TL: xLordFifth
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Another person had already thought of it before Kidd spoke. Chiyou, who was sitting in the back row, nodded slightly. At the same time, Fernand screamed.
“N-no way! D-does this quest have that intention?!”
“Oh my… that’s too cruel! That’s too much!”
“But if you think about it, it makes sense. Now what do these mermaids have to do with us?”
“I didn’t think that we would enter the new continent without blood from the beginning, but this is…”
The users murmured. Now everyone was thinking the same thing as Kidd. Kijung sighed and settled the situation.
“They say people follow their names, but you really are doing as you wanted… what a quest to force one person to sacrifice…”
The fact that Kidd and the expedition team finally noticed. The advanced compensation is the information about the location. Clearing the quest would be difficult. If that’s the case? One person should volunteer, accept the quest, and after hearing where it is located, tell the expedition members, and ‘die somewhere in the ocean alone’.
“Strictly speaking, they wouldn’t be alone. Because of the [Ring of Water], they won’t be able to go anywhere, and they would end up dying together with that mermaid with the long flowing beard.”
Could they say that the situation was better now than when they couldn’t move forward due to the storm? The minds of the expedition members began to spin urgently.
If there were no volunteers for the quest then, of course, there would be a vote.
The basic rule was that no matter what happened, they must survive!
Middle Earth forced competition anytime, anywhere.
Even in the middle of the vast ocean. Who would? The expedition members glanced silently at the other expedition members around them. An atmosphere where no one could step forward because everyone thought the same thing. The tension, distrust, anxiety, and impatience that suddenly spread among the members of the new continent expedition were floating around the cabin.
Kijung: What are you going to do, hyung?
Leeha: What?
Kijung: Looking at this clearly, it means that we should abandon the person who is the most unhelpful.
Leeha: Is that so?
Kijung: What do you mean, is that so? Don’t you understand the atmosphere? Hyung isn’t someone who would be 100% safe too!
Kijung was suspicious of Leeha’s apathetic reaction. If they voted for the scapegoat, the only people who are 100% safe are the top-ranked users, including Alexander.
Simply being a descendant of a hero or having achieved excellent results in the tournament was not enough qualifications.
Most importantly, they were not a team to destroy the fragment of the demon king.
Strictly speaking, the main purpose of the quest was to ‘establish a foundation for a new frontier’ after ‘reaching the new continent’.
For that purpose, the ‘construction of a mana relay tower’ was necessary.
In other words, among the users who had nothing to do other than combat, there was a possibility that those with many overlapping roles would be selected.
Kijung: Not only does Luger overlap with hyung, even Armboost and Bobae, are ranged dealers. Well, considering the purpose of scouting, there is a high chance of hyung surviving, but- .
Leeha: You have nothing to be anxious about anyway.
Kijung: Why not?! Bantal, the barbarian hero’s descendant, is also a tank. Moreover, those giant barbarians and Amunsan brothers are also semi-tankers. In the end, there are 5 tank candidates. The chance of me getting selected is very high!
Kijung admitted the reason for his anxiety to Leeha.
Would he feel safe because he had the legendary sword? No way.
Kijung knew better that Bantal and the Amunsan brothers had hidden cards.
At this point, such a secret weapon was of little help.
“It’s a problem even if someone volunteers. Even if Drake somehow erases the storm… The fishmen will continue to catch up.”
“If the two captains accelerate, the fishmen won’t have the speed to catch up. Well, it is clear that the waters of the Dragon Palace is wide… The acceleration will eventually stop…”
“I guess there won’t be any logouts for the time being.”
Pei Wu politely expressed that he would ‘step up for the greater good’, but in the end, his intention was the same. Hook also appealed himself about the matters of navigation, without refuting Pei Wu’s statement.
The more the ship was in danger, the busier the ship would become. The ship would not move forward simply because the captain of each ship gave orders to the NPCs.
If there were no veteran users to coordinate without the captain giving orders, the fishmen would quickly board the ship.
In the end, Hook’s intention was that Kraven users must remain unconditionally.
“It won’t be easy to deal with the fishmen during that period. Now we can only observe them with the naked eye. No matter how we see them during the day, or at night, without Eunchon and my searchlight, the boundaries would be meaningless.”
A sculptor who had a function through his sculptures. However, the duration of the function was not long. Not being able to log out, being chased by fishmen, and having to constantly carve searchlights at the main mast would cause tremendous fatigue.
Rodin had that intention in his words. However, it did not sound that way to the users around them. Gaeryong of the Dragon Knights spoke with a frown.
“It seems like there’s a thorn in Rodin-ssi’s words?”
“Yes? What?”
“Are you trying to tell us that the fishmen weren’t shown in Doctor Doom’s map this time?”
“What? Ah, no. It’s not that-“
Rubini’s somewhat mysterious yet elegant charm as she wore her oracle’s mask. Gaeryong brought the topic up because he wanted to protect her. The only thing he regretted was that he didn’t think more about the repercussions of that statement.
“Did something like that happen?”
“That’s right. You didn’t know because Chiyou was not in the Blue Marlin…”
“Is Rubini’s map ineffective in the New Serpent?”
Someone spoke those words based on Rodin’s statement and Gaeryong’s mistake. It was like a drop of blood that fell into an aquarium with a school of sharks. In an instant, the cabin became quiet. However, the members of the new continent expedition were people who had experience and resembled people from Middle Earth. It was a moment when many opinions came together as to who the sacrifice was, but the proof was that no one was looking back at Rubini.
Kijung once again became afraid of the users in the cabin.
“But… Well, they say to step up for the greater good and make a sacrifice, but to put it bluntly, it is what they want. The leader of the guard or something. Isn’t that right?”
“I feel the same way as my dongsaeng. Someone has to die anyway. Moreover, if it was to ‘sacrifice’… Wouldn’t it be better if they get compensated for the death penalty and the mermaid quest failure penalty?”
Taoist Mu and Taoist Baeju added to each other’s words.
They must have sufficiently discussed it in whisper before they opened their mouths.
“Kiskis, we will take care of it, so take this and leave.”
Biyemi cynically muttered. Jin Gonggong put his finger in his mouth and shushed. Shh! However, the surrounding users had already heard it. To put it simply, the meaning behind the Taoist brothers and Biyemi’s words was, ‘Let’s pool together to compensate the sacrifice.’
Those who have gathered here were people who held their ground in various fields of Middle Earth. There would also be a lot of valuable information about gold and items, as well as special achievements. What if they collected a few of them and gave it to the person selected as a sacrifice? It may be a little disappointing to receive the penalty, but it also meant that they would be given the chance to recover.
“Oh, that’s a good idea.”
“That’s right. We need to sacrifice someone anyway, so it would be better if there’s no hard feelings, right?”
“Th-then! They could come back once the frontier base is established in the new continent. And the most important [New Continent Expedition] quest doesn’t have a death condition, right? Only one person needs to live.”
Although these users were familiar with the details of the quest, they opened the quest window again and reviewed its main content.
[Beyond the Sea of Dawn]
Content:
1. Construct a mana relay tower on the Sea of Dawn
2. At least one of the 40 combatants arrives on the new continent
3. Construction of mana relay tower in the new continent
Conditions for failure: if two or more goals are not achieved.
Death does not directly result in quest failure!
It’s as if it had been anticipating this situation since the quest was first given!
“Hey, if you think about it that way, it’s not even a sacrifice! Rather, you will get good compensation from us! From the new continent to the new continent, you can restore yourself and do other things without going through any trouble!”
“It’s a mess, it’s such a mess!”
You do it! Let’s vote. No such words were said…
However, while instilling dreams of good things to come in the future, they gave Rubini a quick glance, and it was as if the situation had already been concluded. So to speak, it was closer to collective egoism. However, it was natural in the human world to not want to sacrifice one’s self. No one would throw a stone at them. There were a few users who kept their mouths shut while looking at the noisy users. One of them was Leeha.
‘A quest to make a sacrifice… If it’s Middle Earth it is possible.’
But was it really the end?
They wandered through the sea and saved the guard captain of the Sea God to just die?
Leeha reevaluated everything that happened.
‘What can I do? What can I do? Why should I do it?’
While closely examining equipment, achievements, and quest window, Leeha asked and answered the question to himself.
‘It’s Middle Earth. This is Middle Earth. Leeha didn’t know about other people…’
At least Leeha knew.
No, perhaps only Leeha knew. Because he had been stabbed in the back a lot of times while enjoying the game. Middle Earth never went according to Leeha’s expectations. So he doubted again and again.
‘What lies beyond the quest?’
Middle Earth’s intentions weren’t always straightforward. He suspected that there must be something else at the end of this complicated pie-like quest. In the meantime, the atmosphere in the room was almost decided. Even Rubini herself, who was the party involved, just bowed her head and waited to get ‘disposed’ without trying to get herself out of the situation.
She knew as well.
In order for everyone on the new expedition team to survive, the best way was for everyone to step forward and clear the quest. However, she did not have the courage to take the initiative, so she stayed silent, and the other users did not have the confidence to ‘execute’ her directly by expressing their intention to vote, so they waited for her to come forward on her own.
“… You are humane.”
Bailephus spoke quietly, but a few people heard him in the noisy cabin.
Step, step, step.
Before they knew it, Alexander walked into the middle of the expedition team sitting in a circle.
Ranked 1st in the ranking and the expedition leader, of course, he was the person they needed.
Alexander looked at each member of the expedition team and opened his mouth.
“Are there any volunteers willing to sacrifice for humanity?”
As of now, neither Lee Jiwon nor Luger could make fun of him for being a chuunibyo. The atmosphere was instantly suppressed by a single sentence from his deep voice.
The majority of the users did not want to make eye contact with the expedition leader.
Except for one person.
“I will do it.”
The users were momentarily taken aback as they saw the person standing up and raising their hand. Because it was not Rubini…
However, there was someone else who was even more flustered.
“Oh, Oooh-! Oooh ah-hyung-! Why!?”
“Leeha-ssi!”
Kijung was so flustered that he did not pronounce Leeha’s name properly. All Shin Nara could do was to call his name.
“… If he is just pretending to be cool and hoping that we would stop him, he is wrong.”
“Hehe, I don’t think it’s that bad. But I didn’t know that he would be such a fool to do it himself.”
Kidd and Luger also shook their head slightly. It may look like they are making fun of him or cursing him, but the essence of it was worry and concern. Both of them knew very well that this expedition needed something.
(To be continued…)
TL: xLordFifth
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Another person had already thought of it before Kidd spoke. Chiyou, who was sitting in the back row, nodded slightly. At the same time, Fernand screamed.
“N-no way! D-does this quest have that intention?!”
“Oh my… that’s too cruel! That’s too much!”
“But if you think about it, it makes sense. Now what do these mermaids have to do with us?”
“I didn’t think that we would enter the new continent without blood from the beginning, but this is…”
The users murmured. Now everyone was thinking the same thing as Kidd. Kijung sighed and settled the situation.
“They say people follow their names, but you really are doing as you wanted… what a quest to force one person to sacrifice…”
The fact that Kidd and the expedition team finally noticed. The advanced compensation is the information about the location. Clearing the quest would be difficult. If that’s the case? One person should volunteer, accept the quest, and after hearing where it is located, tell the expedition members, and ‘die somewhere in the ocean alone’.
“Strictly speaking, they wouldn’t be alone. Because of the [Ring of Water], they won’t be able to go anywhere, and they would end up dying together with that mermaid with the long flowing beard.”
Could they say that the situation was better now than when they couldn’t move forward due to the storm? The minds of the expedition members began to spin urgently.
If there were no volunteers for the quest then, of course, there would be a vote.
The basic rule was that no matter what happened, they must survive!
Middle Earth forced competition anytime, anywhere.
Even in the middle of the vast ocean. Who would? The expedition members glanced silently at the other expedition members around them. An atmosphere where no one could step forward because everyone thought the same thing. The tension, distrust, anxiety, and impatience that suddenly spread among the members of the new continent expedition were floating around the cabin.
Kijung: What are you going to do, hyung?
Leeha: What?
Kijung: Looking at this clearly, it means that we should abandon the person who is the most unhelpful.
Leeha: Is that so?
Kijung: What do you mean, is that so? Don’t you understand the atmosphere? Hyung isn’t someone who would be 100% safe too!
Kijung was suspicious of Leeha’s apathetic reaction. If they voted for the scapegoat, the only people who are 100% safe are the top-ranked users, including Alexander.
Simply being a descendant of a hero or having achieved excellent results in the tournament was not enough qualifications.
Most importantly, they were not a team to destroy the fragment of the demon king.
Strictly speaking, the main purpose of the quest was to ‘establish a foundation for a new frontier’ after ‘reaching the new continent’.
For that purpose, the ‘construction of a mana relay tower’ was necessary.
In other words, among the users who had nothing to do other than combat, there was a possibility that those with many overlapping roles would be selected.
Kijung: Not only does Luger overlap with hyung, even Armboost and Bobae, are ranged dealers. Well, considering the purpose of scouting, there is a high chance of hyung surviving, but- .
Leeha: You have nothing to be anxious about anyway.
Kijung: Why not?! Bantal, the barbarian hero’s descendant, is also a tank. Moreover, those giant barbarians and Amunsan brothers are also semi-tankers. In the end, there are 5 tank candidates. The chance of me getting selected is very high!
Kijung admitted the reason for his anxiety to Leeha.
Would he feel safe because he had the legendary sword? No way.
Kijung knew better that Bantal and the Amunsan brothers had hidden cards.
At this point, such a secret weapon was of little help.
“It’s a problem even if someone volunteers. Even if Drake somehow erases the storm… The fishmen will continue to catch up.”
“If the two captains accelerate, the fishmen won’t have the speed to catch up. Well, it is clear that the waters of the Dragon Palace is wide… The acceleration will eventually stop…”
“I guess there won’t be any logouts for the time being.”
Pei Wu politely expressed that he would ‘step up for the greater good’, but in the end, his intention was the same. Hook also appealed himself about the matters of navigation, without refuting Pei Wu’s statement.
The more the ship was in danger, the busier the ship would become. The ship would not move forward simply because the captain of each ship gave orders to the NPCs.
If there were no veteran users to coordinate without the captain giving orders, the fishmen would quickly board the ship.
In the end, Hook’s intention was that Kraven users must remain unconditionally.
“It won’t be easy to deal with the fishmen during that period. Now we can only observe them with the naked eye. No matter how we see them during the day, or at night, without Eunchon and my searchlight, the boundaries would be meaningless.”
A sculptor who had a function through his sculptures. However, the duration of the function was not long. Not being able to log out, being chased by fishmen, and having to constantly carve searchlights at the main mast would cause tremendous fatigue.
Rodin had that intention in his words. However, it did not sound that way to the users around them. Gaeryong of the Dragon Knights spoke with a frown.
“It seems like there’s a thorn in Rodin-ssi’s words?”
“Yes? What?”
“Are you trying to tell us that the fishmen weren’t shown in Doctor Doom’s map this time?”
“What? Ah, no. It’s not that-“
Rubini’s somewhat mysterious yet elegant charm as she wore her oracle’s mask. Gaeryong brought the topic up because he wanted to protect her. The only thing he regretted was that he didn’t think more about the repercussions of that statement.
“Did something like that happen?”
“That’s right. You didn’t know because Chiyou was not in the Blue Marlin…”
“Is Rubini’s map ineffective in the New Serpent?”
Someone spoke those words based on Rodin’s statement and Gaeryong’s mistake. It was like a drop of blood that fell into an aquarium with a school of sharks. In an instant, the cabin became quiet. However, the members of the new continent expedition were people who had experience and resembled people from Middle Earth. It was a moment when many opinions came together as to who the sacrifice was, but the proof was that no one was looking back at Rubini.
Kijung once again became afraid of the users in the cabin.
“But… Well, they say to step up for the greater good and make a sacrifice, but to put it bluntly, it is what they want. The leader of the guard or something. Isn’t that right?”
“I feel the same way as my dongsaeng. Someone has to die anyway. Moreover, if it was to ‘sacrifice’… Wouldn’t it be better if they get compensated for the death penalty and the mermaid quest failure penalty?”
Taoist Mu and Taoist Baeju added to each other’s words.
They must have sufficiently discussed it in whisper before they opened their mouths.
“Kiskis, we will take care of it, so take this and leave.”
Biyemi cynically muttered. Jin Gonggong put his finger in his mouth and shushed. Shh! However, the surrounding users had already heard it. To put it simply, the meaning behind the Taoist brothers and Biyemi’s words was, ‘Let’s pool together to compensate the sacrifice.’
Those who have gathered here were people who held their ground in various fields of Middle Earth. There would also be a lot of valuable information about gold and items, as well as special achievements. What if they collected a few of them and gave it to the person selected as a sacrifice? It may be a little disappointing to receive the penalty, but it also meant that they would be given the chance to recover.
“Oh, that’s a good idea.”
“That’s right. We need to sacrifice someone anyway, so it would be better if there’s no hard feelings, right?”
“Th-then! They could come back once the frontier base is established in the new continent. And the most important [New Continent Expedition] quest doesn’t have a death condition, right? Only one person needs to live.”
Although these users were familiar with the details of the quest, they opened the quest window again and reviewed its main content.
[Beyond the Sea of Dawn]
Content:
1. Construct a mana relay tower on the Sea of Dawn
2. At least one of the 40 combatants arrives on the new continent
3. Construction of mana relay tower in the new continent
Conditions for failure: if two or more goals are not achieved.
Death does not directly result in quest failure!
It’s as if it had been anticipating this situation since the quest was first given!
“Hey, if you think about it that way, it’s not even a sacrifice! Rather, you will get good compensation from us! From the new continent to the new continent, you can restore yourself and do other things without going through any trouble!”
“It’s a mess, it’s such a mess!”
You do it! Let’s vote. No such words were said…
However, while instilling dreams of good things to come in the future, they gave Rubini a quick glance, and it was as if the situation had already been concluded. So to speak, it was closer to collective egoism. However, it was natural in the human world to not want to sacrifice one’s self. No one would throw a stone at them. There were a few users who kept their mouths shut while looking at the noisy users. One of them was Leeha.
‘A quest to make a sacrifice… If it’s Middle Earth it is possible.’
But was it really the end?
They wandered through the sea and saved the guard captain of the Sea God to just die?
Leeha reevaluated everything that happened.
‘What can I do? What can I do? Why should I do it?’
While closely examining equipment, achievements, and quest window, Leeha asked and answered the question to himself.
‘It’s Middle Earth. This is Middle Earth. Leeha didn’t know about other people…’
At least Leeha knew.
No, perhaps only Leeha knew. Because he had been stabbed in the back a lot of times while enjoying the game. Middle Earth never went according to Leeha’s expectations. So he doubted again and again.
‘What lies beyond the quest?’
Middle Earth’s intentions weren’t always straightforward. He suspected that there must be something else at the end of this complicated pie-like quest. In the meantime, the atmosphere in the room was almost decided. Even Rubini herself, who was the party involved, just bowed her head and waited to get ‘disposed’ without trying to get herself out of the situation.
She knew as well.
In order for everyone on the new expedition team to survive, the best way was for everyone to step forward and clear the quest. However, she did not have the courage to take the initiative, so she stayed silent, and the other users did not have the confidence to ‘execute’ her directly by expressing their intention to vote, so they waited for her to come forward on her own.
“… You are humane.”
Bailephus spoke quietly, but a few people heard him in the noisy cabin.
Step, step, step.
Before they knew it, Alexander walked into the middle of the expedition team sitting in a circle.
Ranked 1st in the ranking and the expedition leader, of course, he was the person they needed.
Alexander looked at each member of the expedition team and opened his mouth.
“Are there any volunteers willing to sacrifice for humanity?”
As of now, neither Lee Jiwon nor Luger could make fun of him for being a chuunibyo. The atmosphere was instantly suppressed by a single sentence from his deep voice.
The majority of the users did not want to make eye contact with the expedition leader.
Except for one person.
“I will do it.”
The users were momentarily taken aback as they saw the person standing up and raising their hand. Because it was not Rubini…
However, there was someone else who was even more flustered.
“Oh, Oooh-! Oooh ah-hyung-! Why!?”
“Leeha-ssi!”
Kijung was so flustered that he did not pronounce Leeha’s name properly. All Shin Nara could do was to call his name.
“… If he is just pretending to be cool and hoping that we would stop him, he is wrong.”
“Hehe, I don’t think it’s that bad. But I didn’t know that he would be such a fool to do it himself.”
Kidd and Luger also shook their head slightly. It may look like they are making fun of him or cursing him, but the essence of it was worry and concern. Both of them knew very well that this expedition needed something.
(To be continued…)
