I Returned as an FFF-Class Witch Doctor

Episode 51

– Is this right?

– Your brother. For the time being, you have to catch hens and roosters while growing up. Don’t push the villagers’ quests. that’s the fastest

– i get it. See you on this continent.

– Fighting~.

“Hmm.”

Damian whispered to Minjun, who started the game, then looked at the wooden board.

It was the < Sign of Heresy > given to him by his teacher, Kiran.

At first, I didn’t think it was a big deal, but Kiran said that he would be able to overcome the penalty through < Sign of Heresy >.

So, Damian recalled the conversation he had with Kiren, while keeping his eyes wide open, he glared at the < Sign of Heresy > in his hand.

「This… might be the answer?」

「I think so.」

「What the hell is this?」

「It’s the rune of dominance. To be precise, it should be the power of someone with a similar origin to yours.”

“Ah…”

The purpose of the plaque he told Damian was not simply to prove a certain identity or something like an occult, but to engrave < Rune of Dominion > on it. As a means of a kind of ministry that has been carried out.

Through it, it is used as a catalyst to amplify the power of witchcraft or complete incomplete magic.

“The power of the same kind as me…”

Damian pondered as he kept the < Sign of Heresy > in his bosom.

It wasn’t terribly incomprehensible.

If this penalty you are experiencing is a kind of < curse >, finding the origin of such a nature and destroying it is a common method of harm.

It was unknown whether < Curse >, which was merely a system in the game, could affect Jinseong in real life, but it could not be ignored if someone guessed his physical condition anyway.

It was worth the bottom line.

Moreover, if that person was by no means an ordinary person, but a member of the seventh god’s household and the high priest, it would never have been possible to just hear it in passing.

[Traces of heresy]

You can feel unusual energy from an object obtained by chance. According to Keren, it is a power with the same origin as mine…

Category: Epic

Content: Let’s find out the identity of the group that uses the < Sign of Heresy >.

Progress: 0% (0/1)

Reward: ???

Please note: This quest cannot be abandoned!

As Damian confirmed that the series of quests Karen had left behind were the second most important < Epic Quests > after the main stream, he suddenly felt a hypothesis pass through his mind.

‘Maybe… I might get away with this damn penalty.’

As Damian pondered, as long as he uncovered what was involved in the < Sign of Heresy >, he would of course get a -9999999999 disposition penalty on his body.

It was because it could have been sufficiently freed from the various restrictions imposed by the misinformation system.

‘I don’t know if I can unlock the secret of how I was able to return to 10 years ago.’

Back!

And Damian clenched his fists.

* * *

“Who is this? Aren’t you a rookie?”

“It’s been a while, Hassan.”

Damian seemed embarrassed by Hassan’s words and greeted him.

It was a nickname that came about after he completed his mission.

Damian, who warped to Terra using the < Book of the Black Oath Calling the End >, was able to advance his return from Conneil by several days, and Hassan called him < Rookie > when he heard that the village’s problems had been solved.

And before he knew it, the name became commonplace even within the guild, and all the staff at the guild called him Rookie.

It was an unintentional name.

“I don’t know if you liked the reward. I noticed that the government officials seem to like it because your work is neater than I thought. Do you have any plans to work directly with the authorities?”

“It’s only the gold tier. Thank you for your words, Hassan.”

“Oh look at this dude. Do you know where gold level adventurers are common? If you want, I can also connect you with a prestigious family or royal family.”

“haha. is that so?”

“I can’t believe it. There are more than one place on this continent that wants gold tier adventurers like you.”

At Damian’s question, Hassan crossed his arms and said.

It was not wrong.

Adventurers who descended to this continent almost took over the hard work of the Arsia continent through their bodies that descended again even after death and the endlessly growing < Insight Rune >.

In the case of a gold tier equivalent to 10 Iron, 7 Bronze, or 3 Silver, even the lowest 5th grade was treated well.

It was such a popular grade that there were even people who wanted to appoint it without asking or asking.

In other words, it is a minimum qualification.

If you were a gold tier adventurer guaranteed by the adventurers guild, you must have been a comprehensively proven person with not only combat power, but also command, observation, judgment, and thinking skills.

At least the belief that it would serve more than one person no matter where it was placed could be said to be absolute trust in the guild’s evaluation.

There was enough public confidence that there was no need to do individual tests.

‘That’s why it’s overkill.’

Nod!

Damian nodded, recalling himself in the days of Summon Gate.

It was a time when I worked so hard that I thought it was not too much.

Because Damian was also aware of the tacit sympathy of the Arsia continent, including the adventurer’s guild, and was conscious of how frightening that recognition was.

It was also for this moment that he almost monopolized the score by single-handedly defeating the monsters in Summon Gate during the first qualification test.

After all, he was right.

“Since the first initiation ceremony was successfully completed… If you are a skilled person like you, you should be able to easily win the job even if it is not a periphery like Coneil. There are many high-risk requests. There is no other place where people can live as easily as here.”

“It would be nice if you could find a lot of me.”

“haha! Because he’s also a rookie. I saw people properly.”

Damian shrugged and Hassan smiled broadly.

It was the reason why he had a crush on Damian.

< Black Rose > Maria Yones is a newcomer who has excellent fighting sense and strength to the point where she drools, and also has the slovenliness of eating a knife for decades?

Hassan, for example, could name hundreds of thousands of adventurers whose arms were stronger than the man standing in front of him.

I had no doubts that Damian would soon become a true rookie with his assimilation power as if he was originally from the continent and his insight to understand the inside without saying ten words.

‘There are plenty of strong adventurers… but mercenaries who survive for a long time in the field aren’t just strong.’

As Hassan thought, the quality of an outstanding mercenary was not only the strength of the body, but the multifaceted aspect was more important.

“Any rumors or useful news these days, Hassan?”

“Rumors or news?”

“yes.”

“Hmm. Rumors.”

Damian asked, and Hassan rubbed his chin deliberately.

There were a few that came to mind.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the number of requests that went through his hands was well over a thousand, and it is impossible to count if you include the numerous chirashis excluding official documents.

It was also a public fact that it was unnecessary to say that the amount of information that an individual could handle as a branch manager was not enough.

Even thinking of just one of them would be surprising.

“I don’t know about the rumors, but there is some news that came in a while ago. The news of the annihilation of the expedition that went to the swamp.”

“If it’s a swamp… you mean Kirikorum swamp?”

“okay. It’s the road between the port city of Macy’s in the east and the kingdom of Arno in the south. Leylines diverge from the nest of the continent, and the mountain is steep. it’s dangerous too But…” Dada

da da da da da da da da da!

When Damian asked back, Hassan recited the news at a terrifying speed.

It was as fast as a computer outputting it.

Other people would have said that it made sense, but the person in front of Damian right now is called the < Iron Man of Administration >.

And Damian soon remembered Hassan’s nickname without difficulty, while listening to what followed.

‘There’s something. Are you sure.’

If the small incident in Conneil village was not just due to the migration or sporadic appearance of the caliph wolf pack.

Perhaps the < Sign of Heresy > he obtained from the Great Wolf King could have been an intentional outbreak or experiment.

“It’s not that dangerous. At most, it would be all that cursed things wander the nine heavens without reaching Buddhahood.”

“Are you talking about skeletons and zombies?”

“okay. Aren’t they enough to be easily dealt with by an adventurer of your level? But I don’t understand why they were annihilated.”

At Damian’s words, Hassan nodded.

It was not a situation that made common sense.

As he said, it was a dangerous place, but that was only for low-level adventurers and ordinary people.

If it wasn’t a party of three or four, but a medium-sized party with at least ten people, there would be no way they would have been annihilated in the < Kirikorum Swamp >.

“It was an expedition with a total of 20 people, including many silver-level adventurers. At times, there were opinions that it was a waste of power because it could defeat even huge monsters. Because the main purpose was exploration, not subjugation.”

“But the results were strange.”

“that’s right. Maybe… a dungeon appears…”

‘This is it.’

flash!

Damian’s eyes lit up at Hassan’s words.

It was the kind of news he was looking for.

Although it may not have anything to do with the < Traces of Heresy >, a quest received from Keren, most of the things that lead to big incidents usually start from trivial things.

And Damian sensed a strange smell coming from the incident in the Kirikorum Swamp that Hassan was talking about.

The persimmon of the 10th year of my life was suddenly sticking out its head.

“What about additional expeditions?”

“well. Nothing concrete has been decided yet. Since one expedition has already failed, we should recruit adventurers of comparable scale and level.”

“aha.”

Damian nodded at Hassan’s words.

It was a part that I thought it was a good idea to ask Hassan.

Of course, the answer was standard, but I could see what was going on roughly.

In other words, the reason he asked Hassan for news from the beginning was that he could relatively easily get in touch with information that is difficult to hear from ordinary receptionists or adventurers.

It was also because he knew that the information that came out of the mouth of a person who became the branch manager of the guild was very rare information.

“Hassan.”

“Anyway, that’s why I’m having trouble inside right now… Huh?”

“Can I do that?”

“What do you mean?”

“To find out what happened to the swamp.”

Fuck!

And Damian gave Hassan a friendly smile.

* * *

[To Kirikorum Swamp!]

I don’t know what happened, but I can’t think of a suitable person other than you. Please find out what happened there.

Category: General

Description: Head to Kirikorum Swamp and find out what happened there.

Progress: 0% (0/1)

Notice: The difficulty of the quest is high. Form a party with colleagues who will help you!

“…surely strange.”

Damian scratched his sideburns while looking at the quest window that appeared in front of him.

It was a mission he received from the adventurer’s guild.

Even though it was carried out with Hassan’s solo mission issue, Damian wasn’t thinking of having a party either.

Could it be that even the system window warns about quest difficulty and emphasizes making a party as much as possible?

Having played the game for the past 10 years and encountered almost every type of quest in AC, Damian instinctively realized that the warnings in the system window were not light warnings that could be ignored.

“At least at my level right now, it’s difficult.”

The Kirikorum Swamp that remained in his memory was not a place that required a high level, as Hassan said, but it was a place where hidden streets and dungeons that had never existed before often appeared.

It was also a place where Damian had suffered many times.

“ah-. iced coffee-. Is this coming out right?”

Tring!

And Damian opened a system window in front of him.