Chapter 40

Descending Down the Mountain

4th sponsored chapter by Peter Yang .

After 3 years of penalties, he felt awkward but glad . Sungmin blinked a few times and looked down at himself . He looked terrible . He lived a year without washing or changing . But he was used to the smell . He lived with it for a while . It just didn’t look good .

Sungmin slowly lifted his foot . His foot… felt light . Not just his foot . His entire body felt light . Sungmin walked a few steps, and laughed quietly .

“And it’s fascinating . ”

And muttered . He still heard the cries of cicada . It was from the real ones .

“What should I give you . ”

Mush muttered . To that, Sungmin turned around . Mush was standing there in a twisted position . Sungmin tilted his head after looking at Mush’s thinking face .

“Give what?”

“You survived the hardships from this mountain . 3 years . Recently, there wasn’t anyone like you who had survived for this long . There was no one who took as many penalties as you either . ”

Mush muttered and slightly laughed . A small smoke arose from beside her . A small child rose up from the smoke . It was Plam .

“As a reward for surpassing your despair, I gave you a meeting with the time god . That’s up to you what you get out of the journey though . ”

The time god Denis . He had gotten the memories from her . He didn't’ know what he would get, but he was going to go there when he had time .

“That’s the reward for that . For the reward for surviving 3 years… yes . I’ll recommend you to be a member for ‘Ereburisa . ’”

Mush nodded after while and muttered . Ereburisa . Sungmin didn’t understand what she meant .

“What is Ereburisa . ”

“It’s a mediator guild,”

Mush answered .

“A guild that you can summon from anywhere in the world . ”

Mush said that and lifted her hand . It was that moment .

“It’s been a while . The goddess of hardships and penance . ’

A man appeared with a calm voice . Sungmin didn’t know where he came from . At this point of view, the man just rose from the shadows of Mush . He was tall and wore a suit . He didn’t look at Sungmin once and bowed to Mush .

“What help do you want”

“I didn’t call you today for that . I want to recommend a new member . ”

Mush answered . To that, the man turned around to Sungmin . He made a slightly surprised face .

“Ah… this is… an interesting figure . The soul that defied the principle . You aren’t going to sell the soul, but you’re going to recommend him to be a member?”

“Yes . ”

“I feel he’s slightly lacking…”

The man muttered .

“The soul . It’s expensive, but he isn’t qualified enough . Let’s see… martial arts . Skills… it’s not bad . Did he pass the apex yet? How long has he trained here?”

“3 years . ”

“3 years of training here and just an apex master . He has diligences and perverservance but not enough talent . Goddess . You know that not everyone can be a member of the guild . ”

“That’s why I’m using my recommendation pass . ”

Mush answered .

“I believe a member of my quality is able to make an unqualified person a member . I don’t think there wil be any problem?”

“ . . . Hm . ”

The man lifted his hands and tapped empty air, and then nodded .

“If you want . Since we have had many transactions with you… we will allow it . We will note him as a new member of the guild . ”

The man said and turned around to Sungmin . He bowed down to Sungmin in a polite manner .

“A small contract will be needed . If you could… give you some of your blood . ”

“ . . . Blood . ”

“Yes . Ah, this contract is only for you to be marked as a new member of the guild . I promise you on my existence that it won’t cause you any harm . Mush will be my witness for this . ”

Sungmin looked at Mush . Mush slightly nodded he rhead . After getting the sign, Sungmin bit his finger slightly . Blood came out from the small wound .

“Thank you, Lee Sungmin . ”

The blood dropped towards the ground but didn’t touch the dirt . It disappeared in mid air, and the man nodded .

“Your soul has been marked as a new member of Ereburisa . Whenever you want, visit us from your mind . Then the person responsible for you will come to you . ”

The man said that and looked at Mush . You can go back . After that, the man disappeared . Sungmin didn’t understand what happened and only stared at Mush . Mush shook her shoulders receiving Sungmin’s glance .

“You call them directly . It’ll be easier than hearing my explanation . ”

“ . . . Hmm…”

Sungmin thought of Ereburisa in his mind . That moment . Hwk! Someone came up from his shadows .

“Nice to meet you, Lee Sungmin . I’m called Neville . I will be responsible for you . ”

It was a different man than before . The man called Neville had short hair and wore a clean suit . He bowed down to Sungmin, and Sungmin awkwardly bowed back .

“Ah… yes . ”

“Is this your first time visiting here?”

Neville asked . Like Mush’s manager didn’t care about Sungmin, Neville didn’t care about Mush . Sungmin only nodded blankly at Neville .

“Then I will give a quick explanation of Ereburisa . Ereburisa is a mediator guild that acts as a mediator for everything that the customer wants . Also, Ereburisa has relationships with other guild like merchant guilds . ”

Neville breathed slightly afterwards .

“If you want to buy something, we will buy the object for you . If you want to auction something, we will start the auction . Of course, it’s not for free . We will take a honest commision of 5 percent . ”

To that, Sungmin couldn’t help but be surprised . The mediator guild Ereburisa . He didn’t know what a mediator guild was, but that 5 percent commision rate was extremely surprising . Most merchant and mercenary guilds had 15 percent commission, but Ereburisa only had 5 .

“If you want a trade, we have connections . If you want a blacksmith, we will contact a skilled blacksmith . If you want information, we will get you information from our partner information guilds . We promise that there is no false information in any information that we sell . Ah, of course . There is an extra 5 percent commission for this as well . ”

Now Sungmin started to understand what help Ereburisa gave . It would give anything that Sungmin wanted . To meet a good blacksmith, he had to go to a blacksmith guild . To get information, he needed to go to an information guild . It was easy to say, but the process was hard . Blacksmiths were stubborn and hard to convince .

It was the same for information guilds . It was hard to know if the information was true or false, but in Ereburisa, there was no false information . Of course, he couldn’t completely trust that yet, but there was so much merit in the fact that he didn’t have to run around the place trying to get things .

“If you want emergency money, you can pawn things to us for some money . There are other things, but instead of listening to my explanation of things, it would better if you find them out yourself . ”

“ . . . Transactions… do you sell energy potions and martial arts techniques as well? Or magic books…”

Sungmin wondered and asked . Neville smiled and nodded .

“Of course . ”

Neville tapped the air a few times . Then, a small screen came up in front of Sungmin . It was similar to the status screen that otherworlders could see .

“You have a search option so try that . ”

Neville said . The screen was direct . It was easy to categorize objects by type and by price . Sungmin breathed softly at the objects that they were selling .

The Big Energy Potion .