The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 173

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Chapter 173
Chapter 173
The Rabel Guild Creation Center.
As it was a place one had to visit to create or manage a Guild, its scale was quite substantial.
“I didn’t know such a place existed in Labelt.”
“Well, you wouldn’t know. It’s a place you’d never discover unless you had reason to visit for Guild-related business.”
Within the spacious hall, countless players had gathered to manage their Guilds.
The NPCs of the Guild Creation Center were busily attending to them.
“Since we’re creating a new Guild, let’s head over there.”
Kang Ju-hyuk.
Or rather, following Kang Ju-hyuk’s guidance, I encountered a Receptionist who assisted with Guild creation.
“Welcome! You’re here to create a Guild, yes? The one who’ll become Guild Master must be you, right? Your level is much higher after all….”
“No, it’s me.”
“Pardon? Your level seems lower, but is that really true?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm, well! That’s possible too. First, what type of Guild would you like? There are several options—combat, production, exploration, and so on!”
Guild type.
From what I heard, the Guild effects obtainable varied depending on the Guild type, and the trials to be undertaken also differed.
In that sense, the type of Guild I would create first was naturally.
“Combat.”
Combat.
The Tower Guide nodded and handed me something.
“Next, you must choose the scale of your Guild!”
Choosing the Guild’s scale.
Looking at the options, the scale was divided into small, medium, large, and extra-large Guilds.
Small Guilds accommodated ten members or fewer.
Medium held fifty or fewer, large held one hundred or fewer, and extra-large held five hundred or fewer.
There was also said to be one hidden scale, which was a size no one in Korea had reached except for the Legion Guild.
In any case, among these options, the largest scale I could immediately select was large.
“I’ll go with large.”
I chose large, thinking it best to start as big as possible.
“Hmm, have you perhaps checked the trial required for creating a large-scale Guild?”
The Receptionist asked in a troubled tone.
Curious, I examined it and found an explanation stating that depending on the scale chosen, one must undergo a trial befitting that scale.
“To create a large-scale Guild, you’ll need sufficient Gold, and the trial difficulty increases as well. For two people, I’d recommend first creating a small Guild, gathering members, and gradually expanding the scale!”
A trial befitting the Guild’s scale.
Since I hadn’t heard of this, I turned to Kang Ju-hyuk.
“Ah, I forgot. Should we start smaller for now? There’s no rush anyway.”
“What kind of trial content is it?”
“It’s not just some absurdly strong monster appearing. It’s more like an incredibly demanding raid, you could say?”
“A raid?”
“It’s a trial that becomes difficult to clear if you don’t have the right number of people for the scale, or if your guild members lack diverse attack methods or compatible attributes.”
“Hmm….”
I found myself hesitating slightly.
Should I follow the Receptionist’s recommendation and start with a smaller scale, or should I think ahead and push for a large-scale trial?
Rationally speaking, starting with a smaller scale would have been the better choice.
I’d heard that if you chose a large-scale trial and paid the fee but failed, they wouldn’t refund your money.
Most of my gold had already gone to the Simons Trading Company, so I wasn’t exactly flush with funds either.
But.
‘A raid, huh….’
Hearing words like “raid” and “clear” ignited a competitive fire within me.
After all, wasn’t I the one who solo-cleared every single monster and quest that existed in First?
Among the things I’d cleared back in First, there were plenty of quests and monsters that required party-sized groups to challenge.
Take the Golden Dragon of Greed that I’d defeated at the very end—it was a monster that could only be brought down through guild-level raid hunts.
Because of that.
“I’ll proceed as planned.”
“Hmm, you mean the large-scale version?”
“Hey, you sure about this?”
“I’ve got enough gold left to take the trial once more anyway. Let’s give it a shot.”
“Well, since you’re the one paying, I suppose it doesn’t matter to me.”
I decided to take the large-scale trial.
The Receptionist, hearing my decision, nodded with a resigned expression.
“The trial chamber happens to be vacant right now, so you should be able to begin immediately once you head down.”
I paid the trial fee and headed straight down into the building.
After going through a simple verification process below, I entered the trial chamber.
As expected of a space designed for large-scale guild-level raids, the underground chamber was quite expansive.
“Hey, but will this actually work? This is my first guild creation trial too, and the scale seems way too big?”
“Let’s just try it for now.”
“Yeah, you must have some plan in mind. I’m just following your lead.”
And not long after, the guild creation trial began.
Uuuoong—.
The magic circle installed beneath the trial chamber began to tremble.
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“Summoner, the test-takers have arrived.”
“Yes, I see them. But something seems off about this? You did verify this properly, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“No, check again. A large-scale guild creation trial with only two challengers? That doesn’t make sense. It’s basically suicide.”
“That may be true, but it is correct. Since this is their first guild creation trial, it seems they haven’t grasped the difficulty level, so I’d appreciate it if you could go easy on them.”
“There’s no ‘going easy’ about this. They should forfeit before they get hurt.”
“I appreciate your cooperation.”
“Yes.”
The test administrator at the Guild Creation Center.
Shebit, the Summoner, nodded.
It was absurd that just two adventurers had come to attempt a large-scale Guild Creation test.
But this happened occasionally.
People who challenged without even knowing what a Guild Creation test entailed.
“Sometimes you have to taste it to know if it’s poison or medicine.”
Shebit disliked such people.
They didn’t bother researching what they could easily find beforehand, just recklessly threw themselves at it and wasted time and money.
Could there be a more foolish thing than this?
However, I was the test administrator at the Guild Creation Center.
As such, I simply fulfilled my role.
“Well then, shall I summon them?”
I placed my hand over the magic stone prepared before me.
In fact, one of the reasons Guild creation was so expensive was this very magic stone.
During the test, the administrator used this magic stone to summon the monsters needed for the examination.
Whoooosh!
At my call, monsters began appearing in the test arena.
They were mostly in the form of elementals.
However, their varieties were remarkably diverse.
Crackle!
A fire elemental taking the form of flame itself.
Splash—
A water elemental composed entirely of water.
Beyond that, there were earth elementals and wind elementals, as well as lightning elementals and poison elementals with various attributes.
That wasn’t all.
There were also lower-tier elementals like stone elementals and plant elementals made of plant stems, not just standard attribute elementals.
“Now do you see? How absurd it is for just two people to attempt a large-scale Guild Creation test?”
One reason why large-scale Guild Creation tests were so difficult.
It was precisely because of these elementals with diverse attributes.
The elementals I summoned had particularly strong attribute power, so attacks were ineffective unless countered with opposing attributes.
Taking the representative four primary attributes as an example: fire elementals must be attacked with water, water elementals with earth, earth elementals with wind, and wind elementals with fire.
Otherwise, no damage could be inflicted.
Adventurers who knew this would immediately forfeit, but these challengers seemed to lack that knowledge.
“Go ahead, taste it and find out. Then you won’t make such reckless choices again.”
There was no need to watch long.
The result would likely be decided before they even defeated the second elemental.
As I thought this.
Scrape!
The man who charged first swung his sword toward the fire elemental.
I thought it would end there, assuming a mere sword wouldn’t be effective against a fire spirit.
Screeeech!
The fire spirit summoned by Shebit writhed in agony and began to dissipate.
“What?”
Startled, I examined the man’s sword more closely and noticed ripples undulating across its blade.
“Is he a Water Spellblade? Hmm, that’s quite a rare profession. How intriguing.”
If he were a Water Spellblade, then it made sense.
But the next part would be difficult.
To attack Shebit’s spirits, it wasn’t enough to simply possess a counter-attribute—one had to push that counter-attribute’s power to its absolute limit.
Even Spellblades or Sages typically concentrated on a single attribute to unleash truly formidable power.
If he could wield water magic that potent, his other attributes would surely be weak.
Or so I thought.
Whoooosh!
“Huh?”
The man’s flaming sword cleaved through the wind spirit.
And that wasn’t all.
With successive counter-attribute attacks, he cut down not only the earth and water spirits, but every spirit blocking his path in the surrounding area.
Attribute power so overwhelmingly strong it was almost unbelievable.
The situation made no sense whatsoever.
“B-but he still won’t be able to defeat the stone spirit!”
Shebit still believed those two adventurers wouldn’t pass the trial.
No matter how powerful, he was ultimately a Spellblade wielding a sword.
Against a stone spirit that resisted all attacks except blunt force, he should be able to hold his ground.
But then.
“Huh?”
The man suddenly hurled his sword away, and black flames rippled across his palm as a new weapon materialized in his grip.
It was none other than a massive war hammer.
As the man’s next attack came.
CRAAAASH!!
A deafening roar echoed as the stone spirit shattered into fragments.
Watching spirits that could only be defeated when multiple adventurers pooled their strength fall helplessly one after another.
“Wh-what…?”
Shebit couldn’t regain his composure.
* * *
“This is easier than I expected.”
After the trial began.
I imbued my sword with magic as I observed the summoned spirits.
– Using 3-Circle Water Magic ‘Aqua Blade’.
A spell I had newly learned at the Blue Moon Grand Library.
I created a high-pressure water blade and swung it forcefully at the fire spirit, channeling the Spellblade’s exclusive magic through the sword to cut it down.
Screeeech!
The fire spirit dissipated in an instant.
The other spirits were no different.
– Using 3rd Circle fire magic ‘Fire Blade’.
– Using 3rd Circle wind magic ‘Wind Blade’.
– Using 3rd Circle earth magic ‘Earth Blade’.
….
I could cut down all of them with the magic I learned from the Blue Moon Grand Library.
There were various other types of spirits—poison spirits, lightning spirits, and more—but most of them fell easily with just magic.
“Grrgh!”
Then a stone spirit blocked my path.
In that instant, I immediately released my sword and switched weapons.
“Luke, hand me the hammer.”
– Yes, Master.
From the start, the reason I’d eliminated those spirits in one blow wasn’t simply because my magic was strong.
Through the monster information I’d gathered in First, I could pinpoint the spirits’ weaknesses with precision.
From my perspective, the weakness of the stone spirit blocking my path was clear.
‘Blunt force.’
Exactly that.
[ Shattered Fragments ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Hammer
Grade: Epic
Requirements: Level 500 or higher, Hammer Mastery Lv 50 or higher, Strength 2,000 or higher
Description: It is said that all things touched by this hammer shattered into fragments and perished. Whether solid stone, steel, or your own bones and flesh.
Gripping the hammer Luke handed me firmly with both hands, I
– Using skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
Crash!!
swung it with all my might toward the stone spirit.
Unable to withstand the impact even slightly, the stone spirit shattered into fragments.
I’d already felled many spirits, but given this was a large-scale Guild Creation Center test, countless more remained.
Moreover, as if to refuse any shortcuts taken with time,
[ Remaining Time: 57 minutes 21 seconds ]
this test also had a time limit.
“An hour, then.”
Confirming the remaining time, I nodded.
“That’s plenty.”
Whoosh!
Drawing a new weapon through Luke, I swung it toward the countless spirits swarming around me.
And after that.
“…What am I supposed to do?”
Kang Ju-hyuk’s embarrassed voice echoed.

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