Chapter 31: Quests 3
Ank POV
The moment I saw the updated quest list, my mind froze.
Wait , I have a chance to unlock my seal. If I complete these quests, I can unseal 0.5% of my power.
Just half a percent, Yet that tiny fraction was enough .
Once I complete them, I won't have to worry about anything for a while
The thought filled me with joy,with relief,with certainty,with vision ,with aim.
I have to complete this quest first but the problem was making someone my fiancée.
Where will I find a fiancée? And why was Maya in danger?
What will happen to Maya? I need to investigate. But having a fiancée, that's the real problem.
And why the hell am I supposed to marry someone just for a quest?
Is this even logical?
When I was thinking about these ,I saw the system note.
System Note: You can now view new quests.
I ordered the system to display the quests, I knew there was no way the quest will easy .
Quest: To Erase the Life Burning Curse
Sub Quest 3: Protect the Central Continent from invasion
Time Limit: 5 years
Location: Duskwild
Difficulty: ?????
Reward: Life extended by 500 days
Penalty: Central Continent destroyed + Healing disabled for 100 days
Status: Incomplete
Sub Quest 4: Save Princess Lira Elderheart
Time Limit: 12 months
Location: Duskwild
Difficulty: Extreme
Reward: Life extended by 100 days
Penalty: Failure = Automatic failure of "Protect the Central Continent" quest
Status: Incomplete
Quest: To Unlock Spells
Sub Quest 3: Save the prince Chris White
Time Limit: 1 month
Location: Duskwild
Difficulty: Extremely Difficult
Reward: 2x Cards (Directly level up 30 levels)
Penalty: Healing disabled for 100,000 days
Status: Incomplete
Sub Quest 4: Make someone your fiancée
Time Limit: 60 months
Location: Duskwild
Difficulty: ?????
Reward: ?????
Penalty: Your mother will be angry and refuse to help you
Status: Incomplete
Quest: To Unlock Titles
Sub Quest 3: Kill 10 million zombies
Time Limit: 10 years
Location: Duskwild
Difficulty: ?????
Reward: ?????
Penalty: Healing disabled for 100 days
Status: Incomplete
Sub Quest 4: Help someone take revenge for Princess Isolde Duskwild
(The name of the person will be revealed when the time comes.)
Time Limit: None
Location: Duskwild
Difficulty: ?????
Reward: 2x Chance to talk with Creation for 10 minutes
Penalty: Healing disabled for 100 days
Status: Incomplete
System note: more quests are available but the system only gives you four quests in each section ,once you complete a quest from any section one new will be added immediately.
Why are these quests suddenly starting targeting my healing?
The first came into my mind ,after reading the quests.
The only advantage I had was my healing ,and now even that has become a target. Destruction knew, without healing I will not survive and why mom and protection also give penalty like this .
And then there's the mom, stubborn and relentless, pushing the idea of making someone my fiancée. As if that wasn't enough, she gave me two quests with the same mission. Does she think this was some kind of game for her?
And I am his puppet to complete his dream of watching my marriage.I had told her millions of times that I will not marry anyone.
And I thought why I am against marrying anyone,if I marry I will easily complete this quest.
While I was thinking, a voice that came into my mind ,the voice was feminine and sweet and for some reason small tears from my eyes were dropping .
When the mysterious voice said to me ,once we return to my home we will immediately get married and start a family.
Yes ,I will ,I hear replied and I knew this voice was mine.
Ank promised me you didn't forget me .
Yes I will not forget you.
After hearing these words my head started hurting ,I slowly removed my focus from this memory.I knew the owner of the voice that for some reason I didn't want to hear.
And once again focus on quests.
Kill ten million zombies, really? Where am I supposed to find zombies on this planet? As far as I know, there aren't any first think ,i thought after seeing this quests
But that's the problem Ank didn't know. There's an entire continent crawling with zombies, and he has no clue it even exists. He has spent most of my time training, or unconscious, or just struggling to keep himself together..
Why is this quest becoming more and more difficult? First, I have to complete the 0.5% seal opening quests before I can even move on to another. Then I need to reach a certain level. And now, on top of that, I have to help the prince and princess of this planet just to unlock my power.
Why can't I live in peace? Why can't I simply train with Arthur, grow at my own pace, and reclaim my strength without dipping my hands into politics?
Politics,I know its weight all too well. It's poison disguised as power, and with my current condition, I won't survive if I get my hands on it.
But fate doesn't care. I'm being forced to protect three princesses and one prince.
Once, once I was the emperor of the universe. Entire galaxies bent beneath my will. And now? Now I'm nothing more than a bodyguard. Reduced,Diminished, Shackled by quests I didn't choose.
It's humiliating. No, it's frustrating.
And the cruelest joke of all? To unlock even 0.5% of my seal, I need a fiancée. A fiancée! As if binding someone to me in a false marriage could ever be the key to my strength.
What am I supposed to do? I have so many quests stacked against me, and no real power to complete any of them. Each one feels like a chain tightening around my neck..
Hours passed as I sat in silence, drowning in thought. At last, I forced myself to make a plan. Step one , I need to learn about this planet Dusk Wild,Its politics, its rulers, its power structure. How many kings and emperors walk in this land? What hidden powers wait in the shadows? Who could stand as my ally, and who will rise as my enemy?
Step two, I need to complete the 0.5% seal quests. That means killing ten thousand monsters before anything else. Once that's done, I'll be forced to face the fiancée problem.
But even thinking about it makes me sick. Marrying someone just to tick off a system requirement , it feels wrong. It feels beneath me. It feels like another chain.
No. Forget it. One step at a time. First, I'll finish the ten thousand monster kills. I have to before the princess arrives and drags me deeper into politics.
The weight of it all pressed down on me, heavier than any blade, any battlefield I'd faced in my past life as emperor. Exhaustion gnawed at me, and though my mind screamed with plans and doubts, my body betrayed me.
And so, once again, I drifted into sleep, with frustration burning in my chest like a wound that would not heal.