Chapter 67
Chapter 67
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 67
Chapter Title: Guild Master Isn't Enough With Just the Game
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As the bloody incident unfolded, the onlookers at the scene all scattered, while people crowded every window of the surrounding buildings, peering out.
The distinctive noise of straight-cam footage.
The tension of the live situation came through vividly in the video.
“Ugh.”
Pada grimaced.
Even with the mosaic censoring, it was a gruesome sight.
Crunch crunch. Chomp chomp.
The bag of potato chips he’d brought instead of popcorn vanished in no time.
“Wow, but seriously, this is way more thrilling than any movie. Makes sense since it’s real life, not a film.”
If the Spaceking guild members heard that, they’d flip out and chase him down with knives, but anyway, this was Pada’s solo apartment.
It was a bit creepy, sure, but Pada wasn’t all that scared of the situation.
For one, he was in Fullminak’s 3rd Division.
As a Ranker, he had access to tons of info from the safe zones, and being at the bottom rung meant he had hardly any duties or sense of obligation.
“But why are the heroes fighting each other?”
Hunters watching live feeds from multiple angles had confirmed that the attacked “civilians” were all actually heroes.
Sure, there were plenty of bystanders who got hurt in the chaos, but no fatalities.
The group chats had exploded over it.
[55: They were dressed like regular civilians, almost didn’t realize they were heroes;;]
[87: Ugh, gave me chillsㅠㅠㅠ]
[39: Definitely all affiliated with 1st Division heroes for sure, but like, why are these guys dressed so sharp?]
[57: Seriously.... Their fashion sense is better than mine, hitting me with reality.......]
It was chilling.
It’d only been a few days since they emerged from the gate, yet here were heroes walking around looking just like modern folks.
Some of the heroes who came out of the alley were dressed so perfectly like ordinary citizens that you could mistake them for civilians.
[44: Feels like there’s some shadowy group behind this.]
[53: No way.]
[44: What if there’s a traitor among the hunters? Like they’re summoning heroes to build some faction?]
[44: Otherwise, that getup and the heroes fighting each other doesn’t add up.]
[57: ㄷㄷ]
[53: I’m in Fullminak, so I tried summoning a hero just in case, but hero summon didn’t work. It says to log into the Babel Tower first.]
[38: Same here.]
Even on the Bipa site, users close to heroes had tried summoning and confirmed it didn’t work, so that was pretty well-known.
Fullminak Rankers took it a step further.
[53: A few of us got together to check how to access the Babel Tower, so we went to the gate site?]
[53: But yeah, no gate access either.]
[38: The gate’s closed, duh.]
[53: Yeah.]
[38: But what’s the Babel Tower??]
The gate had closed.
No one knew exactly when, but it was presumed to have shut after the heroes popped out.
[86: More importantly, what really happened to the 1st Division folks who went inside?]
[86: They’re alive, right?;;]
One of the top concerns among hunters right now.
With the gate closed, it was only natural to worry about those who’d entered.
[61: ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[53: ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[38: Ha... This is something people absolutely can’t know about....]
[38: Please let there be some special passage inside the gate to the Babel Tower or whatever.....]
[61: Miss the guild mastersㅠㅠ]
The fact that the gate was completely sealed was top-secret intel known only to hunters for now.
Not just hunters—regular folks were desperately hoping for the 1st Division’s safe return and Kaisha’s appearance.
Once hunters who’d seen the live feeds reported that the “victims” weren’t civilians, the police stayed out of it.
It was too dangerous for civilians to intervene.
[41: Think the government needs to form a dedicated hunter task force. Recruit hunters separately for it.]
[44: Probably.]
[44: No idea who’d go, though.]
[63: Civil servant pay is pretty good.]
[38: Still no word on Hellcannon? With that face, he’d stand out more than anyone—why’s there zero news?]
One question, and the group chat went dead silent like they’d planned it.
Messages trickled in after a pause.
[53: No news is good news—can we all cope by deluding ourselves together?]
[53: But hyung.]
[53: Every time you mention Hellcannon, my heart drops outㅠㅠ]
[61: I’m having trouble breathing.]
[38: Gasp.... Sorry so muchㅠㅠㅠ The police contacts keep asking me, so I slipped upㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
A few hunters had died earlier, mostly Spaceking members.
To Pada—a low-rank Ranker barely scraping into Fullminak’s 3rd Division under Kaisha’s grace—it was like news from another world.
But still.
“Ugh. Hellcannon scares me too.”
The mightiest human weapon of Midgard popping out into reality.
Even during sieges, hearing Hellcannon’s name in voice chat made his gut clench with tension.
Because the kill count would go insane.
Thud.
Pada neatly folded the empty chip bag into an envelope shape and tossed it into the trash before standing up.
Things must be getting serious.
One brutal hunter murder hadn’t been caught on CCTV, but the perp had brazenly left traces.
Spaceking members figured out the culprit instantly from the body’s mutilation.
-Fuck, I know who it is without looking.
-Who?
-That Tubakan trash who cuts off the right ear. You know.
-The knife work too—they have this habit of mutilating bodies after killing to mark their kills.
-Ah, insane.....
The Bipa site lost it.
That barbaric, filthy northern culture spilling into reality.
Some were pissed.
-Lmao, seriously raging so hard my blood’s boilingㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Cutting off user ears?
-Wanna fight?
Now Pada was secretly curious about the Spaceking group chat vibe.
Spaceking’s territory management and sieges were dirty as hell too, but truth be told, the NPCs in their occupied lands were vicious scum by nature.
Tutorial said northwest NPCs were one cause of the world’s end—nuff said.
Birds of a feather.
Then,
Ding! Ding!
The 2nd and 3rd Division group chats—desperately awaiting 1st Division survivors—suddenly lit up live.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Notifications flooded his phone lock screen like mad.
“?”
The KakaoTalk was on fire.
Pada eyed his phone with a heavy sense of dread.
This felt ominous.
Something big had dropped—something about Kirin-nim, a fellow Fullminak Ranker, flashed by.
Check it? Nah?
He was trying not to get emotionally invested with ‘I’m fine,’ but Pada wasn’t totally fearless.
After agonizing a bit, he snapped in frustration.
“Argh, screw it. If shit hits the fan, they’ll call me anyway.”
Pada lived not far from Dangsan Station.
But really, why the hell were heroes fighting each other? How’d they split into factions right after exiting the gate?
The brief question crossed his mind but didn’t linger.
None of my business.
Thinking that, he stepped out of his room—and his eyes bulged in shock.
“?!!”
The big window in his pricey two-room apartment was wide open.
A shiver of terror rippled through him.
Seeing heroes climbing through the window, sword in hand, Pada screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Gahhhhh—!!”
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[53: I’ll be there soon.]
[38: Me too!]
[70: I’m here.]
[97: Where are you? I’ve arrived.]
[89: Too far for me, but I’ll send cash support. Hit me up if you need anything.]
After the heroes emerged, the first Spaceking guild members killed were those living near Dangsan Station.
Local Spaceking members panicked hard.
Not just Dangsan—every Spaceking guildie in Seoul and the metro area was shaken, trembling.
Then, the first Fullminak guild member attack happened.
Again, at Dangsan Station.
[79: Why Kirin-nimㅠㅠㅠ Kirin-nim did nothing wrongㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
The Bipa site exploded over the emergency: a Fullminak guildie near Dangsan under attack.
-Kirin got attacked??
-Wtf? Wtf??
-Wow, now Fullminak’s getting hit too?
-Haㅠㅠ Insaneㅠㅠㅠㅠ I live nearby, scared to death save meㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Indies might be safer now.
-Kirin-nim’s such a good guy;;
-Seems like they’re attacking any hunter.
-Knew itㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You slackers who sat on your hands when it wasn’t you, reflect.
-Wow... wow seriously......
-Wanna kill those hero bastards.
-The ones we worshipped as gods—killing one ain’t hardㅋ Kill a few and they all seem easyㅋ
-Support pls!! Nearby folks help!!
-Where? Make a new post with exact coords and situation, tons will come.
-Gamers, coords or map?
-What’s Godgold doing? This is their moment—stream it quick.
-Dangsan Station, hunters gathering.
-Wow, everyone ignored Spaceking like it wasn’t their problem, but Fullminak gets hit and Rankers mobilize.
-Tbh, shitty-personality Spaceking deserved it, but top-tier Fullminak? I’m straight-up dead.
-Fr.... Now it’s not someone else’s problem.....
-Kaisha-nimㅠㅠ Kaisha-nim shows up and they’re all done—fucking around cuz no Kaishaㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Kaisha’d go berserk.
-Go dark mode.
-Noona come quick...
-Kirin-nim ain’t dead yet, stop keyboard warrior shit and come support.
-1st Div really alive?;; If top Korean Rankers all dead, what happens to Korea?;; If alive come back already pls;;;
Real-time updates from Dangsan poured into the hunter-packed Bipa site.
Not just there.
Countless on-site folks posted what they saw on SNS live, stirring the whole country.
As breaking news spread, the incident ballooned nationwide.
Ding!
New alert in the Ranker chat.
[100: Uh.... Hyungs, noonas.... I’m Pada from Fullminak.....]
[100: Heroes attacked and now...]
[39: ?!]
[57: Wtf another oneㅠㅠㅠ]
[102: No way;; Another Fullminak;;;]
[102: What’s with these hero bastards;;]
[53: Pada-nim, you okay?!]
[95: Where? I’m coming!]
[100: No uh...]
[100: (photo)]
#100 posted a pic.
In it, heroes with backs to the camera were raiding Pada’s fridge.
[40: ...?]
[57: ????]
More pics rolled in.
[100: (photo)]
[100: (photo)]
[40: Wait, “attack” meaning fridge raid...? ]