Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 50
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Episode 50
Chapter 50. Hmm,,, He Really Has Gone Crazy,,,
To the otakus of the Hunter Community.
The world’s top 10 ranked ‘Ten Star’ Hunters were essential candidates you couldn’t leave out.
Among them, the most famous Hunter.
‘Power Man’ was even more so.
[Is it Power Man hate time again?]
└ What kind of noob keeps bringing this up?
└ It’s academically proven that it’s fans of someone who got stripped of Ten Star status.
[Are you guys all newbies? One punch from Power Man would turn all your Hunters into pancakes;]
└ For real
└ I miss the Power Man from my immature days ㅠ
└ Got a noble title and became well-behaved..ㅠㅠ
└ I heard the guild policy changed
└ Well, if he kept bullying weaklings like before, it would hurt his image.
The best posts that come up every other day are all like this.
To elevate their favorite Hunter,
they don’t hesitate to put down other Hunters.
To them, ‘Hunters’ aren’t just a hobby genre.
They’re heroes who protect the world we live in,
and sometimes even great figures.
So they can’t help but be sensitive and defensive about the appearance of ‘new’ Hunters threatening Ranker positions.
Then what about
‘Park Kang-hoon’, who produces new news stories every day?
From his debut, he stirred up the community with ‘stamina’ items.
The fame he gained in an instant by saving A-rank Hunter Park Ji-sung’s life.
Not stopping there, he achieved the fastest Tutorial Dungeon clear time.
Now he’s even claimed 1st place in Defense Dungeons as an S-rank Hunter.
Speaking of that ‘Park Kang-hoon’.
[Kang-hoon Hyung please meet with my Hunter]
──He was completely outside the norm.
[Doesn’t he go to any Hunter gatherings???]
[Seriously, please just befriend my Hunter..]
[If I could just upgrade my hunter’s weapon more, entering the rankings would be totally possible ㅠㅠ]
They wanted to ‘connect’ the Enhancement Specialist Park Kang-hoon with their Hunters.
Not ‘connect’ in the sense of fighting,
but ‘connect’ in the sense of creating a meeting for friendship.
In a way, it was only natural.
Speaking of Kang Hoon, he’s the world’s only ‘Enhancement Specialist’.
If they could just form a connection with him and get their weapons enhanced?
Any Hunter would sprout wings.
So they could only suck their fingers and watch Kang Hoon’s movements.
[How did Cheongjeong Guild manage to recruit the Enhancement Specialist? They were quick]
└ Honestly, I’m jealous… So envious, seriously
Eventually, posts like this started appearing.
[The Enhancement Specialist did well going to Cheongjeong. He became S-rank and even got 1st in Defense Dungeons.]
└ Is that thanks to the guild? He would’ve done well anywhere. Especially if he’d come to a guild with our world’s top DPS Mina-chan…
└ No way, get lost~ They say the pure one with Seri-chan is better~ lol
Of course, there was still opposition in between.
[Still, if he fought Mad Scientist he’d get totally wrecked]
└ He’s only good against those below Mad Scientist level. He’s the only crafting-type Ten Star.
└ For real, no crafting-type is as strong as Mad Scientist
└ Well, Mad Scientist is a cyborg;
There’s an ordeal that must be endured whenever a ‘rookie’ emerges in the crafting Hunter world.
Being compared to the most famous and strongest Hunter among crafting-type awakeners,
‘Mad Scientist’.
Mad Scientist.
True to his nickname, he’s a mad scientist.
He did ‘craft’, but he did it to his own human body.
By modifying his flesh, he became a walking weapon himself.
Since he’s a cyborg modified beyond gender recognition, he’s naturally famous and strong.
[Pitting Park Kang-hoon against Mad Scientist? Isn’t that going too far?]
└ Stamina merchant vs Terminator
└ You’re crazy lololololololololol
└ The nickname difference is insane ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Sporadically.
‘Mad Scientist’ praise posts appearing about once per page.
Along with subtly putting down Park Kang-hoon was also natural.
But where is the Hunter Community?
It’s a community with more die-hard fans than any other site.
[Kang-hoon Hyung has really grown big]
└ Seeing Mad Scientist fans trying to keep him in check
└ For real
└ Just ignore the haters
The attempt to keep the new crafting-type rookie in check was quickly buried.
[If your Hunter doesn’t need him then get lost, my Hunter needs Park Kang-hoon!!!]
The majority of users poured out countless such cries.
Clack clack!
Typing away on the keyboard!
Hoping that Hunter Park Kang-hoon would be recruited by a ranking guild!
Hoping to become friends with the Hunter they admired!
Wishing that even a single crumb from Kang Hoon would fall to ‘their Hunter’.
Thus, Kang Hoon was always a topic of conversation, even though he was outside the ranking competitions.
As soon as word spread that he had taken first place in kills at the Defense Dungeon,
[Has the virility merchant gone crazy?]
Today, a new post suddenly appeared.
└ The virility merchant? He’s definitely gone crazy
Following the reaction asking what obvious thing he was saying,
[Didn’t he sell the virility bracelet for 26.7 billion? He’s released a huge quantity now??]
New news that would sweep through the topics was shared.
└ Hmm,,,he really has gone crazy,,,
The first comment started like that.
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While the Hunter Community was cheering over new gossip.
There was a YouTuber who would be disappointed if he was late to news related to ‘Kang Hoon Shop’.
It was the shopping YouTuber ‘Hogang No-nop’, who had achieved 1.4 million subscribers with the [Virility Enhancement Germanium Jade Bracelet +2].
Keywords that could cause misunderstandings if anyone saw them.
Following ‘virility merchant’, ‘virility bracelet’, and ‘virility’.
Just in case, he had even set up notifications for ‘eunuch’ and was waiting.
He quickly caught the new news from Kang Hoon Shop.
He was able to start his YouTube streaming broadcast.
“Hello everyone! Why am I broadcasting at this time?! Because today! Right now! New news from Kang Hoon Shop has appeared!”
As he said this, he displayed Corn Market.com on the right side of the broadcast screen.
The place his busily moving mouse headed to was.
The ‘auction’ page among others.
“Everyone, can you see this!? On Corn Market, there are actually! Those, Virility Enhancement Germanium Jade Bracelets! Plus three. Plus three is clearly written here! Not just one of these items, not just two, but a whopping twenty-four!! Twenty-four have been released!!”
As he said this,
Click click!
He busily scrolled the mouse up and down.
While the screen was definitely moving busily.
All the product photos were the same.
As if there was lag.
The one and only [Virility Enhancement Germanium Jade Bracelet +3] that had been released at auction.
It had been sold for the enormous sum of 26.7 billion.
It had even become a topic on the 8 o’clock news.
Twenty-six of such precious items had suddenly been released.
Was it uploaded by mistake,
Was there a bug when pressing the ‘register’ button,
Or was it duplicated from refreshing too many times.
It was such a large quantity that it raised suspicions.
“Right now, from page 1 to page 2 of the auction category, it’s all [Virility Enhancement Germanium Jade Bracelet +3]. What on earth is happening?!”
For a shopping YouTuber, ‘Kang Hoon Shop’ was no different from a cheat key for raising view counts.
As expected, even though it was a broadcast started in broad daylight, the viewer count was rapidly increasing.
[No-nop, your internet seems broken]
[Just a bug?]
[Duplicate?]
Reactions that couldn’t believe these were actual listings.
Hogang No-nop began checking each item one by one.
“Of course, the product names and starting auction prices are all the same. The photos too. The problem is the options.”
As he checked each option individually.
The values and contents were all different.
“-Which means! They’re all real! Individual items!!”
The chat window immediately heated up.
As if responding to this, Hunter Community users also began speculating.
True to being Hunter otakus, their analysis was quite specific and plausible.
[Didn’t the virility merchant get 1st place in this Defense Dungeon? I heard his kill count caught on Harullara’s live stream was over a thousand.]
└ Whether he leveled up or got rewards from that, he must have gained a lot
└ So?? Now he can infinitely produce +3 enhanced items?????
└ Seems like it?
Soon research began on how much it would cost to get +3 enhancement with scrolls.
What was certain was.
The conclusion that the price would definitely not be 26.7 billion.
[Whoever bought the +3 enhancement for 26.7 billion must have lost money.]
└ But his virility increased by +3, right? Cheers.
└ Who is this whoever?
└ Rumor is it’s an American tycoon. One who runs an Awakener Prison.
└ Hey, if you say stuff like this, you’ll get banned without anyone knowing?
└ Not saying stuff like this, someone got rich without anyone knowing?
Already among community users, through word of mouth,
There was a famous person known for ‘this person bought that bracelet’.
[Even buying early doesn’t seem like a loss]
A post that went up as if it had been waiting.
It contained two before and after photos of a man.
The ‘before’ was a paparazzi photo of a shiny bald man walking down the street with a scary face.
The ‘after’ was also a paparazzi shot.
But everything else was different.
This time, the man was smiling with his arm linked with a beautiful model.
With hair that had become incredibly thick and lush.
└ For real lol
└ The hair loss relief option is still unique though.
└ Agreed
└ Agreed
‘Vitality Merchant’.
Just when all kinds of communities were buzzing noisily with stories about Kang Hoon.
That’s when it happened.
[Vitality Merchant is streaming!!!!!!!]
A new post that no one had expected was published.
Comments expressing shock at that post lined up one after another.
First came reactions of disbelief, calling it ‘bullshit’,
Followed by suspicions asking ‘isn’t this an imposter?’
It was natural suspicion.
The public perception of Hunter streamers, or ‘Huntreamers’, was at the level of ‘dungeon cockroaches’.
[What would an Enhancement Specialist lack that they’d switch careers to become a ‘Huntreamer’?]
The skeptical reactions came from the majority of users who only knew Kang Hoon as the ‘Vitality Merchant’.
On the other hand, a very small number of people – perhaps just one fan who had been watching ‘Kang Hoon’ from before said something different.
[No way he’s some Huntreamer scrub. It’s not that, it’s an art stream. Enhancement Specialist Park Kang-hoon is a former illustrator. He used to do art streams originally. Shows Spirit Dog photos and draws pictures too. But he won’t draw furry stuff. He’s super handsome so come check it out.]
Below that, a single line of link was casually dropped in blue.
* * *
Meanwhile.
The most sturdy and safe space among the Han River View apartments.
Kang Hoon’s house was truly an impregnable fortress.
The murmuring of the Hunter Community,
Hogang No-nop’s passionate promotion,
Even Huntreamer ‘Harullara’s desperate broadcast trying to get a piece of the action.
None of it could cross the window frames of [Park Kang-hoon’s House +5].
Kang Hoon simply made ‘products’ according to his given routine.
Until he exhausted all his enhancement attempts,
[Germanium Jade Bracelet of Vitality Enhancement +3].
If there was anything unusual, it was that the number of enhancement attempts was 74.
74 divided by 3 is?
24.66666….
Thus, twenty-four [Germanium Jade Bracelet of Vitality Enhancement +3] were crafted today alone.
“There are too many now? How much should I list all these for….”
After pondering deeply for just a moment.
Kang Hoon decided to leave the pricing to others.
“Let’s just put them all up for auction. Then people will buy them on their own.”
As Kang Hoon Shop says.
Don’t postpone today’s product sales until tomorrow.
Doesn’t a journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step?
The sales of ‘Kang Hoon Shop’ begin with a single click.
───Click!
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