Seneos made sure to pay only a brief visit to his apartment. The only reason he even went there in the first place, was to grab some useful tools to make sure he wouldn't die in the dungeon. The voices assured him that as the Overlord he wouldn't be in any troubles, yet he didn't really feel like going in blindly and naked as a babe.
His apartment was fairly luxurious, the price wasn't only justified by the location of the building after all. It was big and had a spare room for friends. The kitchen was as modern as they got, though his living room felt a bit empty. He only had a basic black leather couch and a huge television on a table.
His room though was filled to the brim. He had two huge wardrobes and many desks containing his stuff. Now Seneos wasn't a very passionate man, he didn't have anything useless. Except for a few figures that laid on a small desk beside his king-sized bed. He liked his comfort.
The figures weren't of fictional characters however, they were made in the image of famous hunters that Seneos looked up to. It was more accurate to say that he once looked up to them.
They were the popular hunters of his childhood, when he still had a head full of dreams. He had kept them simply because they came from a time he couldn't remember. He had spent countless hours observing them, in hopes of memories coming back to him.
The same could be said about the first thing he had grabbed once he entered the room. He had no troubles lifting it, but he still wasn't strong enough to swing it around with relative ease. He made a few tentative swings with it and smiled fondly.
The thing in his hand was a long golden staff with a curved black blade at the end. It was called a Guandao. The familiar red ribbon the weapon should have was a bit special on this one. There were three ribbons, each of them of a vibrant blood red, attached to the three spikes on the spine of the blade.
Seneos could hear the voices hum behind him.
"Impressive. I can feel the power of this weapon....In fact, I can feel a lot from it. A flow of information regarding the weapon is flowing through me right now." The voices said, recoiling in surprise.
Seneos turned in the direction of the voices and frowned.
"What do you mean by that? I don't feel anything." He asked, glancing at the mighty black blade.
"It's....It's strange. A set of information regarding the weapon reached me. I can tell it's rank, it's type, it's name....I can even see the name of it's master, that being you Overlord." The voices marvelled at this discovery, prompting Sen to smile excitedly.
"Really ?! Go on, tell me what you have." He exclaimed, clutching the weapon's handle in his hands.
"Hmmm...Oh, veryyyyyy interesting." The voices continued to hum in approval as it seemingly went through the information it possessed.
"...I only just noticed, but you have a really weird speech pattern. I never heard anyone speak like that. You drag on syllables that nobody drags on, and your constant humming makes everything you say sound like you are singing, but not really." Seneos remarked.
"Nevermind that, Overlord. I have finished skimming over the information received. It appears that this weapon is of the S Rank, and even possesses amazing abilities of the B and A Ranks, though I am not able to get precise information on what those abilities are. As for the name, it is called the Fake Fengxian. That is a name that I possess in my data bank. It is linked to a certain Lu Bu, a legendary warlord from the nation of China." The feminine voice sounded almost happy at having that information, perhaps because it was initially annoyed at how it had lost a lot of data in it's creation's process.
Seneos took a step back as soon as he heard the name. His bulging eyes traced over the lithe form of the weapon as he gulped.
"Lu Bu.....Someone made a fake Fengxian, and I had it in my apartment all this time!... This is bad, this is really bad. If anyone knows I have an S rank weapon, I'll get killed before I can even try to run !" Seneos freaked out, suddenly trying to hide the weapon.
"Hmmm..Overlord? Weren't you about to take this weapon with you? Also, why didn't you sell it ? You cannot use any of it's abilities and you aren't even trained enough to fight well with it. You can only use it as some sort of huge broom with a pointy end, to swat enemies away. It would fetch a lot of money I reckon." The voices questioned Seneos who immediately shook his head.
"Absolutely not ! That is the worst idea ever! I might not know a lot about this hunter society, especially the high sphere of it, but I know enough to not get myself killed so easily. High Ranks Hunters are highly powerful and also highly sought after. The same can be said about high-rank equipment, relics, and materials of all sorts. Even if I was to sell it, people would prefer to kill me and take it from my cold dead corpse. This isn't a pink world where everyone lives happily. Hunters have killed people for less than that, I would know that trust me. When I am not sleeping, drinking or in dungeons, I am watching the TV, and let me tell you I saw a lot of fucked up shit. I-I'll decide what to do with this thing later. " Seneos explained. The voices hummed once more, getting closer and closer to the weapon, as if the being was observing it.
"Well then, I believe you won't be able to take it out. So shouldn't we go to the dungeon now ?" It asked him, making him jump back a little due to how close it was.
"Yeah, taking It with me could be a bad idea. I'm just gonna grab some potions and we can go. Just the potions should be enough for the wolves. If I take them one by one, they shouldn't inflict too much damage to me. It's good that I take some high paying porter jobs from time to time. Speaking about that, my pay for the last time should've come in already." Sen said before taking out his phone. He opened the app for his bank and smiled once he saw that the pay had indeed arrived. Four hundred thousand Won wasn't that big of an amount for many hunters, but it helped Seneos a lot. The money he had gotten from selling his house and from the government as a reward for him being a hunter, only went towards rent and groceries so he couldn't buy equipment or tools with it.
He snatched up the potions from the little medicine cabinet of his bathroom and went towards his wardrobe.
"I usually don't wear that armor, since it's the only one I have, but today I guess I'll have to. " He whispered as he searched through the piles of clothes. His room wasn't a mess, but the same couldn't be said about his wardrobes.
He quickly found the armor he had been looking and started to put it on, until his cheeks went slightly pink.
"I...I kinda forgot you could see me...You don't have a gender right ? " He asked the being who hummed in response. He took this as a no and finished putting the armor on. It wasn't actually armor, but everything that was enchanted was called like that, even if it was a pair of trousers with a random shirt. People often simply called them hunter outfits, not really minding the enchanted part, but Seneos always noted the difference between magical armor and the basic ones.
His armor was a simple set of grey tight pants with some grey flannel shirt. The actual armor part came in the form of a white overcoat with a smoking skull on the back. It was the logo of a famous company that Seneos liked due to their very urban 'armors'. He never liked wearing actual metal armors, even though most of them were much better.
Now dressed, Sen strapped his dagger to his hip once again and did the same with a small pouch containing his potions.
He turned to where he thought the being was, and furrowed his brows.
" You keep telling me to go back there, and I keep asking myself something ..So might as well ask you. The dungeon did not close automatically as we left it. Now it's not all that big of a deal because the gate doesn't always close in a matter of seconds....But I have a feeling that it still didn't close. Did it ? Please tell me you have a way to...Like...Summon it? Because I am not going back to that place if the dungeon still hasn't closed yet. It's gonna be full of agents!" Seneos ranted while the being hummed to itself.
As the humming stopped, it began talking to itself and Seneos' eyes gradually widened more and more.
" Hmmm....The dungeon could not have closed since a new leader was named, but it is indeed a certainty that the area around the gate would be full of humans....Then again even after passing through those humans....Hmmm, I wonder if my datas being incomplete on this, present any risks for us. Wolves, orcs and who knows what else...All certainly much stronger than you. Also, the hunters that left were still alive...Hence it is quite clear and undeniable that..."
With a gulp, Seneos helped it finish it's sentence. He almost wished he hadn't understood.
" The secret boss is still out there."
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