Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 109
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Episode 109
Chapter 109. [Frontline Defense Terrain 012 Land Document +3]
“…Today’s discovery seems amazing. Is it really that significant?”
Isn’t this a bit of an overreaction?
While Kang Hoon, the person in question, scratched his ear and asked.
Seo Mi-do’s expression was utterly serious.
“Do you know why all the top-ranking Hunters left for the United States?”
“Well. The news said it was because of money.”
That’s what the public gossiped and criticized about.
They said they abandoned their homeland for enormous wealth and tremendous fame, coveting American citizenship…
However.
Seo Mi-do, a genius Mage who had endured as a Korean in that very land called ‘America.’
She said something different.
“It’s because of power.”
“‘Power’?”
“That’s right. As an Enhancement Specialist, Park Kang-hoon, you wouldn’t understand but…”
Sighing, Seo Mi-do recalled the countless Hunters she had met so far.
“Combat Hunters have an instinctive desire. A very simple yet terrifying desire to become stronger.”
Especially.
Just look at the ‘Mad Scientist’ who, despite being a crafting type, secured a position in the global top 10 ‘Ten Star’ ranking.
That being, whose gender couldn’t even be determined as ‘he’ or ‘she.’
‘Crafted’ their entire body without leaving a single piece of skin.
They replaced everything, even their face, with robotics.
For only one reason.
──Driven by the desire to become stronger.
“In America, with better equipment, cutting-edge research systems, and more powerful backing. So-called ‘support,’ they can surpass their limits and become stronger.”
“Hmm…”
It was an understandable story.
That would be why tremendous Hunters from around the world flocked to the American guild, ‘Apex Circle.’
“How do you think they managed to gather all those free-spirited and disobedient Hunters in New York’s ‘Hunter’s Tower’?”
“Now that you mention it, that’s really true.”
Kang Hoon grasped the psychology of combat Hunters in his own way.
“Well… even in a single round of ‘premium watch’ game, people tend to blame their team.”
“…What?”
In other words.
Even when running the same dungeon, if the Tank is ‘Victor Chan’ and the Dealer is ‘Power Man.’
And if a professional supporter is attached, generously providing incredible damage buffs, mana buffs, speed buffs, and even healing magic?
Nod nod.
“Even a silver Genji could get 3 kills with a dragon blade.”
If that’s the case even in a game where you swing a mouse.
What about in an actual dungeon where you risk your life swinging a sword?
What combat Hunter would refuse that ‘support’?
“Dr-dragon blade? 3 kills…?”
Momentarily flustered by the gamer’s muttering, Seo Mi-do shook her head and said.
“…Anyway! An individual might possess such alluring value all by themselves.”
And then she looked at that ‘individual’ with infinite possibilities.
Park Kang-hoon.
“Genius Enhancement Specialist.”
“…Yes?”
The title suddenly changed.
From ‘Park Kang-hoon’ to ‘Genius Enhancement Specialist.’
“Let’s keep this option absolutely secret. Just you and me, Genius Enhancement Specialist.”
At those words, Kang Hoon unconsciously looked around.
“There aren’t any paparazzi here, are there?”
Then Seo Mi-do showed an unexpected reaction.
Grin.
With her already youthful face, she smiled like a child.
“Don’t worry. I cast stealth magic starting from the limousine you arrived in, Genius Enhancement Specialist.”
“Oh, I see.”
“And you don’t need to worry about that Hunter Paparazzi from before anymore either.”
“Hm?”
“…He broke his promise to give information only to me.”
Unlike her easygoing appearance, Seo Mi-do was a thorough Mage.
From the very day she received information about ‘Alba’ from that cockroach-like paparazzi.
She had already cast a spell magic.
If he sold information about Park Kang-hoon to anyone other than Seo Mi-do─
He would be immediately ‘dealt with.’
“There are always foolish people. Promises with Mages must always be kept.”
That’s what Hunters are like.
They are ‘Awakened’ who have surpassed existing humanity.
Yet they are predators with stronger savage instincts than anyone else─
Those who ignore them, deceive them, or trick them.
They never forgive such opponents and ultimately crush them.
If there’s an exception, it’s only one person, the one shrugging his shoulders in front of Seo Mi-do─
──Only Park Kang-hoon is different.
Not caring about whatever punishment Seo Mi-do inflicted on that paparazzi shows his nature, but.
‘He’ alone must be an exception for ‘Hunters’─
“Anyway, don’t worry, I’ll keep the secret for you.”
Seo Mi-do was also being drawn to Park Kang-hoon before she knew it.
As a Hunter, her subconscious began to view the man called ‘Park Kang-hoon’ not as one of countless competitors to be wary of─
But as a business partner, a unique teacher, and a comrade walking the same path.
‘…’
Never once in her life had she had a peer friend she could communicate with.
No, forget friends. Except for graduate students she had to teach one-sidedly, she had no one to seriously discuss golems with.
So what this emotion called ‘friendship’ was.
Her lonely brain couldn’t understand it right away─
But she could at least make this judgment.
‘It’s not time to reveal this to the world yet. We don’t know what variables might occur. But one thing… I must protect this Enhancement Specialist!’
…She thought.
“Now then!”
“!”
Waking Seo Mi-do from her thoughts, Kang Hoon said.
“Let’s proceed with the +3 Enhancement!”
“…Ah, yes. Good!”
Swallowing dry saliva.
Whirring- Pook, pook, pook!
Seo Mi-do swung her mechanical arms and backed away three large steps from Kang Hoon.
However.
“…Enhancement!”
The moment Kang Hoon cast his skill, Seo Mi-do regretted it.
‘I shouldn’t have just moved back a little, I should have gotten completely out of this area…!’
And for good reason.
Craaaaaaang───!!
Along with an incomparably violent earthquake.
Whoooooosh!
The Imjin River began overflowing and rushing in!
“Aaaaah! My robots, the, construction siiiiite…!”
The land became a chaos zone from the sudden tsunami.
Regardless of that.
‘It’s hot!’
The land’s ‘body temperature’ far exceeded human standards.
The moment that lava-like heat enveloped Kang Hoon.
A scene only he could see unfolded before his eyes─
A giant hand.
Whether it was a giant, an ancient race, or some god, the being
‘comes’ toward Kang Hoon.
But it wasn’t scary or unpleasant, nor was it unfamiliar!
A hand hardened with calluses.
Thump, thump, thump.
The motion of putting strength into one foot while pumping out bellows sounds.
Huff…! Huff…!
Even the labored breathing when raising the hammer high to push forward with momentum.
Craaaaaaang──────!!
Kang Hoon was a blacksmith perfectly united with him.
────Because he was an Enhancement Specialist!
‘Alright, let’s go! This is the final strike!!’
The third time.
The moment he raised both arms high and held the heavy hammer upright.
He had the illusion that even sweat drops were being cut at the tip of his hammer.
Runner’s High.
The euphoria reached after running painfully for a long time.
When subjected to high heart rate and physical stress.
Paradoxically, the human body releases endorphins.
In the midst of tremendous pain spreading through his entire body in an instant.
Kang Hoon also felt it.
The gravity that had weighed him down since birth disappeared.
──An incredible happiness as if flying through the sky.
After enduring lava-like heat that humans couldn’t withstand.
The moment he even reached a sensation of coolness instead!
Grin.
Kang Hoon smiled!
Like an archer who instinctively knows they hit a 10 the moment they release the bowstring.
Because he already knew this ‘Enhancement’ would succeed.
The moment the fierce blacksmith’s hammer fell in a straight line.
Craaaaaaang───!!
…+3 Enhancement, success!
“Phew…!”
Instead of hastily examining the new results.
Kang Hoon rather closed his eyes and caught his breath.
– Huff!
While enjoying the gentle breeze Lucky blew to soothe his entire body.
The human named Park Kang-hoon.
Felt himself to be iron.
Wasn’t that truly the case?
The process of heating up like being heated by bellows, and gradually taking shape like being hammered.
Moreover, even the cold breath of Lucky, the spirit dog that came to him by fate, tempered him by cooling him down.
At the end of this long process, what form would he as a human be refined into?
‘….’
However, Kang Hoon couldn’t see his own ‘Information Value’.
The status window didn’t tell him everything.
But.
[Frontline Defense Terrain 012 Land Document +3]: A land document for serial number 012 near the Imjin River, the border between South Korea and North Korea. Though ghouls appear during the day and werebears at night, it has excellent defense and combat victory rates, possessing high value as property.
─He could savor the +3 Enhancement results, the welcome outcome!
“!”
The property value of the insignificant ‘land’ had skyrocketed.
The options he read next were even more tremendous.
* [All defense facility capability increase 50% for terrain 012] * [Combat power increase 5% for unit members active in terrain 012] * [Aura of Weakening]: A passive trait as spiritual energy. All hostile entities entering terrain 012 have all abilities uniformly weakened. Debuff effect 15%
All the previous increase values had risen by 66% each!
The threatening discovery of ‘unit member combat power increase’ had likewise advanced from 3% to 5%.
“…I thought it wouldn’t go up because it was too good. This might really be an overpowered option.”
That wasn’t all.
“A trait I’ve never seen before is attached! [Aura of Weakening]?!”
The trait [Homing Instinct] attached to [Park Kang-hoon’s House +5].
Or the trait [Trick Performance] placed on tank Geon Mi-na’s shield.
While the Hunter himself had to directly cast those traits.
This trait uniquely activated as a passive at all times!
In other words.
No limit on casting frequency, and no mana consumption!
…Truly a tremendous discovery!
‘This is my first time seeing an aura option. It seems to be processed as some kind of energy. Is that why it can activate constantly!’
[Aura of Weakening] alone had created an enormous gap between enemy and allied forces!
Add the other two options on top of that and it was truly.
“Invincible!”
At this level, even if ten thousand ghoul ancestors came instead of ghouls, they probably couldn’t break through?!
“It’s so good it’s suspicious…. What does it look like from a Magical Engineer’s perspective?”
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