Chapter 68

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Translated by Jinmu

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“…?”

Han-bit examined the chat again.

However, the written text didn’t change.

[Black Dragon: Conversation? Didn’t you bid 100 million?]

[Luna: It’s the only way to contact you, isn’t that quite a reasonable price? Ah, I won’t drag it out for long.]

“What?”

At the absurd remark, Han-bit’s voice leaked out involuntarily.

A mere 100 million just to contact him.

No matter how much he thought about it, it made no sense.

Vrrrt-

At that time, a vibration rang from his smartphone.

It was Yeon-woo’s call.

Thinking this is great, Han-bit accepted the call.

(Hyung! What is this? Did it really sell for 100 million? To whom?)

A loud voice heard from beyond the receiver.

It seemed he just checked the auction post.

[Black Dragon: Just a moment.]

Leaving a message in the chat window, Han-bit said the other party’s name.

“It’s someone named Luna.”

(…Luna? Don’t tell me, Luna from Yeonhwa Gaming? Vanguard?)

Because it was a famous name as expected, the information popped out right away.

Han-bit took a screenshot of the message he shared with Luna.

“I sent a picture, so check it.”

(Hold on a second.)

Yeon-woo’s voice disappeared for a moment.

Since it was a short content, it didn’t take a long time.

(Hmm… It’s somehow different from what I expected.)

“Different how?”

(Because I heard she is quite a difficult person. She is the daughter of Yeonhwa Group’s Chairman too, so well, it’s understandable, but.)

“…The Chairman’s daughter?”

Daughter of a conglomerate’s Chairman.

Just with that explanation, throwing away 100 million was understood.

“I guess 100 million is loose change to a chaebol.”

(Even looking at her as an individual, she’s an upper-mid tier vanguard. And for 100 million, she got off cheap. Hyung, you’re the most fascinating treasure chest in RP right now.)

“What kind of Golden Goblin am I?”

Han-bit reacted as if he found it absurd to the ridiculous comparison.

However, the flowing atmosphere felt a little more stark.

‘How much does ‘expensive’ mean?’

Han-bit, looking blankly at the message, contemplated for a moment.

If he sells highly valuable information at a high price, he could earn plenty of money.

However, the aftermath that would occur if he scattered it indiscriminately couldn’t be easily expected.

Even if he releases information, he must be careful.

(What do you want to do, Hyung? If you don’t wanna contact her, I’ll do it instead.)

“I took 100 million so I can’t do that. You think I don’t have a conscience?”

(Wow, really? I didn’t know.)

“Do you want to die?”

Yeon-woo deliberately showed a playful response.

It was also his way of speaking which lightened the atmosphere.

“So, what do you think? They’re still contacting us from corporations, right?”

(It was an uproar at dawn. I gave you the file, so just take a quick look at the list.)

“Wait a moment.”

Han-bit opened the arrived message and checked the file.

It was a far larger number than the list he showed at the restaurant.

“Disgustingly a lot. But I’ll be affiliated with your company anyway.”

(That’s why I’m saying you need at least one string of connection with a vanguard.)

“A string of connection all of a sudden?”

(Hyung, your growth rate is much faster than expected. In just a bit more time, information about players will become exceedingly important.)

What Yeon-woo worried about was simple.

A newborn company has difficulty obtaining information that is not revealed in media.

He said they also have a lot of information on vanguards, PK guilds, and people who possess peculiar skills and items.

(Like, even who’s close to who, and who isn’t, is apparently shared. Different factions like alliances divide and compete.)

“So, you’re saying I should get close to this Luna person first?”

(So that it’d become a connection. Besides, the side that actively approached us was Yeonhwa, wasn’t it?)

Yeon-woo added his words saying we are in the position of power.

He had no intention of doing such a thing, but he clearly understood the necessity of connections.

“Got it for now. I’ll talk to her.”

(Do it calmly with a business mindset. If you needlessly get into an argument…)

Click-

In an atmosphere that seemed like nagging would follow, Han-bit quickly hung up the call.

Opening the app, he entered a message in the chat window once again.

[Black Dragon: Sorry I got a phone call. Did you say you wanted to converse?]

[Luna: I wasn’t planning to make it that formal. Or do you have something you are curious about?]

[Black Dragon: Something I’m curious about?]

[Luna: I’m a vanguard too, for one. I’ll answer what I can answer. I don’t care about company work so I don’t know either.]

[Black Dragon: Doesn’t Luna-ssi lose out too much then?]

[Luna: Then, how about exchanging one by one?]

“Not bad.”

There was no reason to refuse Luna’s proposal.

Because there was exactly one question he was curious about.

Han-bit inputted the message right away.

[Black Dragon: Then I’ll ask first. Do you know anything about a player named Adventurer A?]

The author of the guidebook, Adventurer A.

Strangely, it was a person who continued to linger in his mind.

If she’s a fellow vanguard, she should know something.

[Luna: I do know. I’ve bumped into him in the field a few times before.]

[Black Dragon: Is that so? What kind of person is he?]

[Luna: Well. I’d say he feels iffy? Unpleasant? It feels like that.]

[Black Dragon: Unpleasant?]

[Luna: He’s overly confident compared to his abilities. You know people who think they are truly special, right?]

Thinks he is special.

It was also the atmosphere Han-bit felt the entire time watching the guidebook.

[Black Dragon: Are they also unable to progress through the episode right now?]

[Luna: Completely stuck. So words went around quite a bit. Fitting for the person who wrote the guidebook, he led the raids, but right now, his level is worse than others.]

[Black Dragon: Did he suddenly end up like that?]

[Luna: Episode 8 was the turning point. Even now when he goes to raid meetings, he bluffs saying everyone should just believe in him.]

“Hmm.”

Han-bit recalled the contents of the guidebook.

The information disclosed there was at the level up to about Episode 7.

As expected, there were many wrong parts so it lacked capability to become a guide.

[Black Dragon: Thank you. Then I will answer now, you’re curious about the episode you are stuck on, right?]

[Luna: No?]

[Black Dragon: Yes?]

The flowing stream of the conversation was cut off strangely.

[Black Dragon: Isn’t episode information the most urgent thing?]

[Luna: Plans changed a bit on this side. What I’m curious about is sub-quest information. Do you know an NPC named Iorio?]

[Black Dragon: If it’s Iorio… that Ahjussi who likes Crystal Rabbits?]

[Luna: You even know this? Anyway, he tells me to catch Crystal Rabbits, but where can I find those rabbits? I flipped everything but couldn’t find them.]

“…”

He hardened his heart in his own way, but she asked how to catch a rabbit.

Dumbfounded, Han-bit inputted the answer for now.

[Black Dragon: Go towards the end of the 1 o’clock direction of Sloben City and you’ll see a rocky mountain. Have you been there?]

[Luna: That place where a ton of caves appear? I already searched everywhere there.]

[Black Dragon: No, not there. Go into the swamp behind it.]

[Luna: The swamp?]

[Black Dragon: You’ll know when you get there.]

Han-bit himself had the experience of getting Crystal Rabbits a few times.

Although they weren’t particularly profitable or anything.

[Luna: Thank you. I’ll run over there right away. If you have anything to ask by any chance, comfortably contact me. A little exchange of information here and there isn’t bad, right?]

[Black Dragon: Yes, let us do that.]

[Luna: Nice. Ah, the Yeonhwa Gaming CEO might contact you, but you can just ignore them. Then I’ll contact you again later.]

The conversation that stormed up like a tempest finished like that.

At the very end, Luna’s personality seemed to have revealed itself.

“Are her relations with the CEO bad?”

An added remark to ignore the CEO’s contact.

He didn’t know the internal circumstances, but anyway, exchanging necessary information to this extent should be fine.

“Adventurer A… huh.”

Han-bit’s consciousness returned to the previous question.

The half-baked guidebook too, if he can’t use his strength right now, he won’t become a competitor in the future either.

And yet, he cared strangely.

He didn’t know if it’s iffiness or what.

Shaking off his thoughts, Han-bit shrugged his shoulders and returned to the office.

***

Bite-

A monitor screen shining in a dim room.

The man sitting in front of it was biting his fingernails as if anxious.

“What’s going on?”

The man’s gaze frantically rummaged through the posts on the community.

Player Black Dragon, suddenly appearing in the RP world.

The sights he showcased from the beginning were on a level far deviating from the standard of being unusual.

“It makes no sense. I’m saying it’s nonsense…”

Adventurer A.

The father of newbies, and the man who wrote the most perfect guidebook, was himself.

However, Black Dragon paved through the game on a completely different route as if telling him to fuck off.

He hired a PK guild and provoked him in the middle, but he passed it by easily as well.

Even the end of the episode story was at a level to doubt one’s own two eyes.

[Player Black Dragon’s party has succeeded in the condemnation of Vares.]

[The player who first reached the truth of Episode 1…]

An ending reached completely differently from himself.

The problem was that RP acknowledged that as ‘The Truth’.

Furthermore.

[An opportunity for reset and retry is granted to players who have already cleared the existing Episode 1.]

A message spread worldwide as if giving a chance to fix a wrong past.

It approached the man with a different meaning.

“There’s no way I was wrong…”

He was wrong.

No matter how much he thought about it, it was an occurrence that couldn’t happen.

That certainty was proven by the past that only he knew.

Because he also had the experience of encountering the Goddess and living a life in another world.

[Ah fuck followed the guidebook and I’m screwed.]

[FR it’s Adventurer A’s fault.]

[It was already sketchy since he sold it so fucking expensively. Lol.]

[From now on I only believe in Black Dragon.]

“These trash…!”

The people who praised him completely changed their stance.

To betray himself, who had personally met the Goddess.

He could never tolerate it.

“Black Dragon… I guess I need to destroy this bastard first.”

The sound of biting his fingernails stopped.

Grabbing his smartphone, the man inputted a message.

⌈Please find a person.⌋