novelraw Chapter 41 : Chapter 41
Chapter 41 : Chapter 41
Chapter 41. Turmoil (10)
At that time, the entrance of the spider den.
A man lying on the ground opened his eyes.
“Ugh…….”
His position in this spider den was the foreman of Mining Squad 3.
He was the foreman of the squad where Riman had briefly belonged and swung a pickaxe.
And he had collapsed after being electrocuted by Riman and only just woke up now.
Of course, he had no awareness that he had been hit by lightning magic.
“What on earth happened……?”
But the atmosphere of the spider den was somewhat strange.
Because people were throwing away pickaxes and everything else and rushing outside.
The ground was also vibrating faintly for some reason.
At first, he thought the ground was shaking because of the people running out.
But it wasn’t.
Because there was no way the ground of such a solid cave would shake just because a few hundred people were running.
‘Don’t tell me this cave itself is shaking……?’
It was accurate.
Boom!!
Moreover, a rock the size of a watermelon suddenly falling from the ceiling backed up his thought.
“Hiek……!”
“Ah, foreman.”
“Gah!”
The one who spoke to the foreman was a thin man with fluttering long black hair.
In other words, it was Riman.
“Escape, quickly. Since it will collapse if you stay here a bit longer.”
“Collapse? Why?!”
“It would take too long to explain that.”
The foreman couldn’t easily accept Riman’s words that the cave was collapsing.
It was understandable, as there had not been a single case of collapse among the numerous Demonic Beast dens he had frequented until now.
But believing and reality are separate things.
He couldn’t say ‘It can’t collapse!’ even while seeing the cave floor actually shaking and stone dust falling from here and there.
“Ah, and foreman.”
“……?”
“Look for another job now. Jeoksong is ruined.”
“What?”
Rumble!
The collapse began to accelerate gradually.
The foreman began running like crazy.
And—
Crash-boom-bang!
A moment later, the spider den collapsed completely.
“Phew.”
With Riman and the foreman last, everyone escaped from the spider den.
It was a sudden disaster, but surprisingly, there was only one death due to the collapse.
Lee Jeok-seo, who was trapped in the Queen Spider’s spawning room.
“Hm.”
Riman looked at the entrance of the completely collapsed spider den.
It was the moment the economic value of this spider den went completely down the drain.
But even watching this tremendous sight, Riman wasn’t particularly surprised.
Since Riman himself was the one who made the situation like this in the first place.
Just before escaping the Queen Spider’s spawning room.
Riman placed his hand on the magic stones embedded in the spawning room wall and injected mana.
Injecting high-heat mana altered to the flame lineage.
Due to this, the energy inside the stabilized magic stones began to shake.
As mana collided with mana, the energy balance inside the magic stones collapsed.
When a stable state begins to collapse, the end is predetermined.
Explosion.
But he could postpone the timing of that explosion.
Concentrating his keen senses and mana sensitivity completely, Riman postponed the timing of the explosion to about 30 minutes later.
After working on several magic stones like that, Riman escaped the Queen Spider’s spawning room.
Of course, taking everything he needed to take.
About 30 minutes later, the magic stones in the spawning room began to explode.
The explosion brought down the walls where the magic stones were embedded.
At the same time, the explosion rode the mineral vein and spread to magic stones scattered here and there in the cave.
Chain explosion.
Like falling dominoes, the explosion spread throughout the entire spider den.
This was the reason why the explosion occurring in the spawning room could bring down this massive spider den entirely.
Crash-boom-bang!!
In fact, there was no reason for Riman to go as far as bringing down the spider den entirely.
Nevertheless, Riman carried out the demolition.
It was due to extremely emotional reasons.
He hated the Jeoksong Company guys, but he also didn’t like the way the Parakel guys acted.
The way they threw their weight around picking on trivial faults.
Moreover, the mining rights to this spider den would be transferred to Parakel tomorrow.
Then anyway, he couldn’t even come back here to get magic stones.
So let’s just blow it all up so no one can have it.
This was Riman’s thought in blowing this place up.
Rumble—
The thick dust that had risen began to settle gradually.
“It’s over.”
Leaving only that one word, Riman left the scene.
Carrying a bag bulging to the limit filled with something.
* * *
A certain hotel room.
It was a hotel of a much higher grade than the hotel where Riman was staying.
A super-luxury hotel where even the money to book all the hotel rooms Riman was staying in wouldn't be enough to book one night.
25-year-old man Jo Hyeong-seo was enjoying entertainment there from early afternoon.
Numerous people regardless of gender were there, and everyone was drunk on alcohol and something that wasn’t alcohol.
Jo Hyeong-seo was the same.
While the party was proceeding like that.
Jo Hyeong-seo felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.
“Which bastard…….”
Taking out his phone with a voice full of annoyance, Jo Hyeong-seo’s eyes widened.
The woman next to him asked.
“Oppa, who is it?”
“Shut up. Move, fuck.”
“Eek!”
Jo Hyeong-seo roughly pushed away the woman leaning next to him and went out to the veranda.
In the outdoor spa on the veranda, half-naked men and women were huddled together.
Jo Hyeong-seo spoke toward them.
“Everyone go inside.”
“Into the water?”
“Fuck, did you eat water with your ears? I said go inside the house!”
“Hiek……!”
The people in the spa hurriedly ran into the house without even wiping their bodies properly.
After making the veranda quiet like that.
Jo Hyeong-seo answered the phone in an extremely polite posture.
“Yes, Red King-nim, I received the call.”
After a brief silence, a low voice came from over the receiver.
“Hyeong-seo-ya.”
“Yes, this is Jo Hyeong-seo.”
Saying so, Jo Hyeong-seo bowed his waist.
As if the person he was talking to was actually in front of his eyes.
The Red King said.
“How did the spider den go?”
“I am set to take it over tomorrow. You don’t need to worry.”
“I see. Hyeong-seo-ya.”
“Yes, please speak.”
“Good work. If things wrap up well tomorrow, you too can become a member of
Jo Hyeong-seo’s eyes grew wide.
“Is, is that true……!”
“I won’t say it twice.”
“Ah, s-sorry!”
“And.”
“Yes!”
“Drink moderately.”
At that moment, what caught Jo Hyeong-seo’s eyes were the liquor bottles rolling around here and there in the hotel room.
He suddenly felt goosebumps on his back.
“Yes, understood……!”
“For the Great Mother.”
“For the Mother.”
Click.
The call ended.
Jo Hyeong-seo’s trembling hands didn’t stop.
‘It’s tomorrow.’
Tomorrow, I can finally become a member of
An organization exercising extensive influence across the world’s politics, economy, academia, and underworld.
Of course, few knew about its name and reality except for the organization members.
Because Eclipse Hall were those who revealed their existence not by name but by power itself.
‘...I too am going up to a higher place now.’
Of course, Jo Hyeong-seo was sufficiently wealthy even now.
Because the assets and benefits obtained as a relative of the large corporation Parakel Company were quite large.
But Jo Hyeong-seo had no intention of stopping here.
He wanted to climb higher.
He was a member of a collateral branch, not the direct line of the Parakel family.
Thanks to that, he gained a lot, but therefore the limits were also clear.
Anyway, unless he was direct line, he couldn’t climb to the very top of Parakel.
‘To go higher, I must go outside Parakel.’
But growing up in Parakel’s greenhouse, he couldn’t recklessly go outside Parakel without preparation.
Then an opportunity came.
He intended to hold hands with them and climb higher.
Regardless of means and methods.
Moreover, he wasn’t the type of personality to feel guilty while stepping on bugs.
Although there was a trivial problem that he held a biologically incorrect view of treating people weaker than him as bugs.
‘The spider den is just the beginning.’
By offering this spider den, becoming a formal member of Eclipse Hall and starting from there……
Ring-ring—
At that time, Jo Hyeong-seo’s phone rang again.
It was a call from his uncle.
The uncle who took the business rights of the spider den from Jeoksong Company and gave them to Jo Hyeong-seo.
Jo Hyeong-seo answered the phone.
“Yes, Uncle.”
“Come here right now.”
“What?”
“I said come to the spider den right now. Do you know what happened right now?!”
“……?!”
Click.
Leaving only that one sentence, the uncle hung up the phone.
His tone and phone habits were completely different from usual.
Evidence that something unusual was happening.
Jo Hyeong-seo hurriedly took his car keys and went down to the underground parking lot.
Half a bottle of whiskey was sloshing in his stomach, but something like that wasn’t important right now.
Jo Hyeong-seo stepped on the accelerator.
* * *
“…What is this?”
Near the spider den entrance.
Jo Hyeong-seo repeated the same words with a devastated expression.
“What is this, what is this I said.”
“Um…….”
“What the hell happened, you bastard!!”
The employee who was shouted at flinched and said.
“The spider den suddenly collapsed! It collapsed completely!!”
“I mean why?!”
“That, inves, investigation…….”
“Why are you still not doing that?!”
Thwack!
Jo Hyeong-seo grabbed the employee by the collar and threw a punch at his face.
Until his anger was relieved, until the cheek was bruised and blood seeped out.
But none of the employees around could touch Jo Hyeong-seo.
Because for a mere employee to restrain a member of the Parakel family was impossible unless they were crazy.
Only people of the same family could stop the Parakel family.
For example, his uncle.
“Jo Hyeong-seo.”
At his uncle’s voice coming from the side, Jo Hyeong-seo turned his head.
“Uncle.”
“First, let’s put that aside and talk.”
Jo Hyeong-seo threw the employee whose collar he was holding to the floor.
Then other employees flocked in, quickly picked up the fallen employee, and retreated.
Jo Hyeong-seo asked his uncle.
“How did this happen, Uncle. For the spider den to suddenly collapse, why on earth?”
“…….”
The uncle looked elsewhere for a moment and licked his lips.
It was like a lubrication work done before spitting out harsh words.
“From now on, you have to take care of it yourself.”
“What?”
“The business rights to this site have already passed to you on paper. It means from now on, whatever happens here is your responsibility.”
“H-how can that be?!”
Jo Hyeong-seo felt his mind going blank.
He planned to sit comfortably here, make money, and make an impression on
But now such a convenient future had crossed the water.
All that remained for him was some disaster site.
Retrieving any profit in this environment was almost impossible.
“…This is unfair. Why does this happen to me?”
“Unfair?”
The uncle’s gaze turned cold.
“Hey Jo Hyeong-seo.”
“Y-yes?”
“Do you know how much Jeoksong Company suffered like dogs to win the business rights here?”
“What……?”
“You should have seen that dogfight-like bidding process too. You should have seen companies rushing in with eyes rolled back just to suck a drop of sweet water from Parakel’s asshole.”
“That…….”
“To win business rights from us, originally you have to do that much. But how were you? Wasn’t making a few phone calls to me everything? Coming by such an easy path and what? Unfair?”
“Uncle, what I mean is…….”
“And Jeoksong worked well. They worked incredibly neatly. I cut off such a company and passed it to you.”
The uncle shoved Jo Hyeong-seo’s forehead hard with his fingertip.
“So finish the job properly.”
With those words, the uncle moved his steps to another place to examine the site further.
Contrary to him, Jo Hyeong-seo walked to a place where there were no people.
Under a large tree with no people around.
Jo Hyeong-seo slumped down on the ground.
“Shit…….”
He tore at his hair.
Because there was a bigger matter left than dealing with this site.
Eclipse Hall.
Because the spider den was originally intended to be used for them.
“What do I do……?”
What excuse should I give?
I boasted loudly to leave it only to me?
What on earth……
Ring-ring—
At that time, his phone started ringing.
The caller was the Red King.