The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 183

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 183
Looking at the CCTV footage installed in the safe house, the answer became clear.
Choi Se-a examining a computer in her personal study.
Her eyes suddenly turned fierce.
Watching Choi Se-a’s lips curl upward, I had an instant realization.
‘The Gamer is involved.’
I’d wondered why I hadn’t seen that spider lately.
‘She was too busy scheming behind the scenes.’
When she was with the three of us—Pee So-won, me, and Kwon Ik-seong—she claimed she’d only provide information and step back, but in reality, she was plotting something like this.
After that, Choi Se-a requested a call with Choi Woo-jin from the investigator. The conversation between the two was nothing particularly noteworthy.
[You’re doing well, aren’t you?]
‘I’m doing fine. Lately, I sometimes think of that amusement park the Daeyang Guild used to operate, which you liked. They had a festival there in February—was it February 20th?’
[Yes, that sounds about right.]
Listening to the recording again, it sounds like a normal conversation between an aunt and nephew—
But Choi Se-a was no ordinary aunt, and Choi Woo-jin was certainly no ordinary nephew.
[The gardener who managed the grounds back then was really skilled at maintaining the tulips. What was his name? Even if I don’t know about the Daeyang Guild, when I return to America, I’d love to have his landscaping work done in my garden there. Of course, I’ll pay appropriately.]
On the surface, it just sounds like idle talk about landscaping among the wealthy.
‘It was probably Ji Su-cheol. I know him well. We were in contact not too long ago. But when you reach out to him, make sure to mention my name. He’s quite particular. I’m sure he’ll bring up the payment on his end.’
Ji Su-cheol.
The moment I heard that name in the recording, I quickly checked the Hunter Association’s headquarters.
Specifically, the Awakening Management Bureau.
And there—
‘Found it.’
A person named Ji Su-cheol.
Listed as Manager 1, which indicated a position of considerable influence.
What were the odds that this Ji Su-cheol happened to share the same name as the old landscaper from the Daeyang Guild amusement park?
‘Unlikely, but not impossible.’
So this conversation I’d heard was an encrypted message exchange between Choi Woo-jin and Choi Se-a.
February 20th.
That meant 2:20 PM.
The exact time Choi Se-a released her statement.
It would be virtually impossible for Choi Se-a, who wasn’t detained at the Heonsu Bureau nor in special custody, to release a statement.
She was in a safe house completely cut off from the outside world.
So who released her statement?
Reporter Bang So-ra
The first report came from a newspaper hostile to the Daeyang Guild.
The name of the person who wrote that article was Bang So-ra.
‘I’ve heard that name in the original story.’
But this development is moving too fast—
Bang So-ra was Choi Woo-jin’s collaborator who appeared in the latter half of the original story.
‘What does it matter now if the original plot is falling apart—’
In any case, this was a person I’d heard of before.
A reporter who, after her own brother died in connection with the Daeyang Guild’s corruption scandal, harbored a grudge and collected all sorts of information about the guild while churning out malicious articles about it.
And Choi Woo-jin had approached that reporter and orchestrated Choi Jun-gu’s downfall.
Through media manipulation.
He’d hacked the billboards across the entire city and broadcast Choi Jun-gu’s misconduct live.
It had been quite an elegant conclusion, but unfortunately, it wasn’t a method I could use this time.
Because this time, a government agency had turned on Choi Jun-gu.
Through legal procedures.
‘Though there were some underhanded tricks mixed in?’
Still, my items don’t create facts out of nothing, you know?!
‘Impressive, really….’
Even as the original plot crumbled to this extent and the regression knowledge I possessed vanished, Choi Woo-jin did what he had to do.
Right when the Daeyang Guild and the Hunter Association were trying to rally together, knowing they’d collapse the moment they lost Choi Jun-gu as their central axis.
He appeared like a comet, carrying Choi Se-a on his back.
Announcing that there was an alternative—himself.
Using all the connections Choi Se-a had planted within the Hunter Association, he announced his awakening and shook the Hunter Association from its foundation, then completely overturned the board by registering his name among the S-rank hunters—a position that had only existed for six people in South Korea, including Choi Jun-gu.
The posts appearing on the anonymous community that hunters used to discuss their guild affiliations immediately reflected that public sentiment.
Title: Do you guys think the South Korean guild rankings will change because of this?
Daeyang has two S-rankers even without the guild master and was overwhelmingly first, Hanseong’s already fallen apart with the guild master and vice master fighting, and BQ’s guild master seems uninterested in hunters since he’s a swordmaster, so I have no idea how things will play out.
I just got my awakening test done and I’m stressed about where to go.
Reply
Hanseong Guild
If even Hanseongbi can’t do it, then…
Awakened One
I’m a B-rank healer btw, got calls from all the Hanseong recruiters
Daeyang Guild
I’m in HR and we’re super tense wondering if we’re about to get raided, don’t come here
Awakened One
But now Daeyang Guild has 3 S-rank hunters, right?
BQ Guild
Is it true Choi Jun-gu’s grandson awakened?
Daeyang Guild
That’s true, but… I’m too busy grinding on this line right now. If the guild leader changes, I think I’ll get kicked out ㅠ I messed up my lane
BQ Guild
Why is being a hunter like watching coin prices fluctuate, seriously the treatment of hunters these days isn’t like it used to be;;;;
Baekdu Guild
It’s not like the old days when hunters were divided by social class anymore
BQ Guild
If you’re S-rank, doesn’t that match your status? I’m the 7th S-rank Hunter in South Korea, aren’t I? It looks like they’re about to replace the guild master and bring me in right away. If that’s not a class system, what is it? lol Face reality for once.
“This is insider information, isn’t it?”
I asked Park Min-bae, who had shown me this screen.
Park Min-bae was thorough when it came to internet public opinion.
“Yes. Since the Choi Se-a faction has already been dealt with and Kevin is in custody, it seems they’re having difficulty finding a successor connected by blood to Choi Jun-gu, so they’re attempting internal contact with Choi Woo-jin.”
“A successor? What is this, the Middle Ages or something?”
Pee So-won clicked her tongue from beside me.
But there was nothing we could do about it.
Choi Jun-gu had once encountered a fateful being inside a dungeon and received a blessing—or something like it—that his bloodline would awaken as hunters for generations to come.
Choi Jun-gu’s youngest son and his grandson below him had managed to escape that blessing.
But when awakening itself was like a random draw with abysmal odds, how could there exist someone carrying a probability item?
The Daeyang Guild couldn’t possibly let such an existence slip away.
“Since the Daeyang Guild isn’t a listed company, the actual sub-guild master holding a large stake, Madam Min Bo-hee, will make the decisions. And that decision is essentially already made.”
For reference, Min Bo-hee was Choi Jun-gu’s wife.
Though not an awakened one herself, because the Daeyang Guild placed such emphasis on bloodlines in its ‘nepotistic’ system, if anything happened to Choi Jun-gu, Min Bo-hee would make all the decisions.
And Min Bo-hee would prioritize not Choi Jun-gu himself, but the Choi Jun-gu family—and the Daeyang Guild that the family sustained.
In other words.
“Isn’t Choi Woo-jin going to become the next Daeyang Guild master at this rate?”
Ham I-na carefully opened her mouth.
Though it was a cautious remark, everyone here essentially already knew.
It was only a matter of time before Choi Woo-jin became the Daeyang Guild master.
It didn’t matter how young Choi Woo-jin was.
Because Choi Woo-jin was the only one who could firmly support the Daeyang Guild, now in crisis, in its position as the undisputed number one guild in South Korea with three S-rank hunters.
‘In other words, the latter half of the original story is barreling down on us…’
That’s what I was thinking.
A window appeared before my eyes.
Quest ‘Succession War’ (B)
-Help Choi Woo-jin ascend to the position of successor to the Daeyang Guild.
…?
Why are these quests drifting further and further away from catching criminals…!
And something about these quests feels oddly—
‘Isn’t this like a web novel chapter title?’
Cooperation. Succession War.
As if answering my thoughts, completion windows appeared in succession.
-Completion Reward: Part 2 Prologue
Part 2?

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