Closed Beta That Only I Played - Chapter 410

Chapter 410: Advance Party (2)

Anyway Director Sok looked around and said again, “I can’t pinpoint exactly where it started, but it’s clear that what happened in the southwest of Europe is gradually spreading to the border areas.”

Hearing that, my father asked, “Can you predict any future changes?”

Director Sok replied, “I don’t think so. The only thing that drew our attention was that the monsters didn’t drop golden rings and coins, but they didn’t become stronger.

However, our Intelligence Department thinks that there is no law that some other changes will not happen.”

In other words, he suggested that there might be other unexpected changes that may suddenly occur.

However, it was too early and rather unreasonable to try to predict the possible changes right now, so we agreed to monitor the situation a little more before wrapping up the meeting.

After that, I accessed Revival Legend right away.

***

In Vienna, the capital of Austria, Europe two weeks later.

“Thank you so much for coming.”

“You’re welcome.”

I politely responded to Janssen, the Leader of the Steyr Guild representing Austria, who welcomed me at the airport.

Then, I went out to the outskirts of Vienna, escorted by him.

While we were moving, he briefed me about the latest situation.

“This happened about two weeks ago. I received a report that they saw a monster devouring another monster, but things like that had never happened, so I ignored it, thinking they must have seen something wrong. Besides, the one who gave us such a tipoff first was an ordinary citizen.”

Obviously, monsters did not battle each other not only in Revival Legend, but also in reality, even if they were different species.

So I nodded at his explanation without responding.

Then he continued, “After that, there were a few more reports, so we hurriedly moved to check the situation, and finally we found the monster in question. It basically looked like an ogre, with wings growing from its back and having four arms instead of two. It even had two horns on his head.”

“Yeah, it’s a monster.”

Hearing that, I concluded it was definitely a monster.

Guild leader Janssen immediately agreed with me and continued, “Yes, that’s right. It was a monster. The moment I saw it, a chimera came to my mind. Moreover, that monster showed more power than a normal ogre could. The horns on its head emitted powerful electric magic. But the real problem was that unlike other monsters, it ran away immediately in a disadvantageous situation instead of trying to fight first.”

“Did the monster really run away?”

I had no choice but to ask as soon as the guild leader finished explaining, for there were no monsters that ran away from their opponents.

If that happened, hunting monsters would be much more difficult than now.

“Yes, that’s correct. We didn’t think that the monster would run away because it was a monster, so we could not stop it. Besides, we never expected that the ogre would actually fly even though it had wings. Anyway, we scoured the place to track it down. Obviously, it wasn’t an ordinary ogre, and we knew that it became stronger after eating other monsters.”

“I see. Since you invited me like this, it means you have found that monster, right?”

It’s true the monster was dangerous, but I thought they would not have invited me to search for the monster together, especially when there were many others who could do it.

“That’s right. In fact, we found this monster in a defenseless situation by accident. But we didn’t attack because even though it is an ogre, we were afraid as it was in something like a cocoon trying to metamorphosize into a butterfly and escape its current form.”

I didn’t respond to him, who was slightly trembling while saying that.

Soon we arrived at the empty lot outside of Vienna, and passed the wide fenced area into a hollow ground that had been dug deep.

I could find something like a really huge cocoon, as the guild leader Janssen said.

“We found it by accident. So I thought I should call you before it completely escapes from the cocoon.”

“Good job. Can you step back?’

“Sure.”

I had everyone including the guild leader step back first because I was going to launch an attack.

“Hmm…I don’t have to save my skills.”

It was a really huge cocoon.

Looking at that, I seemed to understand why the guild leader was so scared.

I felt as if the ogre would not be an ogre anymore when it really crawled out of the cocoon.

So I quietly opened my mouth because I didn’t want to hold back.

“Use Savant!”

[The most outstanding stat among stamina, agility, physical strength, willpower, and intellect that Lumen, Asirante currently possess is intellect.

-Current intellect value: 96,137

-Intellect value is changed to 192,274 for 30 minutes.

– Savant goes on a 10 day cooldown after the retention time expires.]

In fact, I didn’t have to use Savant, but since I decided to kill the monster in its cocoon state, I used it boldly.

After that, I used Ice Field right away followed by “Ice Breath!”

Bang!

My most powerful attack hit that gigantic cocoon.

The moment the cocoon was hit, there was a huge bang, along with a bizarre sound from the smashed cocoon.

Puck! Pusheeeeeeeeee-

It sounded like something was bursting out and deflating at the same time

A message rang at the same time.

[You have defeated a monster mutant.

– You have acquired 100 bonus stat points.]

This was an unexpected bonus.

But I knew from the message that this monster was not the only monster mutant out there.

At that moment, another message rang.

The message was not about that monster mutant, but something that rang to everyone.

[The event ‘Advance Party’ will start in 10 days.

– They appeared on the Earth and did not hesitate to take hostile actions.

We’re recruiting an advance party to travel to the area ㅇㅇㅇ to take revenge against them.

The advance team needs to number at least 300 people, and if you can’t form an advance party of 300 people, up to 3,000 people will be forcibly recruited.]

“What the heck is this?”

Since it was a message I had never expected, I had no choice but to question it.

Besides, I knew that those who went there never returned.

***

Of course, the appearance of the black liquid man was not a matter that I could afford to ignore because he was clearly different from those who appeared in Osaka, Japan.

Moreover, the place where the black liquid man first appeared was in the middle of the stronghold of the Talagapa Guild that vanished after it was ruined.

Of course, it was possible that the black liquid man appeared there merely by chance. Even though such a coincidence was rare, it was still possible.

However, it was very unusual for me to dismiss it as a mere coincidence, and in the end, I had no other choice but to start looking into the reason why the Talagapa Guild was ruined first before examining the appearance of the black liquid man.