I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 48

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 048

Omnipotent Rune (1)

Once a week.

The consulting session wrapped up nicely.

“Wow, amazing! I never knew I could think about it this way.”

“Following Player Baek Jin-woo’s advice, I’ll need to raise more diverse summoned creatures to effectively engage in psychological warfare. I should stock up on different types of runes too.”

“This part was in the old textbooks… You’re more solid on the fundamentals than you look, aren’t you? To be honest, I thought you were just a one-trick with that Training Instructor summoned creature. I see you differently now. Thanks for today’s help.”

Even though he had given them rough guidance, all the rankers were satisfied.

It was probably because they felt they had grown much more than before through 10 hours of education.

As mentioned before, most of the theories established by current humanity came from the mind of middle schooler Baek Jin-woo.

Moreover, countless application processes that haven’t been established yet are still accumulated intact in his head.

Naturally, it was a situation where the rankers couldn’t help but be amazed.

‘Good thing they’re satisfied.’

Nine rankers.

And executives from major guilds at that – their satisfaction meant it was definitely worth the money, right?

‘The problem is me.’

There was a mountain of things to do.

Among them, the first thing to do was climbing the Tower of Trials.

Baek Jin-woo came out to the training ground in Yubaek City and stretched his body.

‘Ah.’

No matter when he looked at it.

It was a place he absolutely loved.

Just looking at the well-decorated vacant lot in front of the state-of-the-art building and the view where you could feel the energy of the mountains, you could tell how much interest and effort the designer had put into it.

‘As expected of Yu Ji-a.’

He felt it even more these days.

That joining hands with her was truly a good decision.

When he requested a training ground, she provided a penthouse, garden, and even a bunker…

On top of that, she perfectly took care of his family too – it was truly something to be grateful for.

“Pokryong.”

– Yes, Jin-woo!

When Baek Jin-woo muttered, Pokryong, who had been training, came running over with a flutter.

“How far have you progressed now?”

– I’ve perfectly mastered Pokryong Arts up to Transformation!

“Really?”

Since the last incident, Pokryong hadn’t deceived Baek Jin-woo.

She had tried her best to learn skills without any deception.

“Let me see.”

– Yes!

Pokryong Arts, Transformation.

Whoooosh!

Beautiful flames of combustion spread from her staff.

The originally dragon-shaped Pokryong energy scattered finely to form a red transparent barrier.

– I can use it as a shield like this.

Whoooosh!

Another Pokryong energy summoned through Connection decomposed and divided into several arrows and spears.

– I can make Fire Arrows and Spears this way too!

Not only that.

From Fire Wall that created huge barriers with flames, to Warm that controlled firepower to make the surroundings cozy.

She was definitely natural and skilled at it.

“I can see you’ve put in a lot of effort.”

– Hehe, yes.

“Well done.”

Baek Jin-woo ruffled Pokryong’s hair.

It was a kind of reward.

If Ramba wanted cream bread, Pokryong wanted the player’s attention.

“Could you possibly handle Flame too? Is that still too much?”

– Hmm…

Pokryong pondered slightly then nodded.

– Even if Destruction is too much, I have memories up to Flame, so given time it should be enough. Hunkyo teaches me well too. I’ll try to learn it as quickly as possible!

“Okay.”

There was no need to climb the Tower of Trials without Flame.

‘With just Flame.’

He could break through floors 11 to 20 in a straight shot.

‘By the way.’

How many omnipotent runes had they acquired?

Just like Pokryong’s Flame, Hunkyo’s quasi-graduation rune was equally important.

“Hah!”

Baek A-jin clenched both fists tightly and shook them vigorously.

“We’ve secured 12 for now!”

Various staff members dispatched overseas had each sent contact.

Just now, saying they had completed purchases.

Since they had to use government money, the procedures were a bit complicated… But working like crazy without breaks, it worked out.

‘Sister was definitely right.’

Following Yu Ji-a’s advice to use staff members to push through all at once, it was quite easy to obtain runes.

There was even a player who contacted them separately through the purchase post they put up in the marketplace.

Saying they’d sell urgently for 100 billion won, or 72 million dollars.

It was new inventory, not existing stock.

By not missing such opportunities and grabbing them, they had secured exactly 12.

They bought 10 at an average of 150 billion each, and 2 at 100 billion each.

So the budget spent was already 1.7 trillion won.

‘To think just 12 runes are worth this much…’

Baek A-jin clicked her tongue.

It was truly an otherworldly story.

Just how strong would a summoned creature equipped with such runes become?

‘Especially brother’s Hunkyo…’

He’s already strong without that rune, but if he equips that too…

Could he really beat Rachel and become world ranking 1st at the end of this year?

Ring, ring!

Baek A-jin answered the phone.

– President.

– Yes, Director Baek. Please speak.

– We’ve secured 12 for now, but the budget is insufficient. We only have 300 billion left.

She found it funny even as she spoke.

To think the day would come when she’d express 300 billion as “only.”

– Hmm, for now.

Yu Ji-a, who seemed to be monitoring as well, immediately gave an order.

– Use up all the remaining money to buy one more.

– What? If we use up all the remaining money, that’s 300 billion?

When Baek A-jin asked.

– Word must have gotten out already. The inventory is steadily disappearing.

– Really?

Clack, clackety-clack!

Baek A-jin held the phone against her shoulder while typing on the keyboard.

She was searching through marketplace listings from around the world.

– It’s really true?

Yu Ji-a was right.

Posts selling for 200 billion, even ridiculous posts selling for 250 billion were all disappearing one by one.

It was one of two things.

Either the sellers had taken down their listings, or someone was buying them up urgently.

In any case, we had absorbed all the cheap listings, and now we’d have to pay high prices for what remained.

A sigh escaped from Baek A-jin’s lips.

– Then what should we do? Buying one more won’t solve everything… We need six more in total.

– Don’t worry about that, just buy one more before it’s too late. Even 300 billion is fine. There’s someone called Nemesis from India, I’ll give you the contact info. This player probably has the best chance.

– Yes, I’ll contact them right away!

Baek A-jin’s hands moved even more frantically.

Success!

Yubak managed to buy one more top-grade universal rune for 300 billion.

They had spent the entire 2 trillion budget on buying 13 universal runes!

Yu Ji-a, who had properly received the runes from the returning dispatched staff, finally let out a sigh of relief.

“Haah.”

Now they just needed to find five more.

Since they’d used up the budget, they’d have to use Yubak’s money.

Banks were lining up to offer loans for the shortfall, so that would be easy enough.

The problem was.

‘There are no listings.’

Even searching through marketplaces worldwide, there were 0 listings.

Forget 300 billion.

Even with 1 trillion, there was a chance they couldn’t get any.

Yubak’s intervention had pushed the value of universal runes up another level.

Honestly…

She wanted to resell the 13 they’d found at higher prices.

With good marketing it would be entirely possible, and that alone would be enormous profit.

But she couldn’t do that.

Because it was Baek Jin-woo’s request.

‘For now.’

There was a reason she had urgently told Baek A-jin to buy that last listing.

But she’d need to discuss this part directly with Baek Jin-woo.

While delivering the runes too.

Yu Ji-a headed to Baek Jin-woo’s training ground.

“Oh, you already got 13 of them?”

Baek Jin-woo’s face brightened as he received the runes through trade.

He had asked them to get them quickly, but they’d brought them faster than expected.

Finally!

Our Hunkyo will get stronger too!

A grin spread across his face at the thought of enhancing these.

However, Yu Ji-a’s expression wasn’t good.

“We need to get five more, but we used up the entire budget getting those. And now there are no listings either.”

Yu Ji-a settled in a corner of the training ground.

She briefed him on what had happened in a gentle voice.

“Hmm, is that so?”

Baek Jin-woo nodded.

That was natural for universal runes.

They were among the top-tier rare runes he knew of.

“It can’t be helped. Five is fine. It’ll take some time, but I can make them myself.”

“…Make them? Those runes?”

Yu Ji-a tilted her head with a confused expression.

‘What does he mean?’

Make limited edition runes?

Is that possible?

If that’s possible, that would be amazing!

We could just keep making and selling them!

“Hehe, there’s a way to do that.”

The overpowered thing about Rune Dwarves.

They could make any rune as long as they had the materials.

Whether it was limited edition or whatever didn’t matter.

However.

‘The materials are pretty tough though.’

Of course.

For Rune Dwarves to craft even limited runes, they needed to unlock their potential through Hunkyo.

That’s why during Battle of Summoners, Rune Dwarves were just mediocre summons.

“First, Jin-woo.”

“Yes.”

“There’s one more method… Actually, rather than a method, there’s someone who happens to own exactly five of those universal runes.”

“Really?”

“Yes, someone called… Jasim. He’s one of the Middle Eastern tycoons called an oil king, and his daughter is apparently very sick with some incurable disease. Since it’s the age of summons now, he’s been strongly hinting that he’d do anything if someone could solve that problem.”

“Ah.”

Somehow cure that person’s daughter and ask for the universal runes?

But well.

‘I’m not a doctor.’

How could I cure an incurable disease?

Especially if he’s a Middle Eastern tycoon, he would have tried every possible method to cure her.

“I did get his contact info just in case, but that method would be difficult, wouldn’t it?”

“Yes, nothing really comes to mind. Maybe an S-rank summon that cures diseases would work…? No, wait.”

Something flashed through Baek Jin-woo’s mind then.

Universal.

Wasn’t the summon that best fit that word right beside him!

“Hunkyo!”

Baek Jin-woo looked up and called to Hunkyo who was teaching in the vacant lot.

– Yes, my lord! Did you call for me!

Hunkyo, who had been observing the summons’ forms, rushed over like lightning.

“Can you cure diseases too?”

Hunkyo was universal.

Dealer, healer, supporter, special classes, etc.

He was knowledgeable enough to unlock potential abilities across all categories.

He taught Pokryong, and even taught the Rune Dwarf’s hammering techniques, so that said it all.

– I can’t be certain about curing diseases… but thanks to my experience teaching Aso before, I think I could easily assess what condition a patient is in.

“Oh, really?”

Aso was a martial artist.

Thanks to martial knowledge that allowed him to observe his own body and control ki and blood flow, current Hunkyo could also handle swords more smoothly!

“Wow, really?”

Yu Ji-a, who was listening nearby, was also surprised.

‘What on earth is that summon.’

Rumor has it that it’s E-grade, but why is it E-grade?

Based on its performance so far, it wouldn’t be strange to call it S-grade.

“First of all, just being able to know what kind of illness it is would make them incredibly happy, right?”

“Try contacting them once. That person called Jasim, right?”

“Yes, Jasim.”

“Ask if they’ll really give the universal rune if the illness is cured.”

“Yes! I’ll contact them right away and let you know!”

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