Chapter 74: Crisis of the Ignis Guild (4)
Yeoncheon.
In the center, a huge do-shaped barrier of imasurable size was visible.
And the large number of people gathered in front of it.
Behind the Ignis Guild standing at the vanguard, there were reporters.
"Get a hold of yourself."
A senior reporter wearing a golden helt roughly grabbed the shoulder of a frozen junior.
"Yes!"
"Don't you know how many people died on this land 5 years ago? Just because you're not stepping onto the front lines doesn't an you can let your guard down."
The junior bit his lip and nodded.
"So film properly. That is our mission. Today, we must clearly relay the mont the heroes reclaim Yeoncheon to the public."
At the senior's voice, Kim Chun-sik composed his expression and adjusted his grip on the cara.
The slowly rotating cara lens.
At the end of that focused view.
Ignis's vanguards, Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang were standing.
Just then, Cho Sang-geun's hand went up.
Matching that signal, the flag of the Ignis Guild soared into the sky.
Simultaneously ringing shouts.
Behind the shout containing many emotions.
Ahhhhh―.
Over a unit of high-ranking barrier specialists began chanting in unison.
Then.
Ziiiing―.
An entrance was created in a part of the barrier.
"Deploy!"
Cho Sang-geun's lips captured within the lens moved.
The massive procession moved their steps toward the entrance.
Without even small fear or lingering attachnt.
Kim Chun-sik, who was holding the cara, swallowed dry saliva.
They must be the ones who know the inside better than anyone.
Because not a single person hesitating could be seen.
Without the sound of trumpets to honor those going to the battlefield, without applause, they were stepping onto the battlefield too lightly.
Like that, the scenery captured in the cara lens changed in an instant.
Thud…….
Thud…….
Thud…….
The cara shook.
The entire earth was vibrating.
The nightmare of 5 years ago, hell was being vividly captured by the cara Kim Chun-sik was holding.
Thud…….
Thud…….
Thud…….
Those forms were clearly not human.
Footsteps ringing the earth's axis.
What entered the shaking cara lens were.
Giants.
"Wooooow!"
"Ignis Guild Master is crazy! That inextinguishable fire is amazing no matter how many tis I see it."
"Vice Guild Master Lee Si-wang is formidable too? Is he really A-Rank? Isn't he S-Rank?!"
The battle unfolding inside the broadcast screen was truly overwhelming.
The center and core of the Ignis Guild.
Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang, leading the massive guild, were strong.
They were taking down giants more than anyone at the front.
Dodging the giant's attacks, precisely attacking the legs which were the weak point, they led the tide of battle.
"Wow……."
"S-Ranks are really different."
"I think I know why Lee Si-wang is the immovable A-Rank number 1."
As Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang, who possessed both splendor and strength, took down the giants surging from the front one after another.
The formation of the giants flocking like ants ended up collapsing.
Giants unable to move forward, blocked by fallen giants.
The flocking giants were being dispersed.
Not missing that opening, the elite soldiers of the Ignis Guild at the rear began to attack the giants cooperatively.
Guild mbers rapidly cooperating to reduce the numbers starting from the side with the fewest giants gathered.
Because they were giants, they possessed overwhelming power, but since most were dull and made only simple attacks as if lacking intelligence, guild mbers could take down the giants without difficulty if they attacked in teams.
As the death of the one-eyed giant race was shown on most of the screens transmitted by cara.
Sothing called expectation began to dwell in the eyes of the viewers.
"They didn't beco one of South Korea's 3 Great Guilds for nothing!"
"It's obvious that Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang are strong, but as expected of the guild mbers of a large guild. Their coordination is incredible, isn't it?"
"Are they really going to reclaim Yeoncheon at this rate?"
It was the sa overseas as well as dostically.
The Ignis Guild's Yeoncheon subjugation operation was being transmitted all over the world.
Although it was South Korea's problem.
Because a Dungeon Break to the extent of becoming a restricted area was a problem any country in the world was experiencing.
A peripheral country without even a Returnee.
In that place, faster than anyone, they took the first step of liberation to reclaim the restricted area that had only been postponed.
So the world's attention had no choice but to be focused.
The whole nation, people all over the world were cheering for this battle.
At that mont.
"Uh, uh?"
The cara suddenly shook.
Sothing caught in the center of the screen as it zood in urgently.
A scorched black altar.
A black figure was slowly standing up from there.
Although most of the world including all of South Korea was watching the Yeoncheon subjugation operation.
The sound of Yeoncheon being transmitted in real-ti could also be heard in the Blue Dragon Guild, called one of South Korea's 3 Great Guilds along with the Ignis Guild.
Seoul, top floor of the Blue Dragon Guild Headquarters.
Several loud voices rang out, unsuitable for the massive space that felt calm and cold due to the interior made only of gray.
"He blew the head up in one shot!"
"Ignis Guild Master is definitely worthy of being called our Guild Master's rival."
"Wow, Lee Si-wang is really vicious. Look at him blowing up a giant's head without his expression changing a bit."
"He has a smiling face, but when I see him at tis like that, he really looks like number 1."
"Oh! They killed more than half already!"
Five sturdy n were gathered with one small smartphone in the middle.
"This is really…… they might win with just Ignis?"
"Wow, Lee Si-wang succeeded in life. It feels like yesterday when he was doing an internship with ."
"Hunter Lee Si-wang succeeded from the start. Since he was an intern, he did much better than the Team Leader……."
"Hey hey, read the room. I'm already dying of sorrow from being compared to Team Leader Nam's friend every day."
"Right. Not just skills but face too."
"Gosh, these guys."
While the massive muscular n were laughing and exchanging jokes.
Behind them, the expression of one man standing alone was stiff.
Blue Dragon Guild Master, Kim Cheol-gu.
His eyes, watching the smartphone screen wordlessly, were becoming fiercer.
"Guild Master? Why is your expression like that? Are you perhaps worried that Ignis's na value will rise?"
"Don't worry. If they win, we don't have to send our kids, and we can recall the security personnel. It's a profitable business."
But Kim Cheol-gu turned his body without answering anything.
Kim Cheol-gu, who moved to a table a little distance away and drank water from a cup, placed his gaze outside the window expressionlessly.
The executives of the Blue Dragon Guild huddled on the sofa looked at each other's eyes and gauged the mood.
"Is he thirsty?"
"Be quiet. The Guild Master's insides, must be in turmoil."
"Why?"
"You ask because you don't know?"
"I ask because I don't know. Would I ask if I knew?"
Two n with exceptionally large physiques t eyes.
Team Leader Yu, who captured the Guild Master looking out the window with an unfathomable expression in his eyes once, broached the subject with a small voice.
"Even though the world says 3 Great Guilds, rivals, and all that, the two are friends. They said they're close enough to have a drink occasionally."
"Wasn't that one-sided? I know it as our Guild Master barging in recklessly and causing a ruckus asking to drink."
"You, read the room a little."
As soon as the fact-bomber's head dropped, Team Leader Nam's gaze headed for the Guild Master's back.
"Is it sothing like n's true friendship?"
"Well, I don't know if that's exactly right, but we roughly know, right? Why only the Ignis Guild is there."
They didn't know as far as hiding a Returnee.
However, the executive levels of the 3 Great Guilds could guess up to the point that they were sent by the ploy of the Wily Raccoon who beca the Association President.
The expressions of the Blue Dragon Guild executives who were huddled together sank.
A mont of silence flowed.
"Still, looking at the atmosphere now, it's different from expected."
The fact-bomber spat out words reading the room for the first ti in a while.
"Yeah, right."
"It's true they were thrown into a tiger's den, but they're breaking all the tigers' heads."
"With this atmosphere, they might really liberate Yeoncheon, and their position could beco better than the Association President."
"Then true education……."
At that mont when those with broad shoulders were running their happiness circuits.
― Uh…… Uh……?
A voice flowed out from the small smartphone.
Gazes gathering in an instant.
Boom!
"What the, what's that?"
"Seems like the altar side?"
"Uh…… Uh…… Isn't that a rune-embedded giant?"
At that mont.
Kim Cheol-gu rushed in front of the smartphone like lightning.
"Guild Master?!"
Among the flustered executives.
Short words flowed from Kim Cheol-gu's mouth.
"……No."
Into the smartphone.
One giant, distinctly different from the giants flocking until now, revealed itself.
A bigger and intimidating giant with a rune embedded in its chest.
An ominous aura flocking together with a massive presence.
He knew.
That ‘that scene’ he saw directly in Yeoncheon 5 years ago was being reenacted now.
"Roaaar!!"
Boom!!
Along with a shriek, a massive explosion poured out as if tearing through the screen and popping out.
Simultaneously, the breath of the Blue Dragon Guild executives stopped.
"……."
"……."
100 Ignis Guild mbers were erased from the world with just a single roar.
The Ignis Guild was strong.
But that strength was now being sucked into despair.
Soone realized clearly through this scene.
They were not heroes.
They were just sacrificial lambs.
"Ah…… Ahhh……."
More than half of the reporters who were filming also lost their lives.
A few who survived grabbed the fallen caras and sobbed while sitting down.
At that ti, the senior reporter who was half-dying gritted his teeth and reached out his hand.
"Cara…… lift it, Kim Chun-sik……."
The abdon of the reporter wearing the golden helt was pierced.
Next to him who had fallen, the junior covered in abrasions all over his body was crying as if his soul had left.
"Everything…… must be shown……, to the people."
"Senior……."
"My death…… don't let their deaths be in vain……."
"……."
"Film everything until the end. Even if you die. Even if only one person is left…… them…… you must show the heroes to the world until the end. That is……."
That was the senior reporter's last voice.
At those words, Kim Chun-sik swallowed his cries and nodded his head.
The cara shone where it should shine again.
What was reflected in that screen.
Were the silhouettes of two people advancing stepping on the corpses of fallen colleagues.
Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang.
Piercing through the gap of ordinary giants, two n covered in blood were advancing.
The two's linked attack.
It was strong.
They arrived in front of the newly appeared massive giant in an instant.
Large giant with a rune embedded in its chest.
5 years ago.
It was the main culprit that made them lose two loved ones.
And this ti.
Guild mbers, no, family turned into powder in an instant.
Venom filled the eyes of Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang.
5 years.
Long ti, endured in hell.
For this day.
Entered dungeons without rest.
Not caring about fatigue, threw their bodies into the front lines.
To beco strong.
And to never lose precious things again.
After Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang exchanged glances wordlessly.
They began to attack the massive giant.
Inextinguishable fire covered the giant's vision.
Lee Si-wang attacked the giant's Achilles tendon.
Stagger.
Cho Sang-geun supported the insufficient damage by driving his Unique Skill into the sa spot.
The massive giant lost its balance and fell.
It's not the end.
Must utilize this small opening to the max.
If they receive the roar from just before this close, even Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang won't be able to avoid a fatal wound.
Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang concentrated their attacks on the fallen giant's legs.
Mixing physics and magic power.
They poured out everything they could do.
Boom Boom!
A loud explosion sound rang out.
Cho Sang-geun and Lee Si-wang fell back far away and caught their breath.
However.
Thud.
Boom.
What was seen as the thick smoke cleared was the giant slowly raising its body.
Couldn't kill it.
No, although an S-Rank and A-Rank number 1 poured out attacks with all their might.
They couldn't even make a proper wound.
"Damn it……."
"We're in trouble, Guild Master……."
However, the reason their expressions were dying was not because of the giant in front of their eyes.
Lee Si-wang and Cho Sang-geun's gazes were fixed on the altar at the back.
Seoul.
President's Office.
The President's gaze staring at the monitor stopped.
The President knew.
That they would not win.
However.
"……As expected, this life is sowhat different."
Even when it was just a single one, even if all of South Korea's S-Rank Hunters rushed in, they couldn't catch it.
Those bastards.
"It was a deploynt 2 years early…… for all four to appear……."
He knew that in the end, there would be four, but there was never a regression cycle where all four appeared at this point in ti.
"……."
President.
He was the only human who knew the future.
That is why he could predict more accurately than anyone.
"……They'll die."
Through the President's gaze, the faces of Lee Si-wang and Cho Sang-geun entered.
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