The Last Adventurer Chapter 174

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Chapter 53. The Collector (1)

One.

“El Palm has appeared!”

When the rumor reached the Elnas market, everyone agreed on one thing.

“I don’t know who it is, but El Palm is finished now.”

The abandoned mine area will become El Palm’s graveyard.

It was so obvious.

“There’s no way you can survive when the Wolf King is chasing you.”

It would be even stranger if El Palm survived being chased by countless adventurers and outlaws, including the Wolf King.

So everyone’s concern wasn’t whether El Palm would die.

“So who’s going to catch it?”

Who will be the one to capture El Palm and receive the enormous bounty of 1 billion mesos?

“Hey, that’s just the beginning. The real chaos starts after that.”

“Of course, El Palm Party has Aran’s item, right? It’s something that money can’t buy. Everyone will fight like crazy to get it.”

And how much chaos will the El Nass Mountains become?

Naturally, the atmosphere at the Elnas market was like the calm before a storm.

Everyone prepared their own way to weather the impending storm.

“This is an opportunity. If you can just get the items that the adventurers have when they die, you can live off of them for the rest of your life.”

“If you are lucky enough to obtain Aran’s item, your adventurer’s life will change.”

Those who spread their sails in the storm.

“Getting caught in a storm isn’t an adventure.”

“Rather than staying and getting caught up in something useless, it would be better to escape to Orbis.”

And those who avoid the storm.

Everyone waited for their time, each preparing in their own way.

When the storm comes.

“Coming soon.”

A day or two passed like that.

“Coming soon.”

Then a week passed.

“What the hell is this, coming soon?”

But as time passed, the storm they had expected never appeared.

“The Wolf King is gone!”

Instead, all that was heard was that the hunters had given up hunting and left the abandoned mine area.

Naturally, everyone realized.

“El Palm has escaped!”

In the end, everyone failed to hunt El Palm this time too.

“oh my god.”

And everyone was shocked by that fact in different ways.

“How on earth?”

How on earth can you escape from the Wolf King and all those other hunters?

Of course, I didn’t think everyone had run away from the beginning.

Rather, it was the opposite.

“Who seems to have hidden the fact that the hunt was successful?”

The group that hunted El Palm would have kept that fact a secret to prevent interference from their rivals.

And there was only one way to know if it was real or not.

Go to the person who guaranteed this bounty and ask them questions.

That was the reason.

“f*ck.”

A beautiful woman with long black hair and black eyes, Collector Vivre! She has a more nervous expression than ever.

Now, all kinds of adventurers and outlaws came to her and asked her about El Palm’s bounty.

Actually, I already answered that question.

No one has ever claimed El Palm’s bounty.

Of course, that wasn’t definitive evidence that El Palm was alive, but Collector Vivre told the truth anyway.

“Why don’t you believe me when I tell you!”

But no one believed the truth.

The adventurers and outlaws of the Elnas Mountains could not believe that El Palm was alive.

Naturally, the subsequent conversation did not end well.

It came out like this: Tell Collector Vivre the truth, don’t lie, and every time, Collector Vivre had to swear.

“f*ck.”

In fact, if it had ended here, Collector Vivre’s expression would not have been so crumpled.

She is the ruler of the back market of Elnas Market and has been doing all kinds of bad things.

I never got the message that I was being sworn at, and I’ve dealt with more than a few people who were ruined by their character or were crazy.

“My rating is dropping.”

The problem was that not everyone trusted Collector Vivre.

In fact, this rumor was spreading in the back market of Elnas Market right now.

There are rumors that someone brought El Palm’s head, but Collector Vivre did not pay the bounty.

There are rumors that 1 billion mesos were not prepared or that 1 billion mesos were fake in the first place.

From a collector’s standpoint, that was pretty devastating.

Because everything she did was based on trust and nothing else.

“Find a way, find a way!”

What was even more troubling was that there was virtually no way for Collector Vivre to handle this situation.

There was just one.

“Come find El Palm!”

If we can show that El Palm is alive, then any doubts about Collector Vivre will disappear.

Of course, it was a ridiculous story.

Now, countless adventurers in the El Nas Mountains are looking to catch El Palm.

Furthermore, there were hundreds and thousands of adventurers flocking in real time.

And yet, Collector Vivre finds El Palm, which no one else has been able to find?

It’s impossible.

The collector knew it too.

How ridiculous is the nonsense he is talking about?

“Damn it, come find me somehow!”

It was just annoying.

“If you come to me, I’ll give you 100 million mesos on the spot!”

The words he spoke were never sincere.

“Rain, Mr. Vivre!”

“why?”

“Tea, I found it.”

“How would I know if you just told me you came looking for me? Do you think there are only one or two guys coming to see me right now?”

It definitely was.

“That, that’s it, El Palm has come to find you.”

“what?”

2.

“This is El Palm.”

El Palm, the first thing Collector Vivre did upon receiving his greeting was not to answer.

She turned her head to look at the bronze-skinned man next to her, and he immediately spoke.

“El Palm is correct.”

Moreover, the man was a man who had also seen El Palm.

“That’s the adventurer I saw.”

Because he was an adventurer who conquered the Mystic Gate together in the Nihal Desert.

“good.”

Only after he had become certain that El Palm was real did Collector Vivre finally look at El Palm.

“Here comes a bounty of 1 billion mesos, right in front of me. Honestly, this is unexpected.”

Collector Vivre, who was spitting out words, didn’t seem as surprised or embarrassed as expected.

It wasn’t acting.

Clearly, she was surprised by the very appearance of El Palm.

“But it’s not that unusual for a human with a bounty to come.”

However, the number of adventurers with a bounty on their hands who have come looking for her so far has been considerably more than anyone would have thought.

It was natural.

“And when they do come, it’s usually for two reasons. One is to request that the bounty be canceled.”

For those with a bounty on their head, it’s a matter of life and death.

“The other one is to tell me who has a bounty on their head.”

Another one was revenge.

“Every time someone like that came, my answer was always the same: It had nothing to do with me.”

Collector Vivre has, to be honest, never once complied with such a request.

Of course, it wasn’t because she was an incredibly great person or because she was good at talking and could persuade people.

“So, it would be better not to try that.”

She had power.

The power to enforce one’s will.

That wasn’t an ordinary strength either.

None other than the back market of Elnas Market, a place where all kinds of damned people gather, a place where people who would kill for money are plentiful, a power that makes it so that no one dares show their teeth to her!

“Don’t even think about provoking me for no reason.”

That’s why Collector Vivre issued a warning here.

She knew it too.

“I know for sure that I didn’t come here for the bounty.”

That El Palm had not come to him for the two reasons he had stated.

El Palm had already been safely evacuated to the beginning.

But you come to Collector Vivre to cancel the bounty?

Something incomprehensible.

That clearly meant there was another intention, but Collector Vivre had no intention of accepting it readily.

If anything, I was thinking of getting rid of El Palm.

There was no problem.

What’s wrong with killing someone that every adventurer and outlaw in the Elnas Mountains wants to kill?

“Do you want 1 billion mesos?”

“Not really.”

Of course, it wasn’t because of the money.

“Rather than that, you cause me more headaches.”

The longer El Palm remains alive, the more Collector Vivre’s trust is shaken.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to kill you unconditionally.

That too did not have a very positive effect on Collector Vivre’s trust.

Even if she caught El Palm and received 1 billion mesos, the world would not believe her and would criticize her.

And as she said, a billion mesos was not an amount of money for her to stake her trust and fate on.

“So what are you trying to say?”

“I would like to make a deal.”

transaction.

Collector Vivre nodded at those words.

“What do you want?”

“I want Zakum’s helmet.”

At those words, Collector Vivre laughed.

“You came to the right place. I have it.”

That laughter, it was a laughter.

“By the way, do you know what my nickname is?”

“Aren’t you a collector?”

“Yes, a collector. A collector. A collector who will do whatever it takes to collect the things he wants. But why should I sell my collection to you? Huh?”

A mockery at the fact that there is no way a deal can be made that will convince oneself.

El Palm showed it to her.

Qoo?

“uh?”

Snail pet mano.

“Oh, wait a minute!”

And the moment he saw it, Collector Vivre looked more bewildered than ever.

“Is this a snail pet?”

“you’re right.”

It had to be that way.

“How did you get it? I searched all over Maple World but couldn’t find it alive.”

Because the snail pet was one of the collectibles she so desperately wanted.

That’s understandable, since the snail pet had the ability to find items, especially more valuable items.

For her as a collector, this ability is something she wants to own more than anything else.

“Does it matter where you get it?”

“No, it doesn’t really matter.”

Of course she accepted.

“Okay, let’s make a deal. You said Zakum’s Helmet, right? I’ll make a deal. If it’s a snail pet.”

El Palm said to her,

“great.”

“Bring it to me right now.”

“Yes, please bring me four.”

“what?”

However, at El Palm’s subsequent words, Collector Vivre’s expression became fierce.

“Are you kidding me?”

“I need four.”

That would be the case, as El Palm’s demands were not outrageous.

What kind of item is Zakum’s Helmet?

An item that frees one from Zakum’s curse, it was something even Shamos only had one of.

But you’re asking for four of them?

This wasn’t a deal. It was a provocation.

Collector Vivre thought so too.

And usually in these situations she didn’t think long.

I used my strength.

But the gaze of Collector Vivre, who was now looking at the snail pet on El Palm’s shoulder, was different.

‘You can’t get that anywhere.’

It was the collector’s gaze.

The eyes of a collector who will do anything to get his hands on the items he wants.

‘As expected.’

And it was the look El Palm had been waiting for.

“Then let’s change the subject.”

That is why El Palm said without hesitation.

“Please lend me four of Zakum’s helmets.”

rental.

At those words, Collector Vivre’s eyes changed once again.

This would have been a different story.

A rental means that it will be returned someday, and if that’s the case, then it was worth trading.

“How much do you plan to borrow?”

“Once is enough.”

“hmm.”

Even that number was attractive.

Of course there were risks.

There is a possibility that El Pham escapes with Zakum’s Helm, or dies at Mystic Gate with the item.

Something that is virtually impossible to recover.

‘When it comes to survival, I refuse to be compared to any other adventurer.’

But the risk was incomparable to that of other adventurers.

That’s why.

“Okay, let’s make a deal.”

Collector Vivre accepted El Palm’s deal.

“It’s not a deal.”

El Palm said to her,

“What I want is a bet.”

“bet?

“Let’s make a bet for Zakum’s Helmet and the Snail Pet. The terms are simple. Collector, tell me what you want and I’ll get it for you.”

That proposal was an outrageous proposal.

But rather, the moment he heard that suggestion, Collector Vivre smiled more brightly than ever.

“That’s interesting, okay. I’ll take the bet.”

It had to be that way.

“What I want is… … Yeah, that sounds good.”

Because she knew.

El Palm, the item he could never bring.

It was literal.

“Bring Michaela’s glasses.”

The item she spoke of was something El Palm could never obtain.

“I’ll be in Chrissy.”

Because it was an item that could only be obtained at the celestial temple of Chryse, which existed only in legends.

fantasy,