The Final Boss Has Returned
Chapter 111
[OMG Lycanthrope……! But what is that?]
[They’re talking about werewolves, werewolves;;; Ugh, look at this ignoramus;]
[No, they might not know it, are you for real?]
[A faker pretending not to be a faker]
[Then when this quest ends, will werewolves be unlocked as a new playable race like Lord Drakan’s other race quests?]
[OMG if wolfkin get unlocked I gotta try them right away. The wild vibe is killer~]
Lycanthrope!
The moment I revealed that tracking them down was the quest objective, the chat window exploded without a moment’s rest.
By now, the users seemed to know.
That every time I carried out a race quest, that race became playable.
New content being unlocked was always welcome, so I understood the users’ cheers.
But that wasn’t the problem right now.
The problem was where in the world those werewolves were!
“Wherever I go, it’s wasteland after wasteland.”
I muttered as I gazed at the endlessly stretching horizon.
[Getting tired of seeing the same scenery over and over;]
[Doesn’t this look like a desktop wallpaper? lol]
[Oh, now that you mention it, it does look a bit like it?]
[What nonsense, it doesn’t look like it at all;;]
[But when are the werewolves coming out? I tuned in because you said wolfkin were coming, but this is just a scenery broadcast;;]
[If you’re just tuning in now, you seriously missed out big time haha it was otherworldly fun until just now lol]
As always, the viewers watching the livestream kept posting their thoughts in the chat.
Anyway, people always said Arde World was vast, but this other world called Broken World felt subjectively even larger than Arde World.
Fortunately, the underlings of those guys—whether they were Hive Mind or the Lord of Conquest or whatever—hadn’t shown themselves yet, but at this rate, we would tire out before finding the Lycanthropes.
A difficulty even more serious than finding Mr. Kim in Seoul!
At least Seoul was small; this world called Broken World was clearly starting from at least the size of Earth.
How in the world was I supposed to find anything there?
It was truly a more terrible feeling than finding a needle in a haystack.
I opened my inventory.
There, the Corrupted Moonlight Stone Necklace sat intact.
It had popped out of my inventory on its own before, yet seeing it sitting quietly back inside again, it seemed to be telling me to use it to find those wolves somehow…….
The moment my thoughts reached that point.
“Lord Drakan.”
Yujin, who was in front of me, called out to me.
“What is it?”
“If it’s alright with you, Lord Drakan…… how about trying this item?”
Saying that, Yujin pressed an item into my hand.
It was a small compass adorned with silver, small enough to fit in one’s palm.
[Party member ‘Yujin’ wishes to transfer ownership of the item ‘Compass of Fate’ to you.]
[Will you accept the item ‘Compass of Fate’?]
Compass of Fate?
It was an item name I had never heard before, but judging by the name “compass,” it was highly likely a detection item for finding something.
And if it was a detection item, it was exactly what I needed most in this situation where the goal was to find something.
“Let’s give it a try.”
[You have acquired the item ‘Compass of Fate’.]
After acquiring the Compass of Fate from Yujin, I placed it on my right palm and immediately checked its item information.
[Compass of Fate] [Grade: Legendary]
[Type: Consumable]
[Durability: None]
[A compass imbued with the legend that it always points to a place where a severed fate exists.]
[When an item imbued with the fate you seek is attuned to it, the compass needle will point to the place where that fate resides.]
[Uses remaining: 1/3]
The grade of this silver-gleaming item was none other than Legendary!
And at that, a Legendary-grade consumable—the kind rarely seen.
Being a consumable, it had no durability but instead had a limited number of uses, and there was exactly one use left!
That’s right. Yujin had handed over a Legendary-grade consumable with one use remaining.
‘Truly a pushover.’
Even considering it was a consumable, it was an item worth at least a hundred million, and he had handed it over without hesitation!
Seeing that, I once again viscerally felt the depths of Yujin’s pushover nature.
No, at this point, it might be a realm beyond that of a mere pushover.
Anyway, what mattered now wasn’t that Yujin was a pushover, but that I could finally stop searching for Mr. Kim in Seoul.
Compass of Fate!
If I attuned the ‘Corrupted Moonlight Stone Necklace’ to this item!
I would be able to find the Lycanthropes in Broken World.
Finally, the key to clearing the quest had come into my grasp.
Smirk.
The corners of my mouth rose slightly.
[What? Why is he smiling? What’s the item stat that makes him smile??]
[OMG what item is this?]
[Never seen this before?]
[Lord Drakan. Please share the item info!]
When streaming on Arde Live, in-game information like the status window, item window, and quest window—what regular users see—wasn’t transmitted to the live stream unless the streamer separately enabled share settings.
I quietly manipulated the item info window to share the ‘Compass of Fate’s’ options.
[OMG; look at those options, insane level lol]
[Wow ㄷㄷ so top rankers carry around items like that;;]
[First time seeing a Legendary-grade consumable hahaha insane hahaha]
[But he gave that for free???? Wow;;]
[Why so surprised? Didn’t you know our Yujin-nim is a magnanimous person?]
[Magnanimous my ass, he’s just buttering up to try clearing the quest together since he got party-shared……..]
[Ugh, the troll’s here again? Don’t you get tired?]
[Yutkwi cannot read this chat.]
The viewers were shocked by the item info the moment I shared the options!
I looked at the chat window, quietly opened my inventory, and took out the Corrupted Moonlight Stone Necklace.
Vrrm!
The moonlight stone necklace vibrated violently, spewing out purple mana the moment it was lifted into my hand!
I held the moonlight stone necklace in my left hand and the Compass of Fate in my right, then pressed the necklace directly against the compass.
At that very moment.
Vrrrm!
As the compass and the moonlight stone necklace resonated, a notification window appeared before my eyes.
[An item imbued with fate has made contact with the Compass of Fate.]
[Would you like to use the Compass of Fate to follow the trail of fate imbued in the item ‘Corrupted Moonlight Stone Necklace’?]
[Current remaining uses: 1/3]
It was a message asking if I wanted to use the compass right away.
“Use it.”
[The Compass of Fate searches for the trail of the severed fate.]
[All uses have been consumed. Once the guidance ends, this item will be destroyed.]
Along with the notification, the compass needle shone silver, spun round and round, and soon pointed in one direction.
I smiled as I watched it.
Finally, the time to escape this tedious wasteland was approaching.
“Dice.”
[You called, Apostle.]
“From now on, go in the direction I indicate.”
[I shall obey the Apostle’s command.]
I ordered Dice to go where the compass pointed, and soon the Bone Wyvern’s head turned 180 degrees.
Now, it was time to meet the Lycanthropes.
* * *
Compass of Fate.
We had to fly quite a while in the direction its needle pointed.
Except for one time in between when Dice’s mana ran out completely and we landed to rest for several dozen hours, we had been staying airborne the entire time!
Broken World seemed to have no distinction between day and night; after listening for quite some time to the surround sound of thunder striking from the perpetually clouded sky, Yujin and I finally reached an area presumed to be the settlement of the Lycanthrope clan.
Crossing the wasteland, past an unidentified mountain range soaring so high that even birds would need to rest, higher than the Sky Floor Mountain Range said to be the tallest in Arde World, we finally discovered a dense forest of trees dyed purple.
For reference, the viewers’ numbers weren’t decreasing despite this being a non-stop broadcast that had been going on for over ten hours in real time.
[Wow, otherworld-tier;;]
[The trees are all purple~]
[Winter forests are all white, but I’ve never seen a purple one before.]
After going deep into the forest like that, I finally discovered the compass needle tilting downward.
“It seems they’re somewhere around here.”
I commanded the Bone Wyvern toward where the needle pointed, and the moment Dice steered the Bone Wyvern downward.
[Apostle.]
“What is it?”
[It is a magic barrier.]
As the Bone Wyvern halted in place, the stiff tone unique to the undead reached my ears.
My brow furrowed at his words.
[Tch, a barrier, huh]
[Ugh lol blocked by a barrier hahaha]
[How will you break through the barrier?]
[Neither Drakan nor Yujin are mages, ah they’re screwed, right? lol]
[Wouldn’t the Lich break it?]
The chat was already betting on who would break the barrier, and I glanced at the chat before asking Dice,
“Any way to break it?”
[First, I must take time to analyze its structure.]
The moment Dice answered me like that.
Fwoosh!
The Vampire King Nosferatu, who had been flying beside us in the form of a vampire bat, returned to his original form along with blood-red mana.
“My Lord. Leave that incompetent undead be. Is not your faithful servant, the Vampire King Nosferatu, right here? If you command it, I can break those wolves’ crude barrier this very instant.”
Nosferatu spoke while floating in the air, bowing elegantly to me.
At that very moment.
[Incompetent undead? A vampire who parasitizes the living like a mosquito, thirsting for blood, speaks too much.]
“I have nothing to say to a vulgar bag of bones.”
Dice said to Nosferatu as if riled up, and Nosferatu shook his head as he replied.
A sudden loyalty competition had begun!
[No way; he makes me burst out again hahaha]
[Look at him calling him a vulgar bag of bones;]
[This is why I can’t leave this stream, seriously, you never know when it’ll blow up hahaha]
[What what? What happened? Seems like another banger dropped while I was in the bathroom;;]
The viewers burst into laughter at the sight, and I sighed, waving my hand as I spoke.
“Enough. Stop fighting pointlessly. If there’s a means to break the barrier right now, it’s right to use it. Go, Nosferatu.”
I didn’t care which path we took as long as we got to our destination, but having flown all day atop the Bone Wyvern, I wanted to sit down and rest as soon as possible anyway.
Because seeing the same scenery endlessly was mentally exhausting.
“I shall obey my Lord’s command.”
Having received my command, the Vampire King Nosferatu politely bowed to me, then immediately summoned and grasped a blood-red sword.
What? Is he trying to wield magic with a sword?
I had heard that vampire blood mages fought in melee while using magic simultaneously, so I assumed he could use magic through his sword as well, the moment I jumped to that conclusion—
Vrrm!
Nosferatu’s blood-red sword began to vibrate ominously.
Along with it, blood-red mana was condensing on his blade.
At that moment while I was watching.
Blood Moon Slash!
Nosferatu shouted the skill name vigorously and swung the sword in his hand.
With it, a crescent-shaped aura resembling a moon truly drenched in blood flew swiftly and collided with the empty air.
KABOOM!
Along with the explosive sound, the seemingly empty air split open, and through the gap, a village with many quaint wooden buildings could be seen.
“How is it? Did I not say I could break it immediately?”
Nosferatu’s proud tone reached my ears, but I could not think of him proudly.
Because.
“Intruders! Intruders have appeared!”
“Prepare your weapons! Let us return death to the enemies who dared invade our home!”
Thanks to him not ‘breaking’ the barrier but ‘destroying’ it, the Lycanthrope clan was gathering with weapons in hand, bristling with killing intent.
[Ugh break hahaha what kind of break is this hahaha]
[No, this isn’t breaking, it’s destroying?]
[Are they crazy, really;;]
[Today is truly legendary in so many ways…….]
[Well, all roads lead to Seoul; ah, but isn’t this a bit much?]
The chat was in an uproar, and I let out a sigh and ordered Dice to land.
After all, I was the Contractor of the Demon God, I had skills to prove it, and dark races including the Lycanthropes were compelled to show courtesy to the Demon God’s Contractor, so it wasn’t much of a loss.
Besides, it had been resolved quickly anyway.
[Woooooo!]
The Bone Wyvern let out a mournful cry, flew through the gap torn by the Blood Moon Slash, and landed among the fully armed Lycanthropes.
“Human?”
“A real human?”
“A human in this world?”
“And there’s an undead and a vampire too?”
The Lycanthropes, who had been brimming with killing intent until just moments ago, realized that the intruders(?) consisted of a combination unseen in this world—two humans, two undead, and one vampire—and maintained their guard, murmuring amongst themselves while keeping us surrounded.
I looked at them and quietly raised my left hand to use a skill.
“Mark of the Demon God.”
A black demonic emblem revealed itself on the back of my left hand.
It was the mark proving that I was the Demon God’s Contractor.
The pupils of the Lycanthropes who saw the Mark of the Demon God on the back of my hand trembled as if an earthquake had struck.
“Truly…… are you the Contractor of the Demon God?”
A Lycanthrope resembling an old man who seemed to be the village representative asked me in a trembling voice, and I nodded and answered.
“Yes.”
“I, Wolf King Robo, greet the Contractor of the Demon God!”
Before I even finished speaking, the old man shouted vigorously and knelt before me.
I looked at the old man before my eyes—no, Wolf King Robo—and smiled.
At that very moment.
[You have completed the quest ‘The Vanished Lycanthrope Clan’.]
The quest completion notification—pleasant to hear anytime—rang out sweetly in my ears.