The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 90
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Chapter 90
Before long, the manager approached.
“You ordered Moonlight Sonata?”
“Yes.”
“It’s such a rare liquor that we can’t bring it here, so would you mind following me for a moment?”
Jung Hoon nodded.
The manager opened a door at the back of the tavern.
Beyond it was a long corridor with a portal shimmering at the end.
Several guild members were waiting in the corridor.
They were talking among themselves, but were subtly watching this way.
Ready to subdue immediately if anything seemed suspicious.
Their level was 210.
It was a level that could easily subdue most users.
[Fucking staring at us. Hey, I can’t stand it. I’m gonna gouge their eyes out.]
Mukho was ranting, but they couldn’t hear him.
“Well then, have a pleasant time.”
A portal connected to the Information Guild.
As they stepped onto the portal, it instantly swallowed them up.
Their vision went dark and then brightened again.
“A back alley…?”
Ha Jin looked around.
It was a back alley you could see anywhere.
“We’ll serve you here.”
The place the manager guided them to was a three-story building.
This was the Information Guild’s headquarters.
Of course, they wouldn’t enter that building.
Since Jung Hoon and Ha Jin were complete outsiders, a man who had been wandering the alley quietly approached them.
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[NPC Information]
-Nickname: Bruno
-Level: 175
-Class: Information Guild Member
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He was a member of the Information Guild.
“Huh? Bruno, what brings you here?”
The manager greeted him familiarly.
“Ah, I have some business.”
“Really?”
“Are these customers? Then I’ll guide them, so you can head back.”
“Hmm? That’s fine. There’s no need to.”
As the manager was about to say something, Jung Hoon interrupted as if he had been waiting.
“I’m fine with it.”
“…Really? Then I understand.”
Since the customer said it was fine, the manager obediently stepped back.
When the manager returned to the portal, Bruno approached Jung Hoon.
“So. What information do you need?”
“Can you tell me where this note came from?”
Jung Hoon handed him the note he had received from Camel.
“Ah, this note.”
Since the note had been distributed in large quantities, Bruno naturally knew about it.
“I’ll pay you generously.”
“Then would it be okay if I received something other than payment?”
An exclamation mark appeared above the man’s head.
It meant he had completed the first quest.
[You have completed the quest.]
[You can proceed to the next quest.]
However, Jung Hoon didn’t accept that quest.
‘The end of this note quest is a dead end.’
Instead of gaining anything, all you got was the temple lifting entry restrictions as a thank you for going this far.
No wonder nobody wanted to do this quest.
But the real treasure trove starts now.
Jung Hoon used the Myeongwang Fist Technique to strike Bruno’s abdomen.
“Kugh!”
Then a change occurred.
[The mask is being removed.]
[You have fulfilled the hidden condition.]
[From now on, you will be able to identify the mark of cult fanatics.]
Along with the message that the mask was being removed, the NPC’s information began to change.
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[NPC Information]
-Nickname: Bruno
-Level: 175
-Class: Cult Fanatic
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The class name that had been Information Guild member changed to cult fanatic.
“What is that?!”
Ha Jin, who had been watching from behind, was also startled.
“I had a hunch… and I was right.”
Arresting the real culprit who scattered the notes.
Capturing that bastard was the core of this honey pot.
* * *
Old Abandoned House.
In a place where human warmth shouldn’t be felt, signs of people could be sensed.
“What’s the current situation?”
“Yes. It seems the Temple also felt a sense of crisis and is focusing on searching for the culprit.”
“The effect is better than expected?”
“Bruno says that a large number of notes are being delivered to the Information Guild.”
“Heh heh. That’s good.”
Though the notes contained absurd content, the Temple couldn’t ignore them.
The Temple was a place that served gods.
Since someone had made the outrageous statement of destroying such a holy place, they would try to track down the culprit by any means necessary.
“It’s about time to use this.”
The man took out a black crystal.
“This is the gem imbued with Lord Tenebris’s aura…?”
These were believers who worshipped Tenebris, not Psyche.
Simply put, a cult group.
They claimed that Tenebris was the one true god, but Psyche had started a war and taken that position, and Tenebris was forcibly driven out, so Tenebris should reclaim his rightful place.
They had no scriptures and had only begun proselytizing 11 years ago, so the Psyche Temple had classified them as a cult.
“Let’s move when Bruno gives us the signal.”
Bruno was also an Information Guild member and a believer in Tenebris.
To execute this plan, he had even conducted tests with notes a few months ago.
A plan that absolutely had to succeed.
“H-here’s the right place…”
While waiting for Bruno’s signal, Bruno’s voice could be heard from outside.
“Really?”
But Bruno wasn’t alone.
“Damn, we’ve been discovered!”
“Hide!”
They hurriedly hid themselves, but Bruno had already completely betrayed them.
“There are hiding places here.”
Following his helpful guidance, all the remnants hiding in the cabin were caught.
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“Wow… how can something like this happen?”
Ha Jin stuck out her tongue.
This was the first time assaulting an NPC.
Even the class name and Quest had changed.
“Don’t you think the reward will be pretty amazing?”
“Goes without saying.”
It wasn’t just a regular Quest but had upgraded to an Epic Quest.
The trash rewards people talked about were no longer a concern.
Whatever the reward was, it would be beyond imagination.
[Epic Quest: Partial Cult Elimination (1/2)]
-Restriction: Cult believer condition released
-Reward: ??
-Description: Hand over the cult remnants to the Temple.
The remnants before them were only six in total.
It was too small a number to have scattered all those notes.
“Where are the rest? Six people couldn’t have scattered all those notes, right?”
Jung Hoon asked the bound Bruno.
“I, I don’t know that either….”
“You don’t know? Aren’t you a member of the Information Guild? How does it make sense that you don’t know?”
Bruno was an apostle of darkness, but he was a guild member who hid his true identity and operated within the Information Guild.
How could someone who deals with information not know something?
“I, it’s really true! The lackeys here are just moving under orders to attack the temple.”
At Bruno’s words revealing the tail-cutting strategy, the six people who were tied up together had a fit.
“Lord Bruno!”
“What are you trying to do by telling the truth?!”
“Lord Tenebris’s wrath will descend upon you!”
Jung Hoon’s gaze turned to the black crystal.
[Explosive Stone]
-When mana is injected and a certain time passes, an explosion occurs within a 10m radius.
-Ignores Divine Power.
It had no power of Tenebris whatsoever, just an ordinary bomb.
As Bruno said, these people were just an example directed at the temple.
‘Tenebris….’
When New World became reality, Jung Hoon had visited various temples during his growth process.
And he had never heard the name Tenebris.
In other words, everything these people were saying was complete nonsense.
This is why you shouldn’t associate with cults.
Jung Hoon dragged them toward the temple.
“What are these guys? They look terrible.”
Camel, who was guarding the temple, glanced at the disheveled group and asked.
“The culprits who distributed the notes.”
“Culprits?”
At the word culprits, Camel narrowed his eyes.
“Yes. And they also had this.”
When Jung Hoon handed over the Explosive Stone, Camel’s face twisted fiercely.
An Explosive Stone that ignores Divine Power.
Anyone could see it was an explosive stone meant to harm the temple.
“Huh? Isn’t that guy Bruno?”
Camel recognized Bruno.
Though he was a member of the Information Guild, he had recently shown his face at the temple frequently and was acquainted with Camel.
“Yes. He’s also one of the gang that distributed the notes.”
“Huh… Is that really true?”
Camel’s reaction was one of disbelief.
That was understandable since Bruno, as a member of the Information Guild, had often brought helpful information to the temple, and had actually visited the temple to pray.
“Yes. We even have video evidence here.”
Ha Jin brought over the automatically operating camera and showed it to him.
Since Jung Hoon had removed his mask and his job title had changed, Bruno no longer appeared as a good person in Camel’s eyes.
“I see….”
Bruno couldn’t lift his head.
He wanted to argue back, but he was afraid that if he said even one word, Jung Hoon would beat him up again.
‘Damn… I really got caught badly.’
Bruno had originally planned to just deliver the situation and slip away.
Since he belonged to the Information Guild, he was an essential talent for those who served Tenebris.
But who would have thought that Stranger would discover his identity?
This was completely unexpected.
“…I am very disappointed in you.”
Camel left those words and called the paladins to drag the cultists to the underground prison.
[You have completed the Quest.]
[Temple entry restrictions are lifted.]
[You can proceed to the next Quest.]
He completed the first quest by handing over the remaining gang including Bruno.
“They say it’s darkest under the lamp… Thank you so much.”
A new question mark blinked above Camel’s head.
[Epic Quest: Partial Cult Extermination (2/2)]
-Restriction: Epic Quest: Partial Cult Extermination (1/2) completed
-Reward: ??
-Description: Root out 5 cultists hiding in Merhen Capital.
The number of cultists would be beyond imagination.
So rooting out 5 people was a very simple task.
Jung Hoon immediately accepted the quest.
“We continue to root out suspects, but it’s not easy. I’d like to make one more request. Could you root out 5 people suspected of being cultists?”
“Yes.”
“Thank you!”
[Cult Members 0/5]
As they moved away from the temple, Ha Jin asked Jung Hoon.
“Is there a specific method to identify them?”
“Yeah. When you receive a Quest, marks appear on the NPCs. The system automatically guides you to identify them.”
In other words, it was a Quest handed to them on a silver platter.
“There’s a mark showing over there?”
Coming out of the temple and passing by the Weapon Shop, a cult mark was floating above the head of a territory resident who was looking at weapons.
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[NPC Information]
-Nickname: Peyrun
-Level: 104
-Occupation: Territory Resident
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However, the occupation name was Territory Resident.
Without the mark, they would have just passed by.
“Let’s go catch him.”
Jung Hoon approached him.
Then he unleashed the Myeongwang Fist Technique to quickly subdue him.
“Kugh!”
Then his occupation name changed.
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[NPC Information]
-Nickname: Peyrun
-Level: 104
-Occupation: Cult Fanatic
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It was the same as with Bruno.
“Wow, it’s not just satisfied by touching them?”
“Right. You have to directly transport them to the temple like this.”
“…How do you know all this stuff?”
“It’s in Welcome. It says when marks appear like this, you have to directly subdue them.”
There was nothing to hide.
This type of Quest method was already common.
“Ah, that’s right.”
Ha Jin scratched his head with an embarrassed expression.
From then on, it was a crushing victory.
They subdued one more person at the Weapon Shop, and afterwards successfully subdued 3 additional cult members wandering the streets.
[Cult Members 5/5]
They filled exactly 5 members and handed them over to the temple.
“Damn! I was hiding my identity perfectly, how did you find out?!”
“This doesn’t make sense…!”
Those who were identified expressed their unjust feelings as they were dragged to the Underground Prison.
[You have completed the Quest.]
[Your level has increased.]
[All stats have increased by +1.]
[Bonus Stats +1 have been granted.]
Completing the Quest granted enough experience points to level up.
“Wow! My level went up by 3!”
Not just 1, but a whopping 3 levels.
With this, Ha Jin became 164, and Jung Hoon became 159.
No wonder it was called a hidden Quest.
“This level is definitely jackpot worthy, right?”
“Agreed! This is going to cause total chaos, right?”
If they edited the video and uploaded it to YouTube right now, everyone would rush to the temples of Märchen Kingdom to proceed with the Quest.
Because leveling up was that difficult.
“But it doesn’t seem like it’s over yet?”
Jung Hoon pointed at Camel.
A red question mark was blinking above Camel’s head.
“Huh? Really? It’s even a hidden…”
“…Hey, let’s not record from here on.”
“Why?”
“Something doesn’t seem ordinary. Let’s keep this between us.”
“…Okay.”
Ha Jin put away the camera as Jung Hoon wished.
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