Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 77
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77. God’s Tears (2)
[Title: Here we go again.]
[Author: My Characteristics]
[Content: When I tried to enter the 4th floor ruins city, the Phoenix Guild said they were using it.]
-ㅋㅋㅋ Anyway, the problem is the large guilds. There isn’t a single day that these guys’ names don’t come up.
-It seems like they do that in rotation among themselves.
-What can’t the big guild kids do?
-But if you push through with numbers, you can’t do anything?
-Sigh, all large guilds are like that.
The fact that the Phoenix Guild took over the hunting grounds called the 4th Floor Ruins City was not a big topic of conversation in the Awakened Community.
There were many large guilds that did this kind of thing, aside from the Phoenix Guild.
-These kids are getting more aggressive. If it’s a relic city, it’s the largest hunting ground on the 4th floor. Are you controlling it?
-If we leave it like this, all the awakened members of small and medium guilds or those who are not part of a real guild will die.
-I think a related bill should be enacted.
-Even so, the large guilds will lobby to make it legal.
-If it becomes legal, things will go even crazier, damn it.
-Even if we occupy it, we will say things like, “We did it according to the law,” and then call it a waste.
-Come to think of it, the Phoenix Guild last time…
People who start gossiping about large guilds, including the Phoenix Guild.
All they could do was to comfort themselves by cursing the big guilds until the controls were lifted.
At that time, I thought this incident would just be buried and passed over.
[Title: But from what I heard.]
[Author: As far as I know]
[Content: The Phoenix Guild kids aren’t controlling the hunting grounds, but are they looking for something in the ruins city?]
-Find it? What are you talking about?
-How many Awakened people come and go there? What else is there to find?
The Ruins City was the first place the Awakened discovered when they entered the 4th floor.
So, how many awakened people have visited there over the years?
The flesh has been eaten and even the bones have been eaten, so there will be no more bone broth.
People tried to dismiss the article as nonsense.
But, even after that, articles started coming up one by one.
[Title: No, Think About It.]
[Author: Brainless Hunting]
[Content: Even if it is a large guild, has it ever monopolized such a famous and large hunting ground?]
-Well, it wasn’t anything of this scale.
-The ruins city needs to be a bit bigger.
-It’s a bit excessive to control everything there.
As these articles came up, people began to feel that something was strange.
And then, one article came up that became the final deciding factor.
[Title: I found out what the Phoenix Guild was looking for.]
[Author: Awakened Awakener]
[Content: These kids are looking for Gordon!]
-Crazy, Gordon? Is Gordon still in the ruins city?
-No, even if Gordon is there, he controls the entire ruins city?
It was surprising that Gordon still existed, but that he controlled the entire ruined city.
Considering that Gordon was like a lottery, it didn’t make sense.
The Phoenix Guild must be confident in something and that’s why they’re making such a big splash.
Various stories began to circulate.
-I think these kids know something.
-Isn’t Gordon a magic stone mine?!
-Hey, no way.
-What the hell, there’s a mine under some ruins.
[Title: Let’s think about it with common sense, which you like.]
[Author: Labyrinth of Etiquette]
[Content: No matter what kind of world the Labyrinth was, magic stones were incredibly important in that world. So, wouldn’t it be strange for there to be a magic stone mine in that big city?]
-… I see, maybe they built a city on top of a magic stone mine.
-If you think about it that way, it would be stranger if it didn’t exist.
Gordon was given priority to whoever discovered it.
The one who had priority could either attack Gordon himself or sell it to someone else.
This was also a firm law among the Awakened, as Gordon was also involved in the magic stone mines.
Even if it is not the Phoenix Guild, any large guild will not be safe if they ignore this law.
-It’s a magic stone mine, or at least something similar to it.
-Wow, shit, the Phoenix Guild bastards are starting to smoke.
-Go to the ruins city right away.
If, as the community speculates, there is a magic stone mine and you find it yourself.
Even if you don’t conquer it yourself but just hand over the right to conquer it and sell it, you will be able to acquire enormous wealth.
The awakened ones had no choice but to turn their eyes.
-But, the Phoenix Guild is controlling it.
-Control is fucking shit.
-What kind of control is it to chase them away and tell them to go somewhere else since they are all hunting and have nothing to gain from it?
The attitude of the Awakened who had just said that there was nothing they could do was nowhere to be found.
If it was a magic stone mine or something similar, it would have been worth it.
-Are you a member of the Phoenix Guild?
-Look at these kids coming in a hurry to throw smoke again.
-It’s already too late.
If only they could find a magic stone mine, it would be a worthwhile deal even if they fought against the Phoenix Guild.
Other large guilds will step forward to protect their authority simply because they have priority.
[Title: What are you guys doing?]
[Author: Faster than anyone else, Different from others]
[Content: Come quickly. I’m scared to go in alone.]
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋThis kid is already gone. Just wait.
-ㅋㅋㅋYou act so quickly.
-Were you waiting? Lol
-Nickname lol
So, a huge number of Awakened people started moving to the 4th floor.
* * *
A few days later.
“Well, okay.”
Hyunseong clacked his jawbone in satisfaction as he looked at the huge number of Awakened people gathered in front of him.
It was worth it to secretly leak information to the exiled Awakened.
After hearing the information that Hyunseong had leaked, they began to reason on their own in their brains and came to the conclusion that it was a magic stone mine.
And then, thinking that even if they entered the ruins city on their own, they would be pushed out by the Phoenix Guild, they started posting on the Awakened community, and one by one, Awakened people gathered, and it grew to this extent.
‘I didn’t know there would be this many.’
It seemed like it was several times more than he had expected.
If they push into the ruined city, even the Phoenix Guild won’t be able to control them all.
In fact, the people guarding the door looked bewildered and didn’t know what to do.
When there were only a few awakened people, those who used to act threatening suddenly became polite.
“Hey, guys, you shouldn’t be like this…”
“What can’t be done?”
“Did you guys pay the rent?!”
The Awakened ones who push in recklessly.
The Phoenix Guild Awakeners desperately tried to block it, but it wasn’t enough.
Eventually, a huge number of Awakened people poured into the ruined city.
Urrrrrr.
It felt like the ground was vibrating just from the sound of my footsteps.
Suddenly, I remembered the hellish commute I experienced in the past.
No, wouldn’t the crowded hell train be less crowded than this?
“Should we go in too?”
Hyunseong and Seoian also entered the ruins city along with the crowd.
The awakened ones start moving busily as soon as they enter.
There really was no market street.
“Let’s see who finds it first!”
“Okay, the person who loses will be a drunkard for the rest of his life!”
“No, the winner should buy it, damn it!”
“Is that so?”
“Teams 1 to 4, go to the east, west, south, and north zones respectively. We’ll look into the central zone.”
It seemed that not only individual Awakeners but also guild units participated.
In the case of a guild like the Phoenix Guild that had been at odds with them from the beginning, it wasn’t easy to get an opportunity to screw their opponents this much.
Hyunseong and Seoian moved with those people and escaped into an alley.
“If there are this many, won’t it be difficult for us to get in?”
There are eyes here and there, so if you see anything suspicious, come running.
However, Seol-ah rang the sword bell as if to tell him not to worry.
-That’s no problem.
The entrance to the dungeon is in a rather secret place.
Besides, if Seoian had used illusion magic to deceive, it wouldn’t have been that difficult to buy time.
If he had given such a definite answer, Hyunseong would have nothing to say.
-Okay, let’s go!
Seol-ah speaks with a powerful voice.
The two monsters who heard that voice thought.
‘How much trouble does this guy want to make us suffer?’
‘Should I be a little more friendly from now on?’
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The place we arrived at following Seol-ah’s guidance was the outskirts of the ruined city.
If you look around, you can see the Awakened here and there.
From what I’ve heard, it seems like Gordon has already been discovered here.
Not just one, but a bunch of them.
“Was the Gordon discovered nearby an underground waterway and a wizard’s laboratory?”
“There was a mercenary group’s hideout, and a secret passage to the mansion. But should we count the underground waterway as Gordon? There are many other entrances to the underground waterway.”
“Strictly speaking, it’s Gordon.”
Here alone, as many as four Gordons were discovered.
As a result, there was a craze for finding Gordons in this area, as many Gordons were gathered there, and the Awakened began to search this area thoroughly.
However, since nothing was found for a long time after that, it was concluded that there was no more Gordon here.
“It wasn’t a joke back then.”
“Because I couldn’t even set foot on it.”
“But would there be another one here?”
“Let’s take a quick look and then go somewhere else.”
That’s why the awakened people who looked around just in case were not looking for it carefully, but just glanced around.
“But, that dungeon is here?”
-that’s right.
How come there aren’t a single person who has been to the Awakening and found the entrance?
I thought it was in a place that was quite difficult to find.
“So, where should we go?”
-First, we need to go to the secret passage in the mansion.
“… I have to go inside Gordon? Is there another entrance inside Gordon?”
-That’s what it is.
Hyunseong first headed to Gordon, the secret passage in the mansion, as Seol-ah had said.
In fact, it was a bit odd to even call this place Gordon.
Because it was a secret passageway that a wealthy person living in the ruins city created from his house to the outside of the ruins city, and an additional space was built there to store his collections, so it was like a passageway and a secret storage space.
“There is almost no trace of the monster entering.”
Security must have been tight, as there were no traces of monsters entering the area even though it had been abandoned for a considerable period of time before it was discovered.
The awakened people who came here probably thought, “What kind of Gordon is this?”
“So where do we go from here?”
-We still have a bit more to go.
In response to Hyunseong’s question, Seol-ah only told him to keep going and didn’t say anything.
Hyunseong walks for a while, passing through several rooms in the hallway.
He explored the secret passages of the mansion and expressed his thoughts.
“The Awakened One we found here must have been caught.”
“therefore.”
If it was a tycoon’s collection, it would have been full of quite valuable items.
If you could get those items without fighting a single monster, there would be no greater fortune.
How long did we walk like that?
-think!
Seol-ah rang the bell.
At those words, I looked around, but there were no rooms around here, just a passageway.
‘Well, since it’s a hidden passage, there must be a special device.’
I thought so, but I received an unexpected answer.
-From here, just dig the wall all the way to the side.
“?”
“?”
A question mark appeared above Hyunseong and Seoian’s heads at the same time.
For a moment, I thought I might have misheard, so I asked again,
-So you’re saying we have to dig through the wall from here?
The answer that came back was no different.
“Isn’t there a secret button or something?”
-Yeah, there’s nothing like that. You just have to dig it.
A dungeon that you have to dig into to get into.
Where in the world is there a dungeon like that?
-It’s here.
“Where did the entrance go?”
-It seemed to have collapsed because it was so old. I couldn’t find any traces of it.
“… … ”
-Then, cheer up! You only need to dig about 500 meters!
“500 meters? How on earth did you find it?”
I had a vague idea of how crazy the previous user was that he found this out.
A thought flashed through my mind as I stared at a wall that hadn’t even been dug yet.
‘This guy, could it be that the reason he chose this place was…?’
As I quietly looked at my waist, there was Seol-ah, smiling and making the sound of her sword repeatedly as if she was in a good mood.