Chapter 116 – Tomb Raiding (1)

Sun-woo took out the contaminated dragon heart from the dead Holy Maiden’s hand.

He called Yeonhwa and handed over the dragon heart.

Though unexpectedly received help from Yeonhwa, actually when Yeonhwa was needed in the mission was right now.

Restoring the contaminated dragon heart to its original state.

Yeonhwa placed her other hand over the dragon heart on her hand and began praying.

Light flowed from between the overlapped hands and shortly after, in her opened hands was a brilliantly shining dragon heart.

***

Same time.

The mercenary party who escaped the mountain was fighting while surrounded by guardians pursuing them and alien race soldiers guarding the surroundings.

When coming to the mountain range with the prince’s party, they avoided places with enemies as much as possible using the mage’s surveillance magic and scouts.

But when retreating, the party receiving no help encountered alien race forces shortly after descending the mountain.

In the meantime even guardians pursuing the mercenaries joined and they were surrounded front and back.

The party including high-grade mercenaries, proper knights, and even Daniel could hold out for quite a while without formation collapse even while surrounded.

“Sir Knight, if we don’t find a method, will be annihilated shortly!”

One mercenary blocking enemies in circular formation shouted toward the knights.

That was because though maintaining formation, many casualties already occurred and formation was about to collapse soon.

Moreover in a situation with obvious exhaustion from long fighting, no matter how much Daniel rampaged alone, couldn’t save everyone.

But Daniel and the knights had no sharp method.

There was a method to break through one side of the encirclement and escape, but that required sacrificing the remainder excluding some personnel. Moreover meant abandoning the wounded gathered inside the formation.

Sorry to the prince’s party, but Daniel believed in someone separately. And that belief came true now.

The mountain range unfolding behind in murky color was gradually returning to its original color.

Gradually returning to original color from inside the mountain range, eventually all the mountain range regained its color.

Next were the alien races and guardians attacking the party.

The alien races’ formation systematically attacking the party began becoming a mess.

The races attacking mercenaries cooperatively until just before forgot they were comrades with each other until just before and began excitedly attacking other alien races wildly.

Elves, orcs, and goblins fought each other and guardians and alien races fought each other. Of course there were also ones attacking mercenaries, but that degree was an attack they could sufficiently block.

The mercenaries were bewildered but soon came to their senses at Daniel’s following words and began eliminating enemies.

“Seeing enemies became strange, the dragon definitely died. Let’s quickly eliminate them and go help the prince’s party.”

Daniel knew the dragon died from the mountain range returning to its original color, but even seeing enemies’ movements, clearly the dragon’s control was released.

The mercenaries’ eyes reddened and pulled out even nursing strength to knock down enemies. If the dragon died, definitely only treasures the dragon accumulated remained.

Mercenaries with money flickering before their eyes began rampaging as if receiving the Holy Maiden’s blessing dozens of times.

***

[Dragon Heart Purified by Divine Power]

[The Green Dragon’s dragon heart forcibly contaminated then purified by divine power, containing strong mana. Addition: Powerful purification ability]

The dragon heart checked with the phone camera was changed to an item helping purify contamination instead, like the contamination amplifier Yeonhwa purified before.

Sun-woo immediately put away the dragon heart. Seemed necessary to check the added ability.

As expected, when the contaminated dragon heart was purified, the surrounding murky color also returned to original. This dragon heart was the cause of the situation.

Didn’t know how they contaminated the jewel inside the living dragon, but because of that, the dragon and the entire area became contaminated.

Sun-woo who put away the dragon heart sighed looking beside.

“Mission ended, and now the remaining problem is…”

“I remembered! It’s you! The person who exploded the volcano!”

Alda who approached beside glared at Sun-woo opening her mouth.

Sun-woo scratched his head. Her behavior was strange from before and eventually Alda recalled her memory.

“Said memory never returns?”

Sun-woo grumbled recalling Caroline’s words who confidently said when erasing memory, but his words were immediately refuted.

“That’s by ordinary person standards.”

Caroline who appeared sometime spoke with an indifferent expression.

“Ah! The woman who appeared on the island!”

Alda recognized Caroline too. Definitely all memory returned.

“Ugh, means people with abilities break the manipulation. Then all the people whose memory was changed until now are time bombs.”

“No way, wouldn’t do such half-hearted manipulation.”

“Anyway, doing it again now?”

Caroline appearing meant manipulating memory again.

But Alda who heard Sun-woo and Caroline’s conversation urgently backed away raising flames around her body.

“Absolutely not this time!”

At Alda’s appearance desperately trying not to have memory manipulated, Sun-woo had no choice but to sigh.

The prince seemed not to understand the series of situations that suddenly occurred. Things he couldn’t understand kept happening, like Alda recognizing Sun-woo and suddenly a new person appearing.

The prince decided to first wait for the story to finish while listening to voices heard from somewhere.

Sun-woo pondering how to subdue without injuring to manipulate memory only then remembered Caroline was alone.

“Why? Came alone? The others?”

She alone couldn’t manipulate memory!

“Won’t manipulate memory anyway, so no reason to come together.”

“What?”

At Caroline’s words, Sun-woo had no choice but to be bewildered.

“I said. Memory manipulation breaking is nearly impossible for ordinary people. The only possible case is summoners.”

Surprised Sun-woo looked back at Alda.

Alda was raising her hand to her ear with a curious expression.

“Where is the talking from? Doesn’t seem like spirits?”

That appearance seeming to hear someone’s voice, definitely hearing the Summoner’s voice.

“Don’t tell me, then?”

Sun-woo urgently looked back at the prince.

The prince was also staring at empty space with widened eyes.

“Is this possible? Suddenly two people becoming summoners in one place?”

At Sun-woo’s question, Caroline shrugged.

“I’m also seeing for the first time but don’t really know the reason. I received a mission for educating the two people who newly became summoners.”

“Eh? I didn’t have that?”

“If social rank is high or designated as summoner in advance before being summoned to a mission, separate education proceeds.”

At Caroline’s words, Sun-woo made an indifferent expression.

“Being a commoner then.”

“Hmph, anyway, becoming a summoner requires not just ability but strong resistance to contamination, and it’s fascinating these two people were suddenly decided. When on the island, there was no word about spirit mage.”

At the story Caroline brought up tilting her head, Yeonhwa spoke.

“That seems thanks to the dead holy maiden there. Before entering this mountain range, the holy maiden used divine power making contamination withdraw. Seems resistance was built by continuously accepting divine power at closest range. Even now, considerable afterglow of divine power remains on the two people.”

Though not visible at all to Sun-woo and Caroline’s eyes, couldn’t say otherwise when the holy maiden says so.

Yeonhwa purified contaminated inner dans and various source stones, and the dead Holy Maiden blocked contamination in a certain area and built resistance to contamination.

Definitely those related to gods helped solve contamination.

“Not a passing story, but seems really necessary to look for priests, holy maidens, or holy women.”

Caroline made a bewildered expression at Yeonhwa’s words.

“Holy maiden? What story?”

“Holy Maiden. I’ll tell you when we return.”

When Sun-woo pointed at the dead Holy Maiden’s corpse speaking, Caroline who frowned briefly immediately agreed with his words.

That moment, a reward window appeared before Sun-woo and Yeonhwa’s eyes.

“Oh, shopping.”

Yeonhwa was delighted seeing the reward window appearing before her eyes, and at that Yeonhwa’s appearance, Sun-woo couldn’t not say a word to Caroline.

“Just how far did you dye her?”

“I didn’t do that.”

At Sun-woo’s words, Caroline made an awkward expression. Because while shopping with Yeonhwa, the one dragged around wasn’t Yeonhwa but Caroline.

Caroline who was dragged by Yeonhwa searching through the department store like her own home resolved not to go shopping with Yeonhwa again.

Sun-woo who roughly figured out the situation from Caroline’s expression made an empty laugh checking the reward window.

[Min Sun-woo: 8 Stars. Achievement Rate 87%]

[Inventory Addition 500p]

[Skill Slot Addition 700p]

[Basic Recovery Potion Addition 10p]

[Basic Drinking Water Addition 1p]

[Basic Hard Bread 2p]

[Item Enhancement Stone 100p]

[Item Transformation Stone 1,000p]

[Summoner Summoning Stone 500p]

[Body Regeneration Potion 1,000p]

[Reward Window Summoning Stone 500p] – New

[100,000 won per Point]

[Current Points: 1,950p]

Experience rose to 62% and 1,500 points came in. Originally experience shouldn’t come in that much but additional experience came thanks to killing the dragon.

Fortunately this time didn’t use items so nothing additional to buy. Also obtained new skills so decided to first use points for skills.

Sun-woo who made the decision stopped his hand while dismissing the reward window. He examined surroundings without lowering the window.

Caroline could be seen explaining something to Alda and the prince. And the surroundings were in that messed up state from fighting.

Sun-woo began examining further with sorcery and martial arts. After searching hard here and there, Sun-woo discovered one suspicious cave.

Not much time. Definitely re-summoning would start right after lowering the reward window. But couldn’t keep the reward window open continuously either.

Hadn’t checked but seeing what those Summoner bastards do, definitely has a time limit.

Sun-woo immediately began running toward the suspicious cave.

“Where are you going?”

Surprised Yeonhwa at Sun-woo suddenly running asked and others also looked at him, but Sun-woo had no time even to answer.

It was the dragon lair. The dragon’s treasure vault definitely existed.

Sun-woo ran toward the cave at maximum speed.