Hope Resources Guild

The exterior of the guild building

**Hope Resources Guild** is a minor Hunter guild. Its members acted as loan sharks and deceived unknowing low-rank Hunters into signing mine worker contracts. They were forcibly subdued and contracted to the Hunter Association by Han Yoojin.

## Members

* Unnamed C-rank (guild leader)
* Kim Deoksu (vice guild leader)
* 5 other D-ranks
* 1 E-rank
* 3 F-ranks

## Building

Hope Resources is located in a junk shop by the same name, found in a secluded location in Myeonmok-dong. The building is shabby and has 2 floors, with a clean new sign on the old-looking outer wall. It has glass doors covered with a film printed with "Hope Resources"; the doors are usually kept locked, and there is a bell beside them, along with an intercom and camera. The inside of the first (ground) floor is neat and clean.

The door to the second floor is made of heavy iron and appears out of place; it leads into a normal-looking reception room with sofas and a glass table. There is a safe in the reception room that previously contained over thirty contracts. Once Kim Sunghan attacked the guild under Han Yoojin's command, the iron door was destroyed.

## Synopsis

Hope Resources Guild first appears when Yoo Myeongwoo disappears and Han Yoojin goes to find him, tracing his location to the guild using Do Hamin's services. He gets into the guild building by claiming that he's come to return money; upon being let in, he finds the vice guild leader Kim Deoksu in talks with Yoo Myeongwoo. Faking interest in the contracts, he speaks to Kim Deoksu, who tries to sell him on the idea of signing a mine worker contract. Han Yoojin continues pretending to be enthralled and asks to compare his own contract to Yoo Myeongwoo's, only to rip it up when they hand it to him.

Shocked and furious, the guild members attempt to attack and restrain him, only to be quelled when Kim Sunghan bursts in on Han Yoojin's command. They reluctantly write down their skills and sign on the S-rank contract Han Yoojin provides them with; Kim Deoksu then tells him about the other true members of the guild including the leader, and he uses the vice guild leader's phone to call them all to the location, forcing them to sign as well. To the guild members' horror and distress, Han Yoojin rewrites an unfilled mine worker contracts for each member, modifying them so that the guild members have to serve the Hunter Association for 50 years instead of serving Hope Resources for 10, receiving only 10% of the profits from the byproduct sales as compensation. Unable to resist under the looming threat of Kim Sunghan, they all sign the modified contracts. Once Han Yoojin has collected their ID numbers, Hunter license numbers, and phone numbers, they're left to their new lives.

## Trivia

* This is one of the smallest guilds seen so far in the novel.
* This guild is the first seen to use mine worker contracts.

## Gallery

The guild members picking up Yoo MyeongwooThe C-rank guild leaderThreatening F-ranks into mine worker contracts
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 21
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 22
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Webtoon: Episode 16