Chapter 231 – Grow Your Party Members.

This reduced the number of party members to three.
Except for me, the remaining members were as follows.

Shin Hye-yeon: Class B, swordsmanship
Park Eun-ha: Class B, martial arts ability
Kim Eana: Class B, archery proficiency
Lee Seung-ah: S-class, demon sorcerer
Park Ye-seo: Class A, Shaman

It was difficult for Park Ye-seo to return to the party right away, but she would continue partying with us anyway.
The composition of the party itself was not bad, except for the fact that I could balance it with various abilities.
Having an S-class demon summoner, and having a shaman was a big advantage.

“Hmm…”

Still, the fact that Park Tae-ri, Han Soo-bin, and Kim Ga-eun were missing made the hole look bigger.
It’s a little bit like the fact that it’s difficult for Park Ye-seo to come back right now.

‘If it’s just a hobby, partying isn’t bad…’

Not bad, considering our average age, it was pretty good.
Forming a party of this size and going into dungeons every week to earn decent income was something that other people would be very envious of.

A message appeared, as if knowing that I was lost in thought over party composition.

【A new quest has been created.】

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Objective: Designate 2 to 4 party members and raise at least two of them by one overall grade.
Deadline: One month from the date the member is designated.
Difficulty: C
Limited-time benefit: Growth rate +200% for designated members, growth rate +500% when training together for more than 4 hours a day

Success Reward: Grants a random skill to each party member whose rank has risen. All skill and special ability levels of the specified member, including you, +1

Failure Penalty:-

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“Ah…”

This was a party, that is, a quest for those who created a guild and pioneered the path of life.

It was a new type of quest, so it was necessary to understand its contents.

‘To designate 2 to 4 people? Two or more of them have a higher overall rating?’

Basically, it is very difficult to raise the Hunter’s overall grade.
In my previous life, during my 20 years, including my college days, the grades I had raised were two levels.
I didn’t expect that the rating would go higher than that.

But to raise the overall rating of more than two people in two weeks…

Instead, exceptional benefits were given during this period.
When I train with them, my growth speed increases to +500% when I train for more than 4 hours at the base +200%.

Since I form a high affinity with the party members, the basic growth synergy with them was good.
If there is such a plus effect…

‘It’s possible?’

In the first place, if it was impossible at all, the quest would not have been given.

‘The reward for success is…’

It was unbelievably good.
Not only did the members with higher grades gain one additional skill, but the level of all skills and special abilities they had rose one by one.
That included me.

This is a quest that must be done.

‘Two to four…’

It is to enjoy such a limited-time effect, but of course it was advantageous to designate four people full.
For once, the three of them were able to decide quickly.

Hyeyeon Shin, Eunha Park, and Eana Kim.
Their grade was B, which was not a low grade considering their age, but compared to the other party members, they fell by one notch.

I knew how talented and passionate they were.
Even compared to me in my previous life, they were superior.
I was passionate enough to try to practice without missing a single day, but the grade I raised in 20 years was two levels.
That’s the B-class limit.
In terms of talent, they and I couldn’t even compare.

However, in my returned life, I was enjoying the fraudulent luck of growing through the system.
So, in a short period of time, it became A-class, and even S-class in terms of the ‘strength’ stat.

‘To further grow the party.’

I became more and more greedy.
As my own hunter level and abilities are growing rapidly, I have a desire to be able to quickly pioneer and grow the other side of life.

There is no need to be bound by common standards or thinking.
Because I don’t live that kind of life anymore.

Even though I was 20 years old, and most of the party members were around the same age as me, there was no law telling me not to put my name on the top of the party rankings or even create a guild.
It’s not common, but there have been occasional successes in creating a guild in your 20s.
There are especially more in foreign countries.

Perhaps in Korea, me and my guild might leave an unprecedented footprint.

Getting revenge on the women who NTR’d me was an important point in changing my life, but the way I grew up by forming a guild was equally important.
It was all the more so in that I was able to give them a wonderful life.

In fact, there was one stress that was building up inside me.
It is about Gaon Academy Kim Ga-hee.
Due to the fact that she is an S-class hunter, her reputation before founding her academy, and her achievements after that, she was acting arrogantly.
Not to mention the unfair treatment I suffered from her, and Kim Eana, Park Ye-seo, and Kim Ga-eun were also unilaterally beaten by her.

What would happen if the young Hunter, who was stuck in Class C and didn’t even care in her academy, achieves as much fame and success as Ga-Hee Kim herself?
I thought there would be no revenge as exciting as that.
Of course, I grew up alone and will have the power to speak out about the unfair management of the academy.

‘And…’

There were bad relationships created due to repeated quests.

Namcheol Lee and Seungcheol Seo.

One side was a big politician whose next presidential election was a strong candidate, and the other side was the guild leader of a guild that had a reputation in Korea, although he had recently lost his daughter and key members.
I still lacked my strength to fight them.
It is so self-evident that there will be friction with them in the future.
Apart from myself, I did not want to lose or injure any of the women with whom I had made valuable connections.

‘Here again…’

Women who have yet to avenge themselves.
Among them were women who were still in a place where I dared not reach.
Including Kim Seo-yul, whom I dated in high school.

In many ways, this quest was essential.
A quest that reminded me of what’s important to me at the right time.

Apart from Shin Hye-yeon, Park Eun-ha, and Kim Ea-na, I thought about who else should be included.

‘Kim Rua.’

She wasn’t a party member yet.
However, as long as she had her own aspirations to grow as a hunter and establish herself there, it was certain that she would come in just by inviting her.
Although it took me a while to explain that all the members of the party were women and that she was close to me.

Now, there are no elders like Park Tae-ri or Kim Ga-eun who can skillfully set the mood.
Moreover, when I was kicked out of the cafe, there was no Han Soo-bin to follow me and look at the sky.

This was unavoidable, as it was a common inconvenience when attracting other women to a party.

The quest deadline is one month from the date you designate the member to grow.
So, the first thing I had to do was invite Kim Rua to join the party.

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When I met Rua Kim, I had something to explain to her first.
It was something she had pointed out the other day, and it was also something she just passed on to explain later.

I was close with the members of the underground guild called ‘Purple Fox’, and I told Lua Kim the story of carrying out the request together at their suggestion.
If she wasn’t her open-minded type, if she was a woman with bad preconceived notions about underground guilds, it would be difficult for her to be honest.

“What? Really?”

Kim Lua responded with her somewhat shocked face.

“I heard about it from my sisters too. The co-representative of an entertainment agency who was claiming to be Seo Yu-ju died. Did that have anything to do with you? Could it be… Did you kill him?”
“No, I didn’t kill him. That’s what happened as a result. It’s nothing to do with me at all, but I didn’t kill myself.”

I wondered if there would be any practical difference, but I wasn’t the one who killed Seo Yu-ju anyway.
Strictly speaking, I suffered because I was kidnapped by her.

“I knew you were still a man with many secrets, but I couldn’t believe you did such a thing.”
“Sorry for not talking. It was hard for me to be honest with you because it was like this.”
“Okay. So it was. I knew it was true that you weren’t interested in modeling. But suddenly he did the opposite, and I was confused.”
“That’s how it happened.”