Chapter 66 - His Plans (1/2)

Translator: MagicFishCat

Proof-reader: TheMonitor

‘This bastard is here again…!’

Haggis had faintly suspected when Baal suddenly screamed and ran out, but his suspicions turned out to be true.

“What are you sh*ts doing! Hurry up and move!”

Baal shouted at the guild members around him. At his shout, the uneasy guild members entered the guild house one by one and waited for the poison fog to wear out.

‘Sigh, this is all we can do…’

Haggis lamented as he waited inside the building, watching the magic circle slowly trying to counteract the poison. When the magic circle had finally gotten rid of the poison fog, the sullen guild members came out one by one.

Was it because Haggis and Baal were with them? When the Demon guild members caught sight of Soo Hyuk’s back running away, they yelled with bloodshot eyes and started chasing after him.

“This bastard? Where do you think you’re going!!!”

Haggis shouted the loudest as they chased Soo Hyuk down the street. But Soo Hyuk didn’t respond to their provocations and disappeared behind a corner. When Soo Hyuk disappeared from their eyes, Baal and the Demon guild increased their speed even more until they also arrived at the corner.

And when they did…

“RAAARGH!”

“This XXX!!!”

“Again, and again!”

“Heuk…heuk…this is bullying…”

Baal’s entire group broke down cursing and screaming with agony as they glared at a desolate spot on the road.

* * *

[Warping to the Archmage’s Subspace.]

Soo Hyuk had just teleported to his subspace and was walking to the warp circle.

‘They’re adapting quickly.’

It was 8 days since he started attacking the Demon guild’s guild house, and 10 days since he had first encountered them.

‘They’ve even installed a magic circle.’

His poison fog had disappeared much quicker than last time, can the cause was the newly installed magic circle.

‘Hmm, I’ll have to change it up a bit. First, the magic circle’s diameter isn’t that big…’

The magic circle that had appeared today didn’t have a large diameter, so he could work around that. And so, when Soo Hyuk was planning his next attack…

-Yeon Jung: Soo Hyuk-ah.

A message came from Yeon Jung. At his sudden message, Soo Hyuk stopped what he was doing and replied to his message.

-Soo Hyuk: Mmm.

Soo Hyuk stepped on the warp circle and warped to Matab as he sent the message.

-Yeon Jung: Oh? You replied immediately? Where are you right now?

-Soo Hyuk: I’m heading to the library. Why?

-Yeon Jung: Yes, I thought so.

-Yeon Jung: So, when are you going to join our guild?

Soo Hyuk figured out the reason for Yeon Jung’s message as he read Yeon Jung’s message.

-Soo Hyuk: Please wait a bit more.

He replied. Soo Hyuk still had business with the Demon guild. He couldn’t expose Yeon Jung’s guild right now.

-Yeon Jung: Is it because of the Demon guild?

Yeon Jung obviously knew about what he had been doing over the past couple of days. It was one of the hot issues on the Pangea forums, so there was no way the well-informed Yeon Jung wouldn’t know.

-Soo Hyuk: Yes.

-Yeon Jung: How much longer are you going to keep this up?

Yeon Jung asked at Soo Hyuk’s answer. He was curious. The Demon guild was being beaten, no, punished by Soo Hyuk. So much so, that Yeon Jung couldn’t overcome his curiosity and ended up asking Soo Hyuk.

-Soo Hyuk: Well, I originally wanted to go for a month…

-Yeon Jung: A month?

-Soo Hyuk: Yeah, but I’m considering changing it.

-Soo Hyuk: I think it’s going to end in under a month.

His pain was slowly disappearing every time he woke up.

-Yeon Jung: Then tell me when it ends.

-Soo Hyuk: Alright.

-Yeon Jung: Oh, how much more books do you have to go through?

He was talking about the books in Matab Library.

-Soo Hyuk: I think I’m going to be done in a week.

-Yeon Jung: You really are crazy. Crazy fast. How did you even…

-Yeon Jung: Anyway, what are you going to do after that? Will you go to another library?

-Soo Hyuk: I probably will.

-Yeon Jung: Do you have any idea where you’ll go?

Soo Hyuk fell into thought at Yeon Jung’s question.

‘Hmm…’

Where should he go?

‘Hadrac looked okay when I checked it out…’

Was it because he had visited Hadrac frequently over the last few days? Whatever the reason, Soo Hyuk had gotten curious about the library at Hadrac. Hadrac’s library wasn’t as big as the Matab Library, but it wasn’t small either.

‘The entry conditions seem okay as well.’

The size of the library was important, to Soo Hyuk, the entry conditions for libraries were more important. After all, what use was the libraries use, if he could only admire the architecture and not the books? The conditions for Hadrac’s library was a little more difficult than Matab’s library. No, to be more precise, rather than more difficult, it required him to put more effort than the Matab Library.

Hadrac was a city-state and a mercenary state at the same time. To access Hadrac’s library, he only needed to fulfil either one of two conditions.

‘To be an A-rank mercenary.’

The first condition was to be an A-rank mercenary. Like Matab’s Central Spire, Hadrac also had its Mercenary’s Agency.

In the Mercenary’s Agency, you could rise up the ranks through completing the quests commissioned there. In other words, if he completed quests fast enough, then he would be able to enter the Hadrac Library.

‘It would’ve been perfect if Yeon Jung’s guild was based in Hadrac.’

The second condition was to be in a S-rank guild. In that situation, one could freely use the library without being an A-rank mercenary. But the second condition had a catch. Soo Hyuk had already planned to join ‘Reader’, but the second condition only applied to guilds based in Hadrac. This meant that the second condition was as good as non-existent for Soo Hyuk.

-Soo Hyuk: I’m considering Hadrac.

-Yeon Jung: What? Hadrac?