The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 58

After Cheon Yuhwa started not coming to the guild due to her circumstances, Kim Jae-hyun became the acting guild master from the vice guild master.

And he was not just a general acting guild master, but an acting guild master who had been entrusted with full authority, literally one who could perfectly replace the guild master.

Thanks to that, Kim Jae-hyun was able to grow the guild according to Cheon Yuhwa's plan without any interference.

'I'm going to die...'

And now, he was suffering, buried in the wave of documents that were explosively flooding in due to its side effects.

'Why is it that even though I keep working, the work doesn't seem to end? No, far from ending, it seems to be increasing...'

Thump-

As Kim Jae-hyun, with dark circles down to his cheeks, was about to start seriously contemplating, the door to the guild master's office opened, and a person entered.

A man holding a huge pile of white documents in both hands.

"Hello, Acting Guild Master. Here are the newly added documents. Please review these as well. Then I'll be on my way."

Click-

The man, who had quickly finished his business after placing the documents on the table, disappeared from the spot like the wind.

"......"

Kim Jae-hyun looked at the newly added documents with hollow eyes, let out a sigh, and then pressed the area around his tired eyes with his fingers.

As he was taking a short break like that, the thought of not wanting to work, of wanting to pass it on to someone else, naturally flooded in.

Finally, the image of the now-absent Cheon Yuhwa came to mind.

Recalling the image of Cheon Yuhwa, who, despite being so tired she seemed about to collapse, had ignored her own injuries and continued to walk forward, Kim Jae-hyun let out a weak sigh.

"Haa, I shouldn't have thought that I would help if there was a part I could support back then."

Kim Jae-hyun drank a cup of bitter coffee to forcefully wake up his tired mind and then slowly moved his aura.

Then, three documents moved on their own and were placed in front of Kim Jae-hyun, and three ballpoint pens also floated up and stood upright on the documents.

"Hoo."

Kim Jae-hyun, using his sharpened senses with his aura, quickly checked the documents and began to sign each document quickly by moving the ballpoint pens.

Then, a huge number of documents began to be processed naturally, like flowing water.

Just as a martial artist trains his martial arts by swinging a sword, and a magician trains his magic through research, espers also have a training method to raise their skills.

To continuously overwork one's mind and cultivate one's mental strength.

Although it was just a common theory of passion, surprisingly, espers become stronger through this theory of passion.

Because aura changes under the influence of mental strength.

For reference, there are not only this kind of dynamic training method, but also static training like meditation.

In other words, Kim Jae-hyun also knew that his current experience was helpful for his growth.

Just...

"Acting Guild Master, more documents."

"......"

It was just a little sad that what he was doing by pouring out his superhuman abilities and senses was paperwork.

***

-[Wonderland] rapid growth through explosive growth.

-[Wonderland] a brand created by a new era.

-"Mom, I'm going to join [Wonderland] when I grow up."

'There are all sorts of articles.'

Cheon Yuhwa smiled lightly, glancing at the articles about her guild.

"Hmm? What is it?"

Seeing Cheon Yuhwa like that, the woman sitting next to her asked curiously.

The woman strangely had black hair like ink on her left side and white hair like snow on her right side, and she had braided them into small braids.

"Did you see something interesting?"

At that, Cheon Yuhwa smiled lightly and said.

"No, it's not particularly interesting."

"Hmm~ I don't know. From what I see, it was a smile that thought of something interesting."

At her playful questioning, Cheon Yuhwa smiled lightly and said.

"I was just thinking of someone who is suffering even while I'm just sitting here."

"Really? They must be a close person."

At her words, Cheon Yuhwa nodded slightly.

"Yeah, they're not family, but it's no exaggeration to say they're family. They're a guy I think of as a younger brother."

It was Cheon Yuhwa who nonchalantly uttered words that would have made Kim Jae-hyun ask why he was her younger brother if he had heard them.

Screech-

As the two were talking, the limousine they were riding in slowly stopped.

"Ah, it seems we've arrived."

At that, Cheon Yuhwa and the woman next to her got out of the car.

"Ugh~"

The woman, after getting out of the car, lightly stretched to loosen her stiff body.

Sway-

Then, her chest swayed lightly from the impact.

Seeing that overwhelming sight, Cheon Yuhwa lightly clicked her tongue.

'It's even more amazing now that I see it after a long time. How can she be shorter than me but have bigger breasts than me? Is this Western genetics?'

As Cheon Yuhwa was having such useless thoughts, the woman, who had loosened her stiff body, adjusted her witch hat, which could be called her symbol, and then looked at Cheon Yuhwa and smiled like a cat.

"Now, then, let's go. The other two have already arrived and are waiting upstairs."

"Alright, unni."

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, the woman smiled as if in anticipation.

"By the way, what really brings you here? I was so excited about what it would be that I couldn't even sleep yesterday."

At her good-naturedness, Cheon Yuhwa smiled playfully and said.

"You can look forward to it. Whatever you're thinking, you won't be disappointed."

At Cheon Yuhwa's confident attitude, the woman also smiled.

"Really? I'm getting more and more curious."

"Then we should go up quickly to solve your curiosity. The oppas will be waiting too."

Ding-

While Cheon Yuhwa and the woman were chatting, the elevator they were riding in arrived at the top.

The top floor of this building.

A VVIP seat that receives guests with only one table and serves dishes that suit that person at that time.

"It seems you've arrived."

"Ah, you're here. That's a relief. I was getting hungry, so it was hard to wait."

As the two got out of the elevator, the two people sitting at the luxurious table lightly greeted Cheon Yuhwa and the woman, and Cheon Yuhwa and the woman also lightly waved their hands in response to the greeting.

"I brought her~"

"Thanks for picking her up, Oz."

The man with unkempt brown hair briefly thanked Oz and then looked at Cheon Yuhwa and smiled.

"Alice, you've worked hard coming all this way. Ah! Is it a little uncomfortable to call you by your game name?"

At those words, the man with a neat impression with his golden hair completely slicked back opened his mouth.

"But isn't it also awkward to call her by her real name? In the first place, we met in a game, not in reality, so it would be more natural to call each other by our nicknames."

"That's true too."

"Now, now!"

As the story was about to stray, Oz intervened and gathered the two's attention in one place.

"Sigh, Merlin and Crowley. Both of you wait a moment. You should at least give Alice enough time to sit down, shouldn't you?"

"Ah, that's right."

"My apologies."

Merlin and Crowley, who had come to their senses at Oz's words, looked at Alice, that is, Cheon Yuhwa, apologetically.

At the three's gazes, Cheon Yuhwa smiled as if it were nothing.

"It's fine, it's not like we met for the first time today."

The three smiled lightly at Cheon Yuhwa's words and sat down, and Cheon Yuhwa also followed them and sat at the table.

And she slowly looked at the three people at the table.

Merlin, the king of magicians who leads the magician's union [Magic Tower], looks at her with his characteristic eyes full of curiosity.

Oz, the queen of witches who leads the witch's union [Sabbath], looks at her with the corners of her mouth raised in anticipation.

Crowley, the king of alchemy who leads the guild [Meister] for only production-class players, looks at her with calm eyes.

At that, Cheon Yuhwa smiled back at them.

They were all geniuses who were outside the box of common sense, and they were people who had a position that could influence many people with just a single fingertip.

***

"Then are the three of us the last?"

At Merlin's words, Cheon Yuhwa lightly nodded.

"Yeah, you and the oppas are the last. I've already met everyone else."

"By the way, what did you do when you met them? It seems like the time you spent together was a bit long to just have a simple conversation."

At Crowley's question, Cheon Yuhwa lightly recalled the past and said.

"Besides just having a conversation, I also did some sparring."

"Hmm? Alice, you sparred?"

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, Oz looked at Cheon Yuhwa as if surprised.

Because the Cheon Yuhwa in Oz's mind was not the type to enjoy sparring with others.

"Yeah, it was something I had to do once."

"Hmm, really?"

The three, who had lightly exchanged questions and answers with Cheon Yuhwa, were lost in thought with an even more confused expression.

And the one who declared surrender first was Merlin.

"By the way, can't you tell us the reason you came all this way to meet us now? I was so curious that I came out with anticipation even when I finished my research at dawn today."

"Sigh."

At Merlin's words, Oz let out a slight sigh.

"Where did you eat your age? You can't even wait a little?"

Oz scolded Merlin like that, but she didn't mean it.

She just formally scolded Merlin and glanced at Cheon Yuhwa.

And the one who delivered the final blow was Crowley, who had been quietly lost in thought.

"Well, it's true that it was a statement that ignored the atmosphere a bit, but it's hard for me to hold back now too. Because I've been curious about what kind of story will come out."

At the three's very magician-like reactions, Cheon Yuhwa smiled, feeling a little nostalgic.

"Alright, it's true that when I see you guys like this, you're born magicians."

"Ahaha, this doesn't get fixed easily."

"Ehehe, I've tried to fix it too."

"I can't deny it."

The three laughed awkwardly because they also thought there was a part of them that was awkward.

Rustle-

Cheon Yuhwa, looking at them, placed a piece of paper in front of each of the three.

"This is?"

"First, I'll tell you after you've seen that, so just read it for now."

"Really?"

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, they nodded and checked the contents written on the paper.

"My paper has a magic circle written on it."

"Mine is a spell to activate magic."

"Mine is an alchemy recipe."

They briefly shared the contents of each other's papers and then began to look at what was written on the papers carefully.

"...!!!"

And the further their eyes went down, the more their eyes filled with surprise, and their slowly closed mouths opened.

At the more passionate reaction than she had expected, Cheon Yuhwa smiled in satisfaction.

"Now, since your faces are confused, I think you have a rough idea, but I'll tell you for sure. What's written there are things that you guys and unni created."

After Cheon Yuhwa's words ended, a silence fell between them.

But that time was not long.

"How is this possible?"

"I know, right? A theory we've never written is in front of us."

Merlin and Oz said, looking at the paper in their hands with eyes that were seeing an unknown phenomenon.

It was the same for Crowley.

"But I can't deny that I didn't write it. I don't know what's written on your papers, but the recipe written on my paper has my research style written all over it."

"It's the same for me. Not only the way it's written, but also the flow of thought is the same as mine."

"How is this possible? It would only be possible if there was another me."

"Now, now!"

As they began to get lost in their own stories, Cheon Yuhwa called them.

"I'll say it again, what's written on the paper is what you guys and unni wrote. However..."

Cheon Yuhwa paused for a moment to heighten the tension and then said again.

"It's just that I remembered and wrote down the recipe that the future you guys and unni wrote.”

(End of Chapter)