You Have Been Invited to the Auction House of the Gods - Chapter 98

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98

 

 

 

“There’s a problem.”

 

At Zhang Qingye’s words, I quietly stood up from my seat.

 

Was it retaliation from the Chinese government, or had something happened to Rui?

 

Countless possibilities flashed through my mind.

 

Making all these worries seem pointless, Zhang Qingye’s answer was simple.

 

“I need space to teach martial arts.”

 

“Space?”

 

I had definitely delegated full authority over the underground training ground to Zhang Qingye during work hours.

 

Had something gone wrong with the training ground that was over 100 pyeong with cutting-edge equipment?

 

When I couldn’t understand, Zhang Qingye spoke up.

 

“It would be faster to see it directly.”

 

The situation in the underground training ground was more chaotic than expected.

 

‘Were there this many guild members in Ashin?’

 

Even though more than half were out on requests, the training ground was packed.

 

Not only the supply team, but several off-duty goblins were also visible.

 

But that wasn’t the problem.

 

The goblins were also Ashin’s guild members,

and I had told them to include them when creating the curriculum anyway.

 

Rather than the number of people, the equipment problem in the underground training ground was bigger.

 

In line with Kim Jin-woo’s goal of training elites even if few in number, we had invested quite a bit in training equipment.

 

As a result, various apparatus were added,

and when Lee Seo joined, one side was completely renovated into a magic-only training room.

Besides that, we had also brought in several wrestling arenas for the goblins, and life-or-death duels… no, Yacha Rule combat stages.

 

But Zhang Qingye’s martial arts classes didn’t need such things.

 

You only needed your body.

 

As a result, the expensive equipment we had invested in was actually hindering the classes.

 

Moreover, a situation had arisen where guild members who came to the basement for individual training rather than classes couldn’t use it either.

 

‘I’ll need to create a separate training ground for martial arts classes.’

 

“Jin-woo.”

 

I immediately called for Kim Jin-woo.

 

“Yes, Elder Brother.”

 

“Let’s go look at land.”

 

Since we couldn’t dig further underground, we had no choice but to find a training ground site.

 

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The system I created for Ashin had established itself as the standard for guild strategies.

 

Monster butchering know-how, emergency supply systems, supply strategies for prolonged dungeons, and more—

most materials about Ashin’s supply system were publicly available.

 

However, no guild other than Ashin had succeeded in building the system.

 

Therefore, they ultimately had no choice but to seek out Ashin.

 

Because Ashin was the only place that could turn that theory into reality.

 

In other words, we had sufficient funds to build a training ground.

 

So Jin-woo and I began exploring properties starting with the closest one to the guild building.

 

“…This is the closest site?”

 

I looked at the empty lot with steel plate partitions installed with an incredulous expression.

 

“I looked into it as much as possible, but this was the only decent place…”

 

The real estate agent made a troubled expression.

 

“Elder Brother, if this is the place the CEO found, I think we should assume there are no more places that meet our conditions.”

 

Jin-woo whispered quietly.

 

I know.

That agent isn’t an ordinary agent.

He was the CEO of a development company that Hanwoori directly outsources to.

Within his information network, this place was the most optimal location available.

 

‘No wonder his expression grew darker the more I mentioned the conditions…’

 

The first meeting wasn’t bad.

 

When I said we’d secure new land regardless of cost, the CEO personally stepped up to help.

 

It had to be as close as possible to Jongno, where Asin’s current Guild Building is located.

It needed to be at least 100 pyeong, and the larger the better.

I wanted to focus on durability rather than cutting-edge equipment.

 

Up to that point, it was fine.

 

These would be difficult conditions if the budget was limited,

but with no upper limit on cost, they could even create conditions that didn’t exist before.

 

Asin had financial power that surpassed that.

 

There’s no guild in South Korea that rakes in money like Asin.

And there’s no guild that reinvests as much either.

 

That’s why I also thought the Training Ground problem would be resolved quickly.

 

But money wasn’t the issue.

 

No, there were no properties available to begin with.

 

Finding a Training Ground site over 100 pyeong in the heart of Seoul Downtown was nearly impossible.

 

We couldn’t just demolish nearby buildings to build one Training Ground.

 

Waste and reinvestment are different concepts.

 

So this was the place we eventually found.

 

An Outskirts Area 1 hour and 30 minutes away from the Guild Building.

 

“Let’s think about it a bit more.”

 

Seeing Jin-woo say that, it seemed impossible to find a better site anyway.

 

No matter how I thought about it, building a Training Ground in a place that took 3 hours round trip was inefficient.

 

Having returned with no results, I threw my tired body onto the Sofa.

 

‘Should I split the personnel and conduct classes separately?’

 

But that wasn’t easy either.

 

Though Zhang Qingye looked like a bandit King wielding crude Twin Halberds,

the Martial Arts he taught were closer to orthodox schools.

 

In other words, you had to steadily build up one thing at a time every day.

 

‘This would block half the purpose of recruiting Zhang Qingye…’

 

To clear my complicated head, I fumbled around on the Sofa to watch TV.

 

But what I grabbed wasn’t a Remote Control, but an Ancient Book with a familiar texture.

 

‘Let me see…’

 

I sat up and carefully examined the Training Manual in my hand.

 

After the Training Manual was updated, training no longer took place in the Mental World.

 

A Cave that transported to a Training Ground appeared in reality.

 

What if not only I, but Guild Members could also enter that Cave path?

 

Moreover, the Training Manual analyzes each Trainee’s characteristics and provides optimal solutions.

 

‘We might not even need to build a new Training Ground?’

 

I straightened my posture and immediately logged into Golden Fragrance.

 

Then I sent a Message to Blurred Arrow, the creator of the Training Manual.

 

If he was who I thought he was, he wouldn’t refuse someone requesting help for improvement.

 

He was also an administrator who listened well to user suggestions.

 

***

 

The result of the Message was successful.

 

Blurred Arrow created a dedicated Training Ground that Guild Members could use according to my request.

 

It wasn’t the same Training Manual as mine, but a downgraded version.

 

He talked about causality and such, but how could I, a human, understand a god’s complaints?

 

Of course, in the process I had to purchase something called a Server in Golden Fragrance.

 

It cost 500,000 Gold, but that was roughly similar to the cost of purchasing land.

 

Moreover, there was one thing I had overlooked…

 

Blurred Arrow, or rather the half-human half-horse great sage Chiron, was quite a chatterbox.

 

It sounds nice to say he likes conversation, but he was no different from a grandfather who just likes to chat.

 

Both Forge That Tempers Fire and Silver Arrow were like that.

 

‘Do gods originally like to chat?’

 

I was even grateful that Golden Fragrance didn’t have a messenger function.

 

‘I never knew we’d exchange messages for 6 hours straight.’

 

What I learned in the process was as follows.

 

Chiron already knew to some extent that I was human.

 

After I got Golden Fragrance, the next thing I bid on after stats was the training manual.

 

To be precise, he said he watched the entire process from when I was F-rank

He said he watched the entire process.

Well, I understand.

If there’s only one user playing a game you worked so hard to create, wouldn’t you naturally have to take an interest in them?

And Keiron was also a regular at Mumyeong.

Because I was an avid buyer of almond granola.

how could a horse refuse the combination of grains, dried fruit, and sugar?

 

In any case, I passed through the traditional-style main gate installed in the underground training ground with a haggard face.

 

It was the entrance to the guild members’ exclusive training manual.

 

Aesthetically, it was excellent compared to my exclusive gloomy cave entrance.

 

What appeared after passing through the main gate was a vast estate.

 

The weather was also cool, perfect for training.

 

On the platform, martial arts classes were being conducted with Zhang Qingye and Rui at the forefront.

 

Rui suddenly gained dozens of older junior brothers.

 

I settled on a suitable rooftop.

 

[Three Disasters Fist Basic Training]

[First Form Training (0/1,000)]

…

 

A familiar system window appeared.

 

It seemed the martial art Zhang Qingye was teaching was the Three Disasters Fist Technique.

 

‘Training efficiency will improve.’

 

Having one’s efforts quantified in real-time provides considerable motivation.

 

While watching the overall training process, I caught sight of Lee Seo-rin in a corner of the training ground.

 

Just as I wondered ‘Why is she over there?’, she suddenly collapsed.

 

I quickly moved and caught her as she fell.

 

“She moved to the mental world?”

 

Lee Seo-rin’s appearance, as if her soul had left her body, was a familiar sight to me too.

 

It seemed she had been moved to the training manual’s personalized lesson space.

 

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