Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 64
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Episode 64
Chapter 64. Money-Crazed Bird
Ji-seong was right.
Up to +5 Enhancement, you could guarantee success with 9 to 25 skill castings.
But after that, succeeding in going from +5 Enhancement to +6 Enhancement?
That was pure probability warfare.
‘The +6 Enhancement Guarantee Scroll I got from the last dungeon. Unless you use an item like that, the success rate is 5%. You’d have to consider it almost certain failure.’
How many spare items would be needed to prepare for destruction?
Just how many failures would it take to get a +6 Enhancement item?
With heavenly luck, once?
Following probability as it is, twenty times?
With terrible luck attached, up to ninety times?
“Hmm. I don’t know?”
Even Kang Hoon couldn’t tell.
“I should tell the client. To prepare themselves and be ready for it.”
Anyway.
Enhancing according to the commission that came in.
That was all Kang Hoon had to do.
The rest was a matter left to the client’s choice.
‘If they don’t like it, they can quit.’
Kang Hoon snorted with that attitude.
He was no longer the Kang Hoon who used to struggle even with hundred-thousand-won illustration work.
“-So, hyung. Have you narrowed down the commission candidates to accept? Should we take a look together?”
“Ah! Right.”
At Ji-seong’s question, Kang Hoon pulled out a file folder.
The commission file folder that Cheong Jeong-kwon had handed over.
When he handed it over as is, Ji-seong received it with both hands.
And immediately his eyebrows furrowed.
“Huh? Why is this so light?”
The large file folder he opened in bewilderment.
Its contents were modest, contrary to expectations.
“Uh…? Hyung. There’s only one sheet?”
“Yeah.”
Kang Hoon’s answer was simple.
“I’m only going to take that one.”
“Whaaaat!?”
“Why!?”
The customers’ reactions were quite loud.
He didn’t know how many times they were being surprised.
If it had been like his old studio apartment, the landlord grandfather upstairs would have already run down with a golf club.
‘Soundproofing is the best. Our house really is nice.’
Kang Hoon nodded his head in satisfaction.
Next to him, Seri let out a hollow laugh.
“Looking at him, I think he might be a money-crazed bird, but then again I’m not sure.”
“Money-crazed bird?”
“A bird crazed about money… Anyway, there is such a thing.”
To the siblings, Kang Hoon was an oddball through and through.
After awakening, he had earned money like crazy.
Hadn’t he become rich enough to be on the news every single day?
But now he was rejecting hundreds of commissions,
and saying he’d only accept one.
‘That’s so unexpected?’
Looking closely, the moments when Kang Hoon became happy, bright, and talkative were fixed.
When explaining enhanced items.
Or.
──The very moment of enhancing.
‘Maybe he just… likes enhancement itself.’
‘His natural aptitude itself might be suited for being an Enhancement Specialist…’
With that thought, the siblings looked over the commission.
“Oh! It’s a 100 billion won commission!”
“Phew~! As expected! You didn’t lose money!”
In a different sense, the siblings were relieved that their money-crazed bird Park Kang-hoon hadn’t ‘collapsed’.
The commission they examined like that.
The siblings’ first reaction was this.
“Did a child write this? Why is the handwriting like this?”
Of course, the handwriting was a bit distinctive.
Still, the following content seemed fairly ordinary at first glance.
“Item type is one-handed equipment, ‘Shield’. Upon commission acceptance, specific actual item will be provided. Goal is +6 Enhancement. Evolution to Epic Grade or higher desired. If evolution to Unique Grade or higher, which is higher than Epic Grade, additional success fee will be paid.”
The peculiarity was the name of the client who sent that commission.
Something that surprised the siblings even more than the cost of 100 billion.
That very name.
「Victor Chan.」
“V, i, c, t, o, r…”
Ji-seong, who was reading the English name haltingly, suddenly shouted.
“V, Victor Chan!?”
“W, wait a minute! If it’s Victor Chan… that’s ‘that Tank’!”
Victor Chan.
He was a Hunter belonging to Apex Circle, the number 1 guild in the United States and the number 1 guild in the entire world.
A legendary big shot who was the first Tank to receive S-rank.
He was also a senior that everyone looked up to.
Also.
“Victor Chan, didn’t he retire? I heard he hasn’t had any activity for several years.”
“Right. But why is a retired Hunter seeking new equipment?! And spending such a fortune…”
The identity of the client.
With just that alone, it was a commission full of mysteries.
The siblings’ gaze moved to Kang Hoon, who had chosen that commission.
“Kang Hoon. This commission… what criteria did you use to choose it?”
But Kang Hoon’s answer was unexpected.
“Because he’s a regular customer.”
“…What?”
“Victor Chan. This person is a regular customer of ‘Kang Hoon Shop’.”
“…What?”
There were many customers who purchased items from ‘Kang Hoon Shop’ through Corn Market.com.
However, there were almost no customers who purchased the same equipment, especially accessories like [Germanium Jade Bracelet of Vitality Enhancement +3] that could only be worn one per wrist, more than twice.
──Today makes it the 10th one.
Excluding Victor Chan, who purchased 10 billion won worth of items.
That’s why I had remembered the name.
I was curious about what kind of person my first loyal customer would be.
‘I had no idea it was actually that legendary figure himself.’
Aren’t there many nicknames based on Ronaldo, Messi, Faker, and such?
I thought it was just a nickname created by a customer who was a fan of ‘Victor Chan’.
“Well, this request form also has the best feeling to it.”
What I added was also true.
The ominous feeling I got from other request forms,
The complex and unpleasant mood that made me feel like the items would explode without even succeeding at +1 enhancement.
Only this request form was free from such energy.
It wasn’t just because of the Korean that Victor Chan, an American, had carefully written.
Though that sincerity did look good too.
How should I put it.
‘It felt like if I chose it, everything would work out well somehow?’
Since it was hard to seriously explain such intuition, Kang Hoon just kept his mouth shut.
The siblings just looked at him as if he were amazing.
‘That’s totally… the luxury store method, isn’t it?’
‘This is like slapping Hermes in the face, isn’t it?’
Only Kang Hoon didn’t know.
‘Regular customers’ who receive limited goods on special occasions.
That such people are called VIPs in the luxury world.
‘Kang Hoon Shop’.
No, Park Kang-hoon as a single Enhancement Specialist.
That he himself was in the process of evolving into a true luxury brand.
“You’re amazing in many ways, Kang Hoon.”
Only Kang Hoon himself didn’t know.
* * *
Two days later.
After accepting ‘Victor Chan’s’ request through Cheongjeong and waiting for a reply.
Kang Hoon was given ‘homework’.
When you say homework, there are usually certain images that come to mind.
Like the workbooks that ‘Red Pen’ or ‘Noon-naji’ teachers gave us in childhood.
Or Jon Teacher English Classroom.
However, Park Kang-hoon. Korea’s young Enhancement Specialist.
The ‘homework’ given to him far exceeded the scale of any workbook.
The ‘homework’ was extraordinary in both size and content.
‘Homework’ that came across the Pacific Ocean, loaded in a private jet sent by Apex Circle!
“Whoa…”
It was a massive rare-grade shield.
Packed so tightly that it filled the huge private jet completely.
‘How on earth did this plane manage to fly in the sky?’
…A shield so ridiculously large that such questions arose.
No wonder three sturdy staff members had to cling to just one shield.
And even then, they struggled for a long time before barely managing to start unloading one.
“C-careful!”
“Support it from below! It can’t be dragged on the ground!”
They began moving them out of the private jet one by one like that.
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes passed.
Yet the procession of shield unloading showed no signs of ending.
‘Just how many did they bring?’
With bleary eyes, Kang Hoon watched the scene.
“Greetings to Hunter Park Kang-hoon, who accepted our request. These are shields we urgently request enhancement for.”
The client. ‘Victor Chan’s’ secretary.
A green-eyed white gentleman said so.
“After our ‘Apex Circle’ gratefully reviewed the enhancement probability and risks you provided earlier. To prepare for destruction. We prepared as many items as possible.”
What kind of crazy wealthy guild is this!
‘If luck is bad and everything gets destroyed, the enhancement request might fail outright. So be prepared.’
…When I told them that.
This crazy, world’s richest guild accepted that warning.
And sent an enormous number of spare shields!
This is like slapping probability in the face with dollars.
‘Will you destroy this too? How about this? Will you destroy this too?’
It’s as if I can hear capitalism’s scolding as an auditory hallucination!
“Well then. Please take good care of this.”
The secretary with a long neck and thin build, just like a snake.
Adjusting his suit collar, he said.
“Please prepare these items by making them +5 enhancement. Once you finish the preparations, we’ll come to directly observe the +6 enhancement process.”
While his tone and attitude were polite and disciplined.
The slightly furrowed wrinkles on his forehead were subtle.
His cold gaze also seemed somewhat displeased.
“Yes, well. Sure.”
I couldn’t be intimidated by the American guild’s money-throwing.
Maintaining composure, Kang Hoon also nodded.
However.
The enormous ‘mountain of shields’ that kept piling up endlessly.
Before that, he couldn’t help but be shocked.
Even Cheong Jeong-kwon stuck out his tongue.
“Crazy… It’s not just one or two, how many are all these!?”
Finding similar items of the same grade.
Is no easy task.
There’s even a saying about this.
‘To enjoy the ‘set effects’ of equipment, you need heavenly luck.’
Then.
What about finding completely identical items of the same grade?
For Kang Hoon, who can continuously produce the same items, it’s simple and easy.
But for others, it’s only possible by relying on slim chances of coincidence.
If not that, then money.
Or solve it with power!
Whatever Apex Circle’s solution method was.
‘They’re not in their right mind.’
It truly was unrealistic power.
Special Hunter International Airport.
The enormous mountain of shields that filled that vast land.
Standing before it, Kang Hoon muttered.
“The request said it was a ‘one-handed weapon,’ but with this size, isn’t it more like a six-handed weapon?”
“…From Victor Chan’s perspective, it would be a one-handed weapon.”
An enormously piled up, gigantic and heavy homework.
Those things darkened the view before Kang Hoon’s eyes.
Both mentally and physically.
‘Why do I feel like I’ve been scammed?’
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