I Told You It Was Reduced

The events at the Desert Mausoleum were subject to a confidentiality clause, and since it was, after all, a state institution, most of the SNS live-stream footage never spread widely online.

Thanks to Ophelia’s flawless cleanup afterward, most videos were quickly filtered out by the algorithm, and once the uploads were taken down, things were cleaned up fast.

This was done so that, if they were later questioned for violating the confidentiality clause, there would be records proving the incident had been accidental.

The fact that the Union Guild’s main raiding party, including Kim Hyeokseon, who had not shown his face for a while, had received a small advance and was currently tackling a newly built tower-type dungeon structure in Turkey also played a part.

The reason was that, in the selection conditions for the first raid party for the Orders Guild’s dungeon structure, ‘Silence Laboratory,’ prior experience clearing a tower-type dungeon structure weighed heavily.

They knew that, given Nova’s enormous capital power, it was impossible for the Union Guild to monopolize Silence Laboratory. Even if things were only roughly balanced, they could already see disputes erupting among the guilds that shared ownership after the public auction over who would get the first clear.

It had now been three days since the Union Guild’s main raiding party, including Kim Hyeokseon, quietly cleared the tower-type dungeon structure in Turkey and quietly returned to Korea.

“Nice to meet you. Since this is the first time I’ve seen you, are you perhaps a civilian Hunter?”

“Huh.”

That morning was just after the Union Guild’s main raiding party had finished their vacation, so there was every reason they wouldn’t know the news about Eve and Ophelia...