I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 63
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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 063
Rune Business (1)
Yubaek City, Training Ground.
Kaang, kaang!
The metallic sound of hammer striking anvil echoes in all directions.
“Is it going well?”
When Baek Jin-woo asked, Runde laughed heartily.
– Hahaha, you came! Hmm, rather than going well… the materials are a bit lacking. But I’m satisfied being able to swing this hammer! Hehehe!
Around him were broken runes and materials scattered everywhere.
What about his proficiency?
– Crafting (Lv.1): Creates desired runes with a certain probability using various materials.
Still Lv.1.
Hmm.
It was different from expectations.
Even though it’s been over a week since making contracts with major guilds, he still hasn’t reached Lv.2.
‘They probably don’t know yet.’
That players can’t feel the appeal.
That’s understandable.
Runde’s crafting success rate of 0.1% probably plays a part too.
More precisely, they probably don’t have a sense of how to utilize it.
“First, I’ll give you materials, so take these.”
Thud thud thud!
Baek Jin-woo opened his inventory and dropped the monster drop materials he had been collecting from Saturday Dungeons.
These were things he had been accumulating without selling since he started running the lowest-grade gacha.
– Whoa? W-what is all this!
Runde let out a joyful scream.
“With this, try making some supreme strength runes. With stats for strength, agility, critical hit chance, and critical hit additional damage.”
Strength runes.
Runes that maximize the strength governing summoned creatures’ damage output, the most standard form among graduation runes current summoned creatures can use.
However, strength runes have one drawback.
Strength runes from Weekly Dungeons absolutely never come with critical damage stats.
‘But our Runde can attach that.’
It’s not just strength runes.
Runde can attach any desired options to all runes without restrictions.
– Oh, with this much material, I can make about 10 of them? My proficiency will increase a lot too!
“Yeah, I’ll keep bringing materials.”
Now Runde must be cared for as the top priority.
If Baek Jin-woo’s summoned creatures come together to form a car, this Runde is no different from the engine.
The higher Runde’s crafting level rises, the more exponentially his strengthening speed will increase.
After exchanging a few words with Runde, Baek Jin-woo went straight to find Yu Ji-a.
It was to ask if the major guilds were properly commissioning Runde.
Yu Ji-a shook her head.
“It’s sluggish. The executives are mainly commissioning work, but it’s more like they’re just trying it out for Jin-woo’s sake?”
“Hmm, that won’t do.”
Finally, Baek Jin-woo made a decision.
If rankers don’t know Runde’s power?
He’ll promote it directly.
“Tell them I’ll personally provide consulting for players who commission runes.”
“Huh, really? Won’t you be too busy for that to be okay?”
“Can’t be helped. They probably don’t know well what runes their summoned creatures should equip for efficiency. Tell them I’ll provide consulting for just about a week.”
“Understood! I’ll contact the executives directly!”
“Oh, and.”
“Yes.”
“About A-jin selling runes now. I want to try a new business.”
“What kind of business?”
“I’ll sell luxury runes. Not the so-called luxury ones now, but runes that can truly be called luxury.”
Baek Jin-woo briefly explained the business he had conceived.
The first thing to sell would be strength runes with the critical hit additional damage option called critical damage!
He would sell runes that could only be bought through 「Yubaek」 at high prices.
“Can something like this really work?”
“Yes, that’s why Runde is overpowered…”
Honestly, he was surprised.
‘If I were in the Big 3, I would have gathered materials like crazy to commission him…’
It means South Korea’s level hasn’t risen that much yet.
Well, that’s fine.
If they don’t know, he can teach them.
“First, prepare with A-jin. It’ll definitely be a huge hit. It’ll probably cause more of a stir overseas than domestically?”
“Ah, understood.”
The moment 「Yubaek」 gains another route to make money!
Yu Ji-a’s eyes lit up as she moved quickly.
Kim Chul-su is a new player belonging to Arirang.
He recently received a private message in the guild community.
‘Using the dwarf? Baek Jin-woo will personally provide consulting? And it’s limited to one week?’
He knows about the Rune Dwarf’s existence.
The guild had promoted it once.
They had even made contracts, saying it was information that absolutely couldn’t be leaked externally.
‘If you bring materials, he’ll make the runes you want.’
At first he was interested, but the more he read the details, the less appealing it became.
‘Success rate is 0.1%? And if it succeeds, you have to give an advanced summoning scroll?’
Wasn’t that telling him to just bring and throw away materials he worked hard to get from Saturday Dungeons!
Moreover, hearing from seniors, it’s not just a bit of materials needed.
It’s enormous.
At this rate, it would be better to just get decent runes sold on the market.
However.
‘Baek Jin-woo’s consulting is a different story.’
He’s already famous among players.
The current national team rankers all say the same thing.
– Baek Jin-woo is just a god. Can’t express it in words.
– It feels like your perspective itself changes. Honestly speaking, I wasn’t even a player until now.
– If he recommends runes? Just change them! The feel itself is different!
– His fundamentals are on a different level. Even with the same summoned creature, the play itself is different.
‘Just how amazing is he?’
Those materials?
Why not invest a little and get some consulting!
With that mindset, he entered Yubaek City.
Chatter chatter.
‘Huh?’
The line was quite long.
Kaang, kaang!
There was a dwarf swinging a hammer in a corner of Main Gate Park, and next to him was a long desk with Baek Jin-woo and Baek A-jin sitting there.
‘Oh, it’s Baek Jin-woo.’
Kim Chul-su’s eyes lit up.
The hero of the present world that he had always respected was sitting right there in front of him!
Quite a few senior rankers were waiting in line for consulting ahead of him.
Had he waited about 30 minutes?
It was Kim Chul-su’s turn.
“Hello.”
“Ah, hello!”
Kim Chul-su greeted him respectfully.
“What kind of summoned creature consulting would you like?”
“Summoned creature?”
“Didn’t you come to get runes fitted?”
“That’s right!”
Kim Chul-su, who had been momentarily dazed with nervousness, brought out one of his main summoned creatures.
A B-rank Crimson Bear!
It wasn’t a common summoned creature, and many people mistook it for the similar-looking C-rank crimson fire bear.
However.
“It’s a Crimson Bear, right?”
He recognized it immediately just by looking at its appearance.
Even more.
“Looking at the 3 scars drawn on its body, it’s still level 30. You haven’t had it for long, have you?”
“Gasp, that’s right. How did you know?”
He even knew the detailed settings.
‘Even our guild master didn’t know this.’
Was this what it meant to be the captain of the National Team?
His trust in him increased even more due to his clear distinction.
“Of course I know everything. Would I do consulting without knowing about summoned creatures?”
“You’re truly amazing.”
“First, could you share your summoned creature’s information?”
“Yes!”
Kim Chul-su shared his summoned creature’s status window.
Now Baek Jin-woo could see everything from what skills it had learned to what runes it was equipped with.
“Hmm, a Berserker rune on a Crimson Bear… Since it has basic tanking capabilities, you were thinking of lowering defense and boosting damage a bit more?”
“That’s right! I heard that was exactly the right approach.”
“It’s not good. Didn’t you think that it only has high damage but its mobility and attack speed are too slow?”
“…Honestly, I did. That’s why I was thinking of a supporter…”
“No, rather than having a supporter just for one Crimson Bear, just change the rune.”
“What rune should I…”
“Double Attack rune.”
“…Double Attack?”
It’s a rune that allows you to attack one more time with a certain probability.
Certainly, with that setup, damage would increase and the lacking attack speed would be somewhat compensated.
However.
“That rune doesn’t come with critical hit probability, so the rune setup difficulty is…”
“No.”
Baek Jin-woo smiled.
“Our Runde doesn’t have such limitations. We can attach critical hit chance to Double Attack too.”
“…Really?”
“I told you. We can attach any rune with the options you want.”
“Ah, I understand! I’ll try it once!”
Whose word was it to ignore!
He’d scrape together every penny he had and invest it!
“Get consultation about materials over there.”
Next to him, Baek A-jin was sitting and diligently searching through documents.
It was data organizing runes and the materials needed.
When Kim Chul-su went and asked.
“Double Attack rune? Just a moment.”
Rustle!
She searched through the documents and found the materials.
“For one rune, bring 1,000 Fairy Wings, 1,000 Dice of Fate, 2,000 Firefly Stones, and 1,000 Golden Dragonfly Wings. Oh, and 1 Advanced Summoning Scroll as a service fee.”
“…”
It was truly an enormous amount.
When he asked why they required so much, she said the policy had changed.
Since the success rate was 0.1%, they would charge according to the expected value and guarantee one rune without fail.
All those materials were things that dropped with low probability from the Saturday Dungeon.
“I’ll, I’ll gather as much as I can.”
Bow.
Kim Chul-su bowed his head and left.
He now had a goal.
To gather those materials and obtain 6 Double Attack runes!
Then to enhance them properly and achieve graduation specs!
He didn’t know if the enhancement would go well, but to do that, he’d have to farm materials intensively from now on.
And all those materials would be converted into precious proficiency for the Rune Dwarf.
The night after consulting ended.
“Wow…”
Baek A-jin was genuinely amazed.
“Look at all these materials piled up here.”
Kaang, kaang!
Runde was still hammering away without rest.
His face had an expression of being so happy he could go crazy.
– Kahahaha! So good! So good! There are so many materials piled up that I couldn’t use them all even if I hammered all night! I met you at just the right time! Thank you. I really mean it!
“Oppa.”
“Yeah.”
“Did you expect this many people to come?”
“Of course.”
Baek Jin-woo smiled.
Whose consulting was it, after all.
He had also expected this many materials to pile up.
Because.
– Crafting (Lv.2): Crafts desired runes with a certain probability using various materials.
In just one day, the crafting level had risen to 2.
Now the success rate was 0.5%.
If previously it took 1,000 materials to complete one rune, now one could be completed with just 200.
Yet Baek Jin-woo didn’t announce the increased success rate.
He continued to charge exactly 1,000 materials each time.
‘First, I’ll charge according to the expected value and craft more with the leftovers.’
Sorry to the players, but that was the price of consulting.
Building proficiency first and raising the crafting level to max level 10 was the urgent priority.
The crafted runes?
They would be sold here and there with premium rune labels attached.
It would become one of “Yubak’s” main sources of income.
‘If they don’t like it, they don’t have to commission the crafting.’
After all, all transactions flow according to the logic of supply and demand.
In this world, Baek Jin-woo is the only being who can create those runes, and to do so, a sufficient price must be paid.
It’s not about being tyrannical, but about creating a Win-Win situation for both sides!
Kaang, kaang!
And so, Runde’s earnest skill training began in full swing.
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