I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 58

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Episode 58

 

Episode 58

 

The holder of the fastest record for conquering Babel Tower up to the 30th Floor.

 

The mysterious hunter who participated in conquering China’s Special Floors.

 

Choi Mu-ryeong, Ban Hae-yeong, Han Si-on.

 

The emergence of a super rookie who would stand shoulder to shoulder with South Korea’s strongest.

 

-Flash flash flash flash flash!!!

 

“Why are you only revealing your real name now?”

 

-Flash flash flash flash flash flash!!!!

 

“Was there a reason you had to hide your identity?”

 

-Flash flash flash flash flash flash flash flash!!!!!

 

“How many floors do you ultimately plan to climb?!”

 

A barrage of questions poured out along with camera flashes.

 

Lee Tae-pyeong, who had been standing expressionlessly, quietly opened his mouth.

 

“Because there was no need to reveal it.”

 

-Murmur murmur.

 

“There’s no special reason at all.”

 

-Whisper whisper.

 

“I plan to climb as high as I can go.”

 

-….

 

At his last words, silence fell over the press conference room.

 

And after a long while.

 

Someone raised their hand.

 

“…Does that mean you intend to completely conquer Babel Tower?”

 

A voice filled with disbelief.

 

Lee Tae-pyeong, who had been scratching his chin thoughtfully for a moment,

 

“Yes.”

 

Soon answered with a slight smile.

 

“Probably.”

 

* * *

 

South Korea was turned upside down.

 

…Maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration?

 

Anyway,

 

It was true that chaos erupted after that day’s interview.

 

-Another ‘hidden card’ the people didn’t know about… Super rookie reveals his identity

 

-Identity finally revealed! Management Bureau considering ‘special protection measures’

 

-Babel Tower Special Floors… “Could it happen in our country too?”

 

-Identity concealment controversy… Did he hide for ‘private activities’? Public opinion divided

 

-Changes in Babel Tower conquest personnel landscape… Will major guilds start ‘underground recruitment wars’?

 

-Even top-tier awakened couldn’t avoid it… The dangers of ‘rental deposit fraud’!

 

-New hero emerges? Management Bureau entering ‘strongest four’ system?

 

Not satisfied with just news and newspapers, stories about me poured out daily on YouTube and podcasts too.

 

Starting from what school I attended,

 

Being an orphan, living in an orphanage, working as an assistant, and….

 

Even the rental deposit fraud incident.

 

‘Rental deposit fraud is dangerous though….’

 

I kept the rental deposit fraud article page open,

 

And fell into thought for a moment.

 

‘…For now, the plan succeeded.’

 

Before it could break elsewhere,

 

Thanks to revealing the information first myself, I gained control.

 

Definitely.

 

Since I announced it first, I didn’t see any sensational tabloid stories.

 

The warning I gave Kim Je-sik seemed to work too,

 

As there were no unnecessary acquaintance interviews or anything like that.

 

Overall public opinion was favorable.

 

-He broke the shortest record all by himself? Holy shit

 

-They say talent emerges even when the country is fucked lol

 

-If he entered Special Floors less than a year after awakening, isn’t he really Choi Mu-ryeong level?

 

-He’s not Choi Mu-ryeong level.

 

-But isn’t he at least Ban Hae-yeong level?

 

-Yeah, Ban Hae-young level is right ㅇㅇ

 

-Even with Management Bureau backing, does it make sense to hide until now?

 

-There’s definitely something there.

 

-School violence is obvious and of course they’d have a criminal record ㅋㅋ might even be on death row;

 

-Only 30 floors? Tsk tsk

 

-Only 30 floors, what a joke. A piece of shit like you would die right in the tutorial, asshole

 

-With that level of skill, won’t he go overseas soon????

 

-GR will probably snatch him up…

 

-No matter how good GR is, how can it compete with America’s financial power lololol

 

-Anyway. He’ll. Go. To. America. Let’s. Not. Pay. Attention!

 

-It’s obvious from how he hid information from the start

 

-A hunter has appeared who will be a ray of light for the stagnant upper floor conquest. I support Lee Tae-pyeong.

 

-I got scammed on my jeonse deposit too and this stuff really drains you dry. If you can endure jeonse fraud, you’re someone who’ll succeed at anything ㅇㅇ I’m rooting for you

 

-I’m curious what webtoon he worked on

 

-It failed and since he was just an assistant it seems meaningless

 

-I’m his middle school classmate and he was a famous delinquent in the neighborhood

 

“….”

 

Well, I can’t expect every single comment reaction to be positive.

 

But this delinquent thing is really ridiculous.

 

So this is how tabloids are created.

 

-Tap, tap tap.

 

[What’s with the comment above, I’m his real classmate and this guy was just a total loner]

 

“…Sigh!”

 

It would be even weirder for me to clarify that I was a loner.

 

I just pushed the tablet far away.

 

And,

 

-Bzzzz.

 

A vibration rang as if it had been waiting.

 

It’s Kang Min-a.

 

“Hello.”

 

-Hunter Lee! Just as you requested, we’ve arranged the meeting for a week from now!

 

“Ah, thank you.”

 

-In the end, a total of 5 Guilds have agreed to participate.

 

“Is GR Guild included?”

 

I asked just in case.

 

Currently GR Guild is ranked 9th domestically,

 

so they shouldn’t be able to get into the top 5 Guilds.

 

-Yes. They are included, but… Should we exclude them?

 

So they got in.

 

They probably made a deal with the 5th ranked guild to secure their spot.

 

“No. There’s no need to go that far.”

 

Since it’s come to this,

 

I should make their efforts go to waste.

 

-Then, shall we proceed as planned?

 

“Yes. Please take care of it.”

 

Thinking about it coldly.

 

Taking on major guilds by myself would be too much.

 

For now, I still need the Management Bureau’s help.

 

The Management Bureau was also in a situation where they couldn’t let me go.

 

Of course, South Korea’s strongest Choi Mu-ryeong, along with Ban Hae-yeong and Han Si-on, belong to the Management Bureau.

 

But in other words, that also means it’s just those three.

 

The Management Bureau would naturally want to hold onto me,

 

and so they would naturally cooperate with me.

 

Hosting the meeting with the 5 Guilds was for exactly that reason.

 

At first glance it might seem like only I’m receiving help,

 

but in reality the Management Bureau can keep the other 5 Guilds in check from within.

 

At the same time, they’ll gauge the mood of the five guilds while making plans to keep me.

 

“Ah, this is tiring.”

 

I knew this would happen someday,

 

but the problem is it came faster than I expected.

 

I wanted to enjoy things leisurely for a while longer.

 

“Whatever, I don’t care.”

 

I should just take a nap for now.

 

* * *

 

While Lee Tae-pyeong was leisurely taking a nap,

 

the 5 most powerful guilds in South Korea were in chaos.

 

Time remaining until the meeting: one week.

 

In that time, they had to understand everything about the human called Lee Tae-pyeong,

 

only then would their chances of joining hands with him increase.

 

Conquering China’s Special Floors wasn’t as simple as it sounded.

 

A total of 10 Hunters were deployed,

 

but only half of them, 5, came back alive.

 

Among the Hunters who lost their lives,

 

there was even Zhang Yuan-long, who was ranked 8th in the world.

 

In other words,

 

it meant that nobodies could never survive those floors.

 

That’s why the situation was even more incomprehensible.

 

To conquer the Special Floors,

 

one needed at least the skill to conquer the 50th Floor.

 

The recommended level was also 40~50.

 

However,

 

at the time of conquering the Special Floors, Lee Tae-pyeong had barely cleared the 30th Floor,

 

and was a Hunter in his 20s level-wise.

 

Of course, he held the record for ‘fastest conquest time.’

 

But that alone couldn’t explain his skill level.

 

China’s published report on the Special Floor conquest achievements

 

made one wonder if it might have been fabricated.

 

However, there was no way China would have given a ‘favorable’ evaluation to some Korean Hunter in a Special Floor conquest report where they lost even Zhang Yuan-long.

 

If anything, it would be the opposite.

 

‘We absolutely must secure him.’

 

The more they dug into Lee Tae-pyeong,

 

the more the 5 Guilds’ intentions aligned as one.

 

However.

 

Only ‘one’ guild could join hands with Lee Tae-pyeong.

 

No, perhaps no one might be able to join hands with Lee Tae-pyeong.

 

Right now, the Management Bureau was backing Lee Tae-pyeong.

 

It was also the Management Bureau that had been controlling information until now.

 

Such a Management Bureau wouldn’t let Lee Tae-pyeong go.

 

Surely, they would try to keep him tied to the Management Bureau by any means necessary.

 

Then?

 

The guilds had to present conditions that ‘surpassed’ the Management Bureau’s conditions.

 

Only then could they hope to catch Lee Tae-pyeong’s attention even once.

 

And so,

 

while all the guilds were squeezing out conditions to offer Lee Tae-pyeong.

 

“This person, you said?”

 

Just one guild.

 

No, just one person.

 

“…He seems like someone I could have a conversation with.”

 

There was a woman who wanted Lee Tae-pyeong’s ‘rejection.’

 

“How can we meet with him first?”

 

GR Guild’s precious daughter.

 

“Money, after all?”

 

Go Ju-hui.

 

* * *

 

“Whoa…”

 

I was just going to take a short nap,

 

but when I opened my eyes, it was 1 AM.

 

“I slept this long without even wearing the [Socks of Deep Sleep]…”

 

I must have been really tired.

 

I let out a big yawn and got up from where I was lying.

 

The dark room.

 

-Growl…

 

Hmm.

 

I skipped lunch and dinner, so I’m hungry.

 

But it’s 1 AM right now.

 

Do Sang-jin had already left work.

 

Of course, if I contacted him, he’d come right back and prepare a feast for me.

 

But I don’t really want to go that far.

 

“…Should I just go to the convenience store?”

 

Kang Min-a told me to be careful about going out for a while,

 

but who would be around at this hour.

 

Besides, what kind of problem could arise from just going to a convenience store.

 

It’s not like “Lee Tae-pyeong ate sausages and ramen at a convenience store” would make the news.

 

I’m not some idol.

 

-Push.

 

I pulled my cap down low,

 

and just in case, put on a mask properly before heading outside.

 

Of course,

 

I didn’t just leave randomly.

 

I told the security guards on duty that I was going to the convenience store for a bit.

 

If anything happens, the Management Bureau will handle it right away.

 

“Ugh, it’s cold.”

 

Maybe I shouldn’t have come out in bare feet and slippers.

 

But it’s just for a moment, so whatever.

 

“…”

 

I glanced around,

 

and fortunately no one was there.

 

It seems the Management Bureau has cleared this area.

 

I entered the convenience store not far away.

 

‘But eating here would be a bit awkward, wouldn’t it?’

 

I’m now somewhat of a public figure(?), if you could call it that.

 

In the past, I would have immediately thrown a triangle kimbap into the microwave,

 

but somehow I’m holding back now.

 

“Ahem.”

 

I should go home and eat.

 

Boiling water is no big deal anyway.

 

I picked out a spicy bear ramen, a tuna triangle kimbap, a whole sausage, and banana milk, then headed to the counter.

 

“Excuse me…”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

Does the convenience store part-timer recognize me too?

 

But his expression looks a bit strange.

 

“…sticks.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“I said the chopsticks are over there.”

 

“Huh?”

 

When I stared at him with a blank face, the part-timer shook his head.

 

“Oh, the chopsticks…”

 

He wasn’t recognizing me.

 

Ugh, how embarrassing.

 

“The chopsticks are fine…!”

 

I quickly grabbed my purchases and rushed out of the convenience store.

 

And then.

 

-Slide…

 

The window of a black car across the street slowly rolled down.

 

And a woman glanced this way.

 

“…”

 

Could she have recognized me?

 

No, wait.

 

This is just being overly self-conscious.

 

Even the convenience store part-timer didn’t recognize me.

 

Let me just hurry home!

 

I shoved the banana milk that was sticking out of my pocket back in,

 

and quickly started walking.

 

And not long after,

 

-Click.

 

I heard the sound of a car door opening.

 

“Lee Tae-pyeong?”

 

A voice that hit right in the back of my head!

 

What.

 

Is this really someone who recognized me?

 

I turned around with slight anticipation,

 

“Could we talk for a moment?”

 

A woman with an urban-style bob cut handed me a business card.

 

[GR Group External Relations Director – Go Ju-hui]

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