Episode 104
The Guardian Guild was slowly being pushed back by the large-scale attacks from monsters.
In a situation where we had lost most of our power and were facing a large number of monsters, it was impossible to hold out.
As time passed, the screams of the guild members became clearer than the screams of the monsters.
“Haven’t you heard anything from the other side?!”
Song Gil-won, who was getting anxious, urged the guild member next to him.
But that doesn’t mean that contacts that didn’t exist before will just come into existence.
“There’s no news! We’ve been getting no response from you!”
“What the heck! Where the hell are you and what are you doing!”
Things were going too badly for no news to be considered good news.
Have you ever approached the headquarters of the Pantheon?
Without any information given, Song Gil-won felt like he was wandering the vast ocean without a compass.
“This won’t work. Withdraw! Take care of the injured and get out of here right now!”
“All right!”
The guild member turned around to relay Song Gil-won’s orders to his colleagues.
“Huh? Guild Leader! Look over there!”
A guild member who had turned his back noticed something on the other side and shouted.
“What are you making such a fuss about?”
Song Gil-won turned his head when he heard his guild member’s call.
And he could spot a group coming this way, grinding up countless monsters like a blender.
“Those are the members of the Pantheon Guild!”
And they weren’t just ordinary guild members.
Fighters wearing hoodies over their heads and moving in animal-like movements. They were definitely the elite units of the Pantheon as recorded in the report.
“Why are they here!?”
The fact that they had come here, where they should have been fighting the Guild Alliance in the southern region, meant that the fighting there had already ended long ago.
There was no need to say who won.
The number of Pantheon’s elite troops has not decreased by a single person from the number recorded in the report.
Literally a disaster.
The Guild Alliance was completely destroyed without being able to reduce Pantheon’s power even a little.
“Fuck! You useless piece of trash!!”
Song Gil-won, who believed in the other alliance and volunteered to be the bait, swore at them with a bloody mouth.
“Hey, Guild Leader! Seo Sang-ho is coming from over there too.”
“what?!”
In the direction the guild member pointed with his finger, a group of monsters were being turned into pieces of meat after being hit by someone’s fist.
Although he couldn’t see his face clearly because he was far away, Song Gil-won could tell that it was Seo Sang-ho.
As far as he knew, the only person who could produce that much power with just one fist was Seo Sang-ho.
“Even the eastern guys lost… …?”
They were confident that they could easily beat someone like Seo Sang-ho, but this was the result they came up with.
“At least one of the limbs should be broken! What are you going to do with it if it’s still intact?”
Even though they were defeated in the southern direction, it was a big problem that they couldn’t even break through Seo Sang-ho.
At this point, I had to worry about whether I could escape safely, let alone my chances of winning.
“Well, it still doesn’t look like the Pantheon has any intention of attacking us!”
The guild members were hopeful at the sight of Pantheon’s elite troops and Seo Sang-ho attacking only monsters.
“I think we can withdraw during this gap!”
The guild members were thinking of running away to save their lives while the monster was distracted.
But a new plan to take advantage of the current situation occurred to Song Gil-won.
“Tell the guys in charge of setting up the traps to increase their firepower.”
“yes?”
“And tell those guys who were luring the monsters to stop and not let anyone near the trap.”
“What, what are you thinking?”
“What are you thinking? You’ve prepared a trap, so let’s use it.”
Song Gil-won had instructed his guild members to bury a large number of scrolls, including mines, as part of a plan to eliminate all the monsters at once.
I originally planned to use it on monsters to find a way out, but I’ve changed my mind.
“The fact that the Pantheon guys are hunting monsters instead of us means they are confident that they have won the war.”
To them, the few remaining Guardian Guild members will not be seen as enemies.
If not, there was no way I would have been able to catch a monster while the Guardian Guild was right in front of me.
“We’re waiting for them to let their guard down.”
“Surely… … you’re thinking of luring them into a trap?”
“Yeah, once we kill all the monsters, they’ll come to us. That’s when we’ll have our chance.”
“Ha, but that’s something used to catch monsters.”
“It doesn’t matter! Have you forgotten what they did to us?”
The guild member, whose conscience was pricked, recalled the mysterious light that had been emitted by the Pantheon Guild.
The comrades who were enveloped in that light disappeared without leaving even a corpse behind.
Among them were his friends.
“Understood. I will relay the instructions immediately.”
The guild members ran towards the front lines with solemn expressions on their faces.
The Guardians’ Guild members who received Song Gil-won’s order changed their course of action as he had hoped.
Those in charge of setting the traps became more stealthy and faster in increasing the power of the traps.
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Those in charge of luring also joined forces with other guild members and did their best to prevent the monsters from approaching.
The one and only opportunity that Song Gil-won is after.
The Guardian Guild desperately fought against the monsters, betting everything on the possibility of a sudden reversal.
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Only after the sun had almost set in the west did the monsters’ momentum diminish significantly.
All that was left were, at best, small monsters like goblins and kobolds.
Song Gil-won and the Guardian Guild, who had been holding on with all their might, were mostly left gasping for breath while collapsing.
“There is no such thing as chaos.”
The person who left a comment after seeing the Guardian Guild covered in sweat and dust had a face I had never seen before.
Song Gil-won recognized that the man was the real guild leader of Pantheon, Kang Jin-hyeok, and stood up.
“How did you get here… … !”
“You all say that when you see me. Do you find it so strange that I’m here?”
Kang Jin-hyeok shrugged his shoulders and swung the baseball bat lightly.
Song Gil-won gulped as he saw the blood that had been soaking the baseball bat splattering on the floor.
Kang Jin-hyeok’s grade recorded in the association was ‘A’.
But Song Gil-won didn’t trust that record even 1%.
It didn’t make sense for a top-class hunter to appoint Seo Sang-ho as the president of a company and even go on an overseas expedition with Cheon Sang-ho.
“Let’s see… … . Just looking at it, it looks like it’s not in a position to fight us.”
Kang Jin-hyeok said with pity as he looked at the exhausted Guardian Guild.
“It’s been a while since I’ve fought monsters like a hunter, so I guess it’s really killing me?”
Kang Jin-hyeok’s sarcastic mockery greatly hurt Song Gil-won’s pride.
“Did you come all the way here with the intention of teasing me?”
“No way. Of course I came because I had something to do.”
Kang Jin-hyeok picked up a baseball bat and pointed at Song Gil-won with the tip of the bat.
“You have to take responsibility for this war. With your head.”
“You’re going to kill us?”
“Us? Don’t get me wrong. I’m only trying to kill you.”
Song Gil-won noticed that Kang Jin-hyeok wasn’t joking.
Although he spoke and acted lightly, Kang Jin-hyeok’s eyes were more serious than anyone else’s.
“Do you think that will work out the way you want?”
The Guardians’ guild members followed Song Gil-won and stood up one by one, taking up their weapons.
They look exhausted from fighting all day, but they haven’t given up yet.
“I’m just asking because I don’t think you’re here to have a go at us, are you?”
“There’s no way it won’t work! Isn’t that right? Guys!”
The Guardians’ guild members answered Song Gil-won’s question with a loud cheer.
“If you want my neck, you’ll have to call all of your guild members as well.”
Song Gil-won pretended to be provocative while secretly revealing his true feelings.
By showing an exhausted appearance, he lures Pantheon into letting down his guard and then lures them into a trap.
If they could just sweep them all away at once with the power of the scroll and mines, it would be a victory for the Guardian Guild.
But the plan could only succeed if it was not discovered by the other party.
Song Gil-won believed that Pantheon would have been too focused on the monsters to pay attention to their own movements.
But in reality, that wasn’t the case.
“You’re acting so serious when you’re just talking like a dog.”
Kang Jin-hyeok laughed, saying it was ridiculous.
“What, what did you say?”
Kang Jin-hyeok gestured to the people in front of Song Gil-won, who was getting angry.
Then, one of the men came carrying a captured goblin and handed it to Kang Jin-hyeok.
Kang Jin-hyeok grabbed the goblin by the back of his neck to prevent him from escaping.
“Squeak! Kkeeeeek!”
The goblin struggled to get away, screaming.
No matter how hard he struggled, he could not escape Kang Jin-hyeok’s grasp, as his strength was no match for that of a D-class hunter.
“Hey, come on.”
Kang Jin-hyeok threw the goblin he was holding with all his might.
The goblin rose into the air and drew a parabolic arc with its body while screaming.
Song Gil-won checked the point where the goblin fell and became lost in thought.
Boom!!
The moment the goblin’s body hit the ground, there was an explosion so strong that it shook the earth.
The goblin’s pulverized flesh rose high into the sky, engulfed in flames and smoke.
“You’ve prepared something truly amazing. Who on earth do you plan on getting rid of with this?”
“… … .”
Song Gil-won became a mute who had eaten honey.
There was no way that excuses would work here.
The fact that they didn’t use a trap like this even when monsters were swarming around was an action with an obvious purpose.
“You are blatantly trying to kill us. I am going to end it with your life. Isn’t that merciful enough?”
As cruel as it was, his words were undeniable.
If it were any other guild, they would have tried to kill everyone here and eliminate any trouble.
“Oh, by the way. Don’t even think about apologizing now.”
Song Gil-won, who had been begging for his life, flinched when he heard Kang Jin-hyeok’s words.
“Are you planning to kill all the other guild leaders as well… …?”
Song Gil-won tried to persuade Kang Jin-hyeok, saying that if he did that, he wouldn’t be able to handle the aftermath.
But it was a futile effort.
“I’ve already killed them all. You’re the only one left.”
Kang Jin-hyeok took out the identification cards from his bosom and threw them on the floor.
“This is… … .”
What Kang Jin-hyeok showed were ID cards proving his qualifications as a hunter.
Song Gil-won recognized at a glance that the owners of those IDs were guild leaders who had participated in the alliance.
“This crazy guy!”
As Song Gil-won gritted his teeth and expressed his anger, Kang Jin-hyeok wrinkled his forehead.
“Oh, really. The guy who started the fight is now properly acting like the victim.”
He came in to protect his own rice bowl, but now he gets hit in return, so he feels wronged.
Kang Jin-hyeok, unable to bear the disgust, swung the baseball bat and hit Song Gil-won in the temple.
