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.
To be or not to be
I Stan the Prince
Read ch 39 as of 20/01/21 - FL is an annoying fool. DROPPED - Empress gave birth to twins, a boy Rayburn (ML) and a girl Hoya - Queen gave birth to 2nd prince. Queen died and 2nd prince Ferderic was made the Crown Prince. 1st son was said to be too cruel and responsible for Queen’s death. - General Chancellor is Ferderic’s uncle. Would hit him as a child. - Lady Bourbon is Ferderic’s personal knight / escort guard - Foreign Princess Garnet, Ferderic’s fiancé (originally ML fiancé) - Sir Mano is ML’s personal aide/ knight and escort guard - (FL) Angela’s BL fanfic is published by a merchant without her consent. It becomes a best seller and she is forcibly taken by Ferderic’s men to be killed but is rescued by ML and taken to the palace. With her life on the line she agrees to write a sequel to help improve ML image. After a goose chase by FL and arresting the merchant, Ferderic is aware that ML is hiding FL. - Paparazzi (Blen) caught by FL at night outside her terrace but gets away. ML and FL chase him into town. FL tells him she’s been a fan of his drawings for last 5yrs. Conf’d all drawings sketched were eyewitness accounts. He gave up his stash of drawings for a hefty amount. FL thinks these drawings can also help ML image. - Assassin let go by ML but later killed by Bourbon - FL agrees to learn from ML all that’s needed before the victory banquet celebration in 5 days. Hoya reminds ML not to get attached to FL as she’ll be killed if things go astray. - At the ball, FL enters w/ a bang from wrong door. Later Ferderic asks her to dance which she accepts. There’s a misunderstanding between Princess Garnet and ML (caused earlier by Hoya). FL bumps into Blen and they catchup. Sir Mano is poised to kill FL (under Hoya’s orders) but is stopped by ML. At the end ML agrees to dance w/ FL outside, watched from afar by Blen and some noblewomen. - FL gets closer to Ferderic when they come across eachother in town and spend time together. - FL is summoned w/ other scholars to decipher a note in code. FL speaks to people in palace to obtain clues. Princess Garnet runs into ML and tells him coded document is a short fanfic she wrote. - While lost again, FL hides in a closet and overhears Hoya offering to kill ML and take his place in a deal w/ the General. Later Hoya tells FL that she knows FL was eavesdropping and to just carry on as usual to ensure her safety. - As a child FL was helped by ML to hide from slave traders and they cared for a baby bird called Shuran together. He had paid for her ransom but she mistook the presence of slave traders as there to take her away again so she ran away and never came back. This was on the day he was stripped of the Crown Prince title and was getting kicked out of the palace. - Sparring match between Sir Mano and Bourbon. - Sequel to the fanfic is released and trashes the ML. Search for fake author leads to underground auction where original script of the sequel is put up for sale. Burglars break in and runaway w/ the script and the fake author. ML and FL give chase on horseback. Imperial knights involved and they kill the burglars. FL goes back w/ knights and confirms the merchant is the fake author they have arrested. ML gave separate chase to an assassin who turns out to be the General’s RH knight.
Ai o Ataeru Kemonotachi
Honzuki no Gekokujou ~Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen~ Dai 2-bu 「Hon no Tamenara Miko ni Naru!」
The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion