Chapter 196 : Quest
From the time the anomaly began, a single window had been visible to Murong Yoo.
[Quest]
A quest given only to those who have been granted the first title by the world. Resolve the unexpected situation.
Success - Destruction index decreases and a small reward.
Failure - Destruction index increases and a small penalty.
And Murong Yoo was able to find out what that unexpected situation was shortly after.
The abnormal grade increase of the crack.
The appearance of a named demonic beast as a result.
Although the destruction index was the destruction index, there was something that had a more important meaning to Murong Yoo right now.
It was Landfall.
For the internal affairs of the Divine Cult, what a wonderful person he was.
So he had to save Landfall from this place and take him with him.
"Summon."
[Summoning is forcibly canceled due to the distortion of space.]
"Huh?"
"You can't summon here! Probably because the space has been distorted due to the crack."
As expected of the future internal affairs manager of the Divine Cult.
Isn't he so smart!
Then there's no choice but to do it the way I've always done it.
"What are those guys?"
He heard they were the Blue Knight and the Red Knight.
But that wouldn't be all.
And for some reason, he had a belief that Landfall would surely answer this question.
"They're Death Knights. A named demonic beast that is said to be born when a person with excellent martial power becomes an undead. For your information, Death Knights use aura! So I think it would be better to buy time instead of fighting head-on!"
"I see."
Murong Yoo drew his sword.
At that moment, the Blue Knight and the Red Knight, who had felt the killing intent, aimed their swords and spears at Murong Yoo at the same time. A blue and red aura was formed on their weapons.
"It's a level above sword qi and below strong qi."
Murong Yoo, seeing the aura on their weapons, could immediately tell what level those two Death Knights were.
In the martial world, it was the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
This was a difference that was no match for him, who was still at the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
But Murong Yoo had a technique that surpassed the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
Besides, the given situation was not to defeat them, but to endure.
"How long do I have to endure?"
"If one shichen passes, the distortion of space will return to normal, and the professor will come and solve it."
"One shichen... it's longer than I thought."
Soon, the Blue Knight and the Red Knight moved at the same time.
Murong Yoo snatched a sword from a fallen teaching assistant, held a sword in both hands, and then ran forward.
And he used all the internal energy in his great meridians for the True Reversal of Heaven.
The world began to slow down.
The gap that had not been visible narrowed, and the movements of the Blue Knight and the Red Knight were visible. They had already reached a beat faster than him and were stabbing with their swords diagonally and their spears in a straight line.
Murong Yoo, with the most minimal movements, stabbed his twin swords into the trajectory of the approaching sword and spear and twisted the trajectory.
Clang, clang!
The moment the swords met, even though he had deflected the two attacks, a huge shock was transmitted to his wrist.
'Ugh!'
Although he had been relaxed, the opponent was a master who had reached the peak of the Transcendent Realm. But it was not a level he could not deal with.
Because the True Reversal of Heaven that Murong Yoo was using now was a technique that surpassed the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
'Their movements are not as diverse as those of a martial artist.'
Perhaps because they were demonic beasts, they were somewhat stiff and unnatural like jiangshi.
Swish.
This time, Murong Yoo kicked off his feet in the opposite direction and moved first. And he picked up a stone on the ground and flicked it with his finger.
The stone hit the Blue Knight's head and broke. The Blue Knight, who had been hit by the stone, did not show any shock.
'Even though he was hit by a stone wrapped in sword qi, there's no shock, which means more power is needed.'
The guys called Death Knights seemed to be quite tricky.
'Then!'
Murong Yoo decided to experiment with the inspiration he had come up with in the fight with Yoo Il-han last time.
He also thought that it was almost one shichen now.
What Murong Yoo had used so far were the True Reversal of Heaven, the True Reversal of Heaven, the Reversal of Heaven, and the Reversal of Heaven, these four.
And in the last fight, Murong Yoo had used a technique called the Reverse Reversal of Heaven by combining the Reversal of Heaven and the Reversal of Heaven.
The inspiration he had gotten from that.
The first technique that Murong Yoo himself had created.
Chaotic Heaven.
A lawless movement of energy that arose centered on the dantian occurred.
They spread throughout the body through the great meridians and the fine meridians.
It felt as if all the great meridians and fine meridians in his body were about to be torn apart.
Perhaps if the person using this was not Murong Yoo, but someone else, all the great meridians and fine meridians would have been torn, and he would have become a cripple.
But Murong Yoo was able to do this because he had trained his great meridians and fine meridians with the Reversal of Heaven and the Reversal of Heaven since he was young.
A crazy act that even Yoo Jae-ha, who was called the Martial God, had not thought of.
The effect of that was much greater than he had thought.
Murong Yoo was now feeling a power he had never felt before, along with a huge pain in his body.
The Blue Knight and the Red Knight, sensing something strange from Murong Yoo, immediately rushed in.
Whoosh!
Murong Yoo dodged the Blue Knight's sword. A few strands of hair flew into the air.
Slice!
The Red Knight's spear grazed Murong Yoo's skin. A drop of blood flew into the air.
Murong Yoo, who had dodged the two attacks in a row, approached the Blue Knight. The Blue Knight's hard armor touched Murong Yoo's hand.
"Crumple!"
Murong Yoo put his chaotic energy into the Blue Knight's body.
At that moment, the Blue Knight, who would not feel pain as a Death Knight, let out a scream and sat down on the spot.
"Aaaah!"
Just then, the Red Knight stabbed his spear at the back of Murong Yoo's head.
"Dodge!"
Landfall, who saw this, shouted. But Murong Yoo had no other strength to deal with the Blue Knight now.
Murong Yoo, who was slowly turning his head, saw the spear of red energy.
It was at that moment.
[The distortion of space has decreased, and summoning is possible.]
"Summon."
A huge slime fell from the sky onto the Red Knight's head.
"Kyuu!"
The Red Knight was struggling, wrapped in the slime's body. And an amazing scene occurred.
The Red Knight's body, which had entered the slime's body, began to melt. Then what had been the Red Knight disappeared completely.
"Kyuuk!"
The slime let out a burp and was waving its green, huge body as if it were happy.
"Phew. I'm alive."
In the eyes of Murong Yoo, who had almost died in an instant, a new window was appearing one after another.
[You have cleared the quest.]
[The first reward is given. The destruction index decreases by 0.1. The destruction index of the 7th world is 6.9.]
[The second reward is given. The key to the crack 'Demon World' is given.]
[The King Slime absorbs one of the abilities of the named demonic beast, the Death Knight. It learns the skill, Evil Eye.]
"Hehe. I'm alive, right?"
Murong Yoo fainted.
* * *
What greeted Murong Yoo, who had woken up from his sleep, was the department head, Lancelot.
"Haa! I had expected him to be reckless like him, but I never imagined it would be to this extent."
"I'm sorry."
Murong Yoo was reflecting on what he had done to some extent. It was enough to just buy time, but he had done something he didn't have to do. It was a good thing the result was good, but if he had failed, the current Murong Yoo might not have existed.
Just then, Lancelot suddenly bowed his head to Murong Yoo.
Murong Yoo was momentarily flustered by Lancelot's unexpected reaction, who he had thought would scold him.
"What I said before was because I was worried, and from now on, I'm serious as a department head. Thank you for saving the students and the teaching assistants. If it weren't for you, everyone who was there would have turned into corpses."
Murong Yoo said in a low voice.
"Please raise your head. I just did what I had to do. And I have a favor to ask."
"I will grant anything within my power. Speak."
"Well, you see..."
A little later, a document was sent to Landfall. It was an order directly from the department head.
[All students of the Soma Garden must join a club. It has been found that student Landfall has not joined a club, and by the order of the department head, he is ordered to join the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult club.]
* * *
The Heavenly Demon Divine Cult club room.
"Phew! I thought it was a big deal!"
As soon as Murong Yoo came to the club room, he had to listen to his friends' bitter words.
"You didn't have to be so reckless."
"That's right! If you had just bought time, the professors would have taken care of it!"
Murong Yoo slyly took out one thing.
"What's that! And don't try to change the subject now! I'm not done talking yet!"
"That's right. You need to be scolded a little. But I'm curious about what that is."
"Namgung Cheon! You're going to do this!"
"Ahem! Yoo-ran, aren't you curious?"
"Damn it! I'm also curious! But I'm holding it in! So what is it?"
Grin.
Murong Yoo smiled at the reaction of his two friends. Because it was the first time.
Except for his mom and dad, his Sword Empress grandmother, and his grandfathers, that is, his family, he felt a pleasant sensation of a corner of his heart warming up at being worried about like this by someone.
"You're laughing! I haven't forgiven you yet!"
"So what is that?"
"This is, they say it's a key that can go to the Demon World."
"A key?"
"Yeah! When an abnormal phenomenon appeared in the crack, a quest window popped up in front of my eyes, and when I solved it, it gave me this key as a reward."
"Hmm. That quest window, does it mean the words of the world?"
"Yeah. Didn't it appear for you guys?"
"For us, it only showed the fact that the grade of the crack had changed. Why did it only appear for you? Was there a difference between you and us?"
"Maybe because Yoo was the person involved in that situation?"
"Then such a window should have appeared for everyone who was in that situation, but as a result of the investigation of this incident, I have not seen anyone who said that such a window had appeared."
"Ah, maybe it's because of this?"
"Is there something?"
"Yeah! I think it said I was the first title holder. And by solving the incident, the destruction index also went down. Although it was a very small value."
"Hmm. That's worth investigating. But Yoo."
"Yeah?"
"What on earth is that guy? He's been here since earlier."
"That's what I'm saying! He doesn't even answer when I ask him!"
When Paeng Yoo-ran approached, Landfall, who was in the corner, was startled and cowered like a mouse in a jar.
"Hic!"
"Did I do something bad!"
"N-No, it's not that."
Landfall had never spoken to a woman other than his mother since he was young.
And the Paeng Yoo-ran in front of him was quite pretty even in Landfall's eyes. Strangely, just by looking at her, his breathing became faster, and his heart pounded.
"The kid is strange. Is he sick?"
When Paeng Yoo-ran extended her hand and placed it on Landfall's forehead, Landfall went limp.
"Huh? The kid fainted."
A little later, Murong Yoo introduced Paeng Yoo-ran and Namgung Cheon to the awakened Landfall.
"This is Landfall, who will be the first disciple of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult."
"By the way, were you in our class?"
When Namgung Cheon approached Landfall and spoke to him, Landfall answered awkwardly.
"Y-Yeah."
"You have a strange lack of presence. It's a truly amazing talent. How did you do it? Please tell me."
Landfall also looked at Namgung Cheon as if he were a strange child. And unlike the others, he didn't feel bad about him talking to him.
He felt that he was not trying to tease him, but was genuinely curious.
"You should understand. The kid becomes a crazy person when it comes to martial arts."
"So Landfall, what are you good at?"
Isn't it normal to first ask why he came here?
Landfall, surrounded by three huge cats, cowered and answered like a mouse.
"I-I'm good at reading and writing!"
"Oh! Then, you'll be able to do many things in the future. Right?"
Landfall instinctively felt that he would be asked to do homework here as well.
"Y-Yes!"
'I'm in this situation again.'
"Alright! Then, you're also a friend now! I'm hungry, so let's go eat!"
"What? You're not going to give me that homework?"
"Isn't homework something you have to do yourself?"
"That's true."
"Don't tell me someone is making you do it?"
"W-Well."
"Did you just say that someone is making a disciple of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult do homework?"
Namgung Cheon fiddled with the sword hanging on his side. Paeng Yoo-ran swung her arms around.
"S-So!"
At this reaction he had never seen before, Landfall didn't know what to do, and Murong Yoo was tilting his head in a corner.
'Homework?'
What's that? Is it something to eat?
Paeng Yoo-ran's eyes widened as she said.
"Lead the way!"
Namgung Cheon continued.
"The Heavenly Demon Divine Cult never succumbs to force."
Just then, another window appeared in front of Murong Yoo.
[Get revenge for Landfall.]
Landfall has been bullied countless times. Landfall, who has been in charge of many other people's homework. Free the poor Landfall from the bad guys.
Success - Demon World crack coordinates.
Failure - Landfall withdraws from the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
Murong Yoo suddenly got up and shouted.
"Let's go!"
(End of Chapter)