Chapter 46
Without hesitation, Beodeul clicked ‘Yes.’
[Girmu has joined the Grace guild.]
[Guild] RoyalFamily: ?
[Guild] Tangerine: Hmm????
[Guild] FreeMiumUser: ?
[Guild] SaltySalt: ㅇㅁㅇ!!!!!!!!!!
[Guild] Shotgun: Wow what’s this;
[Guild] Goyounghee: Shocking,,,, Welcome Girmu-nim~!
[Guild] Youngglory: Welcome^^
[Guild] CherryHorse: Welcome~~!
[Guild] Hododo: Waaaaaah nice to meet you~!!
[Guild] Maeil: Fresh water arrives in our stagnant guild…(Wow hello welcome)
[Guild] Aya: This is going to be interestingㅋ (me too)
The welcome messages poured in so rapidly that it was impossible to follow with the eyes.
[Guild] Girmu: Helloㅎㅎ Please take care of me
[Guild] Sinu: Welcome Girmu-nim^^
[Guild] Sinu: From now on, I’ll stop PKing Bankruptcy guildㅋㅋ
[Guild] Maeil: What?
[Guild] Goyounghee: ????
[Guild] cnfqkf: Are you saying,,you’re washing your hands clean and becoming a new person?
[Guild] SaltySalt: You think the blood on your hands will be washed away like thatㅇㅅㅇ!?!!!?
[Guild] Maeil: Next, serial killer, please come in
[Guild] Sinu: I need toㅋㅋㅋenter the villageㅋㅋ
[Guild] Aya: We’re all in the guild castle anyway, what’s the need for a village?
[Guild] CherryHorse: That’s really a pathetic excuse
By then, Beodeul realized that his concern had been somewhat ridiculous.
‘I see. A guild like Grace would have many shop NPCs in their central castle…’
Unless it was a special event NPC, Sinu didn’t really need to go to the village. Except for one more thing: when meeting Girmu.
[Guild] Youngglory: But Sinu really needs to manage his reputation now
[Guild] Youngglory: Your fame has decreased a lot, right?
[Guild] Sinu: No it’s fine I don’t need fame anyway
From a certain level, one had to meet the required fame to progress with main quests. Of course, this wasn’t relevant to Sinu, who had completed all the main quests.
[Guild] Maeil: Boat said earlier that the level cap might be expanded soon…
[Guild] SaltySalt: Oh right but rumors always circulate around this timeㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild] Shotgun: Huh already????
[Guild] CherryHorse: The most recent expansion was about a year and a half ago?? It’s not that earlyㅋㅋㅋ Probably with the summer update?
[Guild] Aya: The expansion cooldown is already over…
Level cap expansion? This was devastating news for Beodeul, who had planned to reach the level cap right before the second semester began. Even if he managed both his grades and hunting during the semester, there simply wouldn’t be enough time.
[Guild] Youngglory: Sinu, what’s your fame now?
[Guild] Sinu: 3 million
3 million… Beodeul quietly opened the character information window to check Girmu’s fame. 1.2 million. It seemed very small compared to Sinu’s fame. Not even half as much.
[Guild] Shotgun: ㄷㄷㄷㄷ Why is it so low
[Guild] SaltySalt: Wowㅇㅅㅇ…….
[Guild] CherryHorse: Perhaps he was an even worse murderer than we thought…….
“Low?”
For a moment, Beodeul was so surprised that he reacted out loud.
[Guild] Goyounghee: ;; Wasn’t main quest 14-15 at 3 million fame?
[Guild] RoyalFamily: You’ve fallen to a level where you can’t even look at 15
[Guild] SaltySalt: It’s the abyss, the abyssㅇㅅㅇ
Not just low, but the abyss, they say. Beodeul became increasingly concerned and repeatedly opened and closed his character information window.
[Guild] Youngglory: I’ll have to do fame quests before the level cap expansion
[Guild] Youngglory: With Girmu-nim^^
[Guild] Sinu: Ok…
[Guild] Girmu: What? Me too?
[Guild] Shotgun: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋYou need to reach max level too, Girmu-nim
[Guild] SaltySalt: To reach max level you need to complete main quests, and 15-1 requires 4 million fame and upㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild] Girmu: How many of these quests are there…?
[Guild] SaltySalt: Currently up to 15-15ㅇㅅㅇ!
Good heavens. Then how much more fame did he need to earn?
[Guild] Shotgun: Sinu was happily killing people, now he’ll have to grind for fameㅋㅋ
[Guild] Goyounghee: You try killing someone and then talk…ㅠㅠ
[Guild] Shotgun: ♡♡…
[Guild] cnfqkf: So is there no more cleaning time?
[Guild] Maeil: Should we reduce it or something..?
[Guild] RoyalFamily: Sinu-nim is back, and aren’t we aiming for the summer new dungeon first clear?
[Guild] RoyalFamily: With level cap expansion rumors circulating, we should stop now, right?
Initially despairing, Beodeul soon found himself keenly observing the discussions typical of a large guild. He felt a strange mix of tension and excitement at experiencing this atmosphere for the first time.
[Guild] CherryHorse: Ahh that’s too badㅠ
[Guild] CherryHorse: I was actually curious
[Guild] SaltySalt: ?ㅅ?
[Guild] CherryHorse: Girmu-nim… a talent even Paguk wanted
[Guild] Sinu: ?
[Guild] CherryHorse: I was wondering if you might show us something amazing…
[Guild] Goyounghee: Umm……………?
[Guild] RoyalFamily: Oh…
With CherryHorse’s message, the tension and excitement seeped out like escaping steam. They completely vanished.
[Guild] Girmu: What are you talking aboutㅎㅎ..ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
[Guild] Shotgun: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋGirmu-nim gets restless whenever Paguk is mentioned
[Guild] Goyounghee: Agreedagreed and gets very embarrassed…….
[Guild] Maeil: Wow really?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Girmu-nimㄱㅇㅇ
[Guild] Girmu: ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
The problem was that blasted Treasure Island incident.
‘It’s all my fault…’
Paguk, being the guild master of Bankruptcy guild, had seemed like a major villain, but when Beodeul actually partied with him, that wasn’t the case at all.
There was none of the scheming with Bankruptcy guild members that Beodeul had worried about with Sinu. It turned out that the Bankruptcy members waiting in front of the airship had just received information from another guild member who had a ticket.
Paguk said he’d actually suspected that Girmu had teamed up with Grace when he saw the persistent Baekdu-Hwasan duo chasing them. Fortunately, that misunderstanding was cleared up when Sinu helped them.
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: Guild joined?
‘Huh?’
Beodeul’s eyes widened at the whisper that had just arrived. The timing was so strange it was as if Paguk had read his mind.
[Whisper/Paguk] Girmu: Yes
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: Grace?
Somehow it seemed like he already knew and was just asking for confirmation. How news traveled so quickly was a mystery.
[Whisper/Paguk] Girmu: Yep
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: Ok
If there was no other business, that was Paguk’s last whisper. It was strange how he cleanly disappeared without even asking why Grace of all guilds.
‘Why does this person even…’
Of course, when he first received the guild invitation, he did hear a reason. That their playstyles matched—a reason Beodeul couldn’t agree with at all.
Was he impressed by how Beodeul tried to lose raiders by sacrificing other users? He must know who Beodeul had learned that from, which made it even more absurd.
[Whisper/Paguk] Girmu: I just joined, how did you know?
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: ㅋㅋ? Your guild master proposed a ceasefire
‘Youngglory-nim…?’
Come to think of it, Youngglory had been quiet ever since telling Sinu to do fame quests with Girmu. So he’d been in contact with the Bankruptcy guild.
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: Well it’s not the first time, even if they started the war because of a member they kicked out
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: But proposing a ceasefire right when you join is ㄹㅇ transparentㅋㅋ
[Whisper/Paguk] Girmu: What do you mean by transparent?
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: Because I offered you guild membership, they maintained the war to counter me, but now there’s no need to counterㅋㅋ
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: It’s the first time I’ve fought a war to recruit a single member
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: It’s a bit disappointingㅋㅋㅋ
[Whisper/Paguk] Girmu: Wouldn’t Youngglory-nim feel the same…?
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: I guessㅋㅋ Their guild master is somewhat similar to me
Paguk had a talent for making statements that Beodeul couldn’t agree with. Beodeul simply ignored Paguk’s whispers without responding.
[Whisper/Girmu] Paguk: Anyway, contact me if they treat you like a consumable itemㅋㅋ
…The final whisper left him feeling somewhat uncomfortable, but he didn’t pay much attention to it and again didn’t respond.
[Guild] Youngglory: I negotiated with Paguk
[Guild] Youngglory: And we agreed to end the war^^
[Guild] Shotgun: ㄷㄷSuper efficient work
[Guild] Goyounghee: Just for today I acknowledge you as a god-tier guild master^^
[Guild] Youngglory: ^^;
[Guild] CherryHorse: It’s disappointing… but there will be another chance someday, right?
[Guild] Girmu: ㅎㅎ;;;;
[Guild] Youngglory: Girmu-nim
[Guild] Girmu: Yes?
[Guild] Youngglory: Congratulations on joining, and if Paguk gets clingy, please let me know^^
[Guild] SaltySalt: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅇㅅㅇ;; Scary
[Guild] Girmu: Yesㅎㅎ…
[Guild] Sinu: Girmu-nim, could you come to the central castle for a moment?
[Guild] Girmu: Now?
[Guild] Sinu: Yes, or later if you’re busy
[Guild] Girmu: No, I’ll come now
There’s no need to mention the recent whispers. Beodeul shook off his thoughts and moved Girmu to the guild’s central castle.
As soon as the screen changed after taking the portal, he saw a flower path laid out from the castle entrance.
[General] SaltySalt: Ah you’re hereㅇㅅㅇ
Entering the castle, flower petals were falling from the sky as well.
[Congra☆tulations☆on☆Girmu-nim’s☆joining☆HA]
It was the same item Sinu had used before.
[General] Goyounghee: Ah I was preparing a message too…ㅠㅠ
[General] Girmu: Hello, what is all… this?
[General] Shotgun: New guild members must naturally go through an initiation
[General] Youngglory: It’s nothing like that, just a normal welcome party^^
[General] Tangerine: Quick cut^0^~ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[General] Shotgun: ….
The guild castle was plastered with all kinds of decorative items. Beodeul burst out laughing at the scene that resembled a birthday party.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
