Renegades].

[20% increased damage to Renegades].

[You can attack the renegades].

[Shards of the Curse can be obtained from Renegades].

The message appeared the moment the wavelength passed.

-Hmm, Haran.

-I didn’t realize it was Haran.

-Next to it…

-Are you a prophet?

Then came the voices of the arriving renegades. Ming Hu turned away from the message and looked at the renegades.

‘One, two… They keep coming.’

Ming Hu, who had been counting the defectors, gave up when he saw that they kept coming back. They were defectors that needed to be captured. It didn’t matter how many there were. Ming Hu approached the defectors and began punching them.

Boom!

[You have killed the renegade].

[You have acquired a shard of the curse].

[Currently Gathered Shards of Curse: 7]

* * * * *

Kim Min-yong, the user who has recently become one of the hottest topics on ‘Legend’, was currently on the phone with someone with a serious expression on his face.

-When’s a good time for you? Tell us when it’s convenient for you and we’ll get you online and moving.

Kim’s expression changed when he heard a voice on his cell phone.

“Well, does that mean I can escape now?”

Kim asked, his voice a mixture of nervousness and anticipation.

-Yes, sorry for the delay.

“…”

Minyong Kim was speechless when he heard the answer to his question.

‘Finally out of that prison…’

Currently, Kim Min-yong’s character Ssangsal was trapped in the Demon Castle Dungeon of the 7th Demon Realm, unable to do anything, but now he can escape.

Sigh

Minyong Kim checked the current time. It was 5:30. After checking the time, Kim Minyong quickly opened his mouth.

“Will you be okay until 6?”

-Ah… You mean in 30 minutes?

“Sure, why not?”

-No, I’ll see you at 6!

“Yes! See you later!”

I made an appointment and the call ended.

“There it is. Finally!”

After ending the call, Kim Min-yong turned his head and looked at the capsule in the corner. Looking at the capsule, Kim smiled broadly and quickly entered the capsule to access Legend.

Siaak

The now-familiar prison came into view as he logged in, and he looked around with a wide grin on his face.

‘This is the end of this place. Hee hee hee.

After a while, the management will come and we will be able to escape from here. I couldn’t help but smile at the thought of finally saying goodbye to this place.

“Oh, right.”

Laughing out loud, Sansal stopped laughing at a sudden thought and turned his head to look in the corner. There was a strange darkness in the corner.

“I need to check that, that, that.”

Muttering to himself as he stared into the darkness, Sansal moved toward the corner.

“This one, and this one, right?”

Reaching the corner, Sansal continued to mutter and touched the two bricks in the corner.

Thrrrrrrrrr

The seemingly immovable brick slid in very smoothly when the javelin touched it, and then two bricks went in completely.

Thump thump thump thump

Sansal muttered to himself as he listened to the sounds of something moving inside the walls.

“I was so lucky to find this.”

Since his imprisonment, Sansal has explored every inch of the prison in an attempt to escape. After a while, he was able to find a special room.

Sigh

Soon, the special space appeared, and Chansal could see two items tucked inside the space.

The two items were scrolls, both presumably made of paper. Sansal reached out and picked up the left of the two scrolls, muttering to himself.

“I can’t see it, I can’t acquire it, and it’s obviously a special item.”

Both scrolls were unable to verify the item information and were not even picked up, but it was clear that they were special items. Of course, just because the information was unavailable and unclaimed didn’t mean they were special to be in this location.

Thrrrr

Sansal unfolded the scroll in his hand. Inside the scroll was a picture. It was a picture of demons, celestials, humans, and other beings.

“These guys must be-“

In the paintings, Chansal saw beings unlike any other, drawn large.

“Makusawa agranecto.”

What made this painting special to Chansal was that the large figures were Agranecto and Makusa, whom he had met and gotten to know before.

“Who is this woman?”

After checking on Agranecto and Makusa, Sansal looked at the large woman painted on the other side.

There were three large beings depicted in the painting. Two of the three were Agranecto and Makusa, and the third was the beautiful woman you see now.

“I’m pretty sure it’s a demon.”

The context of the painting suggested that the beautiful woman was a demonic being. And, like Agranecto and Makusa, she was drawn as large as they were, so she must be something special. But that was as far as the painting could tell.

Sigh

He put the painting back in its place. With the painting back in place, he pulled out the scroll to his right and unfolded it. The scroll on the right was a map pointing somewhere.

“I wonder what’s here.”

The place on the map was one he knew very well. No, not just Chansal, but a very famous place that many people knew. The question was, what was at the red dot, or where the map was pointing?

“I know it’s hard to go, but…”

Staring at the map for a moment, he muttered to himself and returned it to its place. Moving the bricks again to hide the space, he returned to the center of the prison, muttering to himself.

“I’ll know when I get there.”

You’re about to be set free. You just need to go there to confirm it. What the red dot is pointing to and how the map in the basement of the Demon Castle points to the sacred place.