Chapter 41 – Dawning

A month has passed since the battle with the White Demon King. Busy days with no time to breathe. Lee Man-seong and Lee Do-gyeong had to live a semi-homeless life, taking care of lodging and meals in the conference room, rather than going home for post-mortem processing.

From the Incheon bombing incident to the occurrence of Lake Hodu, which has now become the largest marine lake on the Korean Peninsula.

They said it was named because the color on the satellite map looked like a tiger’s head… I don’t know what kind of fool’s idea it was.

It was probably made by old people from the upper reaches of the country who have nothing to do and have tea together.

Anyway, fortunately, the Incheon bombing is not difficult.

Just put it in a way that the villains are presumed to be insane.

Of course, the agents who witnessed it may wonder what they will do. Didn’t they see it firsthand?

The conclusion, however, was inconclusive. Anyway, they have no evidence.

In addition, Yang Ha-yeon denied that he knew, so the association would also have nothing to say if they were to say, “We don’t know,” “It looks like the villains are doing it,” And “We will investigate.”

Although the image of incompetence may be covered, it doesn’t matter. It’s because the association didn’t build a shallow trust enough to stumble over that one issue.

However, there was no way to hide the walnut lake with the stupid name. It was obvious to anyone who just turned on the map app.

Saying I don’t know that doesn’t solve it. It’s not an incompetent image, but a really incompetent thing.

While Lee Do-gyeong and Lee Man-seong, who knew the culprit but couldn’t mention it, and the elites of the association and management organization who really didn’t know the cause, someone opened their mouth.

‘Hey… Can’t we just assume that the dungeon exploded…?’

Ah…

Everyone in the room slapped their foreheads at the solution that was simpler than expected.

Outright lies. However, if we say that there is an unknown entity that wields such enormous power, chaos will arise in Korea.

In the end, the observation agency and the association concluded that it was a phenomenon caused by a dungeon explosion in public.

Of course, there was a lot of backlash, but the current public opinion is dubious about the dodol-i-pyo, which is pushing for manipulation of the media and bullying.

‘It would be right to say that. Haven’t the association and observation instruments been doing well so far?’ And ‘No, damn, isn’t it strange?’

A sharp confrontation between these two opinions was rampant on the web. Perhaps, considering that the people of the Republic of Korea boil and cool down quickly, that confrontation will soon fade away.

It was clearly an act of ridiculing the people for bad things, but there was no help. Because it was all for this country. It wasn’t just a villain in a movie, it was like that in real life.

When all the truth is revealed, the government can hardly cope with the situation, and most of the damage will be suffered by the people. In this case, it would be a situation to use the word that unknown is medicine.

Lee Man-seong organized his time for the past month and focused on the sacred time he hadn’t seen in a long time.

“Whoop… Whoop… Whoop…”

Wearing only uniform pants and revealing a rugged upper body uncharacteristic of a ninety-year-old man, he was carrying a bar with human-sized discs on his shoulder, and was slowly sitting down and standing up repeatedly.

‘This is the last one…’

As he completes his deadlift bench press routine and completes his final set of barbell squats, he grieves and focuses on each strand of his muscle.

“Whoa-!!”

In the end, time passed and after finishing the set, he threw his stick behind his regretful heart.

Thud-!

Vibrations echoed through the association’s underground headquarters. If it hadn’t been for the rubber tile floor engraved with protective gear, it would have been dug like a meteorite hit.

“…Are you done now…?”

When Lee Man-seong said that he only had to finish one set of these, Yuchun, who was sitting in the back and waiting, put on an expression of boredom.

“Whoa…Sorry to keep you waiting. If you don’t do just one set, you don’t feel like you’ve been working out.”

Yuchun looked at the stick he had thrown. A total of 30 barbells, 15 each on each side, that read 100kg, the size of a human upper body, were fixed.

Yuchun felt once again that this place was not the old Earth as he looked at the astonishing weight that even Rox Coleman wouldn’t look at.

“3000kg is amazing…”

“Ugh!! Three thousand! Cancel that statement!”

At those words, Yoochun wondered what kind of bullshit that was.

“No… President, are you an idiot…? Thirty pieces of 100kg is 3000, so…”

“Bong weight! One hundred and fifty! Where are the ancestors listening to that?!”

Strict, dignified, sincere. It was as if those three words were written on Lee Man-seong’s face. Seeing that conviction on his face, Yoochun even felt guilty, saying, ‘Is this so wrong…?’.

“…Is that so important…?”

“Isn’t it obvious?! It’s the difference between achieving 3 vs. 8000!”

“…”

Yoochun, who looked at Lee Manseong with a puzzled expression, laughed.

It was because this normally smirking yet shameless old man seemed immature in such a strange part, and I did not hate it. Doesn’t it seem like you have some humanity?

“So why did you come to see me? Delay doesn’t come? Even through the back door.”

This is the 3rd basement floor of the association building. It was a physical training room made exclusively for the president of the association.

The only way to enter this place was with the consent of the president of the association, or through the back door through the card key he handed over to a very small number of people like Lee Do-kyung.

Yoochun also had the card key.

To him, whose existence itself was a secret, Lee Man-seong gave him a hand to come to him if he had something to discuss.

However, Yuchun also has a lot of headaches like them, so he has never been able to come.

However, this time he came directly because he needed to discuss directly with the president of the association.

“First of all, as of yesterday, all the cockroaches have been cleaned up.”

After the base of the one and only information organization ‘Fallen’ in Incheon was destroyed, numerous villains, guilds, and companies rushed to take its place.

After returning to Incheon, Yuchun ordered Fallen’s gang members and gatekeepers to organize them, who had signed a slave contract as the contract holder for a month.

“Ohh…Then, is Incheon’s information guild ‘Wings’ going into an emergency now?”

Yoochun, who occupied a huge area in the shadows of Incheon, established an information guild named ‘Ningal’ to mean that he would fly up without falling any more.

“Yeah, well, I’m not going to come to the fore.”

“Of course, the association only knows me and Do-kyung about you, so don’t worry.”

“You should. If you joke around again this time, you’re really sparring with me.”

“Ah, I see…”

The formal guild leader of the wing guild was to be taken by Tibochina. Yoochun, who cannot show himself, is not allowed. Jiyeon Lee, whose identity is known, is also not allowed. There was nothing to say about Killian and Yang Ha-yeon.

Since she signed a slave contract anyway, she couldn’t act against Yuchun. After the death of the White Demon King, she was for some reason she was docile and listened well and was good at work, so she decided to leave it to me.

“Now there is only one internal processing… If it is clean with that… Now, I have to erase the outside things one by one.”

This was the main purpose of Yoochun who came to Lee Manseong. For the notification and cooperation of organizing the rest of the shadowy forces, the ‘Arena’ and the ‘Market’.

‘Noisy things are going to happen, so I need someone who can calm them down.’

Yoochun did not directly intervene in eliminating the guys who were aiming for Fallen’s vacancy for a month. She’s left in the care of indentured servitude assassins and gatekeepers.

However, just as Fallen carried Dawn on his back, Golden Bird and Haewon exist behind the rest of the arena and market, respectively. Not only that, but Manho Group in Seoul and Dongyang Group in Busan also need to pay attention.

Nervous about the sudden collapse of Fallen and the creation of an information guild called ‘Wings’, they will surely prepare for it.

At that time, Yuchun can no longer stay still. She said that a disaster called that would come to Incheon again. So, they needed someone to calm the huge uproar that would inevitably happen.

And the most suitable person there is right in front of you.

“Hmm… I’m trying to be quiet at best, but it’s going to get noisy again.”

Lee Man-seong, who stroked his chin, also knew why Yoo-chun had come to see him.

“Is it impossible to be more quiet…?”

“If they don’t bring out something like the White Demon King, I will.”

“Hmm… I see. Did you say a week to prepare? As expected of the remaining one… Is that…?”

“Yes… I’ll have to meet the Dawning.”
‘There’s a lot I need to hear from him.’

After acquiring the information Fallen had and hearing what Tibo China said about him, Yuchun felt the need to have a deep conversation with her man of dawn.

“Will nothing big happen there?”

“Probably…No problem. If there’s a problem, I’ll let Tiboccina deal with it.”

“Hmm, then do that.”

“…Is it easier than I thought? It’s a problem between the three major guilds and the Youngsan Group.”

Yoochun questioned that Lee Manseong hadn’t said much about dealing with the people who ruled Daegu, one of Korea’s largest cities.

Lee Man-seong, who picked up the uniform on his top and put it on, looked at Yoo-chun with a serious look befitting the president of the association.
“I know… It’s a subject.”

“…What do you mean? That?”

“You and we seem to be in a relationship of equals… But in reality it’s not, you’re just allowing it…”

“…”
That’s not wrong. If Yuchun’s power is Earth’s ranker? Awakener? It didn’t make any sense. Because he could have torn it all apart by himself.

‘I can’t do that.’

Yoochun had no intention of becoming a god of destruction who would destroy everything alone. He decided to live with society as a human being, and he intended to follow the rules of the world as much as possible.

“Yoochun-kun, I know you are hiding a lot about the handling of this Fallen. For example…The way he treated the Association operatives…The secrets of the Dawning…”

“…”

‘Formidable inspiration…’

Yoochun’s eyes sank deeply.

Yuchun didn’t say a word about the information about the highest holy object, the number of the Holy Spirit, Dawn, and the ‘him’ who ruled Youngsan from behind.

However, perhaps because of the seniority of the old soldier, Lee Man-seong knew exactly what Yoo-chun had hidden.

‘The dilution of the holy water…Yes, that’s possible, because it was used to treat them.’

There was no special way to treat such unanswerable physical loss or psychological shock. As a result, it is quite possible to think that Yoochun has something unusual.

‘But how the hell do you guess Dawn?’

Yoochun, unaware of Hyemi Moon’s trolling behavior, frowned as the question was not resolved.

“But I won’t ask you about it.”

“…Don’t you want to know…?”

“I want to know… But…”

He buttoned up all the buttons on his uniform and smiled mischievously.

“If I earn trust in this way and help you diligently, will you throw me a piece of rice cake someday? Heh heh heh!”

“…The moment I opened it with my mouth, I ate it. Old man.”

“Heh heh… Is that so?”

Yuchun, who had been making a stunned expression, also smiled and turned around.

“Then I will go. Dawning… I’ll call you after I’ve finished cleaning up.”
“I see, but may I ask you one question? It’s nothing.”

“…What is it?”

‘It’s ominous…’

Yoochun was wary when he saw Lee Manseong suddenly smiling.

“Is Ji-yeon doing well?”

“…”

‘I knew the fuck would happen.’

Yoochun frowned at that question, which has been asked on a daily basis these days.