Chapter 42. A World where Money Earns Money (1)
“Yes, that’s it, dodge to the right. Ooh, a counterattack here? Aweso!”
A man was looking at an internet stream video while exclaiming continuously. He was even jumping up and down in his seat.
“Sangmoon. It’s annoying so calm down already. Didn’t you say that Pu TV streams were crap until yesterday? Why are you so excited right now?”
A cold-looking man who was taking care of so papers next to the excited man frowned and spoke.
“Oh, sorry about that. But, hyung. That’s before I watched this channel and I changed my mind now.”
“Changed how?”
“Everyone’s crap except for this guy.”
“Who’s this guy?”
“What era are you from? Don’t you know BJ Gale?”
“Gale? Oh! The user soloed Cave of Giants?”
“Yes.”
“I heard the rumors, but it looks like he’s really amazing.”
“He is. He’s really amazing.”
“I think it’s the first ti I saw you saying that.”
“Honestly, there are tis he even exceeds my expectations. This guy is a huge jackpot.”
“Is he that good? Soone who even the ‘Fighting God’ Typhoon of EL has acknowledged……. And what about you? Do you think you can solo the Cave of Giants?”
“Mm…… honestly, about fifty-fifty. I don’t think it’s impossible if I prepare many things and practice a lot. But even after that, I don’t think I can do it as cleanly as that guy there. It’s as if that guy played the Cave of Giants a thousand tis already. His movents and skill usage are all perfect. It’s almost beautiful.”
“Hey, hey. Hold your horses. Don’t forget that you’re the ace of Rising guild. Honestly, this is not the ti to marvel at soone else’s gaplay. You know that the other guys are all upset because we haven’t shown proper achievent in the Land of Dusk. Don’t get excited by soone else’s gaplay and just get ready to sprint in Hellfire Desert.”
“Hyung, did you forget that I’m the one who’s the most prepared? Just wait. The first nad monster in Hellfire Desert will be killed by us!”
Sangmoon, no, Typhoon, replied with a very serious expression.
He had a very competitive personality.
“Yes, yes. So stop watching that channel and get ready to log in. Apparently, so of our guys found a karma singularity point in Hellfire Desert.”
Shooting Star, the guild master of Rising guild, had put in no small amount of effort, and his efforts were slowly coming to fruition.
“Karma singularity point? It’s not like you need for that. Honestly, monsters that are slightly stronger aren’t really…….”
“This one is a little peculiar. They said that there was another change other than the upgraded monsters.”
“Eh? What does that an?”
“I don’t know the exact thing so I’ll have to log in to find out…… but it seems like there’s a 2nd stage to the singularity point.”
“Whew, so we didn’t know everything? But really, hyung…… It doesn’t look like there’s much ti left…… can’t I go after watching this? It’s not just fun, but it provokes when I look at this guy’s battle style. I think I can do better in the future.”
“It looks like this Gale guy is actually amazing. I heard he doesn’t belong to any guild either…… where did such a freak co from?”
Shooting Star tilted his head in confusion as he spoke.
Many large guilds in EL were paying attention to BJ Gale. However, the person himself was actually focusing on sothing completely different right now.
***
The 43rd quest of the large chained quest ‘rchant Guild’ has been completed. Go to the rchant manager in Tune and receive the final quest.
“Phew, finally…….”
When he killed the 1,000th humanoid monsters, ‘Redsand Thieves’, that appeared randomly in the desert, the most annoying 43rd quest in the chained quest line had been completed.
Sanghyuk had started this ‘rchant Guild’ quest as soon as he arrived in Hellfire Desert.
Even after that, he still cleared so of the quests in his spare ti.
The reason Sanghyuk had gathered insane sums of gold recently was also due to this rchant Guild quest.
Actually, the rchant Guild quest was sothing that three large scale guilds had combined their efforts to finish for the first ti in his previous life. And that wasn’t right now, but would take around 1 year into the future.
Strangely, this quest was known to the majority of the users from the get-go. The actual difficulty of the quest wasn’t that hard.
It was just that the 44th and the final quest was a little too vicious; the prior 43 quests weren’t anything difficult, actually.
The reason this quest beca famous was that a rchant guild could only be created through this quest. rchant guilds were sothing that wasn’t exactly a guild but helped users do many business or comrcial transactions in the ga.
Of course, it was treated differently from guilds, so rchant guilds could be created separately from guilds.
Then why were rchant guilds made? There were two major reasons.
The first was that only by creating a rchant guild, users were allowed to hire transaction-specific NPCs, that is, rchants. Unlike how other NPCs couldn’t trade with users or even use the auction or the commissioned sales store, rchant NPCs could do all of those three.
They were NPCs with completely different AIs to vendor NPCs who were only capable of standing on the spot and sell stuff only.
With rchant NPCs, users no longer need to wait for good items in the auction or the commissioned sales store. Of course, hiring rchant NPCs required money, but they were the high-level workforce that did their worth, so the money spent on it wasn’t that much of a waste.
The second was that only rchant guilds were allowed to open shops in villages or cities. No amount of money was enough for users to open a shop in a city or a village under their own na.
In any case, there was only the final quest left and Sanghyuk returned to Tune after finishing the 43rd quest.
***
“You exterminated those evil vermins so proactively… I understand how much you care about us rchants. I think I can now trust you to hire us. How is it? Are you interested?”
The 44th quest of the large scale chained quest ‘rchant Guild’ has been added.
To create a rchant guild under the permission of the rchants association, a large amount of investnt is needed. The rchants association is a huge group of vested interest, so a large amount of money needs to be given to the rchants association to create a rchant guild.
For reference, the rchants association has only allowed up to five rchant guilds for the Dinsional Travelers for the sake of balance. Please be warned that the opportunity may disappear if you don’t hurry.
Sanghyuk finally received the 44th quest. Nurous users wanted to create rchant guilds, but 99% of them were blocked there.
It was no wonder.
The other 43 quests were child’s play compared to this.
‘0/8,000,000 Gold’
The amount of gold written on the quest window was 8 million gold. In other words, users would have to pay 8 million gold to the rchants association to acquire a permit. Normally, no single user would have the capability to pay this.
‘Urgh…… it’s so expensive.’
8 million gold was sothing that normal users wouldn’t get their hands on even if they played EL for their entire life, but Sanghyuk was different.
As a result of raking gold until now, he had around 20 million gold on him.
To express how big of a sum this was, the current gold-to-cash ratio was around 10,000 gold to 400,000 won (400USD).
In other words, 20 million gold was worth 800 million won (800,000USD)
What was more interesting was that the value of gold increased as EL’s popularity rose. Honestly, there were more buyers than sellers of gold right now, so it was hard to look for a seller.
So, the 8 million gold paid by the three alliance guilds in his previous life was worth about 400 million won (400,000USD).
Using 400 million won (400,000USD) just to create a rchant guild in-ga may seem like a foolish thing.
However, Sanghyuk knew very well how much wealth the 3 allied guilds had amassed later in the ga.
‘It’s an investnt for the future!’
Sanghyuk didn’t hesitate and linked his (in-ga) bank account imdiately and paid 8 million gold in one go.
8,000,000/8,000,000 You have paid all the required gold.
“Ooh, you sir…… are more capable than you look. Congratulations. You are now a full-fledged executive!”
You have created a rchant guild. The na of the rchant guild can be created in the managent window. All the other functions of the rchant guild can be set in the managent window as well.
Congratulations. You have created the first rchant guild as a Dinsional Traveler. This achievent will be rembered for eternity.
You have acquired the unique-grade title ‘First Executive’.
Having created a rchant guild, Sanghyuk imdiately hired 2 C-rank rchant NPCs through the rchant guild manager. They were NPCs who had to be paid weekly, and as C-rank NPCs, their weekly pay was only 1,500 gold.
Comparing to how B-rank received 5,000, A-rank 10,000 and S-rank 20,000, it was very cheap.
He didn’t need all the functionalities of an S-rank rchant NPC right now, so a C-rank rchant capable of simply selling and buying was enough.
‘The na…… let’s just go with Golden Mountain.’
Golden Mountain – this reflected his will to pile mountains of gold.
Like that, the Golden Mountain rchant guild was rather… easily made.
‘Let’s first send one of the C-rank ones to Falcon City…… and leave the other one here at Tune.’
Sanghyuk placed the two NPCs in the largest cities in the two continents respectively.
rchant NPCs moved to their respective locations by themselves once he set them up, so it was rather comfortable. There was no need for Sanghyuk to move anywhere as he did with a vendor NPC.
The roles of the C-rank rchant NPCs in Falcon City and Tune were simple. Sanghyuk set them so that they would search the auction and the commissioned sales store and buy certain items that Sanghyuk had set when they were below a certain price.
They may not be able to hoard the items due to lack of money, so he gave them plenty, and also gave them the currently largest-available spatial expansion bag.
With this, they should be able to fill the bag without Sanghyuk having to take care of them for a day or two.
With that, Sanghyuk no longer needed to go to the commissioned sales store or the auction. The rchant NPCs hoarded the necessary items that Sanghyuk needed as long as they were below a certain price, so he only needed to visit them once a day and collect the items.
This was Golden Mountain rchant guild’s first business.
Buying low-evaluated items with insane investnt…… Sanghyuk was planning to raise the Golden Mountain rchant guild as the big hand that manipulates the prices of items in the auction.
In his previous life, there were so invisible hands as well. And there were many items whose prices changed according to their will.
Since he knew that, Sanghyuk was trying to change it and beco the one and only invisible hand.
‘The low-evaluated items will keep appearing for the ti being. I know most of them, so if I can monopolize those…… I can gain imnse profit.’
Sanghyuk had the confidence to not fail this business.
Of course, he was planning many other businesses other than just this.
And he could also automate those businesses with rchant NPCs without him having to care much about it.
The reason Sanghyuk had created a rchant guild even when he had to pay a big sum of 8 million gold…… was because he needed to raise his own level while earning money without him having to do anything.
Before he went off to hunt, he checked his newly acquired title.
Title – ‘First Executive’
Grade – Unique
Description – You have created the first rchant guild as a Dinsional Traveler and beca its executive.
Effect – [Prefix: Receive 10% more money when selling any item to any NPC.] [Suffix: Receive 10% discount when buying from any NPC.] [Constant effect: >Wage freeze (A) : Weekly wage required to pay rchant NPCs decreases by 30% for all ranks.
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