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-Thanks for telling me .

“Hey, I was joking! You’re overreacting! Facing against an entire guild alone? Even if you use guerrilla tactics, it’ll be impossible!”

-You said that the guys I killed were on the strong side, right? Then I can kill the others easily as well .

“No, they have too many people . ”

-I have magic . And I’m not going to charge recklessly at their base . I have a plan in mind .

“You just said you didn’t have a plan!”

-I just thought of it .

Yeon Jung couldn’t say anything to that .

-Then I’m going .

His phone went silent .

“That crazy person…”

Yeon Jung muttered as he slowly put away his phone .

“Even if the Demon guild’s filled with dogs, they can’t be taken lightly . ”

They weren’t particularly strong, but still couldn’t be underestimated .

“Soo Hyuk sounds like he’s really angry this time . ”

Since he hadn’t been present on the scene, he had no way of knowing the exact story . However, Yeon Jung had noticed from his tone, atmosphere and the current situation, that Soo Hyuk was enraged .

“If he’s angry like then…”

Over the years that they’d known each other, Yeon Jung had only seen Soo Hyuk get angry a few times . But the few times he did still sent shivers down his spine .

“Should I worry about the Demon guild instead?”

* * *

The Demon guild’s guild house .

“The username was Soo Hyuk, and he wore a robe from the Tower of Poison…”

Haggis lifted his head while frowning heavily .

“Then those three got done in by a magician?”

He asked the master of the Demon guild, Baal, who was sitting opposite of him .

“That’s correct . ”

Baal answered Haggis’ question and went back to his book .

“Okay, but shouldn’t they be able to beat a magician if they teamed up together? What did Mandara do? He’s supposed to be the wizard killer . ”

Haggis continued, ignoring the fact that Baal was still reading a book in front of him .

“He died first after being caught by surprise . ”

Baal answered while turning a page in his book .

“That magician isn’t normal, since Mandara died in two hits . ”

“Two hits? Mandara?”

“Right . ”

“Wow . ”

Haggis exclaimed silently in surprise at Baal’s words .

“Ask Rhino about it . ”

Haggis suggested . Rhino was a magician who used poison . Of course, he wasn’t a normal magician, as he was the vice head of the Tower of Poison in Hadrac .

“Since we fed him a lot of gifts, he’ll cooperate nicely . ”

The Demon guild had a unique relationship with Rhino, built upon numerous bribes .

“About who he is, and where he is”

Magaician Soo Hyuk, who wears the Poison Tower’s robe . That was equivalent to him belonging to the Tower of Poison . Rhino was sure to provide them with information .

“Okay! Then should we send them to Hedlin?”

“Do it . ”

* * *

After ending his call with Yeon Jung, Soo Hyuk reviewed what he had just heard .

“Hadrac…”

The city founded by the Mercenary King Hadrac . The Demon guild’s base was in Hadrac . Soo Hyuk set down his phone and went to his computer . It was to research more into the Demon guild . Soo Hyuk went into the official Pangea website and searched ‘Demon guild . ’ It turned out to be fairly a well-known guild like Yeon Jung said .

‘…It’s a group of crazy people . ’

He thought as he read through the posts about the Demon guild . The Demon guild was weirder than how Yeon Jung had described them .

“You can only join when you’re not wanted?”

The information that caught his eye was the conditions for joining . You could only join when your infamy score was low enough that you weren’t wanted by authorities .

“They also have a lot of enemies . ”

Being a criminal guild, they obviously had a lot of enemies . And it wasn’t just one or two . They had enemies all over the land .

“Then how are they surviving?”

He couldn’t understand how the Demon guild was still intact . After more research, he found out the reason . There were many reasons why, but there were two notable ones .

First, the guild members didn’t operate in an area where an arrest order had been given . Second, those who killed the guild members were hunted and killed at least 5 times . They were the main reason why people didn’t go after the Demon guild .

“This is why he called them dirty . ”

He realised why Yeon Jung had called them ‘dirty bastards’ . He hadn’t paid much attention when Yeon Jung mentioned them, but he realised the nature of these ‘hunts’ from the users who hunted by them .

“Hmm . ”

Soo Hyuk got up from his seat, then started walking to his capsule .

‘How would they try to find me?’

The Demon guild would try to hunt him down from now on . But all they knew about him was his name and appearance . The problem was that there could be multiple users of the same name, and people could change their appearance by swapping around their gear .

‘Will they just go around killing people conspicuously?’

They could perform another tragic act like Hedlin’s incident .

‘Anyway,’

What method the Demon guild used didn’t matter . The only important part was that they would try to hunt him down .

‘Those bastards . When apologising isn’t enough, they go around hunting more people instead?’

If he didn’t have enough strength in this situation, he would have experienced a heart-tearing pain . But Soo Hyuk had strength . Didn’t he easily kill the three men in Hedlin?

Soo Hyuk looked around his surroundings once he connected to Pangea in his capsule . The corpses had disappeared, and the people around him were going about their day like nothing had happened . The atmosphere was too different from 1 hour ago .

Soo Hyuk observed the heads of people going past him . He was checking their guild marks .

‘They’re not here . ’

He couldn’t see any Demon guild marks in the end .

‘Well, only an hour has passed . ’

Only an hour had passed since he had killed Loken, Haiden and Mandara . It would be unusual if the Demon guild reacted so quickly . After confirming that there were no Demon guild members around him, Soo Hyuk teleported to his subspace .

[Warping to the Archmage’s Subspace . ]

When he arrived at the familiar chamber, Soo Hyuk walked through the tunnel on the right and headed for the magic circle . Then using the magic circle, he teleported again to Matab .

‘I came back . ’

Arriving at the Matab Library, Soo Hyuk handed in his token and headed towards the bookshelves . He should’ve been enjoying his time with his family by now, but things had gone astray .

“Hoo…”

He boiled with anger every time he thought of it . While frowning heavily, Soo Hyuk pulled the books out of the shelves and returned to the reading desk .

‘I will show them…’

He thought as he opened the book .

‘What a real demon looks like . ’

* * *

“Soo Hyuk?”

Rhino asked .

“Yes . Do you who he is?”

Haggis answered with his own question . Perhaps Rhino knew who he was?

“No, I’ve never heard of him . ”

“I see . ”

“Hmm, can you tell me why you’re looking for him?”

Rhino asked again . A magician of the Tower of Poison, Soo Hyuk . He was curious why Haggis was looking for him .

“Ah, that…”

Haggis paused briefly at Rhino’s question .

‘Is it okay to tell him?’

The Demon guild’s relationship with Rhino was strong . But they didn’t know who Soo Hyuk was, and Rhino also didn’t know who he was .

‘What if he turns out to be Rhino’s friend’s friend?’

He could turn out to be important to Rhino through said friend . If that turned out to be the case, the Demon guild could have a difficult situation on their hands .

‘No, that’s not likely, considering Rhino’s personality . ’

As he was considering whether to tell Rhino or not, he was reminded of Rhino’s temperament . He would value money above a friend’s friend .

‘Plus, we have a reasonable justification . ’

Rhino was sure to help them upon hearing their justification .

“Our guild members were attacked by him . Three of them . ”

“…!”

Rhino was surprised by Haggis’ sudden answer .

“Then…is it for revenge?”

He asked Haggis carefully .

“We want an apology, but we will have our revenge if he refuses . ”

Honestly, they didn’t want an apology . They were still planning on killing him even if he did give one, but he didn’t need to say that to Rhino .

“Hmm . ”

Rhino fell silent at Haggis’ answer, while Haggis stared expectantly at Rhino . After a few seconds, Rhino opened his mouth .

“Alright . I will help you this once . But it’s going to take some time”

“Thank you . ”

Haggis smiled at Rhino’s answer . Then he opened his inventory and took out a pouch filled with different kinds of rare jewels .

“This is from our leader, Baal . ”

Haggis said as he handed the pouch over to Rhino . Rhino was silent during the whole process, but he couldn’t hide his eyes shining with greed . Intoxicated with greed, Rhino grabbed the pouch from Haggis and checked its contents . A few moments later, Rhino looked up from the pouch with a huge grin on his face .

“Come tomorrow . I’ll find out by then . ”

The wait was shortened .

“Yes, I understand . Then I’ll come again tomorrow . ”

Haggis stood up from his seat with a grin of his own .

* * *

“What do we do if those freaks are still there?”

“Yeah, what should we do…”

Soo Hyuk, who was listening to their worries, stood and said confidently,

“Please wait for a bit . I’ll check first . ”

If those three bastards were still in Hedlin, another PK incident might happen . To prevent this, Soo Hyuk stood up, went to his capsule and connected to Pangea first .

“Archmage’s Subspace . ”

Soo Hyuk cast Archmage’s Subspace as soon as he appeared in the library .

[Warping to the Archmage’s Subspace . ]

The moment Soo Hyuk appeared in the subspace, he turned right and walked through the tunnel to the magic circle . After taking a warp gate to Hedlin, he became able to teleport to Hedlin with the magic circle in the Archmage’s Subspace . He stood on the magic circle and warped to Hedlin .

“Help me!”

“Ahh!”

Screams filled his ears the moment he arrived at Hedlin . Soo Hyuk frowned as the sudden noise assaulted his ears .

‘These bastards . ’

He had tried to check just in case, but it was really happening again . Soo Hyuk shoved past the panicked people and found them again . Loken, Haiden and Mandara .

‘Doing this again as soon as the penalty’s over?’

Upon death, there was a 24-hour access penalty . But they were causing chaos the moment their penalty was over?

‘They must be genuinely crazy . ’

“W-why! You freaks!”

“What kind of…ack!”

The ongoing slaughter .

‘Should I kill them?’

Soo Hyuk was conflicted as he stared the black light of death erupting one after another .

‘Their guildmates will appear if I do though . ’

He had the ability to end this atrocity right now, but there was still one thing nagging at his mind . It was the Demon guild .

‘Damn it . If only I wasn’t on a holiday with my family . ’

If he had no commitments on his schedule, he would’ve slaughtered them like lambs . But today was his replanned family trip . If he killed them now, the Demon guild members would come, and they would have to delay their holiday again .

‘But…’

His reason was faltering in front of dying users and NPCs around him .

“But why are only those three moving? Why aren’t the rest of the Demon guild moving?”

“It looks like they’re searching for somebody?”

At that moment .

“…Mmm?”

The conflicted Soo Hyuk caught onto a conversation between the users around him .

“Ain’t they looking for the user from yesterday?”

“Ah, that Soo Hyuk user?”

Soo Hyuk looked around after listening to the conversation between the spectating users . He saw eight people with the three-horned demon mark on their heads .