Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today

Chapter 180 Intensifying the fraud incident, Nezha is not called Nezha

According to Argo, after receiving the commission from Fujimaru Ritsuka to investigate the [Legendary Brave] team, she immediately paid attention to their whereabouts after leaving the restaurant.

Until late at night, they came to a tavern in a remote suburb. After a while, the blacksmith player named Nezha also came to the tavern and met him.

It was at this time that she learned the correct pronunciation of Nezha's name by eavesdropping on their conversation, and also learned that Nezha was also a member of the "Legendary Heroes".

This news was like a bomb dropped into a calm lake, instantly causing a splash of water and leaving several people in shock.

At the same time, all the information that was originally known in his mind was connected together in an instant.

[Legendary Brave]'s unreasonably large amount of resources will not cause the weapon to be destroyed if it fails to strengthen. Blacksmith Nezha is a member of [Legendary Brave]
  That is
  "Blacksmith Nezha created the illusion that the weapons would be destroyed if the enhancement failed. In fact, he smuggled and sold the enhanced players' weapons in some way, in exchange for a large amount of resources, and provided them to other members of [Legendary Brave] to purchase equipment. and reinforcement.”

"Judging from the current situation, we can only draw this conclusion, right?"

Argo stated her deduction with a smile on her face, but her eyes became meaningful.

"In other words, there are no special tasks that can obtain a large amount of resources. The large amount of resources in the hands of [Legendary Brave] are completely obtained by defrauding other players."

"It's really quite bad behavior."

"Not only is it bad, if fraud is put into practice, it is completely a crime, right?!"

Asuna frowned deeply, her expression became more serious than ever before, and her tone became heavier than usual.

"But why would they do such a thing? Aren't they afraid of being exposed?"

Indeed, since there is no real weapon crushing penalty mechanism for failure to strengthen in SAO, even if they don't deliberately investigate, someone will always discover the problem later.

If it were in a normal game, there might be cases where they would cheat and run away, but in today's SAO, it can be expected that they will stay in the game for a long time, which means that their fraud Sooner or later the behavior will be discovered.

Thinking from this perspective, it is indeed difficult to understand the choices of those [Legendary Heroes].

After Kirito pondered for a while, he tried to analyze:
  "'As long as you use the resources obtained through deception to quickly become stronger, you will be strong enough that even if you are discovered, there is nothing they can do about it.' Maybe he has such an idea."

Although SAO focuses more on technology, it is essentially an MMO game, so numerical values ​​are of course also critical.

According to Mr. Agil, the opponent's skills are slightly weaker than those of the frontline players, but if all the opponents are wearing the best equipment and strengthened to the limit, it will be quite difficult.

However, some details in the information given by Argo made him think of another somewhat cruel possibility——

"I have another guess."

Argo said with a smile:
  "Have you noticed that the names of the other five members of [Legendary Heroes] are all famous legendary heroes, but the name Nezha is very ordinary."

"At least within the scope of my knowledge, I have never heard of a hero named Nezha."

"That's true,"

When Asuna heard this, she showed a stunned expression, and then she held her chin and fell into deep thought.

Argo continued:

"I'm wondering if the other five members of [Legendary Heroes] don't really regard Nezha as one of them."

"If that's the case, then wouldn't it be enough to quickly put aside their previous relationship after Nezha's fraud was exposed, and then throw all the responsibility to Nezha?"

"This?!"

Asuna was suddenly stunned.

At this moment, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had been pondering for a long time, suddenly said: "Nezha should also be the name of a legendary hero."

"Ok?"

"Ritsuka, do you know this name?"

Argo looked sideways after hearing this, and Kirito and Asuna suddenly remembered that Fujimaru Ritsuka had said before that she was a lover of such heroic stories.

"That's it."

"However, if my guess is correct, the correct pronunciation of his name should not be Nezha, but -"

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded slightly and spoke two words clearly:

"——Nezha."

Nezha, also known as Prince Nezha, Marshal of Zhongtan, is a young immortal in ancient myths and legends of the Celestial Dynasty.

In addition to the records in traditional folk mythology, the most well-known are his deeds and images in the novels "Journey to the West" and "Feng Shen Bang".

There is no need to introduce the specific deeds in detail here. In short, he is an immortal who possesses many treasures and is very powerful.

But for Asuna and the others, Nezha is indeed a quite unpopular hero. I am afraid only people like Fujimaru Ritsuka who are addicted to mythology will know so clearly.

So after listening to Fujimaru Ritsuka's introduction to him with great interest, Asuna sighed:
  "It seems that Nezha is also a pretty amazing hero. But speaking of it, Ritsuka, you are really a super mythology lover. You even know such an unpopular hero."

"No, to me, it's not unpopular at all."

Fujimaru Ritsuka lightly scratched his cheek and smiled.

Not to mention being unpopular, she was extremely familiar with Nezha's situation. After all, he was her servant.

If you want to be specific about how familiar you are
  The treasure [Qiankun Circle] held by the other party should still be lying quietly in her [Chen's Treasure House] at this moment, but BB has temporarily sealed her abilities and props, so she cannot show them out for the time being.

Back to the point.

After Fujimaru Ritsuka named the other party's real name, although it reduced the possibility of Argo's speculation, many new questions arose.

For example, when Argo eavesdropped on the other party's conversation, he clearly mentioned that the other people in [Legendary Brave] called Nezha instead of Nezha. In other words, other people did not know the correct pronunciation of his name.

Why the other party deliberately concealed the pronunciation of [Nezha] and chose to be called Nezha is also a puzzling question.

Of course, this is not the most urgent issue at the moment. The most important issue at the moment is——

“How was Nezha’s fraud carried out?”

Although based on the clues currently known, they are almost certain that Nezha and the [Legendary Brave] group are engaged in shameless fraud to make money.

But before they can be fully exposed, there is still a lack of key evidence to prove that they are indeed committing fraud.

Specifically, it is necessary to find out how Nezha committed the fraud.

According to Argo, there is no punishment mechanism in SAO for weapons to break if they fail to strengthen, but in fact, the weapon being strengthened did break in front of their eyes, in full view of the public. This is indisputable. fact.

How exactly is this done?
  At this time, Argo once again showed her strength as SAO's strongest intelligence agent. She laughed and said:

"Although there is a punishment mechanism for failure to strengthen the weapon when it is broken, I know of a situation that will cause the weapon being strengthened to break."

(End of this chapter)