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The Philippine expedition ended successfully.

It exceeded the goal of reducing the density of monsters by 20%, which the Philippine government originally wanted, and has dealt with about half of the monsters.

Of course, considering the initial operation, that is, the Guardians, the Foreign Awakened Unit, and the Filipino Awakening Unit collected and dealt with the monsters and then hunted them, 20% is correct.

However, during the operation, foreign mercenary awakenings who were usually active in the Philippines were keen on hunting.

It became a big variable and greatly boosted the performance.

In fact, the Guardians, the Philippine Awakened Forces, and the foreign Awakeneds brought in by Jeong A-yeon and Yoon Kyung-min, how many would there be?

The number of Awakened Mercenaries who were active in the Philippines was more than ten times higher.

In other words, this time was nothing more than an operation with ten times more awakened foreign mercenaries.

So, the results are bound to be bouncy.

Besides, that wasn't the only thing the Guardians got.

After the first operation, the Guardians changed routes to save other Awoken.

He was more devoted to relief work than hunting.

Of course, as we were hunting more than usual, and the monsters were running wild, dangerous situations took place everywhere.

The Guardians came to the rescue of those who were in such a crisis.

He generously distributed potions and encouraged them to hunt, so the Awakeneds have been careful since then to hunt monsters and achieve greater results.

That was a win-win strategy.

Mercenary Awakening is good for hunting more and earning more money, and Guardians are good for gaining popularity with them.

The Philippine government took the advice of the Guardians and decided to periodically send a dungeon raiding team into the monster's territory.

Because the best way to maintain the density of monsters was to attack the dungeon.

Before leaving the Philippines, the Guardians closed three Newtype dungeons located within the monster's realm.

It was possible because Ha-jin Kang was with him.

Perhaps doing this in the Philippines would require a lot more people and more elaborate operations.

Anyway, with that, the Guardians left the Philippines.

* * *

Success in the Philippines raised the Guardian's status one step further.

After that, the Guardians' overseas activities became much more comfortable.

Ha-jin Kang and Kyung-min Yoon have meticulously formulated a plan for overseas expansion.

Ha-jin Kang and the guardians have to move together, the places where only the guardians can go separately, the places where it is not okay to send the guardians separately, and the places where Ha-jin Kang can go alone.

In the beginning, the operation was mainly focused on big things that had to be moved together, and as it went on, the Guardians divided the number of people and sent them to find work that they could do.

The important thing is not to fail.

Hajin Kang and Kyungmin Yoon's first goal was to make Guardians an icon of success.

And that goal was achieved step by step.

As the performance continued, the skills of the Guardians Guild members also improved noticeably.

The supply and demand for new guild members continued smoothly.

As the status of the Guardians increased, the number of Awakeners who wanted to apply as new recruits increased tremendously.

You just need to select a person who is satisfied with both personality and ability among them.

Besides, guild members were not recruited only in Korea.

The Guardians reached out to the world.

In particular, he recruited Awakened people, mainly from the countries he had helped once, and grew in size.

Such ordinary but fierce days continued.

Ha-jin Kang met Myung In-hyuk after a long time. It was because he recently reported that there had been some suspicious moves.

Yoon Kyung-min was also there.

Even though I've been busy lately, I've come to say that I don't feel good about it.

“There are people who approach guild members.”

“Isn't that always the case? Our guild members are very united right now, so I don't think we need to worry too much, right?"

Yoon Kyung-min tilted his head and said insignificantly. However, Myung In-hyuk's expression was still serious.

“We are only targeting male guild members. Those who approach are beautiful women.”

“You’re a beautiful woman…….. but don’t you think our guild members are going to fall into the beauty world?”

“It’s not just a simple beauty world. Let’s see this first.”

What Myeong In-hyuk showed was a video. Not one, but several videos, with the titles of people in their names.

It was a video secretly filmed by members of the Guardians Guild.

Yoon Kyung-min looked at it and frowned slightly, but he checked the video first.

Yoon Kyung-min's expression hardened slightly when he saw the first video. And he immediately played the second video.

By the end of the second video, his expression hardened, and after watching the third video he hardened to the point of being unable to hold back any longer.

“What is it? Why are our kids doing this?”

Everyone was looking at each other with a face you would never normally see.

The woman sitting on the other side looked beautiful. All three were guild members of different nationalities, and the women seemed to match their nationalities as well.

However, from the moment I sat down with the woman, her face softened and she smiled with a slightly silly expression until the conversation was over.

When the woman returned, she returned to her original expression as if she had always been.

"How is it? Are you serious? We only showed three people, but in fact, we approached dozens of people at the same time. Of course, they are all different women.”

Myung In-hyuk continued with a more serious expression.

“The problem is that some of them started meeting other guild members at the same time.”

“Looking at their facial expressions, if you do something wrong, you might get a knife fight between the guild members, right?”

Yoon Kyung-min muttered like that, and he was startled.

It was because it seemed like he was saying something that said that the horse became a seed.

“Isn’t this the only thing you brought? Calling me means more investigation, right?”

"Yes."

In response to Kang Ha-jin's question, Myung In-hyuk nodded heavily.

“It was going to be really bad. It's a shame that Insu raised the level a lot, but I almost ran out of magic while investigating this.”

Kang Ha-jin looked at Myung In-hyuk in surprise.

“Depleted power? The acquisition power should be quite good now?”

Not only did he level up, he strengthened it to the end with reinforcement stones. So, the magic power is very high.

Even so, the magic power was almost exhausted. What kind of information did you get that caused this to happen?

“Behind this is a female Awakener named Jennifer.”

Kang Ha-jin's eyes gleamed. And Yoon Kyung-min, who heard that, asked with a puzzled expression.

“You almost ran out of magic just by finding out that person’s name?”

Myung In-hyuk shook his head.

“I tried to dig out the background, but it came with more information.”

“More information? So you mean something like Jennifer's mastermind?"

"no. We have found Jennifer’s identity.”

"Identity? Aren't you an American Awakened? Very good looking and talented.”

The information Yoon Kyung-min knew was up to that point. Of course, so did the others.

In addition, not many people know that he is a member of the Defenders, and that Jason, William, and Spencer are included as members.

“Jennifer is the queen of the succubus clan.”

“Jennifer is the succubus queen?”

Kang Ha-jin and Yoon Kyung-min looked at Myung In-hyuk with surprised eyes.

Surely this was really surprising information.

Succubus Queen. Isn't that an unexpected result?

Maybe that's the reason I couldn't verify her information?

So would Jason or William be similar?

Hajin Kang's mind became complicated.

Certainly, considering the current Defenders members, the only person without power is Jennifer.

But if Jennifer was the succubus queen, she had enough power.

“Then all the women who approached our guild members are succubus?”

"Yeah. Yes."

It took a lot of magical power to confirm the identity of the other woman, but it wasn't as good as Jennifer's.

There was definitely a big gap between the succubus queen and the regular succubus.

“If measures are not taken quickly, the foundation of the guild may be shaken.”

At Myeong In-hyuk's words, Kang Ha-jin and Yoon Kyung-min nodded their heads with serious expressions.

Obviously this was an emergency.

Ha-jin Kang, who had been thinking for a moment, opened her mouth.

“For now, the easiest way is to just catch them all and kill them, wouldn’t that be difficult?”

Kang Ha-jin looked at Yoon Kyung-min and Myung In-hyuk alternately with intense eyes.

The two shook their heads violently at the same time.

“Absolutely not.”

"no."

Of course not. Even Kang Ha-jin had no intention of doing that. It was just a frustrating thing to say.

They all had correct identities. If you kill them recklessly for no good reason, things get worse.

In particular, if you touch the awakened people whose nationality is on the American side, things get bigger.

“Anyway, it’s a mental attack, so it would be nice to have an item that blocks it.”

“Is it possible that we can’t make such a thing in our Guardian’s Workshop?”

Yoo Dong-hoon's skills have grown on a different level than when we first met.

However, it seemed that it was not easy to make an item that could block the mental attack of the succubus.

Myung In-hyuk asked cautiously.

“Are you going to ask Insu to get some information?”

Hajin Kang shook his head firmly.

"No. It's too dangerous."

Actually, there is a simple solution to this.

You need to learn the skill [Mental Barrier]. Or wear an item imbued with that skill.

Before returning, it was a skill that had to be acquired before fighting against demons.

There were a lot of demons who attacked the mind, so without [Mental Barrier], they could never get into the battle.

[Mental Barrier] didn't block all mental attacks.

Once the mastery was important, you have to keep adding effects after you get the barrier.

The time for simple labor has returned after a long time.

Kang Ha-jin looked at Yoon Kyung-min and said.

“Is the operation of the Manastone mine going well?”

"Yes? A gemstone mine? of course. The sale of subspace is currently being controlled, so there is still some time left until the supply of materials.”

Hajin Kang shook his head.

“It’s not because of subspace. What are you doing with the leftovers after sorting the Manastones in the mine?”

When creating a subspace, you need a manastone of space attribute. However, not all the manastones from Manastone Mine were spatial attribute manastones.

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Since we built a system that extracts only spatial attributes from among the many manastones, only space attribute manastones can be brought to Hajin Kang from the Manastone Mine.

“For now, we have it all put together. For some reason, it's a shame to throw it away. It seems like it will definitely come in handy... and sometimes, Dong-Hun Dong has asked for it.”

"Good for you. Bring them all to me.”

"Yes? all? Hey, the amount isn't that formidable..."

“First, gather the things that are close to you. The rest is moving slowly.”

It wasn't normal. Manastone mines are not only in Korea, but are spread all over the world.

However, there must be an important reason because it is what Hajin Kang is doing.

Also, since it was an instruction given right after the succubus story came out, there must be a solution there.

“I will proceed right away. First of all, we collect everything within an hour since we are in Korea.”

Yoon Kyung-min jumped up from his seat with a face slightly reminded of how hot he had been in a long time.

Kang Ha-jin sighed inwardly as she looked at Yoon Kyung-min's back as she stepped out.

As I thought about what I was going to do from now on, I felt tired already.

Myung In-hyuk asked cautiously.

“May I know what you are trying to do?”

“It’s nothing. To make one shield for you.”

Not a physical shield, but a mental shield.

* * *

The Defenders' meeting, Jason and William, were looking at Jennifer with strange eyes.

“Successful?”

“It’s like success. It’s not over yet.”

At Jennifer's confident words, Jason and William looked at each other.

“I didn’t know it could be done so easily.”

“Honestly, if only the Guardians are destroyed, Ha-jin is strong, can’t it be dealt with in some way? I can take it.”

Jennifer licked her lips, sticking out his seductive tongue.

Her greed flowed through her tongue and lips.

Her spanner, who was watching from her side, interrupted her quickly.

“So when do you think it will end? Now I'm in a lot of trouble."

"Wait. Because Yoon Kyung-min is not as tough as one might think. Once you shake the floor, you have to attack it step by step.”

“Whatever it is, it’s fine, so hurry up. If I could eat the Guardians, I could turn them into nothing like A-Market.”

"Ok?"

"Of course. Once the luxury line is perfectly formed, it is only a matter of time to attack the bottom. Like water flowing from top to bottom.”

Jennifer smiled bewitchingly at Spencer's confident words.

"how is it? Do you think this will work for Yoon Kyung-min?”

Spencer looked at him blankly, then nodded his head frantically.

"enough."

Jennifer's smile became more bewitching.

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