The Goddess Of War
Chapter 116 - Illegal Raiders

“You...,” Ronald points to Anna and looks at the girl angrily. He was even seen about to stand up from the sofa while talking while pointing the finger at Anna, “Don't say you annihilated most of my son's Mana energy like you did to your father!” Ronald cursed at Anna.

“Hah?” Anna looked at Ronald in confusion. He thought Ronald would realize what happened after seeing Gina's smile.

Anna, Kevin even Gina opened their mouths wide upon seeing the reaction of the Association chairman which was beyond their expectations at all.

“Daddy, I've leveled up and am disguising Mana's energy,” Gina finally notified her of her level rise to prevent any further misunderstandings.

Hearing his daughter's words, Ronald fell silent and reacted too late.

“What-what did you say? How can you.”.

“I helped him, Mr. Stewart.” Anna said as she blinked her eyes while still experiencing a bit of shock at the reaction of the Association chairman.

“You helped him?” Ronald weakened his tone again.

Anna just nodded her head while smiling politely at Ronald.

Ronald alternately looked at the 4 Hunters sitting lined up on the sofa opposite him and they were clearly not joking.

Ronald looked at his daughter again intently. This time there was admiration for the middle-aged man's facial expression. Ronald rubbed his beard and nodded his head slowly.

Disappeared for 3 full days and only returned in day 4 and rose to S rank. He was sure they were not joking at him, but the time it took to climb the ranks was dubious.

But, Ronald finally realized why his daughter's facial expression was so cheerful from the beginning into his office earlier, or even before. Maybe the rise in levels is the cause.

Because of that, Ronald did not immediately question his daughter with worry as soon as Gina entered his study and chose to talk to Kevin Jung first.

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The only way to level up quickly is to buy experience points.

But, Ronald also knew that the cost required to raise a Hunter from A rank to S rank was enormous.

Although he knew that Anna was from a wealthy family, he also knew that Anna's wealth could not afford to buy experience points. Even Brandon Lloyd doesn't have enough wealth to buy experience points from A to S.

The only way is to do a raid.

But Ronald thought again. If the rank increase is obtained from the results of the raid, then it will not match the time of his daughter's disappearance for 3 days.

Ronald can estimate it would take hundreds of Dungeons to raise Gina's rank if it had to go through a raid. And there's no way they can do it in just 3 days.

Moreover, which Dungeon had they entered? Almost all D rank Dungeons and above in C City had already been purchased by rank 20 guilds and above.

But soon, Ronald can finally guess where his daughter got the experience point so quickly, after Steven told her the latest news.

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Steven, who had also been there, spoke slowly to Ronald after he got a message on his phone.

“Uncle, no important news.”

Ronald, who was still thinking about the possibilities of how Gina leveled up, turned to Steven, “What news?”

“There are many countries have reported illegal raid activity in their region. In total there were seventeen countries and there were thirty A rank Dungeons that were reported to have been raided illegally before the official raid team did. In fact, the gates have been closed. The news was already spread in the World Association forum. The Central Association asks us to confirm whether there is such activity also in C.” City

“Already since four days ago.”

By the time Steven completes his report, Ronald is able to catch the strange girly of Kevin Jung and Gina Stewart.

The former suddenly upheld his sitting position, while the latter had a change to his facial expression from cheerful to restless.

Meanwhile, Ronald did not see any change in expression on Anna's face which instead smiled wider as their gazes met each other.

Ronald finally looks at the new Hunter he doesn't know, who instantly turns his face away when Ronald suddenly stares at him.

Finally, Ronald looked back at Anna.

‘I know now. So he did it, right? But, what am I supposed to do? Do I pretend not to know?’

“There's something you want to talk to me about, Mr Stewart?” Anna asked after seeing Ronald's gaze fixated on her.

“No,” Ronald shook his head, then pointed at the file before Gina. “Let's finish the guild establishment first.”

“Dad allows me?” gina asked with her cheerful face back.

“As a father, of course I support all the positive work you do. But, careful. Leading a large number of Hunter is not easy.”

“No need to worry. Only the three guild members would conduct a raid. The rest are still training at the Academy and may only join in the next six months.”

"W-what did you say? How is it possible to establish a guild with just..," Ronald stopped his sentence. He remembered the bear-costumed figure, then looked at Anna. "Without underestimating Kevin Jung, I think he can close many Dungeons himself," Ronald thought as he continued to stare at Anna.

Ronald also believes Anna is the person behind the illegal raid in many countries in the past 4 days as Steven has said. And, he was also able to guess the perpetrator of the illegal raid in the dozen C City Dungeons a month ago.

"Mr Stewart, I'll guarantee everything will be fine. You can make a separate letter of agreement if necessary" Kevin said after seeing Ronald seemed hesitant.

"I don't think it's necessary, I've seen how he's defeated monsters that might be above the SS rank easily." Ronald then smiled stiffly.

"Have you seen him?" asked Kevin curiously.

"If you've ever seen news of a costumed bear..."

Kevin was silent for a moment, then nodded his head slowly.

"So-so.., I understand." Kevin who of course knows because he also came to City C to investigate it. But because of his encounter with Anna, he had somewhat forgotten about his affairs.

Meanwhile, Ronald Stewart was silent for a long time while rubbing his beard.

The middle-aged man was rather worried about what he had just thought, regarding the illegal raid perpetrator he should have imprisoned.

However, Ronald is convinced that Anna will not stay silent if she is going to arrest him.

'How could we possibly catch the person who could annihilate that monstrous High Orc so easily?'

Ronald glanced at Anna, but he immediately turned his gaze when the two of their gazes met.

"I need to be more flexible. And again he just shut down a Dungeon. Isn't that Hunter's real job?" it was Ronald who finally came to terms with his own thinking.

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