Owner of Twilight Intuition – Chapter 89

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟗

[Emperor Guild. Finally cleared a C-rank Guild Quest!]

[Emperor Guild enters C-rank. What benefits are there in C-rank?]

[Unstoppable solo run following the Bamut Cult!]

“Wow~ They finally cleared it.”

Several days have passed since various events, and now the news has spread that the Emperor Guild has cleared the Guild Quest. As for me, who didn’t participate in this quest either, I could only admire them like everyone else.

To begin with, there was no request for help, and I wasn’t so dedicated to guild life that I would go out of my way to help.

And right below the post about the Emperor Guild’s news, a new post that had been a hot topic since the day before yesterday was listed.

[Grand Labyrinth 2nd floor cleared!]

[Players gradually gathering in the Labyrinth. What will the reward be?]

[How long will it take to conquer the Labyrinth?]

“The Grand Labyrinth is bustling too.”

For reference, the Grand Labyrinth was a dungeon discovered by a player active in the Karzen Kingdom. The exact name is Izrak’s Wandering Labyrinth. Moreover, the player who discovered the Labyrinth revealed its location to everyone through the internet.

Along with the words that guilds could no longer monopolize dungeons, the aftermath of the revealed Labyrinth caused those who couldn’t join guilds to cheer, and even those in guilds entered out of curiosity, making it a dungeon that everyone could now use.

However, the inside of the Labyrinth was incredibly vast, and with passages leading down to the next floor, people surprised by its scale called it the Grand Labyrinth for short.

“But if the 2nd floor was cleared in just two days, how long will the 3rd floor take?”

Will the 3rd floor also take 2-3 days? Anyway, since it’s a trending dungeon, I wanted to go too, but the Grand Labyrinth was in the Karzen Kingdom.

In other words, it’s in another country, and the teleportation cost to another country was a whopping 10 gold. Unfortunately, I didn’t want to go that badly as to spend that much money, so I decided to be content with just the news coming from the internet.

“More importantly, I have quests to do today too.”

It was about 2-3 days ago. Back then, Sina said she received some quest and asked for help. I thought it wouldn’t be anything special and helped her, but I never imagined it would continue until today.

I have no idea what kind of quest she received, but it’s a chain quest where after clearing one, you’re told to go to the next location, and then you’re asked to bring something from there, and it just kept going, so it ended up being a quest that couldn’t be cleared until yesterday.

‘Sigh, well, what can I do about it now.’

Let’s just log in.

Hoping that Sina’s quest would be completed today, I headed to the capsule.

[May you find what you desire in the streets illuminated by Twilight……]

‘Hmm? Did I log in a little early?’

I couldn’t see Yua and Sina. I didn’t check the time before logging in, but I thought I logged in about 5 minutes early, so I waited leisurely for them……

[Friend ‘Raz’ has requested a conversation. Will you accept?]

“Raz?”

Is she contacting me to do a quest together again? I recalled Raz, who contacted me two days ago to do a quest together, and accepted the conversation. Incidentally, I couldn’t do the quest two days ago because I was helping with Sina’s quest.

[Connected to the conversation.]

━Rudin! Make me a weapon!

“A weapon?”

Raz’s voice came as soon as I accepted the conversation. I grasped the content of her voice and asked back in bewilderment.

“I made you a weapon before.”

━That, well…… I died and dropped it.

“……”

To drop that bow with penetration probability…… I couldn’t think of anything to say to her who dropped the bow that I boasted was more expensive than most other bows.

━Can’t you?

Meanwhile, Raz asked in a dejected voice, seeing as I wasn’t saying anything. It was difficult for me to flatly refuse the request of someone I was acquainted with, even if it was in the game, so I had no choice but to make her a weapon.

“Just prepare the materials. I’ll make it for you later.”

━Really? Thank you! I’ll prepare them right away!

Ending the conversation with her truly joyful voice, I let out a small sigh. It was because I could tell that I had changed from how I used to be.

‘If it were the old me, I would have thoroughly demanded only profit.’

[Friend ‘Yua’ has logged in.]

While I was briefly thinking about myself, I saw Yua logging into Twilight along with a sudden message. And after confirming that Sina had logged in following Yua, I stopped my thoughts and approached them.

But did those two make a promise before logging in?

As I was looking at them with curiosity, wondering if they logged in simultaneously once every two days, Sina, who had logged in, shouted in a lively voice, completely different from usual.

“Alright, let’s do our best today!”

“Okay.”

“……”

“Why aren’t you saying anything, Rudin-nim?”

“We can finish it within today, right?”

“Huh? Ahaha…… O-Of course.”

Sina responded with an awkward laugh to my question. Seeing that, it seemed like Sina herself didn’t know how much of the quest was left.

“Let’s go for now. Let’s go to Kacom’s house first.”

‘If it’s Kacom, she means the guy who was poisoned.’

The quest Sina had before was to make a potion to detoxify Kacom, who was poisoned. I just roughly gathered the materials and logged out, but it seemed like Sina completed the potion while I was gone.

“Did you finish the potion?”

“I logged in at 7 am and finished it.”

‘Hmm.’

Sina answered with a proud tone, but the content wasn’t proud at all. Anyway, Yua and I followed Sina, who was walking ahead, to Kacom’s house.

Clank━

“I’m here.”

“Hmm, it’s you.”

As we entered Kacom’s house, the Healer we had personally brought from another village greeted Sina. Speaking of which, just thinking about going around here and there to bring that Healer still makes me furious.

“What happened to the antidote?”

“I made it and brought it here.”

The Healer received the potion Sina handed over and examined it closely, then nodded with a satisfied expression.

“Seeing the color, you made it as I instructed. Well done.”

And then he fed the antidote to Kacom, who was lying in bed. However, no matter how long we waited, there was no change in Kacom even after he took the antidote.

‘Huh? Is something wrong?’

Sina, who was watching, seemed to think it was strange too, so she asked the Healer.

“What happened?”

“As I expected…… it wasn’t poison.”

Expected?

“It wasn’t poison?”

“There’s no change even after drinking the special potion I developed, so it’s definitely not poison. But if similar symptoms to poison are appearing…… it seems like a curse.”

“A curse?”

‘Damn it, why didn’t you tell me that beforehand?’

We went around gathering herbs and even made a potion because you said it was poison, but now you’re saying it’s a curse, not poison? So I glared at the Healer, unable to hide my bewildered expression, but he didn’t even pay attention to me, who wasn’t the quest target.

“If it’s a curse, should we call a priest?”

“That would be good. But it seems like this isn’t an ordinary curse. To break this kind of curse, we need to call a high priest, but I doubt such a priest would come to a rural place like this.”

“There’s no other way, is there?”

“No, I didn’t say there was no way. The mystical flower that frees one from all curses, the Lashifier. If we only had the Lashifier, we could lift Kacom’s curse.”

‘Without a doubt, we’ll be going to find that flower.’

After doing quests for several days, I felt like I knew how the story would progress. And it wasn’t just me, Sina felt the same way too.

“So, we just need to find that Lashifier flower?”

“I wish it were that simple, but it probably won’t be easy, will it? Currently, the Lashifier is in the territory of Beksha, known as the Symbol of Fear. It might be easier to bring a high priest instead.”

“……”

Sina didn’t answer. Looking at Sina for a moment, it seemed like she was reading something, probably the quest details. And after reading the quest, Sina sighed and said to the Healer.

“I’ll try to find a way.”

“If that’s your will, I won’t stop you. Just in case, I’ll tell you the location of the Lashifier. Keep in mind, I can’t wait for long, so hurry.”

“Yes.”

Sina turned around and spoke softly, just loud enough for Yua and me to hear.

“Let’s talk outside.”

Nodding at her words, I followed Sina outside, and she sighed once again before telling us the quest details.

“There are two choices. Bring the flower called Lashifier or bring a high priest. What would you like to do, Rudin-nim?”

“……Which is simpler?”

“Probably the Lashifier, right? With a high priest, it’s obvious we’ll have to do all sorts of favors for them.”

As expected, Sina was thinking similarly to me.

If we, who have no connection to priests, were to ask for a favor, we would have to offer a suitable reward. And it was clear that the reward would have to be repaid through quests, so as Sina said, going to find the flower might be simpler.

“Let’s go with the Lashifier.”

“Okay. Oh, looking at the details, it seems like this is the final quest.”

“Oh? Really?”

“Why would I lie about something like this? It says in the details that the quest will disappear if we fail, so it’s probably the last one, right?”

‘Is it really the last one?’

If we failed the quest, it meant we couldn’t do this quest anymore. Considering that there was no mention of disappearance in Sina’s previous quests, I thought it might really be the last one.

“What’s the reward?”

So I became curious about the reward. A quest that lasted for three whole days. What would the reward be? Curious, I asked about the reward, and Sina looked at the quest details again and told me about the reward.

“It says the reward is Gloves Imbued with a Craftsman’s Soul.”

‘Gloves Imbued with a Craftsman’s Soul?’

This, somehow sounds like the name of a rare item?

Hearing the reward with a name similar to the rare hammer I got from Gaben’s Bag before, I tilted my head. And thinking it was a rare item, I realized one more thing.

‘What did she say earlier? Symbol of Fear? Beksha?’

This was just my guess, but it seemed like a raid boss monster. Giving a rare item just for picking a flower, and there’s a normal boss? The difficulty was too easy for a rare item reward.

But if Beksha is a raid boss monster, it makes sense.

‘If we’re not careful, we might end up fighting Beksha.’

Still, this quest was about picking a flower, not defeating Beksha, so if we focused on that, we might be able to do it somehow.

“Rudin-nim? What are you thinking about?”

“Hmm? Just thinking about this and that.”

I answered Yua’s question as if it was nothing, and briefly thought about what it would be like to partner with Sina. If we shared the quest as partners, the reward would be lower, but I could also receive a reward.

‘The problem is the possibility of the rare item dropping to magic grade……’

Frankly, if the reward dropped to magic grade, sharing the quest would be worse than not doing it. The value of a rare item couldn’t be compared to one or two magic items.

‘Well, Sina wanted a rare item too.’

As I let go of the greed for the rare item that had arisen for a brief moment, Yua spoke to me again.

“Ah, how’s the house?”

“The house? The house is good, of course.”

The story behind this is that the day after I helped Lesia, the landlord came to visit early in the morning and suddenly informed me that he was doubling the rent. Honestly, it wasn’t an amount I couldn’t pay even if it was doubled, but I wasn’t happy about it, so I decided to look for a new house, and told Yua that it might be difficult for me to log in for a day or two.

Then Yua seemed to think for a moment before introducing me to a cheap and decent house.

‘Thinking about it, it seems like things were strange from then on.’

Anyway, the house Yua introduced me to was, ridiculously enough, an officetel that would normally cost over 100 gold per month. I was so surprised seeing that officetel that I even called Yua to double-check if this was the right place.

At that time, Yua said yes in an innocent voice.

And after hearing about the deposit and monthly rent from the landlord, the doubts in my head grew deeper.

‘The rent was incredibly cheap too.’

To compare, it was just a little more expensive than the rent of my previous place. So I asked, and he said he was putting it up for a cheap price due to circumstances, but he didn’t tell me what those circumstances were.

‘Could it be related to Yua?’

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