Broken Ranker Devours Myths - Chapter 44

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 44

Burglary (2)

 

 

 

In just one day, the disaster that struck Myeongga quickly hit the domestic media.

“……What, something about Myeongga?”

Camila looked at her subordinate with a face heavy with fatigue.

“Please look at this article.”

Camila took the mobile phone her subordinate carefully handed her.

 

 

└I saw the short-form video, was this real and not manipulated? No way

└This is beyond imagination…… So scary

└I thought I’d only see this kind of thing on the Middle East Front. This happens in Korea?

└Really, how can we live when the world is so scary. Hunter criminals causing chaos.

└I’m telling you, we really need to lock up those Hunter bastards somewhere and manage them intensively. Look at what they do normally. Just drinking and doing drugs and causing accidents every time. Potential criminal bastards.

└I don’t agree with extreme opinions like the one above, but those Myeongga guys deserve it.

└Right lololol Those bastards were the biggest problem lololol

└But I heard South American cartels were involved this time too, is that real? My uncle’s friend’s wife’s third aunt’s in-law’s family works in that field, and they said the cartel guys got backstabbed and aren’t in their right minds?

└Isn’t that a stranger??

 

Crack.

Camila clenched her fist tightly.

The mobile phone screen cracked.

“That crazy bastard…… He caused such chaos here and even attacked Myeongga?”

Contrary to Lee Hyeon’s concerns, the reason the cartel’s Korean branch couldn’t immediately move to Myeongga’s company building.

It was because the aftermath of Lee Hyeon’s incident was bigger than expected.

Camila did her best to prevent the Black Market Dungeon from closing.

She somehow tried to persuade and gather the non-human merchants again, and actually came close to succeeding.

As long as the merchants didn’t leave, the market could somehow be maintained.

But……

‘I didn’t expect those guys to interfere there……!’

The customers, another element of the market, didn’t return.

Unable to wait, they moved to black markets managed by other organizations.

Rumors had already spread widely in this underworld.

 

-The Korean branch of City Cartel discriminates against businesses while collecting tribute.

-The cartel can’t manage its lower organizations these days, so the black market is always noisy.

-They don’t properly compensate the merchants who suffered damage this time.

 

Hostile organizations that had been unable to raise their heads under City Cartel’s influence immediately moved.

As if they had been waiting……

A movement that would never have been possible unless someone leaked information from behind the scenes.

‘Was it really Chairman Peng, that fox-like old man? Or a third party aiming for our collision……?’

Eventually, was forced to close.

One of the 11 black markets operated by City Cartel had completely disappeared.

They managed to somehow smuggle out the really important documents,

But considering the assets invested in market facilities and the external credibility that fell into the gutter, the damage was at least in the hundreds of billions.

No matter how much City Cartel was called the emperor of the underground world, it was damage big enough to make one’s head spin.

‘Moreover, Han Hyeon-su from Blue Dog? That guy who was the only witness also suddenly died. This whole situation was definitely thoroughly designed.’

“I think I saw stories related to us among those comments. Contact the hacker team to clean it up. Make the media outlets shut up too. It’ll get noisy if rumors spread more.”

“Yes. Understood.”

Cartels collapse the moment they’re looked down upon. They couldn’t show weakness to ordinary citizens.

“Um, and……”

“What else?”

“We received contact from the Boss’s side a little while ago…… What should we do?”

The subordinate watched Camila, who had become extremely sensitive.

Sure enough.

The furrow between Camila’s brows deepened.

She had tried to settle the situation as much as possible before contacting him.

But it seemed the suspicious movements of other organizations had reached the Boss’s ears.

“Huu……”

Camila took a long breath.

When she opened her previously closed eyes, she had returned to her originally cold and rational self.

“Give it to me. I’ll report directly to the Boss myself.”

Camila absolutely didn’t think the masked man had moved alone.

Wasn’t what he reportedly said after bringing down Myeongga’s company building also written in the article?

 

-If a similar incident occurs again, whoever it may be, I will trample them without leaving a single blade of grass.

 

Those words were definitely meant for them.

In other words, this was a declaration of war.

A declaration of war that they would bite them from now on.

‘Fine. Come as much as you want. Whoever you are, whatever you bring, I’ll break all your necks.’

For this purpose, after finishing the cleanup, she planned to immediately head to Seoul.

Ring ring. Click.

“Yes. Boss.”

Camila’s eyes blazed as she answered the phone.

 

* * *

 

After his disciplinary confinement ended,

Lee Hyeon returned to work at the company.

‘Maybe because I wore the Dokgaksi Set for a while and then took it off, my body feels heavy again. Though the feeling is different.’

Back then he was confident he could easily win even in direct confrontation with Rankers, but not now.

However, the old combat sense he had re-experienced remained in his body, giving him plenty of vitality.

A feeling that he could reach it soon.

Really, there weren’t many hurdles left now.

While thinking about various things,

“Hey, did you hear the story?”

“The Myeongga Guild Leader went missing? They still haven’t found him?”

“I heard the entire leadership vanished before the building even collapsed… Don’t you think there’s really something going on?”

“Right. It’s so tense I’m going crazy.”

“Ugh, I was more scared of that bomber. Wearing some weird mask and bringing down buildings…”

People’s conversations reached his ears.

Most of them were about the ‘Myeongga Building Bombing Incident’ that happened a few days ago.

“They caught over ten mafia-related organization members this time too, right?”

“A Demon also appeared and was killed on the spot.”

“Is this really Korea? Why is everything so ominous?”

“No, you idiot. It’s because this is Korea that they’re all getting caught. They’re weeding them out. I heard several underworld organizations got completely wiped out too? They must be busy fighting each other.”

“Ah, that’s somewhat fortunate.”

The war in the shadows that should have been conducted secretly had grown much larger, to the point where even civilians knew about it.

‘Just what kind of schemes are you pulling, General?’

Lee Hyeon let out a hollow laugh as he got off the subway.

He had said that if they were going to expand the board, they should commit to pushing relentlessly without rest until the very end.

For the past few days, domestic and international media had no quiet days, all filled with the bombing incident and its derivative cases.

Thanks to that, personal information and baseless speculation about the Goblin Market masked figure circulated endlessly.

 

 

He even got a nickname.

Gwiroae, meaning one who wields white lightning like a ghost.

‘To think my first nickname in life would be something like this. I don’t know whether to laugh or not.’

The nickname Jet was just a codename to begin with. This was actually his first real nickname.

「How is it? How does it feel to wake up and find yourself a superstar?」

Son Wukong grinned and wagged his tail.

‘I don’t know if it’s good or bad. Well, it’s certain that Jin-woo hyung’s matter got buried, so I should call it fortunate.’

「Kekeke. Apostle-nim should enjoy this moment. Originally, even infamy is still fame.」

At Sha Wujing’s words, Lee Hyeon awkwardly scratched his cheek.

The fame he gained during his Cheongroe days – his body was so broken then that he had no time to care about such things, and since his personal information was classified, it felt like a distant world.

But this time was different.

He could see people talking about him in real time.

‘Thank goodness I moved around wearing a mask.’

While sighing in relief, he also thought Lee Gun-san, who had moved the media like this, was truly amazing.

‘As expected, he didn’t just quietly retire.’

Lee Gun-san treated it as casually as a hobby.

But what Lee Hyeon felt during his few days staying in the bunker was that he seemed to be preparing something.

If Basement Level 1 was the military sector with various firearms and ammunition storage,

Levels 2 and 3 had laboratories he used as an alchemist, and archives filled with various classified documents he had secretly taken before retirement.

He had indirectly asked why such things existed,

But all he got back each time was laughter.

Lee Hyeon stopped asking further.

‘He really is an incomprehensible person.’

Still, thanks to that, he was able to receive a lot of help.

Go Jin-woo also finished treatment and regained consciousness.

‘And I obtained this too.’

Whoosh…!

White frost floated up above Lee Hyeon’s palm.

 

[The narrative of is revealed!]

 

The Snow Queen’s power he had awakened with Ice Prison Heart could now be used more actively with Lee Gun-san’s help.

On top of that, he had entrusted the research of the mysterious fossil egg to him.

Without Lee Gun-san, he couldn’t imagine how he would have handled and started all these tasks.

‘For now, he said he’d share more results after further research on the Snow Queen and egg, so I can keep leaving that to the General…’

Lee Hyeon looked at White Burn’s building that had come into view.

‘Now shall I try ransacking this empty house?’

Though both were called the domestic Big 5 guilds, White Burn was definitely incomparable to Myeongga.

Not just the building size, but even the level of employed Hunters.

‘Well, that side is like a corner store level, while this side is international, so it’s natural if you think about it.’

He thought roughly three or four of White Burn’s raid teams combined might reach Myeongga’s level.

Of course, even that would become incomparable if Mountain God Mo Jeong-gyeon stepped in.

“You’re here, senior?”

When Lee Hyeon arrived at his spot, Kim Min-jeong lightly raised her hand in greeting.

“Yeah. Long time no see.”

“When you put it that way, it really does feel like we’re meeting after months. Even though it’s only been a week…”

Kim Min-jeong sighed.

“Do I look very tired?”

“You heard about the Myeongga situation, right?”

“Only through the news. But are we related to it too?”

“Even if it looks very small compared to us, a Big 5 guild is still a Big 5 guild. When such a guild disintegrated overnight, we couldn’t help but be busy.”

He heard that Myeongga’s board of directors and six raid leaders were fighting each other like dogs.

Since Myeongga collapsed and their interests went up in smoke, domestic and international guilds must have all rushed in.

He thought a major corporation like White Burn wouldn’t need to worry about it.

But apparently that wasn’t the case.

“Team Leader Im suffered the most because of that. He barely went home… And we got calls too because of manpower shortage. Senior, who was under disciplinary action, was the winner.”

Lee Hyeon scratched his cheek with an embarrassed expression.

「You can never tell them that you’re actually the one who caused that incident, can you?」

‘…I absolutely won’t.’

Lee Hyeon had no intention of revealing his Zeus’s Apostle identity anymore.

“But where are the others? I don’t see anyone?”

Lee Hyeon looked around and subtly changed the topic.

The team members who should be in the Z Team Sector were nowhere to be seen.

The break period should have ended too, right?

“Oh, that’s…!”

“Team Leader Jang.”

Just as Kim Min-jeong was about to answer, Im Won-young’s voice came from behind.

Lee Hyeon reflexively turned toward him.

A very tired face, just as Kim Min-jeong had said.

But Team Leader ‘Jang’?

He wondered if he was calling someone else, but Im Won-young was looking directly at Lee Hyeon.

“Ah, the official appointment hasn’t come down yet… Please forget that for now. I haven’t been able to sleep properly for over three days, so I can’t think straight.”

Im Won-young said while lightly tapping his cheeks with both hands a few times.

“Anyway, Section Chief Jang, could you follow me for a moment?”

Lee Hyeon figured it was probably related to why the team members were all absent and followed her into an empty conference room.

Click.

“You look very tired.”

“Yes. Due to Myeongga-related matters… Our company ended up taking over the dungeons that Myeongga was managing.”

Lee Hyeon nodded.

“More than that, the reason I wanted to see you privately is… What? Section Chief Jang, did you perhaps run dungeons during your disciplinary period?”

Im Won-young stopped mid-sentence and belatedly looked Lee Hyeon up and down.

Though he was restraining his energy as much as possible, his aura was different from five days ago.

Even she, a Ranker, felt stimulated by it.

 

[The legend ‘When Tigers Smoked Tobacco’ shows strong fighting spirit!]

 

Even the legend within was stirring to that degree.

“That can’t be. I guess it’s just because I’m in a growth phase.”

“……I’d like to experience that growth phase too. What exactly……?”

Im Won-young looked at Lee Hyeon who was smiling silently, knowing he wouldn’t give her a proper answer anyway, and shook her head.

Obviously he must have been training relentlessly somewhere again without rest.

He was someone who didn’t neglect training even when he couldn’t properly use magic power.

“Well, anyway, skipping the small talk. Soon when work hours start, a new personnel appointment notice will be posted for Section Chief Jang.”

In that moment, Lee Hyeon’s eyes sparkled.

“Then perhaps…….”

“Yes. Section Chief Jang will take the vacant Z Team leader position. Though it will have the qualifier ‘temporary’ attached.”

Even though he was an experienced hire, it was an absurd promotion speed for an employee who hadn’t even been with the company for a month.

Im Won-young must have pushed that hard for it.

Lee Hyeon bowed his head in gratitude.

“But it might not be something to unconditionally celebrate.”

“There are conditions, I see.”

“Yes. Your skills have been recognized, but there was that incident anyway. And we have to consider Executive Director Jeong’s feelings too.”

Im Won-young spoke carefully in roundabout terms, then soon hardened her expression.

“As temporary Z Team leader, you’ll be given your first official mission in 3 days. But that’s quite troublesome.”

3 days.

Lee Hyeon thought he would probably have a lot to organize during that time.

“What is it?”

“There’s an SS-Grade Severely Cursed Item……. It’s a mission to handle that.”

Unlike Im Won-young who had taken on a slightly dark expression,

Lee Hyeon was still smiling.

With eyes whose depths were unreadable.

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