Matan’s Shooter

TL: xLordFifth

ED: 

“Can it be fixed?”

“I don’t know how to fix it, I rather break it altogether. It’s not like we’re clearing the rubble and rebuilding it- the walls are so lumpy…”

The workers tried to dismantle the wall, but it was not easy.

“I don’t think it can be restored with any technology. It’s better to completely destroy and build from scratch-”

“It would take at least four months to blow up everything, remove the rubble, and rebuild the walls…”

The workman lowered his head as if he were ashamed.

It meant that for four months, there would be a hole that would virtually allow the invasion of foreign enemies. During that time, fewer people would go to the city that was exposed to danger.

Walls, whose materials have been changed, buildings that have collapsed, knights who have died, and even the population that had stopped influx as news of the invasion spread.

“Haaaa……. This is driving me crazy.”

Leeha was a sniper and a musketeer.

He had a terrifying attack power of more than 30,000, however, that was of no help in fixing the castle wall.

???: Are you there? What? Isn’t it easier than you think?

In the moment that Leeha really wanted to cry, a voice rang in his head that was literally a ray of light.

Leeha: Ram Hwayeon!!!

Leeha had no choice but to call her name with sincerity.

****

A blush bloomed on Ram Hwayeon’s face as she looked through documents in Castle Dale’s office.

“Unni. Face.”

“Huh? Ah, oh. It’s nothing, Hwajung.”

Ram Hwayeon hurriedly lifted up the papers and covered her face. Ram Hwajung stared blankly at her sister with an expressionless face, then spun around in the swivel chair again.

“Ram Hwajung-nim, don’t you feel dizzy doing that?”

“Yes.”

“Cough……. Instead of doing that, you need to get used to reviewing these documents-”

“No.”

Jachung, who was by her side, struggled with Ram Hwajung’s education, but Ram Hwayeon did not notice.

Ram Hwayeon: W-what? Why are you so happy?

‘Was Ha Leeha waiting for me?’

Why?

Before she even had the time to organize her thoughts, Leeha immediately answered.

Leeha: Cough, of course! I have been thinking about you, you haven’t logged in for a while!

Ram Hwayeon’s face grew hotter. If he was with her, even her earlobes would have turned red.

Ram Hwayeon: Heung, did you think I am only playing games 24 hours a day? Chairman-nim- no, I had to log out because of my father’s business.

Leeha: As expected. Even in Ramlong group. You’re also reliable!

Ram Hwayeon: What kind of wind is blowing today? Cough, well…… seeing that you are talking like that, it looks like you have something you want to ask.

Dogun. Dogun. Dogun.

Her heart tightened trying to figure out what Leeha wanted.

What kind of thoughts did Leeha really have? Could it be that he also felt the same way as Ram Hwayeon?

Leeha: I really had a different opinion of you. What a great woman, you are.

Ram Hwayeon: What’s great about it?

Leeha: Anyway-

Thump, thump, thump!

Ram Hwayeon was so excited that she was worried that Middle Earth’s connection might go wrong, or that her strong heartbeat would cause too much strain on her body and she would be forced to log out.

Leeha: Aren’t you great at managing a city?

Ram Hwayeon: ……What? Managing the city?

And the answer that came back from Leeha was, of course, not in the direction that she wanted.

The reason Leeha waited for Ram Hwayeon in the first place was because the chimera’s weakness was fire magic.

And now that he had managed to defeat them, it was to get advice on city management.

Either way, it was not what Ram Hwayeon was expecting.

Leeha: Yes. You told me before. That it wouldn’t be easy. Isn’t that normal? Besides, Faust and Igor had just attacked the city, and the city was completely destroyed. I do not want to fight the NPCs in the middle of it….

‘Tsk, of course.’

She felt her heart sink with disappointment, but she soon came to her senses. Anyway, according to her plan, this was not the time for Ha Leeha to fall for her.

What made her choose Gaza City?

A city with a lot of income was inevitably hard to manage!

‘This is just the beginning. Whenever he encounters a problem with city management, he will come to find me, and I will make him come over by showing my greatness every time!’

That was her big picture! Ram Hwayeon snorted happily as she quickly organized the paperwork. After that, she thought about Ha Leeha’s words again.

What did Leeha just say?

Ram Hwayeon: Wait! Attacked? What do you mean the city was destroyed?

Leeha: If you have time, could you come over to Gaza City? It’s pretty complicated, so to speak.

Ram Hwayeon: I’ll go right away.

“Jachung! The paperwork is almost finished, so please finish it.”

“W-where are you going, Ram Hwayeon-nim?”

“I have to go somewhere.”

Ram Hwayeon jumped and stood up, and Ram Hwajung followed. Her younger sister, who didn’t know what she was thinking normally, had great intuition at times like this.

“I want to go too.”

“Y-you can’t, Hwajung.”

“Why not? I want to see Lee-”

“Shh! Shh! Hwajung, you and Jachung should learn how to review, approve, and finish the documents. Jachung! Take responsibility and hold onto Hwajung. I’ll come back soon!”

Shyuuk-!

“Ahh……. Me too-”

“Ah, no, Ram Hwajung-nim! You must finish this, otherwise, I will be killed by the president!”

A purple curtain was drawn over the blue-haired Ram Hwajung, who was trying to chase after her sister who disappeared in an instant.

Jachung tore up a scroll and prevented Ram Hwajung from moving through space.

“..Oppa…”

Ram Hwajung, who confirmed Ram Hwayeon’s and Ha Leeha’s location through her friend’s window, shook her head. Jachung was reluctant to ask for the dejected young lady to study.

“Sorry. Let’s finish it quickly then you can go. Will that work?”

“Yes!”

And Jachung was indeed a veteran employee of the Ramlong group.

Seeing Ram Hwajung hurriedly run to the chair, Jachung smiled heartily.

“W-what?”

“It wasn’t Bluebeard who ran amok with the chimera in Minis.”

“What? No way? Then who was it?”

“Ah, sorry, did I say too much? I am sure that Bluebeard is somewhere else. At least this time, it is clear that Faust was appointed as the leader.”

“Bluebeard did not join? Did a user become an agent of a monster? what- not even an NPC…”

“That’s not all. Igor and Crowley were there as well. It might happen more often.”

“Oh my goodness…”

Ram Hwayeon looked at Leeha with an expression of disbelief.

Leeha knew that Faust joined Bluebeard and told Ram Hwayeon. Leeha, who had been through the Gaza City raid, made several hypotheses and confided the most plausible idea to her.

‘It’s clear. Faust became the trigger that drew them in. They must have used the fact that their abilities such as stats and skills would greatly increase if they joined the Demon King’s army.’

However, Leeha still had unanswered questions. How did Igor know that and come into contact with Faust?

‘In the end, all I can say is that there is someone. That bear-like bastard running rampant in the Shazrasian Federation dared to come all the way to the southernmost part of Minis? Someone must have been a middleman and told him about it.’

Based on Leeha’s assumption, the possibilities eventually converged into one result.

A person had spread a huge net throughout the Middle Earth continent, and at the same time, a person from Minis who was familiar with the series of events that were taking place within Minis.

There was a ‘hidden hand’ that was by Ewin’s side during the national war. But who was it……?’

Leeha hadn’t felt good since then. Once the war was over, he didn’t care much after that, but after things had turned out like this, Leeha felt regretful.

It would have been nice if he somehow found them and revealed their identity.

Now, the situation had already gone out of hand.

“Y-you, how are you going to do this? Do you have any plans? Oh my gosh, I haven’t seen a city so damaged.”

“I need to repair them. That’s the only thing we can do.”

Leeha let out a sigh.

“So what……. What does Castle Dale do with external security?”

“We…… Hwajung knows everything. What kind of magic stone it is, did she make it float like a buoy and connect it with her mana? Connection? And that’s how we use the mana to create a huge fishing net. Any infiltration is blocked with it.”

After that, Ram Hwayeon continued to explain what she knew.

However, basically, that kind of magic did not appeal to Leeha at all.

Seeing that even Ram Hwayeon, also a mage, could not explain it properly, Leeha had no choice but to guess that used something that centered around items and skill.

“Ra-Ram Hwajung is, after all, Middle Earth’s genius. It’s not a method that I would use. I should go.”

“Where?” *

Leeha cut off Ram Hwayeon’s story and took out a crystal ball.

Ram Hwayeon tilted her head. After telling her to come, where will he go?

“I just realized it after calling Ram Hwayeon.”

“What are you talking about, all of a sudden? Are you just going to leave like that?!”

“Oh, and I also heard that from the pig castle lord earlier. Let’s see……. Ah done. Did it come up?”

Leeha wasn’t just playing around until Ram Hwayeon contacted him.

Even during the post-mortem process, he called the NPC lord and his aides 

next to him and asked about how the city management worked.

This was the first thing he figured out.

“[Assistant Manager Authority]? Are you asking me to take care of you right now?”

“Wait a minute. Please take care of me for a while while I go somewhere.”

Ram Hwayeon was surprised to see the notification window in front of her.

She will be representing Ha Leeha, the de facto castle lord, and have authority over Gaza City for a while!

Leeha smiled and activated the crystal ball.

“I-I might touch the city vault-”

“It’s because I believe in Ram Hwayeon. It won’t take long. I will be back in a few hours.”

“-o-okay.”

!

Shyuuk-!

In other words, it meant that Ram Hwayeon could deal with Gaza City’s income and commercial activities for a while, but Leeha just disappeared with a warm smile.

Ram Hwayeon, who was suddenly left alone, chewed on Leeha’s last words for a long time.

‘Believe…’

The place where Leeha, who unintentionally made Ram Hwayeon’s heart flutter all day, went to Hell’s Anvil.

What Leeha realized while contacting Ram Hwayeon was that Middle Earth was an online game.

‘It’s new, but at the same time, it’s obvious. I mean it isn’t SimCity. Whether it’s managing the city or whatever!’

Online games were not meant to be played alone.

When there are reliable people around, the difficulty of playing online games drops drastically.

“Bottleneck-ajussiiiiiii!”

♦  ♦  ♦

“Damn it! What happened? Did you shoot the flamethrower!? Did it explode?!”

“Of course, it didn’t explode. I’m here because I have something to offer you.”

As Leeha took out the flamethrower from his bag, Bottleneck hurriedly inspected it.

However, contrary to his concerns, Leeha knew best that there was no problem with the item.

“What a suggestion! Again, again, you’re trying to order something weird and turn your back on me, right??! I won’t be fooled twice! Even this thing alone, if you applied that dragon heart, it would be much better and more beneficial than these magic weapons-”

“Why don’t you set up a blacksmith shop in Gaza City? The minerals you want will be free for life.”

Even Bottleneck, who started blocking his ears as soon as he heard the word ‘suggestion’ from Leeha, couldn’t help but listen to his words this time.

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