◈ Episode 121. What is a goal (1)
Kim Joo-hyuk looked at the items contained in each of the four boxes brought by Adelia Bentrick and asked.
“Are these them?”
“yes that’s right.”
Adelia Bentrick answers politely yet very proudly.
Kim Joo-hyuk lowered his gaze once again and looked at a total of four objects.
One is a glass cup that gives off a very old-fashioned atmosphere.
‘This is like the glass of an unforgettable person.’
Another one was a black thorn the size of Kim Joo-hyuk’s forearm.
‘This is a thorn swimming in the darkness.’
Next to it was a thick square hammer that looked like something out of a movie.
‘The hammer that mediates everything… … .’
And finally.
Fluffy.
“Is this the water of the river of no return?”
Kim Joo-hyuk asked, shaking the clear water in a very expensive-looking bottle, and Adelia Bentrick nodded.
“yes.”
“her… … .”
In response to her answer, Kim Joo-hyuk left the water of the river of no return on the ground and then looked at Adelia Bentrick.
“Didn’t you say last time that it would definitely take a long time?”
When Kim Joo-hyuk talked about the artifact, he clearly told him that it would take some time for Black Cat, including Adelia Bentrick, and Toogwi to be released.
Kim Joo-hyuk also agreed to this point to some extent.
Actually, if you think about it a little more closely, finding the artifact was quite difficult.
As far as he knew, artifacts were unconditionally one-of-a-kind items unless they were artificial artifacts made by magic-related contractors.
First of all, the value of the artifact increases from there.
Along with that, you will have to fight a painful fight with the owner of the artifact.
Lastly, I don’t know if the artifact has already been unearthed and has an owner, but on the other hand, if there is no owner, you have to go in and retrieve the artifact by air.
Therefore, Kim Joo-hyuk thought that it would take a very long time to find the four artifacts, so he looked at Adelia Bentrick with a curious expression.
She lowered her head with a somewhat confident expression and opened her mouth.
“First of all, luckily all four artifacts had already been excavated and were with their ‘owners’, so collecting them was easy.”
“okay?”
“Furthermore, the owners of three of the four artifacts are people I am somewhat familiar with… … .”
“You got it a little easier?”
“Yes, it was possible to trade artifacts without going through the useless bargaining process. Fortunately, the owner of the water in the river of no return was someone I did not know.”
Adelia Bentrick paused and seemed to think for a moment about what to say.
“It was resolved well through conversation.”
He soon smiled and lowered his head.
Kim Joo-hyuk momentarily found a strange sense of difference in Adelia Bentrick’s words, but then shrugged his shoulders as if it had come to an end.
The Black Cat, who was looking at Adelia Bentrick from behind-
[Why couldn’t the ruler behind you find anything? They are scolding me!]
[Why couldn’t the ruler behind you find anything? They are scolding me!]
[The ruler behind the scenes is scolding you, saying you absolutely had to find more people than that pudgy guy!!!]
Underneath the mask, he was talking with his constellation, the ruler behind him, with a very resentful expression.
‘Constellation! Don’t you know?! ‘I’ve been asking around for it for the past few days!’
Certainly, as soon as Kim Joo-hyuk’s name was announced, Black Cat immediately requested information on the four artifacts from an intelligence company.
And in fact, Black Cat was able to receive information from the intelligence company almost before a day had passed.
But the problem is.
‘When I received the information, two had already been taken over by the Ventric family!’
When Black Cat received the information, two of the four artifacts had already fallen into the hands of Adelia Ventrick.
Of course, Black Cat also moved immediately, but the moment he moved, Adelia Ventrick secured three artifacts.
As for the fourth artifact that was still left, Adelia Ventrick took it as Black Cat was in the middle of a deal.
That’s why Black Cat appealed with a sense of injustice.
Eventually, she stopped craving the Black Cat.
[The ruler behind the scenes grumbles as if he is very angry!!! And I grind my teeth!]
[As if the ruler behind the scenes couldn’t hold back his anger! It’s scary!!]
The mastermind behind the scenes pops up a notification window as if he can’t hold back his anger.
But when the ruler behind the scenes is so angry.
“Anyway, thank you. “I think we can get together sooner than expected and advance the plan a little further.”
“I just did what I had to do.”
[Buri Mask says he did very, very well and laughs as if he is in a good mood.]
[Buri Mask must be having a stomach ache right now, right? I laugh out loud.]
Adelia Bentrick was smiling as she looked at the notification window of her constellation and Kim Joo-hyuk, who seemed to be in a very happy mood.
‘As expected, even if it is a market, this one’s information power is one step higher… … !’
Adelia Bentrick is the matriarch of the Bentrick family.
And the Ventric family, of which she is the head, is a very powerful family that can wield power over almost all of Europe.
But that didn’t mean she could defeat Black Cat.
In the first place, he is the owner of a market that is used by contractors and various high-ranking officials around the world.
In short, in terms of financial power, Adelia Bentrick had no choice but to lose to the Black Cat.
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But what about information power?
Of course, Black Cat’s information power will be great.
With his funds, there wouldn’t be a single piece of information that couldn’t be obtained.
However, information power through financial power clearly has limits.
In the end, information through financial power means buying that information from someone.
But what about Adelia Bentrick?
‘There are five intelligence organizations secretly operated by the Bentrick family.’
I was able to immediately receive information through my immediate family’s intelligence organization.
Above all, the numerous connections she has made while running the family have really shined at this moment.
‘Honestly, the last artifact may have been stolen.’
Adelia Bentrick was able to secure the artifact in an instant without the Black Cat having a moment to do anything, even the ‘water of the river of no return’, which she had not yet become familiar with, thanks to her extraordinary bargaining and social skills.
Therefore, she felt a strange sense of victory that she had won between Black Cat, who had enormous financial power, and Tugui, who seemed to be no match for her in terms of military power.
Looking at Adelia Bentrick like that, Black Cat felt a strange sense of defeat.
“hmm-“
When Adelia Bentrick and Black Cat were in the same room with mixed emotions of victory and defeat.
“Okay then, now I just have to wait a week.”
Meanwhile, Kim Joo-hyuk muttered those words while looking at the four artifacts gathered together.
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Another few days have passed since then.
Even though there was a lot of uproar in the world, time at the Academy continued to flow.
Currently, the final exams for the second semester have finally arrived at Valhalla Academy.
And because of that, the current Valhalla students were in a state of extreme sensitivity, just like the midterm exams of the first semester, or perhaps even more than the midterm exams of the first semester.
That’s because Valhalla’s second semester final exam has more meaning than the first semester final exam for students.
Of course, if your grades are not up to par in the first or second semester, you will fail.
It’s the same.
However, the reason why the students of Valhalla risked their lives for the second semester final exam rather than the first semester was because of the Constellation Room.
Unlike the first semester final exam, if students pass the second semester final exam, they will be able to enter the Constellation Room, the reason they entered Valhalla Academy.
By signing a contract with the Constellation there, you can take your first steps as a contractor in earnest.
Therefore, the students of Valhalla were in a very sensitive state now that the second semester final exams were fast approaching.
“… … .”
In front of the door of the training room annex that seemed to have nothing to do with the atmosphere of Valhalla Academy.
“Whoa… … .”
Yan Lang was sighing lightly.
So why is she sighing in front of the door of the training room annex?
That was because she was running a strange simulation.
‘Open the door to the training room and go inside. If you’re working out, wait a moment and say hello. If you’re not working out, say hello right away and spread the momentum subtly-‘
Yanlang is imagining various situations in his head.
‘In that way, I show that I have become strong enough by having a fight with Kim Joo-hyuk, and Kim Joo-hyuk looks at me as if he has seen me again and praises me.’
She smiled with a very satisfied expression as she remembered her goal.
Yan Lang soon regained a confident smile on his lips.
Because while she was away from Valhalla Academy, she came back with tremendous growth.
If we were to ask how much, she could confidently say that she had grown to a level that would at least surprise Kim Joo-hyuk when he saw her.
‘perhaps? ‘Maybe I can actually compare with Kim Joo-hyuk?’
Even if I couldn’t rub it in with him, it was enough to surprise Kim Joo-hyuk, so for some reason Kim Joo-hyuk’s compliments seemed to come to mind, and without my knowledge, my confident smile seemed to turn strangely pale.
“Hmm,”
Soon, she felt like she had lost some of her thoughts about Kim Joo-hyuk, so she shook her head back and forth as if she was trying to shake off the thoughts she had been thinking about, and went straight into the training room.
As soon as she entered the training room, she was able to see Kim Joo-hyuk for the first time in a very long time.
I could see it.
“No, that’s not how you do it?”
“Then what should I do…” … ?”
“Did I tell you? Don’t you remember what I showed you earlier?”
“No, I’m fine, but… … “That is.”
“But why can’t you just do it? “You keep believing in your abilities and wielding them, so other than your abilities, you are worse than that girl called Rania?”
“… … ??”
Yan Lang thought his eyes were a little strange for a moment? She had an idea.
That’s right, the one who is with Kim Joo-hyuk right now is THE ONE, the number one person in the current contract industry, whom even Yan Lang knows very well.
“Well, can you show me one more time… … ?”
“No, just give it a try? “Why can’t you do that?”
THE ONE was being stared at by Kim Joo-hyuk with a very wrinkled expression.
“… … ?”
The number one contractor ranking is being sought after by a student at Valhalla Academy.
In response, Yanrang looked at the situation with a blank expression, forgetting that he had originally done a simulation in front of the training room door.
“What, are you here?”
“uh? Yes… … .”
Soon after Kim Joo-hyuk greeted her, she came to her senses and could only nod.?
