Chapter 64
Chapter 64
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 64
Chapter Title: A Visit to the Sacred Guild
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“Puhahaha!”
It was nothing more than a horrific accident.
The believers hadn’t noticed because he had hidden his energy so well, and the only ones capable of detecting that movement were the Apostles or Go Yohan.
Moreover, the problem was that Lee Jae-kyung, who had become half a complete demon, was sending all sorts of things back and forth.
“Will you stop laughing now?”
“Puh…. Tch…. Puhuh….”
Go Yohan glared at Lee Jae-kyung like that.
“Want to do some sword training?”
“I’m sorry.”
Lee Jae-kyung apologized immediately.
Anyway.
-Daddy!
-In-kyung! Ah, Mother! No, it’s not!
Such a minor mishap.
-The kid’s so cute. In-kyung, huh? Bring him over sometime.
There was no good way to properly explain the Apostle’s existence, so the misunderstanding had deepened, but somehow it had been glossed over.
“Anyway, you mean it, right?”
It had been a really long time since Go Yohan had stepped outside the church.
“…Well, yeah?”
“Then have a safe trip.”
Lee Jae-kyung saw him off, and his figure scattered like a mirage.
Murmur, murmur.
There were already plenty of people around who had recognized Go Yohan and were talking about him.
But perhaps because that day’s declaration had been so powerful, no one approached him easily, and Go Yohan found that convenient.
His destination for this long-overdue outing.
-Sacred.
It was in front of the Sacred Guild building, the top guild in Korea.
“That’s Go Yohan, right?”
“He said he had no ties to Sacred….”
He couldn’t help but pay attention.
But those words moved Go Yohan.
-We don’t want to be your shackles.
Those words from Shin Su-kyung.
Step.
It was just as Go Yohan finally stepped forward.
The Sacred lobby grew noisy.
“G-Go Yohan?”
A group came rushing out to greet Go Yohan.
They seemed to have noticed the commotion outside.
Even with Go Yohan right in front of them, the guild members looked like they couldn’t believe it.
Go Yohan, who had vanished after dropping that bombshell declaration.
Even before that, the number of times he had visited the Sacred Guild could be counted on one hand.
“Nice to meet you. That’s me, Go Yohan.”
“Wh-what brings you here…?”
The guild members took deep breaths as they spoke to him.
Murmur, murmur.
“Ah, rather than standing here, let’s take you inside.”
Seeing people around pulling out cameras, they hurriedly ushered Go Yohan into the building.
If Go Yohan had simply been Sacred blood, they wouldn’t have been so tense and flustered.
But his actions were beyond unconventional.
“Thank you.”
Moreover, it was because of the testimonies from Sacred Guild members who had personally witnessed Go Yohan’s prowess in the Black Gate.
The building entrance.
‘The defenses aren’t bad.’
Numerous barriers and items carefully appraised Go Yohan without him noticing.
The weapons and items he carried, and.
‘They’re even trying to peek at the items in my inventory.’
Not bad.
“If you proceed further, please be advised in advance that certain stats and level, along with your information, may be appraised and recorded.”
The guild member now seemed to have shaken off the tension and spoke calmly.
“Do you consent?”
Even for Go Yohan, he appreciated the proper procedures.
“Yes.”
Unfortunately.
“Wh-what’s wrong with this?”
“The appraiser….”
“His level is a question mark?”
There was no way it could appraise him.
In the past, he had come with his mother, so they had skipped such procedures.
And now, there was no way barriers—mere inferior versions of items or magic that Go Yohan possessed—could appraise him.
“There seems to be a temporary issue….”
“No problem at all.”
How far could Sacred’s defenses see through him?
‘Seunghwa and Gluttony said they helped a bit.’
Of course, not with their true faces, but just adding a little help to Sacred’s technology under disguised identities.
“……?”
“Isn’t this a glitch?”
Finally, thanks to the guild members’ persistent efforts, it seemed they had appraised something.
“His level…?”
In the battle with Kartul, when he became the Knight of Envy, Go Yohan had reclaimed what he had forgotten.
As a result, the Goddess had bestowed her blessing upon him once more.
“…Eig…. Eigh….”
“Does this make sense?”
“Eight hundred?”
The guild members looked like they were about to have heart attacks.
“Th-there seems to be a system issue right now. This has never happened before.”
Flustered words thrown his way.
‘If it had happened before, that would be an even bigger problem. It would mean an enemy Sacred couldn’t handle had shown up.’
The guild members tried their best to suppress their panic and spoke.
“By any chance….”
A cautious question.
“Are you an Unranker?”
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He knew there were those called Unrankers, the top powerhouses affiliated with the Association who weren’t on any rankings.
They were called that partly because the Association exempted them from ranking and system info registration.
‘Beyond measurement.’
It was also said to be because they possessed levels and power that existing systems couldn’t measure.
In a way, Go Yohan was indeed an Unranker.
After registering for Sacred at his Player awakening, he had never registered with the system again.
Moreover, since they couldn’t even appraise him, he fit the term in another sense too.
‘It’s not easy to infiltrate the Association side. There are already quite a few believers who’ve infiltrated the Korean Association internally.’
The world Association was still being tested.
‘Unranker.’
The moment the name he had been keeping in mind lodged itself in Go Yohan’s brain once more.
After that, Go Yohan had to undergo a few physical inspections outside the system.
Even after that.
“We’ll need your fingerprints and iris scan here. Normally this isn’t required, but you’re not in the Sacred database.”
“No problem at all.”
Various procedures.
Go Yohan welcomed them rather than finding them bothersome.
“Do you do this to everyone?”
“Yes. Even if the Association Chairman or the President comes, it wouldn’t change. We just do a simplified check if the data’s already registered.”
Go Yohan nodded.
He already knew this, but it was good to see even the low-level guild members handling their duties with a sense of mission.
“If you’d like, we can register you now and do simplified checks on future visits. Do you agree?”
In the past, such guild practices had been criticized as excessive oppression or overreach by numerous people and politicians.
But after unidentified Players infiltrated guilds and caused chaos, they shut up.
Even now, major incidents in guild buildings were far from everyday.
The laws enacted by the Association afterward.
‘Guilds are a kind of extraterritorial zone.’
Like embassies.
Of course, the Association took responsibility.
“Let’s talk about that later.”
“Understood. Whew, I was totally out of it. You’re confirmed.”
The guild members said.
“But what brings you here? The Guild Master and Vice Guild Master are currently away. You’ve probably been informed, but they can’t return right away.”
Go Woojin was the same.
“Just came to look around.”
“……?”
“Is that not allowed?”
“Why wouldn’t it be? Sacred is open to any Player. That’s because of our pride and confidence, and also to let anyone dream of joining Sacred.”
The guild member spoke like a tour guide.
“If it’s not too much trouble, may I show you around?”
Treating him not as Sacred blood, but as one Player.
“Sure. What’s your name?”
“I’m Jeong Ho-gun, from the Sacred Guild reception desk.”
It was then.
Rrring.
Go Yohan smirked and answered the ringing phone.
-Hey! Hey! You’re at Sacred?
“…News travels slow.”
-Tell me and Mom before you go places!
It was Go Minji.
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“As you know, the Sacred Guild…”
“I don’t know anything. Please explain casually.”
Jeong Ho-gun nodded with a face full of pride.
“Yes. Then I’ll explain comfortably. The Sacred Guild House has a total of 22 floors. The bottom 5 are for non-combat guild members, the next 3 for regular combat Players, and the 12 floors above that for the raid teams.”
The top two floors were used by the Guild Master and Vice Guild Master.
“This is the tallest building among guild houses in Korea, and we take great pride in it.”
Jeong Ho-gun’s explanation was spot on.
“The taller the guild house, the harder it is to defend, right?”
“Exactly.”
The taller the building, the more vulnerable it was to attacks.
Deploying barriers and items to cover the entire tall structure was a huge task, and such barriers could collapse entirely if even one weak point was hit.
Most guilds topped out at around 10 floors, with only Sacred exceeding 20 in Korea.
“The details are confidential, so I can’t explain, and I don’t know them anyway.”
Jeong Ho-gun was honest too.
But Go Yohan already knew those secrets.
‘They engraved spells into the entire pillar. Countless barrier Players must have been worked to death.’
Also.
‘There’s a massive magic circle in the underground foundation. Seunghwa must have tweaked it later, but it won’t cause earthquakes or anything in the surrounding ground.’
Beyond that, Sacred didn’t skimp on investments in the guild house.
“It was the Vice Guild Master’s order to make it a sanctuary and home for guild members, a place where they could rest comfortably anytime.”
His mother too.
Jeong Ho-gun continued explaining after that.
“Sacred guild members…”
The more he explained, the more excited he got.
You could feel the pride of being a Sacred guild member, and his genuine love for Sacred.
He seemed to have forgotten that the man in front of him was Sacred blood.
“The salary is the highest in Korea too. No discrimination even for non-combat roles.”
While listening to such explanations.
‘It was worth coming.’
Go Yohan didn’t regret setting foot in Sacred.
It was then.
“…Ah.”
As if he’d received word, Jeong Ho-gun awkwardly scratched his cheek.
“The training grounds have been approved for access. I got so into it that I forgot I was guiding Go Yohan himself.”
The training grounds, never opened to outsiders, had been opened to Go Yohan.