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Chapter 53

The four people were sitting in a slightly dark but spacious and luxurious room, in a closed room without a single window.

The person who led the atmosphere was Jo Won-young.

In fact, the person who had the upper hand over Cho Won-young was Jake who was present, but Jake just watched.

No matter how much Jake came out of the DM, he wasn’t the DM’s successor, he was just in charge of this mission.

In front of them, Choi Sun-ho and Choi Sun-woo were sitting with a slightly anxious expression.

“Okay, let’s have a drink and start. You can’t talk about important things in an awkward atmosphere, right? Hahaha.”

Jo Won-young smiled pleasantly and took her drink.

She made a light toast and drank her liquor, burning her stomach. It was a fairly high alcohol.

“You two, are the preparations going smoothly?”

She didn’t want to hear the answer that she wasn’t, so she asked the question, but her tone was assertive.

“I have something to tell you about that.”

Choi Seon-ho said quickly. The atmosphere calmed down a bit.

Jo Won-young’s eyes lit up.

“What do you mean? I asked if the preparation was going smoothly?”

“Preparation is smooth. But there are stumbling blocks.”

“A stumbling block?”

“It seems that the maximum length has been noticed. The atmosphere is not bad.”

Jo Won-young’s expression turned cold.

“So?”

“That’s why I’m telling you… can’t we deal with the maximum path first?”

Jo Won-young’s expression hardened.

“Are you kidding me now?”

“It looks like our backs are being ripped off, so what do we do?”

“You have to take that kind of risk. Did you ever think that the work would go smoothly without any incident?”

Choi Sun-ho kept his mouth shut and looked at Jo Won-young.

But Jo Won-young didn’t even budge.

‘That’s annoying.’

I remembered Ji Chang-gi who was going to end the war first.

Somehow, this incident overlapped with that time.

“Can you figure it out on your own?”

Choi Seon-ho smiled awkwardly. If that’s possible, why would you join hands with them?

“So, with our support, are you going to take the black market? If I wash my mouth after that, will I be a bastard staring at the roof?”

“It will never happen.”

“Okay. Is it possible to determine the location of the maximum road?”

“We are digging a trap. But it would be impossible to single out the greatest path.”

It didn’t matter because I had to fight anyway. Because he never thought he would be able to take over the black market without any damage.

And if you fall into the trap properly, you can start the fight after forcing damage to that side.

Wouldn’t that be enough?

Cho Won-young thought so, but Choi Sun-ho and Choi Sun-woo didn’t seem to be.

“I hope you will support the Awakened as much as possible.”

Jo Won-young glared at the two of them with absurd eyes.

“Most? Did you say max, now?”

“Yes. We want to reduce the damage.”

Jo Won-young, of course, had no intention of listening. Of course we will support you. But the support wasn’t the Battle Awakening.

He planned to extract power from the dark side he was working on now. Half the work was done, and the bait was thrown away.

It will probably be easy to catch. Of course, that would be a trap for them too.

So, after weakening the power of the dark house itself, he planned to eat it one by one.

Now that the Jigonggi has disappeared, shouldn’t we have to come up with an alternative?

We had originally planned something different, but we revamped the plan by attracting the black market.

That alone was enough. In order to better control the black market in the future, it is better to do some damage.

Of course, he had no intention of supporting the Awoken.

‘It’s a pain in the ass because there are a lot of Awakened people who died because of the spear.’

When Cho Won-young did not answer the gatabuta, the expressions of Choi Sun-ho and Choi Sun-woo were slightly distorted.

Just before the atmosphere turned harsh, Jake, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth.

“I have a new proposal for you two, would you like to hear it?”

“A new offer?”

Choi Sun-ho and Choi Sun-woo, as well as Cho Won-young, looked at Jake with surprised eyes.

“There is no stereotype that our DMs should only be in charge of the distribution of Yangji. In fact, we plan to build a dungeon distribution empire that controls all distribution of shade and light.”

The three men’s faces hardened. It was a blatant attempt to devour everything.

“The mercenaries are arriving tomorrow. I asked the head office.”

“mercenary?”

“All Awakened mercenaries. The mercenaries who awakened from the PMC were selected and formed.” PMC is a private military enterprise. So it meant that Awakened people with rich combat experience would come to Korea.

“I will provide those mercenaries to the black market.”

“I am really?”

Jake smiled and nodded his head.

“You pass the black market instead.”

The atmosphere suddenly turned cold.

But Jake didn’t pay any attention to his words.

“You two, aren’t you going to be satisfied with the black market? Shouldn’t he at least sit in a position of at least the Korean branch manager of the distribution empire DM or the Asian head of the division?”

It was a word that provoked lust without mercy.

* * *

Hajin Kang couldn’t hide his absurd expression.

‘What are all these people like?’

Yesterday, I received a call from Choi Dae-gil. No, even to call it communication. Because it only came with one text message.

-I’m going into the trap in three days.

It was just this one sentence.

“So, you’re going to fall into a trap, so you’ll have to decide whether to ask for it or not, right?”

What kind of novel character is this? If Ha-jin Kang let go of his hand, wouldn’t he just die?

Besides, not tomorrow, not now, but three days later, something else.

“What’s the difference between this and just asking me to prepare a glyph?”

I laughed out loud, but I couldn’t let it go.

Anyway, the decision was made to save Max Road and prevent the black market from falling into DM’s hands.

If he had known in advance that the greatest path was also a trap, he would have prepared as much as possible.

Still, he thinks he can’t stop it, so he’s probably trying to attract Ha-jin Kang.

So, I ordered Myung In-hyeok to investigate the matter yesterday.

Even if it was Myeong In-hyeok, it was impossible for him to monitor the black market and dig up information about it because he had not gained much experience.

However, the maximum length provided several tours to check the information on the black market.

Myung In-hyuk was able to extract much more high-quality information than Max-gil expected by mixing his own methods while using it.

He tried a few tests to get the information, and it was very successful.

At that time, he was able to obtain a lot of information about Choi Sun-ho and Choi Sun-woo. It also scraped the power distribution and market conditions in the black market.

At the same time, it was possible to supplement the information gathering route in a much more sophisticated and covert manner.

Since this was the first actual battle after such improvement, expectations were high.

Just as I was thinking about yesterday, Myung In-hyuk rushed in.

“Master, this is the material you mentioned yesterday.”

Myung In-hyeok quickly held out a bundle of documents. He, of course, intended to do the briefing himself.

“It seems that Choi Seon-ho and Choi Sun-woo are trying to get rid of Choi Choi-gil.”

“okay?”

That was expected enough. Controlling half of the black market means that it also has half the information power of the black market.

Of course, it won’t be the best way.

Choi Dae-gil held the center of the black market. So Choi Sun-ho and Choi Sun-woo also brought in outside forces.

“The investigation has been delayed because some strange people have intervened there.”

“Strange guys?”

“All foreigners who entered Korea a few days ago are awakened.”

“Awakened foreigners?”

“Yeah. So I did some research, and they were all mercenaries who worked for the PMC.”

“mercenary?”

At that moment, Kang Ha-jin had something that immediately came to mind.

‘SE mercenaries?’

I remember hearing something similar before returning.

It was a mercenary unit made up of only mercenaries from special forces. It was also the DM’s strike force.

It was a mercenary that he used well whenever he handled dirty work in DM, but Ha-jin Kang was unaware of its existence and only found out when it was almost time to die.

At that time, I had no emotion to use to disappoint the DM because I was only absorbed in removing the dungeon from this world.

Anyway, the problem was that they were very vicious and that they were DM’s hounds, so there was a very high chance that they would intervene in this matter.

No, it’s definitely interfering. Otherwise, there would be no need to come to Korea.

The last time the jigsaw had ended so futilely that he was sharpening his sword this time.

“Are there any other special features other than these guys?”

“There is another Awakened foreigner..”

“Are you different from these guys?”

“Yeah. I found out that they were wealthy awakeners in A-Market.”

Hajin Kang nodded his head. A-Market was also well prepared.

It seems that it was not easy to meet the number of Awakened people in Korea alone.

“Good. Leave that to A-Market, is that the end?”

“no. There is one more thing. They, including the Jeyoung group, are wandering around in the dark.”

“Is it dark?”

“They are trying to bring the dark side to this thing.”

“Can you stop that?”

Myung In-hyuk looked directly at Kang Ha-jin and nodded his head vigorously with a confident expression. “You can.”

Kang Ha-jin saw such a famous In-hyuk, and she unwittingly used a spying skill.

Everything was just as it was checked a while ago.

But somehow it felt different from before.

It was much more reliable.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“okay. Believe.”

Myung In-hyuk smiled and went outside.

The anxiety that had arisen after hearing about the SE mercenaries was slightly diluted.

“Then… Shall we move the A-market?”

Hajin Kang picked up the phone.

* * *

Jeong-in looked at the 30 Awakeneds with her anxious eyes.

They were really picky and picky people.

She didn’t have many Awoken people in Korea to choose from, so she ended up secretly contacting the head office to bring the Awakened.

Currently, A-Market has a very sharp atmosphere in the upper part due to a nervous battle with the DM.

However, she could not reveal this situation carelessly because there must be a traitor in the upper part as well.

So it was really difficult to gather such people.

Normally, this is something that can be easily solved with just one phone call.

The betrayal was still being prepared. If you do it right away, the job is done neatly.

Perhaps the execution of the traitor will be finished before the black market work begins.

“The life of this work is secrecy.”

Jeong-in took one look around the 30 Awakeneds she focused on herself.

They were sharpened as if they could swing a sword at any moment.

“The enemy we have to deal with today is the SE mercenaries.”

There was a slight commotion among the Awoken.

The SE mercenaries were a little-known organization. But to them, it had a different meaning.

They were the ones who had to fight constantly from the moment they started getting entangled with the DM.

“It won’t be easy, but it’s not impossible either. We are not going to face Team A, but Team D.”

Everyone was relieved to hear that she was Team D. Team A of the SE mercenaries is made up of really monstrous bastards.

With this level of combat awakening now, it’s not a fight at all.

But if it’s Team D, it’s a different story.

“And our mission is a surprise. We’re going to surprise Team D on the move. You don’t have to kill them all. Our goal is to pass the time.”

Contrary to her anxious heart, Jeong-in said in a very confident tone.

All of the operations this time around were set up by the Guardians.

I had no choice but to do so. If A-Market led the way, there was a possibility that the secret would leak out to the DM side.

If he had been able to use A-Market’s abundant manpower pool, he would probably have come up with a much more sophisticated and sure strategy.

After confirming that DM’s magical beast extends deep inside A-Market, it has hardly used its own information network.

So this operation had no choice but to rely solely on the Guardian.

A map was sent to her smartphone. No, it wasn’t a map, it was an app.

It was a map application that displayed the route of the target. The caller was Hajin Kang.

“Come on, let’s go.”

The vans carrying Jeong A-yeon and 30 Awakened people started all at once.