Chapter 86
Chapter 86 - Exchange Battle (3)
Fortunately, Seo-joon was able to exchange spears.
There was no great difficulty in exchanging it because it seemed to have been made with plenty of spares during production.
“Uh, how is this...”
“Now, were defective products mixed in the equipment production…?”
However, the time was delayed a little as the officials who could not believe the scene repeatedly checked the extension.
However, from their point of view, Seo-jun's spear was no longer usable.
In the end, Seo-jun accepted it through a new window and was able to head back to the waiting room.
“As expected... you can't handle it.”
In fact, I had been anxious since I received the window.
It was also because he knew that when Seo-joon was practicing Ranchal, the spear took an enormous load.
So I wondered if the spear given to me as a common weapon would be able to withstand it...
Sure enough, it couldn't handle the load given by Jecheon Daeseong's Rannachal.
So Seo-joon had no choice but to strain his strength from the first blow.
Because of that, I couldn't properly capture the description of Rannachal, but I had no choice but to fully unfold it.
Well... In fact, it was still just a level of mimicry with no tricks, but anyway.
It was an unchanging fact that the power was halved.
There was no other reason to buy a main weapon first in the equipment review post in the chatter of beginners.
“If this is the case, I don’t know if I have to change the spear every time I play.”
Seojun just shook his head.
The waiting room that came back like that.
“Wow… Captain. What you showed during training wasn’t everything.”
“Oh my God... He's a different person from the real raid battle.”
As soon as he returned to the waiting room, Min-yul and Soo-yeon greeted Seo-joon with surprised eyes.
It looked like he had just watched Seo-joon's match.
“Even the last blow... was frightening without me even realizing it.”
“Now, everyone is not in a frenzy about Seo-joon oppa.”
Seo-joon shrugged his shoulders at the continued fuss and fuss between the two.
I thought it would be better not to mention the fact that I strained my strength to the point that the window would break.
Seo-joon moved slowly and sat down in a suitable seat.
Then, this time, Seoyoon sat next to Seojun and said.
“An article has already appeared.”
“yes? A knight?”
When Seo-jun asked what he meant, Seo-yoon answered right away.
“I think it was written by the reporters I met at the entrance.”
Meanwhile, Seoyoon showed the smartphone screen she was holding to Seojun.
『Dream Academy, which participated in the Hunter Mill Ale Gaon Interchange.
Kim Seo-jun vs Lee Ha-yoon. Who is the winner?”
The first thing I saw on Seoyoon's smartphone screen was none other than the title of a short article.
And under that title, a photo of Seo-jun and Lee Ha-yoon hung as if they were confronting each other.
Apparently, the photo taken at the entrance earlier was edited appropriately.
The contents of the article I read lightly were filled with all sorts of speculative information about ‘Kim Seo-jun vs Lee Ha-yoon', just like the title of the article.
“……What is all this?”
Seo-jun accepted the smartphone from Seo-yoon.
Then I scrolled down to check the comments.
Unsurprisingly, the comments I checked were really overflowing.
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?(Best!)[Spy]: A student who participated in an exchange match. I just played Seojun Kim... It's crazy. It's on a different level from raid battles. I will secretly turn on my personal broadcasting when it gets betted.
?[Aristotle Banking]: Huh, crazy. Dream Academy also participated in exchange matches? Seojun Kim and Lee Ha-yoon fighting? Are all these things true? Does it make sense?
?[I'll stop Gabo Reform]: This is Mercun 129!!!!
B[Ghosts and Calories]: What are the broadcasters doing!! Aren't you working!!! Broadcast soon!!
?[You've touched the curtain]: I'm a current broadcaster, and we started right away after hearing the news. However, except for some journalists, access is not allowed at all.
B[I have a flaming sword]: Where is it? just call the address Form a raid team right now and attack.
?[Ruble]: Our Ruble Guild has the right and duty to intuit the master's game!!!
?[The Naked King]: Let's do a private broadcast soon! Before you get dizzy!!!
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Even at this moment, comments were increasing in real time.
Not only this, but also real-time search term rankings.
‘Exchange Exhibition' ‘Kim Seo-joon' ‘Lee Ha-yoon' ‘Kim Seo-jun vs. Lee Ha-yoon' ‘Is Lee Ha-yoon the Jeongbae?' were dominated by
“The reaction is… very hot.”
Of course, it was only natural that people's attention was focused on it as it was an exchange match between the three major academies.
Anyway, it was because it was a place where the best students in Korea gathered and competed.
However, even taking that into account, the current reaction was quite overdone.
“Even various large guilds ask me to just observe them because they will pay all the expenses consumed in the exchange war.”
“Wow... Lee Ha-yoon must be amazing.”
At Seoyoon's words, Seojun could feel how amazing Lee Ha-yoon was.
At that moment, Min-yul shouted at Seo-jun as if asking what he was talking about.
“Leader. Lee Ha-yoon is not great. The captain is great.”
“huh?”
As Seo-jun tilted his head, Seo-yoon added his words.
“Mr. Minyul is right. This is Seojun-sshi is great. Both externally and internally, people had a strong image of Lee Ha-yoon as an insurmountable wall. However, since it is being completely destroyed by Seo Jun, people have no choice but to go crazy.”
“that's right. It’s not like people are making a fuss about oppa, calling him an unapproachable irregular.”
“What is that again…”
Seo-joon shook his head at the strange nickname.
“And I honestly see it as the opposite. How amazing Lee Ha-yoon is that you can compare him to Seo-joon oppa?”
“That is the same idea as me. If you see the captain fighting, he's not human. If I were to choose one of the two as my opponent, I would be Lee Ha-yoon without hesitation.”
“Then I’m Minyul’s older brother.”
“……Why am I out there?”
“Isn’t Min-yul oppa more easy-going than Lee Ha-yoon?”
And the ensuing quarrel between the two.
Seo-joon let out a smile.
#
While the exchange tournament is in full swing.
So Jin-hyun was standing in a luxuriously decorated room and staring through the window.
Through the glass window, you could see the students participating in the tournament.
It is a spectacle of fierce battles, competing with each other like those who are called geniuses.
So Jin-hyun was staring at the scene as if he were watching it from the VIP room on the stage.
So Jin-hyeon spat out words without taking his eyes off the window.
“How was it?”
silence for a while.
After a while, a cold voice came from behind So Jin-hyun.
“There's definitely a reason it's being mentioned.”
It was a cold voice, like cold air.
When So Jin-hyeon looked away, Lee Ha-yoon, the main character with a chilly voice, was standing there.
Long black hair and a cold expression.
So Jin-hyun couldn't tell if he had no emotions or if he had emotions.
maybe that's why
“Would you be able to beat Kim Seo-joon?”
Lee Ha-yoon did not show any reaction to So Jin-hyun's words.
He just stood there silently, not showing any emotional agitation.
Normally, this was a reaction that So Jin-hyeon would have understood to mean that it was not worth talking about.
But this time, I had no choice but to accept it in a different way.
“Don't be too pressured. Even if we lose, the next best thing...”
“CEO.”
At that moment, Lee Ha-yoon cut off So Jin-hyun's words.
And then he spat out words.
“No matter how much you fly and crawl... isn't it an irregular at the student level?”
It is a word that is close to arrogance, and the person who uttered it was still only a student.
However, So Jin-hyun did not feel that way at all.
It was because she knew that she had far surpassed the level of a student.
To be honest, even if we faced off against A-rank Hunter right now, Lee Ha-yoon, the A-rank hunter wouldn't be able to guarantee a match.
Of course, if So Jin-hyun himself faced Lee Ha-yoon right now, he had the confidence to win.
Even though he retired from active duty, So Jin-hyun was an S-class hunter who was called the pinnacle of professional hunters.
The difference between an A-class Hunter and an S-class Hunter was the difference between heaven and earth.
In addition, S-class Hunters and Cataclysm heroes were not even worth mentioning.
However, it was literally saying that he had the confidence to win.
In a word, it's just a matter of simple experience.
I couldn't be sure that So Jin-hyeon was superior to Lee Ha-yoon in terms of skills.
If Lee Ha-yoon went out to the pro hunter world and was active for just one year, So Jin-hyun could not guarantee a match.
‘......I caught a lot in one year.'
In fact, it was highly likely that it would take less than a few months, let alone a year.
So Jin-hyun saw Lee Ha-yoon's talent as a genius and was overwhelming.
The greatest talent in pro hunter history.
Lee Ha-yoon, seen by So Jin-hyun, was a genius among geniuses who would look up to the level of a hero of cataclysm as well as an S-class hunter.
And if that were the case, Hunter Mill could become an academy that produced heroes.
Not an A-rank or S-rank hunter, but a hero-level hunter.
That was something no one had done since the academy was founded.
It was only a matter of time before Hunter Mill became the best academy in Korea, not the top three academies in Korea.
And So Jin-hyeon had no doubt that Lee Ha-yoon would make that ideal a reality.
It must have been.
“I was just talking about the possibilities. Don't take it to heart.”
So Jin-hyeon felt like he was losing a ray of incontinence in that belief.
Of course, it wasn't that he doubted Lee Ha-yoon.
‘Can Lee Ha-yoon really become the best?' It was nothing more than a very small question.
Seojun Kim.
At first, I thought it was a thunderclap running amok without knowing the difference between heaven and earth.
I just thought it would be a student who looks like an S-class hunter.
However, Kim Seo-joon, whom he faced, far exceeded So Jin-hyun's expectations.
‘The level has changed since the raid battle.'
Even Kim Seo-joon's growth rate was at a level that could not be explained.
Now, less than a month has passed since the raid battle ended.
Seojun Kim had become a completely different person.
But what if more time passes here...?
‘......'
So I had to grab it now.
I had to hold back now and stop that growth trend.
As a result, Lee Ha-yoon became the best, and only Hunter Mill and Lee Ha-yoon had to be in the spotlight.
And I had to see that if it wasn't now, there would be no more opportunities.
“Do you really think I will lose?”
“Could it be possible? I'm talking about old age, so don't worry about it.”
In response to Lee Ha-yoon's words, So Jin-hyun shook his head resolutely.
No matter how much Kim Seo-joon is said to be an unapproachable irregular, it was not applicable to Lee Ha-yoon.
“This is my game soon.”
Lee Ha-yoon slowly turned around and left the room door.
So Jin-hyun looked at Lee Ha-yoon's back and then turned his gaze back to the window where the tournament was in progress.
There, at that moment, I could see Seo-joon holding a spear and saying something to the officials.
And for some reason, the officials who are restless with Seo-joon.
‘It's an old woman...'
So Jin-hyun couldn't shake off the anxiety rising deep in his heart.
#
The tournament continued and Dream Academy was on a winning streak.
As expected, Minyul came up with a significant gap.
Soo-yeon, who thought it would be a bit difficult, was also doing well unexpectedly.
“Nonsense! You say you can open a barrier there?”
“How could you come up with an arithmetic expression like this…!”
Among them, the ale academy students who competed with Soo-yeon felt that they could not be trusted.
“Keuk...! It's really hard...”
Of course, Suyeon didn't win easily either.
However, considering that the opponents were the geniuses of Ale, even that was great.
Indeed, it was Soo-yeon's talent that even Maseong admired.
Meanwhile, Min-yul and Soo-yeon are doing their best.
Kwa-ang!
“Kim Seo-joon wins!”
Seo-joon was truly in a state of disarray.
There was no student who could withstand Seo-jun's blow.
At least, if Park Ha-joon, whom he competed for the first time, had endured until the end of Jecheon Daeseong's Rannachal (欄拿扎).
Most of them could not stand Ran and I and fell away.
“What kind of guy is this…”
“A monster… This is a monster…”
The students facing Seo-joon could feel the feelings of Park Ha-joon and Jung Si-woo.
And that's how one game ends.
“Please change the window again.”
Seo-joon broke a spear without fail.
“Again… is it broken again?”
“haha. They say they control it... It's not easy because all the other students are excellent students.”
Seeing Seo-joon scratching the back of his head shyly, the officials had nothing to say.
“......How many weapons has Kim Seo-joon replaced so far?”
“If you add up to now, there are nine in total.”
“Nine…”
Considering that a single weapon costs tens of millions of won, even a rough calculation of the replacement cost would have broken the unit in billions.
In this way, an ironic case could have been produced in which the belly button became larger than the belly with more weapons than the prize money.
I didn't even have the guts to say that I couldn't replace it.
It was because it was clearly visible that everything was ruined even at a glance.
It's obvious that the one with minor incontinence will break if you swing it one more time, but you can't just tell them to play the game.
I couldn't do it if I didn't want to replace it.
Besides, apparently, Kim Seo-joon was not doing his best to prevent the window from breaking.
So, in fact, it was the fault of the side that did not make the common weapon strong.
In order for Kim Seo-joon to take issue with this fact, the exchange exhibition side had to make excuses and apologize.
An even bigger problem was that there was quite a bit of Kim Seo-joon's game left in the future.
“Shouldn’t I rather use my spear at this point?”
So the officials had no choice but to stop at Seo-jun's proposal.
Of course, such a privilege may or may not have been.
But look at the situation now.
Anyway, there is no student who can withstand Kim Seo-joon's blow.
The cost of a game that ends in less than 30 seconds is tens of millions of won.
Wouldn't it be safe to say that this is not ‘preference' but ‘flexibility'?
“Did the representatives have no intention of changing the rules again?”
“Ha... I'll ask a question and then come back.”
The officials had no choice but to gather and have serious concerns.
That's when Seo-joon received a new window and was about to return to the waiting room.
I saw Suyeon stamping her feet in one corner of the arena.
Seeing that Suyeon, who should be in the waiting room, was here, it seemed that the next match was Suyeon's.
Seo-joon approached Su-yeon and asked.
“Suyeon-ah. Is your next match going to be yours?”
“huh? Ah… yes.”
Soo-yeon was a little surprised by Seo-joon's sudden appearance, but then slowly nodded.
And, unlike Suyeon's usual appearance, she showed a very nervous expression.
She must have been very nervous, but she looked quite different from Suyeon's appearance.
“Why are you falling like this?”
When Seo-jun questioned, Su-yeon paused for a moment before slowly opening her mouth.
“That…because my opponent this time is Lee Ha-yoon…”