Chapter 111
Chapter 111
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 111
Chapter Title: Bounty on Magical Beasts
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“Lord Judak?”
A ragged-looking boy looked up at me and spoke.
The moment I heard those words, I froze solid.
*How does he know?*
Should I pretend I didn’t hear him right now?
Or should I just ask how he knew?
If he really knew and said it on purpose, I was in danger.
I was debating whether to pull out my shotgun and stay on guard when—
“Aah... Thank you...”
The boy suddenly started wolfing down the tuna can like nothing happened.
Meanwhile, I racked my brain and shot back.
“What do you mean calling me Judak?”
Let’s test the waters carefully first.
The boy blinked at me with watery eyes.
An awkward silence stretched on for a moment.
“Aah.”
The boy nodded slightly as if he understood.
“No, it’s nothing. I was just so hungry, I must’ve been talking nonsense.”
The boy gathered the coat I’d given him and stood up.
Then he bowed at the waist, expressing deep gratitude toward me.
“Thank you so much.”
“No, it’s nothing...”
From the shops, most items were sold at exchange rates, but tuna cans were the exception.
One point each.
At my current high level, points piled up just from breathing.
A few tuna cans were nothing—not even worth remembering.
[You have purchased 5 Tuna Cans!]
“Here, take these too.”
“Aah!”
I bought some tuna cans and handed them over like I’d pulled them from my pocket.
The boy accepted them with both hands, bowing so low his forehead nearly touched the ground.
“No one’s ever treated me like this...”
“Well, we’re all just trying to survive together, right?”
In truth, I didn’t see it as charity for some poor soul.
My points came from the gallery users anyway.
If this boy survived and started posting, he’d bring back multiples of what I’d spent.
I meant it when I said there was no need to be so grateful, but the boy looked up at me with overwhelming admiration.
“My name is Darian Jalot.”
“Mm, I’m Malphite.”
“Malphite...”
He mulled over my name for a bit, then said it to me with a resolute expression.
“I won’t forget this.”
With that, he staggered off somewhere.
Watching the back of the boy who’d introduced himself as Darian, I felt an inexplicable unease.
*
[Title: Screaming and Ass-Shaking Time!!!]
(Market reopening meme)
))) ((( )) ((
(Elf ass left-right flip meme)
Kiiiiyaahou!!!
- lololol elf ears are hyped
- But can’t blame them for being excited
ㄴ Freedom at last!!!
ㄴ Beer for everyone starting today lolol
[Title: Good for you, Judak bros]
Author: Taldrue
(Adrian walls in the background meme)
Timing’s impeccable.
Let’s have a drink!
- lol dwarves are hyped too
- lololol look at those bright faces
- Cute lol but why the armor?
ㄴ Isn’t that Adrian wall back there?
ㄴ Huh?
ㄴ (Knight with bulging eyes con)
The market had reopened.
The punishment for all involved in the incident, including Archbishop Lewis, was the same.
[Title: Must-read for Adrian’s power players...jpg]
(Sharp guillotine meme)
Think carefully.
[Recommendations 5243] [Disrecommendations 201]
- Crazy bastard lol
- But he’s right
- Mandatory field trip to the execution grounds before public office?
ㄴ What lol pre-study?
Adrian, where the revolution first broke out, saw no real change.
Without cleaning house internally, only the names of those in power changed.
Perhaps that’s why they took this incident so sensitively within Adrian.
- Fuck, three strikes and you’re out for real
- Even rock-paper-scissors is best of three ㅇㅇ
- If spears fly again this time, it’s game over for the nation
They started reforms from the roots.
They changed deeply ingrained perceptions and carried out massive internal reorganizations.
Thanks to that, the cathedral was almost entirely purged and replaced.
Even the cathedral went so far as to allow faith in other religions.
“Looks good?”
The more united the people, the better for everyone.
Yeah, up to here it was all good.
[Title: Wow lol what is this?]
(Prayer room saint statue meme)
What’s this in their own cathedral? lol
Caught it out of the corner of my eye and damn near suffocated.
Quality’s insane, but the aura hits hard... lol
Asked a nearby nun about it.
(Judak saint meme: one hand wiki, other hand tuna can)
lol fuck, it’s supposedly an imaginary portrait of Judak Saint
- lololololol
- Judak weeping
- Damn she’s gorgeous lolol
- But it looks so holy, what gives?
ㄴ Joint work by sculptor and high mages?
ㄴ Mages embedded golden effects apparently
ㄴ lololol fuck
“What?”
Proof that the cathedral was no longer authoritarian.
And that proof? My statue inside the cathedral.
No—a robed saint they were claiming was me.
- Judak*) fuck
ㄴ lololol here he comes
ㄴ What, did they do it without permission?
ㄴ lololol hilarious
They placed the statue at the cathedral’s center so no one forgets this incident every time they see it.
The meaning’s good, but why me?
“Should I protest?”
I was about to message Collin, the cathedral’s representative.
But before I could, something more serious than the statue caught my eye.
- Oh fuck, magical beasts coming back? [11]
- Hello, it’s the magical beasts [2]
- One day later nightmare post predicted...jpg [5]
“Hm?”
Bait that the magical beasts were returning.
*
The runaway magical beasts were coming back.
“What’s this about?”
Then something flashed through my mind.
The nuke browsing incident.
“Oh no way?”
The magical beasts that fled in terror from the nuke viewing were returning to the continent.
There was only one thing to do.
- Shouldn’t we block these fuckers from coming back?
- Honestly pisses me off how they sprawl out like they own the place
- lol good times over
- Magical beasts: lolololol
“We have to block them...!”
Direct interspecies exchange had been cut off because of the magical beasts.
The ongoing famine, the beasts swarming outside cities—all because of them.
In that sense, now while they were away fleeing was the perfect chance.
“Blocking them from returning would be great, but...”
The problem? No troops to do it.
The races weren’t in any state for it.
They were barely holding walls or hiding—that was the current reality.
Telling them to suddenly go hunt beasts would get a lukewarm response at best.
“Can’t make people go out and hunt voluntarily?”
A few ideas crossed my mind then.
How to make magical beast hunting trendy.
Simple: make it profitable.
Why had people avoided it until now?
[Title: Call Me ‘Hero’...]
(3m pig beast with axe in head meme)
Because I hunted the troublesome pig beast in the forest near the village...
So please, call me ‘Magical Beast Hunter, Great Hero’...
[Recommendations 12] [Disrecommendations 0]
- Aah... sure thing “elf”
- “Hey, elf love squad”
- Great hero lololol pathetic hero face lololol
- So what’d you get?
ㄴ Author) What’d I get?
ㄴ No seriously what’d you get?
ㄴ Author) So what’d I get?
ㄴ Fuck what did you get??
ㄴ What are these idiots doing? lol
Obviously, no rewards.
Suppose you barely took one down?
- Wow, amazing~
ㄴ That’s it?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ
Amazing—that’s all.
At best, monster meat?
Monster meat was fishy, bloody, and fatty depending on the type.
MSG from the market made it edible, but still lacking.
- Fuck no reason to hunt
- Super tough and nothing for it lol;
- Did it for the greater good ← one-trick pony
ㄴ Spirit beads inefficient too...
No byproducts to use, no buyers.
Only if it was something like merfolk with good spirit bead efficiency or easy kills.
“Then let’s create rewards.”
If not, I’d make them.
[Creating new category in the gallery.]
[‘Bounty’ category opened.]
- ?
- Oh new update!!!
- Bounty? What’s that?
*
Magical beasts suited to local environments lived in each region.
Neglected ones or those with good environmental synergy could mutate into variant beasts.
So I opened the new category.
[Notice: Bounty Category Usage Guide]
Author: Judak*
Me.
Magical beasts are weakest now that they’ve run home, so we gotta hunt, but participation’s low so I made this.
[Guide]
1. How to report variant beast sightings/discoveries in comments
2. How to post hunt verification
3. Reward measurements per beast/variant beast notice
.
.
Expect many views, hope it blows up.
[Recommendations 9999+] [Disrecommendations]
- No idea but mega recommend
ㄴ Gasp
ㄴ (This post recommended by elf! con)
- Adrian southwest swamp/variant beast/one-eyed frog. Like this?
ㄴ Oh you know one-eyed frog!
ㄴ Fuck couldn’t go to forest cuz of that bastard
ㄴ Judak*) (5 Tuna Cans rewarded)
ㄴ Judak*) Thanks for participating
ㄴ Gasp fuck
ㄴ So jealous going out now
“Let’s start with this.”
I decided to kick off with the chatty one-eyed frog variant.
I edited the notice to add the frog.
[1. One-Eyed Frog (Variant)]
(One-eyed frog sighting meme)
Location – Adrian southwest swamp
Reward – 5 Spicy Tuna Cans
ㄴ Holy fuck
ㄴ Spicy tuna? Spicy tuna?????
ㄴ Spicy tuna is peak
ㄴ Spi-cy tu-na
ㄴ Don’t abbreviate you madman
“Oh, good reaction.”
But there was a problem.
My points draining alone.
Even as investment for the gallery, losses pile up with tons hunting.
- But rewards kinda stingy
- Just spicy tuna?
ㄴ Take that back...
ㄴ Retracted!
Plus some users grumbled about rewards.
There was a fix for that.
“Something practical, cheap, everyone loves—but not on market yet.”
Thinking about it, there was.
(Monthly Bounty Hunt #1 Prize Items Revised)
1st – AK47 (7-day rental)
2nd – Chef Fridge
3rd – Chuseok Tuna Can Gift Set
Wtf?
- ???
- Judak nuts?
- (Elf clutching head con)
- ??? Hunting now
I updated the notice post.
The gallery soon exploded with comment notifications.
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