Chapter 95 (1/2)
Su-hyeun held Miru’s belly and pulled him down. Miru laughed contently and burped loudly.
“Mi… Miru?”
Purr?
“It’s not food. Be good and spit it out.”
Purr…
“What? No? Spit it out!”
Su-hyeun tickled Miru’s belly for a while and asked him to spit out the stone. Miru, who was usually amenable, closed his mouth tight and kept shaking his head.
“Phew…”
Su-hyeun could not force him to spit it out. His threats did not work. He started to have a headache. He just sighed out and sat down on the ground.
Purr, purr…
Miru flew to Su-hyeun’s head and patted it with his forepaw. It looked like Miru did not realize Su-hyeun sighed because of him. Su-hyeun felt like his headache getting worse.
“Geez. What should I say to Mr. Dae-ho?” Su-hyeun mumbled.
He got up and sighed deeply. He never sighed this deep in his life. Suddenly, he recalled Miru’s species and the feature of the blue stone.
“Hmm… The stone with natural properties and the dragon…,” Su-hyeun thought.
They were a strangely well-suited combination. Miru was likely greedy for stone not only out of curiosity.
“I guess I have to keep watching him.”
Su-hyeun put Miru back on his head. He turned his body and started to walk. He decided to think of the blue stone as the gift for Miru for working hard for him.
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Soon after, Su-hyeun joined the party again. They cleaned up all remaining monsters in the vicinity and found a way out of the dungeon. The cleanup party would’ve started collecting the Ether stone that scattered throughout the dungeon later.
“Looking by the size, I think it will take about a month to finish digging all the stones,” Jordan said.
He stood in front of the exit under the cliff and looked back the way they came from. It was a huge dungeon. He thought about the numbers of the monsters and the size of the dungeon. He could not even imagine how much Ether stone was hidden here. Perhaps the highest-grade Ether stone would come out.
“You can put the Medical Guild’s share on me.”
As if he had forgotten, Su-hyeun told Jordan about the contract of distribution of Ether stone. Jordan looked aghast when he heard that and started to laugh.
“Ha-ha-ha! You are an outstanding person.”
“I did not want it first, but I don’t like the fact that they tried to f*ck me around.”
“Yeah, Robert’s very greedy.”
Jordan laughed. It looked like he knew Robert, the guild master of the Medical Guild, well. Jordan made people go out from the lower rank awakeners by following the manual. It was for just in case any possible dangerous situations occurred.
“You are probably the one who made the biggest achievement in this attack,” Jordan said.
“Of course,” Su-hyeun replied.
Su-hyeun was the one who had killed the boss of the dungeon, killed the most monsters, and protected the team from Chloe’s betrayal. Su-hyeun nodded without even thinking of humility. Jordan smiled at Su-hyeun’s dignified appearance.
“I will yield my contribution to you, too.”
“…You will?”
“You don’t have to make such a face. If not for you, I would’ve been dead already. If it’s like my mind, I just want to give you all the contributions of Maximum Guild. However, that is beyond my control,” Jordan shrugged and continued to say, “In fact, I have more than enough money already.”
Su-hyeun who already had the biggest reward from Druid felt a little sorry for him. But what Jordan said was true. If Su-hyeun was not there, everybody probably all died already. So, it was cheap for the price of one S-Rank awakener’s life.
“I don’t need more money, either,” Su-hyeun said.
“Don’t say that…”
“Would you rather do another favor for me, then?”
“Favor?”
Jordan made a puzzled look at Su-hyeun’s word. What could be a better favor than yielding the Ether stone from the blue-colored dungeon? Soon, Su-hyeun’s mouth opened, and Jordan started to smile.
“That shouldn’t be a request,” Jordan nodded gladly. “I was going to do it anyway.”
Act 4
The raid of the blue-colored dungeon was over. After the raid, people started to collect Ether stone as scheduled. They graded the contribution according to the video recording, and various media requested for interviews. The world was surprised by the sensational news. The famous S-Rank awakener Chloe and Star Guild were actually pawns of the Dump Guild.
“Now, the Dump Guild got exposed on the surface,” Hak-Joon said while watching the news on the TV.
After the raid of the blue dungeon, Hak-Joon had been sleeping all day long. Upon waking up, the world was abuzz. Hak-Joon was watching one of the Korean news channels that dealt with the terrorist attacks of the Dump Guild in various countries, including Korea and the United States.
“The news about the Dump Guild always existed, secretly,” Su-hyeun said.
“The loudest uproar was because of you, wasn’t it? You told me the Dump Guild was the gnashing of teeth at you.”
“Well. I did not come out of the Tower. There was nothing they could do. Besides, Korea was not their jurisdiction from the beginning.”
“But it looks like crazy things went on in Korea as well. Although, the Ripper Guild worked fast and stopped it.”
The Dump Guild did not just only attack Korean and the United States. China, the United Kingdom, and France were attacked by them as well. They were all famous countries for their awakeners. It looked like the Dump Guild had planned to show their name by this chance.
“It was you, wasn’t it?”
Su-hyeun shook his head at Hak-Joon’s question.
“I gave the information, but it was the Ripper Guild that moved.”
“Same, same. How did you know anyway?”
“I’ve been keeping an eye on the Dump Guild. Plus, the Ripper Guild helped me.”
At Su-hyeun’s indecisively answer, Hak-Joon lounged on the sofa and fixed his gaze on the TV screen. Soon, the news about the Dump Guild was over. Hak-Joon turned his eyes to Su-hyeun again.
“Hey, Su-hyeun. Where are you going?”
Su-hyeun was putting on his shoes at the door without a word.
“I’ll be outside for a minute,” Su-hyeun said.
“…What?”