Chapter 62

Mo Yeonhoo blinked as he looked at Pegasus’s alliance territory, still nothing but ruins.

Until just two days ago, this had been the home of a flourishing alliance ranked 9th on the X-1211 server alliance rankings. A place that must have been lively, where people chatted and played around together, just like <47>, the alliance Mo Yeonhoo was in now.

And yet now....

For it to collapse like this overnight really is strange.

Looking at the alliance territory, wrecked as if a war had broken out, made his heart feel heavy.

Who on earth did this?

And for what reason? He had never experienced anything like this, nor had he played other games, but he still thought the scale was far too large for a single individual to pull off.

(CH03) 0momo0: Miu

(CH03) 0momo0: You said you knew I wasn’t the spy, right?

(CH03) Miu: ㅇㅇ yes

(CH03) 0momo0: Since when did you know?

(CH03) 0momo0: Did you maybe know from the start??

(CH03) Miu: From the start?

(CH03) Miu: As if lol

Miu answered immediately.

(CH03) Miu: At first I really thought you were the spy

(CH03) Miu: You totally looked like one

(CH03) Miu: Though only for like 5 minutes?

...Huh?

(CH03) 0momo0: Sorry...???

(CH03) 0momo0: What do you mean I only looked like a spy for 5 minutes??

(CH03) Miu: What kind of spy.. farms and blows up every mini-game until the rice is ruined?

(CH03) 0momo0: Wait a second

(CH03) 0momo0: Noㅇ

(CH03) Miu: Gets told to pick apples and brings back a bunch of worm-eaten ones??

(CH03) 0momo0: Miu

(CH03) Miu: And every last corn cob got stripped by grasshoppers too

(CH03) 0momo0: The thing is ㄱI didn’t do that on purpose;;;

Mo Yeonhoo was flustered.

There was a mini-game one had to play when harvesting crops. It was the first time in his life he had ever encountered that kind of game, so at first he had fumbled a lot and failed....

(CH03) Miu: Crop failure was legendary after you showed up

(CH03) 0momo0: Nooo😭;;

And the result of the mini-game determined the quality of the crops.

No wonder he was watching me from the side when I was farming!

Damn it....

Apparently, after seeing Mo Yeonhoo’s disastrous mini-game skills, Miu had decided there was no way he was anything but a beginner.

(CH03) 0momo0: Ah, then I was right;

(CH03) 0momo0: You knew I wasn’t a spy right after I joined!!!!!

Though he was flustered, Mo Yeonhoo quickly found his pace again.

(CH03) Miu: Still, I wondered if it might be some advanced strategy

(CH03) Miu: But I became sure after the dungeon

By dungeon, did he mean <Sky Terror>, the one they had gone to together, where the monstrous bird appeared?

(CH03) Miu: That was movement I’d never seen in my life

(CH03) Miu: How should I put it..

And at the blunt assessment that followed, Mo Yeonhoo’s face turned red.

(CH03) Miu: A debut match and retirement match at the same time?

(CH03) 0momo0: No

(CH03) 0momo0: No, excuse me;;;;

(CH03) Miu: Truly untouchable talent

(CH03) 0momo0: Ah😭😭😭😭

No matter how bad he was at games... wasn’t that too much?

(CH03) 0momo0: Anyway!!!

(CH03) 0momo0: You basically knew from the start I wasn’t the spy, but still bullied me, didn’t you!!!

At that moment, a notification rang with a ding.

Mail?

A red light was glowing at the bottom of the screen.

(CH03) Miu: Take it

It seemed he had sent something instead of answering.

Mo Yeonhoo pressed his mailbox and tilted his head. There was a glittering gem in the attachment list.

Why a diamond?

When he hovered his cursor over the item, the information kindly appeared.

💎 Iris’s Diamond

Grade: Legendary

Category: Synthesis Gem / Energy Crystal

Remaining trade count: 2

Market price: Unknown

It was a fascinating-looking diamond, with red electricity seeming to spark inside the transparent gem.

(CH03) 0momo0: What is this??

Was it a combat item? He had no idea what it was used for. But then Miu abruptly said something that made his eyes go round.

(CH03) Miu: Its recent trade price is 8.5 million gold, so list it and sell it

8.5 million gold....

(CH03) 0momo0: ????

(CH03) 0momo0: 8.5 million gold???????

This gem was worth that much?

Even to Mo Yeonhoo, whose frail sense of economics made him spend money like water, that price was shocking. Since the exchange rate between Zombie Village gold and cash was roughly 1:1, didn’t that mean it was worth about 8.5 million won?

It’s not even gear, so why is a gem this expensive?

There were plenty of expensive items among the gear Mo Yeonhoo wore, but the price of some gem he had never even heard of was still astonishing. Wondering whether he had seen it wrong, he searched Iris’s Diamond on the exchange.

Exchange System Log

Recent sales history > 💎 Iris’s Diamond

Trade complete: 8,500,000 gold

Trade time: XX/XX/20XX XX:XX

Trade complete: 8,620,000 gold

Trade time: XX/XX/20XX XX:XX

Trade complete: 8,350,000 gold

Trade time: XX/XX/20XX XX:XX

Whoa, it’s real....

There did not even seem to be many listings. Judging by the history showing them selling the instant they went up at the auction house, it felt like the seller could name any price they wanted.

A gem used to enhance the items of top-tier rankers?

When he looked it up, apparently it only dropped at a lottery-level microscopic probability and was extremely hard to obtain. So why was Miu giving it to him?

It did not seem likely he had sent something this expensive for no reason....

(CH03) 0momo0: Miu

(CH03) 0momo0: Why did you give this to me??

Miu answered obediently.

(CH03) Miu: Honestly, out of everyone in the alliance, you seem the least like the spy

(CH03) Miu: It’s a bribe because I want your help finding the spy from now on

(CH03) Miu: And I’m also sorry I kept giving you a hard time without saying anything these past few daysㅇㅇ

He had expected it, but it was still surprising.

(CH03) 0momo0: I seem the least like the spy???

(CH03) Miu: Yes

(CH03) 0momo0: Why???

Miu said nothing. Instead, he lightly rolled a hammer, a stone, and a repair kit in his [N O V E L I G H T] hand, then sat down where he was and began hammering at the collapsed fence.

Unlike when Mo Yeonhoo had to hit a wall dozens of times during the Siege War just to barely fix it, the fence returned to normal after only a few strikes. The speed was shocking.

(CH03) Miu: If I were a spy, I wouldn’t use Instant Completion Tickets that cost 20,000 won each to fix a wall

That was right. Miu had seen it.

(CH03) Miu: Who uses hundreds of Instant Completion Tickets in a Siege War to fix a wall?

(CH03) Miu: And with their own money

He had seen Mo Yeonhoo, whose repair level was low, unable to endure his own slow speed and burning through several million of his own money just to repair the wall faster.

(CH03) 0momo0: That was.. just because it was urgent...

He had to pay gold to repair things instantly, but how could he think about that when rockets kept flying in?

Mo Yeonhoo had simply wanted to fix the wall as quickly as possible.

(CH03) 0momo0: We had to protect the alliance territory...

If the wall collapsed, <Hawk> seemed likely to come in. He did not want to let other people trample all over the alliance territory everyone had worked so hard to decorate.

(CH03) 0momo0: Everyone worked so hard decorating it, and it’s where we all hang out together, so it’d be sad if it got wrecked.