I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 12
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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 012
Achievement Sniping (2)
The Player Headquarters exclusive training ground is located in Yongsan National Park.
It was originally where the US forces in Korea were stationed, and headquarters bought and utilized part of that area.
“Phew.”
Evening with the sunset.
Looking at the yellow sunlight, Park Chang-seok let out an excited sigh.
In front of him.
“Councilman.”
“Why the sudden assembly at quitting time?”
“I’m here!”
Several players came to greet him.
Ten people in total.
All were players affiliated with headquarters, people who quite trusted and followed Park Chang-seok.
People who wouldn’t leak strategies anywhere even if told.
Park Chang-seok smiled slightly.
“I called you all because there’s something I want to experiment with.”
Tuesday hasn’t passed yet.
He hastily assembled them because if he hesitated, he might have to wait a whole week.
“An experiment?”
“What kind of experiment?”
“…Oh, that sounds quite exciting?”
If another councilman had assembled them, they would have grumbled with sullen expressions.
But Park Chang-seok was different.
Unless it was something quite important, he wouldn’t assemble them like this.
Everyone looked at Park Chang-seok with expectant expressions.
“Do you know about the recent record broken in the Tuesday Dungeon (Low)?”
“Ah, that.”
“Yes, I saw it.”
“Was it Baek Jin-woo?”
“Didn’t a notice go up? Telling people not to chatter about it. What’s that about? He wasn’t even a ranker.”
As expected of true players sensitive to information.
Even though it happened today, they know all the details like that.
This makes it worthwhile to share the strategy.
“I obtained that strategy method from overseas. I experimented with a player named Baek Jin-woo who registered this time, and we achieved quite meaningful results.”
This was a promise with Baek Jin-woo.
Never say that the information came from his mouth.
“Is, is that really true?”
“So that’s why you earnestly asked us not to spread it around!”
“Where exactly did you purchase such information?”
The players began to get excited.
Why would he have called them here!
Wasn’t it to tell them that strategy?
‘Jackpot.’
‘Park Chang-seok is reliable as always!’
‘He never assembles us for trivial matters.’
Looking at the players with sparkling eyes, Park Chang-seok slowly began to speak.
Among B-grade summoned creatures, there’s one called ‘Spotted Komodo’.
It’s an adult male-sized lizard, a typical damage-tank summoned creature that’s sturdy while also dealing damage.
However.
As befitting B-grade, it’s not easy to raise, and compared to other B-grades, both its damage and tanking are ambiguously lacking, so it wasn’t used much.
Like a white elephant?
For a mob that comes out with a 1% chance from advanced summoning scrolls, its cost-effectiveness was quite poor.
So it was being discarded, until Jenos, one of the Five Emperors, found a use for it.
[Jenos : You know what that guy’s staple food is?]
[Jenos : Giant slimes. He goes crazy when he sees them. You should see how voraciously he devours those big things.]
The important point here is.
He only goes crazy for giant slimes, not just regular slimes!
Jenos, who came up with a good idea, tried releasing the Spotted Komodo from the very beginning of the Tuesday Dungeon.
Then.
The Spotted Komodo crawling through the maze at tremendous speed!
It found all the paths on its own and tore apart the giant slimes, gulping them down.
[Jenos : Amazing!]
[Jenos : I can just run this on repeat, right?]
[Jenos : No need to control it. Just enter, go smoke a cigarette, and it’s cleared when I come back lol]
It was probably around the 5th year?
The Komodo hunting method was all the rage thanks to Jenos’s information.
Of course, very few people knew this information.
It was only the Thousand Five Emperors and people close to them.
As for Baek Jin-woo.
Even back then, he had memorized all the maze patterns, so he didn’t really use it.
Anyway.
Baek Jin-woo shared that information with Park Chang-seok.
Park Chang-seok told those players exactly as he heard it.
“…What’s that about?”
“Just…if you release the Spotted Komodo, it clears everything on its own?”
“That’s too simple. Are you sure?”
Park Chang-seok had procured one Spotted Komodo available in the Marketplace at quite an expensive price.
Now they could take turns using it to do achievement sniping.
“We’ll move to the dungeon now, but you need to control precisely. The current clear time is exactly 5 minutes 32 seconds, so you need to cut it to 5 minutes 31 seconds. If you go over, just try again.”
“Ah, understood.”
Gulp.
The players who swallowed their saliva nodded.
[Tuesday Dungeon (Low)]
[Domestic Record 1st Place – Park Chun-sik]
[Clear Time – 00:05:31]
“It, it’s real!”
Player Park Chun-sik, who came out of the dungeon with a flushed expression, was convulsing.
“This is a revolution, a revolution!”
His whole body was trembling.
“About 3 minutes 30 seconds? It already arrived at the boss room and was trying to eat the slime, so stopping it from doing that was a bit troublesome, but it’s really easy. I didn’t do anything!”
[Tuesday Dungeon (Low)]
[Domestic Record 1st Place – Lee Dong-myeong]
[Clear Time – 00:05:29]
“Aaah! Sorry. I should have only cut it by 1 second, but I accidentally…cut it by 2 seconds. This damn Komodo! Its gluttony is incredible! It’s like a Bichon Frise with food in front of it.”
One by one.
Players breaking records.
[Tuesday Dungeon (Middle)]
[Domestic Record 1st Place – Park Chun-sik]
[Clear Time – 00:08:30]
“Wow, this just cuts through intermediate level in 3 minutes? I deliberately only shaved off 1 second from the original record.”
“Nice, now we don’t have to worry about grinding materials!”
“If we match Komodo with speed runes, couldn’t we even challenge the world record?”
It was truly a festival.
An Achievement festival.
They gathered players who hadn’t received Achievements yet and lent them the Spotted Komodo.
Then they cleared Achievements and shared the rewards that came out.
Headquarters gets 2 advanced summoning scrolls, players get 1 advanced summoning scroll.
Even with just that arrangement, volunteers were overflowing.
‘Crazy.’
At that moment.
The most excited person was none other than Park Chang-seok.
Was he happy just because they cleared Achievements?
That was part of it, but more importantly, it was because of Baek Jin-woo.
‘Baek Jin-woo is South Korea’s hope.’
This made it certain.
A simple first-year gamer?
No.
He definitely has value beyond that.
Clench.
Park Chang-seok’s fist tightened with strength.
‘This won’t do.’
He took a deep breath and calmed his excitement.
‘I’ll create a team dedicated to Baek Jin-woo.’
As mentioned before, there’s only one thing to prevent.
‘Naturalization!’
He had to tie him to South Korea by any means necessary.
If they did that, couldn’t South Korea also follow in the footsteps of the 5 great summoning powers?
First.
“Secretary.”
Park Chang-seok made a phone call and gave orders.
– Yes, Councilman.
“What I mentioned earlier. Proceed with it immediately.”
– 150 million won and 10,000 low-grade summoning scrolls, correct?
“That’s right.”
Baek Jin-woo had kept his promise.
Now it was his turn to keep his promise.
[Account Details]
[Account Holder: Baek Jin-woo]
[Premium Account]
[Available Withdrawal Amount: 167,004,500 won]
“Wow.”
9 million won from selling 3 advanced summoning scrolls, plus 5 million won in prize money, and 150 million won on top of that.
“Was making money this easy?”
He felt a slight reality check about his past life.
It felt like the value of labor income had become infinitely lighter.
Moreover.
[Summoning Scroll Inventory]
1. Low-grade Summoning Scroll x 10,000
A staff member came and put 10,000 scrolls directly into his inventory.
Now what did he need to do?
Tear through summoning scrolls until he was sick of it!
Since he promised never to resell them, he absolutely had to only summon with them.
Baek Jin-woo moved to the secluded open field he usually went to.
At the same time, he summoned the Wind Fairy.
– Ramba! I’m here!
“Ramba.”
– Yeah!
“I’m going to perform summoning rituals from now on.”
– Okay! I just need to wash my hands clean while praying, right?!
“That’s right.”
Baek Jin-woo opened the cap of the bottled water he bought and tilted it.
Trickle.
Ramba diligently rubbed her hands in the flowing water.
– Please let good summoned creatures come out!
This was an innocent act Baek Jin-woo used to do when he was a middle schooler 10 years ago.
Ramba, who was an extremely advanced AI (now that he thought about it, she didn’t seem like a simple AI), had actively followed along with that act.
– Please let our Jin-woo get good summoned creatures!
“That’s enough. Let’s tear them now!”
Rip!
[Using ‘Low-grade Summoning Scroll’!]
[Player ‘Baek Jin-woo’ has obtained summoned creature ‘Blue Dragonfly’ (F-grade)!]
Rip!
[Using ‘Low-grade Summoning Scroll’!]
[Player ‘Baek Jin-woo’ has obtained summoned creature ‘Horned Caterpillar’ (F-grade)!]
Rip, rip, rip!
From now on, it was infinite grinding.
The obtained summoned creatures accumulated in an intangible storage, and he could clear them out later at the Synthesis Facility.
“Huff, huff.”
He had just opened 3,600 scrolls.
The time it took was 1 hour.
That meant he opened 1 scroll per second without rest.
“Damn it. I can’t keep this up. Let’s rest a bit.”
This.
It would have been a disaster if he had received 50,000 scrolls, right?
“And why aren’t these guys coming out?”
Training Instructor (E-grade), Explosive Dragon Mage (D-grade).
These weren’t coming out as much as expected.
It would have been a real disaster if he had bought low-grade summoning scrolls with his own money.
Still, seeing that 35 D-grade and 182 E-grade came out… the probability seemed about right.
By the way, D-grade summoned creatures are so common they’re a dime a dozen and don’t sell well.
Summoned creatures start selling for good prices from C-grade onwards.
– You idiot.
“Huh?”
– Do you think they’d come out that easily? They’re not just E-grade or D-grade, they’re EX-grade!
“Why? You came out on the first try.”
– That was an absurd stroke of heavenly luck! To summon those guys, forget 10,000 scrolls, even 100,000 wouldn’t be nearly enough!
“…?”
As he watched quietly, Ramba let out a sigh and began explaining.
– Do you know how the summoning system works?
“How does it work?”
There’s no way to know.
Even Baek Jin-woo’s extensive knowledge was only information from a player’s perspective.
Originally, during 「Battle of Summoners」, he couldn’t even communicate with summoned creatures through conversation.
– Originally, there are exactly 10% as many summoned creatures as there are players. That Horned Caterpillar you summoned? If there were only a few hundred back then, now there are probably over 800 million that have multiplied?
“…Huh?”
Ah.
The world population is about 8.1 billion, right?
– But the important thing is that we’re classified as isolated, so there’s only one individual.
“…What?”
– I don’t know the reason either, but you’re the only person who can summon us isolated ones. So maybe they only left one individual behind… Or who knows. Maybe the god who created us isolated us but felt it was too wasteful to throw us away, so preserved just one. Ugh, my head is throbbing.
“Hah…”
If that assumption is correct, the situation becomes serious.
As far as Baek Jin-woo knows, there are tens of thousands of different types of summoned creatures…
And there are 800 million of each of those summoned creatures?
Among all those, he has to pull out the one and only EX-grade by ‘probability’?
Even with simple calculations, it’s an impossible probability.
Winning the lottery consecutively would be easier.
– But don’t worry too much. Summoned creatures that have been sold don’t appear anymore. In other words, if all 800 million Horned Caterpillars in the world are summoned, no matter how many summoning scrolls Jin-woo tears, a Horned Caterpillar will never come out.
“Still, it’s difficult.”
– Right.
“Hah, should I just go with intermediate scrolls?”
Of course, that’s not possible.
One intermediate summoning scroll costs 500,000 won, and there aren’t that many available either.
There are limits.
“Damn it, whatever.”
Let’s just keep tearing them.
If he keeps tearing them, something will come out eventually.
Since Ramba also broke through those terrible odds to come out, he’ll trust that other creatures will also do their best.
Rip, rip!
After resting a bit, Baek Jin-woo began moving his hands diligently again.
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