046. Contract (1)
Uijeongbu Jikdong Neighborhood Park gate dense area.
“Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” Shim Woo-
jin, the team leader of the Uijeongbu Hunter Association’s gate management team, yawned and looked at the gates placed throughout the park.
All of them were gates that the Hunters had entered and were attacking.
‘Bored.’
All of the management team members around him were nervous and alert, but Shim Woo-jin was just bored.
It’s said to be an emergency gate, but it seems to be quite noisy in the world…
‘Well, it doesn’t seem to be anything special.
In his eyes, who had been managing the emergency gate for three years, the current situation was ordinary.
Should I say that none of them are special level gates?
The only singularity was that what happened this time was a persistence gate.
A persistence gate is a dungeon that is maintained semi-permanently in the place where it is created.
So much association. Or the guild buys the dungeon at a high price…
‘That has nothing to do with me.’
Even if the Hunter Association attacks the persistence gate, he can get nothing.
Performance doesn’t go up, and that doesn’t mean you get material rewards.
He would be like that too…
In fact, it was natural that the performance was taken by the gate strategy team that would arrive later.
‘The Hu attack team even receives a huge fee in the process of buying the gate…’
The gate management team literally can’t get anything.
It just manages the emergency gates until the capture team arrives and ends.
Since there was no concept of special allowance or bonus, Shim Woo-jin had no choice but to be fat.
If one of the hunters summoned at the time of the emergency gate occurs, if someone perfectly attacks the gate and buys it, the story may be different because it will be under the control of the management team, not the capture team, but… Fushik
.
“That’s only possible with an A-rank hunter.”
It was an emergency gate, and there was no such thing as a skilled hunter among the hunters who gathered to make some money.
It was then.
‘…huh?’
Suddenly, two hunters came out of the gate inside the park.
Sim Woo-jin tilted his head and looked at them.
‘what? I couldn’t have finished the hunt already, so why did you come out?’
But that question was short-lived.
“…uh huh?”
Then, the color of the gate where the two hunters came out changed from blue to gray.
As far as Shim Woo-jin knew, the conditions for this to happen were fixed.
“When the raid on the boss room is complete…”
And…
after the raid is over, the continuity gate grants a wait time for the boss monster to be created.
That meant that the two of them had just finished attacking the Persistence Gate…
“This crazy…!”
Realizing this soon, Shim Woo-jin couldn’t help but smile.
After three years, a gate attacker came out under the management of the gate management team.
***
I couldn’t stop laughing as I walked out of the gate.
『Skill – Mind’s Eye (D-)』
『Proficiency – 0%』
『Effect – When you start a battle, you can recognize an attack in an invisible range.
』
‘I can’t believe I absorbed the Lizard King and immediately acquired the skill.’
I didn’t even consider skill absorption because of the problem of probability
.
As the skill was absorbed at once, the smile did not stop at the corner of his mouth.
‘If I absorb all of the Lizard Man’s spirits later, I’ll be able to get more skills.’
It was even more so when I thought of the skills that I might be able to get as a bonus.
I felt that the moment to check the newly acquired ‘skill synthesis’ was approaching.
‘As expected, raiding the dungeon was the right decision.’
I got more rewards than I originally thought, so I can’t help but be satisfied.
It was the moment when I came out of the gate feeling so satisfied.
“Wait a minute please…!”
A man in a black suit jumped up and said that, and then asked a question.
“Ho, is it true that the gate attack was completed here?”
Hearing those words, Lee Cheol-won, who was next to him, tilted his head and said.
“I’m sorry, but who are you to ask such a thing?”
Only then did the man startle, clearing his voice and replying.
“Oh, excuse me. My introduction is late. My name is Sim Woo-jin, head of the Hunter Association Gate Management Team, who has come to manage the emergency gates in this park.”
“The gate management team…?”
“Yes, that’s right. Haha earlier, my team member was managing the gate, so I couldn’t say hello.”
“…”
Apparently, he realized that he had finished clearing the dungeon and came running…
‘It worked just fine. Even if it wasn’t so, I had to somehow dispose of the right to occupy the gate.’
Even if it wasn’t, it was the sea I had been thinking of visiting.
If I belonged to a guild, I could have sold it there, but…
Currently, the Hunter Association is the best I can sell the right to occupy the gate.
At that time, Lee Cheol-won, who had been quietly listening to the words, opened his mouth.
“Did you come because you wanted to buy the right to occupy the gate?”
“you’re right. I want to make a sale offer to the two of you…”
“Then it’s not for me to decide.”
“yes?”
“Hunter Han Seong-yoon here alone attacked the dungeon boss.”
“…!”
At that moment, Shim Woo-jin’s eyes fell on me.
“If you attacked Ho alone, it would be an A-class heon…”
I thought I would misunderstand again, so I cut it off before I could speak.
“No, I am a C-class Hunter.”
“yes? Oh, that’s right.”
“That’s not what’s important, so let’s get to the point. Please tell me at what price you would like to purchase the right to occupy the gate.”
Sim Woo-jin looked very embarrassed, but he didn’t want to talk too much.
I couldn’t help but think of the community conversation I saw before returning to reality.
I heard that even if it’s not the case recently,
everyone is trying to figure out whether they’re from the Tower of Trials because of the Challenger …
If so, the subject had to be freed of interest somehow.
As soon as the topic was changed, Sim Woo-jin also brought up the main topic.
“Hmmmm Well, to get to the point, our gate management team wants to purchase the gate for about 1.2 billion won.”
‘Oh…’
I felt a surprise at the larger amount than I thought.
Trying to buy the right to occupy a D-class gate for 1.2 billion
…
With that kind of money, you could even buy a C-class dungeon.
But when he said he would pay me for it, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
Of course…
“That’s a pretty high amount. Okay, let’s sell it.”
He didn’t show it outwardly and acted as calmly as possible.
“Thank you very much for accepting the offer. The sales contract is…”
“I’m a bit busy, so I hope I can do it as quickly as possible.”
“Then I will prepare the contract, so would you like to do it nearby?”
“That would be better.”
It is a body that must return to the tower soon.
‘There’s no need to drag on trading.’
Then team leader Sim Woo-jin stepped down, saying he would wait at a nearby cafe…
“Wow, that’s great. It’s the first time I’ve seen an offer for sale on site.”
After the conversation, Lee Cheol-won looked at me with admiration again.
“is that so? Isn’t everyone like this usually after clearing a dungeon?”
“That’s what high-level hunters do. Low-level hunters like us are not like that.”
That means that I am an irregular, different from the average low-level hunters.
“…First of all, let’s settle the by-products first. Anyway, it was Hunter Lee Cheol-won who got the gate pass.”
“All right. Oh, and can I sell magic stones? I think if you sell it at a place you know, you can get it at a higher price than the market price.”
“Um… it doesn’t matter. You do.”
One could say that I trust someone else to buy and sell magic stones
.
Rather, it was a benefit to me because I could shorten the time I had to spend on manastone trading.
‘It’s even more true when you think of the money you’ll get from a sales contract.’
The money you get from conquering the gate will be bigger than the money you make from raiding the dungeon.
As such, it would be better to leave it in moderation as it will take care of by-products such as magic stones.
“The number of magic stones has been confirmed here, so if you give me your contact information, I will contact you later.”
After exchanging contact information, Lee Cheol-won left soon after.
Anyway, the dungeon clearing was over and there was nothing more to talk about.
All that remains now is the contract for the purchase and sale of the right to occupy the gate…
“We need to finish that quickly too.”
There isn’t much time left.
‘While I can stay in reality, I have to look at the benefits a lot.’
There will never be a situation where an emergency gate occurs by chance like now.
In the end, you need a network to get in and out of a high-quality gate.
If that’s the case…
“I guess I’ll have to prepare somehow.”
And I had already thought about it.
***
As a result, the sales contract ended in an instant.
“According to the contract, the money will be deposited by tomorrow.”
Team leader Shim Woo-jin started to smile as the trading contract was concluded
.
However, it was the moment when I was about to leave the cafe after finishing the sales contract.
“Hunter Han Seong-yoon, if you don’t belong, why don’t you join the Hunter Association?”
“…Are you asking me to come under the direct control of the Hunter Association?”
“Yes, that’s right. Looking at the information registered with the association, it seems that you are a recently registered hunter… We will treat you as best as possible.”
“…”
At that, I closed my mouth as if pondering for a moment, then pondered.
It is true that in order to promote more smoothly in the future, you need to belong somewhere.
‘Then it wouldn’t matter if I belonged to the association.’
I was shaken because I had already received two scouting offers from the Hunter Association alone.
Following supervisor Kim In-hoo, even team leader Sim Woo-jin tried to scout me…
But it was a bit awkward to belong somewhere.
In particular, being active as a direct hunter means that there are restrictions on behavior.
‘I should be able to use the dungeon freely while being close to a freelancer…’
The question was whether the Hunter Association was a group with that much freedom.
And at least the Hunter Association in my head was not a group with such a high level of freedom.
I had to worry a bit, but in the end I had no choice but to put my choice on hold.
‘…It’s something I can decide later, and I still have things in mind.’
If networking is a pretty important factor for Hunter, then I had to use it too.
“…It seems difficult to decide right now.”
“I understand. It would be difficult for a skilled Hunter to sign a direct contract.”
“But if I want to have a good relationship later, I will contact you.”
“That is enough. Haha I would appreciate it if you could contact me later. Enough then.”
After Shim Woo-jin left the cafe with a smile, I took out my smartphone.
It was to contact someone who could be said to be my only network.
「This is Han Seong-yoon, whom I met on the 4th floor. Lee Ha-yeon, if you returned, can I meet you for a while?」
Team member Lee Ha-yeon, whom I met on the 4th floor of the Tower of Trials.
It was my turn to try to contact her.
