Solo Leveling: Ragnarok – 179

by Jessie@AFNCC

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These days queen bee Arsha was under considerable psychological pressure.

Isn’t that inevitable?

Since the main body was already held hostage in the shadow dungeon Suho’s lifeline was mortgaged.

In addition Suho was the priest of Quresha the king of bugs and the lord of plague so he had to show off to him as best as possible.

But the problem was that no matter how much I tried to impress him there wasn’t really much I could do for him.

At best all we can do is hire worker bees to gather information…

I couldn’t help but feel impatient when Lim Do-gyun who I thought was a useless person suddenly started showing tremendous work ability.

’I can’t believe I should feel competitive with a person like that!'

Are there any other shameful situations like this?

It was a very unpleasant situation for Arsha who had been treating Lim Do-gyun’s status as lower than a worker bee until now.

But what can we do?

I had to do something to avoid getting caught by Suho.

At the very least shouldn’t he be more helpful than Lim Do-gyun who is at the bottom of Woojin’s guild?

’This can’t go on. Let’s increase the number of worker bees as much as possible.'

I never felt like I didn’t have enough subordinates but I decided to increase them by more than ten times.

’If you are a worker bee without fighting ability you can increase it as much as you want!'

Arsha has never increased her worker bees in this way before.

To protect the safety of the queen bee quality was more important than quantity.

But now that his body was staying in a safe(?) hideout called the Shadow Dungeon he decided to compete with quantity over quality.

Why aaeaeaeaeaeang-

The number of worker bees under Arsha’s control began to increase.

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The way Arsha increased her load was extremely simple.

Feeding your own royal jelly to ordinary worker bees living on Earth.

In human terms just one sip of royal jelly was enough to keep an entire beehive in line.

Like that…

Weeeeeeeeeeenn-

Arsha’s worker bees were scattered all over the country.

’Until now we have only dealt with information about villains but from now on we will select information about the Devil Factory and the Stardust Foreign Religion among them!'

Weeeeeeeeenn-

The worker bees began to busily flap their wings and gather as much information as possible from Arsha.

But worker bees are smart.

This is because no special abilities were given to increase the number.

So Arsha the queen bee herself had to do the work of receiving and analyzing the information they asked for.

[Pfft. Two headaches….]

Arsha’s eyes almost rolled back from the flood of information overflowing in her head.

But Arsha did not give up.

The queen bee’s pride did not allow her to retreat to this extent.

Arsha desperately tried to control the information sent by tens of thousands of worker bees by packing it into her head.

Then….

An unexpected phenomenon occurred.

[…!]

Arsha’s consciousness which was leading so many bees suddenly expanded widely as if it exploded.

[Ahh…!]

Arsha sat down on the spot and trembled all over.

And.

Jjoljjajak-!

Eventually the transparent skin peeled off from her body.

[The Lord of Plague the king of bugs is keeping an eye on the queen bee.]

“Hmm?”

Suho who was in the middle of a daily quest suddenly looked puzzled at the message he received from Queresha.

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My limbs were crushed and I didn’t have the strength to raise my head but I kept hearing Quresha’s messages.

[The Lord of Plague the king of bugs remembers the name of queen bee Arsha.]

’…Arsha’s name?'

This was the first time that Quresha had mentioned Arsha’s name so directly.

Quresha was the king of all insects.

Among them Arsha the queen bee was just an insect and a member of the family who did not place much value on it.

But suddenly Quresha remembers Arsha’s name?

’I don’t know what’s going on but does this increase the likelihood that Arsha will become a descendant of Quresha?'

[Forty-one.]

“…?!”

At that time Suho stopped thinking and protested at the sudden sound of Ammut’s stern voice.

“Forty-two!”

[Your posture is wrong. Forty-one.]

“Pfft.”

Suho gritted his teeth and resumed doing push-ups due to Ammut’s firm determination that would never back down.

And just when I had barely finished the daily quest Arsha appeared in front of Suho.

[Suho I think my worker bees have found something.]

Arsha conveyed the information she received from the worker bees to Suho with a slightly serious expression.

[It seems like a strange ‘superstition’ has emerged among low-level hunters these days.]

“A superstition?”

[It is said that since the association designated stardust as an illegal drug the number of hunters who make stardust and wear it as accessories has increased.]

“Trinkets? What does that mean?”

You make stardust into accessories?

As Suho looked puzzled Arsha continued her explanation seriously.

[Stardust is hardened into stone and made into a necklace to be worn. And every time I enter a dungeon I pray into that necklace.]

“…Pray?”

Suho felt strange.

Stardust was not illegal as long as you did not eat it.

But why bother making it into a necklace and praying over it?

There’s no way that magic power can be amplified right?

“If that’s the case… I saw it on Hunter.net recently.”

Just then Lim Do-gyun who had fainted while training with Su-ho seemed to have woken up and hurriedly crawled next to him and joined the conversation.

When Su-ho opened his mouth and fed him the potion Do-gyun Lim stood up with an expression of determination to live and continued his explanation.

“Recently star dust was made illegal so people who paid for large quantities of star dust in advance went into an uproar. I suddenly found myself with a lot of bad inventory. However the association has no obligation to pay that money instead.”

Furthermore since it was discovered that people were burned alive during the production process no one wanted to eat it anymore.

“Then at some point an atmosphere of prayer began to emerge to comfort the souls of those who died during the production process of stardust.”

“Hmm.”

“At the same time people started selling the stardust they bought before it became illegal to make them into necklaces. Doping magical power with stardust is illegal but this is a trick that started out with a strangely good meaning.”

Suho had a serious expression while listening to Lim Do-gyun’s explanation.

’We honor the souls of the dead.'

This in itself clearly had a good meaning.

But of course the object of the prayer was the problem.

’Blue Fog’ the most basic ingredient of stardust is the magic power of outer space that melts the boundaries of dimensions.

In other words wasn’t it the Italim invasion itself?

But you pray into that blue fog?

“This… is a bit harsh.”

[I told you this because I think it is related to foreign religion in some way.]

Suho nodded at Arsha’s words.

Looking back this was never accidental.

Especially things related to Itarim.

“Hunters praying to the Arsha Necklace….”

[My worker bees have already found out about those hunters.]

“No rather than those hunters find out who the people who are selling stardust necklaces to those hunters are.”

[Ah…!]

Arsha’s eyes widened at Suho’s words.

[Okay! I’ll find out right away.]

Arsha answered quickly and sent her thoughts to the worker bees spread across the country.

And after some time.

[Found it.]

Since we had already found hunters wearing necklaces it was not difficult to find the route by which they obtained the necklace.

It wasn’t illegal to begin with so they didn’t even think about living in secret.

But Arsha went one step further and completed an investigation into where the people who sold them the necklaces got the goods.

[There are many distributors and they all bring stardust necklaces from one region.]

“One region? Where is it?”

[Yangpyeong Gyeonggi-do.]

“Yangpyeong?!”

[…?]

[Kiek?]

The moment Suho heard the area Arsha and Ber next to him looked puzzled at Suho’s violent reaction.

[Solord is there any problem?]

In response to Ver’s question Suho sighed touching his forehead with a serious expression.

“That’s where my grandparents live.”

[Keeeeeeek?!]

* * *

Suho’s grandfather Seong Il-hwan.

The grandfather Suho remembers from his childhood was a firefighter whose body always smelled of smoke.

And Seong Il-hwan never quit his job as a firefighter even though his son Seong Jin-woo nagged him to retire and rest.

And in the end I retired while working with young juniors in active duty until the moment I retired.

Suho still vividly remembered his grandfather’s retirement ceremony.

’Senior! Thank you for your hard work!'

’Thank you for your hard work!'

….

The grandfather proudly completed his retirement and came down from the podium receiving applause from all his colleagues and junior firefighters.

Even to that day I could still feel the faint smell of fire from my grandfather’s firefighter uniform.

After completing the work he had been working on his entire life Suho’s grandfather went down to the countryside saying he wanted to do a little farming and live with his grandmother.

Of course it is a rural area but in fact it is not outside the Gyeonggi-do area.

Yangpyeong Gyeonggi-do.

A place that is moderately far and moderately close to Seoul and at the same time has beautiful natural scenery such as wide plains and valleys.

The person who provided a suitable house for Su-ho’s grandparents to live in was none other than Jin-ho Yoo.

But why Yangpyeong?

’After all this is where my grandfather lives!'

Suho became anxious at the thought that there might be an organization related to foreign religion there.

But there was someone who was more restless than him: Ber.

[We all have to go right away! This is a really big deal!]

Ber then remembered the fact he had forgotten.

No why!

Has it occurred to me only now?

[This is entirely the little man’s fault! He deserves to be severely punished but it is too urgent now!]

“What’s wrong? “Is there something I don’t know about?”

Suho runs straight to Yangpyeong where his grandfather is.

Ber answered with a serious expression next to him.

[Up to now we have thought that Italim’s apostles would target national power-level hunters who have the vessels to house their power… but they may not be the only ones with a chance!]

“What do you mean?”

[Solord’s grandfather was also a hunter who received power from the rulers in his past life!]

“…!”

At that moment Suho ran to Yangpyeong with all his might.

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