Chapter 108 – Episode 108- Records Left by the Rotten Lord

When he opened the vault door in the basement of Ice Island, the first word that came to mind was one word.

Treasure island.
The gold and silver lights within the vault gleamed, suggesting that the island was built from the treasures left by a great pirate.
How many gold and silver coins have you collected so that you can shine without losing your light even underground?
At the gold and silver treasures piled up to the ceiling, Kang-rim’s mouth dropped open.

There are two more such safes.
Elven Great Forest and here on Grid Island.
There must be an enormous amount of treasure piled up in those safes, enough to fill them up to the ceiling.

Let’s use these treasures to grow our empire.
Let’s use it generously to train women, just like the way we invested money in the game and nurtured the characters.
The rule of the world is that you can buy anything if you have money.
The rule will of course apply here as well.
There is nothing that cannot be done without money.

So, Advent was filled with vague anticipation even before arriving at the safe under Grid Island.
Treasures as vast as Ice Island will come into your hands.

No, maybe there are jewelry or antiques.
If Perpone also has monetary value, she is a woman who also keeps non-money items.

Indeed, what treasure awaits you?
Kang-rim opened the safe with a smile,

“Where is the treasure?”

It was not a treasure island, but a laboratory appeared out of nowhere, and I was instantly lost.

“Why is there a lab in the vault?”

Kang-rim questioned Perpone, who was standing next to her.

“I-I don’t know.”

Perpone was equally perplexed.

‘I only heard that you want to keep the experimental data together…’

Perpone did not expect to convert the vault itself into a laboratory.

‘Where has my money gone!’

I knew that the materials the lord ordered for the experiment were not ordinary,
She also knew that the king, who was found out, would purify the family, accusing her of treason.
Perpone also knew that she too would be beheaded for being involved in this through her dealings.

She knew all this, so Perpone could not refuse the request of the former lord to keep the experiment materials in the safe.
She had no choice but to ask for permission to open the safe as well.
Because the lord threatened that if he was finished, you would be finished too.
Since he was the lord who already had all the evidence, Perpone had no choice but to bow his head.

At that time, the lord said this.

I won’t touch the money, so don’t worry.
Experiments are important to him, money is not important at all.
So he told me to go back to Ice Island in peace.

I did, but I got stabbed in the back of the head.

‘I should have just hired mercenaries to get rid of it…’

He should have known since he threatened me not to come every time I went to check.
Perpone regretted it, but he was already spilled water.

“Let’s see what’s there.”

Kang-rim took Atria and Perpone and looked around the inside of the laboratory slowly.

While wandering around, the three of them found a large magic circle.

“This…”

Kang-rim looked carefully at the magic circle.

The operation stopped because the owner had disappeared, but a faint flow of magical power was visible.
Kang-rim immediately noticed what purpose this was used for.

‘A passageway.’

It seems that Grid’s father secretly used the safe through this magic circle.

Perpone doesn’t seem to know either.
Seeing the magic circle and muttering, “Why did you set up a teleportation magic circle?”

‘What did I do here?’

Instead of gold and silver treasures, countless piles of paper are piled up here and there.
The tools you would only find in a modern science lab are covered in dust,
A stench emanated from the container containing the drugs, as if the expiration date had passed.

In the laboratory, hundreds of cylindrical glass containers are neatly arranged.
Inside the barrel, hoses used for experiments were dangling.
Anyone who sees it will look as if the former lord used a machine to humiliate and play with women.

Unless there were rotten, unrecognizable corpses in the barrel.

‘Is this a setting I don’t know about?’

Grid’s father was brutally murdered by Grid’s hand.
The game ended with just one line.
There was no mention of anything else, so Kang-lim thought that Grid’s father was a pitiful bastard who was murdered by his son, the last man.
She was stunned to learn that Abi, in fact, was also the worst parent ever.

Despite the fact that she had been subjected to ruthless human experiments here, just like her son, who was a nuclear waste, she couldn’t help but be surprised.

She thought Grid was a demon since he was born.
Maybe the real devil was different?

“Master, look at this.”

At this time, Atria found a notebook in a pile of paperwork.

“It looks like the diary the former lord used.”
“Diary? Why are you in a place like this…”

Why is the diary out of the blue? Why did you leave your diary in a place like this?
Advent was questionable, but

‘Right. This was a world inside a game.’

He immediately nodded her head.

‘An important item could be in a place like this.’

Sometimes, while playing the game, there are times when important objects are found in really absurd places.
Sometimes it’s on a cliff, or it’s on a cafe table, or it’s buried in a pile of rocks.
Considering this, this diary should also be regarded as one of those cases.

“Let’s read it sometime.”

You need to know why the safe has become a laboratory and where the desired gold and silver treasures are.
Kang-rim read her from the first page carefully.

The more I read, the worse my expression naturally became.

[Year XXX, Month X Day X.]

[The woman used as the test subject died. The success of becoming a monster was right in front of me, but it seems that trash is trash after all.]

[I need to incinerate the body and go to the black market to find the next test subject.]

[In order to become the ruler of the south, the monster transformation experiment must succeed.]

Monstrous experiment. Grid’s father learned that people from ancient civilizations could turn into monsters.
He went ahead with his human experiments to claim the power as his own.
To maintain secrecy, he tricked Perpone into converting the safe into a laboratory.
It was written in the diary that he would make Perpone his scapegoat if things went wrong.

Trying to turn 〈 poisonous snake 〉 into an enemy.
Advent sincerely wondered if he was out of his mind or out of his mind.

[Day X Month X, Year XXX.]

[We are experiencing difficulties in developing black light.]

[Is it because there is no proper recipe? The more failed works, the more trash to burn.]

[My pride hurts, but I think I have no choice but to buy the recipe from that family. It was put up for auction, so let’s buy it.]

Black light is an essential element for monster transformation.
A person can transform into a monster only when there is black light.
Grid’s father will have no choice but to dry up as he keeps failing to make that black light.
Therefore, I tried to purchase a recipe from another family.

[You rotten bastards, why don’t you sell them when you shouted that you were selling them? Where does a low-ranking aristocrat joke around?]

[I will endure it today, but I will definitely make you pay. I will definitely use the two daughters and the mother as test subjects.]

[I will tell you in detail what it cost me to anger you.]

However, the recipe purchase failed, and Grid’s father was furious.
The content, which was consistent with a respectful attitude, reversed from this point on.
One-sided hatred towards the other person was expressed as it was.

[Garbage increases again. Why doesn’t the garbage change into what it wants? Annoying.]

[I took one of the handmaids who was annoyed by her eyes as a test subject, but she died in the end. After all, no matter how much garbage is raised, it is just garbage.]

[I caught the scum that was aiming for the safe. The woman was given as a test subject, and the man was given as food for the garbage that could not turn into a monster.]

Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage.
They don’t call people human, they call them garbage unconditionally.
The lord’s way of thinking, considering everyone else to be inferior to himself, was revealed.

[I placed monsters made of trash in case an intruder enters the safe. If my instructions are given, I will move right away.]

[Of course, they won’t be able to resist. The moment you rebel, press the detonation switch to explode your heart.]

[And it’s disposable anyway. The bomb was set to explode automatically after a week. He didn’t know that, and the way he giggled that he had finally been recognized was laughable.]

Kang-rim, who saw this, turned her head toward the corpses in her countless glass barrels.

‘I was wondering why it was neglected like that…’

If the contents of the diary are true, there is a possibility that those bodies are the guards prepared by the former lord.
If he had been alive, if he had been bound by the lord’s threats, a battle would have occurred.
If the number of corpses left in the barrel was over a hundred, and they had become stronger through monster transformation experiments, they would have been troublesome opponents in many ways.

Died before that.
While Advent was greatly relieved that the sudden battle had not occurred, he internally laughed at Grid’s father who had set up guards so sloppily.

At least you should have prepared something else, and if you have useful ones, you should somehow keep them alive for a long time.
Does it make sense to throw it away just because it’s disposable? For Kang-rim, who rots useless characters in a warehouse because he doesn’t want to grind them, the way of the former lord was so disgusting.

Kang-rim quickly read the next page.

‘Why is Perpone’s expression like that?’

Perpone looks at the diary with a face as if she has lost the whole world.
Kang-rim thought it was strange, but he thought it was no big deal and focused on his diary again.

[The grid guy was drugged.]

The following was about the grid.

[This guy has a body suitable for becoming a monster. If it wasn’t for the successor issue, he would use it as a test subject right away along with his mother.]

[Seeing that he is fine even after taking a near-lethal dose of medicine, I think we can turn him into a monster.]

[Let’s keep pushing to see if we can really use the monster’s power. Hire the killers and keep fighting.]

Like a father, he considered Grid not as his own son, but as one of the test subjects.
Even though he is an illegitimate child, how could he be so irresponsible?
Hiring killers to turn your son into a monster.
Kang-rim’s hand holding the diary naturally grew stronger at the content of treating his son like a stranger.

[Finally finished black light. I don’t know if I really completed it, but I can tell just by looking at the energy overflowing from the drug. This worked.]

[Now, let’s give Grid this medicine. If you feed it and become a monster, capture it and process it.]

[Now that I have the monster in my hands, I will be the one to rule the South.]

[Let’s overthrow the kingdom altogether.]

[Let’s overthrow and build our own kingdom.]

[When I build it, my wife and daughters will be the happiest women in the world.]

[I look forward to that day.]

That was what was written in the diary.

“…”

Kang-lim put down the diary without saying anything, then,

“Whoa…”

She looked up at the ceiling and sighed.

“You rotten bastard…”

A man who does this kind of thing is a lord?
From the moment I found out that I was abusing Grid, I had a stinky smell, but it was really helpless.
Was the son unable to be saved because of this inability to be saved?
The true root of all evil should be seen not as the Grid, but as this bastard.
How on earth could the mind be able to do terrible things unconcernedly? Are you a psychopath?

“Master, are you all right?”
“Oh, it’s okay. I’m fine.”

She asked as if she was worried about Atria, and Kang-rim replied as if she was okay.

“Rather than that, I’ll have to call the soldiers. Let’s send all the data inside this to Talia.”

He’s annoying, but he can’t abandon his legacy.
You will have all the knowledge you need to become a monster, so let’s sweep it all up.
Sweep it all up and send it to Talia. Then Talia will be able to speed up the development of the black ore.
Advent gave the order, holding back the bubbling anger.

“Yes, I understand. Master. More than that…”

After receiving her instructions, Atria turned her gaze towards Perpone.

“I want you to interrogate Perpone.”
“What do you mean?”

Why should I interrogate Perpone?
Atria answered that question.

“Perpone was planning to assassinate the master.”
“…What?”
“Listen to yourself. He muttered to himself that he could press the switch.”

Advent immediately turned her gaze toward Perpone,

“…”

Perpone’s face turned as pale as a corpse’s.