episode_0243

“This concludes the school trip.”

The school trip is over.

Although there was only a bit of play time, the changes that Arcien and Florence sought had a positive effect.

-Hey, Karssein. By any chance. May I ask how you researched the territory?

-Aren’t you planning on issuing a pass to allow some use of the Chatelaine Road?

– Confucius. Please give me some help. That path is absolutely necessary for us.

Although it was a very small number, it was still a big change.

The children of the nobles changed their gaze and showed an attitude of acceptance.

It seems like only yesterday that I was yelling that I was causing inconvenience by blocking the path to Chatren, but now someone came to me and politely asked me a favor.

Some even lowered their heads. I was once called a pariah.

Following this symposium, I guess I broke my prejudice by seeing something during the school trip.

Even though there are only a few people, the value is great.

-Tiring!

▶Acquire Noblesse points!◀

[Current point number: -248]

[ Awareness is very low. This is a shame that is difficult to accept in aristocratic society. ]

‘You can only get it for the first time in Chapter 3 when your intimacy with Arsien rises to a certain level. I got it now.’

※What are Noblesse Points?

[This refers to the recognition and reputation score among nobles, and the higher it is, the more exchanges there are. ]

In the game, this system was first explained with such a phrase.

Typically, intimacy is the most important thing in person-to-person relationships. However, people belonging to the noble group are a different story.

Because they view the person named Karssein completely differently, they should be seen as having the same field of recognition and reputation rank.

‘In that respect, this system can be seen as recognition and reputation within the aristocratic society.’

This is actually a number that is more difficult to manage than intimacy.

Obtaining it early was quite an achievement.

“Next time, I will practice more.”

“Take it slow. Water, you’re not that familiar with it, right?”

“…Ugh. Okay, I’ll just go!”

Harnier said that and went back.

I have to go back too.

It was time to go back to our respective seats.

but…

“…”

“…”

“…”

At this point, when the school trip is over, I plan to return to Duke Vagrand.

Right now, I have to face the anger of the three sisters who are glaring at me over there.

What will Isabella say when we return?

eww. My head hurts already.

“Carcein, you idiot!”

While he was touching his forehead, the little boy suddenly raised his voice.

What is it? Why is he acting like that all of a sudden?

“Flora. What’s wrong?”

It seemed like I wasn’t the only one who was confused. Claire and Arina also looked surprised.

Either way, the blond kid glared at me and shouted again.

“SEE! You are the Duke of Vagrand! Of course, you have to play with us on the night of the school field trip, right?!”

“What?”

“And the next day too…! Why are you only with that person?”

no. What kind of bullshit is that?

What’s wrong with teaching Harnier how to swim?

“Hey, over there. Flora? Should we go back first?”

Claire looked back and forth between me and Flora, then opened her mouth in shock.

“Why. The trip is over. Let’s go get some dessert. Huh?”

“Dessert…?”

“Okay. First, like Claire said, let’s eat some sweet dessert together. I want to eat it too.”

“…Okay.”

I heard gossip from Flora without knowing why, but after Claire took me away, the grumbling disappeared.

Arina also noticed, but didn’t say anything.

Fortunately, it ended without any fuss…

“What are you saying that I did wrong?”

What I’m saying is that we don’t understand.

▶Please select a location to move to.◀

[ 1. Duke Vagrand ]

[ 2. Ruthmire Territory ]

[ 3. Chatrene Territory ]

[ 4. School trip hotel ]

[ 5. Pesselus Imperial Castle ]

[6. Training hall]

[7. Choose 1 of the western regions]

“Ugh. I don’t want to get into a fight, so I guess I’ll just ride the horse and go.”

Right then.

My destination changed briefly.

“Now you’re here. Carcein.”

“Dephone? Why are you here?”

“I waited all this time because it was a school trip. Well, let’s talk about it. That document I was entrusted with deciphering.”

He held up something.

“Just finished decoding.”

***

It is known that at this symposium, I dug up all the secrets about Chatelaine and revealed the inside story.

But that is a bit wrong.

I also couldn’t dig into everything.

This is because one of the pieces of evidence was not used at all. Because I need time to detox.

That is this document that is in front of me right now.

“I read the contents with Pollux before handing it to you. However, we couldn’t decipher everything either.”

“Not everything has been deciphered?”

“Okay. Even though we visited the Lindel tribe, which was the most skilled at deciphering Lindel among the four remaining tribes in the west, we were unable to decipher them all.”

For some reason, I felt like he was going to tell me that directly.

‘okay. ‘I can’t decipher everything.’

If you only wanted to inform me of the decryption information, just sending me a letter would have been enough.

I haven’t decided yet if this is an element of the game.

Reading it yourself would be a much better choice.

-Sarak.

Flipping through the front cover, I read the decrypted document step by step.

As Talpon said, the content of the decrypted document had some words cut off or missing here and there, but it was readable if you put it together properly and tried to understand it.

“…The plan to turn animals and plants into demon beasts.”

It was a ridiculous thing to do.

Demonic beasts are referred to as monsters in this game, but from the perspective of actually dealing with them, it is not a simple area.

You have to hunt, shedding blood and sweat.

They cannot be dealt with by the human body alone, and sometimes they are so threatening that even humans’ lives are at risk.

But, they tried to create those monsters artificially.

There are no such thing as crazy people.

‘…But does that mean they are related?’

Chatelaine strawberries and grapes were actually in really good conditions to become magical water plants.

So, it appears that this background was designed to threaten Chatrene.

…But looking at this, it seems like that’s not the only thing.

“What do you think?”

Talpon asked my opinion.

I’m not 100% sure, but I shared my thoughts with him.

“Western tribes are people with special powers such as smelling, feeling, and hearing mana. They are the ones who are the most advanced in eliminating magical beasts.”

“So?”

“If I create an artificial demon beast, there is a high possibility that it will be discovered by you. Just like in the black market, no matter how much you hid it underground, it would be discovered even if you smelled it. I think that’s why the target was set in the west.”

Pollux of Apherus.

Talpon of Lilpeten.

Because not only they but all western tribes could interfere with this plan.

“Among them, the most annoying one was probably the Kingdom of Wederos. If you could only follow the flow of mana with your eyes like I see, there would have been no enemy more threatening than that.”

“Was it really like that?”

“The reason is obvious. Perhaps there was a lot of backlash against the imperial family. It must have been a plan to destroy the imperial family, which was trying to catch the behavior of the nobles who were starting to become corrupt.”

“Then, it is understandable that they continued to lower the perception of Westerners. Did they intentionally try to isolate us so that we couldn’t come out?”

“That’s right.”

It was clearly inferred well.

power. With that one thing, all causal relationships are connected.

This connected all causal relationships.

‘I was wondering if some demonic beasts had come out from under the ground. It was something like that.’

The plan of the Waglu faction that rebelled against the imperial family.

A means of isolating the western tribes who were seen as a nuisance.

Even the fact that the one they were most wary of was the Kingdom of Wederos.

It was a natural flow like water.

“Well, there is no problem with that story because the Wagluo faction was eradicated. I think this needs some explanation.”

okay. I am in need of an explanation now.

“What do you want to say when you lie and say that the document has not been fully decrypted?”

Talpon said the decoding was clearly not complete.

However, as you can guess from just reciting this content, there was no sign of anything that had not been deciphered.

That could be said to be because Talpon had something to talk about with me.

Talpon closed his eyes, perhaps needing some time to think.

-Tiring!

…what?

for a moment. In this state, why does the alarm sound…

“ Open the last chapter with mana. Carcein.”

While I was preoccupied with the status window, Talpon opened his eyes and spoke to me.

After hearing Talpon’s words and turning the page, a new chapter unfolded.

no. This is not a new chapter in the first place. It is not the paper that was attached to this document, but a new type made of a completely different material.

“What is it? Why are you doing this─”

Before I could even say why I put this here.

I was so shocked that I had to open my eyes wide.

‘for a moment. This text…’

That can’t be possible.

It’s a text that can’t be here.

“As expected, Karssein, you can see that letter. No, it’s not at a visible level, but you can probably read it. Right?”

“…What?”

How do you know that?

“Because you were not the only stranger who came here. He was also from the Kingdom of Wederos.”

“What…”

▶EX Episode. The traces of the Kingdom of Wederos are in progress.◀

▶I obtained information related to the Kingdom of Wederos.◀

***

There was a man in the past.

The man, who spoke in a somewhat foreign tone, spoke.

3 days later. There will be heavy rain and flooding.

So, he said, we need to be prepared.

It’s going to rain out of nowhere and cause a flood. It wasn’t strange that people didn’t pay any attention to the man, believing him to be a bluff.

But this is the West. Westerners could vaguely see that it was true.

“I feel a lot of moisture on my skin.”

“…Did you feel that way too? I too am smelling something damp in the wind.”

After a day, it was Pollux followed by Talpon. The rest of the tribe leaders could also vaguely sense that it was going to rain.

On the second day, all the tribe members noticed the presence of a large dark cloud.

They did not listen to the man’s words and had the tribe members widen the river ditch to prepare for the rain.

When it rained three days later, fortunately, flooding did not affect civilians.

Only then did people find out.

The fact that what that man said was true.

The mysterious man later left the West and traveled from place to place, predicting what would happen.

He predicted all kinds of future events and never missed a beat.

Soon, he was nicknamed a prophet in the empire and received a great reward from the imperial court for helping him overcome a great crisis.

And then, after traveling around the entire empire again, I came to the West.

It is said that Westerners had a vague guess.

The fact that he is from the Kingdom of Wederos.

“That was the first time I realized it. Mana is read through the eyes of the Kingdom of Wederos, and knowledge is completely different from ours… no. The fact that there are people who use knowledge that is completely different from that of this world. That’s why we were able to doubt the existence of strangers.”

Nonsense.

this. This situation completely overlaps with mine.

‘no. ‘This is not the time to be lost!’

It’s an opportunity.

There was one clue to returning to reality.

“By any chance, that person is called a prophet. Do you have any other records? Is there anything left behind?”

When I shouted so urgently, Talpon firmly cut me off.

“It was only three years ago that the prophet appeared. Carcein.”

“…What?”

what. That means…

It’s a contradiction.

It must have been more than 10 years since the Kingdom of Wederos fell?

“As an exception, there may be survivors like you. However, it would be unreasonable to say that a survivor appeared after three years and inherited the power of the Kingdom of Wederos. Right now, my wife is the only survivor of the Kingdom of Wederos.”

“…! That means…”

“Okay. Besides you, there are many others, although they are a small number. People who can be called survivors. However, among the Wederos Kingdom we are protecting, none of them have had their eyes opened. Do you understand what I mean now?”

It meant different.

Contrary to the existing rules.

After its fall, the power of the Kingdom of Wederos completely disappeared and became unusable.

A prophet who appeared three years ago.

And except for me.

This boundary line, which became clear enough to distinguish them from others by calling them strangers, could be seen as the power of the Kingdom of Wederos itself.

The fact that this power exists in me…

‘Something else. ‘Are there more?’

The conclusion is that it is not a simple game setting.

“…It’s fast as expected. I thought you would make a pretty complicated expression.”

“Don’t say things like that. Because my head is complicated enough.”

Talpon laughed helplessly at those words, as if he was not praying.

“What. I don’t know if it will help. The prophet used to say this all along.”

The prophet’s words from Talpon’s mouth.

They just spit these words out without understanding them.

But not me.

-I will definitely return to Korea. certainly!

So clearly, I could understand its meaning.

-Tiring!

▶EX Episode. The traces of the Kingdom of Wederos are in progress.◀

▶I obtained information related to the Kingdom of Wederos and completed the achievement level.◀

▶The achievement level has reached 100%. As a special reward, it gives players the secrets of the second world!◀

■Compensation

[ ??? ]

The status window is distorted for a moment with a crackling sound, and then another window pops up.

[You failed to save someone in the past, and that person ended up dying. 】

…what?

What do you mean?