The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 186

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 7

A few days later.
By now, I was growing accustomed to the white breath that rose from my lips in the crisp morning air.
“Ugh, I’m exhausted.”
I quickly drained the warm coffee I’d bought from the Cafeteria and rubbed my eyes.
This was all Sa Ma Young’s fault.
Ever since that strange keyword appeared around him, my nights had been plagued with turbulent dreams.
Yesterday, I’d dreamed of Sa Ma Young transformed into a pitch-black crow, insistently trying to shove a grotesque-looking worm into my mouth while I fled in disgust, running for my life.
No matter how desperately I ran with all my might, he kept chasing me with that incessant cawing.
Even now, that raucous cry seemed to ring sharply in my ears.
As I clutched my throbbing forehead and grimaced at the frustratingly vivid resolution of the dream, a concerned voice addressed me.
“Team Lead, did you not sleep well again yesterday?”
“Oh, Goo Eun Ah. Good morning.”
“But you, Team Lead… oh dear.”
The person calling me Team Lead and expressing concern was Goo Eun Ah from the Justice Guild Administrative Office.
Originally from the Magma Guild, she was retained through the merger and was exceptionally competent at her work.
For reference, I held the position of Team Lead in the Administrative Office.
While I was here in this office, I was more of an administrator for the Justice Guild than a healer.
“Good mor—Team Lead, you haven’t slept again?!”
“That’s how it’s been…”
“It’s been several days now! Please finish up your work today and get some rest!”
Kim Ji Hee, another team member, began nagging me the moment she arrived at work.
I lacked the energy to respond, so I simply nodded and took a long sip of the coffee I was holding.
As I drained about half of it like a parched traveler drinking from an oasis, I felt my mind gradually clearing.
By then, everyone in the Administrative Office had arrived.
Since we hadn’t yet hired additional staff, we were a modest team of five, including myself.
Until now, we’d spent our time constructing the building and adapting to the new environment.
And today was the day our new project would begin.
“Today is an important day. Is everyone prepared?”
“Yes!”
“Then, Kim Ji Hee, what’s our objective today?”
“To receive applications from Justice Guild Raid Team 4, the Mining Team, and other cooperative divisions, and to respond to any inquiries that may arise!”
The Justice Guild currently had three raid teams in total.
We’d chosen to maintain the raid teams from the two previously active guilds separately rather than mixing or merging them.
That was also the condition for the Magma Guild’s merger.
Even at this level, we had more than enough scale to operate the guild immediately.
But I decided to be a bit more ambitious.
A mining team to extract mana stones from dungeons cleared by our raid teams, other departments for awakeners who wanted to work at the Justice Guild but weren’t combat-focused, and a fourth raid team that received support regardless of current rank—these were our first steps.
“Eun Ah, you did give the server expansion notice ahead of time, right? We’re going to get quite a lot of traffic.”
It couldn’t be helped.
We were a pillar of the Jung Dong Alliance, and this was the Justice Guild’s new raid team.
There would be plenty of people genuinely wanting to join, and just as many who figured they’d submit an application on a whim.
“I requested cooperation last week and sent a reminder yesterday.”
“Good. Let’s do this well today.”
The pre-announced opening time was 10 a.m.
One person ate chocolate, claiming they needed sugar to think straight, while another cracked open an energy drink they’d brought.
And then, finally, 9:59.
Everyone in the administrative team sat before their computers with tense expressions.
The moment 10 a.m. arrived, the “Apply” button on the temporary page we’d created for this hunter recruitment lit up blue.
During the few minutes it took for people to fill out their application forms, a quiet tension filled the office.
“Eun Ah, how’s it looking?”
“Applications are coming in smoothly. Oh! They’re saying they’ll open an additional server because so many people are flooding in… Um?”
“What’s wrong?”
I stretched my neck over the monitor, asking at the odd tone in her voice.
“Nothing! It’s just that there seem to be a lot of people with the same name among hunters! Haha.”
“What? What name is it that—”
I opened the page where I could see the list of applications.
“…It must be a coincidence.”
I shook my head slowly, my eyes glazing over as I scrolled through the page.
I didn’t even feel like checking the detailed information.
“B-but I looked at the submitted documents, and it really does seem like the actual person…”
“Team lead! I’m looking at the inquiry board right now… Foreign hunters are asking if they need certified translations for their documents?”
“C-certified translations…?”
My head spun from the unexpected situations popping up left and right.
Wait, applications from abroad?
I grabbed hold of my scattering thoughts as my worldview suddenly expanded, and answered.
“Tell them to submit what they have for now and provide certified translations as additional documents later.”
“Yes, understood!”
Yeah, well.
If they’re applying to a Korean guild, they must know Korean.
“Oh! T-team lead!”
“What is it this time!”
“The server… the server crashed!”
It was only 10:26 a.m.
“I apologize. The vendor contacted us saying they couldn’t keep up with the server expansion speed due to increasing traffic. They say they’ll restore it as quickly as possible.”
What the—that’s terrifying.
Why is everyone so interested in the Justice Guild?
I anticipated applicants would flood in and prepared accordingly.
But not to this extent.
“…Let’s pressure the vendor as much as we can. And let’s get our heads on straight.”
That was directed at me.
Get yourself together, Yeo Joo.

An emergency response meeting was convened in the Justice Guild’s administrative office.
“When will the server be restored?”
“They say it should take about an hour.”
“Hmm. An hour….”
I thought the recovery was faster than expected, but Goo Eun Ah spoke with a dejected expression.
“I’m sorry, Team Lead. I never thought the server would crash like this….”
She seemed to be feeling responsible.
“We anticipated an influx and even requested server expansion. It’s just that more people came faster than we expected. Don’t be too hard on yourself.”
“Yes, Team Lead….”
The server had already crashed, and thanks to that, we’d gained an hour to work with.
“So what’s left is figuring out what to do going forward.”
At my opening statement, my team members’ expressions grew resolute.
“First, regarding hunters applying from abroad….”
I skimmed through a summary of applications that had come in before the server crashed.
“Let’s handle them the same as domestic applicants for now. It’s not common for foreign hunters to operate in Korea, but.”
“And these people… what do we do about them?”
What was handed to me were applications from famous hunters—the ones that had made me suspect they were namesakes moments earlier.
“Ah, well. Notable figures indeed.”
I flipped through them dismissively, clicking my tongue.
This was like showing food pictures to someone starving.
They were all people holding positions at top-tier guilds.
Some were even running guilds they’d founded themselves.
There was no way people like this were bound by loose enough contracts to switch to the Justice Guild immediately.
“Contact these individuals separately and explain: the Justice Guild doesn’t cover breach-of-contract penalties. That should filter out whoever needs filtering.”
“Ah…. Yes, understood!”
My team members, who had looked momentarily disappointed, soon began dividing up which hunters to contact among themselves.
‘I really wish I could just bring them all in.’
But if I did, other guilds losing their key hunters wouldn’t sit idle.
I might end up making enemies of everyone while trying to form four strategy teams.
Still, it felt wasteful to just let them go like this.
Tapping the table with my fingertips as I fell into thought, I turned to Goo Eun Ah, who managed the overall website operations.
“When you post the notice about the server downtime, include the cooperative guild application guide with it.”
Cooperative guilds eventually become sister guilds, and from there, mergers happen naturally.
“Then I’ll step away for a moment.”
“Of course! Have a good trip, Team Lead!”
I left the Administrative Building and headed toward a secluded area.
Then I pulled out my phone and made a call.
Before the dial tone could ring more than a few times, a familiar voice answered.
[“Yes, Yeo Joo.”]
“Boss, would someone of that caliber really do something like this?”

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