I Alone Resurrect Chapter 149
American Dream (3)
“Stop! I surrender.”
At Eden’s words, Kang Hyeon stopped.
“Whew… I expected you to be strong, but this is really beyond imagination. Haha.”
Eden burst into laughter and slumped to the ground.
Eden’s hair, which was always neatly arranged, was now disheveled and soaked with sweat.
“Ella. What were you thinking, doing something like this?”
Eden said, looking at Ella panting in his arms.
“Eden. If we don’t resolve this matter properly, the guild’s honor…”
“What’s so important about that honor? We’ve been off the number one guild ranking for a long time now.”
“…”
“And what really tarnishes our honor is your underhanded action right now.”
At Eden’s words, Ella hung her head low.
“Kang Hyeon. I’m sorry. I really didn’t intend for this to happen… And thank you.”
Eden’s apology felt sincere.
Kang Hyeon smirked.
‘He’s really a carefreely bright guy.’
He was a bright person in a different sense from Olien.
If Olien pretended to be bright despite her pain, Eden was bright from the start.
Not pretense, but a positive person to the bone.
It was amazing how he could be so carefree in this era where people were killing each other.
“Are you cleanly giving up on Olien?”
“Of course. I’m not someone who says one thing and does another.”
“It seems like you’ll be in trouble.”
“Well… I’ll manage somehow.”
Eden shrugged and smiled.
“Kang Hyeon!”
At that moment.
Olien’s voice was heard from behind.
Turning his head, he saw Olien on the verge of tears.
Next to her stood Garnet, looking dazed.
“You two look quite a sight.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean you look good together.”
At Kang Hyeon’s words, Olien smiled brightly.
“Looks like the situation is mostly resolved. Shall we continue what we were doing?”
“What?”
“The beef. We barely ate any before we left. Let’s go back and eat.”
At Kang Hyeon’s words, everyone burst into laughter, as if in disbelief.
“You’re thinking about food in this situation?”
“Who was it that was whining while eating meat earlier? So, are you not going to eat?”
“If Kang Hyeon wants to eat, let’s go.”
Olien replied, scratching her head at Kang Hyeon’s words.
“Wait a moment.”
Eden, who had been listening from the side, raised his hand.
“You’re including me too, right?”
After pondering for a moment at Eden’s words, Kang Hyeon grinned.
“Why not! Let’s go! We’ll make a youth movie today.”
At the recklessly bright atmosphere, Ella and Garnet simultaneously sighed.
“…”
The two women, startled, met each other’s eyes.
Looking at each other, they shook their heads as if there was nothing they could do.
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“Wow! Korean beef is quite edible too!?”
“Edible!? How dare you spout such nonsense about beef!?”
As the number of people increased, the drinking party became even more lively.
Kang Hyeon and Eden dined comfortably, making it impossible to imagine that they had crossed swords just minutes ago.
“Hey, hey. This is expensive stuff. Eat it while someone is treating you.”
Kang Hyeon placed a piece of beef in front of Garnet, who was silently downing soju.
“I don’t want to eat…”
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose in a fight. Why so serious? I resolved it well, didn’t I?”
Despite Kang Hyeon’s words, Garnet continued to drink soju.
“That’s… That’s the problem…”
“If you don’t want to eat, don’t. Olien…”
Worried that Olien might be feeling down and struggling too, Kang Hyeon turned his head.
He saw Olien stuffing her mouth full of meat and chewing like a hamster.
“…?”
A look that said, ‘Why are you calling me when I’m busy eating?’
“Never mind. Eat a lot.”
At Kang Hyeon’s words, Olien nodded vigorously.
After several rounds of drinks, when everyone’s stomachs were reasonably filled with meat.
“I’m curious about something.”
Eden called out to Kang Hyeon.
“Those friends. How long are you planning to keep them?”
Kang Hyeon frowned.
“Why are you asking that? Didn’t you say you don’t go back on your word?”
“No, I’ve given up. But I don’t know how America will react.”
Eden’s concern was right.
Just because he had given up didn’t mean America had given up.
No one knew who America would send next or what actions they would take.
“Are they that important? I heard America has been in contact with some group called the Empire for a while now.”
At Kang Hyeon’s words, Eden looked surprised.
“You knew that much. That’s right. To be honest, I don’t know why America wants them either. So I can’t guess whether they’ll persistently pursue this or unexpectedly back off easily.”
“Hmm…”
“If America doesn’t give up and tries to take them, the next time won’t be as easy as this.”
It was an obvious statement.
This time, Eden was an unusual case.
If someone else comes next time, they won’t come so honestly just to chat.
“Don’t worry about me. I have a plan. I’m more curious about what you’re going to do.”
Kang Hyeon smiled as he looked at Eden.
“Me? Nothing special. I’ll just go back to America and live as usual.”
“Is that okay?”
“Of course. The Warriors I lead is the largest guild in America in terms of scale. Although we’ve lost the number one ranking position.”
“What? You were that big?”
Kang Hyeon knew that Eden was the leader of a famous guild in America.
‘But the largest guild in America, I can’t imagine it.’
Seeing Kang Hyeon’s surprised look, Eden grinned and continued his explanation.
“Of course. I may not look it, but I’m incredibly wealthy.”
“Incredibly wealthy..?”
At Eden’s words, Kang Hyeon’s face turned serious.
“Yes. Honestly, it’s hard to handle. Just think about it! Thousands, tens of thousands of ability users bringing in expensive magic stones every day.”
Indeed, even the Badass Guild with just over 300 pure combatants was earning tens of billions of won monthly.
‘Though the expenses are also high…’
As the guild grows, so do the expenses, but even considering all that, with thousands of guild members, they must be earning an enormous amount of money.
“It must not be easy to manage such a large guild.”
Having a large guild doesn’t necessarily mean it’s all good.
The reason many guilds pursue a small elite force is that there are pros and cons to having a massive guild.
The most prominent among these was the management problem.
“What if something like an accident happens?”
Ability users, living on the edge, often had rougher temperaments than ordinary people.
With such individuals gathering and rubbing shoulders, accidents were bound to happen.
Eden nodded in agreement with Kang Hyeon’s question.
“Of course, management isn’t easy. But it’s not as difficult as you might think. I only need to worry about the members of the Warriors Guild. If you look at just the raid team, it’s slightly over 1,000 people.”
It was clearly an enormous guild even at that scale.
However, it was far from the thousands or tens of thousands of people Eden had mentioned.
“Then what about the rest?”
“There are tons of independently operated small and medium-sized guilds under the Warriors Guild. It’s similar to the concept of subsidiaries in a corporation.”
“Subsidiaries?”
Subsidiaries. Also known as dependent companies.
“To put it simply, we have guilds subordinate to our Warriors, and we receive a certain amount of money from them.”
“What do you provide in return?”
“There are various things. There are projects that are difficult for small-scale guilds to undertake, right? We support and consult on such things. Or we help when conflicts arise with other guilds.”
Finally, Kang Hyeon could somewhat understand Eden’s explanation.
“Besides that, we often help with even the most trivial things. In return, the responsibility when accidents happen falls entirely on them.”
They involve themselves in guild operations and receive money.
But they don’t take responsibility when things go wrong.
Kang Hyeon thought it wasn’t a bad service.
It was a deal that could benefit both the service provider and the receiver.
‘It’s probably only possible with sufficient trust and recognition.’
It wasn’t something that could be done simply because one had a lot of money and a huge guild.
It was probably a guild completed through Eden’s accumulated recognition and business acumen.
“Anyway! Don’t worry about me. We’re planning to open a branch in Korea soon, and if you’re curious, I’ll explain in detail how we operate.”
“No thanks. I already have a headache just running the guild I’m in now.”
The Badass Guild was effectively being run by Han Jae-moon.
‘He’s already working overtime every day as it is.’
If they unnecessarily expanded the guild here, he would surely collapse, clutching the back of his neck.
“Let’s stop talking about this and drink and have fun! It’s a rare vacation for me too!”
“Eden. We didn’t come here to enjoy a vacation…”
Eden wagged his index finger at Ella’s words.
“No, no, Ella. If you live like such a workaholic, you’ll die early. Enjoy it while you can.”
“That’s right! You know something. Why bother with painful thoughts? Just use your body and that’s it.”
“I knew you’d say something like that. Haha!”
Ella sighed as she watched Kang Hyeon and Eden getting along so well.
“Sigh… Idiots.”
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A few days later. Kang Hyeon was drinking beer after finishing training as usual.
“Ahh! Good!”
“Mr. Kang Hyeon. Have you heard the news?”
“Huh? What news?”
Shin Seong-a looked at her smartphone with a serious expression.
“They say an A-grade dungeon created in Turkey has been cleared.”
“Oh? That’s good. I heard they were the best guild in that country, so they finally cleared it.”
Turkey’s number one ranked guild ‘Harika Kahraman’.
The guild, whose name means ‘Great Hero’, lived up to its reputation by successfully clearing the A-grade dungeon.
“It’s been about two weeks since they entered, right? Then they must have attacked the main core right away.”
“That’s not it. They’ve just finished clearing the normal core, they say.”
“Hmm, the dungeon must have been quite difficult.”
Typically, it doesn’t take even a week to clear the normal core.
The fact that Turkey’s best guild took a full two weeks to clear it implied that the dungeon was large and the difficulty level was high.
“Anyway, it’s good they cleared it.”
Kang Hyeon smiled brightly, thinking he wouldn’t have to go on a business trip abroad.
“Well… They succeeded in clearing it, but the damage is quite severe.”
“How severe?”
“There are only 3 survivors.”
“3 people? Didn’t you say over 300 people entered last time?”
“That’s right.”
A 1% survival rate.
It was an astonishing figure that surpassed the records of all dungeons in history.
“They say everyone except the guild leader and two guild members died.”
“Hmm…”
“In the cases of Egypt and Brazil, it seems they’ve completely failed to clear it, so they’ve decided to deploy the military.”
Currently, there were A-grade dungeons in three countries.
Turkey. Egypt. Brazil.
Among them, two places except Turkey had failed to clear it.
“No, even Turkey barely reached the main core and almost everyone died, so it’s practically a failure…”
“Yes.”
“I expected it to be difficult, but… It’s really not going to be easy.”
All of them were the most famous, large guilds in each country that attempted to clear it.
But the fact that not one place had properly cleared it gave an idea of how treacherous the dungeon would be.
“If we’re not careful, we might really be dispatched.”
Kang Hyeon stroked his chin, lost in thought.
“Who is it?”
The smartphone rang at a late hour.
Shin Tae-gil’s name was displayed on the screen.
“Yes. What’s the matter?”
-Kang Hyeon. An urgent matter has come up.
“If it’s about overseas dispatch, I’m not interested.”
Shin Tae-gil was silent for a moment at Kang Hyeon’s words.
-How did you know…?
“The news is in an uproar about the A-grade dungeon clearing failure right now.”
-Pardon? You mean the A-grade dungeon?
Shin Tae-gil asked as if something was strange.
-Kang Hyeon. I think there’s been a misunderstanding.
“What misunderstanding?”
-The place that requested to dispatch you is the United States.
“What?”
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