1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 5 Episode 25

25. Master of the Mountain (3)

Instead, there was a white-haired woman dressed in her white hanbok.

The sleeves of her short skirt and see-through jeogori were embroidered with floral patterns for ease of movement, and her white hair, shining in the moonlight, went down to her wing bones, and between her bangs was ice. He had blue eyes that looked cold.

Hoya intuitively knew the identity of her woman.

"Miho?"

"That's right."

At Miho's voice, the fox baby in Hoya's arms pricked her ears, jumped out of his arms, ran to her Miho and hugged her.

"Keeping."

"Yeah, I'm sorry about this mother."

Miho looked up while stroking the cub in her own arms and raised her head to meet Hoya's eyes.

"Thank you so much for saving my child. I will never forget this grace for the rest of my life."

As Miho bowed her head slightly to express her gratitude, a system message occurred to Hoya announcing the completion of the quest.

[You have cleared the quest 'Master of the Sado Bon'.]

[Experience increases.]

[Shinsu Ten Miho 'Miho' wants a contract with you.]

[Would you like to accept the contract with the divine beast 'Miho'? Yes No]

“And I want to repay this favor by your side.”

"Huh?"

"I'm saying I want to follow you."

[The divine beast 'Miho' wants a contract with you.]

[Are you willing to accept the contract with the divine beast 'Miho'? Yes No]

As Hoya responded, the system message re-emerged.

Then, this time, white threads were pulled out from Miho and began to circle around Hoya.

"Is that something you don't like?"

"Huh? No, no. It's not like that."

I never imagined that the reward hidden by the question mark would be a contract with Miho.

It's not that I didn't like it, it was just that I was a little surprised.

As Hoya expressed acceptance of her contract, the pure white threads floating around Hoya gathered on the back of Hoya's left hand and painted her fox face emblem.

[The contract with 'Miho', a ten-tailed fox, has been completed.]

[The skill 'Miho's Guardian' has been created.]

[The token of the contract with Miho is engraved on the back of the left hand and cannot be erased.]

[Miho's Guardian]

A contract was made with the divine beast, the ten tailed fox 'Miho'.

You can borrow Miho's power and she will always be by your side.

The system messages did not end there.[Succeeded in the contract with the divine beast, increasing the proficiency of 'Intermediate Reina's Holy Magic' by 15%.]

It was an unexpected harvest.

When I checked the skill, Reina's proficiency in divine magic was almost following Moan's magic.

In this state, it seems that both of them can be raised to a higher level at the same time.

"Thank you."

When the contract with Hoya was completed, Miho smiled warmly.

"Thank you so much. But is it really okay if you go with me? You've been living here forever."

"It's fine. No, it's much better to follow you than to be here."

Miho's warm expression turned into a cold smirk.

"Even though I may not be able to repay the grace for controlling the monsters in this area so far and allowing them to come and go safely, I have no loyalty enough to be by the side of those who returned them as enemies. Now I can't believe them anymore."

Hoya suddenly felt a chill.

Because Miho regained his cub, the anger subsided and the violent monster returned to its present state.

However, if she leaves Sa Dobong, the monsters that she was not prior to will become her first monsters.

* * *

"also......."

As the next day dawned, Hoya, who logged in again, looked around the village and shed words.

The soldiers of the village officials were walking around the village, holding a piece of paper.

What they were holding was a montage of the thief who broke into the official's house the night before.

"Have you not seen such a person?"

"Are you serious about drawing this? It's all black, how do I know?"

"I don't know either."

"Soldier, is that a picture problem? The answer is ink spilled on the floor! Right?"

"Okay......"

There was only a black line drawn, so it wasn't something that could be called a montage at all.

It was painted by the only village official who could see the thief properly, but he had no talent for painting.

Still, if he dared to find the characteristics of a thief in a painting, it was only that he had black hair.

They didn't think they would have dyed their hair because there was no place in the eastern continent that sold hair dye.

The criminal, who had already turned his hair green, quietly left the village.

“I don’t think I can be there.”

"Heh, you can leave a town like that quickly."

At Hoya's words, Miho, who was in the form of a little fox in the bag he was carrying on his back, stuck out her head and snorted her.

“Haha, I thought it would be dangerous if there were more, so I was going to leave.”

"For whatever reason, I want to get away from that town soon."

"Wow!"

Then Sammy stuck out his head next to Miho.

Sammy is the name of the fox that Hoya saved last night.

Hoya said it was difficult to call him because he didn't have a name yet, so Miho suggested that he give him a name, and Hoya gave the fox the name Sammy.

Because it's Miho's baby, it's Sammy.

It was a name that seemed to be good at math.

Sammy also finished his contract with Hoya, so there was another small white circle on the back of his left hand.

"But where are you going?"

"I'm going to a place called an underground tunnel. I'll go there, and the day after tomorrow, I'll take a person from near the village and head to another village."

If you get out of Handong Village, you will naturally move away from the underground tunnels.

In that case, it will take quite a while until when you can clear Badu's second quest.

I needed to finish that first before heading to another town.

* * *

"Are you finally going to another town?"

"Before that, I'm going to take a person from the forest near Sado Peak."

After two days passed, Hoya, who had met all the conditions necessary to complete Badu's second quest, was heading to the meeting place with Doban.

He had to move to find another village, so before that, he needed to take Doban.

He came because of himself, but it is impossible to leave it alone.

He was a little reluctant to meet in the village because of the circumstances, so he made an appointment to meet in the vicinity where he had looked at the entrance to the mountain before entering Sadobong.

On the way to the meeting place, Hoya checked the skills created by Badu while clearing the quest.

[Cheering]

While summoned, all stats of the master player are increased by 10%.

Hoya smiled slightly at the fact that the skill name, cheering, was cheering for the owner himself.

'This, I guess I should always be with Badu, right?'

As I was thinking about it, I had arrived at the appointment before I knew it.

"It ended surprisingly quickly."

"Yeah, how did it happen?"

Doban's gaze, which had turned to Hoya, who had arrived at the meeting point, turned to Miho, who was sticking his head over his shoulder.

"Hey, it was this person who was supposed to take me."

"Hoya, is that what it is?"

"It's nice to see you again in one day."

Miho welcomed Doban happily.

* * *

On the night after two days had passed since Hoya took Doban and left to find another village, the village official was biting his nails and pondering his anger.

"Damn...!"

The more I thought about it, the more my teeth broke.

The cub of the ten-tailed fox, which was barely caught, was stolen by an unknown person, and the culprit has not been found yet.

To make matters worse, even the Ten Miho, which was tied to Sado Peak, disappeared.

And when the Tenmiho disappeared, the monsters on Sadobong erased their violence, but unlike before, they were attacking people first.

Sadobong Peak is no longer a road that ordinary people can pass.

As a result, merchants were unable to use the mountain road, and the damage caused was quite large."Where did it go wrong..."

According to the schedule, the official thought that he should be carrying a gift to the emperor by now and receiving a reward for him.

It was when he was grinding his teeth into a situation that didn't flow the way he thought it would.

Kudang-!

"What's going on?"

"Wow, manager! Ji, Ji, out now...!"

"Don't stutter and be straight."

A soldier hurried in and told him the news.

"Heo Eok, Heo Eok. A person has come to meet you now."

“Who dares to come at this hour without an appointment?”

"That, that..."

"What, what?!"

The official, who raised his eyes the size of a fist at the words of the soldier who followed, adjusted his clothes and hurriedly ran towards the front door.

Then, under the light of a torch, I saw people coming in through the front door.

An elderly man with eyes full of vitality with a sharp impression standing at the forefront of them.

He was dressed in a black velvet studded with gongs and headgear with white fur, and a sword hung under a red belt that was fastened to his body.

Originally, it was a principle that all guests entering his house should be disarmed, but the man in front of him and his party were not men who dared to speak like that.

A person whom the official could only see his face once.

"Jo, what kind of business did General Jo Jo-yeon come here for?"

Captain of the Black Dragon, General Jo Yeon.

The official found it difficult to even make eye contact with him.

"I've come to carry out the Huangming. I'll take care of you at your house for a while."

"Woah, do you have any doubts? Think of it as your own home, and please stay at ease."

Those around them were surprised to see the arrogant management at a loss, but they didn't show any signs of it.

He did not know what would happen to him later if he showed any outward expression.

"Ha, but the name Hwangmyeong..."

At the official's question, Jo Yeon looked at him.

"I'm here to find someone."

"That's right. I want to be of great help to the general. Uh, if you just tell me what kind of person you are looking for, I will help you with all my heart......"

Jo Jo-yeon, who looked at him with unsure eyes at the official's words, took out an object to rummage in her arms.

"I'm looking for whoever possessed this in the first place."

"Hey, what is it?"

"You don't need to know that."

What he took out of his arms was a small gold plaque.

It was an unusual thing to have a sentence that looked like a flag engraved in a very elaborate and splendid way.

Its identity was the gold Hoya handed to the owner of the library to enter the library instead of the entrance fee.

Jo Jo Yeon He came to find the first owner of this item on a dreadful voyage.

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