Chapter 176

[11th Round] Hero Discrimination!

Hasty: Cadet Kang Han-soo! What should we do? At this rate, everyone might become mentally ill and become less than dust!

Miss Trainee Teacher, dont worry too much. Ill make them all regress before that.

It was a common theme for fantasy novels: a story about a social misfit who has ruined his life and pretends to be an intelligent human being. I will grant them protection.

Dissuasion: I dont think thats a fundamental solution. I heard that it was fate to come even though they didnt ask to. Theyll probably repeat the same mistakes. So why dont we stop that terrible torture and find out what caused it?

Miss Trainee Teachers suggestion is absolutely correct, but I wonder why I have to go that far.

Indeed, I care more for the friends from the same beautiful hometown than the savage natives, but I dont have the capacity to defend sinners. They tried to kill the Lord. In the barren Western Continent, the labor force provided by the corpses was absolute, and the one who moved them was the Lord, the magician.

The heroes were threatening the survival of the villagers! I had no room for debate, even if they were tortured.

Persuasion: Cadet Kang Han-soo is taking the entrance exam. It doesnt end with just achieving your goals. Cla.s.ses are determined according to the test results, and the higher the cla.s.s, the easier it is to graduate.

Miss Trainee Teacher! You should have told me about that sooner!

I left the square, where the heroes torture was in full swing, and headed to the Lords house. After all, there were procedures to everything. Making a fuss with force to carry out ones will was no different than being an ignorant idiot. I couldnt do such a thing as a righteous hero.

It wasnt for my reputation.

The Lords home wasnt very fancy. The Lords of the Western Continent could use their undead labor to build pyramids or palaces if they wished, but the Lord here was very frugal.

Tick tack! Tick tack!

The corpses were repairing the fences and walls destroyed in the heroes raid. I headed inside, watching the gruesome restoration.

This is the entrance feeOh! Anyway, Holy One! Welcome!

It was a world overflowing with transcendental skills, but the effect of Divinity Z was weakly effective. Maybe the energy of the universe worked this way, too?

I answered the butler of the manor with a smile.

I am Hero A who was pa.s.sing by. Id like to see the Lord.

Hero!

Cant I?

I placed my hand between his 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae and asked again. It was very unpleasant to be treated the same as the heroes who were tortured outside. So, I wanted to shake his neck for offending me, but I was afraid that the biased judgment of the Fantasy G.o.d would wreak havoc on my report card again, so I put up with it.

I couldnt give her an excuse, right?

Hck?! Oh, no! This way, please!

Thank you.

The Lord, who had been attacked by seventy incompetent and despicable heroes, was chatting with his wife in his office as if nothing had happened.

I think the sky is dark again today.

The Lords wife, who boasted a perfect beauty without any blemishes, was quietly listening to her husbands story while sitting in her chair. The sight was so heartwarming that I felt sorry to interrupt. I bowed down in a dignified aristocratic manner to greet him.

I am very sorry for taking away the good time you spend with your family, my Lord. I am a hero from the Central Continent. As I was pa.s.sing through this beautiful estate, I saw the sight of justice in the square and came here.

Are you going to argue about it?

The handsome Lord, who was no less attractive than his beautiful wife, looked at me with questioning eyes. I expressed my disapproval here.

They are socially maladjusted people who havent been able to adapt even in their hometowns. I commend the Lord for your patience and compa.s.sion, who summoned over seventy of these helpless losers and took care of them for two days.

Hmm-hmm! Well, thats nothing

The corners of the lips of the Lord, whom I praised, drew a soft arc. It was an enthusiastic response to ordinary conversation because of his wife, who always listened and didnt talk. This Lords timidity hadnt changed from the 1st playthrough.

No matter how strong he had become.

Race: Death Human

Level: 2183

Job: Magician (Blessing = Command)

Skills: Command ZZ Force ZZ Rule ZZ Eternal Youth Z Blessing Z

Status: Satisfied, Embarra.s.sed

He was plastered with Transcendental Realm Skills. Command and Force, which were essential skills for magicians who deal with corpses, were the highest, and that skill level was even higher than the Five Great Disasters in the 1st playthrough. If the Lord were like this, then how about the Five Great Disasters?

It wasnt easy to predict, even for me with my decades of experience.

My Lord. Is the oracle still coming down?

Yeah. It comes down so often that there isnt enough time to talk calmly with my wife. Thats why I cant even sleep properly. The future is already bleak when I think about summoning an additional thirty people later.

The words to ignore the oracle came up only to my lips. After all, it was absolute for the natives here. It wasnt that there were no atheists at all, but even they followed the oracle unconditionally. This was because ignoring would result in terrible retaliation.

What is the purpose of the summons?

It is said that they are the heroes who will defeat the Five Great Disasters. My role ends with the summons. However, even if it was an oracle, I thought of providing food, clothing, and shelter until they had some force since they were guests invited to my estate. However.

The Lord couldnt continue and smiled bitterly instead. It was because he was attacked by those heroes two days after summoning. For the Lord who gave them a favor, he was in a situation where he would be angry beyond absurdity. I had a strong feeling that it wouldnt be easy to rescue those heroes through formal procedures.

The Lord was the victim, and the heroes were the perpetrators. Their crimes were clear.

My Lord. What are you going to do with them?

It wasnt an easy problem to solve. How many people in the world would easily forgive those who sought their life? The Lord turned to his wife as he answered.

Honestly, I dont know. So I asked my wife for help. Shes a very wise woman.

For now, I gave an order to torture them until my wife gives me an answer. The Western Continent does not have enough food to feed sinners for free. Sinners eat Lucifer, and we collect their excrement and use it as manure.

The only food overflowing in the Western Continent was Lucifer. However, the taste wasnt very good, and humans couldnt live on protein alone, so that they couldnt eat it indefinitely. But there were exceptions everywhere.

That was the sinners. It was torture in which Lucifer was constantly fed to sinners who couldnt move as their limbs were tied. It was mixed with a small amount of vitamin and mineral-rich moss, which was a poisonous herb that ordinary residents could never eat because it made them suffer from diarrhea.

Then, the filth excreted by the sinners was collected by the dead and used as manure for the fields. This process was constantly repeated. It seemed that the sinners would die soon, but it was the other way around in reality.

Was it the vitamins that were good for the body? These poison plants that induced diarrhea prolonged life, so they couldnt die at will.

Even my wise wife cant answer easily this time.

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If you dont give me an answer quickly, their sphincters will lose their function forever within the next two days. No, maybe thats what you want, my wife? Aah, my dear wife! This husband is fine with it. Why dont you forgive the heroes?

Haha! I guess you still cant give me an answer. Then there is nothing I can do. I will wait quietly until you can forgive those who seek my life.

The couples pa.s.sionate love was very touching. I also recognized from the previous conversation that I had no choice but to persuade the Lords wife to release the heroes. However, this was difficult even for a MAX-Cla.s.s Hero.

The Lords wife was a corpse, after all.

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The natives of the Western Continent of Fantasy ate six meals a day. Dawn, breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, and a late-night snack. In other words, they eat every four hours. This was because villagers had very little to do as the corpses handled large-scale tasks such as security and farming.

So, there were only six blacksmiths in this small estate alone. Similarly, there would be six clothing stores, carpentry shops, and inns operated separately. And these stores changed in s.h.i.+fts, so they only worked four hours a day. The rest of the time was dedicated to resting and eating.

The Lord invited me to the Fourth Bell dinner. The concept of a day was very unclear because the Western Continent was always dark, with no distinction between night or day. Therefore, the clock tower in the middle of the estate rung the bell about every four hours. If it rang six times, a day had pa.s.sed.

I could say that I was invited to a snack meal.

I was really surprised. I didnt know that the hero from the Central Continent had this much knowledge of the Western Continentits as if youve lived here for a few years.

Its nothing. This is natural if youre a true hero.

Indeed!

Every meal wasnt the same. Steamed Lucifer, Roasted Lucifer, Fried Lucifer, Lucifer

Although there was a slight difference in each estate, it was set by law to cook a different dish for each meal to get tired of that Lucifer, which was the main ingredient. If you break things because its annoying, youre going to get kicked out, regardless of age or gender.

You may think that theyre sensitive to insignificant things. Still, if you remember that the number one cause of depression and suicide among natives in the Western Continent is loss of appet.i.te, you can see that it is a very serious matter.

So its fried Lucifer. You applied precious honey to it and erased the unique smell of Lucifer with a rare herb that grows only in the central part of the continent. You dont have to be so considerate of me like this

I had only eaten Lucifer for over a year before, so I was used to it. At that time, the chef was Lanuvel, and to my dismay, her cooking skills were impeccable.

Haha! It was your first day, so I paid special attention. Most of the other heroes couldnt eat it. My wife didnt say it out of courtesy, but she was very upset about it.

Now, it seems that she is happy that you eat it well, hero.

As we talked, I had a rough picture of the situation in my head. Eating giant flies and a dead body of a loving wife. There was no way the social misfits (heroes) could understand this unique culture and environment, not to mention the lack of experience and information on the Western Continent. They would have cowardly attacked the Lord and accused him of being a demon. The result was torture after a devastating defeat thanks to the overwhelming power difference.

I felt troubled while eating fried Lucifer. There wasnt much time left to save the heroes. As the Lord boasted, their sphincter would be irreparably damaged within two days. This was an extremely serious matter. Once dead, it couldnt be cured even by the resurrection of the saint.

It was the same as not being able to straighten the wrinkles of an old man or give elasticity to sagging b.r.e.a.s.t.s.

Question: Its a serious situation, right?

Its a very serious situation, Miss Trainee Teacher! They have to live with a cork in their a.s.s until they die. Its a bonus to be traumatized by just hearing Lucifers cry.

Gooseb.u.mps: I didnt expect that the Western Continent was such a scary place.

Hmm? Havent you eaten Lucifer, Miss Trainee Teacher?

Memories: No. I knew the natives would eat these flies, but my colleagues and I ate a normal meal with the Lords consideration. Ah! I remember he explained to me that it was a fish caught in the river. Thats why I dont understand why he only feeds those flies to Cadet Kang Han-soo or the other cadets. Its the same Lord

I suddenly lost my appet.i.te. I put down my knife and fork and glanced at the Lord.

My Lord. In front of this manor, a river formed by the gathering of streams of water from the mountain range flows, and I believe that not a few fish live there. But why do you only give me Lucifer dishes?

Oh! Have you figured that out? Thats right. Freshwater fish are also a specialty of this estate. However, powerful monsters roam the river. Thats why we only serve fish when important guests come.

The Lord spoke as if it were a matter of insignificance. Feeling my eyebrows twitching, I asked politely.

Are you saying Im not an important guest?

To be honest, in skills, both you and your companion stuck on your head arent that reliable.

If you want to be treated better than now, gather a lot of excellent companions and build more skills.

I realized an important fact as I smashed the Lords jaw.

Why have I overlooked it so far? This timid Lords position is the same as that of the Dumpling King.

Lets engrave on this Lords spine that this MAX-Cla.s.s Hero doesnt need companions!