Chapter 54
Finding the warehouse wasn’t too difficult. Just like the Goblin Village, important locations always have extra guards posted.
The problem was how to get into the warehouse without being detected.
-I should hide this jerky and eat it later all by myself.
“You stingy bastard!”
“Keuk?”
“You should share even a single bean! How can you be so selfish and eat alone!”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“There’s no use hiding it! Let’s share!”
-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ mutters that tormenting with food is too cruel.
Thanks to using telepathy, I was able to get past the guards easily.
‘In the first place, everyone is just guarding as a formality.’
Tutorial Fourth Stage. This place is, after all, made for siege warfare.
As such, most of the guards are concentrated around the walls, and no one would think that an intruder would appear inside.
Creak-
Thanks to that, I was able to enter their warehouse more easily than I thought.
“It’s more ordinary than I thought.”
A towering watchtower.
As a fortress specialized in archery, the warehouse contained light armor, various types of bows, and arrows.
After checking the information, the best I could find was D-grade.
Since it’s a C-grade castle, I was hoping to get at least a C-grade bow. At this rate, it’s only slightly better than what I got from the Goblin Village.
Well, it’s better than nothing, so I swept all the items in the warehouse into my subspace pocket.
I was able to get a few mana stones as well, so it wasn’t a complete loss.
As I was about to leave the warehouse again.
“Any problems?”
“No, none!”
The voices of the halflings were heard from outside the warehouse.
However, one of the voices was different from the typical halfling voice Seun knew. It was definitely a high-pitched voice, but it was full of dignity.
I brought my eyes to the gap in the warehouse and was able to confirm its identity.
‘Is that the lord of the castle?’
Each castle has one lord.
A kind of boss monster.
I couldn’t see clearly because the gap was too narrow, but even from a rough glance, he was covered in shiny equipment from head to toe. It looked like it would be at least C-grade…….
‘Wait.’
The moment I saw the lord’s equipment, a good idea came to Seun’s mind.
If I can’t get any useful equipment from the warehouse…….
‘I can just steal the lord’s equipment, right?’
A smile spread across Seun’s face.
* * *
“I saw a group of humans, but they all went in different directions. They probably went to find another castle.”
“Then there won’t be any problems.”
“Yes!”
“I understand. Keep watching.”
“Yes! But…….”
“What is it?”
“I heard that meat was served for dinner today, but quite a few people didn’t get any. Could you please distribute it again……?”
“Meat, you say?”
“Yes! I definitely heard it!”
Jeheil, the lord of the towering watchtower, tilted his head.
If meat was served for dinner, there’s no way he, the lord, wouldn’t know. He himself filled his stomach with bitter weeds, so who on earth ate meat?
“……I’ll look into it.”
“Thank you, Lord!”
Jeheil moved towards the cafeteria.
Vowing that if someone had secretly kept the meat and ate it without his knowledge, he would never forgive them.
He vowed to hang the놈 [a Korean slang term, roughly equivalent to ‘bastard’ or ‘jerk’] on the highest watchtower and use him as a target for archery practice.
Just as Jeheil arrived at the cafeteria.
Boom!
Kwaaaang!!
With a fierce explosion, a hot gust of wind covered Jeheil’s back.
When he turned his head, a familiar building was in pieces and burning fiercely.
“What’s going on!”
“I, I don’t know! Suddenly, there was an explosion in the warehouse!”
“In the warehouse? This can’t be! Why!”
The warehouse was the most important place in the castle.
Materials needed to maintain the castle, equipment needed for siege warfare, etc. All the core elements of the castle were stored there.
That’s why they had guards stationed there, even though they knew the enemy couldn’t invade. How on earth did this happen!
“Is there a possibility that the enemy invaded?”
“That’s impossible! The guards were all there, and we didn’t notice anything suspicious on the walls!”
“Damn it! First, put out the fire!”
“Yes!”
The halflings moved urgently.
The explosion was so powerful that the fire spread to the surrounding buildings, and even those guarding the walls had to come down.
In the meantime.
Swish.
Jeheil did not know.
That the great bow hanging on his back had disappeared without a trace.
* * *
“Hum, hmm~ huum~”
After sending Seun to the next stage of the tutorial, the tutorial administrator, Tuning, was whistling and looking at the situation in the third stage.
His shoulders were raised to the sky, thanks to the look of respect his subordinate had shown him.
“As expected, they are promising players. They are all growing up well.”
The players that the Constellations had marked.
As expected, they were earning high contribution points and heading towards the end of the third stage.
“It’s all thanks to me. Honestly, I should get a bonus for this.”
Sending Seun to the next stage. Tuning thought this was a stroke of genius.
If even a few of the promising players over there had been defeated by Seun, some Constellations might have complained.
Just as he was whistling happily.
Beep beep-
“What is it this time?”
The annoying phone rang.
When he picked up the receiver, he heard the urgent voice of his subordinate.
‘This feels familiar…….’
Tuning shook his head, recalling when Seun had summoned ‘Ogre Chief, Krak Katlak.’
That can’t be. Seun moved to the fourth stage of the tutorial with a pass, and there is only one castle that can be occupied there.
But, unfortunately, what the subordinate mentioned was the fourth stage of the tutorial. In other words, it was about the place where Seun was.
“Team Leader! You’re not looking at the next area right now, are you?”
“What’s there to see? I’m busy writing reports on promising players. You shouldn’t worry about that either and just observe the promising players. If you make a mistake, the Constellations will…….”
“No, you have to see it! It’s a mess right now!”
“What? No, what’s the mess in the fourth stage?”
“Just look at it!”
“Why is this guy yelling…….”
Tuning had no choice but to turn the monitor.
He told himself that nothing would happen, but his hands were already trembling slightly.
He closed his eyes tightly and turned the screen.
Whirr!
-Pu, put out the fire! Quickly!
-What happened! What the hell!
As soon as he turned the screen, he saw the castle burning.
Not many people died, but the inside of the castle was already a mess due to the fire.
Thanks to that, the soldiers were moving urgently, trying to put out the fire.
The method of occupation was a bit strange, but.
“So what’s the problem?”
There was nothing particularly wrong.
Even if they didn’t wage a siege war with bare-handed headbutts, there were players who used such methods.
The strange thing was.
‘If it’s a player with that much power, I thought they would occupy a slightly better castle.’
The difficulty of the castle.
C-grade.
There were many castles with various characteristics in the fourth area, and some of them were rare and good castles called ‘rare’.
But what was burning now was one of the ordinary, plain castles. It seemed like they didn’t think about the type of castle and just occupied the castle that was immediately visible.
……That illusion was shattered by the words of his subordinate.
“Display multiple screens!”
“Multiple……?”
Leaving the screen of the promising player who was performing wonderfully behind, he displayed the screen of the next area.
Then.
Whirr!
Boom!
-The warehouse exploded!
-How the hell did you manage it!
-I, I didn’t touch anything!
-So are you saying the warehouse exploded on its own?
-Th, that’s…….”
-You’ll have to take full responsibility for the warehouse!
-That can’t be!
-Wa, wait. My sword! Where’s my sword?
Many fortresses with flames flickering as if they were in the same place appeared.
He wondered if he had just changed the screen of the same castle, but it wasn’t. The races of the soldiers stationed in each castle were different.
“What the hell is going on…….”
Tuning dropped the pen he was holding.
The number of castles that one clan can occupy in the fourth area is only one. But why are so many castles being ruined?
He was so embarrassed that his head didn’t work, so he just opened his mouth, and then he heard the voice of his subordinate.
“Player Jung Seun……. It’s his doing.”
“A, alone?”
“Yes. As you can see on the screen, his clan is somewhere else.”
“Crazy, are you saying he’s really alone?”
“Yes. As a result of monitoring, he was causing terror instead of occupying the castle.”
“Why! I wouldn’t give you additional contribution points for doing that?”
“That’s, he was stealing.”
“……Stealing?”
“Yes. He was robbing the warehouse, stealing the items of the lord, causing an explosion, and running away in the gap.”
“Crazy X…….”
Tuning cursed.
He thought he had removed the troublemaker in the third district, but he was causing this problem!
This is not a simple problem. The castles that are burning now were the castles that the players who would arrive after finishing the tutorial would occupy.
It will be easier to occupy, but what if they find the inside ruined after successfully occupying it? Not only the players but also the Constellations will not stand still.
“Ugh! First, stop that guy!”
Tuning started moving his fingers urgently.
Leaving behind the screens of the promising players who were performing wonderfully.
* * *
“Hoo.”
Seun was admiring the fiercely burning flames on the walls, which had been emptied to put out the fire.
On Seun’s back was a bow he hadn’t seen before, and on his waist was a sleek long sword.
Starting with the towering watchtower, the impregnable fortress, and the thorn tower, etc. Thanks to robbing five castles, the subspace pocket was full, and there were many items obtained from the lords.
[ Giant Hunter ]
Classification: Bow
Grade: C
Description: A great bow used by Jeheil, the lord of the towering watchtower, is an excellent bow with the secrets of the halfling race.
Abilities: 1. Big but light – Increases attack range by 10%.
2. Big and fast – Increases the arrow’s flight speed by 20%.
3. Big and fierce – Increases the arrow’s attack power by 20%.
As the name Giant Hunter suggests, the bow used by the lord was a giant bow.
Considering the lord’s height, he was carrying a bow as tall as himself.
Imagining the scene of him trying to shoot an arrow, it seemed ridiculous no matter how I thought about it.
In addition, the items obtained from other lords, no, stolen, were all items from C- to C+ grade.
All of them are high-level items that are hard to see in the tutorial.
Seun was about to leave when he realized that his weapon was missing and was panicking.
“So you’re going to come out like this, huh?”
A system message that seemed to have been sent by the tutorial administrator appeared in front of Seun’s eyes.