Chapter 73

Translator: Leyy

Editor: Arya

Chapter 73 . Puppeteer Raid Squad

They had to go .

If only one of the girls of the territory that was mentioned before, Lana Lovely, was kidnapped, Kang Chul-In would not go himself .

It wasn’t right for a Lord to risk his life to save a life of just one commoner girl . But if it involved the lives of many kidnapped children, then it would matter, as it would involve the risk of losing the trust of the citizens .

And not only this, the quest offered +3000 exp, +2 Levels, 1 ticket of territory enrichment, and most importantly, the Epic Item: the Needle of the Empress .

Finally, this was also linked to the talking tree sap problem . There was no choice but for Kang Chul-In to start the expedition .

The next morning, Kang Chul-In, along with Dorian, Lucia, Nilus, and James rode on a horse, and headed towards the Talking Tree forest, under the watchful and hopeful gazes of the citizens .

“I will go first, so follow after 30 minutes . ”

Kang Chul-In spoke, as he led his horse forward in a gallop .

“Milord, why don’t I go instead…”

“No worries, I have a plan . ”

After quickly responding to Lucia’s question quickly, he headed quickly into the forest .

The reason for this was because he didn’t want to wear ear muffs .

For a grown man to go inside the Talking Tree forest was quite a pain .

Wouldn’t it be embarrassing for yourself to realize your own true, hidden thoughts? And for this reason, ear muffs inside the Talking Tree forest was a must .

But the problem with this was that there was only one type of ear muff in the whole of the Laputa territory . And whoever wore that seemed to be cute, due to the sheep-shaped design .

If Kang Chul-In wore that, then he would be vulnerable to people laughing at him, and that was not something that he wanted as a Lord .

“Hmph…”

Lucia licked her lips in an unsatisfied manner, still staring at the disappearing silhouette of Kang Chul-In’s back .

“Why do you do that?”

Commander James asked cautiously .

“I could have seen milord’s cu… I… I mean… Never mind . ”

Lucia mumbled, but soon returned to her cool, collected self .

“Nothing . It’s absolutely nothing . ”

Although James was confused, he didn’t speak back to Lucia, who had the second highest position in the whole of Laputa .

At the same time, Kang Chul-In had to endure the constant talking of the Talking Trees .

And the talking trees even talked about the past, when Kang Chul-In had yet to come back with his Soul Backup .

‘It’s a good thing I came alone’ .

Even though the others wore ear muffs, there was still a chance that they could accidentally hear something . Just because of that small possibility, Kang Chul-In came into the forest alone .

Kang Chul-In didn’t rage at the constant mutterings of the Talking Trees, nor did he even respond to them . He wasn’t someone fainthearted, and could not be shook by these mere trees . However…

The Talking Tree who had touched Kang Chul-In’s reverse scale screamed, and the sap from it came flooding down . Kang Chul-In had gone and slashed the tree while it was talking .

No matter who it was, there was a limit to where someone could take . Whether it was a human, or a tree .

One hour later .

As the Raid Squad’ followed under Kang Chul-In’s lead, they took out their gadgets and gears used to climb down the cliff, and started going down carefully .

Tat, Tahat!

But as the others were doing that, Kang Chul-In jumped from pointy stones to other pointy stones on the walls .

“Sigh… is he even human anymore?”

Dorian saw this scene, gasped in shock .

Unlike the others, Kang Chul-In didn’t use any equipment to get down the precarious cliff . Kang Chul-In, with his overdrive on for a short burst of time, could make even Dorian, who was once part of the British special forces SAS, go slack in shock .

“We can’t lose to him! Let’s go, Jack!”

Muttering, Dorian hugged Jack, and followed behind Kang Chul-In, also without equipment .

He was the junior of the famous host of the Man vs Wild show, Bear Grills . There was no way that he couldn’t do what Bear Grills could . And not only that, he could also use mana .

“Urghh…”

Of course, he couldn’t go down the cliff like Kang Chul-In did, without the use of his hands .

“Ugh… I think my bones will break by the end of this . ”

Bark Bark!

Dorian was having a rough time, mainly due to his useless, competitive spirit .

“Sigh, I don’t think those two are normal at all . ”

James said, shaking his head .

“Is that so?”

And saying this, Lucia also jumped down the cliff without safety equipment, grappling into the walls with her iron-hard fists .

“Hmph… at least this it will be hard for this old man then . Hmph… Yes, I bet it is . ”

But as he said that, Nilus used the magic spell ‘Fly’, getting to the bottom of the cliff the easiest out of all the members .

“… Oh god . ”

James, who was left behind stared at the others at the bottom with envious eyes, staring at the others as if they were not human . And he also had to get down via ropes and equipment, something that he thought made him look lame .

“It’s humid in here . ”

Kang Chul-In muttered, as he got inside the dungeon .

Just like Dorian had said, the dungeon was about 5m wide, and was very tightly packed . And due to the fact that it was pitch black, they couldn’t see what was in front of them .

Ting!

Abruptly, some letters came out in front of Kang Chul-In’s face .

[Laputa’s Soul Core Detected! Verifying… It is real . ]

And out of the two swords that were placed in Kang Chul-In’s belt, one of them, which was the Soul Core of Laputa, started shining crazily . He had brought it just in case, but he didn’t know that this would happen .

[… Verification, Complete! Due to the entry of the Lord Kang Chul-In, the difficulty of the dungeon falls to ‘Level 50’ . ]

‘Going down to Level 50?’

Kang Chul-In once again looked at the difficulty of the quest .

‘Holy crap . ’

Looking at these words, it would seem that the dungeon was originally made for Level 100 .

He could well understand why there was a warning towards the ‘Fake Lords’ . A level 100 dungeon could prove to be quite troublesome to even the Kang Chul-In of the past .

If he was to go in there right now, he would be absolutely annihilated .

‘This dungeon is insane . ’

After being surprised by the high difficulty of the dungeon, Kang Chul-In started walking again .

“Be careful . These guys are super strong . I couldn’t even put up a proper fight . ”

Dorain said as if nervous, holding up the two red gauntlets he had attached as weapons .

“Of course . ”

Kang Chul-In nodded .

Shiiing!

And as he said that, Kang Chul-In took out a light pinkish ‘katana’ that he had bought before coming on the raid .

This item was a unique item of the fire category, that was specialized for stabbing . And it costed 700 gold, and was something that he bought specifically for this dungeon, as he realized how difficulty of it .

“Lucia, stay with me . ”

“Yes, milord . ”

With a happy smile on her face, Lucia walked to the front of her group, conveniently protecting Kang Chul-In . It was the best formation, with Lucia as the tanker and Kang Chul-In attacking .

And as they walked around 5 minutes, the first battle began .

Rumble!

It seemed like the cave was ringing .

Then…

BANG!

The whole cave collapsed .

“Damn . ”

And the second Kang Chul-In cursed out loud, couple tens of will’ o wisps stared at them .

“…They’re coming!”

And Kang Chul-In clasped the katana in his hand, ready for battle .

BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM!

And with loud footsteps, ‘they’ showed themselves in the dark .