Chapter 49 – Artifacts

After returning to Incheon, Yoochun was told that Kaian had woken up after passing out, so he headed straight to the underground hideout where he was imprisoned.

Squeak…

The space that I entered after opening the 30cm steel door to prevent escape was cleaner than I thought. It was probably Tibocina’s favor.

In the middle of the room, the guy was tied up on a bed with his arms and legs tied, and an injection containing a magic melting agent was inserted into his right arm.

“It looks pretty comfortable.”
“…”

It wasn’t sarcastic, but Yoochun actually felt that way. He wanted to put him in a prison where he couldn’t see a single light when he thought about what he had done.

“…Why did you let me live?”

“Would you mind if I saved this?”

Awesome…
Yuchun brought a chair next to him and sat down, staring at him calmly.

“You should come under me.”

It is, of course, a slave contract. If you can command this guy, there will be a lot of problems, but there are many benefits beyond that.

“…What if you don’t like it?”

“Then you die. And Berenduke will disappear from this world.”

“…”

As long as the slave contract required spontaneity, he had no choice but to kill him if he said he would not do it to the end. But Yoochun wasn’t too worried.

“Do you think pride is more important than family? It’s not even funny. That pride exists thanks to the family.”

Yuchun’s provocation flickers Kaian’s eyes. Yoochun knows his wish. Reconstruction of the destroyed Berenduk.

Can a nobleman’s pride give up the task of rebuilding a family that has been going on for thousands of years? All of the family members would have died to save themselves?

‘I can’t do that.’

Even in Last Legacy, he was arrogant and arrogant, but at least within the family, he was called an excellent and respected head of the family. It must have been possible because there was great pride in the name Berenduk.

“Come downstairs… You mean a slave contract…?”

“Oh right”

“…If you’re going to do that, what can you do for me?”

‘Am I half way over…?’

His agony ended sooner than expected. They weren’t comparable to each other in the first place. There were too many things on his back for Kaian to take care of his pride.

However, since he was not completely taken over, Yuchun decided to give him a suitable carrot.

“I will moderately help you rebuild the family under me.”

“…”

“I don’t know how you tried to rebuild, but I don’t think that would be better than helping me?”

In order for Kaian to establish Berenduk again, countless things would be needed, but the most important of them would be force.

Now, in the central world, Berenduk is not the symbol of the hero of the past, but just a name that has the most to eat, and Kaian needs the strength to protect himself from them.

In such a situation, the existence of Yoochun will be a strong shield.

“Think carefully, and I have a few things to ask you.”

“…What?”

Yuchun stopped Kaian from thinking. Anyway, that’s something Tibocina has to come too.

For now, I decided to ask about things that I couldn’t know even with Fallen’s information.

“Arbella…What is her true identity?”

She was almost certain to be her own main character, how she was here, how she could be so strong at this point, or why she exterminated Beren Duke, she could not know anything about.

‘It couldn’t be easier to get information on the person who currently holds a seat on the 13th Committee’

So her Yuchun asked her party who had been through her directly. Because she seemed to know more than herself.

“…You bring up a heartbreaking story from the first question…”

When Yuchun asked her about her story about the one who tore her family crest from her, her Kai An complexion turned pale.

She seemed to recall a traumatic past while she was not yet physically and mentally healed.

“Haha…What do you want to know?”

“Is the reaction weaker than expected?”

Yuchun, of course, knew that Kaian would scream. She is a bone character to herself, but isn’t she an enemy who slaughtered the family members and family members to him?

At that, Kaian smiled weakly and bitterly.

“…Because I am also from the Central World…”

As a descendant of a great family in the central world, Kaian was clearly aware of the roles of winners and losers.

No matter how rude the opponent’s question was, the loser had to answer. Or choose harsh torture or death.

And Kaian had no intention of choosing the latter. He had already lost everything anyway, and in that case it was better to plan for the future.

“Arbella suddenly appeared in the central world at the age of 20…”

Information about the approximate Arbella poured from his mouth. It wasn’t long. Because not much is known about her in the first place. But…

“It’s a monster…”

Hearing that brief content, Yuchun was quite dumbfounded.

Yuchun closed his eyes and summarized briefly.

At the age of 20, Arbella plucked out the eyes of the 1st Knight Commander of the former Committee and took the position.

And with his outstanding charisma, he quickly took over the organization and defended the line of absolute defense.

A few years after that, she suddenly led her forces to raid Beren Duke’s home and annihilate it.

‘You’re crazy…’

It was a move that could only come out like that. However, there were still lingering questions.

“What about the other committee members? Why did you stay still?”

Yuchun couldn’t understand why they stayed still because they were on the same committee.

There were quite a few members there, especially the 8th seat of the Mahel Empire, but why didn’t they help?

“…Unfortunately, I was young at the time…I hadn’t even completed the heir class yet…”

“That means you don’t know?”

“Yes…”

Kai An, the only remaining blood, was ashamed that he knew nothing about the enemy.

“…But I’ve heard that there’s something strange about Yurhim in the past.”

“Strange thing? What?”

“They say she…Was suspiciously familiar with our family…”

According to Kian, Arbella disrupted the atmosphere of the family by enlisting the collateral before the surprise attack.

In addition, various incidents broke out, and at the same time that the main unit left the home, only the direct relatives took advantage of the exquisite gap that remained and launched a surprise attack.

“Then what happens after the main family goes bankrupt? Wouldn’t Berenduke’s history be too short for it to be completely ruined like that?”

Yoochun couldn’t imagine that a great family that had lasted for thousands of years collapsed so easily.

“Didn’t I tell you… That you brought in collaterals… That bitch didn’t help much when recruiting collaterals…Just an illusion that you could become direct descendants. I planted it in my head…”

All bloodlines of the main family are dead except for Kaian. Moreover, Qian was young at the time, and Yurhim, who was taking him with him, hid to protect him.

If they had united their strength, they could have resisted Arbella, who had been lacking in power until then, but the collaborators, who had already been swallowed up by desire, turned their blades internally rather than externally to occupy the center of the empty Berenduke.

In this way, the largest family in the central world collapsed due to internal divisions with thousands of years of history.

And Arbella removed or subsumed the remnants of her family, which was torn into pieces to eat, and seated the black mirror (黑鏡) in 10 seats on the committee.

“What is it? Isn’t it strange? This series of flows.”

Hearing the story, Kaian opened his mouth with a raised voice to Yuchun, who was engrossed in thought with his arms crossed.

“What?”

“Do you think that these things are possible because they are really smart? No! Nonsense!”

“…”

‘It’s a bit strange…’

Aside from the fact that the relationship between the direct line and the collateral line was delicate, it was certainly strange to know information about the main family’s main unit and the situation of the direct line.

Even though it is obviously one of the most classified information inside Berenduke, didn’t Arbella act as if she could see through it?

“That devilish bitch must be…!!”
“Stop”

‘I should calm down at this point…’

Yuchun stopped Kian, who was starting to burst into resentment. If I left it like this, I thought I would talk endlessly.

“Hey, I’m not your friend. I’m not here to listen to your complaints.”

Anyway, I couldn’t know more about Arbella than this. Things you need to find out after going to the central world. Yuchun decided to move on to another story.

“So shut up and don’t you remember what I asked you there?”

“…”

“Tell me what you have been doing in this country. If you don’t talk properly, your situation will change. A lot.”

“…”

“If you’re worried that I’ll get a fever and kill you, you don’t have to. The blood shed at that time is enough. I’m already rolling the villains down anyway, so what’s the difference if I add one to that?”

I decided not to discriminate between the good and the bad as long as it had usable power. And as long as there was Tibochina, if you were a wicked person, you could use her as a slave. If that doesn’t work, you can just kill it.

“Now, choose whether you will take the chance to build a family under me or be treated as less than human and die.”

Puffed up…

Yoochun gave strength to each of his fingers and looked at Kai An with murderous eyes. This was an implicit turning point.

If he obeys like this and confesses everything, he will come under Yuchun, if not…

‘I thought there were torture experts among the villains in Incheon, right?’

He will be treated like never before…

“Ha…”

After looking at each other like that in the closed room that had become quiet, Kaian let out a sigh.

“… First of all, I will tell you why I settled in Korea, no, I will tell you…”

‘Did I give in?’

I was worried that even if I died, I would say that I couldn’t go under anyone, but fortunately, he chose a family. That half-respect must be proof of that.

“Because there was something very special about this country…Something my family hadn’t seen before…I found it by accident…”

‘Is there such a thing in Korea?’

While playing the game, I had never heard that there was something special on Earth, but I was intrigued by the existence of such a thing in Korea.

“What is that?”

“Did you know that some special items of the dimensions that joined the central world before that become artifacts?”

“I know.”

There are cases where some of the items containing strong will or resentment become artifacts with mana.

“But I know it’s a very rare occurrence, and it’s almost useless?”

“You know it well… That’s right. Most of the artifacts are pretty useless.”

Usually such items are mostly old relics. However, most artifacts do not become artifacts as their thoughts disappear over time.

Even if it becomes an artifact with a very slim chance, its durability will be destroyed because it cannot withstand mana.

“But… They say that they are sometimes born by coincidence… A perfectly artifacted relic…”

“No way…”

Yoochun knows. Just need to know That perfect artifacts exist…
“Is there such a thing in Korea…?”

And that it is even more difficult to obtain than the water of the Holy Spirit, a product of the Creator.

“That’s right… It’s an incredibly rare item, and it’s not even in the family…”

“Yeah…If the perfect artifact I know existed in Berenduk, you wouldn’t have perished. Or would you rather be ruined because of that?”

If you roll a cube with a number between 1 and 6 on it, you will naturally get a number between them. Very natural thing.

But a full artifact can make the number 7 come out of it. What do you mean?

‘It’s just that it can cause some fucking nonsense…’

And when the committee finds it, it will be obtained by any means and methods, and strictly sealed, regardless of whoever possesses it, even if it belongs to the same committee.

Because there’s no way they’d like something with unpredictable power.

Yuchun only knows they exist, but he doesn’t know what kind of powers he has or how many there are in total. No, the committee won’t know either.

I heard that there are artifacts that can be activated just by recalling their existence, and that all memories of those involved were erased after recovery.

“What artifact is it?”

However, Kaian said that such artifacts exist in a place called the Korean Peninsula. Yuchun, naturally curious, asked him.

“You know. Even in this country, it was considered a national treasure. It seemed half-abandoned now that everyone was busy trying to survive, but…”

“No, so what?”

Seeing Yuchun frown at the constant steaming, Kaian flinched and opened his mouth.

“…That’s how they call it in this country…”

Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa Temple in Hapcheon

“The Tripitaka Koreana.”