Park Deok-Gu had absorbed the rumor as if he were a sponge, but it took some time for the rumor to spread. It was slow, like what Lee Ji-Hye had intended, but it was true that the rumor was spreading.

Of course, I had no choice but to stop Park Deok-Gu from talking because if someone were to intervene, then the issue could become even more complicated.

The rumor spread from the bottom to the top. The rumor with an unknown source started from either the training hall or the dorms, and the rumor soon reached the ears of the executive-level adventurers. Naturally, people started investigating it even further, especially those who couldn’t believe the rumor.

I was sure that it would take at least a few days for Kim Hyun-Sung to hear the rumor because he wasn’t really the type to gather information.

‘Seriously, what’s up with Park Deok-Gu?’

It took quite a while before the rumors started spreading among the public, so I was once again stupefied when I recalled how Park Deok-Gu quickly heard the rumor. I seriously thought that he was making the Blue Guild’s intelligence department work for him, so I got worried that he would start collecting even the useless rumors, but…

‘It’s...