The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor: Dad is a Legend - Chapter 74



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Moonlight Sculptor: Dad is a Legend (74)

Weed looked around, seeing the system message.

A dark, dingy room with a steel door that looked like a prison cell.

There were various torture devices hanging on the wall.

‘Where am I? What’s the situation now?’

I asked the AI, but its mind was spinning as fast as a CPU running a high-performance game.

As soon as I started step 8, my hands were tied and a knife was swung to cut my throat.

It was a dangerous situation even if we had hesitated for just a moment.

(If you hadn’t responded right away, your master’s neck could have been cut off.)

‘I know. This step seems really unusual.’

I felt like the difficulty of Hell was a bit easier due to the character’s growth.

However, I managed to survive with a precarious feeling from the beginning.

Since he had raised his vitality and toughness a lot, he might have been able to withstand even if his neck was cut off, but it wasn’t an easy situation to test.

Weed checked the weapon he had taken from the soldier.

“emotion.”

-The execution of the Kingdom of Rebaid

Material: Miscellaneous iron

Attack power 11~23

Durability 14/30

Weight 20

Old weapon.

It was mainly used to execute prisoners who could not resist.

Slightly rusted in blood.

Attack power +200% for optional prisoners

5% chance of instant death

Weed felt his concentration come alive as he looked at the execution options.

After passing the difficult stages 5 and 6 of Hell, the tension that had been loosened due to not feeling any direct threat in stage 7 tightens up.

‘I almost died. If I had been attacked and unlucky, I would have died.’

(It was really dangerous.)

Since choosing the Hell difficulty, I have overcome countless challenges.

When playing Royal Road, I used to keep my vitality at a level just before death, saying that I would increase my stamina.

However, Weed basically pursued safety first.

‘There is no one in the world you can trust.’

I tried to become stronger because I could only trust myself.

I just tried because I had to endure dangerous situations to become stronger and eventually I could endure them.

If my parents were alive and had owned even a single building in Gangnam, I would have lived a leisurely life as a freeloader in a corner of my room.

When you live a life where you can’t turn on the air conditioner in the hot summer, or where you can’t heat your room in the winter, and even the drinking water in your room freezes, you realize how cruel the world is.

Congratulations, the exam continues.

To survive, you must escape your cell before the guards arrive.

There are about 10 minutes left.

A room with torture devices.

The cramped, dark, blood-stained prison cells were usually enough to inspire fear.

But not to Weed.

“There’s not much to pack here.”

He ransacked the cell, taking odds and ends like paper, ink, and a wooden basket.

The bodies of the prison guards were also searched, of course.

You have acquired the Dagger of the Caliphate Inquisitor.

I got 2 gold coins.

You have acquired the torture tool ‘Finger Twist’.

I couldn’t get an escape key from the guards.

‘I didn’t think it would be easily resolved.’

(You have to get out of here. It looks like other guards will come after a while.)

‘We could fight here, but we wouldn’t be at a disadvantage since we don’t know the size and strength of the enemy.’

Simple combat is somewhat confident, but it is dangerous if there are curses from shamans, warlocks, etc.

Weed looked beyond the iron bars.

The long hallway was filled with darkness, but there was no sign of life.

(I can’t hear people’s voices.)

‘I think so.’

The artificial intelligence Versa was able to analyze the sensory data that Weed felt and examine it with a precision thousands of times greater.

Weed looked around carefully.

‘There doesn’t seem to be a secret door.’

A common method for escaping a prison cell would be to break or bend the iron bars with a weapon such as an axe or hammer.

Since it’s a structure made of old bricks, it might take some time to dig a gap with a dagger.

With only 10 minutes to go, there were a lot of different things we could have tried.

‘This will do.’

Weed inserted a small piece of wire into the lock.

(What are you trying to do?)

‘I have to open the lock.’

(I knew that the master had various skills, but I didn’t know that he was also skilled in opening locks.)

Artificial intelligence is rarely admired.

Although he had a lot of data, he discovered a new ability from Weed that he didn’t know about.

Picking a lock is not that difficult, but because each lock has different characteristics, it requires experience and specialized skills.

‘What are you talking about?’

(yes?)

‘You have to do it. Tell me quickly how to open it here.’

(…….)

A recent trend that I learned late. Do it.

Weed said confidently.

‘Can’t you even do this?’

Opening the lock wasn’t much of a problem with the advanced science and technology of the artificial intelligence Versa.

However, we did not have the data and technology for this area.

In less than a second, I had all the data I needed from the Internet.

(You need to check the structure of the locking mechanism by inserting the wire little by little and turning it.)

Kick kick kick.

(It’s a structure where the three-step lock is released at once. It’s not difficult. Let’s start from the innermost part.)

After about 20 seconds the lock opened.

Adventure Achievement! You have achieved ‘Open Locks Quickly’.

You gained 2 adventure points.

Earn adventure achievements.

Weed walked down the dark hallway.

* * *

‘Dad came to save me.’

It was a huge surprise to Daye at Evaruk Castle when Weed connected to Roanoke.

She was prepared to die after the Roanoke incident.

‘Dad, Bosin, half seasoned and half fried. I want to see them all.’

The house I’ve lived in since I was born.

I made many memories there with my dad.

I spent hours building a sandcastle on a rainy day, but it collapsed overnight.

“Eww!”

For her, who was shedding tears, her father brought an excavator from somewhere.

My dad used to make a two-story sand castle by quickly creating a formwork and filling it with reinforced cement, which is used to build high-rise buildings.

My father was such a magician.

‘You’re going back into virtual reality because of me and you’re going through hellish difficulty. But I’m sure Dad can get through it.’

I couldn’t just feel sorry and sad.

The words conveyed from Weed were, ‘Don’t try to do anything.’

If she stays still, Weed will come to her rescue, but she can’t just sit back and wait.

‘When I meet my dad who passed the Inferno difficulty, I’ll be embarrassed if I’m the first one who started Roanoke.’

Daye wandered around the market in Evaruk Castle and bought groceries.

Less than two months after the Roanoke incident, things began to feel increasingly dire.

“Barley bread made from wheat flour is sold at a low price! It’s freshly baked and very delicious.”

“Please give me barley bread.”

“Here. Two silver each.”

“Barley bread is the cheapest. The price has doubled since yesterday.”

“Strong monsters have appeared in the granary area… … That area will now become the monsters’ territory.”

The expression on the user selling bread wasn’t good either.

Although they were staying in a big city, their situation, including food, was getting worse.

“Don’t you carry out subjugation in the guild that rules the city?”

“What about the expedition…? I heard they’re raising the dungeon tax this time.”

The more Daye heard the stories of people in the city, the more she felt that the situation was bleak.

Even if you listened closely, you could tell that the entire city and kingdom was falling apart.

“The farmer users are the most pitiful. They are tied to the land and pay 80% of the grain in taxes.”

“They say if you don’t do your work, you’ll get beaten up.”

“Blacksmiths are like machines that run automatic production all day long.”

“They say it’s for the Evaruk Castle, but it’s all just to fill their own stomachs.”

“They say that even if you go somewhere else, the situation isn’t much different. You have to fight your way through a group of thieves.”

There was widespread dissatisfaction among users.

I couldn’t come forward because I was afraid of death, but I only thought about moving to a slightly better city.

The guild that rules a city may also be invaded by the guild that rules another city at any time.

The reality is that they have no choice but to exploit users for their own growth.

‘This is a real mess. I wonder if I can last here for another month or two.’

Daye went to the city to buy groceries and craft materials and returned to her home in a stinking back alley.

No one cared that she was a hunchback and was wandering around the city.

“Here is some bread.”

“Wow, this looks delicious.”

Luria had been with Weed on the third level of Hell difficulty, and was now helping Daye with her linked quest.

“What should I do with the princess’s will?”

“We have to solve it no matter what.”

The quest related to the princess of the Kingdom of Rebaid, who was cursed so powerfully that she eventually died, is already at stage 9.

It was a quest to recruit the knights of the kingdom.

“It was a really difficult quest, but I finally completed it.”

“We did it together.”

It was difficult for Luria to hide her envy as she looked at Daye.

Even when eating bread, the beauty was so pictorial that I couldn’t look at it, so I passed.

Daye’s talents were multifaceted.

He had a great talent for sports and exercise from the beginning, and was good at dancing.

His motor skills are solid, and his concentration and perseverance are also excellent.

I started out in the early days of Roanoke and leveled up incredibly fast.

‘If it weren’t for the sculptor, I would have been really high up.’

As Luria watched, she felt it was too bad that Daye had chosen the profession of a sculptor. It felt like it would have been much more impressive if she hadn’t.

In Roanoke, being a carver was considered one of the worst, most unrecognized professions, and was now considered no better than being a beggar.

“Phew.”

Daye sighed as she looked at the sculpture materials piled up in the corner of the room.

There were a variety of materials, from wood and stone to iron, sand and glass.

Her dream is to become a great sculptor like her father and adventure the world.

Naturally, I chose to be a sculptor as my profession, but I made no progress in this field.

“It’s really hard. Maybe I have no talent for sculpting.”

No matter how you make it, it’s hard to make the value of the sculpture exceed 500.

I’ve made countless sculptures and my sculpting skill has reached intermediate level, but I’ve only made two masterpiece sculptures so far.

The growth rate is extremely slow compared to the hard fighting in the early days of Roanoke.

“dad…….”

Daye respected and loved her father.

Since I was little, I have felt the warmth of his embrace and back, and my father has always been like a strong pillar.

Whenever I felt tired, I could overcome it by thinking of my dad.

‘I’m going to make a statue of my father here that will become a legend.’

That’s why I made sculptures of my father every time, but their artistic value was at rock bottom.

I increased my sculpting skill and tried out different materials.

I learned sand sculpting and even made and elaborately processed glass to create sculptures for my father, but the finished products never lived up to expectations.