Episode 66
Jo Won-cheol, the leader of the Tyrant Guild and an S-class hunter.
Just a month ago, whenever he appeared on the streets, there was cheering.
The status of an S-class hunter was higher than that of an average celebrity.
He was the head of a guild that was ranked 1st or 2nd in South Korea, so even a little child with a runny nose would know his three-letter name.
But now that recognition has taken on a completely different meaning.
“ha.”
Jo Won-cheol sat with his buttocks pressed against a broken concrete pillar.
I thought it was the perfect time to take a drag on a cigarette, but the pack I took out of my pocket was empty.
“Fuck.”
The trash thrown with a short curse hit the cheek of the fallen hunter.
Jo Won-cheol tilted his head toward another hunter who was still groaning next to him.
“Hey, do you smoke?”
“Ugh… … .”
“Stop joking and answer me, kid.”
Jo Won-cheol kicked the hunter in the side with his foot as if he was handling a ball.
“Ugh!”
The hunter, who flew away while spitting out blood, first covered his body on top of his fallen comrades.
Even if you just roughly count them, there are more than 12 people.
Horribly, they were all corpses with vital points damaged.
They were all A-class hunters, but to Jo Won-cheol, they were nothing more than mere slackers who couldn’t even do post-meal exercise.
In the past, there were guys who couldn’t even look each other in the eye.
When the truth about Alaune was discovered and Tyrant became a public enemy, he came rushing in like a hyena.
As the number of people who didn’t even know the topic grew, it was difficult for Jo Won-cheol to handle them alone.
“So, which side are you carrying out this diversionary operation on this time?”
Jo Won-cheol grabbed the head of the hunter who had flown over the pile of corpses of his colleagues.
The hunter groaned in pain as he was lifted up by his hair.
“You keep me in one place and raid another place to take over my territory. Yeah, it’s such an obvious method, but I’ll admit it works really well.”
It was also a very wise choice to fortify the area with all sorts of scrolls and items to prevent anyone from recapturing the lost territory.
In reality, Tyrant was slowly falling into decline due to that method.
Jo Won-cheol couldn’t stand the fact that he knew it was happening but had no choice but to suffer.
“I admit it… … but I can’t help but get angrier as time goes on.”
Cho Won-cheol thought that the reason this simple method worked was because he had dealt with it gently.
“I was too lenient. I should have just stepped on those troublemakers early on.”
Since I’ve become a villain, I’ll go wild even more.
With that in mind, Jo Won-cheol pierced the hunter’s forehead with his hand.
“Krrrrr… … .”
As he pulled his hand out, the hunter, whose jaw was pierced, fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth.
The hunter, who had been squirming a few times, soon stopped moving and completely stopped breathing.
Jo Won-cheol searched through the pockets of the hunter he had just killed with his bloody hands.
He found the cigarette he wanted and took out his lighter with a big grin.
“Kid, if you had it, why didn’t you tell me a long time ago?”
Jo Won-cheol sat down on the broken pillar again and inhaled the smoke deeply.
It wasn’t my cup of tea, but I was satisfied with just the feeling of the nicotine entering deep into my lungs.
While I was enjoying the taste of the cigarette like that, I heard footsteps nearby.
Jo Won-cheol glanced at the owner of the footsteps, moving only his eyes.
Discovering the Tyrant emblem on his opponent’s shoulder, Jo Won-cheol released the hand that had been extended like a blade.
“What are you crawling in here for?”
“Look, I have something to report.”
“Didn’t I tell you not to report every single thing that happened while I was away?”
Jo Won-cheol hated saying the same thing twice.
The guild members shook their heads urgently at his frowning expression.
“No, that’s not it. This is a really important report!”
“What is it?”
“I found out who revealed the information about Alaune.”
“… … .”
Jo Won-cheol spat out the cigarette he had in his mouth and got up from his seat.
“who is this.”
The person responsible for causing his own guild to be destroyed and become prey to the thugs.
Jo Won-cheol approached the guild member with a murderous aura after discovering his true identity.
“Why don’t you speak quickly?”
“Ta, ta, it’s Titan!”
The guild member, overwhelmed with emotion, barely opened his mouth to answer.
Jo Won-cheol held back from rushing over right away and confirmed the facts with his guild members.
“Are you sure?”
“This is information that Seo Sang-ho’s secretary personally relayed to me.”
The tablet PC handed over by the guild member contained indisputable evidence.
Judging from the fact that even the photos and information that were not relayed to the broadcasting station were recorded, it was clear that it was Titan who had spread the truth about Alaune.
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“… …Why would that woman tell the secrets of her guild?”
“I thought you said that since you were going to leave Titan anyway, you didn’t care as long as you got the money?”
After hearing the guild member’s answer, Jo Won-cheol sneered.
“Ki kik, I really like that girl.”
The guild member asked Jo Won-cheol a question in a voice full of concern.
“What are you thinking about?”
“What should I do? Of course I should rush in right now and destroy everything.”
“If we start a war under the current circumstances, we will be destroyed as well.”
“What do I know? I’m not going to come back to life anyway.”
Even if it is somehow stabilized, it can never regain its former reputation.
In the future, it will be difficult to even be included in the top ten, let alone Altron.
“If we can’t be the best, let’s just remain the worst guild.”
The guild members nodded, intuitively sensing that Jo Won-cheol’s words were not a joke.
“I will summon all remaining personnel immediately.”
Jo Won-cheol wasn’t the only one who held a grudge in this situation.
The surviving members of Tyrant’s guild all harbored hatred toward the being that had brought about their downfall.
It was a natural reaction to be treated as a traitor while boasting of being the strongest guild.
There was no need to say anything about what would happen if a clear target called Titan was presented to those people.
Even if it is a toothless tiger, the fact remains that it is a beast.
Han Yeong-seok, who was looking for Kang Jin-hyeok and Seo Sang-ho, let out a silent scream when he heard the news of Tyrant’s advance.
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From an objective standpoint, it was nothing more than a clash between two small groups of less than 1,000 people.
Still, it was not at all an exaggeration to call it a ‘war’.
Hunters who abused their skills to truly kill their opponents were like walking bombs.
The skills used to hunt monsters burned down roads and destroyed buildings.
Han Yeong-seok watched from a building far away as the building they had just used as a conference room was engulfed in flames.
If he had not been notified in advance, Han Yeong-seok would have burned down along with the building.
When I thought about that fact, I got goosebumps.
“There’s not a single person at Tyrant’s headquarters!”
“It really seems like we mobilized everyone!”
The guild members’ reports shook Han Yeong-seok’s mentality, which was barely holding on.
“They’re doing that shit in broad daylight! What the hell is the association doing!”
“Despite our continued warnings through the broadcast, Tyrant has no intention of listening.”
“I’m just warning you, so don’t do that! You have to step forward and show me something!!”
Han Yeong-seok slammed his fist on the table.
The wooden table, unable to withstand the hunter’s evil power, shattered into pieces.
“They want us to kill each other and both of us to perish?”
Kang Jun-tae continued speaking in a calm voice as if it were an obvious fact.
“As the number of guilds with excessive power continues to increase, I think they will gradually reduce their number.”
As evidence, even though more than an hour had passed since the war began, the Association had taken no action other than issuing warnings.
Han Yeong-seok could not understand the association’s actions at all.
No matter how much of a thorn in the eye it is, does it make sense to just sit back and watch in a situation like this?
“You’re just going to watch while something like this happens in the city?!”
If you aid and abet the harm to citizens, you cannot avoid public criticism.
Considering that, I will not aid the two guilds’ alliance.
“Are you really going to just let ordinary people die?”
“I heard there is a group currently evacuating citizens.”
Kang Jun-tae was dumbfounded by the guild member’s answer.
“What, those guys trying to act like heroes are here?”
“Which guild is it?”
The guild member who received Han Yeong-seok’s question shook his head.
“I don’t know. I don’t have any information.”
“No information?”
“They call themselves ‘Pantheon’, but as I said, there is no information about them.”
Although the number of people seemed to be only about 30, they seemed to have anticipated this situation and were quickly helping citizens evacuate.
“Pantheon? You’re not talking about a game, are you… … . Is that the name of a guild?”
Kang Jun-tae guessed that this was a new guild that had taken advantage of the noisy atmosphere to launch its own guild.
However, Han Yeong-seok, who had been lost in thought, expressed a different opinion.
“They might be related to Kang Jin-hyeok and Seo Sang-ho.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden? On what basis?”
Kang Jun-tae couldn’t understand why Han Yeong-seok thought that way.
If there was any other information, I wouldn’t know. Right now, all I know is the name of the guild they put forward.
“No, wait. Your name… …?”
Kang Jun-tae felt a sense of discomfort belatedly.
‘Pantheon’ originally meant gods in Greece.
To be exact, it was a word that collectively referred to the 12 gods of Olympus who overthrew the ‘Titans’ and took power.
“Is it really a coincidence that at this time, with such a name, you appear in a place where we and the Tyrant are facing off?”
“That can’t be true.”
In such a clear situation, it was nothing short of far-fetched to claim that it was a coincidence.
“The reason they openly used a name to attack us like that is probably because they knew our situation in advance.”
“Do you believe that even if you know, you won’t be able to step forward?”
Han Yeong-seok wanted to correct their arrogant thinking.
But it was true that they were too busy fighting the Tyrant to have the luxury of moving personnel elsewhere.
Even if Kang Jin-hyeok is just another random hunter, he is someone who can easily defeat A-class hunters.
It would take quite a few hunters to catch him, but if we take out that many now, we might get hit by the Tyrant first.
“It looks like they were the ones who brought in the Tyrant.”
“You did a good job.”
Kang Jun-tae’s expression was not bright at all, even though he was speaking playfully.
The damn hunter who humiliated me even mobilized other guilds to create this situation.
Kang Jun-tae wanted to find Kang Jin-hyeok right now and beat him to death.
“We need to deal with the Tyrant quickly before they install any more.”
“It was going to be like that anyway.”
Han Yeong-seok gathered all the guild members who were scattered to search.
“Even if Tyrant was in his prime, he wouldn’t be able to beat us in this situation.”
Although he said that, Han Yeong-seok was inwardly trembling with anxiety.
I don’t know about other hunters, but Jo Won-cheol was an opponent you could never let your guard down against.
Among Han Yeong-seok’s allies, there was only one person who could stand up to Jo Won-cheol: Kang Jun-tae.
“You save your energy until Jo Won-cheol gets tired.”
“I wonder if he’ll ever get tired?”
“He’s human too, so just drive him until he gets tired.”
“If that happens, there won’t be any guild members left?”
“It doesn’t matter. The most important thing right now is to win.”
Han Yeong-seok was determined to win even if it meant sacrificing all of his guild members.
If we got pushed here, it was all over.
