Chapter 4 – The Butterfly Effect (2)

Although Toldret owed Do-kyung Lee in the past, Ji-yeon Lee would not come with him with troops.

Because

‘Because it was my request in the first place to protect anyone who comes to me with this fountain pen’

In the first place, the fountain pen was meant to be used for her daughter in case of emergency.

What? Bring troops to catch the name?

‘This is nonsense’

The power of a professor belonging to the Libreath Faculty Association is great, but he can’t bring the troops to catch the name.

Among those with outstanding talents, only a handful of them achieve transcendence and reach ranker.

It is also a place where wealth and honor are guaranteed and respected by everyone.

Monsters also have existences with the same status as rankers.

Monsters that kill inners, grow themselves, and eventually even kill rankers.

Nevertheless, the ’13 Committee’ of the central world gives names to the disasters that still live and sow death, and they are called names.

Among the grades classified in the 34 system, the SS+ grade at the top is considered equal to the ranker.
In other words, it usually takes a large number of rankers to deal with a name that has surpassed that.

The total number of rankers on Earth is 15. Although 3 of them, including Lee Do-kyung, exist in Korea, they are the best on Earth and are only at the bottom of the Central World standard.

Killing a boss with those three is close to impossible, and in such a situation, no country would want to put their country’s rankers into hunting bosses.

In addition, Korean guilds, not all of them are rotten, but the current heads of the 3 representative guilds, which can be said to be the heads of guilds, were all like villains.

The probability that such guys will actively cooperate with the named subjugation is close to zero.

‘It’s probably next to impossible to survive’

He wanted to run away with his daughter to the central world like a chimney, but Lee Do-gyeong’s responsibility denied it, and he couldn’t stand it if his daughter, who was resentful of him, was even disappointed, so he decided to stay and fight.

Tilirring!!

Chronic brother

“…So how can I leave this older brother alone?”

Lee Do-kyung muttered as he saw the name of his colleague and friend, his older brother, floating on his smartphone screen.

Now, information on the current situation will begin to pass through the government to the military and each guild, but he will still feel it. The terrifyingly huge reverberation of magical power that flows from the far north.

Because I was feeling it too.

Took

“Yes…”

-Lee Do-kyung… You must have felt it too, right?

To Lee Do-kyung, who received a phone that kept ringing, Lee Man-seong, the president of the Awakened Association and a ranker, skipped greetings and said nothing.

“Yes bro”

Since he had known him for a long time and was in no position to be polite, he accepted it without hesitation.

-Somewhere?

“It was Cheorwon, Gangwon-do.”

-Damn it… Damn monsters who are coming in to eat something in this village dimension.

It wasn’t something a ranker and head of the Awakened Association would say, but he just nodded as he sympathized with that feeling.

-First of all, I will call the guilds and contact the military.

“I will try to contact Ha Yeon.”

-Yes, I need her strength.

Hayeon Yang

The third ranker in Korea, she is a half-elf that is rare on Earth.

Her father rescued an elf who had fallen during a monster hunt, and the two fell in love and got married.

Having inherited the blood of her father, who was a promising awakener, and the blood of an elf, a master of spiritism, she has outstanding talent, and she reached ranker at the young age of thirty, which is rare even in the central world.

A beautiful appearance that inherits the characteristics of an elf that does not age, and a powerful elemental technique that has reached a ranker.

She quickly became the most popular Awakener on the entire planet, but she only appeared when hunting monsters and did little outside of that.

‘I only know her contact information because of her connections in her central world, and I don’t know what kind of life she lived other than that.’

All she knows is that her parents don’t exist anymore.

“By the way, brother, are you okay?”

– What do you mean?

Lee Do-kyung himself only needed to convince her Yang Ha-yeon, and while most rankers have an eccentric side somewhere, she had a cold but quiet personality, so it wasn’t too difficult.

On the other side

“Will the guild guys listen to me?”

Lee Man-seong, the guild members he has to convince are different. Due to the nature of guilds that adhere to low-risk high-return, they will try not to fight bosses. Even if they were forced to participate, with the fallen morale, everyone would run away the moment they faced the power of the name.

To fight properly, you have to negotiate. It’s a tough fight, and you can’t defeat him without their active cooperation.

‘I will have to hand over something very big’

Lee Do-gyeong was worried about him, but Lee Man-seong smiled and told him not to worry.

-Don’t worry about that. If you don’t kill that thing, you won’t be stupid enough to not know that they will die, so if you don’t listen, give up and run away with me.

Heh heh heh!

“Older brother…”

He says he is running away, but Lee Do-kyung knows. As long as his granddaughter, the last member of his family who is naturally weak, is here, he will never be able to escape to the central world.

“That’s impossible…”

-Anyway, what will Jiyeon do? Are you going to fight?

“…No. I had some ties to the Libres faculty council, so I sent him there.”

Lee Do-gyeong just followed Man-seong Lee’s intention to change his mind.

-Yes, well done.

“I’m sorry bro…”

-No, don’t you know that, Kyung-ah, it’s hard for that child to go over to the central world with that weak body and survive?

In the land of the central world connected to the Earth, there is Ercan Desert, a camp for Earthlings, but there was no way that weak child could cross the desert the size of the Earth where all kinds of monsters and villains were hiding.

-Worry more about Jiyeon than me and Gyeonga. Even if that child is quite strong, Ercan Desert is a dangerous place.

Ah!
-Anyway, did you reconcile with Jiyeon? Isn’t it enough now that I’ve been out and about for 10 years?

Lee Man-seong, who was well aware of the relationship between Lee Do-gyeong and Ji-yeon, had always asked rudely.

“…How could I?”

-Eh…You need to go out a little brazen.

She would have been furious with what she knew if she had heard from someone else, but she was a person who had been with her family, and she just smiled bitterly knowing that she was sorry for her work as if it were her own.

-Since we have a lot of work to do, let’s break it down now.

Lee Do-gyeong wanted to talk since it was a long time since they were both busy, but it wasn’t a good thing, we’ll see each other soon.

-Then, after negotiating with her Miss Ha-yeon, bring her management organization team members to her association, I must convince her.

“Don’t worry brother, I’ll see you later”

– Yeah… I’ll see you soon.

Pop!

Like an old man, Lee Man-seong immediately hung up her phone after she had finished her words. Lee Do-gyeong looked at her smartphone, which had been disconnected for a while, and looked for Yang Ha-yeon’s contact information.

“The number…Here it is”

Turrrr

‘Accept please’

If she didn’t return her calls, she was negotiating and nothing.
1 minute later

Click!

-Yes

“Luckily I got it. How are you?”

– That’s probably not the point right now.

‘It’s still cold’

It was a reply that seemed to have ill feelings towards Lee Do-gyeong, but her Yang Ha-yeon was cold to the whole world. Fearing that he would cut it off, Lee Do-gyeong immediately got to the point.

“Yes, you must have felt it too, so let’s talk about the main topic. I want you to come to the Awakened Management Organization right now.”

– What’s the price?

Pay for it

“Let’s talk about it. I’ll listen to anything I can.”

-Hmm…

For about a minute, she could only hear her breathing over the phone.

“If you don’t remember anything, later…”

– Libres Faculty Association

I heard the name of an unexpected place when I was told to think about it later and ask for it because I couldn’t think of anything right away.

“…”

-I understand that the director has a good relationship with the Libreath faculty. Isn’t it?

“It’s not a place where there’s a relationship that can be called good…”

He’s related to one of Libreth’s professors.
What can I say that there is a line between a large group like the Lee Breath Faculty Association? Lee Do-gyeong thought so, so she denied her words.

-Still, there must be at least one professor you can contact.

“…”

Lee Do-kyung was increasingly unable to understand what this woman wanted. Why does she need a line with the Libres Faculty when she doesn’t do much outside work?

-What I want is simple. Please introduce me to a professor who has a connection with you

“…Is that the end?”

– Yes, I don’t need anything else. It’s not that I don’t have enough money…

“Maybe we can live today before we introduce ourselves…?”

Of course, the biggest aggro in a fight against a named is a ranker, which means that it is the most dangerous.

-…Maybe so
Under…

A faint bittersweet groan was heard.

– Then that would be my destiny.

She spat out her words as if she had given up on something of hers.

“…Is it? Okay, if this matter is resolved, I will introduce you no matter what.”

-Thank you. So let’s go now. See you later and talk more

“Don’t let that happen”

Pop

“Huu, first of all, what I thought would be the most difficult was solved well.”

Now I’ll have to work on this side too

Turr rrr

“Uh Team 1, let all teams from 1 to 13 assemble, Ah Team 3 has sent a secret mission, so let the sub-team leader under him take over, yes, call everyone right now, including off-duty”

Took

‘I’ve prepared everything I can, now there’s only one thing left’

Dump

Lee Do-kyung got up from his chair and opened the watch box in the corner of the director’s office.

Various arrows and a huge angular bow with black light lingering were hung inside the gazebo under the space-expanding magic.

“I thought that risking my life would never happen again…”

The sight of Lee Do-kyung putting each of her arrows into the arrow case made her look like she was going through some kind of ritual.

Smart

A quiver containing 15 arrows and a horn bow were tied to his back, and a man with oblique knife marks on his face knocked on the door and entered, bowing his head and saying,

“The director is ready.”

“Good job.”
Tuk tuk

Lee Do-kyung tapped the shoulder of Team 1 Leader, who was bowing his head with his preparations complete, then came out of the door and looked at each team member lined up.

Those who stand here can live with better treatment.

Lee Do-kyung was both proud and saddened to see such elites, who could sit in a decent seat in any guild, gathered without hesitation.

On the other hand, she was very disgusted with herself for committing infidelity to save her daughter’s life.

So, Lee Do-kyung decided to give them a chance.

“Raise the hands of those who will fall out of here”

‘It’s something I just have to fill in for the rankers’ vacancy’

So I’ll quietly let you go You don’t have to suffer this dog death.

In the fight between Named and Ranker, you normal Awakeners are nothing more than meat shields to buy time.

“I will not ask for any responsibility. Raise your hand”

The battlefield we are going to is a place where 10 people give their lives to give rankers a second or two to catch their breath.

So please

“I will ask you one last time. Raise your hand”

Run away from here

At that time, one of the 200 or so people raised his hand.

‘Is there only one person?’

I thought about how many of my teammates here, except for me, would die and what would happen after that.

‘Darkness will permeate this land in many ways’

The 3 representative guilds are now rotten, but it wasn’t like that from the beginning.
The first founders and those who were with them defended people from monsters more courageously than anyone else, but many died at the same time.
And those who took that position are the current guild leaders.

Perhaps after this is over, the association or the management body here will lose a lot of power, and the rotten waters that have been suppressed will come in.

‘Catch him first’

The situation was bleak, but that was all after defeating him. In that situation, there was no way to lower his morale, so Lee Do-gyeong calmly looked at the one who raised his hand.

“Is there only one? Okay then you go home…”

“Chief”

“?”

Just as Lee Do-kyung was about to go back, someone raised his hand and started talking.

“I have a wife and children.”
‘Yes, I must protect my family’

She committed her infidelity to protect herself as well as her daughter, the last of her family. As much as my own family is precious, other people’s families are also precious. Lee Do-gyeong happily decided to let go.

“Okay…Then go back to your family…”

“Go back and give my family some beef, so give me a bonus!”

“”…””

The atmosphere in the hallway became tense for an instant, but soon laughter was heard.

-Kuh!
Haha!
-Hey you crazy bastard!

Laughter and profanity of friendship flowed in the hallway, where the tension and spleen were slightly reduced.

Lee Do-gyeong looked blankly and thought.

‘I’m not qualified to be a director.’

Lee Do-gyeong was stronger than anyone here, and he thought about dying rather than living and returning.
There, she was foolishly showing it off without even knowing it, and she heard a comforting joke from the team she was supposed to lead.

‘A boss who is comforted by his subordinates… He is embarrassing’

Food

Haha!”

Lee Do-gyeong laughed at her stupidity and pointed to her teammate who raised her hand, feeling relieved.

“Haha, yes, you are a member of Team 5. What is your name?”

“This is Han Yi-myeong!”

“Did you ask for a lot of bonuses?”

“Yes!”

Lee Do-kyung patted him on the shoulder and said.

“I’ll give you a generous bonus, so if you run out of money, I’ll give you enough money to pay for my internal affairs.”

“You promised?!”

” Haha!!””

The atmosphere was lighter than before, and Lee Do-gyeong engraved each of them’s faces into his head as if he would not forget them.

The laughter subsided and became serious again, but the atmosphere was 180 degrees different from the first time.
Lee Do-kyung also made a different resolution than before with the will to kill the name and come back alive.
“The Awakened Association will gather Awakeners to fight the Named. From now on, we head there.”

Lee Do-kyung, who shook off his frustration and despair, prepared for a different meaning of death than before.

“Let’s go!”

‘I will make sure that you guys never die before me.’

“”Yes!!””