Chapter 7 – Trap

Episode 7 (Trap)

“Hey, hey, let’s get out of here for now”

-Why should it be?

“Because of this riot, people will come.”

-Joy! Why should I care about such weak worms

‘Oh, that’s annoying. This is why there has never been a truce in tens of thousands of years of warfare.

Yuchun raised his hand to strike Killian in the head, as if he wanted to die earlier.

– Now, wait! If you hit me right now, I’ll die!

Oh right.

He’s still in a state of empty death. If it wasn’t for the monster’s unique resilience, he would have died on the spot after groaning.

Yuchun flinched and looked at the frightened Killian, and once again carved the argument of patience into his heart.

“Haa… Hey, it’s because I don’t want to get caught by people coming here, did you understand?”

– Oh, I see.

Information or something, he was going to kill him and leave if he got on a crooked line again, but he quietly obeyed Yoochun’s words, as if his survival instinct was working to survive.

“Okay, can you move?”

-Yes, even though I couldn’t move like in the battle situation earlier, I recovered enough to be able to move.

“Okay? Then… Let’s go over there.”

Yuchun pointed to the north and said to Killian.

*

-The Awakened Association-

“Tsubeol…”

Han Seong-tae, an AA-level Awakener belonging to the Golden Bird Guild, who was suddenly summoned on an off-duty day, was under low pressure because of the association he had convened ahead of an important appointment.

“No, senior, does this make sense? No, is it the answer if they are an association? Just come and go like this”

The junior who was talking loudly next to me was also one of the causes of the low pressure.

“Hey”

“Yes?”

“Didn’t I say it was all about associations?”

“Ah yes”

“As long as it is an association”

“Yes? What is that…?”

“It’s all about the association, dude”

Han Seong-tae, who was annoyed by the junior who kept talking loudly next to him, put out his cigarette on the floor and glared at the junior.

“Hey, aren’t you from the academy?”

“Ah, yes, as soon as I wake up, I want to make money…”

“Fuck, if you pretend you didn’t go, it’s not that you didn’t go, it’s that you didn’t go in, dude”

At Han Seong-tae’s direct remarks, the juniors pretended to be embarrassed and lowered their heads and mumbled, ‘What the fuck is so great?’.

‘Ugh… Everything is obvious, you asshole’

Han Seong-tae sighed because of the pathetic junior who did not even know the right to call the association, one of the few lines of duty in the document written to become an awakened person.

He has little talent, but he doesn’t even try to hone it or acquire skills.

Even so, he is a guy who lives with the delusion that he can become like the main character of a fantasy novel.

There is no notice there, and there is a lot of dissatisfaction with society.

‘If a guy like that gains power, all vested interests in the world will be evil’

Seeing the pathetic junior, Han Seong-tae thought of the main character of a third-rate fantasy novel that he read yesterday because he was bored.

He sighed, saying that the guild leader accepted all the rumors that he would increase his size, so that such an idiot came in.

‘It’s a call…’

Han Seong-tae ignored the mumbling guy next to him and thought about the current situation.

When registering as an Awakener, it is stated in the document consent column that it cannot be refused unless there is a special case specified at the time of the association’s convocation.

In short, what the idiot talking next to me said was bullshit. In other words, the association can tell the awakened people to come.

However, the right to summon the Awakened is not something that can be easily invoked. Han Seong-tae, a 15-year veteran, had only been called up once eight years ago.

‘Baksital Incident’

It was only then that he was put into operation to wipe out the madmen who planned and actually carried out the overthrow of the country with the support of the central world’s villain group.

When I think of the terrible situation at that time, the situation of being summoned once again is very unsettling.

In addition, only the guilds in Seoul were convened during the Gaksital incident, but Haewon in Busan and Dawn in Daegu were not summoned, and orders were issued to alert and stand by.
However, now they all gathered in Seoul, including the guild leader, excluding the minimum number of people.

Han Seong-tae, who knew the unusual situation and who the ‘current’ representative guild leaders had been in for 15 years, could only sigh.

‘I hope you can get over safely’

Originally, tomorrow, Han Seong-tae was supposed to go to the studio to take an engagement photo with his girlfriend.
However, the promise was eventually canceled due to a sudden call.
‘Fuck this sounds like a cliché’

Han Seong-tae, who is a serious awakening person and whose hobby is reading web novels, came up with a classic fantasy cliché.

– I’ll go back after her war and confess to her!
-Look at this picture, isn’t it pretty? You’re my fiancé haha, you promised to marry me when I’m discharged. I’ll get her alive and get back to her!

Han Seong-tae prayed to the god he did not normally believe in because of the ominous feeling that lingered in his ears, and asked him to return alive.

*

-At that time inside the association meeting hall-

“We are not going! No! I can’t go!”

“Command”

“We are a guild! No matter how much the association is, you can’t order us to die!”

Inside the conference hall, the conflict between Ahn Geon-soo, head of the Golden Bird Guild, one of the representative guilds, and Lee Man-seong, head of the Awakened Association, was escalating.

No, it was a fight between Ahn Geon-soo, who represented the three major guilds, and Lee Man-seong, who represented the association.

‘Those goddamn philistine bastards’

Lee Man-seong was fed up with their behavior, saying that they were quicker than anyone else when it came to making money, and that when they were in a situation where they would suffer a little loss, they would not be able to buy their bodies and bite their stomachs while frothing.

When a dungeon appears, it is invisible, but only when awakened people belonging to a national institution deal with high-risk monsters of class A or higher, then it creeps out.

They say that this is our land, but they come in and subdue the dungeon on their own, claim that it is an infringement of property rights, that they will sue the media, and that the by-products from inside are theirs.

If a high-risk, low-return monster appears by their standards, they pretend not to have found it, and then appear after dealing with it, so shouldn’t the distribution fall to those who were vigilant?

Lee Man-seong wanted to rip off that disgusting jaw, but he held back.

It is because I have seen too many things for a long time to express my anger with this, and I know better than anyone else that the current situation cannot be overcome without their cooperation.

“Doesn’t it make sense to deal with a named?!!”

“It’s not that I’m asking you to deal with it. You just have to play the role of limiting its actions outside of its attack range.”

“Isn’t that what he said?! If he goes crazy and attacks regular guild members, won’t he be annihilated?!”

“Or, what role are you guys going to play? Are you saying you will do nothing and abandon this country?”

“President of the Association! Please don’t insult us!! When did we say we would abandon this country?!”

“Then what are you guys going to do?”

“Keuheum… Actually, we have a written consultation.”

Fighting in a real dangerous place are the Awakened people belonging to the country, but they were the ones who closed their ears, built blood vessels in their eyes, and spattered, insisting only on their own safety.

However, as soon as the question was asked, Lee Man-seong changed his attitude and returned to a calm state, smiling and handing out documents, which made me curious.

‘I wanted to open his skull and see what he was thinking.’

Lee Man-seong, who imagined cutting his head, had to quickly organize this place, lead the guild, and join Lee Do-kyung and Yang Ha-yeon.

It was a situation where I couldn’t predict how the named guy in Gangwon-do would move.

In such an urgent situation, I was sick of having to fight for this kind of interest, but I couldn’t help it.

It was because the named subjugation was impossible without a guild.

Lee Man-seong, who received the agreement without saying anything in anger, quickly read the documents prepared by Ahn Geon-soo, page by page.

Ahn Geon-soo, who saw Lee Man-seong’s reddened face with excitement returned to the cold head of the association, smiled viciously, knowing that if Lee Man-seong knew the true intentions of the agreement, Lee Man-seong would never be able to refuse.

‘So, in a word, we will allow you to purchase magic tools developed by the three major guilds’ sponsoring groups, Manho, Youngsan, and Dongyang Group, at the original price in this operation.

Instead, monsters may appear during transportation, so the three major guilds are going to protect it.’

It was absurd.

It was also ridiculous to think that a magic tool made with technology that had been on Earth for 20 years and applied to industry only for about 5 years would really work for the named.

In addition to that, I almost laughed at the sight of them trying to sell their goods even in a national crisis.

Still, when I saw Ahn Geon-soo smiling softly, wondering what he was so confident about, I felt a black murderous intent flow through my heart.

Lee Man-seong turned his eyes away from Ahn Geon-soo and looked at the other two guild leaders.

Do Gap-soo, Haewon Guild leader in Busan, Moon Hye-mi, Yeomyeong Guild leader in Daegu

They’re all people I don’t like.

‘Do Gap-soo, that old man didn’t even know the topic and came out on his own and felt an inferiority complex to Do-kyung, taking every turn.’

He seemed to find it amusing to see himself in trouble.

‘Moon Hye-mi, a bitch like Sagal’

When she saw the Dawning Guild leader with a meaningful smile on her face, she remembered an incident from the past.

When I think of what happened at that time, that was a year that should have been cast as a villain, but there was no physical proof.

‘I want to ‘punish’ like this, but not now’

Still running through the blood, he shouted to kill everyone, but Lee Man-seong calmly thought about the original intention of this agreement once again.

‘They are not stupid. He’s just a frog in a well, which means he’s the most powerful person in the well’

At a simple glance, the contents of this agreement make it appear that the corporation is sacrificing its own interests in order to protect the lives of the Awoken.

In order to protect the lives that will die in battle, the company will accept huge losses and provide a large amount of magic tools at original cost.

It seems like a really beautiful and warm story, but it’s actually different. I’m sure you know. That the magic tools they made didn’t work on the name.

Magic tools are just a smoke screen.

The crux of this damn moving agreement is that the three major guilds won’t intervene in battle.

If the 3 major guilds do not participate as agreed, most guilds will not participate either.

‘The three major guilds don’t participate, but why are we the only ones participating?’

Then what is the main purpose of the groups behind the guild?

‘The purpose is to take away the authority of the association’

If you want the guilds to cooperate, you have to yield the authority monopolized by the association.

The reason for not asking for permission directly is to hope that public opinion will not arise that the guild has traded with the association for the safety of the people.

‘That is not the end’

Even if you win the battle against the named, surely many awakened people will die.

Then the 3 major guilds and groups will say through the media that we didn’t want to send them to death, as we know from the agreement.

They have a reason to say, ‘We presented an alternative to it, and the association rejected it and enforced it’.

The general public is unknown.

It would be belated sophistry to say that those magic tools meant nothing to the named and that everyone would die.

I want to leave this place right now and hold a press conference, but there is no time or place.

I wonder if the guys in front of me will send it.

‘It is an anti-corruption association that oppresses companies full of ability and humanity’

In the end, the Association, which has lost great power after the criticism of such numerous public opinion and the subjugation of the name, will be deprived of its authority one by one.

And the remaining crumbs of the association will be shared between the three major guilds and their support groups.

And the final goal

‘The real purpose was to put a leash on me’

To make rankers they would not even be able to touch normally into their slaves.
That is the end of this plan.

Then wouldn’t it just leave Korea?

However, Lee Man-seong cannot do that.

As long as her granddaughter Ai, who had an incurable disease, was on this earth, she was left with only herself as her family.

And they know she can’t leave.

‘I don’t know what kind of guy he is, but he’s amazing’

In the situation where the name appeared and only 8 hours had passed, Lee Man-seong spat out an admiration close to lamentation toward the guy who used such an elaborate and malicious move in the meantime.

‘I wish I had used that hair for the country’

Lee Man-seong, who was deep in thought with his eyes closed, looked at Ahn Geon-soo, who was laughing in front of him, and spoke.

“What do you want?”