Chapter 95: Clue (1)
6amThere is nothing eternal in the world.0dDs2
WloeAnd that also applies even to countries that seem impossible to destroy.oOo6LBo
8cXLSThroughout history, countless nations have been founded and destroyed over and over again.prud
cNqOqi3And it was common for their legacies to either be inherited or completely erased.bJi1
CJcAs long as people exist, conflicts both large and small will always arise.tx1T
D15AAnd when those cracks accumulate, sooner or later everything ends up collapsing.X7c9FSr
3yVThis world was no different.JMt3o
Fs3THere too, countless kingdoms and empires had existed and disappeared.E63
tqi3ygI was never particularly interested in history.kN2o
EKelWPBut since this was another world, I inevitably became somewhat curious.hzYFAd
FYss5h7└WildGrills: I’m back. What exactly did that text say?d3G6m
oYOi└AllFather: Ohhh! You’ve returned! Mr. Grills, you have discovered an incredible record!zIR6k
ip7xgJ└WildGrills: Is it really that important?bpM
Q2bpCu8└AllFather: I still haven’t managed to translate even half of that page, but these are none other than records from the Valkhan Kingdom! Do you not understand how impressive that is?89RTwiR
dRUN8hU└WildGrills: No.wwZ48x
PkV50h7└Hey. You said you know mathematics, right? Then you received basic education.7Lw3
iIvgQ6└And yet you don’t know what the Valkhan Kingdom is?bZbue
yAh└WildGrills: I told you I came from another world.35Pw
QyQlfRmEven if I had received an education, the only ancient countries I knew were Joseon, Goryeo, Goguryeo, Silla, or Baekje.5FJnk
QLWPx35And being generous, also Mongolia, Nazi Germany, England, and things like that.6C9ktr
3M4r8LXIf I went even further back, maybe Rome.HDBH
FhQvIGYBut that was the limit.qFyus16
vHXvX8I was never particularly interested in history.i2MV
JYwJ‘And even that I only know because I browsed the internet.’lql9nKb
J56zFhThere were countries that had way too many memes.HSD3d
rQrlLFjThe most representative example was England.ALBej
ZnM2pThat meme saying if something bad happened in the world, England was probably involved.5vsJ6uy
EWcTHAnd while they truly had committed all kinds of atrocities, there was one country that made England look mild.DZer
zu7faxbNazi Germany.wibrA
IWrRThe lunatics who turned genocide into an industry.q4Mopy0
k1fyThe absolute peak of madness.5ho
4KLAnd that was the extent of my knowledge.XaN
T6tI knew absolutely nothing related to this world.7WU
g29md└WildGrills: Then the Valkhan Kingdom must have been an absurdly powerful kingdom, right?Vyq
ayZ5t└AllFather: Hah right now I feel like casting a Meteor.1QZUpQ
dF4└WildGrills: Huh?MtRP2IQ
bwZBfir└AllFather: It wasn’t merely a powerful kingdom. It was a kingdom that reached the pinnacle of magic, especially necromancy.KwB3
UFe└And it was also the kingdom where the Immortal King was born.gRe8Au
r3ov└All records related to it disappeared when the kingdom fell, so it’s hilarious that they appeared intact in the Forest of the Four Seasons lmao.FZr
Af1Ke8t└But then why did he go to the Forest of the Four Seasons? That part really makes me curious.oC4BPdm
fVZdDToOne after another, history lovers began leaving comments.EfDmYe
hyz0But since I knew nothing, honestly I didn’t understand even half of it.cHT3QN
gdMmFoI thought about looking up information separately, but I also didn’t want to miss the conversation.vIC
dIYK‘I don’t even know who the Immortal King is.’Jcp
AsWi2The only thing I remembered was that the Mage King, Kadir, had defeated him.Dbq55U
MWc9INOther than that, I knew nothing.4dSxL
i1eLiAnd I had never felt the need to know.7zR9Fy
0aChO└WildGrills: I don’t understand anything you’re saying. So, to summarize, there was a really powerful kingdom and it ended up destroyed because of the Immortal King?ZBkcCH
MzR└AllFather: More or less.I2JCBH
sVOT└WildGrills: And then the Mage King defeated the Immortal King.9VI0HA6
6HCNaJ└AllFather: That is also correct.ilDy
CMjC└WildGrills: Then when did the Valkhan Kingdom fall?WIYa
x8xxKs4└AllFather: If we’re talking about dates, it disappeared approximately 30 years ago.kep6
x1l└Back then it was complete chaos. Everyone was evacuating and panicking.iuMHrYa
2dg└My father was a Holy Knight and we received notice that he died in battle.HvJ
RXIe7x└Stay strong.bRC0
hL3M└Wasn’t the previous generation’s hero there too?mtz
QTRO└From what I understand, the previous hero died gloriously, and thanks to that Kadir was able to defeat him.kQ4jGR
fpB1GJAThirty years wasn’t that long ago.cMihl
66gVb8LIt was inevitable that the consequences were still present.VpdPQDK
Sp1X8cEven World War II only happened around a hundred years ago.ckn3Cz
y43mUAAnd the Korean War, one of the worst tragedies in Korean history, was only around eighty years ago.xtYahl
99cQPractically the current generation had suffered directly because of the Immortal King.aYm
jy3For people, the Immortal King was still a gigantic terror.F1bDQ
sHhPRM└WildGrills: Did the Immortal King destroy the world or something?66au
WE6Q└AllFather: He turned all the inhabitants of an entire kingdom into undead. It was the worst disaster in history. He almost devoured the entire world.0kMr
UbHa└After that incident, the Holy Kingdom completely banned necromancy.r1PRtcN
wE5Q2└Rather than banning it, didn’t they directly classify it as heresy?YybbQKM
z9qhyx└Not exactly heresy. More like evil magic. Though it’s a shame. Necromancy was incredible for replacing labor.sHOoD
ZUCFdA5└It caused problems from the beginning anyway. In the Central Continent they banned it from the start because they said it disrespected the dead.bb8M
UcxTAaK└Respect for the dead my ass. The living have to survive too ;;Gvt
V1M└Damn it, do you want to farm fields alone with your bare body? When there was a necromancer in the village everything was way easier.gZiQX
ziNMtNQ└Necromancers are always suspicious. You never know what they’ll do.HSXEUV
iMk└That’s prejudice. Even using magic on corpses to investigate causes of death was a form of necromancy.M9vO
YWgz└WildGrills: D-D-Damn… You can do that?dNwf5i
XIdzoH└AllFather: To this day it remains an unresolved issue. However, perhaps we may find answers in the books you discovered, Mr. Grills.JiU
jv1aI still didn’t understand very much.dQMM
Z1wEverything sounded like a completely distant story to me.0OEk8h
gwc5O1Maybe it was because I had been trapped inside the Forest of the Four Seasons for too long and was losing my sense of reality.Jj7bgi
72bawdOr maybe it was simply because this was the gallery.s8R6Y
BheNone of it truly hit me.OZpmbqy
yl4fn2Neither the Valkhan Kingdom nor the Immortal King meant anything important to me.mC3gzQ
OVuhdhn└WildGrills: I’m going to upload photos of every page in the book, so can you translate it? More than the history, I’m interested in how this person survived inside the forest.k9HH
2UhQkG└AllFather: Ohhh! Thank you very much! I don’t know how I could ever repay this honor…!Pe8F5
lT82eO└WildGrills: Just tell me the parts related to survival.QWM3Y
19kt9gLike I had already said before, the most important thing was survival.FtRPd
NvViHI began turning the pages and taking photos one by one.ZW6pNHe
gZ0AkxUploading all of that to the gallery was going to take time.LOwvzhF
zQmwujqThat’s why I came back so quickly.IksgUx
XbGwQnK‘Should I just hand the books over to AllFather?’DXI
u0Cx3MFor a moment I considered it, because uploading everything would be an enormous hassle.AkTSZax
05SBut in the end, I decided to post it anyway.KS8wZ
qHLCCVYEven if AllFather was intelligent, perhaps he would have difficulty translating it alone.io5md
DNJhP9lIf I uploaded it publicly, at least I could obtain somewhat more objective information.xONgu
aLYAnd if it truly ended up being a huge help, I was willing to even give him an adult Mandrake.HVtJii
93H‘Though I have to ignore the comments from anonymous users.’ewYl1
71y8hnAfter all, all kinds of people gathered in the gallery.CaX7
7NZAnd the anonymous users would probably end up translating random nonsense just to confuse others.AIw
zGYZLyH‘Still, I think I’ll hand the books to AllFather.’wSWhq
Yb10Besides uploading them to the gallery, I planned to give them to AllFather.BBYm8Bq
t4dEven if I kept them with me, they would be useless.srLEG
b0giAnd out of everyone, AllFather seemed the most trustworthy.MgKO
KPARFu7Beyond their academic or historical value, what mattered to me was any information related to survival.orCcukT
wyQO‘This person was incredible too. He forcefully survived in this hell and even had time to write diaries.’48tn
MvPWhile photographing the pages of the book, I turned my head toward the sack containing the bones.Qz2nuzm
cNukWhat kind of person had he been to forcibly survive in such a hellish forest and still have time to write diaries?y3Jy
LsNZ8cHoping there would be useful information inside those records, I carefully photographed page after page.xKmM
skvroIAnd surprisingly, considering how old they were, they had been preserved very well.Mh1i
uok4BkiThere were barely any letters impossible to distinguish.D42
IFpt‘Oh. What kind of plant could this be?’LLQsa
8iyAt first most of the books were filled with text.7QS7Mm
g1Az29But as I moved on to other volumes, illustrations began appearing.3lLTCI
oR22And some of them looked genuinely useful for my survival.EPQfUcC
g84wZ8There were drawings of different plants and animals.4SfRAUT
B6PjO5PEven maps or sketches of specific locations.sYoDBhi
bQfSince they were exactly the kinds of things I needed right now, I became even more careful while photographing them.dPyCIm
HC09“Ugh, my neck hurts.”GPjpp
SBXkudI ended up spending almost the entire afternoon just taking photos of the books.VCL
cABBR9Even so, it took less time than expected.MBd
fpEV2After all, I didn’t need to hold a camera in my hand.j5qX
qkeoI only had to look at the page while turning it.xGPJ
Li7NAnd since the image quality depended directly on my eyesight, the letters never came out blurry.PST5v
w4lzWGqMy eyesight was good.qUtE7
FF1That meant high quality.vffWC
TKOp7t‘Now I have to upload everything to the gallery.’H44nW6
xKfI began posting all the photos I had taken of the books.mK4g1sa
DMPWhy go through so much trouble?Ly2yoiu
XoRthWouldn’t it be easier to just hand them over to AllFather?yjLK
LFo25Even if I said I wanted to keep the information objective, most people probably wouldn’t understand.laZT
NrvSVwOBut for some reason.943qY
ayrKMAAI felt like I had to do it this way.tzfiAww
pwbifqd‘It’s better if I upload each book separately so they’re easier to distinguish.’L7ki
SqtThe gallery had no limit on photos.CaT
kHZjBHowever, it also didn’t work for free.1ffSl
LWaCreEach post consumed a small amount of mana.XCe
g2wAnd the more images or videos you uploaded, the greater the consumption became.TtoZ
wYshgTitle) First book foundk5vZ
G30WildGrills: (Photo of the contents of the book)s1K
Blp2jWildGrills: (Photo of the contents of the book)2OGFVd
FrqLWildGrills: (Photo of the contents of the book)OSNv97
UKf4U…bvshSGn
IaUWildGrills: (Photo of the last page of the book)1xRr
I001WildGrills: I’m just uploading the entire contents of the book.cTp9Qko
JH6QI’ll give an adult Mandrake to whoever manages to decipher useful survival-related information.LeKVuV
bm5And just so we’re clear, I’ll only listen to users with fixed nicknames, so don’t even bother, anonymous users. I’ll upload the rest of the books later.ZarQsQ
nThVI uploaded the posts exactly like that and then did the same with the other books.OZZl
9EUMeEven though it was only repetitive manual work, finishing it left me with a strange sense of satisfaction.hsaAUo
de5DZOnce I finished reading and uploading all the contents, I initiated a trade with AllFather.mnFrZQ
3qg9yJCAnd the moment I sent the request, he accepted it before even three seconds had passed.jfkyY
bbh2[WildGrills: Hello, Mr. AllFather.]86o
Q8Kti8[WildGrills: Did you see the posts I uploaded?]fzVQ4Lq
q6d[AllFather: At this very moment I’m reading them with my lower half completely hard.]wdZSx
l1VtyO[WildGrills: ;;]TXnLD
jWxIhBetter to ignore it.Fjg
ZknQTjFIf I got uncomfortable over that, then in the end I’d be the weird one.agMwEB4
9NwW[WildGrills: The thing is, I’m thinking about donating the books I found. Well, something like that.]ygiuTW
iDZOqVc[AllFather: W-What?! Those books are so valuable…?!]ufZWs
mwts9[AllFather: You truly intend to hand them over to me?]YDzTE
5RSUtzW[WildGrills: Even if I keep them with me, I can’t decipher them.]q6gt
MJY[WildGrills: But if you find anything related to survival, please tell me immediately.]6jmXsQ
a9aGIuj[AllFather: That will be simple.]g1v
26B[AllFather: Aren’t you curious about the Valkhan Kingdom or the Immortal King?]CMC0
kd1Kf[WildGrills: Wasn’t he just a king who raised an army of skeletons and started a war?]NoR
JPYGczf[AllFather: Hah, you summarized everything too perfectly, so now I don’t even know what to say.]t4VA14
iizO[AllFather: Then you’re simply not interested, right?]yP1oNT
yKO[WildGrills: I’m too busy surviving.]c4o
wXFKeM[AllFather: I see. I understand.]tzwDp
One[AllFather: Then I’ll explain how this person managed to survive.]27G5SKH
ozUy[WildGrills: Thank you.]O5cqQ3
IRTRAzg[WildGrills: Ah, before that, may I ask one more thing?]81pKJ
aly[AllFather: Go ahead.]zvUB3
Dgw[WildGrills: I’d like to know this person’s name.]KrhkVG4
acZz9gI felt like I should at least know his name.pvI5l
Vyv5XThe difference between having a name and not having one was enormous.AcFcKW
U9VFFortunately, it seemed the name was written on the first page of the book, because AllFather answered immediately.zupJONP
vIm96v[AllFather: The last scribe of the Valkhan Kingdom. Rice Craone. His name was Rice Craone.]1LPo
KjvsRice Craone.G3q
srhl5[WildGrills: Understood.]8hWz9w
s0GvAfter handing the books over to AllFather, there was only one thing left to do.BUZtsW1
xaTBury the bones inside the sack somewhere with sunlight.z7b5I
MImhI took a shovel, a hammer, and the sack containing the bones and headed outside.91O0
Tqz‘A cross…? No. I’ll just use a stone instead.’Z5Nw
Fm6A mix between an ancestral rite and a Christian cross sounded way too strange.S5aq
gX1RIt was better to simply drive a flat stone into the ground.Jm3dMpP
fu6DOThud! Thud!92oah7T
KlDtI began digging the grave with the shovel.40d
nGVLeJust long enough for the complete skeleton to fit inside.SJJZnsh
4pQl8After that, all that remained was placing the bones and covering them with dirt.qP9X
1185cu‘How strange. The bones are still connected.’yFDjgC
uliNThe skeleton perfectly maintained its shape, just like a model from a school laboratory.rLrk
a7RxKNormally it should have fallen apart.c0Qj
NQtJOCWBut it remained whole.NHp3x1
rgYdG7zI didn’t know whether that was normal or not, but it didn’t bother me either.Eu7a
iD1gDFEI carefully placed the skeleton into the grave and covered it with dirt.3mZt
S9KWMThud! Thud! Thud!B8T3
Dg3rg73Then I drove a flat stone on top and firmly fixed it in place by striking it with the hammer.XG1EE
TB8PcrZThat finished the preparations.I9iJ
zDDA6KAfterward, I bought a cheap bottle of alcohol from the auction house.L4k74
l4TxBy the way, it was alcohol from the Central Continent.zUz0k
MRaW2twAt least it had an oriental feeling that seemed familiar to me.Tvuj
PnN7Pouring beer just didn’t suit me.ffhnv
qkFYsShhhhh—ZMGcCuw
Y7arSI poured the alcohol over the grave and the stone to soothe the spirit.qJllOmg
PWqCxThen I bowed twice.Ker5
ql5nEEven though it was an improvised and clumsy ceremony, it felt sufficient.QQQ
9VeisThe important thing wasn’t the protocol.DsUdw
hHKyMIt was the respect.6IPmF
OMldUOAt least, that’s what I believed.jUd0o
miwK‘Ah, right. The name.’c9mJS
qaJOI almost forgot to write it on the stone.u229S0p
VurThat would have been terrible.uPD6Jkf
tZIsUpI laid the stone down again and bought ink and a brush from the auction house.rNQQad
Q5UTnGThen I carefully wrote.47uy
aXQOf course, in hangul.Ns2w
UhiYTMvIt was the only language I knew.Tj6N01
sPh9mPoThe last scribe of the Valkhan Kingdom.ITT
TvARice Craone.0nWKM
IFAzHKResting here.BGef8c
FV3OveThat was enough.Do4eDhX
myxEuAI waited for the ink to dry and placed the stone back over the grave.F9Qm
gwNBWith that, I finished showing respect to the deceased.Jor
LI1uhI turned around to return to the cave.TrsWmcY
jXjAQnThere were no relics to collect.UW7zBoN
JQgAfter all, I never even touched the pendant the skeleton wore until the very end.JUwNEzZ
3ZswEiI buried it together with him.PBvk
ZaJAnd just as that strange funeral ceremony was coming to an end.4Tf
dTIi[Thank you.]NJF7xj
sw9Os3A gloomy voice echoed behind me.rsLf0L
CGg70At the same time, I felt an energy so cold that all the hair on my body stood on end.VO6tyFP
Hh9GStartled, I quickly turned toward the grave.B3zTHg
zYgNFC2And…D6IMV
09Jq“……”T08KM
upuThere was nothing there.dME9L
l7lEIt even seemed as though that voice had been an illusion.DiLL
wQWqvaOnly the silence and the grave where I had just performed the ceremony remained there.k7OMjr9
abE‘…Am I seriously starting to hear voices now?’oMq
oiyI rubbed my face and returned to the cave.5CDpYF
0e9CpkEven after eating eel, it seemed my energy had been drained immediately.U4Gp
L2UpI‘I think I’ll take a nap.’k9N7G4M
rztFor some reason, my body felt completely exhausted.TbIdaVd
aEAgS9TWhile Grills was taking a nap.xfvY
U45UiR└Hey. If what I translated is correct, this is going to cause massive chaos.Q3Dah
cRuS└What does it say?7QN
niRq4l└That the Holy Kingdom massacred the people of the Valkhan Kingdom to create the Immortal King ;;;EvQAca
llG└W-WHAT???UMEHFsB
roo└What the fuck does that mean??5GnxK
T0vuXK└The Holy Kingdom? No, but why would they do something like that?WfaQ
bByRV3eAn unexpected revelation was beginning to spread.kSoSo
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