Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 99

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Episode 99

 

Chapter 99. Epic Money-Wasting Broadcast LOL

 

Setting up stream~!^^

 

Five characters floating around – the broadcast was still on the waiting screen.

 

However,

 

[Not working? Salary thieves raise your hands~]

 

[Hand]

 

[Hand]

 

[Sigh.. my salary’s too low to be a thief, more like a salary pickpocket.]

 

Luxury item unveilings are always more popular the more expensive they are.

 

How many times in your life do you get to watch someone burn through 200 billion?

 

And there’s a Hunter who’s going to do all that money-burning right in front of us… no, ‘for’ us?

 

The chat window was already bustling with viewers gathered in anticipation.

 

[Lucky is so cute~]

 

There were also those who came to see Lucky’s photos that Kang Hoon had set on the waiting screen, cycling every 5 seconds.

 

Compared to the usual 1,000 or so viewers who gathered during waiting screens.

 

[Already broke 6000?? This is insane..]

 

The other 5,000 people had rushed over after seeing the broadcast title.

 

Even heavy viewers who were masters of various aggro couldn’t resist.

Using. Universal Skill Books. Worth 200 billion.

…they couldn’t pass this up.

 

After rubbing their eyes at the incredible amount of ‘200 billion’, they saw the channel name ‘Kang Hoon’s Drawing Broadcast’ and jumped in.

 

[When does the broadcast start]

 

[I’m getting dizzy ㅠㅠ]

 

[Ordered chicken in a hurry lol]

 

[Don’t tell me the vitality merchant.. isn’t going to just do a drawing broadcast after all this?]

 

[Watch the 9-hour drawing broadcast and we’ll show you the skill books~~]

 

[Are you guys being held hostage]

 

Following viewers murmuring about the unfamiliar content and doubting Kang Hoon.

 

Chats from those genuinely worried about him followed.

 

[But won’t this expose the Enhancer’s capabilities? Is it okay to show what skills he’s learning?]

 

[Right.. I heard most Hunters hide at least 20% of their abilities..]

 

Then!

 

Hunter Community veterans rushed in as if they’d been waiting!

 

[That’s why they never show enhancement skills]

 

[It’s not job-exclusive skills, Universal Skill Books are fine]

 

[For S-rank Hunters, just one leaked video of their next dungeon run and experts will piece together what universal skills they learned and what changed]

 

[It’s just universal skills, no big deal]

 

[? Just universal skills = 200 billion lololol]

 

The veterans were right.

 

In the digital age, having universal skills isn’t really related to security.

 

Having universal skills isn’t really related to security.

 

Just in Korea alone, you can look up the universal skills learned by top 1-100 ranked Hunters on internet wikis.

 

And for lower-ranked Hunters with some fans, everything’s organized and posted online.

 

[Finally something will be written on the vitality merchant wiki]

 

Cheong Jeong-kwon’s ignorant iron-wall defense was good and all.

 

But wasn’t Kang Hoon becoming too much of a mystery!

 

Hunter fandoms are similar to sports fandoms in some ways.

 

The more aggressive the position, the easier it is to gain fans.

 

The stronger they are, the bigger the fandom grows!

 

What about Park Kang-hoon?

 

Everyone says his growth rate is insane.

 

But he’s a newbie who awakened not long ago, so he wouldn’t be on the level of other top Rankers.

 

Plus, being in the crafting field makes it hard to build a fandom.

 

Even so, he was already starting to gain quite a few fans.

 

And from their perspective, they wanted some material.

 

Material to brag that my Hunter is this strong! This amazing!

 

[Never thought that material would be a 200 billion universal skills money-burning flex…]

 

Even Park Kang-hoon fans were starting to sense something strange.

 

That this Hunter they were supporting was somehow? Very? Weird…, no, no, special(?)!

 

* * *

 

Meanwhile,

 

While the Hunter otakus were whispering among themselves.

 

‘I thought the viewer count got pretty high… but drawing broadcasts really are niche after all.’

 

Kang Hoon was dejected for reasons others wouldn’t understand.

 

The reason was that today’s streaming viewer count was too high.

 

“During drawing broadcasts, about 2,000 people watched. But when I show Lucky, it suddenly jumps to 4,000.”

 

Is my drawing skill still no match for Lucky and 200 billion?

 

“…”

 

Of course it wasn’t.

 

People decided to call such viewers ‘normal people.’

 

Anyone who prefers watching someone else draw over cute dogs and 200 billion flexing is crazy.

 

But.

 

Spending a full two hours just to fix a single line – that’s the profession of an illustrator.

 

There’s no one sane among those who choose that as a profession.

 

Kang Hoon grumbled like that while glaring at the real-time viewer count.

 

“Huh, I haven’t even done anything yet, and 10,000 people are coming in?”

 

This was his own broadcast, but no one would know why he was glaring at it like he was looking at a competitor.

 

Soon enough.

 

As Kang Hoon’s voice echoed through the microphone, the chat window instantly exploded.

 

[Finally]

 

[Is the broadcast starting!!111!!]

 

[V i t a l i t y M e r c h a n t]

 

…countless viewers chanting that.

 

Some used basic emoticons waving cheering sticks.

 

Others persistently spammed scout offers in foreign translator-style speech, only to get cursed at. (They always made their offers in dollars too.)

 

And some just poured out whatever they wanted to say.

 

[Wow this is my first time watching this live~~~~~~~! Please say happy birthday Jae-young just once!]

 

[Haha happy birthday Jaeyoung^^ *kiss*~~]

 

[That’s my dad’s name,,]

 

[Happy birthday Father Jae-young, may you be happy, you have a wonderful son]

 

[Tallulah is crazy lololololololol]

 

With more viewers than expected, Kang Hoon stuttered a bit.

 

His nature just couldn’t become an attention seeker.

 

“Please wait a moment. I’m almost done setting up the streaming.”

 

Even while saying that, the numbers kept steadily rising.

 

11,000 people.

 

12,000 people.

 

13,000 people.

 

It was growing rapidly in thousands.

 

The viewers seemed amazed by the crowd too, making the chat window hard to read.

 

[Heard rumors you’re not drawing and came here]

 

[Look at how fast they’re swarming in lolololololol]

 

[30 Harullara in just 5 minutes after turning on broadcast]

 

[Filling up that 20th mining shaft lol]

 

Not only the comparison saying it was 30 times the viewer count of the aggro-pulling Huntreamer ‘Harullara’ he met in the dungeon.

 

‘Still, Hogang No-nop is still reviewing my items though…’

 

Shaking his head side to side, Kang Hoon warned them.

 

“Comparing with other people isn’t allowed. They might feel bad about it.”

 

[?]

 

[No bro]

 

[You’d have to be in the same weight class to feel bad,,]

 

[They’re reacting to your broadcast right now though?]

 

…The streamer world was ruthless.

 

Feel bad about a live broadcast burning 200 billion?

 

No.

 

They were busy sucking up the ‘sweet juice’ that dripped down from live streaming themselves watching that broadcast!

 

“…I’m glad if it’s okay then.”

 

At this moment… both Hogang No-nop and Harullara were happy.

 

Hadn’t Kang Hoon just mentioned them?

 

That alone was pouring sweet juice into their channels too.

 

The vivid expression reactions they just made in surprise at Kang Hoon’s words were planned to be cut into shorts and spread around.

 

This was probably an unknown world to Kang Hoon, the mad illustrator who sat drawing a single chicken wing for 6 hours.

 

Anyway.

 

Kang Hoon turned ON the ‘First-Person View Sharing’ of his Streaming Skill.

 

“Can you see well?”

 

For the first time during broadcast, he revealed his workshop.

 

[Wow]

 

[Wowwwwww]

 

[Damn this room is so nice]

 

[How can you not compare this????]

 

[Vitality Merchant lives modestly]

 

[Pretty modest compared to what he makes ㅋㅋ]

 

Seeing the flood of admiring reactions, he felt genuinely moved inside.

 

‘Not too long ago, my studio apartment room was my workshop.’

 

As Kang Hoon remained silent for a moment.

 

If ordinary people had a patience stat, it would approach zero.

 

The viewers’ complaints began to explode.

 

[Hurry up and talk]

 

[Lagging?]

 

[You said you’d review skill books]

 

Of course, there were many chats treating such people as ‘newbies’ and showing territorial behavior.

 

[? Park Kang-hoon talks fucking a lot by his standards]

 

[That’s like 3 days worth of talking for him]

 

[First time watching Vitality Merchant’s broadcast?;]

 

[lololol after drawing for 3 hours straight, you gotta hit them with a random “it’s easy, right?” to snap them back to reality]

 

[Kang Hoon bro! Show your true power! Turn Photoshop back on!]

 

[That person could actually kill for real so please calm down]

 

With too many people, just looking at the chat window started to hurt his eyes.

 

There were even fights breaking out, making the text impossible to read properly.

 

“Then I’ll start right away. This is a Universal Skill Book review.”

 

Only called ‘universal’ in name, but actually an item that not everyone could have.

 

Anyone could learn the same skill when consumed, but the opportunity wasn’t given to everyone.

 

Rustle rustle.

 

Dirty and worn-out items poured out of the shabby eco bag and scattered across the desk.

 

“Nine books total, worth 200 billion.”

 

Immediately.

 

[?]

 

[?]

 

[?]

 

A symphony of hooks that lined up the noisy chat window in a row.

 

And then.

 

[How can you not compare when he’s doing this?]

 

[No, why is he carrying 200 billion in a free Remart eco bag?]

 

[~~~~~~~~!!!!!!]

 

The chat window began to explode.

 

Regardless, Kang Hoon calmly selected the first batter.

 

“I’ll open this one first.”

 

The Universal Skill Book he unfolded had a dark brown leather cover.

 

An eye drawing was deeply carved in the center, as if branded with a hot iron.

 

Its appearance looked like an ancient tome made by a witch from a horror story─

 

But the ‘Information Value’ he briefly examined was simply beneficial.

[Universal Skill Book: Perception]: Upon consumption, Perception stat increases by 2x. As a passive skill, it is always active, and its effect is lost upon the Hunter’s death or blindness.

Kang Hoon relayed exactly what he could see.

 

“It’s a skill that increases Perception.”

 

The viewers’ reaction was cold.

 

As if they hadn’t expected such a trivial thing.

 

[What the hell]

 

[Why would you pay money for that crap?]

 

[What even is Perception]

 

[Epic money-wasting broadcast lol]

 

‘Right.’

 

When first obtaining this Universal Skill Book from a dungeon reward box, any Hunter would have thought the same.

 

‘Of all things, a useless skill came out. I should sell it.’

 

…like that.

 

However.

 

That Hunter wasn’t an ‘Enhancement Specialist,’ was he?

 

To Kang Hoon, it felt like an extremely useful skill.

 

‘My intuitive eye is already pretty good, but if Perception itself increases as a passive skill?’

 

────Moreover, it says ‘double.’

 

Not 1.2x or 1.3x, but simply ‘double.’

 

‘Perception’ that others, even viewers, dismiss.

 

‘Right. Compared to attack power or magic power, it does feel somewhat modest, doesn’t it?’

 

However,

 

It’s different when it falls into Kang Hoon’s hands.

 

Since Kang Hoon already has higher Perception than others,

 

From now on, there would be nothing he couldn’t discern.

 

No matter how cleverly crafted something might be.

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