I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 223

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 223

Small Giant (1)

“Jakgeo.”

– Grwooooo!

“Eat this.”

When Baek Jin-woo gave him the awakening elixir, Jakgeo snatched it up like he used to eat spirit medicines and gulped it down.

His stone mouth cracked wide open as it went inside… Truly fascinating to watch every time.

[Using Awakening Elixir (S-rank) on ‘Small Giant’ (EX-rank).]

Right then.

[Quest manifested!]

[‘Small Giant’ (EX-rank) has received a Quest!]

[Would you like to open the Quest?]

[Y/N]

Ooh.

A Quest similar to when unlocking subconscious had arrived.

According to Hunkyo, this would be a Quest that should have appeared after countless ages passed.

“Yes.”

Right.

What do I need to do to awaken you?

[Awakening Quest!]

[Small Giant (EX-rank) Awakening – One Who Draws Attention!]

[The Small Giant is a mutant stone giant created by nature who has gained an opportunity for awakening. He takes pride in his sturdiness and feels infinite joy in protecting someone. However, there was one truth he realized while enduring the storms of time. What’s the point of standing firm and protecting if you can just go around? The giant realized that true protection isn’t made of sturdiness alone. He learned that true protection is achieved only by drawing in opponents and attracting attention to concentrate all attacks on himself.]

[For the next month, make the ‘Small Giant’ recognized by all beings in the world. Any being is acceptable.]

[Awakening abilities will vary according to the number of recognizing beings. The more, the better the performance.]

[Number of recognizing beings – 4,133,220,008]

[Remaining period – 30 days]

“Huh.”

Baek Jin-woo’s mouth fell open.

What is this.

A mission where he needs to receive attention from someone?

For a whole month at that?

– Grwoooooo…

The guy scratches his head.

Don’t tell me, you.

Since people keep going “so cool, so cool” and loving you… it’s not that you want to gain some popularity too, is it?

‘At least it’s a mission that’s favorable to me.’

[Number of recognizing beings – 4,133,220,008]

Roughly 4.1 billion people already know of Jakgeo’s existence.

The world population is about 8 billion.

In other words, more than half of Earth’s population knows him.

It can’t be helped.

A summoned creature owned by the world’s number one Player.

They say he even appears in textbooks these days.

Fan clubs and merchandise activities were already active worldwide.

The problem is that the more recognizing beings there are, the better Jakgeo’s future performance will be…

Baek Jin-woo went to find Yu Ji-a first.

She seemed like she’d be most knowledgeable in this area.

“Hmm.”

Yu Ji-a rested her chin on her hand.

“Surprising. Half the total population doesn’t know Jakgeo. Probably there are people who know about Jin-woo but don’t know his summoned creatures in detail.”

“Right.”

Not all 8 billion people have access to social communication like internet and media.

Experts say 30-40% of the population doesn’t know the internet.

“I’ll try to solve that part.”

“How?”

“We have to keep hunting Three-Headed Dragons anyway, so if we request it from each country, won’t they promote it themselves?”

There are many methods.

We could make a documentary about Jakgeo, or create cartoons that children can watch using Jakgeo.

About a month would be plenty of time to spread worldwide.

“Alright, I’ll trust you.”

Baek Jin-woo felt reassured and returned to the training ground.

He came back and pondered more.

First, the system said that what can recognize Jakgeo are ‘beings’.

What’s the definition of ‘beings’?

In dictionary terms, it’s the material or immaterial existence of some entity.

In other words, it doesn’t have to be people from Earth… and furthermore, it doesn’t even have to be people at all.

The first thing he thought of was the Tower of Trials.

Inside the Tower, there were always other worlds.

There was the Holy Kingdom where Eila was, and the Cadia Empire where the Destruction Dragon was.

He guessed that the hidden backgrounds of current Players’ summoned creatures seemed to appear…

If I inform the people there about Jakgeo, would this number increase more?

“Hmm.”

It was slightly ambiguous.

Going alone doesn’t matter.

After all, he practically cleared the 60th and 70th floors alone anyway.

However, it would be troublesome if it came out requiring team formation to clear like last time.

‘But I can’t ask everyone to be pulled in early just because of me.’

This time the maximum number of people is 20.

He had promised to enter with them after the 6th World League ended.

– Master, what is troubling you.

As if reading Baek Jin-woo’s worries, Hunkyo approached.

Baek Jin-woo gathered all his summoned creatures and explained.

– I see meow.

Mayeo nodded.

– Master is curious whether animals can recognize Jakgeo or not, right meow?

“Yeah, exactly.”

– It’s simple meow.

Swish.

Mayeo pulled out something else from a subspace-like place.

Oink, oink!

There was even a pig.

Woof, woof woof woof woof!

There were also dogs barking like crazy.

– Just check if the number increases when they see Jakgeo, isn’t that right meow.

“That’s true, but.”

[Number of recognizing beings – 4,134,531,532]

Too many are changing in real time, so it’s impossible to confirm.

It’s already increased by over a million compared to earlier.

It probably means there are many people continuously getting to know Jakgeo.

Perhaps Players are informing their summoned creatures at this very moment.

– Wait a moment, Master.

It was then that Mayeo’s eyes lit up.

– Can you wait just a moment, meow?

“Why?”

– Something I want to experiment with came up, meow! Could you give me some of Jakgeo’s… Ahem, some stone fragments from Jakgeo, meow?

“Stone fragments?”

– Grwo?

Jakgeo tilted its head in confusion.

Crumble!

It gathered the scattering stone dust and held it out to Mayeo.

Though it didn’t know what it was for, it sensed that Mayeo was trying to help.

– Oh oh, good, meow! Wait and see, meow!

Patter patter!

Mayeo hurriedly disappeared somewhere.

Why is it acting like that?

Mayeo had been exposed to all sorts of experiments while staying with the witches, and had seen how various spells were created and then discarded.

The common trait among those witches was that they conducted many experiments on animals, plants, and insects.

– Meow meow meow!

Animals?

There are limits.

No matter how much work you do, it would only amount to a few hundred or few thousand units at most.

– First…

I shouldn’t be absolutely certain from the start.

One by one, experiment and…

If it succeeds?

Then I can run full speed ahead.

Plants first.

What came to Mayeo’s mind was casting spells on grasses with good reproductive ability or fast-breeding dandelions to make them recognize Jakgeo.

But?

It discarded the idea as soon as it came up.

– Too slow, meow.

No matter how amazing the spell, it would require tremendous effort to make plants recognize Jakgeo.

And it wasn’t even certain if it would work.

However, Master only had a month.

Swoosh, swoosh!

Mayeo dug something out from a tree at the edge of the training ground.

There was an ant colony and a beehive.

It had collected them recently for spell research, and insects were what it would experiment with first.

Buzz buzz, buzz!

Especially the bees – since the entrance itself was blocked off, they were vibrating tremendously.

– Wait just a moment, meow. I’ll release you, meow.

Swoosh, swoosh!

Mayeo drew a small formation on the dirt ground, then placed Jakgeo’s stone fragments on top.

Then it began casting a spell.

– Jakgeo is your guardian deity, meow. Because of those stone fragments, you can escape this witch’s torment and spread far and wide, meow. Understand, meow?

Buzzzzzz!

Ants and bees communicate as a group through pheromones.

They inform about routes, warn of danger, and can gather the group together.

Mayeo wanted to infuse those pheromones with Jakgeo.

If that succeeded?

Wouldn’t quite a large number of ‘beings’ recognize Jakgeo?

Especially ant colonies can range from at least 500,000 to over 10 million when they’re massive.

It’s on a completely different scale from ordinary animals.

– Meow meow meow!

That’s as far as insects go, next experiment!

Since this isn’t certain either, I need to try other things too.

– This is a bit of a gamble though…

What Mayeo was targeting was non-living things.

Beings numbering at minimum hundreds of millions, tens of billions.

If it could make the countless microorganisms living in river water recognize Jakgeo’s existence?

Couldn’t they spread throughout the entire Earth using water as a medium?

Mayeo closed its eyes and began muttering spells.

It didn’t know if it would work, but if it did?

Master would have to acknowledge it, meow.

That this witch is the greatest summoned creature.

– Squawk squawk squawk squawk!

A week passed.

Yu Ji-a’s processing speed was fast, and it showed considerable effect.

[Number of recognizing beings – 5,091,323,783]

“Wow.”

In just one week, the first digit had changed.

A whopping 5 billion!

Now, except for those who are too old, infants, or rural natives, wouldn’t most people know about it?

But.

The disappointment was unavoidable.

If he went to the Tower of Trials, brought Jakgeo to the forefront, and went around devastating all the buildings?

The numbers would skyrocket along with tremendous infamy.

Oh, and.

Another 10,000 points had accumulated during the week.

Baek Jin-woo immediately purchased an awakening potion.

At this rate, wouldn’t he obtain all five awakening potions within a month?

‘But.’

He wasn’t planning to use the awakening potion right away.

‘I’ll focus only on Jakgeo for now.’

Even focusing solely on Jakgeo, there wasn’t enough time.

If another time-limited quest appeared this time, he might end up achieving neither goal.

He had tried all sorts of methods so far.

Making Player summoned creatures recognize it!

Going on safari tours and having Jakgeo roar!

And so on.

It seemed to have some effect.

The numbers did increase by a decent amount.

But it didn’t increase by hundreds of millions.

“Sigh.”

It’s disappointing.

What should I do…

It was just as Baek Jin-woo was racking his brains.

Whirrrr!

Suddenly the number display began moving at tremendous speed.

And then.

[Number of Recognized Beings – 8,291,344,121]

“Huh?”

What the.

Suddenly 8.2 billion?

Whoooosh!

[Number of Recognized Beings – 10,591,623,799]

Ten, ten billion?

What is this?!

The problem is this changed in just one second.

[Number of Recognized Beings – 100,999,223,711]

One hundred billion?

[Number of Recognized Beings – 2,313,618,400,004]

Trillion…?

[Number of Recognized Beings – 42,555,612,442,411]

42 trillion?

[Number of Recognized Beings – 12,113,582,188,005,247]

Quadrillion…?

Wait!

What is this!

What the hell?

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