Chapter 86
Chapter 86.
The center of Ten Thousand Demon Battle.
Kim Juyeong, who entered the Sacred Fire zone for the first time, looked around with an excited face.
"Oh...... So this is the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect? Amazing."
Click, Click.
After taking photos, Juyeong checked the pictures.
"The photos came out well too."
"Really? That's good. Just record a video while you're at it."
"From now? Well, isn't there anything confidential? Videos I shouldn't take."
"Hmm...... Taking them is fine, but let's not reveal the part about the Chinese agents being imprisoned for now."
"Ah. Got it. Then I'll film excluding those people completely."
As Kim Juyeong started recording,
Step, Step.
"Tsk. Heavenly Demon, did you bring another human?"
Karana, who was near the Sacred Fire, approached Lee Ganghan.
"Oh, oh, it's an Elf, Elf, Elf!!!"
Then, making a fuss about 'Elf, Elf,'
Kim Juyeong fixed the camera focus on Karana.
"Tsk! Not an Elf!"
"Ah, right. Yes, you're an Orc......? Ah. Your real appearance is insane, Orc. In my life, I've never seen a person, no, existence of this level."
As Kim Juyeong lost his mind seeing Karana in person,
She frowned.
"Heavenly Demon...... What is this human? He's unpleasant."
"He's my friend but the kid is immature, his eyes go crazy over appearances."
"Appearance?"
At this, Karana's eyebrows twitched.
"Tsk. Are you mocking me for being ugly right now?"
"By human standards, you're a beauty though?"
"This face? Grumble. Orcs and humans have completely opposite standards......"
As she shook her head side to side as if she couldn't understand,
"Elf...... No, Orc! What's your ideal type by any chance?"
Kim Juyeong, who had been focusing the camera only on her, threw out a sudden question.
"Ideal type?"
"Yes! What kind of male appearance is to your taste?"
Then Karana's expression suddenly darkened.
She pulled her hood deep over her head as if hiding her face.
"Tsk...... No Orc would treat someone who looks like this as a mate......"
"Still, don't you have a preferred appearance?"
"Still, if I had to say an ideal type...... I'd like lower tusks long enough to reach the nose. Tsk."
Lower tusks reaching the nose.
Well, would the teeth have to stretch up long like elephant tusks?
"Among all the Orcs I've caught so far, I don't think I've seen anyone to that extent."
"It's just an ideal type. Tsk. Such Orcs aren't common."
"By Orc standards, you have high standards."
"I-I can at least dream of an ideal type, can't I?"
Karana, who seemed embarrassed, scratched her cheek.
"Tsk. Then I'll be going."
"Yeah. See you next time."
She walked back toward the Sacred Fire.
"Ah. I should have done more interviews with the Elf, what a shame...... Eh. But that flame doesn't show up on camera?"
"Really?"
"Yeah. It just shows as light. Strange, when I look with my eyes it's a pure white fire."
Kim Juyeong showed the camera recording screen.
Certainly, unlike what the eyes could see,
The Sacred Fire appeared only as pure white light on the recording screen.
"Strange."
Unlike other existences,
The Sacred Fire couldn't be captured on camera?
Lee Ganghan tilted his head,
But he couldn't figure out the exact cause right now.
"Well, I can film other things."
Kim Juyeong began exploring Ten Thousand Demon Battle.
However,
"But now that I actually look...... there's really nothing here?"
After the mega-scoop material called Karana disappeared,
There really wasn't much scenery worth filming inside Ten Thousand Demon Battle.
Around the Sacred Fire area, there was only
Karana managing the Sacred Fire in her 'Divine Maiden' role,
The Spirit of Heavenly Sword that was stuck near the Sacred Fire and only sleeping,
And the Heavenly Mandate Tower building.
"Was this building originally here?"
"Heavenly Mandate Tower? I built it for 1 million TP."
"A million? This single-story pavilion?"
At those words, Kim Juyeong briefly captured Heavenly Mandate Tower with his camera,
But since it wasn't a very large-scale building,
It didn't take even 10 seconds to film.
'Seeing it directly with my eyes, Ten Thousand Demon Battle is quite barren.'
Unlike when opening the Ten Thousand Demon Battle function to build structures,
Actually coming inside and looking, Ten Thousand Demon Battle definitely felt empty.
As the Sacred Fire's flames grew stronger
And more races were accepted into Ten Thousand Demon Battle, would the number of buildings that could be constructed increase?
As Lee Ganghan looked around thinking this,
"Ah. Where did the Chief go? Doesn't he live here?"
Kim Juyeong asked about the Goblin Chief.
"Goblin Chief? He's a bit away from here."
"Really?"
"The Goblin area has relatively more stuff. There's a Black Market and a Goblin Training Ground too."
"Ooh......!"
When Kim Juyeong showed interest at those words,
"But that place is quite far from here...... Wait a moment."
Lee Ganghan opened the Ten Thousand Demon Battle function.
Then,
On the map, besides the existing Ten Thousand Demon Battle members,
Lee Ganghan and Kim Juyeong were additionally floating as SD characters.
'I'm sure a portal opened when I used the movement function.'
When Lee Ganghan clicked on himself on the map,
[Movement]
[Return]
Unlike other summons,
Only exactly 2 functions appeared.
'Functions like summoning or communication only apply to summons.'
And if he pressed return here,
He'd probably go back to the outer hall of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect?
Lee Ganghan familiarized himself with his character's functions and pressed movement.
[Please specify destination. A portal leading to the destination will open.]
When Lee Ganghan selected the area where Goblins gathered,
The Goblin Training Ground area on the map,
Swoosh......!
A red portal appeared before his eyes.
"Oh...... You can move by portal?"
"Yeah. Let's go."
Swish.
As Lee Ganghan entered first,
Kim Juyeong also entered the portal without hesitation this time.
Then,
"Kekekek...... You guys, stop resting and get up right now!"
From beyond the portal,
The sound of the Goblin Chief scolding Goblins was immediately heard.
"Training in progress?"
When Lee Ganghan spoke from behind the Chief,
"H-Heavenly Demon Lord?!"
The startled Goblin Chief
"Heavenly Demon Eternal! Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate!"
Started bowing first.
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'This guy really bows every time I see him.'
Among the residents of Ten Thousand Demon Battle,
The Goblin Chief was the most polite when it came to 'bowing.'
"What are you doing! Show respect to Heavenly Demon Lord!"
He also shouted at the Goblins who were looking at Lee Ganghan with surprised eyes,
Making them bow.
"Heavenly Demon Eternal! Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate!"
Then 50 Goblins bowed in unison.
Swoosh.
Kim Juyeong captured this scene in his camera.
"Heavenly Demon Lord! Can you come to Ten Thousand Demon Battle now?!"
"Yeah. But I can still only stay about 10 minutes a day for now. Today I came to look around Ten Thousand Demon Battle with this guy."
"This person is......?"
"My friend. Treat him well."
"A friend of Heavenly Demon, he's someone infinitely above me! I'll assist him with all my heart and soul!"
When Kim Juyeong was introduced, the Goblin Chief approached
And immediately acted obsequiously.
However,
"Ah. Yes, yes......"
Kim Juyeong unconsciously shrank back
And barely managed to nod.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Wow. Seeing him up close, the Goblin Chief's presence is terrifying...... I can't help but get scared."
"Kekekek...... I'll be more careful!"
As if this reaction was familiar,
The Chief took a step back.
"Goblins train too."
With his tension relieved, Kim Juyeong moved the camera swoosh
Capturing the scenery of the Goblin Training Ground.
"Yeah. To build a training ground, the race needs to be properly settled in Ten Thousand Demon Battle, and right now Goblins are the only such race."
"Really? You brought quite a few Orcs too."
"The Orcs are in the middle of experiments where Karana is trying to turn them into Imperial Orcs, but they're all failing."
"I see...... Do they disappear if they fail?"
"A few times is okay, but if failures pile up, they disappear."
Orcs whose levels went down each time experiments failed,
And whose existence was annihilated if they died at level 1.
'But when will that evolution finally succeed?'
Despite supplying quite many Orcs so far,
Karana's attempts had never succeeded even once.
She seemed quite discouraged too,
These days she was rarely at the Shaman's Altar and only stayed attached to the Sacred Fire.
"Ah. Heavenly Demon Lord, there was something I wanted to tell you."
"Yeah. What?"
"We just achieved an average Goblin level of 30!"
"Oh. Really? Then the Black Market can be upgraded."
"Yes, yes. That's right."
When talk of Black Market upgrades came up,
Rub, Rub.
The Goblin Chief rubbed his palms together with a deep smile on his lips.
Somehow his appearance reminded one of a sycophant.
"Let's do it right away."
Swish.
Lee Ganghan brought up the Ten Thousand Demon Battle screen
And clicked on the Black Market.
Then,
[Would you like to upgrade 'Goblin's Black Market' to Lv.2?]
[120,000 TP will be used.]
A message appeared saying the upgrade cost would be 120,000 TP.
'The Goblin side is definitely cheaper.'
It cost 60,000 when building the Black Market,
So if the upgrade cost is double that, it's affordable.
When Lee Ganghan immediately proceeded with the Black Market upgrade,
Swoooosh......!
The dirty and old-style stall market
That was next to the training ground flashed with light.
Thunk, Thunk......
Along with hammer sounds, wooden buildings began to be automatically built one by one.
"Ooh! Buildings are being constructed!"
"Wow, amazing...... So this is how buildings were made here."
The Goblin crowd had stopped training
And was looking at the Black Market.
"Don't just watch, let's go see how much it's changed."
When Lee Ganghan gave permission,
The Goblins began rushing to the Black Market.
'Come to think of it, didn't they say Goblins discover valuable items at the Black Market?'
The Goblins who hadn't discovered a single valuable item yet,
Probably because the market was only level 1.
Now that the level had risen, would the frequency of item appearances increase?
Lee Ganghan went to the market with such expectations.
In the center was a huge red portal
With a stall market formed around it.
"That portal stays floating even when you don't summon it?"
"Ah. That's been there since the Black Market was first built."
As Kim Juyeong captured the portal with his camera,
Swoosh......!
Light leaked from the red portal.
"Kekek, Kekek."
"Kekekek......!"
Goblins in flashy clothing popped out one by one.
"What are they? Their outfits are all sparkly."
"I don't know either, it's the first time I'm seeing them work."
"Ah. Those are Goblin Merchants. This Black Market is an area that trades with Goblins from various dimensions, so merchants come to this market and exchange goods with each other."
Ah.
So Goblin Merchants conducted business here.
"The Goblins working here classify the goods they bring and help with product exchanges. Then they receive wages from those merchants."
"I see. But when I first built the Black Market, the explanation said they occasionally discover valuable items, right? How do they discover those?"
"I don't know about that either...... Looking at the goods the Goblin Merchants are trading now, they're all worthless items."
Discovering valuable items.
If even the Chief doesn't know, it seems harder than expected.
As Lee Ganghan nodded,
"How many minutes are left now?"
"2 minutes left now."
"Then shall we look at the goods? Film what kind of items the Goblin Merchants handle."
"Let's do that."
Since it was almost time to go back anyway,
Let's spend 2 minutes examining the merchants' goods.
"Then I'll guide you to a merchant who's finished preparing for sales."
The Goblin Chief walked to where a merchant who had already set up a stall was.
Unlike other Goblin Merchants,
A wrinkled Goblin wearing a yellowish robe.
"An elder? It's my first time seeing a Goblin elder."
As Kim Juyeong captured his appearance with the camera,
Swish.
The elderly Goblin took out glasses from inside his robe and put them on.
"Hohoho...... A human customer."
He looked at Lee Ganghan and smiled.
"Goods from the destroyed human race...... They were troublesome to handle, would you like to take a look?"