Chapter 142 ….
And before three more days had passed,
there was a topic that never disappeared from the homepage and the community.
None other than Kaiser.
Ever since he achieved Rank 1 in Raven, his name had been mentioned every single day—proof of just how hot he was.
What’s Kaiser been up to lately? No news these days?
Even a few days without Kaiser-related talk felt strange.
Eventually, one user who couldn’t hold back any longer cautiously brought it up, and as if everyone had been waiting, the comments exploded.
└ Seems like he’s just been grinding ever since he got rejected at the Iron Fortress two days ago. Last I saw, he was in front of the Shadow Lycanthrope dungeon.
└ Rejected lol. Why is it so funny hearing Kaiser got turned away?
└ Even Kaiser couldn’t break through the lord’s mighty Iron Fortress wall.
A castle no one had entered for one year and six months.
Because Sargis Castle allowed no one inside, matching its impregnable exterior, it had earned the nickname “Iron Fortress,” and netizens eagerly hammered away at their keyboards.
So even Kaiser, who stole the hearts of every NPC in Brion, couldn’t win over the castle lord?
As expected of the great lord of the Iron Wall…
But seriously, what do you have to do to meet them? I know some NPCs require affinity grinding, but this one doesn’t even give you a chance to raise it.
Ugh, guess it’ll take a while before the next video drops. Should we just hold out for the graduation quest?
They chatted idly like that for dozens of minutes.
Then suddenly, a post popped up.
[Breaking) Holy crap, Kaiser did it again!!]
Since everyone had been talking about Kaiser, the title naturally made eyes widen.
└ ? How long has it even been since Sargis?
└ What now?
└ Huh? There’s no video yet.
└ Hurry hurry hurry hurry I’m holding my breath till you come back.
└ Medic! Someone died here!
Had his recent silence just been to build momentum?
With the name Kaiser, that kind of expectation was inevitable.
And as if to meet that expectation, a bombshell dropped.
[Live: Kaiser met the castle lord!!]
└ …What!?
└ fr…!? — yeah right, as if. Sheesh.
└ Weak bait. Everyone already knows he got rejected.
└ Exactly lol.
Of course, as with most troll posts, no one took it at face value.
With Kaiser’s rising fame came far too many bait posts, and people had built up immunity—they were no longer easily fooled.
[You idiots, it’s real. Look at the pics below and talk. Dude logged out coolly right after… (jpg)]
But the follow-up post flipped public opinion in an instant.
Only two images were attached.
Those two images showed Kaiser entering the castle surrounded by a massive crowd—and Kaiser coming back out.
WTF IS THIS REAL!?!?
This is insane, insane, insane!!!
This isn’t photoshopped, right? It’s real?
└ I checked my friends list and contacted everyone in Sargis—it’s legit. The place is going crazy right now.
└ Of course it is. This is the first in GodOS history!!
The impact was immediate.
Not only those already talking about Kaiser, but even those who had been indifferent rushed in.
Meeting the lord of Sargis carried that much significance.
Didn’t Barion max out guard affinity trying to meet the lord?
└ Dude camped for half a year just grinding affinity. Every guard there is basically his best friend.
└ Verge wasn’t much better. Mobilized his whole network to rank first here and immediately fell into the abyss lol.
└ Stop bringing up that dating-sim player.
└ LMAO why has Verge’s image become like this?
Arthur even offered hero-grade gear. Yet the lord still refused to meet players. How the hell did Kaiser do it?
└ Ah, turns out the lord was part of the Kashin Church~
└ LOL I can already see the zealots smiling proudly while preaching.
└ Of course—how could a mere human reject the call of God? Kaiser just did Kaiser things…
Even the top-ranked players had tried every trick in the book and still never glimpsed the castle lord.
There was a reason they had been so obsessed.
Sargis always had stingy ranking scores. No wonder everyone was desperate to crack the lord.
Forget that—the picture is just too good. First clear of the lord quest… damn.
So if he met the lord, can we expect the rankings again?
Oh? True. Is he taking Rank 1 again?
Compared to Raven and Brion, Sargis was notoriously harsh with points.
Even though A-rank was common and Brion even had S-rank, the highest rank in the Third Trial was only B+.
I just got to Brion—Is the Sargis graduation quest that brutal?
Nah. If anything, it’s the easiest.
└ Why? Do you just kill the Shadow Lycanthrope or something?
└ Nope. It’s automatic graduation. You’re graded based on your achievements in Sargis.
└ ?? Then why is the cap only B+? That means monsters like Slayer, Empress, Sword Saint, Heavenly Demon—all failed to hit A-rank.
It was a valid question.
If it was that easy, why couldn’t the top-tier elites break past A-rank?
Even the players themselves found it strange.
“Strange.”
In fact, they found it even stranger.
They knew better than anyone that their achievements were far from trivial.
So they reached a conclusion.
“The current players aren’t fully experiencing Sargis. There must still be things left undiscovered.”
“I, Barion, have completed everything possible in Sargis—except meeting the lord.”
“There’s definitely something hidden inside the castle.”
“You never know. Maybe those damn outlaws are hiding something.”
That was the reason.
Why bizarre challenges like the Outlaw Challenge appeared.
Why rankers sacrificed everything to NPCs trying to enter the castle.
Of course, not a single person had succeeded—and by now most had given up…
Holy… he actually did it?
Wow, that’s huge.
Kaiser had succeeded for the first time.
His previous feats had already been shocking, but meeting the castle lord after 1 year and 6 months of secrecy?
How could people not be excited?
If they could, they wanted to ask him everything.
Kaiser really is insane. It’s only been, what, two weeks since he started the game?
The news is spreading—guilds are definitely watching now.
└ No way anyone ignores this lol
I’m holding… please upload the video…
What does the lord even look like? I’m dying to know.
In the heated atmosphere, one netizen suddenly shouted:
[Breaking! Kaiser logged in again!]
Everyone had assumed he’d wait until the next day to avoid attention.
But he logged back in almost immediately.
Naturally, chaos erupted.
└ No way—where is he? Where’s he going? What’s he doing? Is the lord there too?
└ HURRY HURRY HURRY I’m dying here.
└ Uh… he’s heading into the forest?
└ The forest? Why? Quest objective?
└ This is so frustrating. Hurry up and answer.
└ Bro I type 500 wpm but you’re rushing me at 700;;
└ So what is he doing?? Answer already!!
The answer, despite the flood of refreshes, was simple.
└ Hunting.
└ …?
└ No, not hunting—this is straight-up slaughter. He’s massacring Lycanthropes like they killed his family.
└ ??
And then the hook appeared.
└ Why?
└ Who knows? He’s just sweeping monsters while smiling.
└ I’m in Sargis too—can confirm. I tried to pull a Lycanthrope and suddenly a dagger flew in and caused a black explosion. Turned around and Kaiser was sprinting at me like a madman. Felt like a horror movie;;
└ Oh? You saw it too? Same here.
└ Apparently the Lycanthropes are getting wiped out so fast it’s hard to even find them. His hunting speed is insane.
└ ?????
└ A man laughing while slaughtering wolves in a moonlit forest… yikes…
Countless questions arose at this incomprehensible behavior.
But people shook their heads.
There was no way he was hunting just to hunt.
He must have picked up some kind of quest.
…But—
[Day 2 after meeting the lord: still hunting.]
[Day 3: still hunting today.]
[Day 4… damn it, I want to hunt too now;; Kaiser you bas— ah, sorry. Kashin Church members please don’t mark me.]
One day passed.
Two days.
Three.
Even on the fourth day—
Kaiser continued scouring the forest, doing nothing but hunting.
An almost frightening level of obsession.
He didn’t even visit the city, wasting not a second—just relentlessly wiping out the Lycanthropes.
“…What the hell is Kaiser doing?”
“No idea. But he’s not kill-stealing, so stay focused and hunt. If we slack off, he’ll take everything again.”
“Maybe he’s on a hidden quest? Looking for something?”
“…Does that look like someone searching to you? To me he just looks like a man with a blood feud against wolves.”
“I logged in every day for three days to watch. Never once saw him search for anything. He’s literally just hunting.”
With this bizarre behavior continuing, interest naturally began to fade.
Before long, not only netizens but even Sargis players themselves started losing interest in Kaiser.
Maybe later—but for now, there was nothing more to see.
Which made what happened next even more shocking.
[The final full moon rises.]
[Drawn by the power of the full moon, the outlaws appear.]
“After today, we finally get a break from those guys.”
“Seriously sick of— huh?”
“…What?”
On the last night of the full moon—
Kaiser, whom everyone expected to keep hunting, finally changed his actions.
And those who witnessed the change in real time could only stare in shock.
[Ara… the man… half…]
[Must… find…]
At the head of the outlaw legion marched their robed leader.
Behind him—
Kaiser was repeatedly tossing and catching a dagger in the air.
“…No way.”
The moment that thought crossed their minds—
Whoosh— Thud!
The dagger Kaiser threw suddenly embedded itself in the outlaw leader’s neck.
The leader froze—
and as he reached back to pull it out—
Whirl— Tap.
The dagger pulled itself free and flew back into Kaiser’s hand.
[…Hk…! How dare…!]
The outlaw leader’s body darkened with rage.
[Kill… them… Human… obstacle… eliminate…]
Countless outlaws swarmed in, surrounding Kaiser’s party.
The grim, otherworldly figures closing in from all directions sent chills down the onlookers’ spines.
“Hey.”
Kaiser smiled instead.
“Let’s have a round.”
As if understanding his words,
the leader’s eyes twitched, turning even more vicious.
And it wasn’t just the outlaws who took that as the signal.
“K-Kaiser…”
The stunned players watching finally found their voices.
One stammered speechlessly—
until someone else shouted.
“Kaiser triggered the Outlaw Challenge!!”
“Wooooah!!!”
“Holy—! This is insane!!”
Cheers erupted everywhere.
For the first time in a year—
the Outlaw Challenge had begun again.
