Level 1 Player

Hyunseong flew back to Korea.

Lucia and Shin Yoon-a were also there.

The US federal government thanked Hyunseong and Shin Yoona for their active participation in the Red Dragon Raid.

also received a medal.

Well, it wasn't a high-ranking medal like the Medal of Honor or the Gold Star Medal of Service.

It was a medal that was paid in batches to float players who participated in the Red Dragon Raid.

But it was meaningful to receive.

After all, the medal was a medal.

As soon as Hyunseong arrived in Korea, she broke up with Yoona Shin and returned home with Lucia.

Afterwards, he met his family and briefly talked about what had happened in America.

And Hyunseong went back to America with Lucia using a long-distance scroll.

“The time I spent on the plane was worth it.”

Lucia agreed with Hyunseong's words.

“It is. Time and points are too precious.”

From the point of view of Hyunseong and Lucia, who were going to return to the US using scrolls for long-distance movement anyway, flying to Korea by plane was a waste of time and points.

“Well, I can’t help it. We’re going to go ahead and pick the ones we’ve already been to.”

Hyunseong and Lucia spent a whopping 20 billion points on their way to the US.

I had to hunt so hard.

In order not to return to Korea in the middle, I mobilized a bag with space expansion skills in a subspace to pack a lot of inventory.

He was determined to sweep the dungeons in 51 states in the United States.

Hyunseong and Lucia started dungeon tour again.

Even though I was passing the dungeons in Korea, there were a lot of dungeons I had to go through.

‘It climbs very quickly.’

After cleaning the hero grade dungeon and starting to run around the normal grade or rare grade dungeon, the hunting speed was faster than I could have imagined.

In addition, American dungeons had significantly lower player density than Korean dungeons.

It happened because there were fewer players than the dungeon.

‘Why did you come to the expedition, there was a good reason.’

There was a reason why they left their own dungeons and went to another country to hunt.

Hyunseong got excited and went hunting.

At the current speed, it seemed that he could clear dungeons across the United States faster than expected.

‘After the US, Canada and Mexico are next.’

Sweep the dungeons of the North American continent.

After that, go to South America.

What if I clear all dungeons in the Americas?

You can go to the continent of Eurasia or the continent of Africa.

‘I have to clear all the dungeons around the world.’

Accumulate achievements by hunting all monsters that appear on Earth.

That was Hyunseong's current goal.

* * *“Why the hell is Choi Hyunseong not hunting?”

Jong-man Lee, a candidate for Minister of Dimension Gate Management in Korea, asked Seon-yeong Kang, president of the Korea Players Association.

"well. Since you worked hard in America, isn't it time to recharge for a while?"

“Then, who is Shin Yoon-ah’s player? Isn't Shin Yuna almost living in a dungeon right now?”

‘Why does that bastard come to me and do this shit before I’m even officially appointed?’

Kang Seon-young spit out abusive language in response to Lee Jong-man's rebuke.

After Minister Lee Hang-koo was ousted, the newly appointed Minister of Management of the dimension gate remained quiet as if he was drunk with water.

However, a change of government took place in the recent presidential election, and the ruling and opposition parties were reversed.

The new president carried out a cabinet reshuffle and elected new ministers and deputy ministers.

After the candidate verification is completed, Minister Lee Jong-man officially becomes the Minister of Dimensional Gate Management.

However, unlike the current minister, who had been quiet, this guy was already showing signs of making a mess.

Even before he could officially take the post of minister, he came to the players' association and started podcasting.

“Whether or not to hunt in the dungeon is up to the player. Just because I’m the president of the association, I can’t say this or that.”

At the words of the Association President Kang Seon-young, Minister Lee Jong-man wrinkled his face.

“Hey, Kang Seon-young, president of the Association, I am a candidate for minister, but in reality, I am a person who has become a minister. I mean, it's your direct supervisor. But can you only say that?”

"Yes?"

“If my boss points out a mistake, I made a mistake, I will correct it. Why do excuses come up in the first place?”

President Kang Seon-young's face hardened.

“Who are you standing in front of right now? Are you saying this makes me feel bad?”

Kang Seon-young, the president of the Association, was hurt by Lee Jong-man's grudge.

He seemed more authoritarian and thoughtless than former Minister Lee Hang-koo.

‘Why the hell are you carrying out government personnel like this?’

If you are a candidate for Dimension Gate Management Minister, shouldn't you be aware of the relationship between the player association and the players directly under the association?

“Candidate Jong-man Lee, the player association and the players directly under the association are not dependent. Just because you signed the contract, you have no right to instruct me not to hunt.”

Minister Lee Jong-man frowned from the moment he heard that he was his candidate.

“Then why on earth do you pay a down payment and pay an annual salary?”

“When there is a crisis, the first thing to go to is the players directly under the association. We are also on standby for emergency services.”

“Then, shouldn’t we just issue an emergency call? Now the Players Association is full of deficits. They paid a huge down payment and salary, but there was no real value. Should we waste people’s blood money like this?”

Kang Seon-young, president of the Association, was astounded.

The Players' Association is not a private organization.

It is a government agency that receives state tax support.

Of course, it is not operated for the purpose of generating profits like a private organization.

The significance of the player association's existence is to nurture independent players so that the government is not swayed by the large guilds that are private organizations.

In the event of a national crisis, it is put first.

In addition, when there is a problem or an accident in the dungeon, the first to be dispatched to solve it.

Isn't it impossible to issue an emergency call whenever there is a problem?

In addition, the extent of the deficit widening is quite recent.

It was the funds invested in solving the Second Cataclysm, the Imoogi Incident, and the Orc Swarm Incident.

“You’re talking too much about wasting blood tax.”

"what? what did you say now Are you serious?”At the half-talk of the minister candidate Lee Jong-man, the president of the Association, Kang Seon-young, looked angry.

In my mind, I wanted to respond in the same way.

But Kang Seon-young, president of the association, struggled to suppress his anger.

“The Players Association has never wasted any money. If you are so concerned, you can conduct an audit after formally taking office as Minister.”

Kang Seon-young, president of the association, was proud.

To be honest, most of the association's employees who commit corruption were connected to the dimensional gate management department.

It is also because the dimension gate management prevented the failure to deal with the employees who commit corruption.

If Kang Seon-young had been able to wield all power, she would have searched out and swept away the employees who committed corruption earlier.

At the dignified remarks of the Association President Kang Seon-young, Minister Lee Jong-man stepped down.

“Well, good. Then it will pass. However, it is negligible for a player who has received a huge down payment and salary to just play. Fix it right now.”

“I will try.”

“Ah, and there will be an official inauguration ceremony soon, and at that time, including Choi Hyunseong, all players directly from the association who participated in the Legendary level monster raid should attend.”

“I will try.”

At the words of the Association President Kang Seon-young, Minister Lee Jong-man stood up with a wrinkled face.

And he went out of the office of the president of the association.

“What kind of player association is this incompetent guy? If the minister asks you to, you just have to respond by saying, ‘I will do that, Minister.’ What kind of effort… … .”

Kang Seon-young, president of the Association, turned red as he heard Minister Lee Jong-man's self-talk.

Bang!

Candidate Jong-man Lee, a ministerial candidate, roughly closed the door to the office of the president of the association and disappeared.

“Oh, what kind of a half penny is that spectacular?”

Kang Seon-young, president of the Association, frowned.

It looked like she was about to rot in front of her.

* * *

“Are you saying that the Players Association has asked you to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Minister of Dimensional Gate Management?”

-Uh, I just texted you.

Hyunseong wrinkled her face at the words of her older sister Choi Hyun-ji.

“Tell me you can’t go because you’re busy.”

-okay.

drop!

The call was disconnected.

“What kind of inauguration ceremony is the inauguration ceremony?”

Hyunseong murmured thoughtlessly and put his smartphone in his pocket.

Just as Hyunseong refused to attend the inauguration ceremony of the dimensional gate management minister, other players directly under the association also expressed their refusal.

I had never been contacted to attend such an event before, and I refused because I did not need to attend.

Shortly after that, a problem arose.

“Ah, you bastard.”

Kang Seon-young, president of the Association, wrinkled her face.

The quarterly budget paid by the government has been drastically cut.

It was difficult to properly pay the fixed salaries to the players directly under the association.

President Kang Seon-young immediately called the dimension gate management department.“Why was the budget cut this quarter?”

- It is because the government budget is insufficient.

“No, how much budget is our country running short of a year? And aren't the funds being executed now already approved in the previous year? But how the hell is the budget cut?”

- The budget was not cut, it was just delayed payment due to lack of money.

“Does that make sense?”

- It is because the government budget is insufficient.

President Kang Seon-young's face hardened.

It felt like talking to a wall.

President Kang Seon-young hung up the phone.

And he thought that he would go to the dimension gate management department in person tomorrow.

Kang Seon-young, president of the Association, thought that the new minister, Toray, was acting a bit grumpy.

But that evening, she changed her mind when she saw a special broadcast on the topic of the negligent management of the Players Association.

This was not something that could have happened simply because one of the new ministers was rioting.

* * *

Hyunseong toured American dungeons with Lucia today as well.

He has been living in America for almost half a year.

As a result, American dungeon clearing had progressed quite a bit.

‘Let’s do a little more and move on to Canada.’

Fragile!

Hyunseong activated Black Dragon's Breath and annihilated the hordes of monsters rushing from the front.

For half a year, the Black Lightning Dragon's Breath, the Book of Immortality, and the Dragon Blood Sword have grown steadily.

Although it did not grow to the Mythic level, it boasted a high efficiency that could not be compared with other Legendary level skills.

-Unbelievable Achievements - Legendary Rank

- You have hunted 10,000 high-level monsters, Ant-Man, alone.

-Achievement Reward: Title [Ant-Man Slayer - Legendary Rank]

achievement has been completed.

“Lucia, my achievement has been cleared.”

“I’m done too.”

Lucia, who purchased hero-grade wide-area skills with spare points, has significantly increased the achievement clearing speed.

After completing the achievement task, Hyunseong and Lucia exited the dungeon.

Now it was time to move on to the next dungeon.

After leaving the dungeon, Hyunseong habitually checked his smartphone.

However, there was a text message of something unusual.

“The Killers asked if I could terminate my contract with the Players Association?”

Hyunseong pulled out the killing squad and virtually left them alone.

However, the Chuck Killers took care of themselves and grew rapidly.

From the beginning, he was born with unique qualities, and financial support was added to this.

In addition, the stats increased by 6% with the monarch's flag effect.

The rapid growth of the exterminators was, in fact, a natural result.

Also, the kill squad members banded together to form a party.

This is because it was more efficient to hunt in a party with the same exterminators than to hunt in a party with other players.

Skills are also skills, but the sense of unity among the subjects serving the same monarch also exerted a great effect.

‘What the hell is going on?’

There was a problem with the kill squad members who were growing up without any problems even if they were left unattended.

The Killers were the spearheads for Hyunseong to devour the Players' Association whole.

If they leave the Players' Association, Hyunseong's plans will be disrupted.

‘I should definitely go to Korea.’

It was time to slowly replenish the electronics.

After making the decision, Hyunseong stopped by the dormitory to pack up his belongings and immediately tore the scroll for long-distance travel to Korea.

Upon arriving in Korea, Hyunseong directly checked the contents delivered through her older sister Choi Hyun-ji.

‘The support has been cut off for over four months… … .'

So was the salary.

Hyunseong checked his bank account just in case.

The salary paid by the Players Association was not a big amount for Hyunseong.

So he left it to his mother.

He checked his account transaction history through smartphone banking.

‘Didn’t you get two months’ worth of money?’

Hyunseong's expression hardened.

‘I thought there were a lot of articles criticizing the Players Association… … .'

Apparently there was a problem.

Hyunseong immediately called Shin Yoon-ah.

-Hello.

“This is Choi Hyunseong.”

-Oh, Mr. Hyunseong.

“I haven’t been able to deposit two months’ worth of wages.”

Hyunseong had a one-year contract extension with the Players Association.

- That's kind of annoying.

“May I know what’s going on?”

- It's a bit difficult to talk over the phone, so I think it would be better to talk in person.

“You do that.”

Hyunseong set an appointment place and time and hung up.

After that, he immediately changed his clothes and left the house.

The place where Hyunseong and Shin Yoona met was a coffee shop with a room type.

“Long time no see.”

"Iknow, right."

Shin Yoon-ah was in Korea and Hyunseong was in the US, so we couldn't meet.

“Why did this suddenly happen? It's been said that the kill squads haven't been paid their wages for four months. Support has been cut off.”

"Phew!"

Shin Yoona let out a deep sigh.

“Did you know that the government has changed?”

“Of course I do. Because I voted.”“I think the new regime is trying to shrink the player associations.”

“What… … ?”

Hyunseong's expression was colored with absurdity.

The previous government was also full of problems.

But when he grew the player association, he nurtured it, he didn't try to shrink it.

“Government subsidies have been drastically cut. It's hard to maintain the size of the current player association. At first I thought it was the new minister's dogma, but it wasn't. The government is putting pressure on player associations from all sides.”

Support cuts, player association audits, and even knights sniping player associations that explode every day.

It would have been nice to know the truth and report it, but that wasn't the case.

Even the poor management of the Dimension Gate Management Department was handed over to the Players Association.

It has been more than half a year since the government and the media worked together to attack the Players Association.

“No, isn’t the government crazy?”

The Players Association is a government organization.

How stupid is it that the government is attacking its own organization?

It was like eating my flesh.

“I thought so too at first. But it wasn't crazy. They were attacking the Players Association with a very solid purpose.”

“What on earth is that steadfast purpose?”

“The downsizing of the player association and the outflow of talent.”

"Yes?"

Hyunseong made an absurd expression.

The downsizing of the player association and the outflow of talent?

“You have that purpose, aren’t you crazy?”

“My guess is that there was an illegal transaction between the current government and large corporations.”

“Is this an illegal transaction?”

“Yeah, if player associations shrink or disappear, who will benefit the most?”

At Shin Yoon-ah's question, Hyunseong's expression hardened.

Player associations shrink or disappear?

Then I needed someone to do the work that the Players Association had been doing up until now, including working in the emergency queue.

Who will do the work for you?

“They must be giant guilds.”

The only organizations with a size large enough to take the place of the Players Association are giant guilds.

"that's right."

“If such a thing really happens, the existence of a collar around the necks of the giant guilds will disappear.”

Because of the player association, they were able to contain the giant guilds to some extent.

What if those player associations disappear or shrink?

From the standpoint of the giant guild, the ugly watcher who was obstructing their work in every case disappears.

Also, the influence of the giant guild increases.

If the player association becomes less famous, the government will have no choice but to be dragged into the huge guilds created by large corporations whenever accidents such as monster wave or dimension gate creation occur.

“Isn’t this the complete privatization of SOEs?”

“I think it’s okay to look at it that way.”

At Shin Yoon-ah's words, Hyunseong was absurd.

“Are the people going to let that happen? What else are the opposition parties doing?”“People’s opinion is divided in two. People who have realized the government’s intentions are resisting it, but there are also quite a lot of opinions that the player association should be reformed.”

"under!"

Hyunseong gasped.

“The Players Association is now completely degenerated into an axis of evil due to the pranks of the media. That’s why the public opinion that we need to reform the player association is gaining more momentum.”

“What about the opposition?”

“At first, I resisted strongly, but it subsided. Maybe he also took something.”

“My back hurts. I thought the people would always be on the side of the Players Association.”

Korea is the country that has built a monumental achievement for three consecutive legendary monster raids.

Naturally, the public's trust in the Players Association that organized the raid was also quite high.

“The public opinion is not very good because of the damage suffered during the orc swarm riot. Also, although people say they are passionate about players, there are a lot of people who think they are a privileged class and hate them.”

I understood that.

Hyunseong did the same.

He admired the player, but he was also jealous.

“Is there any chance that the situation will turn around?”

At Hyunseong's question, Yoona Shin bowed her head.

“Once the player association shrinks, it seems inevitable. But even if the scale is reduced, we are trying to prevent it from disappearing completely.”

Yoona Shin's words gave Hyunseong a headache.

The player association, which he had spit as his own, suddenly disappeared or was greatly reduced.

Who would have thought that the government would try to sell out the player association, which could be called its own limb.

'Wait a minute.'

While contemplating how to solve this problem for a long time, an assumption flashed through Hyunseong's head.

‘Do we really need to save the Players Association?’

I was mistaken for a moment thinking that the Players' Association would be theirs.

The Players Association is not currently owned by Hyunseong.

Also, even if Hyunseong takes control of the Players Association, he cannot be free from government directives.

‘Can’t I just eat it?’

The purpose of the government and large corporations is to expand the influence of the giant guilds by shrinking the player associations.

Incidentally, it also had the purpose of attracting talents from the Players Association to the giant guild.

Hyunseong is not a conglomerate.

However, in Hyunseong, there was a pollutant called magic analysis.

Using magic analysis, China's huge funds can be misappropriated.

Is there a lot of money from China, one of the G2 countries, or is there a lot of money from large domestic companies?

‘It’s okay if all the big Korean companies rush in.’

China has been hit hard, but somehow it's holding up.

In addition, investment by foreign companies increased due to the activity of magic analysis, and it was gradually recovering its former glory.

‘Let’s try it.’

There's a better way than devouring the Players Association.

Hyunseong broke up with Yoona Shin and immediately returned home.

After that, he looked at the process for establishing a guild and the conditions for player scouting.

'It's very relaxed.'The guild establishment procedure was the same, but the difficult scouting conditions were considerably relaxed.

They probably relaxed the scouting conditions to get players directly from the Players' Association.

‘Okay, very good.’

Hopefully, not only players directly affiliated with the association, but also players belonging to a huge guild could be pulled out.

Of course, quite a lot of money would be consumed, but there was no 1% worry about it.

* * *

Hyunseong formally asked the Players Association to terminate the contract.

He also instructed the Killers to terminate their contracts with the Players' Association.

Immediately, I got a call from Shin Yoon-ah.

-Hyunseong, when we met before, you said that you fully understand the situation of the Players Association. But what about the sudden termination of the contract?

“I understand the situation of the Players Association, but that doesn't mean we can't wait forever. It is not a problem that can be solved by waiting.”

- Yes, but... … .

“After hearing the story, the dimensional gate management department said that they were biting me like that?”

That was true.

The dimensional gate management department attacked Hyunseong's contract problem with concentration.

The gains from Hyunseong's presence were ignored and only the losses were counted.

The rationale for ignoring the benefits gained from Hyunseong was the emergency summons.

High-level players belonging to the giant guild also participated in the Imoogi incident or the orc horde incident.

The dimension gate management department argued that it was a loss to hug Hyunseong while making such a huge investment.

It was the logic that he did not need to invest that much, but could trigger an emergency call and eat it when necessary.

What was decisively bitten was the ownership of the dungeon.

How can an individual own a state-owned dungeon?

However, he did not deny Hyunseong's ownership of the dungeon itself.

Rather, he argued that he has sufficient management ability and that the huge guilds that have served the country for a long time have greatly contributed to the dungeon's ownership.

Hyunseong found out about that fact through investigations through the information and psychometry skills that the killing squads had been collecting.

“I heard that Yoona is also a target for a focused attack.”

Hyunseong isn't the only one who owns the dungeon.

Shin Yoon-ah also owns the dungeon.

She's there and she's a unique skill player owned by the government with Hyunseong.

- Not only attacks, but also a lot of scouting offers. You're trying to convince me.

“You must have rejected them all.”

-of course. They're the ones who put the Players' Association in a corner, how can they give in?

“Would you like to get revenge on them?”

- You call that a horse? Of course I want revenge. But there's no way.

“I know how to properly water them.”

-Is that really true?

"of course."

- What's the method?

“Before I say that, I have a suggestion for Yoona.”

- Any suggestions? say whatever you want

“Aren’t you thinking of joining the guild I will establish?”

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