Subscriber of the Gods Episode 26
Episode 26. The goal of the ordeal
“Ugh!”
The last cockatrice has fallen.
“We won!”
Everyone cheered as Princess Leia raised her sword. Then she approached Ethan first.
Ethan sank into his seat, breathing heavily.
“Ethan Wickes!”
“What a great performance!”
“What the hell are you doing! I couldn’t even see the sword!”
Everyone praised Ethan, from the Royal Knights and mercenaries to Princess Leia’s personal guard.
Dealing with the monsters would have been possible somehow, but if it weren’t for his quick judgment, the damage would have been uncontrollable.
It was almost as if Ethan had saved her from a major crisis.
Those who had stepped back and received treatment also came straight to Ethan with weary faces and expressed their gratitude.
“Thank you! You saved my life!”
“If it weren’t for you, I would have died on the spot.”
Ethan sat down and smiled.
Although I was quite tired, I felt my whole body being lifted.
‘If I had made a mistake, the quest would have ended just like that.’
The cockatrice was an extremely powerful monster.
Although he gained the power of a giant, all he could gain with it was strength, so if he had been hit by an opponent’s attack, he would not have been able to withstand it.
Princess Leia reached out her hand to Ethan, who was sitting down.
“Thank you. You saved everyone’s lives.”
-Lea Martinez trusts you completely.
Ethan smiled inwardly with satisfaction after seeing the message, then replied indifferently.
“It’s not over yet, is it?”
Princess Leia was impressed to see him worrying about others even though he was already exhausted.
“You are a true knight. Even in this midst, you look out for others.”
“Shouldn’t we save at least one more person? Let’s hurry and help others.”
Ethan responded consistently with the epitome of a hero.
Princess Leia nodded with a pleased expression and left.
Everyone was in the middle of receiving treatment.
However, many priests were still petrified, so there were many who needed help.
Detoxification was particularly urgent.
Ethan was also poisoned.
“Phew.”
Ethan immediately opened the Donguibogam.
-I opened the magic book, Donguibogam.
-The poison of the Cockatrice King is recorded in the Donguibogam.
-The venom of the black scorpion is recorded in the Donguibogam.
– Manticore venom is recorded in Donguibogam.
-Donguibogam analyzes poisons.
-You can now create an antidote to the recorded poison!
Cockatrice King, Black Scorpion, and even Manticore.
Ethan recorded the poisons of the three monsters in the Donguibogam.
By recording poison in the Donguibogam, a herbal medicine could be made to detoxify it.
‘[New World] Subscribers may not know yet, but Heo Jun is an amazing god.’
“Please give me the materials that the priests and wizards were going to use.”
“What are you trying to do?”
“I will make an antidote.”
The Royal Knights looked surprised at Ethan’s words.
A swordsman so good that he can hunt cockatrices and manticores alone can also create an antidote?
“Can you make an antidote too!?”
“Your swordsmanship skills are amazing. You can even make an antidote?”
“There’s nothing you can’t do!”
Everyone was amazed and in awe of Ethan.
In the meantime, relatively healthy people brought me materials.
“That’s unusual.”
Making an antidote would mean making a detox potion, but Ethan did not follow the conventional method.
It was natural. What Ethan was making was not a detox potion, but a detox decoction.
Swish swish swish.
While Ethan was making a detox decoction, the others quickly cleaned up the mess.
The wounded were gathered together and only those who had been poisoned were gathered in one place.
The corpses of the defeated monsters were gathered to one side, stripped of their byproducts, and disposed of in preparation for additional poisoning.
Meanwhile, Ethan worked hard to create an antidote.
‘If I don’t make it right, I’ll die too.’
In that intense situation, I charged forward without any consideration for the consequences.
It was an action taken because he could make the antidote himself.
“done.”
-I made [Intermediate Detox Herbal Medicine]!
-Rating in progress… … .
-[Intermediate Detox Herbal Medicine] Grade B+.
The completed detoxification herbal medicine was effective in detoxifying all the poisons recorded in the Donguibogam.
Ethan drank the decoction first.
“nice.”
I wrote so much that I wanted to spit it out, but the effect was clear.
The poison that had filled my body began to be detoxified in an instant.
‘The more you use it, the more effective it is.’
Ethan laughed bitterly and continued making the medicine.
-Your skill in making herbal medicine increases dramatically!
– Herbal Medicine Preparation (A) [25 percent]
Unintentionally, my skill in making herbal medicine has increased rapidly.
Ethan smiled with satisfaction at the added benefit and called the Royal Knights.
“Feed this.”
“Okay.”
The Royal Knights, despite seeing this medicine for the first time, took it without any suspicion and fed it to the addicted.
“Ugh.”
Those who were suffering were cured instantly with just one dose of herbal medicine.
“It took effect right away.”
“How on earth did you make this!”
The priests and wizards were greatly amazed by Ethan’s decoction.
Originally, even if you drink a detox potion, it does not detoxify immediately.
Unless it’s a high-end potion, it takes quite some time to detoxify.
“You sure you didn’t make a high-quality antidote potion with those ingredients?”
“I showed a little trick.”
The wizards were once again amazed by Ethan’s humility.
Wizards are noble beings. Magic is a noble power that can only be used by those who are chosen.
How can you be so humble with all that power?
Thanks to Ethan’s herbal medicine, everyone recovered without any additional deaths due to poisoning.
“I owe you my life.”
“I will definitely repay your kindness.”
Even if he received the item, he couldn’t take it with him. So Ethan asked with a hopeful mind.
“If there’s a potion that can make my body healthy, please give it to me. I drank too much poison earlier.”
“Is something like this okay?”
Tiring-!
-You have received an advanced healing potion!
I received the same potions as before.
There was nothing wrong with having it, but this wasn’t what Ethan wanted.
“thank you.”
Still, Ethan smiled and expressed his gratitude.
Meanwhile, a priest approached Ethan.
“I don’t have any, but if you want, I can teach you something like this.”
Ethan clenched his fist.
This is exactly what he wanted.
-Priest Luranche would like to teach you magic!
-You can learn the [Nature’s Blessing] magic from Ruranche.
“If you teach me, I will be grateful.”
-I learned the blessings of nature!
Added Skill: Nature’s Blessing (A)
‘Is this natural magic?’
Nature magic was a type of ancient magic.
This magic, said to have originated from the elves, is now lost and can only be learned through a special route.
“thank you.”
If I could learn this, I could make all kinds of herbal medicine.
Ethan has received potions from several people since then.
It would have been nice to learn more magic, but just learning the blessings of nature was a great learning experience.
“Once the training is over, let’s move forward again! The sun is setting, so we’ll move forward a little further and camp!”
* * *
That night.
Ethan’s quarters.
The remaining distance is less than half a day’s journey. If you leave early in the morning, you will arrive at Rijkaard in no time.
Once you get there, you’ll have to fight the Fire Dragon King.
Of course, Ethan knew how this story would end, so he wasn’t too worried.
In the end, this recapture force succeeds in driving out the Fire Dragon King and recapturing Rijkard.
But Princess Leia and many others die.
‘But the goal is not to drive out the Fire Dragon King and reclaim Rijkard.’
The quest clearly asked me to relieve the sorrow of the one buried in the tomb.
The one buried in the tomb is Princess Leia Martinez.
‘What is Han? It doesn’t seem like Han is recapturing Ricard. You said you have a family, right? Is it about that family? Or is the death itself Han?’
I had to know the contents before I got to Reikhardt. I had to release that grudge to clear this ordeal.
“Hmm, maybe it was a regret that I couldn’t kill the Fire Dragon King in the end.”
Find out Princess Leia’s story. Also, kill the Fire Dragon King instead of driving him out.
First of all, I had to clear these two goals.
‘But in this state, it seems impossible to kill the Fire Dragon King… … .’
Ethan thought for a moment.
“Oh, there it was!”
Just then a good idea occurred to me.
Ethan quickly took out the cockatrice meat and manticore meat from the subspace pocket.
Basically, you cannot eat the meat of a monster that has poison.
This was because the poison had seeped into the meat.
The poison makes the meat taste the worst, so even if you cook it well and remove the poison, there is no taste at all, and even when it seems to have been completely removed, there were many cases of poisoning.
It could be seen as a kind of food debuff.
Ethan held a cockatrice meat and a manticore meat in each hand.
“after.”
What Ethan was trying to do now was, to put it nicely, a stunt; to put it badly, a gamble.
It was a unique attempt at progression that deviated from the normal play, and was similar to the assassination play Ethan had done before entering the ruins.
Eww! Eww!
Ethan took a deep breath and began to eat the meat he was holding in both hands.
As soon as I ate the meat, my body reacted.
Being poisoned and suffering from abnormal status.
But Ethan didn’t stop, he chewed the meat once more and swallowed the meat in his mouth with the medicine.
Then, the poison that had been building up in my body just disappeared.
But when I ate meat again, the poison built up again.
Ethan repeated the task.
Chew and swallow it several times.
The taste was so horrible that it made his face turn into a grimace, and his stomach hurt so much it felt like it was going to burst. But Ethan didn’t stop.
Because there was something I had to get.
“Ethan?”
At that moment, Murin, who had come to urinate, saw Ethan.
“What are you eating alone? Eww! What is that!”
Ethan calmly responded to Murin’s surprised words.
“It’s a tradition in our village.”
“Me, tradition?”
At the word tradition, the words that had been rising to the tip of Murin’s throat disappeared.
Traditions are things that must be preserved.
I couldn’t ignore that.
‘Once more.’
Now there wasn’t much meat left. If I didn’t get it with this one, I had to get more meat and repeat until I got what I wanted.
“Ugh.”
He groaned softly and took another bite of the meat.
And when your mind starts spinning and you feel like you’re about to collapse.
Tiring-!
The long-awaited notification window popped up.
– Gained the trait [Gourmet].
“done!”
Looking at Ethan like that, Murin let out a sigh of admiration.
“That’s really great. How did you eat all that, Ethan? Isn’t that the secret to getting stronger?”
“you’re right.”
Ethan said with a smile.
It was extremely painful, but I was able to achieve the desired trait for sure.
Trait [Gourmet].
It was an S-rank trait that probably no one who played Mephans had ever discovered.
-[Gourmet][Rank S]
-Your taste buds are the most picky and strange in the world. Your body adapts to your culinary habits.
– When you are inflicted with an abnormal status, your strength increases.
-Resistance to various status abnormalities increases significantly.
-The stronger the abnormal status, the greater the attack power and defense power increase.
The Gourmet trait was a unique trait that gained power when consuming things that created various debuffs or status effects, or when being affected by status effects.
It had a unique concept in that it was extremely difficult to obtain and only became stronger when in an abnormal state.
‘Who would eat something like rotten meat?’
Of course, Ethan found out after trying it himself, but it was a characteristic that most people didn’t know about.
If you are who you are now, you can use it well.
‘As far as I know, it definitely applies to curses as well.’
Ethan’s body is currently under a curse.
A powerful curse that cannot be lifted until death has been placed on you, so you can continue to activate this gourmet trait.
‘This is the original way to use it, but if you are cursed for a long time, you will definitely die.’
Most of the long-lasting curses were very powerful.
Because of this, it was more difficult to manage the curse reliably than to utilize the Gourmet trait.
‘You could die if you’re not careful. I’ve upgraded your specs to make you healthy, but it’s basically an extinction disease where many parts of your body are dying.’
But that’s why I was able to utilize my gourmet traits even more.
Shaaaaak-.
Ethan’s body became energized as he gained the Gourmet trait.
-[Gourmet] trait is activated.
-Status Abnormality: You are under a curse.
-The curse’s identity is not revealed, so its power is increased as much as a normal curse!
Ethan smiled brightly.
[Gourmet] The trait is working properly.
‘The only regret is that since extinction is rare, the gourmet trait doesn’t apply properly.’
Still, it was a good thing that the Gourmet trait was always activated.
‘This way, I can use the curse a little bit. It means I won’t just be affected by it.’
“You look so happy. That rotten meat is the secret to your strength? There really are some strange, no, various traditions in the world.”
“Would you like to try it? It might make you stronger.”
“Ugh.”
He closed his eyes tightly and ate the meat.
Of course, Ethan refused to eat any more rotten meat and threw it all away.
“This completes the preparations.”
fantasy,
