Chapter 1723 – 1723. Blacksmith
[Uses full recovery.]
I got up from the floor and nervously kicked Kanex’s corpse.
I found a magic stone inside his corpse. This magic stone was proof that he was a monster.
Did he say he was a god?
‘God is crazy. On the topic of monsters.’
It was the moment he was about to leave, shaking off the blood and intestines of the Kanex on his body. A black circular jewel fallen on the floor catches my eye. Something that didn’t exist before appeared as soon as Kanex died?
‘It must be a reward for clearing the dungeon.’
The appraisal was at home, so I couldn’t figure out what it was right away. I took my magic stone and jewels and came out of the temple. I saw the gate open in the distance.
Before leaving the dungeon, I moved to the house where Do Hae-young was. What Kanex did may be a trick to agitate me. I plan to check on Do Hae-young with the hope that I will.
Result. Do Hae-young was dead.
I sighed and turned my steps. This dungeon will soon become her graveyard. It will be a graveyard that will never be found.
Before leaving the dungeon, I used the illusionist to make my body invisible.
Ahead of the gate, association staff were panicking.
‘It’s natural that the open type has become a closed type. Originally, I would have reported it to the superiors right away, but if the association did a proper investigation, they would be found guilty, so I couldn’t help but wait for Berta to solve it.’
But Berta was annihilated. Closed dungeons that have been conquered will soon disappear.
‘Looking at them wandering around, I guess they didn’t know that there was a Ihwa Guild behind Berta. Was it simply bribed by Berta?’
The desire to throw a bomb as a gift soared. But be patient. This place was outside the dungeon, not inside. Things escalate when you wipe out an association employee with a bomb.
No matter how much I made my body invisible as an illusionist and hid my identity with a bast mask, it is better to be careful because hunters with extraordinary abilities are overflowing in the world.
I leisurely got out of there.
• • •
I met Park Jeong-gu, a black marketer. As soon as Park Jung-gu saw me, he frowned and shouted furiously. Because he explained the whole situation over the phone when he returned here.
“You crazy child! It’s just a matter of going to another dungeon and working! Is 50 billion ridiculous?!”
“Noisy. I saw no damage.”
I put 3 berries with vanilla mana seeds and HB-1 on the table.
“I only used one drop of HB-1.”
It was a gain, not a loss. Park Jeong-gu’s expression softened in an instanthehesitates as he tries to pack the HB-1.
“Okay. Have benefited let’s do it one more time how is it? This time in a safer dungeon….”
“No.”
“What?”
“I said no. Annoying.”
Park Jeong-gu’s attitude changed completely. He spoke in a cautious tone, as if soothing me.
“Hey, hey. I know you struggled this time. But it’s 50 billion. You’ve experienced that this plan isn’t just absurd. A whopping 50 billion! If you divide it by 5 to 5, your share is 25 billion!”
“If you don’t do it, don’t do it. Find someone else.”
“Damn it! You are very determined!”
I put my laptop on the table. Park Jeong-gu, who was banging on the armrest of his chair annoyedly, looked at his laptop with his eyes shining.
“It’s a military laptop. This is a fairly expensive model…. Is this what you got from the dungeon?”
“I also shot a funny video.”
It was a video of making a human offering to Berta and Kanex and obtaining an item called a strengthening agent. Park Jung-gu, who watched the video, laughed.
“Human sacrifice? I never thought I would see it with my own two eyes….”
“It was the Ewha Guild that hired Berta. There is evidence of that in the notebook materials.”
“Hoo. By the way? What do you say to me?”
“Sell materials along with reinforcements to large guilds that are hostile to the Ihwa Guild.”
“Hey, hey. This is not something that can be easily sold. What if the Ihwa Guild finds out? My life is over.”
“What the hell are you talking about being a black marketer? You know it’s a resource you can benefit from.”
“Can the risk of selling drugs be the same as that of a teenage guild? If you’re going to commission me, pay the commission fee.”
“This is a sales agent. Do I need a commission fee? Take the fee yourself.”
“Just as I don’t do things I don’t want to do, I don’t do things I don’t want to do.”
I clicked my tongue.
It wasn’t that I didn’t fully understand his attitude.
“I will give up my portion of the Mana Seed Fruit. Keep all the money you get from selling laptops and fortifiers. Instead, the condition is that the Ewha Guild must be hit hard.”
Park Jeong-gu grins. As if he had been waiting for these words, he packed up his notebook and fortifying agent.
“Then the story is different. But do you have any grudge against the Ehwa Guild?”
“There is nothing.”
“But why are you trying to feed the Ihwa Guild with candy like this?”
“To see how shaken the Ihwa Guild is.”
My goal is the Suwol guild, which ranks second among the top 10 guilds. Han Harin died because of them. Even thinking about it again, I can’t forgive myself. Attacking the Ihwa Guild was also a kind of experiment. An experiment to find out how shaken the 10th guild is when a large-scale corruption occurs.
‘The Ihwa Guild, which is at the end of the top 10 guilds, and the Suwol Guild, the second largest in Korea, may have different physiques.’
If the Ihwa Guild is shaken, the Suwol Guild will be shaken to some extent.
“Looking at you, you also have a bad personality. Make sure you take care of this. There are too many large guilds that want to topple the teenage guilds… Among them, there are several large guilds that are not on good terms with the Ihwa Guild.”
“Are there many large guilds that don’t get along well with the 10 guilds?”
“Because there are many large guilds that do not see the light of day because of the teenage guilds. And among the large guilds in Korea right now, there are probably no guilds that have not experienced being beaten by a teenage guild? Just because the 10th guild is famous doesn’t mean it’s nice.”
‘There must be a large guild that is hostile to the Suwol guild. Maybe one of the 10 guilds will be hostile to the Suwol Guild.’
It is too risky to ask Park Jeong-gu directly. We must not forget that Park Jeong-gu is a black marketer who moves according to his interests.
I get up.
“Goes.”
“Oh, yes. Until we contact you, don’t come here for a while. Even if I come, I won’t be there.”
•••
I watched the news without missing a single day for a week.
However, there was not a single station that dealt with the contents of the Ihwa Guild. The same goes for articles on the Internet. Keep quiet
‘Did Park Jeong-gu fail? Didn’t I?’
It is human sacrifice.
There is also a video of making human sacrifices to monsters. It is a video that cannot be skipped over.
‘Shall we use hacking and spread it on the Internet? Even if there are rumors of manipulation, I’m sure the Ihwa Guild will be dealt a blow.’
Videos with unknown sources are not reliable.
Even when I tried to check the video, Kanex was dead and the dungeon was gone. If the Ihwa Guild opens a public opinion war, it will inevitably lose.
‘Should I trust Park Jeong-gu and wait?’
Around evening, I got a call from Park Jeong-gu. Of course, it was a cannon phone.
-Oh, it’s me.
“A week has already passed. I looked at the news and Internet articles, but there was nothing related to Berta.”
-The transaction is complete. If it’s the Ihwa Guild, it sold the materials to a large guild that is grinding its teeth. The large guilds immediately jumped into action. I tried to put a disadvantage on the Ihwa Guild by stabbing the association. The problem was association. The association buried the thing. A large guild can’t turn the association into an enemy, so he gave up on something from the association.
“Association? Were the Association and the Ewha Guild really close?”
-That’s not right. According to the informant, the association imposed sanctions on the Ihwa Guild separately. They decided that this incident would lower not only the Ihwa guild, but all of the 10 guilds, and furthermore, the status of the hunters, so they buried them. It’s in the Reinforcement Association. I mean, in the name of investigating.
“I didn’t know that Korea’s Hunter Association was so rotten.”
-This isn’t rotten or anything. The Association only moved for self-defense. Honestly, if this had spread, the entire Hunter world would have been turned upside down. You know why the Association is obsessed with the Hunter image, right?
“Because Hunters have power.”
In the eyes of the public, Hunter was a walking bomb.
Just as the safety pin on a grenade fears the grenade itself, Hunters also fear it because it can harm them. There are very occasional defects among grenades.
“What if I spread that material on the Internet?”
– Fuck. Are you going to kill me?!
“It is a story of what if. If you spread it on the internet… Could the Ewha Guild have been shaken?”
– You must have been cursing and finished. Because the association will move right away. And you must have been caught by the association. Anyway, I failed to fuck the Ihwa Guild. I don’t intend to return the commission or request fee, so I give up.
It wasn’t that there was no income at all.
At least I knew I couldn’t do anything with the 10th guild this way. And didn’t I say that the Ihwa Guild also ate sanctions from the association?
“Park Jeong-goo. If it were you, how would you crush the 10 guilds?”
-Are you crazy? Why am I messing with the 10th guild?
“What if. What if.”
-After. It’s impossible to kill all 10 guilds. All 10 guilds are ruined? That means Korea is doomed. The government and associations cannot stand still.
“What if only one of the 10 largest guilds was defeated?”
-If that’s the case… Well. Well, I’ll make it a public enemy. This bastard… Now that I look at it, do you have any grudge against the 10th guild? Don’t even think about dragging me into it. Well, there’s nothing I can’t help with if you have enough money.
I don’t fully trust Park Jeong-gu. There is a possibility that this guy will also hit me in the back of the head at a critical moment.
-Anyway, don’t contact me for a while. Because I have to sleep for a while. Oh, you better be careful too. There is a saying that the Ihwa Guild is looking for you. By the way, they said that all the guys who guarded the dungeon gate were punished and left the company.
Pop.
The phone was disconnected.
