Episode 36
Even if someone deserves to die, it is human nature to hesitate when the time comes to kill them with one’s own hands.
But there was no hesitation in Lucia’s actions.
Unlike Kang Jin-hyeok, who was trying to give her a little help, she clearly moved with murderous intent.
He finished off his opponent with one blow.
Kang Jin-hyeok didn’t think that it was Lucia’s nature to be able to kill people without hesitation.
Kang Jin-hyeok recalled what Lucia had said in the dungeon a while ago, lamenting her fate.
Maybe Lucia’s life wasn’t as smooth as he thought.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who suddenly felt compassionate, revealed something he had just seen.
“It didn’t rise at all.”
“what?”
“Your karma.”
“When I killed that human?”
“uh.”
“I see, that’s how it is,” Lucia muttered in a much lighter voice.
“I should burn this place down and dispose of the body.”
“If it’s your house, can you burn it down so easily?”
“What about a house? It’s just something I made temporarily because I had no place to stay.”
Just looking at the exterior, it looked more like a tent than a house.
It’s livable for a day or two, but anyone would be terrified if they were told to stay here for more than a month.
After gathering the things that were still useful, Lucia dragged Kang Jin-hyeok outside.
“So where are we going to live now? How much space is there in this dungeon?”
“Hehe, are you worried about me right now?”
As she said, Kang Jin-hyeok was worried about Lucia on the inside, even though he pretended not to care on the outside.
In his view, no matter how strong one was, it seemed difficult to rest comfortably in a place where monsters appeared without warning.
“Can I borrow a room?”
“You want me to live in your house? That’s too much of a joke.”
In Lucia’s mind, the option of living outside the dungeon never existed from the beginning.
“If I live in a place with such bad air, I don’t think I’ll be able to die.”
She thought it would be better to band together with monsters.
The second reason was that I didn’t want to enter a house where only one man lived without fear.
“There’s a place I’ve been eyeing. I’m thinking of staying there for the time being.”
“What about necessities?”
“Huh? You can just bring it from outside.”
“It’s almost certain that you’ll use me like this.”
“Of course. You’re starting to realize it now, aren’t you?”
“What? You mean I have to live by running errands for you?”
Lucia shook her head slightly.
“I’m saying that we’re not in a position to cut ties with each other in a few days.”
Lucia’s goal is to return to her original world.
Just because it wasn’t urgent didn’t mean the goal itself completely disappeared.
But she was also assuming the worst case scenario.
Since I was in a position where I might have to live in Kang Jin-hyeok’s world, I absolutely needed his cooperation in order to adapt.
Kang Jin-hyeok also needs Lucia’s power to easily solve the incidents happening in his world.
“If I think about it, it seems like this is far from over.”
What started out as an attempt to learn about Kang Jin-hyeok’s hidden skills soon escalated into digging deep into a huge organization.
When I think about how things grew beyond my imagination like a snowball rolling down a mountaintop, I can’t help but laugh.
“I think I can cut my losses here since I have a rough idea of what karma levels need to go up… … .”
Lucia was internally conflicted.
In fact, from her perspective, it didn’t really matter what happened outside.
But after hearing Choi Seo-hoon’s story, I felt like there was a thorn stuck in my throat.
Even if it was something from another world, it was a natural reaction to hear such an atrocity right before my eyes.
“You’re not going to just let it go, are you?”
“You call that a horse?”
Kang Jin-hyeok could not just sit by and watch this incident unfold.
Compared to this incident, the atrocities committed by other large guilds were nothing more than child’s play.
“I’ll find them all, Aluane or whatever, and burn them all.”
A flower that grows by eating people should not exist.
Just as monsters need to be exterminated, it was right for such flowers to disappear from this world.
“Are you okay? From what I’ve heard, it seems like the other guys aren’t ordinary people.”
“It’ll be hard. But I’ll do everything I can.”
Kang Jin-hyeok said that and took his cell phone out of his pocket.
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Titan’s guild leader, Seo Sang-ho.
The secretary, who had been watching him for a long time, felt that he was a very easygoing person.
Aren’t you going around and making a fuss here and there, which is not befitting of the head of a large guild?
A smiling face all the time, unless a major problem arises.
To put it nicely, he is a kind person, but to put it badly, he is a heartless person.
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It was extremely rare for a person like that to make such a ferocious expression as if he was going to eat several people.
After Seo Sang-ho hung up the phone, he remained silent for a long time.
The secretary reached out first, as if he was going to crush the cell phone he was holding at any moment.
Seo Sang-ho, whose cell phone was taken away by his secretary, sighed deeply and ran his hand over his face.
“This is driving me crazy.”
The secretary didn’t ask what was going on.
Asking that now would have been an act of rekindling Seo Sang-ho’s anger that was trying to subside.
Instead, the secretary brought me some tea with warm water.
Seo Sang-ho sat on the sofa and quietly accepted it and drank it.
As the flavor of the fine tea spread down his throat, his emotions calmed down somewhat.
Only after his complicated mind had been sorted out did Seo Sang-ho open his closed mouth.
“Have you heard of the welcome of Alaune?”
“No. This is the first time I’ve heard of it.”
“Yeah… … . It’s normal not to know about it since it’s something the association is trying to hide.”
Because the manufacturing method was so inhumane, it was a globally classified item, and only a handful of S-class hunters knew of its existence.
Seo Sang-ho wondered why Kang Jin-hyeok, a mere C-class hunter, knew such confidential information.
With his rank, he wouldn’t have been able to access the materials from the association.
Kang Jin-hyeok would never have heard that name unless he actually encountered it or was directly involved with it.
‘So does that mean it’s all true?’
Seo Sang-ho didn’t want to believe it.
I knew that the Tyrant Guild was overly conscious of the Altron Guild and obsessed with power.
At least I believed that they wouldn’t do anything that would tarnish their reputation as one of the top guilds in Korea.
But the reality was not like that.
The leader of the Tyrant’s guild was a madman who sacrificed people for his own growth.
‘A piece of trash that can’t even be called a hunter is sitting there as the head of the best guild!’
Seo Sang-ho felt like vomiting when he realized that disgusting fact.
He slowly raised his head, clutching his head in agony.
“Wouldn’t it be possible to go back to Korea now?”
“Yes. Because I haven’t finished the subjugation request yet.”
“Whew… … . Damn it.”
I wish I could negotiate with the Tyrant Guild right away.
But the Titans’ forces fell behind them.
Currently, Seo Sang-ho himself has also crossed the border to accept a foreign request.
If you break it in the middle and return, you will have to pay a huge penalty.
Considering the guild’s finances and trust, it was something that should never be done.
As the guild leader, Seo Sang-ho could not commit such an irresponsible act.
But it didn’t suit his temperament to just sit back and watch.
“From this moment on, Tyrant and I are enemies.”
“yes?”
The secretary was surprised to hear Seo Sang-ho’s sudden declaration.
To become hostile means to invade the territory that has been tacitly maintained by each other.
It meant that there would be no further transactions or exchanges in the future.
“If you do something like that, you will suffer enormous losses.”
“It’s okay. Instead, we can form an alliance with another place.”
“Th, those words, could it be… … .”
Seo Sang-ho nodded as the secretary, who had guessed his intention, spoke in a trembling voice.
“Yes, propose an alliance to the Altron Guild right now.”
Seo Sang-ho’s remarks were the most shocking thing the secretary had ever heard.
It’s ridiculous that a large guild as large as Titan would declare hostility to Tyrant and side with Altron.
It was no different from saying that it would break the balance that had been maintained until now.
It was something that could have caused a storm to blow across the country.
“Are you serious?”
“Have you seen me talking nonsense?”
The secretary barely managed to restrain herself from saying ‘yes’ absentmindedly.
When he usually went around with a smiling face, whenever he opened his mouth, nothing but nonsense was spoken, but at least now, when he had a serious expression, it wasn’t like that.
“Of course, I’m not asking you to announce that fact right now.”
“then?”
“Send investigators to the location you instructed, and if you find anything suspicious, announce it then.”
Seo Sang-ho got his cell phone back from his secretary and searched for an address on a map app.
The place he designated was a secluded outskirts with no visible features on the map.
The secretary could not understand Seo Sang-ho’s intentions, but did not object.
She considered it her secretary’s duty to follow whatever the guild master instructed her to do.
“How many investigators should we send?”
In response to the secretary’s question, Seo Sang-ho showed three fingers.
“Three people?”
“No, 30 people. Half of them are A-class.”
The secretary had just torn to shreds in her mind the duties of a secretary that she had thought of just a moment ago.
“If that’s the case, why don’t you just declare war first?”
“I don’t want to go to war. Why?”
“You’re not planning to wage war by deploying 30 people in someone else’s territory, and 15 of them are A-class hunters?”
“If you’re really cultivating Alaune there, you’ll need that many.”
“What the heck is that?”
“It’s better not to know. Don’t try to find out.”
When Seo Sang-ho, who seemed like he would still be able to open his mouth if he fell into the ocean, spoke so clearly, the secretary stopped digging further.
She just sighed softly and manipulated the tablet PC she was holding.
“30 people in the garden. At least half of them should be A-class hunters. Is that right?”
The secretary asked for confirmation, expecting Seo Sang-ho to reverse the order.
But there was no way to go back on what he had said.
“Okay. Make sure you don’t get caught and get the evidence within a week.”
“The requirements are getting more and more stringent.”
“There’s nothing we can do. The opponent is a Tyrant.”
“Are you giving such an order knowing that the other person is in a bad mood?”
“Because no one else but me would do something like this.”
Other guilds either lacked the courage or the strength to face the Tyrant.
Among the large guilds that could stand up to Tyrant to some extent, only Seo Sang-ho was able to move so boldly.
‘Kang Jin-hyeok, that guy must have known that and contacted me.’
Kang Jin-hyeok revealed all the information and asked him only to confirm the facts.
However, Seo Sang-ho had no intention of ending it with just confirmation if Tyrant was really breeding Alaune.
Those who crossed the line that should not be crossed needed to be punished.
“I need to finish this request as quickly as possible.”
