255 Searching for the Miraculous Medicine II 3 (1/2)

Lilson's two eyes slightly grew.

”What… Is this?”

With a low voice, Ian responded.

”This is a map that holds the location of where an item that I absolutely need is. As it is an ancient relic, I wasn't able to appraise the item with my abilities.”

And at Ian's short explanation, it seemed Lilson understood right away, as he nodded his head.

”Oh, I think I'll need to see what kind of relic it is, but it is incredibly exciting. Could you pass it to me?”

At Lilson's words, Ian didn't say anything else and just pulled out the parchment before handing it over to Lilson.

While receiving that, Lilson thought to himself.

'Hmm… At best, could it be a relic that's about a Unique-rank? Even if it is a normal user, if it's to the point that a user that's at Ian's level cannot appraise it, it means that it's quite a high rank…'

Ian was a top-ranking user that was even over lv 200 now.

It was a value that was almost double the level difference with Lilson, who was just over lv 100.

However, Lilson did not expect much out of the relic that Ian handed over to him.

This was because in order to unearth a high-rank relic, the class proficiency of the Explorer was much more important than the level of the character.

With a somewhat apathetic expression, Lilson received the parchment from Ian.

'Shall we take a look here?'

Lilson was momentarily elated over the thought of him solving Ian's problem in the blink of an eye and receiving praise from him.

However, shortly after, he couldn't help but be flustered.

'What the hell, this is a Legendary-rank?'

Lilson succeeded in appraising a relic that was a Legendary-rank for the first time last time.

Thanks to that, fragmentary information of the relic that wasn't visible to Ian was visible to him due to his raised appraisal level.

• 'Wishful Treasure Map'/Classification: Miscellaneous Goods (Relic)/Rank: Legendary

”…”

As Lilson was frozen with a dazed expression, Ian asked him.

”What's wrong? Is there some sort of problem…?”

Lilson was flustered as he responded.

”This item… Exactly how did you obtain it? If it isn't for a user with an Explorer class, this is a Legendary-rank relic that cannot be obtained whatsoever.”

Ian just shrugged his shoulders.

”I'm not sure. Just somehow…”

Anyhow, Lilson felt he came into a windfall.

'Keu, it's a gift from the gods! For another legendary relic to have rolled in like this on its own feet when not that much time has passed since I first appraised a Legendary-rank relic!'

Even to Lilson, who was at a standard where he was the highest-leveled Explorer in Kailan, the EXP that he could obtain through the appraisal of a Legendary-rank relic was tremendous.

As that was the case, he was this happy.

Lilson momentarily touched the relic that he received from Ian before he placed it on the table and spoke.

”Excuse me, Ian.”

”Yes?”

”I'll be right back after I visit the auction house.”

Ian asked with a puzzled expression.

”Why the auction house?”

”Oh, to purchase some item appraisal stones.”

”If it is because of that, I have a lot as well…”

Lilson shook his head.

”It won't work with just normal appraisal stones. I need highest-grade appraisal stones. If you just wait one moment…”

However, Ian pulled out a bundle of the highest-grade appraisal stones, which were on Lilson's order list, before Lilson even finished speaking and placed it in front of him.

”Here.”

And Lilson wore a flustered expression.

”So, so much of this expensive item…!”

Highest-grade appraisal stones were costly consumables that sold at about 30 thousand gold per piece.

As Lilson was able to raise his Explorer EXP thanks to Ian, he was planning on purchasing the appraisal stones at his own expense as his repayment for that.

However, as Ian unexpectedly held out the appraisal stones like this, he wore a disturbed expression.

• You have obtained 'Highest-grade Item Appraisal Stones' x300.

Lilson received his order of appraisal stones with trembling hands.

'Th, three hundred? This is almost 9 million gold! Yet he's giving this to me so willingly? What will he do if I just log out after receiving this?'

To Lilson, 9 million gold was not a small amount.

However, as it was an amount that was covered if Ian just sold lumps of low-grade magic stones, it was a level that wasn't too burdensome in Ian's perspective.

Ian asked Lilson.

”It's possible with this much, right? I heard that a ton of highest-grade magic stones went into appraising a Legendary-rank relic. So that's why I purchased an ample amount of them…”

”This is enough! There will definitely be a lot left. I will succeed in appraising them as quickly as possible and return them to you.”

At Lilson's words, Ian shook his head as he smirked.

”You take all the remaining appraisal stones.”

”Se, seriously?”

”You can just consider it commission.”

Lilson, who momentarily thought about it, studied Ian's expression as he stealthily responded.

”No… Take-backs.”

Lilson's drive towards relic appraising began to fire up even more.

* * *

Meanwhile, in the small meeting room that was at the highest floor of the Pyro Lord's castle.

Three men that had gathered together for the first time in a while sat around a round table and shared a serious conversation.

”So, here and here. If a monster wave opens up in these two spots, you're saying that at the latest, the aftermath will reach our domain, right?”

At Carwin's words, Herz nodded his head.

”That's right. Based on the difficulty level of the monster wave that was announced on the official homepage, up to the first difficulty level, it will be stopped a decent amount by the punitive forces. Even if the wave were to reach our domain, it will probably just be a couple of small fries that happened to slip away here and there. However, starting from the 2nd wave, it will probably be a different story.”

Kroban asked Herz.

”Yo, I also read that announcement, but it looked like the only thing that changed with the 2nd wave from the 1st wave was just the fact that they were intermediate-rank magical beasts. Are intermediate-rank magical beasts that strong?”

Herz slowly nodded his head.

”Yes, hyung. The fighting power of intermediate-rank magical beasts itself are completely different from low-rank magical beasts. From what I've felt, it seemed like they were almost 1.5-2 times stronger at the same level…”