90 – Making a Decision
“Uh… ?”
Choi Soo-jung wakes up realizing that she fell asleep without realizing it.
In front of him, Soyoung Kang was looking at herself with a faint smile.
“Are you awake, lady?”
“I’m sorry, Secretary Kang. I must be tired, but I fell asleep alone….”
Despite the same hardship, she hurriedly gets up thinking that she was the only one who couldn’t overcome the fatigue and fell asleep.
But, she said, holding Kang So-young down with one arm to keep her from standing up.
“It’s okay if you lie down a little longer….”
“No…. Have to get up Everyone is having a hard time, but I can’t be alone like this.”
“… All right.”
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Seeing Choi Su-jeong wake up after not being able to lie down properly for even 30 minutes, Kang So-yeong didn’t deserve it, but she had no choice but to let go.
She’s more stubborn than anyone else, so there’s no way she’ll listen to me if I suggest more.
“Still, I feel like my head is clearer because I slept a little. Will Secretary Kang get some sleep now? Will I wait by your side?”
“I’m a person who doesn’t have any problems even if I don’t sleep for a week, so it’s okay.”
“Chi. You don’t have to be so hard on yourself… ? Take a break….”
As she clicked her tongue and showed concern, Kang So-yeong said, thanking her for thinking of her.
“I am fine. It’s a place where you don’t know when the situation will change, so even if you try to sleep, you probably won’t close your eyes.”
“Well…. If I hadn’t been Secretary Kang, I would have stayed on standby, far from dozing.”
After Kang So-yeong’s persuasion failed, Soo-jung Choi got up from the sofa and left the guild room.
She then looked down at the entrances to the building.
Fortunately, the back door, which was sealed to prevent the dispersion of personnel as much as possible, is still well blocked.
The inside of the first-floor building is also surrounded by iron walls for emergencies, so there seems to be no problem.
The biggest problem is the wide design of the main entrance.
In the first place, I designed the entrance wide to make it the most impenetrable point by installing as many defense and interception systems as possible, but that turned out to be poison.
As the saying goes, there is no business in quantity, as a large number of monsters continued to attack, the system equipment could not withstand and was worn out or broken.
I could have endured it if a large number of Starlight Guild Hunters had charged, but it was impossible to cope with the huge number of monsters.
The same goes for food and various basic items of life.
It’s an amount that can last up to half a year, but it’s not infinite, so keeping it blocked like this can’t be the answer.
“What can I do….”
Choi Soo-jung fell into trouble.
A situation where you need to make a quick decision.
However, if you see that the shadows that went to investigate the area continue to fail to come back alive, it means that there are other threats besides monsters.
It is suicidal to rule out that and wander around in search of an answer without thinking.
In the end, the only thing I can do is keep repeating what I’m doing now.
Choi Soo-jeong is very uncomfortable with this situation.
Choi Woo-seok’s personality is that he’s a crazy guy who enjoys watching people become more and more impoverished, so he’s probably laughing with joy when he sees this.
And if this goes on for a long time, it’s obvious that you’ll get inertia and you won’t be able to look outside or think about escaping at all.
Rumors are circulating that no one has returned after leaving, so of course we have no choice but to settle down.
In that case, Sujeong Choi thought it would be better to try something at this time when she has at least a little bit of mental and physical leisure.
Choi Soo-jung, who finally organized her thoughts, entered the guild leader’s office again.
Then she sat down on the sofa and said to Kang So-young.
“Secretary Kang, there is no answer if we go on like this. Know? We need to find a breakthrough. Since this is a dungeon, there must be a dungeon core.”
Choi Soo-jung expresses her intention to destroy the dungeon core.
However, Kang So-young answered with a troubled expression.
“Yes…. However, as you know, it is not easy because there are many difficulties in collecting information. However, we cannot repeat the act of throwing away valuable power.”
“Yes. How difficult it is to train people.”
It is a power that can withstand even against at least A-class hunters, but it cannot be easily wasted in a situation where something may happen in the future.
Guild members can’t be removed as they’re working hard on defense right now.
“So I thought about it, but Secretary Kang….”
“Yes, please.”
Choi Soo-jeong hesitates to speak for a moment.
Kang So-young felt an ominous moment and asked as if urging.
“Tell me what you are doing.”
Then Choi Soo-jung reluctantly brought her words out.
“I think I should go get some information.”
“Absolutely not!”
Kang So-yeong strongly opposes as soon as she hears it.
Calmly accepting Kang So-young’s reaction, Choi Soo-jeong responded.
“It is right that I have to go.”
“What are you talking about! Even if I go, I have to go. You don’t know what will happen to the guild if you lose the guild leader!”
Kang So-yeong actively shows her emotions and dissuades her.
As Choi Soo-jeong’s safety is at stake, she rushes in as if there is no concession.
Seeing Kang So-young like that, Choi Su-jeong secretly suppressed her tears.
She felt that she was able to come this far because of this person, and she felt grateful again.
But this time, Kang So-young can’t help it either.
Soo-jung Choi is convinced that this is the moment she needs to step up.
“Even if you lose the guild leader, there will be someone to replace you.”
“What is that….”
“Currently, the guild’s chain of command is virtually controlled by Secretary Kang. I listen to it, judge it, and give it orders.”
“… “
Kang So-young, like a mute who had eaten honey, couldn’t reply to those words.
As for the complicated work, Kang So-yeong was in charge of everything, so Choi Su-jeong’s words were not completely wrong, so I couldn’t deny it.
“Right?”
“Even now, whenever I teach you….”
“Even so, there is no way I can think and judge as skillfully as Secretary Kang now, right?”
Concerned that Choi Su-jeong might be having a hard time, Kang So-young bit her lip as the work she had taken the lead in was actually acting as a shackle.
Rather logically, if there is a flaw, she can actively stop it, but even that is in Choi Soo-jung.
I am going outside to gather information, but the only people in the guild with a high probability of surviving are Sujeong Choi and myself.
Leaving it to someone else is a waste of energy, and a lack of personnel can act as a cause of defeat in large-scale battles that may occur later.
Then one of the two had to go, but someone who could lead the guild had to remain.
And as for whoever played that role, Kang So-young is the best.
“My lady…. Still, this is too risky. Think again. There must be another way. Let’s watch a little longer.”
“No. If you stay like this, you will only be annihilated.”
“My lady, please….”
Soo-jeong Choi was shaken for a moment at So-young Kang’s eyes, who begged her not to go with her earnestness, but she soon took her heart and said,
“Sorry.”
As she said that, she reached out to Kang So-yeong with her magical energy.
Then, a huge oval curtain of light formed around her, enveloping her.
“Please stay within [Goddess’ Grace] For a moment. If you don’t do this, they’ll try to stop you somehow.”
Su-Jung Choi gave So-Young Kang an absolute barrier that would not be broken for at least 10 minutes no matter what kind of attack she made, whether outside or inside.
She belatedly realized that she had locked herself in. She tried to break through Kang So-yeong, but she quickly realized that it had no effect.
“No…. I’ll go. Please, lady!”
“I can’t do that. In order to destroy the Seonggwang Guild, Secretary Kang…. No. Because I really need Soyoung’s strength.”
“Ah….”
Kang So-young collapses on the spot as if collapsing.
Choi Soo-jeong’s heart ached at her appearance, but she closed her eyes tightly and greeted her, which might be her last.
“In case you don’t know…. I’ll tell you. Thank you so much, Soyoung unnie.”
“Sujeong-ah! Don’t go! You better come with me!”
Kang So-young’s short words that she’s heard for the first time in a long time since her mother died.
After Choi Soo-jung heard that, she felt at least a little relieved.
Now there is only one thing that bothers me.
I touched the ring on her hand, hoping that that little wish would come true.
“I’ll be back.”
Sujeong Choi left the guild building like that.
* * *
“What is this… ?”
A church that suddenly appeared while advancing while overcoming a series of attacks by monsters.
When she came here, except for the guild building that had been torn down in its entirety, she saw nothing but barren land and grass, but Choi Su-jeong sensed that there was something in the church that suddenly appeared in the open field.
She and as she proves it, by the time she got near the cathedral she found a very familiar mask on the floor.
“This is what shadows carry….”
Masks shattered and shattered.
And there were a lot of bloodstains left next to it.
“Did the shadows come all the way here and get all of them….”
Just looking at this situation, it seems almost certain that the inside is dangerous.
Choi Soo-jung thought about going back from here for a moment, but thought that this alone was not enough information, so she decided to investigate the inside of the cathedral.
If someone has to do it, the strongest one will have a higher chance of survival.
With that thought in mind, she began to circle around her to find a way out of the front door where the monsters kept coming.