I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 26

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 026

Family Care Service (1)

Among the dealers that Baek Jin-woo owns, which one has the highest potential?

What’s the point of even asking?

Obviously, it’s the Explosive Dragon Mage.

‘Our Pokryong.’

Ramba is merely a supporter who maximizes the dealer’s power, and Hunkyo, while not bad in combat ability, is ultimately just an assistant who provides training.

But Pokryong?

– Pokryong Wave!

Whoooosh!

A dragon-shaped flame extending from her staff devours the goblin before her eyes.

– Kieeeeek!

– Kieeeeeeek!

Monsters melting away with sizzling sounds.

Baek Jin-woo had now begun earnestly raising Pokryong.

To continue player activities as a celebrity, he needed to be strong, and the most convenient way was to raise a dealer.

Baek Jin-woo had left his summoned creatures at the vacant lot and come to a regular dungeon alone with just Pokryong.

For reference, summoned creatures could remain in the world for 5 hours without a player and could even reverse-summon themselves.

He had told Hunkyo to train hard and reverse-summon if anyone came.

Naturally, the weekly dungeon rotation continued.

“Pokryong.”

– Yes, Jin-woo.

D-grade regular dungeons were now a piece of cake.

Pokryong walked leisurely while clearing out the surrounding monsters.

“Don’t you want anything special? Like cream bread that Ramba likes?”

The efficient way to handle summoned creatures.

That was to satisfy their cravings.

Hunkyo had a passion for training, and Ramba loved cream bread.

If he gave them those things in exchange for growth, the summoned creatures would naturally work harder.

But?

Pokryong didn’t really have anything like that.

– I’m satisfied just being able to develop earnestly like this and be helpful to Jin-woo.

Pokryong was a former dropout.

He didn’t know which World Magic School she had dropped out from, but he understood that she had a desire to “be useful” because of that.

However.

“Come on, not that kind of thing.”

Baek Jin-woo didn’t give up.

– Huh?

“I’m asking if you want food or something you’d like to have.”

– Hmm…?

“I’ve fed you guys lots of food from this world.”

Originally, summoned creatures didn’t need to be fed.

They didn’t feel hunger and didn’t even excrete.

But Baek Jin-woo always prepared separate food for the humanoid summoned creatures whenever he ate.

Hunkyo, Pokryong, the Sheriff, Gwanghwi…

The reason?

There wasn’t really one.

He just thought it was the right thing to do.

Just seeing how Ramba went crazy for cream bread showed they had taste buds…

The master couldn’t eat delicious food alone, right?

“Was there anything that tasted the best, or something you’d like to eat again?”

– Uh…

“Is there?”

– Um, yes. I think there is.

Whoooosh!

Even during their conversation, a Pokryong Wave naturally shot out and devoured a monster.

Man, she clears dungeons so easily.

Other players would be amazed if they saw this, right?

“Oh, there is? What is it?”

Baek Jin-woo’s eyes lit up.

Since she was EX-grade and had all her past memories, there was no need for separate favorability work… but proper management was still necessary if he was going to raise her properly.

Nothing was better than gifts for that management.

– Chicken.

“Chicken?”

– Yes, chicken and beer.

Oh.

Chicken and beer was the king’s choice.

“Okay! Then…”

After thinking for a moment, Baek Jin-woo nodded.

“What was the skill you’re about to learn?”

– Explosive Dragon Art, Link.

Explosive Dragon Art.

A secret technique possessed by ancient explosive dragons, developed from research on how to better use Pokryong Wave.

Naturally unlocked by Hunkyo!

The secrets of Explosive Dragon Art were divided into four types.

Link, Change, Flame, and Destruction.

In the past, Pokryong had broken through to exactly the third stage, Flame.

Then she learned the potential skill ‘Devour’ and was deleted by a patch within a week.

“Oh, Link is good.”

Link was a technique that allowed consecutive use of Pokryong Wave.

Instead of firing Pokryong Wave every time she gathered mana like now, she could accumulate multiple skills and then fire them!

“Then, on the day you learn that, I’ll specially tell Hunkyo to take a break from training on a weekday as a commemoration.”

– Gasp, really?

“That day will be a chicken and beer party. Deal?”

– Great!

Pokryong’s eyes sparkled for the first time.

Somehow.

She seemed more attracted to taking a break from training than the chicken.

‘Well.’

As long as she worked hard for that, Baek Jin-woo was fine with it.

Hanam City.

Below Geomdan Mountain.

“Wow…”

“Boss, how did you find a place like this…”

The Yubak staff who arrived in an expensive car were amazed.

Because there were abandoned buildings sporadically standing on a fairly large site.

“Everyone follow me.”

Yu Ji-a got out of the car wearing sunglasses and entered through the main gate of the site.

This was where the Yubak members would be staying from now on.

‘Originally, I wanted to move into Seoul.’

The land prices are too expensive, even for expensive land.

With so many buildings crammed into such a small area, there’s absolutely no room to squeeze in anywhere.

‘Let’s be satisfied with the suburbs for now.’

Even finding a place here wasn’t an easy task.

Actually.

This was Daeseong’s land.

More precisely, it was Yoo Byeong-cheon’s land.

Originally purchased for business purposes, but it had been sitting idle without direction when Yu Ji-a stepped forward to buy it.

Her grandfather granted his granddaughter’s request.

Of course, he didn’t grant it easily.

After carefully evaluating “Yubak,” he decided it would benefit the company he had built.

Thanks to this, Yu Ji-a was able to acquire a large site of 30,000 pyeong at a bargain price.

Step, step.

Yu Ji-a walked around the site, examining every corner in detail.

The abandoned buildings?

They’d have to tear them all down and build new ones.

It wouldn’t take long.

These days, construction is incredibly fast if you have the money.

That’s because all the workers use summoned creatures.

Moreover, the special summoned creatures provided by construction companies can finish everything from foundation work to rebar and concrete pouring in one go.

They say permits and approvals take the longest, which says it all.

“We’ll build the office here. Over there, we’ll build employee dormitories and apartments too.”

Yu Ji-a deliberately didn’t pay off her bank debt.

There was no need to repay money borrowed at such low interest rates.

If she could leverage more, she would have leveraged more.

“We’ll build bunkers in the basement of every building.”

Baek Jin-woo had said it.

That he wanted to protect his family.

Not forgetting this point, Yu Ji-a hired the world’s best bunker designer.

Systems prepared for the apocalypse.

From automatic cultivation to water purification facilities, even solar energy systems!

All of this was planned to be perfectly installed underground here.

‘Next, the most important thing.’

Yu Ji-a’s gaze now turned toward the lower part of Geomdan Mountain.

The area adjacent to the site.

‘A training ground would fit perfectly there. Since he likes vacant lots.’

The mountain would block noise heading toward the city.

And if they designed soundproofing systems on top of that?

A quite perfect training ground would be born.

“How long will it take to build everything?”

Kim Byeong-jin asked, scratching his head.

Our representative.

Her scale is way too big.

We’ll have to keep working in that tiny office until all of that is built…

Yu Ji-a smiled and held up her fingers.

It was two.

“…Uh, two years?”

“No, two months.”

“Excuse me?”

“With today’s technology, two months is enough. Oh, did you get the summoned creature I asked you to buy?”

“Ah, that Shadow Wolf?”

Kim Byeong-jin nodded and reached out to summon the creature.

– Aowuuuuuu!

Swish!

With a quite impressive howling, a wolf figure emerged from the shadows.

Yu Ji-a nodded.

‘Now it’s time to begin full-scale player care.’

The first priority was?

Baek Jin-woo’s family.

Baek A-jin was having happy days lately.

My goodness.

No matter how many runes she sold, there was no end to them.

Inventory kept coming in.

Just how many dungeons does he run per day? The supply never runs dry.

What’s even better?

20% of those sales proceeds belonged entirely to her!

‘Ahhh.’

She trembled with excitement.

Even though only a month had passed since contracting with Baek Jin-woo, the speed at which money was accumulating was no joke.

‘Especially the high proportion of premium runes.’

Occasionally appearing runes in good condition.

Runes with popular options like Strength%, Intelligence%, Critical Hit Rate, and Critical Damage evenly distributed – Baek A-jin called these premium runes.

Naturally, premium runes were popular, and retailers who owned many such runes were frequently visited by players.

“Oh my, boss. I always feel like the inventory here is the best.”

“Here’s my business card. Please contact me first when good runes come in.”

“You know me, right? That skill book I was looking for last time. Is it still not available?”

Good inventory attracts customers.

Among those customers were ranker players and members of major guilds.

Baek A-jin saved them as VIPs and managed them well.

When her brother grows and brings better inventory?

They’ll cleanly absorb it all.

And today.

After closing shop, she went to a regular friend gathering.

With both money and heart full, Baek A-jin treated everyone big as she had promised last time.

“Whoa, A-jin. Isn’t this an incredibly expensive steakhouse?”

“Wow… A successful player really is different!”

“Baek A-jin’s been super busy lately, right?”

When you spend money?

Praise naturally follows.

Her friends forgot all their previous disappointments and were busy praising Baek A-jin.

Sizzle, sizzle!

Premium beef cooking and friends getting lively again.

This week’s topic was different from last time.

“You know what? Baek Jin-woo. He completely swept all the records again in one month.”

“It was amazing, really. How does a person grow every day? Records change weekly.”

“At this rate, won’t he challenge world records too?”

Their topic was Baek Jin-woo.

This was inevitable.

These days, players are the main interest rather than celebrities, and among them, Baek Jin-woo was the hottest figure.

Naturally, Yu Ji-a also came up in conversation.

“Yu Ji-a is really amazing too. How did she know to catch Baek Jin-woo like that?”

“She’s not a Daeseong person for nothing.”

“That’s so true. But you know what? Originally I was envious of Baek Jin-woo at first? But lately I’m more envious of Yu Ji-a. Baek Jin-woo is really handsome, isn’t he?”

What do you mean handsome!

Baek A-jin slightly narrowed her eyes, but none of her friends noticed.

‘Haa.’

Baek A-jin sighed inwardly while watching her giggling friends.

Are these really my friends?

How can they not recognize my own brother!

Of course, this was unavoidable.

She wasn’t the type to talk about family to her friends usually, and there were plenty of people in the world with the surname Baek.

Moreover, wasn’t Baek A-jin’s brother famous for having lost consciousness.

‘Whatever, let’s just eat meat.’

Chew chew.

It was just as Baek A-jin was pretending not to care and feeling the tender texture of beef.

“But about Yu Ji-a.”

One friend who had been giving heated praise about Yu Ji-a picked up her phone.

“I follow her and look at her all the time, but she doesn’t usually follow people much, you know? She only follows family or really close friends, so it’s never gone over 100 people…”

The friend went into Yu Ji-a’s SNS and looked through the information.

Baek A-jin also naturally turned her gaze.

“This person here, don’t we see them a lot somewhere?”

The person shown in Yu Ji-a’s short follow list was…

An ID called dbwldk_kk.

Baek A-jin ended up dropping the meat she had picked up.

“Oh? Really!”

“I’ve seen that ID somewhere.”

“That’s…”

One of her friends looked at Baek A-jin.

“A-jin, isn’t that you?”

“What?”

“Baek A-jin?”

“Why is Baek A-jin there…”

Her friends started getting surprised one by one, but the most surprised person was actually Baek A-jin.

Exactly.

Why did that unnie follow me…

Still in the same position holding her chopsticks.

Baek A-jin froze up.

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