The next day, Clan Tower, 33rd floor.
I arrived early at the conference room and organized the tasks for the new recruits with Shin Yuna. To call it work would be an overstatent – it was just about placing the strategy plan report on the table.
Actually, this wasn’t an essential part of the horizontal clan culture; it was just sothing Shin Yuna had grabbed and said, ‘If you’re a new recruit, you should take care of things like this!’.
There were a total of 8 mbers attending this mission briefing. All the participants in the raid party were present.
Before 9 AM, clan mbers started arriving at the conference room one by one. Among them was Kang Juyeon, and we exchanged nods as a form of greeting. Kwon Oh-jun, the leader of hunting team 5 and also the party leader, was the last to arrive. As he entered the conference room, the operation briefing officially began.
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Kwon Oh-jun put docunts loudly on the table as he ca in.
“First, I’ll deliver the announcents. The deploynt date for this mission has been moved up. We’re leaving this afternoon, not tomorrow. This is a confird directive from higher-ups, so there’s no room for discussion. Make sure everyone finishes their preparations for deploynt by this afternoon.”
This was followed by changes in the schedule announcent.
The scheduled date had been moved up by a day… to today, actually.
However, it didn’t seem to be that surprising, as everyone nodded in agreent with the changes. Of course, there were clan mbers who had doubts.
“Team leader, may I ask the reason for the date change?”
Holder, sitting diagonally to my left.
According to the booklet given to by Shin Yuna, the Holder was Min Chae-hwan, a B-grade archer in hunting team 5.
Min Chae-hwan… The na sounded familiar, but I couldn’t recall where I had heard it before. When reading the booklet, I had a strange feeling. Perhaps it was a faint mory in my mind. He was probably one of the extras that had passed by in the original. Anyway, Kwon Oh-jun responded to Min Chae-hwan’s raised hand abruptly.
“What did you just hear? I said there’s no room for discussion. It’s a directive from higher-ups. Don’t waste ti and get ready for the deploynt right away.”
“…Understood.”
I was actually surprised by Kwon Oh-jun’s sharp response.
‘Isn’t he speaking too harshly?’
Despite Kwon Oh-jun being a team leader who used casual speech without reservation, his reaction seed excessive.
Min Chae-hwan might have felt sothing in Kwon Oh-jun’s response. Nevertheless, Min Chae-hwan accepted it without any change in his expression. It seed like a familiar situation for him.
With that, Kwon Oh-jun resud his mission briefing explanation.
“The location of the dungeon we’re targeting this ti is in the middle of Jongno Inwangsan Field. So of you might rember, but it’s a similar location to the tiger’s den dungeon that hunting team 4 tackled before.”
The clan mbers gathered in the conference room nodded as if they rembered. While passing the strategy plan report to others, I focused on his words.
Inwangsan Field. A field outside the boundary where S-grade monster ‘Divine Snake Woo Baek-ho’ appeared at the mountaintop.
Of course, there were no Holders who claid to have discovered Woo Baek-ho yet. As a field known for its frequent appearances of tiger-like monsters, there were quite a few dungeons related to tigers.
Among them, the ‘Tiger’s Lair’ dungeon was one of the dungeons that hunting team 4 had tackled a few months ago in and was now generating profits as one of the main dungeons.
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Beep beep-
Kwon Oh-jun briefly put down the plan and turned on the beam projector. A detailed PowerPoint presentation about the destination for this deploynt. Inside were… pictures of the unique-looking ‘snakes’.
“The location might be similar, but the appearing monsters and the dungeon’s characteristics are completely different. The main appearing monster, as you can see, is snakes. The dungeon is tentatively nad ‘The Forest Covered by Snakes’.”
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Kwon Oh-jun used the pointer to advance the slides.
The first monster appeared. A long body and tail. In contrast, a snake with a broad face. It was the B-grade monster, Rapid Cobra.
“Rapid Cobra is a snake-type monster that focuses on speed, as its na suggests. While young snakes are already known for their speed, these are exceptionally fast. They probably possess related runes as well. Shin Yuna and Do Jae-hyun.”
“Yes!”
“Yes.”
We responded promptly to the sudden call. Kwon Oh-jun alternated his gaze between and Shin Yuna before speaking calmly.
“Both of you are the only warrior-type mbers for this operation. You need to firmly hold the center and engage in tanking. If you get flustered by their speed and lose sight of the monsters, rember that their attacks will head toward the rear of our party.”
“Yes, I’ll rember that!”
“Understood.”
While Kwon Oh-jun was trying to instill fear, it wouldn’t be easy for either Shin Yuna or to be flustered. After all, we both possessed the [Agile Agility] rune, which was agile in dealing with fast attacks. Through runes, we could easily deal with attacks of high speed, and if necessary, we could also use shields. Especially for Shin Yuna, who specialized in speed statistics, she could easily entice the monsters as an ‘evasion tank’.
‘Well, it’s … I can use magic attacks if necessary.’
Considering the diversity of my runes, as Kwon Oh-jun had seen, there was no need to distance myself as a Multi-Holder.
As a matter of fact, my [Fiery Fla] was manifested faster than the magician-type Holders in our party. Since I only manifested magic power without casting spells. Whether it was or Shin Yuna, we were both Holders of a higher level than ordinary C-grade Holders.
After a brief warning, the explanation continued.
It had been about two hours. Kwon Oh-jun’s explanations and the PowerPoint slides were well-organized. They depicted various snake-type monsters and their characteristics.
The special characteristics of the dungeon were neatly summarized in the PPT.
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