1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 71

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 3 Episode 21

21. Cursed Underground Temple (3)

“Hey, sorry!”

“No… it’s fine.”

No matter how much he looked like a monster, the cause was Hoya, who attacked Doban as if he were dusting off a blanket.

Doban repeatedly told Hoya that he was apologizing and that he was no different, and repeated Hoya’s uneasy feelings.

In that state, the two arrived at the door leading to the chapel with the rock shaman and stopped walking.

No, he may not be a rock shaman now.

Just as ‘Rock Priest’ was renamed ‘Traces of the Curse’, it is highly likely that the Rock Shaman has also changed.

Still, if it didn’t become as strong as the traces of a curse, it would be possible to respond enough.

When the door of the chapel was pushed lightly, the huge door slowly opened from side to side with a heavy sound.

In what appears to be a gap in the slowly opening door, unlike the other monsters, a person wearing a black robe with colorful decorations was kneeling and praying in front of a statue he did not know who he was.

When all the huge doors are open, the black robed rock shaman, who was kneeling, slowly gets up with the staff on his right side and turns his head toward the player.

This was the first fixed behavior the rock shaman saw when entering the chapel, and there was no need to wait.

Waiting for motion before starting a battle was a scene that would appear in an old hero manga.

As soon as the door to the chapel opened wide enough for people to pass, Dovan and Hoya ran towards the rock shaman and attacked.

Previous attacks have also done this.

bang! Scratch!

The rock shaman seen up close was different from before, just like the Rock Priest.

The rock shaman I had seen before was closer to a doll.

Two lines were drawn under the corners of the mouth on both sides, making a crackling sound and moving the chin up and down, and the pupils remained stationary.

But now, it was more like a human, not a doll, more like a corpse that couldn’t be found alive.

Such a rock shaman, no, the cursed shaman suffered great damage from Hoya and Doban’s attacks.

The cursed shaman immediately launched an attack, but everyone was blocked by Doban’s shield, and Hoya jumped out from behind Doban’s shield blocking the attack and attacked again.

Both of them were almost out of skills, so most of them had to use basic attacks to catch the cursed shaman.

For that reason, it took longer than expected, but Hoya and Doban were finally able to clear the cursed underground temple.

[You have defeated the ‘Cursed Shaman’ boss monster in the ‘Cursed Underground Temple’.][Experience and item settlement proceed by clearing all ‘Cursed Underground Temple’.][Level has risen.][Achievement and clearing of Hidden Peace will be rewarded.][Obtain the ‘Friend’s Token’.]

A silver chain necklace with a small pendant appeared in front of Hoya and Dovan, respectively.[Certificate of a colleague]

Class: Unique

Durability: 100/100

*All stats are increased by 5% when you are within a recognizable distance from everyone who acquired the item at the time of acquiring the item. (Target: Doban)

*It belongs to the acquirer.

This is a reward for clearing the Hidden Peace of the dungeon ‘Cursed Underground Temple’.

You, who have seen through each other’s lies, are connected by a strong bond of comrades.

Wear Restrictions: Those who have achieved the Hidden Peace of the dungeon ‘Cursed Underground Temple’

After checking the item information, Hoya had a bright smile like a child, and Doban had a faint smile on her face.

Although there was a condition attached to the effect being activated, it was an item that raised all stats by 5%.

The conditions were not strict.

If you think about it, if you think about the number of people and the maximum of eight people, which is the maximum of the dungeon entry limit, if you were rewarded for achieving the Hidden Peace, it was a troublesome condition for all eight people to act together. was the condition.

Hoya and Doban immediately put on the necklace, and after catching monsters in the dungeon and distributing the items that came out, the two immediately exited the dungeon.

“Ah! Hoya-sama!”

As they exited the dungeon, Seha ran to the two of them.

He was doing business in front of the entrance of the dungeon, waiting for Hoya and Doban to come out of the dungeon.

“How was it? Did you achieve the Hidden Peace?”

Seha waited for the two of them to buy information from none other than them.

When he achieved the Hidden Peace, his goal was to know the exact conditions of the Hidden Peace.

To be honest, I was skeptical about whether the two of us would achieve Hidden Peace.

However, seeing the slight smile under Hoya’s mask now, it seemed that the dungeon had a good result.

“Yeah, well, thanks.”

“Oh oh!”

When Seha asked Hoya in a loud voice, ‘Have you achieved the hidden peace?’

Seha was deliberately making a loud noise to get people’s attention.

In order to sell a product, you need to start promoting it.

Although there is no product yet, Seha felt good that the promotion was successful.

In addition, there was even a certificate of ‘source Hoya’.

[Seha: That information, I will buy it!]

However, since the story from now on was not something to be said with a voice, Seha sent a whisper to Hoya.

Hoya was a little worried when she saw the whisper from Seha.

Because the achievement of the Hidden Peace was done together with Doban, the sale of information was not something he could decide on his own.

It was right after Hoya asked Doban for his opinion.

A white little bird emitting a soft light flew in front of Doban, who naturally raised his hand so that the bird could sit on his finger.

The white little bird flapped its beak a few times before disappearing like a feather.

“…I’m sorry, but something has happened, so I’ll have to go.”

After telling Hoya that it was okay to sell the information, Doban immediately disappeared from his sight after receiving Hoya’s see-off.

After hearing Doban’s affirmative signs, he asked Hoya again in a whisper.

Doban also said it was okay, so he wouldn’t mind selling information about the conditions of the Hidden Peace.

But before that, she had to know what Seha would give her in exchange for the information.

Because a transaction is established when each other can give each other what they want.

[Seha: Money! Hoya Eun and Doban must already be many. Ummm… Do you have any information or items you are looking for?]

There was no such thing now.

When I asked Doban in a whisper, he also didn’t want anything.

When Hoya had nothing he wanted, Seha had a baby, but couldn’t rush him.

After tens of seconds, which seemed like tens of minutes to Se-ha, finally Hoya sent a whisper to him.

[Hoya: Is it okay with debt?]

No matter how much I thought about it, nothing came to mind that I needed right now.

So, after much deliberation, Hoya decided to leave the debt to Seha for later.

It was after I had already received Doban’s consent.

Seha’s face brightened even more at Hoya’s words.

[Seha: Of course!]

After registering as a friend with Seha in order to receive the debt later, Hoya whispered to him the terms of the Hidden Peace that he knew.

When Hoya, who had told him the condition of the Hidden Peace, left, Seha smiled and shouted loudly at the people who were looking at her with her eyes shining.

“Conditions and methods of the hidden pieces of the Cursed Underground Temple! We are selling it to only one person at auction!

It is natural that prices rise when supply is less than demand.

* * *

“Welcome, Dovan.”

The place where Dovan was called to be a white little bird and ran to was a chapel that only high-ranking priests could use, located in the central temple of Ahesha.

There were other people besides Arya as well.

He was a man who seemed to have seen him somewhere.

“Hello.”

When I heard the voice, I remembered.

He was the man who had previously spoken to Hoya the first time he went to raid the damned underground temple.

obviously the name.

“My name is Arko.”right, that was it.

Dovan just nodded his head briefly at him.

Arya thought that greeting each other was over with that, and went straight to the point.

She said, “I’ve called you two for nothing but important missions. They’re the most reliable adventurers.”

It was a story about sensitivity.

Since Doban is the guardian knight of light who takes care of the saint right next to him, he has been doing quests so far, and the favorable feelings he has built up with the people of the central temple, especially Arya, are second to none.

Arko was in charge of the favorability of the central temple among those in charge of managing the favorability of important institutions in the guild itself, one by one.

Therefore, due to the systematic support of the guild, except for Doban, the people in the central temple had the highest favorability.

The high affinity was the reason the two were called to Arya.

“I’m sure both of you know about the recent monster wave of Izbaront. Am I right?”

At Arya’s words, Dovan and Arko quietly nodded their heads.

“We found traces of the magician in the by-product of that monster wave. The mission for the two of you is to search and find the magician.”

[The quest ‘Search for the Demonic Spirit’ has occurred.][The search for the devil]

The presence of the devil was detected in the central temple.

Demonism is a group that worships demons, and its existence leads to chaos.

In order to avoid future chaos, it is necessary to identify them and punish them.

However, if the general public were to know that the magic religion still exists, they would be terrified by the unknown fear.

The central shrine is secretly requesting cooperation from you, the most trusted, in order to prevent it.

Cooperate with each other to find and punish the demons.

Completion Conditions: Find and punish the members of the Demon Church.

Success Reward: Central Temple Rewards and Experience Points for Contributions

Failure penalty: Decreased favorability of the central temple

Arko confirmed the quest and asked Arya a question.

“Sister, may I ask for help from her colleagues in this matter?”

“It’s okay. It’s good for us if we have a lot of trustworthy hands. But you have to keep in mind that this shouldn’t be made public in order to avoid people’s anxiety.”

“Yes!”

So, I think it’s okay to let Yua and Hoya participate in the quest.

After hearing that, Doban thought so and asked Arya after Arko’s question was over.

“Are you saying that cooperation should be done with interest next door?”

“Yes, but there are more people you two need to work with.”

According to Arya, this was a business, she said, so she borrowed the help of the Lou Zeroth’s royal family and Mato.

She’ll also be commissioning an adventurer who can be trusted in those two places, she says, so she’ll have to work with the people over there as well.

“In two days, we are going to have a meeting with everyone here at the central shrine. Don’t forget to attend and get to know each other.”