74 – Crumbling Ice Castle (1)
The main building of the Explorers Association located in Seongnam City.
“Here you are.”
The association staff handed me the seeker’s registration card.
It was a registration card that had just been renewed.
As of today.
You have been upgraded to a Level 2 Explorer.
The achievements accumulated at Daehan Academy and Cheongong Island, which was explored a while ago. And with the influence of Instructor Tak Jae-hwan and Baek So-ah, he was able to become a 2nd class right away.
“Congratulations on your promotion. Please note that the renewed registration card can be used from tomorrow.”
The association staff with a sales smile explained other precautions.
After about 10 minutes of explanation.
“It’s a bit annoying.”
Yura Cha, who was handed the registration card next to her, grumbled.
It deserved it.
When she belonged to Daehan Academy, she was automatically promoted according to her performance. But now that I belong to a private academy, it would be cumbersome to visit the association directly and renew it.
“Still, how is it that you don’t go through screening like other seekers?”
“That’s right…”
“Let’s go quickly. Baby, I’ll be waiting for you.”
Me and Cha Yoo-ra took our registration certificates and moved to the association lounge.
Baek So-ah, who had been waiting inside, found us and jumped up from her seat.
“Is the renewal over?”
“Yes. It won’t take as long as you think.”
“I told you in advance to deal with it quickly.”
···Somehow.
The staff moved hurriedly while keeping an eye on us.
I thought it was an abuse of power.
I thought it was because the association itself had a strong dictatorship.
There are so many enemies inside, but that’s up to you.
“Let’s go to my private break room and have a coffee.”
Baek So-ah took the lead and spoke.
The moment Cha Yu-ra and I were about to go outside after her.
Just in time, I saw a familiar face walking into the break room.
‘Does he have business with the Association? It’s a coincidence.’
Did he notice the gaze?
A blue-haired man also stopped in shock when he saw us.
“Lee Hyeon-seong…”
Namgoongcheol.
He was currently ranked 3rd in the Korean Academy rankings.
In addition, he is the one who spread malicious rumors about Kim Young-ji.
Should I say something here?
I don’t know what to say now that we run into each other.
They were looking at each other awkwardly.
Two women who seemed to be Namgungcheol’s company greeted each other hesitantly.
“It’s been a while.”
“Hello.”
Baek So-ah Or is she an acquaintance with Cha Yu-ra?
I looked at their reactions.
Looking at his expression, he seemed to be a stranger.
‘What is it? Could it be that he said hello to me?’
I saw the women with Namgungcheol again.
The women’s eyes were fixed on my face.
It must have been a sphere.
I was too lazy to search my memory, so I just asked.
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“Who are you?”
The women on Namgungcheol’s side frowned.
One of them stepped forward and spoke in a voice full of displeasure.
“Are you doing this on purpose?”
“Yes?”
“I am Shin Jia. Why do you pretend you don’t know?”
Ah.
I remembered when I heard the name.
Jia Shin.
Jiyu Shin.
She is the Aura Guild executive who expelled me, and she was a twin sister who lived next door to her when she was young.
‘It’s a common face, so I couldn’t remember it right away. It’s annoying to go back to my memories every time I meet an old relationship.’
For your reference.
The twins recently visited my father.
The purpose was to recruit me back into the Aura Guild.
Shortly after paying off the debt,
I tried contacting me first, but after being resolutely rejected, it seemed that they decided to attack my family.
Above all, we were once neighbors.
It seemed that he believed that since he knew his father, he would somehow be persuaded.
Well, the result was obvious.
My father didn’t even look at the faces of the girls who came to the house and immediately issued a congratulatory order.
Recruit at will.
Also, he said that when he threw it away like throwing away garbage, he got angry like crazy when he asked if he would shamelessly take it back.
‘Even my father knew that the twin sisters had seduced Lee Hyeon-seong, a former possessor who said he didn’t want to join the guild…’
They don’t give up.
She even visited my unit where her younger sister Lee Hyeon-ji was serving her, but her sister told her not to treat her family as an object and to get out of the way. Kicked it out, she said.
Anyway.
They are no longer acquaintances or anything.
It’s also an insulated relationship.
Because I decided to shake off most of Lee Hyun-sung’s personal connections before being possessed.
Jia Shin and Jiyu Shin also.
Because they don’t have a personality of seeing people as tools, they were people who shouldn’t be kept close.
This means that we should not have s*x.
“Hyunseong-ah. Are they people you know?”
“Who are you?”
Baek So-ah and Cha Yu-ra asked from both sides at the same time.
I thought about it briefly before answering.
“They must be from the guild I expelled from before.”
“Ah. Were those bastards? I’ve seen them all before, but it’s so common that I can’t remember.”
Baek So-ah shed her sneer.
Then she shot Shin Ji-ah and Shin Ji-yu fiercely.
“What are you staring at? Don’t you close your eyes?”
Do you know that she is the president’s daughter?
They immediately lowered their eyes.
‘I can understand Baek So-ah’s dislike of them.’
The Aura Guild has a history of deceiving me about debt payments.
They charged ridiculous interest.
I didn’t even know that and paid it all back.
How did Baek So-ah know that?
With the association staff, they stormed into the headquarters of the Aura Guild and conducted a surprise search.
In Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Gangwon-do, this was possible because the association was no different from the government.
Above all, the Explorers Guild.
The association was able to conduct a search and seizure without issuing a warrant.
And at that time, the guild leader of the Aura Guild, who had been rid of all sorts of corruption, was dismissed and arrested, and half of the executive staff were ground.
Unfortunately, the guild didn’t collapse.
‘But why are Aura Guild and Namgungcheol together?’
The question was immediately answered.
She didn’t even ask, but Namgung-cheol opened her mouth first.
“I entered the Aura Guild.”
Namgung-cheol has arsenic.
She drew close to me and whispered softly.
“How is it? How do you feel about losing a woman to me?”
“Huh?”
“Don’t pretend to be calm. Because I know you’re swallowing your resentment inside.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You brought it on yourself. Hyunseong Lee Since you stole Kim Yeongji first, I have no choice but to come out like this, right? The revenge will not end with this, so be nervous in the future.”
Um.
I don’t want to go this far.
He really seems like an idiot.
A woman is not a thing, what is being stolen?
‘What’s the difference between saying that I grabbed the dungeon monsters and stole my monsters instead of my summons?’
It was a fitting metaphor.
It seemed like he was lacking something in mistaking someone who had nothing to do with NTR.
In addition.
I never took away Kim Yeong-ji, but she was struggling alone in her delusion.
‘Was it because of a desire for revenge that you joined the Aura Guild? Why did he bother to join such a guild?’
He’s a guy with no answers.
It’s best to ignore this guy.
“Yes. Be strong for revenge.”
I decided to reply appropriately and just go on my way.
Do Shin Ji-ah and Shin Ji-yu still have something to say?
She opened her mouth and stretched out her hand to me, but when Baek So-ah opened her eyes, she shrank and retreated behind her.
In the end, they just opened their mouths and couldn’t say anything.
After seeing the faces of Cha Yu-ra and Baek So-ah, Namgung-cheol cursed softly when he saw her companions.
“f*ck… Why do I feel lost?”
I didn’t mind this either.
As I was about to leave the break room, Namgoongcheol shouted loudly from behind.
“Lee Hyeon-seong! Let’s wait and see during the friendly match! Because your opponent has been decided by me!”
I don’t know what you’re trying to do.
Hearing those words, Baek So-ah stopped in her seat and looked back.
“Hey. Who told you to scream at someone else’s building? Do you want to search? Take me to the torture chamber?”
“·······.”
Namgungcheol bit her mouth tightly, perhaps because she was frightened.
If you’re going to do that, why did you provoke?
I followed Baek So-ah and stopped in my seat.
I briefly warned Namgungcheol.
“If possible, don’t cross the line. Just like what you did to Kim Young-ji.”
“···Uh, huh? What did you do to Kim Young-ji? Um, I don’t know what you mean?”
Put out flippers.
If you’re going to act, don’t talk or stutter.
“Anyway, I warned you, so behave yourself. Then see you in Dalian.”
I have a lot to say, but I just swallowed it to myself.
As the opponent of the Dalian is Namgung-cheol, you just have to pay off all the karma at that time.
‘If the elemental magician loses all the contracting spirits, there will be problems making contracts with other spirits in the future, but… Well, it’s none of my business.’
I was a little upset.
Her mind calmed down at the thought of acquiring quality spirits.
That’s how I left the lounge, ignoring Namgungcheol’s group.
***
About an hour.
We chatted over coffee in Baek So-ah’s private lounge.
It wasn’t a very nutritious conversation.
Because it was mainly small talk.
He said let’s not talk about anything important because there might be a wiretapping device.
After we finished talking like that.
Baek So-ah stayed at the association because there was work to be done, and Cha Yu-ra and I left the building to return to the Passasak Mansion.
Going by public transportation.
After we arrived at the neighborhood we live in before we knew it.
On the way to the mansion across a dark alley.
‘It stuck to me a lot.’
I felt lively gazes from all directions.
I wonder if Cha Yu-ra didn’t notice.
She was idly watching the ants crawling on the ground.
“Ah! One fell out of the procession. What do we do···? Should I take him and raise him?”
“Yura, stop looking at the ants and come quickly.”
“Oh, yes!”
The moment Cha Yu-ra came close behind me.
Have you decided to stop tailing now?
A man appeared walking out from the end of the alleyway.
“Are you going on a date?”
It was a familiar face.
‘Is this the first time I’ve seen it in person, not on the Internet?’
Cha Yoo-ra must have been a face I got tired of looking at every time.
“What, what? Why are you here?”
Yura Cha’s voice trembled.
She took a step back, her hands shaking as if she had seen her grim reaper.
“To say that it is you to my father. Her mouth is rough.”
The man said, frowning at her.
His true identity was Cha Yoo-ra’s father and Cha Byung-ho, the guild leader of the Freezing Guild.
“Hmm. His signature is… I guess I’ll have to change it to death due to the rampage of summons. I ran into a car the other day, but it didn’t kill me and bothered me…”
Cha Byeong-ho looked at me and muttered something.
It looks like he’s talking about the cause of death, but it’s far away so I couldn’t hear it in detail.
‘I thought I would send a low-ranking official at best, but I didn’t know that I would go personally.’
I immediately took out my encyclopedia and summoned a monster.
“Cha Yu-ra, take it.”
“Huh? He is…”
1 Summoned the monster centipede and put Cha Yu-ra into her arms.
Just as Little Warg brought Kim Soo-Han her peace of mind, attaching her Centipede to Cha Yura had a noticeably calming effect on her.
‘I’ll have to make a cockroach monster soon.’
After that, it was the moment to summon the next summon.
“Don’t look away!”
A man jumped down from the wall next to me, pointed his sword at me, and rammed in.
Kang-!
The tip of the sword touched my shoulder, but did not penetrate.
On the contrary, the sword broke.
It was a natural result.
My endurance is over 100.
Is there any way it could be pierced with a sword without any skills?
“What, what?!”
The man who lost his weapon panicked and distanced himself.
I glanced at the broken blade and said with a sneer.
“Use a good sword. Does the Ice Guild only use cheap swords like this?”
Even though he was attacked, he showed an infinitely relaxed appearance.
I’ll do that too.
I didn’t tell Cha Yu-ra, though.
All of the attacks by the Freezing Guild were intentional.
You’ve been following our academy students all along.
I felt the need to respond strongly once, and I drew them out by deliberately creating a situation where we were alone.
Of course, I also called in reinforcements.
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At that time, the frozen guild members who had popped out were buzzing and panicking.
“Yeah. Can the attack on the Hero Academy students be considered a declaration of war against our guild?”
A man wearing a hanbok came down from the sky and lightly stepped on the ground.
He was the deputy guild leader of the Goguryeo guild.