Chapter 18
Chapter 18
Ch. 18 .｡.:✧ Final Regression (2)✧:.｡.
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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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I wanted to shatter the adventurers’ guild.
It was a thought I had throughout the 12 playthroughs.
Of course, I only fantasized about it, and never once had I thought about how to actually shatter it.
The adventurers’ guild had a strong collusive relationship with the adventurers.
The guild acted as an intermediary between the quest requesters and adventurers.
And the adventurers used that intermediation and convenience facilities.
They had a strong trust relationship with each other.
Strictly speaking, it was a structure where the adventurers’ guild was bullying them a little.
If only I could break this trust relationship, I could give them a big fuck you.
How could I break the trust relationship?
I didn’t need to think too deeply about it.
I already had enough power to not only break the relationship but also shatter the guild.
[Trait: Mana Control (lv.1)]
[You skillfully control the mana in your body. By consuming a small amount of mana, you greatly enhance your physical abilities. You take damage if overloaded.]
The trait I gained by forming an alliance with Blin, Mana Control.
This was unexpectedly more cheating than I imagined.
As I consumed mana little by little, my senses became sensitive, my strength increased, and my body became faster. It felt like it had the performance of Guardian Knight.
Of course, the penalty was also considerable.
Since I couldn’t see the mana decreasing in real-time with my eyes, I had to roughly estimate it by feeling.
If I accidentally used it until the mana ran out, I would suffer from mana exhaustion and feel so drained of strength that it would be hard to even stand up.
Getting overexcited and increasing the output was also a problem.
The moment I surpassed the limit output, a tingling pain would spread throughout my body.
If my future dream was to become a charcoal-grilled skewer, it might not be bad to try raising the output to the maximum.
“Human, don’t tell me you took them all out by yourself? Aren’t the guards veteran adventurers?!”
“Don’t talk to me… My whole body aches right now…”
It was easy when I was attacking adventurers one by one.
But attacking and taking down the guild’s guard unit composed of mages and knights was a whole different story.
On top of that, I had to knock them out without killing a single one and not cause a big commotion.
Still, thanks to Mana Control, I somehow managed to quietly neutralize the guild.
By the time the fight ended and Blin’s group rushed in.
I was already collapsed on the street due to mana exhaustion and overload.
“Human, how are you so absurdly strong?”
“Do you really need to know?”
“Kek! I don’t need to know! We just need to give the adventurers a good hit!”
“Yeah. That’s all that matters.”
Seeing Blin giggling, my feelings became complicated.
I had met him 12 times now, but it was the first time seeing his smiling face.
He had always shed tears while his head was cut off by my sword.
Well, it’s not like I particularly grew fond of him.
We just joined hands for a moment because our interests aligned.
We’ve seen all there is to see, so now we should go our separate ways.
“But are you really sure we can take all the sacks of gold?”
“Just take them. Melt them and sell them to dwarves, do whatever you want. I’ll only take two sacks. Oh right. Can I also take your wooden club as a trophy?”
“Kiek? My wooden club? It’s nothing special!”
“I know that too, dude.”
“Human, you really are strange! You’re not in your right mind!”
Sacred object, wooden club obtained.
Now I feel empty without it.
I sometimes use it to smack my back when it aches, and also as a laundry paddle.
It’s a versatile all-purpose club.
[Achievement Unlocked]
[First loot obtained!]
[As a reward for the achievement, the trait ‘Inspect’ is given.]
[You already possess the trait ‘Inspect’, so the proficiency of the trait ‘Inspect’ increases.]
Even though I didn’t kill Blin and steal it, it was judged as loot.
It was probably because I said I would take it as a ‘trophy’.
As expected, the system’s judgment was quite lenient.
“I’ll warn you one more time. If you spread rumors about me…”
“If we spread rumors about you, it’s obvious the adventurers will massacre us like catching rats! Why are you saying that! We’re not that stupid!”
“You know well. Then that’s enough. I’m leaving now.”
“Kek! Strange human, go well! Let’s never see each other again!”
As the sun slowly began to rise, Blin’s group all disappeared into the forest, carrying sacks of gold.
I thought about setting the guild on fire and running away right away, but I decided to stay and watch for a bit.
The reactions of the adventurers who discovered the completely burned down guild in broad daylight were diverse.
There were some who still couldn’t grasp the situation and were arrogantly beating up the employees.
There were some who just had a dazed expression, having lost all their assets.
I also saw several people going crazy.
I felt a bit of pity for a moment, but then I thought about how those bastards had been sucking the blood of the citizens and my sympathy disappeared.
Thinking that I had eliminated the competitors who would challenge the dungeons before me, I even felt refreshed.
I had planned to thoroughly clear the dungeons in this area before the adventurers touched them, but now I had quite a bit of spare time.
Should I get my equipment ready first?
“Ugh. It’s so heavy I might die.”
“What is all this?”
Thud.
I entered the shoe store and put down the sack of gold.
The estimated value of the gold coins stolen by Blin’s group overnight was several million gold.
Even though I only brought two sacks out of those, my back felt like it would break.
It seemed better for my back health to quickly take care of it.
“This is the money I’ll be spending here.”
“Huh? Just how many pairs are you planning to order…?”
“One pair… No, I need spares too, so let’s make it four pairs.”
“…?”
When you have money, you should spend it.
It’s not like I’m going to apply for housing or save up for retirement.
There’s no reason to be stingy with money on equipment and items.
Besides, later on, I’ll be earning so much money that even wasting this measly sum won’t be regrettable at all, so I don’t need to worry about money.
“Eh? You want a thin iron plate wrapped around the ankle? And the sole should be thick enough that even a blade can’t pierce it?”
“Yes. Please do that. Don’t skimp on the materials.”
“What kind of boots are these, really…?”
The craftsman grumbled but soon measured my foot size and immediately started working.
It was equipment for the Frost-style swordsmanship that used the entire body as a weapon.
Of course, it would be the first time he made such equipment, but as the most skilled craftsman in this area, he would be able to make it quickly.
It would have been better if it was a dwarf, but the skills of human craftsmen were also good enough.
“A ring… You want it to be sturdy enough to block a blade?”
“Yes.”
“Are you in your right mind, customer?”
While I was at it, I also ordered a ring from the shop next door.
Likewise, it was equipment necessary for the Frost-style swordsmanship.
Yerina wore 10 on each hand, but I found it more comfortable to wear just one.
This didn’t particularly require skill, so there was no need to find a highly skilled craftsman.
It just needed to be stupidly sturdy and heavy, that’s all.
I decided not to mind the craftsman looking at me like I was crazy.
If possible, I wanted to entrust it to a craftsman in Palana…
But I didn’t want to catch Yerina’s eye if possible.
No, I didn’t even want to get involved with her at all.
Yerina had good intuition, so she might notice as soon as she saw me.
That this guy was much stronger than he looked.
Once you start drawing the attention of the main heroine, you get infinitely fucked over in our game.
Now that I had decided to challenge the final boss, I would eliminate any point of contact with the main heroines.
That was my policy in my final playthrough.
‘Yerina won’t be difficult.’
Yerina basically never comes down from the northern continent.
Unless there’s a special schedule, she rarely even leaves Palana.
As long as I don’t show off the Frost-style swordsmanship like a madman in front of everyone, the possibility of running into her is almost zero.
‘Yulia is even easier.’
Yulia is as low in difficulty to avoid as she is in conquest difficulty.
Due to her communication disorder, she’s basically holed up in Petenburg’s high-rise building, so there’s no way to meet her even if you want to.
As long as I don’t attract Yulia’s attention, I won’t be stalked by her or receive her persistent obsession.
I felt like my stomach, which had been upset for 12 years, was finally at ease.
‘Jill is… a bit tricky.’
But Jill was the problem.
If left alone, Jill was destined to be assassinated by the anti-saintess faction in a month.
Since it was already my last playthrough and I had given up on the harem ending, it wasn’t my business what happened to Jill.
‘The saintess needs to be kept alive.’
As long as she was alive, that is.
Jill was currently like a restraint on the Pope’s Office.
If the saintess disappeared, the Pope’s Office would designate Petenburg and other anti-church forces as enemy nations and forcibly carry out a holy war.
It would be troublesome if the atmosphere at the borders became hostile due to the war and it became inconvenient to go to dungeons.
As expected, Jill needed to be kept alive to serve as a war deterrent for the Pope’s Office.
As long as she was alive, it wasn’t my business what happened to her.
So the problem was how to keep Jill alive.
‘I hate being half-assedly obsessed with saving her.’
Was it because I had read too many web novels?
The first thing that came to mind was wearing a mask, rushing to Hameln, and saving Jill while hiding my identity.
What usually happened to the protagonists who saved the heroine like that?
The heroine would somehow find out the identity of that masked man and become obsessed with him.
Just imagining it made me dizzy.
My long web novel experience was about to become poison instead.
I decided to just send an anonymous letter to the saintess’s bodyguards.
To be careful of the grand cathedral completion ceremony that would take place on a certain date.
I typed it out so the handwriting couldn’t be recognized.
When there was such a clean method, what was with the mask and all that?
A sigh escaped my lips.
It seemed I still hadn’t come to my senses even after being tormented for 12 playthroughs.
“I should slowly enter the dungeon now.”
I had new equipment made, including a sword.
I had also obtained a useful stat-boosting skill called Mana Control, which I didn’t have in previous playthroughs.
But why was I hesitant to enter the dungeon?
[Stats]
[Strength: 9(-5) *Guardian Knight penalty applied]
[Stamina: 7(-5) *Guardian Knight penalty applied]
[Mana: 12(-5) *Guardian Knight penalty applied]
[Agility: 18(-5) *Guardian Knight penalty applied]
[Luck: 14(-5) *Guardian Knight penalty applied]
“Ugh. I still haven’t gotten rid of the Guardian Knight penalty.”
Until now, I had always entered with a heroine, so I never had to worry about activating Guardian Knight.
Of course, it was true that I was strong enough to conquer early dungeons even without Guardian Knight.
But the problem was stamina.
Mana Control greatly increased my strength and agility, but it couldn’t prevent my body from getting tired.
To clear dungeons day and night without rest, I would have to activate Guardian Knight.
Was there anyone who would recognize that they were being protected by me, follow me wherever I went, and absolutely obey my orders like a good companion?
“Sigh. What kind of companion is that?”
Where in the world would you find such a companion?
It’s no different from a slave.
“Ah. Slave.”
Come to think of it, this world setting had a class system.
I could just buy a slave and it would be solved.
An answer that was so clear it was despairing came out right away.
First, I had to go buy a slave.
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