“What?!”


  “Really?!”


  Their eyes flew open. Suddenly the Hunter’s Hall is filled with chaos. Only Sungjin who had seen the future was calmly searching for Edward.

  [The chapter 21 is unique, as final chapters ought to be.]

  The hunters were all now listening to each and every word from the Operator. Even Sungjin stopped his search to listen and looked up at the column of the Operator. Operator’s voice soon rang out.

  [The Final Raid is a 300 man raid.]

  “What?!”


  “What did you say?”


  The Operator paused from speaking as a consideration for the hunters. The hunters continued to panic.

  “300?!”


  “But…… there’s only 256 of us”


  ‘So it was true.’


  Sungjin grit his teeth and resumed his search for Edward. But meanwhile,

  “Oppa”


  Serin appeared and grasped his shoulder.

  “Did you know of this? That the last raid will be a 300 man raid?”


  Sungjin couldn’t nod or shake his head. He only found out just now.

  Instead of answering, he asked her

  “Hey, by the way, Edward. Did you happen to see Edward?”


  Serin pointed at the column behind them and said,

  “Ahh, earlier…… I thought he was standing next to that pillar.”


  “Really? Ok.”


  Sungjin left Serin behind and headed towards the pillar she had pointed out. The Operator’s voice reverberated in the hall.

  [The last raid, as its name implies, is the final raid where 300 hunters work together.]

  [Just as it was with 5 man raid and 10 man raid, the difficulty of the final raid is scaled up to match the 300 participants……]

  “My god”


  “Oh my”


  The exclamation of the hunters were so high that the Operator’s voice could barely be heard. Meanwhile. Sungjin finally found Edward close to the pillar Serin had pointed out. Sungjin called out his name.

  “Edward.”


  Edward jerked alert to the voice of Sungjin calling out his name. His reaction was only natural since Sungjin had tried to kill him the moment they met. But this time he did not run away. Use of force was forbidden in the Hunter’s Hall. He only stepped back and faltered.

  “W……what do you want.”


  Sungjin took out the final vial of ‘Holy water of Baptism’ from his vest.

  “There’s not much time left to speak. The strongest among the remaining people is you. Probably.”


  Edward tilted his head.

  “What?”


  He was about to say, when Sungjin poured the content of the vial over Edward. At the same time, Sungjin said,

  “Baptise”


  And as if on cue the Operator said

  [Please shop for the last time and prepare yourself for what’s to come.]

  [You will be summoned back to the Hunter’s Hall in 10 seconds.]

  Edward yelled at Sungjin after suddenly being soaked by water

  “What is wrong with you? Are you crazy?”


  [10, 9, 8, 7]

  While the Operator’s countdown was going on, Sungjin said to Edward respectfully

  “This. This is what you wanted.”


  “What?”


  Edward was at loss for words but

  [6, 5, 4]

  Sungjin knew that this was what Edward had wanted all along.

  “Then see you again shortly.”


  [3, 2, 1]

  As the final countdown was going on, Edward muttered to himself while looking at Sungjin.

  “.……really……you’ve lost your mind.”


  Sungjin was teleported after hearing those words. To the Black Market.

  *

  Once Sungjin returned to the Black Market, he immediately summoned all the ‘Chosen Ones’ before dinner time.

  “Draft.”


  One by one, the Chosen ones were called to the ‘First Drop’ where Sungjin was sitting. They, too, seemed to be shocked at the Operator’s announcement.

  “My god, a 300 man raid……”


  “Is this even reasonable?”


  “We’re short 50 people…… is it still possible……?”


  Sungjin heard them speak and thought to himself

  ‘We could have done it with just the 10 of us’


  Sungjin checked the hunters meanwhile. He didn’t see Edward among the ‘Chosen Ones’.

  ‘He should be here…… maybe…… if he is not coming because of being attacked back then……’


  As Sungjin was dwelling on it, the final ‘Chosen One’ Edward appeared from thin air.

  “What is this……?”


  Sungjin clapped once after seeing him.

  “So you came.”


  The ‘Chosen Ones’ weren’t all that surprised to see him. ‘Getting a new comrade’ was a rather common occurrence. Except for Serin. Serin looked extremely surprised and was staring at Sungjin. Sungjin walked up to Edward. Edward looked up and down at Sungjin and said,

  “What is this? All of you……?”


  Sungjin didn’t know what to say and scratched his forehead for a moment before pointing at the seat at the back of First Drop and said,

  “Sit for now. There’s a lot we have to talk about.”


  Edward replied with suspicion in his eyes.

  “You attacked me out of nowhere……what are you trying to pull now……?”


  Sungjin stared at him for a moment.

  ‘What can I say to undo this misunderstanding?’


  But the whole story, including previous life, he wasn’t ready to reveal them now.

  ‘Haa……’


  When Sungjin internally sighed, he happened to see the staff Edward had been holding onto. The Staff was the same staff that the dragon Archae’ard had given him.

  ‘Eh……?’


  Now that he thought about it, he had the same thing. The dragon Archae’ard had said as he handed him the stuff

  ‘You’ll need this.’


  Sungjin pulled ‘Sereberf’ Andal’s staff from the Operator’s Cube.

  Edward’s eyes grew wide when he saw it.

  “Wait, that……”


  Sungjin thought to himself

  ‘This is it’.

  Three of the same Item could be combined to raise its rarity. Edward must have been thinking the same. Sungjin handed over the staff and said,

  “Here. This is a token of my reconciliation.”