Chapter 131: Epic Quest (2)
‘Endure it…… Endure it……’
AngerManagementVodka suppressed the rage surging through his body and ordered his subordinates to gather the quest materials instead.
“Hey, you a12b5244 and 2331. Take a few guys and do what you always do.”
“Yes, sir!”
“……..”
Ceram observed the scene with an impassive gaze.
Noticing his gaze, AngerManagementVodka immediately started to brown-nose.
“Mr. Ceram. Is there anything else you need? Just name it, and I’ll get it for you.”
“No, I feel bad asking for so much already. You’ve already helped me a lot. Thank you.”
Ceram tried to excuse himself.
“Come on, don’t mention it, haha~”
AngerManagementVodka put his arm around Ceram’s shoulder, preventing him from leaving.
He continued to act friendly to raise Ceram’s affinity level.
“Hey, newbie! Come here and give Mr. Ceram a shoulder rub!”
AngerManagementVodka ordered one of his subordinates to massage Ceram’s shoulders.
Ceram subtly grimaced and tried to avoid it.
“Oh, really, it’s okay.”
“Don’t be like that. Just try it once.”
“See, even the boss says so! Even he acknowledges my shoulder-rubbing skills.”
“He may be a bit clueless because he’s new, but he’s pretty good at shoulder rubs. Give it a try.”
“Ah…….”
Squeeze, squeeze.
Under AngerManagementVodka’s forceful pressure, Ceram eventually gave in.
As the new subordinate massaged Ceram’s shoulders, AngerManagementVodka nudged the subordinate’s side with his elbow.
“Are you just going to rub his shoulders?”
“Huh?”
“You have no sense, do you? Tell him some interesting stories. Mr. Ceram must be bored.”
“Ah, well, that’s……”
At AngerManagementVodka’s urging, the new subordinate was at a loss for words.
Suddenly being told to tell an interesting story……
All he had done in his life was manual labor and factory work in Ruski Komrade. There was no way he had any interesting stories to tell.
And then.
“Ah!”
The newbie’s eyes fell upon Ceram’s dark skin!
“Your skin tone is so beautiful! It’s like that black, jiggly jelly you get with the Wuxiangjangyuk at Chinese restaurants!”
(※Official name is Pig Skin Jelly.)
“……?!”
AngerManagementVodka’s entire body froze at the newbie’s sudden bombshell.
However, the newbie’s blunders didn’t stop there.
“But aren’t Silva’s skin usually green? Why are you the only one so dark? Did you go on vacation too much? Haha!”
“……..”
“You, you idiot……!”
“Ouch?!”
Whack!
AngerManagementVodka smacked the newbie on the head.
He then physically pushed the newbie aside and stepped in front of Ceram with an awkward smile.
“Haha…… Ignore that idiot. Let’s talk some more.”
He placed his hand on Ceram’s shoulder instead of the newbie.
“You know, I used to give a mean massage. Even my wife acknowledged my skills……”
“That’s enough.”
“Huh?”
Ceram brushed AngerManagementVodka’s hand away.
And then.
[You have touched a sensitive subject for Ceram.]
[Ceram’s affinity has decreased.]
▶Current Ceram Affinity: -10
[You cannot receive limited quests until the affinity returns to 0.]
“I’ll be going then.”
“W, Wait…… Mr. Ceram! Where are you going?! If you leave now……!”
AngerManagementVodka reached out his hand.
But Ceram was already long gone, without even a backward glance.
[You have obtained the first piece of Ceram’s quest.]
▶It seems Ceram harbors a deep trauma about his skin color being different from other Silvas.
Quest piece.
As AngerManagementVodka had guessed, Ceram was indeed the key to a hidden quest.
But what good was it now?
This incident had just flushed six months of effort down the drain.
Bubble, bubble.
Rage boiled up inside AngerManagementVodka.
[Rage has increased by 10.]
[Rage has increased by 7.]
[Rage has increased by 4.]
[Rage has increased by 8.]
[Rage has increased by 12.]
His rage continued to rise unchecked, and finally, it exploded.
[Rage level has exceeded 50! You cannot control the overflowing anger!]
Boom!
With a roar of fury, AngerManagementVodka raised a giant axe like a guillotine.
“You……! You ruined everything……!”
“I, I’m sorry―”
“Shas pa yevalu paluchish!! Suka!!”
(※A string of Russian curses)
“Huaaagh?!”
Fwump!
The blow, fueled by six months of pent-up rage and frustration, shattered the ground along with the newbie standing before him.
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Kyung-joon Special Management Team.
Kim Bu-ha and the team leader there sigh.
“Ah, it failed after all.”
“That’s a shame. If they had just a little more time, Ceram might have opened up.”
Once Ceram opens up, it becomes drastically easier to increase his favorability.
That benchmark is exactly 30 favorability points.
AngerManagementVodka struggled for half a year to raise the favorability to 28, but with this incident, it dropped to not just zero but negative.
Although he had obtained a quest piece, it was no easy task to fill up the negative favorability again.
“What is user Kyung-joon doing now?”
“Ah, about that.”
The reason why the Kyung-joon Special Management Team was monitoring AngerManagementVodka.
It was because AngerManagementVodka’s range of activity was not far from Kyung-joon’s Study Villa.
Monitoring the surroundings of Kyung-joon while simultaneously monitoring him was essential for accurate scenario prediction.
Kim Bu-ha, checking Kyung-joon’s screen, speaks to the team leader.
“As expected, it seems he’s trying something. He has gathered the residents and is telling them something.”
“Oh, really? What is it? Check it out.”
“Yes, sir.”
Kim Bu-ha focuses his eyes and ears on the monitoring screen for a moment.
“Hmm…… It seems he’s suggesting they expand the farm?”
“Really? What? That’s nothing special.”
Just when they thought he was finally making a move after all that studying, it was just farm expansion.
Kim Bu-ha and the team leader leave Kyung-joon’s monitoring screen for a while and turn their attention back to AngerManagementVodka’s screen.
━Vodka! Borscht! Lenin! Stalin! Moscow!
━Ugh! My tongue, boss…! H, Help me— Huh?!
Thud! Thump! Crack! Stab! Devour!
AngerManagementVodka, unable to contain his anger, ends up taking it out on his innocent subordinates, who are losing their heads left and right.
Kim Bu-ha and the team leader watch with pity in their eyes.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk…… What a waste……”
“I know, right? He’s practically all-in on Ceram’s quest……”
As AngerManagementVodka’s anger subsides a bit, they are back to their usual grind in the Arliv colony.
━Hurry, hurry! Kill them all! Go, go, go!
━Yes! Yes! Yes!
━You should be killing one more instead of answering!
━…….
Thwack! Stab! Crack! Pierce! Devour!
AngerManagementVodka’s subordinates continue to hunt the tree spirits, the Arlivs, without a word.
But then again, what’s the big deal?
━Why aren’t you answering?!
━Ah, you told me to move instead of talking……
━What was that? Are you talking back to me?!
━N, No, sir!
The largest farming guild in The World.
That was another name for Ruski Komrade.
Rumor had it that they were the Russian mafia based in Vladivostok.
Because of this background, players avoided provoking Ruski Komrade.
If they were to offend them, they might be targeted in real life……
Of course, such an incident has never become a problem.
But there’s no telling what might happen in the future.
“Those guys are scary, so stop watching them and turn the camera to Ceram.”
“Yes, sir.”
The camera, which was focused on AngerManagementVodka, now captures the Black-skinned Silva, Ceram, on screen.
Ceram is moving somewhere urgently.
Perhaps he’s trying to get out of AngerManagementVodka’s range of activity.
“Well, if it turns out like this, who will get the Epic Quest?”
Epic Quest.
The quest following the Unique grade, a quest that no player has ever received before.
If a Unique Quest is a special quest related to a few individuals, an Epic Quest has a broader scope.
A quest involving at least a group, if not the fate of an entire race.
Its impact is so tremendous that the fate of the surrounding power dynamics and the future can easily change depending on the actions of the quest recipient.
Simply put, it goes beyond one person’s life and changes the story itself.
That’s why developers have classified Epic Quests this way.
As Epic Quests.
“Ceram’s Epic Quest was heavily related to Chapter 2 of the main story, The 『Anomaly』, right?”
“Well, that’s true, but rather than being related, it’s more accurate to say that it is the main story. It’s practically the official start of The 『Anomaly』.”
Variant monsters that appeared along with Chapter 2 of the main story, The 『Anomaly』.
If the previous defense of Luxemb was the prologue to this The 『Anomaly』, then Ceram’s Epic Quest could be considered the first chapter right after the prologue.
AngerManagementVodka was lucky enough to stumble upon that first chapter.
“It’s really hard to raise negative favorability. It’s practically down the drain.”
“Right. Knowing AngerManagementVodka’s personality, he’ll never try to raise favorability from scratch again…… Ah, then Ceram is in danger.”
“Excuse me? Ceram is?”
Ceram, a monster and an NPC, is suddenly in danger?
“Think about it. Even though his favorability has dropped to negative, he still obtained a quest piece.”
In other words, AngerManagementVodka is now certain that Ceram is a clue leading to a hidden piece.
However, he himself is unable to continue the quest properly due to the negative favorability.
“With his personality, do you think he’ll just let it go?”
“If I can’t have it, no one can……! Is that what you’re saying?”
“Exactly. And look at this. It seems like Ceram is thinking the same thing.”
The team leader zooms out on the monitoring screen, showing Ceram.
The path that Ceram has been traveling along is now marked with a red line.
“Oh, oh? Ceram has completely left his area!”
“Ceram knows. He knows his life is in danger. That’s why he’s leaving his spot in advance. He’s a smart one.”
Because of his black skin, Ceram had no choice but to live alone, separated from his pack since he was young.
Silvas, in general, are like herbivores in the animal kingdom, making it difficult for them to survive alone.
However, Ceram survived tenaciously on his own, and that’s how he became the quick-witted and intelligent Silva he is today.
“Is he planning to leave Whale Forest altogether?”
“Well, the monsters’ levels are too high for him to escape towards the main body……”
On the map, Whale Forest is shaped like a whale, and generally, the closer you get to the main body, the higher the level of the monsters.
They are at a level where even current rankers wouldn’t stand a chance.
“For now, it seems like he’ll move to the tip of Whale Forest’s tail.”
“Oh, as Team Leader said, he’s indeed moving towards the tip of the tail.”
“Right? And after that…… It depends on what’s beyond that point. What’s over there?”
“One moment, please. Let me check the map…… Oh my.”
Kim Bu-ha, zooming in on the screen, gasps.
“Huh? What is it?”
The team leader, curious, checks the screen as well.
“Whoa.”
He can’t help but exclaim in surprise.
Because…
“……If he keeps going, he’ll reach Study Villa?”
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