Laborer Mr. Kim Reaps Sweet Rewards with Auto-Hunting - Chapter 5

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Episode 005

Yoon Ha-jun’s Awakening, Director of the Workforce Management Bureau.
The advantage?
Obviously, Auto-Hunting.
But here’s the thing.
There’s a little thrill to it too.

“Every time I pull, there’s this tense feeling—kind of like scratching a lottery ticket.”

I mean…
If you win, you hit the jackpot, so it’s pretty similar, right?
Oh.
There’s another difference though.
Unlike a lottery, there are no blanks here.

[Using Upper-Tier Worker Single-Use Experience Voucher.]
[Summoning a worker!]
[Summoning range: All targets from Highest-Tier to Middle-Tier.]

Even Lower-Tier workers chew through F-Rank Dungeons without breaking a sweat.
But Middle-Tier minimum?
What can I say.
The second floor of the Tower should be a breeze.
Still, while I’m at it.

“I’d like to see a Highest-Tier one too.”

This is the second time using an Upper-Tier worker experience voucher.
The first time?
Our coffee fiend came out—Pooh-kkulrom.
No, wait.
It was Arthur.
By the way, he’s Upper-Tier Rank.

If Upper-Tier is already that strong…
Then what about a Highest-Tier, coming from such slim odds?
I watched with bated breath.

Whoosh!
Light blazed across the space.
And then—someone appeared!
Who?

“Boss?”

Hmm…
It’s Arthur again.
Damn.

……

No, wait.
He’s still Upper-Tier though.
That’s solid enough.
Yeah.

“Boss? Arthur—aren’t you two happy to see each other?”

So I need to keep my composure.
Smile warmly.

“Come on, of course I’m happy to see him.”
“But man, your face looks rough.”

What.
That’s a pretty rude thing to say.
Anyway.

“I’m just surprised. Arthur showed up again this time.”
“That’s right! Arthur, you came back!”
“Yeah.”

How did Arthur show up again?
The summoning range is Highest-Tier to Middle-Tier, isn’t it?
Come to think of it, the orc showed up twice too….
Doesn’t that mean there aren’t many of them?
I tilted my head slightly and
asked casually.

“Arthur, I gave one to the other guy. Mana Stones.”
“Huh?”

Gave them?
To whom?

“A different worker got summoned. So I gave him Mana Stones. That’s why he came instead.”

Ah….
So what you’re saying is—

“You’re telling me a different worker got summoned, so you gave him Mana Stones and he came as a substitute?”
“A sub… yeah, substitute, that’s it.”

Substitute, not sub, buddy.
But still.
So workers can just come do the job as substitutes?
That’s interesting….

“How many Mana Stones did you give him?”
“Mana Stones? Four. I gave him four.”
“Four?”

No way.
Four is literally your daily wage.
He came to work after you gave him that?

“Why would he? Arthur, are you a workaholic?”
“Boss, he give me coffee. Instant coffee, lots and lots.”

That’s such a typical Arthur answer I don’t even know what to say.
That crazy coffee fiend….

“What about the coffee I packed for you yesterday? You already drank all that?”
“Boss, Arthur drink coffee yesterday. When Arthur go back? No more. Arthur drink Instant Coffee Mix, all gone.”

Ah.
So things disappear when you take them back from here.
I’d learned one thing.

“So? I’ll give it to you again. Coffee. Come on.”
“You want coffee?”
“I want it!”

Coffee?
I could give him as much as he wanted.
It wasn’t like it cost much.
But.

[Worker Dispatch]
– Tower

Go to the tower first and come back.

* * *

Q. How do you get Arthur to move?
A. Tempt him with coffee.

A perfect tip, figured out in just two tries.
And it worked every time.

“Arthur, let’s go!”

Arthur, who’d been crying out for coffee this whole time, suddenly sprang up.
To his feet.

“One! Two! Three!”

He started his warmup routine.
After loosening up a bit, came next?
A safety chant.

“Boss, you too! Safety, good! Good! Good!”

But why was I—

“Good! Good! Good!”

Ah…
Why was my body responding like this?
Anyway.
He finished his preparations in no time.

“Boss, I’m going to work! Lots of coffee when I get back, okay?”

And he vanished into the tower.

[Worker has entered the Chaos Tower.]
[Auto-Hunting activated.]

Now that the worker was inside, Auto-Hunting turned on automatically.
So what now?
What else?

“Might as well check out the new features.”

——-
[Rewards]
– Unique Skill Experience
– New Feature Added: Monitoring
– Upper-Tier Worker Single-Use Experience Voucher
——-

Three rewards for clearing the quest.
My experience had climbed.
With the Upper-Tier Experience Voucher, I’d pulled Arthur.
And this last one—Monitoring?

[Auto-Hunting in Progress]
[00:00:23]

“Ah, there it is.”

A quick scan, and—
A new tab appeared.

[Monitoring]

That had to be it.
I tapped the icon.
A soft hum—
A holographic screen materialized before me.
What did it show?

“Oh.”

Crystal clear.
Like CCTV footage.

A man standing atop a stone wall, roughly human height.

“Arthur.”

And the enemies?

Screech! Screech!

They were charging toward him from a distance.
A pack of wild boars.
Maybe twenty or thirty of them in all?

“That’s brutal….”

Other Hunters would take them on directly, wouldn’t they?
Me?
No way. Absolutely not.
But Arthur would handle it.

“There, he’s moving.”

I’d watched a playthrough video of Floor 2 before bed.
The strategy was simple enough.
What was the approach?

[Since they don’t jump, just mill around. You can take them slowly and safely from the wall.]

Handle them one at a time from atop the wall. That’s all there was to it.
The lower floors pose no real danger.
It’s only a matter of time.
So what about our Arthur?

“What?”

What’s going on.
Why did you come down?
You were supposed to pick them off one at a time from the wall, safely….
I tilted my head in confusion—

Shring.
Arthur had drawn his sword.
And the moment he traced it horizontally through the air—
Screech! Screeeeech!
The wild boars split apart.
From the front of the herd to the back.
All of them.

“……?”

Insane.
Is he broken?

[Chaos Tower Floor 2 cleared.]
[Auto-Hunting terminating.]

No.
That can’t be right.
Yet here the message is.

The record?

[Chaos Tower Floor 2 Clear – Success!]
[Level increased.]
[Clear Reward – 30 Lower-Tier Mana Stones]

[Clear Time – 00:01:17]
[World Record Achieved!]
[Bonus Reward – Chaos Key Fragment]

Of course it’s a world record.
And this time, under a minute too.

“Boss? Arthur, what’s happening?”

Yoon Ha-jun, twenty-three years old.
After a few years working construction jobs, I’ve learned something crucial.
What’s that?
When someone knows how to work, just get on the bus and stay quiet.

“Boss?”

Especially Arthur.
The guy’s got a simple nature.
A cup of coffee probably solves everything for him.
Okay.
I’ve made up my mind.

[Fixed Team Management]

I’m not sure how many spots there’ll be.
But the first one’s yours, Beaucolon.

“Coffee? Two-to-one ratio?”

Come on.
Two-to-one’s the problem?
I’ll order delivery coffee if I have to.
Look.
Let’s head down first.
We should have a serious talk.

* * *

The work was done.
So then?
Coffee break.

Hisssss—!
Quick work: water boiling in the coffee pot.
One packet of Instant Coffee Mix torn open, dumped into a paper cup with a tap.
Stir it with a stirrer, back and forth?
Done.

“Delicious! So good! Two-to-one!”

Right then.
Of course it’s good!
Even Min-wook, who’s put in thirty years of hard labor, swears by this coffee taste!

Of course it’s not the perfect two-to-one ratio.
Just Instant Coffee Mix….
But, you know.

“As long as it tastes good.”

Maybe I’ll have a cup myself.
Slurp.

“Ahhhh….”

That aroma—it warms even the heart.
This is what coffee tastes like after work.

“Boss, you got more?”
“More? Sure. Drink as much as you want. I’ll make as much as you need.”
“Oh?! That right? Arthur, he’s being generous.”

Good.
Now I’ll ask.
Gently, carefully.

“Arthur, you ever heard of the Fixed Team?”
“…….”

Huh?
That question came out like a fastball straight to the gut.
Well, what can I do.
It’s not like I was ever good at talking around things….
There’s no helping it.
Since I’ve already thrown the bait out, I might as well hook him again.
Sliding a cup of coffee across to him as I do.

“You know what the Fixed Team is, right? What are they doing?”
“Mm…. Fixed Team. I know. Summon when you call?”

Yes!
Just as I thought.
My instincts were spot on.
But why did he play dumb at first?

……

I ask, but he stays quiet.
The moment I slide another coffee his way, though—
An answer comes out.
He’s basically a vending machine at this point.

“Fixed Team? When you call Yoon Ha-jun, we have to go out. Every day.”

True enough….
Worker Summoning is random.
But the Fixed Team?
That’s guaranteed.
If I had to compare it to manual labor, it’d be like clocking in every single day, weekends included.
Ugh.
I’d hate that too.
But if there’s a decent enough incentive…

“Join the Fixed Team, and I’ll let you drink Luwak Coffee.”
“Huh? What’s that?”

Well….
To be honest, I don’t really know.
All I’ve heard about it is from some guy I ran into once.
He said it was expensive and delicious.
Basically.

“It’s a rare coffee. Only the wealthy and nobles drink it.”
“Oh? Is it good, this coffee?”

No idea.
I’ve never tried it.
But I say it with complete confidence.

“Of course it is. Trust me, once you taste that stuff, you’ll forget all about Instant Coffee Mix? How about it—you in?”
“Hmm…. You treat well, give coffee well. If you give that coffee… Arthur thinks about it? Will try it.”

Wow.
This is actually working?
How much does this guy love coffee anyway?
Well….
From the person doing the persuading, this is perfect.
So there we have it.

“Long live coffee.”

* * *

“You did well today. See you next time.”
“Boss, Luwak Coffee! You promised!”

No.
You’ve already had over ten cups today.
And now you’re shouting for coffee on your way out the door?
You’re a complete coffee fiend.

“Too bad. If you’d registered the Fixed Team today, it would’ve been perfect.”

Can’t be helped.
But next time?
I’m definitely adding it.
First, let me open the feature.

——-
Name: Yoon Ha-jun (Lv. 3) / South Korea
Title: Workforce Management Bureau Director
Unique Skill: Worker Summoning (Rank – Iron)
——-

Climbed another floor of the tower, so I’m Level 3 now.
The rank of my unique skill?
Still Iron.

“Experience points are….”

[(3/5)]

First quest: recruiting a worker for daily use.
Second: accumulating summoned workers.

[Quest Complete!]
[Challenge One Floor of Chaos Tower (1/1)]
[Reward]
– Unique Skill Experience Points
– Lower-Tier Mana Stone x20

Including the third quest I just completed.
Each gave me one point, so the accumulated experience is three.
In theory, two more clears and I rank up, but….
What’s the next quest?

——-
[New Quest]

Complete Worker Summoning for 5 Consecutive Days (2/5)
——-

So basically.

“All I need to do is wait for time to pass?”

Fine.
I’ve got one more summoning left for today, so I’ll use that.
Then I’ll pick up the pace starting tomorrow.

* * *

Three days passed after that.
Yoon Ha-jun’s days blurred together in a whirlwind of activity.

Wake up in the morning, head to work.

“Hey, Kim! Grab me those drill batteries!”
“Yes sir, right away!”

Thud, tap, thud, tap.
Work.
Clock out.
Then what?
Wait until the sun set.

[Worker Dispatch]
– Dungeon

Quietly summon workers from the Rooftop!
The Chaos Tower?
He held back.
A tier promotion was coming soon anyway.
It would be sweeter after the upgrade.

Three days passed like that.
Five consecutive days of Worker Summoning completed.
Mission done!

[Mission Complete!]
[Worker Summoning for 5 Consecutive Days Completed (5/5)]
[Rewards]
– Unique Skill Experience 2
– Daily Worker Summoning Reset Voucher
– Upper-Tier Worker Single-Use Experience Voucher

The rewards were generous for such a long-term mission.
Really sweet.
Wait.
Hold on.

“Experience 2?”

That meant a tier promotion!

[Your unique skill has reached a new tier.]
[Worker Summoning (Tier – Iron) → Worker Summoning (Tier – Bronze)]

Yes!
Iron before, Bronze now!
What about the options?

[Worker Summoning (Tier – Bronze)]
[At the current tier, you may summon all entities classified as Upper-Tier, Middle-Tier, or Lower-Tier.]

Lower-Tier stayed the same.
But?
The cap had risen to Upper-Tier.
With some luck, he could even summon Arthur now.
That was incredible.
And the more important thing was.

[New Feature Unlocked: Fixed Team Management]

“This is it!”

The Fixed Team menu opened.
From now on, I could summon any worker I wanted.
Were there any summoning limits?
I checked.

[Fixed Team Management]
– Daily Summoning Limit: 1 per worker

“Damn.”

There it was.
Only once a day per worker.
Still, this was more than enough.

“I should be able to climb one floor of the tower every day from now on.”

Should I try summoning Arthur first?
Worker Summoning was reliable enough.
But I wanted something more certain.
That Upper-Tier Worker Single-Use Experience Voucher I’d received—let’s use that.

[Using ‘Upper-Tier Worker Single-Use Experience Voucher’.]
[Summoning a worker!]
[Summoning Range: All targets from Highest-Tier to Middle-Tier]

The target was random.
But I trusted Arthur.
He’d brought Mana Stones last time, so he’d come again this time, right?
And he hadn’t been able to drink coffee for three days.

Flash!
Light burst forth.
I was expecting to hear ‘Boss’ any moment now….

Ding!

Huh?

[Against the odds, a Highest-Tier worker has been summoned.]

What?

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