Chapter 118

Stomp-

I stopped in the corridor of the Imperial Palace, reading the status window that suddenly popped up.

[Quest Complete: Devil’s Mirror]

◆ Store Currency + 10

◆ Talent Acquisition: Origin ─ Mirror

“…”

Devil’s Mirror, quest completed. Acquired store currency and talents. I didn’t understand, so I turned back time in my head for a moment. While studying mirror and glass magic in the library, I got a call from Sophien and went to the Imperial Palace, played chess and…

No matter how much I thought about it, there wasn’t much that happened. On the other hand, the rewards were enormous. The three talents, perhaps as important as traits, were attributes, origins, and items. Among them, I learned an origin.

“The origin.”

Deculein’s magical talents were in elemental attributes, specifically earth and fire. Of course, earth and fire were elements that broadly contained the concept of mirrors, but this origin held different implications. Simply put, I had the combined talents of the origin – mirror, and attribute – earth-fire.

“But.”

I still didn’t know why the quest was suddenly resolved or how I had learned the origin of the mirror.

─Come out!

Then the hallway suddenly grew noisy. No, the whole Imperial Palace was a mess. The knights of the Imperial Palace appeared from nowhere, sprinting through the hall, and the servants moved quickly.

─Come on! Everyone come here…

I followed them slowly. The further I walked, the more people I passed by. Countless servants and knights were clinging to the windows on the first floor, watching the sports ground.

“…Oh, Yukline Lord! Look at this beautiful scene!”

Someone grabbed me. The very next moment, I immediately understood.

“It’s been almost 15 years, but Her Majesty is exercising this morning…”

Emperor Sophien was practicing the sword with Keiron. I, like everyone else, looked at her a bit blankly.

“…Has the world changed?”

Someone mumbled those words, but the sentence seeped into my ears and replayed again. Like a stone thrown into a pond, it created small ripples. And those ripples led to some thoughts.

Sophien’s impulsive behavior and desire for morning exercise. If the fact of the quest completion were added to this eccentricity that served as a harbinger of the world’s destruction…

“…”

I backed away without a word. Leaving the servants and knights behind, I continued down the hallway, turning back the way I came until I arrived in a space with few people to be seen. I now stood before the passage leading to the basement of the Imperial Palace. I approached the wooden door slowly and grabbed the doorknob.