(Chapter 78)

Making all of the people in the Guild to be confused for the sudden and different introduction of the Dragon's Summoner.

Even the newly Outer members were confused by this, they didn't know this thing but confusingly need to believe after hearing Shyrveen serious words.

"What? This is not a joke... I'm really the courier..."

After greeting each other, Sung Jin-Woo arrived and saw Thomas Andre.

Seeing Shyrveen nodding, Sung Jin-Woo went inside the conference suite with Thomas Andre and Laura, bringing the big metal case inside.

All of the people outside the conference suite saw the glass walls was covered by the darkness inside and by the ice outside.

Then Shyrveen looked around and went to Yoo Jin-Ho.

"The building is too small... Can we increase the floors?"

Yoo Jin-Ho looks around too after hearing Shyrveen and thought for a bit before nodding.

'The Guild is too crowded and will be more crowded in the future...'

"I think it will be possible if we buy the place instead of renting this."

"Then proceed to talk to the owner before we are out to that place."

"Got it, Hyung-nim."

After seeing Yoo Jin-Ho prioritizes this, Shyrveen looks to the table of Go Jung-Hei, Han Sen, and Yang Manli that just arrived from the Hunter's Association that took a reassessment test, to be acknowledged publicly again.

Shyrveen went to the same table before lowering his voice to make sure that only of them will hear.

"What do you think of those two men?..."

Han Sen massages his chin while checking out Lennart that sitting quietly in one of the seats near the entrance while staring back at him too.

"... We're fine as long as the members have good character and won't betray us, brother Shyr."

But only to received a knock on his head by Yang Manli's right knuckles.

"Fool! That's not enough! Because that place is really far from this, plus that place still hiding a lot of things. Greed can't be stop once these things were to be discovered, but since there's Soul Contract, I think that will be enough for the time being, darling..."

She scolded because she meets a lot of people like that in any kind of party that she was ordered to attend to from the past before looking at Shyrveen, that nodded and says.

"Hmmm... I'll ask Sung Jin-Woo if he will agree... After all, he needs to invite all of the Inner members in the party system too. The map is very helpful when I went to the sanctuary."

Go Jung-Hei only nodded to them because he is busy but calmly eating his meal containing the Geno Points.

Han Sen nodded for that and carefully and tactically glances at the revealed map window of the system since there are still a lot of people watching them.

"... Yeah, just this map alone will make you the Most Valuable and Very Important Person of the Alliance... Tsk, tsk, tsk. And now, out of that universe's citizen, two individuals have them, which is me and Manli~"

Even Yang Manli can only agree to him because out of the things called 'Magic' in this Earth, this will be considered hereditary Innate Ability of the child of God in the fifth sanctuary.

'Of course, that's only for the saying, not that the public will know something like this...'

After three hours of waiting, Shyrveen felt the knock on the ice wall from the inside before he melted the ice back to the Mana.

Sung Jin-Woo was the first one to get out of the suite before being followed by Thomas Andre and Laura.

They saw Thomas shook hands with Sung Jin-Woo before saying goodbye to him, then Lennart went to greet Sung jin-Woo.

But Shyrveen's attention was following Thomas before calling out to him to wait for a bit.

Then Shyrveen went to Sung Jin-Woo just to see the dejected expression of Lennart, then taps his shoulder to wait too like Thomas.

Sung Jin-Woo is confused while seeing Shyrveen, everyone is confused about why Shyrveen told the high ranking Hunters to wait.

All of the people outside of the conference suite saw the two men talking with gestures here and there and saw Sung Jin-Woo massages his chin before looking at Thomas and Lennart before nodding to Shyrveen.

Inside.

"Yup, Hyung-nim. So far, all of the items in the shop are legit, and more so for the Soul Contract. Even though we didn't see how it will kill the contracted person. Somehow, I can think it is really foolproof as long as we detailed and lay down all of the possibilities for them not to be exploited."

"Alright, then we should change the Inner members a little bit, don't you think?"

"Eh? Why?"

"I was thinking like, we will create a hidden society... Joke~ But something like that but a Guild or a Gang instead, for the sanctuary..."

Shyrveen told him all the things that he thought and Sung Jin-Woo will sometimes disagree and agree to things like not all of them should be hunting in the sanctuary at the same time because, some complications might come in the future and all of the high-level rankers is out of service.

That's a very big no, even Shyrveen knows that.

So they talked about that they will do this kind of strengthening the defense of the Earth, which is the Hunters, against other extraterrestrial lifeforms and other monsters that wishes to exterminate humans.

Both of them are not only talking about the Gate and some monster, but already about the things that can affect the world, globally.

Since they don't know when the Monarchs will come down in this mortal planet to spread terrors and shits.

Shyrveen is pointing out that every one day here will be three days in the sanctuary, and those three days are enough to strengthen the Hunters with Genes.

Even though they don't have a single point, for now, they have the magic to protect themselves and attack the creatures while using the same tactics for diving Gates.

Add that they can give them a starting point once they agreed and joined the hidden Guild.

"But, Hyung-nim... You're still the only one who can teleport there at your will..."

"That's why this time, you need to come with me... I remembered that you mentioned something like quests related in the sanctuary, right?"

Sung Jin-Woo nodded and recalls the system window for those quests before nodding again.

"Yup, I think I'll have the permanent teleportation skill once I took the first step in that place... I still have this piece of the shard of that universe, that I don't remember getting something like that in the first place..."

"... Well, we can start our plans once, if those quests will be your fortune. Just pray that it will be according to what we're thinking..."

Shyrveen was taken aback after hearing something like that and remembered the certain spot in the Great Gene Universe that Irveen was using when he was busy getting and hiding the shard from and into both universes.

'Wait!... Oh! So, that's why the time dilation is fixated in 3:1 based on the current location of my body... This Magical Universe is originally 3x faster because of the Time Shard! So, when I'm out of this universe, it will automatically switch the time of the two universes once I went into the other side!... How nice...'

"But for now? We will recruit and feed them, Hyung-nim?"

Sung Jin-Woo raised an eyebrow for this but Shyrveen felt that discomfort and elaborated.

"Of course, but not that much, this will be like a freebie once they join us officially. We can be stricter and be more mysterious like;

'Sell your souls to us and we will make you stronger~ Deal or no deal~'."

Before acting like a real devil making a temptation that can't be ignored.

Making Sung Jin-Woo stunned then laugh out loud.

"... Hahaha!... Hyung-nim, be serious... But I get your point."

Shyrveen shrugs and continued.

"And since you can see those statuses of the party members even though we, the rest, can't. We will limit the Gene intake and you will monitor them...

Like for Ordinary, we will make that stay for 10 points, then for the Primitive, it is 8. Next, 5 for the Mutant, and lastly 3 for the Sacred-Blood... What do you say?"

Sung Jin-Woo contemplated for a few seconds before agreeing to him.

"Before sending them out to that place to hunt for themselves?... Not bad... Alright."

Then everyone outside can see seriously the devilish smiles of both men inside, sending shiver all over their body.

'What the hell are they talking about!?'

Even Thomas Andre, the self-proclaimed good at sensing ill-omen things, is really sensing it.

And made Lennart gulp more after seeing the two men erased their devilish smiles as if no one saw them.

That's when all of the people saw, three S-Rank Hunters and one National Level Hunter talking inside of the suite for a brief moment.

"If you both are available tomorrow morning. Try to come here again because we will talk about something so serious, and only S-Rank Hunters and above can join. But, of course, we will pick them secretly."

Sung Jin-Woo laid down casually his invitations for the two before receiving a nod from each other too.

Then both foreigners went out of the Guild, followed by the other people after Sung Jin-Woo entertained them.

It was closed to five o'clock before they were finished and closed the Guild from the visitors.

At that moment, Sung Jin-Woo calls the most nearest S-Rank Korean Hunters and invited them too since he is the most recognized and known by them than Shyrveen.

The second day, morning, Ahjin Guild's Conference Suite.

Cha Hae-In, S-Rank Sword Fighter.

Choi Jong-In, S-Rank Fire Mage.

Baek Yoon-Ho, S-Rank Beast Fighter.

Ma Dong-Wook, S-Rank Tanker.

Lim Tae-Gyu, S-Rank Archer.

Lennart Niermann, S-Rank Earth Mage.

Thomas Andre, National Level Tanker.

Sung Jin-Woo, S-Rank Shadow Mage.

Go Jun-Hei, S-Rank Fire Mage.

Han Sen, S-Rank Lightning Mage.

Yang Manli, S-Rank Wind Mage.

Shyrveen, S-Rank Ice Mage.

Twelve people are sitting around the big table waiting for the five members of the Ahjin Guild to speak out about why all of them are here.

Then after a couple of minutes, Shyrveen stands up from his seat before welcoming them.

But he didn't go around the bush.

"We have a way for you all to surpass those limits within your bodies... But telling you all the information about this will need you to sign some contracts to join our newly built Guild but it is a hidden one, even the Hunter's Association will have no knowledge about this."

At the same time, Sung Jin-Woo throws the papers with precise strength and two pieces of paper slides and stops towards the specific seven people.

"Those are Soul Contracts, one is for the surety that all of the information that we will reveal later but choose not to join in the end, will stay here in this room... With the help of these things."

Then he pulls out seven bottles that have blue-green liquid inside before continuing.

"This thing called, Forgetting Potion. The memories of 30 minutes after drinking this will be forgotten and erased, and I can say to you all that I'm telling the truth, don't forget what I had..."

Making all the Korean Hunters remembers the instant recovery potions when they were raiding the Jeju Island, but only for the two foreigners to be confused but didn't ask about it and only waited for them to continue.

"The second one is the final contract that you will be officially joining our Guild."

Choi Jong-In raised his concern after hearing this.

"But if we join this guild, do we need to leave our current Guild?"

"No... And it seems that all of you still not sinking the words that I said earlier... Those contracts are Soul Contracts, once breached, you're dead. The end."

Stunning them and realized this time what Sung Jin-Woo said again about the papers.

"... This!... Hunter Sung!"

Baek Yoon-Ho stands up hurriedly and glared at Sung Jin-Woo but Shyrveen took his attention, all of their attentions.

"Don't be angry so fast Guildmaster Baek... You will know why we need to use this kind of contract and for reassuring you all. We all are under the same second Soul Contract in your hands."

Then five of them willed the Soul Contract hiding within them to appear before the seven people, shocking them.

The words written in the ghostly golden paper are hard to read, as if something is forbidding them to read the words.

"..."

"Of course, if you don't want to sign in the first place. The door is available for you to leave and ignore this meeting..."

Sung Jin-Woo gestured to the door after the Soul Contracts went back in their chest, in their very souls.

"I'll join! Hehehe!"

But a sudden big loud voice shouted the magic words, stunning the people and before they can wake up from their trances to stop Thomas Andre from signing the two contracts, then he opens his mouth again while grinning.

"All I care is fighting stronger monsters or even if its a human, I can take a defeat, but it doesn't mean that I will harbor evil intention to get revenge... If this the way to have a rematch against you, Hunter Sung, I'll be fine to join this hidden Guild... And I can say that this won't restrict us leaving our current Guild, right?"

"Yes. This is a hidden Guild because our main objective is to get stronger to fight these stronger monsters too."

Sung Jin-Woo answered that since this is not under the first Soul Contract.

"And what you all mean is, against those monsters that can freely roam the Earth to hunt the Hunters like Christopher Reid, Jonas and Go Gun-Hee?"

Lennart voiced out his thoughts to make sure before going back again in his deep thoughts after receiving a nod.

"Right... So, what you will all do?"

Few minutes of silence passed, then Ma Dong-Wook raised his hands.

"... I just want to make sure... Getting stronger will take time... And it means we will leave behind our loved ones for a certain time, right?... How long it will take before we all can go back?..."

"It depends on your wishes..."

Shyrveen's calm voice resounded in the suite, he can feel the atmosphere became a storm of mixed emotions after Ma Dong-Wook's question.

"The longer you stay in the place where I train with Han Sen and Yang Manli, the better it is and for you all to get stronger faster, of course... But getting out of that place will just slow your progress... After all, it is a very very far place..."

Making six of them look at each other and Cha Hae-In was the second person to sign the two contracts.

"I'm sorry, Guildmaster Choi. I want to join this guild since it doesn't need me to leave the Hunter's Guild too... And I want to get stronger..."

Choi Jong-In saw Cha Hae-In determination and thought of something as he glances at Sung Jin-Woo before sighing and then smirking in his inner mind.

"... Alright, I'll join the hidden Guild too. After all, I still want to surpass my limits though..."

"Okay. I'm in too. I'm just surprised that I'm called to be in this meeting too... Please, take care of me."

Lim Tae-Gyu said while scratching his head then bowed.

Making the other Korean Hunters to accept too after knowing that they can go back anytime as long as they want.

That's all the matter to them since they can't just leave the country just like that, and joining the hidden Guild officially without batting an eye as they signed both Soul Contracts, leaving Lennart Niermann alone.

"... I'm sorry, I can't..."

After thinking about all the things related to him, he can't do it after all.

Shyrveen taps his shoulder while smiling sincerely.

"It's fine. But please sign the first contract first then drink this potion after 20 minutes exactly. I can guarantee you that we're not pulling your leg here or what. The moment you drink the potion, the Soul Contract within you will cease to exist since it meets the required thing to do."

"Thank you... But I'm really sorry that I can't join you all..."

Lennart bow again before receiving the bottle of forgetting potion from Sung Jin-Woo that taps his shoulder too to reassure him.

"That's okay, Mr. Niermann. We can somewhat understand your feeling... You can wait in the lobby."

"Alright."

Then he went out of the suite and copy what he saw from the members of the Ahjin Guild, just to flinch and smiled bitterly after seeing the floating ghostly golden contract that came out of his chest.

The remaining ten people inside became serious after Shyrveen took their attention again, and listen to him attentively while feeling the roller-coaster emotions for the whole five hours with the question and answer portion too.

After making sure that all of them didn't forget anything anymore.

The meeting was adjourned and all of them went busy with their things to get ready because Shyrveen told them that they will depart from Earth, tomorrow evening.

Then he looked at the starry night sky.

'... Well, it seems that the monarchs will be delayed... I ripped the right arm of Beast Monarch and Jin-Woo did the same thing to the Ice Monarch... We will still have time... I need to make sure of this...'

Shyrveen calculated in his mind as he focused his concentration to trigger the second instant usage of Space Shard...