money-eating hippo
“Sorry for making you wait so long.”
“no. You must be rather busy, but I’m really sorry for coming to you suddenly without making an appointment.”
thick water.
The person who bought the gold coins that Yuseong obtained as a quest reward in the past for 7 billion won.
And now, the man who is working as one of the most competent brokers in a huge business called the Seoul Auction House said with a friendly smile.
“In terms of being busy, wouldn’t the customer be busier than me? Aren’t you a hero who saved Korea, no, the world?”
“The story goes like this.”
Yoosung waved his hand with a tired expression.
Even when he first pretended to be a hero, he was able to enjoy the situation to some extent, but as a result of people’s interest continuing wherever he went, whoever he met, and whenever, it was to the point where even the hero’s son came out.
“Oh, sorry. I know you hate it, but you keep forgetting it. By the way, how are you today?”
“I want to buy more magic stones.”
“You bought so many, do you need more?”
As a broker, it is taboo to take an interest in your customers’ products.
However, Jinsu, who knew how much magic stone Yuseong had recently bought, couldn’t help but say a word.
30 billion!
It’s been a while since a company that mass-produced items using magic stones was barely able to digest, and they didn’t want to buy magic stones again.
It’s not bad since you can make a lot of money yourself, but you have no choice but to worry about Yoosung’s pocket.
“It’s not something I use alone, it’s useful in a guild. Oh, and this time I want to buy some other things as well as magic stones.”
“What else?”
“Yes.”
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Jinhanseong tilted his head as he read the note Yoosung had given him.
“A material with restorative abilities, a material with the property of maintaining a constant temperature, a material that amplifies mana?”
“Among the monster’s attachments and new materials, find ones with similar properties as much as possible, and prepare the indicated quantity.”
“Well, I think I can get most of them, minus a few.”
“What are the unobtainable?”
“Things like devices that convert or produce electricity into mana. Oh, by any chance, you didn’t misspell the device that produces electricity with magic power, right?”
Unless it is an organ that uses magical energy to generate electricity, the opposite device has not been created anywhere in the world.
Because what was needed to sustain modern civilization was electricity and not mana.
“It is written correctly. There is nothing I can do without it.”
I wrote it down just in case, but there was no such device.
‘I don’t know if it’s somewhere in another world… … .’
Since I couldn’t just pick and go to a world with such things, I thought I would have no choice but to keep pouring water into the bottomless pot for the time being.
“How long will it take?”
“I can prepare about 20% in an hour, and it will take about a week to get the rest right.”
“good. Then we write the contract.”
“Well, by the way, if you want to buy all of the things listed here, the price will be quite high, would that be okay?”
The items on the list are all special materials that are traded at high prices.
However, Yuseong is trying to purchase such things in ton units, not kilo units.
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Jin-soo, who couldn’t tell the exact amount because he didn’t tap the calculator, but could guess that the amount would be astronomical.
However, instead of getting angry, Yooseong held out a card with a bright smile.
“I’ll pay in lump sum.”
“This, a lump sum payment… … . Please wait a moment.”
After running to the computer and tapping the keyboard for a long time, Jinsu put the card to the reader with trembling hands, as if the calculation was finished soon.
“Payment is complete.”
“And the magic stone.”
“How many magic stones do you plan to buy?”
“Infinitely. Keep scraping until the balance is insufficient.”
“Ah, yes.”
At first, thinking that there would be only a small amount of money left, Jinsu, who had been paying in thousand units, continued to make successful payments, adding one more zero at the end.
However, the balance did not drop even in units of billions, and the payment, which continued to increase the number of digits, could barely stop with the message that the balance was insufficient only after a long time had passed.
“… … How would you like to receive the goods?”
“If you collect them in the warehouse like last time, I will take them.”
“We will prepare it as soon as possible.”
Yuseong, who saw off Jin-su as he left the room with his back bent at exactly 90 degrees, took out his smartphone, which had been ringing non-stop since earlier, and checked the screen.
-Hogu
expected name.
Yoosung naturally refused to receive it.
* * *
Ugh!
“Mmm.”
Yooseong closed and opened his eyes several times and shook his head.
Unlike spirit movement, where the field of view naturally changes with bright light, Dragonia’s return function, in which the field of view suddenly changes when both eyes are open, is something that I did not get used to, no matter how many times I experienced it.
– Yoosung! Why are you here so late? Do you know how bored I was of being alone in a place with no one around?
Yooseong lightly avoided Aris, who flew in with a teary face, and put on an expression that he knew that would happen.
“You said you wanted to stay, right? You said you wanted to learn more about this city?”
– That’s when I thought I could move freely. I couldn’t fall beyond a certain range from the soul stone and couldn’t move the soul stone, so there was nothing I could do except look down at the city.
“I realize it very quickly.”
Yooseong took Aris’ soul stone in his arms and looked around.
Dragonia.
It is known to the world that it disappeared due to its own sabotage, but in reality it was just hiding between the gaps in the dimension using one of the city’s functions.
“Hmmmm.”
At the sight of the magnificent city unfolding under his eyes, Yooseong hummed a song without realizing it.
No matter how many times he looked, he couldn’t believe that this huge city belonged to him.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
-ah! Come to think of it, I keep hearing strange noises from there. Isn’t something wrong?
“Do I have ears too?”
Of course, the excitement didn’t last long.
When I touched the red hologram, new messages came to my mind.
[No state agency response.]
[Decreased auxiliary organ output.]
[Automatic repair function paused due to material depletion.]
[Severe Damage to Areas A5, A22, B8, B13, B17.]
“There is no end. There is no end.”
Dragonia’s condition was so dangerous that it would not be strange if it collapsed at any time.
That’s why over the past few days, Yoosung has poured all of his fortune into supplying supplies to Dragonia.
By pouring 30 billion won worth of mana stones to solve the urgent power problem, hundreds of tons of building materials, and materials of monsters with unusual properties, the urgent fire was able to be extinguished, but complete restoration of the city was far off.
That’s right!
After a while after touching the screen, huge golems with various shapes appeared and began to move the objects that Meteor had brought.
Numerous statues and statues were seen throughout the city.
Their substance was not just a work of art made to look good, but a part of the system that was in charge of defending and maintaining Dragonia.
It stopped working due to the exhaustion of the power source and the absence of the commanding authority, but after Yuseong airlifted the mana stone and gave the order to repair it, it woke up from a long sleep and faithfully performed its original mission.
“Didn’t you just leave it on Earth?”
After checking the list of newly added materials and the expected repair progress, Yooseong unknowingly let out a weak sound.
The pile of materials scratched with Kang Chang-seok’s card were not even one hundredth of what Dragonia needed.
‘I committed it with the thought that even if I couldn’t eat, it was crazy, no matter how much I thought about it. This is not a scale that an individual can handle.’
Even with the most conservative calculations, a considerable national budget is required to restore Dragonia.
However, it is now a situation where you can neither bring it back to Earth nor throw it away.
In the end, I had no choice but to keep pouring water into the bottomless pot.
“Let’s think positively. It is an amount that can be achieved by scratching about 200 Kang Chang-seok cards.”
-Who is Kang Chang-seok?
“Hogu.”
Yuseong calmly said something that would make Kang Chang-seok vomit blood if he heard it, and started to go down the stairs.
No life exists inside the pyramid.
It was the same even if it was expanded to the entire Dragonia rather than the pyramid.
This is because all functions related to survival, such as atmospheric composition, temperature control, and living area functions, were temporarily suspended in order to defeat the Lizardmen, and then sent to the dimensional rift.
At first, he intended to use the Lizardmen by using sentences.
However, thinking that there might be a rebel like the Nords, he decided to defeat the Lizardmen, and as a result, Dragonia became a lonely city where only one person existed.
-That’s why I think it’s better to follow Yoosung than to stay here. Oh, of course I don’t mean to give up the investigation. There are limits to what this body can do, right? Until you get a body or a means to interact with the outside world… … .
‘Isn’t it just one person?’
When I reached the basement where I was walking with Aris’ chatter as the background sound, I slowed down and started to look around.
-Are you looking for something?
“A fine corpse. look for you too Most of them look rotten, but if you look carefully you might find some that are intact.”
-… … Just in case, why are you looking for a dead body?
“Are you trying to use it as your new body?”
-I do not like it! Not even a human, but a Lizardman! How can you think of such a thing?
“No, it’s not that I’m going to do it as a Lizardman, it’s just one of the candidates. And strictly speaking, it’s not lizardmen here, it’s dragons. The deeper you go, the closer you get to the human form, so if you look carefully, you will find at least one that you like… … .”
-No! never! You’re listening to me, right? Look at me, not the glass tube!
At Aris’ desperate opposition, Yoosung sighed and walked inside, leaving the glass tube behind.
No matter how good your body is, you can’t force yourself to do something if you don’t like it.
“Then what body do you want?”
-That’s of course a human! Of course, you can’t just be human. I want to be as close to myself as I was in my life so that there is no sense of difference as much as possible. That, and if possible, I would like to grow a little more. I wish my height was a bit taller, my eyes were a bit bigger, and my fingers… … .
“From the middle, it seems that you are getting further and further away from your appearance in life.”
– Hmmm, it’s just like that. Anyhow, you understand what I mean?
“Roughly. But rather than finding a body that perfectly fits that condition, I think it would be faster to make something like a golem that looks like that?”
– You heard me right, right?
“No, I think it’s because you don’t know, but you can make a golem with a sophisticated appearance that is indistinguishable from a real human. I don’t know if it’s possible on Earth, but if you expand the scope to another world, there will be places where it’s possible enough.”
No matter how many different worlds there are, there was no way that there wasn’t a dimension that could create things like the Gynoids that appear in SF media.
‘what? Come to think of it, isn’t this better? In terms of difficulty, it is much easier to have a soul dwell in an object than to have a soul dwell in a body. Unlike the weak body, it is strong and can be easily repaired even if it is broken. You can also add various special features to it… … .’
– Why are you looking at me like that?
Aris’ gaze, filled with faint suspicion, Yoosung cleared his throat and avoided his gaze.
Aris, who felt uneasy, asked what he was thinking, but Meteor pretended not to hear and jumped down into the cavity in the deepest part of the underground.
“… … .”
Aindel.
Except for the fact that he closed his eyes, nothing had changed from the last time he saw him.
Yuseong, who looked up at the dragon’s majestic figure, took out an ax handle from his waist and lifted it.
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Jigsaw Jigsaw!
“Then let’s start today.”
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