Level Up Inquisitor [EN]: Chapter 203

Level Up Judge of Heresy – Episode 203

203. The Tumultuous Chapter

[Current Level – 246]

A message window floated before Eile’s eyes.

His level, which was 238 when he entered the boss room, had risen by 8 levels in this one battle.

Quests, scenario completion, clearing an epic boss monster with two people, etc.

It was a rapid growth achieved through a combination of various experience rewards.

At this level, even when compared to other rankers [top-ranked players], he wasn’t as far behind as before.

“Hoo…”

However, regardless of that, Eile, who was sitting on the floor, was still exhausted.

It wasn’t just the aftermath of the battle; he was so tired that it was hard to even stand up.

Alisa, who had already recovered, checked the princess’s condition and then spread out the map, reviewing the escape route.

On the other hand, Eile had broken through a dungeon filled with monsters and then fought two consecutive battles with boss monsters, so his physical exhaustion was bound to be more severe.

‘Still… recovery is faster in the game.’

Eile, taking a breath, looked at the ceiling and thought.

Thanks to taking some rest, his trembling legs had returned to normal, and thoughts about his next actions slowly filled his head.

But at that moment, as he was lost in thought, a brilliant light burst before his eyes.

Faaaat!

Lugh, who directly revealed herself in the pure white light, opened her mouth.

“You’ve worked hard. You’ve done well.”

A light smile appeared on her lips.

However, Eile, glancing at Alisa next to him, nodded slightly.

Seeing that, Lugh’s brow furrowed slightly.

“Are you ignoring me right now?”

Lugh, pressing him with an intimidating aura for his disrespectful attitude, stepped closer and urged him to answer.

“So, that woman is more important than me, is that it?”

“No… of course, the Goddess is more important. It’s just that there’s someone next to me, so I didn’t want to…”

“Pardon?”

As expected, Alisa sent a questioning look at Eile, who was muttering while looking at the air.

“No, that’s…”

Eile, startled, tried to stammer.

He was at a loss as to how to explain the existence of a deity that she couldn’t even see.

But he soon changed his mind.

The person in front of him now was none other than Alisa, a user who knew as much about deities as the six guild leaders.

If she was the ‘Lotus’ who was active on various sites, there was no way she wouldn’t know about the relationship between deities and followers.

He realized that there was no need to hide it, as long as he didn’t go into too much detail.

“Our Goddess is here.”

“Re, really?”

Alisa, surprised by Eile’s words, widened her eyes.

But she soon nodded as if she understood.

“It must be a special occasion for a deity to appear directly before a follower… well, if it’s Eile, even a Goddess would have to pay attention.”

Alisa couldn’t know that Eile was an apostle chosen by a deity.

But considering his importance within the Order of Light, it wasn’t strange at all.

“Then the Goddess must be standing somewhere around here? How fascinating.”

Alisa asked with curious eyes.

Coming closer, she waved her hand in the air as if she was amazed.

Her hand, which had been wandering for a while, even passed right through Lugh’s body.

“Thi… this is blasphemy.”

Lugh, flinching back, gestured to Eile.

Eile felt deeply troubled by the Goddess’s gesture, as if telling him to get rid of her.

“Please overlook it.”

“Hmph.”

At Eile’s request, Lugh turned her head as if she was displeased.

She knew very well about Alisa’s contributions, including this raid, so she couldn’t make unreasonable demands.

But Lugh was still staring at her as if she didn’t like her.

“By the way, is there a reason why you suddenly appeared in your original form?”

Eile quickly changed the subject.

Now, it wasn’t a big deal for Lugh to appear directly before him.

But normally, she would have to appear in a different form, not her original form, to save the influence being consumed.

“Did I need a reason to see my apostle?”

“You know that’s not what I mean.”

“Certainly… it’s better to be careful when you’re with someone other than me.”

Alisa, who had been watching Eile, left a comment.

His appearance of talking to himself while looking at the air would have looked very ridiculous if one didn’t know the inside story.

But before Lugh’s brow furrowed and she turned her head, Eile had to quickly continue the conversation.

“Did something happen?”

“No, it’s because of the reward for this quest. I told you when I assigned the mission that experience and contribution points weren’t everything.”

“Ah.”

Eile, remembering that, nodded.

The content of the quest Lugh had assigned was to safely secure the princess, and it was completed when he dealt with the boss monster Regias, who was blocking the outside.

The large amount of experience and tens of thousands of contribution points given to him upon completion were worthy of the grand modifier that it was a quest directly given by a deity.

But to give something more on top of that, he couldn’t easily guess what she was talking about.

“There’s no need to appear in person to give a reward… eugh?”

Suddenly, Lugh approached him and kissed him on the cheek.

Startled by the sudden soft touch, Eile’s movements stopped for a moment, and he could only move after she took a step back.

“This is…”

Eile, blushing, looked at her.

But he wasn’t as embarrassed as last time.

He knew very well why Lugh had suddenly taken such an action.

[The glorious blessing of the Goddess envelops you!]

[A large amount of luck bonus is granted!]

Checking the status window, he was given the same luck bonus as before.

“You could have told me in advance.”

“Isn’t that what makes it fun?”

Lugh smiled as if she found Eile’s surprised expression amusing.

“Is there a reason why you suddenly gave me a luck bonus?”

“It’s time for you to learn a new skill. There will be a place to use it soon. And…”

“And?”

“Nothing.”

For some reason, Lugh glanced at Alisa with a triumphant expression.

Of course, Alisa, who couldn’t see her, was just looking at Eile with a puzzled expression.

“You know that the quest isn’t completely over yet, right?”

“Of course.”

Eile nodded.

Although Lugh’s quest had been completed once, the next linked quest was activated at the same time.

The ultimate goal was not just to secure Seia, but to completely rescue her from the hands that were aiming for her life and safely extract her.

“The situation outside is not as good as you think. But you should be able to overcome it. Then good luck.”

Swish.

Lugh’s figure disappeared with the light.

Normally, they might have talked more leisurely, but not now.

She had consumed quite a bit of influence by giving a large reward for the quest and even giving a luck buff by appearing in her original form.

More than anything, it was time to leave the dungeon rather than talk.

“Is it already over?”

“Yes, let’s go now.”

Eile prepared to leave, gathering his weapons.

Taking a breather was enough for now, and getting out of here was the priority.

Although it was less so because they were in an undisclosed underground dungeon, the most dangerous place in the Warlord continent right now was this Maze Forest.

Top-ranked players were fighting fiercely above to track down the princess’s whereabouts.

It wouldn’t be strange if they found the dungeon entrance at any moment.

Rankers who had properly started tracking were much better at it than a bunch of mediocre professional explorer users.

“But Eile, can you tell me what you talked about?”

“That’s… absolutely not.”

Eile’s answer was firm, recalling the conversation just now.

Then Alisa accepted it as just that she couldn’t carelessly reveal the conversation with the deity and only felt a little regret.

“Then before we leave…”

“It looks like we just need to take that.”

Eile and Alisa’s gazes turned to the pile of rocks.

It was the debris caused by the collapse of the cliff during the battle with the boss, and they approached and began to dig through the rocks.

Kugugung!

Then Regias’s corpse, which was buried below, was revealed.

In front of the corpse, which was emitting a faint light because it could be looted, they dug around the corpse even more to get the rewards.

Originally, they should have taken the rewards long ago, but they couldn’t help it because they were so exhausted after dealing with him.

In order to do the dismantling work, they had to take the corpse out of the debris, which took a lot of effort.

[Item(s) dropped!]

“This is no joke.”

When they completely took out the corpse, looting items poured out.

Since he was such a difficult guy to deal with and the number of people to attack was set to multiple people from the beginning, the items he spat out were not just a few.

The amount was so large that it would take quite a while just to distribute them.

But they first divided the items one by one, calmly, considering the value of the job and equipment, as they had always done.

There was no disagreement on the issue of the distribution ratio, which they often argued about the most.

Since it was a scenario dungeon that Eile had attacked alone from the beginning, and he had cleared the first phase of the boss alone, Alisa conceded a large portion of the distribution ratio.

Among the items that came into Eile’s hands first, the most noticeable was a full set of light armor defense equipment of unique grade.

It was a level 240 item, and the 5-piece set effect was a whopping 50 percent increase in attack power.

It was a very intuitive yet powerful effect.

With this level of effect, it was worth considering it as the top grade among unique grade set items, and Eile immediately replaced and equipped the armor.

But even this armor set felt bland compared to the items that would come out next.

“Huh?”

Alisa stopped moving for a moment as she checked the items in a row.

The only item placed on the very last list of items dropped by Regias.

Eile’s gaze also went there at her reaction, and soon his eyes widened in surprise.

“Thi… this is…”

A skill book emitting golden light.

The highest grade skill book in Warlord was in his hand.