Maxed Out Leveling Novel

Chapter 40

15. Twilight and Dawn (3)

Park Tae-hoon, who booked the 5 o’clock train, said.

“I go right down.”

“Yes.”

“You come down on your own, but make sure you eat here until dinner at least. You can rest for a few days if you wish.”

“Really?”

“I write annual leave.”

“… … I’ll just go down at night.”

Kim Cheol-ho, who had been trying to like him for a while, immediately withdrew his opinion.

“Then let’s get up first.”

“OK.”

We cannot rule out the possibility that Cha Shin Hyeon told the dawn as soon as he got into the taxi. Then, in a short time, Kim Chul-ho will be under surveillance.

So it’s better to break up sooner rather than later. The reason why I told Kim Cheol-ho to come down late is because, when we go down together, our eyes reach even on ourselves.

It is a different story when Kim Cheol-ho came to Seoul and he visited Seoul himself.

The former is just a simple recruitment activity, but the latter means that Cha Shin Hyeon is very important.

There was no need to tell Dawn, especially to Lee Ji-hye.

Even after Kim Cheol-ho, who bowed his head, left the cafe, Park Tae-hoon continued to be immersed in thought.

‘I thought you were a returnee.’

There can never be a strong person who appears out of the blue.

When he came across the data collected by Kim Chul-ho, he saw a high probability that Cha Shin Hyeon was a returnee.

If he was determined to train a hunter, it would be enough if he selected excellent graduates from among those from the academy. However, among the past academy graduates, there was no name Cha Shin Hyeon.

If you were trying to raise a secret agent that is not revealed at all, you would have brought up young people. But Cha Shin Hyeon is 34 years old. he is too old

Even so, if Lee Ji-hye goes out and takes her, it means that he is of that much use.

Naturally, Park Tae-hoon thought of a returnee.

However, Cheonjo Mu Centrifugal Gong did not respond.

‘I mean, it wasn’t.’

The starting place in Moorim, an unknown maze-like cave, could only be escaped by mastering martial arts.

And at that point, the only weapon that could be encountered was the Cheonjo Muwon Deep Gong prepared in the cave. If he had just committed suicide in a cave without learning it, there was no other option than to learn it.

Once you’ve mastered the Thousand Trillion Centrifugal Ball, you can’t hide it. No matter how much you control your bet, resonance occurs.

This is something I had already experimented with when I met Lee Ji-hye.

Still no response means that Cha Shin Hyeon is not a returnee.

It was a bit of a stretch for him, who had many plans assuming he was a returnee.

‘No, this is better.’

Even with preparation, there is no guarantee that persuasion will be 100% successful. If a Moorimman suddenly appears at this point and takes the side of the Dawning, it becomes a little difficult. It’s easier for her to be just a pure hunter.

Even if you are a hunter, there is no way that you are an ordinary hunter. It must be that Lee Ji-hye pays attention to her because she has very good or special talents.

‘Am I aiming for her debut in the Sun Festival?’

There is no way that she thought that she would not be found out and that Lee Ji-hye took her with her.

She had been hiding it well until now, but if it was deliberately exposed recently, she could have been conscious of the sun festival a month later. If not, she doesn’t seem to have any reason to show up at this time of year.‘Then you can judge your skills then.’

Even if it doesn’t appear in the Sun Festival, it doesn’t matter. This is because the limit of skills can be roughly predicted.

A pure hunter who is not a warrior can never be superior to him or Lee Ji-hye. Even if Lee Ji-hye taught her martial arts, she wouldn’t even say a word no matter how many years of training she had.

With the power of a high-ranking Hunter at best, she can’t get in the way of his plans.

The reason I wanted to check, though, was that she was simply following the adage of knocking on her stone bridge and crossing it.

‘Step by step, carefully…’

But Park Tae-hoon didn’t know.

His demeanor in planning thoroughly was certainly admirable.

Manpower cannot stop genius.

* * *

Cha Shin Hyeon, who suddenly thought of something to check, took out her cell phone. He turned on the internet app and searched for Park Tae-hoon.

‘also.’

Usually, when you search for a celebrity, everything from their profile picture to their birth, affiliation, education, family relationship, and career will come up.

However, only the information that Park Tae-hoon is the head of the Twilight Guild is briefly displayed, and even the picture does not appear. Hunters who do not like to have their information known to the general public are very sensitive to this.

If you look around, you can get a picture or two, but Cha Shin Hyeon knew a simpler way than that.

He turned on the messenger app and sent a message to Lee Ji-hye.

[Do you have a picture of Park Tae-hoon? The face clearly came out.]

After a while, a reply came.

[Look for it.]

The picture was sent in less than 5 minutes.

After checking all five photos, he replied.

[I’m sure. Thank you.]

The 1 at the end of the sentence disappeared and changed to a read mark, and instead of replying, I got a call right away.

– Are you sure? What do you mean?

“It’s still a taxi. wait a minute.”

– A taxi?

“okay. Knight, please drop me off from the other side.”

“Yes.”

Just arrived near the house.

After paying the taxi fare, Cha Shin Hyeon put the phone to her ear again.

“Do you know Kim Cheol-ho of Twilight?”

– Is it Kim Cheol-ho? If anyone remembers… … . It is the name of the chief of staff under Park Tae-hoon.

“I got a call from him yesterday. Let’s meet.”

-Yes?!

“And that’s the way I’m going to meet you now. He offered to sign me, so I turned it down.”

– What, what?!

When Cha Shin Hyeon casually made a loud noise, Lee Ji-hye was startled.

– Maybe Park Tae-Hoon in that place?

“No, the only person I had an official meeting with was Kim Cheol-ho. Park Tae-hoon was cutely wearing a pair of sunglasses and followed me. He even daringly passed right next to me.”

To be more precise, the person Cha Shin Hyeon saw at the cafe was ‘a man in sunglasses who learned a thousand and one deep ball’, but he checked the outline of his face against the picture and there was nothing more to see if Kim Cheol-ho was Park Tae-hoon’s secretary.

– So what happened? Did you both pretend not to know?

“He really didn’t know. Because he blocked the resonance of the centrifugal ball.

-… … stop it?

“If I am prepared, I am capable enough.”

-uh······.

She was speechless for a moment, but Lee Ji-hye soon came to her senses. Now, I am immune to such trivial (?) surprises.

– Then Park Tae-hoon didn’t notice that you were a returnee, did he?

“The more I believe in the effects of Cheonjo Muwon Simgong, the more certain I will be in the reasoning that I have not mastered martial arts. It would only bother me if I found out that I was a returnee, so I dealt with it that way.”

Lee Ji-hye was an unavoidable case.

How would you kill her sister’s boss, who came to her house, to keep her secret?

Of course, she could have killed her at the end of the day if necessary, but she acted wisely.

Lee Ji-hye appealed to the advantages of building her friendship, and Cha Shin Hyeon acknowledged it, keeping her current relationship.

However, the case of Tae-Hoon Park is different. The more people who know the secret, the worse it is.

Now, even making the same suggestion as Lee Ji-hye is useless. Since the benefits received from Dawn are sufficient, there is no further advantage, and only the penalty for being bothered remains.

So there was no need to pretend to know Park Tae-hoon.

Hearing Cha Shin Hyeon’s words, Lee Ji-hye was delighted.

– Well done. If Tae-Hoon Park had noticed that, he would have bothered Cha Shin Hyeon very much. She must have done everything she could to get her back into twilight.

“… … by the way.”

Cha Shin Hyeon’s voice became a little serious.

“At twilight, he had some guesswork about my relationship with the dawn. There was a bit of a misunderstanding, and he seemed to think of me as a hunter who was raised at dawn.”

-Is that so? Have you ever felt bad?

“I don’t mean to question that.”

Cha Shin Hyeon cut it off to Lee Ji-hye, who asked carefully.

“What I am curious about is the act of trying to embrace me even after guessing my relationship with Dawn. According to Kim Chul-ho, it is a common occurrence.”

– It’s not uncommon. In particular, the higher the level of hunters, the fiercer the recruitment competition. It’s fortunate that not many people actually change their affiliation.

“Why are you doing that?”

It was a question he really wanted to ask.

It’s not because there aren’t enough hunters to attack the dungeon. Recklessly increasing the number of hunters will only reduce the distribution. The more they try to recruit each other competitively, the higher the Hunter’s ransom will be.

But why, Twilight and Dawn?

“Like sports, if the opponent’s strength is weak, it doesn’t give you an advantage, so why are you doing something like that?”

-The answer to that question is… … It’s that simple.

Through the receiver, Lee Ji-hye smiled bitterly.

– Mr. Cha Shin Hyeon, think of Moorim. If there is a person who becomes the head of a huge force that divides the powers, what will he want next?

“······no way.”

Cha Shin Hyeon frowned.

“Kang Ho Il-tong, what are you trying to say?”

– How wonderful to hear at first glance. A single super-giant guild that dominates all of Korea. Isn’t that the ideal that any head of an organization can dream of?In fact, the history of Moorim has been repeated like a wheel.

Whether it is a faction or a sect, the Cheonma Gyo rises up and sometimes forces other than Sae-eok intervene. Once every couple of generations, someone throws a tantrum. Under the pretext of being Kang Ho-il-tong.

Cha Shin Hyeon smirked.

“So, you are biting each other to weaken each other’s power because you want to try to unify both Dawn and Twilight?”

-To be precise, Twilight, that is, Park Tae-hoon is the one who has such ambitions, and I am the one who defends it. We have no choice but to respond in order not to eat our flesh.

Lee Ji-hye calmly replied.

-When the large guilds of the southern regions united and the twilight was launched, the guilds of the central region united to check it, because Dawning is the place.

“It’s a nuance that you are good and Park Tae-hoon is bad.”

– I can’t help it because I’m the one who’s talking. But what I can say for sure is that at least two guilds must check each other in order to develop in a balanced way. The logic of the twilight leadership is that one guild should hold it strong.

“is it.”

Cha Shin Hyeon drooled.

-To be honest, twilight prevails in power. There are many more hunters, and 11 high-ranking hunters belong to five at dawn and six at dusk. And you know, we lost one in five.

“Seo Kang-jin was a cheap guy even if he died.”

-I won’t deny it, but anyway, it’s 4-6 now, so it’s even worse.

Lee Ji-hye sighed softly.

-Unlike Moorim, you can’t wage wars between factions here just because you’re shy, right? It doesn’t matter what happens right away if the power goes down. However, in the long run, the impact will weaken.

“Well, shall we stop at that level? Considering the size of the two, I think it will be difficult to absorb naturally unless one of them is quite weak.”

-… … What are you talking about?

“Isn’t it Moorim’s regular repertoire? Those who dream of becoming a strong gang always plan something and aim for a big one. For example, the leadership of the Dawning was annihilated by an accident.”

Cha Shin Hyeon threw it out in a passing tone.

An embarrassing voice came back from the receiver, who had been silent for a while.

– As long as they don’t fire missiles, that’s a bit…

“That’s what the word means. If he is still active aggressively, I don’t think Park Tae-hoon will wait for decades until the dawn naturally weakens.”

– Yes, but… … We don’t dare go to the Twilight Realm, and in our realm, Twilight can’t do anything out of our eyes. It’s ok as long as you’re paying attention.

“Then I’m happy.”

From the standpoint of receiving sponsorship, I gave him advice once, but there was no reason to care more than that. I’m not a kid, and I’ll take care of myself.

-Anyway, thanks for being honest about your contact with Twilight. We can take some measures.

“Anyway, if it was Dawn’s intelligence, I would have figured it out someday. Did this build some trust?”

-sure.

Lee Ji-hye gladly accepted Cha Shin Hyeon’s tone.

– Well, there is one thing I want to tell you about the phone call. Originally, my side tried to contact me a few days later.

“Tell me.”

– Do you know what the sun festival is?

After a moment’s pause, Cha Shin Hyeon answered.

“name is… … You know.”

Somehow, I think I know what to say next.

– Then I don’t need to explain.

As the deputy leader of the Dawning Guild, Lee Ji-hye spoke seriously.

-I want to make an official request to participate in the Taeyang Festival. The guild leader of no drama.