I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 45

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 045

New Residence (1)

Though Baek Jin-woo had become a national hero through just one selection match.

Huff, huff!

He never neglected his training.

As usual, he moved to the vacant lot, released his summoned creatures, and consistently did bodyweight exercises.

– If you only focus on strength training, you may become stronger but won’t become agile and will lose flexibility. The most important thing is balance, my lord.

“Okay, okay.”

Baek Jin-woo maintained his posture with eyes full of determination even while sweating profusely.

‘Actually.’

There was only one reason why Baek Jin-woo could have such overwhelming performance.

‘South Korea’s level is too low.’

Setting aside countries where the Five Emperors belonged, even against mid-tier countries, he might not lose but wouldn’t dominate every moment.

‘Hunkyo and Doldoli’s damage would have been insufficient.’

Well, Ramba was fine.

He had equipped her with graduation-level runes that would last over 10 years, but the other summoned creatures were the problem.

They were all equipped with only moderately enhanced intermediate or advanced runes.

‘Now I need to start preparing to match runes properly.’

The first step for that was the Tower of Tribulation 20th Floor.

He had to go there to craft another guaranteed B-grade summoning scroll and draw the legendary overpowered summoned creature ‘Rune Dwarf’ from it.

‘I should also gradually move up to advanced level for Weekly Dungeons.’

The Weekly Dungeon specialist summoned creatures like Battle Security Guard, Radiant Priest, and Lava Drake had also leveled up considerably.

With Hunkyo’s in-depth training, they had equipped new skills, so now he could quickly aim for advanced levels.

Every morning.

Baek Jin-woo received reports from Yu Ji-a at the vacant lot.

Greetings, exercise, and business reports all at once!

It was practically like holding Yu-Baek shareholders’ meetings in the mountains every day.

Yu Ji-a, who had finished exercising once with Hunkyo’s assistance, wiped her sweat with the towel she brought.

“Here.”

Baek Jin-woo took out a cool water bottle from the ice box and tossed it.

“Phew, phew. Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.”

Gulp, gulp.

The way she drank refreshingly looked just like a celebrity filming a commercial.

“Ahh, so refreshing. Jin-woo.”

“Yes?”

“I think it’s about time to prepare to move from this vacant lot too.”

“Oh?”

Baek Jin-woo’s eyes widened.

He had heard about constructing a training ground, but was it already completed?

“It should be finished in about a week.”

It was much faster than scheduled.

This was all thanks to Baek Jin-woo.

When he became famous, construction companies desperately concentrated all their equipment and manpower as an investment.

“We’re also preparing for your family’s move-in.”

“You’ve been working hard without saying anything.”

“No, no! Jin-woo works much harder. Oh, and.”

Yu Ji-a, who had been laughing while waving her hands, brought up the next agenda.

“The government has promised tremendous support funds.”

“Oh, how much?”

“1 trillion won worth of national taxes per national team member! Plus, the captain gets an additional 1 trillion as a special benefit, making it 2 trillion! They must have squeezed the budget to prepare 11 trillion. This is unprecedented.”

“Wow.”

Trillion units?

And 2 trillion just for him?

Though South Korea once had a budget of over 600 trillion, it had declined significantly recently.

The economy died while recording the lowest ranks in the World League.

National debt was still enormous, and there were mountains of money to spend.

In such circumstances, they had scraped together 11 trillion.

This showed how desperately the government was betting everything on this World League.

“However, there are conditions.”

“Conditions?”

“The allocated budget must be approved by headquarters and used only for player growth. Of course, you can’t just take the support and then naturalize elsewhere.”

“Ah, that’s natural.”

He had no intention of using the people’s precious tax money for private purposes.

There were quite a few runes, summoned creatures, and materials he needed to buy anyway.

Also.

He had no desire to betray the country where his family lived.

“And one more thing.”

“There are quite a few conditions?”

“Haha, since it’s a large sum of money moving around…”

Well, that’s true.

It’s not just big money, but trillion-unit amounts.

“What is it?”

“There’s a national team assembly once a week. Since Jin-woo is the captain, you’ll lead the other nine national team members for training and practice matches. We’ll need to discuss the timing, but you’ll probably need to coach for at least 10 hours. That would be the responsibility for the additional 1 trillion.”

“Once a week, 10 hours…”

Actually, he was going to be quite busy from now on.

He needed to set up Weekly Dungeons and climb the Tower of Trials.

But?

If they’re paying money, that changes things.

He could certainly provide that level of consulting.

“When is it once a week?”

“The national team members communicate among themselves to decide, but if Jin-woo decides, won’t everyone follow?”

“…They’ll listen to me?”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about. Haven’t you seen the ranker interviews?”

“I haven’t watched them.”

Actually, at first he tried ego-searching a few times, but stopped.

There were too many reasons.

Every community, the whole world was talking about him…

Even while reading, new posts kept refreshing continuously.

After watching for about an hour, he felt nauseous and turned it off.

What did public opinion matter?

‘What’s important is myself.’

Right now, he was woefully insufficient.

National hero?

Jinugod?

The current Baek Jin-woo hadn’t recovered even 10% of his past glory and power.

“Look at this article.”

Yu Ji-a fiddled with her phone and showed it to him.

It was roughly this content.

[Player Baek Jin-woo is my idol!]

[Domestic Ranking 1st Kang Geon-ho, “If you ignore Baek Jin-woo just because he’s a ranker, that would be foolish. Baek Jin-woo has proven himself, and he’s already a top ranker.”]

[Arirang Sub-guild Master Orang (Oryong) despairs over selection failure, says the most regrettable thing is not being able to receive coaching from Player Baek Jin-woo!]

[Carpe Diem executives unanimously agree, “From now on, our guild’s role model is Baek Jin-woo.”]

….

Ugh.

This is embarrassing.

Why is everyone praising me so much?

“Jin-woo, you know about the Jinugod matter, right?”

“….”

At that moment, Baek Jin-woo’s expression stiffened slightly.

Nevertheless, Yu Ji-a didn’t seem to care.

“The domestic rankers already think of you as Jinugod. You’ve proven it with your skills, and there’s symbolism too. It’s a situation where they can’t help but follow.”

“I see.”

Looking at Yu Ji-a’s expression, Baek Jin-woo realized it too.

‘She’s 100% certain about it too.’

I’ll have to reveal it someday.

However, announcing it to the world would be too early.

But it seemed okay to tell Yu Ji-a.

Since we’re in the same boat.

“What do you think, Ji-a?”

“Pardon?”

“Do I really seem like Jinugod to you?”

“….”

Yu Ji-a pondered that question several times before nodding her head.

“Actually…. I’ve been suspecting it for a while. It was circumstantial evidence, but. And now I’m somewhat certain about it.”

“Haha.”

Baek Jin-woo scratched his head.

Well.

Setting aside being smart, you’d have to be an idiot not to know.

‘Why did I have to choose Jinugod as my nickname.’

Now that I’m an adult, it’s such an embarrassing name.

Embarrassing enough to make the hair on my arms stand up.

“Yes, that’s right. I actually did develop an account called Jinugod during my military service. I’m sorry. I lied about only playing the game for a year because I didn’t want to stand out initially.”

“I knew it…!”

“But I don’t want to confirm it to the world yet. I want to do that after I’ve regained at least half of my former strength.”

Nothing is more dangerous than fame without power.

People speculating that I’m Jinugod is an unavoidable situation due to the name, but officially confirming it is a different matter entirely.

“I understand what you mean.”

“Let’s schedule the national team assembly for Saturday. We need to rest on Sunday.”

“Oh, yes! I’ll relay that to the rankers!”

“And.”

“Yes.”

“I plan to focus on the Tower of Trials 20th floor for the time being.”

“…20th floor.”

For reference, Rachel, who’s ranked 1st in the world, is on the 29th floor.

And that’s after desperately climbing for three years.

In Korea?

There isn’t a single ranker who has cleared the 20th floor.

And now he was boldly declaring he would clear it.

‘Goosebumps.’

Yu Ji-a felt like she was going crazy from the tingling sensation all over her body.

Is this what it would feel like to witness living legend’s history right before your eyes?

“Great! If you need anything, please contact me directly anytime!”

A week passed.

First, I successfully completed the setup for farming the advanced weekly dungeons.

‘I could run the supreme level too.’

But the efficiency is too poor.

It takes too long, so it’s more cost-effective to quickly run many advanced dungeons instead.

Probably no player is farming supreme level dungeons at this point?

Naturally, the record was the best in Korea!

As a reward, I received 21 advanced summoning scrolls.

“Summoning scroll window.”

As I muttered, a window appeared.

[Summoning Scroll Inventory]

1. Advanced Summoning Scroll x 21

2. Ultimate Summoning Scroll x 1

I put all the other miscellaneous summoning scrolls up for sale through Baek A-jin.

I plan to collect as many ultimate summoning scrolls as possible and open them all at once.

And.

To prepare for the Tower of Trials 20th floor, there are currently two conditions.

‘Hunkyo’s pre-graduation rune, and Pokryong’s Pokryong Art Flame.’

Pokryong Art Flame is especially important.

Flame is the third stage after Link and Change.

If Link allows you to stack Pokryong waves consecutively, Change lets you transform those Pokryong waves.

Flame allows you to detonate all the accumulated Pokryong waves at once.

The 20th floor boss is the king of all vampires, the primordial vampire, ‘Dracula’ (S-rank).

He’s weak to fire, so I need to burn him to death in one shot with Flame.

‘First.’

Since Pokryong hasn’t even mastered Change yet, reaching Flame is still a distant goal.

‘Should I work on Hunkyo’s pre-graduation rune first?’

Graduation runes are only possible after obtaining Rune Dwarves.

For now, I have to be satisfied with pre-graduation runes.

And.

Baek Jin-woo has an enormous asset of 2 trillion won.

He planned to invest all of it in Hunkyo.

“There’s something called a supreme ‘Omnipotent’ rune.”

– Ah! Omnipotent rune! I know it! It’s super famous!

Baek A-jin’s voice flowed from the phone.

“Get me some of those. Work with Ji-a. As many as possible.”

– What, you want me to get those?

She was flustered.

She had to be.

[Rune]

[Grade: Supreme (Rare)]

– Limited to 100 worldwide.

[Set Effect: Omnipotent]

– When 6 are equipped: All stats increase by 500%, HP increases by 10,000.

– 2 additional stat options.

[Level: 1]

[Stat Increase]

Strength +12%, Intelligence +12%, Stamina +12%, Agility +12%, Critical Hit Rate +10%, Critical Hit Damage +20%

Like Ramba’s light-speed rune, it’s a limited rune.

It boosts all abilities evenly, and the attached stats are ridiculously good.

Also, normally runes have a maximum of 4 stats attached, but only this versatile rune has 6 stats.

This versatile rune can bring out the best performance from any summoned creature in all conditions.

– That’s incredibly expensive. There’s no supply either.

“Exactly.”

Baek Jin-woo smiled.

“I’ll have to buy it for more than market price.”

That rune is very popular.

More than popular—the government is desperately trying to acquire them.

– How many do you need to get…? Obviously 6, right? To get the set effect?

“No.”

Baek Jin-woo shook his head.

“18.”

What he needed was exactly 3 sets.

I’ll explain the reason for that when the opportunity arises later.

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