I tamed the First Rank Chapter 82
- HoshiMiya
- Oct 3
- 8 min read
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"These days, there are a lot of useful weapons coming out of the fortress."
While Jang Beom was muttering while flipping through the catalog, the auction resumed. The main item of this auction, the hidden boss’s decision stone, would come out last, so Han Jun-soo whispered to Gong Tae-seong, who was sipping his cocktail without paying attention.
“Guild Leader, no, it’s Tae-seong hyung. Right?”
"what."
"Yoo-shin-ssi, you see. I understand being interested in a guy, but... he's too young. How old are you, hyung?"
Han Jun-su, who had been muttering anxiously, felt a sharp gaze. If this place had not been an auction house, he would have been grabbed by the collar and thrown 10 meters away.
"Are you spreading that fucking rumor too?"
“Ahem, um. Well, what………………. This is the first time that Hyung has cared about someone he doesn’t know well. Even if we assume that Jin-hyeok hyung is subtly taking care of Yoo-shin-ssi because he's reminded of his younger sibling, it's not like Hyung even has a younger sibling. Hmm, well, he is a bit clueless, and as it happens, the person he's dating is a ticking time bomb, so I guess it's hard to leave him alone. It's like, seeing Yoo-shin-ssi makes me feel like even a non-existent younger sibling suddenly appears, you know?.”
He was ignoring Han Jun-soo, who was mumbling to himself and understanding things on his own, but then he heard something that was hard to ignore.
"The fact that Hyung investigated Yoo-shin-ssi... even Kkeut-nyeo noona is secretly bothered by it... Huh."
Han Jun-soo, who realized his slip of the tongue, kept his mouth shut, but Jang Beom, who had been pretending not to hear but listening to everything, did not miss the point. Aren't bosses and ex-wives always interesting gossip?
“Oh, what is it? Is the Vice Chairman really curious about what our Papa is doing? Were you the one who was snitching like a busybody?”
“"It just came out while I was passing by. Just like that. I didn't intentionally tell noona."”
Gong Tae-seong waved his hand at Han Jun-soo, who was making excuses in a fluster, and sipped the remaining cocktail.
“Well, it's okay. If it's something you're telling Geut-nyeo”
It was an answer I would never have given if I had known that the news I was getting from Min Geut-nyeo would also be passed on to Hyeon Gyu-ha.
“I understand that you feel responsible because you introduced Kkeut-nyeo, but we're never getting back together, so get over it.”
"yes………………."
Although Han Jun-soo talks a lot of useless stuff to the point where you might suspect that his unique ability is not weapon polishing but just chitchat, there are still some things worth salvaging from his talk.
'It feels like I've got a new sibling.'
If I had to define it, I think it would be a pretty similar feeling. No. It's different. I saw In Yoo-shin as a substitute for Hyeon Gyu-ha's heart from the beginning.
In the end, the In Yoo-shin that he had actually seen and experienced was so gentle that it was pitiful to see how he had fallen into Hyeon Gyu-ha's clutches, but he also had a secretly tough side, which made him bitter when I approached him with the intention of ripping out his heart. This could also be called a kind of guilt.
Nevertheless, if In Yoo-shin becomes a means to an end, Gong Tae-seong would not hesitate to rip out his heart and use it. This is because, to achieve the sole and desperate wish that drives him, there is nothing he would not do.
Gong Tae-seong let out a languid sigh and caressed the photo of his only daughter that he always saw whenever he opened his phone.
The tedious auction continued, and finally the last item appeared.
“Thank you for waiting a long time. This is an item that we acquired with great difficulty, so I would like to hold the mic and tell you a long story, but I think I will receive a lot of complaints if I do, haha. I don’t need to explain much, right? Acquired last month from the dungeon near Andong, this is the core stone of the hidden boss, 'The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood'!”
With a dramatic shout, the curtain covering the case was lifted, revealing a crystal stone too big to hold with both hands. Exclamations of surprise at the dazzling brilliance erupted from all directions.
While Jang Beom and Han Jun-soo couldn’t take their eyes off each other, Gong Tae-seong narrowed his brows and watched. Could that crystal stone really be the key needed to obtain Hyeon Gyu-ha’s heart?
At that time.
“What, what is that! That!”
A scream, almost a scream, echoed through the auction house. The Awakeners who could sense mana were even more shocked. The mana that had been calmly gathered surged like a storm. The illusion rose up with a shiver, and a bloody mist gushed out from the crystal stone.
“You said the hidden boss’s decision stone came out?”
It seems that he really wasn't interested in anything other than the artifacts that he was going to give as gifts. When he heard that it was a hidden boss's crystal that was extremely rare to find on the market, Hyeon Gyu-ha finally looked through the catalog.
“The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood……………….”
"Is there a chance that this is the crystal stone that Gyu-ha-ssi is looking for?"
"Hmm………………. I can't say there weren't any. But I can't be sure since I didn't see the illusion in the dungeon."
Looking back on my memories of the first dungeon, ®ÀÇ must have been a world where gods looked down on human life, and to find out, I had to confirm that illusion. It was impossible now that I only had the crystal stone lying around.
“But just in case, and since I might get lucky if I’m with Master, should I bid?”
"What kind of hidden boss was this 'The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood'? That nickname seems incredibly cruel."
“Because sometimes images that were added later are implemented. There’s even a dungeon where Columbus appears as a boss as a great adventurer and explorer. Well, it’s harder to catch the original appearance than a distorted image.”
There I also wondered whether Columbus had six legs.
Because of the auction atmosphere where hundreds of millions were mentioned like the price of gum, his sense of money was gradually being destroyed, but time passed quickly as he looked at the strange artifacts. Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was watching him absorbed in his work with his eyes shining, snickered.
“Next time, if you have time, please bring Park Seung-gi-ssi along.”
"Really? Seung-gi would really like it!"
“If Yoo-shin went to college, you would have majored in gatelogy too.”
"Probably. It's fun to listen to it from Gyu-ha-ssi's side.”
In Yoo-shin thought for a moment and then added.
"But if things had been as they were, I might have gone to a department with a good employment rate rather than a research department."
“Still, it’s good to have a choice of anything, right?”
Hyeon Gyu-ha whispered softly. I suddenly wondered if the one speaking like that had lived a life where he could make choices.
“You’ve waited a long time.”
The auctioneer's voice was filled with excitement, and the final auction item, the 'The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood's Crystal Stone', was put up for auction. Hyeon Gyu-ha's relaxed attitude seemed to become more intense.
And before my eyes, a message was printed.
[The 'Bloodline(血界) of Stoyas' owned by Henri Raymond Charles François VII keeps an eye on the 'The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood'.]
……What is this?
Before he could even shake off his confusion, something strange happened. A thick blood-red mist rose from the stone and illusions began to stir.
A king who killed his younger brother and young nephew and took the throne for himself. A concubine who was burned at the stake simply for making eye contact with a woman who was not the king. A king who cut off the heads of his enemies and drank their blood. A king who held banquets with human flesh. A cruel and ruthless king who slaughtered and ate people and was driven by sadistic excitement.
"This is a dungeon illusion!"
Someone's single scream added to the confusion. The air in the room stirred, and mana condensed around the crystal stone. Even In Yoo-shin could tell. It was the creation of a hidden boss.
“Fuck, stop it!”
The hunters attacked the crystal stone, but it was useless. The sharp blades were repelled in vain, and the attacks of the surging elemental realms disappeared as if they were sucked into the waves of mana. The crystal stone and the mana simply existed as if they were the providence and principles of the world.
It was not that they, who had been through thick and thin in the dungeons, were unaware of this fact. Even though they knew that their attacks would not work, they were shocked by the situation that so mercilessly broke common sense and had no choice but to do something.
Hyeon Gyu-ha also took out a pendant from the subspace with a frighteningly stiff face. The blood-red liquid surging inside the pendant was rushing to one place as if it were a living organism in itself. In Yoo-shin unconsciously clenched his hands. In the straight line where the liquid was rushing, there was the hidden boss’s crystal stone.
['The Bloodline of Stoyas', owned by Henri Raymond Charles François VII, observes a 'The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood'.]
The illusion has changed.
The princess, who was favored by her father, was stripped of her throne by her younger brother because she was the daughter of a lowly slave. The younger brother, an incompetent cancerous soldier, killed her newborn son and forcibly sterilized her. As the first woman to ascend to the throne, she had enemies on all sides.
He burned at the stake the concubines who had colluded with the enemy. He strengthened his position as king by brutally killing his enemies. He defended the country from foreign invasion. Until the king's last breath, the white-skinned people who dared not look down on the kingdom fabricated and spread evil rumors that the king was a cruel sadist and even a cannibal.
[The 'Bloodline of Stoyas' owned by Henri Raymond Charles François VII records a 'The Sadist Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood'.]
A new record has been set for welcome.
The king, who had used everything he had, decided to use religion as well. The king converted to the religion of the white-skinned humans, and the sea gods and ancestral gods were sad but accepted the king's decision.
The king, who had used everything he had, decided to use religion as well. The king converted to the religion of the white-skinned humans, and the sea gods and ancestral spirits, although saddened, understood and embraced the king's decision.
"Kuaaaah! Hot, hot! Oh my King!"
The screams of the concubines being burned were the cries of the demon beast. Every time the demon beast screamed, a disgusting smell of burning flesh arose, and every time the demon beast rolled around in pain, flames broke out.
In the midst of the flames, the king opened his eyes.
[Hidden Boss 'The King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass' appears.]
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