Sage Warrior

sage warrior

- Volume 2 Episode 20

Jung Daesik went into the message box and checked each message that arrived.

Meanwhile, text messages were arriving one after another.

-Hello? My name is Seho Yang, a professional hunter scout. Jung Daesik, an excellent hunter, has a good suggestion, so please contact us if you have time.

-Hello? You don't answer the phone, so I leave a text message. I am the commander of the Infinity Raid. I have recently received good reviews about Jung Daesik, and I am contacting you as follows. We would like to recruit Jung Daesik for our raid, so please reply as soon as you confirm. thank you.

-Hello? This is Manager Park of Kangin's office, which specializes in introducing dungeon personnel. I've heard of Jung Daesik, an outstanding talent, from a long time ago. I'm guessing you're getting offers from several raids by now. If you visit our Kangin office, we promise to help you join the raid with the best conditions.

-It's the perfect season to go hunting. Would you be surprised to receive a call from an unknown number all of a sudden? I am contacting you this way because I would like to have Jung Daesik in our newly formed raid. I called but did not answer, so I had to leave a text message. If possible, please give me a call from this number.

Messages from all kinds of scouts, referrals, recruiters, new and mid-level raids were endless.

Jung Daesik looked at his cell phone, which was still ringing in confusion.

I get so many calls, so I don't know which one to look at first.

"Ha ha ha ha ha......."

Jung Daesik laughed as he held the noisy cell phone in his hand.

It was just yesterday when I was a porter who was terrified about how to get even one job at a time.

He turned his life around in one morning.

What's even more surprising is that it doesn't end here.

'My externally known ability is a Duel at best. If it is known that I have the triple ability, I will be offered a contract with a greater condition.'

Jung Daesik's eyes flashed with eagerness.

'What if I increase my ability by adding more sage?'

It costs only 10 million won to acquire a new type of ability.

You could easily acquire all kinds of abilities if you put your mind to it.

Then it will become an all-in-one existence that has never existed before!

'It becomes an all-in-one!'

All-in-one refers to an Awakened person who has acquired all abilities.

Up until now, duels or triples have been confirmed, but the existence of Awoken who acquired abilities beyond that has not been confirmed.

Naturally, the all-in-one was only regarded as a kind of virtual existence.

But what if you become that all-in-one?

These contracts I'm holding in my hand... are just funny scraps of paper.

"Ahaha... Hahahahaha!"

It was thrilling just thinking about it, so Jung Daesik laughed out loud like a madman.

Episode 12. National Treasure Vault

"Mr. Jung Daesik."

Jung Daesik, who had just returned home from a coffee shop, ran into familiar characters at the entrance of an alley where the inn was located.They were none other than investigators from a government agency who came to him when the Monster Break went off.

Among them was Jang Han-na, a government agent with a sharp and bubbly impression at first glance.

She greeted me very naturally, as if she had met Jung Daesik on the way.

"Hello, Jung Daesik. It's been a while."

"Oh, yes. Hello."

However, this is not a city, but a road leading to the inn where he is staying.

Since the inn was located at a dead end, there was no way we would have met by chance.

They were eagerly waiting for Jung Daesik.

Hanna Jang said with a polite smile that did not show through.

"If it's okay, can we talk for a while? In a quiet place, just the two of us."

The word 'alone' sounded secretly for nothing, but it probably wouldn't be for a private matter.

Jung Daesik looked around and said.

"There is no such thing as a coffee shop near here..."

"I know that Jung Daesik is staying in this area, isn't it?"

"Because it's not a good place to have guests."

"Hmm."

Hanna Jang looked back at her inn once with her meaningful expression on her face.

She shrugged her shoulders and said.

"If it's okay with you, can we talk in the car I'm in?"

Leaving the other investigators outside, Jung Daesik and Jang Hanna headed to the dark-tanned Ben.

When I went inside and closed the door, I felt completely cut off from the outside.

There, Hanna Jang said with her legs crossed.

"Recently, the story of Jung Daesik has been a hot topic in Jangan."

"It happened because I was active in this and that way. Apparently, it's not common for people with multiple abilities to exist."

"Yes. I've heard he did great in the Zodiac Raid. I know one of his team leaders, and I heard that the person who made the most contribution to this hunt was none other than Jung Daesik. I'll bring you to the yard, were you on the hunt?"

Hanna Jang burst into laughter and brought out her main point.

"Soon, there will be offers of scouts from the Zodiac Raid, as well as from several large holes. I know she's just returned from meeting a scout."

"Yes, but how did you know?"

She wondered if she had been monitoring every move she made.

Jung Daesik frowned to show his displeasure, but she didn't care about Jang Han-na.

“Because one of my main tasks is to understand the trajectory of an important person like Jung Daesik.”

At this point in time, Jang Hanna had only one reason to come to see her.

Jung Daesik said bluntly.

"I'm sure you're not trying to interfere with my actions. It's entirely up to me to decide which raid I'm going to go into."

Hanna Jang smiled hohoho.

"Of course. We do not know what may happen due to the Monster Break... We just want to know the information of the Awakened people in case of a national emergency. As you said, it is purely up to you to decide which raid you will enter. It's a problem."

Hannah Jang narrowed her eyes and spoke to her.

"However... I would like to make another suggestion for going abroad."

"Another suggestion?"

"There are a lot of great hunters in this country. As their abilities determine the competitiveness of a country, we want to prevent talented people from going abroad as much as possible."

Hanna Jang crossed her legs and continued her speech.

"If Jung Daesik does not go abroad and stays in Korea to work, he will be given tax relief on all his income."

"Tax relief?"

Hanna Jang shrugged her shoulders at Jung Daesik's question.

"As you know, the Awoken are being taxed a bit more heavily than the average person."

Jung Daesik said annoyed because what Hanna Jang had said was true.

“They are paying a 30% tax, the same as income tax.”

Heavy taxes were encouraging many hunters to emigrate abroad.

According to the government, the ability of the Awakened is not due to any effort, but due to luck, so they have no choice but to pay taxes under the same conditions as income tax.

But from the standpoint of the awakened, it is very unfortunate.

Money doesn't just fall from the sky just because you're born with the ability.

In particular, in the case of hunters, they risked their lives to attack the dungeon to prevent the monster break.

But is the income generated from it the same as unearned income?

Some hunters, such as Choi Hee, who made achievements in a national crisis were exempted from taxes or reduced, but there were very few.

Ordinary hunters were ripped off of excessive taxes, and in order to avoid it, some were willing to use an illegal private monster disposal facility at the expense of it.

If you use a private monster treatment center rather than an official monster treatment facility, there will be no trace of hunting.

Of course, I didn't have to pay taxes, but I couldn't raise the rankings.

Hunters aiming to level up were sensitive to the rankings, perhaps if they were living on a sleoljapot.

The only thing the status meter can tell is the grade level.

It could be said that the actual skill gap is revealed in the rankings.

Therefore, most of them use an authorized monster disposal facility even after paying taxes.

If you use a private monster disposal facility, you can evade taxes, but there is also a reason that you have to pay a high fee.

Likewise, Jung Daesik also used an authorized monster disposal facility.

In his case, it was not because he was concerned about the ranking, but because the fee was a waste.

He'd thought it was better to pay taxes than to pay Amman's boat.

Even so, he couldn't shake the impression that he was over-taxed.

However, he had no choice but to persuade him that the tax would be exempted rather than reduced."If it's in Korea... I don't care what kind of raid I'm in?"

"Yes, it doesn't matter. It just needs to be a raid group belonging to the Republic of Korea."

Jung Daesik was so cold that he almost nodded his head right away.

But Jung Daesik is someone.

Aren't you a haggling master?

When Hanna Jang dares to come all the way here and wait for herself before speaking out, it means that she was in a hurry.

Since Han Mi-ran left the scout offer in the overseas raid, Jung Daesik would have had to meet him before accepting it.

If so, he must have thought that Jung Daesik should be prevented from going abroad, whether at Hanna Jang's superiors or anywhere.

Then he thought he might have something more to rip off, and Jung Daesik "shhhh" and stroked his chin.

And as if his head hurts, he slowly brought up the story.

"Only with the tax exemption benefits, well. It's weak compared to the offers I got overseas? As you already know, I have no reason to stay in Korea. My family isn't here, and I don't have anything special from the government. "

Indeed it was.

Jung Daesik had a hard life as his orphan.

The only thing the state gave him was three healthy meals at the orphanage.

Even that was bread for breakfast.

As soon as he became an adult he was kicked out, Jung Daesik never forgot the misery of having no place to sleep right away.

But now that he has come, he can't hold on to himself while chanting patriotism.

"As you can see, I don't have anything yet. I'm sleeping in the inn's room, and I'm just getting my meals on the street. You can leave right now without any regrets. . Doesn't Hanna Jang know my abilities better than anyone else?"

Hannah Jang nodded her head.

"Of course. I knew right away that Jung Daesik was a duelist......"

"To tell the truth, it's a triple!"

Jang Hanna's eyes widened at Jung Daesik's sudden words.

"T, triple?"

"Yeah. As you know, the reinforcement world and the transformation world, these two and one more... They have the powers of the spirit world."

Hanna Jang had a look on her face that she couldn't believe her.

"Is that true?"

"Then, would I be nonsense in a place like this? If not, it will be revealed soon. There are some hunters who already know that I am a psychic. If you ask people who have hunted with me, you will find out."

"But so far, there have been only three tripleists in the world, and only one in Korea!"

Jung Daesik said yes, he still replied back.

"The metamorphic abilities weren't acquired from the beginning. The mental abilities were also acquired later. I feel like I'm learning new abilities one by one. Maybe I'll acquire more than triple abilities."

Hannah Jang was shocked.

"You mean going to quadruple or quanta...?"

"Well, that's just my guess."

Jang Hanna bit her lips.

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