Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 106
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Episode 106
Chapter 106. What Kind of Scheme Is This?
These past few days, there’s been a thought that Kang Hoon often has.
Two friends seem like enough, and three might be a bit too many.
And for good reason.
“Ugh… the phone rings way too often.”
Friend 1, Park Seri. 2, Park Ji-seong.
Following those siblings.
3, Seo Mi-do was about to be added to the list.
Seo Mi-do, who calls two or three times a day, was starting to feel overwhelming.
Ring, ring─
Looking at his ringing phone with familiarity, Kang Hoon tilted his head.
“What is it today?”
Just yesterday was the third day since Seo Mi-do had inspected Alba.
She had been theorizing tens of thousands of reasons, saying Alba’s energy source seemed different from other golems.
Kang Hoon had casually informed her like this.
“Ah. I forgot to mention that. I fed Alba a Hidden Boss Golem Heart.”
He didn’t know then.
– What did you saaaay?!!!!
…That this would stimulate Seo Mi-do’s scholarly passion.
No, beyond stimulating it.
Yesterday, all day long, she persistently asked about Kang Hoon’s enhancement methods and Alba’s ‘enhancement conditions’.
Eventually leading her to call again today.
“Sigh.”
Kang Hoon, a natural homebody who feels like being alone just from phone calls.
However.
“I received 100 billion in sponsorship money, so if I can settle this with just phone calls, that’s good.”
Immediately recalling the money deposited in his account!
Answer button, press!
“Yes~! Hello, Ms. Seo Mi-do~.”
With the most kind voice in the world, he responded as if ready to answer anything.
– Kyung?!
Lucky, who had been sleeping well, startled awake and looked at Kang Hoon as if asking what was wrong.
To Lucky, whose face fur was flattened on one side, he gestured to go back to sleep.
– …Pyuuung.
Lucky pressed the flattened side back to the floor and fell fast asleep again.
But the voice coming from the phone was unexpected.
– Mr. Park Kang-hoon, good morning.
Instead of firing off questions rapidly like before, going “blah blah blah” and “chatter chatter chatter.”
Seo Mi-do asked like this.
– By any chance~ Mr. Park Kang-hoon~. Would you be interested in experimenting with your enhancement ability~?
It was the most kind, gentle, and soft voice in the world.
Just like the voice Kang Hoon had forced himself to use moments ago.
A response that came back like a mirror reflection.
In other words.
It meant she had a ‘purpose’.
Kang Hoon’s ‘purpose’ was ‘let’s be kind for the 100 billion worth that was paid in advance’.
Seo Mi-do must also have some purpose equivalent to that value.
Kang Hoon responds with clear eyes.
“What kind of scheme is this?”
* * *
Seo Mi-do’s purpose was clear.
Research.
Experimenting, finding out, learning, and discovering!
To her, whose life’s purpose was only that, the Enhancement Specialist named ‘Park Kang-hoon’ was.
A research subject by his very existence.
– Mr. Park Kang-hoon’s ability is unique, isn’t it? Since there’s no precedent, there was no one to tell you how to use that ability either.
“Hmm. That’s right.”
– Mr. Park Kang-hoon, aren’t you curious about what you can accomplish with your ability? Alba is also starting to want to see his master, by the way.
The Alba story was probably bait deliberately added.
Because Seo Mi-do’s genius science brain couldn’t possibly be considering such human emotions.
In other words, it meant she wanted to learn about Kang Hoon’s ability, ‘Enhancement’, that much.
And Kang Hoon wasn’t much different from her.
“Now that you mention it, I’m getting interested.”
As if she had been waiting for just those words, Seo Mi-do quickly answered.
– I have a limousine waiting on the first floor of Mr. Park Kang-hoon’s house right now! You can just comfortably ride over!
“…What? You already have a car waiting?”
– Hehehe, I’m already waiting at the destination.
“No, how did you know whether I’d go or not…, well, never mind. Where’s the destination?”
The answer that came back was quite unexpected.
– It’s the Imjin River.
“What…?”
* * *
Imjin River.
It’s the baseline that separates North Korea and the Republic of Korea.
With the river as the center, below is Korea, and above is North Korean territory.
‘North Korea’.
19 years ago, when the Gate incident first began.
One high-difficulty Gate occurred in each country.
Most developed countries emptied their national treasuries and went into debt to receive help from foreign Hunters.
But North Korea?
They absolutely refused to open their territory, territorial waters, and airspace!
Even when Korea, the country right next to North Korea, took the initiative to contact them saying they would send a Hunter team, they had no choice but to refuse.
At that time, North Korean news reported on the problematic high-difficulty dungeon, ‘Ghoul’s Stalactite Cave’, as follows.
For reference,
In North Korean language, ‘Ghoul’ is ‘Bone Cry’, and ‘Cave’ is ‘Cave Tube’.
– Our Revolutionary Hunter Corps will complete the ‘Bone Wailing Stalactite Cave’!
We will surely achieve success in the sacred mission of defending our homeland!
We express our unwavering position that we do not require even a hair’s worth of assistance from foreign reactionary forces!
…And they failed.
Due to insufficient Hunter combat power, lack of Gate information, and inadequate government response─
They failed to clear the ‘Bone Wailing Stalactite Cave’.
Bone wailing…, meaning ‘Ghoul’ monsters began pouring out!
Since they looked similar to low-grade ‘Zombie’ monsters on the surface.
They tried to resolve it by eliminating them as quickly as possible.
But unlike brain-dead zombies, ghouls had relatively high intelligence.
Gwoooooooo─!!
They could think at dolphin level and even communicate with each other!
Moreover.
…They were representative monsters that enjoyed cannibalism.
Due to these creatures rapidly expanding their territory in search of food.
They couldn’t even approach Gates that seemed clearable.
As a result, what started as a single burst Gate.
Began multiplying rapidly─
‘3 weeks.’
In less than a month, ghouls roamed throughout North Korea except for a few fortresses in Pyongyang.
The area was overrun with orcs, trolls, gargoyles, werebears, etc. pouring out from other Gates.
The entire country had become a dungeon.
From that time, a new term was created: ‘Demonization’.
A term referring to lands conquered by monsters like North Korea.
Demon Realm North Korea.
‘That means… first come, first served?!’
Various countries greedy for land attempted ‘Purification’, but repeatedly failed.
Until they concluded that the losses outweighed the gains.
Too many Hunters and too much time had been sacrificed.
Thanks to this, China bordering North Korea dealt with orcs and trolls easily crossing the border.
And suffered headaches from occasionally flying gargoyles.
On the other hand.
Korea was able to respond more quickly.
Thanks to not having the idea of forcibly taking North Korean territory from the start.
‘What time is there to dawdle?!’
‘What if our land values drop while we’re doing useless things!’
‘Why isn’t the government responding quickly?! It’s already been three hours, what are they doing!!’
Ah, Republic of Korea.
The land of hurry-hurry!
Knowledge is power – they quickly identified where monsters would invade through past war experience.
Moreover.
Since they were already in a ceasefire state with North Korea.
They reaped the full benefits of having already set up the 38th Parallel.
Gwoooo─!
Whenever hungry ghouls and werebears came down.
Click!
Guh, gwoooo?
Boooom~!
…The landmines buried long ago eliminated them!
Boom!
Boooom~!
Booooom~!!
While monsters sacrificed themselves to eliminate(?) the landmines that had been troublesome for 50 years.
The Korean government used the riverbanks from Imjin River to Hantan River as a defense line, reinforcing even more thoroughly.
By the time hungry monsters swarmed in groups.
High walls and towers were already lined up in rows.
“Fire!”
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Soldiers ambushed and sprayed bullets.
They were busy building another tower with monsters.
As a result.
Today, the sounds heard from Imjin River were like this.
Gwoooo─!
Keh, keh!!
Gurururuk, gurururuk….
Not a single civilian house existed, only the roars and groans of monsters echoed.
Such a harsh area.
A combat zone where even the soil that absorbed blood was parched and dry.
In other words.
It could be said to be the absolute worst as a meeting place.
“…What on earth did they call me here to do?”
Standing alone in the middle of the rough terrain, Kang Hoon muttered.
– Kyaung?!
Along with Lucky, who was looking around confused wondering if this was a dungeon,
* * *
‘They must have called me for a reason.’
While riding comfortably in a luxurious limousine with Lucky, Kang Hoon thought so.
Indeed, Seo Mi-do was busy preparing something.
“Hm? Golems…?”
Under her command, ‘Golems’ were moving stones, setting up metal structures, etc.
So-called manual labor.
They were in the middle of construction!
One golem was even applying cement!
“Ah, looking closely, they’re not golems but robots.”
Even before approaching closely, Kang Hoon recognized their identity.
Though their appearance was that of golems commonly seen in dungeons.
They seemed to have failed at applying the golem’s characteristic bio-energy, the ‘Core’.
They were workers made as robots as a compromise.
“You’re here, Park Kang-hoon? Hmm. You’ve already figured it out, I see. You don’t look surprised at all.”
“Yes.”
“Hehe, how boring.”
Even while saying this, Seo Mi-do had a smiling face.
A loose checkered shirt, baggy jeans, and worn-out running shoes.
Who would think this small woman was a Big Tech CEO?
“So, what am I supposed to do here now?”
At Kang Hoon’s question, Seo Mi-do pressed her mechanical arm against the half-built wall,
Whoosh!
And leaped over it.
“About Park Kang-hoon’s Enhancement Ability. It reflects public perception, superstitions, and even prejudices—basically, conceptual thinking, right?”
“Uh… that’s right?”
“Then, you know. Maybe with Enhancement Ability… we could purify North Korean soil?”
“What?”
What is she talking about?
‘Land Purification’ + ‘Enhancement’?
It was a combination of words that made no sense at all.
Even Kang Hoon, who was an Enhancer, had never thought of doing something like land purification.
“How did you reach that conclusion?”
Kang Hoon asked.
“I spent all night gathering, analyzing, and reviewing every piece of data about Park Kang-hoon.”
“…What?”
“Even the nine-hour drawing broadcast on Park Kang-hoon’s YouTube channel—I watched it all.”
“Why would you go that far?!”
“Of course, aside from finding out that your drawing skills are excellent, you barely talk at all, and watching you makes me sleepy, there wasn’t much else to gain. Hehehe!”
“…”
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