Owner of Twilight Intuition – Chapter 103

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎𝟑

“Oh? It’s the Vice Guild Master over there!”

“Rudin-nim!”

“……?”

At that moment, I could see the guild members who were on the 1st floor spot me coming down the stairs and immediately rush towards me. What’s this? What’s going on? At least 30 to 40 guild members quickly surrounded me and started to utter words I couldn’t understand.

“Rudin-nim! Please raise me!”

“I’m really confident that I can work hard!”

“Do you remember me by any chance? A few days ago, I picked up Rudin-nim’s equipment and brought it to the Guild Castle!”

“Crazy, were you the only one who brought it?!”

“If you help me, I’ll follow you for life.”

I don’t know what’s what, but the eyes of the guild members clamoring in that way showed an intense will that even made me flinch. But on the contrary, the emotions I felt were just two.

‘It’s damn noisy.’

What the hell are they asking me to do?

Feeling annoyed and puzzled, I thought I should grasp the situation first and looked at Heron standing next to me. Heron was watching this situation with excitement, and that attitude, as if it had nothing to do with him, felt annoying.

“Heron-nim. Let’s talk for a moment.”

“Huh? You’re not going to make a choice?”

“How can I make a choice when I don’t know anything?”

With those words, I dragged Heron and went up to the 2nd floor. Fortunately, the guild members didn’t follow us to the 2nd floor, so we were able to somehow find a place to talk.

“Phew, why are the guild members on the 1st floor acting like that?”

“They probably want to become executives.”

“Executives?”

“How do you think Rudin-nim chooses executives?”

“Well…… As Aizen said, I’ll choose them based on their skills.”

Heron nodded at my answer.

“Yes, that’s right. Then where and how will those skills come from?”

“……”

What kind of law is it to ask a question and then ask back? Still, I decided to think about it to answer. After all, Twilight is a game. If it’s about skills in the game, it’s easy to think of controls, but more important than that were levels and items. However, unlike existing online games, skills were more important than anything else in Twilight.

“Maybe skills and items.”

“That’s right. And you also know that catching boss monsters is the fastest way to acquire both.”

“Well, that’s obvious……”

Unlike normal monsters, boss monsters have a higher chance of dropping items or skill books. Moreover, since most of the items dropped by boss monsters were good, it is no exaggeration to say that they must be caught.

“Oh, come to think of it, I don’t remember seeing Rudin-nim in a dungeon. Do you happen to know the rules regarding dungeons?”

Rules?

“No, I don’t know?”

“Then I should tell you about those rules first. Aside from the rules for entering the dungeon, normal guild members cannot catch dungeon bosses.”

“They can’t catch bosses?”

“Yes, only those with a rank of executive or higher can catch them. Of course, normal guild members can too. If they form a party.”

Hearing that far, I could vaguely understand. If they form a party with me, wouldn’t that mean normal guild members can also catch bosses? Then the guild members who flocked to me on the 1st floor……

“They flocked to me asking me to catch bosses?”

“To be precise, they’re asking you to help them build up enough specs to become executives. Roughly speaking, catch all the bosses in the dungeon and give them all the items dropped by those bosses.”

“Crazy.”

What kind of volunteer work is this?

Surely, if I do as Heron says, I could raise one or two guild members to executive-level skills. Wouldn’t it be enough to just sweep the 10 dungeons owned by the Emperor Guild? And if I give them all the items and skill books that come out of those dungeons, it’s not impossible.

For skills, I can just go to the Duel Arena.

‘But what do I gain by doing that?’

If there’s nothing, there’s no reason to help. It would just be a waste of time.

“What do I gain?”

“That’s for Rudin-nim to decide, isn’t it?”

For me to decide?

After thinking about it for a moment, I said the conditions that came to mind.

“What if I ask for 10 million won as compensation?”

“Anyone who wants it will give it to you. There are actually people who offer money to other executives.”

“Really?”

I was surprised because I didn’t expect there to be people who would even offer money. What’s so great about being an executive that they even offer money? Anyway, Heron nodded at my surprised question and added an explanation.

“Other than that, there are people who ask for gold every week, and there are people who make them do various gathering tasks. There are even people who ask to meet in reality if the guild member is a woman.”

“……What if they refuse after becoming an executive?”

“Wouldn’t they probably be expelled from the guild and then have a kill order issued so they can’t even log in to Twilight again?”

“……”

Kill order……

Hearing those words, someone suddenly came to mind. Coincidentally, Heron seemed to have thought of the same person as me, and said as if he remembered it anew.

“Simply put, you can think of it as ending up like the current S-rank player.”

‘Damn scary.’

S-rank player.

Even though Aizen lifted the hostile relationships with all guilds after the war ended, there was only one person he continued to issue a kill order for. That was the S-rank player. Originally, Aizen had no intention of lifting the hostile relationship with that S-rank player, including the guild she belonged to.

But now, thinking it was hopeless, the Black Cross Guild, which had the S-rank player, said that she was just a hired mercenary and had nothing to do with our guild. Upon hearing that, Aizen found out the name of the S-rank player and lifted the hostile relationship with the Black Cross Guild.

In addition, if the hostile relationship is maintained, there is no point in disbanding the guild. This is because the hostile mark remains without disappearing. Realizing this, the Black Cross Guild eventually sold the S-rank player to save their lives.

In the end, the guild itself was disbanded though.

Anyway, Aizen, who found out the name of the S-rank player, still issued a kill order for that player, and thanks to that, 20 people are taking turns guarding the starting point.

‘Come to think of it, the S-rank player is pitiful too.’

She can’t even log in just because she has an S-rank skill. Also, wasn’t she a mercenary who wasn’t directly involved in this war? The Black Cross Guild, which hired her, got away safely.

“Anyway, don’t worry, as long as Rudin-nim states the conditions you want in advance, that kind of thing won’t happen.”

“More than that, what’s the reason for wanting to become an executive?”

Was my question unexpected? Heron stared at me with a blank expression for a moment, then nodded as if he understood.

“Ah, you haven’t been to a dungeon, Rudin-nim. I forgot.”

“It’s okay.”

“Didn’t I say that you can catch dungeon bosses if you become an executive? The benefits you can get from those bosses alone will be considerable. Plus, there are no restrictions on dungeon use.”

“So, normal guild members are restricted from entering dungeons.”

“Yes. If there were no restrictions, wouldn’t the dungeons be overflowing with guild members? Think of it as appropriate control. Well, now that the number of dungeons has increased, more people will be able to enter.”

‘Was that it?’

No matter how many dungeons there are, the Emperor Guild has over 3,000 members. If all those people headed to the dungeons, it might become a situation where it’s difficult to even catch a single monster, so it wasn’t something I couldn’t understand.

“But that doesn’t apply to Rudin-nim, the Vice Guild Master. It only applies to normal guild members.”

Normal guild members……

“So the guild members I party with also have no restrictions on dungeon use?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

With this, I seemed to have grasped the situation roughly. The conclusion I came to after learning the reason why the guild members flocked to me and what the position of executive was about was, as expected, bothersome.

“But do you have any intention of raising executives, Rudin-nim?”

“Well? Not really. I think it’ll just be a hassle.”

“That’s a shame.”

“What’s a shame?”

“Actually, I have a younger sister I know well, and I was going to recommend her if Rudin-nim was okay with it.”

“……”

What is this? Is this the connections I’ve only heard of? I was a little flustered because I didn’t know that connections would apply even in this Twilight.

“Well, you can do it yourself, Heron-nim.”

“Haha, I only acquired defense-type skills, so it’s difficult for me to raise someone. To put it bluntly, even if I take them to the boss, who would catch that boss?”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to gather some people?”

“Then they’ll be pushed back by other executives. Because they’ll be preparing hard too.”

“Hmm.”

As Heron said, the other executives wouldn’t just be playing around. In other words, they have to be raised quickly enough to surpass the other executives, but that might be difficult for Heron, who grew up mainly as a tanker.

“By the way, are you really not thinking about it? It’s not because she’s my younger sister, but she’s really pretty and kind.”

‘Why is she trying to become an executive if she’s kind?’

It’s not something I can trust easily, but I just nodded. It was also a reward for kindly answering my questions so far.

“If you change your mind. Anyway, I’ll be going.”

“Hmm? How are you going to go?”

“I can just go to my house. I have a mansion too.”

“Ah, you even have a mansion?”

“I got it by chance. Then see you next time.”

“Yes, I’ll see you again next time.”

After hearing Heron’s words, I used the Return Scroll to go to my mansion. This way, I could come directly to my house without passing through the Guild Castle, so I could avoid unnecessary friction.

[Using Return Scroll.]

Pabat!━

After returning to my house like that, I instinctively lay down on the bed and thought about this and that.

‘Raising executives…… It seems meaningless after all.’

In the first place, I only know three guild members. Aizen, Heron, and Hwaryeon. Except for these three, I didn’t have any particularly close friends, and the three I knew were the Guild Master and executives.

If I had a guild member I was close to, maybe I would consider it, but without such a person, I felt indifferent.

“Well, it doesn’t matter who becomes an executive.”

After quickly putting aside the thought of executives, I moved on to the next topic.

“First, the urgent thing is……”

Crafting, I guess.

Two days ago, after working hard, I was able to extract the rare materials I wanted.

The problem is what comes next.

The reason I extracted rare materials is, needless to say, to make rare equipment. However, when I checked with Intuition, I realized that rare equipment wouldn’t come out.

‘Yeah, it’s too much to expect rare equipment with just one material.’

But I thought it might be possible with two, so I canceled the crafting and spent yesterday diligently going in and out of the Duel Arena. As a reward, I obtained one more rare material box, but I still can’t start crafting because the materials I need haven’t come out yet.

‘Or I could earn money.’

If I collect 350 gold. No, to be precise, 343 gold, I can buy a box from the Luxury Shop. And I can extract a Unique item from that box, so in terms of efficiency, it’s much better than holding onto the rare material box and working.

The problem is, a quest that earns over 300 gold at once……

“Oh?”

I think there was such a quest.

“That’s…… Ah, the gambling quest!”

The exact name is Gambler Gent’s Request.

I couldn’t recall it immediately because I saw it a long time ago, but it seems that if you succeed in that gambling quest, you get 1,000 gold. I couldn’t be 100% sure because no one has cleared that quest yet, but it was certain that there was a possibility of getting 1,000 gold.

“Is gambling really the only option?”

If you fail, 100 gold of your own money will fly away. If you succeed, you can get more than that, so it’s literally gambling.

“If I fail, 100 gold……”

On the other hand, if I succeed, 1,000 gold will come in. Even if I buy a Luxury Shop box with that 1,000 gold, 500 gold will remain. If I combine that 500 gold with the gold I have, I can enhance most of the equipment I’m wearing.

“Thinking about it that way makes it very tempting.”

And the worry didn’t last long.

“If I fail, I’ll have 57 gold left?”

In the end, I thought it was worth the challenge, so I got up and headed to the library to acquire the Luck stat. It’s okay even if I fail. It’s not like that box is going to run away, right? Either way, it’ll just take time, but it means I can buy a Luxury Shop box someday.

Click━

‘But is there a skill that gives Luck stat in the library?’

I tilted my head as I opened the door and stepped outside. Come to think of it, I only went to the library on the first day and haven’t been there since.

“Well, I’ll know when I get there.”

If it’s not in the library, I can just buy it through cash transactions. Thinking that, I headed to the library, but an unexpected interruption came from somewhere.

“Oh? It’s Rudin-nim!!”

“Vice Guild Master!”

“……”

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