Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 511

Unlike the other fairies, she had large wings that actually looked like wings, and unlike the other fairies who busily flapped their wings like honeybees, she flew in a gentle sway like a fairy maiden.

Seeing that, Su-ho wanted to ask the Defense Captain, ‘They’re flying, though?’ but he didn’t, and just quietly waited for the Queen to arrive.

Before long, the Queen, swaying as she approached, settled down in front of Su-ho.

Definitely unlike the other fairies, the aura alone was overwhelming.

Then, when she saw Su-ho, she smiled and said,

- Haha, a truly filthy mongrel has shown up.

Mongrel.

At that word, Su-ho suddenly felt a headache.

‘Here we go again with the mongrel crap.’

Su-ho narrowed his eyes and looked for the name card above her head.

It wasn’t there.

Then that meant that woman could be the key NPC in charge of progressing this bloodline quest.

No, the odds were high that she was.

The woman before him wasn’t just any fairy—she was a Queen-class fairy, for god’s sake.

Su-ho almost shoved back as his personality demanded, then decided to hold back just a little longer.

The unlock condition for this authority wasn’t accepting a meeting or an invitation—it was receiving recognition.

‘If I pick a fight for no reason and she digs in until the end, that’s going to be a problem.’

If you think about it, “recognition” is really vague.

If he went with his feelings, he wanted to repay the mongrel remark by destroying everything here and crushing her with force, but the damn system was more sensitive about these matters than you’d think, and submission forced through power might not count as true recognition.

‘And it’s not like I can use Enthrallment either.’

Recognition from someone you brainwashed through Enthrallment wasn’t true recognition either.

That was why Su-ho decided to endure for now.

Back in the day, how many things had I endured in my previous life?

For a civil servant, endurance is a virtue.

And it’s also what he’s best at.

Still, it felt a bit unfair.

Even so, if she was a Queen, that meant she was royalty, and royalty is supposed to have basic dignity, isn’t it?

‘Dignity, my ass.’

Su-ho swallowed a sigh inside and answered.

“Calling me a mongrel is a bit harsh.”

- Hm? If you’re a mongrel, you call you a mongrel. What else would I call you? I don’t even know your name.

“You call someone a mongrel because you don’t know their name? That tells me all I need to know about the Fairy Kingdom’s manners. Whatever. And the way you’re talking, it sounds like you know who I am?”

- Hehe, of course I do. Aren’t you the last contamination factor?

“If I’m a corrupted fairy, I’m still a fairy. Why do you keep calling me a contamination factor?”

- What? Hahahaha!

At Su-ho’s words, the Queen burst out laughing.

Maybe it was genuinely funny—there were even a few tears in her eyes.

- This is amusing. Do you really think you’re a fairy?

“Your subordinates seemed to think so. Whatever. And the way you’re talking, it sounds like you roughly know who I am, so how about we skip the introduction and go straight to the point? It can’t be a coincidence I got summoned to the Fairy Kingdom, and according to the system’s rules, do I just need to get recognition from you?”

- Hahahaha!

The Queen laughed loudly again.

What was so funny?

After her laughter died down, the Queen said,

- Yes. Like you said, you just need to receive recognition from me. Then I’ll unlock your second authority. Ah, for reference, I am the Fairy Queen who rules this forest, and my name is Marloe.

So his guess was right.

She was the Fairy Queen who ruled this place, and ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) she was the ??? Su-ho had to find.

Her name was “Marloe.”

Su-ho asked,

“What imprint did you learn?”

- I learned the Imprint of Protection. So we are fairies of protection, you could say.

“Fairies of protection... I see. Then are all the fairies here fairies of protection?”

- Of course not. The only fairies of protection are me and these ones who can fly. The rest are ordinary fairies who use attribute-less sorcery. That’s why I take them in and care for them.

That was true.

In fairy society, fairies who learned a specific imprint reign as a leader class, keeping ordinary fairies under them, living while caring for and protecting them as village units, as the price of mastering the protective sorcery of the Imprint of Protection.

In that sense, this place was the Forest of Protection and the Village of Protection ruled by Queen Marloe.

Splitting the lake and granting a certain movement sorcery beneath it were all special formulas Marloe had created to protect the fairies here.

Su-ho nodded and said,

“My name is An Su-ho. So what, exactly, do I need to do to receive recognition from you?”

- Simple. The recognition you must receive is sincerity as a fairy.

“Sincerity as a fairy?”

- Yes. You are a being who is not a fairy, yet obtained fairy blood through the system’s power. Can someone like you really be called a true fairy? At the very least, we can’t acknowledge it. And the power you obtained is the imprint of the plague fairies, filthy and low to the extreme, and we don’t treat those things as fairies like us. But you already have two elements that make you unworthy of our recognition, don’t you?

Marloe winked while folding and unfolding two fingers.

She’s really irritating.

How did something like that become a Queen?

Su-ho narrowed his eyes and said,

“I don’t really care about that crap, so what do I do? You’re not going to tell me to put on a show all by myself without giving me any task. The system won’t allow that in the first place.”

- What? 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

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