Chapter 229 – Quest Completion

Kim Se-ah turned away from Seo Seung-chul, who was still unable to say anything.
To be honest, I didn’t feel comfortable.
Because I know how persistent and vicious Seo Seung-cheol is.

He couldn’t say anything right now because of the shock.
When he came to his senses, he did not know how he would come out.

In one morning, he lost his daughter, right arm and engineering chief.
It was a huge loss to him.
There were still many talented people in the guild, and there was room for recruiting from outside, but it wouldn’t be easy to settle the atmosphere in the guild anyway.

He killed Park Han-seul, who killed his father.

‘Not yet.’

After leaving the guild room, Seah Kim sighed and thought.

His own revenge is not yet complete.
As long as Seo Seung-cheol is alive, the culprit who made his father and Baek-gang disappear from the world is still alive.

It’s just that he didn’t have the strength to end this revenge with his own hands.

He had to think about how to get his hands on the power.

#

Now that Park Han-seul is dead, he has filled in one more puzzle piece to complete the quest.
Now there is only one thing left.
It was only Park Ye-seo.

She currently has a high level of affection for me, but she is not yet strong enough to complete the quest.
Looking back on whether or not she had completed the quest up until now, she couldn’t achieve it without having to make her crush 100% or have sex.
Maturity of the condition.
This is a more accurate expression.

Looking at the progress of this quest, it was difficult to say that Park Ye-seo’s problem had been completely resolved.
To top it off, I went to see her.

“Oh, is Sunggyu here?”

Han Yeon-ju greeted me with a tired face.

“Hello. Is Ye-seo inside?”
“Yes. The two of us are researching this and that. In other words, a collaboration between magic and sorcery?”
“Collaboration…”

You are doing great.
If a person with half-capacity did this clumsily, there was a high possibility that he would not succeed.
However, since Han Yeon-joo said it herself, the weight was different.

Magic and sorcery have a lot in common, but there are also differences.
I was also looking forward to what the two could do through collaboration.
Maybe through copying the system’s ability, I might be able to get that ability too.
Before that, though, it would be first to acquire magical abilities that you don’t know how to use at all.

When I went into the lab, Park Ye-seo was looking through a thick book.
The heat that comes with a person’s intense concentration emanated from her, but she didn’t look too tired.
He seemed to be immersed in the fun of practicing witchcraft.
It was understandable that she became even more enthusiastic because it had only been recently that she had been gripped with despair that she might not be able to use it for the rest of her life.

“Yes.”

When I called out, he looked at me in surprise.

“It’s Sunggyu. When did you come?”
“I just came.”
“I see~”

She smiled brightly
During the few days spent at Han Yeon-joo’s house, she seemed to be very happy, shaking off her old gloom.
Her heart was heavy at the thought of having to tell her the gloomy news again.

“I have something to tell you. Shall we talk together?”
“Huh?”

Park Ye-seo’s pupils shook as if she felt an anxious energy from me.

“Yes…”

Park Ye-seo and I moved to an empty room.
I didn’t know where to begin, but it was a story that had to be told anyway.
The sooner you say it, the better it is, so I came here with heavy steps.

“Why? For what? Is it your brother’s business?”

Park Ye-seo looked at me and asked.
However, the direction she guessed was far from the truth.

“Has your brother hurt anyone else? Or did he do you something bad?”
“That’s not it…”

I stroked the back of my neck.

“Stop, no way…”

Park Ye-seo didn’t put her words into her own mouth, but she seemed to know what she was guessing.
And she said her guess was true.

“Your brother is dead. Yesterday.”
“Ah…”

Park Ye-seo opened her mouth and she said nothing.

“And I was there too.”

I spoke heavily.
It’s something Park Ye-seo will know someday, and even if that’s not the case, it was something she had to reveal to herself.

I manipulated my phone and put it on the table.
And press the play button to hear the recorded content.
It was a recording of what Seongho Guild Members had said to Kim Se-Ah.

As it flowed out, Park Ye-seo’s head gradually lowered.
I could see her shoulders drooping.

As for me, I couldn’t even fathom how much of a shock she would have received.

I sat quietly in front of her.
I don’t know how long it will take, but for now, there was no sign that it would happen forever, but I waited for Park Ye-seo to open her mouth first.

Then the door burst open.

“The guests are here, so we should treat them to tea.”

Yeonju Han burst in and placed a cup of tea in front of us.
It was hot and steaming, and it wasn’t coffee.
And it was not a car with a familiar shape or scent.

“It’s a healthy tea.”

Han Yeon-ju said with a slight wink.
The secret location is the recommended difference, so it will definitely work.
But now was not the time to be curious about cars.

“Hmm…”

A musician who read the mood hugged her tray and said.

“Let’s talk.”

She left her room
And right after that, Park Ye-seo opened her mouth.

“I knew.”

She spoke with a look of resignation and, at the same time, liberation.

“That her brother would have killed her parents. And that the things my brother does are never good things. That the longer I spend with my brother, the worse things will happen to me. But…”

Park Ye-seo could not speak any more.
There was a whimper, and her little shoulders started to move.
I went up to her and hugged her.

There was something bothering me because it was as if I had killed Park Han-seul myself, but Park Ye-seo did not refuse my hug.
Rather, she held out his hand and hugged him.
That’s how we held each other for a while, and I hoped that Park Ye-seo’s heart would be at least a little more comfortable.

#

Park Ye-seo went back to her house.
First of all, it was because there was a problem with her brother’s funeral, and there was also an inheritance problem.
Me and Han Yeon-joo told her to tell her about anything she needed her help with.

And after I honestly told Park Ye-seo that Park Han-seul had died, a message appeared in front of me.

[Completed the quest ‘NTL Seo Yu-ju and Park Han-seul.’]
【I got 150 EXP as a reward.】
【You have obtained the ‘Random Skill Acquisition Ticket’.】

150 was the most experience I’ve received since I started completing the quest.
However, the problem was that a lot of experience points were required to upgrade each stat as the growth I was facing was evolution to S-class.

Last time I put 100 EXP into ‘Strength’, but its grade did not go up.

‘It’s still an S.’

The S class was a completely different realm.
So, no matter how much experience you needed, it was well worth it.

First of all, I put the experience I received from this quest reward into ‘power’ that I hadn’t been able to upgrade before.
Seeing how quickly the number of experience points he possessed decreased, he felt discouraged.
This quest was not an easy quest compared to the other quests.
Seeing the experience gained from doing so disappear, I felt confused.

And…

【The ‘Strength’ stat has become S.]

“Ah…”

The stats were upgraded when 100 experience was added, that is, 200 experience was invested.
This meant that 200 experience points were required to raise the grade from A to S.

But there was a problem.
I couldn’t stop lifting my fingers because of the endlessly sucked experience points.
In other words, even after the ‘strength’ stat was upgraded with an additional 100 experience points, 6 more experience points were invested there.

‘Is there a next one?’

This was surprising to me too.
What other grades exist after S?
Known to the world, and the Hunter rank I know, S was the highest.

I put all the experience points I had put into my strength.
But again nothing happened.

If there were more grades after S, it would be a higher grade than S, which would of course require more experience points.

‘I was surprised.’

Naturally, I thought S was the end.
It was unthinkable that the system sucked experience points meaninglessly.

‘Still.’

For now, you shouldn’t continue to invest experience points in just one stat.
It is more important to raise all stats to S and make the overall grade S.
It won’t be too late to aim for the next level after that.

【You have acquired the skill “Lee Yeon-cham”.】

The skill obtained through the ‘Random Skill Acquisition Ticket’ was ‘Lee Yeon-cham’.
Perhaps it was a skill that could be applied to swordsmanship based on spearmanship.