The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 72

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 72

Having arrived at the Hunter Association Building while avoiding people’s eyes, Ean was waiting for Jinseong there.

The two moved their steps to attend an emergency assembly meeting.

On the way to the meeting room, brief conversation was exchanged. The topic was, naturally, the impulsive real estate purchase that Jinseong had committed.

“See, what did I tell you? I said Yebichnna would hate it, right? Buying the building was already over the top, but moving upstairs was really not it. Honestly, that’s just a paper-thin difference from stalking.”

Ean giggled and patted Jinseong’s shoulder.

Normally, a response like ‘Shut up and watch where you’re going’ or a murderous glare should have flown his way, but the eyes of Jinseong walking beside him were unexpectedly dejected.

Jinseong walked sluggishly, uncharacteristically, and let out a low sigh.

“I’m dying of anxiety, what should I do?”

“…Huh?”

Ean was flustered. It was the first time he’d seen that arrogant Gangjinseong make such weak sounds with such a deflated voice.

Ean abandoned his plan to tease Jinseong enthusiastically and offered clumsy comfort.

“Ah well, what can you do? Yebichnna hates moving places. If you’re really anxious, ask Hunter Sohee to make you hundreds of forced summoning scrolls. Well, it would be a bit awkward if you got summoned while in the bathroom, though?”

With Ean’s cheeky joke, the two stopped in front of the meeting hall.

Meanwhile, two other people were walking down the meeting hall corridor.

It was Shilla Guild leader Shinnara and her secretary Kim Jinwoon.

Jinwoon was tapping his tablet and reading through reports when he suddenly turned his head toward Shinnara.

He looked around and lowered his voice.

“Guild leader, that building… I heard it was sold.”

Shinnara stopped dead in her tracks. Silence flowed. It didn’t take even a second to realize what ‘that building’ Jinwoon was referring to meant.

“What?! That lady sold the building? She wouldn’t sell it when I was desperately chasing after her to sell it, so why suddenly?!”

Shinnara had planned to secretly buy the entire building and gift it to reduce Yebichnna’s burden.

But suddenly the building was sold – it felt like being hit hard on the back of the head.

“Who is it! What bastard intercepted it?!”

“Hmm, tracking won’t be easy. It went through overseas virtual accounts and there’s a possibility it’s a shell corporation. It would be quite difficult to find out.”

“Overseas virtual accounts?”

At Jinwoon’s words, Shinnara twisted up the corner of her mouth. Her eyes flashed with a dangerous light.

“Find out what bastard it is right now. If it’s some guy trying to threaten our Yebichnna or pull tricks, I’ll kill him with my own hands!”

Ean, who accidentally overheard this conversation from around a corner in the corridor some distance away, poked Jinseong’s side and whispered.

“Hyung, should I tell the truth? The Shilla Guild leader is about to explode right now.”

Jinseong scratched the back of his neck as if annoyed and pushed open the meeting room door.

“Forget it. They won’t be able to find out anyway, so leave it be.”

As the grand meeting room door opened, the big shots who move Korea’s hunter world could be seen around a heavy wooden table.

The first to catch the eye was Matap Guild’s guild leader Yuin-a, who was staring at her tablet in neat business attire.

Matap was a guild mainly composed of mages as the name suggested, monopolizing a worldwide mana detection network and ancient mana literature.

Yuin-a was a woman with sharp intelligence and cool analytical skills, a person who converted all phenomena into data for judgment.

Across from her sat a middle-aged man wearing flashy watches and rings, Sangseong Guild’s guild leader Choi Changheon.

Sangseong was a guild that had built enormous wealth by handling the distribution of byproducts and artifacts from Gates.

Choi Changheon was a thorough merchant who believed ‘everything in the world has a price tag,’ and was evaluated as having information networks that surpassed national intelligence agencies.

And in the seat next to him was Doubleroom Guild leader Jeong Sihwa, who was leisurely sitting with her legs crossed, looking in a mirror.

Doubleroom was a rising powerhouse that had recently gained prominence along with Shilla Guild, excelling at gaining public support by utilizing the star quality of their affiliated hunters.

Jeong Sihwa was a fox-like leader who deployed high-level psychological warfare behind her glamorous appearance.

Including Shinnara’s guild, when the guild leaders of the four guilds representing Korea, along with Jinseong, Ean, Ohyeongtaek, and Hunter Association President Maeng Seokwoo sat face to face, the emergency meeting began.

“Since Hunter Gangjinseong cleared the Maze Gate, top-tier hunters from overseas have been actively expressing their desire to transfer to Korea.”

Association President Maeng Seokwoo spoke up.

“Hunter Gang’s defeat of the Maze Gate was not simply an individual victory. It was a decisive event that raised national prestige and strengthened national power. Particularly urgent is the treatment of the rewards and legendary items obtained from conquering the Maze Gate.”

As soon as those words fell, Sangseong Guild’s Choi Changheon interjected with a sly smile.

“Wouldn’t it be right for our Sangseong to handle the value assessment and distribution of those reward items? There’s no place with infrastructure as well-equipped as ours when it comes to item trading. It would be more convenient for Hunter Gang than doing complicated merchant work, wouldn’t it?”

Jinseong didn’t even respond, but Choi Changheon’s eyes were full of greed.

However, the real purpose of the meeting lay elsewhere. Yuin-a reversed the atmosphere with a cold voice.

“Let’s talk about items later. The real problem is the changing aspects of Gates that are happening even at this very moment.”

Yuin-a displayed a hologram chart.

The peace where hunters enjoyed leisure for the first time in a while as the frequency of other Gates decreased after conquering the Maze Gate was nothing but a mirage.

“After the Maze Gate closed, serious mana anomalies have been detected in previously neglected low-grade Gates and simple mineral extraction Gates. Low-grade Gates should normally have extremely low amounts of mana leaking externally, but currently the mana levels of low-grade Gates across the nation are rising exponentially.”

A red graph shot up from Yuin-a’s fingertip.

“Within the next week, these low-grade Gates will rapidly change to B-grade or higher, which are dangerous levels, and some will directly transition to Red Gates (on the verge of collapse). It’s not just one or two. This is a nationwide phenomenon.”

“One mountain after another.”

Someone dropped their pen on the table with a thud.

“It’s been less than a week since the Maze Gate that no S-rank in the world could break was conquered, and now this irregularity. Doesn’t it seem like the Gates themselves are testing humanity and raising the difficulty?”

Yuin-a let out words mixed with a sigh.

Everyone shared the same anxiety, though they didn’t show it.

Although Seondonguk had miraculously awakened, humanity still hadn’t escaped the fear of mana addiction and was too incomplete to conquer Gates.

It was Jeong Sihwa who broke the brief silence.

She deliberately raised her voice cheerfully and looked at Jinseong.

“Still, don’t we have Hunter Gangjinseong who single-handedly defeated that Maze Gate? Plus we have the enchanter who created that miracle together, Shinnara, so we’re in good hands.”

Just then, the meeting room door burst open and Shinnara appeared.

“Sorry I’m late!”

Then, Choi Changheon laughed heartily and welcomed Sohee warmly.

“Speak of the tiger and it appears! Our hope, Miss Shinnara has arrived!”

Sohee sat down with a fed-up expression.

“That’s the ten thousandth time I’ve heard that on my way here. If that’s praise, please stop.”

“What disappointing words. Right now in the world, Miss Sohee is more famous than Jinseong. Since you’ve received so much praise like this, isn’t it about time to open your mouth?”

Choi Changheon’s tone changed subtly. A sharp blade could be glimpsed behind his hearty laughter.

“That miraculous skill that awakened Hunter Seondonguk. What kind of magic or item did you use to revive burned mana circuits? And ones that had been rotting for three whole years. For the sake of our humanity, shouldn’t you share that secret method now?”

Though it was in the form of a question, it was clearly a demand and pressure.

The air in the meeting room instantly froze.

Sohee’s lips, who had taken all the credit to protect Yebichnna’s existence, twisted.

Jinseong stared at Choi Changheon with coldly chilled eyes, Shinnara clenched her fist under the table, and Ohyeongtaek also couldn’t hide his displeased expression.

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