Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
The Strongest Florist
Ch 103 as of 10/03/22 - available on Webtoon ** End of season 1, Ch 75 ( scrambled chapters, weird bad translation ) - New World, a VR fantasy game. - Worldwide, the company that developed the game. - Crater is the AI behind the game. It is self sufficient and completely controls the game. - Players are called “immortalians” by NPCs in the game. - When players die in the game, they respawn. - There are 3 common classes of quests in the game. - The quest progression: normal, rare and unique. - Legendary quests above unique have yet to be reached. - ML is 24yo Hwang Jaeho, a college student. - He loves flowers but is highly allergic to them. - His game ID is Althea. - Wansik is ML’s best friend and a college student. - He’s a L185 warrior with the game ID “Mr Swole.” - Hwang Wuram, ML’s father. He owns and manages a fitness centre and gym. He wanted ML to be an MMA fighter. - Eunhye, ML’s mother. She works full-time (?) - ML starts the game at Luxy Forest, against Wansik’s advice. - He can observe and record flowers just as he wanted. - May, a new player who started in Luxy Forest to meet elves. - Her real name is Lee Si-Eun 26yo. - Forever Luxy Association (FLA): - FLA helps it’s members deal with the angry elves of Luxy Forest. - The eternally unblooming ifeltz flower: (Tinlite’s legacy) - ML goes to Trian Village to ask the elves about this flower. - He meets Elda the village leader and elder. The love he professes for flowers touches the elves’ hearts. - Tinlite, the first Grower of Life. He died 200yrs ago. - The Quest of Ascendancy to become the next Grower of Life and a symbol of hope for all wandering elves. - ML accepts this successor level quest, which goes beyond the common quest classes usually offered. - ML completes the quest successfully after 2mths of being friends with the ifeltz flower. It finally blooms and a ball of light shoots from it to ML. The Spirit of Life has been bound to ML. - The mythological Seed of the Mother Tree is also given to ML. - ML gains new skills as the Grower of Life. He has also leveled up other skills like botanist, florist, arborist and elven flutist. - Class quest: - Bring the Mother Tree back to life and find the elves a new home. - Elvenkind need the Mother Tree to survive. - The elves in Luxy Forest hold a big celebration for ML. - Elda gives ML a legendary item, a pink clover necklace. As long as he wears this token of friendship, no elves will turn against him. The elves give ML an elven bow, 30 arrows and an elven rapier. - A L25 grizzly bear attacks ML. He defeats the bear with his bare hands using the Seed of the Mother Tree and he levels up. - May introduces herself afterwards and offers to travel with ML out of Luxy Forest together. ML gives May the bow and arrows. - Wooster, L134 Twilight Knight, Prime Guild member. - Jukjang, L274 Guild Master of Prime Guild. - Wooster was rude to an elf, then destroyed flowers with his feet and sword. ML and the elf kill Wooster. ML obtains the legendary Twilight Barrier shield that was dropped by Wooster. - Jukjang is contacted by Wooster and promises to keep an eye out for the player in Luxy Forest who killed him. - May asks to become ML’s assistant after elves take an interest in her. With ML’s permission, her job changes to the Grower of Life’s assistant and she becomes bound to him. ML can summon May at any time. He can also share his plant journal with her. - ML’s dad bought him a 2nd hand VR capsule. ML lied and said he was a warrior and planned to conquer the world in the game. - With May’s help, ML has almost catalogued all of the plants and flowers of Luxy Forest in his plant journal. He uses elven climbing gear to explore a steep and rocky mountain but dies after falling down a cliff. - ML wakes up to find the sealed Flower of Spirits in a hidden pocket universe created by Tinlite in his soul. The flower opens briefly to reveal Bloria, a world where the spirits of flowers reside. With this, ML has completed the records for the Luxy Forest in his plant journal. - Class quest: - Help the Flower of Spirits blossom next to the reborn Mother Tree. It will only blossom for those who have earned it's trust. - ML receives 15 rare seeds of the Flower of Spirits, and the legendary Essence of Bloria. - ML and May leave Luxy Forest. They find themselves in the Ferma desert and try to approach an oasis but it’s a mirage. - ML is sucked into a whirlpool which turns out to be the entrance to a hidden dungeon. - Surprise quest: help the cursed insurgent army of Kopei or help Brezal the Tyrant King. ML agrees to help the insurgents. - Brezal was blinded by greed and didn’t want to give his wealth to his successors. He sacrificed his people and his country to make a deal with the Great Devil Kalisto for riches and eternal life. - Samantha, L121 Sand Carver, Prime Guild member. - She's been searching the desert for the hidden dungeon for a mth. She needs King Brezal for her class quest. - A L230 golden sand golem smashes through the dungeon floor. - The rebels turn into sand when they die and are reborn again to repeat their endless battle. ML jumps down the hole created by the golem and sees the doors to Brezal’s secret treasury that’s guarded by L85 undead knights. - Side quest: stop the eternal curse. - The spirit of life woke up the mind of the L135 knight captain. - The captain leads ML to the heart of the dungeon for ML to break the curse by flipping the magic hourglass to let time flow as normal. - The spirit of life helps ML regenerate and resist the demonic curse in the chamber with the hourglass. - The Kopei kingdom is released from it's seal. - The undead knights are freed from the curse and vanish. - ML is swept away by water released from an underground reservoir. ML reaches the throne room and faces Brezal who disappears once all of the sand runs out of the hourglass. - ML levels up and only Brezal’s legendary crown is left. - Legendary item: Hourglass Frozen in Time - It contains the power of the Great Devil Kalisto. - You can summon the Kopei mirage soldiers bound to the hourglass. You can also summon the golden golem. - ML puts the crown on his head and is the first player of the New World to become a king. He decides to create Elysia as the new home for the elves in the desert and open his flower shop here too. - Samantha meets May and ML when he rises from the sands after completing the dungeon quest. She decides to kneel before ML the new king for the sake of her class quest. - With the water welling up from underground, ML uses his rapid growth skill on an ifeltz flower seed after planting it in the sand. The common ifeltz flower can grow anywhere and spreads quickly. - Samantha’s L50 sand golems and the L45 Kopei mirage soldiers are cultivating the land. The elves of Luxy Forest are also helping ML to bring life to the desert. They even designed and built his flower shop using rare moon tree wood. - Crowking, L314 Guild Master of the Grizzly Bear Guild. - He is furious that he didn’t obtain the title of the first player king in New World and is desperately searching for ML. - His racist guild is the most powerful in New World. After taking over the Ideran kingdom, it’s been renamed Grizzly Bear kingdom with Crowking as the king. - ML plants the Seed of the Mother Tree, using soil from Luxy Forest and manure from spirit horses (descendants of unicorns). - Following the voice of the Mother Tree, leaders of other elven tribes from across New World arrive in Elysia to greet ML. A mass elven migration has begun. - Ziant, L184 talented architect. - Samantha recommended Ziant to ML as a famous and experienced architect to help build the city infrastructure for Elysia. - ML creates a custom quest for Ziant to build an elven city. - This coincides with Ziant’s unique class quest. He needs to create a new piece of work that no one has created before. - After 2 days, Ziant’s mental and emotional state breaks down from the harsh treatment by the elves. May suggests getting the FLA to teach Ziant how to communicate with the elves. The FLA can also provide extra labour to help build the city of Elysia. - Breeze, L12 President of FLA. - Breeze and 50 FLA members accept a group quest from ML to build the elven city in the desert. Breeze also accepts a job change quest to be an elven trauma therapist. - The FLA 5-stage intensive care program of self esteem. - Croissant, L110 unique merchant, Prime Guild member. - Samantha suggests selling ML’s potions of ifeltz flower essence through Croissant, her best friend. ML’s instant recovery potions (rare class) are valuable items in New World. ML already has the potions as the reward for the city construction quest. - Croissant agrees to sell the potions for ML. - She also gets exclusive trade rights on ML’s other products. - ML has been experimenting with the ifeltz flower and other plants to create food items that are rated rare and give some small buffs. The food items would be popular with NPCs. - ML starts experimenting with flower arrangements and accessories. He discovers these also give small buffs. - ML and 10 elf volunteers travel to the Red Tower in the SE region of the Teras continent. ML wants to ask the mages on how to change the desert climate so they can grow a wider variety of plants. - ML observes the fighting skills of the elves who kill the monsters on their journey. ML learns about Elbo, the elven self defence fighting style. It’s an ancient elven combat style of elf boxing. It’s the basis of all elven fighting techniques where they commune with nature and borrow the power of the spirits. - With the help of the elves, ML trains his Elbo attacks while borrowing the Spirit of Life’s power. ML is now L82. - They arrive at the Great City of the Wizard in the Rassel kingdom. ML visits a smithy to commission a weapon and meets his first dwarf, Vulka. - Surprise quest: find and return Vulka’s family anvil. - Vulka is a gambling addict and pawned his anvil. - The Red Balloon gang run the shady underbelly of the city. - The elves beat up the gang members who visit Vulka about his debt while ML is there. As thanks, Vulka uses bear claws to make legendary weapons for ML’s hands. - Dessi, 3rd division leader of the Red Balloons. - The gang members led by Dessi attack ML and the elves but are defeated again. Dessi is grateful for ML’s mercy in not killing them and helps ML with a way to get back Vulka’s anvil. If ML wins against the Angler, he can get the anvil. - The Angler, the god of gambling who’s true form is a lesser demon and he’s been cleaning up at the gambling den. - ML attracts the attention of the Angler who invites ML for a game. ML resists the curse from the Angler as ML is beloved by nature and is protected from impure forces. The game was rigged from the start by Dessi and his men so that ML would win. - ML defeats the Angler by using some sleight of hand and wins the game. The elves destroy the Angler when he reveals his true demon form. ML obtains the Angler’s Eyepatch, a rare magic item that can tell if an NPC is lying. ML also gets the Angler’s treasure. - ML negotiates with Red Balloon on Vulka’s debt. - The Red Balloon King agrees to lower the debt in exchange for meeting ML. The debt is paid and the anvil is returned to Vulka. - Rynior, archmage and the Red Tower of Magic leader. - ML bribes the guard to get into the Red Tower. - ML meets Rynior who is also the Red Balloon King. - Rynior is impressed by ML and agrees to work with ML. He wants to establish a long term trade deal with ML. - Rynior casts a high level teleportation spell that sends ML, the elves and 3 mages directly to Elysia. - Red, one of the mages, is a Grizzly Bear Guild member. - Huka, L11 labourer and FLA member. - He live streamed the Grizzly Bear Guild members getting smashed by the elves gathered at Elysia. An advanced party from the guild arrived to capture ML after Crowking issued an arrest warrant. Samantha told the elves that the party insulted ML. - Reinforcements from the Grizzly Bear Guild arrive. - ML and his group happen to teleport there at the same time. - Red is recognised by the guild members but he betrays them and casts a lightning spell. The elves proceed to wipe out the guild members. Huka continues to live stream. - Taylor, L273 shadow assassin, Grizzly Bear Guild member. - After failing to assassinate ML, Taylor is caught by ML. - Taylor is let go (?) - Following the live stream, rumours spread about ML. - ML decides to finally succeed the Kopei kingdom and declare a kingdom of his own, Elysia Flower Shop. - May and Samantha automatically become meritorious retainers. They can receive noble titles once Elysia is more established. - ML as the 1st player king is announced in a global message. - ML creates ifeltz flower bracelets to help other players like Ziant, Samantha and Wansik improve their relationships with elves. - ML finds out about grow powder from the elves. - The powder strengthens the bracelets so they last longer. The powder is harvested from Bloria. - Using your bare hands to work with manure helps to further strengthen the bracelet and it's effects. - The bracelets are added as a reward for the city construction quest. - The oasis is the centre of Elysia and is called the Milky Way of Elysia by the elves. The Mother Tree is in the middle of the oasis. It finally starts to sprout under ML’s plant observation skill. ML is the first human to hear the voice of the Mother Tree. ML is now L99. - The slow growth of the Mother Tree is due to the lack of spirit energy where the seed was planted. - ML’s parents find out about his flower shop. - They support his success in the game if he can show it will provide a financially secure future for him. - ML looks for ways to make money in the game to prove to his parents that the game should be a priority in his life. He meets Huka to get exclusive streaming rights and share the profits. - Grand Duke Arief, the most powerful noble NPC in the Rassel kingdom. Arief cautions the Rassel nobles who want to invade Elysia as ML is supported by the Red Tower. - A delegation of 3 Rassel noble NPCs are sent to Elysia. They have a message from King Rasselius VII for ML to kneel and become the Grand Duke of Elysia as a vassal state of the Rassel kingdom. ML refuses and says the Rassel king didn’t help when the Grizzly Bear Guild attacked. ML scares off the delegation. - Luxy Forest and the Ferma desert are former worthless territories of the Rassel kingdom. Tinlite made a deal with the Rassel kingdom. He paid a fair price for Luxy Forest and the Ferma desert that Rassel now shares borders with. Rassel have no claim over these areas anymore. - The Red Tower mages have carved runes into the greenhouse structures in Elysia. Temperature and humidity can be adjusted using the control panel. Elves can do the same thing by communing with spirits. To thank the 3 mages, ML made each of them a rare flower garland. It has a good mana recovery buff that is stackable. - Samantha admires ML as someone who truly enjoys the game. - Class quest and job change: Samantha agrees to become a Spirit Knight of the Desert, L302 rare class. - ML creates a new and rare high level recovery potion, Lufeltz essence. It’s made from the lunus and ifeltz flowers. To handle the volume of queries, ML sets up a call centre, starting with 5 players recruited from the FLA. - ML receives his first order for a flower wreath from Red the mage. For the order ML creates the Blue Mist Grass Circlet with a spell damage buff, his first legendary item. ML is now L100. - Red wears his circlet and garland for a dungeon raid with 3 other players. Afterwards, ML receives flower orders from the 3 players but ML blocks them when they insist on a discount. - Croissant’s trading company is based in the city of Otolk on the Sitra continent, which is north of the Teras continent. - Croissant invites ML to an annual festival called The Unending Night in Otolk. She hopes this big festival will help promote ML’s flowers and products to more of the young noble NPCs. Her trading company is one of the festival’s sponsors. - ML travels with Samantha to Otolk. On the way, they meet a demon called Sikuud at Embay Forest. ML uses the Angler’s Eyepatch while interrogating Sikuud. - Surprise quest: help Sikuud and his demon tribe against the elves. Tinlite was a friend of the demons and he left a legendary item with the tribe, Tinlite’s Trowel. Later ML uses it to collect samples of the demonic plants in Embay Forest on the way to Otolk. - ML convinces the elves to let the demons stay in Embay Forest. Not letting the demons return to the demonic world is the best way to torture the demons. Most of the elf tribe leave for Elysia. Some elves remain to keep an eye on the demons and to train Samantha as ML’s bodyguard. - Class quest: - In Embay Forest, the Sea of Fire elf tribe train Samantha on how to harness the fire spirits’ power and use the spirit sword skill. - Spirit sword is the ultimate skill of elven knights. - Once Samantha achieves L100 in this skill, she’ll be promoted to the unique class of Celeana Blade. - ML meets Croissant in Otolk and goes to her HQ. She owns one of the top trading companies on the Sitra continent. They attend an important banquet for nobles hosted by Rumio, lord of Otolk. - ML accepts Rumio’s challenge to give a cooking demo. ML uses demonic plants in his cooking to curse the rude nobles. - He unintentionally summons the spirit of demonic plants. Then ML serves a legendary class, underworld chimera stir-fry dish which causes the nobles to hallucinate. He brainwashes them all to remember the word Elysia. - As ML leaves Otolk, he’s suddenly attacked by Wooster who wants his Twilight Barrier shield back. - ML uses Elbo with the power of the demonic plants spirit and the Trowel to defeat him and Wooster dies again. - Back in Embay Forest, ML finds a secret tunnel to an abandoned mine in the demons’ storage cave. ML with Samantha and 5 elves enter the tunnel and discover luminescent stalactite flowers shining from the cavern ceiling. These extremely rare flowers are cared for by a giant called Mountain Hermit. - Surprise quest: have a conversation with Mountain Hermit, the only pure blooded giant left in New World. - The giant stayed in the cavern because he was waiting for his friends, dwarven miners. He cares for the flowers as they are proof to his friends that he’s still there. The dwarves probably disappeared from Embay Forest when the demons arrived. - ML promises to look into what happened to the giant’s dwarf friends. In exchange the giant agrees to supply shining flowers to ML when he needs them. The mine becomes a part of Elysia. ML learns all he can about the shining flowers from the giant, then leaves Embay Forest with Samantha and the remaining elves. - While ML was away, Taylor kidnapped Wansik from Elysia and imprisoned him in the Grizzly Bear castle. They keep putting Wansik back in prison on false charges. - ML and the elves capture Taylor who was disguised as a cactus in the desert near Elysia. Later ML agrees to free Taylor if he spies on the Grizzly Bear Guild for ML from now on. ML has their deal recorded by Huka. - ML now has contracts with the Spirit of Life (integrated with ML’s mind) and the spirit of demonic plants (taken physical form). - In exchange for not sending it away, the spirit of demonic plants draws a magic circle in Luxy Forest and summons the Spirit of Life to materialise from ML’s consciousness. - The Spirit of Life is a celebrity amongst the elves. - ML is currently the most influential figure in New World. - Several pro gaming teams try to contact ML to recruit him by making fake orders for flowers or joining as labourers for Elysia. - Dupyo Kim, recruitment manager for MK Gamers. - ML signs a contract with MK Gamers (the top team in South Korea) as a mascot and the promotional face of their team. This won’t interfere with his main priority of running his flower shop. - With the signing fee and salary, ML can now pay off his student loans. His parents have allowed him to keep gaming too. - Ziant reveals a city plan using Milky Way vine seedlings to create a landscape with natural boundary fences to separate the districts. Huka broadcasts a live stream of ML using his rapid growth and graft skills to quickly develop the climbing vine structures. He is helped by May, the Spirit of Life, and the Mother Tree’s blessing. - On the 3rd night after the vine boundaries were created, the white flowers of the Milky Way vines bloom, sparkle and glow. The Milky Way spirits swarm around to create a magical atmosphere. The vines will be encouraged to grow as freely as possible with minimal pruning. ML trusts the spirits to maintain order. The Milky Way vines provide a city-wide buff to all residents of Elysia. - FLA is an official guild now with Breeze as the guild master. - With the city construction quests complete, the players and FLA members who worked as labourers are free to leave Luxy Forest. After the elves acknowledge their efforts and skills, 232 players decide to stay in Elysia. Ziant has more he wants to accomplish in Elysia and also plans to stay longer. - The power and energy of the spirits has grown strong in Elysia. Many visitors come to see the Milky Way vines and their spirits. - ML releases the seal on the Essence of Bloria by planting it near the Mother Tree. Elysia now has a direct connection to the spirit world through Bloria. Natural products of legendary class that can be made in Bloria and Elysia include grow powder, spirit jelly and spirit fabric. - ML goes to rescue Wansik from the Grizzly Bear Guild with an elf called Tina who is obsessed with dragons. The guard at the gate was bribed by Taylor to let in ML and Tina. They meet with Taylor and enter an undergound waterway to find a hidden dungeon under the castle. They fight undead monsters and collect fragments of the dungeon map. - Taylor distracts the prison guard by getting him drunk. - ML summons his mirage soldiers and they dig their way up into the prison with the help of energy potions. They release Wansik along with 3rd Prince Picio of the Ideran royal family and other Ideran loyalists. - Sir Zulkan the historian was the one who hid the fragments of the dungeon map. He says the guardian deity of Ideran is a dragon called Ogikh that’s sleeping deep underneath the castle. - Prince Picio takes ML, Wansik and Tina to the royal treasury vault for their reward. The vault can only be opened by those with royal blood. Before they can escape with some of the treasure, the Grizzly Bear Guild discover them and attack. - ML checks his stats. Now at L132 with over 300 mana, he can finally use the hourglass to summon a L980 berserker golden golem. All of the gold in the treasury is used to create the golem that will last for 30mins. They escape out of the castle and into the nearby Shwar forest. - Glozarx, Goblin Bank, Shwar branch manager NPC. - Half of the gold remains when the golem disappears. - ML finds out there’s a goblin bank in Shwar Forest. - ML and Prince Picio sign a joint contract with the goblin bank to store the rest of the gold. The bank security was built using the latest mechanical engineering technology. - Crowking went to the treasury to find it empty. The commotion from the golem earlier woke up Ogikh the dragon. The Ideran treasure was actually the accumulated offerings made to Ogikh over time. Ogikh orders Crowking to either replace the treasure himself or find the thief. - ML visits the MK Gamers HQ. He has a team profile photo shoot and an interview for the official press release. - Lee Sumin, the leader and star player of the MK Gamers team. He’s also one of the top ranked players in New World. - His game ID is Shake. His level is in the mid-300s. - Prince Picio, the Ideran loyalists and players who ran away from the Grizzly Bear kingdom will be settling in Elysia. - Breeze has been running classes on “How to Survive in Elysia.” ML gets the NPCs and players to attend. - Other pro gaming team managers accuse ML of giving MK Gamers a monopoly over recruiting FLA members to be pro gamers. To join the FLA, new members must agree to the ban on all outside activities to the FLA. - ML learns from Breeze that the FLA exists as a guild to only serve ML and Elysia. The FLA credit ML with saving them from stagnating in Luxy Forest. They wanted to repay ML by playing for him rather than in pro gaming teams. - Quest: Vulka the dwarf arrives in Elysia. He has run away from his debtors. A tenacious loan shark company called Axeface is tracking Vulka. - ML agrees to hide Vulka if he proves his blacksmith skills by forging items for ML. Vulka is taken to Embay Forest. ML introduces Vulka to the beings who will be keeping an eye on him: the demons and Mountain Hermit. Vulka identifies precious metal ores in the mine. ML sets up a workshop for Vulka from the forge left by the previous dwarven miners. - ML experiments with different materials for making golems. Iron-gold alloy ingots and soil saturated with demonic energy creates a bloody golden golem that becomes sentient. - Goldtooth, Axeface tracking team leader. - Goldtooth arrives in the Embay Forest to look for Vulka. - She attacks the demons then fights ML who uses his rapid growth skill on demonic plants. ML also attacks her with his Elbo powered by the spirit of demonic plants. She’s eventually defeated by his bloody golden golem. - Vulka becomes Elysia’s official blacksmith after ML completes the quest to save Vulka. - Red the mage commissions ML for another flower order. ML creates a floral crown with the desired buff effects. - As a bonus gift for Red’s customer loyalty, ML gives a spirit bracelet with a recovery buff to Red. ML’s floral accessories are promoted by Red on his personal broadcast. - Samantha introduces Jukjang to ML. - ML mentions the establishment of a human residential area in Elysia. Jukjang is interested in moving the Prime Guild HQ to Elysia. Earlier Croissant said to ML that she wanted to establish a trading post in Elysia for her company. - ML is invited by MK Gamers to play a friendly internal match. - On the way to the match, ML stops a motorcyclist who snatched a purse from a female pedestrian. ML’s heroism is captured on video by witnesses and shared online. - Kim Jinah, MK team’s healer - ML is on a team with Jinah and Dupyo. - The match takes place in a new league server for New World competition use only. It’s separate to the main server for New World. Players in the league server are all fixed at L250. - Additional stat points earned in the main server are applied in the league server. As a result ML’s stats are similar to Sumin’s. - The match location in New World is the Labyrinth of Chaos. - Points are given for defeating monsters and opposing teams. - The team with the highest points wins. - ML calls the Spirit of Life and the spirit of demonic plants to use their power with his Elbo attacks. ML defeats the monsters and other teams on his own to win the whole match. - Sumin is shocked at ML’s win. Dupyo tries to convince ML to be a full-time pro game player but ML isn’t interested. - Ziant suggests having property sales in the human residential area of Elysia to bolster finances. The buyers will be issued permits to build on their land at their own expense. - ML appoints Zulkan as Chancellor of Elysia to help with managing state affairs. Zulkan expertly handles the real estate negotiations with Croissant and Jukjang. Another delegation from the Rassel kingdom is also taken care of by Zulkan. - Zulkan advises ML to know his enemy and obtain all of the info he can on the Rassel kingdom. ML invites Rynior to visit Elysia. - ML asks Rynior about Tinlite and the Rassel kingdom. Tinlite made the elixir of immortality for the Rassel royal family. - Rynior offers to move the Red Tower of Magic to Elysia. - ML meets with Taylor in Shwar Forest and assigns him a mission to look for the elixir of mortality in the Rassel royal palace. - Surprise quest: save the orc tribe in Shwar Forest. - The Grizzly Bear Guild heard ML was last seen with Ogikh the dragon’s treasure in Shwar Forest. They’re attacking the orcs while looking for the treasure. The Grizzly Bear Guild are defeated by ML again, with his goblin design mechanically engineered golem. - Shwar Union: ML establishes a mutually beneficial relationship between the goblins and the orcs. They will protect each other in the name of ML. - Baek Jaejin, Director of the MK Gamers team. - Kim Minwook, mage - Choi Seung-Gyun, tanker - ML agrees to play in an exhibition match for MK Gamers after their ace player Lee Sumin unexpectedly transfers to a US team. - It’s the first match of the New World championship league. - Sumin’s loyal fans accuse MK Gamers of throwing Sumin away and replacing him with the inexperienced ML. - ML faces the controversy head on. He tells everyone to watch him and judge for themselves. - ML’s parents, Wansik and May are in the live audience watching the match together. Forest Labyrinth is the New World location. - ML helps his 4-player team eliminate the other teams. He uses the goblin design golem, his magic explosion skill and his physical abilities. ML promotes the Elysia flower shop by getting his team mates to wear floral accessories that have buff effects. - ML’s team wins and he is named as Man of the Match. - The Elysia real estate auction event is held and it’s very successful. Rynior placed the largest bid for the Red Tower while disguised as a young boy. ML forbid any NPC nobles from participating. - ML puts money from the game onto gift cards for his parents to spend. His mother is almost tricked into paying too much for a trashy capsule model at an Ilsung Electronics store. ML and Wansik stop her just in time. Witnesses spread news of the incident online. - Ok Handol, Chairman of Ilsung Electronics. - The Chairman is a fanboy of ML. His daughter Ok Jiyeon is the one who had her stolen purse retrieved by ML. At the Brave Citizen Award ceremony, the Chairman only gets to speak briefly with ML. (Ch 87-88) - ML and Tina meet Taylor and Dessi in the Rassel kingdom. They look for the eternal flower and find it in a secret midair passage. - They discover the King is a young girl, Princess Matilda. - She’s used as a puppet ruler under her great grandfather Grand Duke Arief, who killed the rest of the royal family and stole the elixir of immortality. - Quest: free the Rassel kingdom. - ML hears the voice of Rassel kingdom’s great being, Frankaire the guardian. - ML wins the final match of the exhibition game and is MVP. He still refuses to become a pro gamer. - The Croissant Exchange in Elysia is officially opened by ML. Goods made in Elysia can be sold through this trading system. - Wooster has become a shield obsessed man under a demon’s curse. ML promises Croissant that he’ll return the Twilight Barrier shield to Wooster. - ML meets with King Rasselius VII after Zulkan sent a letter of protest when some agents from the Rassel kingdom tried to set fire to Elysia. He agrees to help the King against the Grand Duke after the King agrees to give the eternal flower to Elysia. - ML sets a top secret quest open to all players to go to war against Grand Duke Arief. - ML has Red Balloon help to control the rumours and stop anyone going to the Grand Duke’s side before the appointed time. - On that day all interested players are gathered to hear more details about the quest. The King introduces ML as the secret creator of the quest and the players’ morale is boosted. - ML’s army charge against Grand Duke Arief’s estate. - Red the mage helps them breach the walls after causing a huge explosion from his custom made Elysian flower dress. - ML, Tina and Samantha are looking for the eternal flower and enter the estate from the back. - Taylor is sent by ML as a double spy. Taylor goes to Arief’s side, claiming he wants revenge on ML. - Taylor wears a flower dress given by ML that increases his stats as he attempts to kill Arief. The Grand Duke reveals his true form as Pyra the Great Devil. The NPC knights offer to join forces with ML and his army to defeat Pyra. - ML and his army are given a Continental Quest to defeat Pyra and become a Hero of the Continent. - ML summons a giant Golden Golem made of magic ingots forged by Vulka. Pyra cuts off the golem’s arms then changes itself into a curse that stops everyone from moving. - ML is immune to the curse as he’s protected by spirits. - Somehow he summons the Milky Way of Elysia and bright flowers appear to help everyone resist the curse. - Pyra tries to summon his main body from the demon realm. - The golem causes a massive explosion from the magic spell engraved on the ingots by Vulka. Pyra is defeated. - Half of the NPC knights and the players survive. ML is given credit for contributing the most and is awarded the titles “Great Devil Hunter” and “Hero of the Continent.” - Other rewards include: the Devil’s incomplete essence, the Blood of the Great Devil, and Pyra’s Hell Flame Lance. - ML has completed the quest to free the Rassel kingdom. Princess Matilda is free and ML has formed an alliance with the Rassel kingdom. As requested by ML, Matilda awards Taylor the title of Count and the territory of the former Grand Duke. - Amidst the devastation, ML and Samantha find the basement of the Grand Duke’s mansion. There the eternal flowers of immortality are suffering from the effects of the explosion. - ML takes all of the eternal flowers back to Elysia. - With help from the spirit of demonic plants, ML experiments with the Devil’s essence and the Hell Flame Lance. - ML uses the Lance on Wooster while he’s overpowered from the effects of his madness curse. The Lance blasts a hole in the ground, revealing the hidden ruins of the Kopei kingdom. - Wooster’s curse is lifted and ML finally returns the Twilight Barrier shield to Wooster. - As the new King of Kopei, ML is able to remove the seal of the golden palace of Kopei (Brezal’s manor). The magic hiding the palace is removed and the palace resurfaces. - ML enters the throne room and finds the secret passage to Brezal’s vault. An eternal curse renders all of the gold and treasure in Kopei as useless. The Golden Ruins in Elysia become a famous attraction. - Bear Gorillz, an explorer. - He offers to collect flowers as he explores New World and bring them back to ML. In exchange, he asks ML to let him explore the ruins of Kopei. ML sets up a contract right away. - Vulka gives ML to wear the Chain Apron of Restraint with a high defence buff. The more the apron is worn, the stronger it gets. - ML agrees to take on a quest and help Vulka reunite with his family and relatives. Vulka feels lonely and misses them. - ML travels with Tina and Wansik to Vulka’s hometown. - They pass a couple holding a body. The spirits tell ML that the body is just someone pretending to be dead. ML uncovers Galking, a serial blackmailer and streamer. - Galking is wanted by NPCs so they hand him over to the guards in the next town. Count Radivu of the Tiste territory insists on hosting ML and his friends. They find out the Count is a huge fan of ML, with ML’s portrait adorning every wall in his manor. - Count Radivu says his family are descendants of Brezal. He’s grateful for what ML has done. - Quest: rescue the Devil’s son of Count Radivu.
Goblin Slayer
Goblin Slayer: Side Story Year One
Trash of the Count's Family
Ch 84 as of 01/06/22 - baby black dragon is cute - ML awakes to find he is reborn as minor antagonist Cale Henituse 18yo, the trashy 1st son of a very rich Count in the novel “Birth of a Hero”. ML was an orphan with no attachments who fell asleep while reading the novel. - The hero is Choi Han 17yo, seeking to honour the dead and avenge the massacre of Harris village by a secret organisation who wore clothes with a star-shaped symbol. - Choi Han grew up alone in the Forest of Darkness, constantly fighting monsters. He escaped from the forest and was cared for by the people of Harris village that is in the Henituse territory. - ML aims to become reasonably powerful so he may live a long, peaceful life without any difficulties or pain. He needs enough strength and abilities to protect himself while not standing out too much. ML isn’t interested in being the heir and managing the Count’s territory in the Roan kingdom on the western continent. - ML lives in the city of Westin in the Henituse territory. - ML’s family are Count Deruth, Countess Violan (ML’s stepmother), and his younger half siblings Basen and Lily 7yo. - Basen had been acting as the family heir for the last 2yrs. - Choi Han comes to Westin to report the village massacre to Count Henituse. He’s denied access to the city because he has no ID papers. He jumps over the walls to secretly enter the city at night. - ML later adopts 2 x siblings from the Fog Cat tribe, Mist Silver ‘On’ and Red Poison ‘Hong’. He first met them as a couple of street kids. He fed them in cat form to get Choi Han to follow ML home. - ML brings in Choi Han as his house guest. Head butler Ron Molan and his son, chef Beacrox will follow Choi Han later. Ron and Beacrox are secretly skilled assassins from the eastern continent. - Ron was the heir to a family of assassins. - A group called “Arm” rules the underworld of the eastern continent. Arm are part of a larger organisation and have started to extend their reach into the western continent. - Ron and Beacrox have been in hiding from Arm. - ML obtains the “Indestructible Shield” after feeding the grudge of a glutton who starved to death a long time ago and was buried underneath the now ancient tree. It’s a formless shield around the heart, similar to a mana shield. It will prioritise the safety of it’s owner over everything else. - Princess Rosalyn, genius mage and heir to the throne of the neighbouring Breck kingdom. She’s not interested in the throne. Her dream is to establish the greatest magic tower on the continent. - Lock of the Blue Wolf tribe, heir to the Wolf King. When he goes berserk, he turns into a violent werewolf. - The Count wants ML to go to the capital as the family representative for a royal event after seeing the recent change in ML’s behaviour. To pay back ML for his hospitality, ML asks Choi Han to bring Rosalyn and Lock to ML in the capital. - ML encouraged Choi Han to protect and save, rather than just kill. - ML’s entourage for the trip to the capital includes Hans the deputy butler, the cat siblings, Ron, Beacrox and Choi Han. - Choi Han earns the respect of the Vice Captain and the other knights after defeating most of a large group of bandits. - Venion Stan, 2nd son of a Marquis. He’s a villain who crippled his older brother to become the unofficial heir. - On the way to the capital, ML stops at a village. Choi Han saves an old man who was almost run over by Venion’s carriage. - ML’s entourage stay at the old man’s inn. - ML used his knowledge of the novel to rescue a 4yo baby black dragon held captive and tortured by Venion ever since the dragon was born. This is to prevent the dragon as an adult going on a destructive rampage in the future. - Earlier ML rented a mana disturbance tool that makes all magic tools within a certain range stop working for 40mins. ML had the cat siblings bury this tool near the cave where the dragon was imprisoned. ML and Choi Han disguise themselves as masked men from the secret organisation that attacked Choi Han’s village. - Choi Han and the cat siblings take care of Venion’s guards while all of the magic tools around the cave have been disabled. - ML carries the injured dragon as they escape from the cave. - ML removes the mana restriction collar from the dragon. - While the cat siblings retrieve the mana disturbance tool, ML gets the dragon to drink a healing potion. He says the dragon has the right to live freely as one. It should live the way it wants to. - ML doesn’t want to be responsible for the dragon and the unwanted attention it brings. Even though ML told the dragon to go it’s own way, the dragon follows ML while staying hidden. The dragon keeps leaving animals it hunted for ML’s entourage to eat. - Choi Han separates from ML’s entourage at Pursal / Puzzle city to find Rosalyn and Lock. This city is known for it's rock towers. - Long ago during a time when the city fell out of favour with a god, the people started making rock towers as a kind of prayer. A person who has had their wish granted will destroy their rock tower. It means you must use your own strength to achieve your goals. - ML visits the ancient grave of a man who died naturally from old age at 150yo. Near the grave is the rock tower the man almost completed before he died. ML completes the tower then destroys it to show he’s overcome his limits. ML obtains the “Vitality of the Heart” from the man’s rock tower. This is another ancient power that makes ML’s “Shield” stronger and his ability to recover faster. - Taylor Stan, 1st son of Marquis Stan. - He was discarded as the heir when he became crippled. - He’s been desperately searching for a way to cure his legs. - Cage, a god of death priestess (who wants to be excommunicated?) and Taylor’s bodyguard. - She can hear her god’s voice. - She had dreams of meeting their future benefactor in Puzzle city. - ML had the cat siblings setup a fake message from god to Taylor Stan through Cage. It says to seek out the Crown Prince for his ancient power “Star of Healing” that can only be used once to heal any type of injury. They can obtain this power by helping the Crown Prince keep the other princes in check. - Taylor decides to head to the capital right away. - Taylor and Cage ask to join ML’s entourage on the way to the capital. ML has his staff treat them with respect and care, unlike everyone else who abandoned Taylor when he became crippled. - ML helps Taylor and Cage secretly get past the capital city gates using an invisibility tool before they part ways. - The royal event in the capital is the King’s 50th bday celebration. - At the Henituse residence in the capital, Choi Han and Princess Rosalyn arrive with Lock who is about to go berserk for the 1st time. Lock is taken to the underground training area. Rosalyn and Choi Han fight and protect Lock until he calms down and collapses. - On and Hong are yet to undergo their berserk transformation. - Beast people temporarily lose their sanity when they enter beast mode for the 1st time. This is due to the pain from their physical transformation. - Choi Han tells ML how he met Rosalyn and Lock as instructed by ML. There was an assassination attempt on Rosalyn as she was travelling from Breck via Roan to the magic tower in the Whipper kingdom. She decided to head to the Roan capital and go to an info guild to find out more about who was trying to kill her. She and Choi Han were hired as mercenaries escorting a merchant group. - The merchant group were scheduled to meet with the Blue Wolf tribe. Lock’s wolf tribe village was destroyed by the same secret organisation that wiped out Choi Han’s village. - The attackers were trying to kidnap the wolf children and killing everyone else. Lock protected the children. - Choi Han saw a mage drinking blood. Redika is a blood crazy, high level mage and the co-leader of the secret organisation. - ML takes Choi Han to the god of death temple. - ML vows by the god of death to Choi Han that he doesn’t know the identity or goal of the secret organisation. ML knows they’re planning a terrorist attack in the capital and he wants to stop them. - ML also vows that he has no desire to harm Choi Han. - Lastly ML vows to tell Choi Han if ML finds out the identity of the secret organisation. If ML breaks any of these vows, he’ll die. ML now has Choi Han’s complete trust. - ML has lunch with Rosalyn and introduces her to the baby dragon who has joined them. The dragon insists it’s with ML because he’s so weak and needs protecting. - House Henituse and House Wheelsman have a close relationship. - ML meets with the other neutral NE nobles, Eric Wheelsman (son of a Count), Gilbert and Lady Amirel Ubarr. To pacify the trashy, volatile nature of the original Cale, they insist on looking after everything at the upcoming events so ML can just relax and avoid anything annoying. All they ask is for ML to stay still and to greet the Crown Prince with them. - The plaza / magic bomb terror incident: - In the novel, the terrorist attack planned by the secret organisation occurs where the most people are gathered. - ML, Choi Han and the dragon go out late at night into the city streets of the capital. ML assigns Choi Han and the dragon to look around each night for any magic bombs. These bombs are scheduled to go off in multiple locations across the city in 6 days. ML plans to get rid of the bombs just before they’re detonated on the day of the royal event. - Alberu Crossman, Crown Prince and 1st Prince. - He’s the son of a maid who died when he was a young boy. - He’s ‘not weak’ according to the dragon. - Alberu is known for being skilled at manipulating people for the good of the Roan kingdom and it’s citizens. - The 3rd Prince is currently favoured by the King and his mother is the current Queen. Marquis Stan also supports the 3rd Prince. - Alberu was the one who called for a gathering in the capital of all the young nobles, as future leaders of the Roan kingdom. The 2nd and 3rd Princes also attend. The tables at the palace are arranged according to their noble faction: NE, NW, SE, SW and Central. - Taylor and Cage make a surprise appearance at the gathering. They are seated at the NE table where ML is. Venion is furious. - Neo Tolz, son of a Viscount and Venion’s lackey. - 5yrs ago Viscount Tolz became allies with Marquis Stan. The land where the dragon was imprisoned belongs to Viscount Tolz. - Lock takes ML to meet the 10 wolf children at the inn that ML has them staying at. Lock asks ML if he could protect these children. - Billos, illegitimate son of the Flynn Merchant guild master. - He owns the bookshop / tea shop in Westin that ML frequents. - Odeus Flynn, Billos’ uncle who started his own small merchant guild. Odeus was the one who hired Choi Han and Rosalyn as mercenaries. He secretly rules the underworld (?) - ML agrees to let Ron take a year off to kill ‘a group of foxes’. - He promises to send monthly reports to ML. He asks ML to look after his son. - Northeastern Shoreline Investment and Development project: - After a suggestion from ML, Lady Amirel seeks the permission of the royal family to build a military naval base in her territory and Gilbert’s territory. She asks ML to put in a word with his father to help fund the project. This will shift the balance of power to the NE nobles instead of towards the royal family who will also invest heavily in the project. - Count Henituse is already fortifying his territory’s walls. - The royal family are aware that the nearby Whipper kingdom will soon face a civil war. The kingdoms in the north are also gathering their forces. - Taylor is completely healed after making a deal with the Crown Prince, who wants to avoid a civil war in Roan. Taylor has promised to become the next Marquis. - King Zed Crossman. He succeeded the throne at 20yo. - The day of the King’s 50th bday celebration and festival: - In the early morning, ML has 3 teams (Choi Han / the dragon, Lock / Rosalyn, and the cat siblings) dismantle the 4 magic bombs they’d already located before. - Redika the blood crazy mage appears at 9am as expected. Several agents from the secret organisation also appear. ML activates the mana disturbance tool for 10mins to give his teams a chance to search for and remove magic bombs that 4 people are carrying. - The royal mages create a mana stabilisation barrier over the city centre. After the other bombs failed, Redika sends 2 suicide agents carrying magic bombs into the plaza. - The strong explosions from the 2 bombs are mostly contained within a barrier created by the dragon and ML who used his Shield ability. ML recovers quickly due to his Vitality ability. - Redika uses teleportation to disappear with the other agents. - Choi Han, Lock and the cat siblings were already sent by ML to where he’d reappear. Later Choi Han reports to ML that he killed all of the agents but only managed to chop off the mage’s arm and injure his eye. Ron and Beacrox have been informed of Redika’s appearance by Choi Han and will look out for the mage. - ML had publicly revealed he has an ancient power. - ML is treated as a VIP by Alberu who promises to generously reward ML. They understand each other and will use the aftermath of this incident for their own benefit. ML wanted his role downplayed, so Alberu portrayed ML as a young and weak nobleman who stepped forward for the kingdom’s sake. - ML asks for money as his reward. He’s given the authority to use the Golden Plaque twice. The Plaque can buy anything, no matter the cost. - ML and the black dragon are curious why Alberu chose to be weak and hide. Alberu didn’t reveal his strength during the suicide bombing where some people still died or were badly injured. Alberu isn’t human … - ML thanks everyone involved for saving so many lives. - Rosalyn will take Choi Han and Lock back with her to the Breck kingdom for her protection, now that her true identity has been revealed to the royal family in Roan. - ML tells Lock to return to the Henituse territory after 3mths where the wolf children will be waiting for him. Meanwhile ML has the wolf children training under Beacrox in the kitchen. - ML declined the medal of honour from the royal family. - ML uses a communication orb to reassure his family that he’s ok. - Taylor sends a message to say he’ll contact ML when he’s become the Marquis. That’s when the dragon can finally get revenge on Venion. - ML leaves the capital and arrives at the Ubarr territory. - ML plans to obtain the 3rd ancient power ‘Sound of Wind’ from the Ubarr territory. ML meets Lady Amirel Ubarr at a village near the Cliff of Winds which has many dangerous whirlpools below. - Toonka the tyrant, the “intelligent barbarian” and a mage slayer from the Whipper kingdom. - He’s the strongest on the western continent. - He’s obsessed with strength and danger. - He was rescued from a whirlpool by Lady Amirel’s people after he was shipwrecked. - The civil war in the Whipper kingdom is between the mage faction and the non-mage faction (called barbarians by the mages) who focus on physical strength. In the novel, the mages lose the war and the magic tower in the Whipper kingdom is destroyed. - During the day ML visits one of the islands nearby with Beacrox, the Vice Captain and the dragon. - The dragon saw 3 dead mer-people on the beach on the other side of the island and took ML there to confirm. - There is an ongoing war between the whale tribe and the mer-people. The mer-people want to expand their underwater kingdom beyond the south to cover the entire ocean, but the whale tribe don’t want to give up their territory in the north. - ML returns to the island at night with the help of the dragon. - A new magic bomb was made by the dragon using the condensed mana from the old dismantled magic bombs. This bomb divides itself into many smaller bombs before exploding. - ML throws the bomb into the strongest whirlpool near the island. After the bomb explodes, ML enters the whirlpool. - Long ago a legendary thief stole an item from a temple. She drowned when her legs were trapped under a boulder at the bottom of the ocean. She became a spinning top that creates whirlpools. - ML digs out the spinning top and crushes it to give freedom to the spirit of the thief. ML receives the Sound of Wind which seems to strengthen his Vitality ability as well. - ML finds a hidden cave near the water’s edge on the mainland. There he collects fire-suppressing water to be used later … - Paseton / Paethon, the only mixed blood member of the whale tribe and the son of the Whale King. - He was dying after being injured and poisoned by mer-people. ML saves Paseton by getting him to drink the blood of a mer-person. (The blood was from one of the 3 dead mer-people that ML confirms later were killed by Paseton). - Paseton’s older sister Whitira is the heir of the Whale King. - Lady Amirel takes ML and Toonka with a research team to investigate the explosion and the whirlpool that disappeared. - ML heads to the other side of the island and finds the bodies of the dead mer-people are gone. Whitira appears in whale form to thank ML for saving Paseton. Toonka suddenly arrives to challenge the whales to a fight. - Lady Amirel and her team hear the commotion. ML uses his Shield to protect them from the large wave caused by the fight. - Toonka is banished from the Ubarr territory for his act of violence. - ML helps to arrange for a ship to take Toonka back to the Whipper kingdom. ML tells Toonka to try not to destroy the Whipper magic tower so ML can buy it later. Toonka tells ML to visit the Whipper kingdom in 2mths. - Whitira and Paseton ask ML to help them enter the Forest of Darkness to investigate a swamp mentioned by the mer-people. - The mer-people suddenly became stronger about 2mths ago. The reason for this is connected to the swamp. - ML is offered the authority to use a sea route that hasn’t been discovered yet by humans. It is the safest out of all the sea routes and goes through the northern sea in the whale tribe’s territory. - ML asks for the whale tribe to lend their strength to him twice in the future. - The mer-people are trying to take control of all the sea routes between the eastern and western continents. - There’s an implicit agreement between those on the land and those of the sea. The sea routes were not to be touched by those of the sea, while those on the land didn’t interfere with issues of the sea. - ML returns home (with Whitira and Paseton hidden?) - ML contacts Alberu with a communication orb. He leaves a message to say he’ll be using the Golden Plaque to buy the magic tower of the Whipper kingdom. - the 4th ancient power, the Inferno of Destruction
Otherworldly Sword King's Survival Records
Ch 146 as of 07/09/22 - rate 3.5 so far (also on Tapas) ** Ch 129 missing (duplicate of Ch 128) - ML is Ryu Han Bin, discharged from his 2yr mandatory military service 3mths ago. ML was suddenly teleported to another world called Thelha Rath’na as a Chosen One (for the Demon God). - NB: ‘Chosen Ones’ don’t age and also have rapid recovery / healing abilities. Chosen Ones can see a guideline (ie status window) that shows the level of other humans and creatures. - ML must progress to L5 before he can move to another region. - There’s a system error with his transmission and he is the only ‘Chosen One’ to receive a defective guideline implanted in him. - He can only select the warrior class (rejected for all others) and he can only select the long sword as his beginner weapon. - He keeps ignoring the option to kill himself. - ML spends 22yrs alone, stuck in a starting safe zone called the Rock Mountains and trying to level up endlessly as a swordsman / warrior. He keeps going back to L1 despite gaining experience points (XP). - ML hones his basic skills (ie stab, side slash, vertical slash = cross impact / triple cross attack) to deadly perfection against the countless monsters that keep spawning and getting stronger. - He increases his vital stats to incredibly high numbers too (but they remain mostly hidden to others). - NB: Sathe Forest is in the Grailutte (was destroyed) / Exradd kingdom, Northern Rath’na continent. - After being noticed by one of the mysterious higher powers that be, ML is finally released from his solitary hell. He’s been teleported to the Sathe Forest. He’s attains L5 at last, and gains a communication skill of “language translation”. - He may now form a party with other ‘Chosen Ones’. - Despite not officially reaching L20, ML is on the Rath’na continent where the main fight begins. - His guideline (created by the Demon God?) gives him “The Final Mission” to kill 1 of the 6 Rath’na goddesses (of fire, water, wind, earth, darkness and light). - The final reward options are: - eternal youth and immortality, - return to Earth with his stats intact, or - 3 wishes will be granted. - ML must keep his identity as an other worlder a secret. - He must also register at the Hunters Guild in Onprous City. - ML meets Ephyr the wyvern L27, who attacked ML first but was beaten with one punch. Ephyr was a knights’ Mount but is now in hiding. A spoilt young prince died after falling from Ephyr while trying to ride her. - Ephyr tells ML that other worlders started appearing 40yrs ago and at first got along with the Rathnians. Soon the other worlders started killing Rathnians to increase their levels. They formed a group called Great Ursula (Great Earth) with the aim of killing a goddess. The 4 Heroes of the continent wiped out this group. - To meet a goddess, you have to be 1 of the 4 Heroes or you’ve done a great service to receive a blessing. Becoming a hunter and fighting the dungeon monsters created by the Demon God would count as a great service. - ML registers as a hunter at the Onprous Hunters Guild, with help and advice from Ephyr. He uses a fake identity under the name Eric Garrune from North Cambol. - The measuring stone at the guild reveals ML is L5, which removes suspicion he’s an other worlder who all start at L20. - ML is invited to join Burkeman’s party as a member. - Burkeman Ropall L25 swordsman, strongest tank in Onprous city. - Amber Bonnet L21 spearwoman. - Hubert Crutaus L18 magician. - Erwin Ropall L16 spiritualist, a healer, Burkeman’s younger sister. - Atisse / Artis Benister, L37 mage. - Head of the famous dragon hunter Benister family. - ML came across Artis naked in the forest when ML sensed a strong presence nearby and came to see if it was a large monster. - ML accidentally destroys the balls of Laude, L27 magic swordsman and Artis’ party leader. - ML is with Burkeman’s party for 3mths. - At Sathe Forest, none of the monsters’ levels are high enough for ML to gain XP. Ephyr has the highest level and even that’s too low for ML. - Iphen Plains dungeon: - ML comes across a magic portal to the dungeon after fighting some monsters. ML receives a fireball bracelet (30 uses) after killing a L40 boss monster. The item has a minimum L31 requirement for the owner to use it. - ML enters the central area of the dungeon. He’s attacked by a L45 tentacle beholder, the final boss. Laude was lost in the dungeon and arrives in the central area but thinks ML is an illusion. - The beholder possesses Laude and gets him to attack ML. The beholder is easily defeated by ML who splits it in half. - ML leaves the dungeon and returns to Burkeman’s camp without taking the magic core. - The guideline bug persists in how much XP is needed for ML to level up (54 billion!). He finds this out only after killing the final boss in this his 1st dungeon raid. - Burkeman’s party arrive back at Onprous city. - Someone else took the magic core which closed the Iphen Plains dungeon. This is why the city is now deserted as the city relied on hunters who came for the dungeon. - No one knows who took the magic core but the most likely suspect is it was an other worlder. An Inquisitor in charge of finding and executing other worlders is sent by the church of darkness. Anyone over L20 will be captured and tortured until they confess. - Artis tries to save ML from the suspicions of the Inquisitor after ML accidentally drops the fireball bracelet. - Laude shows up in time to admit he closed the dungeon and he is taken away by the Inquisitor instead. - ML is given monetary compensation by the Inquisitor. - ML gets Artis to give the money to Burkeman’s party on his behalf and to tell them he’s quitting the Hunter’s Guild. - ML did this to protect Burkeman’s party from the Inquisitor who might kill them for being associated with him. - ML spends the next 6mths working for the Chairman of the Onprous Architecture Association who knows ML is secretly an other worlder. - Artis the 150yo, L52 fire mage (and secretly a fire dragon) recruits ML to assist in collecting magic research samples in Sathe Forest. - They find an abandoned village overrun with kobolds. Artis destroys all of them with fire magic. ML finds a closed magic portal in a well. - ML and Artis fight a L72 lich. Artis reveals he’s a dragon and gets badly injured while protecting ML. Artis sees ML’s true strength when ML destroys the lich’s giant ice sword and the ice dome in one strike. ML grinds the lich's arms and legs to dust. - With it's body held captive, the lich initiates for it's body to self destruct. ML kicks the lich far away, saving himself and Artis. - ML takes Artis back to Onprous city for treatment. ML tells Artis that all he wants is to live like an ordinary person while adapting to this world. Artis is in ML’s debt and he’ll never forget the debt he owes to ML. The Chairman helps ML leave the city. - The lich was an other worlder called Shin Ha Jun, and he revealed to Artis and ML that Great Earth is involved. The comrades of the lich, Richard, Leslie and Alejandro later find where he exploded. These other worlders have captured Ephyr and are after Artis next. - Great Earth are experimenting on Rathnian humans by artificially implanting guidelines, but they can’t gain XP yet. They use monster parts to nullify the side effects of the implant, making the Rathnian half-human and half-monster. They want a dragon core to complete these experiments which is why they want Artis. - ML travels to the next city, Heitan the dungeon city. On the way he picks up a bandit called Calindor and accidentally gives all of ML’s gold coins to Calindor to start a new life. - Artis bought a house in the city and wants ML to join his party. - Heitan is built over a huge gorge that has the largest dungeon in the north, the Crater Valley dungeon. - When Artis registers at the Heitan Hunters’ Guild, he has ML disguise himself as a Valterian warrior. ML breaks the measuring stone as an “evil artifact” so his level isn’t revealed. Artis registers ML as his bodyguard. - Crater Valley dungeon: Artis tells ML about a dragon’s ability to absorb an opponent’s life force into it’s dragon core. Too much life force is dangerous and could even kill the dragon. - In order for greater dragons (older than 500yrs+) to absorb even greater life force, a place called a dragon’s nest was created where life force could be gathered like a well. - Ellie the blind girl, L34 magic swordswoman. - She’s a subordinate of Alejandro’s that has an artificial guideline. Her mother was a hunter who died when she was a child. Ellie was taken away by Alejandro and the guideline was forcibly implanted in her, making her lose her sight. Her role is to test the other Rathnian experiments by fighting against them. - Alejandro and his comrades were given the dragon’s nest at Heitan as proof of their alliance with the greater dragons. - Ellie tries to stop Ephyr from flying higher out of the dragon’s nest. Ephyr is hit by a massive amount of life force. Ellie saves Ephyr who has somehow survived. Ellie senses Ephyr might have a dragon core but is keeping it a secret from Alejandro. - Artis suggests raising ML’s notoriety by helping out other parties to show off ML’s strength. If ML’s fame as a hunter increases, so too will his chance of meeting the goddesses. - While helping out a party, Artis and ML are faced with a massive L50 spider queen dungeon boss. ML throws his sword with a magic wand attached and it stabs the boss monster then explodes, wiping out the monster in one go. Artis and ML saved the party and sold the artifact reward to them at a discounted price. - Emil Otto, L45 spiritualist and a high priest of Altia the goddess of light. He approaches Artis who agrees to go undercover for the order of light, despite ML’s objections. Artis will go alone and be disguised as a woman to spy on Alejandro and the dragon’s nest. - Lady Adora Benister died 10yrs ago while fighting the greater dragons with the 4 Heroes. Adora was like an older sister to Artis. He feels it’s his duty to look into this dragon’s nest which Adora gave up her life to ensure they were all destroyed. - Alejandro has been seen as a hero in the refugee villages outside of Heitan. This is because he sends hunters like Ellie to fight the monsters that attack these villages. - People are applying for work at the dragon’s nest for the high pay and conditions. Artis applies as a L30 mage to do magic research (he’s now L45). - Hendy L50 aura user and secretly a spy from the order of light, is Alejandro’s head of security. He’s killed by Alejandro who knew Hendy and Artis were spies. - Alejandro fights Artis, trying to force him to change into a dragon. - Ephyr hides and activates the dragon’s nest with her dragon core, which shifts Alejandro’s attention away from Artis. - Ellie and Artis realise they’re both on the same side. - Artis tells Ephyr that he knows ML. - ML needs money and is assigned a small quest by Emil’s sister to find him and return the clothes he stole (the clothes were for Artis). ML finds Emil in a cave. He was captured by half-monster Rathnians with artificial guidelines. ML destroys the half-monster test subjects and rescues Emil. ML learns that Artis is in danger. - Alejandro is rebuilding the dragon’s nest so it can be used to infuse a massive amount of life force into a dragon core for a genuine artificial guideline to work. - After exploring the dragon’s nest with Ellie, Artis thinks Ephyr’s newly formed dragon core is the key that has been registered to operate the dragon’s nest. Rather than waiting for Ephyr’s dragon core to be completed, Artis and Ellie want to look for the life force fusion in the basement. Artis will absorb the life force from there. - A test subject escapes and goes on a rampage. - Ephyr wants to prove herself and confronts the test subject alone. Ephyr takes the test subject up to the top of the dragon’s nest where it explodes after getting struck by the life force. - Ephyr survives but has revealed herself to Alejandro. Artis and Ellie fight him to give time for Ephyr to flee. - Alejandro defeats them all and captures the dragon core from Ephyr. He wears an artifact that stops dragons from morphing into human form, which is why Artis can’t transform. - ML saves Artis before he’s killed by Alejandro. - Alejandro uses Ephyr’s dragon core to absorb life force and become stronger. As Alejandro fights with ML, Artis telepathically tells ML not to kill him. Alejandro is using the dragon’s nest to absorb the life force of the nearby Rathnians to heal himself. Killing Alejandro would kill the other people too. - ML holds off Alejandro while Artis, Ellie and Ephyr look underground for the life force fusion. - Ellie steals the artifact from Alejandro while they were fighting. Artis transforms into a L67 dragon to fight Hendy who has become a monstrous test subject. Ellie cuts the pipe that disrupts the connection to Alejandro so he can no longer heal himself. Hendy is killed by a huge blast of fire from Artis. - Final battle: Alejandro injects himself with an artificial guideline(?). He transforms into a L72 humanoid with an incomplete Demon God’s Blessing. He still feels immense pain when ML rips him apart with his sword. - Artis can only stabilise the life force with his dragon core. - Ellie is mortally wounded by a loyal servant of Alejandro’s who then sacrifices herself to reconnect the pipe. - Ellie uses the artifact to change Ephyr into human form. Ephyr becomes a L5 magic swordswoman. ML fights Alejandro after they’ve crashed through to the basement. Ephyr replicates Ellie’s dancing sword steps and avoids Alejandro’s attacks. Ephyr slashes through the life force fusion as ML slices through Alejandro. - Emil and reinforcements from the order of light arrive. - In the end, Ellie dies. Ephyr is imprisoned awaiting trial as she and Ellie were seen as close associates with Alejandro. - Leslie secretly procures the (almost complete) Demon God’s Blessing from the dragon’s nest. - Haunted house: the Ghost Maiden L35 is a test subject with an artificial guideline. She’s an orphan who sees Richard and Leslie as her saviours. The house was the site of many secret experiments by Great Earth and has many traps. ML, Artis and Ephyr are sent there on a ghost subjugation mission by the order of light. - A dimensional trap was set to catch them. The place will cease to exist if they don’t find the operational tool (ie the Ghost Maiden) and destroy the source. - The Ghost Maiden possesses ML and fights him inside his mind. Artis creates a magic circle around ML that he activates when the Maiden comes out of his body. They escape the dimensional trap. Artis also nullifies the Maiden as an operational tool which meant she’s lost all of her abilities and is just an ordinary human now. - The Maiden reveals a golem transport carriage to help Ephyr get to her trial on time. The carriage is powered by a fragment from the Demon God’s Blessing that ML had. - At the trial, Ephyr is exonerated thanks to testimony from the Maiden. Later with her extensive knowledge of magic tools, the Maiden becomes an appraiser. - “Thinkers” the mage guild is a top level magic research institute in Rune the Magic Kingdom. - The mage symposium: where new magic tools are revealed, and nobles socialise and show off their possessions. - Richard and Leslie go to Rune the Magic Kingdom. They secretly meet with Zenovia during the mage symposium. - NB: The goddesses blessed the heroes so their bodies would never grow old. They maintain a youthful appearance. - The legendary 4 Heroes of the continent (from 20yrs ago): - Zenovia / Zenova, Archmage and ruler of Rune the Magic Kingdom. She’s also the leader of Thinkers. - Barolt the Sword King, a Valterian warrior. The strongest of the heroes and the strongest swordsman on the continent. He hasn’t been seen in recent years. - Garhan the Terrible, the top magic swordsman and monarch of Kaldurie, the kingdom of 1000yrs. He’s the only one still on active duty. He’s killed more other worlders than anyone. - Hollian, the strongest nymph, Queen of the nymphs and Queen of Allendia the fairy / spirit kingdom. The ultimate spiritualist and the transcendentalist of life and death. - The Heroes still have a limited lifespan. - Garhan and Zenovia (and supported by Hollian) want immortality so they can continue to protect this world (as the new gods?), instead of the goddesses who act as passive spectators. - With dimensional sealing magic, Zenovia and Garhan have sealed Kivryelle the Goddess of Darkness. They must remain in the neutral space to keep the goddess trapped. Communicating with the outside world, they’re using the Inquisitors and the Dark Brotherhood to collect the remaining fragments for the Demon God’s Blessing so they can use it to transfer the goddess’ powers to themselves. So far they’ve absorbed half of Kivryelle’s powers. - ML meets Zhanglu Xin (from Shanghai) when he registers as a new L20 hunter at the Heitan Hunters Guild. Ephyr (with a new dragon core) is registered as a new L15 hunter of Artis’ party. - ML and Zhanglu are sentenced to the Crater Valley prison camp for 100yrs after accidentally hurting the Baron who is in charge of the prison. Zhanglu tells ML to hunt monsters in the dungeon for their magic stones to bribe the guards to reduce their sentences. - Zhanglu is a naive idealist who hopes other worlders and native-born will be able to coexist peacefully. He also believes in being a hero that protects and cares for the weak. - Zhanglu died in a car accident and was reborn as a Chosen One. In his past life he was a loner and a bookworm. He made good friends when he was L5 to L19 but was alone again when he reached L20 and was teleported to the Rath’na continent. He wants to become famous so his friends will hear about him and come find him. The 4 vital energies / great powers: Aura - Strong physique and destructive energy. Mana - Magical energy. Prana - Regenerative and protection energy. Force - Lightning and internal energy. - Sir Leonhart Catel Francis, Inquisitor and L120+ spiritualist. - He was a hero blessed by the goddesses. He maintains a youthful appearance and has a limited lifespan. - The Dark Brotherhood have been locating and securing dragon’s nests held by Great Earth in search of fragments of the Demon God’s Blessing. This has been directly ordered through oracles from the Goddess of Darkness, but it’s actually Garhan instructing them. - Garhan and Zenovia were the ones who created the new “fake” Great Earth group. A spell is cast on its members that if they try to reveal any info about the 4 Heroes, the taboo magic will melt their brain and they’ll die. - Garhan sends Leslie to infiltrate the prison and retrieve the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing from the other worlder. - Zhanglu starts a protest chant among the prisoners to release them while the Baron is visiting the prison. The Baron offers a deal for ML to fight the other worlder prisoner, a L61 magic swordsman (who is actually Laude). If ML wins, the Baron will reduce everyone’s sentences. Leslie volunteers to be on Laude’s side to fight against Zhanglu and ML. - At the battle arena, Laude uses his beholder arm to control the monsters and makes them swarm around ML. After the monsters are easily wiped out by ML, Laude summons a L80 dungeon boss. - ML splits the boss monster in 2. His killing instincts from his 22yrs in the Rock Mountains have taken over. - Before ML kills Laude as his 1st Rathnian, Zhanglu intervenes and his arm is severed. - NB: Other worlders become addicted to killing Rathnians from the pleasure that’s released to their brains after they do so. That’s why other worlders become murderous monsters. - Leslie was in a cell with other worlders like her and they were suffering from withdrawal symptoms after killing Rathnians. She was made a subordinate of Hollian, Garhan and Zenovia, and did their dirty work for 10yrs. She’s under a “restrain” spell / seal that keeps her murderous intent under control. - ML sees that Leslie is a spiritualist and has her heal Zhanglu as much as she can. Laude covers for them from the Baron’s guards as they escape into the tunnel created by the boss monster. ML becomes wanted for escaping prison. - Zhanglu asks ML for his help in fighting for what he believes in. ML agrees to help Zhanglu achieve his ideals. - Sir Leonhart has a merchant investigate the Crater Valley prison camp for him, and he sees photos of ML. He recognises him as the L5 hunter who evaded him in Onprous city. He arrives at Heitan and runs into Artis. He pays the Baron a visit with Artis and Ephyr. - The Baron runs away, fearful of being punished for having a fake other worlder (ie Laude). Artis, Ephyr and Leonhart follow him to the empty arena. The Baron uses the captive Laude’s beholder ability to summon another dungeon boss. Leonhart swiftly defeats the boss monster. - Zhanglu unites the prisoners that were sent after them by the Baron. Under his leadership, the prisoners want to expose the injustice and inhumane treatment in the prison, take the Baron to court for his illegal actions, and gain their freedom. - Leslie succumbs to her murderous intent as the seal has been weakened. She kills a prisoner who was against Zhanglu’s plan. - ML and Zhanglu find Leslie unconscious after possibly trying to kill herself. Nearby are the dead prisoner and a dead guard killed by Leslie. ML chases after the surviving injured guard. - Zhanglu leads the prisoners while carrying Leslie towards the boss room. They are met by guards who shoot a barrage of missiles that kills everyone. Leslie feeds the dying Zhanglu the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing. He transforms and kills all of the guards. - ML is interrupted in his chase by Leonhart. - Leonhart and ML battle it out, with devastating effects. - After a massive blow from Leonhart, ML seems to be no longer conscious and his body is fighting purely with his survival instincts and veteran hunting skills. ML’s aura is awakened at last in a huge explosive burst. He manages to injure Leonhart and the residual aura makes it slow to heal with his prana. They continue to fight this battle of epic proportions. - Artis and Ephyr arrive at the boss room. They carefully approach Zhanglu who is holding an unconscious Leslie. Artis tries to separate the fragment from Zhanglu using the other fragment she has attached to her staff. She’s interrupted by a surviving prisoner who takes the boss room artifact that would close the dungeon. It becomes a portal that teleports all of them to Heitan. - Zhanglu now carries an unconscious Artis with Leslie. He kills the hunters who surround him and attack him. He flies away with Artis and Leslie, heading towards the Eastern Valley to meet ML as promised. Ephyr frees Artis with a slash of her sword. - Zhanglu’s mutated body is trying to use Leslie’s life force to heal itself. Zhanglu regains control of his body and breaks free from the mutant shell. His severed arm is restored with properties from the fragment. Artis casts a huge fireball at the still live mutant shell, incinerating it completely. They can see the fight between ML and Leonhart from afar. Zhanglu decides to sacrifice himself to stop the fight between ML and Leonhart. - Just as ML makes the perfect combo sword attack, the power of ML’s aura in the end overwhelms his body and eventually destroys his weapon. He asks Leonhart to spare Artis, Ephyr and Zhanglu, and he’ll take full responsibility. - Before ML lets Leonhart kill him, Zhanglu interrupts. He admits to being an other worlder and that he has killed innocent people while under the Demon God’s Blessing. He’s prepared to be punished and pay for his crimes. All he asks is to stop the needless fighting and killing. - Suddenly Zhanglu’s body is pierced through with a spear. The hunters want revenge for those Zhanglu killed earlier and come running towards him, screaming for his other worlder blood. Leonhart stops the mob with what appears to be a final strike that makes Zhanglu’s body disappear. Leonhart has the fragment of the Demon God’s Blessing in his hand. - With Zhanglu’s death, nothing has changed. - The Baron denies any illegal activity at the prison camp. - The Baron blamed the deaths of the prisoners and guards all on Zhanglu. He even made Laude his military commander. - ML blames himself for Zhanglu’s death and is finding it hard to see the way forward. - Leslie cancels the banned mark magic contract with the Maiden. The contract forced the Maiden to never betray Leslie or else she’d die. Leslie tells the Maiden to live freely. - As Leslie’s own contract is still active, she decides to go back to Great Earth but will fight for Zhanglu’s ideal from within. - Sir Leonhart secretly saved Zhanglu. Leonhart is suspicious of who is really behind the oracles directing the Brotherhood. - ML and co. deduced Zevonia, Garhan and Hollian are behind everything. They head for Allendia the fairy kingdom 1st to deal with Hollian. The fairy kingdom is made of an alliance between 4 races / species (Branch sylphs, Shrub nymphs, Root elves, Underground dwarves) concentrated around the world tree. Each race has their own culture and ruler. The capital city is located at the trunk of the world tree. Solondia, largest city of the elf kingdom: - ML, Ephyr (L38 magic swordswoman), Artis (L52 mage) arrive at the elf kingdom. ML breaks the sword while trying to pull it out from the ground for the Thanksgiving / Harvest festival. The sword is meant to be a symbolic gesture, with the elf king as the only one who can release the sword from its magic. - ML uses his aura to destroy the giant boulder golem that was summoned by the elves. Elf soldiers surround him and … - Prince Rondelle Atlancis, a half-elf who was about to be killed by some humans in an abandoned sanctum of the Goddess of Darkness. A bright light appeared and scared the humans away. A woman called Kivye appeared from that light. - … Kivye tells ML to surrender to the elves. ML, Ephyr and Artis had saved Rondelle who was nearby. The Crown Prince sees Rondelle and immediately hails ML and co. as Rondelle’s saviours. - ML’s guideline initially showed an error with Kivye but later it said she was a L80 warrior. She tells ML that she’s the embodiment of the Goddess of Darkness. She was created to protect Rath’na from destruction. Kivye was sent to test him as a candidate for assistance by testing his abilities. - Before Kivye can challenges ML, he meets the old elf king in a secluded space. The elf king mistakes ML for the Sword King initially, then the elf king sticks a sword into the ground. ML’s broken sword is pulled into the ground by tree roots. - ML pulls out his sword with great force and buries the elf king up to his chin in dirt. The sword is repaired with wood from the roots of the world tree (it’ll help ML control his aura). The elf king admits he was testing ML as he was curious about his abilities. - NB: Rondelle is the youngest son of the elf king. His human mother ran away and abandoned him. Elves despise half elves. - The elf king asks ML and co. to go with Rondelle to find out the cause of what’s killing the people and livestock in the eastern small root village. When they arrive after being chased by monsters, they discover the 2nd elf prince (the Crown Prince’s younger twin brother) is hiding in the village after being banished from the elf kingdom 10yrs ago. The 2nd elf prince is the only mage and doctor in the village. - Kivye has another mission from the Goddess of Darkness: to find Barolt who can defeat the other 3 corrupt heroes. - Kivye tells ML and co. that the Goddess of Darkness has been sealed away by Garhan and Zenovia. - Bloodsuckers have been sucking out the life force from living beings in the village, while also infecting them with parasitic larvae. A “mother” monster creates and controls the bloodsuckers. They are also attracted to and feed off aura. The entire village was already infected 6mths ago before Rondelle’s party arrived. - The bloodsuckers came through a rift to another dimension. After sensing bad energy, the 2nd elf prince and the villagers went underground to inspect the root of the world tree and saw the rift. - The infection doesn't seem to affect the 2nd elf prince. - The “mother” is now playing happy pretend families with Rondelle’s party. Kivye overcame the infection herself and has infiltrated the “family”. Rondelle remains uninfected. - The bloodsuckers are dungeon level monsters. - The parasites need memories to work. The infected are brainwashed with new memories that overwrite the old ones. - Rondelle breaks through a brick wall in his cell and uncovers roots of the world tree. He uses his royal power to communicate with the roots and break the connection of the “mother” monster with the parasites. Kivye uses that interruption to wake up ML by kissing him to transfer aura. It works and ML uses his aura to incinerate the monster. - The main body of the monster is underground absorbing life force from the roots of the world tree. The 2nd prince took the still infected Artis and Ephyr down there, but ran away when they attacked him. ML, Kivye and Rondelle arrive. ML fights off Artis and Ephyr while Kivye fights the multiple clones of the monster. - Kivye steals the polymorph necklace from Ephyr and uses it to force Artis and Ephyr to transform into their true original selves, a dragon and a wyvern. - They all attack the main monster which has possessed the entire world tree. Rondelle has connected with the world tree which stops the monster from regenerating. - The 2nd elf prince reveals to Rondelle that he was banished because the elf king discovered his experiments with bloodsuckers. The 2nd elf prince had been experimenting with them on humans for the past 20yrs. Once the main monster dies, he wants Rondelle to open the rift to let more monsters in so he can control the world. - Leonhart is on an unofficial mission. He saves Laude who had been arrested as a suspect in the murder of the Baron. Leonhart is with Laude and Zhanglu in a barren icy wasteland. - Leonhart mentions the appearance of rifts about 6mths ago. Over 100 have been reported to the Dark Brotherhood. As they approach a rift, Leonhart asks Zhanglu to share what the guideline says. It’s “Unstable dimensional rift: For the abandoned homeland and the god of the gods”. - ML and co. discover the true form of the main monster. ML talks to it as the guideline says it’s a L32 Angel species. It was originally living in a barren valley hunting smaller creatures to survive. It was badly injured by a larger predator and escaped through a rift. It was found and cared for by a young boy, his vet father and mother. The boy named it Snow and it was happy to have a family. - The boy became sick from a mysterious illness infecting many of the villagers. The 2nd elf prince was invited by the parents and he helped the boy get better. He also helped heal many of the villagers which helped him to be accepted. - The boy was too weak and eventually died. His parents were overcome with grief. Snow had the ability to take on the characteristics of anything it ate. Snow ate the boy’s body and evolved. It wanted to ease their grief but the father was horrified and tried to kill it but the mother protected Snow and was struck instead. Snow lost control and the father died as well. - Some villagers came to kill Snow as it was seen digging up the boy’s grave. Snow tried to escape through the rift but discovered it was able to control the villagers. This was because the boy it ate and the villagers were infected by bloodsuckers. The 2nd elf prince made a deal with Snow to help it so it could live like a human. Snow gave him 2 of it’s 4 eyes so the 2nd prince could control the bloodsuckers too. - Snow sends all of the infected villagers far away from the world tree, so that the bloodsuckers will naturally die off. - Snow goes with ML and co. to look for Rondelle. - They find Rondelle under the mind control of the 2nd Prince at the undergound roots of the world tree near the rift. - Rondelle can connect with the world tree but the Crown Prince and the 2nd Prince can’t. This is because Rondelle is the true heir as the son of the Crown Prince. The 2nd Prince sent assassins that killed Rondelle’s mother and almost killed Rondelle. - A large L148 Angel suddenly appears through the rift and devours the 2nd elf prince, evolving further. As ML fights this Angel, it pulls ML through the rift to the other world. ML struggles to fight the Angel as his guideline doesn’t allow him to use aura. - The unstable dimensional rifts lead to the land of the Demon God, the same place ML trained at for so long. - The ‘Angels’ seem to be the Demon God’s experiments to create weapons for an invasion of Rath’na. All Angels have the ability to take on the traits of what it’s eaten, accelerating it's evolution. The size of an Angel indicates how much it’s eaten. - The Angels aren’t bound to a dungeon and keep trying to crossover through the rift and wreck havoc. Ephyr as a wyvern and Artis fight a swarm of smaller Angels that end up eating eachother and evolving into a larger Angel. - Ephyr and Artis lead the large evolved Angel underground and through the rift, killing the smaller Angels on the way. Their Angel and the L148 Angel fight eachother while Ephyr and Artis help an injured ML back through the rift. - Using Kivye’s divine power and some of her aura, ML manipulates his guideline and is able to fight against the L148 Angel. With support from Artis, ML lands a cross impact blow and splits the Angel’s head open, but it was just a shell. A smaller humanoid body emerges that’s evolved from the elf it consumed. This Angel copies ML and targets Artis with Ephyr and Snow. - Kivye distracts the Angel and brings ML back through the rift. Artis and Ephyr are also there, having survived thanks to Snow who absorbed the Demon God’s Blessing fragment from Artis’ staff. - The elves led by the Crown Prince arrive to help close the rift with their magic using the world tree roots. After Snow helps to hold onto the humanoid Angel from the other side, Hollian drives this highly evolved Angel back with her huge magic crossbow. (tbc Snow either perished or was also pushed back) - Hollian fully heals ML, Artis and Ephyr. Rondelle remains in a coma. The heads of the fairy alliance meet and are informed of what happened. The sylph king steals the polymorph necklace from Ephyr to lure ML to the dwarf king who wants to test his new weapon. Artis interrupts ML and the dwarf king with an ice blast. Ephyr chases after the sylph king and eventually wins in magic swordsmanship against the king. - ML and co. explain to the elf king about what’s happened to the Goddess of Darkness. He shows them some letters he’s received from Barolt. They contain cryptic messages, with the most recent letter delivered by the merchant caravan that’s leaving that night. - ML and co. join the caravan as mercenary guards. - The dwarf king gives Artis a customised weapon. The sylph king gives Ephyr a secret book of magic. Rondelle wakes up and gives something to Kivye. - NB: The dimensional rifts are due to the goddesses’ weakened protection over Rath’na after the Goddess of Darkness was sealed. The rifts don't appear in the territories of Garhan and Zenovia. - Hollian expresses concern about the rifts to Garhan and Zenovia, who had given Hollian an early warning about them. She knows about their plans and supports them as her team mates and friends. They’re keeping some aspects a secret from Hollian. Richard has been tasked with killing Hollian if she learns the whole truth. - The 450yo elf king is assassinated by Richard, under the orders of Garhan and Zenovia. Publicly his death is announced as caused by chronic illness. - Leonhart is arrested by the Dark Brotherhood for conducting an unauthorised investigation, and for going against the oracle of the Goddess of Darkness. He tells the shaman that he suspects someone is pretending to be the Goddess and has stolen her divine power. - Laude and Zhanglu who were set free, attempt to break Leonhart out of the Brotherhood prison. They are surrounded by the Brotherhood but Leonhart breaks free from his restraints and protects Laude and Zhanglu. - The shaman has the Brotherhood surrender and admits it was a test to see Leonhart’s resolve. The shaman also suspects the Goddess is an imposter. The latest oracle ordered the arrests of ML, Artis, Ephyr and Kivye, with wanted posters to be put up soon. They are accused of assassinating the elf king. - Leonhart with Laude and Zhanglu go to find ML and co. - The fairy alliance don’t believe ML and co. are guilty so an investigative team is set up to find out the truth. Richard is assigned as the team leader. His task under Garhan and Zenovia is to kill ML and co. Leslie is assigned to keep an eye on Hollian. - The 4 heroes in the war 20yrs ago sent the defeated other worlders to a sky dungeon and sealed them away. As punishment, the other worlders with an average of L80 were made to hunt monsters to collect their magic stones for the heroes. - Richard has a group of these other worlders hunt ML and co. - ML and co. enter the desert and reach the forgotten ancient city of Callan. It’s situated on a huge oasis in the middle of the desert. The desert city was built on the rooftops of the ruins. A dungeon appeared 35yrs ago and is known as the Great Labyrinth. - ML’s team save Madame Celia from thieves. She owns and runs many of the businesses in the city. She gives them a map to help with exploring the labyrinth. She also gave them artifacts called chain fragments that tell you if a team mate is in danger. - In the dungeon, ML fights the monsters and leaves the final blow to Artis and Ephyr so they can absorb the life force and level up their dragon cores. With great teamwork, they destroy a large and difficult monster. They realise the map Celia gave them was to the thieves’ hideout. They bring the thief leader back to Celia and ML threatens her for tricking them. Suddenly ML is grabbed by someone and smashed through the wall and through the lower floors. It’s Barolt (L200+ alpha). - Barolt refuses to listen to ML and insists on fighting him. They’re stopped by Celia before they demolish the whole city. - Kivye explains the situation to Barolt and he refuses. - Kivye tries to kill herself as she feels unwanted but also needs to send word back to the Goddess. ML saves her. ML, Ephyr and Artis convince Kivye that she’s a much valued member of the team. - Barolt wants to take ML with him to defeat the divine beast that’s guarding the lowest floor of the labyrinth. Once the beast is defeated and the dungeon closed, Barolt agrees to go on the mission set by the Goddess of Darkness. Kivye cuts her hair and gives it to ML, hoping the divine power in her hair might help him. - The merchant caravan that ML’s team had guarded earlier is approached by the other worlders group on behalf of the fairy alliance. The other worlders kill everyone in the caravan and frame ML for their murder. - Leonhart, Laude and Zhanglu are in the desert and they come across the bodies of those from the merchant caravan. A survivor tells them it was a group from the fairy alliance before she dies. - Leonhart can tell the killers were other worlders from how the caravan people died. He recalls an incident 15yrs ago when Richard’s family were killed by the villagers after they found out he was an other worlder. Richard killed all of the villagers for revenge. - Martin the warrior and the sister spiritualists Elza and Poelle were in the party that ML saved from the spider queen before. - Martin was also the one who speared Zhanglu. - Martin is obsessed with getting stronger than the other worlders. - Barolt saves Martin from a strong monster. A horde of monsters surround them, so Barolt takes the sisters while ML carries the injured Martin down a long and winding water drain. - They arrive at Barolt’s home base that he’s created from the remains of monsters. Barolt offers to train ML and Martin for 15 days until they run out of food. - ML has an abnormal amount of aura which developed due to the extreme hardships he faced and fought against. As he only recently manifested his aura, he is bad at controlling it. It’s almost as if ML is cursed to be unable to control aura. He wants to learn how to create an aura blade like Barolt. - There’s a massive door near Barolt’s home. Behind the door is the divine beast that Barolt wants ML to defeat. The door can only be opened by slashing it with an aura blade. - After a few days, Barolt opens the door with his aura blade and pushes ML through to the other side. The door seals up behind ML. A giant arm of an Angel is trapped (by Barolt) and blocking a rift in the ground. - Barolt used the skin of the Angel to make the door. - Barolt wants to bring out ML’s true nature while surviving in a situation where ML can’t escape and is faced with death. - ML fights that arm for 5 days straight. After ML has run out of aura, he can finally sense all 4 of the vital energies around him. - ML realises the wood from the world tree acts as a sheath for his sword while it absorbs ML’s aura and creates a blade from bloodstone (red aura crystal). He unsheathes his sword and slashes the door into pieces while severing the Angel’s arm. - ML is unconscious for 2 days. Ch 120 to 125 [ Barolt’s story and how he met the other 3 Heroes ] - 70yrs ago, dungeons and monsters suddenly appeared on the Rath’na continent. Valterians were treated as simple barbarians and often hired as cheap mercenaries. As a boy, Barolt lost his family while fighting monsters during a mercenary job. 21yo Barolt leaves his tribe and travels to the Rath’na continent to grow stronger. - Barolt pushed himself to grow stronger as he endlessly fought monsters. 25yo Barolt meets Garhan, a magic swordsman from Thunderbolt, a hunter guild. Garhan hides his identity as the heir of the noble Andrews family. While Barolt and Garhan fought each other, they destroyed the monster that killed Barolt’s family. Barolt awakened his aura during their fight. - Garhan takes Barolt to his guild to collect the reward for killing the monster. Garhan convinces Barolt of his sincerity in hunting monsters to protect the weak. Barolt agrees to join Garhan’s party as his guardian knight. Garhan is disowned by his family for becoming a lowly hunter. Barolt and Garhan focus on closing dungeons and become famous. They sell their dungeon artifacts to Zenovia who researched the Demon God’s magic. She later joined their party. - They saved Hollian, a nymph slave who was being mistreated with other slaves by a nymph noble family. Hollian also joined the party and they became known as righteous hunters who helped the weak. Their strength and their followers grew. - Years pass. The party hold promotional exhibition shows to encourage the nobles to invest in more hunter guilds. - Other worlders have started to appear. - Garhan’s father dies and he decides to retire as a hunter to return to being a noble and a political figure. - Barolt challenges Garhan to a duel to determine who was the strongest. After an epic battle, Hollian and Zenovia stop them from killing each other. Garhan begs Barolt to stay by his side. Barolt doesn’t agree with Garhan giving up his sword and leaves the party. - 20yrs later, Barolt continues to search for “true strength.” - Garhan of Kaldurie declares war on Great Earth and the other worlders. Barolt finds new purpose in representing his tribe and joins Garhan in the war. - After the war ends, the 4 comrades are called Heroes by the goddesses. A massive volcanic eruption occurs on the island where the Valterian tribe is. They’re all killed, leaving Barolt as the last surviving Valterian. - Garhan secretly spread a false rumour that the other worlders are demons to justify the war (?) [ ML’s story resumes ] - ML and Barolt enter the rift to fight the Angels. - Those who can see guidelines can’t attack Angels. That’s because both other worlders and Angels are sent by the Demon God. - ML is able to kill the Angels by using aura. Barolt trains ML as they fight the Angels. - Artis, Ephyr and Kivye work at the Oasis bar under Celia as they wait for Barolt and ML to return. - Richard and the other worlder assassins arrive at Callan and target Artis, Ephyr and Kivye right away. - Leonhart arrives with Laude and Zhanglu and they help Artis, Ephyr and Kivye against their attackers. - Kivye was to be captured alive. As the goddess’ embodiment, she is an avatar that has a share of the goddess’ power. If Garhan kills Kivye with his own hands, he’ll obtain more of the goddess’ power. - Garhan needs the knowledge and info to control the goddess’ divine power that was sealed inside Kivye. - Martin is finally able to manifest his aura. - More other worlder assassins arrive at Barolt’s home. - ML receives a signal from the communication device that Celia gave him. Barolt continues to fight the Angels while ML leaves the rift to check on his friends. ML arrives at Barolt’s home just in time to save Martin and the twin sisters from being killed. - ML kills the assassins except for their healer who ML gets to help Martin and the sisters recover, then they head to Callan. - Garhan arrives in Callan and he kills Martin and one of the sisters. Garhan easily defeats ML and Leonhart. Garhan absorbs the knowledge and info from Kivye. Multiple rifts suddenly appear across the darkened skies and angels come pouring out. - Barolt appears through a rift. Garhan offers to share his divine power with Barolt who has less than 4mths to live. - Barolt creates a new divine power from his own aura. - Garhan and Barolt fight a colossal battle. Both are critically injured and weakened. As the skies clear and the rifts close, Zenovia arrives to finish off Barolt. He still manages to sever her legs. ML and co. arrive to protect Barolt. As ML fights Garhan, Zenovia opens a portal. Zenovia and Garhan escape. - Barolt is using the small aura he has left to stay alive. He asks ML to strike the last blow so Garhan and Zenovia, who have artificial guidelines from the Demon God’s blessing, don’t get the XP from his death. This is his last battle as true warriors. - Barolt found Celia as a baby among the ashes of his tribe. She is now the last surviving Valterian. - Barolt’s death is announced. The truth is yet to be revealed. - From the XP received, ML finally levels up.
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