Entering the broadcasting station itself was easy.
However, naturally.
They did not readily permit them to barge in during a live broadcast.
“If you work at a press company, of course you all know about the news from North Korea and America, right?”
“Y-yes? That is···”
“Let’s make this easy. We don’t want to cause unnecessary trouble either.”
“We didn’t come here to harm anyone. I know this is truly rude, but please.”
“Even so, this is so sudden···”
“Enough, Cha Jung-hoon. Let’s just go up.”
“Wait!”
―Press.
“Aaaagh!”
Han Woo-hyun lightly pressed down the security guard who tried to stop him with one finger.
“The broadcasts from the overseas branch leaders will begin soon, so we have to match the timing too.”
"...Fuck, this is real?"
"Is this okay?"
"I think this is a crime..."
"He’s way too confident."
The players who had been following for now, though they had not joined the guild, began to realize that this was no joke.
“Hey. What exactly are you trying to show us by doing this?”
“Just watch quietly. Didn’t you want proof?”
"...I will join."
“Me too.”
A few people broke away from the crowd of non-member players.
But the others did not particularly stop them. Those who remained were also lost in curiosity and confusion over where this situation was going.
“The live broadcast desk is on the eighth floor.”
“We’ll go ahead!”
In an instant, the player legion occupied the broadcasting station building from bottom to top.
Of course, they did not do anything grandiose like attacking and collapsing it.
They simply gathered in a line and pushed through with force, then barged into the live broadcast site by stairs and elevator.
―Wh-what is this! Who are you people!
―Terrorists!
―You cannot come in here!
―Do not worry. We will not do anything dangerous.
Fortunately, the reporters, who were quick on foreign news.
Realized they were superhumans like those who had killed the American president and destroyed the North Korean presidential palace.
"···."
"···."
Soon, with eyes full of fear, the producers, cameramen, and others voluntarily cooperated.
“Ah, ah. Can you hear me? It seems to be coming through well.”
Han Woo-hyun sat at the news desk as though lounging, in an arrogant posture.
Right in front of him, Cha Jung-hoon and Kim Jae-seung checked the cameras while wearing all of their equipment and weapons.
“Hey, can you do split-screen broadcasting?”
“I-it is possible, but···.”
It had been worthwhile to break a wall and threaten the uncooperative ones by showing them magic as a demonstration.
“Korean Central Television of North Korea, Televisi Republik Indonesia of Indonesia, and China’s Global Times channel. Combine them with this and broadcast all four in split screen.”
The current time was exactly 8:00 PM.
It was the time when the rankers of the overseas servers whom he had contacted in advance would just be occupying their broadcasting stations.
“Add subtitles yourselves.”
―Bzzzt. Bzzzt.
After confirming that the overseas broadcasts were being transmitted simultaneously, Han Woo-hyun nodded from behind.
“[Megaphone]. [Server-Wide Mode].”
In his hand, he held an item that had been discontinued because it was too noisy and hard to watch.
So he could drive his will into every player, regardless of the broadcast.
“Li Haoran. Choi Yoon. Nguyen Bao Truong. Begin.”
His voice rang in the ears of every player in the world, regardless of the broadcast.
“Broadcast it.”
The camera zoomed in, and the broadcast began.
The broadcast of the new rulers representing every player’s nation.
“I am the North Korea branch leader of Guild [Lucid]. Choi Yoon.”
North Korea.
“ (I am the China branch leader of Guild [Lucid]. Li Haoran.)”
China.
“Saya adalah ketua guild [Lucid] cabang Asia Tenggara. Ini adalah Nguyen Bao Truong. (I am the Southeast Asia branch leader of Guild [Lucid]. Nguyen Bao Truong.)”
Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Southeast Asian region.
“We are the Korean branch leaders of Guild [Lucid]. Cha Jung-hoon and Kim Jae-seung··· sir.”
And finally, Korea.
As if by agreement, an incomprehensible light and physical force dwelled throughout the bodies of the branch leaders appearing on the broadcasts.
―THUD!
The first to appear on the Korean Central Television screen was a fat man who collapsed forward.
The Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
In other words, the “former” head of state of North Korea.
―We begin the first guild event! For the crime of daring to oppress our North Korean players without knowing your place!
Choi Yoon showed a ripping smile and condensed white energy at the tip of his staff.
Behind him, North Korean broadcasters trembled, while Villain Players grinned and laughed as they appeared on the screen.
―You will answer for that responsibility. The Chairman will be executed!
―Wait, wait! I never did such a—
―CRUUUNCH.
His body and head were crushed together. Grotesquely and horrifically.
“Ha.”
Han Woo-hyun let out a hollow laugh.
He had only told Choi Yoon that there would be a broadcast this evening and asked him to cooperate live.
Then Choi Yoon had instead answered by asking whether he could exercise a little discretion.
He said he would provide a performance that would help the guild’s rule, as the guild leader desired.
Seeing that he had shown patience, left the head of North Korea alive, and brought him out now.
He had carried it out very faithfully and excellently.
Judging by the players lined up behind him, it seemed he had perfectly lured and controlled the villains as well.
―···.
―···.
But Han Woo-hyun was the only one laughing there.
The Chinese chairman, who stood beside Li Haoran with an uncomfortable expression as though he had been forced onto the broadcast. And the Indonesian president beside Nguyen.
Both their faces as they watched the guild’s broadcast.
And the faces of every broadcaster in every other country, who had been forced to transmit the broadcast, turned white with shock.
―Slide.
―Slide.
Li Haoran and Nguyen, stained with Force and light, extended their hands to the chairman and the president. With arrogant expressions.
―Clasp.
―Clasp.
Both trembled as they shook hands.
“I am Han Woo-hyun, the grand guild leader of Guild [Lucid].”
After confirming that, Han Woo-hyun finally opened his mouth.
“I declare this to all players. We are the only unified player guild in the entire world.”
At last, the first day of awakening, the starting point of the world’s destruction.
“Be warned. All individual action carried out without joining the guild is forbidden.”
Began completely differently.
History had changed.
“The existence of other players and organizations outside the guild will not be recognized. We will not recognize them.”
Not with the collapse of world order, but with the founding of a player guild.
“So I repeat. Every ranker has already joined our guild, and the players below them are joining as well.”
Now, Han Woo-hyun was the master of the world’s strongest armed organization.
“Do not go against the prevailing trend.”
To be precise, even if that was not yet true at this very moment.
It was now certain that it soon would be.
“We are the guild.”
Han Woo-hyun laughed coldly.
That mad laughter was broadcast to the entire world.
***
The broadcast did not take very long.
Perhaps because the act of crushing North Korea’s head of state at the very beginning had given everyone an enormous shock.
Even the broadcasts declaring the founding of the guild in China and Indonesia, and the coerced cooperation requests from the heads of government, ended far too smoothly.
As for North Korea, it was not that important, since it had been made Choi Yoon’s area of control rather than a target of national cooperation in the first place.
The broadcast in Korea also accomplished its purpose splendidly.
“Has your mind changed a little now?”
“···Join.”
“Hmm?”
“[Guild Window]. I’m joining.”
And the players who had watched all those broadcasts.
Eventually all joined.
Rather, the Dragon Knight, who had been the first to rebel, was the one who began it.
“There’s no way all of that was fabricated. Then joining is the right choice...”
“An excellent decision. Everyone is going to join anyway, so the earlier, the better.”
“Yes, that is true too.”
He even persuaded those who had hesitated until the very end.
“From what we saw, China and Southeast Asia are already basically the whole prevailing trend.”
“Still···.”
“Look at how we appeared on the broadcast. In the first place, the cameras already caught us as if we belong to the guild too...”
“Uh···.”
“Maybe not globally, but the Korean guild is only just starting now. If you join now, wouldn’t there be founding member benefits?”
With Han Woo-hyun helping, making every last one of them join was not difficult.
However, this was not the end.
The broadcast declaration and the spread of the guild’s prevailing-trend theory through it were done in advance because the sooner they happened, the better.
But in terms of importance, there was something even more urgent.
“Where are we going now?”
“Is there anything more to do? Dismiss···.”
“It is not time to dismiss yet.”
Han Woo-hyun calmed the excited, clamoring players.
“Then where are we going next? Just leave it to me!”
The mage of the Stargazer class who had first opened [Dimensional Gate] spoke as though expectant.
“To Jongno.”
“Yes! To Jongno!”
“We are going to the Blue House Main Building.”
For a moment, silence fell among the players.
“···Did I hear that wrong?”
“No. You heard correctly.”
Not even three hours had passed since the attack on the Blue House by other players had occurred.
So it had not yet become known.
The fact that players were inside, having dragged in the president, the ruling party leader, and the opposition party leader.
And were subjecting them to public humiliation and torture.
It was already too late to stop it completely.
But it was not yet too late to barge in. Rather, the timing was just right.
“Villain Players are gathered there right now, playing with the president.”
"···?!"
"···!!!"
At those words, the silence turned into murmuring.
“Quiet! There is no need to worry. You do not need to fight.”
Not all of the players Han Woo-hyun had gathered were free of villain-like dispositions.
However, compared to the players who had deliberately stormed into the Blue House.
Those who had come to see YouTubers and nearly fought by accident could be called relatively mild.
Therefore, for now, there would be no need to deliberately mobilize them.
“I will handle those bastards alone. You only protect your own bodies from behind.”
In any case, it was something he could do well enough alone.
"···."
"···."
At those words, a chilly silence instead spread among the guild members again.
“...Guild Leader.”
“Guild Leader!”
A bewildered murmur followed, then one different voice suddenly popped out.
“Hey, that’s not right!”
Unexpectedly.
Truly unexpectedly.
There was a bastard who openly opposed him.
“You are?”
The Dragon Knight who had been the first to resist Han Woo-hyun’s invitation to join the guild.
It was Kwon Seung-hwan.
Was it because he felt guilty about joining late? It was an understandable psychology.
“If you’re going to do everything alone, why does the guild need to exist?”
It was not wrong.
You bastards are needed for boss raids, not to fight other people.
The reason I bound you together was to keep you from causing trouble.
Han Woo-hyun swallowed the words that rose to his throat.
“Fuck, we’re high-level too!”
“Have you ever fought directly? Fighting is not something one can do simply because one has skills. Before that, do you have combat experience?”
“You don’t ha—no, you do. Anyway!”
The bastard shouted as though veins stood out in his neck.
“We probably can’t fight as well as you! But if this happens, we have no fucking meaning at all!”
Han Woo-hyun’s eyebrow twitched.
“It is not because I look down on you. You can all use skills to some degree. But can you control their power?”
As if to show them, he wrapped flames of holy power around his arms and legs using Force.
“This is not simply a skill. It is an application of [Basic Holy Power Control].”
It shook unstably and swelled as though about to explode.
“If I used the skill’s power exactly as it is, just by emitting energy.”
Then it settled.
“This broadcasting station building would be blown away. You would not be injured, but you would be launched far away.”
Of course, it was not true that they were completely unnecessary.
If that were the case, he would not have gone out of his way to bring them with him.
This was one of his designs.
“Well··· if you insist on getting involved, I will not stop you.”
The players had joined as guild members, but naturally, that did not mean they would obey Han Woo-hyun’s orders.
Right now, it was just a social group that had swarmed in following the YouTubers they liked.
To the guild members, the guild was probably nothing more than that.
Of course, after doing the broadcast, they must have gained the pleasant satisfaction that they had done something impressive.
But for now, they lacked a sense of belonging.
“If you truly want to help, I will only accept those who are really prepared. The rest can simply watch from behind.”
That was why he could not force them.
Even if he was forcing them in reality, the appearance had to be voluntary cooperation to the end.
“Fuck, you’re still looking down—”
“I-I will help!”
About twenty people stepped forward.
They had come out by their own will.
But in the end, it was a situation where they followed his orders.
That, too, was naturally staged.
“Good. However, even those who are still inexperienced cannot miss the guild’s second official event. You will come along.”
As he said that, Han Woo-hyun glanced slightly at Kwon Seung-hwan.
Thanks to him, Han Woo-hyun had been able to emphasize his own representativeness even more naturally.
He would have to repay him later. Not openly, of course, but subtly.
“Yes!”
“That’s sick, let’s go!”
“Guild class!”
“Wow, the Blue House···”
“This is insane!”
“We’re fucking cool...!”
“State-power tier, let’s go!”
"Fuck, this is awesome!"
"···."
Tch.
Listening to those cheers, Han Woo-hyun felt slight irritation rather than pleasure.
They were all adults, not children, yet their speech and word choice were far too childish.
Then again, expecting a mature level of conversation from shut-ins who spent all day clicking away at Yggdrasill and browsing the internet was itself unreasonable.
··Had he not started this knowing all that in the first place?
He had to bind all those bastards under the guild’s name somehow, soothe them, coax them, and make them carry out their own share.
Cursing them inwardly was not the right attitude.
Because Han Woo-hyun himself had to become the leader of all those mentally ill players, rather than simply despise them and end it there.
He had to pursue the best way to lead them all. Somehow teach even those idiots.
Still, speaking like that made them look far too shabby, so in the future, it would be better to leave public statements to Kim Jae-seung and Cha Jung-hoon whenever possible.
After finishing that brief thought, he gave the order.
“Open [Dimensional Gate].”
―Whooong.
Because he did not know the precise coordinates inside the Blue House, [Dimensional Gate] did not open directly inside.
“As expected, they locked it down.”
But it opened almost right in front.
Before the Blue House, which was surrounded by something faintly like a colorful rainbow, the guild members stepped out one by one.
“Huh? A barrier?”
“What is that?”
“This looks like a [Feng Shui Master] domain declaration skill.”
And in front of it, they were not the only ones present.
“Wh-who are you?”
“...Ability users. The terror···”
“Everyone, stay alert!”
Police officers. SWAT police. Men who appeared to be agents in suits.
They were struggling to enter, striking the rainbow walls with all manner of construction equipment and siege-like equipment.
“Ha.”
Han Woo-hyun marveled.
The Feng Shui Master’s domain declaration skill, [Rainbow Shade Reciting Wind and Moon].
Its original range was not this wide. It extended only a few dozen meters around the caster. Moreover, it originally had no function to fundamentally block entry.
Judging by what he saw, it seemed to have been installed over a radius measured in kilometers, making entry completely impossible.
“Minimum level 290 or above.”
Freely adjusting the effect and range of a skill was possible even at lower levels.
But practice was needed. An enormous amount of practice.
Talent was needed as well. The multi-perception control ability to handle a power called Force, which had never existed in reality before.
Seeing that they had created such a large-scale skill so quickly, it was certain they were at least level 290, a ranker-class being who had stepped into the realm of the transcendent.
“Uh, Guild Leader? What should we do?”
“Can this be dispelled with [Magic Dispel]-type skills?”
“I don’t think so··· In the first place, those only dispel buffs and debuffs.”
“Fuck, what the hell are they doing inside?”
“Did they kill the president?”
“What? Surely not···”
That “surely not” was almost correct.
They had not killed him, but he was being subjected to a state worse than death.
Perhaps at first, he had begged to be spared, but by now, he was probably begging them to please kill him.
“Quiet! We break through and enter.”
“Pardon? Through this?”
“Hey, he’s the Guild Leader. He must have something.”
“No, there is no skill with the effect of breaking through a domain declaration skill···.”
"Right, how would he···."
Ignoring those words, Han Woo-hyun strode toward the place where the police had gathered.