1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 50

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 2 Episode 25

25. Guardian of Izbaront (2)

[Protection of Izbaront 1]

The news that a multitude of monsters are approaching Izbaront has been delivered to the royal family.

The current king of Ruzeros, Geoffrino Ruzeros, uses the power of adventurers to protect Izbaront from the Monster Wave.

He awaits the support of adventurers who will burn a body for Iz Baront.

*When completing the quest, logout, warp scrolling, and long-distance warp skills are restricted until all monsters targeted for quest ‘Izbaront’s Guardian 2’ are hunted or killed.

Completion Requirements: Show support to the soldiers of Izbaront.

Success Reward: Quest ‘Izbaront’s Guardian 2’, EXP

Failure Penalty: Slight decrease in favorability of Izbaront residents

“Hey, what’s happening all of a sudden!”

“Hey, hey! It’s a chain quest, this!”

Players began to murmur due to the sudden quest.

The murmur was happening all over the city.

The quest occurred for all players in Izbaront.

Some people ran to the soldiers immediately after seeing the contents of the quest, but there were also those who thought about it for a while.

A chain quest that leads to the next quest due to the quest’s reward.

The chain quests were certainly infrequent quests, and their rewards are also attractive prey that noticeably improves as the quest progresses.

Even if it goes up to the second, the reward is more than an ordinary quest.

Nevertheless, those who did not immediately run to the soldiers were concerned with one word written in the quest.

It is impossible to log out until all monsters that are the target of the quest are hunted or the character dies.

Warp scrolling and the use of long-range warp skills are also restricted.

The fact that these phrases were written on the quest meant that if you accepted the quest, you could not escape.

It was also a foreshadowing of a desire to run away.

“…But, opportunities like this are not common.”

“Looks like it happened to all the players in Izbaront, but if we don’t, we’ll have to deal with it!”

“lets do it!”

However, such an opportunity was very rare, so those who were worried eventually approached the soldiers to complete the quest.

Hoya also approached the soldier for the quest.

The chain quest itself was interesting because it was the first time.

And the simultaneous occurrence of such a large-scale quest was the first since the opening of Initium.

“Thank you so much for making the decision to dedicate yourself to protecting Izbaront.”

Dobando followed Hoya and completed the quest.

As soon as the quest was completed, ‘Izbaront’s Guardian 2’ occurred.

[Guard of Izbaront 2]

When Geoffrino first received the news of the occurrence of the monster wave, the soldier he dispatched immediately to confirm the information came to know the information of the monsters.The monsters coming towards Izbaront have been corrupted by something and become very ferocious and strong.

Corrupted monsters are now approaching from all sides.

Hunt the tainted monsters that threaten the peace of Izbaront.

If you die while performing the quest, it will be automatically handled as a failure.

Completion conditions: Destruction of the corrupted monsters (0/???)

Success Rewards: Rewards vary according to your contribution.

Failure Penalty: Slight decrease in favorability of Izbaront residents

‘Contaminated…?’

Hoya was concerned that the quest expressed that the monsters were ‘contaminated’.

Maybe… ah, no.

“What are you going to do, Mr. Dovan? I’m going to the south gate first.”

“I also go to the south gate.”

[Do you want to accept player ‘Doban”s party request?]

Hoya naturally accepted Doban’s party request.

It was not intentional, but until now, Hoya and Doban had hunted together several times at the hunting ground that Chibin had informed them of.

The hunting ground Chibin informed me of was a place where there were monsters with a high level enough to not receive an experience reduction penalty according to Hoya’s ability.

It was close to Doban’s level cut line, so Hoya didn’t want to let him go, so we went hunting together.

Doban’s hunting speed was also quite fast.

So, the amount of experience points coming in from a party with him was narrowly higher than the amount of experience points divided by the party with Doban, so it wasn’t really damaging.

So, when Hoya was on the hunting grounds, when Doban came, he always hunted with him.

So, the party with Doban was quite familiar.

Hoya and Doban headed to the south gate.

On the way to the south gate, after hearing the news of the occurrence of the quest, I saw several people who came to Izbaront using the warp scroll belatedly.

However, after listening to their stories on the way, it seems that the quest did not occur for the players who came late.

Hoya came to replenish the potion, and Doban followed him and got caught.

When we arrived at the south gate passing them, there were quite a few players.

Among them, I saw several people having a party in haste, even if it was belatedly.

Among their murmurs, a knight in armor that looked classy at first glance came up to the hastily made podium and began to speak.

“To protect Izbaront, adventurers who have gathered to protect the Ruzeros Kingdom. First of all, thank you for your choices……”

Players didn’t pay attention to the knight’s words.

What they were interested in was the experience, contribution, and monsters that were approaching Izbaront by now.

However, since it is unknown how the attitude we are showing now will be reflected in the future, we took a listening posture.

As the knight finished his speech, he saw something approaching from the horizon beyond.

Even at a glance, quite a few monsters were coming.

Although they were surprised by the number of monsters that were bigger than expected, the players did not shrink and ran to the monsters.

Although the number of monsters was large, there were several relatively low level monsters, so it did not feel threatened.

“This one doesn’t lose by numbers either!”

The players who ran ahead were also targeting relatively weak monsters.

At level 120, his first target was a level 94 purple orc he had previously hunted.

When he was at a low level, he was a party hunter and caught him, but with the current level difference, he was confident to deal with it one-on-one.

Whoops- puck!

His blunt weapon was struck by the Purple Orc.

One of the purple orc’s arms was a blow that should have been broken.

However, the purple orc’s arm, which blocked the blunt force being struck, was still defending his blunt weapon.

“Uh…?”

At the information about the monster that came up due to the battle decision, he shed words with surprise.

[Tainted Purple Orc]

Level: 126

‘what! What’s the level?’

It was higher than his own level.

While he was bewildered by this fact, the drooling purple orc clenched the fist of his remaining arm and swung it towards him.

His body flew backwards in a large parabola at the powerful fist of the Purple Orc.

Similar things were happening all over the place.

The quest itself had already been mentioned as a ‘very ferocious and strong state’, but I didn’t expect it to be this much.

The power of the tainted monsters was stronger than expected.

At least several dozen levels higher than the original strength was showing the strength.

As a result, relatively low-level players were forced to logout without using their hands properly.

“Heal! Heal! Hurry! Tank cut off!”

“Pass the aggro and get out of the way!”

“I’ll stun you!”

The situation at the south gate was turning quite urgent.

The situation at the other doors will not be much different.

To be honest, the situation with Nammun was the best.

There were those who walked without hesitation when the players were bewildered by the power of monsters stronger than expected.

It was Hoya and Doban.

“God bless you.”

When Dovan said so, a divine light emanated from him.

Doban swung his hammer at the monster in front of him in that state.

Every time his hammer hit a monster, a white scar was forming on the monster’s body.

stigma is engraved.

And the additional damage was also added when dealing with undead or dark attribute monsters, not a group that would deal with normal monsters.

‘Why?’

For some reason, it seemed that all monsters were judged to be dark attributes.

There was only one guess as the cause.The modifier of ‘contaminated’ attached to all monsters.

The only thing the monsters changed was that, so Doban thought that was the cause.

Whatever the reason, it was a good thing for Doban if it was judged as a dark attribute.

* * *

When the players of Izbaront were heading out of the city for a quest, unlike them, there was a person who did not move and disappeared in the alley.

Dino, the former guild master of Black Heaven.

He was in Izbaront.

He looked at the black marble he was holding in his left hand.

[Essence of Magic]

It is a marble made by artificially agglomeration of demonic magic.

If you send the magical energy inside the marble towards the monster, it will contaminate the monster with the magic energy.

Contaminated monsters are strengthened in strength and pursue the essence of magic in order to have even stronger power.

It was the identity of the black marble that an unknown voice gave him.

Whether the demons’ magic was gathered or not, whether the monster was strengthened by contaminating it or not, the Dino didn’t really matter.

What he noticed was that the tainted monsters were moving after chasing this marble.

If used well, you can make a lot of monsters attack Izbaront!

In that case, there was a very high probability that the soldiers guarding the underground royal tomb would be recruited there to stop the monsters.

Dino thought so, and in the end he succeeded.

However, in order to do that, it was necessary for Dino to go around the hunting grounds and contaminate the monsters first.

In the process, there were several crises thanks to the dropped stats along with dozens of levels due to death in the process, but in the end, I was able to come here after contaminating a large number of monsters.

I didn’t know that the quest would happen because of this, but it didn’t really matter.

After all, all he has to do is save the remains of Adora.

It would be rather grateful if the players disappeared due to the quest.

– Do you remember what I said?

“of course.”

The voice gave Dino the essence of magic and asked for one thing.

Be sure to destroy the Magic Essence after everything is done.

It is said that if you throw it on the floor, it will shatter.

There was a reason the voice asked Dino for such a thing.

Because that was Hayden’s order.

Hayden’s order to Gagon was very simple.

Experiment with the power of the magical essence, record it, and then destroy the magic essence, leaving no evidence.

Hayden specifically warned him not to leave evidence.

If he leaves evidence and even gets into the witch’s ears, it’s dangerous.

Basically, these guys don’t interfere in the affairs of the world, but if we were involved, the story would be different.

– Don’t forget to do it.

Dino nodded his head at the words of the voice and waited patiently for his guard to disappear.