I Became The Rankers’ Number One Pick [EN]: Chapter 80

80.

The Royal Guild’s hunters gleefully beat up the sleeping Sun Guild’s hunters.

“Ugh, what’s going on!”

“Sleeping? Huh? You’re sleeping!”

“Ugh, it’s an ambush!”

Shocked screams erupted from everywhere. As tents collapsed, hunters scrambled out, only to be chased by others swinging clubs.

Amidst the chaos, Baek Eun-hee spotted a blue tent. ‘S-Class’ was clearly written on it.

“Yoo Ji-an, how can you not come out when all this is happening?”

There was no way an S-Class hunter wouldn’t hear this commotion; was he just too lazy to deal with it?

Baek Eun-hee smirked and ran to kick the tent pole, but someone peeked out from the entrance.

Baek Eun-hee, defying inertia, quickly changed direction to stop.

“Seo-ah! Why are you here?”

“Uh… Sister?”

“It’s dangerous, come out here!”

Seo-ah approached Baek Eun-hee with a bewildered expression, and Baek Eun-hee hugged her tightly.

“It’s been so long! You look thinner. Are you eating properly?”

“Y-yes. But what’s going on…”

While the Royal Guild members were unilaterally attacking the Sun Guild members, the Sun Guild members gradually regained their senses and began to retaliate.

Guild Leader Han Seok-hyun, as if expecting this, had already climbed a tall tree and was observing the situation.

This attack was no exception for the A-Class guild members.

Royal Guild’s Seo Ah-hyun was hitting hunters with a ladle she’d found somewhere, and Go Geon-hoo was protecting the Royal Guild’s hunters with a large pot lid.

Of course, the Sun Guild’s A-Class hunters weren’t just watching. Initially disoriented, they soon stepped forward to protect their fellow guild members.

In particular, the healer Song Jin-ho wielding a tree branch was a sight to behold.

Kim Soo-hyuk threw small pebbles, hitting the Royal Guild members in the side and knocking them down every time.

“Ugh, seriously. I expected it, but they’re barging in from day one.”

“Shut up and support the rear; we’re getting pushed back,” Kang Hae-in said to the grumbling Kim Soo-hyuk.

“Let’s get some sleep! Some sleep!”

“Hey, say that to the monsters in the gate! ‘Let’s get some sleep!'”

Yoon Ah-jung kicked away a can that Seol Jin-ah threw from the other side, clearly annoyed.

The Royal Guild, excited to legally beat up the Sun Guild after a long time, clashed with the Sun Guild, extremely annoyed by being ambushed in their sleep.

The battle between the two guilds that took place in the middle of the night gradually intensified.

Seo-ah could only blankly watch all of this unfold next to Baek Eun-hee.

Her E-Class combat power was far behind, and Park Seo-ah didn’t belong to any guild in the first place.

She was currently with the Sun Guild, but it was difficult to antagonize the Royal Guild in front of Baek Eun-hee.

“Hey, hey. No attack skills allowed!” Baek Eun-hee said, leaving Seo-ah’s side for a moment to give a warning.

In that short time, a Royal Guild member ran towards Seo-ah and launched a kick.

Seo-ah immediately rolled on the ground, barely dodging it.

As she tried to block another punch with her arm, someone grabbed the opponent’s nape.

“Hey, hey. Not this person.”

“Ah, Hunter Yang Tae-woo! Thank you.”

Yang Tae-woo waved his hand dismissively at Seo-ah’s brief greeting.

“Ah, don’t get hurt for no reason; step back, or hide somewhere.”

With those words, Yang Tae-woo dragged the struggling Royal Guild member away again.

“……”

The emotion Seo-ah felt as she watched the battlefield was complicated.

Even Kang Soo-jung was participating in this battle, albeit getting hit multiple times. Soo-jung was definitely on the Sun Guild’s side.

Then what about herself?

It wasn’t just because she was weak. Was it because she hadn’t decided on a proper position?

While Seo-ah was pondering alone, the battlefield suddenly became quiet.

Seo-ah looked up to assess the situation.

The Royal Guild members were retreating widely, drawing a circle around a single focal point: Yoo Ji-an.

Yoo Ji-an walked out leisurely, not at all intimidated by the numerous hunters.

Someone shouted.

“Yoo Ji-an, it’s Yoo Ji-an!”

“Be careful, keep your distance!”

The A-Class hunters of the Royal Guild, who had been practically flying around until now, were noticeably tense when Yoo Ji-an appeared.

On the other hand, the Sun Guild hunters stopped their movements and watched as if they were watching a show.

Meanwhile, Baek Eun-hee came back to Seo-ah’s side.

“Shall we watch together?”

“Ah, Sister.”

Baek Eun-hee wrapped her arm around Seo-ah’s waist and lightly flew upwards.

Then, she sat on a large tree branch.

From here, she could see the scene below at a glance.

“Is this okay?”

As Seo-ah looked on with concern, Baek Eun-hee pointed to the tree across from them.

“What about it? That guy’s just watching too.”

Sun Guild Leader Han Seok-hyun was also watching from the tree on the opposite side. He looked so annoying.

“We can’t use skills anyway. When else would we get to clash with Yoo Ji-an like this?”

Among the hesitant Royal Guild members, someone raised their voice. Then the guild members gripped their weapons more firmly.

“Let’s go!”

“Attack all at once!”

Watching the Royal Guild members rushing in, Seo-ah clenched her fists without realizing it.

It was then.

Yoo Ji-an, who had been standing still, suddenly disappeared from his spot.

“Block! Ugh! Aaaagh!”

Go Geon-hoo, who had been shouting, was lifted up by Yoo Ji-an, who had suddenly appeared, and was sent flying like a cannonball.

And Seol Jin-ah, who had been aiming for Yoo Ji-an’s back, also grabbed her stomach and collapsed after being hit by his elbow.

Seo-ah couldn’t see any of this process at all; she only knew the results.

Seo-ah glanced at Baek Eun-hee. Baek Eun-hee was clicking her tongue and giving commentary.

“Aigoo, Jin-ah. You should have hidden your presence more. Seo Ah-hyun, what are you doing? Cut off his legs! Seriously, you missed that!”

Even though the guild members were being brutally attacked, Baek Eun-hee didn’t bat an eye.

Come to think of it, Han Seok-hyun was also like that; the guild leaders were secretly cold when it came to their guild members’ training.

“Ah, we’re getting pushed back. I expected it, though.”

While most of the Sun Guild members were just watching, Yoo Ji-an alone was devastating the entire Royal Guild.

“But, Sister, is it usually like this?”

“No, usually we have official matching competitions. We also have team battles.”

“Then why today…”

“The Sun Guild Leader proposed it first. I thought it was okay too. The situation inside the gate is usually far from sparring; it’s all a mess like this.”

Seo-ah glanced below and couldn’t easily answer. It was because the Royal Guild members were almost all taken care of now.

“And now there’s not much time left. The progress is faster than expected.”

“What is?”

“That, the gate.”

In the direction Baek Eun-hee gestured, there was the large island that Seo-ah had seen before she fell asleep.

It meant that the gate’s creation speed was much faster than expected.

“I’m worried, Seo-ah, sending you there. I promised, so I can’t *not* send you…”

“I’ll be careful.”

“Yes, be careful…! Ah, at this rate, they’ll be annihilated. Seo-ah, just a moment.”

As Yoo Ji-an was about to run towards Seo Ah-hyun, who had fallen backward, Baek Eun-hee quickly flew out and blocked his path.

In an instant, Baek Eun-hee’s foot was planted in Yoo Ji-an’s abdomen, and Yoo Ji-an, who was hit by that foot, was pushed back slightly.

“What are you doing, Yoo Ji-an? You have to come again, right?”

As Baek Eun-hee burned with fighting spirit, Yoo Ji-an simply lowered his hand.

“I’m tired.”

“What? That makes sense? Hey, just this much? Yoo Ji-an!”

Whether Baek Eun-hee shouted in embarrassment or not, Yoo Ji-an turned around and disappeared leisurely, pushing through the hunters.

Baek Eun-hee looked at his back with a resentful expression. This wasn’t the first or second time this had happened.

Baek Eun-hee was also an S-Class hunter, and even if she lost miserably, she wanted to properly fight Yoo Ji-an at least once.

But every time such an opportunity arose, Yoo Ji-an repeatedly gave up on facing Baek Eun-hee.

He occasionally engaged in a battle of nerves, but he always retreated at the moment a physical fight was about to break out.

At first, she deliberately provoked and attacked him, thinking he was ignoring her, but Yoo Ji-an desperately avoided it as if he really didn’t want to.

It was ridiculous to chase after and hit a guy who was avoiding her like that, so Baek Eun-hee eventually had no choice but to give up.

The place where the disappeared Yoo Ji-an reappeared was under the tree where Seo-ah was.

“Hunter Yoo Ji-an.”

“It’s okay now; come down.”

Yoo Ji-an stretched out his arm towards the top. It seemed he meant for her to jump towards him.

“I’m okay alone…”

Seo-ah was a hunter anyway, so even though the tree was tall, it wasn’t enough to get hurt. But Yoo Ji-an was still holding out his arm.

“It’ll be a problem if you get hurt.”

Seo-ah sighed softly and jumped towards Yoo Ji-an.

Yoo Ji-an easily caught Seo-ah, and at that moment, their eyes met very closely.

‘Huh?’

It was just for a moment.