PAID

‘Haah. That guy is spouting nonsense again…’

I frowned as I observed Choi Hyung-jun through Absolute Dweller’s Eye.

‘He sounds no different from a cult preacher.’

Using words like miracle and his esteemed name only made it sound more like religious propaganda.

Still, I didn’t stop him from spreading my name.

After all, this was an officially recognized method in the rescue team’s manual, known to be effective in restoring stamina.

In fact, for those who had received citizenship, simply knowing my name triggered the effects of Power of Trust, passively enhancing their physical stats.

The moment someone recognized my name, they would experience a minor recovery in their stamina.

Because of that, it was difficult to outright forbid him from doing it.

[Hyung-jun, gather the people. Start organizing those who can move on their own. We’ll begin registering them as citizens.]

"Oh? O-Oh. Yes, understood."@@novelbin@@

Choi Hyung-jun.

A good-natured man who used to live next door and was the first person to register as my retainer.

However, he was too much of a coward to participate in combat, so I never assigned him to battle-related tasks.

Naturally, this made him the lowest-ranked among my retainers.

Even so, at level 33, he had grown considerably strong despite never hunting monsters.

He had gained experience points steadily through assigned quests, gradually leveling up over time.

Among all my retainers, he was the only one who hadn’t received significant investments—but at the same time, he had been given special treatment.

I had never sent him to a battlefield.

‘Because he’s just not built for it.’

To be honest, he’d be more of a hindrance than an asset in combat.

He still had a deep-seated trauma from his first goblin encounter—he was the type of person who struggled to harm monsters, even in self-defense.

And yet, despite his shortcomings, he had earned his place.

He had been with us from the beginning, making various contributions, and even now, he was fostering orphaned children whose parents had been killed by vampires.

For the most part, his duties as a retainer were limited to overseeing shifts at the forward base.

Yet, even he had been deployed to the Jamsil incident.

That alone spoke volumes about the severity of the situation.