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Chapter 129

On TV, the Defenders press conference was in full swing.

I don’t know how many reruns it already has.

It was really poignant and pushy.

However, the Guardians were also playing the press as if to counter fire.

Public opinion prevailed in the Guardians.

No matter how much media you play, the results you have accumulated in the first place are different.

Although the members of the Defenders were famous one by one, the only ones among me who had meaningful achievements were Jason and Jennifer.

Fortunately, Jennifer was more famous for her beauty than for fighting monsters, so Jason was the only person who actually fit the image of saving the Earth in relation to the dungeon.

The Guardian, on the other hand, has achieved countless achievements in the meantime. Also, each time it definitely moved the media, it was properly remembered in people’s minds.

In the future, we will probably have to continue to fight nerves and fight public opinion.

Obviously I thought it would.

* * *

In the Guardian’s conference room, Ha-jin Kang, Kyung-min Yoon, and In-hyeok Myung were sitting around a round table, making serious expressions.

“Defenders stopped creating public opinion?”

“Yeah. To be honest, I am a little embarrassed.”

Kang Ha-jin’s eyes lit up at Myung In-hyuk’s words.

The Defenders have been active in shaping public opinion in countries where the Guardians played an active part in the Second Catastrophe.

It was a way to cleverly downplay the Guardians and highlight the existence of the Defenders as an alternative.

Naturally, the Guardians responded and moved public opinion.

But that movement disappeared like a lie.

So, Myung In-hyeok also did not go out actively to see the atmosphere for a while and was waiting.

“What should I do?”

Yoon Kyung-min answered clearly.

“What, what, how? If you don’t do it, we’ll have to quit.”

Hajin Kang nodded at that.

“Just keep watching. If there are any changes in the future, report them immediately.”

“Yes. I will.”

This time, it was Yoon Kyung-min’s turn.

“The Defenders are taking a position as a good competitor to our Guardians and are driving public opinion.”

“It’s also a bit surprising. Under the current circumstances, we cannot be your opponent.”

“It seems that we have changed the strategy to a burial because it is not possible for us to compete anyway.”

Kang Ha-jin tilted her head at those words.

It is correct to bury it when you look at the circumstances. But no matter how you think about it, Jason wasn’t like that.

It wasn’t just Jason, it was Spencer, and so was William.

Jennifer doesn’t know for sure, but he probably didn’t pay much attention to this.

Anyway, the Defenders created by such people are buried in the Guardians? It could never have happened.

“That made it even more tricky.”

“Are you picky?”

“Yeah. They seem to be focusing on the business side.”

“It’s a business…”

Surely, if they focus on business, their potential will be amazing.

Like Spencer and William, they are people of great wealth and power.

In particular, Spencer was so great that it was impossible to estimate how much money he could draw if he mobilized the power of his family.

So was Jason.

Because he had a sizable investment company.

He has amassed his immense fortune by investing in a number of rogue companies.

If you focus on business as much as these guys, your destructive power will be much stronger than when you focus on hunting.

“It’s not affecting us, is it?”

“Rather than having an impact… we’re expanding our investment.”

“Investment?”

“We are securing shares by investing in companies and organizations that are in line with us.”

Ha-jin Kang made a strange expression and tapped her table with her finger.

“Are you trying to influence us by taking a stake?”

“I do not know. To be honest, I still don’t know their intentions.”

“Have you received any investment proposals for the Guardian?”

“Yeah. It was very loud.”

Kyung-min Yoon continued to talk with a smirk.

“He flatly refused.”

After saying that, Yoon Kyung-min, who had been laughing for a while, continued.

“It was very disconcerting. Not surprisingly, they offered a whopping billion.”

One billion dollars is more than one trillion dollars. I was just shocked because I kicked such an amount.

But if you think about it, it is natural to refuse.

Now, the Guardians were focused on very high-value-added businesses.

First of all, it is not possible to predict how much growth the subspace business will grow in the future.

It is also not easy to sell equipment with a luxury image in it.

Guardians had a slightly different structure from other guilds in general.

Usually, no matter how much the guild master, there was no case where he had 100% of the shares of the guild.

As long as it wasn’t deformed like a guild belonging to a large corporation.

Even guilds created by large corporations do not own 100% of the shares.

But the Guardians didn’t do that.

It was a guild that could not be established without strong Hajin in the first place, so it naturally became that way.

Actually, there were some things that Hajin Kang intended.

In any case, it is impossible to hand over the entangled Guardian for a mere $1 billion of such a great business.

“They were asking for $1 billion in 10% stake. So I must have been confused.”

“Anyway, it is clear that the Defenders have changed their strategy.”

“Yeah. Yes. It is going in a completely different direction.”

“It’s about nurturing and absorbing us…….”

“It’s nonsense. If we go this way, we could end up absorbing the Defenders in reverse.”

Hajin Kang thinks the same.

The Guardian’s potential was that great. And perhaps the Defenders are aware of that.

But why did you try to do this?

“I think we need to keep an eye on the situation. See if they are trying to get a stake in some other way.”

“Are you trying to get a stake in another way?”

“For example, lobbying to pass a new law on the Awoken Guild.”

Yoon Kyung-min opened his eyes wide and looked at Kang Ha-jin.

There was definitely a possibility. This was especially the case in Korea. There’s no way to stop people from coming out trying to rip the Guardians apart.

A young smile appeared on the corner of Yoon Kyung-min’s lips.

“People have a very big misunderstanding.”

“Because in the first place, it was made to look that way.”

In fact, the business and the Guardian were completely separate.

The business was done by Ha-jin Kang, and the Guardians only took care of it.

From the outside, it looks like the Guardian handles everything, but if you look inside and analyze it, you’ll find that it works completely differently.

Guardians were just a passage through which funds and goods passed. It doesn’t matter when you disappear.

In the process, it was a method of securing operating funds through fees that fell to the Guardian.

The reason I did this was to make sure I wasted my time on the Guardian in case someone was aiming for it.

I need to buy time to respond.

“You might be trying to get a stake in the Guardians, knowing all that.”

At Ha-jin Kang’s words, Kyung-min Yoon tilted her head.

“Are you going to secure a stake even if you know that? Why?”

“Because the guild members and the fame remain.”

“That is the reputation of the Guardians, not the reputation of the Defenders.”

“Anyway, please keep looking.”

“Well… that’s right. It’s probably not me who’s doing it anyway.”

Yoon Kyung-min said so and glanced at Myung In-hyuk, who was sitting next to him.

Myung In-hyuk resolutely said what he was thinking with a firm expression on his face.

“I will find every single one of them, even at the tip of a needle.”

“It’s very reassuring. Then I’ll leave it all to Inhyuk…”

Yoon Kyung-min smiled and looked at Kang Ha-jin.

“Anyway, now that the situation is like this, shouldn’t we move forward on our own?”

“It should be.”

“Right now, requests are pouring in from all sides. Do you know what it is?”

Hajin Kang nodded his head.

“Is it a subspace sensing device?”

“Yes.”

Actually, I mentioned that part in advance when I started selling Aspace. Of course, it was only a slight pass, but anyone who thought a little about how the subspace could be used would never have been able to skip it.

Subspace could be misused depending on the person who used it.

So, I couldn’t know what would happen if I didn’t install a device that could detect subspace in an important space.

Naturally, several problems arose before the regression, which led to the creation of a subspace sensing device with many researchers.

“Even though the price is set very high, everyone is clamoring to sell it quickly.”

Yoon Kyung-min said so and laughed softly like a villain.

Those who need it will usually be the powerful, wealthy, or state organizations.

Their advantage is that they have excellent ability to pay.

Yoon Kyung-min seemed excited at the thought of devouring them, and put his arm on Myeong In-hyuk’s shoulder with a happy and happy face.

“We will also expand our distribution network, and our Inhyuk will help us very well. right?”

“Yes. Preparations are complete. You just need to adjust the timing.”

“Yes, yes. I am very strong Did you see it? You can leave the extension to us. Let me show you what super-growth is.”

Ha-jin Kang wanted to tell him to sleep more, but he swallowed the words that came up to the end of his throat again.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

I was so happy, because I didn’t need to light a candle.

It seemed that it would be better for me to find something to do for my health.

“I look forward to it.”

Kyung-min Yoon and In-hyeok Myung laughed at that.

For some reason, the two looked like brothers.

* * *

Kyung-min Yoon and In-hyeok Myung greatly expanded the business of the Guardians, as promised.

Once, we have established a stable distribution network in major countries around the world.

Because it was a strategy to sell only luxury equipment, with the help of A-Market and A-Yeon Jeong’s personal help, the Guardians now secured their own distribution network.

Of course, Aspace also sold it through its own distribution network.

In addition, as Ha-jin Kang selected spatial attribute magic stones, Yoo Dong-hoon started making excellent equipment using the separately classified attribute magic stones.

With the addition of the attribute manastone, the equipment has attributes related to it.

The talents recently recruited under Kang Ha-jin’s instructions stick to them, and the growth of the Guardians has accelerated rapidly.

Among the talents Ha-jin Kang recruited, there were several people who later became authority figures in magic stone research.

Backed by unlimited support, those talents started pouring out results.

Manastones were studied in various ways, and countless prototypes using them appeared.

Energy research using magic stones has already been commercialized.

The energy revolution was going fast.

And it was led by established energy companies and families.

But the Guardians intervened.

Because of the reputation of being the savior of the world the Guardians built, even the energy cartel could not restrain or attack it prematurely.

Of course, Yoon Kyung-min took advantage of that gap and quickly took a seat.

So, the Guardians were all ready to leap high.

In the meantime, Hajin Kang and countless other awakening members of the Guardian worked hard to level up.

At the same time, he divided the number of people and actively helped by dispatching them to a country that could not stop the dungeon raid and was still groaning because of monsters.

While the Guardians took off, the Defenders also began their activities in earnest.

The potential of the Defenders, which had been prepared for a long time, was considerable.

Perhaps, if they had started with what they had prepared properly, they might have achieved greater results than the current Guardians.

But now, he was just a latecomer chasing the Guardians.

Although it is being packaged as a competitor little by little.

So, little by little, the world stabilized.

It seemed that if this situation continued a little longer, it could be more booming than before the first catastrophe in the past.

Everyone dreamed of hope.

And Kang Ha-jin got a new piece of information.

It was information about the ruins that might be remnants of the past.