Chapter 16

The Hyena Guild became widely known about a year ago. They were originally a gang of back-alley troublemakers in the Gwacheon area, but the story changed after their awakening. They started exaggerating their past and went around town claiming to be top gangsters.

Their shallow bravado was evident, but they actually engaged in more serious gang-related crime after awakening. For instance, they would lend money to lower-ranked hunters at exorbitant interest rates. In return for reducing the interest, they would send the debtors into dungeons and have them work the mines for free. It was something unimaginable now, but before the Hunter Association was established, there were no hunter-related laws to criminalize their wrongdoings.

Suho managed to find a peculiar fact about them when he was digging up their background. It seemed like a remarkable coincidence that these run-of-the-mill neighborhood troublemakers had awakened their abilities simultaneously one day. What was even more astonishing was that it had all happened on Gwanaksan.

Does that make any sense? Suho felt a sense of curiosity. A dungeon...