1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 73

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 3 Episode 23

23. Facing the past (2)

“Damn! What the hell is that?!”

Unable to contain his explosive head and burning emotions, he swept all the materials he had been studying to make ‘it’ and the ‘it’ that had been barely completed, all of which had been placed on the desk, and threw them on the floor.

“Woo-wook- Whoo-wook-.”

After a long riot, he leaned back on his chair and calmed his rough breathing.

He seems to have done a good job of putting the silencer in the room beforehand.

If it wasn’t for that, it was such a big riot that someone would have been worried about hearing the leaking sound and would have opened the room without his consent.

Then he would have caught ‘it’ that is now rolling on the floor to them.

He said that he had come, came close to my nose, and thought that if I just stretched out my hand, I would be able to grab it.

But no matter how much I reach out, I can’t reach the goal.

He leaned his back on the chair and turned his head slightly to look at the ‘it’ that had been thrown to the floor due to the riot, then picked it up again and put it on the desk.

After finishing the messy room with magic, I sat back on the chair and looked at it on the desk.

Several rings of different sizes overlapped to form a sphere, resembling an astronomical observatory.

Staring at his own work, he took out the feathers of the hippogryphs, which had been tainted with magi, and tucked them into the center of their rings.

As the feathers entered the center of the rings, they made a squeaking sound, and the rings glowed softly and began to rotate as they crossed each other.

The longer the rotation time, the brighter the light.

As the light grew brighter, his expectations rose, but it didn’t take long for that expectation to turn into disappointment.

All the lights of the rings that brightly lit the room disappeared in an instant and stopped rotating, and a feather escaped through the air through the rings and landed on the desk.

Seeing this, he ruffled his hair with one hand.

Since then, no further reaction has occurred.

This desired purpose could be achieved only if more reactions took place.

Hundreds of years ago, after all the demons disappeared from the world due to the power of the Demon Tower, our desire, which has been carried on until now, is the purpose of finding the demons again and rising to the surface.

The tool he called ‘Magi Observer’, which had a similar appearance to an astronomical observatory, was made to find the place where they are now using the microscopic magi left on the hippogryph’s feathers.

The Magi Observer is perfectly complete.

It could be predicted.

However, no matter how much the Magi Observer was activated, the demons could not be found.

It was as if something was blocked, something distorted the power of the Magi Observer, preventing them from reaching them.

“Damn it…”

It was almost in front of my nose and I was annoyed that this was the case.In the end, his conclusion was to wait until the Magi Observer responds and find the Demons.

As the search for the magic bridge began soon, he was not ready and could not put his head above the water hastily.

And since we’ve been waiting for a long time, there’s nothing we can’t wait a little longer.

* * *

Dozens of people quietly gathered in the conference hall located in the central temple of Ahesha, there for the search meeting of the devil.

Saint Arya, who attended as the representative of the central shrine, Doban and Arko, who were given her quest, and an infant who was able to participate due to the virtue of Doban.

In the same way, Seol Baek-ho’s executives and a few guild members participated in the quest with Arko.

Ma-in, the vice-president, who came as the leader of the tower on behalf of the tower chief, and Luna, who received a quest from the horse-head, Evan, and the members of her guild, the Royal Knights.

Geoffrino’s son, who was qualified as the representative of the Ruzeros royal family from Jeffrino, Melvuer Ruzeros, the only prince of Ruzeros, and Hoya and Eriman, who received a quest from Jeffrino, the officers and guild members of the Arena, the guild to which Eriman belongs. .

The meeting started while sitting on the chairs of the long tables that were piled up like stairs.

NPCs located in the convention hall were mainly representatives of each affiliate, leading the meeting.

Players commented on their words and asked questions.

However, there were three people who could not concentrate on the meeting under such circumstances.

One of them was Saint Arya, the representative of the central temple.

‘When will this end?’

She was a person who knew exactly the cause of the tainted monster.

Therefore, there was no excitement in this ongoing meeting.

I thought I was wasting my time needlessly on things I didn’t need to do.

But she knew only two people at this stage, including herself, who knew the truth, and the truth wasn’t the kind of thing that could be said rudely to others.

So that’s how things came to be.

As a saint, she could not ignore her opinion to carry out the search for magic by the elders.

She said that she had to show some degree of satisfaction and convincing behavior for them.

But on the other hand, there was also a feeling of regret towards those who are currently attending the meeting.

“Lady?”

“……”

“Lady?”

“Yes, yes?”

“I understand that you are not the only one who is worried about the work of the Magyo. But please focus on the meeting.”

“Ah… I’m sorry, everyone. I made a bad appearance.”

“No. The most difficult thing right now is the saint. Then I’ll come back to the meeting again. About how to distinguish people from the devil when conducting a search……”

The two figures who could not concentrate on the remaining meetings except for Saints were Hoya and Doban.

“……”

Dovan looked at Hoya quietly.

Hoya looked the same as usual, but for some reason, Doban felt that Hoya was in a slightly different state than usual.

The outside looked fine, but the inside felt like a cracked fruit.

Doban had a rough guess as to why he was feeling Hoya now.

Doban’s gaze moved slightly, and he turned to the person, which he assumed was the cause of Hoya’s unusualness.

Berserker Eriman, a player belonging to the Arena.

He is currently ranked ninth in the rankings and was the only Korean player to enter the ranks of #1.

Due to his unique warm appearance and kind behavior, he had a pretty thick fandom and he didn’t even try to hide it, so he knew quite a bit about his reality.

“I heard that he was the grandson of some chaebol family in Korea? What was his name…? I didn’t pay much attention to it, so I can’t remember that.”

All of them were explained to Doban in a small voice by the infant.

As he listened to his explanation, his gaze was fixed in one place, and the infant’s gaze moved along with him.

“Hoya? Why is Hoya looking at you like that? I’ll take damage with just your eyes, hey.”

“……Nothing.”

Even in the previous royal castle, Hoya lost his mind for a while after hearing Eriman’s name from Geoffrino’s mouth.

Hoya himself said no, but… Doban thought that there was definitely something between Hoya and Eriman.

“Then we will act as it is set. Once again, our goal is to fully punish the demonic sect, and for that to happen, we need to capture the demonic people. Everyone please take care of that.”

As Main finished speaking, Hoya, who had been calm for a while, suddenly regained consciousness.

‘Hey… I didn’t even hear what you were talking about…’

By now the meeting was over.

As Hoya was perplexed, Eriman approached him.

“It seems like you’re saying the same thing, but please take care of me for the time being.”

“……”

How did the meeting go that this person came to me?

Hoya had not yet decided in his heart how to react to him in front of him, so he thought about how to respond.

Hoya’s fists under the table were clenched strongly.

“Wait, there is one thing I want to change.”

When Hoya did not respond to Eriman’s words, Doban said in a loud voice.

It was the first time Doban spoke up after entering the meeting, so everyone’s attention was focused.

“Hoya wants us to be with him, he does.”

To be honest, it was the same as Dovano Hoya, who didn’t pay attention to the meeting, but there was an infant beside him.The infant delivered the brief and precise content of the meeting to the doban.

First of all, the method of searching for magicians.

According to records about them in the central temple, they have their symbol, a red six-pointed star, painted on the back of their hand.

Find the one with the red six-pointed star on the back of the hand.

That was the magician’s search method suggested by the central shrine.

To be honest, with this number of people, even if the number of the royal knights waiting outside, the magic tower of the tower, and the priests and paladins of the central temple were combined, it was unreasonable because a small number of them were moving.

It was a completely reckless method, but now there was no other way except for that method.

Just take one at a time! I couldn’t help but think.

The idea was to interrogate him and find out the location of their hideout and other information if they somehow managed to rescue one.

The second is the division of the area and personnel for the search for the devil.

For reasons of mutual cooperation and search efficiency, the adventurers’ guild was first divided into three locations: Royal Knights, Arena, and Snow White.

Also, Doban and Yooa will join the Royal Knights, and Hoya will join the Arena.

Because of the largest number of people, it was decided that only Seol Baek-ho would move alone.

With that set, the NPCs were decided to join the Wizards of the Tower to the Royal Knights, the 1st Royal Knights of Ruzeros to the Arena, and the priests and paladins of the central temple to join Snow White.

Dovan came up with his word to change this decision.

He wanted to get Hoya to act with him.

He may be a stranger, but he wanted to get rid of Eriman’s side.

“If cooperation is the reason, we’ve been working with him before. It would be better to be with us than with the Arena. If it’s about the distribution of the number of people, there’s not much difference between Hoya and Hoya anyway, right? ”

Next to Doban speaking with a rapid-fire cannon, the infant was greatly surprised and his eyes were wide open.

It was the first time in a long time that Doban spoke out so long and quickly at once.

And the infant knew that Doban was talking so far because he wanted to achieve what he wanted to say.

“I’ll ask you too. To be honest, I’m more used to being together as a group than moving together.”

I don’t know why he’s doing this, but Doban wanted it, so YooA added strength to his words.

Although the Arena side expressed a slight dissatisfaction, public opinion was leaning towards that Hoya would be better with Doban.

So Arena had to send Hoya to the Royal Knights.

[Dovan: If you have any difficulties, tell me. I will help you.]

A faint smile was drawn on Hoya’s face when he saw the whisper from Doban.

Dovan eventually realized that he had noticed something between him and Eriman.

Hoya felt that Doban was genuinely concerned for her.

Perhaps he would be a great help if he told Dovan what happened between him and Eriman.

He will become a wall you can lean on, and unlike those of the past, he will be by your side.

……But Hoya didn’t have the courage to share his past with someone who wasn’t yet in his family.