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In conclusion, Ian's quest finished successfully.

At the risky last moment, the naval forces of Luspel Empire that were stationed at Isreun came out to meet Ian's ship.

The navy of Kaimon, who persistently chased after Ian, chose to turn the bow of their ship for now, and immediately, Ian, who was worried that a full-scale war would occur, was able to let out a sigh of relief.

The reason that Ian was relieved was not because of the dangers that occurred through a full-scale war.

'Whew, if a full-scale war happened right away, how many more hours would I have had to game from now on?'

Ian's continuous game time was already passing 38 hours.

Even now, because of the surging fatigue he felt throughout his whole body, his eyes were half-closed.

More than anything else, Ian wanted to close his eyes for a bit after quickly returning to the Capital and completing the quest.

Swaah-.

With the galleon ship that Ian was on as the head, the fleet of Luspel Empire was able to safely arrive at the harbour of Isreun.

Clunk-.

The anchor of the ship, which docked at the harbour, went down, and Ian led his heavy body and walked out of it.

Paulean, who had gotten off first, wore a satisfied smile as he pulled Ian's hand.

”Good work, Baron. You've truly done a great job.”

At Paulean's words, Ian weakly nodded his head as he replied.

”Whew, great work as well, Paulean. We still somehow managed to return.”

At Ian's drooping words, Kaizar, who got off behind him, smirked.

”What, how much did you fight to have absolutely no energy, when I was that age, I was still lively even if I fought without resting for a couple days and nights.”

At Kaizar's scolding, Ian wore a dumbfounded expression.

'No, how big of an age difference do we have for him to say that?'

This was because, from the outside, Kaizar only looked to be in his early 30s at most.

At their first encounter, he couldn't guess his age because of his shaggy, tangled white hair, but right now, where he even had on proper attire, he looked to only be about the same age as Ian.

As even his white hair was straightened up well, rather even a mysterious aura was being displayed.

”Then, how old are you, retainer? It looks like you don't have that much of a difference with me…'

At Ian's grumbling, Kaizar replied with a poker-face.

”I'm 120 years old.”

”…?”

As Ian stared at Kaizar with an expression of disbelief, he smirked as he continued his words.

”Ah, there might be a 5-year margin of error. It's already been over several decades since I've roughly counted my age.”

Ian couldn't help but accept it with a bitter expression.

”I, I see…”

And he mumbled internally.

'Sure, well, it's a game, so it's possible…'

Catching a glimpse of his retainer, who was monster-like in many ways(?), Ian shook his head.

”Take good care of your retainer from now on, Lord guy.”

”…”

Paulean, who watched the two people bicker for a moment, laughed as he opened his mouth.

”Alright, either way, let's go to the Capital right away. His Majesty is probably waiting.”

At Paulean's words, the two people nodded and moved their feet.

”Yes, alright.”

”We'll do that.”

* * *

The Capital of Luspel Empire.

And in the very centre was the office of King Celias.

Celias greeted Ian, who returned, incredibly warmly.

”Oh! Good work, Sir Ian. I heard that you've carried out the duty brilliantly.”

”That's right, Your Majesty. We've rescued all of the prisoners of Pascal and returned.”

It was the same as last time, but when it was time to report the results of an Empire Quest, Ian's body moved on its own regardless of his will.

Chak- Cha-chak-!

While staring at his body that showed courteousness towards the King with disciplined actions, Ian, barely grasping onto his tired mind, waited for the quest to be completed.

'Why is this imperial family's etiquette so complicated? There's no reason for such realism…'

When Ian played a game, he looked more at the general planning ability rather than the fine details.

Because of that, to him, small details like this were even to the point of being bothersome.

”In our plan to rescue the prisoners of Pascal Prison this time…”

He even began to report the content of the quest on his own now!

Ian was a little dumbfounded, but it seemed as his mind was blank, he couldn't even think of anything.

'Still, since everything is being done for me, it is comfortable…'

However, it was something that wasn't much of a merit to just Ian, but to be honest, there were a lot of users that were enthusiastic about Kailan's perfect detail that was perverted-like.

”Remarkable, remarkable indeed. Good work. You've done much better than I expected. As expected of you, Sir Ian.”

”Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Celias, who heard all of Ian's report content, smiled brightly, and a notification alerting Ian of the completion of the quest popped up in front of his two eyes.

Ring-.

• You have completed the 'Rescue the War Prisoners (2)' Quest.

• You have succeeded all connected quests.

• Clear Rank – S

• You have obtained 5000 Specialty Points.

• You have obtained 42,349,000 EXP.

• You have obtained 25,000 Fame.

• You have leveled up. You have reached lv 126.

• You have successfully carried out your first connected Empire Quest.

• Your contributions towards the imperial family of Luspel Empire have increased by 1000.

Even for the two eyes of Ian, which were saturated with exhaustion, causing them to be sunken in, life returned to them whenever the reward list popped up.

'It was tiring, but to have leveled up like crazy in the 120 level-range… If it's this much, I think it's worth doing.'

A satisfied smile hung from his lips.

However, the two eyes of Ian, who had checked that everything including the quest reward came in, slowly started to close.