Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 86
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Episode 86
Chapter 86. This Is VIP Shopping!
He had gained an unexpected, wonderful benefit!
A treasure that no Hunter had ever discovered.
Even faced with such great value, Kang Hoon remained calm.
“No need to overdo it.”
Even with just 100% Guaranteed Enhancement, it would reach +3.
If luck follows, even Grade Evolution would be possible.
Then it would be an instant jackpot.
The luck gained from Alba.
And the man who could enhance that luck once more!
That was exactly Kang Hoon.
It was good that he didn’t rush from the Starting Point and spent time leisurely repairing Alba!
Being late had actually brought luck.
“After Victor Chan’s commission, quite a few item enhancement commissions have come in.”
Hunters were already lining up.
Begging him to enhance various items, just once.
Among them were criminals and unreasonable troublemakers mixed in.
Even though the Pure Guild was filtering them out to some extent─
‘The commission offers are endless.’
He was currently rejecting all of them.
In cases like coming to dungeons, he might end up using all his daily enhancement numbers.
Because he wanted to focus on building his foundation for a while.
Was it because of that decision?
──Kang Hoon’s value was rising even more!
Word had spread that he wasn’t an Enhancer who would do anything for money.
From overseas locations everywhere, people were begging the Pure Guild to connect them, just once.
Thanks to this, Cheong Jeong-kwon couldn’t escape his Tank fate.
He consistently gave this answer.
He was doing reality tanking(?) on Kang Hoon’s behalf.
If he only looked at immediate gains, coaxing and persuading Kang Hoon to do enhancements would be right.
It would be advantageous for Cheongjeong’s position too.
He could secure quite a bit of incentive.
There would be some interests to gain in the negotiation process too.
However.
‘He said he’d wait stubbornly until I’m ready again. When I said I’d level up, he was actually pleased.’
It was a move that prioritized guild member Kang Hoon’s benefit over his own.
Even though Cheongjeong had become this famous.
Cheong Jeong-kwon was foolishly single-minded in his path.
In this situation.
‘What would happen if I directly acquired items in the dungeon and finished enhancing them before putting them out?’
──There would be major upheaval in the auction market.
Good.
He had decided on the product title too.
“『Limited Enhancement Items』!”
Wasn’t it said that the end of art school tech was starting a luxury brand?
Kang Hoon had natural sense.
He often lamented that he was a talentless illustrator.
But reality was somewhat different.
Taking a mere plastic bracelet, inserting a consultation system, and pumping it up to sell at an absurd price─
Creating a label called ‘Limited Enhancement Items’ on the spot like this required more than ordinary sense.
He had the instinctive insight to understand what Hunters yearned for.
“Not bad.”
『Limited Enhancement Items』!
“From now on, I’ll sell all items I acquire and enhance in dungeons under this name.”
Thinking this way, the items looked even prettier.
“Hehe! These pretty things!”
Kang Hoon habitually spoke to the items.
“Come with daddy! I’ll make you evolve even prettier!”
As soon as he made that decision.
Swoosh!
A stone hand quickly reached in.
“?!”
– Master. They’re heavy, so I’ll take care of them.
Alba politely received and gathered the items.
“Oh, oh. I can carry this much too. Well, this is…”
Was this how it felt to have a secretary?
Even just Lucky the Spirit Dog was comfortable and fun enough.
But a humanoid golem was different.
It had two hands and could even speak.
It literally became his ‘hands and feet.’
‘Wow… This is really convenient.’
It was basic for it to carry the heavy bag of gold coins Kang Hoon had tied up.
– Master. I’ve brought a new treasure chest.
“What?”
– I told the other golems to break down all the walls, and several more secret rooms appeared.
Without even being asked, it had the sense! To smash everything!
It was sweeping up all the treasure chests inside the dungeon!
“…Ooh!”
The golems didn’t know where the hidden rooms were either.
But.
Fists were stronger than maps.
When Alba ordered them to break all walls and pillars except the load-bearing pillars, they systematically ‘demolished’ everything!
– Master. I’ve brought all the treasure chests that exist on the 1st Floor.
“Gasp, th, thank you!”
– Master. I’ve brought the gold coins from the undead’s pockets.
“…They had money too?”
– Master. This is a treasure chest hidden in the underground space.
“…What!? There was treasure in the underground space too?!”
Others said it was impossible to find.
They treated it like sour grapes, saying it didn’t exist at all, that it was a system error.
Such things were being solved with just numbers and solid fists!
Crash! Crash crash crash crash!
“Th, this… Is this okay?”
Even novice Hunter Kang Hoon knew this wasn’t a normal clearing method.
Still, what could he do?
Alba (full-time employee) was continuously bringing back something for his master!
Since things had come to this, he decided to just enjoy it.
“Right. Let’s not miss a single gold coin and collect everything!”
Following auto-hunting, now it was auto-shopping!
* * *
Last month, Seri, his colleague from Cheongjeong, had asked Kang Hoon this question.
Seri said she had never seen a more terrible penny-pincher than Kang Hoon.
She was genuinely curious about where he would spend his money.
She was so curious about Kang Hoon’s ‘goal.’
And rightfully so─
The enormous commission fee he received after enhancing Victor Chan’s shield.
150 billion won.
Kang Hoon had that fortune sitting in his bank account.
And yet he still didn’t have a car.
What was the point of a car anyway?
He could buy an airplane if he wanted.
Hadn’t he become wealthy enough to build an airport and still have money left over?
Even so, Park Kang-hoon was,
…a penny-pincher.
Compared to his wealth, he stubbornly insisted on living an absurdly ordinary life.
The Han River View Apartment.
Even that apartment, which others slightly looked down on for being old, was the biggest purchase of his life.
‘Others would say I’m crazy.’
Now he could probably buy an entire apartment building.
Yet he was satisfied with ordinary fried eggs on an ordinary morning.
The reason was simple.
───’Somehow it doesn’t appeal to me.’
That was all.
Flashy things like expensive cars, watches, and shoes.
Of course they looked good on the surface.
But he didn’t get that ‘this is it’ intuition.
The ‘sense’ that Kang Hoon possessed as an Enhancement Specialist.
That sense didn’t react.
‘There’s no tingling feeling, you know?’
Living as an Enhancement Specialist seemed to have changed his perspective on objects differently from others.
Rather than new, shiny apartments.
An apartment made by a master craftsman that was worth enhancing was much better.
His gaze had begun to see something more essential, different from the values that ordinary people emphasized.
And one more thing.
‘It feels like an opportunity for incredible flexing will come soon?’
His intuition as an Enhancement Specialist was telling him.
Not something comparable to trivial cars or luxury goods.
A future was coming where he would splurge big on something tremendously expensive to enhance.
In that sense.
Naturally, he had never even tried shopping at department stores.
…Yet this same Kang Hoon.
“Wow! Why go to department stores? This is VIP shopping!”
Twilight Ancient Ruins!
This entire field had become Kang Hoon’s department store.
Instead of luxury goods using some kind of leather, there were magic items!
Instead of snooty staff wearing white gloves, there were golems wearing stone gloves(?)!
– Master, this box is the last one.
Politely,
Click!
They even opened the box and showed him the items.
“Woooooooh!”
Kang Hoon leaned against Lucky and comfortably enjoyed his VIP shopping.
“Thanks. Here, let me….”
– There’s no need for Master to organize things personally. We’ll handle all the heavy work.
Alba and the golems quickly picked up the heavy items before Kang Hoon could lift them.
Alba thought.
Kang Hoon was really strange.
Since they were magical engineering machines, they didn’t feel anything was difficult.
That should be natural, yet his master kept trying to step forward and do everything himself.
Saying it was his job.
When they were made to do exactly those kinds of things.
After organizing everything like that.
Kang Hoon smiled awkwardly, then spoke loudly as if deliberately wanting them to hear.
“Ahhhh~! Ancient ruins really are the best for treasure items! I’ll have to come shopping again next time!”
As if playing along with Kang Hoon, Alba said.
– We’ll serve you properly next time as well.
Not only Alba, but all the golems bowed in greeting.
Every single one of them had their arms heavy with items.
While enjoying and joking around with them.
The day had passed by quickly.
“Was shopping this fun?”
It was a moment when he understood a little bit about the feelings of rich people hanging around department stores.
* * *
Day 3 of participating in the dungeon mission.
In just 3 days.
Kang Hoon had reached right in front of clearing the dungeon.
“Shall we finish this up?”
There was no more space to explore inside the dungeon.
He had swept up all the items too.
Finally, he just needed to defeat the Boss Monster and it would be over.
“I’ve destroyed… I mean, discovered an incredible number of hidden rooms up to this point. I wonder if this counts toward Achievement too?”
Hmm.
He’d find out once he cleared it.
Kang Hoon stretched widely and—
Thud, thud.
This dungeon’s Boss Room.
He stood in front of the door to the ‘Pharaoh’s Chamber’.
“Let me see. It looks exactly like the drawing in the catalog.”
A door with ornate gold decorations stuck on like barnacles.
Its appearance vaguely resembled a coffin.
“Anyway. Dungeons really stay true to their concepts.”
Opening this door would automatically awaken the Boss Monster, the ‘Pharaoh’.
It’s called a ‘Pharaoh’, but it’s actually just an undead.
The biggest and most powerful undead king among them, perhaps?
Doesn’t it look exactly like a ‘Boss Monster’s room’ at first glance?
You could recognize it even from a distance.
“Alright. Let’s take it down!”
The moment he grasped the coffin handle!
Bzzzzt…
“…Huh?!”
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