Chapter 383: Monster Imprint (1)

The Lucia Guild leader incapacitated Dylan in an instant. Then he turned his gaze back to Matthias, who was once again in his hands, and opened his mouth softly.

“Check information about this guild member Matthias.”

At that moment, information about Matthias came up before his eyes.

“Man, you are not just trash, you are even more incompetent!”

“Uh? You don’t know? Your trait was your everything, and you don’t know anything when you have lost it?”

“I still don’t know.”

“Whew…”

The Lucia Guild guilder just sighed at Matthias’ defiant answer.

Then he broke Matthias’ neck right away, and he did the same to Dylan by stomping on his neck.

“Damn it! How can I endure this humiliation when I promoted it so much?”

The Lucia Guild leader was more concerned about how much Asirante would look down on him rather than the death of his very competent guild member.

As a matter of fact, that was the only reason why he was so furious.

At the Myongjin Shelter one week later.

“Well…”

So many things have happened in the past seven days.

I opened the entrance to the gates of the shelter in the north, east, west, and north, so those who wanted to leave this place could do so voluntarily. I even scared them off by saying that they had a 99% chance of being killed by monsters if they continued to stay here.

But contrary to my expectations, they didn’t move.

“Even if I die, I will die here!”

“Don’t abandon us, please!”

“As long as you don’t kick me out,, I want to stay with you!”

Of course, my father didn’t build the Myongjin Shelter for charity, so I accepted those who were affiliated with Myungjin. Then I accepted those who would be helpful to the Myongjin Shelter. In other words, most of the people living in the Myongjin Shelter were affiliated with Myongjin for quite some time, so they were not strangers.

That’s why all of them refused to leave even if I scared them off by mentioning the possibility of their killing. They even declared to me that they were willing to die as long as they stayed with us.

Nonetheless, I forcibly drove them out of the shelter.

Why? Because the monsters would appear again in droves after one week, and it would be difficult even to evacuate numerous ordinary Myongjin people out of this place without incurring any damage at that point.

Nonetheless, there were people who decided to stay on the outskirts of Myongjin Shelter instead of leaving.

But I didn’t take any action against them, for I had lots of other things to take care of.

I had solved the urgent problem by driving them out of the Myongjin Shelter.

After that, I was so busy that I could not even access Revival Legend, but that guy from the Lucia Guild didn’t come back to me after one week.

No monsters appeared for the past week.

So I couldn’t help but question his failure to come back.

Even when I met him for the first time, I didn’t notice any consideration towards me.

Rather he was full of intense greed and desire.

But I stayed on alert because I didn’t know when he could come back suddenly.

At that moment, I saw somebody approaching the Myongjin Shelter. Of course, it wasn’t the guy who visited here a week ago.

However, the reason I couldn’t help but look intensely at the person slowly approaching the Myongjin Shelter was because it was an ordinary child.

Why does it matter? It absolutely mattered because it was unrealistic for a child to move alone in this day and age. That child delivered a note to the security guards defending the shelter. Shortly afterwards, Director Sok brought the note to me.

“According to that child, this is a note from the Lucia Guild. That boy specifically singled out your name and asked the guard to deliver it to you.”

I was puzzled by the note that was delivered in such a strange way, but I received the note and opened it.

[Unfortunately, I couldn’t build a good bond with you this time, but I hope I can make a good association with you next time. -Lucia Guild leader.]

“…”

His message was not long. Of course, there was no evidence that it was a real message from the Lucia Guild leader.

But I knew intuitively that it was real, for he was not the type of guy who would back off so easily. He must have obviously regretted not having put me into more jeopardy.

So I had no choice but to question his motivations abou why he withdrew the monsters from the Land That Summons Monsters a week ago as if evacuating them.

For he was not the type of guy who would take such an action. He didn’t show any such signs until he disappeared from the shelter.

‘This means that he must have had some reason to retreat at this point.”

I also could figure out why he had to retreat. It was because of the non-appearance of the monsters.

Other than that, he would not have freed a fish that he almost caught.

At the same time, some other things came to my mind.

In other words, the White Root that appeared with red lines all over its body.

Its appearance coincided with the disappearance of the monsters.

After thinking about the connection of the two events, I said to Director Sok, “I don’t think we have to move the shelter…”

“Really?”

As a matter of fact, everybody was busy preparing to move out of the current shelter. Besides, there were so many things that they should take with them.

So when I asked him to stop the moving preparations all of a sudden, Director Sok opened his eyes wide, and asked back.

But I opened my mouth, not caring about his reaction.

“There will be no more monsters here. So, unpack your luggage. Instead, please investigate the Lucia Guild more thoroughly than before.”

“Sure.”

Of course, I was now in a hurry because of the note. Maybe it was his intention for us to allow the ordinary people to re-enter the Myongjin Shelter again.

However, considering that guy’s full confidence, greed and desire, something must have happened to him. Perhaps it was related to his inability to summon the monsters in and around the shelter.

So I had no choice but to imagine how much he frowned after sending the boy to deliver the note to me.

Of course, that didn’t comfort me at all.

There was only one method that would satisfy my desire to pay him back for humiliating me. I had to kill him.

‘Alright. Next time, I will pay you back for shaming me!”

Starting off with the appearance of the first monster, this bizarre phenomenon had been going on for almost three months.

As a result, it caused enormous damage to the Myongjin Shelter, but to be honest, it was only me who suffered the most because I could only access Revival Legend sporadically in the past month. Moreover, the whole period during which I could not access Revival Legend overlapped with the event period when 40 regions were merged into one and the double EXP event was held.