Max Talent Player

‘It’s only been a few months since I went back in time, yet…’

Even I had to admit that I had changed a great deal.
It felt weird.
Cheon Sooji took initiative to propose dating, and I refused her.

‘Life is becoming more and more fun.’

“Ah, right.” I turned for a moment, casting a look in Sooji’s direction.
“Please relay this to Mr.
Song Kiyeol for me.
If any completely black corpses show up, particularly in the south, contact me immediately.”

“Got it.
I’ll cooperate.”

We dipped our heads in mutual farewell.

“See you later.
Next time, I will come to you looking a little more pretty.”

“…”

“Or maybe you want me to be a little more sexy instead?”

I turned around.
As I headed towards our base, I said to Sunhwa, “We’re gonna rest for about one day.
Got it?”

“Yes, sir!”

Sunhwa seemed very pleased.
We got into the elevator, and as it rose, Sunhwa looked at me with a serious expression.

“Oppa.”

“Yeah?”

“That unnie just now was super pretty, right?”

“Yeah, can’t deny that.”

Sunhwa shook her head.

“But I don’t like the feeling of her.”

“All of a sudden?”

Even though she didn’t have something like Eye of Perception?

“This is just a woman’s intuition.”

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Wasn’t she a bit too young to call herself a woman?

“Trust my intuition.
It would be best not to get too close to that unnie.”

“…That so?”

Sunhwa nodded to herself, looking every bit like she truly believed her words were right and she was being very serious.

“I’m against that unnie.”

* * *

One day passed.
Yeonseo made a group chat.

–Tada! Our party group chat!

Our party of six was me, Sunhwa, Yeonseo, Yoohyun, Sunghyun, and Sung-gu.
Four of the six were future top-class Rankers.
In other words, geniuses.
It was both fascinating and fun that I was in a team with such geniuses.

Yeonseo sent a KaTalk.

TN: KakaoTalk, the most popular messaging app in Korea.
KaTalk for short.

–Boss Hyukjin.
What should we do now?

–Let’s meet up and discuss it.

Our meeting spot was a coffee shop in Sinchon.
Maybe because they recognized Yoohyun, people kept looking over.
But because they were intimidated by his huge muscles, they didn’t approach us.

“See the Hyundai Department Store over there?”

It was on the other side of the street.
Hyundai was in its name, but its owner was Sungshin.

“The building right next to it is the U-Plex Building.”

“Hyungnim.
I know that place well because I’ve bought a lot of clothes there.
You can buy a lot of plus-size clothes there.”

“After we drink our coffees, we’ll go study the terrain of the Hyundai Department Store and that building.
Understood?”

Everyone understood.
All of us were given the first entry rights to the ‘U-Plex Dungeon’.

‘That place will turn into a dungeon.’

Sunghyun cautiously said, “Hyung.
If that place becomes a dungeon, what’ll happen to the people inside?”

“They’ll probably die.
Same as the Seoul Station Dungeon.”

When that place first turned into a dungeon, everyone inside died.
After a gate formed at Exit 2, the rest of the station turned to normal, but everyone inside the U-Plex when it transformed would probably die… if they didn’t have the ability to clear it.

His voice still as calm and quiet as before, Sunghyun continued.
“Is there any way we can save them?”

“We will issue a warning through Taeguk Shield.”

Taeguk Shield’s word held far more power than ours.

“The problem is that we don’t know when or how the U-Plex Dungeon will open.”

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We could hardly say ‘That place’ll become a dungeon, so shut down your businesses and go home, please’.
Even if we said it, there was no way people would listen.

If it was the same as the past, there would be a few early signs in September, and on the 3rd of October, there would be a dungeon break.
That meant the dungeon would suddenly appear sometime between September and early October.

“The moment I see signs it’ll transform into a dungeon, I’ll contact Guildmaster Kiyeol.”

That was the best we could do.
I had already felt it during the 1st Players Convention.
I was actually weakening the Players, so much that we were probably falling behind the Players in the other servers around the world.

‘Though we have, of course, suffered fewer losses.’

Our current losses were reduced, but I was taking away opportunities for Players and people to grow in exchange.
I had to walk the fine line where I could minimize losses while still allowing the Players to grow.
That was the balance I had to do my best to find.

“Also, we’re going on a vacation tomorrow.
Is there anyone who can’t make it?”

“Dafuq? A vacation all of a sudden? What kind of vacation? Do you need the Firemaster again?”

Everyone realized that the vacation I was talking about was no ordinary vacation.

“Put plenty of food in your Inventory.
When you’re back home, buy as many poison resistance items as you can.”

Tomorrow, we would be heading to Sin-an, South Jeolla Province.
More precisely, to an island called ‘Plum Blossom Island’ located in Sin-an.

Everyone understood what I was saying.

“Invest as much as possible in your armor.”

Sung-gu shivered.
“Eurgh.
What is it this time? Are we going somewhere dangerous again?”

I decided to tell them the truth.

“Four pitch-black, rotten corpses have been discovered there.”

“Ah fuck.
Didn’t you say it was a vacation?”

It wasn’t even publicized to the press yet.
I was only able to find out about this thanks to my cooperation with Taeguk Shield.

“The cause of death is unknown.”

…Or so it should be, but I already knew.
The deaths were the doing of Pearl Centipedes, early level 30 monsters.
They were monsters we absolutely needed to kill.

“Boss Hyukjin.
Is it because of monsters? And we have to kill those monsters?”

“…”

I nodded.
This trip was preparation to go into the U-Plex Dungeon.
But just then, my phone ringtone went off.
A name popped up on the screen.

[Noona]

I picked up the call from my sister.
What she said was rather interesting.

“…Is that true?”

It was something that hadn’t happened in the past.

 

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