Chapter 313: Bad Luck

Seong Seungmin knew that there would not be many opportunities in his wolf life to change his fate. If he missed Joo Joowon, he might not necessarily be able to find someone more suitable in the future.

At least ever since he had started accepting commissions, all the places he had encountered had been old game zones where most of the resources had already been divided up.

After all, it was truly difficult for a complete newcomer to enter a risk zone. The functions of the game could only be discovered through the players’ gradual experimentation. Therefore, under normal circumstances, if someone wanted to enter a newly opened game zone, they could only enter as an NPC designated by the game, and only then could they legally operate within it.

But the limited number of NPC positions that could descend into newly opened game zones was simply not something an NPC like him could compete for.

Now that he had made up his mind, Seong Seungmin no longer hesitated. In any case, the penalty had already been issued, so no matter what happened, he could only pinch his nose and accept it.

Because he was an NPC, the Boss would not drop any extra items, so Seong Seungmin could not be bothered to take another look. He pulled a corpse collecting robot out of the void and let it handle the remains. He himself then came to Joo Joowon’s side.

"Boss, don’t worry. Although there was a small accident, the Lord’s Manor will definitely be completed within the required time."

Joo Joowon looked at the misfortune still lingering around Seong Seungmin’s body. He remained silent for a moment before asking, "Were you cursed?"

This was far too abnormal. Not to mention that Seong Seungmin was a Third Rank Mechanic. Even if he had only been Second Rank, this kind of situation should not have happened.

When influencing someone of a higher Rank and making them suffer bad luck, the effect would definitely be greatly reduced. Not to mention that Joo Joowon’s Star Fiend had already been consumed. It should not have been enough to keep the other party in such an unfavorable state.

Even if the other party’s fortune had originally been poor, now that the matter had already been resolved, the Star Fiend should naturally have gradually dissipated.

After all, everything had already passed.

From the moment the other party had traveled over to everything he had encountered after arriving, he had successfully overcome all of it. As the saying went, when one side diminihed, the other grew. Under these circumstances, it would be impossible to say that he would not have any bad luck at all, but his situation should inevitably have become much better than before.

It should not have turned into the current situation, where one could tell at a glance that the bad luck had not only failed to diminish, but instead seemed to be accumulating more and more.

This definitely was not Joo Joowon’s fault. The Harbinger of Endless Misfortune was not going to take the blame for this either!

Seong Seungmin’s heart sank, and he answered somewhat bitterly, "Yes."

Joo Joowon understood immediately upon hearing this.

A situation where the Star Fiend did not dissipate at all could only mean one of two things. Either there was something unusual about the other party’s fate, or he had been targeted by someone. There could be no other possibility.

If the other party were some kind of Harbinger of Endless Misfortune, then he should have sensed it long ago.

There was a vague sense of awareness between special Fate Stars.

Because they were "drawn closer" to each other, their fortunes became entangled. Seong Seungmin still knew nothing about this aspect, and Joo Joowon had already been able to observe the fluctuations in his fortune. After Seong Seungmin attacked the Boss, his fortune moved even closer toward him.

This allowed Joo Joowon to see things even more clearly and discover that the other party’s situation was indeed somewhat special.

No wonder his Fate Star could influence him even though he had only reached First Rank.

Although this was partly because of the special nature of his Fate and the added influence of Byeol’s appearance, the other party’s own circumstances were obviously also one of the reasons. It might even be the main reason.

However, Joo Joowon had only asked casually. There was nothing he could do about this kind of matter anyway.

Therefore, he naturally skipped over the topic and instead focused on the matter he actually cared about. "Will the safety of the Lord’s Manor be affected?"

It was not strange for him to be concerned. This place had already been swept through once by the Earthfire, and now it had been swept through once again by Seong Seungmin and the Boss. Joo Joowon was genuinely worried that anything built on this mountain now would turn into a dangerous, poorly constructed building.

Before the Lord’s assessment was over, the buildings within the territory did not have the durability attribute granted by the game. Therefore, he had no choice but to care about this.

Seong Seungmin froze for a moment. That was it?

He looked at Joo Joowon inquisitively, but the other party did not seem to think there was anything strange about it at all. It was as if he had merely asked a casual question just now, and after receiving the answer, he simply stopped caring about it.

But one had to know that merely asking that question just now could very likely trigger the game’s supervision. When that happened, his identity as a player could not withstand a detailed scan by the system.

Yet the other party had risked himself to obtain the answer, while his attitude had not changed at all. He showed no intention of drawing a clear line between them, as if this really were nothing more than a trivial matter.

However, for a player of the Fate Path, the thing they cared about most was precisely "Fate."