Return of the Frozen Player

vers and gave them divine power.

Silver Constellation is building a place for themselves in the Ruben Empire’s official religion: the [Church of the Sun].

The Church of the Sun was just as powerful as the royalty and nobility.
“The three main powers of the Empire keep each other in check…”

The last guild was Hallem.
They were irrelevant to the others.
“They’re a mercenary guild.
They’ve already claimed a territory and started cultivating it.” They didn’t even need to worry about vested rights.
25 years after their founding, the mercenary guild was quickly gaining newfound power.
They used to be easily overlooked, but they were quite famous now and carried out their activities all over the Empire.

It might not be the best quality, but they’ll be able to get me a variety of information the fastest. Seo Junho finished organizing his thoughts and closed his eyes.

“Hm, then… let’s give them a test.” Which guild would get him information the fastest? Seo Junho smiled and wrote up an email.

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Translator – Castor

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Knock, knock.

Dokkaebi’s Guildmaster, Shin Sunghyun, spoke without looking up.
“Come in.
What’s the matter?” he asked, his eyes still fixed on the documents he was working on.

“Specter responded.”

His hand stopped. It’s been around three months since we received his proposal. Specter had finally replied.

He finally looked up at the messenger.
“What did he say?”

“He requested that we gather information about the fiends and send them to him.
The time limit was thirty minutes.”

“An easy request.
Send him all the information that’s mid-rank and below.”

“Understood.
But…” The messenger hesitated before speaking.
“I believe that the other guilds have received the same request.”

“Why do you think that?”

“The other guild messengers rode in the elevator with me to the 2nd Floor.”

“……”

The 2nd Floor didn’t have internet, so they couldn’t communicate directly with the 1st Floor.
To take care of the issue, each guild always had members on standby in the Dimensional Elevator.
Messengers delivered information between the Floors.

“Hm.
So that means Specter has requested information from the other guilds as well.” Shin Sunghyun gave an amused smile and spun the pen in his hand. So he wants us to compete.

It was easy to see why.
Specter was probably primarily concerned that the guilds would communicate and restrict the information they would give him—and he was right to be worried.
He had given them three months, which was plenty of time for the Guildmasters to meet and discuss.
They had decided to give him mid-rank information and below.

But Specter had sent the request to the Big 6 at the same time.
Shin Sunghyun could only see one reason as to why he would do that.

…He already expected that we would be cooperating.
So he’s going to compare our information. Since they’d already come to an agreement, there wouldn’t be much difference between the information they gave him.
Ironically, giving him the same amount and level of information would still reveal what he wanted.

If that happens and he compares the information we give him, he’ll be able to see which guild has the best information network.

But there was another interesting factor that came into play.
If one guild’s information was far worse than the others, they would likely be kicked out.
In other words, he would only work with the useful ones.
Considering Specter’s previous display, it wouldn’t be unlike him to do that.

“Haa, really… His arrogance knows no limits.” But even if they didn’t want to, they had no other choice but to follow him.

As guilds grew in size, they started to prioritize quality over quantity.
The standards for each player kept growing. And talented people won’t join guilds with bad reputations. No matter how many benefits they offered, that wouldn’t change.

But Specter’s second condition was greatly beneficial for the guilds.
They would easily be able to shake off the smaller guilds that were always chasing after them.
Their guild’s reputation would improve without them having to spend a single penny.

“So… I suppose it turned out for the better.”

Like the other Big 6 Guildmasters, Shin Sunghyun was proud of his information network. Our guild’s is one of the best—even among the Big 6.

If he broke the promise with the other guilds and gave Specter higher-level information, the others would pale in comparison.
He wasn’t stupid.

Six guilds is too many for him to work with.

Shin Sunghyun made his decision.
If things proceeded as planned, Dokkaebi would be the only guild that would end up working with Specter.

“Give him everything except classified and top-secret information.”

“Then… does that mean I should give him everything from the lowest to high-rank information?”

“Yes, everything.”

“Y-yes, sir!” As the startled messenger left the room, he went back to his documents.
A satisfied smile curled at his lips.