Chapter 914 – Guild, Open for Business (1)

January 1st.

In other words, the first day of the new year.

Since it is the day to start a new year, the first day of the new year is often accompanied by various events and festivals.

Things like a store opening event, a festival in a special tourist city, or an event on an internet site.

And January 1st of this year was going to be the most special day for me.

Today was scheduled to be the first founding anniversary of Eun and Jade Co., Ltd. And Hope City Branch.

‘… This is what happens in the end.’

Less than two years had passed since I officially started my life as a hunter, and I felt new in many ways when I thought I had reached a level where I could open a guild.

Of course, in terms of age, he was the same age as Hunter by about 5 to 6 years. It’s because I woke up late and started my life as a hunter a little late.

Still, the past two years have been so intense that most hunters can’t even compare, so I thought I’d actually spent almost 10 years of my life as a hunter.

I’ve already caught dozens of S-class monsters that I thought about catching at least once in my life, and in the process, I’ve blocked or eliminated two monster waves.

In the process, there were two or three times when I really almost died. I somehow managed to resolve everything, so I’m standing here now.

I think this is enough to not be ashamed of Seong Tae-kyung, a boy who lost his parents helplessly in this village in the past, unable to do anything.

… If they were alive, both of them would probably have been proud.

“… Phew.”

As I tried to become Seong Tae-kyung, the guild leader, from Hunter Seong Tae-kyung, I was filled with emotions.

This is especially true in that it starts in the former Chuncheon-si and Heimang-si, which are virtually like hometowns for ‘Hunter Seong Tae-kyung’.

The place that made me decide to become a hunter, and the place where the monsters I once targeted lived.

Also, it is the place that elevated me to an S-class hunter and made me the guild leader of the hunter guild.

When I quietly looked down at the building at the Hunter Guild, which had many meanings, I could see that many people, including reporters, were already gathered in front of the guild building.

-Knock, knock, knock.

“I will go in, master.”

“Yes, Eunbyeol.”

Eunbyeol opens the door with three knocks and enters the president’s office. She came towards me wearing a suit that was different from her usual maid uniform.

“The suit suits you well. “I only saw maid clothes every time.”

“Thank you, master.”

“… “You know you can’t call me master outside, right?”

“I know. But not yet.”

Eunbyeol smiles and gives a sly answer.

Recently, she has been gradually preparing for her activities as ‘Golden Nari’. Not only did she gradually take over the inside of Geumhyang through Geumdallae, but she also registered as a future hunter for the ‘Eun and Ok Co., Ltd., Hope City Branch’ that I was establishing.

Of course, I registered as a hunter, but the one I’ll actually be doing more of is in the role of my secretary. She even said that she liked it better.

“Other people are also waiting outside the door. “It’s going to be a busy day today.”

“Yes.”

Although my mind was full of thoughts that it was already going to be a tiring day, I had no choice but to accept it since it was the path I had chosen.

She left the company representative’s office, pushing her arms awkwardly into her suit, feeling as if something were constricting her body.

From today, I had to become ‘Guild Leader Seong Tae-kyung’, not ‘Hunter Seong Tae-kyung’.

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Eun and Jade Co., Ltd., Hope City Branch.

It was too long to name the entire guild, so most of them omitted the first part. In front of the building called ‘Hope City Guild’, a girl walked cautiously.

‘Is it really okay for me to come here…? ?’

I think there was some misunderstanding, but wouldn’t it be right for her to go back now?

No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I’m someone worthy of being invited to this guild.

However, Hong Se-ra was too soft-hearted to refuse the call of an alumnus who was like a presidential candidate to her, so she had no choice but to fly to this distant city of Hope by following her call.

“Well, I guess you were just saying it with empty words… Well, otherwise there’s no way they would hire someone like me as a hunter…”

Just before graduation, I met senior hunter Minah Han at a guild briefing session where each guild regularly dispatched hunters.

Even though she is an animal hunter, she is the first animal hunter to break the S-class threshold and is the best output among animal hunters. Why on earth did she pick on herself and ask her to visit the guild if she wanted to after graduating? From that day on, Hong Sera had no choice but to continue to have doubts.

If she were herself around her first year of high school, she would probably have accepted the invitation from the guild as if it were natural. At that time, she had physical abilities that were far superior to others.

However, as he entered his second year, his skills began to decline rapidly, and from his third year onward, he was only able to use awakening abilities at a criminal level. There was a guild that singled out him for barely qualifying as a hunter after narrowly earning graduation points. No matter how much I thought about it, something was strange.

Even more so in the fact that he has recently been called by the famous ‘Hope City Guild’.

Until 10 years ago, in Korea, three guilds, known as the top three guilds, were sharing the hunter pie, holding about 80% of the nation’s hunters.

Eun and Jade Co., Ltd. Is a guild that completes standard education through a hunter training high school and is put into combat with thorough training.

If you want, anyone can join, even men without awakening abilities, but there are almost no protection or support facilities, and you only have to prove your skills to the Hunter Autonomous Association.

And the Ariel Foundation, a guild run by famous figures in the political and financial world and mainly run by their children, is not easily accessible to the public.

… And while these three guilds were holding on to their positions as the top three guilds with a tight balance, another guild was suddenly built at the time of hope.

At first, the guild was considered only a branch of Eun and Jade Co., Ltd., But now no one thinks that the Hope City Guild is just one of the branches of Eun and Jade Co., Ltd.

That’s because the Hope City guild has increased its value at an incredibly fast rate over the past 10 years, accounting for about 10% of the performance of hunter guilds nationwide.

If you just look at the size of performance, 10% may seem small, but that is only based on sales, and it was a performance that could not have been achieved in a small or medium-sized guild with only about 100 hunters.

Compared to the three major guilds, sales are slightly lower, but the net profit is so good that it never falls behind. Internal evaluations are at a ridiculous level, with employee satisfaction being at the highest level for 10 years straight. And a mysterious hunter recruitment structure that never officially recruits and only allows entry through scouting by internal staff.

It was already a famous story that a senior who graduated from Hunter Training School last year as the top student in the class rejected love calls from three other guilds and submitted his resume to a guild he had never reached out to.

The Dogyeong Group has already become an official investor in Hope City Guild for a long time, and rumor has it that it also has connections with the company’s CEO Seo Ok-hee and President Park Hee-sun…

-Rattle, rattle…

“Gwae, what if I go in for no reason, and they ask me why I came here…?” . I don’t think it’s a place for a kid like me to come…”

“Uh, who are you? “Is this your first time seeing this face?”

“Huh?!”

The person who stopped Hong Sera, who was hesitating and wandering at the entrance to the guild, was a black-haired female hunter wearing black body pantyhose.

Seeing her strange resemblance to the shield master whose face is often featured in the media these days, she carefully put up that name.

“Go, Hunter Kang Hye-eun… ?”

“Huh? Hye-eun?”

“Are you Hunter Kang Hye-eun? ?”

“Ah, you’re the one who said you were coming for an interview today? “I see that you are still confusing my daughter and me.”

“… Yes? Ta, daughter… ?”

The fact that she is the mother of Hunter Kang Hye-eun, an S-class shield user, makes it impossible for her to be…

“Ho, by any chance, Hunter Eunyoung Kang… ?”

“Are you surprised? Anyway, it’s a problem even if you live as a hunter for a long time. Since she never gets old, many people keep confusing her with my daughter.”

“S-sorry… ! Poetry, please excuse me…”

“It’s okay. Anyway, it means that she looks young enough to be mistaken for Hye-eun, but it’s a compliment to her aunt~. Ah, but you shouldn’t mistake me for the lady in front of my daughter?”

It really was Hunter Eunyoung Kang. She was Hong Se-ra, who was mistaken for her appearance that never aged even as time passed.

Since reversing her retirement 10 years ago, she has recently heard that she is currently active in her guild, but she had no idea if she would actually meet her.

And compared to his prime, he doesn’t look old at all. Who could look at her like this and imagine her as a lady in her 50s?

With such thoughts in her mind, Hong Se-ra panicked, and Kang Eun-young grabbed her arm and dragged her into her guild without giving her a chance to resist.

-Suddenly.

“Hey?!”

“Don’t hang around in front of the guild, come in. “You can decide whether to really join the guild or not by looking at the guild atmosphere.”

“Yes, yes?!”

With those words, Kang Eun-young grabs her arm and enters her building.

A grip that was too strong for Hong Sera to shake off dragged her body and rushed into her guild.