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“This place is dirtier and uglier than the rumors.”
The members of Guardian studied the perimeter walls of the Kang family’s estate in disdain, unaware that the worst of the garbage and graffiti had been cleared earlier by the protesters themselves, under Roh Jun-Yeop’s cold watch.
In truth, this was the cleanest the estate had been in the last eight years. Nevertheless, stains and the smell of rotting garbage lingered. In the eyes of the Guardian Guild members, the place was strikingly filthy.
“Kang family, come receive your guests!”
One of the guild members shouted through the gate, disdaining to touch the yellowed, grimy doorbell.
As members of Guardian—one of the five major guilds of South Korea, the shield of the country—they naturally carried themselves with the appropriate dignity and authority matching their stations. Their having come to such a dingy place was already lowering themselves. The sooner they could finish their business here and leave, the better.
After a moment of no reply, a senior guild member lost patience. He pulled back his shouting junior and infused mana into his voice.
“Come. Here.”
The two words resonated far and wide. It reached the ears of Jae-Hyeok’s group gathered at the smithy in the backyard of the mansion.
“Guardian...?” Hae-Rin whispered in a daze.
Her reaction garnered stares and questions from the others.
“Guardian? Could it be that the Guardian Guild has come to visit?”
“Why would one of the five major guilds appear in...
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