The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor

“Y-Yes, I do.”

Seo Yoon was still very afraid of people, she spoke but her fear of love and reaching out made speaking a terrible task.

It was a shame to see her shiver while wearing a beautiful wedding gown.

It was seeing Hyun Lee die once from the Bone Dragon that had allowed her to break free and let the word ‘ friend’ be spoken.

This was only the second time she had found the courage to speak.

Weed remembered the first time he heard her speak asking to be a friend. He later figured out that dying as she was then, she had been desperate to retrieve her items.

He was confident that this time was very similar.

‘This is the only idea that fits the facts. Having the wedding in place of the Royal Magician Seulloeo is the only way you can equip the wedding ring. How much of a grudge would she have had for me if she hadn’t spoken up at this time, especially when you consider the degree of options for this item are amazing and it would be impossible to buy.’

Humans had to live a life full of endless distrust and misunderstandings, this Weed knew all too well, holding Seo Yoon’s warm hand he felt like he knew what she must be feeling.

“It’s alright, I understand.”

Weed too would do anything for the rare items in Royal Road.

“I even sing songs though I can’t really sing”

Ever since he turned into the Orc Karichi, he would sing a song at the beginning of every battle with the worst tone deaf singing possible and be proud of it. He would probably open a concert in a coliseum if he needed to do it for a quest!

“Anyway, there are lots of reasons for me to be sorry this time too.”

He had been wondering why Seo Yoon never spoke in school or in Royal Road.

When they were fighting the Chaos Warrior in the inferno dungeon Seo Yoon had lost her life, if it had not been for her using her beserker skills to cover for Weed that quest would have failed.

Seo Yoon’s mouth twitched and once again she trembled.

“…The reason why …I couldn’t speak up until now……”

The wedding celebration was loudly going on all around them but Seo Yoon couldn’t hear any part of it. Until now she’d not explained about the heavy burden she carried. It felt very painful to try and describe it.

Weed smiled lightly.

“I know.”

“….pardon…?”

“You don’t have to say anything. I understand.”

Weed gazed at her with a expression of warm bliss, the exact same expression he wore when he picked up expensive items.

‘Some people take a while to understand…it’s clear to me now how much she really loves loot.’

Had anyone who knew her heard her speaking, it would have been like a bolt out of the blue sky. Seo Yoon had opened a small part of her heart for the first time in many years and actually spoke words to another person. However, Weed knew nothing about this, Thus his image of her didn’t change at all.

Regardless of the brighter look in her eyes or her trying to speak attitude, on the surface it wasn’t very different from before so he didn’t feel the need to treat her any differently.

“……”

“We’re busy right now, so let’s talk later.”

The last event of the wedding was the dinner. Many rare foods reserved only for the royalty came flooding out.

“Call Death Knight Van Hawk, Call Vampire Lord Tori!”

Van Hawk and Tori have been summoned to the wedding.

“Master, who must I fight?”

“You brought me to a place suits my nobility perfectly. You didn’t have to do so much just for the sake of feeding me this delicious food Master.”

There was no possibility that Weed would call up his servants just to invite them to a feast. Weed divided up his bags and backpacks and gave them out.

“Here guys. I want you to take all of it.”

He started to collect all the money and items given to him for the wedding, even gathering up the food perfectly!

He filled his bags with various cakes, cookies, fruits and desserts that was normally very hard to cook or in some special cases very rare ingredients.

These were new and unusually dishes that he would try to recreate later on after tasting them.

He knew that he would have to learn about these high-level recipes in order to increase his cooking skill. Seo Yoon was embarrassed, so she was carefully taking fruits one by one, when Weed came over to her.

“If you want to take a lot, then you need to start stacking from the bottom.”

There was a ton of food for the hundreds of nobles present. Van Hawk, Tori, Seo Yoon, Golden Bird, and Silver Bird went around collecting the various foods.

“To assure the food is not damaged you need to balance the weight from it’s center of gravity. This is based on all the experience I got while sculpting with big stone blocks.”

Weed constantly thought about how to stack food, and in which container it must go into.

His extraordinary thoughts allowed him to do the impossible. Weed had once built a fifteen storey tower out of various foods.

He made a fruit tower, cake tower and a cookie tower. He used Dishes, bottles of liquor, crates, using them all to make tall stacking trees.

Once, a veteran director of packaging, after seeing Weed’s skills had tried to recruit him!

“As expected, running a wedding is just like a running a military campaign”

There was no time to relax since they needed to leave the wedding dinner party once they’d finished taking everything.

There is a highly satisfying profit all gotten from the wedding!

Even the noble guest really didn’t mind since the groom and the bride were Weed and Seo Yoon.

Every fresh cooked dish from the kitchen was also targeted.

Finally, Weed could see sun setting, it’s fading golden light slowly disappearing from the town and fields far below the castle.

At that moment, the smiling nobles, the laughing magicians all dissipated into smoke….

*Ting!*

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You have completed: Seulloeo’s dearest wish.

The seal on Seulloeo’s ring has lifted.

+ Seulloeo’s Wisdom

Your mana has increased by 3,500 permanently.

+ Seulloeo’s Blessing

Your luck has permanently increased by 20,

also giving a small amount of magic resistance.

+ Marriage Vows.

This holy ring can share the life between the two holders.

If the other ring bearer has his HP down critically low,

the other ring bearer may choose to deliver up to 50%

of his or her health to the other ring bearer.

When you are low on life with this ring equipped, you are

able to use the special skills of the other ring bearer

at 70% proficiency.

–Restrictions:

Because the elements of the ring have changed,

it cannot be traded or given to any other person.

Destruction of the ring will break the Marriage Vows.

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While they were reading the message, Weed, the living sculptures and Seo Yoon were returned back to the Inferno Dungeon.

Weed had a satisfied smile on his lips. It surely was a really profitable wedding.

They had returned to the dungeon where the final the battle of the jigolaths tribal war took place. They had fought over controlling this dungeon’s secret power; the magic circle that pulsed with pure power.

‘S’ Difficulty Quest level, the final stages.

He could see a faint shimmering around the place where Kubichya had died. Parts of Gold Man’s broken body were scattered around, gold sparks shinning in the sand.

He flew over there using the Wings of Light. A living sculpture parasite that Gold Man was wearing at that time and had since returned to live on Weed.

“Let’s search for Gold Man’s remains. Although I don’t know how much we’ll be able to recover.”

Weed hunted through the combat area picking up gold fragments. Golden Bird and Silver Bird went around collecting gold bits smaller than a green pea with their beaks.

Weed, Seo Yoon and the Birds all searched the entire day but could only recover roughly one third of the Gold Man’s original mass.

With difficulty Seo Yoon spoke again.

“Can ..you…. revive ..him….?”

Seo Yoon is heartbroken from this loss, Gold Man was cute and very brave.

Weed Shook his head.

“I can breathe life into him again, but repairing him is impossible because I don’t have enough of him left.”

Seo Yoon’s face took on a sad expression. Clear water pooled in her eyes.

Golden Bird, Silver Bird, and Yellowy have wet eyes as well, mourning their lost friend.

The quest will be completed the moment he speaks with the Inferno Knight’s Captain.

The end of the S Rank chain quest could finally be complete!

Yet Weed could not give up on Gold Man like this, he returned to searching.

“Gold Man, I can’t let you go so easily”

Using his hands as a rough shovel, Weed keep searching.

It wasn’t just because he wanted the gold, he kept thinking of Gold Man’s sacrifice and how grateful he was. Just as he was about to give up against the Great Warrior of Chaos, Kubichya, Gold Man rode in on Yellowy to save him.

The bravery and the loyalty Gold Man must have had, to run in attacking with his sword while being cut and melted! The thing that mattered the most was that Gold Man gave up his own life to save Weed.

He used his blacksmithing skills to make a sieve to filter the sand seeking yet more gold in his desire to search. After going through a large volume of sand, he was still only able to recover only a small bit of gold.

He finally had to accept the fact that the rest of Gold Man’s body was vaporized in the final attack.

“I’m really not sure if I can restore him to his old self.”

Even if Weed had all the lost portions it was still a big question with no assurance of success.

Not only did Gold Man lose his life, a large part of his gold body had mostly been turned into dust.

“That aside, I’ll have to get more gold back in Morata before trying this.”

Having sweep the grounds as well as he could Weed then finally approached the Inferno Knights and greeted them formally.

“ Your knight warriors protected the magic circle with great honor, I was only able to defeat the Grand Warrior of Chaos thanks to their brave actions. I and my companions are adventurers from the south continent.”

The Inferno Knight Captain, Ivan stepped forward and spoke.

“Thank you for your words, it would’ve been impossible for us to do this task alone. Thanks to your help, we were able to successfully protect the magic circle and defeat Kubichya.”

“What happened after Kubichya died?”

Weed was a bit unsure if he really wanted to open up questions around that event, still he felt like he had to know.

Since Weed was the appearing Dragon who had not only killed Kubichya but had also taken the Red Star Sword, it could lead to some tricky questions.

The conditions to complete the Quest were met once he had that sword. That conditional requirement, the Red Star Sword, was also the item that could be used to destroy the magic circle.

He was, however, very curious as to how the Tribal War had ended.

“After that filthy Lich died, a Bone Dragon appeared.” answered Ivan.

“…..”

Even though he had only used that form through sculpture transformation, an Undead Lich it seemed, was still hated.

Despite having rescued them Ivan directed looks at Weed that were not pleasant ones. Well considering that he had hunted a lot of Inferno Knights while a Lich it wasn’t a big surprise.

“After that Bone Dragon ate Kubichya, the Chaos Warriors lost their leader and became disorganized. Thankfully, we were able to team up with the Fire Giants and counterattack. We took those bastards and drove them away. Nevertheless, our losses were great.”

“I see. I’m sorry you had to suffer such loses.”

“We were just able to take on the Chaos Warriors after Kubichya had disappeared.”

“Looking at your muscles and the skills you possess it looks to me like Kubichya would’ve been no match for you, Captain Ivan.”

“Such praise is undeserved.”

This was, of course, a trick to getting friendlier with high level warriors, offhand remarks that they were so much stronger than their enemies.

He was pouring compliments as he asked about how far could he throw, or how much could he lift and had thus gotten friendlier with him.

He had also asked how much more they could do if they used special weapons and armor and a surprised look grew on Ivan’s face.

Ivan spoke in a softer and more thoughtful tone.

“You traveled over a great distance and a unknown road and survived!. Until now humans have found it too difficult to live here.”

They had faced countless hardships, however, Weed didn’t say anything as he collected his thoughts.

He was very worried about the quest reward thus his effort to raise intimacy with Ivan. Into that silent pause Ivan spoke again.

“This magic circle was created by the human Archmage Imbeol and it has been protecting the tribes since ancient times while keeping Jigolaths unstable mana in check.”

At the heart of the enormous underground dungeon, spanning hundreds of meters in diameter, are deep and complex engravings on both floor and ceiling. Suspended in the center, expanding and contracting was a glowing circle of Fire spirit magic endlessly spinning.

The circle in the dark cavern was like a blazing sun!

The fiery light was enough make you drip with sweat just from just being near it.

It was an amazing sight. It fascinated the viewer for the same reason that young children are attracted to playing with fire. The glamor, the feel of having control over the powerful element of fire.

This energy circle can be called the origin of Jigolaths, it’s blaze was more dazzling than the greatest of jewels. Had this magic circle not been there Jigolaths would’ve had volcanic eruptions tens of times larger and more massive in scale, it would have destroyed or sunk the land. The many tribes were able to live here because this magic circle accumulated that energy and used it to entwine and control the unstable mana that saturated Jigolaths.

Ivan continued to speak.

“Kubichya was planning to absorb the circle’s power and thus become powerful enough to dominate the land. He would have tried to rule over this land as the leader of all the Tribes. Yet stealing that power would have destroyed the land. So, at the end his ambition was his downfall.”

“Had he succeeded, it would’ve created a monster equal to that of a dragon. However, in the aftermath of the battle with the Chaos Warriors, the area around the magic circle was damaged.”

“Back then, some areas in the ceiling were already cracked, the accumulated battle damage then caused those areas to collapse. “

Weed could only watch the circle while trying to think.

Ivan spoke further.

“Up to now this damage has caused the circle to roll from side to side and convulse up and down, pulsing as if it was trying to escape. Now however, the damage is showing signs of healing, it looks to somehow be self-restoring the damaged areas. Look for yourself.”

Even as they watched the gaps and cracks were filling with earth and sand. The damaged engravings were also deepening and becoming crisp with magic again.

A spectacular and wonderful scene that left their mouths gaping. The spewing energy then turned pure white and collapsed into a perfect circle!

*Ting!*

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You witnessed Archmage Imbeol’s Circle of Fire

This magic circle is responsible for keeping the unstable mana of

Jjigolaths in check, thus allowing themanytribes to survive here.

+Health increases by 900.

+Stamina increases by 35

+Fire resistance is increased permanently by 7%.

+Your understanding of the origin of mana has deepened. However, because you are not a Summoner or a spirit medium,it does not have a special effect

+You’ve witnessed a amazing ancient magic from the past.