Upon Luella’s tense command, Michel questioned with a puzzled look.

“Why?”

“Something’s off. We shouldn’t be hearing this kind of sound here.”

“What if someone is in danger?”

Despite her concerns, Michel didn’t stop.

Luella hesitated for a moment. If someone was truly in danger, it would be right to help. Even her selfish self had that much humanity.

Tien looked back and forth between the distancing Luella and Michel, uncertain of what to do. Understanding his concern, Luella who had been quite uneasy, looked back.

They weren’t too far from the entrance, so if something happened, they could quickly run back. They only had to make it near the carriage and then they could teleport, so as long as they didn’t go too deep, it should be fine.

Luella began walking again with Tien. Fortunately, Michel was waiting for them up ahead.

“The wailing has stopped. Nothing bad happened in the meantime, right?”

Michel seemed to have concluded that a human was the source of the wailing.

Just then, the message board flickered. Perhaps a notice or a new piece of information recommended by over a thousand users had been posted.

“Michel, wait a moment. I have something to check.”

Perhaps because the wailing had ceased, Michel’s impatience had also disappeared. After confirming that Michel had stopped, Luella clicked the message board.

An update notification was flashing. She quickly clicked on it and read the contents.

Major Update 7.30 First Patch ‘The Sorrow of Artist Vincenti’
Today, the first journey to conquer the Duke of Curan has been opened.
Located near the border adjacent to Orwol.
Vincenti was an artist loved by the Duke of Curan.
His piano performances were known as heavenly.
Once a week, Vincenti ascends to the surface.
To commemorate the death of the woman he loved, Vincenti plays the violin all day long, instead of the piano.
His violin is an instrument of death.
All animals and monsters that hear Vincenti’s dirge hide in their hiding places, holding their breath.
Even flowers bow their heads in fear on the day of death.
However, that day is also the best day to attack Vincenti.
His overflowing emotions due to sorrow are likely to disturb his mind.
If it wasn’t the day he came up to the surface, one would have to scour the entire forest to find Vincenti as he would have hidden back in his sanctuary.

You’ll even have to deal with the monsters that protect him.

Defeat Vincenti and acquire the “Red Heart received from a Beloved Lover” as your trophy.

This will be your first key to get to Duke Curan.

Luella, having read the announcement, screamed at Michel.

“Michel, we have to run. Go!”

Though it might have been difficult to understand, Michel immediately reacted. He too seemed to sense something was off.

The moment he started running towards us, something burst out from the ground a little distance away. It was Vincenti, a monster that had been hiding underground.

Stiff white hair reaching in all directions, a gaunt face like a skull, with only gray eyes protruding conspicuously.

Dressed in a red jacket and black pants, the artist Vincenti who looked stylish in a lavishly tied cravat, took a deep breath as if inhaling the air and began chasing after Michel.

“Tien, run. The source of the cries is a top-tier monster. We have to run!”

Luella started running, resisting the urge to press the return button. Raphael and Hazen appeared at the boundary, as if they heard their shouts.

“Get on the cart, get on the cart!”

Luella, who was closest to the entrance, was the first to escape.

This is why the healer should be in the back. With low stamina, a single blow could be fatal, and even running speed is the slowest, so extra caution is required more than anyone else.

Given there’s even a joke that as long as the healer survives, the party can also survive, the survival of the healer was synonymous with the survival of the party.