Magnus of Ice

BENEFITS! Pt. 1

Stepping out of the gate, Magnus and Jin-Woo left without so much as a glance or word towards Jin-Ho. They did take their spoils, wanting to go and exchange them at the Associations market area. "Where should we go to buy new clothes?" Jin-Woo asked as they started walking home. "Hmmm... Do we have to go now?" Magnus asked as he began to eye Jin-Woo, a little drool escaping his mouth as he sucked it back in. He looked like a man who was stranded in a desert and finally found a source of water. Ready to pounce and drink all of Jin-Woo's delicious fluids.

"Haha. Yeah, we have to go now, or else Jin-Ah will say, 'Do guys not know how to dress? How will you be hunters without fashion?' or something like that." Jin-Woo explains as he takes Magnus's hand, intertwining them together. The sudden action caught Magnus, who was already getting hard, to become stunned but content as his cheeks faded red. "Don't worry, I didn't forget what I promised; let's just enjoy this time together before we have to go home," Jin-Woo reassured as he planted a kiss on Magnus's backhand. Nodding his head, the two went to the Dongdaemun district after some deliberation.

In an unassuming high-rise owned by the Korean Hunters Association, the surveillance chief, Woo Jin-Chul, was about to receive some concerning news. "Manager Woo Jin-Chul." Hearing his name, Woo Jin-Chul looks up from his work to look for the person responsible for calling him. Making eye contact with two of his inspectors, he notices the worry in their eyes. Sighing, he looks at the clock on his desk to check the time. "It's barely noon..." he remarks as he turns back around and asks, "What is it?"

Seeing their supervisor's expression, the black-haired associate hesitated, only reporting his findings when Mr. Kyung urged him to start. "We just need a moment of your time..." Handing over their report to Jin-Chul, the black-haired associate continued, "In this C-rank dungeon raid, eight people were killed in action. The sole survivors consisted of C-rank, D-rank, and E-rank hunters." Reading the report, Jin-Chul states his thoughts "It's surprising to say this, but maybe the boss was too strong, so the weaker ones of the group ran away...? Isn't that a pretty common occurrence?"

"No, they didn't run away. They cleared the dungeon." At this statement, Jin-Chul stopped flipping the pages as he turned to pay full attention to the pair of associates that went to bother him. "The D-ranker, Yoo Jin-Ho, had especially high-class equipment, so it's possible that he helped defeat the C-rank boss." At this comment, Jin-Hul looked at the equipment listed in the report, only to turn it away. 'Way too flashy...' he thought as he returned to listening. "But the boss, <GIANT ARACHNID BURYURA>, shouldn't have been much of a threat to an organized party, so it's strange that eight people died." The black-haired associate said as he referenced a picture of the giant spider Jin-Woo and Magnus killed earlier that day. 'Always hated spiders...' Jin-Chul thought as he slowly got irritated.

Sliding a hand through his hair, Jin-Chul says, "Don't beat around the bush. Get to the point. If there wasn't a strange part to this, you two wouldn't have come to consult me. You could have taken care of it yourselves." "Well..." The black-haired associate starts before being cut off by Mr. Kyung, the same associate who went to reevaluate Magnus after the double dungeon incident. "The other two survivors were Hunter Sung Jin-Woo and Jin Magnus from the double dungeon incident." Caught by surprise, Jin-Chul turns and asks, "Sung Jin-Woo and Jin Magnus?" Upon hearing the name 'Jin Magnus,' all three of them got a shiver down their spine as if still remembering the fury-filled eyes of not answering and delaying Jin Magnus's arrival next to Jin-Woo at the hospital.

"I can see why you'd both find that fishy, but I don't think there's any need to worry. The magic power detectors we used back then were super high-class; they dropped from the rank right below S-rank, A-rank." He was going to end it there but noticed that the two associates were reluctant to buy that reasoning, so he said, "Awakenings aren't even that common, and there's no need to be suspicious of them again. Checking them both once is enough. Sure, nine C-ranks should have been enough to massacre that boss, but we need to remember that Jin Magnus got out of the hospital not long ago; his mana reserves must have been low." "Low enough where he became a liability instead of being useful...?" Mr. Kyung couldn't help but ask as he didnt want to believe what the supervisor had just said. "Exactly," Jin-Chul said as he really didn't want to keep this conversation going.