Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 101
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Episode 101
Chapter 101. Not Enough Money!
Park Kang-hoon.
Three syllables that turn genius engineer Seo Mi-do into a child.
‘Huh, if my prediction is correct, he’s also a genius. One with flexible thinking, fast calculations, and excellent adaptability.’
So why did such a guy deliberately enter art university…?
Seo Mi-do tilted her head slightly.
Even though some art universities prioritize written exams or grades over practical skills, in Korea today, art universities are more about practical skills than written tests.
The art university Kang Hoon entered was an astounding third-rate school where practical skills counted for over 90%.
Drawing plaster casts every day.
During exams, marking answers in a straight line and lying down to sleep…
It could be said to be a place that mass-produces typical socially maladjusted art students.
‘But after actually getting into art university, his talent wasn’t particularly outstanding, was it?’
No award history.
Just uncrowned.
In that case, it would be normal to quickly double major and open up career paths.
Kang Hoon.
He just walked the path of an unsellable art student for the sole reason that he liked drawing.
‘This is… more the path of a fool or madman than a genius.’
Seo Mi-do is a young genius.
A genius like Park Kang-hoon.
A scientist, big tech CEO, and Hunter.
She achieved all those accomplishments and is still only twenty-eight.
That’s what made it even stranger.
‘Why his awakening was late despite having such talent… well, that could happen. The system isn’t omnipotent either.’
But.
With such a brain, why did he only draw plaster casts during high school!
Isn’t that too wasteful?
Moreover, looking through this guy’s records, he was a math dropout, a ‘math abandoner’!
Like a crazy person who danced tap dance while pressing only the buttons opposite to his talents!
And such a guy is here.
‘Drawing… just drawing of all things. Was that really so appealing to him?’
The system then gave this guy an ‘Enhancement Skill’.
Friends with athletic talent usually get swordsman or archer classes.
Friends with outstanding intelligence get mage classes.
Those with good empathy awaken with summoner-type abilities.
Usually.
Considering the system assigns jobs according to aptitude─
‘He really has no talent… for art, I guess?’
Conversely, someone might ask what talent is needed for an ‘Enhancement Specialist’.
“…”
Seo Mi-do doesn’t know either.
What do you need to do to develop Enhancement Specialist aptitude?
Roughly.
The aptitude to throw your life into a place like art university during the precious career choice period?
‘No way, that’s ridiculous.’
Born to be efficient.
Seo Mi-do, the crystallization of reason, couldn’t understand Park Kang-hoon, the ‘mad artist’.
Originally, mad artists shouldn’t be understood through common sense.
As soon as such a guy became an ‘Enhancement Specialist’, he caught up to Seo Mi-do.
No,
He didn’t catch up, he overtook her.
“Grrrrrr!!”
Originally, she hated losing the most and liked going faster than others.
That’s why before awakening, she worked in F1 racing car development!
“To tame a dungeon-produced golem faster than me! Hyaaaaa! I want to see what kind of man he is soon!!”
With an anxious heart,
Seo Mi-do stomped her feet.
The woman wearing expensive brand jeans and running shoes looked like some idol to anyone watching.
She was just wearing them because they were comfortable.
To comfort such a woman, her secretary approached.
“Professor.”
Of course, the secretary was also a magical engineer, and pitifully a slave… no, graduate student alumnus.
Although friends constantly teased that they were slaves for life, the annual salary was in the hundreds of millions.
And it was closer to 10 hundred million than 1 hundred million.
Seo Mi-do was eccentric but always knew how to take good care of her people.
“Here’s vitamin water, and a tablet PC made by the development team.”
“Thanks for the water. But why the tablet PC?”
“It’s specially developed so internet use won’t interfere with flight, so you can watch YouTube broadcasts.”
“Huh?”
What broadcast?
Seo Mi-do had never been interested in YouTube.
However.
“That genius Enhancement Specialist, ‘Park Kang-hoon’, is currently live streaming!”
…This changes everything!
“Give it to me right nowwww!!”
In Seo Mi-do’s common sense, Hunter streamers, or ‘Huntreamers’, were vermin.
And not beneficial insects, but pests.
Didn’t those punk-like guys with lacking abilities and intelligence interfere with proper Hunters’ growth and sometimes even drive them to death!
With her brain.
She couldn’t understand either the people who got excited about such acts or those who filmed them.
But.
That amazing genius Enhancement Specialist is personally streaming?!
If it’s ‘streaming’ that he does, the story is different!
He’s a big tech CEO who manipulates the world.
He has more secrets that even Seo Mi-do would be curious about than anyone!
In other words.
When others do it, it’s pest behavior.
When Park Kang-hoon does it?
────An academic presentation!!
“Turn on the recording button right now! Have the lab researchers on standby too!”
Rubbing her hands together with excitement, Seo Mi-do stared at the loading screen.
“Is he going to show Enhancement Skill casting?! I need to start mechanism analysis as soon as I see it! Or maybe he’s reviewing the dungeon where he brought the golem?! Right, for a scholar, review and recording are basic!!”
That alone would be good enough.
But if it’s not that?
“…Could it be, that adorable golem?!!!”
Seo Mi-do trembled with excitement and joy!
Beyond the level of flying above the clouds, at this rate she’d reach heaven.
She was ready to fly all the way to space!
Finally!
After the long loading, the screen that played showed─
– Whooooa~!
…Completely different from expectations.
She heard the somewhat loose voice of a young man.
– I can’t tear four books at once~! …What? My grip strength is too weak? No way~!
Completely betraying Seo Mi-do’s expectations.
– Grrrr~!
…Wasn’t he just tearing four stacked Public Skill Books?
“…”
– Don’t you see these calluses? The skill books are just too thick.
“…”
– Ugh. I’ll have to tear two at a time again. I was trying to end the stream early…
“…”
– You ask if I have plans? Haha. I’m just getting hungry.
“…”
Forget a cute golem, she couldn’t even see Park Kang-hoon’s face.
With hands that had thick calluses as he said, looking like a blockhead to her.
Riiiiip─!
He was learning Poison Resistance skills that seemed completely useless for a scholar.
“…?”
Seo Mi-do felt like her intelligence had dropped.
It was a sensation she’d never felt in her entire life.
“He already vaguely grasped hidden job traits and skill combinations, chose and restored the finest magical golem. Someone who accomplished that… why?”
“Well, I wonder.”
– Ah, I tore it! Success!!!
“…”
It was truly an insane broadcast.
* * *
Park Kang-hoon.
A stubborn young man who wouldn’t leave Korea even for millions from the United States.
A shop owner who earned enough money to live comfortably for life─
On a daily basis─
The very Enhancement Specialist who made the news for bringing honor to the country through foreign currency earnings!
Today.
He sprawled on the sofa and thought this.
「I don’t have enough money.」
…He thought.
Even he found it absurd and let out a chuckle.
“Haha… Not having enough money!”
It was an emotion he hadn’t felt in a long time, but the situation was quite different.
‘Before, my bank account really dropped to the thousands.’
There were occasional days when freelance payments were delayed.
On those days, he’d fill his stomach with thin noodles or urgently look for part-time work.
But now his bank balance was in the tens of millions.
’12 million won.’
It was an enormous amount of money.
Naturally, there was no problem with daily life.
Same with food and living.
‘To think the day would come when I’d call this running out of money… Haha!’
It was absurd.
It meant his situation had changed that much.
Even with such changes, his tastes hadn’t changed, so Park Kang-hoon was still happiest with spicy ramen and soft tofu.
Add a drizzle of sesame oil?
‘Wow~!’
So anyway.
It was more than enough money for food and living expenses.
His business was even doing well.
He was producing [Germanium Jade Bracelet of Vitality Enhancement +3] every single day!
Today he even used the ‘accumulated failure count’ stored in [Hammer of Success and Failure] to earn more money.
He’d put [Germanium Jade Bracelet of Vitality Enhancement +4] up for auction─
Money came in just from breathing.
However.
“Ugh! Not enough! Nowhere near enough to buy Public Skill Books!”
…The problem was wanting to buy the remaining Public Skill Books.
He wanted to learn as many different skills as possible!
“Ugh… Just what I learned while streaming was already incredible…”
Among Hunters these days.
Kang Hoon was living with strangely little material desire.
Even Seri sang ‘cheapskate, cheapskate~’ songs about him.
Ji-seong, who was interested in fashion, treated Kang Hoon like an alien for wearing the same jeans every day.
‘Hyung. You do wash those, right?’
…He asked that incredible question.
Then he’d get new hoodies and straight-fit pants from somewhere to give as gifts.
Kang Hoon was a ‘mad art student’ who never refused gifts.
Weren’t clothes just tools to cover nakedness?
‘Anyway, I can wear these for another 3 years.’
Thanks to that, Kang Hoon had even less desire for clothes.
But.
“I want them. Public Skill Books… I want more!”
When was the last time he felt like he ‘wanted’ something this much?
A whole 6 years ago.
When he wanted a newly released LCD tablet so badly he worked three part-time jobs.
That LCD tablet still existed on Kang Hoon’s workshop desk.
Viewers shouted ‘throw away that piece of junk!’ but Kang Hoon had no such loyal companion.
He’d even enhanced it, so even more so.
Yet even such a Kang Hoon.
Couldn’t resist this ‘purchasing impulse.’
It wasn’t something that came often either.
Usually when this kind of ‘feeling’ came, it was worth that much.
No, that’s not right.
After awakening as an Enhancement Specialist, it went beyond just adequate levels─
It would return as rewards that transcended all value!
Meanwhile, the message that occupied the top of Kang Hoon’s KakaoTalk.
[Kang Hoon! I got another Universal Skill Book through a friend. It’s ‘Power Strike’ passive, so it’s quite a rare skill book!]
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