I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 25

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 025

Sweet Proposal

Gangnam Cafe.

Pretty women dressed in fancy clothes were chatting while sipping their ordered coffee.

They were Baek A-jin and her friends.

Classmates she had known since high school.

‘Haa.’

Baek A-jin sighed inwardly.

‘I need to farm runes.’

The reason she came to this gathering despite pouring everything into rune farming and sales was simple.

They were her only friends.

Not attending a meeting that happens only twice a year?

She thought that would be the end of their friendship.

For her, still in her early twenties, this was a very important matter.

Chatter, chatter.

Her friends’ excited stories didn’t fully reach her ears.

In her mind, there was only Baek Jin-woo.

Did her friends know?

That her brother hospitalized in the hospital was actually a hot player these days.

And that he had started a company with the famous Yu Ji-a to sell information.

“Hey hey, didn’t you say your new boyfriend is a Player? Have you seen his summons? How many C-grade ones? He doesn’t happen to have B-grade ones too, does he?”

“Wow, if a Player is your boyfriend, does he get you summons? Or maybe some good runes.”

“Really… I’m so jealous.”

Topics like this used to be quite interesting, but now they didn’t spark much emotion.

As she nodded half-heartedly with an expressionless face, her phone.

Ding!

That’s when the sound rang out.

It was a message.

‘Oppa?’

It was a message from Baek Jin-woo.

[Baek Jin-woo: Let’s meet for a moment. Come to the vacant lot if you can. Are you available now?]

At that moment.

Baek A-jin’s expression became brighter than ever.

“Guys.”

She stood up abruptly and spoke.

“Sorry, but I need to go first.”

“Huh?”

“Suddenly?”

“We agreed to have dinner together today.”

Her friends were disappointed.

Baek A-jin was quite popular even in this group.

Because she was an active Player with a C-grade summon.

“Really, sorry.”

Baek A-jin narrowed her eyes and put her hands together apologetically.

“My brother called for me.”

“Your brother?”

“The brother you mentioned had an accident before? Ah, didn’t he regain consciousness last time?”

“Is he okay now?”

Baek A-jin’s mouth was itching to speak.

Yes!

Our brother is that hot Baek Jin-woo who broke all of South Korea’s Weekly Dungeon records!

She wanted to say this, but held back well as she had until now.

Because promises must be kept.

“Hehe, I’ll tell you the details next time. I’ll treat everyone big at the next gathering. Sorry again!”

After apologizing to her friends, Baek A-jin quickly grabbed her clothes and bag and left the cafe.

Somewhere in Seoul.

Yubak’s Micro Office.

“B-Boss.”

Secretary Kim Byeong-jin’s voice trembled.

“We really hit it big, right? I’m not dreaming right now, am I?”

Both Kim Byeong-jin and Hwang Tae-seop.

They were checking the organized sales figures with disbelieving expressions.

After posting the information sales notice, Yubak literally began soaring to the sky.

“Hey, we haven’t even started yet, what are you talking about.”

Yu Ji-a spoke leisurely, but her eyebrows were also trembling.

Jackpot!

The information sold like hotcakes beyond expectations.

In just one week, a whopping 100 Players had purchased it.

Due to the confidentiality clause, there were cases where major guilds bought 10 copies of videos.

5 videos and 2 text information pieces.

Videos cost 100 million won, and text information cost 10 million won…

100 people bought a total worth of 520 million won.

Do you know how much sales that amounts to?

’52 billion.’

It was unbelievable.

In exchange for giving Baek Jin-woo roughly 1.3 billion won worth of gifts, one week’s sales were 52 billion?

Moreover, since there were almost no production costs, the sales were directly the company’s net profit.

‘Amazing… Even grandfather would be impressed by this.’

Daeseong’s founder.

Even Yoo Byeong-cheon would clap his hands in acknowledgment if he knew this fact.

‘The problem is this isn’t the end.’

First.

Thanks to the confidentiality clause, there will be countless Players who will buy information in the future.

Even with just low-grade information, the future value is bright.

Also, when intermediate, advanced, and top-grade information comes out?

That will also bring in big money.

Second.

Actually, this is the real profit.

The summons they had hoarded in advance suddenly began selling like hotcakes.

C-grade 200 million, B-grade 1 billion.

Do you know how much the same set they gifted to Baek Jin-woo costs?

A whopping 5.4 billion.

Even after deducting all fees, roughly 4 billion profit remains per person.

Gulp.

Yu Ji-a swallowed and looked at the sales chart once more.

Though written in a complex manner, the final summary was as follows.

[Sales Chart]

1. Information sales profit – 52 billion.

2. Summon sales profit – 325 billion.

‘Total of 377 billion.’

Of course, taxes had to be deducted here, and the borrowed debts had to be repaid too…

But it was still a jackpot nonetheless.

An amount that made even her, a third-generation chaebol, feel slightly breathless.

And this time, it was money earned entirely through her own power, not through Great Star’s influence.

“Huu, huu.”

Yu Ji-a took deep breaths to calm her excitement.

Then she spoke to the staff.

“Since the business potential is certain, we should start making serious investments now.”

“What do you mean by serious?”

Kim Byeong-jin tilted his head.

“Here.”

Yu Ji-a pointed to the office.

“Don’t you think it’s a bit cramped?”

“It is cramped. Compared to headquarters.”

“To properly take care of Mr. Baek Jin-woo, we need to expand our size first. If we’re going to hire legal and accounting teams, we’ll need more office space too.”

Yubak was no longer just a simple small company.

It was a massive management company handling Baek Jin-woo, a hit player.

“Let’s go buy land and a building first. I know a place I’ve been looking into.”

Yubak had many ways to make money going forward.

Information selling like now, personal requests, tutoring, and so on.

Yu Ji-a had asked Baek Jin-woo for his opinion on this, and fortunately, Baek Jin-woo had left all possibilities open.

‘And.’

Yu Ji-a hadn’t forgotten what Baek Jin-woo had requested.

‘A personal training ground and family protection.’

All the profits earned this time would be reinvested for that purpose.

Every day, Baek Jin-woo was in one of two places.

Regular dungeons, or the vacant lot.

After doing the weekly dungeon rounds, he always went to those two places to train or hunt.

Baek A-jin climbed the hiking trail and arrived at the vacant lot, her eyes immediately widening.

‘What are all those things?’

Summoned creatures that looked obviously magnificent were training in formation, and they were all things she’d seen somewhere before.

‘Battle Security Guard and Radiant Priest?’

That wasn’t all.

‘Spotted Komodo, Wind Falcon, Titanium Golem, Ppul Fairy, Seori Myo, Sky Dolphin, even Sky Wyvern…’

Even more.

Thud, thud, thud!

She could see three Lava Drakes moving around menacingly.

And the armored man who seemed to be commanding them all.

‘That bastard who subdued my Shadow Elf last time!’

Glance.

Hunkyo turned his head to look at Baek A-jin.

Flinch!

Baek A-jin’s body trembled, but he soon resumed commanding as if indifferent.

“Oh, you’re here.”

Thud!

Baek Jin-woo, who had been doing handstands in a corner, straightened up and wiped his sweat.

‘What the…!’

Baek A-jin was surprised once again.

It was because of her brother’s body.

‘Was his body always that good?’

No.

How could that be possible.

He had been nothing but skin and bones from living on IV drips in the hospital…

When did he become like that?

His shirtless upper body was covered in well-defined muscles.

His abs were developed enough to do laundry on.

Swish.

The sight of Baek Jin-woo wiping away sweat with a towel felt somehow unfamiliar.

She didn’t know it, but Baek Jin-woo was maintaining an incredible training regimen.

In fact, players could afford to just laze around, but Baek Jin-woo disliked that.

A player who just made summoned creatures work hard while being lazy himself didn’t align with his values.

“Wait, brother, what is all this?”

Baek A-jin asked, calming her surprised heart.

“Hm? What do you mean?”

“Those summoned creatures!”

Baek A-jin looked at the summoned creatures silently focused on their training.

For reference, players could only have a total of fifteen summoned creatures out at once.

That was because they could operate three teams.

“Those are the hot summoned creatures these days! Their prices are rising and experts in the marketplace are constantly looking for them! My god, how much are all those worth…”

There were summoned creatures whose prices had recently skyrocketed.

Exactly those summoned creatures.

Even though all the available stock had been sold out, fairly well-known players were desperately seeking them.

Naturally, rumors were bound to spread.

There was even this rumor going around:

That people were buying those summoned creatures because of the information sold by “Yubak” this time.

‘No way.’

Baek A-jin’s mouth fell slightly open.

Right, that’s right!

It fits perfectly!

“Brother, don’t tell me you set this record with those summoned creatures?”

“Yeah.”

“Where did you get all these?”

“You know Yu Ji-a, who you saw that time. She gave them to me.”

“…Gave?”

Those expensive things?

“She gave them to you personally, not to the company?”

“Yeah, she said they were gifts?”

“…Gulp.”

Now she was speechless.

She had used up all her surprise for the day.

“Anyway, A-jin. Thanks for coming right when I called.”

“Oh, right. Why did you call me?”

“Are you still selling runes well these days?”

“Yeah, I sold some yesterday too?”

“Then come over here for a moment.”

Baek Jin-woo led her to a corner of the vacant lot.

And there.

Whooom!

He began taking out countless runes and materials he had obtained from the weekly dungeon rounds.

Although they were low-grade, the quantity was enormous.

“Wh-what is all this?”

“Things I got while hunting. Want to take a look?”

Baek A-jin picked up the items scattered on the floor one by one to check their information.

By the way, when items are taken out like this, anyone can pick them up and take them without trading.

That’s why you shouldn’t take them out unless it’s someone you really trust.

“This is a swiftness rune? But the options aren’t great. Huh? Wow, jackpot! A cutting rune with critical hit chance attached? This could sell for quite a bit?”

Baek A-jin began examining the runes one by one and giving her assessment.

‘She’s sharper than I thought?’

Baek Jin-woo, with his arms crossed, evaluated his sister.

Cutting runes have the effect of increasing critical hit probability.

If such a rune has additional critical hit chance in its options?

It becomes quite valuable.

‘Since she only sells runes all the time… She accurately grasps the value of runes.’

She knew in detail not only the basic runes with high drop rates, but also the effects of runes with low drop rates.

And it wasn’t just runes.

It was fascinating how she could judge the value of skill books, materials, etc. at a glance.

It couldn’t be helped.

Baek A-jin practically lived in the Marketplace.

She was sensitive to real-time information and knew the market prices well, even doing arbitrage trading.

The reason she recognized all of Baek Jin-woo’s summons as soon as she arrived was also for this reason.

Baek Jin-woo, who had been watching for a moment, nodded his head.

“A-jin.”

“Yeah?”

She looked up while sorting runes and materials as if possessed.

“I’ll give you all this, so want to try selling it?”

“This… me?”

Baek A-jin’s eyes widened.

She was confident.

Even professional rune-selling uncles would admire her selling skills whenever they saw her.

Since she was young, no matter what game she played, she was more interested in business than hunting.

The thrill of selling cheap items at high prices was more enjoyable than leveling up characters.

‘If I handle selling all of this…’

There would be no more time for rune farming.

But?

She was originally more interested in selling runes than farming them.

No.

More than just interest, her heart was pounding wildly.

“Then how much commission will you give me?”

Baek A-jin asked cautiously.

She could do it for free once for her brother’s sake, but she also had to prepare for her own future.

She couldn’t work for free every time.

“Commission? How much do you want?”

“Usually when Players consign to large wholesale companies, they take about 8-10% of the profits?”

“Oh, really?”

So there were companies that sold these things too?

That would definitely be convenient.

“Yeah, but since you’re family, oppa. And you’re an attractive Player, so… I’ll just take 5%. That seems right.”

Baek A-jin nodded after thinking it over.

This was conscientious.

‘A Player of oppa’s level would have companies fighting to get him.’

They’d probably try to recruit him even at a loss.

And she would be handling that work.

An opportunity came because of family!

Chuckle.

Baek Jin-woo looked at his sister and smiled.

‘How cute.’

He just told her to sell them, but she figured out the commission on her own, and conscientiously at that.

‘Sorry, but.’

Baek Jin-woo never intended to use his sister from the start.

This was a thought for his sister’s sake.

“What 5%? That’s so stingy.”

“Huh?”

“I’ll generously give you 20%. Try selling hard. Later there’ll be even rarer and better runes than this, so be prepared to get busy.”

“…Huh?”

Baek A-jin’s mouth fell open.

R-really?

20% of all that stuff?

Does that make sense?

‘Ahhhhh.’

Baek A-jin was on the verge of fainting from happiness.

Soon she made a resolution.

From today, she would give up rune farming and become a professional marketplace dealer.

A professional marketplace dealer exclusively for Baek Jin-woo.

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