The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 177

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Chapter 177
Chapter 177
The fact that the Guild Creation Center was selecting promising guilds with Imperial support had become fairly well-known information among those in the know.
“Why are people making such a fuss over promising guilds?”
“There are things like free guild establishment fees, but if we’re talking about the real draw, it’s got to be the points.”
“Points?”
“Apparently, just by being selected as a promising guild, they shower you with an enormous amount of guild points.”
“How much are we talking about?”
“Supposedly enough to match what any decent mid-sized guild or larger currently operating would have right after establishment.”
“Wow, really? So you’re saying you could activate enough functions right after creating a guild to compete with the current guild meta?”
“Exactly.”
The reason was naturally the benefits received upon being selected as a promising guild.
Normally, when you create a guild, it takes considerable time to accumulate points and stabilize your position.
But if you’re selected as a promising guild, you can operate from the start with stable guild functions.
“And that’s not all. The points you accumulate afterward are counted double.”
“Really? Then the guild’s growth rate would accelerate significantly.”
“Exactly. If you play your cards right, catching up to the upper-tier guilds known as the Five Great Guilds isn’t even impossible, they say.”
“Come on, that’s too much.”
“Anyway, it’s no joke, right?”
On top of that, they were also going to increase the guild’s growth speed.
Users couldn’t possibly pass up this opportunity.
“What are the criteria for a promising guild?”
“Investigate as much as you can!”
“Who’s doing the evaluation? Let’s find the NPC handling the review and butter them up.”
Countless users began moving to be selected as promising guilds.
Naturally, their goals varied widely.
“Let’s pool our strength together and create the greatest guild!”
“Let’s do it!”
Users who simply happened to be planning to create a guild and, upon hearing the news about promising guilds, decided to give it a try.
“Think about it. How much would a guild selected as promising sell for?”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
“The guild name can be changed with a name change request, and the guild master can be swapped out. It’d definitely sell for a fortune.”
“Alright. Let’s give it a shot.”
Users who, after being selected as a promising guild, intended to sell that guild to whoever wanted it.
And even.
“Who should we set as the guild master?”
“Would you like to give it a try?”
“Would that really be alright?”
“I trust you. We’ll use this to create a second branch of our minor guild. Or, if the growth looks good, we might even completely switch over to it.”
“That sounds like a good idea.”
Established guilds created additional guilds to expand their influence and presented them as promising prospects.
Others went further, completely dismantling their old guilds and starting fresh ones from scratch.
While countless players competed to be selected as promising guilds.
[ Promising Guild Selection Notice ]
“Huh?”
“What’s this?”
An unexpected notice suddenly appeared at the Guild Creation Center.
Until now, the Guild Creation Center had only claimed to be preparing the selection process without revealing any details.
And now they were announcing the results?
Most players assumed this was finally the official announcement of how promising guilds would be selected.
[ Promising Guild Rank 1: Heukryeom Guild ]
[ Rank 2: Gasri Guild ]
….
“What!”
“The promising guilds have already been selected!”
“Out of nowhere? How is this even possible!”
It wasn’t.
The selection notice wasn’t an explanation of the selection process—it was simply an announcement of the guilds that had already been chosen.
“This can’t be right!”
“Heukryeom Guild? What kind of guild is this to suddenly become a promising guild?”
Among the bewildered players.
“Wait, I interviewed there?”
Unexpected testimonies from several players emerged.
Players who had gone to interview at Heukryeom Guild.
Most of them were skilled players looking for a new guild, but the majority had been rejected from Heukryeom Guild, and they all said the interview process was strange.
Then.
The moment someone confirmed the name of Heukryeom Guild’s guild master.
Chaos erupted once more.
“Mir? Mir?”
“Mir as in the one who won the Beginner League championship this time?”
“Really?”
“No wonder he ignored all those scout offers from large guilds! He was planning to start his own guild!”
Because Heukryeom Guild’s guild master was none other than Mir.
Many people began to take interest.
“Mir is literally a rising star, right?”
“And the guild was founded with a Master League champion as Vice Commander.”
“With credentials like that… yeah, they deserve to be called a promising guild.”
“I mean, two Second Crown champions joined them, so I can’t argue.”
“Fair point.”
“Maybe I should apply too?”
“I heard from people who interviewed there that the director is incredibly demanding? There’s even talk that nobody knows if anyone actually passed.”
“Is that so?”
Fortunately, the controversy died down quickly.
The existence of Mir and Kang Ju-hyuk was simply too formidable to dismiss the Heukryeom Guild as anything less than a promising force.
In any case, as the Heukryeom Guild’s name spread like wildfire.
“How can this be? You promised me! You said you’d give me the position of Vice Guild Master once the guild reached the top 100!”
“Think about it. The Vice Guild Master is an important position directly beneath the Guild Master—how could I possibly give such a role to an administrative staff member?”
“But you promised!”
“I’ve set aside a generous severance package. Don’t make unnecessary trouble and just leave.”
“…Then, I won’t ask for the Vice Guild Master position. At least let me stay on as an Administrator. After all, I built this guild.”
“I’ve already promised the Administrator position to my younger brother. This is a critical period where every guild member matters, and my brother can handle combat duties alongside administration.”
“Your brother? He doesn’t know anything about guild administration!”
“What are you talking about? He’s a talented individual who graduated from an administration program.”
“Just because he graduated from an administration program doesn’t mean he’ll be good at guild administration!”
“I don’t want to argue anymore. Leave quietly. Our guild no longer needs non-combat positions.”
“You think I’ll just accept this quietly?”
“What are you planning to do about it? There’s no evidence, and no guild would accept someone who caused a disturbance and left.”
“Ugh….”
A woman turned her back on the guild she had devoted herself to and walked away.
She had single-handedly managed all the guild’s administration and successfully brought it into the top 100 rankings.
Yet the Guild Master not only failed to appreciate her efforts—he cast her out, claiming there was no room for administrative staff.
Considering her future prospects, reporting the guild wouldn’t be easy either.
But.
“Did you think I’d just take this lying down?”
She hadn’t left quietly.
She had destroyed every administrative document she’d accumulated over the years at the guild.
There was no way the guild could report her for it.
Not a single guild member even knew that she had been streamlining administrative procedures through these basic documents.
Whether the Guild Master’s brother returned or not, it would take considerable time to restore the guild’s original administrative capacity.
“Sigh….”
But that didn’t solve the problem.
Though she’d received a generous severance, all the effort she’d accumulated felt like it had gone to waste.
To resolve this feeling, there was only one way.
“I’ll have my revenge.”
Revenge was the only answer.
She wanted to build a guild stronger than the one that cast her out, so she could look down upon them.
But that wasn’t easy either.
It had already taken considerable time to elevate that guild to the top 100—how could she possibly develop some unknown guild to that level again?
As she pondered this, news of the Heukryeom Guild reached her ears.
“A guild founded by the two champions of Second Crown? And it was even selected as a promising guild by the Guild Creation Center?”
In that moment.
She realized it.
This was the place.
If it was here, she might not just break into the top 100—she could actually grow this guild into one of the elite few in Second.
With that thought in mind.
“I came to meet with the Director.”
She mobilized every connection she had from the Guild Creation Center, people she’d maintained friendly relations with, and began searching for the Heukryeom Guild.
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“Hey, you think this will work?”
“What do you mean?”
“We only recruited seven people! With the two of us, that’s nine. We don’t even have ten!”
“What can I do if there’s no one to recruit?”
“There’s plenty of people! If you’d just lowered your standards a bit, we could’ve filled dozens of spots!”
“Even if we did, I couldn’t manage them. They just didn’t meet my standards.”
“That’s not all? Two of the seven are production-class! We only recruited five combat-class members! How are we supposed to manage with this?”
“As long as everyone does their part, it’ll be enough.”
“Ugh….”
In the end.
The first seven guild members to join Heukryeom had been selected.
Kang Ju-hyuk lamented missing out on the talented individuals that came with the promising guild status, but I saw things differently.
There was no point in having people like that around.
Since I still didn’t know how to manage a guild properly, taking on too many would only cloud the atmosphere.
In that sense, the seven I’d recruited were quite satisfactory.
There was some regret that recruiting just one more would have filled out ten members, but that was all.
“I’m satisfied with this.”
“If you say so, I have nothing more to say….”
“Now let’s go allocate the guild points.”
“Ooh, guild points! This should be fun, right? Let’s go see how much we got!”
Finally, the highlight.
The moment to allocate guild points.
Usually, newly formed guilds receive so few points that allocating them is meaningless.
But thanks to being selected as a promising guild, we’d received an enormous amount of guild points from the start.
So I planned to spend all the points before heading down to the Territory.
As I was thinking this and about to leave the Interview Room.
Click!
Suddenly, the door to the Interview Room opened.
I’d heard there were no more candidates coming in for interviews.
Curious about who it was, I saw a woman with glasses enter, dressed neatly like a company employee.
Seeing her, I wondered if she might be a staff member from the Guild Creation Center.
“It’s an honor to meet you. Mir, Guild Master of the Heukryeom Guild and champion of the Beginner League.”
Hearing her opening remarks, it didn’t seem to be the case.
“What brings you here?”
“I heard that Mir founded the Heukryeom Guild and is recruiting members, so I came to apply.”
“I was told there were no more interview slots available.”
“Here’s a recommendation letter from the Director. You’ll trust this, won’t you?”
Upon inspection, the recommendation letter was genuine.
I exchanged a glance with Kang Ju-hyuk and, thinking we might as well give her a chance, nodded—whereupon she immediately began her introduction.
“Allow me to introduce myself formally. I’m an administrator specializing in guild administration management, and my name is Ena. In terms of experience, I recently brought my previous guild into the top 100 rankings….”
Ena, who introduced herself as an administrator.
She was about to rattle off her credentials.
But my stance remained unchanged.
“I’d like to see your actual abilities right now, rather than hear about your background.”
Background and experience meant nothing to me.
What mattered was competence.
Just like everyone else who had entered the Interview Room so far, I had no intention of accepting her into the Heukryeom Guild unless she demonstrated her actual abilities.
However, the position she sought was that of guild administrator.
It wasn’t a role where she could immediately deploy usable skills, nor one where she could readily demonstrate her competence—so I was curious to see how she would handle this.
“Just as I heard.”
She laughed softly as if she’d already anticipated this situation, and answered confidently.
“Since you’ve finished recruiting guild members, you’ll be heading to the Guild Point next, right?”
“That’s correct.”
“Let me help you. I’ll show you my abilities there first.”
She was offering to demonstrate her competence at the Guild Point.
I wasn’t sure what she had in mind.
“Besides, neither of us knows anything about that place anyway. It’d be good to get some help. Let’s go with her.”
Kang Ju-hyuk seemed to approve as well.
And so we began moving together with her toward the Guild Point.

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