Chapter 69
Chapter 69
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 69
Chapter Title: New Guild (3)
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Why do hunters transfer guilds?
Shitty senior-junior relationships, bullying, failed salary negotiations, reckless dungeon raids that put their lives at risk, better offers from superior guilds...
And so on. There are all sorts of reasons.
When those factors combine to make transferring seem like the better option, hunters escape their current guild and head to another.
Of course, this only applies to capable hunters.
F-rank and E-rank hunters are like walking bugs.
They want to transfer, but they can't.
Just like I used to be, or like the members of Training Team 4.
But I'm different now.
I can transfer anytime, anywhere.
Because I'm destined to become an S-rank hunter someday.
'What matters is that I finally have options.'
After my brief meeting with Han A-ra, I headed home.
I was exhausted from barely sleeping the night before.
I quickly washed up and collapsed onto the bed.
I slept deeply and woke up as the sun was setting.
My foggy head felt crystal clear and refreshed.
I sat at my desk and turned on the computer.
Time for some long-overdue internet surfing.
I searched for the Milky Way Guild and scrolled through the articles.
I checked the community reactions one by one, too.
📰 Breaking News [That bastard Hwang Deok-su even touched my girlfriend, fuck him] — Anonymous I joined the Milky Way Guild and then transferred out, and that's where I met my girlfriend? But when this shit blew up, he suddenly confesses there's something he has to tell me. Fuck, I want to kill that Hwang Deok-su bastard. — Hwang Deok-su Thanks for the meal lol ;;; kk; Sorry. — Anonymous Where do you live, you bastard? 📰 Breaking News [Crime my ass, upvote if you're jealous of that Hwang Deok-su bastard] — Anonymous Some losers can't even get laid and are rolling around in their rooms, while that old geezer was banging girls half his age just because he's guild master lmao. Upvote if you're pissed. — Anonymous Upvotes are exploding, this real? — Anonymous lmao Hunter Gallery losers have zero downvotes lmao 📰 Breaking News [Joseon Guild, get So-ra out now] — Anonymous The guild master fucked up, so why is my wife on suspension? Why stop my wife's activities? Hand over the Joseon Guild master position to my wife right now, you bastard Jang Joo-won. — Anonymous Downloaded the PDF lmao. Reported to Joseon Guild, go away lmao — Anonymous Joseon Guild is already fucked, why report lmao Joseon Guild, the one Han So-ra belongs to.
"Hm."
I searched for news on the Joseon Guild too.
I read them in chronological order.
📰 Breaking News ['Joseon' Guild HQ and S-rank Hunter Jang Joo-won's family home raided...] 📰 Breaking News [S-rank Hunter Jang Joo-won caught embezzling guild funds] 📰 Breaking News ['Joseon' Guild whistleblower says, "Just the tip of the iceberg..."] The guild was utterly destroyed over just one failure to clear the 47th floor.
Not some mid-tier guild like Milky Way, but Joseon Guild, the number one guild representing Korea.
Brutal.
The media sets the direction and justification like a pack of hounds, and public opinion tears into them indiscriminately.
That combination shredded the Joseon Guild to pieces.
📰 Breaking News [Hunter Association President S-rank Hunter Jang Gil-hyun dismisses 'Joseon' Guild Master] 📰 Breaking News [Former 'Joseon' Guild Master Jang Joo-won flees, attempts overseas exile...] An S-rank hunter is a one-person army with overwhelming power.
If they go all out, the damage could be catastrophic.
Yet very few ever put that into action.
There have been plenty of hunter criminals, but terrorists you could count on one hand.
The moment they harm innocent civilians, they've crossed an irreversible line as a hunter.
Even communist China wouldn't forgive that.
'...It didn't seem like a big deal because she acted so nonchalant.'
Whenever I had time, I'd summon Han So-ra to the Taming Room.
I used an S-rank hunter's ass as a punching bag to grow my strength to 31.
And through it all, Han So-ra never once mentioned her real-world troubles.
She treated this place like a separate reality, completely detached.
'She even seemed to enjoy it...'
She had a bit of a masochistic streak.
Even after losing her virginity to some unknown guy and getting her ass spanked, her words and actions didn't match her situation.
Details on the Joseon Guild could wait until I summoned Han So-ra next.
📰 Breaking News [Oppression in mid-tier guilds, the plight of female hunters, the path feminists should pursue] "My hands and feet are trembling with rage."
📰 Breaking News [B-rank Hunter Hwang Deok-su not a flight risk, but held in custody for investigation] 📰 Breaking News [Victims' testimonies pour in... How deep does the rot in the hunter industry go?] Korea operates on the principle of presumption of innocence.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in court.
But for sex crimes, Hwang Deok-su was already guilty.
It was presumption of guilt.
Jin Gwon-cheol and Hwang Deok-su—they're done for.
They both committed the kind of power-abuse crimes Koreans hate most.
Unless they get something like the Taming App, comeback is impossible.
Not a bad ending.
Poetic justice.
It felt damn satisfying.
Now all I had to do was renew my hunter license to D-rank and prepare to soar in the new guild, 'Ara and Friends'.
I opened the Taming App and summoned Choi Da-eun.
* * *
At the headquarters of the Haetae Guild, which had vied for first and second place with the Joseon Guild.
Lee Hae-wan, the guild master of Haetae Guild and an S-rank hunter, sat in his office chair staring at the 120-inch TV screen.
S-rank Hunter Jang Joo-won, who applied for exile to China, has been emergently arrested. He will be extradited to Korea for trial, with the possibility of a death sentence depending on the severity of his crimes. "Heh heh heh."
The fall of the Joseon Guild.
It was all orchestrated by Lee Hae-wan, the master of their rival guild.
The failure on the 47th floor of the Tower? That was because of the spy he planted sabotaging them.
He used that as the trigger to expose all the Joseon Guild's past corruption.
The association jumped in like they'd been waiting for it, pushing Joseon out.
Knock knock knock.
"Come in."
Someone knocked on the office door from outside.
As soon as Lee Hae-wan gave permission, his secretary entered.
A woman in a neat suit.
'A successful man needs a female secretary.'
Unlike Hwang Deok-su, he didn't make her do anything lewd.
She wasn't hired for that.
She was the best candidate among those who applied to be a secretary for Haetae Guild.
It just happened to be a woman.
Lee Hae-wan listened to her report with satisfaction.
"Master, the Joseon Guild has been disbanded. We confirmed that Association President Jang Gil-hyun issued the disbandment order himself. And Korea's top three guilds... now just two: Haetae and Baekho Guilds, have received official letters."
The female secretary handed him a single letter.
Lee Hae-wan unfolded it and read it carefully, savoring each word.
"Nothing special here."
It was a message encouraging the guild masters to work for Korea's development.
He'd received something similar before.
Just the association keeping up formalities.
"Did you recover the 'Biwa-shaped Bronze Sword' the association borrowed?"
"Yes. In exchange, they've promised us the rights to the next 47th floor raid."
"Good. Very good."
Raiding the 47th floor wasn't something you could do just because you wanted to.
Not even for top-tier hunter guilds.
Korea had cleared up to the 46th floor of the Tower so far.
America was at 90, China at 80, Japan at 70...
'We're way behind.'
Hunters had plenty of complaints.
Raids weren't free-form.
They wanted to climb but couldn't.
But the government and association couldn't just hand out opportunities willy-nilly.
Failures would whittle away Korea's strength. How could they approve them recklessly?
So they set rules.
Only association-approved guilds could attempt the upper floors.
The association solidified their power that way.
'And we're reaping the benefits!'
Lee Hae-wan chuckled gleefully.
Thanks to the 'Biwa-shaped Bronze Sword' he'd luckily acquired, he crushed Joseon Guild and took their spot.
He'd be lying if he said he wasn't thrilled.
The 'Biwa-shaped Bronze Sword' looked like trash bronze junk.
A common bronze sword from the Bronze Age.
But this one was special.
A 'Biwa-shaped Bronze Sword' used by the king who ruled the Korean Peninsula in rituals—that was Haetae Guild's unique treasure.
Against hunters born and raised on the peninsula, it boasted overwhelming performance.
Even S-rank hunter Jang Joo-won was no exception.
'It's insane. It slashes 99% of stats grown on the peninsula!'
Most of Korea's S-rank hunters were born and raised here.
Jang Joo-won and Han So-ra of Joseon, Association President Jang Gil-hyun—they were no exceptions.
They couldn't escape the debuff from the 'Biwa-shaped Bronze Sword'.
Pretty much every active S-rank in Korea fell within its range.
'With this, I can become king of the peninsula.'
It had acknowledged him as its master.
The 'Biwa-shaped Bronze Sword' only obeyed Lee Hae-wan, Haetae Guild's master.
No one else could even wield it without his permission.
"Got all the S-rank hunters in the guild?"
"Yes, even those on vacation have returned."
"Give them separate vacation time. Actually, let's have them push to the 50th floor first, then rest. We need to widen the gap for sure."
"I'll relay the order."
Lee Hae-wan wanted to pull ahead of the other guilds.
Get sloppy, and you end up like Joseon.
He planned to secure power, influence—everything—without missing a beat.
'Women too.'
Lee Hae-wan had heard about Hwang Deok-su.
The TV wouldn't shut up about it.
A rapist abusing power to assault female hunters.
Lee Hae-wan vowed never to end up like that.
'I don't even touch mediocre bitches like that.'
The women Hwang Deok-su went after were all 4s.
Not 5s or 7s—straight-up 4s, worthless as roadside pebbles, below average.
He wouldn't touch those even if they were free.
Back in his raging twenties, when he was full of vigor, those women ignored him.
Once he skyrocketed as a hunter, suddenly they came flocking.
Lee Hae-wan was disillusioned with them.
By his late twenties, he'd succeeded as an S-rank hunter and guild master.
Women his age and much younger spread their legs, begging for a shot at pregnancy.
Once he could have any woman anytime, he lost interest in sex altogether.
Did he really want his first time with loose sluts like that?
The moment he saw their discolored brown pussies, worn from countless encounters, that thought hit him.
Was his own purity worthless?
He had no desire to waste it on women subtly spreading their legs while pretending to be drunk.
It felt too unfair.
That was the moment his hard-preserved virginity felt wasted for the first time.
With that resolve, Lee Hae-wan decided to go for a 10.
A beautiful, pure, alluring, and powerful woman.
And in Korea, there was exactly one who matched him.
His primal instincts screamed.
He wanted her genes.
With the disbandment of the Joseon Guild, numerous hunters unlinked to Jang Joo-won have entered the FA market. As A-rank hunters find new homes, one remains unmoved. Much attention is on the decision of Korea's pride, S-rank Hunter Han So-ra... Lee Hae-wan would have Han So-ra.
By any means, even becoming king of the peninsula.