Chapter 49

Chapter 49

Level 2 Player

Kim Young-cheol Party (2)

‘I’ll spare the lives.’

If they had even drawn weapons, he was thinking of making them into corpses, not cripples. But since they didn’t draw weapons, it seemed better to pass over with the degree of making them into cripples as first said.

Shuuuuk!

The Shadow Knight and Shadow Assassin that were hiding in Jin-su’s shadow revealed their appearances.

Kwaaaaang!

The Shadow Knight’s shield struck the man’s upper body.

“Keuek!”

The large man rolled on the floor with both arms grotesquely twisted and his face half collapsed.

Shushushushuk!

The Shadow Assassin threw daggers toward the woman. The flying daggers stabbed into both shoulders and knees of the woman.

“Aaaak!”

The woman with daggers stabbed into the shoulder and knee joints burst out a painful scream and rolled on the floor.

“What sound is that?”

“It’s a fight!”

The players remaining in the restaurant all turned their heads upon hearing the impact sound and screams.

“Eh, what. It’s already over.”

“That guy is Gwak Jin-seong. He got completely hit.”

“What is that black thing? Summon?”

As the sound of the onlookers chattering overlapped following the large impact sound and screams, those who were in the lounge, conference room, lodging, etc. swarmed outside. And among them, Kim Han-ul in charge of newcomer players was also included.

“What on earth is this?”

Kim Han-ul was greatly flustered by the scene unfolding in front of his eyes. He knew the fact that the Gwak Jin-seong party was regarding the two newcomers unfavorably. But he didn’t know it would spread to physical collision.

‘The newcomers won?’

A bigger shock than the physical collision occurring was the fact that the two newcomers he thought of as trash and completely turned off interest in defeated the Gwak Jin-seong party. And that too so easily.

‘To think they were carrying such strong summons.’

The summon of Jin-su that Kim Han-ul witnessed was only one small baby cat.

It didn’t look strong at a glance and mana was also almost not felt. So he thought the other summons were also easy.

But that was an enormous misconception.

The residual mana naturally flowing from the summon holding a shield and sword and the summon holding a dagger was extraordinary.

Kim Han-ul’s head became complicated. But first, cleanup was first.

“Healer! If there is a healer, anyone please heal!”

Kim Han-ul raised his voice and requested the help of a healer.

“Healing!”

“Rapid Recovery!”

At Kim Han-ul’s words, the healers among those who were watching stepped forward and treated the injuries of the two people. But recovery-type skills weren’t omnipotent.

Although the wounds healed quickly, they couldn’t completely recover the broken or collapsed bones and the severed ligaments and tendons. If the level of the recovery-type skill is higher, it might be unknown, but as healers of Floor 100 level, the limit of ability was the degree of appropriately improving.

They suffered large injuries of a degree where long-term recuperation is essential for complete recovery.

“Why did you attack those two?”

Kim Han-ul asked Jin-su.

“It was legitimate self-defense. The ones who attacked first are those two, so if you can’t believe it, ask the witnesses.”

Jin-su answered in a calm tone.

“Even if they attacked first, it was too excessive a response. You would have known at least that those two people belong to the Daehan Guild. The Daehan Guild showed goodwill to you. But are you repaying that favor in this way?”

At Kim Han-ul’s words, Jin-su burst into a pisik laugh.

“They periodically picked fights, but I endured. I also kindly warned that if they continue, I won’t endure anymore. But they ignored and went beyond picking fights to try to directly inflict harm, so I only defended in a self-defense dimension. You said it was an excessive response? Just by leaving the life line attached, I gave a large consideration in my own way thinking of the goodwill the Daehan Guild showed. Well, it wasn’t a goodwill I wanted from the start though.”

The reason Jin-su resolved lodging and meals at the Daehan Guild was to avoid the interest and friction that could arise from doing standing-out actions unnecessarily. Hiding the existence of the Shadow Summons was also for the same reason.

But the moment he met the Kim Young-cheol party in the hunting ground during the day today, everything became bubbles.

“Since it became this way, I can no longer stay here. I’ll leave for another place.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t have points, and there was no need to particularly rely on the Daehan Guild for lodging and meals.

“T, that is, so...”

When Jin-su revealed the intention to leave, Kim Han-ul stuttered and made a troubled expression. Kim Han-ul’s mission was to make the usable ones among the newcomers belong to the Daehan Guild.

‘I judged that those two have no value to accept into the Daehan Guild.’

He thought that even if making the guys with insignificant skill but only strong pride into Daehan Guild affiliation, it would only become a harm. So he intentionally neglected them. He hoped the week’s time would pass and they would disappear from in front of his eyes.

But that wasn’t it.

‘To think they possessed summons strong enough to suppress Gwak Jin-seong and Kim Hye-jeong in one move.’

He never even imagined it in a dream.

‘I have to catch them unconditionally.’

Not recruiting a summoner with skill of that degree while temporarily protecting is Kim Han-ul’s mistake. If even the fact that he judged those two as trash and intentionally ignored the trouble is revealed?

‘The party leader position might fly away.’

Kim Han-ul was in a state of being internally decided as the leader of the Daehan Guild’s new party made by gathering the elites in the starting city.

If this mistake is revealed, he might be demoted to an ordinary party member or in the worst case, assigned as the leader of a party like the Gwak Jin-seong party where the level is low and it’s hard to fill the personnel.

“No. There is no need to particularly leave. I’ll increase the free lodging and meal period with my authority. So how about staying as much as you want more?”

Kim Han-ul who barely organized his thoughts urgently opened his mouth.

‘Although Gwak Jin-seong and Kim Hye-jeong are on the falling skill side, suppressing in one blow is a different problem.’

He himself doesn’t have the confidence to make Gwak Jin-seong or Kim Hye-jeong combat incapable in one move.

‘Only the summons visible to the eyes, there might be more.’

If making Jin-su join the Daehan Guild and then accepting him as his own party member? Kim Han-ul’s evaluation within the guild will rise and the party’s combat power will also become overwhelmingly high.

“It’s fine.”

Jin-su coldly cut Kim Han-ul’s words and stood up from the seat and moved his footsteps.

‘What should I do?’

He didn’t want to receive reprimand from above and he also coveted the martial power of the summons Jin-su possessed.

“If you leave like this, it can look like exercising violence on a Daehan Guild guild member and fleeing. Do you want to become an enemy of the Daehan Guild?”

Kim Han-ul used the bad move of threat in an impatient heart. The moment he spat out the words, the thought of oh no arose.

‘I was too impatient. There are also many eyes around watching.’

Decisively, the previous remark exceeded the limit of the authority Kim Han-ul has. But there was also a result. Jin-su who heard Kim Han-ul’s words stopped his footsteps.

‘Yeah, since you would have learned the physiology of Floor 100 so far. You wouldn’t want to become an enemy of the Daehan Guild. Let’s catch him first and persuade.’

It seemed that if catching with threat and persuading with words and coaxing and appeasing, he could make him his own party member.

“If you cooperate with me, I’ll clean up this matter well. So first...”

“You ask if I want to become an enemy of the Daehan Guild? Do you yourself want to make the Daehan Guild my enemy?”

Jin-su cut Kim Han-ul’s words and asked.

“...”

Kim Han-ul momentarily became mute like having eaten honey. His mind went blank. He couldn’t understand.

‘Did I mishear?’

The Daehan Guild is one of the giant guilds dominating Floor 100. Among the guilds Koreans belong to, it boasts the largest scale.

For Kim Han-ul, the Daehan Guild was a kind of absolute sanctuary. Therefore, he absolutely couldn’t accept Jin-su’s remark.

“W, what did you just say?”

“I asked if you want to make the Daehan Guild my enemy.”

Jin-su was sincere.

Restraining standing-out actions and not showing power was to prevent annoying matters, not because he was afraid of the giant guilds including the Daehan Guild.

“You crazy bastard! What do you dare see the Daehan Guild as! Do you really want to die!”

But from the perspective of Kim Han-ul who has enormous pride in becoming an executive of the Daehan Guild, Jin-su’s words were the same as enormous abusive language. It was a remark that absolutely couldn’t come out without ignoring the Daehan Guild.

The Tower is a world of the law of the jungle. And the Daehan Guild is the strong.

Even if a guild member belonging to the Daehan Guild attacked first, even if they threatened, even if they committed rudeness, spitting out such arrogant words looking down on the Daehan Guild absolutely couldn’t be tolerated.

At the appearance of Kim Han-ul emitting killing intent with blood vessels standing in his eyes, the first to show a reaction were Gwak Jin-seong and Kim Hye-jeong who had been quietly like dead mice after being hit by Jin-su and receiving treatment.

As Gwak Jin-seong and Kim Hye-jeong drew weapons and aimed at Jin-su, the Daehan Guild members around also grabbed weapons and surrounded Jin-su and Shin Su-a.

“If you apologize even now and say you’ll join the Daehan Guild, I’ll forgive you.”

Kim Han-ul glared at Jin-su with an expression full of confidence and said.

“It seems the Daehan Guild recruits new guild members in this way. Rejection.”

Saaaaak!

As soon as Jin-su’s words ended, the Shadow Summons revealed their appearances. Shin Su-a also summoned the Stone Golem and cast blessing and protection skills while preparing for battle.

In a touch-and-go situation where it seemed a battle would break out immediately with just one small movement, Kim Han-ul bit his lower lip.

‘It’s not that I did wrong. That bastard insulted the Daehan Guild. If just passing over, only the Daehan Guild’s appearance becomes ridiculous. Punishing is natural.’

The moment Kim Han-ul finished self-rationalization and was about to give the attack order.

“What kind of acts are you doing inside the guild house right now!”

A voice full of mana shook the inside of the guild house.

The protagonist of that voice was Kim Young-cheol, the leader of the party who came down to the starting city to hunt the monster outside the standard.

Kim Young-cheol led the party members and searched the hunting ground thoroughly to find traces of the monster outside the standard. But the result was a blank.

In the end, he decided to continue the search again tomorrow and returned to the guild house in the starting city to take a rest. But inside the returned guild house, he witnessed the situation right before a fight broke out and scolded.

“Young-cheol hyung!”

Kim Han-ul called Kim Young-cheol in a voice full of gladness. Kim Young-cheol had wide feet as befitting a meddling personality and had many guild members he was close with. Kim Han-ul was also close enough with Kim Young-cheol to call him hyung and dongsaeng.

“You came well. That guy over there did Gwak Jin-seong and Kim Hye-jeong who are guild members...”

Kim Han-ul explained the circumstances. Naturally, it was in a state of being adapted to his own advantageous side.

“So this situation occurred.”

The face of Kim Young-cheol who was quietly listening to Kim Han-ul’s words crumpled a lot. And he opened his mouth in a voice full of anger.

“Hey, Kim Han-ul. Do you see me as a moron bastard who can’t even distinguish right from wrong?”

“Yes? No! Absolutely not! Hyung!”

“Then why did you chatter such bullshit to me? A newcomer who was quietly until now attacked a guild member for no reason, and that too inside the guild house?”

“T, that is...”

“Not only that, he suddenly insults the Daehan Guild and challenges a fight to all the guild members? Jin-woong. You tell me. Is what Han-ul said true?”

Oh Ji-woong whom Kim Young-cheol pointed out was a person competing with Kim Han-ul for the leader position of the new party.

“That is, what happened is...”

Oh Ji-woong spilled all the facts as they were: that Kim Han-ul tried to make Jin-su and Shin Su-a join the Gwak Jin-seong party and it went wrong, that the Gwak Jin-seong party continuously picked fights with Jin-su and Shin Su-a, that Kim Han-ul treated Jin-su and Shin Su-a as trash and tried to send them out when the week’s temporary protection period ends, even that Gwak Jin-seong and Kim Hye-jeong attacked first.

“Although it’s true that Kim Han-ul did wrong, that guy named Lee Jin-su also looked down on the Daehan Guild and ignored...”

“Stop! Why do you mix your personal opinion into the report and chatter?”

“S, sorry.”

Kim Young-cheol sharply scolded Oh Ji-woong. And he bowed his head deeply toward Jin-su.

“Sorry. I educated the guild member guys wrong. I’ll formally apologize for today’s matter.”

When Kim Young-cheol bowed his head and apologized, the Daehan Guild members including Kim Han-ul and Oh Ji-woong opened their mouths wide.