Chapter 225

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Bilderberg Meeting.

It is a gathering of elites who appear not often, but always in conspiracy theories.

People know it as just a meeting where rich chaebols gather,

but including chaebols, there are politics, culture, economy, etc.

People from various fields gather.

And those who have achieved the pinnacle of one field at that.

“They say this is the center of all conspiracies in the world.”

“That is true. But would it really be so?”

“Well, it’s certain that the influence is tremendous. Starting from President Clinton, even European Prime Ministers always attend the Bilderberg Meeting once before being elected.”

“Then are you saying they were elected as President and Prime Minister through the Bilderberg Meeting..?”

“We can’t say it’s exactly like that, but they wouldn’t have been completely uninvolved.”

Although the Bilderberg Meeting is always under attack as the center of conspiracy theories.

It seems that those conspiracy theories aren’t entirely wrong.

Actually, stories that major world agendas are decided here in advance are heard quite often.

“An invitation came last year too, though.”

“Eh? I’m hearing this for the first time?”

“It was too hectic back then. With the US presidential election, civil war, and what not, phew. Don’t even mention it. Even though this Bilderberg Meeting is held here in Washington, back then it was in the Netherlands. It was too far.”

“So you’re saying you didn’t go because it was bothersome to just go.”

“To speak a bit more honestly, unfortunately, it was the day a new raid was coming out, and I had promised to do an open run with guild members since long ago, so I couldn’t break that.”

“That is true.”

To others, they might ask how a mere game raid promise could be more important than the Bilderberg Meeting, but.

“Unless someone passed away, breaking a game promise in our guild is not allowed. And if it was last year.. It was the Monarch of Annihilation raid, right?”

“Yeah. It was then.”

“If Hyung-nim broke the raid promise back then, the guild members would have risen up as a group. You did well.”

“That’s why I deliberately didn’t say anything either. Huhu.”

Chatting with Hyung-nim like that, the vehicle arrived at the hotel before we knew it.

“……”

The Bilderberg Meeting is held in a different city every year.

They rent a hotel or resort entirely and block anyone from entering thoroughly during that period.

Since it’s a meeting where the most influential people in the world gather, it seemed they were careful due to terror risks.

“Is there an army deployed or something? Is it originally like this?”

“They say the US President is also attending exceptionally this time. That’s why they are ensuring security more thoroughly.”

“To be sure, it’s the US President. It’s unbelievable that that gentleman is our guild member.”

“But I hear he almost can’t play games these days?”

“It can’t be helped. When he entered our guild, it had been a long time since it became a vegetative administration, so there wasn’t much work, and he visited comfortably, but now that he regained power, he has a mountain of work.”

It’s a hardship for someone of his age.

Still, this US presidential election was quite fun.

Sniping, civil war, etc.

There was a taste in watching the election overturn as completely unexpected events occurred in succession.

“What is former President Trent doing these days?”

“Who knows. Isn’t he going around playing golf?”

If that person had become President, how would world history have been twisted?

Honestly, I am sometimes curious.

“He threatened the whole world saying he would slap bomb tariffs before the election. If he was elected, it would have been worth seeing.”

“Ey, no matter what, would he have really slapped tariffs that much. Then the US would no longer be the world police but thugs.”

Whether it’s true or not is not important.

Because a world where Trent is re-elected does not exist here.

“Welcome, Chairman Hwang, President Jeong.”

Following the staff’s guidance, we were able to enter the banquet hall.

There, many people were already laughing, chatting, and sharing stories with each other.

“….”

But as if they had made a promise.

As soon as we entered, the inside of the banquet hall became quiet as a dead mouse.

“……”

Hyung-nim and I walked slowly inside amidst such an awkward atmosphere.

Eventually, Hyung-nim, unable to endure it, whispered to me.

“Why is the atmosphere like this here?”

“Exactly. I think they are doing that seeing us?”

“Are they hostile to us?”

“Is there a reason for that?”

“There is. You left 50 Quadrillion from 5,000 trillion. Since we ripped it all off, wouldn’t the rich people dislike us?”

Thinking about it, it is so.

There must be a truckload of people who suffered damage here due to the aftermath of this Great Depression.

In the midst of that, our Gwangwoon took immense profit, honestly there must be many who are jealous, and they might think we took their money.

“….”

Perhaps because of that, the atmosphere is very stifling.

Even the gazes looking at us felt cold.

“…Hyung-nim.”

“Hmm?”

“Shall we just show our faces a bit and leave?”

“Ahem. Shall we? Just in time, I hear our US branch guild members are also waiting for us in Washington.”

Thinking about having to talk about difficult stories like economy, politics, and culture in this atmosphere makes me dizzy already.

That was the same for Hyung-nim.

After all, for the two of us, rather than these upper-class people, people with whom we can drink beverages comfortably and scream while playing games were better.

***

“…”

What should I say.

Should I say the air changed in an instant.

Seeing Jeong Jin-ho following Hwang Dae-woon in, those noble and high-pride people froze all at once.

Like subjects who dare not even make a breathing sound in front of the emperor ruling the world.

They were looking at Jeong Jin-ho with eyes full of fear.

Sometimes there were a few who mustered courage to go greet him, but they soon fell away.

Probably they couldn’t speak properly due to tension.

“But you say they left already?”

“Yes. We received contact that they just left the hotel.”

The Bilderberg Meeting covered more things than thought.

But he didn’t listen to anything at all, just went around once exchanging greetings and left.

“There is no need to remain here and listen. No matter how much we chatter among ourselves here, if Gwangwoon doesn’t give permission, nothing will be realized anyway.”

Furthermore, there was a reason they left after showing their faces briefly without staying long.

It meant that just revealing their presence, that intimidation, for a very brief moment was sufficient.

“Rather than showing one’s appearance for a long time. Revealing intimidation briefly and intensely leaves a much deeper impression. If you look for a long time, you get used to it, but if you look briefly several times, it’s like you never get comfortable.”

As expected of Jeong Jin-ho.

It seemed he knew better than anyone how to touch people’s psychology.

“Even more, if someone who knows nothing sees President Jeong Jin-ho’s smile, he really looks like the kindest person in the world.”

That was the most chilling part.

Isn’t it a harmless impression where malice wouldn’t exist even by 1g?

“But Mr. President, Gwangwoon’s power has become too powerful. The people gathered here today are not expressing it outwardly, but they are worrying about it. Didn’t Gwangwoon take over all the key companies in the world through the global Great Depression they caused this time?”

Aiden carefully examined the faces of the billionaires gathered around him.

All of them were victims who had their companies taken or management rights usurped by Gwangwoon due to this Great Depression.

But they dared not show it in front of Jeong Jin-ho.

It was only after those two left that they revealed their dissatisfaction.

“Everyone better watch their words. The fact that those two looked at the meeting briefly today and left means they are already listening to everything assigned here through something else.”

“….!”

At those words, a few covered their mouths in surprise.

“But don’t worry too much. They are surprisingly merciful people. If you abandon your ego and just do as told, they are people who give carrots rather than whips. Look at me now. Am I not a living witness?”

“….”

Aiden spoke in a joking tone, but the listeners knew it was never a joke.

Then someone mustered courage and took a step forward.

“Mr. President, really.. Are you just going to watch Gwangwoon rule the world like this?”

“Then are you going to stop it? Honestly speaking, no one here, not any power in the world, can stop Gwangwoon’s plan. Through this Great Depression, Gwangwoon has grabbed all our leashes.”

Gwangwoon is controlling key companies in the world with a whopping 50 Quadrillion money.

If a specific country opposes Gwangwoon, it was at a level where they could completely destroy that country’s stock market.

So they can’t even dare to think of opposing.

Because if they did, that country and its people would be driven to the edge of a cliff.

“Furthermore, I’m not just watching. Rather, I’m helping enthusiastically. Because I see that such a world is rather better.”

“!”

They had expressions of considerable shock.

Because they thought Aiden had been cooperating with Gwangwoon because he had no choice all this while.

But listening to Aiden’s words now, it was his pure will.

“I also tried to stop Gwangwoon from taking over the world at first. But at some moment I realized. Isn’t the world Gwangwoon wants to create the only way to protect this world?”

“Yes? What does that..?”

“If Gwangwoon hadn’t existed, the world would have eventually met its end while shooting at each other among ourselves. But an order called Gwangwoon appeared, and we no longer have to suffer from the threat of war. What always tormented humans was division and war, but now Gwangwoon will control that.”

The only way to eliminate war and conflict is just that.

Someone controlling this world.

If leaders are different and ideologies are different for each country, war and conflict always happen, but if a force that integrates and rules all of that appears, everything becomes controllable.

“That is a delusion. Eventually, someone will resist. For human freedom.”

“It would have been possible if it was a past era. But don’t you all know too. Gwangwoon will drive chips into the bodies of all humanity sooner or later, and through that, they will wipe out control over people. You won’t even be able to resist.”

“Are you saying you will just watch that happen?”

“Then do you wish for countries to selfishly take only their own interests and shoot each other to death like this?”

“I’m not saying this because I’m an old man with not many days left to live. I just fully approve of the New World Order Gwangwoon is establishing, and now I’m also sick of checking each other and shedding blood.”

Someone made an expression that they understood, and someone glared at Aiden with a face that they couldn’t understand.

“I also would have resisted to the end if Gwangwoon was only obsessed with ruling humans. But they are not doing this simply to rule humans.”

“Then?”

“It’s just a step to draw a better world, a better future. The thing Gwangwoon did as soon as they took over the world stock market was acquiring all the subsidiaries Mylon Tusk had. And I heard they invested immense money.”

“That means..”

“It means Gwangwoon is also preparing to go out of Earth. Beyond this Earth, planting our flag in space too and birthing a new civilization. If they purely aimed at ruling us while playing with us like toys, would they have made such an investment?”

Aiden realized their true intent seeing Gwangwoon’s subsequent moves.

Intending to rule this world is not simply to play king.

It is to achieve the evolution of humanity.

What is the evolution of humanity?

It is not a simple physical change.

Gathering the will and resources of all humanity to develop science radically.

Through that, conquering not only this Earth but even that distant space.

“Rather, we should not be sad but celebrate.”

Aiden raised the champagne glass in front of him high.

“Because humanity, which was placed in the crisis of the end, now has the hope to advance to a more brilliant future.”

***

[Today, Gwangwoon Group revealed that it will freely distribute the current Safe Biochip to everyone included in national insurance in cooperation with each government soon. The Safe Chip was distributed early to Africa where medical facilities are lacking and North Korea, receiving great praise for its safety and performance, and because it has the advantage of discovering disease names early and treating them, there were many purchase applications. Due to that, Gwangwoon..]

Several years have passed since the global Great Depression.

Did they say humans are animals of oblivion?

Even at that time, they made a fuss as if the world would perish right tomorrow, but now they only remember the events of that time faintly.

The world was turning like before.

No. It became much better than before.

Because at least war disappeared.

The war between Russia and Ukraine ended, and the war between Israel and the Middle East was also mediated.

Also, China and Russia are still separated into several forces, but focusing on stopping the civil war and reviving the economy first, eventually, the Chinese stock market and Russian stock market that I wanted so much opened.

***

And the 50 Quadrillion money our Gwangwoon put in was still multiplying currently.

That didn’t mean I took out the money there.

Because I know it would cause a tremendous aftermath in the world stock market if I did that.

“Sseueup-.”

So unless it was a particularly important matter, instead of going to work at the company, I was sitting in front of the computer enjoying games like before.

“…….”

I was staring intently at the screen.

And on the screen was a blacksmith and all kinds of materials gathered next to him.

“…”

If I just press the button here, I can make an end-game weapon based on the current game with these materials.

[What. Vice Guild Master. Are you still doing that?]

[Didn’t he do that starting from several hours ago?]

[Still not pressing it? Just when do you intend to press?]

“Sseueup. Everyone be quiet. Concentration breaks.”

[Burning water like that won’t make what won’t come out come out.]

[Just press quickly!]

But I didn’t shake.

Because I have one principle.

The principle that made my current life.

It is to follow intuition immediately.

But intuition was not giving me a signal yet.

[Like this, the day will pass.]

“Everyone go hunt or something and come back. If I succeed, I’ll announce it.”

Just as I was about to bring my hand to the mouse waiting for intuition to come.

“Dad~!”

At the voice heard from behind, I lifted my body and turned my head.

“Playing games again?”

“Ah. Uung. Se-yoon-ah. Sorry. Dad will just do this and play with you.”

Indeed, one can’t know human life.

When I was just playing games in the corner of the room, I couldn’t imagine I would form a family.

But now I had the prettiest wife in the world and even the cutest son in the world.

Se-yoon crawled up onto my knee wiggling.

I don’t know how much I cried when this guy first came out into the world.

But they say children’s time is fast.

He was growing up very well.

“I want to do it too.”

“Ah. That…”

Se-yoon looked at me with twinkling eyes.

How can a dad refuse those eyes?

“Okay…. You do it. Although getting these materials took months of suffering.”

“Hehe.”

Se-yoon probably doesn’t know.

That I am wrestling to make an end-game weapon that hasn’t been made in any country or server currently.

From acquiring weapon materials, the success probability was atrocious, so it wasn’t an end-game weapon for nothing.

“Here. Just press this.”

“Ung.”

I honestly half gave up thinking Se-yoon would press immediately, but,

“…..Se-yoon-ah?”

Se-yoon didn’t click the mouse immediately but just stared blankly at the screen.

“Se-yoon-ah, just press it.”

“…”

But Se-yoon stared only at the screen without answering anything. It was something strange, but I waited for now.

About how much time flowed like that.

About when blood stopped circulating in the thigh Se-yoon was perched on.

“Se-yoon-ah. Why still not….”

Click~! Click~!

Se-yoon started to mash the mouse.

And soon, along with a dazzling effect on the screen, crafting success popped up as a game-wide announcement.

“!?”

World chat also went into a frenzy.

-What. Isn’t that an end-game item?

-There’s someone who made that?

-Is he crazy? That probability is atrocious.

Guild chat was the same.

[No, what!!!]

[This really happened?! Don’t lie!]

[As expected of the pride of our guild!]

[I believed in you!]

I was also too surprised to even scream.

“Se, Se-yoon-ah. How did you do it?”

“Huh?”

No. Asking like this was funny too.

Is this a child’s luck, something like that.

“Just… I got a feeling. Hehe.”

“Feeling?”

“Ung.”

Feeling?

Wait. Surely..

I looked alternately between Se-yoon who was laughing without knowing anything and the screen.

While doing so, suddenly the phrase engraved on the sword came into my eyes.

The famous sword left by a legendary king thousands of years ago to his son, his successor, before dying.

On that sword body, it was written like this.

[The throne shall continue.]

Keep Writing and Money Piles Up

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