chapter 18
The voices I hear while I am devastated by the dark clouds hanging over my road ahead.
“Go, thank you!”
“I really thought I was going to die without moving… I will never forget this grace for the rest of my life!”
It was the Awakened Emergency Response Team.
. . . A word of thanks to those who were nearly killed by my guerrillas.
I feel strange.
At that time, an Awakener approached with an injured body and said.
“CEO Han Ji-hyeok! thank you. I never dreamed that CEO Han had this kind of ability!”
At that, the other Awakeners said with a surprised expression.
“what?! Is that representative Han Ji-hyeok?”
“That skeleton!?”
There is also someone who knows.
First of all, there are a lot of eyes to see, so today I have to do full service as much as possible.
I immediately took out the remaining transportable skeleton that I had placed in the factory in subspace and said.
“Load the wounded. We need to go to the hospital right now.”
“Go, thank you!”
Transportable skeletons carrying the injured of the emergency response team.
“go!”
When the injured were transported to the hospital, some of the reporters who had fled approached with shining eyes.
“CEO Han Ji-hyeok! Short interview…”
It bothers me too.
“Transportation of the wounded comes first. Please contact the company for an interview later.”
Of course, I will reject all of them.
At that time, the team leader, carried by the team members on a transportable skeleton, spoke in a crawling voice.
“thank you.”
The team leader who was seriously injured by the centurion skeleton.
“If it wasn’t for CEO Han… we would have been annihilated.”
The team leader said with a tired expression.
“Those skeletons acted as if they were rational. just like a person How is such joint work and perfect jin possible…”
“Ah… yes.”
“Maybe the entity wearing that fancy helmet wasn’t the commander?”
“It could be…”
“Anyway, these skeletons are different from any other undead I’ve ever met. strong and precise. What do you think, representative Han? Representative Han is a skeleton expert…”
If I answer each one like this, there will be no end.
I stopped the team leader and said.
“First of all, treatment comes first. Can I ask questions later?”
“That is true. Anyway, thank you again.”
The team leader rode the transport skeleton and moved to a nearby hospital.
“Whoa.”
Even the team leader with the most severe injuries doesn’t seem to be in danger of life.
If it is fortunate that there are no deaths, should we say that it is fortunate?
By the way, a hundred guerrillas beat a D-class Awakener…
Of course, it was won thanks to the pincers of the surrounding skeletons. Strictly speaking, the skill of Baek In-jang was similar to or slightly less than that of the D-class Awakened team leader.
“It’s weaker than I thought…”
But even taking that into consideration, the level of the Awakeners is a bit lower than I thought.
If you are the commander of the guerrilla squad, you are at the level of an average knight in Seron.
So if the Death Knight Knights come out, what level of Awakener should come out?
I thought for a moment, then shook my head and said.
“no. That’s not what’s important right now.”
First of all, the first thing to do is to check what the hell it is.
I looked at the bone I was holding and said.
“Please, I hope something comes out…”
*
After rectifying the situation and sending Kwon Gi-un, who had come to propose an investment, rejected and sent back, I started a full-scale experiment with the bones.
To find out if there is any way to regain control and how this happened.
I managed to read the remnants of the magic circle left in my bones while twisting my magic like that, and I learned a lot.
“There is no sign that anyone touched it.”
A magic circle with my unique style intact.
In other words, these skeletons were moving according to the macros I had made.
However, the magic circle is the same, but I felt a sense of difference in the magic that makes up the magic circle.
“…it’s not my magic.”
The magic circle is mine, but the mana that composes the magic circle is not mine.
A situation in which my magic power disappears and another magic power replaces it.
Now I understand why the subspace was not eaten.
My subspace only reacted to my magic and inanimate objects, so it couldn’t accept the skeletons with foreign magic.
But even so, if someone took my mana and put their own mana, that’s not the case either.
I ordered President Park to hold up the essence I bought as an experiment to use as a magic crystal substitute and said.
“The feeling of magic is similar to this.”
Unrefined, rough and crude feeling of natural magical power.
I could make a hypothesis here.
“Could it be the magic in the gate?”
Unlike the Earth, which is barren of magical power, the world inside the Gate is rich in natural magical power like Seron.
Maybe these guys assimilated with the Gate, not the subspace, when I came to Earth, and in the process, my magic power was also replaced by the magic inside the Gate?
That’s why I can’t control it and just move according to the macro.
However, this hypothesis still has many holes.
In the first place, mankind has not yet figured out what gates are, where and how they are formed.
What is certain though is this.
As long as the magic circles of the undead corps are all replaced with that magic and lose control, the undead corps are no different from the monsters in the gate.
And that all of this happened because I came back to Earth.
“… An undead army that has become monsters that move according to macros.”
Just imagining it is terrifying.
Anyway, now that I’ve figured this out, I have two options.
Like in Seron, going wild whether or not you get pointed at, moving only to rebuild the undead army, and preparing to retire and rebuild the undead army at the same time while looking at the situation.
I thought about it for a while and said.
“Let’s do it a second time.”
Clearly, this is a crisis.
It’s a situation where I can’t even grasp when and where my undead army will pop out.
However, humans on Earth are equipped with modern weapons that Seron does not have, and although the level is lower than I expected, the power of the Awakened that comes from the huge population several times that of the Seron continent cannot be ignored.
And above all, I can’t just ruin the retirement life I’ve been dreaming of for 30 years because of an uncertain future that’s yet to come.
If… you really don’t want to do it, then do it.
I don’t want to let go of the hope of a peaceful retirement yet.
Unlike Seron, where there was an escape route called Earth, this is my last chance to retire peacefully.
“Anyway, making a lot of money is the same.”
Even that is dozens of times or more than the original target money.
“Whoa. Let’s think positively.”
okay.
Hasn’t anything changed from before?
It was just that he needed an overwhelmingly larger amount of money than originally planned, as he had to prepare for retirement and rebuild the undead army at the same time.
Still, if the company grows, the growth rate will not accelerate.
It may be several times the amount, but in terms of time, it may be only several times slower than the original plan!
I tried to think of it as positively as possible, but…
“… Mr. Brul.”
A dog is also a dog.
How much does it cost even if it is multiplied from the original plan?
I tore my hair and cried out.
“OMG!”
I don’t like working, so if it’s work enough to be tempted by Kwon Ki-woon’s suggestion, I’ll quit school, but now I have to work to rebuild the undead army without a promise.
I just want to retire quietly and live in peace!
I said with a tired expression.
“If I had known it would be like this, I would have left the undead army behind. It’s such a waste, so I packed it bari-bari…”
That’s why I’m a cheap sh*t, but I can’t ignore it.
“okay. I will take care of the sh*t I bought.”
I’m doing what I call ‘no labor’ that I’ve been saving and saving.
I said with burning eyes.
“I make money to block the undead army and retire. I’ll catch two rabbits at the same time.”
*
How to make more money and faster is simple.
In the case of shoes, there were too many orders, and even after turning all the skeletons for 24 hours, it was a situation where we couldn’t digest all the stock.
In other words, if you increase production, the money will continue to increase.
However, is it really the right way to eat small factories one by one as before?
“The efficiency is too low.”
A small factory is limited in the number of machines and skeletons that can fit in as much as the space is small.
Of course, the more cramped it gets, the more the movement line overlaps, causing a bottleneck.
“We need a big factory.”
Deokbae Kim said:
Efficiency can be maximized only when all skeletons are made into a hybrid structure that makes all products.
Unlike now, when the skeletons in the clothing factory make all the clothes, there is no work to do, it is a hybrid factory that makes shoes when all the clothes are made, and hats when all the shoes are made.
This is the method that suits the general production company I was aiming for the most.
However, for this, a factory with a large site that can accommodate at least thousands of skeletons at the same time is incomparable to the previous one.
Of course, the price of a factory on such a large site would be prohibitive.
“It’s a small factory, so it was acquired cheaply under the condition of handing over the loan, but that won’t work for a large factory.”
Because there is no such thing as a large shoe factory in Korea.
But buying a factory in a completely different industry and remodeling it to suit my taste is all money.
The best thing is to buy a large, empty factory and shove all the skeletons, machines, and materials into it.
I said scratching my head.
“This money, that money. I’m going crazy, really.”
A situation where you need more money to make more money.
Of course, since I’m making good money now, I’ll be able to buy one someday.
But until then, when are you waiting?
It’s not something you have to do, no labor.
Then a method crosses my mind.
“gate.”
I am the one who became a celebrity at once by revealing my magical skills.
He earns money well as a multi-talented person, and even his fighting ability is presumed to be A-class.
So, should we just get an A-level test, go into the gate, and really close our eyes and play for a while?
I heard that if A-class awakeners hunt at the A-level gate, they earn over two to three billion won a month.
But as soon as I think about it, the strength starts to drain from my body.
“ah. I really don’t want to do it…”
Do you have to work hard just to earn 23 billion won a month?
Even if you just lie in your office, watch, listen and breathe, the net profits from factories are already much higher than that?
After slumping for a while, I barely got up and said.
“I have to do it anyway. You decided to try.”
Shouldn’t he be able to rebuild the undead army and prepare for retirement only if he earns a penny faster?
I don’t really want to use my body, so I feel like dying, but right now, that’s the only way to make a lot of money apart from my business.
I just keep running until the business gets on the right track.
Billions of dollars now will return to tens of trillions later.
Let’s run for just a few months.
Besides, since he decided to rebuild the undead army anyway, wouldn’t he have to prepare a macro for combat?
Entering the gate, running around and completing macros at the same time.
As long as I’m determined to clean up my sh*t, I have to make this much effort.
That’s when I decided to do that.
A call comes in on my cell phone.
“hello.”
-hello. do you remember me?
“All interviews are rejected. I’m not interested in joining a guild. We only take orders.”
Since that day, I have been receiving a lot of calls asking for interviews, and when I receive a call I do not know, the word that pops out like an automatic answer.
-hahahaha. I can’t seem to remember. I’m the head of the emergency response team.
“ah! manager?”
-It’s nothing else, I’ve contacted you because I wanted to say thank you on behalf of my teammates after I was discharged this time. I’m near the industrial complex right now, could you give me some time?
“hmm······.”
You don’t have to refuse, right?
“it’s possible. I will send you the location.”
-hahahaha. All right. I’ll be there soon.
How long has it been since you sent the location like that?
A sports car roars into the factory.
“what. Who makes such a fuss…”
But then the head of the emergency response team opens the door of the sports car.
“uh?”
what.
Was it the manager’s car?
When I left the factory and approached the team leader, the team leader smiled brightly and said,
“Representative Han!”
Then, the team leader took out a gift package from the passenger seat and approached me.
“At that time, I came because I was really grateful. You’re busy, aren’t you interrupting me?”
“no. I was just taking a break, but…”
I said looking at the sports car.
“Isn’t this expensive?”
Then the team leader smiled awkwardly and said.
“It’s a bit expensive.”
Is it enough to live with the income of a D-class awakener?
“I bought it on a whim. Still, I’m an awakened person, but that’s why it’s a bit like driving any car. hahahaha. It’s embarrassing because it looks like it’s wrinkled in front of a chrysalis.”
“Hoo.”
Scream for hundreds of millions of sports cars without hesitation for face.
but.
These luxuries are the complete opposite of the consumer goods I make.
A luxury that exists for the sake of scarcity and superiority.
Awoken who return to Earth after hunting monsters have no choice but to have this tendency more severe.
It’s kind of like a reward mentality.
In particular, the younger and higher-level Awakeners have higher vanity and higher income, so they must be generous.
“Do Awoken people tend to drive a lot of sports cars?”
“When you wake up and earn money, the first thing you buy is a sports car.”
I said with my eyes shining.
“That’s right…”
In fact, is there any place in Korea where a sports car like this can run freely?
There are bumps everywhere and speed cameras.
Even so, they spare no money to buy luxuries like sports cars to satisfy their vanity.
In other words, it doesn’t matter what the performance is, and it doesn’t matter if it’s something that others would envy.
Do you think this will make money if you do it well?
At that time, the team leader handed me a gift package and said.
“It’s not a big deal, but I brought some healthy food. In addition, my grandmother brought me soybean paste from the countryside as a thank you, and I don’t know if you will like it.”
“The soybean paste in the countryside is the best. Actually, I’m from Goa, so I don’t have many opportunities to taste it.”
Then the head of the team stunned and said.
“ah. Did I say something unnecessarily?”
“No, that’s fine, but did you thank me?”
“Of course, you are a lifesaver.”
I said with my eyes shining.
“Then can you help me?”