Chapter 247
Not long after the gate had appeared, news of China’s National Treasure Jiang Lei entering to clear it quickly spread.
Within several hours, crowds from China and Japan filled Gwanghwamun. And after three days, the crowds had only grown larger.
China has managed to stake its claim on Korea.At last, we have a foothold to advance into the archipelago!
Damnit, these useless Koreans can’t even hold up their own pants. How could they let the opportunity to challenge the gate fall to the Chinese...
The Chinese reporters were full of joy, while the Japanese reporters were red-faced with anger. As for Jae-Hyeok, who’d entered alongside Jiang Lei and his group, no one paid him any heed.
For one, Korea’s national power was simply too low to take seriously. China and Japan's governments and, indeed, their populations as a whole shared the sentiment that Korea’s National Treasure candidates wielded power comparable to the A-class at most, which was incomparable to China and Japan’s own candidates, who could eat A-class players for breakfast.
Secondly, the Yaksha’s name had all but disappeared across Asia. The situation in Korea went without saying. And as for China and Japan... much of the Yaksha’s past glory had involved forcing these two countries to eat losses. Naturally, the Yaksha was hardly mentioned in their media and education systems. As a result, the Kang surname meant little in the ears of Chinese and Japanese people, so the public weren’t asking about Jae-Hyeok, and the Chinese and Japanese media were disinclined to cover him.
Moreover, as far as the Chinese and Japanese reporters gathered at Gwanghwamun were concerned, Jae-Hyeok was already as good as dead.
S-grade first clearance rewards were simply too valuable. Neither the Chinese nor Japanese reporters believed for a second that Jiang Lei would share the rewards when he could simply kill Jae-Hyeok and take everything for himself.
After all, there were no third-party witnesses, and upon clearing the gate, not even Jae-Hyeok’s corpse would remain to testify...
National Treasure Jiang Lei would never share with some Korean brat.
Kang Jae-Hyeok... Isn't he allied with Pirate King Yeon Ho-Ryeong? Eliminating that brat would serve as a strong warning to Yeon Ho-Ryeong and the Korean government.