Chapter 435 – Uninvited Guest (5)

After spending time training with Eunyoung noona, or relieving sexual desire under the guise of it.

As soon as I finished dinner, I went home and had a relaxing break until the morning.

In fact, because of my part-time job as a healer, it was better in many ways to go to the company as often as possible, but I had my own reasons for deciding to go to the union today, not the company.

First of all, she was in no condition to be able to wield a greatsword due to the aftermath of her swordsmanship training with her sister Eun-young yesterday.

No matter how long Eun-young’s berserk effect lasts only about an hour, it was a training of considerable difficulty to deal with Eun-young, who entered that state in the first place.

Indeed, it was a battle that barely ended after swinging her sword until her arm fell off for an hour.

As I said before, recovery spells didn’t do much for my sore muscles. Because it wasn’t actually an injury, it was the pain that accompanies the process of muscle growth.

Even after training, she had sex almost three times without a break, so there was no way her body could afford to recover.

In the first place, I entrusted the mithril greatsword I usually use to Areumie.

Even so, if I lay down on my bed at home, I would get tired, so I made up my mind to go to work with a union rather than a company after a long time.

On a day like this, it would be more efficient to practice magic rather than swordsmanship.

It was still a much better environment for a combination than a company to use magic freely and hunt.

Wearing an unknown mask itself was basic work attire, so no one really questioned my use of magic.

Compared to companies that kept detailed records of which dungeons they entered and exited, the union was quite broad in that part.

It was famous for not paying attention to which hunters entered and when they came out, as long as they paid for the dungeon entrance fee under the guise of the union development fund.

Of course, if I, who had risen to the level of a B-class hunter, went missing in the dungeon, I would have to pay a lot of attention to the combination now.

In other words, as long as it didn’t cause a big incident like that, being active in the dungeon itself meant that you could move with relatively few restrictions.

For example, like this.

“Are you talking about a C-class dungeon request?”

“That’s right.”

“If you are Hunter Kim Seong-chul, you seem to be able to hunt in A-class dungeons without any problems, so why are you looking for a C-class dungeon request?”

“It’s because I feel like I just want to hunt a little more leisurely today. It’s not fun to risk your life every day to fight monsters.”

“Well, if you think about it from the hunters’ point of view, that might be the case.”

An employee of the Guild of the Guild who accepts any reasonable excuse that has just popped into his head.

It’s not particularly strange, even based on actual hunter activities, it was bound to spread quickly if only battles focused on the limit every day.

Being tired and exhausted every day, if you experience even a life crisis once, your heart will be broken easily, after all, it was the job of a hunter.

So, on a bad day, it wasn’t a rare case to adjust the flow a little more easily, such as deliberately entering a dungeon one level lower than one’s level.

In the first place, the awakening ability was something that could weaken at any time, so I always had to be careful about that part.

Of course, the reason I wanted to enter a C-class dungeon was not to hunt in a particularly easy and leisurely way.

If the goal was simply to use magic to hunt monsters, a B-class dungeon was enough. I already knew the basics of fire magic and cold magic for quite some time.

The biggest reason for entering the C-class dungeon is to use the newly learned magic, ‘Plant Magic’.

What is the power of Circle 1 plant magic, and what level should I raise to actually use it in battle? The main purpose of entering the dungeon today was to understand this plant magic.

The other day, I said that I didn’t like it, saying that it was difficult to use in real combat, but I still need to know how to use it so that I can use it when the need arises.

If you’re not going to be able to wield a sword as usual anyway, it’s much more useful to have a clear understanding of the new magic.

The difference between knowing as much as 0 to 1 and not even knowing the level of 1 was the difference between heaven and earth.

“As for the quests related to the C-class dungeon, the one here in Peregrine Meadow and this one…”

The union staff showed me various requests and recommended a few suitable C-class dungeons.

Among them, one dungeon that looked the most suitable for using plant magic caught my eye.

… Come to think of it, my visit here was quite a while ago than I thought.

It was a bit unfortunate that there was no one to visit all the time, but there was no reason to avoid this dungeon and go somewhere else.

Without much hesitation, I pointed to a familiar dungeon request and said.

“I will accept it as a request to collect Woodrello and Tris materials from the ‘Tomb of the Dead Tree’.”

“Yes, you mean collecting Woodrello and Tris materials from the tomb of an old tree, right? Has confirmed.”

It’s actually the first time I’ve entered the tomb of an old tree without a glass.

I finished my own plan to practice plant magic in a dungeon that was familiar to me in many ways.

The moment I stepped towards the dungeon gate to enter the C-class dungeon with all kinds of memories, I felt a gaze watching me from somewhere.

‘… ?’

I looked around the lobby once to see if there was Cha Yu-ri or Areum, but I couldn’t find a hunter with a face I knew in the guild.

I moderately assumed that I was mistaken because I was tired, and entered the dungeon as it was.

It wasn’t too long before I realized that the gaze wasn’t an illusion.

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“I will go to the C-class dungeon, the tomb of the old tree, area A.”

“…”

Kim Seong-cheol talking with a guild employee in front of the Warp Gate of the Guild Dungeon.

Do Ye-hee, who quietly watched him from behind, briefly thought about it.

‘… Shall I follow you Or would it be better to wait for them to come out of the dungeon?’

First of all, it wasn’t that difficult to follow Kim Seong-chul into the dungeon right now.

Do Ye-hee had dozens of preliminary identities that could be used not only in companies and unions, but also in some small and medium-sized guilds.

Even in guilds with poor human management, such as union guilds, they even possessed hunter certificates of different grades.

So it wasn’t that difficult to follow Kim Seong-cheol, who had just entered the grave of an old tree, into the dungeon itself.

‘… Let’s wait for now.’

After much consideration, Do Ye-hee decided to wait for Kim to come out of the dungeon instead of tracking him into the dungeon.

There were two main reasons why she decided to wait and not follow her into the dungeon.

One was that it was easier to be tracked in dungeons with fewer people than outside dungeons with many people.

The other reason was that she decided that she needed to be a little more patient in order to get Kim Seong-chul’s information.

If you follow him into the dungeon and encounter him there, there is a high possibility that you will not be able to find out the hunter’s identity after that.

Since the first meeting with her wasn’t very pleasant, his presence wouldn’t be a very welcome guest from that hunter’s point of view.

If, by mistake, the meeting escalated into a duel again, it would be a very difficult situation for Do Ye-hee as well.

The battlefield itself, the tomb of the dead tree, was an ideal stage for herself as an earth mage, but she had already lost a duel in a similar battlefield, the Black Mud Swamp.

She had been defeated once and it was difficult for her to easily judge that she would ever be able to win when she said she would come back after barely a month.

In addition to that, the painful torture she suffered after being defeated that day was a big shock to Do Ye-hee for a while, so it was an experience she never wanted to go through again.

‘In order to catch a weakness, I also need to find something that can be identified with certainty.’

The most efficient way would be to search the nearby area with a montage after seeing the bare face, but the artifact the hunter was using prevented him from using it easily.

The only way left now was to reliably obtain and utilize his personal information in the course of his tracking.

In order to do that, it was necessary to move as carefully as possible until the clear situation was captured.

‘… Residence, interpersonal relationships, activity radius. I have to find out as much as I can.’

In fact, it was surprisingly simple to call one’s informants right now and have them remember that hunter’s face.

Even though it was only their second meeting, the same rules probably applied to others, given that he recognized them as soon as he checked their faces again.

If it was impossible to create a montage, the surest way would be to directly imprint the information of a hunter named Seongcheol Kim in the eyes of the informants.

Even if he points at Kim Seong-cheol from a distance and tells him to remember it, his informants will be able to continue the search with a vague memory of his impression.

However, Do Ye-hee did not use that method.

It was not a generous reason to go so far, such as being stung by remorse. In the process of digging into people around Doshi-hee, she had done countless worse things than that.

The only thing she doesn’t use her own informants on this hunt is because of her pact with her own brother Toshi-hee.

Perhaps the cause was that Doh Ye-hee, who appeared with a not small weakness in Do Ye-hee’s personal relationships, restrained her actions.

“… In a duel, it is only natural for the winner to accept the surrender of the loser… Evil, ah!! Aagh!!」

After her duel, Do Ye-hee’s voice screams and pleads, begging her unseemly defeat.

It was an event that even she did not anticipate that the voice that had been shown only briefly to escape her momentary pain would remain as her eternal voice message.

I was even more surprised that it was Doshi-hee, who was always foolishly attracted to herself, because it was her behavior.

‘If you don’t want this recording to be released to the outside world, you’ll have to listen to my request, Do Ye-hee.’

‘… Is a requirement Did our Sihee say something funny?’

‘If you track down and pressure the person named Seongcheol Kim you met in the dungeon today with Dokyung Group’s capital, then I will release this recording to the outside world.’

‘… Hmm.’

Finding her own weakness and negotiating on the condition that she not disclose it.

Do Ye-hee felt proud and disappointed at the slightly different appearance of Do-shi-hee.

‘It’s no use trying to pressure me. I already backed up the original recording file to the cloud storage, and set it to be disclosed to the outside world by itself if I don’t renew my password regularly. Of course, it is also possible to reveal through Eunbyeol’s hand, not me…’

‘Yes, is that the only condition? Do-kyung Group’s capital is the one thing about not pressuring that hunter named Seong-cheol Kim?’

‘… That’s right.’

‘… Okay. I can’t help but say that. Sihee I’ll accept the conditions you said. Is that okay?’

‘Hmph, I hope you understand.’

Stupid sister.

When he came back with a recording of his own voice, I thought he was finally starting to learn how to deal with people properly.

Not only did she reveal the powerful cards she possessed so easily, but the conditions to obtain them were infinitely insignificant.

Do Ye-hee, recalling her pitiful sister’s disastrous diplomatic skills, sighed again.

‘If it were me, I wouldn’t have done that.’

She was Do Ye-hee, who knew better than anyone else that the reason for the solid connections she had made was because of her charisma that had never been disturbed.

That’s why the recording file Sihee brought was actually a deadly weapon that could significantly cut off the power she handled, so she had to use it thoroughly with the momentum to peel herself off.

It’s not that I’m just going to keep an eye on one of my connections.

“I thought I was a bit smart enough to prepare for the recording, but how long do I have to watch you do stupid things…”

No matter how much I think about it, when I see him confidently saying that he will lead the Dokyung Group in the future, he seems unreliable.

Do Ye-hee, her half-sister, felt that such a younger sister was immature and pitiful.

If this is the case, it will be virtually impossible to properly lead the Dokyung Group later on.

Doshi-hee should be able to play the role of leader so that he can give up the position of successor with peace of mind.

Do Ye-hee quietly hoped that her younger sister would grow up as soon as possible and take the position of successor to Do-kyung Group from him.

She thought that if she could do that, there would be no more confrontation between herself and Si-hee, so she would be able to go back to her previous relationship.

“…”

Although I was vaguely thinking in one part of my heart that I had already walked too far to return to the past.