Chapter 98

Chapter 98

Level 2 Player

Orc Shaman

‘Will making Ogawa the guild master of the Minamoto Guild be helpful to me?’

Jin-su fell into deliberation for a moment.

In terms of force, there is no particular merit. However, looking at the information aspect, the circumstances were different.

‘Mistaking the Bone Dragon for an out-of-spec monster was a misunderstanding.’

However, anyway, it was a fact that the huge guilds possess information power that can immediately recognize if an abnormal phenomenon occurs in the starting city or anywhere. And to Jin-su, information was the most important.

‘Let’s intervene.’

It was not a greatly difficult thing, and it was fine if Ogawa only maintains the guild master position until Jin-su leaves Floor 150.

‘If the information of Floor 150 can be freely collected by putting in small effort, it is a large benefit.’

There was no need for Jin-su to move directly either.

‘It will be fine if attaching summons.’

Jin-su deliberated for a moment what kind of summon to send. Shadow summons have constraints according to distance. On the other hand, Army Summons did not.

‘But I cannot just send Army Summons recklessly.’

Shadow summons can hide their bodies in shadows and move secretly. On the other hand, Army Summons have appearances that stand out, and no stealth ability that can hide the body.

‘Still, it is fortunate that the level rose a lot.’

Shadow summons that grew to level 922 could fall up to 100 kilometers from Jin-su.

‘That degree seems fine.’

If it was Floor 100, it would rather have been impossible.

However, Floor 150 was possible.

‘Because Floor 150 is smaller than Floor 100.’

If Floor 100 is the scale of one country’s territory, Floor 150 was the scale of one country’s capital. The reason the scale decreased even though the floor of the Tower rose was simple.

‘Because that many players died.’

Floor 100 was a gathering place where the surviving players of numerous lower floors unite into one. However, Floor 150 is different. Without the joining of surviving players of other lower floors, all of those who cleared Floor 149 among the personnel who survived on Floor 100 gather on Floor 150.

Since personnel only continue to decrease without supplementation in the middle, Floor 150 had no choice but to be smaller than Floor 100.

‘Sending about 4 of Shadow Knight, Shadow Warrior, Shadow Assassin, and Shadow Archer will be sufficient.’

It was fine if the Shadow Mage and Shadow Healer hunt together with other summons.

‘For communication, it will be fine if using the communication stone obtained when raiding the guild house of the Minamoto Guild in the starting city.’

Jin-su gave the communication stone to the Shadow Assassin and then sent him to the last city where Ogawa is estimated to be.

‘Since he also knows Ogawa’s face, there will be no problem.’

If it is a Shadow Assassin with outstanding stealth ability, secretly meeting Ogawa will not be that hard a thing.

***

‘Great luck has come in.’

To Ogawa who recently overcame a crisis of death twice, an opportunity of a lifetime came.

‘To think I can aim for the guild master position.’

Although he had confidence in his own skill, to Ogawa who always had to live suppressed because there were too many excellent skilled persons among those who entered Floor 150 at a similar time, it was a matter he could not even imagine in his dreams.

‘If only that guy Fujiwara is made to submit.’

Fujiwara who reached Floor 150 one year later than Ogawa was the successor of the previous guild master Okamoto and the next guild master. Okamoto who has high leadership and good affinity was a strong person who absolutely does not fall behind Ogawa even in terms of combat power as a player.

‘Just yield. Why are you being greedy.’

Fujiwara is a person whose guild master position of the Minamoto Guild on Floor 150 is reserved anyway. Even if Ogawa rises to the guild master position of the Minamoto Guild on Floor 150, after half a year, he has to go up to Floor 151 due to the time limit whether he likes it or not.

‘I am saying I will eat it for only half a year, yet opposing that.’

Ogawa cursed Fujiwara. However, the one who is greedy for the half-year guild master position upon seeing the guild master position becoming vacant was Ogawa the same.

‘He has a lot of time left to eat from now on.’

Ogawa ground his teeth.

If sitting in the guild master position of the Minamoto Guild, there are quite a lot that can be received officially. Also, unofficial crumbs can be secured under this and that name.

Not only that, the guild master embezzling public funds at an appropriate level was a type of custom.

In the Tower, it is unknown when and how one will die. The power of the group is also important, but the most important is the power as a player that oneself possesses. That was why Ogawa had no choice but to covet.

‘If only rising to the guild master position...’

Ogawa can become far stronger than now as a player.

Srrrk!

While Ogawa was cursing Fujiwara inwardly and deliberating how he can become the guild master, a black form of a person shadow appeared in front of his eyes.

Whoosh!

Then it threw something toward Ogawa.

“Hiiik!”

Ogawa was startled and raised mana while drawing his sword.

‘This cowardly guy Fujiwara sent an assassin.’

Whoosh!

However, he could not cut the something the opponent threw.

Tak!

That something collided with Ogawa’s head and fell to the floor.

‘What?’

He thought it was a throwing weapon, and the moment he could not block it, he thought he died. Yet, what the opponent threw was not a throwing weapon. Although a small bump formed as the blunt something collided with the head, that was all.

“Communication stone?”

Ogawa who confirmed the identity of the item the unidentified opponent threw made a puzzled expression.

‘It is not a person.’

The identity of the opponent was not a human but a summon.

‘Who on earth sent it?’

At that time, the summoner who disappeared taking the previous guild master floated in Ogawa’s head.

‘Did that person send it?’

Ogawa swallowed dry saliva while picking up the communication stone and injecting mana.

-Is it Ogawa?

At the same time as the connection, the opponent’s question was heard.

“That’s right.”

Ogawa answered politely for now. But the opponent’s voice was somehow familiar, not unfamiliar.

-It seems it was delivered well without a large accident. I sent 4 summons. They will follow your instructions, so utilize them well and try to become the guild master.

“By any chance, are you the summoner who had the Bone Dragon as a summon?”

Ogawa asked carefully.

-Yeah, that’s right.

“But why are you bestowing this kind of favor on me?”

Ogawa asked with an expression full of questions. The summoner who controlled the Bone Dragon and the Minamoto Guild are in a hostile relationship. Yet, why is he saying he will help me by secretly sending summons?

-What. You don’t know me?

“I know, but.”

-Stupid guy, to think you cannot even recognize your own master.

“Master? What kind of words is that...”

Ogawa’s words who was startled and asking at the opponent’s words of being his master stopped in the middle.

“D-don’t tell me?”

In Ogawa’s head, the player who became his master as the price of sparing his life when acting as the Sasaki subjugation team floated.

‘Those two were the same person?’

Ogawa was astonished at the surprising fact.

‘Come to think of it, it is natural that there is one rather than two strong persons possessing that kind of transcendent power.’

On top of that, both were Korean.

‘Why could I not connect those two.’

Ogawa who found the common point tore at his head at his own foolishness.

-What, I spared your life at that time with effort, yet you did not even know that until now?

In Ogawa’s head, the fact that the flash breath of the Bone Dragon narrowly missed himself floated.

‘It was not luck.’

At that time, he thought luck was good, but that was not it.

“Really sorry. I was too foolish so I could not realize it. From now on, I absolutely will not make a mistake.”

-Still, since you grasp the topic well, it is good. First, contact after becoming the guild master.

“Understood.”

Even before Ogawa’s answer continued, the communication stone lost its light. The other side cut the communication.

“Gulp!”

Ogawa swallowed dry saliva.

It was a feeling as if contracting with a demon.

‘If I rise to the guild master position of the Minamoto Guild with his help...’

He will clearly make unreasonable demands. And himself who is already in a slave position will absolutely not be able to refuse that demand.

‘The guild master of the Minamoto Guild representing Japan is in a slave position of a Korean.’

What a dumbfounding thing is this?

The fund line of the Minamoto Guild being completely cleaned out is basic, and perhaps the guild members might lose their lives while trying to fulfill absurd instructions.

In the worst case, the lineage of the Minamoto Guild on Floor 150 might be cut.

This was a type of treason and betrayal toward the Minamoto Guild.

For the future of the Minamoto Guild, even because of patriotism, he absolutely should not rise to the guild master position.

‘Patriotism is bullshit. Where is that kind of thing.’

This is not Earth. The Minamoto Guild is not a country either, but only a private organization composed mainly of Japanese.

‘In the Tower, an individual’s survival is the top priority task. First, I have to live and see.’

Ogawa had no great attachment to the Minamoto Guild. He only joined the Minamoto Guild to raise the survival rate and obtain more.

To begin with, if Ogawa was a person who sincerely was loyal to the Minamoto Guild, he would not have begged Jin-su for his life.

‘Faithfully following the master’s instructions is my top priority task. First, let’s rise to the guild master position with the help of the summons the master sent.’

Ogawa immediately changed ships.

Even if the Minamoto Guild suffers enormously large damage due to himself rising to the guild master position, it did not matter.

‘The master can become a stronger backing than the Minamoto Guild to me.’

To Ogawa, his own survival and wealth and glory were the top priority over the safety of the Minamoto Guild.

***

Jin-su and Shin Su-a went around the hunting grounds without missing a day and collected achievements and raised levels. Among that, if there was one additional goal, it was finding powerful monsters.

‘Why is finding a usable boss monster this hard.’

Ordinary boss monsters were not satisfactory at all.

‘I have to fill the Army Summons with usable guys.’

That was not easy.

Currently, among the Army Summons, the individuals that can continue to be used are only the Bone Dragon, Demirich, and variant lycanthrope.

‘Actually, Demirich and the variant lycanthrope also have a somewhat ambiguous feeling.’

Among liches, the lowest grade was Demirich. But there existed the specialness of being born based on an existence that piled the first achievement and annihilated. On top of that, since it was the gatekeeper of Floor 100 in name, he believed it would become more usable if the level of the Army Summon skill rises.

In the case of the variant lycanthrope, if a stronger boss monster or variant monster is secured, replacement was immediately confirmed.

Although it possesses combat power far stronger than an ordinary lycanthrope, it was not an individual with high grade or that piled special karma, so it was an unavoidable thing.

‘It would be good if the out-of-spec monster of Floor 150 can be hunted.’

Not only can achievements be added, but it was a golden opportunity to obtain a powerful summon.

‘The out-of-spec monster of Floor 150 was the Orc Shaman, right.’

The out-of-spec monsters of Floor 50 and Floor 100, the White Drake and Bone Dragon, were monsters that are single individuals yet possess powerful combat power. However, the out-of-spec monster of Floor 150, the Orc Shaman, had a different texture.

‘It is a guy who possesses a special skill that dominates a monster legion rather than combat power as a single individual.’

It was an existence that possesses the ability to dominate all monsters existing on Floor 150, not only orcs.

‘It does not seem that tricky. Since I have not experienced it directly. I cannot be certain.’

Jin-su had never met the out-of-spec monster of Floor 150, the Orc Shaman, before regression. He only heard information about it conveyed from players who had the experience of meeting the out-of-spec monsters of each floor on the upper layers of the Tower.

‘Will that guy’s words be true?’

One among the players who informed Jin-su about the existence of the out-of-spec monster of Floor 150, the Orc Shaman, before regression had said surprising words.

‘Unlike other out-of-spec monsters, it does not suddenly reveal its appearance. It resides together with other orcs in ordinary hunting grounds.’

That player said he accidentally entered the domain of the out-of-spec monster Orc Shaman.

‘He made a huge fuss saying he almost died while trying to hunt thinking it was an ordinary Orc Shaman.’

Because he was a guy with severe bluffing, the credibility of the remarks was not that high. However, although it is a rare possibility, the value of challenging was sufficient.

‘There is no matter that I particularly suffer loss from either.’

Anyway, they are monsters to catch. Among them, if the proportion of orcs is increased, it is fine. If it succeeds, it is a jackpot, and even if it fails, there is nothing to lose, so trying unconditionally is a benefit.

Well, although there has been no achievement so far.