Wreath of Lilies, Cauldron of Poison

Chapter 72

Kim Sooyoung and her Mission System

Mission System.

That was the cheat that was granted to her by the Goddess of Al-Khemiya, Udurr.

By fulfilling missions within a given parameter and degree of success, she would obtain points which she could then use to exchange for items written on a list. The items available ranges from common items such as Potions to rare ones like Elixirs. The types of items that she could exchange for amounted in the millions. There were even items that do not exist in Grea.

It was not limited to healing items either. Weapons such as cannons and guns from her old world could also be obtained, though she had not yet managed to find out how to unlock them.

However, she could not control the missions that appeared. Most were simple, but sometimes hard missions with vague explanations would appear which would give her insane amount of points. These missions were compulsory and could have really bad penalties.

She called the times when she was forced to do these missions to be her ‘Compulsions’.

The moment she returned to her room, Kim threw herself onto the bed and burrowed into the thick blanket.

“Cornelia Asterium Steelheart,” she murmured to herself. She remembered hearing that name before. But when? The question was nagging at her mind.

She rolled over in her blanket after a few minutes in frustration after finding that she was unable to remember that name.

“Might as well just sleep it off.”

She hugged her blanket and rolled again sideways where she knocked over her diary which had been lying on the side of the bed. She had been keeping the diary with her ever since she was transferred over to Grea.

“Uuurgh,” she moaned as she struggled to reach for the diary, being too lazy to get out of the bed. When she did manage to reach it, an idea came to mind.

Quickly she flipped over to the first pages, passing over the darker ones in the middle. She read it through once to set her mind in the moment of her arrival, and then back a few weeks.

Yes. I’m sure I’ve seen that name before.

She backtracked a bit before the summoning, slowly moving back until she finally had it.

B-but that’s - ! That’s impossible!! No, my situation is already impossible. I cannot follow common sense now! Cornelia…Asterium Steelheart! That’s the name of one of ‘Blade Reverie’s side heroine! But how she acted and how she talked isn’t like how I remembered her!

Kim Sooyoung clasped her hands together and shut her eyes tight, trying her best to remember the game now that she had it. She played about halfway through ‘Blade Reverie’ before changing to the more female oriented game, ‘Desert Flame’.

That was before the Hero Summoning.

The first time she arrived in Grea, she was surprised to see that the people she met were all characters from ‘Desert Flame’. Though the setting was different, everything else was the same. The flow of events that transpired were also eerily similar; making her feel depressed and out of touch with the world around her.

It was even worse than in her old world. After all, if the world was a game, then was she also a character in a game someone else was playing? If she was a character in a game, if she closed her eyes, would she cease existing? The terror of it made her unable to sleep and she got even more depressed.

Thankfully unlike in her old life, the people she met in Al-Khemiya; Prince Abbas and his family, Hirun the maid, Kasheem and the Palace Guards, were kind and understanding. They slowly helped her out of her cocoon of self-doubt and gave her a new meaning in life. And now, she thought of them more dearly than her own family.

After she met Connie, she was reminded of this. The difference was that this time she did not go into depression, instead she became introspective.

What are the odds of a world containing two games side by side? Then again, she was not as I remembered.

In her head she pictured a clumsy and awkward noble girl bearing a sword larger than herself, wearing a blue miniskirt and showy armor that looked oddly fitting to her personality.

If I remember right, she’s supposed to be a stereotypical noble girl with a high sense of honor! The Second Heroine who was placed next to the Main one. She’s not supposed to be some handsome female character dripping with domineering arrogance! And that slave! I’ve never seen him in the game. All the little boy lovers would have drooled all over him if he existed!

“Calm down, Kim, you little blockhead!” she buried her face under a pillow and scolded herself. “She helped you calm the attacks! That means she’s a good person. And this is not a game. This is not a game!”

Then something dawned on her.

“Wait. If she exists, then…” Kim stopped burying her face into the pillonw and looked outside with worry. “Then…those other girls might exist too. Including…that person.”

Another kind of worry was painted on her face.

The day before the Coming of Age Ceremony passed uneventfully for Connie’s party.

Save for the night before when Illumca, in her half-asleep quest for water, hit her perfect little toe on the foot of the cupboard Connie used to bar the door in their room. As she put it, “I trust the innkeeper with as much trust as I put a Righteous Faction Cultivator not to boast about being a Righteous Faction Cultivator or a mouse not to eat cheese.”

Clearly, her bias was not a light one.

Other than that, Connie spent most of her time reading through the books Illumca procured from the Steelheart’s library until well into the night. Illumca and Martell had to amuse themselves by going around the city while she did that, making the disgruntled Illumca even more disgruntled.

All in all, a lazy day for the three.

However, things were different for the many parties whose interests were connected to the event tomorrow.

For them, tomorrow would be the day that their names would be forever carved into history.

Whether it be from idolatry.

Or infamy.