Chapter 574 – A Battle by a Hair’s Breadth Tauro and the others hurried beyond the village perimeter. Through the vision shared with Seth and the other puppets, Tauro knew exactly which direction the Bloodsucking Wolves were approaching from, so the party concealed their presence and lay in wait. Tauro focused in particular on the […]
Chapter 573 – The Stricken Village Inside the village that had issued the request— Some villagers stood frozen in place, captivated by illusions created through enchantment magic. Others, though shaken by false visions, retained their senses and gripped hoes and hatchets as they desperately tried to protect the entranced villagers. Even when Tauro’s party appeared,
Chapter 572 – The Puppets’ First Battle Tauro and his party were making their way at their usual pace toward the village at the foot of the Antas Mountain Range. Partway there, Tauro, who was walking at the front, suddenly reacted. “Seth and the others have arrived at the village. I’ll keep them far enough
Chapter 571 – A Means of Travel to the Village The day after their brief clash with Negame, who was commanding the ancient-ruins expedition— Tauro’s party finally parted ways with the expedition because the road to the village that had issued their quest branched off in a different direction. At the fork, they waved goodbye
Chapter 570 – Along the Same Road, Continued On the fourth night after leaving the city of Swen. Among the adventurers and soldiers of the ancient-ruins expedition camping on their way toward the Antas Mountain Range, Tauro and his party had become an extremely welcome presence. They offered delicious food at low prices, sold useful
Chapter 569 – Along the Same Road Tauro and his party accepted what seemed, at first glance, to be a fairly ordinary quest: a village troubled by monster attacks. The next morning, they departed from their base in the city of Swen. By coincidence, however, their route overlapped partway with the several-hundred-strong expedition team heading
Chapter 568 – The Empire’s Shadow and the Quest Just as Tauro and his party were about to leave the special room after accepting a quest, the branch manager of the Adventurers’ Guild’s Swen branch entered the room in a panicked manner. “Viscount Jirosugar, may I have a moment of your time?” “…?” Tauro wondered
Chapter 567: After the Investigation A few days after the doll experiments— The Adventurers’ Guild’s Swen Branch was buzzing with activity. The reason was that recruitment had begun for members of an expedition to investigate the ancient ruins discovered by the A-minus adventurer team Blue Thunder Beast. The request was jointly issued by Count Swen,
Chapter 566: A New Companion In the end, Tauro succeeded in creating a total of seventeen puppets: fourteen large puppets modeled after the Guardian Stone Golems, two adult human-type puppets—one male and one female—and one child-type puppet. The fourteen Guardian Stone Golem-based puppets had their joints reinforced with the mysterious dungeon material Ragune had obtained.
Chapter 565: Autonomous-Thinking Puppet Around the time Tauro completed his fourteenth puppet golem in the forest, Ragune, who had been on an errand to the dragonfolk village, returned via [Dimensional Corridor]. “Welcome back, Ragune. Were you able to get them?” Tauro asked immediately. “Yes. When I told them you wanted the items, they brought out