Hyper Luck

“That member was incredible!”

“How stupid of her!”

“Why does she want to waste money instead of spending it?”

“A parvenu’s eccentricity, that’s all. Isn’t that right?”

“Now~ Everyone! Over 400 Ormachon tokens are on the line in this one match! This is the jackpot in the Path of Olives killing game history! Shall we watch the outcome of this fight?!”

“Hopefully he doesn’t die so quickly like that one we just had.”

“He really died like a fish getting chopped up. Kekek.”

“Well, isn’t the outcome super obvious? This will be the 32nd body dismantle show for the evil spirit. Hoho.”

Khea firmly watched Mose walk toward the ruins from the distance as she stayed low among the madness of the crowd.

* * *

It got noticeably colder as I approached the Path of Olives, to the point I could see my breath.

My two legs trembled involuntarily at feeling something that transcended the eeriness of confronting a supernatural being called the evil spirit.

However, it was the first time I ever felt something like that, and I was very confident.

Because I knew, at least there won’t be an outcome in which I’d lose.

After a while, a green light began to burst out in the distance.

The spirit looked even bigger up close. And unlike before, it had a red glow in its eyes.

It seems that it has gotten even stronger after killing the previous player. I took a look at the evil spirit.

<Lv. 147 Evil Spirit of Zherma>

It had quite a high level. And as I expected, it was just like what the quest said which I acquired from the Lavogher’s diary.

The evil spirit wielded the Zherma, one of the engraved swords.

The godly sword technique that killed the player just before was the ability of the engraved sword.

The evil spirit approached me at a very high speed flashing its eyes.

Sheik!

He took the sword that appeared with smoke from his hand and swung it wide.

I managed to parry the first blow that was flying at me with my Attoria’s Stigma.

The blow was indeed heavy, but I could endure it many times.

My stats were very high despite the fact that I wasn’t wearing my armor set.

And thanks to the effect of the earring I equipped on one ear, it was just like I was wearing the armor!

“Hmph!”

I took a deep breath and parried the evil spirit’s blow once more and shoved my Stigma into its ribs.

But the evil spirit disappeared with a cloud of green smoke, and in an instant, it appeared behind me.

And as if it was about to use the skill that was used on the previous player, the evil spirit that vaporized the sword in its hand began to swing its arms to the point it horrified me.

I leaped backward as strongly as I could.

“Go’h!”

The sound I made resounded through the Path of Olives even though I whispered it ever so softly.

Whoosh!

Sharma and Korma rushed forward as soon as it appeared on both my shoulders with a cloud of smoke in an instant.

The power of skill level 2 was enough to make contrails behind the flying swords.

And in the middle of these two blades’ flight, the evil spirit’s blade appeared in the front of them.

Cl-Clink! Clank!

In line with the hand gestures swayed by the black evil spirit, I continued my strikes with my blade in accord and the blades started to spit sparks in the air as they continued their fierce assaults.

* * *

“Oh! He blocked the evil spirit’s finishing blow!”

“What the! He’s pretty good!”

“He’s playing some sort of magic, it seems?”

“No matter, the evil spirit will still prevail.”

“He’s trying so hard, I can’t wait to see how he dies! I just can’t!”

Khea was deep in her thoughts in the middle of the crowd wetted in madness.

The opponent is an evil spirit.

With the physical weapons that Mose currently possessed, it was hard to land direct damage on the spirit. In other words, the battle won’t easily end.

Mose couldn’t let his full power out right now.

With the powerful flame storm which Mose can wield, it would be a very easy task for him to neutralize the evil spirit. However, Khea, among many others, knew the most that he couldn’t just use that skill whenever he wanted.

It was a mistake caused by overconfidence.

A small mistake combined with her confidence and Mose’s as well. And that little mistake had grown to the point it couldn’t be ignored any longer.

Khea’s heart started beating faster as the spirit’s hand started to get faster.

“Mose...!”

Khea whispered in a low voice, as she tightly closed her eyes after watching Mose barely attack back at the evil spirit.

* * *

I managed to avoid the terrible anomalous attacks of the evil spirit and continued to sprint through the maze-like Path of Olives.

I had to make an opening.

Because I had to touch ‘that’ with my hand.

The opportunity was to come at any moment.

The evil spirit suddenly appeared in front of my nose once again and swung its arms in an eerie motion.

The power of the engraved sword, Zherma, was very strong.

But above all else, it was ‘ambiguous’.

Korma had the ability to shoot out all the engraved swords.

But on the other hand, Zherma simply had an ‘ambiguous’ ability to attack the enemy in the same trajectory in which the wielder moved his hand.

It could be said that Zherma presented an incredible amount of variables to its opponent as a result of its ‘ambiguous’ ability.

After a moment, the red blade swung in front of my nose with great speed and the wind from the blade almost cut through my skin.

Despite the fact that I was physically enhanced by the earring I had!

Besides, I couldn’t distract the spirit with the ‘Go’h’s ability since it was a spirit.

Then the only option I was left with was to take the damage.

I couldn’t do anything but pray that my body was durable enough to withstand the blow from the evil spirit and its Zherma.

The evil spirit appeared in front of my eyes again, its arms swinging and covering my entire body. Soon, the Zherma will be summoned and slash me throughout my entire body.

“Go’h.”

I frowned my eyes as hard as I could. Sharma and Korma stopped in front of my nose not long after they were fired in line with my gaze.

After a moment, the sword appeared with a cloud of smoke in front of me, but it was blocked by my two blades throwing sparks everywhere.

In that instant,

I clenched my teeth and leaped toward the sword.

It slashed and sliced me in my shoulders and chest over and over again in the process, but I still managed to grab and hug the sword.

And at that moment,

A notification window

Appeared in front of my eyes.

< You can use the skill, ‘Lucky Ruin’ >

My speculation turned out to be true.

Yes, I clearly remembered what that keeper of the slot machines said!

‘There’s a social gathering organized by the nobles! It’s called the ‘Silver Cats’! They hire ‘necromancers’ to ‘attach’ strong spirits to the Path of Olives and release them around...!’

I knew that I would be able to use the Lucky Ruin skill on the evil spirit that was ‘bound’ to the Path of Olives which had turned into ruins!

Since I was told that Tikris was the city of gambles,

I too decided to gamble on it.

And the outcome of that gamble was,

Very successful!

“Lucky Ruin!”

I shouted out loud.

A moment later,

The Zherma which I had in my arms started to shake like crazy.

Then the spirit started to turn faint slowly, and tremendous vibration began to reverberate around the Path of Olives.

And at the end of the vibration, the red flash in the evil spirit’s eyes drooped like tears, and a voice echoed in my head.

“Thank you. Master of another engraved sword.”

The evil spirit disappeared with a green flash.

A bright red core accompanied by red lightning was floating in front of me.

“I,”

I grabbed the core with my hand,

“Won.”

And raised it up high.

* * *

“What the hell was that...?”

“What just happened?”

“Wait... The evil spirit lost?”

“Th... That can’t be...”

The crowd was filled with astonishment.

It was only a natural reaction since the player who seemed to be another poor victim of the evil spirit suddenly turned around the situation in an instant.

Khea, who was watching the whole situation, barely held in her shout of joy and replaced it with clenching her two fists.

“Yes!”

“Such an amazing outcome!”

Virens calmly opened his mouth.

“The evil spirit, the champion of the Path of Olives, meets its demise in vain!”

“Ah! I should’ve bet more coins!”

“H-he actually won?”

“Then the member who bet 100 tokens will...”

“Wait! What’s the dividend rate...?”

Virens proudly stretched his hand and pointed at Khea. Of course, he had no idea that he was pointing at Khea, and was thinking that she was just a member.

“Our member here who had bet 100 tokens will receive 231 Ormachon tokens!”

“Wow...”

“My goodness, that’s incredible!”

“That’s amazing!”

Khea stood up from her seat as she was applauded by the crowd, received the bag that had a small hinge attached, and slowly got out of the scene.

* * *

I thought it was only a shallow cut, but the wounds on my chest and shoulders were deeper than I thought.

Every time I was slashed, I took over 1,000 damage per cut. My wounds were still in the process of healing due to that damage.

I left the Path of Olives as the pains were relieved, and headed toward Tikris.

I looked at a silver cat mask walking slowly toward me in the distance as I was waiting at the previously mentioned contact point for Khea.

The silver cat mask threw the bag she had in her hand at me as I stared at her with my eyes blurred since it was very dark. 

A heavy bag was thrown at me in an instant.

“231 tokens, coming right up!”

And with a majestic voice, Khea took off her cat mask and revealed a happy smile on her face.

“What kind of sorcery did you use back there?!”

“More like a gamble, rather than a sorcery.”

“So, how do you feel right now?”

“I feel like I don’t want to take that kind of gamble ever again.”

I shook my head as I answered her question, and she started to laugh out loud.

“In any way, you managed to solve this case in style once again.”

“Well, we’re not exactly done.”

“Of course, right?”

* * *

Virens was shaking with a pale look on his face.

Because an unconscious member was found in the audience seat.

The silver cat mask was the most important sign of membership, but the member was attacked by a certain person here.

Furthermore, the silver cat mask that was taken by that certain person was definitely a useful item and was very easily exploitable.

“Anyhow, was there a family nearby that could bet that much money in the first place?”

“Looked like a parvenu to me. I wonder where she got all that money from?”

“You’d have to be from the ‘Nine Fingers’ or ‘Gold Circlet’ family to bet that many tokens.”

Virens was starting to panic.

As the event he had prepared was progressing so smoothly, he was so affected by the atmosphere that he forgot even the most basic sequence!

Now that he thought about it, that was a very foolish decision to believe the member betting 100 Ormachon tokens. This caused the enormous wealth of the members of the Silver Cats to be leaked outside.

Fundamentally, the funds between the members were circulating through each other, so even if one member took a lot of funds to one side, it would come back to circulate through the events afterward.

However, all of that has gone away.

The ‘Gold Head’ position he had acquired just barely was on the verge of loss at this point. And above all, he would be eaten alive by the members of the Silver Cats since he had advertised himself as the Gold Head.

He had to quickly find a way to survive.

‘Think, Virens, Think! There has to be a way out of this!’

* * *

When we visited the Tikris Information Guild department, the guard led us to a completely different wall.

A woman who was a Lympu with a warm impression greeted us.

“Pleasure to meet you. My name is Lyran, I am a ‘Gold Head’ here.”

Then she suddenly hugged Khea.

“I am already aware of the things you’ve done for the Lympu children. So what is it that you desire?”

“We are looking for a male sorcerer and a female archer who are immortals. If there’s anything special to notice is that they appear and disappear with a blue flash.”

She quietly closed her eyes and fell deep into thinking. Then a moment later, she smiled.

“They were in ‘Lundebarun’ where the ‘White Tower’ is located. Their current location is unknown, but their traces must be left in Lundebarun.”

Finally,

It was the moment we got to find a clue about Sharan’s whereabouts.