chapter 289
289 – Secret Organization
After a while, Maeng Seong-yong also entered the space.
“Sit down.”
“…”
Despite Maeng Seong-yong’s recommendation, Yeon-hee could not easily sit down.
This may be because the area on Maeng Seong-yong’s right shoulder, which he cut off himself, is bubbling and slowly gaining weight.
Bubbly-
‘I thought it would definitely have the characteristics of a regenerative type, but…’
The speed of recovery was no joke.
‘It’s just different from the dregs of chaos… There’s no need to tell who is a monster.’
“Keuhum-“
“Oh, sorry, sorry-“
Yeonhee quickly sat down, probably thinking she had committed a moment of rudeness when Maeng Seongyong cleared his throat.
“Do you always have a friend next to you?”
“Yes…”
Haha, if only I could. I would like to have a fun guy like that next to me.”
“…”
“… Hmm- don’t be too nervous. It’s not that big of a story.”
‘If it’s nothing special, there’s no need to bring him to a place like this.’
I think Maeng Seong-yong was trying to ease Yeonhee’s tension by making me a topic, but Yeonhee was stiff and just looking at the ground.
That’s understandable, too, as anyone would if they thought there was a 2-meter-tall giant right in front of them whose lost shoulder was being regenerated.
Tak-
“It’s ice water.”
Manager Ha, who has a good sense of humor, placed a glass of cold water in front of Yeonhee and left the room again.
“Let’s go. As you can see, I’m recovering.”
“Yes yes.”
‘Can’t I eat while playing? It’s unique.’
It’s a minor thing, but it’s good to know information related to other hunter’s characteristic mechanisms.
Gulp-gulp-
As Yeonhee took a gulp of cold water and caught her breath for a while, Maeng Seongyong slowly turned his shoulders and began speaking.
“What I’m about to say requires a pledge, so you have to make a choice. Whether you want to listen to me or not.”
“…Eh?”
You said it wasn’t much of a story, but it was just a promise? Could it be that Maeng Seong-yong suffers from something like short-term memory loss?
‘I wonder if I can’t do it in this atmosphere…’
Yeon nodded and said without the slightest hesitation to his words
“I can listen.”
“Ho-oh, you’re not even worried? Is it because of Kang Yeon-soo?”
‘No, because of you.’
“… Yes, that’s right.”
“Do you trust her that much? She’s a no-frills hunter who ultimately acts for her own gain.”
“… That would be the same for the examiner…”
Hehe, that’s true. He’s a bit bolder than he looks.”
Maeng Seong-yong must have liked that look on Yeon-hee, so he slightly raised his eyebrows and held out a written pledge.
“What you discussed with me today must not be revealed to anyone. I put a stipulation on Kang Yeon-soo that some hunters, including you, would be excluded. This time, there is no such condition. You will have to keep it to yourself for the rest of your life.”
“I understand.”
‘How many… I see there are other sprouts you are growing besides Yeonhee?’
Suddenly, my party members and Cha Jin-hyuk came to mind.
Yeon-hee looked at the pledge that Maeng Seong-yong handed her for a moment, then signed it with magical energy, and soon Yeon-hee’s name appeared in the pledge
“Okay. Then let’s start the story.”
Gulp-
‘What a great story.’
Meng Seongyong clasped his thick hands together and began speaking.
“Are you aware of a gigantic entity from another world that is trying to invade this world?”
“”?!””
After being hit hard and hard, we couldn’t speak for a moment and just looked at Maeng Seong-yong.
“You look like you know. Then it will be easy to talk.”
Meng Seongyong shrugged his shoulders and spoke again.
“Well, it was you who stopped them in the ‘Lizard Swamp’ dungeon. You can’t not know.”
“… I understand that it was blocked by the Ilseom Guild.”
“Ahahaha! There’s nothing to reveal in front of me. The friend next to me also seems to have a lot of secrets. Didn’t I sign this anyway? I can’t tell anyone about what I just talked to you about. Because the oath to the God of Oaths is absolute.”
“…”
Yeonhee sent a signal to the intangible line connected to me, and I vibrated my magical power three times, indicating that it was okay to proceed.
“I know. An organization wearing a shadow cloak. There is a great entity they serve.”
Hehe. That’s right. They’re damned bastards who serve the guy called Blue Eyes. We happened to be transported to the place where their ritual was being performed and were able to observe their behavior. Of course, they were other hunters besides me .”
“Ah…”
‘I think it refers to the place I was taken to at that time.’
While killing a group of people performing rituals in a hidden space underground in the fire monkey dungeon, I had the experience of moving to a place where their mental bodies gathered.
“They were putting the corpses of hunters and monsters on an altar made of black steel and gathering the intangible energy they gained into one.”
“I see…”
“We think it has something to do with the power that randomly opened the gate in the Lizard Dungeon.”
“… What you’re saying is that it’s not just to offer it up to a being with blue eyes.”
“Well, it looks like they can use their discretion for actions that meet their ultimate goal to some extent.”
‘It’s easy to infer that much. So what is the purpose?’
What I’m talking about now is just a review of the information we know.
Meng Seongyong adjusted his posture and spoke again.
“Without going on at length, let’s get to the point. We are conducting research to attack their base.”
“Yes?!”
‘Crazy?! Is it real? Does that work?’
Me a few days ago.
I assumed that the place where I went to a channel in another dimension and fought against the ‘remnants of chaos’ was a world ruled by Blue Eyes or the Seven Headed Dragon.
So does this mean that the association can also use such a channel?
Moreover, even if that were possible, there would be no guarantee that one would be able to win in a fight with such an incredible entity as Blue Eyes. What kind of confidence is this?
‘It’s just that they can’t come over to our world. In a world we have already dominated, we will be able to use even stronger power…’
This was a bit unexpected for me, who had thought it was realistic to find a way to close the gate.
For now, I decided to listen to his story
“Let me briefly explain the current situation. The ‘Blue Eyes’ organization. They are now spreading the seeds of the Gate all over the world.
We understand that the number has already exceeded 1,000 units. In fact, the general consensus is that there are more than you might think.”
“Thousands?! “That’s that many?”
“Of course, it’s just an estimate. It doesn’t seem like monsters can come over because it’s directly connected to our world.”
“…”
Yeonhee was even more surprised because she had once experienced an incident where orcs came out in droves.
‘It’s better. It would be better to hear it from someone else’s mouth.’
Yeonhee knows that I was human, but she does not know that I am a regressor. There were limitations in unlocking information about the future.
But thanks to Maeng Seong-yong, I was able to ease my worries a little.
“Yes, they are planning to completely destroy our world. But we cannot announce this to the public. Doing so will only accelerate the rate of collapse.”
“I guess so… That terrible gate has thousands…”
Yeonhee repeated those words as if she couldn’t believe it.
In a way, it was natural.
The dungeon break in Lizard Marsh was the most intense battle we’ve ever experienced.
“I can’t really say for sure how to clear the path to their world.”
‘It’s not that I can’t say it, but maybe I haven’t found a way yet?’
And I had this intuition that I couldn’t even picture the scenario after breaking through.
“But we know roughly what we need. And to get them, we need to increase our power. There are many conditions, but the most important one is to capture the Great Monster.”
“Great, great monster?! How can that…”
“I know, too. So far, there have only been two known cases of defeating great monsters. And that was when the early awakeners around the world had not yet been restricted. It may sound absurd, but we must do it.”
“… Will the power of someone like me be helpful in defeating the Great Monster?”
Yeonhee asked him back with doubt.
It seems clear that catching the Great Monster is a condition for opening a path to another world.
However, although our growth rate is fast, we still have a long way to go before we can become big enough to help subdue great monsters.
‘… The reason they want to recruit us… I think there are some different conditions to clearing the path.’
For example, a condition such as that a unique class of hunter is absolutely necessary? So maybe they’re using the excuse of subjugating monsters to keep them close?
‘Ugh… I don’t know. What? What is it?’
Hehe, I’m not saying we should do anything right away. We need more time to prepare. And looking at the behavior of the ‘Devouring Creeper’, it has suddenly become quiet since the middle of last week. That’s fortunate for us .”
“I see…”
‘The middle of last week… When we came out of Nargul’s dungeon.’
“Thanks to you, I’ve gained some time, and you’ll be able to grow your strength more in the meantime. You’re a talent who rose to C-level in two months, so you never know. You might even reach A-level by then – A-level in less than a year.”
“…”
“The date of action will be announced later, but action will begin within six months.”
“…Who else knows about this?”
When Yeonhee asked with a serious expression, Maeng Seongyong touched his chin for a moment and then spoke again.
“Currently, only the members of the organization that have not yet been named, led by the president of the association, and a few superpowers such as Professor Kang.
In fact, there are only a few of them, including you, who are not S-class hunters. It is even happening without the knowledge of the guild leaders and key personnel who formed the guild council.”
“So… Why don’t you tell us? If the strong come together and put their heads together, there will be better results-“
“No… That’s not it… From what we’ve experienced so far, when you step into an unknown territory like this, if there are too many boatmen, you lose momentum.
Going forward, we plan to continue working with only a minimum number of elite members. Of course, I plan to get help from hunters when defeating the great monster.
It will be announced that the purpose is to stop the monster that is slowly moving south toward our country.”
“Ah… I see.”
‘That’s what I think too. Moreover, among the members of the guild council, there is Jo Ki-man. You never know what kind of disruption that bastard might cause. It was a good choice.’
However, what I wonder is how on earth the association knew about that fact.
‘I don’t know everything that happened in my past life, though. It seems like something has decidedly changed.’
I didn’t think that there would be this much change simply because the world’s clocks got faster.
Yeonhee thought for a moment and asked again.
“So, are you suggesting that we join that organization instead of joining the White Knight Guild?”
Maeng Seong-yong was puzzled by the word ‘we’, but he responded casually with a bright smile.
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