H32 Hunt of the Adventure King

Book Cover

**Hunt of the Adventure King**, the 32nd book in the The Golden Age of Adventures series was published in August 2020. It is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, "**冒险王西格** • **波东"**, which was published in June 2020.

## Synopsis

ALWAYS ON ADVENTURE! FIND OUT WHY THE ADVENTURE KING IS ON A HUNT!

Sigurd Bodon has been crazy about adventures since he was a child. His countless adventures have scored him amazing treasures and even – the elixir of life! He is currently searching for the red creatures with whom he once battled during the Qing Dynasty. What are his motives?

## Cast

* Alex
* Lulu
* Sigurd Bodon
* Red demon
* Another red demon

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: Longing for Adventure

Sigurd Bodon has been interested in the world and its wonders since young. Sailors would tell him of their voyages. He sadly can't go on one because of his frail mother. After she died, Ferdinand Magellan was searching for people he could have in his crew for spices. Sigurd used this opportunity to finally go to uncharted lands.

Magellan's crew had only one ship survive, with Sigurd among them. With the spices, he became rich. Even with all of that, he felt bored. He built his own ship and formed his crew. With his son, he set sail to lands unknown.

After forty adventuring years, he reached old age. Many of his crewmates left. His son felt they had enough riches to retire. Unfortunately, he was upset by the quarrels over his wealth. After leaving his notes behind for his descendants, he slipped into the night. He wanted to spend his last days adventuring.

He met a woman in Japan who had travelled the world like him. She gave him a scroll to concoct the elixir of life, which can grant the drinker immortality. He gathered the ingredients: a tai sui lingzhi mushroom, a Mermaid's flesh and a Qilin's blood. After drinking the elixir, he fainted. When he awoke, he was filled with energy. Now he can adventure for the rest of eternity!

### Chapter 2: Flying Monsters

300 years later in the Hainan seas, Sigurd witnessed a worm come out of a portal. Pirates took him on board their ship. The captain ordered him to be kept out of the fight. Sigurd noticed an island that wasn't there before. More worms, bigger than the one Sigurd caught, came out of a portal. These worms were destroying the Forbidden City. Fishermen said they came from the sea, so the Emperor sent these pirates to hunt them down. The captain killed one worm with his flintlock. The portal expanded and more worms came out.

### Chapter 3: Unexpected Aid

One worm bit one of the crewmen. After it was killed, the man's lower body has shrivelled. Worms with a larger mouth came out. The water-controlling red demon killed most of them. One bit the demon's arm. The winged demon sent the rest into a portal. The water demon easily took out the worm teeth out of its arm. The winged demon attempted to close the portal the worms originated. A giant tentacle came out, taking the ship Sigurd was on.

### Chapter 4: Different Worlds

This tentacle belonged to a ginormous water and transclucent sea entity. Sigurd catched one worm and used it to fly around. He saw two portals: one lead to a futuristic city and the other a primitive society of coconut-like people. The winged demon appeared from a portal, then more entities. They all valiantly fought the sea entity. A head statue blasted its tail. The entity entered a portal. The ship landed on this realm's surface: a sea of strange liquid. They sank until they reached the wasteland below the sea.

### Chapter 5: Wasteland

Sigurd realised the objects were from different time periods. He saw a weird monster disintegrating a sword. It alerted its kind once it noticed Sigurd. Sigurd killed all the monsters surrounding him with his dagger. He jumped onto a pillar where he saw a liquid maze. He made his way thowards the end, having remembered the layout. He pushed the button after killing two monsters. The liquid of the maze rose up. The pirates hopped on a bubble to escape. The battle with the sea entity still raged on.

### Chapter 6: Desire

The entities destroyed the sea worm. The winged demon locked its energy on Sigurd and the pirates. A dark elf saved it from some of those worms. The demon sent the humans back to their world, which they fell into the ocean. Sigurd saw the the portal closing. It closed before his rope reached it. He saw the water demon go back into the ocean. He thought it can open portals to other worlds like the winged demon. The water demon saw him getting ready.

### Chapter 7: Sigurd Bodon Vs ???

Sigurd had a set of one of the worms' teeth. He dived towards the demon and stabbed its hand with a tooth, then its knee. The demon put him inside a vortex, but that gave air for Sigurd to breathe. He threw a tooth to its chest, then again (like in the book cover).

He returned to the pirate captain's boat with the demon. He informed the captain, pirate lord Zhang Bao Zai, to give him his "island" because it was his now. He knew the captain was captain Zhang because of the rumours of him having a mobile mega-fortress for his fleet and to move undetected. He realised it wasn't here yesterday, so the rumours had to be true.

### Chapter 8: Island Prison

Sigurd discovered his playhouse was a giant clam. He studied the demon. He took a tooth stuck in its hand out. The demon controlled the blood in his head. Sigurd inserted the tooth back. He concluded the demon can only control water. He desired the portal demon, so he chained the water demon to a chair and tortured it, hoping it would call the portal demon to come to the rescue. It remained silent.

He got bored of it years later, and went back to civilisation. He got people to send them to Giant Clam Island to guard his toy. The guards changed every decade. During World War II, Fenrir and Marie Wright informed the World Adventure Union about the demon. Then the Bloodstained Incident of Giant Clam Island happened. That was how Sigurd Bodon the Adventure King lost his red demon. The guard on duty hid when the six Adventurers defeated the octopus. He did kill them. Since he let the demon escape, Sigurd cut his legs off.

Sigurd and Spalding enter a room with Nacho, Ming and a lady. H e agrees with Nacho that if he helped him obtain the portal demon, he will give him whatever he wants.

Alex was informed about the deer demon's message. Scientists have declared the crystal it left is made of unknown compounds. Cammy has been sent by Robert to assist Alex and co. Lil' B has taken interest in the crystal.

## X-Venture continuity

### In the series

* If you remember well, Sigurd's and John Rodrick's backstory are similar. They even look identical. That's because the portagonist of this book **is** John Rodrick. His descendants were known as the Adventure Aristocrats, the Union's precursor. They founded the Union fifty years ago. It would make sense for why he is called the Adventure King.

### In other series

* **Ultimate Showdown**: the dark elf served as an antagonist, then ally in this series. He is known as the Drow.