MMORPG: Rebirth as an Alchemist

A day before the ighting of the World Bo, Ren, Evie, Leonel, and Ragnar had come to a halt at their conquet for grinding pot. Jut in time for the chao that wa about to begin, their ubcla leveled to the econd tier, and they gained kill and pell along the way.

Now, it wa time to releae the World Bo and wreak havoc in COVENANT.

"I kind of feel orry for the little piglet, but we needed thoe EXP," aid Leonel, "They would be mied." They were kinda cute, though.

"Aren't you going to ak me how I know all thoe grinding pot?" Ren aked Ragnar. The latter wa awfully quiet, and Ren knew that he wa thinking about it. If not, curiou about it.

"I'll ave my breath," replied Ragnar, "I know that you wouldn't give me a traight anwer. I have long gone treated you a a bug."

Ren chuckled. Deep inide, he wa thankful that Ragnar helped them. Another etra hand wa welcomed.

Too bad about Iolde. She really wanted to come, but he had an obligation firt to her family and guild before them.

"What are you going to do with thoe meat we've acquired?" aked Evie, keeping the converation going.

In echange for bringing them to the grinding pot, Ren hug all the [Pelka Meat]. It wa afer with him ince he had a Bank account in Arcadia. The other were till in the proce of getting one.

Million ha been applying ever ince he tole the [Rare Cla Ticket] and [Cla Advancement Scroll] from Beatri of Ferociou Raven. So there wa a bit of delay in proceing for applying an account in the bank nowaday.

Ren wa glad that he got that out of the way.

Thinking about that meat put Ren in a good mood. "Keep them until the time i right to ell them," he aid.

He got a whopping +4 777 of thoe meat. Adding to hi previou haul, all in all he acquired near +5 000. But he wan't going to keep all thoe money for himelf. He would hare what he got in the auction with Leonel and Evie in the future. Ragnar didn't need it ince he wa already rich.

However, in echange, all the Pelka Grinding pot he knew were gone. He wan't worried, though, ince, from thi day forward, they would get their EXP from boe, rare quet, and clearing dungeon.

It wa time to get eriou and peed thing up.

"I that o?" Evie looked over at the horizon. Dancing ray of light dapple the ground in an ever-hifting pattern. The leave above tain the unlight green, and everything around them took in an emerald hue.

With a tearing crack, a dead branch crahed on the foret floor a they walked. Everyone caught the whiff of freh animal dung mied among the earthy cent of the wood.

"Are you ure we're headed in the right direction?" Ragnar aked. "We have been walking in circle here."

"Pii knew what it wa doing," Evie defended Pii, eye on the little creature who wa leading them in the foret.

"I'm tired of engaging beat here. They don't rack EXP like they ued to. What' the point of engaging them?" Leonel preed [Flee] when another horde of beat barged their way.

"Keep going, and we'll eventually reach it."

"How do we go about thi again?" aked Leonel, leading the front in Roelake Foret, in the continent of the Human.

"Simple, we'll find the World Bo' lair and free it," Ren aid without batting an eyelid.

"You made it ound like a World Bo i a little kitten trap in a lair," Ragnar muttered to the ide.

"Of coure, in reality, it in't that eay. Finding that lair alone would probably take week ince we have to do thi train of quet and talk to a bunch of NPC to get here," eplained Ren before he beamed at Pii.

"Luckily, Pii could detect thoe thing. We jut need the general location, and Pii will do the ret for u."

The good thing about baring hi other perona with the other wa that Ren could free Pii in the open without anyone quetioning him.

Evie briefly hot Ren a look. "Are you ure that' allowed? Aren't we going to mi omething? Or caue a bad ending?" Jut like what happened with Twin Moon Ae Clan.

"No worrie. Thi in't a World Quet, o there' no bad or good ending here. Although..."

"... Although?" Evie, Ragnar, and Leonel aked when Ren didn't finih hi entence. The three of them uddenly had a bad premonition.

Ren beamed. "If thi World Bo i not defeated, the continent of the Human might get wiped out."

"..."

"..."

"..." Leonel releaed a long blat into the horizon. "And you aid that thi World Bo i eay."

Pii!

Pii' crie broke the chatter between the four, and they hurriedly went after the furry black creature when it flew toward a clear area with nothing but overrun gra and cattered boulder and rock.

Baed on the rubble and hattered wall, it eemed like it ued to be ome kind of a building before.

"Wow, he really did find omething." Leonel inpected the area to earch for clue when he tumbled on a rock in hi hate. He fell on the broken tone floor, armor creating clanging noie a he did.

"Watch your tep," Ren aid and caually walked away to another area.

"Thank you for the late warning." Leonel puhed himelf up and patted the dut from hi armor.

"Pii i really handy." Evie chortled when Pii went to her houlder and rubbed it neck againt her cheek.

Ren threw a pointed glare at hi pet, and the latter huddered and quickly flew away from Evie.

"I'm urpried that it really did find omething from all thoe twit and turn." Ragnar wa impreed. There wa no path nor any ign in the foret, and without ome kind of a guide or map, it wa impoible to know where they were going.

Leonel picked up the cattered rubble and inpected them. Hoping that it would trigger omething. "But now that we're here. What are we looking for eactly?"

Ren went over to the center of the area and wept the rubble and leave away from the broken tile.

"A door," he aid.

The other went in hi direction, and they were urpried that there wa omething off about the floor.

"Help me clean it," Ren aid, and the other quickly removed the boulder, leave, and everything that hindered the tone lab.

When they were finihed, they were urpried to find that there wa a circle carved on the tone floor urrounded by weird marking with unknown origin. From the dicoloration and the patche of dark color around the tone, everyone deducted that it wa burned.

A notification then popped on their creen.

[Ruined Sanctum

The Wizard who ummoned Jibblinplip were not important enough to merit a name. Their tower were gone, and the only thing that remained wa the glyph of the ummoning circle they ued, burned into the ground.

The burn were hundred of feet deep. Scorch mark run even through rock and tone.

How to activate it? Only one know.]

Leonel' head tilted to the ide. "Jibblin-what?"

"I that the name of the World Bo?" Evie inquired.

"Why doe it ound funny?" Ragnar fited hi hand over hi mouth to hide hi laughter though hi mak wa already preventing anyone from eeing anything pa hi eye.

"It name might ound funny, but the creature inide thi thing in't."

Evie, Leonel, and Ragnar all looked at each other when they heard Ren' eriou voice and the mile on their face diappeared.

"So, how do we open it?" Leonel quetioned. "Can we break thi thing?"

"It' uppoed to require a pecial magical incantation from an NPC. But ince we didn't undergo the quet, we can only ue the hort cut."

"And what' that?" Ragnar aked in a bored tone.

"It' jut a door at thi point. We can bypa that uing thi." Ren natched the [Crytal Key] he got from Hubert.

[Conumed Crytal Key 1

Remaining number of Crytal Key: 3]

Everyone held their breath and waited for omething to happen with unabated attention. But five econd had paed, and till, nothing happened.

"I thought o. We houldn't have bypaed thoe quet." Leonel lamented, and before he could ay more, the ground hook, and the leave fell from the rumble.

The trange marking on the tone lab glowed in a tranparent light before it twited and turned, forming word they couldn't decipher. They heard a loud crack like omething went into place, and the tone floor broke into tiny piece, falling into the dark pit below.

No one moved a mucle, and the three held their breath. The loud thud of their heart rang in their ear a their eye trained in focu at the newly opened hole, waiting for what wa about to happen.

While the three were on edge, Ren wa relaed, like he wa jut watching a movie. The thrill and ecitement of the unknown were totally gone from hi ytem ince he already knew what would happen.

When fifteen econd paed, and nothing happened, not even an eerie whiper of a ound, Evie, Ragnar, and Leonel teadily crept toward the aperture.

However, they couldn't ee anything pat the darkne, pat the few et of tair leading down below.

"Are we..." Leonel gulped, "... going in there?"

"Don't be ridiculou. I told you we houldn't fight a World Bo in it lair." Ren then wiped on hi creen.

"It' time to log out and let the bo do it thing."

"Huh? Are we jut going to leave?" The three aked in union.

"Our job here i done." Ren tared at the three with an evil glint in hi eye and a concerning mile on hi lip.

"Let' go home and enjoy the how, hall we?"