I tamed the First Rank Chapter 87
- HoshiMiya
- Oct 31
- 7 min read
In Yoo-shin bowed and sat down a little further away. This time, he crossed his legs. He had keenly realized last time that kneeling and sitting for a long time was an awkward posture, even in front of the king.
“Did you find it?”
“Did you have a good look around the city?”
“The people looked very lively. It's Nzinga's memory, right?”
“Memories are very prone to distortion.”
Nzinga muttered indifferently as she sharpened the blade on the whetstone. I was a little curious. Why was he doing it himself when he could have his servant do it? His bearing as a warrior? Was his modest residence also in the same vein?
When he first appeared, he did not look like a person wearing fancy clothes decorated with feathers and leather, sitting arrogantly on the back of a maid.
'No, it's not a person…….'
As if reading his mind, Nzinga spoke, still sharpening his spear blade.
“If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I am not your king, and you are not my subject either.”
That was right. It was true that I was completely out of my mind, with the fear of being the Hidden Boss added to the confusion of being the King, but there was no reason to be afraid of her.
“It seems like you’ve become a lot more modest than before.”
"I was an unrecognized rascal. That's why I dressed up in fancy clothes to look dignified. I used a maid as a chair because the Portuguese governor despised me. I dressed up as a man because those who did not recognize me as a king did not recognize me. Now, there is no need to show off."
“Is that why the concubines of the palace were made to dress up as women?”
Nzinga's expression wavered slightly.
“That was true, but it wasn’t very good.”
“Hmm, cross-dressing was also difficult.”
There is no reason to find it difficult, but it is a hidden boss that can kill you if you want, so it is not a problem. As expected, my heart was pounding from fear.
After chatting for a while and relieving the tension a bit, In Yoo-shin asked what he was really curious about.
“What do you want to do, Nzinga?”
Nzinga, who seemed ready to release her demons and rush out of the gate at any moment, was quiet. As if waiting for something.
"Do you know what kind of life I've lived?"
“To be honest… I don’t really know. I only remembered that there was a king in Angola named Nzinga after hearing his name. Oh, the country wasn’t called Angola back then.”
“Then it might be a long story.”
Nzinga opened her mouth as she slowly sharpened the axe blade, placing the spear she had finished sharpening beside her. The way she sharpened the weapon was almost like a ritual.
“I have been fighting enemies all my life.”
Before she ascended the throne, her brother was her enemy. After she became king, her enemies were Portugal outside the country and those at home who did not recognize her as king.
Nzinga was driven from the throne by their rebellion and fled abroad. One of her husbands, who had been her staunch allies, even tried to stab her in the back. Nevertheless, Nzinga won and became the king of both kingdoms, and died a long life.
Her skin, seen up close, was rough and covered in fine wrinkles typical of skin exposed to the sun for long periods of time. Her palace was soon a battlefield.
“I was ultimately victorious, but I paid a great price due to many betrayals and rebellions. From the moment I ascended to the throne, I was destined to stand before the swords of my enemies for the rest of my life. I never slept peacefully for a single day.”
It was the same on the battlefield where she had to give her all. Even in the midst of war, she had to worry about another war. At the end of every war, what was left was a country devastated by a long war. After her death, the kingdom finally collapsed.
Now that there was nothing left to hide, Nzinga wanted to give it her all so that she would have no regrets about her shortcomings and no need to look back.
"I will wage war. I will wage war with everything I have."
“……”
“Your people outside will also be preparing. I will be able to give it my all only if the other party is fully prepared. I am waiting for that moment.”
War, huh…… In Yoo-shin quietly bit his lips. He knew what Nzinga wanted, but his heart felt heavier. Since they lived in different times, the war she felt and the war he felt were also different.
“Your expression is dark. Didn’t the king’s son who was by your side also want war? That way, he could take the crystal stone from my corpse. That’s why the king’s bloodline overlaid my memories.”
That's not wrong. In order for Hyeon Gyu-ha to get the key to ®ÀÇ, he needed the hidden boss's crystal stone, and to do that, he had to fight her. However, I didn't know things would be dragged out of the dungeon for that.
In Yoo-shin absentmindedly fiddled with his ring and checked the status window.
[Name: Henri Raymond Charles Françoise VII]
[Current status:-]
It was better when there was only murderous intent directed at me.
"………………What is that bloodline?"
“I don’t know the details. However, as the king of the world anointed by God, he has the power to completely overwrite the memories of my life. What is faith in your world?”
“It's closer to being a source of emotional support rather than an object of fanaticism.”
“My world was like that too. I served Kianda, the goddess of the sea and protector of fishermen, but I did not worship her, and worshipping ancestral spirits was nothing more than a ritual. However, I heard the sacred voice of Kianda directly through the records. I converted to the Portuguese religion and even received a new name, ‘Anna de Sousa.’ The idea of using religion itself was a very reasonable idea.”
“……”
“It’s not just that.”
Nzinga's black eyes stared calmly.
“The King’s bloodline has a memory that it wishes to convey to you.”
***
“How did you calm that crazy guy down?”
“Hmm, I guess you could call it the power of love.”
Gong Tae-seong clicked his chin seriously.
“You hung out with Hyeon Gyu-ha and ended up going crazy together.”
“You don’t understand the power of love, so you got divorced.”
“……”
Lee Hye-yeon, who had cowardly blown the facts and reduced Gong Tae-seong to rags in one go, looked around the gate and checked the situation. Nothing had changed since the gate was first formed. The only difference was that the midday sun had completely set and a dark night had come.
It was hard to believe that it was in the middle of the city, with not a single light shining from the surrounding buildings. If there had been no lights on around the gate, it would have been so dark that you could see the stars in the sky. The deserted cityscape reminded me of the eroded gate that had been swept away some time ago.
The gate was still motionless. The hunters were waiting in groups near the gate.
The hidden boss that appears in the dungeon cannot come out until all the creatures inside are killed. However, since it is an unusual disaster, it is unknown whether the normal rules will apply. If the rules apply as they are, it means that the hidden boss can come out when In Yoo-shin is killed.
'shit.'
Lee Hye-yeon chewed her lips and decided not to consider that hypothesis for now.
It is unclear whether it will be possible to enter like a normal continuous gate, or whether the demons will be pushed out from within like a wave. According to the analysis of the mana wave, the former is more likely. The response headquarters has prepared a formation that prioritizes the former.
The fact that the gate where the hidden boss appeared was silent for a long time meant that it was conserving his strength. The hunters' faces were filled with tension.
“Hey, Kong.”
Of course, there were hunters who weren't like that.
“What else?”
“What is this?”
Choi Jin-hyeok was sucking up the herbal medicine in the pack as if to show what he was doing.
“It’s a herbal medicine made by boiling mandrake. Kkeut-nyeo-ssi sent it to me specially because she was suffering a lot because of her damn ex-husband. Have you never received anything like this from Kkeut-nyeo-ssi, Hunter?”
“……”
“Papa. Cheer up, there’s Bomi next to you. Fighting! In life, anyone can get slapped by the company with divorce papers!”
“You’re the one who’s draining me the most, so shut up!”
The surrounding hunters pretended not to hear about the second-ranked person's private life, but their ears perked up.
'The guild leader Gong Tae-seong didn't just agree to a divorce.’
'What? Did he cheat on her? If I had married a third-generation chaebol, I would have been careful to support her and live with her.'
On the other hand, the Narsha guild members giggled without even hiding it.
“Team leader Lee.”
As Lee Hye-yeon watched from afar, the vice-leader of the Anpang Guild, a subsidiary of the Yangsa Group, Heo Jeong-hyeon, approached her. She is one of the S-rank hunters in Korea.
“Ah, Jeong-Hyeon Unnie.”
“No matter when I see Narsha Guild, they always have such a strong bond.”
"There's a reason Beom calls you Papa. Tae-seong grabbed the guild that was on the verge of collapse and carried it away, turning it into a large guild."
“I vividly remember Tae-seong turning pale and shaking his hands when we first cleared a dungeon in my engineering school, and he set my head on fire. He’s grown so much.”
“If I knew you still remember my dark past, I would have come to burn down your house this time.”
"Let's burn it down and build a new building while we're at it."
After making a few jokes, Heo Jeong-hyeon brought up the topic.
"Gyu-ha? I haven't seen you in a while."
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