That evening. The time when the sun set and the moon rose.
The second occupied territory, ‘Hill of Opportunity’.
Occupied barracks.
Four-legged race.
A woman walked toward the barracks with light footsteps.
“huh?”
A member of the Free Knights’ Association who was standing guard raised his hand to stop the woman.
“Stop! Stop! From here on out, no one is allowed to enter!”
“uh…….”
She was a woman in pajamas, with disheveled beige hair covering her eyes. She was even wearing sleep slippers on her feet.
“Um, I got an invitation.”
“Yes? An invitation?”
“What kind of meeting is being held at the Free Knights League…?”
The woman who had been dragging out her words finally opened her mouth wide.
“Whoaaam… … .”
He even yawned profusely.
A guild member who had been looking at him with absurd eyes spoke quickly.
“Excuse me, but the meeting has already ended!”
“Ah… … But, I told you to come.”
“We finished a few hours ago and everyone dispersed! It’s time to go back for today… … .”
“But… … I made up my mind to come here… … .”
The girl whined.
As the bewildered guild members were at a loss, a voice was heard from inside the barracks.
“Oh, you’re here.”
As the guild members looked in that direction, Aaron walked out of the barracks.
“I’ve been waiting for you, Mr. Sloth.”
Aaron nodded to his guild members.
“You are my guest. Please let me in.”
“Ah… … Okay, I understand.”
A woman who had passed by a guild member entered the barracks with an awkward smile and a staggering walk.
“I’m sorry about this. I slept in a little.”
“No, it’s okay. I was worried because I thought you weren’t coming at all.”
Aaron answered with a grin and guided the woman to a chair inside the barracks.
The woman sat down on the chair and made a ‘whoosh~’ sound.
Guild Master of the ‘Hunter’s Cooperative’. User ID, Sloth.
She was a woman with a lazy look, just like her name, Sloth.
“Whoaaam.”
As soon as he sat down on the chair, Sloth yawned and soon lowered his head with an “Ouch!” sound.
“Oh, sorry. I’m so sleepy… … .”
“No, I’m fine. I guess you’re just very tired.”
“Yes, I’ve lived my life too hard… … I’m really tired.”
He rubbed his eyes, which were hidden by his sloppy hair, with the back of his hand.
“I need to live a carefree life and focus on the game, but I can’t seem to waste my remaining time on the game or my life. Hooray.”
“… … .”
Isn’t that usually the opposite? Aaron broke out in a cold sweat.
“I work for a somewhat unscrupulous company.”
Sloth vented his frustrations as a working gamer.
“I really want to quit my job and just play games all day long… … I don’t have the talent to make a living from just playing games. What can I do? I have to make ends meet. But there’s so much to do, like working overtime and working extra hours… … .”
As he spoke, Sloth’s head gradually lowered.
“Working and playing games at the same time… so… tired… cool.”
Sloth now lowered his head and began to nod off.
A terrified Aaron shook Sloth’s shoulder and woke him up.
“S, Mr. Sloth! Come to your senses!”
“Hmm?! Oh, I’m sorry. It’s time to sleep… … .”
Sloth wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth and laughed. Aaron broke out in a cold sweat.
The opponent in front of him was a bit strange, but he was someone Aaron absolutely had to recruit.
That’s why I’ve been waiting until this moment.
The various guilds in the alliance are very skilled, but their areas of focus are divided.
The raid ranking is ultimately determined by points based on dungeon and raid stats, as well as PVE skills.
In the New World, basic PVP skills have been proven as you have to defeat outlaws to complete dungeons and raids, but there are guilds that are skilled in PVP, and there are also guilds like Gagapyo that are good at PK.
‘But the Hunters’ Cooperative is incomparable in its skill level.’
The Hunters’ Cooperative is a group of PK specialists who delve deep into PK.
A gathering place for bounty hunters who hunt notorious users.
As far as the Great Lawless War is concerned, it has a higher fighting power than any other guild within Wings.
‘That means, if he’s the leader of those hunters… …he has top-notch PK skills.’
Aaron looked at Sloth with a very questioning look.
“Whoaaaaam… … .”
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Sloth kept yawning with his mouth wide open. There was no tension in his sagging face.
“… … .”
He didn’t seem like that kind of expert at all.
‘Well, the guild master often has the face madam sit down… … .’
Aaron, who had come to his own conclusion, spoke cautiously.
“Anyway, Mr. Sloth, let me get straight to the point.”
Sloth rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at Aaron. Aaron smiled.
“I would like to propose that the Hunters’ Cooperative join the union. Including our Free Knights’ Association, a total of ten guilds have already agreed to join.”
“… … .”
“The Hunters’ Cooperative is already hunting outlaws in various places. Why not join us now?”
“… … .”
“Let’s defeat the outlaws together and bring back peaceful Wings.”
“… … .”
silence.
Sloth, who had been so quiet that it made you wonder if he was going to sleep again, scratched his cheek with an “eum~” sound.
“To be honest… … .”
Sloth, who had been trimming his words, answered awkwardly.
“… … We’re not really interested in the union.”
Aaron’s eyes widened.
“We just catch criminals, throw them in jail, and collect the bounty.”
“But, the outlaws are running wild in the New World… … .”
“Only people who go through dungeons, mines, and fights care about that.”
Sloth’s voice was dull, but his words were merciless.
“We’re hunters. Well, we’re not hunting outlaws for some grand purpose. We’re just beggars trying to make money.”
“… … .”
“You say that your goal is to completely eradicate lawbreakers, but aren’t you on the opposite side of our path?”
A slow, faint smile spread across his face.
“We’re having such a great time right now that the notorious users are installing like crazy.”
Bounty hunters had no idea how many years had passed since they had been so lucky.
The New World was overflowing with troublemakers as you walked along its streets. The entire place was filled with notorious users.
It was like casting a net into a sea full of fish.
But there were so many that it was difficult for an individual bounty hunter to catch and deal with them.
So, the hunters got together and formed a guild.
They were divided into a hunting team, a handover team, and a settlement team. The hunting team hunted down notorious users, the handover team took them to the port and boarded a ship, and the settlement team handed them over to the coast guard in the Old Continent.
It wasn’t usually a very profitable business.
But you want to wipe out the seeds of lawbreakers?
Although the intention was good, it was not at all welcome news to bounty hunters.
Aaron looked taken aback.
Even though they are diligent in capturing outlaws, they have only just realized that they are on a different path from the Alliance.
“Oh, just a moment. Excuse me.”
Then Sloth suddenly got up from his seat.
“I got a whisper… … I’m sorry. I’ll be right back.”
“No, please take it easy.”
Sloth, who kept bending down, went to the corner of the barracks and received a whisper.
“Yeah, yeah… … What?”
Her small shoulders trembled.
“What? Really? The notoriety is 5 million… …?”
Sloth, who had been chatting away, nodded.
“Okay. I’ll be right there… … Yeah? Where are you going? I called you to join the alliance and came to see Champion Aaron. Yeah? The meeting was a few hours ago. I just slept and came now… … Ah! My ears hurt! Don’t scream!”
It seemed like the person I was whispering was making a loud noise.
Sloth, who had been struggling with his ears covered, quickly cut off the whisper and returned to Aaron.
“I’m sorry. I’ll have to go first. Something urgent came up at the guild… … .”
“Ah… … Is that so?”
Aaron laughed bitterly.
“Then… I understand that you have declined to join the union.”
“Yes, I’m sorry, you gave me a suggestion… … .”
Sloth, who had his back bent wide, smiled bashfully.
“Good luck with the war… … Well, after all, isn’t the enemy of my enemy my friend?”
Sloth suddenly reached out his hand.
“As long as those criminals are our enemies, we are on the same side. If you need me urgently, call me.”
Aaron also took his hand and shook it.
“Thank you, Sloth.”
“If you just let me collect the big bounty, there’s no reason why we can’t stand side by side and fight.”
Sloth yawned and left the barracks.
“Then that’s it, hooaaaam… … .”
“… … .”
Aaron watched Sloth’s slender back moving away for a while.
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Outside the barracks.
The central part of the 2nd occupied territory.
“Neu~eul~ booooooooo!”
A female bounty hunter wearing bearskin armor, Grizzly, quickly put Sloth in a headlock.
“Sloth, you crazy idiot! No, I thought you were attending the meeting, but you were sleeping all the time?!”
“Ouch! Ouch! Even if it’s late, just go and answer! And I’m not that guy!”
“The guy who goes to see you a few hours after the meeting and answers. Where the hell are you?! Are you a working person?! How’s your social life going!”
“Aww, I already get a lot of hate from the company for being so inconsiderate! Let me go!”
Sloth grumbled and pouted as Grizzly reluctantly released his headlock.
“I mean, I just got off work, got a good night’s sleep, and finally woke up to log in! I can’t praise you, can I?”
“You said you’d take care of it yourself, so why are you talking like that when you’re the wife?! If that’s the case, then you should have told me! I can just go and do it in your stead!”
As a guild practitioner, Grizzly had no intention of openly not attending such a large gathering.
But, a boy named Gilma was lying down and sleeping… … .
Grizzly let out a deep sigh.
“Ugh… … Anyway, you rejected it?”
“Yeah, of course. The more lawbreaker friends we have, the better, right?”
Sloth, who had been laughing bashfully, hardened his expression.
“By the way, is it true? A guy with 5 million infamy has appeared?”
The grizzly nodded sideways.
A man in spotted pajamas holding a bunch of wanted posters, Panda, corrected the information.
“Well, I checked again after refreshing and the notoriety has dropped to around 3 million.”
“Did they have a PK among themselves…? Wow, but 3 million is still a lot?”
“But this kid, we’re old friends.”
The panda held out the bounty poster.
“I thought he was some easy low-level guy, so I went to catch him… … and ended up with a big nose injury.”
“Huh? You guys hurt your big nose?”
“He wasn’t an ordinary expert. His level was low, but… … his job was like a hidden class.”
The Grizzly Panther Duo is one of the strongest in the hunter cooperative, and they got hit.
Slowly, he looked through the contents of the wanted poster with interest.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
– User ID: Labo
– Character Lv: ??
– Notoriety: 3,072,080
Infamy 3 million!
The bounty alone is 300,000 gold!
Sloth’s eyes flashed in his hair.
The reason why Sloth, a poor office worker who is squeezed every day by an evil company, works as a bounty hunter on the side without even getting any sleep was simple.
Just trying to earn a little more money!
Let’s order one more chicken and watch one more movie in peace!
But 300,000 gold in one room? It wasn’t an ordinary large piece of meat.
“Wow, this is truly legendary… … But why is the level so high?”
The level not being output was a system crash issue.
Wanting notorious users is a top priority in Wings Online.
However, Gaia ‘excluded’ Labo’s information.
So, a strangely shaped wanted poster was created, in which a bounty was placed but the level was not printed.
“I don’t know. Maybe it’s an error.”
Grizzly said calmly.
Perhaps because of the memory of that experience, she didn’t seem too happy when she saw Labo’s wanted poster.
“I was only level 70 a few weeks ago, so I’m probably not that high of a level now.”
Grizzly added.
“… … But this level of notoriety is a bit strange.”
“Nodding to Grizzly’s words, the panda added.
“The last discovered location is Iron Matter.”
“Iron Matter? That iron ore town?”
“But… … it was destroyed. Just yesterday.”
The panda added in a low voice.
“They say a guild called the Nightbringers took over, and in the process… …they burned down the entire city.”
Grizzly frowned and Sloth rubbed his chin with interest.
“Hmm, something smells… … .”
Sloth put his nose to the wanted poster and sniffed it.
The smell of money.
More than that, a dangerous smell… …
I smell blood.
Sloth, who had been swiping the bounty poster with his hand, spoke in a serious voice for some reason.
“Then, shall we try accessing the information source first?”
