Episode 189 NPCs in the Safe Zone
For a moment, goosebumps ran down my spine.
A sight where the entire hill is no different from a cemetery.
In the dozen or so years since the tower was built, how many people have passed through here?
Among them, who were caught without being able to avoid Heida’s eyes?
I didn’t have to imagine what their ending would have been like.
They all died.
It’s not difficult for an NPC to kill a single climber.
Of course, it’s difficult to just attack climbers just because they’re NPCs…
Because if you attack without a legitimate reason, you can apply system restrictions through protests.
Didn’t we already see on floor 45 how strong the system constraints are?
Mobilidick and Chihirin. The restrictions are so strong that they even turn them into idiots after they pass the 80th floor.
What that means is… … .
‘Heida has systematically set up attacks on climbers.’
Just as Alios could attack anyone who crossed his territory.
Heida’s domain is the entire field.
Heida’s role was clear, as she even had the option to run away from her.
Dealing with climbers.
-Gulp
I swallowed.
What could he have done with such an innocent face?
Is this what it means to be mentally unstable?
“You are the friend of the fairies, the friend of Odelto. A friend of a friend is a friend, my friend. Hehehe.”
If I didn’t have the title of Fairy Friend, I would have attacked them indiscriminately.
One thing you can check here.
‘Heida is obsessed with her friends.’
Collectiveness? Or obsession?
I don’t know what it is, but it’s dangerous.
The only good thing is that they didn’t kill Deokchun while they were kidnapping me.
“Isn’t the frog your friend? He’s my friend too.”
I don’t know what kind of mindset it was, but I don’t think I attacked Deokchun because he was my pet.
That’s a good thing.
If that were the case.
‘I guess I’ve been here for quite some time.’
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
I don’t know about anything else, but if you harm my person, even if it’s a frog here, I’m sure I’ll get revenge.
“What did I do wrong? Get angry… … .”
My expression turned grim for a moment, and Heida hesitated and grabbed my arm.
“I’m not angry. I just thought about it for a moment. There was something else Odelto asked me to give you.”
“Is that so?”
“then.”
There’s nothing more ridiculous than getting angry over something that didn’t even happen.
It was a good idea to keep the burdock in your inventory.
I have one, but it’s not officially classified as a pet…
“Can you please untie this first? I can’t go outside like this.”
Let’s focus on the quest.
The fact that a hidden quest was triggered meant that there was a letter left by Odelto somewhere here.
There’s nothing we can do while we’re stuck here.
“Umm, that won’t work.”
Heida, who had been touching her lips, shook her head.
“My friends disappear. Denium said that if you don’t be good, the demons will take your friends. That’s a lie. If you’re not by my side, you disappear.”
What the heck is this?
“Who is Denium?”
“The person who brought me.”
Did you bring it?
Where? Does it mean the fairy world, or somewhere else?
“Is that guy here?”
“Come visit me sometimes.”
I asked a few more questions after that, but there was no answer.
You were either talking nonsense or deliberately ignoring me.
My head hurts. There’s another person involved that I don’t know.
Denium? There isn’t one among the NPCs I know of.
That means they’re hidden NPCs or they only appear when a specific event occurs.
Since the NPC is not free to move, it would be correct to assume that he is somewhere on the 48th floor.
Let’s think about it.
First of all, I understand why Heida tied me up.
Because my friends kept disappearing while I was away.
Since you recognize me as your friend, you won’t let me off easy.
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Then we have no choice but to change our methods.
He held out his hand in front of Heida.
“Let’s do this. You have to go out anyway, I’m sure you’ll find something… … .”
“That’s right! I have to find Odelto. We’re supposed to meet here.”
“If you leave, I’ll be alone? In that case, wouldn’t it be better to move together?”
“Ugh.”
A guy in trouble.
I shrugged.
“What are you going to do if someone comes here while you’re away? If they’re a villain or something, I won’t be able to run away.”
“That won’t do!”
Heida opens her hands, screaming.
With that, an invisible energy struck the chain.
-Clang!
[The chains used to bind the disaster are destroyed.]
The chains binding his feet and arms broke.
This is breaking.
No matter what I do, it won’t stop.
My wrist was a little sore, but I had no trouble moving it.
“Let go of Deokchun too. If you’re going to move, you should move with me. And give me my helmet too.”
“Ah! A pitch.”
When I came to my senses, the helmet I was wearing was nowhere to be seen.
Maybe he left it out.
“Why did you take off your helmet?”
Heyda must have heard my muttering as she stared at my face.
Bashishi laughed.
“Hehehe! You’re ugly!”
The guy who left those words and quickly went into the building.
What the heck? I’m suddenly getting angry.
Wouldn’t I be able to comply?
It was only for a moment that I was struck by an unexpected blow.
-Crack!
There was a sound of something breaking, and then it showed up again.
In one hand he holds Deokchun, in the other he holds a helmet.
“Eeeeek!”
A guy who jumps up and down and clings to me because he’s so happy.
I scratched the guy’s chin and put on his helmet.
I’ve packed everything I need to pack.
All that remains is to go outside with this pesky fairy and find the letter Odelto left behind.
I’m confident about that.
Even if the field is wide, it is still a field, and I have the power to see hidden information.
SS-class power, the eyes that gaze upon the stars!
I believe this time too!
* * *
3 days.
It’s been a few days since I’ve been out on the field with Heida.
There was no result.
The field size is also large.
“Is this really true?”
“On the track.”
The extent of the field destruction is too severe.
If you think about it, wasn’t Heida looking for traces of Odelto long before me?
Heyda is an NPC, even though she’s missing a few screws.
If it were something I could just find by walking around, I would have found it a long time ago.
“Wow! Wow! It’s a necklace!”
Heida, who was rummaging through the rubble of the building, takes out a necklace that has melted and starts running around.
And then, he hung it around his own neck.
I felt this while we were together, but Heida likes accessories.
I think I like anything small and cute, even if it’s not necessarily an accessory.
I see you even cherishing a half-broken teddy bear like it’s a treasure.
“Do you like that kind of thing?”
“huh!”
If it’s good, I have nothing to say.
The abandoned house where Heida lived was also filled with the things he had collected over the years.
At first I thought it was trash and tried to throw it away, but I gave up after seeing it crying and making a fuss.
What’s even stranger is…
“You didn’t receive the gift I gave you.”
The thing is, I never received the item I bought at the store.
I don’t like new things, is this it?
“The friend who gave me the gift disappeared, no.”
This is true.
I scratched the back of my head.
The helmet is temporarily placed in inventory.
Since no one is watching, it’s okay to take it off for a while.
The moderately blowing wind is cool.
“You received the gift Odelto gave you.”
“Odelto is fine. I gave him a lot, but he never disappeared. Where did he go?”
I had nothing to say because I knew the truth.
Perhaps I have changed the subject while continuing my pointless digging.
During that time, I asked Heida many questions.
Most of the questions were passed over because they were not remembered, but there were a few that were answered correctly.
One of them is about friends who disappeared.
“The gardener is nice. He gave me a lot of sticks and leaves.”
I think that was just a side note.
“The lady who cooked for me said her daughter was sick. Her hands are rough. I gave her a snack. She wants to eat apple pie.”
To the gardener, the lady who cooks food.
At least Heida didn’t live a life of neglect.
“Mayrin! Come play with me. You gave me a book? But I can’t read.”
It is said that all the people Heida mentioned disappeared at some point.
The empty spaces were filled with new people and it was mostly desolate.
There was no conversation outside of work, and some people who were fond of Heida kept their distance due to their colleagues’ dissuasion.
Still, one or two people became close to Heida.
“It’s gone now, I can’t see it.”
He said that it disappeared without fail.
Here a question arises for me.
“Denium isn’t gone?”
“Yeah! Denium is still here. Sometimes he goes on trips with me. There are a lot of people! Odelto won’t disappear either.”
Denium.
Until now, there was only one NPC who came by often.
weird.
Perhaps he is the person who knows the most about the story related to Heida.
Is it because our friendliness increased as we talked?
“Denium saved me. I disappeared from where I was. I met him when I came over to the human world.”
He also talked about denium, something he usually avoided.
It is said that Denium was a nobleman.
Count of the Sainton Peace Empire.
I think he later rose to the position of duke.
I understand why there were people who took care of Heida.
More importantly, the place where Heida used to be has disappeared.
‘That place must have been destroyed too.’
Perhaps Heida came from a destroyed world to another world.
Haven’t you seen it several times already?
There were demons who tried to come to the human world through Demi-Demon, and there were also those who tried to go to the Demon World by making a contract with a demon.
Alios is a little different, but didn’t he bring Penny, who didn’t climb the tower, to the tower by turning her into an item?
“The fairy world and the human world are connected. There are restrictions, but it’s not difficult to cross over.”
From what I’ve heard, this one seems to have a relatively low level of difficulty.
Less noise.
I put down the rock I had lifted.
Spending any more time on the field is a waste of time.
There is no response to power, and the luck stat that used to activate whenever he was bored is also silent.
What does that mean?
It is difficult to achieve results in general fields.
There was a place that had been bothering me for a while.
‘Safe zone.’
The only place that Heida cannot enter.
There is no other answer.
I looked towards where the safe zone was. It was still emitting light.
“Hey, let’s go over there.”
“I can’t go inside.”
“I can do it.”
“No! You promised to stay right next to me. No, you’re not going to leave me behind!”
A guy who hangs on your arm and runs wild.
Every time that happens, my body sways back and forth.
Wow, that’s strong.
“Okay! Here, Deokchun. I’m not going anywhere without Deokchun.”
“Oh yeah.”
Deokchun was placed on Heida’s head.
Deokchun, who had been puffing out his cheeks in displeasure, waves his hand.
A gesture telling me to go quickly.
“And I’m stronger than you think.”
“really?”
Don’t look at me with suspicious eyes.
Because you are too strong.
Among those who climb the stairs, I am the top.
“Okay. I’ll leave the helmet here too, okay? It’s my treasure number two.”
Number 1 is Deokchun.
He still had a pouty face, but he seemed to accept it to some extent because he had seen how much I cherished the Deokchun and Pelline sets.
“It might be inside. You can’t, but I can look inside.”
I couldn’t help but nod my head at the statement that there was a high possibility that there would be traces of Odelto.
“You have to come out quickly!”
“Then, then.”
So escape from Heida’s hands.
I went straight into the safe zone.
[You have entered the safe zone.]
A safe zone appears with a notification.
I thought it would feel similar to a field because it was hidden by a pillar of light when I was outside.
“Is everything okay here?”
Contrary to expectations, what I saw were perfectly normal buildings and grassy fields.
Even the air is refreshing.
Outside, it was dry and a dusty wind blew… … .
That’s surprising too.
“A new climber. Haha. Alright. Welcome.”
What was most surprising was that there was an NPC in the safe zone.
That’s someone I know too.
[Denium- NPC]
-The Duke of Sainton Peace, the Fallen Empire
-The greatest contributor to the unification of the continent.
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-The one who brought destruction
