40 Chapter 39 (1/2)
Ahn Sahng-Min became utterly speechless.
The best anyone could hope for, in terms of financial return from a Gate ranked C, was only around 200 million Won.
Paying 250 million won was, simply put, being a hopeless moron who paid way too much.
”Originally, the bidding price of this Gate was only around 70 million. But, when I raised the bid to 100 million, these b*stards suddenly upped it all the way to 250 million, Chief.”
The upper limit for a single C-rank Gate set by the White Tiger Guild was 100 million Won. One could now clearly see why Hyun Ki-Cheol was feeling rather aggrieved at the moment.
'Who are these b*stards?!'
Tap, tap, tap, tap....
Ahn Sahng-Min's hands typed on the keyboard quite rapidly. And soon, the search results filled up the computer screen.
Just as Hyun Ki-Cheol had said, one raid team was snapping up all the rank C Gates appearing in this district with nonsensical speed while paying an equally gobsmacking amount of money.
”What the hell, who are these crazy b*stards....?”
This area was the White Tiger's backyard, their jurisdiction.
At first, Ahn Sahng-Min thought of the possibility that other Guilds were possibly interfering with their work.
'No, hang on. That's not possible, is it?'
There was no large Guild stupid enough to start something with White Tiger openly in this fashion.
Even if it was one of the five top Guilds in South Korea, it would have to risk getting destroyed in return by clashing against the White Tiger.
'So, it's not a Guild, then.....'
In that case, who and why?
Ahn Sahng-Min swallowed his saliva and accessed the information on this strange raid team and its members.
The leader's name was apparently 'Yu Jin-Ho'.
”First time I hear that name.”
It was Ahn Sahng-Min's job to scout new recruits for the Guild. That was why he had remembered the names of freelancer Hunters who had at least displayed a modicum of excellence in the past.
However, this 'Yu Jin-Ho' really was someone he didn't know.
'Okay, I'll come back to you later.'
He then proceeded to slowly scroll down the list of the team's members, hoping to spot any familiar names on it.
And then, there was one.
One name kind of stood out.
'Seong Jin-Woo? Seong Jin-Woo..... Where have I heard this name before?'
Ahn Sahng-Min did his best to dig through his memory, until he finally recalled the incident of the dual dungeon from two months ago that had been the topic of a rather lively discussion among those who went there.
Indeed, it was none other than the White Tiger Guild that went to assist the Association during that event.
”Hey, Ki-Cheol-ah, do you remember that dual dungeon incident two months ago? The one where our Hunters had to go and take a look?”
”Yes, Chief. I remember. When we got there, we couldn't find any monsters and there was only one survivor.”
”What was the name of that survivor? You remember it?”
Hyun Ki-Cheol possessed a pretty solid brain.
No, it wasn't to the extent of other people praising him as a genius, but as far as his ability to remember things was concerned, he was really rather exceptional.
There wasn't even any real need to go through a search process here. Because Hyun Ki-Cheol replied right away.
”It's Seong Jin-Woo, a rank E Hunter.”
'I knew it!'
He wasn't sure of it, but well, he was proven right once more.
Ahn Sahng-Min instinctively realised it; there was something fishy going on here.
Not once did his instincts that activated only in these sorts of situation let him down. Never.
Ahn Sahng-Min shouted out an order to the rest of the employees in the Second Division.
”Everyone, stop what you're doing, and get me every single data and information on the Hunters Yu Jin-Ho, ranked D, and Seong Jin-Woo, ranked E!! Right now!”
The responses from these excellent employees, when facing a dangerous situation regarding their own survival, simply exceeded one's imaginations.
It wasn't for nothing that they were called the elites of all elites!
Reports came in one after the other, fast.
As it turned out, Yu Jin-Ho didn't possess any particularly noteworthy background that required an immediate attention. Disregarding the fact that he was the second son of Yujin Constructions' owner, he could be described as ordinary, even.
However, Seong Jin-Woo was quite a different story altogether.
”Since that dual dungeon incident, he's been involved in three more incidents, and he walked away from all of them unscathed?”
When Ahn Sahng-Min spoke in a questioning tone of voice, Hyun Ki-Cheol quickly followed up.
”Not only that, he's a rank E Hunter too, Chief.”
The first time Seong Jin-Woo and Yu Jin-Ho met was when the latter went for his very first raid. Only the two of them walked away alive.
And now, these two had formed a raid team and were going around like a pair of madmen, clearing two, three dungeons in a single day.
”This definitely stinks....”
”What could they possibly be doing in the dungeons?”
”I wonder.... hold on. I remember now. There was a rumour about a really influential owner of a big company busy wooing S-ranked Hunters in private doing the rounds, wasn't there?”
”Yes, there was a rumour like that.”