36 CHAPTER 36
Essentially I had to do it, even though I am still not very profound in doing it currently, still it will be better not to rely on positions. Especially when their costs are sky-high.
I can think about it later. For now, let's finish today's work.'
As he had done previously, Jinwoo took out a mana potion from his inventory to fill his mana. It was purchased from the System's shop.
"What's that, Hyungnim?"
Yoo Jinho asked curiously. Whenever he spent time with Jinwoo, Yoo Jinho experienced many incredible and wondrous things. Although he had held his tongue in both respect and fear up until now, his curiosity got the best of him when he kept seeing Jinwoo drink this mysterious blue liquid.
"This?"
Before answering, Jinwoo looked at the mana potion's information.
Mana Potion
Rarity: C
Type: Consumable
Drink to recover 2000 MP.
"It's a potion to recover mana."
You may keep this item in your inventory.
Cannot be traded.
'"Cannot be traded"… I wonder what happens if I try?'
Jinwoo also had his own share of curiosities. He handed the mana potion to Yoo Jinho. The moment the young man grabbed it, the bottle disappeared into thin air.
"W-was that magic, Hyungnim? You can use space magic even without touching the object"
'So this is what they meant by 'cannot be traded"'
Jinwoo had learned something new. Items that cannot be traded would disappear when they were placed into someone else's hands. But what if it didn't touch their hands? Linwood knew the answer to it, but still, curiosity got the better of him,
Jinwoo opened the shop and purchased another potion. This time, instead of the blue mana potion, he purchased a red healing potion. After confirming the purchase, the potion appeared in Jinwoo's hand.
"H-hyungnim! That was so cool! The liquid turned to red!"
Seeing the blue mana potion disappear from his own hands and seemingly reappear in Jinwoo's hand as red, Yoo Jinho thought he was watching some magic trick. However, Jinwoo had a reason for switching up the potions.
'I want to know if it could be "used" on another person.'
Jinwoo lowered Yoo Jinho's body.
"Open your mouth and tilt your head back."
"L-like this, hyungnim?"
"Yeah, stand still."
Jinwoo poured the healing potion into Yoo Jinho's mouth.
pour
Yoo Jinho became surprised,
"Huh? What's this, hyungnim? I'm suddenly feeling energized!"
Yoo Jinho's face was filled with exhaustion from acting as the baggage boy. Once the potion was administered to him, light and energy returned to the young man's face. Jinwoo was satisfied.
'Just like I hope so.'
He had learned something else. From now on, even if they didn't have a Healer, Jinwoo would be able to heal an injured person with this method. He imagined it would be helpful in the future.
"Let me know if you feel exhausted. There's plenty more where that came from."
This was not an act of needless kindness. If the baggage boy became slower because of fatigue, their hunting speed would fall. Ultimately, Jinwoo decided this after weighing the cost of the healing potion against the rate of their hunting. However, to Yoo Jinho, the gesture carried great meaning.
"H-hyungnim…"
"Let's go."
With tears forming in the corner of his eyes, Yoo Jinho trailed after Jinwoo, in awe of the man's great heart.
…..
Day 3.
"Ah, before I forget. This is for you, hyungnim."
Yoo Jinho looked through his bag and then took out a bankbook.
"What's this?"
"It's the magic core income from the past two days, Hyungnim."
'Why are you giving this to me in the middle of- gah, never mind.'
The pair was deep in a Dungeon filled with magical beasts.
'two billion six hundred million?'
Jinwoo's eyes widened after looking inside the bankbook.
"You're giving all the income from the magic cores so far to me?"
Yoo Jinho nodded.
"Of course, hyungnim. It's not like I'm Raiding because I need the money. More than that, you're the one who's really killing all the magic beasts, right? What right do I have to even think about sharing such income?"
"And you could have gotten more if you didn't burn most of them during your magic raid"
The young man's eyes sparkled, hoping for some praise. While also passing slang.
'Oy… Look at this kid…'
In the past few days, Jinwoo had felt like Yoo Jinho's attitude towards him was changing. In the beginning, the young man had followed him with no choice out of fear. Now, it felt like he was a little dongsaeng that truly respected his sunbae.
'You know, he's kind of adorable in that sense.'
Jinwoo smiled widely.
"I can really take all of this, right?"
"Have I, Yoo Jinho, ever seemed like someone who would say one thing and mean the other, Hyungnim?"
Jinwoo chuckled and waved the bankbook.
"Alright, I'll take this with gratitude, then."
"Thank you, hyungnim!"
Yoo Jinho bowed his body at a 90-degree angle. If someone was watching from a distance, they would not be able to tell exactly who was giving money to whom.
Meanwhile, outside of the Dungeon. The pair's "teammates" had found their own way of passing the time. When Raid leader Yoo Jinho and assistant(?) Sung Jinwoo entered the Gate, the other Hunters began to grab a spot here and there and entertained themselves. As expected, the most popular pastime for a group of them was "Go-Stop". Five of the Hunters sat in a circle, playing the game.
"Which Raid is this one?"
"Let's see… we did four on the first day, three yesterday, and this is the second one today. That makes it the ninth?"
"Is it okay for those two to continue at this pace? Normally, raiding parties tend to take a week's rest after a single Raid, right?"
"Eh, don't worry about those guys. Every time they come out of the Gate, they're not even breaking a sweat. Besides, we're just earning three million each time without doing anything. We're not in a position to complain. Oy, it's your turn."
"Ah, okay."
As they noted, even through their nonstop schedule, Jinwoo and Yoo Jinho did not appear to be tired at all. They did not know, but this was due to the effect of the potions. Thanks to that, they were over a third of the way through the 30 Raids they needed. Soon, the Gate started to ripple and the pair appeared before the waiting Hunters.
"Oy, there comes the leader."
"Let's get up"
The Hunters started cleaning up their spots.
"Don't forget your stuff."
"Wake up the sleeping ones. Make sure you didn't miss anything."
The Hunters moved with perfect coordination. The sleeping Hunters also quickly got up and prepared to move.
"Let's go!"
Everyone was becoming used to this bizarre Raiding method.
....
Baekho Guild's office is nearby.
The head of the Second Management Division, Ahn Sangmin, was about to blow a gasket early in the morning.
"Deputy Hyun! The new recruit training is tomorrow! What do you mean we don't have a Gate reserved for it?!"
Deputy Hyun Gicheol lowered his head deeply.
"I-I apologize, chief. There's been a team that's been snatching up every C-rank Gate in the area before we could get our hands on it..."
"What? Then just spend more money to reserve it! Is our Guild missing money or manpower? What exactly is the problem?!"
"I tried but…"
"Hey! I didn't ask for your "tried but"s!"
At Ahn Sangmin's shouting, the entire Second Management Division fell into silence as if at a funeral. It has been some time since Ahn Sangmin was this angry.
Just what did they think Baekho Guild was?
It was one of the top 5 Guilds in South Korea.
Appropriately, its employees must be greatly skilled. Deputy Hyun Gicheol was also a proud employee who had never made a mistake until now. And to think such a man couldn't even reserve a Gate for new recruit training! This was a major mistake. Chief Ahn Sangmin was the head of the Second Management Division, which was the team in charge of recruiting new Hunters and training them. (The First Management Division was in charge of managing the official Hunters of the Guild.)
"J-just take a look at this, chief!"
Hyun Gicheol held out a laptop.
"You son of a-"
Ahn Sang Min was about to berate the man again, but then looked at the numbers on the laptop and gasped in surprise,
"T-three hundred and fifty million? There's someone who used three hundred and fifty million to reserve a mere B-rank Gate?!"
Ahn Sang Min was at a complete loss for words. The maximum amount of profit you could earn in a B-rank Gate was 300 million and it's only when you are lucky enough. To use 350 million on such a Gate was utter foolishness.
"Their original bid was about hundred and fifty million. But when I outbid them with a hundred million, those bastards raised their bid to three hundred and fifty million."
In Baekho Guild, the default maximum for reserving B-rank Gates was 150 million. If what he said was true, it was reasonable for Hyun Gicheol to feel wronged.
'Who the hell are these bastards?'
clack clack clack
Ahn Sang Min's fingers blazed across the keyboard. The search results immediately came up on the screen. As Hyun Gicheol had said, the raiding permissions for all the B-rank Gates in the area were being bought out at an incredible speed and an unreasonable price.
"Who the hell are these crazy sons of…"
This area was under the management of the Baekho Guild. At first, he thought it might've been another Guild's way of hindering the Guild.
'No, there's no way.'
There was no Guild stupid enough to start a fight with the Baekho Guild. Even the other top 5 Guilds would have to be prepared for an all-out war if they did something like this.
'It's not a Guild…'
Then who? And why?
Ahn Sang Min gulped and pulled up the party information of the ones who reserved all the Gates. The leader's name was "Yoo Jinho''.
"First time I'm hearing of him."
It was Ahn Sang Man's job to scout potential new recruits. As such, even a freelancer with the smallest amount of fame would be known to him. But the name "Yoo Jinho'' was completely unfamiliar to him.
'Ok, next.'
Ahn Sang Min slowly scrolled through the rest of the party members, confirming each Hunter one at a time. There was not one that he recognized.
Except one.
One of the names was familiar to him.
'Sung Jinwoo? Sung Jinwoo… Where did I hear that name before…?'
After combing through his memories, Ahn Sangmin remembered the Double Dungeon incident 2 months ago, which became a hot topic among those involved. The Guild that was pulled into assistance by the Association at the time was Baekho.
"Gicheol, do you remember the Double Dungeon incident two months ago, when our Guild was called to mobilization?"
"Yes, of course. Didn't we find only one survivor in the Dungeon with no magic beasts?"
"What was the survivor's name?"
Hyun Gicheol had a good head. He could not be called a genius, but his memory was the one thing he was proud of. The man did not need to perform a search or look through any documents.
"E-rank Hunter, Sung Jinwoo."
'As I thought!'
He had wondered about the possibility and concluded intuition. There was something here. The gut feeling that appeared in situations like this had never steered him wrong. Ahn Sang Min shouted to the rest of his team,
"Everyone stop what you're doing and bring me every single bit of information on D-rank Hunter Yoo Jinho and E-rank Hunter Sung Jinwoo! Right now!"
The response speed of the employees at this sudden order was beyond imagination. They were called elites for a reason. One by one, the reports quickly appeared before Ahn Sangmin.
To be honest, there was nothing that special about Yoo Jinho. He was the second son of Yoojin Construction's Chairman Yoo Myunghan, but other than that, there was nothing noticeable about him.
Sung Jinwoo was different.
"So including the Double Dungeon incident, he's been involved in a total of three different incidents. And he came out of every one of them unharmed?"
Hyun Gicheol added on,
"And as an E-rank Hunter, too."
Sung Jinwoo and Yoo Jinho met during Yoo Jinho's first Raid, and they were the only ones who survived that Raid.
And now, the pair had formed a team and were clearing 3~4 Dungeons a day. This was an unfathomable speed.
"Something about this smells…"
"What do you think they're doing?"
"Hmm… Wait, wasn't there a rumour recently that Chairman Yoo Myunghan was making contact with various S-rank Hunters?"
"I've heard that rumour, yes."
"And Yoo Jinho is that Chairman Yoo Myunghan's son…"
It appeared that You Myunghan planned to make a Guild. This would be a top-secret piece of information that would shake the industry. And if this was true, Yoo Jinho's current actions would definitely be related.
"Could it be…?!"
A piece of the puzzle fell into place in Ahn Sang Min's head.
That would make sense! Watching his superior's expression change, Hyun Gicheol gulped. Ahn Sang Min spoke with a confident voice,
"This son of a bitch is a Reawakened Hunter!"
"A Reawakened Hunter?!"
Hyun Gicheol's looked like a deer in headlights.
"Yes."
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