The Last Adventurer Chapter 87

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Chapter 28. The Prince’s Legacy (1)

One.

The Prince’s Tomb.

When most adventurers heard the story about him, they thought this.

“It’s not just any other prince, it’s the place where Prince Ariant died. There must be a lot of unique items here!”

They say there is an adventurer’s romance there.

So there were adventurers in the Nihal Desert whose life’s goal was to find the prince’s tomb.

“You’re targeting the prince’s tomb? You idiots.”

And the experienced adventurers dismissed such adventurers as naive.

It was natural.

“This is where the prince died. There’s no way a bunch of idiots could conquer that place.”

There is no way that a place that even the prince and his men could not conquer would be easy.

Even seasoned adventurers knew.

“And it is none other than Prince Saleh.”

Who is Prince Saleh, the fourth prince of the Ariant Dynasty?

Prince Saleh was that great a man.

First of all, he was born with the talent of a great adventurer.

He opened the first circle at the age of five, and then opened the second circle at the age of eight.

That was also the reason why I set out to conquer Mystic Gate.

First of all, the princes were not fools and there was no way they would enter the Mystic Gate with mediocre skills.

No, the Ariant royal family would never have given permission in the first place.

The prince is a candidate to become the next king.

How can you send your princes to such a dangerous place when you don’t know what might happen?

But Prince Saleh was different.

No one opposed or dissuaded Prince Saleh from entering the Mystic Gate.

Because I believed.

“Prince Saleh has the qualities to become the greatest fire wizard in the history of the House of Ariant!”

Prince Saleh’s abilities.

So I said.

“In the tomb where Prince Saleh died, there will probably be an unimaginable monster.”

They say there’s a monster from hell in the prince’s tomb.

Of course, no one knew that.

Because everyone who saw the reason died.

And now El Palm Party has seen why.

2.

“oh my god.”

The moment they entered the third floor, what greeted El Palm Party was a pitch-black forest.

It was an extremely bizarre forest.

But there was nothing particularly surprising about the forest being dark.

Rather, compared to a world full of snow, deserts, and swamps, the black forest was laughable.

“Isn’t that Dark Nepenthes?”

The problem was the monster that existed in that black forest, Dark Nepenthes.

As the expression suggests, it was a black nepenthes.

“driving me crazy.”

However, Dark Nepenthes’ strength was at least three times that of the normal Nepenthes.

The 3x mentioned here refers to its durability and attack power.

It’s not like it was three times more powerful, it was just a monster of a different dimension.

“Isn’t that poisonous?”

But the most troublesome thing about Dark Nepenthes was that it was poisonous.

It means that even if you get bitten just once, your life is in danger.

Of course everyone here knew.

“Still, I don’t think the prince will die because of this.”

It can’t end here.

That is, there is something more troublesome and creepy than Dark Nepenthes here.

“What’s more frustrating is that, unlike the second floor, you can’t avoid it.”

Crucially, this time there was no avoiding it.

I could have run away.

“You didn’t come here to run away, did you?”

“That’s right.”

But if that was the intention from the beginning, there would have been no need to have that determination or resolve.

“I must find the prince.”

To find the prince’s remains, that’s why I had that determination.

“Then you can get the golden elephant.”

“Are you talking about money again?”

“If you’re not interested, then I’m fine. The remaining four of us can split Divo’s share.”

“Hey, why are you saying that? Who said no?”

“Both of you, shut up, okay? You don’t even know what’s in here?”

In any case, the first priority given to El Palm Party was to identify the dangers present here.

However, there were exceptions.

El Palm, he knew what was here, and why the prince had come face to face with death here.

Because I regressed.

Of course, I couldn’t explain it by saying, “I know because El Palm is a regressor.”

And there was no need for that.

“uh?”

Because it appeared right before my eyes.

“wait for a sec.”

Miner, she said, her golden eyes squinting.

“That’s a crazy, giant Nepenthes!”

“what?”

Giant Nepenthes.

The moment that was mentioned by Miner, everyone’s expressions except El Palm turned pale.

It had to be that way.

“Oh my god, isn’t that the scourge of Orbis?”

It was 50 years ago.

Orbis, an island floating in the sky above the Elnas Mountains.

Adventurers began to go missing in the Orbis region, a place that adventurers must visit at least once.

At first the number was only in the dozens, but soon it began to grow into the hundreds and then thousands, and eventually the Adventurer’s Guild began to investigate.

After that, the world found out.

The reason was the giant Nepenthes.

The giant Nepenthes were such a headache that once they appeared, it was the Adventurer’s Association, not the adventurers, who had to step in to deal with them.

“That thing grows bigger as the number of people who eat it increases, right?”

Among them, the most frightening thing about the giant Nepenthes was that it became stronger according to the number of Nepenthes it ate.

That’s why.

People remember the appearance of the giant Nepenthes 50 years ago as a disaster for Orbis.

At that time, the number of adventurers eaten by the giant Nepenthes was well over 2,000.

In order to catch the giant Nepenthes, a party of 50 adventurers, each from over 5 circles at the time, was formed.

The giant Nepenthes, which numbered over a thousand, were monsters of that level of strength.

“Wait a minute, how many adventurers are coming in here… … what’s going on?”

“The prince and his men alone number over 200. They must have sent rescue teams repeatedly since then.”

“At least a thousand. And when you consider the haphazard adventurers who noticed this, oh my head.”

And the giant Nepenthes that appeared in front of the El Palm Party was also a monster with that level of strength.

“It’s green level.”

Out of specification that is never suitable for yellow grade.

It was a distant fact.

“That’s why it became a grave.”

On the one hand, it was understandable.

There is no way that King Abdullah VIII would have sent a haphazard rescue team to retrieve the prince’s remains.

Of course, there was one question here.

“No, but when the Four Princes caught him, he probably wasn’t a grown man at all, right?”

The fact that he becomes stronger according to the number of adventurers he has eaten means that he was not that strong when facing Prince Saleh.

Although the giant Nepenthes itself was certainly strong, Prince Saleh was no ordinary adventurer.

“When a giant Nepenthes grows from a seed, it is born with one of two abilities.”

“Ability?”

“Either you have a strong resistance to magic or a strong resistance to physical force. In this case, it’ll be the former. Prince Saleh is a fire attribute magician.”

His colleagues understood what El Palm said at that time.

“I see. The magic compatibility is not good… …Huh? No, boss. So you’re saying that magic doesn’t work right now?”

“It works, but it’s hard to expect any real power.”

“Wait, then the boss too… … .”

At this very moment, the strongest firepower of the party, El Palm, is ineffective against the giant Nepenthes.

The moment he understood that, El Palm Party’s face hardened more than ever.

Because it’s like the worst possible scenario has unfolded.

gulp!

My throat is about to get parched.

But the nightmare didn’t end there.

It is impossible that Prince Saleh and his men were unaware of the gloom they could be thinking of.

They must have thought so too.

It’s better to find a safe exit and leave this place rather than forcibly hunting that monster.

There is no reason to make a reckless gamble with the life of the prince, of all people.

But they failed to find an exit.

Why did it fail?

There was only one reason I could think of for him.

“It looks like I have to catch that to get to the exit?”

In order to get out, you have to catch the giant Nepenthes somehow.

“good.”

By this point, El Palm Party was no longer in despair.

“Then let’s just catch it.”

It’s a situation where there’s no future anyway.

In that situation, the best thing to do was not to give in to despair, but to find a way.

Because he was an adventurer.

“If magic doesn’t work, all you can do is chop him to pieces with a polearm.”

“I will finish it off with my sword. No problem.”

“Hey, you two don’t have to come out. I’ll finish it off. This time, just trust me and follow me.”

So El Palm’s colleagues were happy to express their confidence.

“Now, Ralph. You have your say.”

“I’m a supporter, so I’ll just support you from behind. What else can I do physically?”

“… … That’s true, but why does it sound a little strange when Ralph says it?”

“What’s strange? All I have is this fist, what can I do with it?”

Ralph clenched his fists as he spoke, and the veins in the muscles in his arms writhed like earthworms.

The remaining three burst into laughter at the horrifying sight.

Of course, everyone’s mind was complicated.

‘Giant Nepenthes are a pain, but Dark Nepenthes are also a problem.’

That’s understandable, as it wasn’t just the giant Nepenthes that were here.

Dark Nepenthes, those terrifying monsters, were also countless in number.

That made it even more of a headache.

‘To deal with the Giant Nepenthes, you inevitably have to draw aggro and move, but there are Dark Nepenthes everywhere, so it’s like dancing in a minefield.’

Having to deal with a giant Nepenthes in a place where it’s not even easy to walk.

To be honest, it was not something that was easy to even imagine.

No matter how you imagined it, the ending was just a disaster.

That was the moment.

“It’s 20 minutes.”

El Palm, he opened his mouth, and the moment he heard those words, the expression on El Palm Party’s face relaxed.

It was natural.

“20 minutes? Boss, you just said 20 minutes?”

“Does that mean I just have to hold out for 20 minutes?”

“Hey, do you really have to hold out for 20 minutes?”

El Palm, when he said 20 minutes, it must mean that if you hold out for those 20 minutes, a method will come up!

That is, El Palm had a way to attack.

Of course, it was a long time ago.

‘I don’t think I can last even 2 minutes, let alone 20.’

Earlier, everyone tried to imagine what it would be like in their heads, but they couldn’t imagine it properly.

In the end, I had to risk my life.

‘If I hold out and then Kiri holds out, then Miner will probably have a hard time.’

And not just one, but several.

Honestly, it wouldn’t have been strange at all if everyone except El Palm had died.

But no one refused it.

It was natural.

‘Anyway, if you can hold out for 20 minutes, you have a chance of winning.’

If we continue like this, we’ll just die, but if we follow El Palm, we’ll definitely find a way to survive.

‘I’m first.’

At that moment when everyone was making up their minds, everyone spoke at the same time.

“Then I’ll be the first.”

“I’ll go first.”

“At times like this, I have to drag things out from a distance. This is exactly when I need to step forward.”

“I don’t care. Whoever steps forward will need my support.”

I’ll start off by saying that.

El Palm’s expression hardened at the sight of his comrades willing to sacrifice themselves, and Divo smiled at that expression and said.

“Boss, are you touched just now? Yes?”

At Divo’s words, El Palm shook his head in denial, and Divo laughed even harder at that sight.

“Hey, you’re being embarrassed for no reason. You’re right, you’re touched.”

El Palm said to the repeated words of the Divo.

“I think you misunderstood something.”

“Huh? What? You said 20 minutes? While we’re holding out for 20 minutes, isn’t the boss doing something?”

“I only said 20 minutes, I never told you to hold out for 20 minutes.”

At that part, the other four, except for El Palm, tilted their heads.

“Isn’t that what you’re saying?”

That was the moment.

“I’m the one who can last for 20 minutes.”

“yes?”

Everyone’s expressions disappeared at El Palm’s words.

Because I couldn’t understand, my thinking stopped.

“No, boss! What are you talking about?”

Among them, Debo, who came to his senses first, asked in surprise, and El Palm tilted his head in response to the question.

“Among these, is there anyone among the Dark Nepenthes who can last for more than 3 minutes against the Giant Nepenthes?”

“Well… … .”

There was no answer.

Because I knew it was all impossible.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I was convinced.

“No, wait. So, Boss, you’re saying that it’s possible? That you can last 20 minutes in that situation?”

El Palm nodded to that question, and everyone else looked even more dumbfounded at that sight.

To such colleagues El Palm said:

“I’m going to set the stage for a giant Nepenthes fight in 20 minutes.”

“Stage?”

“A stage where everyone except me can fight Dark Nepenthes without worrying about it.”

From now on, give up thinking.

“Then let’s begin the attack.”

fantasy,