Chapter 142: Chapter 141: This Has Got To Be A Bug! Part I (1/2)
Chapter 142: Chapter 141: This Has Got To Be A Bug! Part I
Translator: HunterW
Editor: RED
The Gnosis Guild's headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul…
”Have you gathered all of the intel, as per Lee Jiwon's request?”
”We finished that a while ago.”
”Lee Jiwon and Lee Kangchan, eh…something definitely happened between them.”
”I mean, if you think about how Lee Jiwon looked just saying his name… besides, it's been going on for so long now,” Lim Gina said confidently.
”Why, did you want to hand the intel over now?” Jay asked.
”No. Everyone's too busy right now because of Time Attack, but we should once it's over. And we will need to keep tabs on both of them even after we hand the intel over.”
”I guess so. Ah… I'm so busy because of this damn Time Attack crap.”
The Time Attack was the perfect chance for the Gnosis Guild to get its name out to the rest of the world. They weren't participating. Even though they had their own powerful members, their specialty wasn't in team battles, and they could not hope to match up against the other large guilds.
The Gnosis Guild was an information guild; it would spread its name by investigating. They could sell all sorts of information about the Time Attack dungeons, like what would be the best way to avoid the traps, what formation would be best to fight the monsters, what would be the roles to fight the boss monster, or what the boss monsters' attacks patterns or weaknesses were.
Already, the Gnosis Guild had several clients lined up to purchase this sort of information. Sure those powerful clients would have their own investigation done, but they were all prepared to pay top coin to find out if there was anything they had missed. That was how much they, the large guilds and organizations, were prepared to invest into the Time Attack; not just for the rewards, but to get their names out there and to hold their rankings.
”We've got less than a week left, so hang in there. We just got an order from a guild in Saudi Arabia yesterday.”
”Tch. That's easy for you to say, when you sit behind a desk all day. Some of us have to go in and out of sixteen-man dungeons every day.”
”Be glad no one's asked us to check out the one-man dungeons.”
”That much is obvious, you dolt. Look at the display boards. First to tenth place are all deities. Why would any of them ask for intel? The only deva is placed eighteenth… huh?” Jay was pointing to a TV screen that was showing the display boards that they had been monitoring 24/7, in case anything changed. When Jay noticed the change, she couldn't bring herself to finish her sentence.
Alpha and Lim Gina followed her finger and stared at the screen, dumbstruck at what they saw. No one spoke for a while until all three of them broke the silence together.
”What the fuck? It's got to be a bug.”
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Outside Store 72…
”Holy shit! Look!”
”What?”
”That! Look at the one-man display!”
”Huh? Lee Jiwon?”
”I'm not crazy, right? Lee Jiwon's in first place, right?”
”Yeah… I see his name, too.”
”I'm not dreaming, am I? Is this for real?”
”First place aside, look at the difference between it and second place…how does that make any sense?”
A huge crowd gathered around the display boards.
”It has to be a bug!”
”Impossible! How can a deva set a record like that?”
All display boards around the world were surrounded by devas all saying the same thing. Many cried that the records had to be bugged.
==[One man dungeon rankings
SSS Rank: 00:49:38 – Lee Jiwon (Deva)
F- Rank: 02:49:38 – Mellow (Deity)
F- Rank: 02:52:21 – Rai Lin (Deity)
F- Rank: 02:52:55 – Yoana Momon (Deity)
F- Rank: 02:57:06 – Martys (Deity)
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19. F- Rank: 03:23:56 – Gar Gran (Deva)
: ]==
A single person's ranking flipped the rest of the world on its backside, all the while Lee Jiwon was busy calling the Sunbin and the Myth Guilds.
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”Very well, I'll head over there tonight.” I called up both the Sunbin and Myth Guilds and would have dinner over at the Sunbin Guild's headquarters.
”Ha… I did expect it to be like this, but things are really going crazy now.” I was flipping through the channels on the hotel's TV, and most of them were about the one-man dungeon display board.
”This has to be a bug.”
”That's right. There is no way a record like that could ever exist. It just doesn't make sense. There are several videos out that show just how long it should take to clear a one-man dungeon.”
”Then are you saying that the display boards are lying?”
”That's…”
”There has to be something wrong with the system or…”
”That's quite the bullshit coming out of all of you. Do you think that the Otadolon Stage is some sort of game? Why the hell would there be bugs or malfunctions?”
”You can't say that on…”
”Watch your language! You're on national television!”