Chapter 339 (1/2)
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『Kim Su-hyeun, rampaging out of control in a freight train, completes the raids of all dungeons in Seoul!』
『The trampled raid rights… Will this be fine?』
『Association chairman Lee Ju-ho has been announced as a Paragon guild master, not the chairman. All the loot recovered in the dungeons which Kim Su-hyeun raided will be surrendered.』
『Kim Su-hyeun’s actions: What’s his goal? Professor Jo Min-hyeong from Dongguk University’s Department of Psychology…』
『Dungeon drought in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. How strong are Kim Su-hyeun’s actual abilities?』
『The association’s dungeon omission and alleged plot: Is Kim Su-hyeun sending a message?』
Numerous articles appeared online. Every single one came with a provocative headline.
The people began to suspect of the connection between this event and the association’s strange omission of the dungeon. But that was rather obvious considering the timing of the events.
Public opinions were divided.
└ Wow! That’s seriously insane! Calling him a one-man army is an understatement. Less than half a day and he’s almost finished getting rid of dungeons in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province.
└ At this rate, all dungeons in Korea will be gone in two days’ time, don’t you think?
└ This can’t be real… A large guild needs to form a proper raid party for a single green dungeon, and the raid itself takes over a day. How is this possible?
└ By the way, will this be fine? He doesn’t have raid rights. Is it okay to attack nonstop like this?
└ Apparently, he didn’t touch any dungeons being raided by someone else. Also, raid rights only mean something when ether stones and monster by-products are involved, don’t they?
└ Even then, this may cause problems. With how things are, the raid order will go out of whack, you know?
└ I think Kim Su-hyeun did this to let everyone know that things like raid orders have no meaning to him. He’s making a point by wiping out every dungeon in Korea by himself.
└ Oh, the post above mine has a good point. Crazy, I tell ya, this Kim Su-hyeun guy.
Thousands of people left comments on each article.
The comments were reflections of public sentiments. Despite people’s differing views, everyone agreed of one thing…
…that Kim Su-hyeun’s abilities were the real deal.
They thought that his level was way beyond anybody else.
He did an impossible task alone—a task that even if all awakeners in South Korea worked together would find it difficult to deliver good results.
And naturally, Korea was enthusiastic about it. The citizens were full of pride by the fact that the awakener Kim Su-hyeun was one of their own.
However, there was this one man who…
“Uwahk!”
…wasn’t happy with this news. He was actually freaking out at the moment.
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Two days… It only took two days for every single dungeon in South Korea to be raided.
When the uproar ended, some people from the Awakener Authority paid Su-hyeun a visit.
“Mister Kim Su-hyeun…”
They were awakeners affiliated with the Authority. They belonged to the tactical response team of the Awakener Management Bureau, which was meant to apprehend awakener criminals.
Every one of them were B-rank awakeners or higher, and 10 of such people had shown up at Su-hyeun’s doorstep.
“Sir…I’m afraid you have to come with us,” one awakener said politely.
Gulp.
They were careful with their words and actions, considering who they were dealing with this time.
After all, Su-hyeun was not someone these agents could arrest by force.
The leader of the tactical response team and an A-rank awakener himself, Bak Han-sol, looked fine. However, looks could be deceiving. In his mind, he could not help but ask, ‘What the hell am I doing here? This is Kim Su-hyeun…THE Kim Su-hyeun.’
Back when Su-hyeun was an ally and when he was the hero who willingly stepped forward to raid dungeons for the safety of the public, Bak Han-sol wasn’t aware of it.
However, things took a different turn—an ugly turn. As a consequence, Su-hyeun must be arrested as per the regulation.
The overall vibe Bak Han-sol felt was completely different. It was terrifying.
What if Su-hyeun didn’t want to cooperate?
What if he was planning to put an armed resistance or something?
‘No one can stop him…absolutely no one.’
Never mind the tactical response team, for not even the combined might of the association and the Authority would be enough to stop Su-hyeun.
A chill ran down on Bak Han-sol’s spine just thinking about that.
No matter how strong someone was, if they broke the law, they must be tried and judged. After all, a single person couldn’t win against many, and one couldn’t possibly win against organizations or even the world.
However, one man was an exception…
A person possessing enough strength to surpass the law had finally come. Such a thing had been deemed impossible in the past, yet it happened now.
No, wait…
‘It’s not that he has come, but he was just announcing it.’
Announcing that he had this much power in him…that he had finally decided to reveal it now…
Gulp.
After listening to Bak Han-sol, Su-hyeun just stood at the doorway for a while without saying anything. The whole tactical response team tensed up visibly as they stared back at him. It was a rather awkward situation.
Eventually, he replied, “Alright. Let me change my clothes first. Can you wait for me?”
“Ah…yes…of course.”
“Why don’t you all come inside?” Su-hyeun invited. “Instead of standing outside the door like that. However, I don’t have anything much to treat you with. I can only offer you some water. I hope that’s enough.” He stared at the sweaty Bak Han-sol, gulping nervously. “I mean, you guys look thirsty.”
Su-hyeun then widely opened the front door to his home and let the members of the tactical response team enter.
His home wasn’t all that spacious considering his wealth. The living room became completely filled up when the team members came in.
Su-hyeun handed out 500-milliliter bottles of water to each member then went to his bedroom to get changed. Once he was done putting on a clean white shirt and a pair of pants, he offered his wrists to Bak Han-sol. “Okay, let’s get going now.”
“…”
Clack.
Bak Han-sol cuffed Su-hyeun’s wrist according to the procedure.
This pair of handcuffs was capable of sealing the flow of magical energy and restricting the awakener’s physical strength.
‘It’s pointless, though.’
However, Bak Han-sol was certain that Su-hyeun could easily break off this type of handcuffs as if they were made out of paper.
Also, even if he was imprisoned, he would still be able to escape easily unless he was maimed or his legs were mutilated.
On top of it all…
‘It’s not going to get that far, anyway.’
It wasn’t as if Su-hyeun had committed a terrible crime.
Sure, attacking a dungeon while ignoring the raid rights was a crime, but, normally, such a case would be treated as ‘closed’ when the guilty party paid a small fine and handed over all the ether stones, as well as other stuff, recovered from the dungeon.
Su-hyeun had already yielded all the ether stones and the loot to the guilds and parties who held the raid rights. It was the right thing since those loot belonged to them to begin with.