Chapter 141
Chapter 141
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Inside a fancy office, a man with neat pomaded hair was buried in a big black chair with his eyes closed . He frowned, seemingly thinking about something intently, as his fingers tapped the desk incessantly . The man tapped on his desk exactly 34 times . Then he stopped his fingers and opened his eyes .
“What did I say, Rudd? It has been exactly two weeks,” Cheong Chen, branch manager of Adidas Asia, said emotionlessly . He was like a machine with no emotions .
Rudd replied while suppressing his sense of embarrassment, “I made contact with Alley Leader . ”
“Then?”
“I said it failed . ”
“Then?”
“I’ll try again next time . ”
“Didn’t you say you didn’t get a chance to speak?”
“That’s right . . . ”
At this moment, Cheong Chen interrupted Rudd with a face revealing feelings of annoyance and anger . “Then why do I have to be sworn at by that old man over the phone? I didn’t do anything!! Why should I suffer because of Lohan, an old man with no toenails?”
Upon hearing Cheong Chen’s shout, Rudd instinctively started making excuses . He felt desperate . “Alley Leader just greeted me and left . I couldn’t make the transfer offer . ”
Cheong Chen’s expression cleared in an instant, and he tidied up his slightly protruding hair .
“Then find out where the information came from . Additionally, get in touch with those guys . If I can’t get a doll, then I have to rip it to pieces . That is the motto of my life,” Cheong Chen said with a smile .
It had been a week after Hyeonu met with Rudd .
Hyeonu’s hunting speed increased steadily . He even thought it was a simple process . The Fighting Energy Emission he gained from Raccoon played a part in it . In fact, when he used the skill on the monsters in the Balder Mountains, the level of monsters was so high that there was no significant effect .
They just flinched briefly . However, this brief gap was sufficient for Hyeonu . It was enough for him to escape a crisis and insert Dark Star into the monster’s vital parts .
“Tang-E, when are you going to eat the essences?” Hyeonu asked Tang-E during a brief break between hunts .
“Essences? Why are you asking about that?” Tang-E asked from where he was lying on a sprawling rock .
“Nothing, I’m just asking in case you ate them . ”
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“I haven’t eaten them yet . I’ll eat them soon . I’m saving them . I won’t give them even to Master dude . ” Tang-E watched Hyeonu with hostile eyes .
They were the same kind of eyes that Yeongchan and Yuri had when Hyeonu sat down to eat with them . It was a gaze that seemed to regard him as a competitor .
“I won’t take it! Why would I eat them?!” Hyeonu screamed like it was unfair .
Then Tang-E’s gaze became stranger . “Is that so, Master dude? I understand . Believe me . I’m a bear with a big heart . ”
Hyeonu ignored Tang-E’s ridiculous words and asked again, “So when exactly are you going to eat them?”
“I think I can awaken again soon . At that time, I’ll eat them . ”
“Awaken?”
‘Tang-E’s level is already approaching 200?’
When Hyeonu heard Tang-E’s words, he checked the status window .
[Status Window]
[Name: Tang-E
Level: 196
Species: Marionette Bear (First awakening)
Title: Bung Bung Island’s Heir
Stats: Strength: 787 Agility: 733 Physique: 899 Magic Power: 1,746
The heir of Bung Bung Island . Bear-like physical abilities and high magic power are racial characteristics . He is very affectionate, unlike his prideful tone .
Intimacy: 100
Skills Possessed: Bear’s Momentum, Forest’s Blessing, Magic Power Affinity, Lightning, Giant Transformation, Roar, Ice, Fire, Subspace . ]
Tang-E had gained the skills, Giant Transformation and Roar, after his first awakening . Both skills were a huge help to Hyeonu while hunting . Hyeonu was already looking forward to how good the skill from the second awakening would be when it corresponded to the player’s third class advancement .
“By the way, what’s hidden in your subspace?” Hyeonu asked about the subspace in passing .
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Tang-E flinched for a moment . “Nothing . There is nothing . It’s empty . ”
“Really? Then put some food in it later . I have the money to buy it . ” Hyeonu couldn’t help stroking Tang-E’s head .
“I understand, Master dude . Fill it up . ”
“If this continues, you can’t go to the competition . Don’t you know that? Stop embarrassing yourself . How can you lose at that ranking?”
Hearing Yoon Hyeongu’s words, Han Jaeyeol bowed his head . Han Jaeyeol’s expression was severely distorted . ‘I can’t compete?’
For Han Jaeyeol, the competition was his immediate goal and hope . It was the only hope that kept him afloat in the trashy Big Stars that didn’t give him proper support and made him work as a proxy knight .
“I’m sorry . I’ll practice harder . ” Han Jaeyeol couldn’t rebel against Yoon Hyeongu . He still had hope though .
“Don’t forget there are many players besides you . You can go now,” Yoon Hyeongu stated .
Han Jaeyeol raised his head to reveal an expressionless face, but he was feeling rotten on the inside . “I understand . ”
Han Jaeyeol said goodbye to Yoon Hyeongu and left the office .
“I need to squeeze out a bit more . Are there another four months left?”
Four months—that was the amount of time left until the Arena Pro League ended .
Han Jaeyeol came out of the director’s office and returned to his dormitory . After entering his room, Han Jaeyeol threw a pillow and vented his anger . “Wah!!!”
The Big Stars’ players were scared by his yell and gathered in Han Jaeyeol’s room one by one .
“Why is Jaeyeol doing that?”
“I guess the director said something to him . ”
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“Did that happen again?”
“I guess so . ”
It had become routine for players like Han Jaeyeol to be called to the coach . Everyone wanted to leave Big Stars if they had a chance .
“By the way, did you hear? What will happen in the next professional league?”
“What does that mean?”
At Kim Jinhwan’s words, everyone except for Han Jaeyeol looked at Kim Jinhwan .
“I secretly listened in on the director the other day . In the next league, it seems the patched castle will appear? Those who don’t have a castle won’t be eligible to participate in the siege, and they will fall to the second division . ”
“What?”
“What does that mean?”
“So we’re going to the Second Division League?”
The other players asked Kim Jinhwan even though he wasn’t an employee of Quency .
He was so flustered that words came out randomly . “How many pro-gamers can earn enough imperial contribution for a castle? It is difficult to buy a title for the next league even if you’ve been working hard since this talk came out . However, you can buy a castle from someone like Alley Leader . If not, buy it from a guild .
“It is because the guilds aren’t in a hurry right now . If you give them money, they might sell it . Then what about us? The coach is a bastard who makes people act as proxy knights . He curses and hits them if they don’t . What can we do in this club? We will be sent to the Second Division League and have to continue acting as proxy knights . ”
Kim Jinhwan’s bombshell remarks made the players shut up . They also knew how the club would act . In fact, they knew better than anyone else as they had suffered for months already .
“So what can we do?”
“We can’t leave the team now . ”
“Do you need to invest some time in Arena now?”
“Who knows? Is it possible? We’re still pros . . . ”
“The gap is already too big . I still have two more weeks until I finish my third class advancement . By that time, the famous streamers will already be past their third class advancement . ”
The players were all over the place like merchants in the market . However, as time passed, the players’ words subsided . The more they spoke, the more they realized that their future was grim .
“Sigh . . . What should we do? Do we have to keep doing this?”
“If we go down to the second division, there will be less funding . . . We will be cut even further . Our salary . . . ”
All the players sighed . They knew best as to what would happen to them the moment they were pushed out from the focus of people’s attention . The players were still sighing when Han Jaeyeol approached them . Han Jaeyeol’s expression looked like he had decided on something . “Hey, if we continue like this, we won’t be able to go anywhere . We will be stuck under Yoon Hyeongu’s hand, and our lives will be over . Do you agree about this?”
The Big Stars’ players nodded . Han Jaeyeol spoke harshly, but in a cold sense, this was their future . Acknowledging this, the players showed their acceptance . Then Han Jaeyeol continued, “So how about getting started four months earlier?”
Four months . . .
Han Jaeyeol’s words suggested that they stop being pro-gamers right now .
‘It is too much . Think slowly . ’ Lee Yeongjin expressed his opposition, “Isn’t this too extreme? Think a bit more and make a decision . . . ”
Some of the players nodded .
However, another player interrupted Lee Yeongjin . It was Kim Jinhwan . “Yes, let’s go . I will no longer be a player here . If there is no place for me, then I’ll try to be a streamer . I can’t stand it anymore . ”
Kim Jinhwan helped Han Jaeyeol . They had the same thoughts . Seeing as they would be thrown away anyway, it would be better to walk out on their own feet .
“Jinhwan!” Lee Yeongjin called out Kim Jinhwan’s name loudly after hearing Kim Jinhwan’s words .
Kim Jinhwan just said whatever he wanted to say without any concern . “Yeongjin, I know what you’re worried about, but you should know this too . Four months later, we won’t be able to go out and become a streamer like we can right now . We will just be thrown away and rolled out . ”
“Jinhwan is right . In any case, we’re just consumables . Our only chance is right now . ”
Hearing Han Jaeyeol's words, everyone looked at him . They seemed to be asking for the method .
“Once something goes wrong, our life as pro-gamers is over . The domestic teams are already saturated, and they don’t have the strength to go to overseas teams, right?”
“That’s right . We wouldn’t have come here if we had that type of strength . ”
“Giving up on everything looks cool . We aren’t good enough to be professional gamers . I think this knowledge has come too late . ”
The players snapped at each other . It was cold criticism . Now that they gave up on the great foolishness of being a professional gamer, they could finally see reality . Han Jaeyeol saw it and continued, “That’s why I thought about what to do . Our skills are good, so we’ll be able to stream 24 hours a day like those big guilds . We can also make a channel . Then we’ll make some money—more than we are making now . ”
The current salary they received from Big Stars was very low . It was lower than what they would get from working a part-time job .
Someone asked, “In any case, the only thing we know is Arena . Let’s say this is true . Are we going to fuck over Yoon Hyeongu?”
Han Jaeyeol smiled with a confident expression . “You know how I lost to the man that Alley Leader taught?”
“Yes, that’s why you went to the office today . ”
“I will aim at Alley Leader . I saw on the stream that he’s a very nice person . If this is the case, he should come out unconditionally? He might accept if I speak to Nike . It is an opportunity for Alley Leader to become more popular . ”
This was the method Han Jaeyeol came up with .