Golden Experience

"─ ─ I thought there was someone who ruined the entrance to the villa... Who are you?"

"─ ─ Was that your villa? It smelled like mold. I thought it was bad for my health, so I kept the ventilation a little better. Oh, I don't need a reformatting thank you. You don't have to worry about it right now, because I'll bill you right back."

"Bullshit....!

The angry Merchiole comes to Rare with her quick feet.

I provoked it reflexively, but there was nothing good about pissing it off now. It was an extra word.

In the corner of his vision, he can see the professor covering his eyes with his palm and looking up at heaven in an exaggerated manner. Is it a protest against an extra word, or is it a protest against the fact that the entrance to the villa was torn apart?

If you just let me tell you, I'm not acting without thinking even if I'm rare. After careful consideration, I decide if I don't have to think about it separately and behave as I like.

Unlocked the active Range Conceal and said looking at Merchiole.

"─ ─ Stop there. I'm busy now. I don't have time for you."

"Ha!? ─ ─ What is your power...?!

The professor reported that the Merchiole could have a 'true eye'.

If so, you should also know about rare abnormal LPs.

Melchiore's eyes will now see a vital opponent that can be described as the difference in cloud mud compared to herself. Moreover, five of them have solidified. I wouldn't inadvertently approach you if I weren't so stupid.

Sure enough, Merchiole stopped and stared at Rare with a vigilant gaze.

"You....!

─ ─ Wait, there's another one under the sacred tree...! Don't touch the sacrifice! How did you get into the sacred tree cage?

Is sacrifice about Evil King Zenobia?

Judging from Zenobia's words and condition, it seems that she has been in that prison for a long time and has been breathing her life. Sacrifice may indeed be said.

I wonder if this magic ring tree is the object of the professor's belief in Melkiole.

"─ ─ Did you make Zenobia look like this?

Geraldine glances at Merchiole with her eyes glowing red.

The ambient temperature dropped.

Looking down, the heavy cold air that seemed to burn even dry ice covered the bottom of the knee like a cloud.

It looks like this is coming from Geraldine. I can also see that it contains a slight amount of mana.

It's probably the same fog system that Blanc uses. Did you say "blood sucking magic"?

Although fogging is magical, fogging is a skill, so it has an excellent characteristic of the flavor that cool times don't match.

"Those eyes... and this power! That's right, you're the real vampire you hear rumors about! Enemies of mankind! I didn't expect you to show up here! Hahaha!

Merchiole laughed loudly at what was wrong.

"And when you were politely putting yourself in a cage! Curse my foolishness!

─ ─ Hold on! It's a god tree! "

In response to Merchiore's voice, the roots of the Magic Ring tree protruded from under the ground in the cage and stretched towards Geraldine.

But when Geraldine turned him into a fog, he dodged the root attack.

You cannot physically capture a true ancestral vampire.

However, Geraldine soon returned to the person and went into the scene.

"What is this...? You're sucking my power...!?

When I saw him try to escape in the fog, I was surprised and anxious, but I saw Geraldine in the fog and showed him a distorted smile again.

"Oh, surprise me! Apparently we can turn into fog, but we can't break the branches of the Sacred Tree!

Damage to the foggy Geraldine, who is perfectly disabled from Physical Attacks, what is that root?

And it's not just damage. As far as Rare's eyes were concerned, it was not only Geraldine's LP that decreased, but also MP. And for that reason, the light from the Magic Ring tree and the rope seems to have increased slightly.

In other words, the roots appear to be physically attacked, but have non-physical attributes and absorb the damage done.

I didn't think anything about it when I prevented it with the "Shield", but did it have that effect? Maybe it can only be activated inside that root cage.

In any case, the part that was not visible in the Appraisal, perhaps a skill influenced by the power of the Golden Dragon.

Also, considering the Utsubo that you fought one day, it is possible that the Magic Ring tree with the rope and golden aura cannot extrapolate all of its combat power just from the parts that are visible in the "Magic Eye" and "True Eye". I can't be alarmed.

I am also concerned that it seemed that Merchiore ordered the Magic Ring Tree. Saying something like a sacred tree, I don't seem to respect it. What kind of relationship are they in?

Whatever it is, just watching the situation will not solve anything.

"Ignore me in front of you and don't go too far ─ ─!

At that moment, the sight of the first time I saw King Hills' capital from above came back to Rare's mind.

Or ruins in the woods.

And the castle at night.

The nostalgic landscape that flashed back one after the other was shaken off, and in the middle of the night he unconsciously grabbed the flying arrows.

"─ ─ You again. They're unpunished. How many times has this happened?

This is not your moment. [M] If you don't want to die, stay out of my way. "

It is difficult to perceive in a situation close to the battle, but if you calm down and look closely, there is a slight discomfort on the wall.

This is Range Hidden.

Seeing Rare grab the arrow, Yoichi unlocked "Range Hidden" and revealed himself.

But that flashback sight. When he died in King's Landing, the last shot that shot Rare was probably fired by this pervert.

No, not now.

"Oh! Yoichi and Saskatchewan! You came to help me! Look, that's the enemy of humanity! Let's get rid of them together and get the light back on the continent!

"... I said so. What do you want to do? I hope you fired an arrow in the stream, but you're on Merchiole's side? Melchiole's the worst, anyway."

"I know...!

I was just curious.

I thought it was bad, but I saw Melkiole entering the house where the door was ruthlessly destroyed, and when I noticed and followed up, there was a familiar and fateful Raid Boss.

Magnum Septum is dangerous.

Considering what he looked like when he destroyed King Pare's capital, if he succeeded, he could destroy this Western continent by himself.

I don't know why he is on this continent, but it is possible that he came for that purpose in the first place.

This is a development that would not be possible if players thought normally about destroying the Western continent, which is their next destination, before most players set foot on it, but in this game, it is better to expect a normal development.

Both the NPC and the player think and act according to their circumstances, leaving only what happens as a result.

Before that principle, the convenience of the event is irrelevant.

It seemed to me that I didn't like the play so far.

After all, it was the actions of the other yogis who pulled the trigger of the war that brought many nations to an end.

You need to think better about what your actions will bring.

There are always countless choices ahead of us.

For example, an arrow that just fired should have fired a little earlier.

At the moment Merchiore gave the order to the woeful tree that captured the woman.

The skin of a woman with horns caught in the roots of a tree is dark brown, at least in a color never seen by humans known to yoichi. To say the same thing, Magnum Octo captured Yoichi in King Pairé's capital.

As far as we can see, the woman with Septum is trying to help the captured woman and is hostile to Merchiore.

The Merchiole has publicly said that he is struggling for mankind more than before, and he is not a friend he does not know.

Normally speaking, it would be better to help Melkiole.

But how bad is that tree?

It glows faintly in gold, and as far as I can see, it's not a bad thing, but there is a discomfort that it is a "foreign object".

And I realized for the first time that I had come here, that Merchiole was showing signs similar to that tree.

No, maybe it's because I'm here that the signs are amplified. Merchiore had ordered the tree to attack the woman earlier. I don't know if the tree understands people's words, but there is a possibility that it is linked to Merchiore's will. That's how close they are. Perhaps the usual hidden signs have been released by approaching the synchronized tree.

I have never felt so unusual from the face of Magnum, which is so powerfully isolated.

I didn't know if it was a skill effect or if the system was warning me, but I instinctively felt it.

This sign is the enemy of the world.

It is not a narrow story of the enemies of mankind, but an enemy of all living things.

Again, the arrow should have shot at Merchiole.

This is the result of a moment of uncertainty.

Anyway, we had to stop the situation from proceeding fast enough. All I could do was shoot an arrow.

As a result of the missed period, the only way to stop the situation was to shoot Septum.

"─ ─ What's the matter, Yoichi? Now, shoot the next arrow. The target is that blonde woman over there. They are true vampires, and so do the Yoichi. I've been afraid of this continent for a long time.

Without listening to Merchiore's words, Yoichi fired an arrow.

The target was Merchiole, who was talking lightly.

I am an enemy because I am on the side of Septum.

I am an ally because I am hostile to Septum.

There is no other way to act on such standards than to stop thinking.

Just as the yogi is acting as the yogi think, Septum is acting with her instincts.

Often that was not a welcome move for yogis, but it's not always the case.

It's impossible to join hands, but it's not necessarily hostile.

At least the trees and Merchiole are the most dangerous here.

The arrow was thrown away by Merchiole, who shook his arm.

Unlike Septum, there is no trick to grab and stop.

Yoichi put himself on the shelf and went a little crazy.

With that kind of skill, I could turn the most powerful disaster in the Central Continent against my enemies.

"What are you going to do, Yoichi....! Attacking me...! You're a human being, but you want to avenge it!

"─ ─ I don't think you're the same person. That terrible sign, we should stop you, not Septum!

"... then why did you shoot me?"

If you want to stop Merchiole, all they have to do is turn right and leave.

If they hadn't done more, Merchiore would have been blown away by a rare attack by now.

You can praise the goodness of the conjecture that proved Merchiole to be dangerous, but there is nothing else to praise.

However, it seems that his stats have increased considerably since the last time I saw him. Rare doesn't make a big difference, but if they're against Merchiole now, they might be able to buy a little time.

We should retrieve Geraldine and Zenobia while Merchiore is angry with them.

"─ ─ Jerry. Can you stand up? Zenobia... this is ─ ─"

"What should we do, Mr. Rae? Zenobia, Zenobia's life!

Zenobia was tied to the Magic Ring tree for a long time by a golden glowing root.

And it hasn't been released yet.

From his own words, it seems that this root has the effect of absorbing Zenobian life. Considering the attack on Geraldine earlier, it is likely that he is smoking vitality and mana.

But I have experience in similar situations.

If you continue to recover at a pace that reverses the vitality that continues to be inhaled, the subject will not die.

"'High Heal' - What!?

However, the rare magic released against Zenobia immediately dispersed when it entered the cage and was reduced by the mana and absorbed into the cage.

I don't know if it's a cage effect or a Magic Ring Tree skill, but it seems to have the ability to absorb magic.

Even if you touch it directly and recover with Healing, Rare can't reach it in the cage.

To stop Zenobia's life, we have to destroy this cage first.

But there was no such a long time left.

Whether the pace at which the Magic Ring tree sucked up jumped with the start of the battle, or whether the current "Great Recovery" affected the bad one, the light of life left in Zenobia diminished in time ─ ─

"... Jerry... I'm sorry, goodbye..."

"Zenobia! Zenobia!

Geraldine, who trusts his dying friend, tightens his chest even though the sun is still shallow.

"Zeno!... ahh..."

And the lights of the evil king's life went out completely.

At the same time, the relatives who had been killed in other cages also died. He was still a family member of the Evil King.

"Ugh... Uhhhhh...!

I can't find the words to call Geraldine, who kills her voice and crys.

But we can't keep doing that.

The roots that lost their prey may not catch Geraldine or Rare next.

I'm not going to get caught if it's that easy, but it's like a cage that has been caught for a long time without being able to do anything. In addition to magic absorption, there is no wonder that it has such an unclear nature as inflicting powerful debuffs on those who try to escape.

While pulling Geraldine out of the cage, (...) accurately (...) acknowledge (...) the current (...) time (...)

It was an instinctive act. When I left the cage, I sprayed it on my own, and when I came out of the cage, I held Geraldine to my side, and I first walked away from the Magic Ring tree.

"─ ─ Geraldine. It sounds harsh, but it's not when you're crying. If you're thinking about Zenobia, now is the time to defeat the Magic Ring Tree. The time between (...) and (...) is (...) limited by (...) et al. (...) Yes (...) Ru (...)"

"I won't let you!

It's Merchiole.

I can't see the yogis. He must have been defeated and respawned somewhere.

At the very least, I wanted you to stay alive with Merchiole until Rare cleared the Ring Tree, but that didn't seem to work out.

It is still difficult to deduce the strength of Merchiole from LP and MP.

"No, but 'appraisal'.... I knew it wouldn't work. I can barely see it."

All I could see was the name and some skills. All stats are typed. This was better than the Magic Ring Tree.

"How foolish of you to say that I was doing this with my eyes open! Well, the fools have already been dealt with! You're next!

─ ─ Whoa! Damn human traitor, Evil King Zenobia has sucked it all out! Well done, Sacred Tree! With this much strength ─ ─ "

"Ugh! You! You!

The words of Merchiole were intensely exaggerated by Geraldine, who was holding her waist.

"Hey, don't get mad! It's that tree over there that needs to be cleared up before leaving the fish behind ─ ─"

"Miscellaneous!? What do you say to me as the guardian and leader of mankind? But I've never had such a big mouth before!

"Shut up! I'm not talking to you!

Is there only a strong self-assertive person?

So I remembered, speaking of which, when he looked for the professor what he was doing, he was hiding behind the rocks and watching.

It's certainly not a useful type of combat, but I want you to do something a little more like this.

"─ ─ Look! This is the power I have bestowed on my Lord! And the power of mankind recovered from the foolish traitors! Come on, come on, come on, come on! Time's up!

Melkiole looked up to heaven with his hands open.

Heaven is the bottom of the earth. Looking up, there was only a rock ceiling and the trunk of the Magic Ring tree.

But what Merchiore was looking at was the trunk of the magic ring tree.

The branch stretched from the Magic Ring tree grabbed the Merchiole and pulled it straight away.

And Melkiole sank into the trunk of the Magic Ring tree with the branches.

I look at unrealistic sights, but I'm not delusional or mistaken.

Then the ground began to shake unexpectedly. The Magic Ring tree that captured the Merchiole is trembling all over its body.

"─ ─ This place is falling apart! We better get out of here!

The professor is screaming from afar.

"Just run, Professor! I still have something to do!

Observe the mutating Magic Ring tree while avoiding the collapsing and falling ceilings.

The roots I cared about didn't seem to change that much. The Magic Ring Tree itself is a shield, and there is no sign of being caught in a collapse.

After a while, the debris stopped raining.

All the ceilings collapsed.

That said, the sky did not open. I can see another rock ceiling above. There was a hole in the center of the ceiling from which a glimpse of the sky emerged.

He's connected to Kera Malefix, the underground kingdom.

It can be seen that some of the fallen debris is like processed stone or carved pillars. I wonder if all the castles above have collapsed. The Magic Ring tree is thought to have penetrated the center of the castle, so this is what happens when it moves.

And the hole in the ceiling of the underground kingdom meant that the top of the Magic Ring tree had reached the surface.

Perhaps the mysterious dead tree I saw in the wilderness when I was traveling through the sky was part of the Magic Ring tree.

Would it have been faster if we had come closer and 'appraised' at that time? No, I couldn't find any value in a dead tree at that time. There's nothing I can do about it now.

And from the rising dust, a stupid giant tree emerged.

Is one size smaller?

However, its encapsulated power is not comparable to that of the Magic Ring Tree and Merchiole.

Even though it was an "appraisal", I could only see the name. But seeing only the name doesn't mean it's a complete Golden Dragon device.

In the middle of the trunk, Merchiole's face appeared like a relief.

And somehow upside down.

Combined with the heterogeneous signs of gold releasing and the unknown appearance, it creates an atmosphere that worries the viewer.

Immediately before being captured by the Magic Ring Tree, Merchiore said that he had recovered the power of mankind from the traitors.

If the traitor is about the evil king and his family, what does that mean?

Speaking of evil kings, Lyla must have killed a significant number of her clans to become evil kings. She didn't want to be an evil king, but it's harder to be an evil king than evil.

I don't know if a traitor is pointing to that. If you did kill a large number of your clan for rebirth, you might call it a traitor to humanity. So what is the power that has been regained?

"─ ─ No way, experience? You're saying that cage was smoking prey experience!

If they get caught, they attack with a Level Lost.

It is said that some Enemies used to attack like that in old games, but I can't wait for them to do that in this game.

But if you think about it, it will come true.

I took the experience drawn from the evil kings as my own and used their power to power them up.

That's the monster in front of me - [Golden Monster Tree Saint Merchior].