WTYTIAAN Chapter 128

Chapter 128

“He’s a third-year student, and it just so happens my father taught him. When I found him, he didn’t admit to it,” Quinn said. “But I know his family is affiliated with Harold’s family. I think it’s highly likely Harold had him do it.”

After speaking, Quinn pouted. “That guy always likes to make trouble behind people’s backs. Don’t worry, if I can’t teach him a lesson at school, I’ll definitely help you beat that guy up properly when we get out.”

Over the past month, Harold had occasionally come to cause trouble, but for Yan Yunqing, these were insignificant matters. Moreover, Yan Yunqing disappeared after class every day, making it impossible for Harold to find him to cause trouble. Therefore, Yan Yunqing didn’t take him seriously.

However, Yan Yunqing had figured out Harold’s identity.

His father was Duke Conroy of Romunike, but he was just a bastard son.

Duke Conroy’s current wife was a baroness, with a lower status than Duke Conroy, but Duke Conroy seemed to love this lady very much. Even though she had not conceived a child in over a decade, he still did not bring his mistresses home, only bringing home the illegitimate children those mistresses bore, raising them under his wife’s care. He would also bring his wife along whenever he attended banquets.

Therefore, Conroy had a good reputation externally, with everyone saying he was deeply devoted. Only Yan Yunqing felt that his values were a bit shattered upon hearing this.

Devoted to the point of keeping the home fires burning while having mistresses fluttering outside? Or devoted to the point of having a bunch of illegitimate children and bringing them home to upset his wife?

Yan Yunqing couldn’t understand how this scumbag duke’s devoted persona was built up. In any case, he couldn’t help but show a [Subway, Old Man, Looking at Phone.JPG] expression when he heard about it.

Getting off-topic, speaking of Harold, his father was a fake devoted scumbag, and he had very high expectations for these illegitimate children. If they didn’t develop according to Duke Conroy’s expectations, those illegitimate children would suffer.

Harold was considered one of the best-off illegitimate children, with outstanding talent and ability. Duke Conroy poured most of his resources into him, which might be one of the reasons for Harold’s terrible personality.

However, Yan Yunqing didn’t understand why Harold was targeting him. Could it be because his test scores a month ago were slightly better than his? That was too vengeful, right? It was a bit inexplicable.

Or was it because he was close to Quinn and the others that Harold targeted him?

Yan Yunqing touched his nose, unable to understand Harold’s bizarre thought process.

“I understand,” Yan Yunqing thought for a moment. “Harold has been making trouble for me recently, but I’ve dodged him. This external training will probably cause some trouble. Be careful of him and don’t get led astray.”

Quinn was very confident: “Of course, would I get tricked by that guy?”

That was hard to say.

However, Yan Yunqing thought of Terrence. Terrence was usually quite clever. With such a teammate by his side, Quinn probably wouldn’t get into any trouble.

Yan Yunqing said a few more words to Quinn. Terrence came out of the weapon shop. Since they were heading in different directions next, Yan Yunqing simply said goodbye and left.

Robin could take care of the equipment. Yan Yunqing only wanted to purchase daily necessities this time. He also wanted to visit the Bounty Hunter Association by the way.

There was also a Bounty Hunter Association in Buma City. Since Yan Yunqing returned from Free City last time, he had completed the tasks required for promotion along the way. He hadn’t been to the Bounty Hunter Association since submitting the tasks. Yan Yunqing planned to go again to see if there were any tasks related to the vicinity of Norman Forest. Even if he didn’t accept them, he could still judge the general situation of Norman Forest through those task information.

Yan Yunqing wandered around, buying more delicious snacks and stuffing them all into his backpack. These snacks were all stackable items. The same kind of snack only occupied one slot and could be stacked up to 9999.

Mom no longer had to worry about him starving to death outside.

After handling everything, Yan Yunqing found a blind spot and switched to Joker’s appearance. However, he wasn’t too flamboyant this time, but wore a cloak that covered his entire figure, walking into the Bounty Hunter Association in a low-key manner.

Most of the hunters in the Bounty Hunter Association in Buma City were related to Sigrit Academy. Seeing Yan Yunqing’s strange attire, they couldn’t help but glance in his direction.

Yan Yunqing didn’t look sideways, walking straight to the mission board, browsing the mission information one by one. There weren’t many missions about Norman Forest, most of them were gathering missions, and a small number were killing monsters.

Yan Yunqing randomly clicked on one, browsing the information on it.

The low conversation not far away caught Yan Yunqing’s attention. He quickly glanced in that direction with his peripheral vision. They were two young people who weren’t very old, and they looked like students from Sigrit Academy.

“A reward for the Morgan Heart? What is that?”

“Never heard of it. The reward for this mission is quite generous. Why is there so little mission information? It doesn’t even say what the Morgan Heart is… Could it be a fishing reward?”

“I think so. Look, the reward level is unlimited. Generally, such generous rewards correspond to high-difficulty missions. This mission doesn’t clearly describe the reward content, and it hasn’t set a mission level. It must be a fishing reward.”

“Really, why are there so many fishing rewards every day? Can’t the Bounty Hunter Guild screen them properly?”

“Three months ago…”

The two people’s conversation gradually faded away with their footsteps. Yan Yunqing’s sight fell on the machine in front of him, and he began to manually search for the reward mission that the two people had talked about just now.

Yan Yunqing wasn’t interested in fishing rewards. These rewards were generally used by scammers to attract bounty hunters with high rewards, tricking the bounty hunters to a place to rob and kill them. However, considering that there were basically no rich people among the bounty hunters, most fishing rewards set an impossible task to lower the mission completion rate of some high-level hunters.

To some extent, it was also a kind of commercial competition. After all, if the opponent’s mission completion rate decreased, their own mission completion rate would be equivalent to increasing, and the chances of being selected for some competitive ‘lucrative jobs’ would be greater.

The reason why Yan Yunqing wanted to take a look at this fishing reward was because he heard the phrase “Morgan Heart.”

The false god Morgan, perhaps even Isabel and Divic, the siblings who defeated him, didn’t know what his real name was.

After killing him, Merlin studied Morgan’s deformed body and came to a conclusion. The master behind Mantiper should have found a way to utilize the energy contained in the remains of the gods, and only then created this underground kingdom of Mantiper.

It’s just that the energy in the remains of the gods themselves belonged to a kind of filth. The master of Mantiper was also eroded and polluted while using these energies, becoming like a monster that needed to devour flesh and blood to maintain sanity.

The so-called touchstone competition in Mantiper was just a competition held by the master of Mantiper to find more and more powerful flesh and blood. In the end, all the empty shells that had been devoured by flesh and blood would become the master of Mantiper’s collection, which was the golden men Yan Yunqing saw in the exploration instance.

Later, these golden men were indeed found in Mantiper.

Merlin’s guess stopped here. After all, the information he had was almost like this. Yan Yunqing had a system cheat, plus some clues found in the exploration instance, so he pieced together the story line of Mantiper.

The master of Mantiper, that is, the false god Morgan, was originally a merchant. Because of some coincidence (most likely the Light Church was doing something), he obtained a divine skeleton.

This divine skeleton belonged to the God of Wealth ‘Gold Vein,’ who fell thousands of years ago. Because the skeleton was completely preserved, it was attached with part of the ‘Gold Vein’ ability ‘Touchstone.’ Morgan used this ability to amass wealth and established Mantiper.

The [Touchstone] skill that Yan Yunqing obtained in the Mantiper instance was evolved from the ability in the Gold Vein skeleton.

[Touchstone]

Description: After using the skill, you can transform any unit into gold through touch. The duration is determined by the consumed MP and the target level. A certain chance will cause your own will to decline and be subject to backlash. ‘Make a deal with the false god Morgan, this is the price!’

The note at the back actually explained that Morgan also paid a certain price while using the Gold Vein skeleton ability.

As for the toy factory in the exploration instance, Yan Yunqing personally guessed that it was a surrogate for the Light Church. After all, in addition to the Light Church, no other forces participated in Mantiper.

It’s just that there was no specific evidence to prove his guess.

These were all the Mantiper story lines that Yan Yunqing came to through the system. Even Merlin didn’t know the name of Morgan, and the probability of others knowing was even lower.

Yan Yunqing found the reward and clicked in.

[‘Unlimited Level’ Looking for Morgan’s Heart]

Reward Details: Find Morgan’s Heart, bring it back intact.

Reward Remuneration: …

Reward Time: …

Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but click his tongue when he saw the reward clearly. No wonder this simple reward mission with unlimited level could attract the attention of Sigrit students. It was really because the rewarder behind it gave too much.

There was a thick pile of rare materials alone, not to mention the gold coin rewards with several zeros, which made Yan Yunqing’s eyes dazzled.

For a time, he was a little tempted to take on this task.

Fortunately, Yan Yunqing’s sanity was still there. He didn’t really take on this task, but guessed who released this reward and what the purpose was…

First of all, what can be affirmed is that the person who posted the reward must be someone who also knew the false god Morgan—then it would only be the Light Church, right? After all, they were in a cooperative relationship, and Yan Yunqing didn’t believe that the Light Church knew nothing.

But what exactly is this Morgan Heart?

Yan Yunqing remembered that after they killed Morgan, they checked the collapsed Mantiper. At that time, there were no special discoveries, and they didn’t take anything from Mantiper. Even the gold coins, Yan Yunqing didn’t touch.

After the limited-time challenge instance, the gold coins stored in Mantiper were stained with the filth of the skeleton. Even if Yan Yunqing took them, it would be useless.

Since someone would post such a reward, it means that the people behind them did not find the Morgan Heart they wanted in that Mantiper ruin.

But they really didn’t take away any items from Mantiper… So, was this Morgan Heart missing from Mantiper before the Isabel siblings attacked?

Or is this Morgan just coincidentally named the same, and not the false god Morgan that Yan Yunqing encountered in Mantiper?

Yan Yunqing subconsciously looked at the time when the reward mission was released. It was just a few days after Mantiper completely collapsed.

If this was really a coincidence, it would be too coincidental.

Yan Yunqing was more inclined to think that this wasn’t a coincidence.

What exactly is it…

Yan Yunqing thought, and a figure suddenly popped up in his mind.

That ‘Mannell’ who looked pitiful and harmless, but dared to propose cooperation to Joker, who didn’t look like a good person, and also knew the location of the Mantiper dungeon.

At that time, Yan Yunqing was just kind-hearted for a while, and agreed to take her away from Mantiper. As a reward for the transaction, she would give Yan Yunqing a treasure map of the Eternal Empire.

It’s just that Yan Yunqing regretted it not long after agreeing. That ‘Mannell’ didn’t look like a simple character at all. She knew too many things and faintly revealed a sense of urgency to leave.

Later, Joker alone broke into the Mantiper dungeon. That ‘Mannell’ said she would wait at the door for him.

Once he went in, the two never met again.

Yan Yunqing had originally planned to break the contract. After entering the dungeon and seeing Nana, who was pierced by chains and hung in the dungeon dying, he couldn’t care too much. He directly cut the chains and teleported out with Nana. After returning, he didn’t specifically look for that ‘Mannell,’ but just glanced in the crowd fleeing in a hurry after everything was settled.

Unsurprisingly, he didn’t find the figure of that ‘Mannell.’

After that, Yan Yunqing put this matter behind him. After all, everyone has secrets, and the treasure map of the Eternal Empire was not something worth remembering for Yan Yunqing—which of those treasures were not hidden by him, the Demon King? How could he not know where they are?

But thinking about it now… If he had to say someone he met who was suspicious, it would only be this person.

That’s right, what was her name?

Yan Yunqing tried hard to recall.

…It seems, it’s called Doreen?