1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 4 Episode 19

19. The moment I was dyed in darkness (2)

[Benefactor of the Grim tribe]

The Grim are very grateful for your favor.

The Grim will do their best to repay the favor you have been given.

Title Effect: The ability to hide in the dark increases, and once a day, you can summon one Grim and receive help.

The summoned Grim will return to the village after 30 minutes.

Although there is a time limit, it was a great harvest to be able to receive the help of the Grim tribe once a day.

Their ability to see and feel while acting together for three days was very good and useful.

Hoya looked around after checking the raised level and title.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for Toyun's words.

Hoya could know that the barrier had been successfully installed due to the automatically completed quest, but they were not.

Combatants running outside to prevent some players from entering seemed to feel that the barrier had been installed safely, but there were many more who did not.

"Toyun-nim, what happened...?"

"I think we can rest now."

A question mark appeared in the heads of the Grim people at Toyun's answer, but the question mark immediately turned into an exclamation point.

Now you can rest.

That meant that there was no need to block the entry of adventurers.

After that, the Grim tribe never appeared before the players of the Dark Forest.

As the disturbances of the Grim tribe disappeared, the players succeeded in pioneering the Grim tribe right in front of their noses, but no one noticed the Grim tribe village hidden by Evan's hallucination barrier.

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"I'm glad it was resolved safely."

In the worst case, the Grim people were thinking of going underground again.

But everyone was happy with the situation now that things were resolved without going there.

Hoya looked at them like that and said to Consannu who was standing next to them.

At Hoya's words, Consannu nodded his head.

The Grim people were the ones who followed them, believing only in themselves and looking only at themselves, choosing to come out of the underground and rise above the ground.

If they had had the experience of being rejected by people again because of it, they would have felt a great sense of guilt in their hearts.

Consannu sincerely thought that it was fortunate that such a thing had been prevented in advance.

"That's right, it worked out safely."

And perhaps as a reward for that, didn't he have a disciple who would learn his skills?

Even though he was already a disciple of others.

He thought it would take two hours when he taught Spot Weakness as an attribute, but it only took 20 minutes.

Even though it was taught as if he had almost shoved the technique without any other movements, he learned it quickly.It seems to have been very helpful for me to be accustomed to learning techniques through the body through Krauss.

Concenu said with his eyes shining, he grabbed Hoya's shoulders and looked at his face.

"Since it has been successfully resolved... Now, let's continue practicing martial arts!"

Concenu's hand, which was holding Hoya's shoulder, gained strength.

It was an expression that I would never let go of.

He had promised to teach martial arts properly after work, so Con Sonu was going to keep that promise.

He was never out of a desire he wanted to teach.

All for Hoya.

yeah, not like that.

"Ah... I'm sorry. I have work to do before that."

Hoya had a promise with Evan.

Evan's eyes were so serious that he felt the need to go see him as soon as possible.

I never want to postpone the training of Consanu.

Consannu had a regretful expression on his face, but Hoya apologized to him and ripped the warp scroll that went straight to Izbaront.

"Tell me more about the Grim people."

It was the first thing Evan said to Hoya when he returned to the tower.

Evan brought up the main point right away, regardless of how he said it.

There are three things Evan currently knows about the Grim people.

One is the name of a tribe called the Grim tribe.

Another is that all of them are learning the art of using shadows.

The only thing left was that there were some troubles with people in the past.

What Evan wants to know is the range of techniques that use the shadows and what are the troubles in the past.

"...I don't know completely either."

At Evan's serious gaze, Hoya told Evan everything he knew.

Evan's attention in Hoya's story was about shadow disease.

"Tell me the symptoms of that shadow disease."

- As he stepped on my shadow, my shadow shook as if it were alive.

The words she had said to Evan came to mind.

If the child she spoke of is a Grim, she may find a cure.

The dark forest was very close geographically to the place where her body began to weaken as she heard her change.

The possibility existed.

“I heard that when you get shadow disease, your body gradually turns black from the tips of your fingers and toes.”

- At that time, I was unaware of the fear in my young heart, because there was no situation ahead of me. It was the nanny who first noticed that my fingertips had turned black.

"And... if you dye your whole body black, you will die with all your might..."

-At first, only the fingertips and toes were dyed black. ...but now all the body except the face is dyed black.

'also.......'

Evan was both happy and sad that his prediction was correct.

She figured out what caused her to get ill, but it was unclear if there would be a cure for her.

If Hoya wasn't wrong, she had already started staining her face black, and she was in a pretty dangerous situation.

Her cure had to come out of her hoya's mouth.

"therefore?"

"Yes?"

"Is there a cure for that shadow disease?"

"I heard that in order to cure the shadow disease, you have to return the shadow as much as the Grim people who ate the shadow of the subject themselves ate."

"okay......."

thank God.

There was a cure.

There was a treatment for the symptoms that even the elders of the central temple could not cure and that he himself could not figure out the cause.

"...The story I'm going to tell you from now on is a story that should never be leaked to the outside world."

The treatment Hoya was talking about was only possible after asking for cooperation from Hoya and the Grim tribe.

So Evan started telling her story about her to convince her hoya.

She tells the story of Steria Lou Zeros.

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The second child of Geoffrey Noh Lou Zeros, the king of Lou Zeros, and her only princess, Stelia was raised and cared for from an early age.

For some reason she had Steria from her birth until her 7th birthday, she had never seen her outside of the royal castle.

Her older brother, Melvueer, was able to go out while hiding his identity in the name of observing the lives of the city's people for the future by accompanying the servants and the knights.

But she was impossible for Steria.

It was Geoffrey Noh's intention that she could not be sent out of her royal castle in a small group.

The high wall that could only be seen by lifting her neck high was the end of the world Steria lived in.

She wanted to feel the steria outside the high walls.

She wanted to feel the liveliness of the people as she looked down from the high terrace of the palace and looked down at the large buildings that she had to look up at, not as small as her fingers.

At the time she had hoped and wished so much, a golden opportunity arose for Steria.

After Steria's 7th birthday and Mel Viewer's 15th birthday, Mel Viewer accompanies numerous users and soldiers to the city of Halfa for about a month to get acquainted with her political sense. I heard that they went out to inspect.

She said, "Abama, please allow me to accompany you too. I want to broaden my knowledge."

Experience was not a word that would come out of the mouth of a 7-year-old child.

So Steria wanted her to step into the city for whatever reason she had.

Jeffrey Noh initially objected to her will of her steria because he was still young, but he was not her father who could break her daughter's stubborn stubbornness.

Eventually, Geoffrino allowed Steria to accompany Melvuer on a tour.

Time passed and the day came, and she climbed into her carriage like Mel Viewer, and Stelia pulled the curtains off her window and looked outside her.

The carriages were imprinted with the royal coat of arms, so the townspeople bowed to the carriages as they passed.

There wasn't her raucous vibrancy that Steria had imagined, but the street she was looking at now made her heart pound."Are you that good?"

"Yes! I think you did a good job accompanying me, brother!"

Steria, whose eyes twinkled like jewels, answered Melvuer's question brightly.

She was sitting in the wagon now, but after arriving at Half, she thought that she, like her brother, would accompany the servants and knights to the city.

However, such a pleasant imagination of Steria did not come true.

Melviewer was a younger brother who was second only to Jeffrino.

No matter how much she accompanies the servant and her knights, she still does not want to let her young Steria out of her when she is not with her.

Even when she arrived at Half Steria, she was only active in her manor's mansion, as in Iz Baront.

She had no time to be bored for the first two or three days, as she was full of things she had never seen in the lord's mansion.

But when it was over two weeks later, she didn't feel any different from her dynamism.

She still had her own world at the end of the high walls.

'...I've come all the way here, but I can't stand still!'

Steria felt the need to move actively and expand her own world.

It would be a few years in the future for her to expand her own world as long as she stays still as she is.

She said Stelia wandered around her lord's mansion, looking for a hole for her to get out of.

She and she found in the corner of the garden there was a small hole obscured by the bushes.

The hole was a small hole through which the still young Steria could barely pass.

She found the hole, she said Stelia, she was in the mansion's room, she was waiting outside so that even the servants could be alone if she wanted to be alone, so she then sneaked out of her room I made a plan to go out to the city with me.

She sneaked out and she thought she would be fine if she sneaked in.

After Stelia was left alone in her room the next day according to her own plans, she sneaked out of her room and into the city through a hole she had foreseen.

Alone she came out of the city and the distance she saw was 180 degrees different from what she had seen through the curtains in the carriage.

Loud conversations can be heard here and there, and her children run around in groups.

A woman passing by the merchant's solicitation stops, contemplating the ingredients for tonight's dinner, and a man with a large load on his back walks down the street asking for forgiveness.

She had that vibrant city look that Steria wanted to see and get out of.

But was it too exciting?

Steria, who was moving while memorizing the road, lost her way as she was struck by a multitude of people passing by in the blink of an eye.

In order to somehow find the way she came from, she asked how she got back, telling the people around her the features of the way she had come from.

And she took her hand as she walked, saying that a kind man, in awe of her Steria, who was about to return to her own power, would guide her there.

She took his hand, and she said that Steria's arrival was in a dark alleyway, not her first street.

She said it was a shortcut, so she followed it, but it wasn't a shortcut, it was a dead end.

He wasn't kind.

The man was trying to kidnap her steria in order to get her ransom, noting that she was the son of her aristocratic house with her steria hinting at her clothes she was wearing.

She regretted that she should not have come out because she broke the words of her brother and Abamama.

There were also dangers in the wider world.

She was a steria and she felt a feeling of fear for the first time in her life then she was born.

At that time, what entered Stelia's eyes, trembling with her fear, was a dark-haired boy darker than a dark alleyway.

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