I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 315

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Episode 315
Ep. 315
Some time later.
News that would shake the entire guild and byproduct industry of South Korea was broadcast.
[ (Breaking News) Aegis Guild Officially Announces Joining Ilgyeok Logistics Supply Chain. Major Upheaval in Byproduct Industry.
└ So when will Ilgyeok conquer the 94th Floor?
└ These dopamine addicts;;;
└ Is this real big news? None of the top 5 guilds have ever traded with Ilgyeok Logistics before?
└ What’s the top 5 guilds? This is literally the first time for any Seoul metropolitan guild.
└ So when will Jia do a delivery event?
└ That’s obvious;; ]
The Aegis Guild, ranked among the top of South Korea’s five major guilds, was beginning to trade with Ilgyeok Logistics.
Of course, it wasn’t an exclusive deal with Ilgyeok Logistics.
It meant they would continue trading with existing Tower Production Alliance affiliates while also recognizing Ilgyeok Logistics as one of their trading partners.
One could argue, “Why broadcast breaking news over something so trivial?” but the message transmitted to the industry was on an entirely different level.
Until now, Ilgyeok Logistics had increased its market share through a strategy targeting niche markets—regional mid-sized guilds with little merit from the Tower Production Alliance’s perspective.
However, even without exclusivity, trading with a mega-guild like Aegis could become the catalyst for other Seoul and metropolitan guilds to gradually break free from the Tower Production Alliance.
Especially since this deal was something Ilgyeok Logistics hadn’t even considered, yet Aegis suddenly requested it, making it all the more shocking.
So much so that when Deokhuun first received this news.
“…Is this poison Father sent?”
He was suspicious to that degree.
A strategy using the Aegis Guild as bait to plant toxic clauses or fatal weaknesses, making Deokhuun snap at it eagerly.
Chairman Park Wungdo was more than capable of pulling such tricks even against his own son.
But no matter how thoroughly he investigated through various channels, or how meticulously he reviewed the sent contracts, he found no such suspicious elements.
In fact, Lee Yulim, the Guild Master of Aegis, was someone who had already maintained some distance from the Tower Production Alliance.
Of course, since the Tower Production Alliance monopolized the byproduct industry, she did conduct transactions, but there was no history of illicit money or favors being exchanged.
The industry even had a saying that Yulim’s iron wall applied not only to monsters.
Naturally, as shocked as Deokhuun was.
Crash—!
“Chairman, if you enter so recklessly like this…!”
“Guild Master Lee Yulim!!!”
It was only natural that Park Wungdo, who could be called the biggest victim of this news, came to the Aegis Guild in agitation.
The door to the Aegis Guild Master’s office opened roughly, and behind it came a huffing Ungdo and a flustered Secretary.
Though Ungdo wasn’t a Hunter, there were few people in South Korea who could stand against him.
And.
The owner of the Aegis Guild Master’s office.
“I don’t recall making any promises. What’s the matter?”
The iron wall, Lee Yulim.
“Is that what you call an explanation?!”
She was one of the few people who could stand against such an Ungdo.
Unlike the overly excited Ungdo, Yurim responded to him with a face as smooth and hard as marble.
“Yes… well. I’ll listen for now. You’re free to leave.”
“Yes, Guild Master. I apologize…”
As Yurim nodded and guided Ungdo to the sofa, the Secretary closed the door with an apologetic expression and left.
Ungdo sat on the sofa while roughly pulling down his necktie.
“Surely you didn’t come all the way here just because our guild added one more business partner?”
“What nonsense…! Phew… So that’s how it’s going to be.”
Ungdo released a deep sigh, realizing that getting excited alone like this wouldn’t accomplish anything.
As he vigorously splashed his face with both hands, his already flushed complexion grew even redder, but soon his color returned to normal.
“Fine then. Let me be direct. You’re not going to pretend you don’t know about the relationship between Topsanryeon and Ilgyeok Mulsan, are you?”
Ungdo’s eyes were far sharper and more chilling than those of most veteran Hunters.
He shrugged.
“It’s not something we need to concern ourselves with.”
But Yurim had already learned something after ending over a decade of Hunter life.
What overcomes strength is none other than flow.
By the time she realized that truth, she had reached retirement age—a regret she carried.
Yet in society, which was even more complex than the Tower, Yurim reaped the benefits of that understanding well.
Ungdo ground his teeth and made a threat.
“We’ve done everything for Aegis Guild. Above all, you know better than anyone that making an enemy of us in South Korea won’t end well for you, right?”
Topsanryeon had dismissed regional guilds they didn’t usually pay attention to as insignificant.
It would have been better to have cracked down on them earlier, but dealing with such places brought more losses than gains.
As long as they controlled the capital region—the prime territory of Korea—they would never lose the bigger picture.
That was Ungdo’s strategy in dealing with Deokhuun.
No matter how brilliantly Ilgyeok Mulsan grew in the future, one-third was their limit.
Topsanryeon, which controlled two-thirds, couldn’t lose even if they came back from the dead.
But with Aegis Guild’s change of heart, the board had shifted entirely.
Ilgyeok Mulsan had now laid the groundwork to become two-thirds themselves.
Yurim acknowledged Ungdo’s words with an “Ah.”
“Yes, and the Chairman just happened to mention something about that.”
With that, she returned to her desk, picked up a file, and placed it in front of Ungdo.
Ungdo opened the file with rough hands and scanned its contents.
It contained records of what appeared to be the first transaction with Ilgyeok Mulsan.
Normally, vendor pricing is classified as highly sensitive information even within Topsanryeon.
Yurim surely knew this as well, so disclosing these details meant she had already coordinated with Ilgyeok Mulsan.
‘That means he’s confident in the pricing. This Jang Deokhuun…’
In fact, even without thinking that far, the contents alone were proof enough.
The item-by-item prices listed were ones that could never emerge if profit were the sole motive.
“I don’t know much about business, but I thought there might be benefits even without Topsanryeon.”
Yurim spoke to Ungdo with a subtle smile.
It was a clear provocation.
Ungdo calmly settled his thoughts as he reviewed the ledger of Ilgyeok’s goods, working backward through the implications.
‘Which side is this provocation coming from?’
Was it a provocation from someone who had already allied with Ilgyeok to bring down Tapsanryeon?
Or was it the confidence of someone leading a massive guild, essentially saying: if you can offer better terms, then try?
Ungdo himself was undoubtedly a merchant without peer.
He astutely recognized that Yurim’s intention was the latter.
Otherwise, she would have simply signed an exclusive contract with Ilgyeok from the start, rather than adopting this cautious, fence-sitting posture.
Ungdo, who had been consumed by anger and excitement until now, broke into a smile of realization.
‘If she’s only motivated by money, I can easily turn her back to my side.’
Yurim was certainly a person with no connection whatsoever to personal corruption or moral transgressions.
But Ungdo had witnessed countless such cases.
People who presented themselves as spotless on the surface, acting as though they had nothing to do with the filthy world.
Yet behind closed doors, how many of them eagerly devoured the scraps Ungdo offered and barked like dogs?
Adjusting Tapsanryeon’s wholesale prices across the board would require considerable effort from Ungdo.
But presenting conditions that would satisfy ‘Lee Yurim’ rather than ‘Aegis Guild’ was far too easy for him.
“I doubt Aegis Guild moved just because of wholesale prices… There must be conditions that President Jang Deokhun proposed. What are they?”
Ungdo knew Deokhuun better than one might expect.
He even knew how much capital Deokhuun currently had at his disposal.
The difference in financial power between Tapsanryeon and Ilgyeok’s goods was like heaven and earth.
If that were the case, there was only one card capable of moving Aegis Guild.
“Did Ilgyeok agree to clear an Instant Tower together with you? Or did he promise to participate in promoting Aegis Guild?”
Ilgyeok was undoubtedly an asymmetric force in Korea right now.
Just as conventional weapons, no matter how advanced, could never match nuclear weapons.
No matter how much capital was mobilized, the very existence of a single Ilgyeok meant that power constantly shifted back and forth.
Why else would the current administration operate under the strategy that ‘if we just don’t touch Ilgyeok, victory in the next election is assured’?
Even in his conflict with Deokhuun, if Ilgyeok had stepped forward to support Ilgyeok’s goods, it would have ended long ago.
Ungdo, who calculated even his own defeat with cold precision, had already finished such calculations.
And yet.
“Huh.”
Yurim’s reaction to Ungdo’s words was unusual.
At the sight of Yurim’s light smile, Ungdo raised one eyebrow.
When was the last time he had received such a scornful response anywhere?
Certainly not since before establishing Tapsanryeon, when he was devouring the existing conglomerate groups one by one.
‘This is…!’
Though he didn’t show it outwardly, Ungdo’s temples throbbed with such fury that the veins stood out.
Had Lee Yurim finally lost her mind?
Did running a single massive guild make her blind to everything else?
No matter how renowned the guild, if it fell out of favor with those who controlled the purse strings, it would wither into a dead tree.
“Yes, Chairman. Just as you said, Ilgyeok did do something.”
“….”
As expected, nothing fell outside my predictions.
That was certainly what Ungdo thought.
“You’ve heard the news, haven’t you, Chairman? That Ilgyeok cleared an A-rank Instant Tower in Wimunedo not long ago?”
“I have heard of it.”
“Well, our Han Yeol Hunter was involved in that too. It’s classified, and since she didn’t contribute enough to warrant public announcement, we kept it quiet.”
“!”
They had already cleared an Instant Tower together?
And an A-rank one at that?
I had heard the news about Ilgyeok’s conquest, but since it was such a remote location and an originally unknown Tower, it had passed quietly compared to Ilgyeok’s other exploits.
Yet Aegis Guild had participated in it.
‘Well… Jo Hanyeol already formed a connection with Ilgyeok back on the 80th Floor. It wouldn’t be strange if Ilgyeok brought her along out of boredom.’
Ungdo decided to wait and hear what Yurim had to say.
…It was his attempt to dismiss Aegis Guild one way or another in his heart, but he hadn’t anticipated how remarkably the facts would align with reality.
“I sent her without any expectations, but Hanyeol came back with an S-rank item.”
“?!?!?!?!!!”
But this time, even the great Ungdo couldn’t help but gape in astonishment.
What did she bring back?
“An S, S-rank item, you say?”
“Yes, an S-rank item. I have no idea how she even obtained such a thing.”
And it wasn’t just any S-rank item.
The name ‘Ilgyeok’ was unmistakably stamped right on the item itself.
Yurim shrugged her shoulders as if this was unexpected even for her.
Since Hanyeol was a ranker, she would naturally secure one of the executive positions, but honestly, from Yurim’s perspective, it felt unreliable.
The other directors who knew Hanyeol well also seemed reluctant to have her participate in management.
But after she suddenly brought back this one S-rank item, the evaluation changed in an instant.
The sales queen, the future of Aegis Guild, Ilgyeok’s closest friend Jo Hanyeol!
…The reality was completely different, but what could be done when results were what mattered most?
Of course, if Yurim had witnessed Hanyeol’s actual performance inside the Instant Tower, she would have given her a good scolding and turned her back bright red.

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