I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 57
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Episode 57
Episode 57
Things are going smoothly.
“Great work!!!”
Once Baek Ha-rim joined and our 4-person party was complete,
Tower climbing became incredibly comfortable.
Up to the 35th floor, all first-attempt clears with no retries.
Word of this must have started spreading around,
because both Cha Ye-rin and Baek Ha-rim began receiving scout offers from various places.
“Well, I rejected them all, saying I’m not thinking about it for now.”
“Same here.”
Fortunately, both of them rejected all the incoming offers.
They all said they want to focus on ‘growth’ for now.
“I haven’t gotten anything…”
Ujeongmin mutters gloomily from the side.
“You’re a minor.”
“Still…”
“Just wait until you turn nineteen. You’ll collapse from all the business cards you’ll receive.”
At my words, Baek Ha-rim nodded.
“Even now, there are probably many guilds keeping an eye on Ju-min.”
“…Really?”
Ujeongmin’s eyes sparkle.
I flicked his forehead and said.
“Oh my. You look ready to bolt the moment you get contacted?”
“N-no! Of course I’d stay with hyung…!”
“You looked like you’d sign right away!”
“Really, no! It’s just, since only I haven’t gotten any news…”
“Haven’t gotten any?”
“I was wondering if I’m useless…”
Oh boy.
His confidence drop mode activated again.
I ruffled Ujeongmin’s hair roughly.
“How could that be? Everyone’s just playing the waiting game.”
“But…”
“They’re all just waiting for someone to slip you a business card first.”
“Eek…”
The moment someone slips him a card, I’ll report them
and send that guild straight to hell.
“Well, don’t worry too much.”
“Hearing hyung say that makes me really worried…”
“Hey. Hyung will be watching over everything.”
Even if not me,
the Management Bureau is probably already keeping a close eye on him.
Since they’ve realized that Ujeongmin is quite a capable healer.
They’re probably secretly monitoring Ujeongmin even now.
Kang Min-a hasn’t said anything particular,
but my guess is probably right.
But I shouldn’t tell Ujeongmin about this.
Given his personality, he’d definitely get anxious.
“Ju-min, getting lots of scout offers isn’t necessarily a good thing.”
Fortunately, Baek Ha-rim also backed up my words.
“There are good guilds, but there are also many bad ones.”
Being experienced, there’s weight to his words.
“Right, man. Don’t worry about it and just focus on developing your skills.”
“Yes.”
“Then naturally everything will come with good conditions…”
“Hunter!”
Just as I was about to get into some proper lecturing.
Kang Min-a comes running into the Entry Hall.
“What brings you here at this hour?”
Lately, Kang Min-a has been busy with various matters.
Something about Management Bureau reorganization…
I heard her mention something, but I can’t remember what.
“Phew, I have something to tell you!”
She seems quite out of breath from running.
“Well, we’ll head out first.”
The team members naturally step aside, as if used to this.
I handed Kang Min-a a bottle of water and asked.
“Is this something we can discuss here?”
“No, we should move somewhere else.”
Oh.
Must be something important?
I followed behind Kang Min-a.
Upper floors of the Management Bureau.
Talent Management Team’s meeting room.
As if they knew I’d be coming,
tea and refreshments were prepared on the table.
-Crunch.
I picked up a cookie to eat and sat down in a chair.
‘This looks pretty serious…’
Kang Min-a, who had guided me to the meeting room first,
was having a serious conversation with her colleague beyond the glass wall.
It seemed somewhat urgent?
-Slurp.
Well, it’s not something I need to worry about.
After drinking about half of the warm Solomon’s seal tea,
Kang Min-a entered the meeting room with a face that looked like she was suffering from a headache.
“What’s going on?”
“Haaa…”
Kang Min-a lets out a sigh right off the bat.
What on earth could it be?
“Sorry, suddenly too many things are happening at once…”
“Tell me the most important thing first.”
Kang Min-a rolled her eyes and struggled for a while before finally opening her mouth.
“China announced their Special Floor conquest results.”
“What?”
Didn’t they say Special Floor conquests were classified?
I put down the teacup I was drinking from and looked at Kang Min-a.
“Why?”
“Well….”
World ranking 8th place.
China’s pride.
Zhang Yuan-long’s death.
To explain that,
it seems they had no choice but to announce the Special Floor conquest.
If they didn’t make it public, there would have been tremendous backlash.
Starting with all kinds of speculation, to terrifying conspiracy theories.
The Chinese government couldn’t just sit back and watch that happen.
That’s why they announced the Special Floor conquest results.
“So, this Hunter’s information too….”
Got leaked.
My name was definitely on the participant list.
South Korea’s top Hunters.
Choi Mu-ryeong.
Ban Hae-yeong.
Han Si-on.
Along with those three,
a name everyone would be hearing for the first time….
Lee Tae-pyeong.
That’s right, my name.
“Since China announced it first, there was no way to stop it.”
“I see.”
“We tried our best to prevent it, but….”
Hmm.
It wasn’t something I expected,
but it’s not something to be completely shocked about either.
Since I know full well what happens when you become famous,
I wanted to stay separated from the public….
Well,
I never thought that would be possible forever anyway.
“It’s fine.”
I had been thinking that my information would be revealed to the world someday.
Even if it wasn’t supposed to be now.
It doesn’t matter if it’s now.
“It’s going to get a bit troublesome though.”
“Do, don’t worry! The Management Bureau will absolutely protect you…!”
Kang Min-a was saying something or other,
but it wasn’t really registering in my ears.
What’s important right now is that my identity has already been leaked to the world.
A Hunter who entered China’s Special Floor less than a year after awakening….
Even I think
that’s perfect conditions to become prey everywhere.
“Then, my information from now on….”
“As you requested, the Management Bureau has disclosed and controlled this Hunter’s information to the minimum, but it’s only the ‘minimum’ after all….”
“So what’s going to happen?”
“Soon, the media and guilds will compile the public information about this Hunter….”
“Will they know everything about me?”
“…Probably.”
-Slurp.
I finished drinking the half-cold Solomon’s seal tea.
Quite savory.
“How long will it take?”
Kang Min-a hesitates for a moment.
“Please tell me honestly.”
At my words, Kang Min-a closes her eyes tightly and answers.
“It won’t even take a day.”
“Hmm….”
“Probably starting tomorrow morning….”
As expected, true to the nation of “quickly quickly.”
I fell into thought for a moment.
And then,
“Then, let’s just announce it now.”
* * *
-New Rookie appears?! Shin Gi-yeong joins hands with GR Guild!
-Shin Gi-yeong “Climbing the 10th Floor, it wasn’t difficult when done consistently!”
-GR Guild denies abuse of power controversy… Success in “generational change” with Shin Gi-yeong?
“What’s this ‘abuse of power controversy’ thing? Are they kidding me.”
Han Myeong-jin frowns while scrolling down.
“After feeding them so much money….”
That’s right.
The amount of money they fed to media companies to cover up that ‘abuse of power controversy’ or whatever was immeasurable.
“Tsk.”
Despite all kinds of unfair contracts and abuse of power running rampant,
there was one reason GR Guild maintained its 2nd place position.
‘Money’.
Even after Babel Tower appeared, ‘money’ was still useful.
Especially for problems like this.
Even if they couldn’t raise their ranking that had fallen to 9th place,
thanks to having money, they could maintain GR Group’s reputation.
Though rumors about GR Guild started spreading like wildfire among Hunters.
Anyway, for image renewal,
they were planning to change the guild’s name soon and the master would change too.
The beginning of that was
recruiting a new rookie!
A star Hunter!
It was recruiting Shin Gi-yeong.
Although he had help from GR Guild affiliated Hunters,
a newcomer breaking through the 10th Floor wasn’t ordinary.
Moreover.
Shin Gi-yeong was an idol-turned-Hunter with quite a few fans.
There was some school violence controversy,
but that was at a level they could cover up.
If they just made Shin Gi-yeong into a new flagship star and promoted him.
Escaping the image of unfair contracts and abuse of power controversies would be easy.
10 years ago,
Just like archery star Baek Ha-rim had done.
‘Fucking bastard.’
I thought he might make some money since he was from the magic world,
but in the end, he only lingered around the 30th floors before his contract ended.
Due to mental issues, we couldn’t even use him for promotional purposes.
This time it’s an idol background, so there shouldn’t be problems in that area, right?
“Keke keke…”
If things went well,
this was an opportunity for Han Myeong-jin to make it big too.
He didn’t even dare hope for guild master.
After being satisfied with deputy master,
settling into GR Group where he could handle bigger money was Han Myeong-jin’s ultimate goal.
The colleagues, seniors, and juniors he had sold out for that goal were countless.
Baek Ha-rim was also one of them.
“Team Leader!”
That’s when it happened.
Han Myeong-jin’s subordinate burst through the door.
“This bastard, coming in without even knocking!”
Han Myeong-jin immediately grabbed the ashtray on his desk.
However, without time to be surprised,
“Please look at this!”
Rather than not knocking,
knowing that delaying the report of this ‘news’ would incur greater anger.
The subordinate quickly thrust a tablet in front of Han Myeong-jin.
“What’s this all of a sudden…”
What appeared on the screen was
a live broadcast in progress.
‘Management Bureau…?’
The Management Bureau broadcasting?
“Ah.”
Han Myeong-jin nodded as if he understood everything.
An announcement about the results of conquering China’s Special Floors.
Was this a response to that?
Indeed.
The identity of the remaining one person, excluding Choi Mu-ryeong, Ban Hae-yeong, and Han Si-on.
The media was already buzzing about it.
If it wasn’t South Korea’s top healer ‘Park Geum-ja’,
then who could it be?
Once announced,
that person would…
‘It would be the start of another scouting war.’
GR Guild was also planning to recruit the mysterious hunter.
Usually, in cases like this, there’s a high probability they already have a contracted guild.
But you never know.
“Is the proposal finished?”
“We’ve only set up the general framework. We still don’t have the exact identity…”
“Just slather on the money first.”
Most humans
can be solved with money.
If it’s a ‘rookie’, the possibility is even higher.
Han Myeong-jin looked at the screen
with a smile spread across his face, as if he had already succeeded in signing a contract.
-South Korea also cooperated in conquering the Special Floor…
-Good results…
After the Management Bureau spokesperson’s stiff announcement,
just when it seemed like it would end there.
-Should I look this way and talk?
An ordinary face that
somehow looked familiar.
‘Where have I seen him…?’
A man in an awkward suit
as if he had borrowed his uncle’s clothes.
However, there was no trace of nervousness in his expression.
-Ah, ahem.
The man standing in front of the camera, fidgeting with his tie,
-Hello.
soon looked straight ahead and spoke.
-I participated in this Special Floor conquest…
-Rookie hunter.
-My name is Lee Tae-pyeong.
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