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Chapter 53. The Collector (2)
3.
“boss.”
Before El Palm met with Collector Vivre, Divo said that he had heard El Palm’s plan.
“No matter how much I think about it, this isn’t it.”
Debo tried to dissuade El Palm.
“Mano is our colleague!”
Qyuu!
The only thing is that you can’t sell out your colleagues.
It wasn’t just Divo that was like that.
“That’s right. He is our colleague.”
“Of course, how many times has our life been saved because of him?”
“That’s right. Mano is the best comrade in our party, next to the boss. I can’t sell him.”
Everyone thought of Mano as a colleague.
It wasn’t strange.
As they say, Mano’s performance so far has been nothing less than that of a colleague.
Above all, Mano was not an item.
Qyuu!
It was a living being that willingly revealed its emotions to the reactions of those around it.
El Palm knew too.
“There was no deal in the first place.
“yes?”
He had no intention of selling Mano either.
“I’ll make a bet.”
“Hey, you bet?”
El Palm was thinking of making a bet against Collector Vivre.
“She wants a snail pet more than anyone else.”
Of course, it wasn’t just a vague thought.
“If you offer a bet to her like that, she’ll accept it no matter what.”
El Palm knew Collector Vivre’s personality and her current situation better than anyone else, and so he thought she would be willing to accept his bet.
El Palm’s colleagues nodded in agreement with his opinion.
“So what’s the bet?”
“I’ll give her what she wants.”
“yes?”
But everyone could not help but look dumbfounded at El Palm’s subsequent words.
“No, then wouldn’t the collector ask for something ridiculous?”
Because, to anyone who saw it, the bet was overwhelmingly unfavorable to El Palm.
About him, El Palm said:
“If it’s not that much, the collector won’t take the bet.”
At that point, El Palm’s colleagues had nothing more to say.
‘No matter how much I think about it, this seems ridiculous.’
I just felt uneasy.
And that anxiety became reality the moment El Palm finished talking to Collector Vivre.
“Oh, where?”
“Chrisseda.”
4.
“Mr. Vivre.”
“say.”
“Isn’t it dangerous to bet with El Palm?”
Collector Vivre smiled bitterly at his subordinate’s question.
“what?”
“That… … Aren’t there only three Zakum helmets in Vivre’s possession?”
El Palm asked for four, but Vivre only had three.
In other words, Vivre was betting on something he didn’t have in the first place.
That was quite a risky thing to do.
Aren’t you a collector, no one else? The one who is more trustworthy than anyone else!
But if she fails to pay the price she promised, that trust will crumble overnight.
Vivre knew too.
“so?”
But she didn’t care.
“It’s a game we’re going to win anyway, so what’s the problem?”
Because it was a bet.
“Chris, Chris.”
The subordinates were also unable to say anything more to the words of Collector Vivre.
It was just as she said.
“The temple of heaven, Chrysera.”
Chris.
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A temple floating in the sky, only a very few adventurers have ever discovered it.
Furthermore, only a very small number of adventurers managed to get there.
That’s why the adventure of Chris is legendary.
“No discoverer has appeared for a hundred years.”
Even most of the discovery records were from over a hundred years ago.
So it was a legend.
Because just floating in the sky wouldn’t make you a legend in Maple World, which is full of all kinds of extraordinary things.
“The funny thing is, it definitely exists.”
Of course, that doesn’t mean there were no crises.
“Because the relics that fall occasionally clearly tell of Chryse’s existence.”
As it floated in the sky, the relics in that crease would often fall to the ground.
That’s why.
“I can’t deny that it doesn’t exist.”
This bet is bound to succeed.
Even if you were a collector, you couldn’t ask for something that really didn’t exist.
Of course, Collector Vivre knew.
No matter what, since it’s a bet, if you make a mistake, it could become a problem.
So, normally, she wouldn’t have made the bet at all.
Besides, isn’t the opponent El Palm?
At this point, Collector Vivre is a troublesome adventurer in many ways, someone who would rather die.
If you bet against someone like that, even if it ends well, it’s bound to come up later.
“I got a snail pet.”
Still, the reason I accepted the bet was because the snail pet was that precious.
“Is that all?”
The subordinates tilted their heads at that fact.
It’s certainly great, but who is Collector Vivre?
Next to the Phantom Thief, she was a woman with a variety of items.
She was a woman who collected countless rare and special things from Maple World.
But why is she so obsessed with it?
“The snail pet knows the value of the item and moves to find that item.”
Even after the explanation that followed, the subordinates tilted their heads.
It was certainly great, but was it worth it to make a collector vivre smile?
Collector Vivre did not explain any further to the expressions on his subordinates’ faces.
‘And you can awaken special abilities.’
That there is something more special than that.
There was no need to increase the number of people who knew that precious information that only a very small number of people knew.
Anyway, it was worth coveting, so she accepted the bet.
“The die has been cast anyway. Well, I’m going to win.”
Of course there were risks, but she downplayed the existence of those risks.
Crucially, she knew.
“It’s not about conquering Mystic Gate, it’s about finding a place that no one has been able to find for a hundred years.”
El Palm is currently showing the best ability among adventurers when it comes to conquering Mystic Gate.
That’s why I mentioned Chris.
Finding it was a completely different kind of adventure than conquering Mystic Gate.
So she was sure.
“El Palm must be panicking by now.”
5.
“Boss, is what I just heard correct? Is it Chris?”
Everyone, including Divo, looked dumbfounded at Chryse’s words.
“Did I mishear that? Is that the temple floating in the sky?”
It had to be that way.
Because there was no adventurer who didn’t know about Chryse.
That made it even more problematic.
“It’s a place that no one has discovered for a hundred years? You want me to bring you an item from there now?”
The fact that no one has found it for a hundred years despite so many adventurers knowing about it means that it is impossible to find.
A situation that was unexpected in many ways.
“It’s unexpected.”
Even from El Palm’s perspective, Collector Vivre’s proposal was beyond the scope of the expectation.
“Unexpected?”
“I thought that the items she requested could easily be obtained by asking the Phantom Thief.”
That’s understandable, because the biggest reason El Palm proposed this bet in the first place was because of the thief Phantom.
No matter how great a collector’s collection is, it can’t compare to that of the Phantom Thief.
No, it’s not that they’re bad, but a lot of the collectibles that collectors want are from the collection of the Phantom Thief.
Of course, the Phantom Thief wouldn’t give anything away for free.
At least I won’t make any reckless demands.
But who would have thought that Chris would come out?
Anyway, the die has already been cast.
“Boss, what are you going to do? If we continue like this, we will have no choice but to have Mano taken away.”
Kyoo… … .
Now is the time to win the bet somehow.
“That’s no problem.”
“yes?”
“I just said it was unexpected. There is no problem.”
But El Palm had no worries.
“Because I know where Chris is.”
“yes?”
El Palm, because he knew where Chris was.
“You know that?”
Everyone was shocked by that fact.
As I said before, it was a place that no one had discovered for a hundred years, and that was Chryse.
The same was true for El Palm.
‘It’s not a place I discovered, though.’
He had never been to Cresse before.
I just heard it.
‘It was the last place the Resistance discovered.’
The resistance active in Edelstein, the fact that the last hideout they fled to to avoid the overflowing monsters and followers of the Black Mage was none other than the Heavenly Crise.
Of course, that final hideout didn’t last long.
‘Wing Master Orca, she broke it.’
Orca, one of the commanders of the Black Wizard Legion and the current owner of Black Wing, which controls Edelstein.
She appeared there herself and killed every single surviving member of the resistance, without leaving a single one behind.
Furthermore, he dropped the celestial chryse.
That was it.
That was all El Palm knew about Chrisse.
I didn’t know anything more than that.
‘But we had no contact.’
The only force that El Palm had any contact with was the Cross Hunters, and he had only had a handful of encounters with the Knights of Signus or the Resistance, let alone properly greeting their officials.
There was nothing strange.
At that time, Maple World was isolated due to the overflowing monsters.
It was a situation where survival was the top priority.
Communicating in that situation? That’s impossible.
That’s why.
El Palm did not show his confidence too rashly here.
“It’s not certain.”
It was just something I had heard, and I couldn’t bet everything on that fact.
El Palm’s colleagues nodded their heads at those words.
‘It seems like the boss only has general information.’
Common sense would suggest that it would be strange to easily find a celestial crises that no one has discovered for over a hundred years.
‘Where is there even a clue?’
This appearance of El Palm was rather common sense.
That’s why everyone made up their minds.
‘It won’t be easy.’
Be prepared for the celestial adventure that is about to begin, which may be more difficult than any adventure you have ever faced.
‘There is no giving up.’
But no matter how difficult or hard it is, I am determined never to turn my head away.
El Palm said to his young colleagues that he had such determination.
“First, let’s head to Orbis.”
6.
Orbis, the city above the clouds.
This place, where all the airships coming and going from Maple World gather, was quieter than expected.
There were only two ways to get there: by airship or by crossing the El Nath Mountains and climbing the Tower of Orbis.
Either way, it wasn’t easy.
Another reason was that Orbis was not a very attractive stage for adventurers.
In the past, the vast cloud world starting from Orbis, also known as the Cloud Park, was filled with adventurers.
But now, the Cloud Park has become such a discovered adventure that there is nothing new about it anymore.
There was nothing to fuel the adventurous spirit of the adventurers.
But now Orbis was more crowded with adventurers than ever.
The reason was simple.
“What happened to El Palm? Did he get caught?”
“The bounty is still valid?”
“It’s not a lie?”
“Whatever it is, it is clear that Aran’s item is now in the Elnas Mountains.”
El Palm, a formidable prey, has appeared.
“Find El Palm. By any means necessary!”
Naturally, Orbis was filled with people who were looking for El Palm with their eyes wide open.
Of course they didn’t know.
“It’s brutal.”
That the El Palm party they were looking for had arrived in Orbis, of all places.
“If it weren’t for this, I think I would have died a hundred times.”
It was thanks to the plastic surgery potion.
But at this moment, not a single person was happy that no one knew them.
“Don’t relax.”
“Kiri, I know even without you saying anything. I know how far we are from where we’re looking right now.”
It is impossible to relax when going to find the celestial Chryse, a place that no one has discovered for a hundred years.
Rather, everyone was prepared.
‘It’s more dangerous than ever. You might even die.’
Death.
It wasn’t a vague determination.
‘The Celestial Chryse exists in the sky. To find it, you must take an airship.’
One of the biggest reasons why the Celestial Crise was never discovered was because you had to fly to find it.
And to fly in the sky, you need an airship, and an airship is a very expensive thing.
At the same time, it was a dangerous thing.
Because the sky above was full of all kinds of dangerous elements.
“Yes, when a ship breaks, it falls into the sea, but in the sky, it’s just the end.”
Moreover, there was no hope for any chance in heaven.
“I wonder how long it will take.”
Time was the same.
“The airship is fast, but that’s only when it’s moving along the route. It’s a different story when you go exploring. The skies of Maple World are vaster than any continent.”
It means there is no promise.
“Boss, how long do you think it will take?”
In response to that question, El Palm raised one finger, and everyone nodded.
“About a month.”
El Palm shook his head in response.
“Surely not a week?”
El Palm shook his head again to everyone who was surprised by that fact, and there were no more questions at that point.
“Huh, one day?”
‘That can’t be possible!’
Because it was unimaginable that I could reach the heavenly Chris in just one day.
To such colleagues El Palm said:
“It’ll take about an hour. Maybe even faster.”
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