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The Broken Ranker
Devours Myths
Chapter 54
Z Team (1)
Buzz.
Im Won-young glanced at the screen of his suddenly vibrating mobile phone.
-Entering the dungeon. I really don’t know if this is the right thing to do.. (crying emoji)
A single message sent by Kim Min-jeong.
‘……He really went in.’
Im Won-young let out a hollow laugh, knowing what the message meant.
Even he wondered if it was really a feasible schedule.
‘This time too, I approved it since he said it was possible, but…… Phew.’
There’s a saying called riding a tiger’s back.
It means being in a situation where you’re riding on a tiger’s back, referring to circumstances where you can no longer stop what you’re doing.
Im Won-young thought that was exactly the situation he and Lee Hyeon were in.
From when Team Leader Jeong died. And from when he decided to support Lee Hyeon.
They had already crossed a river from which they couldn’t return together.
‘But these days, I can’t tell who’s the tiger and who’s riding on its back.’
The reason Lee Hyeon was attempting such an unreasonable forced march.
It was to remove the temporary label and perfectly establish his position as team leader.
If compared to the late Team Leader Jeong who had only been lazy, it would put pressure on Executive Director Jeong too.
‘Still, I hope he doesn’t overdo it.’
It was when Im Won-young was worrying about Lee Hyeon’s safety.
“Your concentration is wavering.”
At Mountain God Mo Jeong-gyeon’s casually thrown words, the three Jangsan Tigers surrounding Im Won-young suddenly disappeared with a whoosh.
“I’m sorry. I got distracted by other thoughts. I’ll start again.”
Recently, after gaining enlightenment about the mountain army myth, Im Won-young had been receiving separate personal training from Mo Jeong-gyeon.
“Your mind is completely elsewhere, how could that go well?”
Mo Jeong-gyeon chuckled with her Long Bamboo Pipe in her mouth.
“Don’t worry. He’ll finish much better than you think and come out.”
A gaze that saw right through him.
“Why are you surprised? Because I can see into your head so well?”
Suddenly, something flashed through Im Won-young’s mind.
“……Grandmother, by any chance,”
“That’s right. I sent one Tiger Calamity. With about a dozen Spear Ghosts loaded on it.”
“……!”
Im Won-young’s eyes widened.
He knew what that meant.
Mo Jeong-gyeon always sent gifts containing Tiger Calamity when she met talent she wanted to recruit or nurture.
Tiger Calamity was an alter ego created by tearing off part of her will.
Naturally, not only was it ferocious beyond words, but it also possessed intelligence, making it difficult to deal with.
‘I’ve experienced it myself. ……It’s the same now.’
Even decent Rankers would easily be torn apart before it.
Moreover, if Spear Ghosts were added, it would be equivalent to a decent raid team.
Ultimately, the test subject had to strengthen their power while fighting against them.
Sometimes by stealing and learning the Spear Ghosts’ techniques.
Other times by fighting against Tiger Calamity’s momentum,
If they learned nothing here and died, they would fall to become Spear Ghosts but……
‘There weren’t many failures among the people grandmother had her eye on. And after overcoming adversity, their skills always improved greatly.’
Most of today’s White Burn’s core executive group and raid team leaders were test subjects who had gone through Tiger Calamity like that.
‘But most of those people would have faced at most five or six Spear Ghosts.’
But Lee Hyeon faced two to three times that number.
“Curious how it turned out?”
Im Won-young pressed his lips together tightly and gave no answer.
Silent affirmation.
Whoosh-
Mo Jeong-gyeon smiled while slowly exhaling smoke.
“In all my life, I’ve never seen someone so greedy.”
“Greedy……?”
“He stole everything – not just the Tiger Calamity but even the Spear Ghosts. That bastard.”
“……!?”
“Then he completely digested them and turned them into something entirely new…… Ha. I’m speechless.”
A truly flabbergasted expression.
Im Won-young shouted urgently.
“Wait, grandmother! What on earth do you mean? Taking them? You could take Tiger Calamity or Spear Ghosts just because you wanted to!?”
Mo Jeong-gyeon crossed her arms and twisted her lips.
“That’s why I’m speechless too. He did something that doesn’t make sense. In fact, that bastard isn’t even my believer or apostle.”
“……!!”
Im Won-young was one of the few people who knew Mo Jeong-gyeon’s true identity.
A divine being who was born in human form, achieved the status of a god, and finally obtained immortality.
Though she still couldn’t shed her human guise due to a handful of lingering attachments,
She had already completed her own narrative.
In other words, to become a
