The Guide Raid (2)

Hmph. I leisurely floated around, crunching on a giant popcorn.
The Crow Guild Leader, who had stomped away, led only his guild members and disappeared down the left path.
Yeon Taeseon, who had been quiet until now, also disappeared down the opposite path.
The fact that he didn’t look back at me until the end was very resentful.
“Begin.”
It was then that a voice, unfamiliar yet heard somewhere before, was caught by the sensitive hearing of the Constellation.
KWANG-!
With a loud roar, the left path closed.
“…?”
“What?”
“…”
The left path.
Not the right path where we were, but the left path where the Crow Guild had entered.
The Crow Guild had now trapped themselves.
“Are they idiots? If they were going to isolate someone, it should have been us.”
“No, they probably would have gotten out right away. There are two S-ranks.”
Jiye and Seona chatted away.
They didn’t seem to feel any sense of crisis at all.
But I felt something uneasy.
A feeling that I had missed something…

“Begin.”
I carefully chewed on the voice I had heard a moment ago.
And when I remembered that I had heard that voice in passing at the auction house where I had saved Cheon Sanho.
A single thought flashed through my mind like lightning.
“Pikku! Piiik! Pyaaaaak!”
Without delay, I immediately ripped out Sion’s hair.
My brilliant first contractor immediately took out the translator.

Run!

Run!

Run like crazy!

Run!
“Pion says to run.”
“Quadra Haste!”
As soon as Sion’s words fell, Jiye cast a Haste spell without any delay, without asking any questions.
A wind magic enveloped everyone’s feet, allowing them to move forward at a speed incomparable to before.
Although they were moving fiercely, Jiye, who seemed curious as to why they had to do this, asked while running.
“Pion! Why are you telling us to run?”
“Pyaaaaaaak!”
“The translator translates it in fragments, so I don’t know exactly, but since she says to run, run!”
It was frustrating, but I couldn’t help it.
Since I was a weak jellyfish who could only squeak, there was no way to convey a detailed message.
And to send a message like ‘The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, blah blah blah…’ was too complicated and would take too much time.
This was a trick similar to political maneuvering.
‘As they say, the life of political maneuvering is time!’
The reason why this method is called political maneuvering is simple.
In a closed space, there are people A and B. But B is fine and A is injured. Who is suspicious?
‘Of course, it’s B!’
This method was used by a third party, C, to injure A and frame B.
That’s why it was political maneuvering.
I knew because I had seen many nobles use this method in my past life, and this felt exactly like that.
And the B who was being framed here was our guild…!
‘And most importantly, if the voice I heard at the auction house is heard here! Of course, someone is trying to interfere!’
There was only one breakthrough.
To run and save the A in crisis!
Of course, the Crow Guild had body cams, but that wasn’t a device that could block a determined attack.
In other words, we had suddenly ended up filming a hero and princess movie with the Crow Guild!
“Pion! It’s the boss room!”
“Pyaaaaaak!”
The translator beeped and translated my words.

Go back!

Left!

Left!
“Left? The Crow Guild?”
“Pyak!”
“I don’t know what it is, but run…!”
“Wait, stop!”
Jiye shouted urgently.
The Haste that had been on their legs was released, and Cheon Sanho fell ungracefully.
But no one paid any attention to it.
Cheon Sanho, who had urgently lifted his head, was the same.
Because the path to the left was blocked by pitch-black darkness.
“Cheon Sanho.”
“Search isn’t working. It’s impossible.”
Wiping the flowing nosebleed, Cheon Sanho focused his eyes.
But when he saw nothing, he got up with Seona’s treatment.
“Guild Leader, this is…”
“Yes.”
Sion and Jiye knew the identity of this darkness.
They had no choice but to know.
Because it matched the aura that emanated from the ability of the person who had inflicted a humiliating defeat on the two of them at that auction house.
“Han Siyoon is here…”
South Korea’s 4th-ranked hunter.
The black hunter, Han Siyoon.
Han Sion’s older brother was pulling some tricks here.
“…”
And I was feeling something else.
I could feel the energy of a contractor raging inside this darkness.
It was Yeon Taeseon.

After entering the gate.
Yeon Taeseon was quiet the whole time.
Even when others spoke to him after seeing his outstanding looks, even when the guild leader spoke to him, he ignored them.
It was a complete change from when he had first promised to cooperate and said, ‘I’ll be counting on you’.
And the Crow Guild Leader did not like it.
‘This guy and that guy…!’
The Crow Guild Leader was a high-ranking A-rank skilled person.
And he also had pride in his position as the guild leader of a mid-sized guild in South Korea.
He was so confident that he preferred the title ‘Crow Guild Leader’ over his own name.
But these contractors of the Silent Calamity looked down on him.
‘Just because they got an S-rank, they’re all arrogant!’
The Yeon Taeseon in front of him was also S-rank.
The Crow Guild Leader, who had seen that grade measurement with his own eyes, could not forget the shock of that time.

[Name: Yeon Taeseon Lv.1]
[Contracted Constellation: Silent Calamity]
[Unique Skill: – ]
[Estimated Grade: S-rank (99.99%)]
The cold handsome man in front of him had no unique skill.
And even without a unique skill, he possessed the potential of a world number one.
The Crow Guild Leader was unbearably jealous of that.
‘I’ve been stuck at the same domestic ranking for years…!’
The Crow Guild Leader was what they called a ‘hunter who has run out of juice’.
One who could no longer grow and just maintained his position.
There was only one way for such hunters to grow.
To receive coins from their contracted Constellation and forcibly grow their stats.
For this reason, and because of the brainwashing cast by his Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, the Crow Guild Leader was blindly following his Constellation’s orders.
So when the fork in the road appeared, although he was not without a wavering heart, the Constellation’s order was a priority.

[The Constellation, ‘The Crow’s Ruins’, orders you to go left.]
If you just follow orders like this, you get some coins.
He was a truly generous Constellation.
Countless footsteps echoed in the cave.
The strange thing was that although there were many sparkling crystals, not a single monster was to be seen.
The Crow guild members were collecting crystals and laughing happily, but no one felt that it was strange.
Because the Constellation had made them feel that way.
Except for one person.
“Crow Guild Leader.”
The eyes of the Silent Calamity’s contractor, Yeon Taeseon, sank deeply.
“I didn’t hear that there was a murderer here.”
His eyes, shining with starlight, caught the traces of mana everywhere.
A disgusting mana that melted away like a shadow eating away at the flesh.
And Yeon Taeseon, the Regressor, knew whose mana this was.
Han Siyoon.
The S-rank hunter who had gathered hunters with the investment of the HN Group, then suddenly murdered all the promising prospects he had gathered and disappeared without a trace.
And the traitor who had suddenly appeared and brought down the most incarnations and Constellations from the starry sky in the Constellation War.
It was Han Siyoon’s mana.
Yeon Taeseon took out various swords from his inventory.
Seeing him preparing for battle, the Crow Guild Leader laughed heartily.
“A murderer, you say? There’s no such thing. Are you afraid we’ll suddenly turn on you?”
“…”
“I told you, that won’t happen. Ah, I see him over there.”
From the other side of the cave, darkness crept out.
An unnatural darkness with not a single point of light was crawling out like a bug, but the Crow guild members didn’t feel anything strange.
The Crow Guild Leader shouted cheerfully.
“Guild Leader Han Siyoon!”
A golden eye shone brightly in the darkness.
There was no answer.
“The one who’s going to crush those Nate Guild bastards in this raid, well, the rumors are a bit bad, but isn’t that how this field is? So, what I’m saying is…”
Thump.
Yeon Taeseon pushed the Crow Guild Leader aside and grabbed his sword.
The suddenly pushed Crow Guild Leader staggered.
He shouted in anger.
“There’s a limit to ignoring me…!”
Kagagagagang!
A sharp metallic sound echoed.
Yeon Taeseon’s item, with its special ability, deflected the darkness that had suddenly attacked from Han Siyoon.
Yeon Taeseon and the Crow Guild Leader were safe.
“Kyaaaak!”
“Holy mother, what is this!”
“Guild Leader Han Siyoon! How could you…!”
“Aaaak! Save me!”
Unlike the two who were protected by the starlight emanating from the sword, the Crow guild members, who had been ‘forcibly’ made to let their guard down by the Constellation, were caught in the darkness that had spread everywhere.
The space was covered in darkness.
Only then did the Crow Guild Leader, who realized that Han Siyoon was not on his side, tremble.
A light voice echoed in the quiet darkness.
“It’s one person short, but, well…”
“…”
“You’re also a contractor of the Silent Calamity, so this should do, right?”
A white finger of Han Siyoon pointed downwards.
Poof!
Something burst out of the darkness.
It was the Crow guild members who had just been caught, dyed black.
They looked like zombies, having lost their sanity and drooling.
“Kyaaaak!”
“Constellation-nim. Constellation-nim. Constellation-nim.”
“Mommy, I’m scared. Mommy, I’m scared. Mommy, I’m scared.”
“Aaaak! Aaaak! Aaaak!”
Among the hunters who were each making grotesque sounds, Yeon Taeseon readjusted his grip on his sword.
“Crow Guild Leader. Survive with the will to die.”
The hunters, all of whom were mid-to-low A-rank, rushed towards Yeon Taeseon.