episode_0251

“Ah… Is this really a good product?”

Inside a dark cave filled with bloody stalactites. Akasha smiled with satisfaction as she saw the human souls that came to her.

As a result of repeated research, Akasha was able to hold other people’s souls in the body of a living creature, and was further pioneering unknown areas that she did not yet know about.

The human soul was truly a treasure trove for Akasha. The soul was such a great concept that even when compared to all the possessions one had, those treasures actually faded.

“The problem is that it’s so hard to get, but there’s nothing we can do about it.”

If it were a normal resource, Akasha would have found a way to harvest it as efficiently as possible, but that wasn’t the case when it came to souls. It was impossible to forcibly take another person’s soul using any kind of magic, magic, or proverb.

That is why Akasha chose necromantic magic. By mixing the magic he created with the necromantic magic that deals with soul and white, he made it so that the soul of the caster was transferred to him as a result.

Of course, anyone with some knowledge of magic, not necessarily necromantic magic, could notice that the magic book created by Akasha was not normal, but in other words, even if an outsider died and woke up, he would not be able to recognize the evil intent planted by Akasha.

Akasha, who was looking at the brilliance of the soul shining brightly in her hands, called out the partner of the conversation that seemed to be talking to herself.

“Quercus. How should I use this soul?”

“Yes, master.”

A dark brown-skinned man answered Akasha’s call. It was a sight that would have shocked anyone who knew Akasha.

Due to Akasha’s personality of not trusting others 100%, it was unusual for her to have someone under her command. He was also the type of person who never did anything that might show his weaknesses.

Therefore, most of the people Akasha uses to carry out her plans or obtain information from the outside are people who she does not mind losing or betraying.

This means that he is an author who is unable to ask his thoughts and ask for his opinion in the first place.

“I am saying this with caution, but I would like to try making a weapon.”

“Weapon? It’s a weapon. okay. At least once, I wanted to make the Ego Sword, which exists as a legend in books. But I was thinking of making you a friend with this.”

“…One Yuglan is enough for a colleague.”

“Haha, it’s a shame I can’t ask Yuglan’s opinion on this matter. Should I call it now?”

“If you call someone who is working far away, you are only wasting time. He probably doesn’t want to have a new colleague either.”

“Mmm. I made it, but you guys really lack camaraderie.”

“I just think that loyalty is enough.”

“Aha. Now I see it. That’s enough. Let’s go now.”

“I will honor your honor.”

Quercus was an automaton created by Akasha herself. Because it was made from harvested human souls, it was virtually the same as creating a new life.

The grand dream that Arjen had wanted to achieve throughout his life was achieved through some kind of expedient method.

‘Hehe… Hello. I created life after all. But you can never become a god….’

Akasha reminded Quercus of her old first love and unrequited love, Hyers, and a feeling of longing blossomed for the first time in a long time.

***

“Asha. Look at this. Doesn’t it look really nice?”

Adele showed interest in the items she found while walking through the market with Asha. Rather than point-blank range, Asha decided to make him realize the reality.

“Adele. We don’t have travel money to waste on that. You know.”

“Why don’t you have travel expenses? Now I’m an adventurer, so I just have to work and earn it!”

“Wow… ‘You work and earn’… If at least one of your parents had heard those words just now, they wouldn’t have been able to hide their joy, right?”

In fact, Eugene, who was watching the two through the mirror, was already shedding tears of joy.

“Hehe, isn’t it great?”

“It’s not grand, it’s sarcastic. Do you think you can go? Just a moment ago, people were treated more indifferently than they would treat a roadside stone.”

“But you keep talking to me. Annoying.”

What Adele was talking about was none other than hunting. The two, who knew that the attention of the adventurer’s guild was focused on them and that they had become quiet, suppressed their mana as much as possible and tried to appear like ordinary people.

In fact, the appearance, which cannot be changed, is far from ordinary, and as a result, flies are starting to attract attention.

And those flies existed in both sexes. Adele was a natural choice, and Asha also had looks that caught the attention of wealthy women in big cities.

Even from the perspective of the upper class, who lived without doing hard work and had fair skin, the appearance of Asha and Adele, who were dragons, was on a different level.

In the meantime, it was even more strange that I wasn’t getting any attention since I was pretending to be an adventurer.

“But it’s a bit weird to keep looking like a bug like that…”

“I’m holding back when my fist almost goes out, but shouldn’t I praise him instead?”

“Okay. It’s bad, it’s bad.”

“And it’s okay because Asha will take care of it anyway.”

“What will you do without me?”

“Huh…? Then shouldn’t I do it?”

“Well said. Since we’re talking about this, shall we move separately?”

“Let’s move separately?”

“Okay. Let’s do the first request individually. I will believe you if you prove that you can do it without me.”

“Wow… Cheesy pants, great pants….”

“What, was that something you just said?”

“No! Because you can do it! How about making a bet?”

Asha showed interest in Adele’s new proposal.

“Bet?”

“Okay. Whoever completes the request faster wins! The loser gets one wish!”

“It sounds fun. good. Let’s do it.”

As soon as Asha finished speaking, the two people’s new forms disappeared in an instant. Those around them who were watching the two in fascination were startled by the appearance as if they had teleported.

“Aaaah!”

“Wow! What!?”

A late gust of wind turned the surrounding area upside down, and it only subsided once it reached the front of the adventurer’s guild.

At the same time, Asha and Adele, who opened the guild’s door, moved to the request bulletin board without anyone having to say who went first.

“Umm….”

“Hmm….”

The reason why the momentum of the two, who looked like they were about to rip off a request in a vicious manner, stagnated for a moment was because of the content of the request that they had not thought about at all.

‘What should I do? If you try something too difficult, you will definitely lose….’

‘But if I do something too easy, Asha will laugh at me…’

If you set out to do requests that are difficult to find or that are far away and will take a long time, you will inevitably lose.

However, since their name is like a dragon, it would be difficult to win by doing something like ‘digging up a bunch of herbs that grow in the mountains behind us’.

At that time, a moderately useful request came into the eyes of both of them. The two quickly grabbed it and ran to the reception desk. I didn’t forget to check what the other person was requesting in that split second.

‘Arrest of grave robbers….’

‘Search for missing persons?’

“Hello. Can you do this mission right now?”

“Ah, hello! Let me start by checking your guild card… It’s Asha. There are people currently carrying out the ‘search for missing persons’ request, but they have not completed it yet.”

“So it’s possible? Please do it right away, quickly!”

“Oh, yes!”

The receptionist saw Asha’s hurried movements and wondered if the missing person was a family member, so she proceeded with the request process without any further questions.

And next to him, Adele, who looked more in a hurry, was approaching the receptionist.

“This! Quick!”

“Now, wait a minute! First of all, please check the request details as it is a guild card…!”

“Hurry!”

Seeing that Adele was unable to communicate properly as expected, Asha laughed at her and left the guild first. Of course, Adele became even more desperate when she saw that.

“Hurry…!”

“Ah, you are Adele. Let’s see… No one has completed the ‘Arrest of grave robbers’ quest yet. Well, I’ll take care of it right away!”

Seeing Adele’s expression becoming scared in real time, the receptionist immediately proceeded with the request process without even re-checking.

‘Okay… the grave robber is arrested! If you’re a grave robber, they’ll only target cemeteries, so if you keep scouting out the cemeteries around here, you’ll catch them quickly! Hehehe! Ah, you idiot. How are you going to find a missing person without any clues?’

Adele laughs at Asha’s hasty choice of request. But Asha had other thoughts.

‘If you check the detailed information, you can roughly find out about the missing person. The client is a family member of the missing person, and in this case, the missing person’s items can be checked by the client…’

Asha trusted her nose. The intention was to identify the smell through the missing person’s belongings and find the missing person based on that.

‘It’s only grown on the outside, but the head is like a child… Isn’t it easy to guess how many cemeteries there are around here just by looking at the number of people? ‘How long have you been searching all those places?’

Although the request was to find something, the two set out to find their own paths, each confident that they would be faster.