Overgeared

The Fountain of Life—soaking the body in it healed wounds and restored health. Not only did it cure abnormal conditions such as fractures and poisoning, but it also restored health by 10% per minute. The efficacy of it was definitely great.

Yet surprisingly, the versatility was bad. It was because it only existed in beginner hunting grounds below level 50.

‘It is purely an arrangement for newcomers. I didn’t properly take advantage of it, but...’

Every time Grid went to the fountain, he would find wild boars or goblins drinking the water...

The probability of that happening was ridiculous now that he thought about it. Didn’t he die dozens of times near the fountain? Grid shuddered as he recalled this shameful past. Then he quickly sorted out the situation.

‘In any case, Agnus took Betty there...’

Betty stated that when the two of them dipped in the fountain together, Betty’s body was released from the curse and started to regenerate, while Agnus became a complete skeleton. He left a short will for her to live a normal life in the future. Then he turned to ash...

‘He managed to find such a hidden piece.’

There must be at least two former Baal’s Contractors. Additionally, Baal must be dead. It was a hidden piece triggered on a premise that originally couldn’t be established. Agnus used the ‘opportunity’ that would never happen again to save a being with a finite life, unlike himself. He risked being turned into an undead...

Grid was able to vaguely fathom Agnus’ inner thoughts. ‘A woman who would suffer for the rest of her life before dying... I guess he didn’t want to make any more of them.’

Agnus’ old lover was now an open secret.

Grid’s mouth was bitter when he thought about the story of her death. Grid wiped his face once before opening his friends list. He wanted to convey at least one message to Agnus: ‘You’ve had a hard time.’

However...

‘...What?’ Grid was startled. It was because the name Agnus wasn’t present on his friends list. It meant one thing.

‘He removed me.’

Deleting friends—to be precise, the other person removed him from the friends list.

Grid’s thick eyebrows wrinkled. Putting aside the gratitude he felt for Agnus, his pride was hurt.

‘This jerk.’

He wanted to send a whisper to Agnus and argue with him right away, but he couldn’t remember the ID code. It wasn’t like they usually kept in touch a lot. In the end, Grid had to change the target of his whisper. He quickly escaped from the territory of the Tower of Wisdom by using Shunpo and contacted Lauel.

-Lauel.

-Yes, Your Majesty.

-...What is Agnus’ ID code?

-It is number 00013.

Lauel answered immediately without knowing the situation. His tone was cautious. He didn’t know the situation, but he had inferred the situation where Grid had suffered a one-sided friend deletion.

Grid blushed with shame and added.

-I accidentally removed him from my friends list.

-I see.

-What is with that dull reaction? Could it be that you misunderstood that I was deleted?

-I didn’t think so.

-...Yes.

Grid sighed with relief and designated a new target for the whisper.

Agnus#00013.

‘I am in the 10,000s.’

He knew that they started the game at a similar time. So what was this difference in ID numbers? How did this guy manage to make the Agnus ID that was 13th?

‘His fingers were much faster than mine.’

Aside from the shame that had returned, there was a lot that Grid wanted to say. However...

[The target doesn’t exist.]

“What?”

familiar message like this. It was

down Grid’s spine as he

-I’ll look into it.

had also tried to send a whisper to Agnus, so he seemed to have

-...Please do so.

***

Grid returned to the tower and

looked Betty straight in the

girl who had lived as a half skeleton for hundreds of

Agnus and regained her human form. Therefore, Grid spoke brightly in the hope that she would grow up into a woman safely and live a normal life, “Agnus says he is safe, so don’t worry and

was actually much more powerless than the heavenly gods he hated so much. All

if it meant he could deal with the situation. That was

“...I’m glad.”

felt like there

***

“...I really don’t know.”

I

for more time. The last survivors of the

species instinct of the giants was their enthusiasm for learning. For them, incomprehensibility was a blessing, not a curse. Yet they gave up

Grid’s doubts and added an explanation, “This is beyond the realm of knowledge and wisdom. It is composed of just myths and divinity... therefore,

“......”

Braham and Sticks wouldn’t be able to identify it. However, they were the only ones he could

the tower members and returned to Reinhardt with

***

“I don’t know...”

chance. Braham and Sticks also failed to appraise the yeouiju. The same was true of Zeratul, who

it for?” Zeratul didn’t even know the concept of the yeouiju itself. This was

how rare

imoogis? Grid only learned the

a trace just before Chiyou

must know the

to contact

moment when the mysterious yellow amulet that Yeo Yulan handed over to him for communication

fundamental question. It was a question that bothered Sticks and the giant brothers, Radwolf and Fronzaltz, but that they didn’t dare to bring it

the end

enthusiastically, as if his frustration had finally been resolved. From here on out, it was

hands? If Bunhelier really regained his ‘lost power,’ could Grid

Dragons. Even though they

announced the existence of the yeouiju and cooperated with him

this point, Grid wondered if he was hypnotized by Bunhelier without even realizing it. The dream that Basara had was a trap created

“Squeak?”

the worst situation and made eye contact with

mouse—they were as pure as an insignificant creature that merely lived according to providence. It was completely different from reality. The

thoughts and eventually developed a

have to kill him. This is a monster I

Just then—

“What is this?”

consternation burst out everywhere and Grid came back to his senses. The yeouiju on the table was turning black. It spread so

‘Unidentified

[Unidentified Yeouiju]

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was one of the two yeouijus held by the imoogi, who practiced for a thousand years, but failed

energies, whose source is hard to guess, is inducing people to despise and

came to

“Bunhelier.”

The purpose of this yeouiju was to isolate Bunhelier. Grid almost got hit

This caused a backlash.

“I believe in you.”

mouth. Bunhelier swallowed a bead larger than his body and

symbol of the Evil Dragon, spread throughout Reinhardt starting from the Overgeared Palace. Countless people living in the city

and slumped down, while Braham and Zeratul

“......”

instinct to draw his sword and slash Bunhelier right

has regained the lost