Episode 105
Won’t the remaining guild members take revenge?
Most of the guild leaders who participated in the alliance had such expectations before they died.
But in reality, nothing happened.
Of course, it is true that the guild members were angry at the guild leader’s death.
But getting angry doesn’t make your hair turn yellow.
There was no whispering from the hidden self asking for power.
The desperate situation did not improve at all, so the guild members had no choice but to bury their feelings deep in their hearts.
“This is really… … . What I never expected really happened.”
The Altron executive stroked his beard and looked distraught.
“What should we do now?”
The guild member who submitted the report knelt down on one knee and asked for his advice.
“You managed to stop so many enemies. What can I do?”
The guild members were surprised to hear that.
Who is the old man in front of me?
It was the first time that someone who had been showing the guild the way forward since the founding of Altron had spoken with such a sense of resignation.
He is called the pillar of Altron along with S-class hunter Yoo Hye-sung.
It was hard to believe that these words came from the mouth of ‘Park Seong-cheol’, who was even given the title of wise man.
“Wouldn’t it be better to decide the outcome when they are tired from fighting?”
When Altron’s guild members came up with their own solutions, Park Sung-cheol sighed in front of him.
“They’re tired? Where on earth does it say that in this report?”
According to reports, Pantheon suffered fewer than ten casualties.
Even though he had beaten and killed all the guild leaders of the alliance, he only suffered that much damage.
“Kang Jin-hyeok… … . Since that guy came back, it’s been a one-sided massacre.”
“Wasn’t it just luck? If only the gate hadn’t opened, it would have been… … .”
“The Union guys won? Do you really think so?”
The guild members of Altron fell into deep thought after hearing Park Seong-cheol’s question.
“Still, I think things might have been different than they are now.”
“Hmm… … .”
Park Sung-cheol looked at the members of Altron’s guild with pity.
He still didn’t realize the truth of the situation.
Is it really a coincidence that the gate appears right after Kang Jin-hyeok returns?
Park Sung-cheol suspected that perhaps even that phenomenon was not intentional.
‘They say that if coincidences keep happening, it becomes destiny.’
Park Sung-cheol did not say out loud what he was thinking.
The circumstances were suspicious enough, but now he only had circumstantial evidence.
There was absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis.
Park Sung-cheol thought that speaking his mind in that situation would only cause unnecessary confusion.
“First, contact Pantheon and tell them that you will fully cooperate with the damage recovery.”
“Do you intend to form an alliance with them?”
“There’s no benefit to being defeated, right?”
Park Sung-cheol was willing to cooperate, but had no intention of forming a formal alliance.
With the fall of Tyrant and the fall of the Alliance, many guilds have lost their power.
The only rivals left in the country that can compete for hegemony are Altron and Pantheon.
‘We’ll have to settle this someday.’
There cannot be two suns under the sky.
But now was not the time.
Altron had very little information about the Pantheon, and had no justification for starting a war and winning public opinion over to his side.
“I guess I’ll have to send someone to Titan.”
“Are you thinking of planting a spy?”
“Yeah. Shouldn’t we know what they’re hiding?”
Park Sung-chul was confident that the secret to Pantheon’s rapid growth lay with Kang Jin-hyeok.
‘There must be something that made a D-rank hunter stand out like this.’
Park Sung-cheol was a man who trusted his intuition.
Everything he had thought suspicious until now was actually a secret he couldn’t tell anyone.
Park Sung-cheol thought that only by finding out Kang Jin-hyeok’s secret could Altron gain the upper hand.
“Who do you plan to send?”
“Well… … At least we can’t send away the guys who are currently working.”
All of the hunters belonging to Altron were extremely loyal, but they were not suitable to be used as spies.
A spy must never reveal information to his opponent.
Most of the hunters in Altron are B-class or higher, and they are quite well-known, so most of the information about them is known to the community.
“Then how about choosing one from the candidates?”
“I was just thinking about that.”
The Altron Guild scouted young hunters in advance, much like a soccer team signs young players in advance.
As is the case with any guild, they covet promising hunters, so Altron kept the information about the candidates they had contracted with completely hidden.
It wasn’t my intention, but it turned out to be a perfect fit for a spy.
“I have to get on their good side. I have to pick someone with a nice face and quick wit.”
“I will prepare the list right away.”
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Altron’s guild members hurriedly left their posts to carry out their assigned tasks.
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Pantheon lost little in their fight against the Guild Alliance.
There were a few casualties, but they were nothing compared to the damage the Guild Alliance had suffered.
“There is no loss in human resources, but… … there is some damage to the facilities.”
It was not the guild union’s hunters but the monsters that caused the damage to the facility.
Since it was not an atrocity committed by the hunters of the Guild Alliance, it was not possible to claim compensation from them.
“Those damn monsters only picked out the expensive ones and destroyed them.”
“But things worked out well thanks to your good timing.”
Lee Jun-cheol swallowed his tears at the painful expense, but agreed with Jo Hyeong-il’s words.
“The heavens helped.”
If the monsters hadn’t appeared and interrupted the Guardian Guild’s advance, the damage would have certainly spread to Pantheon’s headquarters.
It was fortunate that it ended with only damage to a few buildings.
“It wasn’t heaven that helped me, it was me who called me.”
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was slurping down a cup of ramen while saying he was hungry, opened his mouth with a calm expression.
Lee Jun-cheol and Jo Hyeong-il were shocked when a bomb suddenly burst out of the mouth of a man who had been torturing them with his smell and not helping them with their work.
“What did you just say… … ?”
“What do you mean you called me directly?”
The reason Lee Jun-cheol and Jo Hyeong-il had serious expressions was because that ridiculous statement came out of Kang Jin-hyeok’s mouth.
If it had been someone else who told the story, I would have thought it was a joke and not been surprised.
Since he was a gentleman who overturned conventional wisdom like the palm of his hand every single day, the two of them could not help but feel that his words were not a joke.
“I guess that’s what it means literally.”
As expected by the two, Kang Jin-hyeok didn’t say it with the intention of laughing it off.
Kang Jin-hyeok took out a green-glowing jewel and placed it on the table where the two people were sitting.
“What is this?”
“It’s an item obtained by catching a new monster.”
As the situation unfolded, Lee Jun-cheol was able to infer the scenario that would follow based on his previous experiences.
“You’re not saying… that you used this item to summon monsters, are you?”
“If you don’t believe me, would you like to see it for yourself?”
Kang Jin-hyeok picked up the jewel he had placed on the table again.
And in his other hand he held a small magic stone and made the jewel and the magic stone touch each other.
Then, the jewel absorbed the power of the magic stone and summoned a gate right in front of his eyes.
As a purple crack about 1m high appeared and several goblins walked out of it, Lee Jun-cheol and Jo Hyeong-il kicked their chairs and stood up.
“Hey, goblin?!”
“Did you just build the gate yourself?”
Before answering, Kang Jin-hyeok first struck down the goblin.
The three goblins that appeared beyond the gate had their skulls smashed with Kang Jin-hyeok’s baseball bat as soon as they saw the light of day.
The corpses of the goblins who died without even being able to scream were placed in Kang Jin-hyeok’s inventory.
“Do other people know about this…?”
Lee Jun-cheol’s voice was trembling violently.
Originally, gates could not be generated arbitrarily.
This was the result of years of experiments by the world’s geniuses.
The odds of encountering it could be increased somewhat, but it was still only in the single digits.
Because he shattered all common sense and stereotypes like a board used in martial arts demonstrations.
It was natural that Lee Jun-cheol couldn’t maintain his composure.
“I know Seo Sang-ho and Lee Hye-na. I showed it to them first.”
Hearing those words, Lee Jun-cheol imagined the two people’s reactions in his head.
“It must have been really upside down.”
Kang Jin-hyeok smiled slightly, moving the corners of his lips in response to the correct answer.
“Right now. But is it okay to just show something like this?”
Jo Hyeong-il couldn’t understand at all why Kang Jin-hyeok showed them something like this.
“I know it’s hard to say it myself, but we’re a group of people with dirty secrets.”
It didn’t seem like Kang Jin-hyeok was just acting without thinking.
The Kang Jin-hyeok that Jo Hyeong-il had seen so far was someone who seemed like a sloppy person, but would never do something stupid.
Clearly, this action had some meaning.
“Are you telling me this secret because you want to cut me off later and prevent me from running away?”
Now that you know the secret, there may be a price to pay to leave the Pantheon.
It’s like a yakuza has to cut off his fingers to retire.
“I didn’t show it to you with that intention.”
“How can I believe that?”
“How can you believe it? You just have to believe me. What else can you do? It’s not like I can show you what’s in my head.”
Kang Jin-hyeok only spoke his mind, so he had nothing to show as evidence.
“Then can you tell me why you showed us that jewel?”
Lee Jun-cheol wanted to hear a convincing reason from Kang Jin-hyeok instead of the evidence.
He wanted to escape the anxiety that he had touched something they shouldn’t know about.
“Nothing much. I just heard that you held on even when the guild was on the verge of collapse. I’m trying to trust you guys a little bit too.”
Kang Jin-hyeok felt a little embarrassed to bring up such an unfamiliar topic.
“You said you trust us?”
“… … .”
When Lee Jun-cheol asked again, Kang Jin-hyeok answered with silence.
“Kukuk.”
Kang Jin-hyeok showed this incredible secret himself as a gesture of trust.
At first glance, it may seem like a story that would bring about a tsunami of emotions, but there was a hidden calculation behind it.
‘You can directly open the gate that summons the monster.’
Who could choose betrayal in the face of this sweet temptation?
Only a madman would do something like join another guild and throw away these endless possibilities.
If Pantheon was a weak guild, then it might be different.
This is a guild that won against the Guild Alliance without taking any significant damage.
‘Can you guys leave here after seeing this?’
The real message that Kang Jin-hyeok is conveying is probably this.
“If you trust us, you’re in big trouble.”
“Hey, you wouldn’t come all the way here and hit me in the back of the head.”
Kang Jin-hyeok and Lee Jun-cheol looked at each other with smiling faces.
