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< Visiting my old workplace >
As soon as we arrived in front of the guild building, Baek Young-hee came running out of the lobby.
“Team Leader! Where the hell have you been! Do you know what happened while you were away? You even kept your phone off… Ugh!”
“Whoa, whoa. That’s going to make spit fly.”
I covered Baek Young-hee’s mouth with my hand and pushed her away, as she was nagging me while standing so close to me that it was burdensome.
And then he pointed to Sirutteok, who was following behind him with a large backpack, and said:
“I heard enough from that guy about the situation as it came.”
Sirutteok bowed his head when he saw Baek Yeong-hee.
Only then did Baek Yeong-hee take a step back and look at the three of us who were carrying a lot of luggage.
Sirutteok was carrying a large backpack on his back, I was carrying a travel carrier, and the little one was carrying a teddy bear bag and a chicken doll that Jang Yeong-shin had made for him.
The appearance is like···.
“Where are you going to take refuge?”
“···Is there any room left in the guild?”
Since it was obvious that tents and such would be blown away as if by a storm once the disaster started, I only packed the important items and brought them to the guild.
Actually, I was getting a little tired of tent life.
It’s nice to be able to leisurely enjoy nature, but there are also many inconveniences.
Once the first disaster was over, I planned to start building a house there in earnest.
Baek Young-hee said with a sigh.
“Please put your luggage down here for now. I will have someone move it for you. I will go see the CEO right away.”
“Sirutteok. You stay here. Move your luggage and get some rest at the inn.”
“Yes, brother!”
We put down our luggage and rice cakes and got on the elevator. Baek Yeong-hee spoke next to me, pouting.
“Team Leader, we’re in big trouble now. Do you know that you’re the only one who didn’t show up for the emergency meeting? Even my father would be angry.”
I looked at Baek Young-hee with an expression asking what she meant.
“Is it something for an office worker who works five days a week to be upset if someone doesn’t answer the phone on the weekend?”
To my extremely common-sense rebuttal, Baek Young-hee just shook her head, seemingly unable to find the words to respond.
“anyhow···.”
After a while, we arrived in front of the representative office.
In front of the office door, Wang Gu-ho, who had been called in advance, was waiting with a timid look on his face.
“Team leader···?”
Wang Guho opened his eyes wide when he saw me. I smiled at him.
“How have you been?”
“Team Leader-!”
At that moment, Wang Guho ran towards me and hugged me tightly.
Of course, that was nonsense.
As I slightly dodged to the side, Wang Gu-ho lost his balance and rolled on the ground.
Boom boom boom!
“Ugh···.”
I looked down at Wang Gu-ho, who was sitting down and rubbing his head, and said.
“Are you crazy? Why are you suddenly attacking me?”
Wang Guho said with a resentful expression.
“It’s not an attack, I’m just happy to see you… I thought you left me behind….”
Looking back, I could see relief and joy on Wang Guho’s timid face.
I sighed as I looked at that shy smile.
Oh my. When will this fool become a human being?
I said, grabbing Wang Guho’s arm and lifting him up.
“Relief. No matter how much people ignore you and point their fingers at you, calling you a useless person, I will never abandon you.”
Wang Guho looked moved by my words.
“Team, team leader···.”
Because you still have so many uses.
The little boy also comforted Wang Gu-ho by patting his thigh.
“You’re a good person. I won’t throw you away because you’re a good person.”
“Thank you too, Lily… But my name is Goo-ho… I told you before….”
The little boy tilted his head and looked at me.
“Relief? Hogu? Two names? Hoguho?”
“Team leader···.”
I looked away from both of their gazes and knocked on the door to the representative office.
dripping-
When I knocked and went inside, Baek Chang-soo was looking at the documents with a serious expression.
Baek Young-hee stepped forward and said.
“Sir, I brought the landlord team leader.”
Baek Chang-soo put down the documents and sighed softly as he spoke.
“Don’t sit there.”
A heavy atmosphere hung over the room.
Baek Young-hee said while looking at her father’s face.
“Team Leader Lim said he went on a trip beyond the restricted area over the weekend. That’s why his cell phone wasn’t working···.”
“There’s no need to make excuses. That’s okay.”
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Baek Chang-soo rubbed the space between his eyebrows with his thumb and index finger. He looked quite tired.
He called me in a serious voice.
“Team Leader Lim.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Have you heard about the disaster?”
“I heard it on my way here.”
Did you just listen? I did it all.
Baek Chang-soo nodded and looked around the people in the room with a serious face.
“What I’m about to tell you is confidential, so I ask that you all keep it a secret.”
“······.”
Baek Yeong-hee and Wang Gu-ho nodded with nervous expressions. Wang Gu-ho agreed, but it seemed like it was the first time Baek Yeong-hee had heard the story.
Of course I knew what Baek Chang-soo was going to say.
“I went to the Blue House and met the great sage Aximus. He called me aside and prophesied to me···.”
To be honest, it was a bit awkward, but I tried hard to control my expression and listened to his story.
“The Seventh Order. Let the Wheel of Fate lead them, and they will bring light. . . What does this mean?”
Baek Young-hee cautiously offered her opinion.
“If you’re talking about the Seventh Knights… aren’t you talking about our 7th team?”
That’s right. Instead of saying that, I nodded.
“I think so too.”
Wang Guho also nodded timidly.
“Me too···. But the content after that···.”
From then on, everyone began to rest their chins on their hands and ponder the contents of the prophecy.
“Let the wheel of fate take its course….”
“They will bring light···.”
“As expected, prophecy is abstract.”
Abstract?
No, is there anything to interpret there?
I suppressed my frustration and pretended to think for a moment before speaking.
“I think it’s something like this. When the disaster starts, let Team 7 carry out a solo operation. Then everything will work out on its own. Something like that···.”
Now that I say it myself, it seems a bit too blatant.
When the disaster started, I didn’t plan on just sitting there and killing the monsters that came rushing in.
It was a very tedious, tiring and inefficient task.
Instead, I planned to enter the core gate and destroy the core.
The reason why the name of the first disaster is
Among the hundreds of gates that appear simultaneously that day, seven special gates with seven colors open.
The core gate called ‘Seven Moon’.
It affects surrounding gates, and if one core gate is destroyed, dozens of nearby gates will also be destroyed.
In the past, finding out the fact too late could result in huge damage.
Conversely, if only the core gate could be destroyed quickly, the damage caused by the disaster could be minimized.
I told Kim Soo-ho where the six core gates would occur and their internal environment.
Orange Moon – Plains
Yellow Moon-Desert
Green Moon – Rainforest
Blue Moon-Ice Fortress
Blue Moon – Steel Prison
Purple Moon – Polluted Land
But there was one thing that he didn’t tell me, the location of the red moon,
Because it contains the things I absolutely need.
It’s
This time, I really wanted to make my dream of having beautiful skin come true.
In my opinion, Baek Chang-soo said, tilting his head.
“It’s a solo operation for Team 7···. I’ve thought about that too···.”
His daughter said with a similar expression.
“Is the prophecy that simple? There might be some hidden meaning behind it.”
There is no such thing as a hidden meaning! There is none!
I held back the urge to scream and tried hard to persuade the two people.
“Would the Great Sage have made a difficult prophecy on purpose? If it were easy for us to understand, it would be easier to prevent disaster? We just think it’s easy.”
“Hmm···.”
“I see···.”
No matter how much they racked their brains, there was no way they could come up with a different interpretation.
In the end, Baek Chang-soo nodded.
“Understood. When the disaster starts, Team 7 will carry out independent operations according to Team Leader Lim’s judgment. However, be sure to report when you move.”
“all right.”
So, an excuse was created to ‘accidentally’ find and enter Core Gate.
All that remained was to prepare to conquer Core Gate as easily and quickly as possible.
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Three more days passed since then.
“Tea, Team Leader···.”
Wang Gu-ho called me, sweating profusely. He had been in the Maboja position for an hour now.
I was sitting on the chair next to him, flipping through the Geomhwangbirok that I had taken pictures of with my smartphone.
“why?”
When I glanced at him, Wang Guho said, his body trembling.
“It’s already been two hours···.”
Oh, it’s been two hours.
“Wait a minute. I’m almost done reading it.”
I was flipping through my smartphone with one hand and feeling Wang Guho’s acupuncture point with the other.
Pok! Pok ok pok ok pok!
“Ugh!”
Wang Guho looked at me, holding his breath.
Because it’s not easy to have the experience of mana moving freely within your body.
“Can you remember the path the mana moved in your body just now?”
“Huh? Oh, no···.”
“Remember this, I’ll do it one more time.”
Pok ok ok ok!
Wang Guho shivered as if he had been shocked.
“Ugh!”
I was teaching martial arts to Wang Guho right now.
Actually, there is a misnomer in the word ‘teaching’, and the expression ‘beating’ is more appropriate.
『To deal with the Heavenly Demon, you must first deal with his numerous subordinates. However, if you deal with them all alone and your energy is exhausted, you will not be able to deal with the Heavenly Demon, right? That is why you must also build up your forces. Re-establish the Sword Emperor Clan!』
I have no interest in rebuilding the ruined Geomhwangmun Gate, but the martial arts skills that Geomhwang left behind seem quite useful.
“I have left behind a few suitable martial arts techniques, so when you take in your subordinates, teach them one by one.”
Among them, the one I chose for Wang Guho was the ‘Geumgangdaeryukgong’, a martial art focusing on external attacks.
According to the story of the Emperor of Swords, even a slightly smart monkey can learn.
“I’ve taught monkeys, so it should be easier for people. But that Geum-o guy ran away a while ago… Surely he wouldn’t hurt people. “
This gentleman also has an irresponsible side.
Anyway, I was teaching martial arts to Wang Guho in the same way that Geom Hwang taught monkeys.
Because it was just to make the body stronger and help with digestion.
The monkey that the Emperor taught was so smart that he learned this method in just 10 attempts.
Pok! Pok ok pok ok pok!
“Do you understand now?”
“Not yet well···.”
Pok ok ok ok ok!
“now?”
“I think I know a little bit···.”
Pububububububuk!
“Is this enough?”
“well···.”
After about 30 attempts, I hit the back of Wang Guho’s head instead of the acupuncture point.
Phew!
“You little punk, you’re worse than a monkey!”
Wang Guho muttered, scratching the back of his head.
“I think I almost know it… I’ll try it by myself.”
I sighed and nodded.
“You figure it out now. I want to teach you more, but I don’t have time.”
I left Wang Guho alone in the gym and approached the kid who was fighting the chicken alone on one side.
The little boy was happily putting splatters of spicy chicken sauce and sweet and sour chicken sauce on his cheeks.
“Eat it properly.”
I sat down next to the little boy and wiped his cheek with a wet tissue. Then, out of the blue, I picked up a chicken leg and put it in my mouth.
At that moment the little boy cried out in sorrow.
“I saved it to eat later!”
I taught the little boy the truth of life while munching on chicken.
“There is no later. If you don’t eat the good things quickly, they will all be taken away. Should I eat one more leg?”
“no!”
The little boy protected the chicken with both arms, but that flimsy defense was not enough to stop my golden spoon.
WHACK! I snatched the second chicken leg and put it in my mouth.
“Hmm. This place makes good chicken.”
“villain!”
I argued with the rushing kid for a while, then turned my gaze out the window.
“······.”
The blue rainbow disappeared this morning.
The moment only one purple strip remained, an alarm sounded throughout the city and a mass exodus began.
The citizens packed their belongings and moved to designated shelters, while the soldiers, police, and superhuman guild moved to designated defense points.
Now, it’s not surprising that a disaster could start at any time.
A tense and eerie atmosphere permeated the city.
“It will probably start sometime tomorrow evening.”
So there was something I absolutely had to do tonight.
I looked back at the little boy patting his chubby belly. Where the chicken had been, only ruins remained.
“Did you enjoy the chicken?”
The little boy nodded his head, seemingly satisfied.
“Yeah! It was delicious!”
“Then shall we go and pay for the meal?”
“······.”
The little boy looked at me and slowly got up from his seat.
“I suddenly need to go to the bathroom···.”
I grabbed the back of the kid’s neck as he tried to run away to the bathroom.
“Where are you running away to?”
“Oh, it’s true!”
Oh my. I’m getting more and more confused as to who I’m learning from.
I headed to the window with the struggling little boy under my arm because I didn’t want to work.
“Wang Gu-ho. We’re going out and coming back.”
“······.”
There was no answer as I was concentrating on my exercise. After glancing at Wang Guho, I opened the window.
Wheeeeeeeeing-!
Our room was on the 10th floor, so the night wind blew quite strongly.
I pointed with my finger to a tall building, my old workplace.
“Let’s go there.”
The sign on the top of the building read:
When the disaster started, I planned to enter the ‘Red Moon’ among the core gates.
It was a terrain with blazing flames and boiling lava, so fire-retardant clothing and items that could suppress flames were needed.
In particular, to deal with boss monsters, you need an item called ‘Ice Dragon’s Fang’.
“What a coincidence.”
It just so happens that the ‘Bingryong’s Fang’ is stored in the secret warehouse of the Black Hound Guild.
Moreover, today, when everyone is preoccupied with the disaster,
It was a great day to burglarize an empty house.
After a while, I visited my old workplace.
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