CHAPTER 23. DLC: yer Knox, 1st Round
“I heard Fabian’s expedition team closed the dungeon trendously this ti.”
“Is it the ergence of new powers? Well, no matter how much you fly and crawl, they won’t be a competitor for the Black Knights… Oh no, it’s yer Knox.”
The expedition mbers, who had been talking alone, found yer Knox appearing at the end of the corridor and kept their mouths shut.
They turned their heads sideways at an angle so as not to disturb yer Knox’s path.
yer Knox passed by without even giving them a glance, but the intimidation that pushed at their heads remained until the mont he disappeared. They breathed a sigh of relief when yer passed by.
“No, we didn’t say anything bad about yer Knox, so why are you being so facetious?”
“Why are you asking that? You were looking scared with .”
“Is this exactly the intimidation of the 80th level…”
“After all, no matter how many Fabian expeditions fly and crawl, it will be the Black Knights who will fight against the Demon King.”
They mumbled, thinking yer couldn’t hear them, but his acute hearing caught every breath they took.
But yer did not care.
He was always at the top, and it seed fate that the newly ford expedition would follow him.
There have been many who have struck for a brief, sparkling mont.
Nurous expeditionary parties had set out in great force to overtake the Black Knights, but none had been able to stand before him.
Perhaps the Fabian Expedition would do the sa, and yer had gone over lightly.
He hoped that this ti that “upstart force” will be a little more excited and embark on a more aggressive approach to closing the dungeon.
As such, he had no special expectations for the Fabian Expedition, and he had to be frankly surprised that the gap between them and the Black Knights had been narrowing more and more, and that they had soon reached a position where they threatened the stronghold of the Black Knights.
And that wasn’t the end.
The Fabian Expedition was finally to point its sword close to the neck of the Black Knights.
The word “still” beca “maybe.”
Perhaps the Fabian Expedition would overtake the Black Knights.
At that level, no matter how much he was yer, he could not sit back and watch them.
“Commander, this is the information on the attack dungeon that the Fabian Expedition submitted to the performance report.”
yer read the report handed to Axion at once.
The more he read the report, the deeper the wrinkles on his forehead.
yer asked, placing the report roughly on the desk.
“Does this make sense?”
“…Of course I think it’s impossible, but they actually did it.”
Axion’s face was also full of doubt.
The dungeons are so difficult to ti that you never know when or where they will appear.
But the Fabian Expedition was different. They seed to have seen it all. They had conquered most of the dungeons over the past few years.
Of course, there were tis when yer and the Black Knights also conquered dungeons that way, but that was because their base area was originally large enough to have many dungeon occurrences…
It was almost impossible for a base area as small as the Fabian Expedition.
Axion, who knew exactly what yer’s question was, told him the facts he had co to know.
“They have been mainly reaching the territory of the owner of the dungeon just before the dungeon was created. It seems that they were the first ones to get permission to go through with the dungeon.”
“There have been one or two coincidences. It’s impossible to do that unless you have all the insight into when and where the dungeon will be opened.”
“The existence of such a person is unprecedented.”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
yer touched his chin. But even if it’s unprecedented, it doesn’t prove that it doesn’t exist
“Still, let’s investigate it just to be sure.”
“Understood.”
Axion left the office as soon as yer’s words fell.
Competent as he was, not too long after, he carefully organized the information about the Fabian expedition mbers and handed it to yer.
yer read the roster slowly. They must have attacked the empty dungeon; they were all good people.
So of them were people who, if they had not belonged to the expedition, yer would have gone ahead and made a proposal to join the Black Knights.
Who among them knew about the dungeon?
The direction of the expedition dungeon was a fairly important decision. It was clear that it was the expedition leader, or at least in a position where they could speak directly to the expedition leader, just because no one else could interfere.
The main mbers…
yer’s gaze, which had been looking at the main mbers of the Fabian expedition in this way, stopped for a mont at one of the people.
yer, thinking he had looked at the wrong person, asked with a frown.
“By the way… Is the support wizard a mainstay mber of the Fabian Expedition?”
“Yes. That’s a bit strange to , too. She’s even a one-ard person.…”
Axion also had a dazed face.
“The dungeon participation rate is higher than I expected.”
“Is that so? Does she have so special ability?”
“Well. I have not heard of any special abilities, but rumor has it that she is Fabian’s faithful dog. She does anything for Fabian. I think that’s why he keeps her close to him.”
yer countered with a cluck of his tongue.
“Loyalty alone determines the main mbers of the order. Well, you’d be on the verge of the elite of the Black Knights, Axion.”
“No, I have only loyalty to the Commander, don’t I?”
“I told you that I was on the verge, but you didn’t think it was impossible, did you?”
Axion chuckled at yer’s joke.
The two n, who were in a similar age range and had a tendency to swap their lives into one that they were imrsed in, were quite in tune with each other.
yer tapped his fingers lightly on the wooden desk in his office and repeated.
“Supportive wizard…”
It was then. He began to pay attention to a support wizard nad Jun Karentia, whom yer had given him.
And he didn’t know if it was coincidence or not, but it wasn’t long before Jun Karentia tried to approach the Black Knights, slowly.
Her target was Nova Pellum, who had joined the Black Knights elite relatively shortly.
She approached him with reasonable caution, but the problem was that the very person she approached in that manner was Nova.
Information about the dungeon was top-secret, and Nova was not of the smallest reach to obtain such information.
yer, sensing sothing fishy, imdiately questioned Nova, who, unable to resist the order of yer, the leader of the group, finally confided the truth.
“Hmm… Jun Karentia.”
“Do you know her?”
Nova, who had heard yer’s soliloquy, opened her eyes wide and asked back.
Not wanting to reveal that he had been paying attention to her for no reason, yer shook his head in denial.
“In the anti, try to be as discreet as possible… Try to keep up with her tone.”
“I understand…”
As Nova did not know about yer’s suspicions, he could not understand yer’s order, but instead of asking a counter-question, he nodded obediently.
As such, Nova left, and yer called Axion and Agasto to discuss the pertinent matters.
Axion mumbled seriously.
“I didn’t know it was that easy to solve high-level dungeon information… There must be so kind of dream.”
“How much so, would she dare dig a pitfall for the Black Knights?”
August shook his head.
Even with the large number of dungeons closed by the Fabian Expedition, they were no match for the Black Knights, considering their substantial level.
yer, who had been listening to the conversation, made a decision.
“… Let’s move once as per that information, just in case.”
“But…”
“I can’t do anything but give a false kick.”
yer chuckled.
Already they had been caught up within sight of the Fabian expedition.
It was necessary to point out a certain amount of risk in order to know if she really was a gem of dungeon information.
Axion and August expressed their concern, but a braced yer was adamant.
Thus, they followed Jun’s information to the designated location and soon ca upon the gate in all its vividness.
“It really was true.”
As they gazed at the dizzying gate, they felt as if they were possessed by sothing. When it ca ti to co, yer himself was puzzled, even as he said he would try to co.
The dungeon they entered was sowhat more difficult than they had been told, but that much was to be expected.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence?
yer called Nova and ordered him to interact with Jun as soon as the opportunity arrived. He also told him to tell him imdiately if he had any information to pass along.
Nova, who is far from spying, lying, and questioning, seed to be disappointed by yer’s orders.
“I feel like you’re taking advantage of people, a little…”
“Don’t you realize that they’re taking advantage of you too?”
“That’s true, but…”
Their first eting was pure liking and coincidence, but Jun Karentia, who gave him the information about the dungeon when he gave it to him, must have had an agenda.
Nova mumbled sadly as his large body drooped.
“But she didn’t seem like a bad person.”
“That’s not your call.”
yer said deliberately and firmly.
Apart from yer’s unwillingness to order, Nova also acknowledged the importance of the information that Jun had given him.
Nova nodded decisively.
“I’ll give it one good try.”
As yer had expected, Jun gave Nova information about dungeons many tis after that. And all of those dungeons had produced aningful results.
It was pointless to deny the truth when it ca to this. The information Jun Karentia gave was solid.
Of course, there was no certainty that she knew anything about the dungeon. And she might just be telling them what she picked up, too.
But why on earth would she be giving the Black Knights information?
yer stared out the window at Nova and Jun sitting side by side in the corridor, conversing.
She lifted her left arm involuntarily, laughing hysterically at the amusing joke, perhaps oblivious to the fact that she had no left arm.
However, she quickly realized that she had no hand to hit her thigh, so she smiled awkwardly and lowered her arm.
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