The Guide Raid (1)

Yeon Taeseon looked at me.
I glared back at him.
What. Why. So what if you’re handsome.
“Kyak kyak.”
Honestly, I was a little swayed, but I barely managed to come to my senses.
This guy was a traitor who had betrayed me and gone to Crow!
I was so angry that I wanted to terminate the provisional contract, but…

[A penalty for termination exists.]
Unlike a normal case where the Constellation is unilaterally superior, since this was a contract made under mutual agreement, I would have to pay a penalty if I wanted to terminate it.
So I gave up on terminating it while crying.
I had to live with this troublesome Regressor.
‘No, but when did he get his grade measured?’
I glanced at Jiye, who, as the association president’s niece, would have heard at least a little something if such a big event had happened.
The smart and sparkling Jiye shook her head slightly and mouthed.
‘Never heard of it. Suspect political collusion.’
It meant that a politician had pulled some strings and had him secretly measured.
To avoid the eyes of Hong Yuon, who had a firm grip on the association, it must have taken a considerable amount of effort.
Or a considerable amount of money.
Jiye’s eyes grew cold, knowing that the association had pulled a fast one.
It seemed like a cold wind would blow through the association soon.
“Ha-haha! Nate Guild Leader. You must not have seen me. I am the Crow Guild Leader.”
Just then, a man in his 40s cut in between the two.
The angular-faced Crow Guild Leader was just a hard rock between the two with their otherworldly looks.
“Now, now, our temporary guild member! Stop talking with him and talk to me.”
It meant, ‘The Guild Leader is here, so where did you sell your manners to be looking elsewhere?’
“I apologize. I received the basic briefing in writing, so I thought there would be no need to see you.”
It meant, ‘I sent you everything in writing because I didn’t want to see your face, so what kind of trick are you pulling?’
I suddenly craved some black tea.
In my past life, it was so much fun to watch people fight with the words of noble ladies like this.
Of course, thinking about that time made the place where my neck was cut ache for some reason, so I decided to stop.
Jellyfish don’t have necks, but it’s the feeling!
“Still, since we’re all gathered like this, it would be nice to get to know each other…”
“There’s no need. Then.”
Sion said, ignoring the Crow Guild Leader and approaching the reporters.
To the reporters who were asking about this raid and the reason for their inactivity, Sion replied eloquently with his characteristic angelic smile.
It was Jiye who had made Sion, who had never done an interview before, like that.

“Guild Leader-nim, you need to practice for the interview, right?”
“…Can’t you do it?”
“Do you think the Calamity will like a contractor who can’t even do one interview?”
“So where is the list of expected questions?”
With a change of pace faster than light, he became a smooth talker who could give eloquent answers in just two days.
My Sion… is this what society is…
Of course, even during that smooth-flowing interview, Yeon Taeseon sent me a deep gaze.
I naturally ignored it.
The Crow Guild Leader also sent a murderous gaze.
I ignored that too.
A murderous gaze from a squid-rock was not scary.
After finishing the interview appropriately, we stood in front of the gate.
An A-rank orange slime gate.
It was a deep vermilion color, almost red.
Since the byproducts of a slime gate were very expensive, it was common to let it mature until it was close to red before entering.
“Hey, Nate Guild Leader. Don’t you have a porter?”
“No.”
The fact that the byproducts are expensive means that you can’t miss a single one.
Usually, if the Crow Guild had even a 1% share of the byproducts, they would hire a porter to dismantle the byproducts and put them in their inventory, but…
They didn’t this time.
Even though it was polite to hire one separately for a ‘guide raid’.
‘They’re trying to mess with us.’
But who are we?
The Nate Guild.
The contractors of the Silent Calamity.
It only took 10 minutes to wipe the smirks off the faces of the Crow Guild Leader, who was taunting us for entering the gate without a porter.

“Entering!”
The Crow Guild entered first, followed by the Nate Guild.
We gave a simple wave to the screaming fans and entered the gate.
The gate was a cave terrain.
“It’s a crystal slime.”
“If we pick them all up, we’ll get about 40 billion.”
While thinking about the value of the byproducts, the Crow Guild Leader, who had participated directly because it was an important slime gate, said with a swagger.
“Now, this is your first slime dungeon, right? Just follow this senior.”
Look at him talking informally as soon as there are no eyes watching.
But no one was affected by it.
Sion had already been burned by the Crow Guild, so this was child’s play, and Jiye, who must have seen all of Crow’s incidents at the association, was no exception.
Cheon Sanho had also rolled around in this field, so he brushed off the informal speech like a dog barking, and Seona had no thoughts as she was busy looking around the dungeon she had entered for the first time.
In the end, the Crow Guild Leader, whose pride had been unintentionally trampled on, shouted.
“Now! Watch carefully. Slimes have a basic mimicry function, so the basic guild formation is like this…”
“Cheon Sanho.”
“Yeees.”
As the 30 members of the Crow Guild were about to prepare a search formation in an orderly manner, Sion spoke in a low voice.
A complex magic circle appeared in Cheon Sanho’s clear pink eyes.

[Search: Detect Reaction]
Cheon Sanho had been a contractor of the Administrator, though it was now terminated, so his abilities were quite outstanding.
While other appraisers were non-combatants, Cheon Sanho could also be used as a combatant.
“Five entities ahead.”
Like searching for an invisible slime and forcibly revealing its form.
“Core locations: bottom left, top left, center, center, middle left, top right.”
“Baek Jiye.”
“Spear.”
With a short chant, arrows were created in the air at an unbelievable speed and were shot simultaneously.
Clang, clang, thud-!
Rumble, crash…
The slimes, which were sparkling in five colors, had their cores shattered and collapsed before they could even rush in.
The liquid that had been flowing under their hard outer shells pooled on the floor.
For the record, the Crow Guild was still getting into formation.
“…”
“Ah, the guild formation.”
Sion’s indifferent voice pierced the stiff-faced Crow Guild Leader.
“We don’t need such things.”
As the Calamity said,
The grade is the best.
“Ah, the battle is over, right? Does anyone need healing?”
Seona raised her hand and said.
She was offering to heal even though no one was hurt.
‘Seona, that’s taunting.’
I giggled and spun around in the air.

After that, it was our guild’s solo stage.
“Life reaction from the rear!”
“Baek Jiye!”
“Just take care of the front!”
The Crow Guild was just extras.
They were sandwiched between Han Sion in the front and Baek Jiye in the back, peacefully riding the S-rank bus.
For the record, if they fell or tried to do something and got hurt, Seona would heal them, so no one was injured.
“…What is this.”
“Wasn’t this a guide raid? Why did we become the extras?”
“Guild Leader, say something.”
“Shut up.”
For the record, the body cams attached to their bodies were recording this situation vividly.
Lest we forget, this guide raid also served as a grade stability test.
‘If they have a conscience, they’ll pass without any problems.’
But since Crow was a shameless guild that would make unreasonable demands, it was the minimum defensive measure we had requested.
Thud, rumble…
A medium-sized slime collapsed.
The slime’s outer shell, body fluid, core fragments, and other byproducts floated up into the air without leaving a single trace, were separated, and piled up in the inventory.
It was Jiye’s telekinesis magic.
She was using a magic that could only be used at around the 4th circle to clean up monster byproducts…
“There are more slimes than I thought.”
“That must mean it was getting closer to red.”
The raid was going very smoothly.
Until a fork in the road appeared in the cave.
“A fork in the road?”
“What is this?”
“There was nothing about this in the briefing.”
According to the association’s database, when a cave terrain appeared in a slime dungeon, the path was a single one.
A fork in the road had never been reported.
“…”
“Guild Leader, what should we do?”
Just as Sion was about to open his mouth.
“Haha! A fork in the road, this is troublesome, Nate Guild Leader.”
“What is it?”
The Crow Guild Leader spoke with a clearly suspicious attitude.
“When a fork in the road appears, it’s common to split the team or form a search party…”
“Then let’s split the team. The Crow Guild can take the left.”
“No, no, we should put Cheon Sanho-ssi in a search party…”
“We have four people, and Crow has many members, so what’s the problem?”
Of course, Sion was as sharp as a knife.
The Crow Guild Leader, whose pride had once again been trampled on by the young Sion, turned red in the face and didn’t speak to him anymore.
Anyone could see that he was advertising ‘I’m angry’.