Used to Enhance Lifetime Luck-Chapter 65 (65/196)

Episode 15. Traitor Hunt (4)

Pixie Allied Forces Main Headquarters.

“The Lethargy Legion… what?”

“They’ve been annihilated.”

The staff officer looked at Denno with a nervous expression.

Denno’s face was flushed red, grotesque veins bulging all the way to his temples. His eyes, seeming ready to pop out of their sockets, were bloodshot.

“Say it again.”

“They’ve been annihil—”

“Again.”

“Ah, I’m sorry. The Lethargy Legion has been annihilated.”

“Again.”

“T-the Lethargy Legion…”

“Again.”

Denno ordered him to repeat the unbelievable report over and over. The more he did, the more the staff officer’s face turned ashen.

“Again, again. Again!!”

Kwaang—!!

Denno struck the table with all his might. Soon, unable to withstand his strength, the table broke from the center and collapsed.

‘Huu… huu…’

The annihilation of the .

It was an unthinkable situation.

“Fucking hell!!”

Kwaang! Kwaang! Kwaang!

Denno smashed various objects in the headquarters for a long while. Soon, finally calming down, he began to logically accept the situation with a distorted expression.

‘The Lethargy Legion performed a . But for to be so intact… It’s absurd. Under normal circumstances, Gwolreun Fortress should have also sustained considerable damage. Which would mean the occurred while the majority of the lethargy bugs were already dead… That doesn’t make sense either.’

It was an incomprehensible situation.

Because lethargy bugs were monsters that could not be killed.

‘How the hell did this happen?!’

Denno recalled the past.

A few years ago, the had discovered an deep within Pixie’s underground ruins. There, they found various ancient items and materials, and even a .

Inside the coffin was a corpse that had not decayed. It was a mummy of sorts.

But a shocking event occurred. The mummy they had taken out began to move as if alive. It destroyed the research facility in an instant and escaped far away, only to be captured and dragged back by the Daeil Empire’s rankers a few days later.

Well, up to that point, it was fine. This was a game, after all. It was merely a curiosity.

However, while studying the mummy’s biological activity, they discovered something curious. It was the orange, slime-like bugs residing in the mummy’s head.

They were the .

They were creatures that parasitized NPC bodies, gnawing away at internal energy to survive.

The Daeil Empire researchers, intrigued, conducted various experiments with the lethargy bugs. They fired , cast , shone , and even stimulated them with .

Yet none of the Four Great Powers of Face Chronicle could affect them.

Physical force was the same. Physical shock simply passed through their bodies.

Thus, the research made no progress. They were merely bugs that stole NPC bodies and sucked internal energy to survive.

But after long research, they eventually discovered a way to transplant the lethargy bugs into NPC bodies.

The lethargy bugs, which had been the exclusive property of the mummy until then, began exuding tremendous vitality inside NPC bodies as well.

The NPC unit created in this way. It was the !

The Pixie Kingdom had proven its worth in this war by using the to win numerous special operations.

‘But… they killed those lethargy bugs? How on earth? Does that mean there’s another power in this world besides magic, sorcery, divine power, and spirit power? A new power even I don’t know of?’

…The fact that the was the breath of the Gold Goblin, which had gone extinct in ancient times, was something he would never know for all eternity.

‘The situation is heading to the worst…’

To kill Ted, known to the world as a ranker within the top 700, he had deployed the entirety of the Lethargy Legion. Yet the result was failure.

Moreover, recently within the Caron Kingdom, militia had risen up and greatly contributed to driving out the Pixie Kingdom’s army.

The number of territories retaken in this way was 47. Half of the territories belonging to the Caron Kingdom.

It was only a matter of time before the remaining territories were lost as well.

‘If it comes to this, is there only one option left… Damn it…’

Denno soon gave the order.

An order to muster all Japanese rankers, including the Five Hon.

‘I’ll have to end everything there… I pray I won’t have to use this.’

Soon, he turned to look at the massive coffin decorating the back of his seat.

* * *

Ted’s assault on had ended in failure.

The Lethargy Detonation had caused the tunnel to explode entirely and collapse.

Because of this, the First Assault Corps had no choice but to fight a predictable siege battle.

‘…Damn, if only that gate wasn’t there…’

This was the frustration of all Caron soldiers.

were originally stones that could not be processed or transported. Like landmines left in their natural state.

Moreover, no one had ever heard of or seen an Explosion Stone large enough to replace a castle gate like that.

Yet somehow, the Pixie Kingdom was using such an Explosion Stone as a castle gate.

‘Anyway… it can’t be helped.’

Ted too resigned himself and joined the ordinary siege battle with the mindset of a soldier.

The staff officers had said that if it took roughly one to two weeks, territorial conquest would be possible through ordinary siege warfare. In truth, even that was only possible because Ted was there as a sniper.

Amidst the tedious siege battle, one piece of good news came to Ted.

Ilkkigi had been freed from .

Now that its stomach no longer hurt, Ilkkigi was hopping and running about.

‘So it digests 5% per day? Takes quite a while. For about 20 more days, the digestion status window will keep following me… Anyway, I was worried about this little guy, so I’m glad. Really glad.’

Ted was rejoicing inwardly.

But he couldn’t afford to appear soft outwardly. Using this incident as a turning point, Ted took up a switch to curb Ilkkigi’s appetite.

“Ilkkigi! Did you do wrong or not! Will you eat as you please or not!”

Smaack! Smaack! Screeeeech!

“Huh? Huh? Answer properly!”

Screeeeech!

Nothing is as frightening as a wooden switch.

Soon, Ilkkigi’s screams echoed through Caron’s bright sky.

And so, Ted’s tedious conquest of slowly dragged on.

* * *

And a few days later.

A phone call came from Cheon Siu.

“Hey, Gyeongu, it’s me.”

Cheon Siu had called to inform Cheon Gyeongu of the progress on his request.

First, the 20 users Cheon Gyeongu had requested to wait at the respawn location of Gwolreun Fortress had been dispatched. They were users belonging to .

The traitor hunt was also making some progress. Efficiency was proportional to the manpower invested.

“Ah, that’s good to hear. Thanks.”

“But there hasn’t been much success on the user traitor side. As you know, users use the internet, hide their identities in all sorts of ways compared to NPCs, and their login times aren’t regular, right?”

“Right.”

“Sigh, that’s why the Caron royal family set high merit points for hunting Otherworlder traitors… But since catching them itself is difficult, I don’t think it’ll have much effect. Anyway, there’s nothing as tricky in Face Chronicle as users.”

Cheon Siu’s short sigh was heard.

But as Ted listened to those words, a trivial question arose in his mind.

“Hyung. How many merit points do I have?”

Points created by the royal family to reward those who distinguished themselves in war.

Since it was handled directly in writing by the royal family’s NPCs, it was classified and did not appear in the status window.

Rewards were given starting from a certain threshold, and Cheon Gyeongu believed he would receive quite a large reward.

“Sorry, that’s classified.”

“Ah. Between brothers.”

“I don’t even check my own points.”

Cheon Gyeongu stuck his tongue out at the Cheon Siu he couldn’t see. Cheon Siu was that kind of man by nature.

‘But I can estimate roughly. As far as I know, killing an enemy soldier is 1 point. Being the top contributor in capturing an enemy castle is 1,000 points. Killing an enemy officer is around 5 to 500 points… So with 11 captured castles, several officers, and thousands of enemy soldiers killed, it’s probably around 20,000.’

If the war ended in Caron’s victory, Ted would be able to receive decent rewards.

“Then. How many points were announced for hunting down user traitors?”

“200 per user head.”

“That many?”

“Yeah. Lately, the damage from user traitors has been enormous.”

While the First Assault Corps hadn’t suffered much damage, other armies were different. Recently, Otherworlder traitors had frequently made secret pacts with Pixie and backstabbed them.

‘Is that so?’

As Cheon Gyeongu carefully reviewed his conversation with Cheon Siu, he felt a lightbulb turning on in his head.

‘Wait… This might be…’

Soon, Cheon Gyeongu spoke in an excited voice.

“Hyung. Help me with something.”

Truthfully, Cheon Gyeongu wasn’t very interested in .

He would have been completely satisfied if he could just catch the three bastards who had stabbed him in the back and beat them thoroughly.

But if a single traitor gave a whopping 200 points, the story changed.

‘With the end of this war, I might be able to score a few unique items!’

The words Cheon Siu had spoken earlier, ‘Users use the internet.’ That became the fuse that lit a fire in Cheon Gyeongu’s head.

“What help do you need?”

“Listen carefully.”

Cheon Gyeongu told Cheon Siu his plan.

Soon, a calm laugh was heard from beyond the receiver.

“I’ve been thinking this since I was young. I think you have something incredibly important that I don’t have.”

“What. A hot temper and a heart as narrow as a rat’s tail?”

Cheon Siu laughed again and said.

“No. Craftiness and creativity.”

* * *

Not long ago. Ted had been in a Demon state, sweeping up experience points by killing numerous Caron users.

What Ted had obtained then were experience points, items, crime points, skill proficiency, and so on.

‘Hehe… But there was one more thing.’

Something he’d never thought of until now, something Ted had obtained during his time as a Demon.

It was the within the community board.

‘Let’s see.’

Cheon Gyeongu, who had committed all kinds of fraud under the two nicknames and !

As Cheon Gyeongu swindled naive community users, ’s credibility had dropped considerably. He had said muskets would work on Demon Tribe members, and the musketeers who went to hunt them had died one after another.

However… ’s credibility, who had spoken nothing but the truth except for a single mistake, was still sky-high.

‘GoblinMom is known as a Scout, right? A very skilled one who looks out for users. That’s probably why so many recruitment and inquiry messages came in back then?’

, who had lost credibility, had also received many messages, being presumed to be a ranker.

‘Wow, it’s obscenely many.’

The messages received by numbered 527.

The messages received by , who had a relatively long activity period and top-tier credibility, numbered a whopping 6,203 even excluding duplicates.

“You have a message.”

‘Oh! It’s here.’

Soon, a message flew in via Ted account’s chat.

It was the message Cheon Gyeongu had been waiting for!

Linda: Hello. This is Linda of Caron Walker. It is an honor to chat with you, Ted-nim.

Kaison: Hello. This is Kaison of Caron Walker.

Rook: This is Rook! Please take care of me!

Kim Saja: Hello~. This is Kim Saja of Caron Walker. Please take care of me. I am a fan of Ted-nim!

The two things Cheon Gyeongu had asked of Cheon Siu.

One was high-priced exhibition goods. Two carriages’ worth.

The other was four people to search through the messages that had come to his account.

Ted: Nice to meet you. This is Ted.

Cheon Gyeongu smiled broadly.

By nature, the job class was mainly hired to search for dirty money in secret places.

The more addicted one was to dirty money, the more they sought out Scouts.

‘Now, shall we start the traitor hunt!’

Cheon Gyeongu, who had set the board, grinned and began sending chats.