Chapter 82: Special Member of A Raid Party (3)
“The selection meeting is today, right? Was it at three pm?” Yoo-Bi asked Han-Yeol.
“Yes, it's at three pm,” Han-Yeol replied.
Yoo-Bi was currently at Han-Yeol’s house. She was in charge of the raid selection meeting that would be held via video conference, since she was Han-Yeol’s personal manager.
“The response is starting to get really intense,” Yoo-Bi said.
“I know right,” Han-Yeol said.
It was currently one-twenty pm. The website where the video conference would take place was already full of the raid parties’ IDs even with an hour and forty minutes left to go.
“Wow, all the famous raid leaders like Hike, Porine, Kakasro, and more have gathered. It really is amazing to be both healer and supporter at the same time,” Yoo-Bi said while seemingly fascinated by the situation.
“Keke! Exactly,” Han-Yeol laughed leisurely.
Han-Yeol had worked as a Porter for four years, so he was already quite experienced with raid groups and guilds to the point that he was sick of them. He had also seen firsthand how much they were obsessed over Healers, so that was why he was able to gauge how valuable he was going to be when he first gained his Restore skill.
That was why he was not impressed with all these raid parties and guilds gathering here today; he had already expected this to happen.
‘They were bound to get riled up since I explicitly mentioned that I will be joining a raid party and not a guild,’?Han-Yeol thought.
There were going to be a lot of raid parties that were affiliated with a guild trying to scout Han-Yeol, but there were bound to be even more raid parties that were not affiliated with any guilds. These raid parties without any guild affiliations were bound to be even more riled up than the others, since scouting a Healer to join was already a difficult thing for them to do, and most of the Healers they did manage to scout usually ended up turning out to be ‘fake’ Healers.
‘They?will absolutely?go crazy if they found out about my Healing Bullet skill as well,’?Han-Yeol thought while grinning.
He did not get the chance to show off his Healing Bullet skill during his Land Stalker hunt live stream, which had been a solo hunt with no party members to use the skill on.
The Healing Bullet skill was a long-range healing skill, and it was going to be an incredibly efficient skill to have in party hunts. The raid parties were already in an uproar simply because Han-Yeol possessed Restore, but he was certain that even the guilds, who initially showed disinterest, would jump into the fray as well if they found out that he possessed Healing Bullet too.
‘Ah, I have to go to the Hunters’ Association and update my rank,” Han-Yeol thought. He had completely forgotten about it since it was not an urgent matter, and he did not pay much attention to it.
Han-Yeol had visited the Hunters’ Association twice at the beginning of his awakening.
The Hunters’ Association did not care or intervene in what Hunters did, but it was going to intervene if a Hunter was doing something illegal or if a fight broke out between Hunters or if there was a murder of a civilian by a Hunter. They were already raking in a huge sum of money without having to intervene, and the guilds usually kept the Hunters in line, so none of them ended up causing a mess that required the association’s intervention in the first place.
The main task of the Hunters’ Association was to protect the interests of the Hunters whenever the government or the congress tried to meddle in their affairs.
“Oppa, there’s only ten minutes left before the meeting starts,” Yoo-Bi alerted Han-Yeol, who was immersed in playing his phone game, that the event was about to start.
“Oh, you’re right,” Han-Yeol replied.
Han-Yeol shut down his mobile game and went out to his living room. Then, he turned on his camera and logged in to the website of the Hunters’ Association, and accessed the public video conference room. He greeted, “Hello.”
His face appeared on the screen once he connected to the video conference room, and his video conference room was posted on the main page of the association’s website since he was the main star for today. Thanks to that, everyone immediately knew that he had logged on for the meeting.
[Oooh, hello!]
[Han-Yeol Hunter-nim!]
[Kyaah! I am a fan!]
The video conference’s chat was very hot with reactions and comments blazing in.
The video conference was conducted in an open conference room, and that was why even the people who were not directly participating in the conference could take part through the chat.
The raid selection meeting was usually kept away from the public’s eye and conducted behind closed doors, with only a few invited individuals or entities taking part. However, this meeting was made public since Han-Yeol had requested it to be made public, and the association had no choice but to agree to his demand.
Then, Yoo-Bi stepped forward and brought the microphone toward her. She began calmly reciting the lines from a script she had memorized. “We will soon begin the raid party selection of Lee Han-Yeol Hunter-nim. The explanation of this meeting’s rules was supposed to begin ten minutes later, but I will start explaining now since the representatives of the raid parties that signed up are all present. We will start the raid party selection meeting ten minutes after the explanations have been provided.”
Han-Yeol had told Yoo-Bi to read from the script since it was not even an official broadcast, but she had chosen to memorize the entire script. She did not want to look incompetent by reading from a script in front of so many people.
“Most importantly, it is forbidden for raid leaders to criticize or argue with each other. We will force you to leave the meeting if you cause trouble or start a fight with one another. Please keep in mind that this is a public broadcast for everybody to see and not a private meeting,” Yoo-Bi said.
Han-Yeol possessed quite a unique set of abilities, which were mostly growth-type, but there had been others who had awakened with outstanding abilities and received quite the exposure to numerous raid parties and guilds. However, this was the first time that someone had ever held a raid party selection meeting that was open to the public.
They laid out the rules of no fighting while the raid party selection was going on because Han-Yeol was also well aware of the rumors going on between the raid parties and the guilds. Their relationship was like that of oil and water, and it was practically impossible for them to get along and mingle with each other.
‘My name, Lee Han-Yeol, will now become a luxury brand among Hunters, and the days of me being just another ordinary person will be long gone. My brand has to be more famous and stylish than any other celebrity out there, and it has to make an unforgettable?mark on history,’?Han-Yeol thought as he steeled his resolve once again.
It was incredibly difficult for someone to build up a good image, but it took way less effort to destroy someone’s image compared to the effort needed to build it up.
Han-Yeol could not afford to be humiliated from the beginning by the raid parties and guilds quarreling among themselves in the event where he was officially launching his brand as a Hunter.
“Second, please wait for your turn to talk during the raid party selection meeting. It will be very noisy and chaotic if you do not wait for your turn, since there are many participants in the meeting. You will be issued two warnings before you are forced to leave the meeting, so we hope that you keep this in mind,” Yoo-Bi continued, using the ten minutes to explain what not to do during the raid party selection meeting.
She did not really have to explain the other rules of the selection process since everyone would already be familiar with it.
“Thirdly...” Yoo-Bi continued talking as she explained the other rules.
Ten minutes quickly passed, and it was now exactly three pm. That was the moment Yoo-Bi announced, “Then, we will start the raid party selection meeting.”
[Wow!]
[Just watching this selection meeting is making me nervous.]
[Who will take Hunter Lee Han-Yeol?]
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