Volume 1 of the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor series.Chapter SummariesChapter 1: Birth of a Dark GamerThe story begins with the introduction of the protagonist, Lee Hyun; a 20-year-old Korean adult who due to the deaths of his parents at a young age has had to work his whole life to death taking care of his little sister, Lee Hayan, as well as his sick grandmother, who's bedridden at a hospital. The constant desperate need for cash over the years to provide for himself and his family has given Hyun a current day persona as someone who highly values anything regarding money. Currently living in a home of poverty, Hyun's main desires are to one day send his highly intelligent sister, Hayan, to college, and to repay his grandmother for raising the two of them. Lee Hyun auctions off his Continent of Magic character not knowing that he's about to make a fortune in doing so.Having just received his Korean ID, Hyun checks up on his computer to begin job hunting only to see that he still had Continent of Magic running. Said video-game is an old classic that Hyun put hundreds of solo hours into maxing out his character at the impossible to reach highest level, and gearing it up with the best stats and equipment available.
He eventually made history as the only Continent of Magic player to ever reach the greatest heights that one could go, and became a legend in-game. However, none of that matters these days since virtual reality has taken over as the king of modern day in the form of Royal Road, an immensely popular virtual reality video-game that possesses 75% of the world's gaming market share, and is played by 90% of Korea's gamers. Looking one last time at his perfected Continent of Magic character, Hyun moves to delete it to not be distracted on his job hunt, but decides at the last second that he could probably sell his character for a bit of won. Hyun puts his character up for auction on a large internet trading site for as low as 50,000 won under the belief that he's not going to get much for an old character, and calls it a night. Unbeknownst to Hyun, his game avatar was actually a huge celebrity.
During Hyun's sleep, people around the internet begin to notice that his legendary Continent of Magic character has been put up for auction. Many in the comment section found it to be a prank at first, but began to realize that it might be legit due to the high-grade dragon-type items equipped to said character. Even professional game designers looked over the items, and admitted that everything they're seeing is indeed the real deal.
Shortly after, actual gamers from Continent of Magic begin to appear, and reveal that what they're seeing is in fact the infamous game character known as Weed. Sure enough, a massive biding war for Continent of Magic's Weed erupts over the internet auction site.
The bidding war skyrocketed into the millions, and even grabbed the attention of five different major game broadcasting companies. The gaming broadcast company that eventually won the bid for Weed was CTS Media Incorporated. Loan sharks led by Han Jinsup arrive to collect the Hyun family's debt.The next day, Hyun wakes up and receives a phone call from CTS Media's secretary, Yoon Nahee, who informs him that money from their bid for Weed has been put into his account. Nahee reveals CTS Media has purchased Weed for 3,090,000,000 won, which Hyun instantly hangs up under the belief that it's a prank call. However, Hyun is left stunned in disbelief upon checking the auction on his computer screen that Weed really was auctioned off for 3,090,000,000 won.Some time later at the hospital, Hyun reveals the money he made selling off his game character to his grandmother and Hayan, who both cry tears of happiness knowing that their path to a better life is just around the corner. However, that happiness is short-lived due to the arrival of five black-suited men. After hearing that Hyun has struck big, these five men turn out to be lone sharks who've come to collect a 100,000,000 won debt left behind by his father.
However, said debt had increased to 3,000,000,000 won due to accumulated interest over eight years, much to Hyun's dismay. Hyun purchases a virtual reality pod to enter Royal Road.Once they start to taunt him that the police can't help him, and that something might happen to grandmother and Hayan, Hyun is forced to hand over the 3,000,000,000 won. Before their departure, Hyun makes the declaration that he will one day make them all pay for this.
Impressed that Hyun's spirit isn't broken, the lead loan shark introduces himself as Myongdong's Han Jinsup, and makes a bet to one day become Hyun's subordinate if the boy is somehow able to make 3,000,000,000 won again within the next five years.A couple days later, Hyun keeps his spirits up knowing that despite having just been robbed, he still has the remaining 90,000,000 won. Hyun sets aside 50,000,000 won for his family's new home, which leaves him with just 40,000,000 won to work with.
From here, Hyun decides to spend the next year preparing himself to take on Royal Road with fame, power, and money being his primary goals. Along with studying up on virtual reality, Hyun uses some of the remaining money to learn how to fight at several martial arts halls since having a fit body will prove useful when his mind is carried over into 'Royal Road.' Once his year long preparations are complete, Hyun purchases a human-sized Royal Road capsule for 10,000,000 won, and places himself inside it. The capsule asks if Hyun would like to connect to Royal Road, which Hyun replies yes.Chapter 2: Wild Beast AppearsWithin his Royal Road gaming capsule, Lee Hyun continues the initial character set-up by answering the questions asked by it. He creates his account, and selects his game avatar name to be Weed since it's what he's the most used to.
Hyun also chooses his character to be a human male, and keeps his appearance similar to his real-world self. Skipping past the additional tutorials, the capsule asks for the city and kingdom that Hyun would like to start at, which he chooses the Citadel of Serabourg in Rosenheim Kingdom.
The game officially begins as Hyun suddenly appears as his Weed avatar within the virtual game world of Royal Road. Hyun appears in Royal Road's Citadel of Serabourg starter zone for the first time as his game avatar, Weed.Weed appears in the Citadel of Serabourg's starting area, which after taking his new surroundings in, he performs some body stretches to get used to his new virtual body. However, his options of going anywhere to start off are limited since he's restricted from leveling up or departing the starting zone until a week has passed since said week is meant for newbies to get used to the game before heading out into danger.
In addition, the virtual world of Royal Road works about four times faster than real life, meaning that waiting outside the game for the restriction to end would take up to four weeks instead.Exploring around Serabourg, Weed comes across the city's Training Hall, and decides to give it a go. The hall's instructor could tell that Weed is a new arrival on the Versailles Continent, which is the land mass that their Rosenheim Kingdom resides within. The instructor then orders Weed to take up one of their wooden swords, and practice swinging on one of their hall's scarecrows. Doing just that, Weed spends several hours continuously striking the scarecrow much to the surprise of others around him at how long he was going for. His efforts are eventually rewarded after six hours of training with a +1 Strength increase. He checks his game avatar's stat screen, and confirms that his Strength stat started at 10, but is now at 11. Weed then goes back to striking the scarecrow, and after five more hours of training, he sees that Vitality and Agility can be improved as well as they both get a +1 stat increase.
Weed trains at the Rosenheim Kingdom's Training Hall to increase his starting stats.Throughout the training, Weed only stopped for meal breaks by pulling out his starting water canteen and rye bread from his avatar's game inventory, and then goes right back to striking the scarecrow. His ongoing long and repetitive training with a wooden sword causes nearby spectators to wonder what he's doing, which a veteran knight player named Pluto reveals to them that training on the scarecrows is a method to increase one's stats, but very few people have the patience to train for hours just to get one stat point increase when there's plenty of methods that reward you with stat points faster, such as level-ups. Despite hearing the conversation, Weed continued to train knowing that the increased stats will help him earn money in the long run.For the next three weeks of real-life time, Weed continues to spend hours within Serabourg's Training Hall striking a scarecrow with a wooden sword for continued stat increases. His continued training eventually rewards him with two new stats: Fighting Spirit and Endurance.
Fighting Spirit allows for Weed to call upon superhuman strength temporarily while making weaker level monsters cower before him, and Endurance decreases the amount of stamina needed whenever Weed performs an action. Weed also started off with the Beginner level-1 Sword Mastery skill, but his wooden sword training has leveled it up to Beginner level-3 with each new level providing increases to Attack Power and Attack Speed when using a sword. Finally, his training from the moment he began the Training Hall is +28 Strength, +25 Agility, and +22 Vitality. Weed is offered a quest by the Training Hall instructor to look for information about the rumored moonlight sculptor.When it was time for another meal break, Weed's attention is brought to the hall instructor preparing a delicious meal. Weed attempts to suck up to the instructor with kind words aiming to be part of the meal, but the instructor accepts him anyway having already befriended Weed, and being impressed by his efforts to continuously train at his hall. During the meal, the instructor asks what Weed thinks of Sculpture Mastery, which Weed trashes the handicraft as awful and useless skill while claiming that he's a man of the sword.
Despite Weed's rejection, the instructor continues the topic, and reveals that there was once a man who mastered the sculpture skill by carving the moonlight. Weed goes along with the conversation by not believing the rumor, but the instructor claims that it might have been real since it's a story that was told by the instructor's Royal Knight predecessor, Mellium.Wanting to know the truth about Sculpture Mastery, the instructure asks for Weed to look into the rumor, and report back what he hears to the instructor. The result is Weed receiving a pop-up message for the E-Rank Quest, 'A Mystery Sculptor Rumored to Have Visited the Royal Palace.' The quest asks for Weed to find out if the rumor is true or not that a man who mastered the sculptural art had carved the moonlight for something connected to the Rosenheim Kingdom's royal court. Weed gets excited knowing that he stumbled upon a rare quest since its conditions to activate required friendship with the instructor.
Weed accepts the quest, which the instructor gifts the former with two silver coins, and advises Weed to begin the search at Serabourg's sculpture shop.Chapter 3: The Instructor's RequestLee Hyun explores the Citadel of Serabourg until locating the sculpture shop needed for his E-Rank Quest. The shopkeeper greets Weed upon him entering, which Weed replies that he's looking for information about something. Due to Weed having no Fame attached to his name, the shopkeeper doesn't go along with Weed's desire. However, Weed sucks up to the shopkeeper by praising a golden two-headed eagle sculpture in the shop.
The shopkeeper buys into it believing that Weed is interested in the art of sculpturing, and agrees to use a bit of time speaking with the customer. Weed receives a quest from the sculpture shopkeeper to find out Queen Evane's involvement with the sculptor.The shopkeeper sits down with Weed and provides drinks while they chat about sculpturing. Looking around the shop at the different sculptures, Weed is still left unimpressed seeing how cheap they're selling for, and doesn't believe the sculpting skill will bring him in a lot of money. Weed then gets to the topic at hand asking if the rumor is true about a sculptor who carved the moonlight 50 years ago at the Rosenheim Royal Palace, which the shopkeeper answers is indeed the truth since it's a legendary tale amongst sculptors, and is even heard amongst some within the royal court. After receiving the answer that the rumor was true, Weed receives a pop-up message informing him that the E-Rank Quest is complete, and will be rewarded once he returns to the Training Hall instructor.Weed is about to say his farewell, but the shopkeeper continues the story that it's not known how the rumored sculptor carved the moonlight. The shopkeeper reveals that the royal court left out details on the tale, but that the now deceased Queen Evane of Rosenheim was somehow involved in the event.
Curious, the shopkeeper asks for Weed to look further into this, which results in Weed receiving another E-Rank Quest, 'The Sculptor's Past.' The quest leaves off with a warning that investigating this rumor will result in hostility from Rosenheim's royal knights. Weed doesn't feel confident taking on a chain-quest so early in his journey, but the shopkeeper reassures him that he can do it. In the end, Weed accepts to take on the quest. Before leaving, the shopkeeper provides Weed a hint to seek out a certain knowledgeable bard who knows of ancient tales, such as ones that might be connected to Queen Evane.After exiting the sculpture shop, Weed heads to the pub across the street.
Amongst the bards, he locates a middle-aged male one that the shopkeeper was referring to. Weed asks him if he knows anything about the 50 year old tale regarding a moonlight sculptor connected to Rosenheim's royal court, but the bard refuses to say anything until he's paid. Not even budging to Weed's compliment attempts.
Weed ends up taking out a silver coin he received from the hall instructor on accident, which the bard quickly takes as payment. Weed meets with the Rosenheim Queen's retired maid to hear the tale of Evane and the moonlight sculptor.The bard then tells what he knows of the tale. The moonlight sculptor and Queen Evane had actually grown up in the same village, and were in love with one another since childhood. The boy sculptor who provided her sculpture gifts was named Zahab, but destiny ended up splitting them apart due to Evane being chosen as a royal maid.
Despite being apart, there was still the promise between them, which is that Zahab was to one day show her the most beautiful statue under heaven. The bard reveals that Zahab did indeed keep the promise as he arrived at the Rosenheim royal court many years later, and showed Queen Evane the most beautiful sculpture under heaven.
What the sculpture was he cannot say, but he provides Weed a hint that he should go visit the Queen's maid who witnessed the event. After getting directions from the bard, Weed heads over to the house of the retired maid. The former maid provides Weed a warm welcome, and agrees to continue the story of Evane and the moonlight sculptor. Zahab keeps his promise to Queen Evane by sculpting the moonlight to make the most beautiful sculpture.When Zahab first arrived at the royal court, Queen Evane was disappointed to see that Zahab had become a swordsman, and had probably forgotten about their promise. However, when the bordering Brent Kingdom sent assassins one night to try to kill the queen of Rosenheim, it was Zahab that came to protect her. He did so by fighting against the assassins, which his attacks carved through the moonlight in such a way that it created a beautiful statue.
Along with singing a song while he worked, Zahab's sculpture of moonlight became known as 'A Sculptor's Heart,' which Queen Evane cried in tears of happiness realizing that Zahab kept his promise.After hearing the rest of the tale, Weed's mind is sent into flashbacks of Zahab and Evane. He watches Zahab during his childhood use a sculpting blade to carve a tiny sculpture of a beautiful maiden, which the boy hands it over to the young girl, Evane, that looks just like the sculpture. Zahab promises to one day show her the most beautiful sculpture in the world, which Evane replies that she's looking forward to it.
Later in life, Evane grows up into a beautiful lady, which results in her catching the eye of the Rosenheim King and eventually becoming her wife. Evane remained unhappy by this turn of events, and was even more saddened when Zahab arrived, and believed that he had forgotten their promise.
However, her sadness was finally lifted upon witnessing Zahab's moonlight sculpture that fateful night.Once the flashback was over, Weed receives a message pop-up informing him that by discovering the story behind Queen Evane, and the boy she loved mastering moonlight sculpting for her, he's completed the E-Rank Quest, 'The Sculptor's Past.' As a quest reward, Weed receives two level-ups, and is offered the opportunity to change to the secret Moonlight Sculptor class. However, Weed chooses no to the class change offer since he doesn't believe he will make much crafting sculptures, and would prefer to have a more financially lucrative class. Weed is given Zahab's Sculpting Blade and the Zahab's Legacy sculpture as gifts for listening to the maid's story.As a thank you for listening to the story, the old maid wishes to provide Weed with a couple gifts, which Weed accepts. The maid provides Weed with an ancient Sculpting Blade that once belonged to Zahab, but was given to Queen Evane, which she then handed over to her maid. The maid also provides Weed with Zahab's Legacy, which is a small wooden sculpture that was carved by Zahab.After handing over the gifts, the maid asks for Weed to handle them with care, and informs him that the wood sculpture will be able to show Weed the path to Zahab's resting place, and reveal the secrets of sculpture mastery. She also states that she hopes to one day hear the song again that Zahab sang the night he made the moonlight sculpture for Evane.
She hints that the key to unlocking sculpture mastery lies in the Sculpting Blade she just gave away. Weed takes a look at Zahab's blade, which results in him receiving the A-Rank Quest, 'Follow Zahab's Last Wish.'
The quest states that after the event with Queen Evane, Zahab left for a faraway continent to continue testing his sculpture mastery, and was last seen heading for an area called the Gray Pass Region. Once the user becomes a master of sculpturing, they should seek out Zahab to learn the song that he sang during the time he sculpted 'A Sculpture's Heart,' and sing it to the Queen's retired maid. Weed is unable to cancel the quest, and has to be completed before the maid passes away. By coming across the hidden quest, Weed is rewarded with the Item Identification, Sculpture Mastery, Repair, and Handicraft skills. The retired maid gives Weed a quest to discover Zahab's song in order to hear it one last time before she dies.Upon looking at the A-Rank Quest, Weed figures that there's no way he would be able to complete such a high-tier quest right away since it would take a balanced party of players around level 300 just to complete a quest at the B-Rank level.
As a result, Weed guesses that he would need to be at least level 400 to do it since the Gray Pass Region he needs to go to is established as one of Royal Road's Ten Forbidden Areas that are extremely dangerous. In the end, even though Weed is forced to keep the quest, he has to put it to the side for the time being until he gets much stronger.After bidding farewell to the retired maid, Weed returns to the Serabourg sculpture shop. He informs the shopkeeper that he completed the E-Rank Quest, 'The Sculptor's Past,' which said shopkeeper provides Weed two silver coins for his efforts. Weed then heads back to the Training Hall, and informs the instructor that he completed the E-Rank Quest, 'A Mystery Sculptor Rumored to Have Visited the Royal Palace,' which the instructor rewards Weed with one silver coin. Instead of going off to take on more quests, Weed grabs one of the wooden swords, and returns to training for more stats on a scarecrow.Chapter 4: Dreadful WeedThe chapter starts off explaining the four races myth of Royal Road that was lost in Versailles Continent's history.
Civilization was said to have started 1,800,000 years ago where Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Orcs were believed to have lived together in peace. Eventually, peace was broken when the Orcs became the ruling race due to their high fertility and combat skills while the Humans challenged them for supremacy thanks to their developed agriculture. The Elves distanced themselves from the others allying only with nature, and the Dwarves advanced in metal weapon technology to the point of also challenging the orcs. The war leads to the four races going off on their own: Humans banding together to make their own kingdoms, the Elves settled down in the Forest of No Return, the Orcs took over any wilderness they could find, and the Dwarves stayed holed up in the mountains. Weed is rewarded with a Hard Iron Sword for completing the Serabourg Training Hall's basic training program.In the present day, Weed continues to train at Serabourg's Training Hall throughout the remainder of the four in-game weeks that he's not allowed to leave the starter zone. His non-stop daily training with a wooden sword against a scarecrow causes other players who don't understand his actions to try to befriend him with gifts under the belief that he's a unique NPC that could lead to something interesting.
Veteran players who do understand Weed's actions try to recruit him in the hopes of gaining a powerful ally. In the end, Weed declines everything and continues to train. Eventually, Weed's training finishes around the same time as the lifting of his four week time restriction to leave the Citadel of Serabourg.Finishing the Training Hall rewards Weed with +20 Fame and +100 permanent Health Points.
In addition, the instructor rewards Weed with a Hard Iron Sword for completing the basic training program. The latter of which catches Weed's attention.
Weed asks the instructor questions regarding the basic training program, which the instructor answers that at least 3,800 others of potential have passed. In addition, higher level training programs exist out in the world, but will require for Weed to search for them.
Before Weed departs from the Training Hall, the instructor asks if Weed is looking for work. Weed is given Queen Evane's Handkerchief in order to speak to Rodrias the Sage about what class to take on.The instructor offers Weed the E-Rank Quest, 'A Clean-up Operation in the Lair of Litvart,' which is to support the Rosenheim Kingdom by taking part in an army force led by Sir Midvale to clear out some monsters within the Lair of Litvart dungeon.
However, Weed declines the quest since he hasn't chosen a character class just yet. Weed figures to stop by the intelligence guild for advice on what class to pick, but the instructor offers him an alternative, which is to meet with the knowledgeable Rodrias the Sage for advice on what class to take. The catch is that the sage is an ill-natured person who doesn't listen to just anyone. The instructor provides Weed with a special item, Queen Evane's Handkerchief. He points out that handing the handkerchief over to Rodrias will allow Weed to ask for one favor.Weed heads for the exit of the Training Hall where he's met by a high-level warrior player named Python. The warrior had been training at the hall alongside Weed.
Python had been impressed by Weed's will to continue training no matter what and hopes Weed won't disappoint him in the future. Biding each other farewell, Weed heads off to a northern section of Serabourg where the manor of Rodrias the Sage resides. Unable to enter Rodrias' manor due to his low Fame, Weed decides to wait it out.Arriving at Rodrias' manor, Weed sees two soldiers guarding the gate. Weed explains to them that he got permission from the Training Hall instructor to see the sage, but the guards refuse his entry due to Weed's low Fame. Weed asks if it's ok for him to wait outside for when Rodrias needs to leave the manor, which the guard admits there's no rules against it, but he also warns Weed that he might end up waiting a long time since Rodrias usually spends several weeks or more locked within his manor.Weed spends the whole day waiting for Rodrias to exit, but once it becomes night, he heads off to do something else since the sage is most likely asleep. Since the four week restriction is over, Weed exits the Citadel of Serabourg starter zone for the first time to get some fighting in against the starting area's low level monsters.
Before starting, he's greeted by another player named Surka who noticed Weed's by himself, and asks if he would like to hunt with their four-man group since their party is in need of a tanker. Romuna, Irene, Pale and Surka invite Weed to hunt monsters with them outside of Serabourg.Weed accepts the offer, which the four players introduce themselves as a level 7 female Cleric named Irene who's the groups healer, a level 6 female Mage named Romuna who specializes in fire magic, a level 6 male Archer named Pale, and Surka is a level 7 female Monk.
Weed answers back as being just a level 3 player who hasn't picked out a class yet, which the rest of the group outside of Surka begin to worry that their group picked up a complete newbie. Weed prepares to leave feeling that the team wants a stronger replacement, but Pale and company agree that since they've already befriended Weed, they should stick with him for the time being.
Pale, who appears to be the leader of the party, offers for Weed to sit back and let the rest of the group do the fighting for now. In addition, he asks to Weed to pop in and attack every now and then for experience and to confuse enemy agro, which Weed agrees with. With the five-man team set, the party heads off to begin the hunt. Ahn Hyundo watches over his swordmanship dojang while thinking about his potential successor, Lee Hyun.Switching over to real life, a Korean master swordsmanship practitioner, Ahn Hyundo, is seen watching over his sword practitioners train within his Bonkuk Kumdo dojang. Hyundo remains disappointed that none of his next generation practitioners are showing as much potential as a certain individual who showed up at the dojang awhile back. Said individual was actually Hyun, who showed up at the dojang a year ago during his preparations for Royal Road in order to learn how to wield a sword.Hyun's dedication to train with the sword non-stop for hours leaves Hyundo so amazed that even his top practitioners admit that Hyun's a natural. Eventually, Hyundo decides that Hyun should be his successor, but when it was time to reveal his decision to the boy, Hyun stopped coming to the dojang.
Back in the present, Hyundo remains is left disappointed that he failed to make Hyun his successor.Back within Royal Road, Weed remains back and observes the Pale, Surka, Romuna and Irene team hunt low level foxes in the starting area outside Serabourg. Once the foxes are low enough, Weed goes in to help perform the kill using his Hard Iron Sword. As the fox hunt continues, Pale and company begin to notice that their hunting has been moving faster than usual, which they find surprising that the newcomer Weed is making such a difference.
Unbeknownst to them, Weed's stats are inflated thanks to his training at the Serabourg Training Hall. Weed's continued usage of a sword has also increased his Sword Mastery skill to Beginner level-4. Weed faces off against a wolf that Surka unintentionally pulled during their hunt.Once Weed feels that he's got the hang of it, he assures Surka that he can take over as the tank of the group. He also takes command of the party, and orders Surka and Pale to start pulling more foxes towards them. After killing enough foxes, Weed's character levels-up to 4. The group continues the fox hunt until Surka accidentally pulls in one of the higher leveled wolves.
The party attempts to fend off the wolf, but once Weed steps before it, the wolf's attention is brought to him since it could sense that Weed was the strongest amongst the group. Weed battles the wolf as the tank, but due to Irene and Romuna running out of mana, his only support is arrow fire from Pale and a heavily injured Surka.The fight turns into a bloodbath with Weed and the wolf exchanging blows with one another. A bloodied Weed orders the group to run away while he holds off the wolf, but they refuse to leave since they now feel that they're friends with Weed. Instead, Weed agrees to try to kill the wolf one on one, but orders them to run if he dies, which the group agrees to. Weed takes on the wolf by himself, which they exchange blows to a point where Weed's health drops to a dangerously low point.
However, the moment the wolf goes in for the final strike, Weed manages to score the killing blow on the wolf's ribs. By killing the wolf, Weed's character levels-up to 5, and his Sword Mastery skill increases to Beginner level-5. In addition, he receives a new skill called Sculpting Blade, which is a secret combat skill discovered by Zahab in the past that gives Weed the ability to carve the intangible. However, its high mana cost means that Weed can only use the skill for a couple seconds.
Irene, Surka, Romuna and Pale desire to be Weed's friend after watching him defeat the wolf.Weed falls over in exhaustion, as the rest of the part goes over to Weed to check on him. The girls of the party all break down into tears due to how injured Weed ended up while Pale shows respect for him. Irene then begins to cast her healing magic on Weed with whatever mana she's restored. Once Weed is healed up, the party returns to hunting foxes for the next four hours. After killing at least 60 foxes, everyone in the party gains a level. Meaning that Weed is now level 6.
At this point, it was time for Pale, Surka, Romuna and Irene to log off Royal Road since they got to sleep for school the next day. They ask to join Weed's friendship list, and then log out from the game.Now on his own, Weed decides to do some solo hunting since he's got an hour to kill. He heads off to a forest area away from the Citadel of Serabourg where the wolves are more concentrated.
The wolves approach Weed, but his Fighting Spirit kicks in making the wolves cower in fear since they can tell that Weed is a monster that's just after their loot. Sure enough, Weed goes around killing any wolf he could find for the next hour.
Once the hour was up, Weed begins his journey back to Rodrias's manor.Volume 1 has the following tropes:Chapter 1: Birth of a Dark Gamer.: The manhwa makes it a lot more clear just how much the debt collectors hounded Hyun and his family long before they take Hyun's 3,000,000,000 won at the hospital.: The lead loan shark, Han Jinsup, makes a bet with Hyun to prove that he can make 3,000,000,000 won again within the next five years. If Hyun manages to do so, Han Jinsup would become his subordinate.: Hyun maxed out the level of his Continent of Magic character, Weed, which is a feat that no one else was able to accomplish in the game.: The life of the Hyun family starts off in is not a good one.
Hyun's parents are dead, which forces him to step up as the one who looks after his little sister and grandmother who's bedridden from injury. They're also living in poverty, which forces Hyun to work any job he could find for enough money that could keep the family going, and pay for grandmother's medical bills.: Due to his efforts in the Continent of Magic video-game, Hyun turned his game character, Weed, into this by infamously becoming the first and only player to ever max out a game character with all the best stats and equipment available. He also took on objectives that no one saw possible, such as fighting powerful monsters solo.: Very unintentional on Hyun's part. He only expected to make a bit of won from selling off his Continent of Magic video-game character. It ended up going for 3,090,000,000 won due to how famous the Weed character was.: Hyun's overall goal is to one day be able to send his little sister, Hayan, off to college, and to provide his grandmother with a comfortable home. It also becomes a goal of his to one day get back at the five loan sharks who took 3,000,000,000 won for him to pay off his father's debt, which he plans to do so by starting another game journey within Royal Road.: Hyun had already made his game character, Weed, a famous legacy within Continent of Magic due to his efforts to strengthen the character up until he was the strongest.
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Now Hyun plans to do the same with a brand new character for Royal Road.: Despite being robbed by the loan sharks, Hyun still has 90,000,000 won remaining from his Continent of Magic auction to work with, which is enough to buy a better home for his family, and to buy a virtual reality pod for Royal Road to enter the game, and create a new legend of power, fame and wealth.: Five led by Han Jinsup show up once they get word that Lee Hyun had just made a 3,090,000,000 won fortune. They take 3,000,000,000 won due to Hyun's father taking out a 100,000,000 won loan from them in the past. Interest than accumulated over the years until the current day debt was up to 3,000,000,000 won. In the end, Hyun was forced to pay, which left him with 90,000,000 won remaining.: A primary reason as to why Hyun's family is living in poverty is due to their parents being dead.: Hyun plans to work for money to one day get his grandmother a good home, and to send Hayan off to college.
Selling off his Continent of Magic character was the first step to this, but Hyun was not expecting to get as a staggeringly high 3,090,000,000 won for it. Once the loan sharks arrived and took 3,000,000,000 won from him, Hyun made it his goal to one day get them back for it as well, and plans to make that all again by starting a new character within Royal Road. He spent a year of preparing before buying a game capsule for Royal Road.: The readers are introduced to Lee Hyun; a hard-working young adult male Korean who highly values money.: Hyun's grandmother took care of her grandchildren, Hyun and Hayan for a time, but Hyun had to take over as the caretaker once grandmother became bedridden due to injury.: Hyun puts his Continent of Magic character, Weed, up for auction.
What he doesn't expect is the character being so famous that it was eventually purchased for 3,090,000,000 won.: For a year, Hyun trained himself at multiple martial arts halls in real life to prepare his body for when it's time to take on Royal Road.: Virtual reality has become a big deal within this universe. The video-game, Royal Road, has become the king video-game of the world that everyone desires to play due to being a virtual reality game where people go into, and go off on any adventure they desire.Chapter 2: Wild Beast Appears.: What players need to go through when they first start up Royal Road. When Hyun creates his game avatar for Royal Road, he goes with a normal human, and his body features are based on his real-life self. He also names his character as Weed just like how it was with Continent of Magic.: Given that Hyun has officially started a new character within Royal Road, he starts off at level 1 again.: The Citadel of Serabourg in Rosenheim Kingdom serves one of the potential starting locations to newbies first starting out in Royal Road. Lee Hyun / Weed chooses it as his starting location.: New players all start with Beginner Sword Mastery level-1. Due to Weed training with a wooden sword at the Training Hall, he increased the skill to Beginner level-3.: Weed obtains 2 new stats in the form of Fighting Spirit and Endurance during his training at Serabourg's Training Hall.: Before doing anything else, Weed decides to train up his starting stats at the Serabourg's Training Hall.: In the manhwa, Hyun runs into Pluto and his company before entering the Training Hall rather than Pluto watching Hyun train at said hall along with other spectators. It's pretty much the same story with Pluto supposedly teaching Hyun the basics.
Though he outright tells Hyun in the manhwa rather than the light novel where Hyun overhears Pluto's conversation with the spectators.: The instructor of Serabourg's Training Hall is one. He provides Weed the E-Rank Quest, 'A Mystery Sculptor Rumored to Have Visited the Royal Palace.' The instructor tasks Weed to go search for information about a rumor he heard about that there was once a master sculptor who showed up in Rosenheim that sculpted the moonlight.: The rules of Royal Road follow pretty much anything one would see in an MMORPG video-game.
However, one noteworthy rule that's different is that newbies can't leave the starting zone until a week of game-time, or four weeks of real-world time, is up. This is to make sure that newbies don't go out into the dangerous world until they've gotten a true understanding of the game.: Players who first start off in Royal Road have on basic clothing. Their also given a water canteen and some low-tier Barley Bread to eat.: Weed trains for 3 weeks with a wooden sword at Serabourg's Training Hall, which makes him much stronger despite still just his game avatar still being level 1. Along with +28 Strength, +25 Agility, and +22 Vitality in stat increases, he obtains the Fighting Spirit and Endurance skills, and his Sword Mastery skill levels up from Beginner level-1 to to Beginner level-3.: If one trains at Serabourg's Training Hall, they must continuously strike a training scarecrow with a wooden sword for days to rake up +1 stat rewards to Strength, Agility, and Vitality every once in awhile.
Weed does just that, which comes as a shock to a lot of spectators watching Weed train since they don't find the length to perform the training worth it.: The instructor of Serabourg's Training Hall is this. He respects anyone that goes through with the daily training at his hall, which allows Weed to befriend him, and pick up a rare quest regarding Sculpture Mastery.: Starting from here, Weed doesn't find the art of sculpting all that worth it, and tries to avoid having anything to do with it.Chapter 3: The Instructor's Request.: The manhwa makes it a tad more difficult for Weed to convince the retired maid to talk with him.
Moonlight Sculptor Korean Light NovelOfficial Description:Lee Hyun, a debt-ridden teenage orphan, puts his account of the top-level avatar in the Continent of Magic up for auction. Once the news is spread nationwide, a fierce competition to win his avatar breaks out, making him a multimillionaire overnight.However, when men in black show up to collect the debts Hyun's parents owed them; he ends up where he started — almost penniless.
A man forsaken by the world, A man who is a slave to money and is also the man who is known as the legendary God of War in the highly popular MMORPG Continent of Magic, Weed. With his coming of age, he decides to say goodbye to his CoM account, but the feeble attempt to earn a little something for his time and effort ripples into an effect none could ever have imagined. Through a series of coincidences, his legendary avatar on CoM is sold for 3.1 billion Won, bringing him great joy, only to be plunged back into despair at losing almost all of it to vicious loan sharks. With the revelation of earning money through gaming, he rises from the abyss with a new found resolve and steps bravely forward into the new age of gaming, led by the first ever Virtual Reality MMORPG, Royal Road.
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QuestionnaireName: Lee Hyun1. What is your name?Lee Hyun2. What is your profession?A great villain who will threaten world peace.3. What are you doing?Filling out this questionnaire.4.
What are the three most memorable, or valuable, things that you have done in your life?Hit maximum level in the Continent of Magick. Played the online game for 204 hours running without eating or sleeping. Sold my account.5. What do you think of politicians In power?Why can’t we just export them to China and Japan?6. When did you recognize your social position?After I watched ‘Planet of the Apes’.7. How would you describe your Identity In a single sentence?I am Da Dragon.The nurse looked taken aback when she finished reading the document.“Don’t tell me—is this an excerpt from some graphic novel?”“No.
It looks like one of the subjects filled this out this morning. Can’t you see the stamp of confirmation right at the bottom?”“A typical nutcase”“You’re wrong again. If he were a nutcase, he wouldn’t be observing society as sarcastically and precisely as he did in this questionnaire.”Against common sense, Dr. Cha concluded he was mentally normal.
From a psychiatrist’s perspective, she could almost hear a scream of desperation rising from those answers.To be able to ridicule society in such a way, this young man named Lee Hyun must have lived a colorless life in a world of cruelty.“Whew.” The chief nurse could not help but sigh.She had no reason to contradict the doctor’s conclusion. Nevertheless, she thought that either Dr. Cha, who had earned a Ph.D.
In psychiatry in the United States and been idolized in globally recognized medical periodicals, was above normal, or this Lee Hyun guy was below normal.‘Both of them are simply abnormal. Or they are normal, and I’m the only crazy one in the room. Maybe the hard truth is, the whole world has gone insane’, she thought as her head spun.Dr. Cha picked up the form and got up.“Society needs different kinds of people. You don’t need to look deep into it. By the way, I’m going to show this to Seoyoon.”“Patient Jeong Seoyoon?”“Yes.”“Do you think she will read it?”“She will. Those who shut their mind are more likely to yearn for attention from outside.
I just hope she will laugh this time.” Dr. Cha took the questionnaire that Lee Hyun had filled in and headed to the ward.
Her destination was a special ward located on the 12 th floor.With the brand-new medical instruments and best doctors, furnished with a private swimming pool and an indoor gym, the room cost nearly twenty million won a day.“Hi, Seoyoon, I’m here to see you,”Beaming at her patient, Cha Eunhee entered the ward. A pale-faced girl lifted her head from a book that she was reading. Who, even among supermodels whose looks are their only highlights, would be overshadowed by her beauty—but her face was empty of emotion. Like a French doll, she seemed lifeless.‘God gave her beauty, more than she could live with’Dr. Cha thought.For the girl was so beautiful, she was overly-loved by her protective father. The taboo blurring the line between father and daughter had never been broken, but her mother was paranoid, suspicious of her husband.Her mother had been jealous of her own daughter, resulting in relentless abuse in the early years, and then came the tragedy on the fateful day. Since then, the girl had lost the power of words.Back when she was young, Seoyoon had been an angel trapped in an earthly body.
Cha, who used to be a close friend of hers, always felt sorry that she was deprived of her fair share of love and innocence.“Take a look at this. I’m not allowed to remove any document from my office, but I wanted to show it to you.” Dr. Cha gave the girl the form submitted by Lee Hyun.Seoyoon’s lightless eyes glided over the paper. Cha hoped she would burst into laughter.Do you know that, if you laugh this lime, against all odds, it will be your first time in five years? Cha thought.But the still face shattered the doctor’s hopes.
The girl looked over the questionnaire and just returned it to her. The doctor felt heartbroken as she remembered how bright Seoyoon had once been.“Alright Do you need anything else?” Dr.
Cha asked.Seoyoon gently shook her head.“Then, feel free to call me anytime you need something.”Dr. Cha slipped out of the room in silence.“Did she laugh?” the nurse asked; she wasn’t permitted to enter the room.Dr. Cha smiled bitterly. “It didn’t work again,” the nurse said.“No.
I can’t find a way to open her mind,” Dr. “I must rehabilitate her to maintain the president’s faith in me—no, on behalf of Seoyoon”Countless of psychologists, psychiatrists and shamans had been hired to tackle Seoyoon’s condition, to no avail. None of them could melt her frozen heart.
Now, nearly everyone gave up any hope for the girl.The nurse was also tearful. She was sad that such a cute girl neither talked nor laughed, stuck alone in her own closed shell.“Isn’t there any therapy or medicine to help her?” the nurse asked.“A psychiatric remedy won’t work as long as the patient refuses to open her mind and accept reality,” Dr. Cha said.“Then, she’s going to live like that for the rest of her life ”“We must do something to get her back. She just needs a cue, something that will lead her to face reality.”“But it’s already been five years. Her consciousness might have gotten stuck by now—long gone.”“It is our job to let that happen. No matter what, I will bring her back.” Dr. Cha’s resolution was fierce.She had majored in psychiatry and voluntarily come to this hospital in order to save Seoyoon.“I already started a new treatment a year ago.”“I’ve never heard of it.”“Of course not.
It’s because I had to keep it secret. It’s Royal Road. She’s spending her days and nights in the game, except for medication and counseling,”. Let her start over in the fictional world.
Take her out of the shell, and she will move on step by step where she can interact with others. I hope she will regain her lost faith in people, and feel emotions that she had never felt before, at least in virtual reality.”Back home, Lee Hyun visited the item transaction site before he logged into Royal Road.Though Lee Hyun had dealt only one item there so far his status was triple diamond. The account in the Continent of Magick was valued at over three billion won.It alone elevated him to VIP prestige. Buy Iron Sword +20 STR for 400,000 wonBuy Rings 4 warriors. Offer.Buy Blue Boots for Ranger Class.
300,000 won – negotiable.Buy Earrings for Mages. Royal Road Kelly book value plus extraA list or items in demand was thousands or pages long. A keyword yielded millions of search results, but few of them actually reached a deal.As plenty of users were eager to get hold of cool items, demand was high. The supply could not keep up with it.The system favored sellers, and when one of them posted his item, the auction was wrapped up in minutes. Sell Mace of Red Spirit 105/105 Durability w/ 96-105dmg +15 STR 100,000 email protectedSell Shine’s Blessing Ring: Rare / Heals 3 MP per sec for 5 min From 3,000,000 wonSell Messiah Earring: Mag def. Fire magic +8% exp.
4,000,000 wonSell Blacksmith’s Hammer of Thomas: 15%? For success rate in forging weaponry. “Do me a favor, Sanghoon. Don’t ever call me again.”SlamLee Hyun dropped the phone and sighed deeply. It was a phone call that he didn’t want in the least.If only he had been given an MIB-type memory eraser, then, without question, he would have erased the whole three years of high school—the worst memory and time in his life.Back then, Lee Hyun had been beaten and threatened by the loan sharks.
He had to sneak in to school. He had gone to school at dawn and left at midnight as if he were playing hide and seek.For a couple of days, Lee Hyun had dodged the loan sharks, but they were smarter than he thought.
They had hired street racketeers to pressurize the teachers.Lee Hyun had been even told by his homeroom teacher to pay back his debt, right in front of his classmates.The teacher had knelt before the lost student, pleading amid tears that he didn’t want to get involved in that madness.“It was the last straw. I quit school the next day,” he said to himself.Lee Hyun was a little curious what his friends were like in college. But showing his face in the reunion would only revive shameful moments.‘The inescapable truth is, the only thing left for me to do is to play the virtual reality game.’ Lee Hyun finished lunch and slipped into the game again.Weed never skipped his daily routine of settling down in front of Rodriquez’s manor from dawn to sunset. Who else would be able to cope with boring days such as this?“What do you think about going hunting in the West Valley? Hippies have a high level, but if we team up together, they’re piece of cake.”“I heard you joined an escort quest for the caravans bound for Eline Village?”“The price of troll blood has soared lately by almost triple the usual amount. I’m afraid a big war’s coming.”Plenty of conversations snuck into Weed’s ears.Horses whinnied, carriages wheeled by.Sitting by the main avenue, Weed could catch lots of information. He learned what was going on in the world.
Without this type of fun, he would have given up already.When Weed struck the scarecrow, he was at least enjoying a sense of becoming more powerful. It was self-torturing that he had to sit still under the harsh sunlight.‘Didn’t Buddha face a wall for several days, meditating?’ he asked himself.He was going through a similar experience, resolved to see Rodriguez.For the last two days, Weed had met Pale and Irene to go hunting together. They were not as strong as he, so they earned EXPs more slowly.Still, they could hunt monsters as they pleased, day and night. Thanks to their flexible schedule, they caught up with Weed’s level.Thirty percent bonus on EXPs at night is technically canceled out by the fact that monsters are stronger by half than during daytime. More often than not, daytime hunting is more efficient for low-level users.Plus, Weed was penalized by being undecided class-wise, so that he could not learn any skills. He would lag behind in skill levels if he converted to a class at a higher level than an average user. Last but not least, it tested his patience that he was wasting valuable time waiting in the middle of a street.‘What can I do now?
Sculpture mastery sculptures’ Weed looked around. He found a piece of wood that seemed to have been thrown off from a carriage’s wheel.Picking up the piece of wood, Weed activated the sculpture skill “Carve this.”SlideAs Weed’s hand was moving, the wood was cut here and there.“What the! — ”When the skill finished carving, Weed sighed. The once square piece of wood was whittled to a small circular piece.“I’d better do it myself.”Weed picked up another piece of wood and began cutting it with the engraving knife. With his past experience of toiling in a textile factory focused his hands, and craft was like a second nature to him.The engraving knife was so sharp that with just a touch, it carved through the wood. After a few attempts at trial and error, he finally carved the wooden piece into a short sword. You gained expertise rating in Sculpture Mastery.You gained expertise rating in Handicraft skill.Two pop-up message windows appeared in cascade.Weed learned something—that he didn’t need to rely on the sculpture skill to carve an object, and that when he used the skill, he had to recognize exactly what shape he was working on.I’d better practice sculpture more often.Bored, Weed gathered several pieces of wood and started carving them.‘It’s fun in its own way.’It suddenly struck Weed that when he was in grade school, his art teachers had praised him for being good at making things.
What Weed carved usually turned out useless, but a few of them looked acceptable even to his eyes.He spent five hours carving wooden pieces. It seemed odd that a man should sit down cutting wood with an engraving knife, but he felt it was better than killing time in vain. Level up: Sculpture Mastery 2Enables to produce more complicated works.Decreases the rate at which you fail the skill.Weed’s handicraft skill and sculpture mastery leveled up quickly because their comparatively low level needed a small amount of EXPs to reach the higher level.“Wow.” Weed was awed.As his level in sculpture mastery rose, various windows appeared while he was carving a piece of wood.Visual tips were given, such as where to cut in a circle or what patterns were available.
Weed could choose one of the tips, which was automatically processed. Even if he made an error, the sculpture mastery supplemented it to refine the final product.Now he was making quality statues.
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Weed carved a fox that he had hunted the other night, and a wolf statue was easier than he had thought. He placed completed animated statues beside him.Weed’s skill level was currently two, but Zahab’s Engraving Knife doubled it to four.The knife was unique item that any sculptor would die for willingly. The problem is no one cares.The sculptor class is near extinction.
Even if there are some sculptor-wannabes left, their levels are mediocre, so it is hopeless to expect a good price for Zahab’s Engraving Knife.When Weed finished the pieces of artwork—. Stat cannot be deleted.“Darn it!”A user cannot create stats infinitely. The maximum number of stat slots is fifteen.Weed found it intolerable that one of the slots was wasted on the art. Still, though he planned to fill them only with absolutely necessary ones.‘Can’t help it!’For Weed could not care less about the art stat. He swore that he would never distribute any stat bonus points to it.He was relieved to know that the stat would increase automatically, but he was skeptical about how it would work.Weed kept on carving wooden pieces. He was more interested in side effects than sculpture mastery itself, though.“Sculpture mastery is good for nothing. But handicraft skill is worth effort in many areas.
It will increase the attack power of swords, and archery relies on the hands. I can work on sensitive crafts, too.”Handicraft skill is a necessity to influence everything everywhere.
You gained expertise rating in Handicraft skill.Level up: Handicraft Skill 3Enables you to learn cooking and tailoring skills.Increases attack power with melee and long range weapons. (+3% ATK)Increases attack rower with fists. (+5% ATK)Weed’s handicraft skill level hit three as sculptural art helped him obtain EXPs faster.It really pays off.Weed was satisfied with a swift increase in his handicraft skill level. It was partly because the artworks that he had produced were, in fact, at level four thanks to Zahab’s Engraving Knife, but sculpture mastery was the main factor.Cooking and tailoring skills, for example, affect the handicraft skill greatly, yet they cannot rival sculpture mastery in delicacy and adeptness.Simply put, sculpture mastery is essential to improve handicraft skill. Needless to say, nobody would bother learning sculpture mastery in order to improve the handicraft skill.“Shit, I will never learn tailoring. I hate it!”Weed considered it positive to master the basic cooking skills so that he could enjoy delicious food with online recipes.Not to mention that buying ingredients directly from a grocery store and cooking them with his hands was cheaper than ordering a meat in a fine restaurant.Also, Weed could preserve stamina better by use of hand-made meals when he went out on a hunting mission for one or more weeks without returning to civilization.
Instant food could not restore the stamina stat to full.Besides, Weed was so haunted by the memory of toiling strenuously in a textile factory that he was resolved to refrain from learning the tailoring skill.“I hate tailoring more than anything else. I’ll never, ever touch the damned thing,” he told himself.Absorbed in working on statues, Weed didn’t realize that he was shadowed by black figures until his ears caught strange conversations.“Wow, it’s lovely.”“It looks like they’re real.”“I’ve never seen such lively artwork before.”Weed looked up in the direction of the shadows. There was a group of people viewing his statues with admiration.A tiny, cute girl pointed her finger at the rabbit-like statue.“Hi, ajussi, is it on sale?”Weed would have gently corrected her that he was only a teenager, but the way a single woman in her thirties would react to an ‘old lady’ label.But“Yes.
What can I do for you, young lady?” Weed said, smiling politely, for he smelt money.“I want that one. How much is it?”Handing over the rabbit statue, Weed gave it a passing thought.“It’s” Weed was pressured to call for a fair price.Dump those statues at a profit now, or they would sit there forever, ending up in a trash bin. He showed two fingers.“I’ll take so much,” Weed said.“Two silvers? It’s cheaper than I thought.” The girl paid two silver coins and picked up the statue.“This rabbit’s really cute.
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I’ll keep it as souvenir.”Stupefied, Weed stared at her back as she left pleasantly. Two fingers meant two copper coins. Only two coppers. But the girl paid one hundred times his call.“Hey, I want to buy one.”“Same here. I’ll take the two foxes over there.”Weed’s statues sold well.Small ones were priced at two silvers, large ones three. Fox and rabbit statues that he had hunted in the field around the Citadel were more popular than sword- or shield-shaped ones.The animals looked cute, and customers preferred them in memory of their newbie-hood.A Lv.
100 user could easily make a couple of gold a day. To them, two silvers were a bargain.The stock of statues quickly sold out.“Can you please make us a fox-shaped statue? A fox with nine tails. Can you do that?”Weed contemplated it and nodded.The request wasn’t as hard as it sounded. The standard form of a fox plus nine tails. Why not?“Yes, sir.
But you have to pay extra for a customized version.”“How much is it?”“Five silvers would do it.”When the word ‘five’ came out of his mouth, Weed regretted that he might have gone overboard, but the buyers were quick to respond.“Great. Then, you should make it look very beautiful. Please?”In the Citadel, there is a sculpture shop, but it specializes in life-size statues, sometimes adorned with gold and gems, that are not affordable for most users. Since no one else was interested in sculpture mastery, those statues that Weed carved had a collectible value.“Wow, it’s cool.”Those who bought statues were excited, adoring their recent purchases.“Can I get your name? So when I want to buy another one, I’ll look for you.”“Weed – Sculptor Weed.
If you ever want to have a statue to your liking, please feel free to contact me.”“Thank you. See you later.”Before sunset, rumors of the sculptor spread to the other ends of the Citadel and people came over to visit Weed.“There he is.”“I want you to make some statues for us.”Weed had earned four silvers from overnight hunting the other night, but one or two statues made more money now. It took only ten minutes to carve a statue. As materials cost almost nothing, it was a very lucrative trade.The next day, Weed stopped by a carpenter’s shop and bought wood in bulk.
He began to mass produce statues.As the handicraft skill and sculpture mastery upgraded, more beautiful and delicate pieces were churned out.Needless to say, blessed by his high skill, they sold at a higher price and a quicker pace.Successful masterpieces, one or two in every thousand, were even put up for auction.His opinion of sculpture mastery changed slightly in the process – a part time job to secure a satisfactory amount of pocket money.
The City of HeavenA pub. A place that was usually filled with hearty laughter and clamorous noises had been silent for the last few days all because of a single man, Volk.He had a scarily massive body, but what was scarier was his face.Considering that someone whose countenance could make an Orc's heart skip a beat had been drinking gloomily all day long, it was hardly surprising that the pub was drowned in silence.Volk made a face while drinking.' I want to propose to her.
I need something special for her, if there is anything.' Volk wanted to propose to a lady. His heart-breaking anguish wasn't visible to others.' A gift for her. Right, I heard of a sculptor in the Citadel of Serabourg. I will ask him to make one for me. If he makes something that pleases my heart, I will give him the most precious thing I have in return.'
Volk left the pub, stumbling.' Whew, this is still full of users here.'
Back in the capital of Rosenheim kingdom after seven weeks, Weed felt a headache coming on at the sight of an incalculable number of avatars.It was a dizzy scene in which buyers and sellers were actively trading with one another, and new adventurers were looking for partners to join their adventure.' Let's go to your home.' Weed led the colt to the Royal Stable. It followed him obediently.The beast had just survived the poison gas from the queen worm, as luck would have it.As if it knew by instinct that it had missed imminent death more times than it deserved, the colt was willing to stay out of Weed's way; the sooner it got home, the better.There was a shabby stable outside the Royal Palace.
As soon as the chief horse trainer laid eyes on the colt, he grimaced.' The good times are gone, now that this mouth-firing Arse is back. Heard of you from Lord Midvale. Are you returning this beast that shames his father, Weed-nim?'
Lighthearted now, Weed left the colt in an empty lot.' You've had a good journey.
I know this beast spells nothing but trouble.' It's over now.' 'Lord Midvale left a message.
He wants you to visit him if you are still interested in the centurion job. He says it's yours anytime.'
'Tell him I appreciate it.' The chief horse trainer was polite to Weed who was virtually a stranger to him.Assured once again that a man's status depended on who his contacts were, and what he had done in his name, Weed left the Royal Stable and went to the Training Hall.There, he met the instructor.' So that's what happened to you.' The instructor was very sorry that Weed was forced to convert to the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor class.'
It is my fault.' Weed kept it short. He just dropped his head with a grim face.' How can anyone in his right mind blame this on you? The counselor stepped over the line. Still, hang on to hope,'The instructor said, patting Weed's shoulder.'
Yes, Instructor. You're the one I can always rely on.' Anyway, you have come back from a great journey and you finished my quest.' The instructor rewarded him with three gold and fifty points of public service to Rosenheim for the completion of The Clean-up Operation in the Lair of Litvart quest.As public service is largely accumulated, it gives a user the upper hand in trades in the country in question, and he is qualified for government positions as well.However, the instructor's attitude changed slightly. He no longer considered Weed one of his kind as a colleague on the same path in swordsmanship.It implied that the friendship between them, which Weed had worked so hard to build up, was crumbling a little.After visiting the instructor, Weed stopped by at Rodriguez's manor as his last visit.
As always, the counselor was confined in his study.' You really finished the quest,' Rodriguez said. 'I was wondering how you fared because you had not appeared on my doorstep for a long time.' 'Yes, Counselor.'
Anyway, as destiny directs it, I have an object for you.' Rodriguez handed Weed a wooden statue that fitted in his palm. It was shaped like an imperial knight.' What is this?' It is the legacy of Geihar von Arpen the Magnificent. My family used to serve the Imperial Family of the Arpenian Empire. The blood, and the obligation accompanying it, has flowed in my family.
I am the one to take the task for this generation. Now that I hand it to you, I am finally liberated from the reins,' Rodriguez said.' But what is this statue for?' Weed had already received a wooden statue of a different shape when he carried out Zahab's Moonlight Sculptor quest.'
I do not know the secret of this wooden statue, either,' Rodriguez said. 'The myth has it that there have been five masters in sculptural art on the Continent. Of course, it is only an ancient myth, for they came and went like the wind. They are known to leave their own crafts in their legacies, so I surmise that this statue is probably one of them. According to the myth, if you succeeded in collecting all five of the statues, and solve the puzzle arising from them, the ultimate secret of sculptural art will appear.' Still doubtful, Weed identified the wooden statue.
Due to his low level in that skill, he succeeded in finding out the identity of the statue only after a couple of failed attempts.Wooden Statue:Durability: 1/1This statue contains the Emperor Geihar Von Arpen's skills.Equips: Enables you to acquire a unique skill to give the breath of life to any statue.Requirement: Expert stage in Sculpture MasteryWhen Weed identified the wooden statue left by Zahab, he also found an engraving knife technique whose prerequisite was five or above skill level in sword mastery.' A great secret is hidden in sculpture mastery,' Weed said.' You are now on the path in sculptural art, and I wish you the best in making Grand Master in sculpture mastery. The world has never seen a Grand Master, but if there is ever one, he will be able to handle the fate of the Continent easily,' Rodriguez said.
'It is true that I introduced you to this path out of malicious intent, but it is also a true tale I have told you.' Weed no longer resented Rodriguez. The past was the past, and a sudden interest in the craft hit him.' The one who creates his own path.' Furthermore, Weed was told that if he ever made it, the days of riches and power would wait for him.Rodriguez thought he had paid off old scores with Weed. At the sight of his sorry state after he wandered hungry and cold for seven weeks, the grudge was already gone in the counselor's mind.' I have another question, Counselor.
Do cooks or blacksmiths have their own hidden path to becoming Grand Master?' God is generous,' Rodriguez said. 'Remember -not everyone on the path in the cooking skill sees and grabs the opportunity.' 'There must be other Chosen Ones! They will see to it their own way.
It is up to them if they have it or not.' When Weed had heard all he wanted to hear, he left the manor.Darius heard his heart pounding. He had never expected to go this far when he had solved a series of trivial-looking quests.The best luck, he called it.There were two men at the center of a power game in Rosenheim Kingdom—Duke Kanus and Count Albrook. Of the two, Duke Kanus, in charge of the military affairs, was more powerful.The man in question was now lowering a snowy white sword toward him now.' Darius-nim, I hereby bestow temporary knighthood of Rosenheim upon you in recognition of your dedicated service to the Royal Court.
I order you to form a punitive force by the power of a knight and rescue the villagers at the frontier from their misery.' 'At your service, milord. You can count on me,' Darius said.' Sir Darius, I entrust this task to you,' Duke Kanus said.Darius felt a slight touch of the blade on both shoulders in turn, then on the head.It might have been a dreadful sensation in times of war, but he was in the middle of an ordination ceremony of knighthood in the Royal Palace of Rosenheim.
Moreover, the holder of the sword was Duke Kanus.Rather than fearful, it was such a memorable moment for Darius that he almost let out a cry of excitement. Darius had to fight this spontaneous temptation to exclaim and roll over on the tapestry in spite of the solemn atmosphere. Suppressing a smirk, his face wrinkled into a grin.' Now I'm the commander of a punitive force' Darius counted himself very, very lucky.' I've got to do something'Weed made a serious face.The nature of the sculptor class that he happened to stumble on was as follows:As Weed's main weapon was a sword, it was useful to compare him to a sword warrior.The moment the class is decided, a sword warrior wins a 50% bonus on sword mastery. Of course, Weed could close the gap with his useful handicraft skill as compensation.Thanks to the initially heightened stats, even a knight at the same level was no match for him.
In the case of relatively lower levels, he was confident that he would win a duel against two sword warriors at the same level, supported by the engraving knife technique and the Imperial Formless Sword Technique.The Imperial Formless Sword Technique—Weed was surprised by its dominant power when he tried it.This technique was something close to a cheat key, doubling the speed of reflex and the power of destruction, and even tripling the recovery of mana. No wonder the Emperor Geihar selected it to leave to his successor.However, the warriors and knights also have sword skills and breathing patterns of their own. When they master a breathing pattern suitable to their own class, it has a great effect on them, even when the grade of sword techniques that they know is lower than Weed's Imperial Formless Sword Technique.It is the special right enjoyed by the knights and warriors, the two standard classes specialized in combat skills.In other words, no matter whether Weed raised his handicraft skill and other stats zealously, and acquired more cheat-key-like skills, he would one day be caught up by his counterparts. Even now, Weed was only slightly ahead of them unless he used underhanded tactics.Obviously, he would have been much weaker than an ordinary sword warrior without timely investment in the handicraft skill as well as the Imperial Formless Sword Technique, and additional stats that he had earned from the Training Hall.'
But the sculptor class has a greater potential than appears. If not, the Emperor Geihar could not have conquered the Continent, and it would be hard to explain Zahab's strength,'he said to himself.The Citadel of Serabourg, the capital of Rosenheim Kingdom.In front of the Central Fountain where the thriving downtown was located, a line of avatars was watching various statues on display. Weed had opened a second stall to work on his skill level in sculpture mastery.' How much is this?'
A girl asked.' Five silvers,' Weed said.' Oh my, it's too expensive. Can you please make a little discount for me? I'll buy two pieces.'
The cute girl beamed at Weed, trying to persuade him, but he was merciless. Especially when it came to money, he treated men and women alike.' With due respect, young lady, a discount is like an insult to my artworks.
Do you think I discounted my passion in art, and my devotion to the work in particular, when I carved this statue? An artwork has to bear a fair price that reflects its true value, which will grow within your mind as time passes,'Weed said.The girl was moved. It was silly that she tried to bargain for artwork that held the sculptor's heart.
Seized with remorse, she took shiny silver coins out of her pocket.' I'm so sorry. Here are ten silvers,' the girl said.' Thank you, young lady.' Weed grinned demurely, handing over two statues. It was a winner's smile, proud of himself that he had sold the statues as they were originally priced.As a sculptor with the bold description 'Legendary Moonlight,' which he had resisted but converted to in the end, he carved beautiful statues even by the standard of Pratique Des Arts, Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure.His current skill level in sculpture mastery was four.
Since Weed converted to Moonlight Sculptor, the effects of his sculpture mastery had been doubled, not to mention that he owned one of the top items that amounted to a cheat key, Zahab's Engraving Knife.Weed's lineup was yet limited to small-size statues made of plain materials by his immature expertise in sculpture mastery. Their simplicity and low price rather appealed to a broader spectrum of customers.Some of his fans even lined up to pick up the artworks that he was working on there and then.Foxes and rabbits, which cost less than ten coppers for materials, were the most popular items in his stall that sold at a lightning speed, though they were priced at five silvers.Weed believed that his enterprise was an honest business. He wasn't coercing anyone to buy his statues. What could he do about people flocking to get hold of them for the stated price?Weed moved the engraving knife faster.
He was raising his expertise rating in sculpture mastery while he was making money.Like sculpture mastery, cooking, repair and other craft skills are upgraded from the basic stage to intermediate when they reach the skill level of ten, which falls back to one after the upgrade.For cooking skill, this upgrade creates solid options of enhancing life and mana benefits for hand-made meals.