The 31st Piece Turns the Tables - Chapter 7
Episode 7
Adventure 2-1. ‘Abandoned One’
There are many strange fates on the sharp rock mountain. They are outcasts from the Stone Fang tribe for various reasons.
You came into contact with one of them, an outcast, who was suffering from a terrible endemic disease. Through long research, the Exile discovered that corpse finger mushrooms, which grow wild on the edge of the sharp rocky cliffs, are essential to overcome endemic diseases. Get him this item and he will help you.
Objective: Obtain Corpse Finger Mushrooms and deliver them to the Forsaken.
Current remaining time 「10:59」
‘Is it done?’
The abandoned person in front of Kang Seol was shaking with emotion as if he had been struck by lightning when he heard that he would come forward for him.
Snowfall nodded and came out of the hut.
This was another device from the eternal world, also called a side quest or hidden quest.
It is often activated within an adventure, so it has a significant impact on the overall flow of the adventure.
The Forsaken Side Quest was different from other side quests.
‘Because they give you a helper as compensation.’
aid.
As the horse adventures, he occasionally encounters NPCs and makes them his helpers.
The helper actively or passively assists the horse depending on the level of favorability he or she has developed.
There are levels of helpers, and the level of outcasts that Kang Seol remembers was very high.
This was the reason why he spent every minute and every second of his time helping the abandoned.
Snowfall was planning to turn the current crisis around with this side quest.
After accepting the side quest, I looked at the time limit for the main adventure.
It is currently just past 3pm.
If there was even a little delay, there was a possibility that the sun would set and you would not be able to get what you wanted.
Thanks to this, he became anxious and climbed the mountain even faster.
After some time passed, the warmth of the day disappeared.
The sunlight is fine now, but darkness will probably come with the sunset.
‘I don’t have time until the next day… Anyway, I think I found the location.’
The Rock Fang leaders had to be defeated by noon the next day.
So now was the only time to listen to the outcast’s request.
After many twists and turns, Snowfall arrived at the cliff.
– There is none.
– doesn’t exist.
– Um… Is it a mushroom or a bald paw and you can’t even see the nose?
– He’s struggling a lot. He’s struggling. What are you doing? I feel like I’m dying because I don’t have time.
– Haha, the person above is making a sudden move. Makgata, the youngest of the five brothers, keeps throwing parties of five, so how can he do it solo? Haha
– it’s a waste, it’s a waste! Oh my, he has this physique and this judgment, but he’s dying here….
The people watching him were so sad that they were blurting out words that Kang Seol couldn’t even see.
Their concerns were not that strange.
In fact, near the cliff where the snowfall arrived, not a single plant grew, let alone mushrooms, except for one tree that had struggled to break through the cliff.
Did I come to the wrong place?
That moment.
[Seeing is activated.]
Snowfall, who was quietly looking down from the cliff, saw a choice.
[This appears to be the cliffside the outcast mentioned. But corpse finger mushrooms are nowhere to be found. What would you like to do?]
1. Wait.
2. Search the nearby area.
3. Go back and tell the truth to the abandoned person.
4. [Required: Biology 1] Check whether the environment is suitable for mushrooms to grow.
5. …
Kang Seol glanced over the message and then sat down.
‘Hey’ sponsored Madness by 100!
[I’m sorry, but where is the remote control for the air conditioner in my room?]
– Why are you asking that here hahaha
– Oh, I don’t know this haha
– I just got here, and he still can’t infiltrate the tribe? ㄹㅇ The game broke.
Contrary to many people’s worries, Snowfall was looking at the sky with a calm expression. He was currently continuing his brief thoughts.
‘I was wondering why I felt this sense of déjà vu…’
It wasn’t that this space was like that.
It was about this situation and this adventure.
‘My first horse also had this adventure…’
Among the countless adventures that exist in the world of eternity, there were adventures that only appeared in adventures 1 to 10 at the beginning of play.
The friendly five brothers were one of them, and Snowman’s first character also experienced this adventure.
‘And then he died…’
Kang Seol put a lot of affection into the first character.
At that time, I didn’t know that my dream would last for 17 years, so I did my best at every moment.
The effort was the same not only during the adventure but also when entering the rest area.
The first character that I had trained with passion and without knowing much about it died while doing the side quest ‘The Outcasts’, to be exact.
He foolishly fell to his death while trying to obtain a corpse finger mushroom growing on a cliff.
Perhaps it was natural.
A caster with low agility and strength was trying to harvest mushrooms while hanging on a steep cliff, so no matter how strong the rope was, he would not have been able to hold out.
It’s because Kang Seol chose the wrong option.
At that time, the young Kangseol was greatly shocked and when she woke up from her dream, she shed tears like a waterfall.
At that young age, it was so sad that the horse died because of his own mistake and that the horse could no longer move forward.
My heart still aches when I think about it.
Now, compared to then, not only have I grown a lot, but my mind has probably become duller as well.
That’s probably why Snowfall never forgot the information about the Corpse Finger Mushroom.
While I was lost in thought, the air started to cool down.
The sun was slowly setting, and soon the sky turned into a sunset color as if painted in watercolor.
The sound I had been waiting for began to be heard.
Tdu-duk-duk…
– Huh?
– Does it sound far away?
– Monga… Monga is happening…
The reason why Kangseol waited quietly without doing anything was soon revealed.
Crump patter…
something was rising from the cliff.
Elongated mushrooms grew as if life was being born in a place where there was nothing. However, the appearance of the mushroom was quite bizarre, so it was not a very beautiful sight.
From the black body to the head that looks like a human fingernail.
This mushroom, called the corpse finger mushroom because it has five stems in one body, appears only in the twilight hours of the sunset.
‘now!’
Snowfall activated Shadow Hand, the basic ability of the Shadow Summoner.
Sigh…
Two black arms stretched out from both of his shoulders.
The interesting thing about this shadow hand is that it has a certain amount of physical power.
‘Of course, other than that, it’s not much of an ability.’
As a basic ability, it has simple functions.
It was often used to subdue monsters before the first summoning was successful.
As for snowfall, luckily the trap adventure Ruins of the Forgotten Moon was the first adventure, so I didn’t have to use it.
‘Egg… like holding an egg.’
– Shadow hands! I heard the controls are really tight.
– What does it feel like?
– What the description says is that it feels like you suddenly have a tail.
– Ugh… But what should I do with that?
He slowly lowered his black hand, adjusting to the strange sensation.
Since this is my first time trying it, I might fail, but if it seems like it’s going to be close, I could use Karuna.
Slurp…
The shadow hand crawled down the cliff very naturally.
And after fumbling a few times, I was able to grab the mushroom.
Ouch…
Pow! Kangseol smiled faintly as he pulled the mushrooms that had been pulled out to the top of the cliff.
– Doctor Octopus! There you are!
– Upset!
– It’s your first time, but you’re doing so well;;
– Why, why, why,
just when Kang-seol was about to wake up in a good mood, holding a mushroom.
Flash!
Something flashed in the corner of his vision.
“light?”
Snowfall immediately realized where the light was reflected from.
It was a tree on the cliff that I had overlooked earlier.
‘What is that?’
The object that reflected the light was hanging on a tree and was barely able to fall.
Snowfall once again used its shadow hand to pull up this object.
Slurp…
tup!
Snowfall was able to easily get hold of the item and pull it up.
He immediately realized what the object was.
“Watch…pocket watch?”
It was a pocket watch that could be used as a necklace.
There was a small crack in the clear glass of the pocket watch.
A message occurred to Kang Seol when he became interested in this strange object.
[Seeing is activated.]
[Hidden adventure ‘Lost Pocket Watch’ is activated.]
Adventure 2-2. ‘A pocket watch that lost its owner’
At the lowest peak of a sharp rock mountain, this pocket watch was found in a place where you had to go deep into it.
Looking at the eagle symbol engraved on the surface of the pocket watch, it seems to be an item with a story. Perhaps there is someone in the Free City of Congory who knows about this pocket watch.
Goal: Find someone who knows about pocket watches.
Current remaining time 「No time limit」
‘This is also a side quest?’
– Uh… So, that watch… um… I don’t have one?
– Quests are not included in the setting book?
– Evande;
– Merging bugunga?
The Free City of Kongori was a city located near a sharp rocky mountain.
In other words, you will find out once this adventure is over.
Kang Seol decided not to worry about a problem that could not be solved right away.
Sigh.
Snowfall left with the watch in her arms.
* * *
“Can I trust it?…”
the outcast muttered.
Talking to oneself was a daily routine for this troll.
cursed body.
Not only his tribe but also his mother gave up on him, but he did not give up on himself.
I do not know.
Everyone abandoned themselves because they did not know.
He thought so.
Ignorance is not a sin, but mistakes occur because of ignorance.
The ‘Abandoned One’ searched through the luggage of abandoned merchants after being hunted by the tribe.
The Rock Tooth Troll took most of the intact items in the luggage, but each time, there was one item that was left untouched.
It was a book.
He brought it home and read it.
At first, I couldn’t read those books filled with unknown characters at all.
However, as he began to learn witchcraft on his own using the spell books his mother left behind, he was naturally able to read those books as well.
This is because there were also spells that helped with language acquisition.
He grew up like that. As time passed, I indulged in knowledge and learned more principles.
He also learned that the disease he was suffering from was endemic to the sharp rocky mountains and that a cure definitely existed.
‘Corpse Finger Mushroom.’
Okay… as long as I have those mushrooms.
But the mushrooms were not available.
He wasn’t strong enough to hang on the cliff and collect mushrooms, and he didn’t have anyone to pick mushrooms from the cliff for him.
He was a loner.
While he was stamping his feet like that, the human Kang Seol appeared.
Compared to other trolls, he has relatively less aversion to humans.
This was also because I learned about their culture and history through books.
Kang Seol came to visit him, and after hearing his story, he left, saying he would get him mushrooms.
“There’s no way I can save you… That can’t be…”
The outcast hated vain hope.
How much time was wasted in the hope that one day I would get better.
Vain hope was harsher than despair.
But why do we still expect him to appear?
He now realized that faith does not come from ignorance, but from desire.
Rustle.
“…huh?”
Rustle.
Rustle.
The sound of tree branches breaking under footsteps.
The outcast used all his senses to catch the sound of those footsteps.
Soon someone appeared from that direction.
It was snowing.
“….”
The abandoned one frowned.
Snowfall’s face was full of scars.
In that short period of time, his illness spread.
Endemic diseases are scary.
I probably wouldn’t have even made it to the cliff.
But at that time, Kang Seol grinned and took something out of her pocket.
It was my first time seeing it, but I felt like I knew what it was.
It was the corpse finger mushroom I wanted so badly. The
abandoned
one fell down and cried.
“Thank you… thank you, stranger. “I am saved.”
After he stayed like that for a while, Kangseol helped him stand up.
He went into the hut with the outcast. I briefly explained my future plans to the person who continued to express my gratitude.
The outcast listened quietly to his story, thought for a moment, and then answered:
“Okay, I’ll do my best to help you.”
[You saved the outcast.]
[As a reward, the outcast helps you.]