Chapter 230 (2/2)

“There are two reasons.”

“Two?”

“You’re the only Lifer who can resolve or interfere in this matter, and you will be affected by this intervention.”

Cha Jun Sung frowns.

They are speaking without his battlesuit, so his expression shows.

“Borteth has a lot of ambition. As one of the three Life Mission supervisors, he wants to surpass Gabenu and me in getting the top results.”

A moderate amount of ambition can become a source of power. Not having that amount of ambition means that the person does not want it enough.

But it is severe in Borteth’s case. It goes beyond ambition to greed.

“The process doesn’t matter as long as the results are good, so Borteth does annoying things and he always get some kind of result. Even if he fails, so he doesn’t feel discouraged. It seems that’s why he won’t leave it alone. He’s breaking all of our promises too.”

If entrepreneurs who want to become rich commit crimes in order to succeed, most will come under judgment of the law.

It isn’t right to compare with Life Mission, but a collision is inevitable if everyone is going on a righteous path and only one person tries to stray from that.

If that collision becomes an emotional fight, it could ruin everything.

“It isn’t good to ignore the processes. I’m not talking about rules or promises. Those are important, but there is something else that is truly important.”

“Are you referring to order?”

It is a part that Cha Jun Sung doesn’t understand as he listens.

“It’s similar. According to the way you put it, everything has an order. But what do you think will happen if we ignore that order? The warped order might be visible in the beginning, but it becomes harder and harder to keep track of as it becomes more entangled.”

There are things that the three supervisors need to consult each other on while proceeding, but Borteth is acting alone.

“One of those independent actions was the Heavy Gravity in North America.”

“Oh!”

“We gained a lot of data from that battle between you and the level 8s then. The result is good, isn’t it? What do you think happened to Borteth after that?”

“Punishment…”

“He did receive punishment even if it wasn’t very drastic. The problem started from there.”

Borteth had already shown severe opposition, but getting punished by Jigneon after getting clear results made him revolt.

On top of that, he formed bad feelings toward Cha Jun Sung, who is the source of his punishment. Cha Jun Sung had become a subject for him to vent on.

Cha Jun Sung was speechless in disbelief.

“I’ll refer to them as investors to make it easier for you to understand. Those investors are looking kindly on Borteth’s independent actions kindly as well. You understand why, right?”

It’s because the results are good.

Jigneon gave him punishment but it was released quickly. There’s a reason why he acts on his own ridiculously even when he is being threatened.

No matter how much they don’t like it, Borteth is one of the three people who created Life Mission. He is a major shareholder with 33.3% of shares.

“You understand that you’ll be disadvantaged, right? If we leave him alone now, he’s sure to take his anger out on you.”

“What a crazy bastard.”

He’ll always have to be on guard, but it’ll be really dangerous if Borteth interferes while he is fighting a level 8 like last time. He doesn’t want to make a supervisor into the enemy.

If helpers are the messengers of god in Life Mission, the supervisors are those gods. The future is clear if the creature makes the creator into the enemy.

“Did you secretly bring me here to help me?”

Jigneon had matched Cha Jun Sung’s return time on purpose.

It would have been too obvious if he got summoned from reality, so he used the point when the gate opened.

“Borteth chose a Lifer to act on his behalf. He means to act from the shadows rather than showing himself on the forefront. This means that if something goes wrong, he’ll be able to cut it off from the tail. This will make it more frustrating, so what will you do? I have to choose one too. You.”

There is a saying that a shrimp’s back bursts in a fight between whales.

Cha Jun Sung felt strange because it was as though a mere human was being placed in the middle of a fight between gods.

“Is the Lifer Borteth chose a Ranker?”

“I heard he is a Ranker.”

“World Federation? Bloody Kingdom?”

“Which do you think?”

It doesn’t seem like he would be from World Federation. All of the Lifers there are honest. A few have strange personalities, but none would be willing to do whatever Borteth told them to do as if they were machines.

“The latter.”

“Right. Will you be able to figure out who it is?”

“Blood King? Dark Side?”

There aren’t many in Bloody Kingdom who are both skilled and smart. The two he just mentioned are the best.

“Neither. Borteth needs an avatar that’ll do what he wants on his behalf. Those two are smart. They would probably just pretend to obey Borteth and calculate their options instead.”

“Then?”

“It’s no fun if I tell you. I have a video to show you. Once I show you this and tell you what I need to say, our conversation will be over.”