Chapter 240

Chapter 240

Back at the Adventurer Guild.

[Guild Registration Form]

[Guild Name: Head Crusher Guild]

[Guild Master: Siegfried van Proa]

[Vice Guild Master: Seung-Gu]

[Guild Officials: N/A (1 official can be named per 100 members)]

[Current Member Count: 1,986]

[Guild Headquarters: Completed]

The guild master mentioned above has registered his guild with the Adventurer Guild.

Guild Master

Siegfried van Proa (sign)

Siegfried submitted the registration form along with the guild emblem. Surprisingly, the guild’s emblem was extremely cool, unlike its name, which sounded honestly cheap.

The guild’s emblem depicted a hammer smashing a round object, and it perfectly matched the Head Crusher Guild’s name. It was a masterpiece that was drawn on the spot by the genius artist, Gringore. NewW novels updates at novelhall.com

“The guild registration has been approved. May you kindly choose the artifact to emblazon your guild’s emblem with while we are waiting for the guild’s flag?” the clerk asked before passing a catalog to Siegfried.

The catalog contained many different artifacts, such as badges, bracelets, earrings, capes, etc.

It didn’t take Siegfried that long to decide.

“Please make it a ring. The badges are going to make us look like the Yakuzas...” he said. The Japanese gangsters known as Yakuzas were known to wear badges around, just like the Genesis Guild.

“Yakuzas...? I apologize, but I have no idea what that is...” the clerk muttered, seemingly confused.

“It’s nothing, please don’t mind me. Anyway, please make it a ring, please,” Siegfried replied

An hour later, the clerk came back with a blue flag and a dimensional pouch. “The pouch contains the rings and flag emblazoned with the Head Crusher Guild’s emblem.”

“Thank you very much,” Siegfried received the Head Crusher Guild’s flag and badges.

Ding!

Then, a message popped up in front of his eyes.

[Alert: You have successfully established a guild!]

[Alert: You are now the Guild Master of the Head Crusher Guild!]

[Alert: The Adventurer Guild wishes to see you lead your guild to a path of righteousness!]

The guild status screen popped up in front of him.

[Head Crusher Guild]

[Guild Master: Siegfried van Proa]

[Vice Guild Master: Seung-Gu]

[Guild Officials: N/A]

[Current Member Count: 1,986]

[Guild Level: 1]

[Guild Bonus: All stats +3%, All skill level +1, Additional 3% Experience when hunting with guild members, +3% rare item drop chance when hunting with guild members.]

Guild members would enjoy stat bonuses, while the guild master would enjoy more than that.

[Guild Master Bonus: All stats +5%, All skill level +2]

This was a privilege only available to the guild master, but that wasn’t the end of it.

[Alert: You have gained new skills!]

Siegfried gained new skills after becoming the guild master.

[Guild Skill: Command]

[Type: Active]

[The guild master can issue a command to a guild member. The guild member may not refuse the order, and a hefty penalty will be applied should they forcefully refuse the order three times.]

[Guild Skill: Dominate]

[Type: Active]

[The guild master will dominate the guild members. Affected guild members will receive increased damage from the guild master, and it will be extremely difficult for the guild members to defeat the guild master.]

The skills Command and Dominate were necessary skills for the guild master to prevent the guild members from committing mutiny. However, it didn’t mean that the guild masters could simply abuse this skill, as their guild members would simply leave the guild.

“All right, I got it.”

—Call Queen Bee and ask her what’s going on. You already paid her, so she should hold up her end of the deal, right?

The Queen Bee he was referring to was none other than the spy, SingSingHighschoolGirl.

“Don’t worry. We will hit him first if he tries to pull anything this time,” Min-Woo replied.

—Alright, call me if anything happens. And tell our guild members that I will be back very soon.

“Okay, rest well, hyung.”

Min-Woo immediately called SingSingHighschoolGirl after ending the call with Chae Hyung-Seok, and he easily got in touch with her because she was not in the game at the moment.

“Noona, that bastard declared war on us. We have no idea what that guy is up to, so please keep an eye on him.”

—Don’t worry~ I’ll let you know immediately if something happens~

“Alright, thanks, noona.”

Min-Woo decided to wait for any information from SingSingHischoolGirl before reacting to the declaration of war from the Head Crusher Guild.

Why?

He knew very well that the Genesis Guild would end up as a laughingstock if they reacted to a war declared by a guild that was not even a day old. After all, there was a reason they became one of the top ten guilds.

***

Meanwhile, at the Head Crusher Guild’s headquarters...

“It’s here,” Siegfried pointed at a certain point on the map.

The Genesis Guild had many businesses throughout the continent, but the most profitable one among them was their vineyard.

They were cultivating tons of grapes from their land, which was technically land that they had rented from a kingdom, and they were producing wine and champagne.

The Genesis Guild’s distillery was also armed with the latest technology and veteran winemakers, so the wine that they were producing was quite expensive.

Siegfried was confident that he could deal a massive blow to the Genesis Guild’s finances if he laid waste to their vineyard.

However, attacking the vineyard was not as easy as it sounded.

Why?

The vineyard was being protected by an ancient spell, and there was no way to enter it without passing through the four entrances located north, east, south, and west of it. It was impossible to bombard the vineyard through an air raid or warp into it with a teleportation spell.

‘Four entrances around the vineyard, and there are at least fifty high-level Genesis Guild members stationed at each entrance. The entire Genesis Guild is going to come swarming if we make a wrong move... How are we supposed to destroy this place?’?

Siegfried wondered.

The vineyard was so important to the Genesis Guild that it was basically a beehive that could summon swarms of their guild members if one poked it.

‘Hmm... I should pretend to attack this place before...’?Siegfried started to draw up plans to pretend to attack the second-most important business of the Genesis Guild—their medicinal plant field—before attacking and laying waste to the vineyard.

***

“Really? That bastard is after our medicinal plant field?” Min-Woo was surprised after receiving a tip-off from the Queen Bee.

The medicinal plant field of the Genesis Guild was where a wide variety of medicinal plants used to make potions were being cultivated, and there were even rare and mysterious kinds of plants being grown there.

The revenue the medicinal plant field was bringing in was only second to the vineyard, so losing the medicinal plant field would deal a significant blow to the Genesis Guild.

—Yeah, they’re planning to attack the medicinal plant field and loot the produce tomorrow early morning.

SingSingHighschoolGirl relayed the Head Crusher Guild’s plans to Min-Woo.

“Thank you, noona. I will make good use of the information you gave me, and I will call you again later.”

Min-Woo ended the call and immediately proceeded to station around fifty percent of the guild’s manpower at the medicinal plant field.

He waited for the Head Crusher Guild’s appearance.

Min-Woo and the Genesis Guild stayed hidden to ambush the Head Crusher Guild, and they had been waiting for five hours now.

“Why aren’t they coming...?” Min-Woo tilted his head in confusion when they saw not a single Head Crusher Guild member, even though it would be daybreak soon. There was something strange here. The Head Crusher Guild was supposed to be here hours ago, judging from SingSingHighschoolGirl’s information.

“Did they cancel their plan?”

Min-Woo’s badge on his chest started vibrating.

Bzzt!

Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!?

The badges of the other Genesis Guild members lying in ambush alongside Min-Woo started vibrating as well, and there was only one reason for this simultaneous vibration.

‘Don’t tell me...? No way...’?Min-Woo thought.

He instinctively looked in a certain direction.

Fwaaaah! Fwaaaaah!

Smoke was rising up from the vineyard five kilometers away from them, and the vineyard seemed to have been engulfed in a powerful blaze.