Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 41

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Episode 41

Chapter 41. [Park Kang-hoon’s House +3]

And so,

the moment he released the breath he had been holding without realizing it.

“Huk!”

Kang Hoon came to his senses and looked down at the [Hammer of Success and Failure].

Strangely, the blunt surface of the hammer was trembling and shaking.

It seemed to be laughing.

As if the hammer was feeling emotions and rejoicing.

“…Ah. Is it because my hand is trembling?”

With some inexplicable afterglow, not just his hand but his forearm and shoulder were trembling.

“Phew!”

Sighing, Kang Hoon slowly put down the [Hammer of Success and Failure].

Then his eyes lit up as he grinned.

“Now! Let’s see, how much cooler did it become!!”

The ‘Information Value’ he looked at.

[Park Kang-hoon’s House +3]: Han River View Apartment Building 101, Unit 1802. A dream house containing the aspirations of Park Kang-hoon, who was an unpopular illustrator, and his success story as an Enhancement Specialist. It has evolved to Rare grade through enhancement. * [Additional 5% bonus to Head of Household’s job characteristics] * [15% increased fatigue recovery rate when residing] * [Homing Instinct]: The Head of Household can return home at any time.

But something’s strange.

“Huh?”

The number +2 had changed to +3.

But that was all.

The description ‘Rare grade’ and the options listed below remained unchanged.

“What? Nothing was added? The numbers are still 5%, 15%. Same as before.”

While rubbing his eyes in doubt.

Kang Hoon exclaimed “Ah” in admiration.

“Could it be…”

The overpowered trait attached to this house, [Homing Instinct].

This trait had restrictions.

“Was it once every 7 days when cast in a dungeon?”

But.

[Conditional Restriction: Once per day. When casting the trait in a dungeon, re-casting is possible after 1 day.]

It had decreased.

By a whole seventh.

To once per day!

“Oh, ohhh! Crazy! Crazy!”

Jumping up and down in place, Kang Hoon rejoiced.

If he could cast [Homing Instinct] once per day?

Even if he went to dungeons every single day, he would be safe!

Though he still didn’t know how best to use this trait.

The ways to use it seemed endless.

“I can’t stop here! I need to accumulate more failure counts. Accumulate more and go straight to +4, +5 enhancement!”

With that.

Kang Hoon reached for the inventory box he hadn’t enhanced yet.

But then, he hesitated.

“Wait. If I enhance something that’s already +2, I could accumulate failure counts faster…”

Suddenly he thought of a suitable bundle of items.

The +2 enhanced items he had made just recently in the survival-type dungeon.

Items he had created while camping there for a whole month.

Starting with the fishing net where those items were collected.

There was no more use for it.

“Let’s see.”

Fire starter, wooden harpoon, water filter.

They had been quite useful in the survival-type dungeon.

But in modern Seoul society, these items were completely useless.

Even if he went to a survival-type dungeon again.

He could just make better items.

“Good. My babies, become fertilizer for the accumulated failure count!”

With that, Kang Hoon put his hand into the fishing net bundle.

He would enhance whatever he grabbed!

What he pulled out with that mindset was none other than a wood carving made in the likeness of a spirit dog.

“…”

The ‘Spirit Dog’ that had been quietly lying down at a distance, just watching until now.

Lucky’s eyes became moist.

– Whine…

“…N-not this one! Don’t misunderstand, I’m not trying to destroy this.”

He placed the carving on the desk.

And rummaged through the fishing net again.

This time, a truly useless item [North-Pointing Wooden Stick +2] popped out for him.

“Good. I’ll make them all fail!”

After continuously challenging enhancements for quite a while without rest.

[Trait Activated! Enhancement Accumulated Failure Count: (10/10) times]

He had filled up the failure count that had dropped to 0 once again!

“Phew! Finally!”

Once again holding the [Hammer of Success and Failure] in his right hand.

Kang Hoon shouted at his ‘house’.

“Here I go! +4 enhancement!”

At the same time,

a blue status window flashed before his eyes!

【 Today’s enhancement skill casting count has been exhausted. (0/30) 】

“Gah-!!”

In his sense of futility, thud.

Kang Hoon collapsed onto the floor.

In his effort to accumulate failure counts by enhancing over and over,

he had used up all of today’s skill casting attempts.

Though 30 times was three times more than the initial 10 times.

At this moment, even that felt woefully insufficient.

“Argh, so frustrating! I need to quickly level up and increase the count…!”

It felt like he had cleared all the open chapters of an addictive game.

His heart felt empty and restless.

Separate from the frustration,

Pfft.

Kang Hoon found himself smiling without realizing it.

When was the last time he had clung to something like this, so passionately and enjoyably?

“Right, waiting is content too.”

He had plenty of time anyway.

Since this was his period of lying low.

And so, he ended the day with delivery food brought by the security guard that Cheongjeong had assigned.

The next day.

As soon as it became the second day of lying low.

He reached out from his bed upon waking and shouted.

“Summoning!”

And without even removing the sleep from his eyes, he dove into enhancing his ‘house’ from dawn!

Clang-!

Clang-!

Claang-!!

Enhancement that started from the crack of dawn.

The result was naturally a success.

Since he used the [Hammer of Success and Failure] trait, it was obvious.

“The question is how much the options changed.”

Thump, thump!

Clutching his fluttering heart, he examined the ‘information value’!

[Park Kang-hoon’s House +4]: Han River View Apartment Building 101, Unit 1802. A dream house containing the aspirations of Park Kang-hoon, who was an unpopular illustrator, and his success story as an Enhancement Specialist. It has evolved to Rare grade through enhancement. * [Additional 5% bonus to Head of Household’s occupational traits] * [15% increased fatigue recovery rate when residing] * [Homing Instinct: The Head of Household can return home at any time.]

“?”

Somehow this felt like déjà vu.

Only the number +3 had changed to +4.

Other than that, there was no different content.

Not only the description but even the options below were exactly the same, not a single word different.

But fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Kang Hoon checked the conditions of the [Homing Instinct] trait.

“Yesterday it was once per day, maybe the time limit decreased a bit?”

But what was this about?

[Conditional Restriction: None.]

…It had disappeared.

“Uh…, huh?”

The conditional restriction had completely ceased to exist.

The casting cooldown for the [Homing Instinct] trait had completely vanished!

In other words.

Dozens of times a day.

From anywhere, at any time.

He could return home!

“Crazy! This is amazing!”

After lying there in admiration for just a moment.

Kang Hoon quickly got up from the bed.

Pat pat pat!

After giving Lucky’s rear end three taps while he was still sleeping.

He rushed to the bathroom and finished washing his face in 10 seconds.

Then he holed up in his workshop.

“If the +4 enhancement options are this good, what the hell happens when I do +5 enhancement!?”

To satisfy that curiosity!

All day long,

Kang Hoon focused on enhancement until his palms cramped.

He destroyed all the unnecessary items he brought from the survival-type dungeon.

As a result of even creating one [Germanium Jade Bracelet of Vitality Enhancement +3].

On the workshop floor, 10 destroyed items.

Whoooosh…

Scattered as powder in the air.

Whirrrr-!

Fine dust that suddenly occurred inside the house.

While the air purifier spun vigorously because of it.

“Accumulated failure count… I’ve filled it all.”

Panting, wiping sweat that wasn’t flowing, Kang Hoon caught his breath.

Then he slowly picked up the [Hammer of Success and Failure] that had stayed by his side all day.

It was time to check the results of running all day without even eating.

“Ready? Hammer! Here we go!!”

As if it had become one with his palm,

Raising the hammer that felt like his own palm lines high.

“Enhancement!”

At the same time, a status window blocked his view.

【 Today’s enhancement skill casting count has been exhausted. ( 0/30 ) 】

“Squaaaawk-!!”

Screaming like a goose being slaughtered, Kang Hoon collapsed flat.

“Again, again!? Damn it! This skill casting count, I’m going to raise it no matter what!”

Making that resolution, he forced himself toward the bedroom.

Thud.

As soon as Kang Hoon threw himself onto the bed,

Pant pant!

Lucky came running over joyfully,

And flopped down next to Kang Hoon.

Kang Hoon had been holed up in the workshop all day, shouting only ‘Enhancement’.

So focused on accumulating failure stacks.

Honestly, he had even forgotten the fact that there was a spirit dog, Lucky, in the house.

Yet Lucky seemed to love his master, wagging his tail and grinning happily.

He felt unnecessarily sorry.

Kang Hoon petted Lucky’s head and said.

“Sorry. Tomorrow I’ll enhance your dog whistle too.”

– Pant pant.

“It was pretty strong even at +4 enhancement, you. I wonder what’ll happen when you reach +5.”

– Pant pant~!

Whether Lucky understood what Kang Hoon meant or not,

Lucky was busy licking Kang Hoon’s chin.

And so, as soon as the next day came.

“Summoning.”

Kang Hoon summoned the [Hammer of Success and Failure] right from his bed.

Then with his left hand, swish swish.

As soon as he wiped away his eye crust, he shouted.

“Let’s go. Home, sweet home, to +5! Enhancement!!”

And.

Even though Kang Hoon had woken from his dream, he felt as if he were still dreaming.

He was captivated by a magical delusion.

Like a panorama, like a life’s flashback he had never lived.

“!”

He seemed to see a furnace with flowing lava before his eyes.

Hissss! Hiss!

The wrought iron, no different from a hot fireball, was vivid.

Still.

Nothing more than a lump of metal that hadn’t been made into anything yet.

A lump of infinite possibilities that could become anything!

He dipped it in cold oil and pulled it out again.

Hisssss…!

The sultry air that filled the workshop.

As if stimulated just by being exposed to it.

The wrought iron let out a moan.

‘Just the right sound to hear.’

Metal that had finished preparing to be born into the world.

He placed it in front of the furnace, above the fireball.

On the anvil.

– Clang!

The wind hitting his face felt good.

– Clang!

The thrill that instantly traveled from the hammer’s tip to his shoulder made him feel alive.

– Claang!

Finally, even the intense sparks that flew up before his eyes!

“…?!”

At that light, as if dreaming.

Kang Hoon’s drowsy mind returned.

“Huh, what?! What was that just now?”

As if being dragged back to reality by his hair.

Soon.

“Th-the effect!”

Red, orange, and sunset-colored effects burst up right in front of Kang Hoon.

The evolution spark effect!

This wasn’t a hallucination, panorama, or flashback.

Han River View Apartment.

It was reality, actually existing in Kang Hoon’s house.

Pop! Paah! Pababababat!

Hot effects.

Rose up unconsciously throughout the house.

Like fireworks starting in a dark house!

“Wow!”

Unable to contain his admiration, Kang Hoon watched the effects he had created through ‘Enhancement’ as if entranced.

Even that was brief.

– Whirrrr-!

Only the sound of the air purifier running could be heard around him.

The house that had been full of flying sparks became quiet as if nothing had happened.

The blacksmith shop scenery that had unfolded before Kang Hoon’s eyes.

That strange panorama had also disappeared without a trace.

“What was that just now? Something like an effect of the [Hammer of Success and Failure].”

What the real Kang Hoon could see was,

His own ordinary arm.

The [Hammer of Success and Failure] that had grown cold again.

Lucky the spirit dog wagging its tail while looking at him.

And [Park Kang-hoon’s House] that had evolved through +5 enhancement!

“Ah. Where…! Let me see, I won’t be fooled again! Let me open the trait condition window first!”

The condition window for the [Homing Instinct] trait that he checked like that.

[Conditional Restriction: None]

But what was this.

The content of the condition window was the same as before.

“Huh?”

Half-believing, half-doubting,

Kang Hoon slowly opened the ‘Information Value’ of the house itself.

I shouldn’t be fooled again.

I shouldn’t expect too much, he thought while doing so.

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