Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 60
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Episode 60
Chapter 60. Burrrp~~~
News of new records being set almost daily.
With the latest breaking news, internet communities were in an uproar.
A place where even major news gets cold after three days.
That’s exactly what the internet world is like.
Cheongjeong’s shortest record renewal.
Just when the news about Park Kang-hoon, the main contributor to that achievement, was finally starting to cool down.
New fuel was poured onto those embers.
And quite generously at that!
Large-scale special dungeon.
The ‘Guild War’ itself was an official project promoted by the government.
So official documents naturally existed as well.
The peculiar point was that these documents were supposed to be made available online for public viewing as a matter of principle.
As soon as the weekend passed and Monday arrived, the Hunter Center civil servant did what they had to do.
“Ugh, I don’t want to work.”
Suffering from Monday blues, they moved the mouse cursor to the ‘Register’ button.
Click!
And so the official document was opened on the internet.
Unexpectedly, the aftermath led to quite a large fire.
[What is this Hunter Center report??? The items worn in Cheongjeong this time. Except for one type, they’re all enhanced magic items?]
└ What does that mean? Wasn’t all the set equipment enhanced by the Vitality Merchant?
└ So you’re saying the Vitality Merchant enhanced magic items?
└ What’s wrong with your keyboard?
└ Got excited and made typos, sorry
Information about the Vitality Merchant, Park Kang-hoon, was all public except for classified details.
This meant that every new piece of news was quickly spread through the Forum Addicts in hunter communities.
As far as those Forum Addicts knew, Kang Hoon could only enhance ‘ordinary objects.’
‘Germanium Jade Bracelet,’ ‘Yamyeong 909,’ ‘Dog Whistle,’ etc.
He merely evolved ordinary objects into items.
[Didn’t they say he couldn’t enhance magic items?]
But the official government document said something different.
That Park Kang-hoon had become able to enhance existing magic items as well.
It was news that greatly expanded his scope of activity as an Enhancement Specialist.
[Hey, damn, that’s not even all? Normal grade became Epic? Is this for real?]
└ What the hell
└ The official document says so, what do you mean what the hell; you don’t know anything;
└ If it didn’t have the Hunter Center verification mark, I wouldn’t have believed it either
[What’s the point of using enhancement scrolls?]
└ Just need to go through Kang-hoon Hyung’s hands once
[Hey… no matter how you look at it, this enhancement… isn’t this an insanely overpowered skill?]
Truly a hot potato.
A fish on the cutting board.
Being an unprecedented new ability,
the discussion didn’t stay confined to just Korean communities.
It spread throughout the entire world, beginning to heat up various communities.
China, Weibo.
[Hunter Park Kang-hoon must actually be of Chinese descent. His ancestors are Chinese. We should recognize him as Chinese! One China!]
[Since blacksmithing and craftsmanship originated in China, Park Kang-hoon can also be considered Chinese.]
[We shouldn’t call him Park Kang-hoon. Let’s call him Pichang Xun.]
[He is the reincarnation of Gongyejo. Definitely Noban. Pichang Xun. We should call him Gongyejo.]
Making such claims half-jokingly, half-seriously.
While Chinese Netizens were actively spreading their tales,
Japan, 22ch.
[Eh? Enhancing magic items with human hands? That’s gotta be Korean manipulation wwwww]
[Korean news is different from Japanese news. It lacks credibility, you know?]
[Why would such an amazing ability only exist in Korea? There’s no reason for that, right? (lol)]
[As expected ~ fake news heaven Korea, I guess ~]
[Japanese Hunters being the best is something the whole world knows!!!]
Blinded by jealousy,
there were also some users chanting the mantra of ‘it can’t be true.’
The land of LTE.
Quick-footed Korean Netizens wouldn’t just leave overseas communities alone.
They scraped up the best posts that showed particularly strong reactions,
translated them nicely into Korean, and posted them again on Korean hunter communities.
The so-called ‘best post’ recycling.
And then they started patting their bellies.
[Burrrp~~~]
And began posting such comments.
[The country that has Park Kang-hoon is so full~!]
[Burrrp~!]
While being busy mocking each other.
* * *
While the internet world was peaceful as always,
there were those busy living in reality.
“Find a way to contact Hunter Park Kang-hoon. We must bring him to Japan by any means necessary!”
It was precisely the International Hunter Scouts market.
The problem was.
“We must bring him to the United States by any means necessary.”
“We must bring him to the United Kingdom by any means necessary.”
“We must bring him to China by any means necessary.”
It seemed there wasn’t just one or two countries saying this.
* * *
Something strange happened to Kang Hoon’s bank account, which had always been well-stocked.
It wasn’t that the money that was there had disappeared, or that money that should have come didn’t arrive.
That wasn’t the problem.
Rather, money that shouldn’t have been there had appeared.
“Huh? What’s this? Streaming settlement?”
As far as Kang Hoon remembered, the sponsorship money he received through streaming broadcasts was 0 won.
The ‘minimum sponsorship amount’ he had set on his channel was the cause.
From the beginning, Kang Hoon’s motto was to quietly do only drawing broadcasts.
He refused any interference like asking him to do enhancements or show Lucky.
He had hoped that no one would disturb his drawing with sponsorship notifications.
So the minimum sponsorship amount he had set.
10 million won.
‘It was basically telling people not to sponsor me.’
In fact, no sponsorships had come in during live streaming.
“But what’s this?”
Kang Hoon’s main bank, the ‘Yetda Bank’ app.
There were unfamiliar characters prominently displayed in the deposit history.
[(Deposit) Streaming Settlement
1,350,000,000 won]
No matter how often he looked at it, he couldn’t get used to the number of zeros.
“One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand…”
Pointing at the zeros with his fingertip, Kang Hoon slowly counted the amount that had come in.
“…1.35 billion won?”
Then he scratched the back of his head vigorously.
“Is this a bug?”
Money was nice, but if it was money deposited due to an error, it seemed right to return it.
Even for the sake of his future drawing broadcast life.
It would be right to properly handle any incorrectly deposited transactions.
Getting up reluctantly from his seat, Kang Hoon turned on his workshop computer.
“What kind of mistake did YouTube make?”
He had heard that Hunter streaming broadcasts had unusual settlement standards.
Hunters were beings that drew tremendous attention just by existing.
They would give subscription benefits and make efforts to keep them on the site.
Or pay settlement amounts very quickly every 3 days.
Even so, there was no way they would create money out of thin air to give.
“Ah. Do I have to write the inquiry email in English? That’s annoying…”
He sighed deeply in his annoyed mood.
‘There’s no way there would be crazy people who would deposit 10 million won just to send a few words to a channel that’s not even live broadcasting.’
So naturally convinced it must be a mistake, the moment he logged into his drawing broadcast channel ‘Kang Hoon’.
Kang Hoon witnessed it.
A festival of crazy people who deposited 10 million won just to send a few words to a channel that wasn’t even live broadcasting.
[‘Kang Hoon’ Channel Sponsorship History]
[Day before yesterday: 750,000,000 won]
[Yesterday: 850,000,000 won]
[Today: 1,100,000,000 won]
[Total: 2,700,000,000 won]
1.35 billion won.
That amount was definitely not a bug.
Moreover, it was the amount after deducting the 50% site commission from the total sponsorship amount of 2.7 billion won.
“…What? What is this?”
There were a total of 54 sponsorship messages lined up.
21 sponsors.
Sponsors from different countries who had sent anywhere from one to as many as nine sponsorship messages each.
Their opening greetings were all identical.
[Greetings, Hunter Park Kang-hoon. We would like to scout you to our country.]
The United States, which had previously made scout offers to Kang Hoon with ‘naturalization’ as a condition, was just the beginning.
Japan, China, United Kingdom, Russia.
And extending to numerous countries whose locations Kang Hoon didn’t even know.
Having paid 10 million won just to send a single message, the ‘recruitment conditions’ they were offering were also tremendous.
Amidst the festival of countless checks that left his mouth agape.
“Ah! Damn it!”
Kang Hoon screamed.
“The commission they took is such a waste! They took away 1.35 billion! Aaaahhh!!”
For a reason no one else could have thought of.
* * *
These days, whenever you turn on the television, the news is noisy.
S-rank Enhancement Specialist.
News about Kang Hoon was constantly being rebroadcast.
Round table discussions with Economic Experts and Crafting Professors sitting around.
Kang Hoon had easily adapted to such things.
Because to Kang Hoon, television was nothing more than a big monitor.
He had simply bought it to watch Netflix on a larger screen.
He occasionally watched new seasons of anime, but rarely watched the news.
But now it had gone beyond the level of Korean news making a fuss.
Overnight, Kang Hoon had become a worldwide celebrity.
A festival of love calls being sent frantically not only from Korea but also from Overseas Guilds like bamboo shoots after rain.
At the guild level, Cheongjeong was serving as a barrier.
Still, there were many who somehow found a way to contact Kang Hoon.
“Is this when you use the expression ‘flabbergasted’?”
As a result.
Unearned income that had rushed into his bank account.
“Heh heh heh….”
Looking at the 1.35 billion won, Kang Hoon chuckled softly.
“Well, it’s not strange that recruitment attempts are coming.”
Two A-rank Hunters, two B-rank Hunters.
This was Cheongjeong’s guild war team, composed of a total of four people.
On the other hand, what about the other team that entered the guild war Gate simultaneously?
More precisely, the team that entered 10 minutes earlier than Cheongjeong.
The top-ranked guild, [Taecho].
‘A guild composed of elite Hunters with high pride, right?’
Their dungeon conquest team was the most spectacular.
A duo that truly showed the best coordination.
An S-rank Tank and S-rank Supporter worked together.
What about the 2nd-ranked guild, [Seorabeol]?
An S-rank ranged Dealer with genius-level aim was the team leader.
‘Before awakening, he was famous as an Olympic shooting gold medalist. I remember watching him on TV.’
The 3rd-ranked guild, [Paryeondan].
‘These guys are especially troublesome.’
…’Paryeondan’ itself was essentially an illegal mercenary group to begin with!
An S-rank close-combat Dealer wielding a giant axe was their leader.
For the reason ‘I don’t like taking orders from others,’ he rejected [Taecho]’s scout offer and created his own guild.
Four S-rank Hunters split across these three guilds.
They could be considered Korea’s representatives.
Because there were only those four.
Only four S-rank Hunters currently active.
But Cheongjeong defeated those great teams.
Simply because they wore equipment provided by the newly emerged S-rank Enhancement Specialist, Kang Hoon.
Moreover, their speed was overwhelming.
There wasn’t even room for any controversy.
This was despite being assigned a more difficult dungeon.
Such a goddess of victory-!
…No, the god of victory was none other than Park Kang-hoon. Himself.
‘Obtaining Enhancement Specialist Park Kang-hoon means gaining power.’
It was as if they had announced this to the entire world.
War, influence, pride!
As if holding a megaphone to the ears of overseas guilds blinded by their respective reasons, very loudly indeed.
However.
“Why are they treating me so well…?”
Kang Hoon himself felt puzzled.
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