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Chapter 153
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Right after returning to reality, I immediately opened my status window.
[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 47)]
[8,014,000 Points]
And there it was.
A vigorous figure reaching a whopping 8.01 million.
I could only... feel proud!
“Four days ago, I saved Busan. Three days ago, I saved Jeolla and Gwangju. Two days ago, I saved the Chungcheong region. Yesterday, I saved Jeju, South Gyeongsang, and North Gyeongsang. And finally, today! I saved Incheon, Daegu, Gangwon, and Ulsan all at once...!”
“You crazy bastard. You’re counting the Points you earn like you’re clearing the whole country region by region.”
“That’s me.”
No, calculating my Points like this made the thrill of saving people feel even better.
I could look at a map of the Korean Peninsula and think, “Hehe. I saved that place too,” while acting all smug.
Anyway, it seemed I had covered the entire provincial population.
“Now, if I save Seoul and Gyeonggi, I’ll have saved everyone in King Korea...!”
The capital region was still left.
Seoul had 9.3 million people.
Gyeonggi had 13.6 million.
Together, that was 22.9 million.
The capital region alone had well over twenty million people. Such was the majesty of King Korea.
The overcrowding in the capital region was serious.
It really was the Republic of Seoul.
But I wasn’t afraid.
The higher the floor, the more Points I earned each day.
I would probably earn them all in no time!
As I proudly admired my total...
“Iing! Iing!”
Poro-roong.
Iing Iing flew over and began tugging hard at the front of my clothes.
Oh my, what was with her all of a sudden?
Hyeji translated beside me.
“Jiho, Iing Iing wants you to show her that statue.”
“Ah. My figurine?”
Apparently, Iing Iing wanted to look at my figurine again.
Well, it was pretty well-made merchandise.
“Here.”
“Iing!”
When I took the figurine from my clothes and set it down, Iing Iing flew over with a poro-roong and admired it.
She even brought over a pair of wooden chopsticks from somewhere and copied the pose of me holding a staff.
She was fucking adorable!
Anyway, since I had acquired such a fitting trophy...
“I have to brag about this!”
Click!
After taking a picture of my figurine, I quickly wrote a post.
[Post Title: (Info) How to Clear Floor 46! + Face Reveal!]
[Author: Blue Dot]
(Photo of an extremely glorified statue)
Hunters who aren’t newbies...
Today I went to Floor 46.
There were people like a rescue team on Floor 46,
and they were saving people from the wasteland.
Turns out, the city I saved had grown into a big city with a population of 100,000,
and they were going around rescuing people.
Isn’t that so admirable?
I wanted to lend a hand too.
So I just saved them all!
I think I saved around a thousand people scattered across the wasteland.
It felt so satisfying.
Oh, right.
Wall-Blue Dot that I made,
and my Extreme Lunatic Hell City,
had grown bigger after about three years passed in the Tower.
The population already hit around 100,000. Holy shit.
It grew from a tiny city of ten thousand into a mid-sized city of one hundred thousand in just one day...
I barely did anything, but it keeps growing so nicely.
Is this the real fun of idle games?
I think I get why people play idle games and auto-hunting games.
It’s the perfect genre for someone like me, busy day and night saving King Korea.
It’s just... fun!
Anyway, today’s earnings!
1,208 Wyverns, 512 Trolls, 141 Ogres, and 42 Cyclopes...
A total of 8,014,000 Points...
That’s 80.14 billion won!!!
This is why I’m a Hunter!
Praise me for earning eighty billion in one go.
But can the government budget keep handling this?
The government gives me tens of billions every day for Point settlements.
Part of me is worried that it might burden the budget, and part of me isn’t...
What if I drain the national treasury dry...
Oh, right. To clear Floor 46, just kill every monster you see and leave through the Escape Portal.
Later!
...
As soon as I made the post, comments began pouring in.
└Did this bastard change his recurring post format? Since last time, he’s been calling it a strategy guide, then wrapping it up with one line saying, “Just kill them all.”
└So where’s the face reveal? Am I the only one who can’t see it?
└Did you deceive us, Blue Dot?
└Hello, this is FFF Daily. We would like to request an interview.
└Lmao, of course. No way this bastard would show his face so easily. He even covered his mug with some light on that nationwide broadcast.
└What’s with that statue, though? It came out of nowhere.
└Worrying about our country’s budget too... As expected of Great Blue Dot!
└└But seriously, isn’t that enough money to affect the budget? He must have earned hundreds of billions from Point settlements by now.
└Thank you for lowering our electricity bills, Shining Blue Dot.
└Is it true that you bought a building in Yongsan District? Are you really starting a company? I want to buy stock, where do I get some?
└Holding my breath until the hair-loss medicine launches.
...
As always, the comments were all over the place.
I snickered and moved my fingers.
“Hehe. The way they leave comments, begging for this great one’s replies, makes them look like baby birds begging for food. I have no choice. I’ll have to carefully reply to them!”
I moved my fingers and replied to the comments that caught my eye.
└What’s with that statue, though? It came out of nowhere.
└└Blue Dot: That’s me.
└└? What are you talking about?
└└Blue Dot: The Tower locals made that statue based on my handsome, noble, and beautiful appearance. People in the Tower pray before it. Think of it as something like a statue of Jesus. That’s what my face looks like.
└└Bullshit. You picked up some insanely handsome statue and are trying to fake it. Just admit you’re ugly, Blue Dot. Even if I want to praise you for saving Korea, why are you pulling such a pathetic move?
└Lmao, this is fucking hilarious. A statue is his face? I laughed out loud because it was so absurd. It’s like watching some loser post a celebrity photo on social media and project himself onto it.
└└Blue Dot: No, I’m telling you, it really was made based on my face? This is so unfair...
└└If it’s unfair, show us your face.
└└So why won’t you show your face? Looking at how you farm attention on Hunter Gallery, it doesn’t seem like you’re going for a mysterious concept. Why won’t you show it?
└└Blue Dot: It’s common knowledge that heroes reveal their faces at the decisive moment, so I’m waiting for that time. I’ll probably show my face when I save the whole world.
└└Bullshit.
└It’s true that the government doesn’t have enough money for Point settlements... That’s why the supplementary budget bill recently passed. They secured additional funding for Tower Point settlements.
└└Blue Dot: What’s a supplementary budget bill?
└└It means the government brings in more money because it needs a larger budget. They secured more funding to pay for your Point settlements. The bill passed and the additional budget has been released, so you don’t need to worry about not getting paid. Just climb the Tower hard and earn lots of Points.
└└Blue Dot: Oh, so there’s no problem with me getting paid? I was thinking of taking less if there wasn’t enough money, but I guess I don’t need to. Good.
└└Holy shit, he was thinking of taking less from his Point settlements? Really?
└└That’s honestly kind of touching.
└└I can’t even imagine how much he loves this country.
└└Blue Dot was already selling electricity dirt cheap for ordinary people’s cost of living. He acts like a crazy bastard, but he’s always done a lot of things for people...
└└Blue Dot: That’s me.
└When are you selling the hair-loss medicine, damn it? Sell it already, my hair follicles are all dying.
└└Blue Dot: I bought a headquarters building, and we’re installing equipment. We’ll mass-produce it and sell it soon.
└└Please release it soon... My head is cold...
...
The comments and my heartfelt replies continued to scroll by.
As I kept replying, I muttered quietly.
“Hmm. These Hunter Gallery guys aren’t saying much about the city I made. Normally, they would be mocking me again, accusing me of talking nonsense and asking why there were people in the Tower. Ah, could it be...?”
At last.
Had they opened their eyes?
Ahhh!
They said devotion moved heaven!
I repeatedly wrote posts saying that there were people in the Tower, that I had saved them all, and that I had even built a city.
At last, the Hunter Gallery users believed me!
The blind had pulled aside the veil called common sense and finally faced the truth!
I felt proud.
“The Hunter Gallery guys have finally opened their eyes! They finally believe my strategy guides! Yes, this is right. I’ve written the same thing over and over, so it was about time they believed me! As expected, if you keep telling the truth, people will believe you!”
“...I think they’re just not feeding the troll. Nobody believes you, Jiho. They probably just think you’re talking nonsense again.”
“How dare you! That can’t be! Don’t insult our awakened Hunter Gallery users! Traitor!”
“Why am I a traitor again...?”
Putting down King Korea’s highly civilized community users.
If that wasn’t treason, what was?
That was exactly how someone who dreamed of running off to America would think.
After praising the mature civic spirit of the Hunter Gallery users, I closed Hunter Gallery.
“Anyway, that was another productive clear! Should I eat now? Noona! Food!”
I scratched my stomach as I got up from the sofa.
Then, at that exact moment, one jar entered my sight.
“...And so, this afternoon, the U.S. Department of Defense...”
“...”
More precisely, it was the black jar sitting on the table in front of the TV.
It was none other than Daesik.
For reference, I had not brought Daesik along for today’s clear.
There was nothing for Daesik to do even if I brought the jar, so I had just left it at home.
I had put Daesik in front of the TV so the jar could watch it, but I had completely forgotten.
And the moment I spotted Daesik, intense anger filled me.
“Daesik, you bastard! You environment-destroying Chinese bastard who tried to suck the earth’s mana veins dry! The problem with this world is that there are too many trash bastards like you!”
“What nonsense is that... Aaaaagh!!!”
Thud thud thud thud thud!
I pounded the jar lid with my fists.
Gently, since it looked like it would break if I used too much strength.
“Iing! Iing! Iing! Iing! Iing! Iing!”
Smack smack smack smack smack!
When I began beating Daesik, Iing Iing began kicking the jar too.
Iing Iing’s Killer Slide Kick struck the jar.
Good job, Iing Iing!
Twist Daesik’s ankle!
“Aaah! Aaaaagh!!! Why are you suddenly doing this?! Why?!”
“I found another bastard like you in the Tower today! Looking at you makes me angry all over again... Die!”
“Iing iing iing iing!”
Thud thud thud, smack smack smack.
After Iing Iing and I finished our combined attack...
“Let me tell you what I saw in the Tower today.”
I explained what I had seen to Daesik.
Mana veins drying up by the day.
Rivers and land drying out.
Hordes of monsters being driven down from the north.
Land turning into desert and temperatures rising.
“There’s definitely another bastard like you. Someone in the north is sucking the mana veins dry! There was a bastard like you on the Highest Floors too!”
“I didn’t even do it, so why are you taking it out on me...?”
“Seeing mana veins get sucked dry in the Tower made me angry when I looked at you again. You’re basically a stress-relief punching bag.”
“This is unfair...”
If Daesik thought it was unfair, Daesik should not have sucked the mana veins dry.
This was why people needed to live kindly.
Then, suddenly...
“Wait... This is strange.”
Daesik spoke quietly in a serious voice.
Had something come to mind?
“What’s strange?”
“It resembles a phenomenon from an old legend.”
“?”
“The depletion of mana veins, the devastation of the land, strange behavior from monsters, and rising temperatures...”
Daesik groaned for a moment, as though searching through memories, then continued quietly.
“The earth dries. The wind grows hot. Small snakes in the sky leave in swarms. Beasts flee... They are signs said to appear before the Dragon of legend reveals itself.”
“A Dragon!”
A Dragon.
In English, Dragon!
The phenomena I had seen on the Highest Floors...
Were signs of a Dragon appearing?
“Of course, it is only a legend. And the world you call the Highest Floors of that Tower was quite different from the place where I was. You cannot say for certain that it is a Dragon...”
“A Dragon! Dragon! Wow! Sans!”
I spread both arms wide.
A Dragon.
The flower of fantasy!
As described in countless novels, Dragons were transcendent beings far beyond ordinary life forms.
They were the progenitors of magic, who taught magic to intelligent beings.
They had all kinds of absurdly overpowered skills, like Dragon Fear, Dragon Speech, and Breath.
Weren’t they the strongest life forms?
And one might appear?
“...Listen to everything I have to say.”
“I’m listening. You’re saying a Dragon is going to appear in the Tower.”
“You cannot say for certain... No. Forget it. I won’t continue.”
Daesik fell silent.
And I brimmed with anticipation.
I might get to meet a Dragon!
How could I not be excited?
I glanced at Daesik.
The black jar sitting on the table.
A gloomy voice, an unemployed bum who watched TV all day.
I muttered quietly.
“Just as I thought.”
“What do you mean? I’m worried about whatever nonsense you’ll say next.”
“This great one, an Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard Hunter, cannot be satisfied with a gloomy jar pet like you.”
“...Pet?”
“A wizard needs either a fucking cute fairy like Iing Iing or a cool-as-hell pet like a Dragon! I can’t be satisfied with some black jar Sans like you!”
“Who says I am your pet?!”
I imagined it.
Enormous wings covering the sky.
A mouth breathing fire.
And this great one riding atop it, golden rotors shining as I soared through the sky...
Ah!
Wouldn’t that be incredibly cool?
“I want to get to Floor 50 already.”
“Jiho, I can’t understand what that jar is saying, so I don’t know exactly what you were talking about, but... were you just saying that you want to make something like a Dragon your pet?”
“That’s right. If things go well, I might make a Dragon my pet. No, it will definitely happen! Wait for me, Dragon! Extreme Lunatic Hell Dragon Rider Baek Jiho is coming!”
“...A Dragon? There’s no way something like that would really appear in the Tower.”
Hyeji muttered that, and my eyes shone.
Honestly, I did not know whether a Dragon would really appear.
But if one did...
Couldn’t I possibly make it my pet?
“I look forward to the day I ride on a Dragon’s back!”
“Iing...”
“Don’t be sad, Iing Iing. You will always be the best mode of transportation in my heart! Even if I adopt a Dragon, I’ll never neglect you, so don’t worry!”
“Iing...!”
“You crazy bastards...”
Iing Iing smiled brightly in relief, while Daesik grumbled.
As always, our living room was noisy.
Tomorrow was Floor 47.
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