“That’s right.”
“Whew! I finally found you. My name is Irene.”
Starting the conversation had made Irene feel awkward and very uncomfortable, but she could not hide the joyous expression when she found Dain.
“My party is trying to do a quest right now. But it’s far away, and we thought it’d be good to have someone with a lot of adventuring magic, so we’ve been trying to recruit a Shaman.”
The name of the quest that Pale had discovered was, ‘The Secret of Manufacturing Ancient Breastplate.’
It was said that the book recording the method of manufacture was buried somewhere in the North, so they wanted recruit an Adventurer and a Shaman, and leave. Then they heard that the famous Shaman named Dain had returned just then and had found her.
Irene explained again with a nervous look.
“The difficulty is C. If you don’t mind, would you like to adventure with us?”
Dain slowly studied Irene’s face.
‘She looks like a nice person. She also seems to be around my age…’
But she was unwilling to leave on a quest. She was in the position of waiting for someone.
She couldn’t always just wait for Weed to return to Morata, but since she had just come after completing an adventure, she wanted to take a rest for now.
“I’m sorry. Right now I’m going to rest…”
Just as Dain was saying this, a lady wearing a fancy dress embedded with jewels walked toward them from the direction of a store.
Every time she lightly stepped forward, she was followed by the eyes of the users in the square. Simply watching her walk could deliver the feelings of vigor and pleasure.
‘She’s a Dancer.’
However, the only professions that could go on adventures or hunt while wearing dresses were Minstrels and Dancers. She also wore bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and short heels that were comfortable to dance in.
Since she wasn’t holding an instrument, Dain concluded that she was a Dancer.
“Hwaryeong-unni, where were you?”
“I was eating at a restaurant. But who’s this?”
“This is Dain-nim. She’s a famous Shaman…”
“Ah,thatperson!”
Hwaryeong looked at Dain’s face as if she was seeing it anew.
Since she was a Shaman with black, jewel-like skin, she was extremely distinctive.
“Did you ask if she was going to come with us for the request?”
“Yes. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem like she’ll be able to do it with us.”
Dain, who had been standing by and listening to Hwaryeong and Irene’s conversation, suddenly interrupted.
“Hey there, I’ve changed my mind.”
“What?”
“The adventure you were talking about just now, I’d also like to do it together.”
“Really? That’s great! Thank you.”
“Yes. Thanks for having me.”
Dain accepted Irene’s offer.
The Statue of the Goddess Freya that Morata’s Lord Weed had sculpted!
It was because the statue’s face and Hwaryeong’s were miraculously similar.
Lee Hyun trained his body daily at Ahn Hyun Do’s dojo.
Lee Hyun’s distinctly divided, toned muscles that lacked excess fat, his physical strength, and endurance grew stronger every day. While experiencing the training from hell from 4 different training instructors for 30 minutes each, Lee Hyun’s body was becoming a weapon.
“Even a sharp sword is completely useless in the hands of a dull person. If you don’t even have complete control over your body, then you can forget about holding a sword. Though the training is rough, it’s a process that’s required to wield the blade.”
Lee Hyun faithfully followed Jung Il Hun’s harsh lecture. He endured the hell training without a single complaint.
It was to the point that the instructors consulted amongst themselves.
“Isn’t the training intensity too strong?”
“If we keep going like this, will he not say that he’ll quit?”
“Even I don’t know. Since Master told us to do it, he must have something in mind.”
“That’s probably true, right?”
“Though occasionally he really doesn’t have any ideas…”
“…”
As Lee Hyun tamed his body, he perceived the feeling that his true skills were being strengthened.
If his body was solidified, then his mental strength would be boosted.
The willpower that formed if he passed the arduous training!
When he completed a session of hell training with the instructors, he would take a break while drinking the tea Ahn Hyun Do gave him.
“It’s ginseng tea.”
“Thank you, Master.”
Lee Hyun gulped down the ginseng tea.
He was thirsty, but it was so that he could drink another cup of the healthy tea!
Ahn Hyun Do spoke after pouring him another cup of the ginseng tea.
“Is the training not hard?”
“It’s doable.”
“Yes. That’s praiseworthy. With that attitude, you should be able to progress further. How is the rest of your life?”
“My life?”
“I’m talking about your own life. I’m talking about how your life is.”
After a moment of thought, Lee Hyun nodded.
“It is good.”
“Good? What’s good?”
“Grandmother is receiving her treatment well, and my little sister is going to school well. As am I…”
Lee Hyun briefly hesitated and spoke.
“There are no big grievances in my life.”
In the difficult days, eating and living had been the biggest worry.
Although there were times when he wasn’t able to get treatment when he was sick, now he was even able to save a fair amount of money. As he played Royal Road he was able to buy the things they needed, so there weren’t many elements that grieved him.
Ahn Hyung Do shook his head.
“Is that not literally your everyday life?”
“…”
“Are you satisfied with your current life?”
“Yes.”
Lee Hyun answered easily.
The school studies were a little tiresome and bothersome, but apart from that he was getting the things he wanted, so he was living contentedly.
“It’s perfect right now. I’m even going to university, my little sister is studying well too, and Grandmother is recovering her health…”
Ahn Hyun Do asked abruptly.
“Then what is the work you want to do.”
“…The work I want to do?”
“Whether it’s a goal you had since you were young, or there must have been some work that you wanted to do.”
Lee Hyun was momentarily silent.
He had lived these days for his sister’s sake.
As he slept at night, there were times when he’d feared the day to come. The years when he worried while he ate, things such as what he would do after the hunger disappeared.
Without hope, he had lived while despairing.
If there had been no responsibility to support his family, he might have been able to throw down an extreme decision sooner.
Now his little sister was grown up, and she was even going to school on the scholarship she’d received. Grandmother’s big surgery was over and she was waiting to recover as well.
His life’s goal was to live for his family. In the event that he would no longer have to take care of his family, what he would do afterwards was something he had never thought about.
After heaving a sigh, Lee Hyun spoke.
“I have no dream.”
The SwordNoobs passed the Plains of Despair and arrived at the Orc village in the Yuroki Mountains.
The place was teeming with pig-faced Orc users, and because they had such great reproductive rates there were even whole families gathered there.