Chapter 35: Another Sky
Seoul, at Hunters Association’s headquarters.
Chairman Yu and Chief Lee talk about the rescheduled eting with the top three Guild Headmasters. But, it was not easy, considering Artates guild headmaster was an Apex-rank hunter.
Because of the Mapo-gu incident, the Artates guild headmaster couldn’t go anywhere without a prior appointnt. The order ca directly from Mr. President after he heard the news about the Red Gate.
Many high-rank hunters and Guild Headmasters had to be on standby in case of an ergency. Also, they couldn’t enter the Portal Gate in the anti.
That precaution was to use to avoid the disaster happening again in South Korea. There was no guarantee that tier-5 or tier-6 Portal Gate wouldn’t change to a Red Gate at a random ti.
The President of South Korea had so authority over the Hunters Association. However, it was still Chairman Yu who was the one that held the final decision.
And Chairman Yu understood Mr. President’s worry, thus decided to follow the order montarily since that order wouldn’t last for a long ti either.
The hunters needed to go to the dungeons and close the Portal Gate as soon as possible. If they didn’t enter the Portal Gate, it would only increase the total number of Portal Gate that South Korea has, and the country would be in a dangerous state.
“Looks like Mr. President is a bit excessive in handling this problem. Right, Sir?”
“It’s normal. Except for the first year of Portal Gate. There was no incident that can compare to current Mapo-gu.”
Chief Lee nodded his head and agreed with Chairman Yu’s opinion about the order. Even though Chief Lee didn’t experience the first year of Portal Gate, he knew how bad the situation was for South Korea at that ti.
“Don’t worry. It’s not that difficult to reschedule the eting with Shadow guild, Demigod guild, and Artates guild Headmasters. We only need to choose the date for it.”
“Sir?” Chief Lee responded in confusion.
“There’s no need to hold a formal eting. We can et in secret.”
Chief Lee gulped while looking at how firm his leader was about the eting. After all, he knew the purpose of the eting.
If the president knew the context, he could still tolerate it. On the other hand, the governnt officials wouldn’t like it if they found out about that thing later.
Chairman Yu assured Chief Lee that the secret eting wouldn’t bring them any trouble. In the end, Chief Lee gave up on persuading Chairman Yu and coincided with his decision.
After that, both Chief Lee and Chairman Yu talked about the unusual Red Gate creatures from the incident. They conclude it was a serious matter now.
Chairman Yu then orders Chairman Lee to notify all guilds that have Portal Gates, to put so hunters on guard and keep an eye on all of them there. And while they were discussing the abnormality of the Red Gate, which at the sa ti possessed both High-Grade and Low-Grade creatures.
The order also referred to the Portal Gates that don’t have an owner yet.
“If this beca the new pattern of the Red Gate. We got our hands on a tightrope. South Korea didn’t have enough hunters to close the Portal Gate. And get ready for the Red Gate simultaneously.”
Usually, Red Gate ford from low-tier Portal Gate only has Low-Grade creatures. But last ti, a High-Grade creature ca out from Red Gate that ford from tier-2 Portal Gate.
Sohow, the nature of the Red Gate had changed this ti.
The Hunters Association needed more ti to discuss the matter together. With the other Division Chiefs and other guilds headmaster.
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The hospital that held Hwang Eun-bi’s funeral was different from where Elijah was getting admitted.
The hospital provided holding a funeral, transforming the mortuary into a funeral hall to allow the incineration. Nowadays, instead of burial, cremation, which has a shorter period for the body to decay, was a more common practice.
Honestly, the procedure was pretty simple. Even mister Lee was surprised before when Ji-woo asked him for help for the funeral.
If so of Ji-woo’s comrades from the Magical world knew he was asking help from soone. They would be rolling on the floor laughing their a** off.
Nonetheless, the real reason for asking mister Lee for help was to take over Ji-woo’s position as the one who received the guests. And also the one that could accompany them in conversation.
For this task, Ji-woo was the worst person to land the role. He would rather have a conversation in his mind than speak with the other.
Actually, Ji-woo was not soone that couldn’t start a conversation. He was just the type that didn’t want to talk too much. Particularly to anyone that he only t or the strangers.
Not long, people started to show up at the funeral, and mister Lee received the visitors with a well-mannered attitude. He began to converse with the people that needed to wait for their turn. They want to bow twice to the deceased and once to the mourner.
Elijah and his sister were the ones receiving words of condolences from the visitors.
Most of the visitors ca from Demigod guild mbers and a few of Eun-bi neighbors.
There were several faces Ji-woo was familiar with it. From when he was doing work as a porter for the first ti on tier-1 Portal Gate.
Park Jung Nam and Jun Ji Hoon were mbers of the sa team as Eun-bi in Squad 7 of the Demigod guild. And also, Im Taek-won, the one who reprimanded Ji-woo for losing their artifact helt in the dungeon.
Ji-woo sighed lightly after seeing the three hunters. Even though they were less friendly with him, they took care of Eun-bi very well.
Suddenly, Ji-woo saw two people behind those three. A man and woman. He recognized the man because he got a glimpse in the hospital before, where the Demigod guild Squad 7 got treatnt from poison.
He was Jung Hyun-don, an A-rank hunter of the Demigod Guild Main Team.
On the other hand, the unknown woman caught Ji-woo’s attention a little bit. His sense of Mana was far better than the hunters. Thus, he could tell the difference between them precisely.
The woman had a big Mana pool than all of the hunters at the funeral. And bigger than Ji-woo had ever seen since he was coming back from the Magical world. It was not comparable to E-rank and D-rank hunters that he saw before.
Even Hyun-don was not close enough to that woman’s Mana pool.
Like pens of the sa size but had different capacities of ink inside of it.
If only the disparity shouldn’t be enough for Ji-woo’s interest.
That was because the woman’s Mana made Ji-woo think of soone who has the sa amount of Mana in the other life. Soone who was strong enough and got recognition from him.
Ji-woo snapped from his thought when Hyun-don introduced the woman to mister Lee.
“This is our vice headmaster, Seol In-ah~nim.”
Seol In-ah bowed slightly towards mister Lee.
Mister Lee then bowed as well and greeted the vice headmaster of the Demigod guild while shaking hands.
“Ah, yes.”
All the Demigod guild mbers already learn about the relationship between Ji-woo’s family, mister Lee and Eun-bi before they co. Since she was the Demigod guild mber, mister Lee needed to cooperate and share the details for the funeral with them. Ji-woo wanted to refuse at first. Then realized it was part of the guilds’ treatnt of their hunters and agreed with it.
Ji-woo’s face twitched. ‘Did that an the headmaster is stronger than her?’
Above the sky, there would be another sky.
Ji-woo had predicted this, but seeing the reality before his eyes still made him a little surprised. He tried researching previously and gathering news as much as he could to know about current world affairs.
In the NeverPage site, the information was limited. Portal Gate and hunters data only up to tier-4; E-rank to S-rank. Plus, the report about High-grade creatures was scarce too.
Ji-woo understood after searching back and forth on the internet. Confidential intelligence was sothing that shouldn’t be spreading around carelessly. Especially sothing accessible to the public. It needed to be filtered so as not to cause trouble for the related individual or group.
Ji-woo suspected that there must be sowhere else, which they had all the information he needed.
Only an idiot believed all of the data was available on the net.
Seol In-ah felt the intense stare from Ji-woo and looked at him back in the eyes.
Ji-woo imdiately bowed apologetically.
“I’m sorry.”
Seol In-ah only shook her head.
Mister Lee thought the atmosphere between them had beco awkward. Then, he imdiately took the initiative to invite visitors to co to convey his condolences and sympathy.
“Let’s go inside vice headmaster~nim.”
Hyun-don asked Seol In-ah to co in with the others. They walk past mister Lee and Ji-woo at the entrance of the funeral hall.
‘Looks like I can’t slacking around.’
Ji-woo smiled wryly without looking back at the Demigod guild mbers. He wanted to make sure everything went as he planned and wished a mishap wouldn’t happen.
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