Solo Resurrection

Chapter 82

Chapter 82

Wind of Change (2)

“Is this the place?”

“Yes.”

“It’s insanely tall.”

Kang Hyeon marveled at the building that seemed to pierce the sky.

Its height was a staggering 666m.

It was the tallest building in South Korea and the second tallest building in the world.

The Comet Group’s Comet Tower.

Kang Hyeon and An Yu-seong were standing in front of this epitome of capitalism.

“Does this entire building belong to your family?”

“We’ve sold a lot of it now. Besides, we have many other buildings anyway.”

“You lucky bastard.”

Kang Hyeon had long since abandoned his obsession with money.

But seeing such a different scale of wealth made his stomach churn involuntarily.

“Mr. Kang Hyeon. Is that you?”

“Yes.”

As they entered the building, men in suits who had been waiting approached them.

“This way, please.”

The man guided them to a VIP-only elevator.

Kang Hyeon, seeing this for the first time, secretly marveled as he stepped into the elevator.

“I suppose we’re heading to the top floor?”

“That’s right.”

“I don’t understand why Korean gentlemen like the top so much. Is the feeling of looking down on others that good?”

“Ahem, hmm...”

The men inside cleared their throats at Kang Hyeon’s unfiltered words.

Soon after, the high-speed elevator arrived at the top of the building.

As soon as Kang Hyeon entered, he was awestruck by the massive door blocking his view.

“Couldn’t you live off selling just one of these door panels for a lifetime?”

“Perhaps so.”

An Yu-seong’s expression was noticeably tense as he answered.

“Hey. Why are you so nervous?”

“I’m not nervous.”

Contrary to his words, An Yu-seong’s fists were clenched and trembling.

“Let’s go.”

Kang Hyeon patted An Yu-seong’s shoulder once before pushing the door open.

‘Quite a gathering.’

Although he had already sensed it with his magical powers outside the door, seeing it in person was even more impressive.

A space so vast you could play ball games in it.

A man sat on a sofa in the center, surrounded by over 200 ability users.

From what Kang Hyeon could sense, each of them seemed to be at least level 40, upper-middle-class ability users or higher.

“Interesting. Are you trying to intimidate me from the start?”

“Not at all. These people are simply here for my safety, so don’t mind them. Come, have a seat.”

The man sitting on the sofa spoke.

His hair was already snow-white, but his squared shoulders and straight back showed he was still a vigorous man.

“It’s a pleasure to meet such a famous person who’s been causing a stir in the country. I’m An Moo-seok.”

“Haha. If you had invited me more politely, I would have been glad too. What a shame. I’m Kang Hyeon.”

At Kang Hyeon’s response, An Moo-seok’s eyes narrowed sharply for a moment, but he quickly returned to a comfortable expression as if nothing had happened.

“Young man, it seems you need to be more careful with your words and actions.”

“Tsk... It looks like you need to re-educate your subordinates. If you wanted to bring me in forcefully, you should have at least sent someone worth fighting. Or is this a problem of a superior sending out weak subordinates?”

Kang Hyeon’s wide-ranging attack made even the faces of the ability users behind them turn red.

Surprisingly, An Moo-seok continued the conversation without saying much.

“Let’s stop the jokes here. I’m sure you didn’t come here today for this reason.”

“I’m a busy person too, so let’s get to the point. Why did you look for me?”

“I hear you’re the leader of a guild called Badass now? With that An Yu-seong as your vice-captain.”

“That’s correct.”

“That’s enough for me to gauge your level without needing to see more. I’ll be direct. You, come under me.”

Kang Hyeon snorted at An Moo-seok’s words.

“Ha! An Yu-seong. I hate to say this, but is your father mentally unwell?”

“...”

An Yu-seong’s face hardened at Kang Hyeon’s words.

Normally, he would have laughed it off, but now his mind was completely blank, burning white-hot.

“You... You’re crossing the line now.”

There was no reason for him to risk his life fighting monsters.

But An Moo-seok realized the importance of ability users early on.

-The future world order will depend on what kind of ability users one has.

With this thought from the beginning, An Moo-seok thoroughly understood ability users.

Unique abilities, general abilities, skills, stats. Even their effects and potential.

He analyzed everything he was reported, and finally found a suitable guild.

There was a reason he brought in already grown individuals instead of raising ability users himself.

Initially, he planned to raise new ability users, but their growth rate was much faster than he had thought.

Even An Moo-seok hadn’t expected modern armies to be already losing to ability users.

“In the end, finding the Kangshin guild turned out well.”

Amidst all this, the Kangshin guild caught his eye.

At first, it was just a nameless mid-sized guild, but at some point, it started rising rapidly and suddenly took a seat among the top 10 guilds.

Moderately strong, moderately greedy, and moderately moral.

Kangshin had optimal conditions for An Moo-seok to set his sights on in many ways.

“It shouldn’t take long to overtake Dangun, the domestic number one.”

Dangun Guild.

The granddaughter of the Chairman of HanShin Group, who leads the third-largest conglomerate in the country.

In An Moo-seok’s opinion, Dangun could become the domestic number one because of early investment.

But that’s all useless now.

Because now he has started investing in and researching ability users in earnest.

An Moo-seok’s goal wasn’t simply to be the number one guild in the country.

A guild respected worldwide, like the Comet Group.

That was An Moo-seok’s goal.

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Ippotranslation

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On the way back to the guild office.

An Yu-seong and Kang Hyeon were sitting in the back seat, looking out the window.

“Brother. Thank you.”

An Yu-seong’s voice drifted in the car, where only the quiet engine sound could be heard.

“For what?”

“Just because.”

“If you’re going to say something cheesy, forget it.”

Kang Hyeon chuckled.

“By the way. Did you see their condition?”

“You mean those Kangshin guys?”

“Yeah.”

“Why? Was something strange?”

“Just... It’s peculiar. Remember those drug addicts from before? It’s clearly different, but for some reason, I keep thinking about when we fought them. And...”

Kang Hyeon paused for a moment before continuing.

“Their average magical power is too high. It’s impossible unless they’re all composed of mages. Especially the one who seemed to be the guild master, I think he had almost the highest magical power I’ve seen so far.”

An Yu-seong stroked his chin at Kang Hyeon’s words.

“Hmm...”

“Hey. That intuition or premonition or whatever you use seems to be all-purpose, didn’t you get anything this time?”

“It’s the sixth sense, actually.”

“Whatever it is.”

An Yu-seong chuckled at Kang Hyeon’s words and opened his mouth.

“Certainly...”

“Certainly?”

“I don’t know.”

“What?”

“I said I don’t know. Honestly, my mind went blank there, so I couldn’t think of anything. You should have been more rude.”

“Damn it. If you don’t know, just say you don’t know. Why build up suspense like that!”

“It’s fun, isn’t it? Hehe.”

An Yu-seong laughed emptily.

‘Certainly... Both Kang Hyeon and Shin Seong-a have good instincts.’

But his true thoughts were different.

An Yu-seong definitely felt something from them.

It’s just that the feeling was too abstract, so he thought it would be better not to say anything.

Throughout their conversation, while facing them, his sixth sense kept telling him.

That completely new and different events would unfold from now on.

‘Things are going to get interesting from now on.’

The winds of change were blowing.