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Chapter 70: 070

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Those were the Hunter Gallery posts that caught my eye.

[?]

[What the hell did the president just say?]

[Ah, I think I've been browsing Hunter Gallery too much lately. I'm hearing things...]

[I heard that wrong, right?]

[What the fuck was that?]

At first, it was a barrage of question marks.

[Why is the president talking about Extreme Lunatic Hell whatever?]

[What the hell is Blue Dot?]

[So the government is building an Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plant and secured 171 GW worth of Magic Stone Reactors?]

[Is this real?]

The question marks soon turned into shock.

[Holy fuck, we're screwed. The country's finished!!!]

[The president has lost his mind.]

[Save us.]

[No, this makes no sense.]

[Our country's president has finally snapped!]

[Blue Dot was actually real?]

[Come on lol, no way lol.]

[What if everything Blue Dot posted until now was actually true?]

After shock came fear and confusion.

Hunter Gallery users were changing moods by the second in just a few moments. I read through the posts that stood out one by one.

[Post Title: I Heard That Wrong, Right?]

They're building an Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plant?

Why is that coming out of the president's mouth?

I heard that wrong, right?

No, why the fuck is a country's president saying Extreme Lunatic Hell?

Why is the concept pushed by that beloved Hunter Gallery regular coming out of that bald guy's mouth!!!

I heard that wrong, right?

I've been on Hunter Gallery too much lately and gone insane, right?

└I heard it too, so it wasn't a hallucination;;

└I'm getting dizzy...

└I've got the news on right now, and they're saying they're proceeding with the Extreme Lunatic Hell power project using Magic Stone Reactors some Hunter brought back. Total capacity is 171 GW.

└Didn't Blue Dot's post earlier say he got 171 GW worth of Magic Stone Reactors?

└Fuck, could he actually be real???

└└That crazy concept post was real? Come on lol, that's impossible lol.

└└How could that AI-picture-faking concept addict actually be real lol?

└└Yeah, no way lol.

[Post Title: What the Hell Is Blue Dot?]

Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plant.

Wasn't that just an AI-edited fantasy post?

Then why is it coming out of the president's mouth???

Ah.

I've figured it out.

Blue Dot was actually the president.

There was secretly a government project to import Magic Stone Reactors,

and that was the Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plan.

Blue Dot couldn't announce it yet because he was the president, so he was dropping hints on Hunter Gallery.

That's it, right?

└How could that possibly be it?

└It's honestly pretty terrifying to think the president is lurking on Hunter Gallery and posting braindead shit.

└Could he be some high-ranking government official?

└Either way, something completely insane seems to be happening.

└Why isn't Blue Dot coming to Hunter Gallery? If he's such an attention whore, he'd be rushing in here to post.

└└For real, I wish he'd hurry up and post. I have no idea what's going on.

[Post Title: Holy Fuck, We're Screwed. The Country's Finished!!!]

The exchange rate hitting 2,500 won?

That can happen.

The country's power supply getting wrecked and blackouts becoming routine?

That can happen.

A Point shortage, collapsing public safety, foreign military provocations, and exploding immigration?

That can happen.

But.

The president saying, “We will construct an Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plant and normalize the country's power supply through the Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plan”?

Fuck.

That can't happen.

Has the president finally gone crazy?

I should've known when he was always looking sick because of all the stress.

Fuck, our country is finished!!!!!!

└Run away~~~!!!

└Republic of Korea RIP.

└Blue Dot finally brainwashed the president with his hypnosis app!

└But isn't it real? They're showing materials on the news right now, and it looks like the government really did secure Magic Stone Reactors.

└The head of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute is on right now explaining stuff, and it seems real. They say most thermal power plants will switch to Magic Stone power within three days.

└I don't know, I'm scared. What is this...?

[Post Title: What If Blue Dot's Posts Were Actually True?]

What if Blue Dot's posts

were all true?

So.

He climbed the Tower solo, one floor every day.

He earned tens of thousands of Points a day.

He brought back tons of loot every day.

He wiped out dozens of Chinese Hunter special operations unit members by himself.

He farmed dozens of Magic Stone Reactors alone.

He said he'd build power plants and take responsibility for our country's electricity.

What if all of that was real?

What if he was a King God General Emperor Admiral Majesty Hyper Ultra Fantastic Extreme Genius Pinnacle Master Patriot Hunter,

and we just failed to recognize him...?

└No fucking way. That makes no sense.

└Ah lol, I just imagined something hilarious lol. What if Blue Dot was actually real lol.

└└The president comes out for a national address, does PPAP, and builds power plants lol. The citizens are like, “What is this? Some hilarious hidden-camera prank?” lol. I laughed so hard imagining it.

└└This guy got hit by a mental attack.

└└RIP.

└└I think I'm going insane.

└So is the president crazy, or is it actually real? Fuck.

...

Hunter Gallery had become complete chaos.

Maybe it was because so many people were flooding in, but it was lagging much worse than usual.

I snickered.

“Hehe. Those Hunter Gallery bastards have finally realized this body's greatness and can't keep their heads straight.”

“...Jiho. You're going to make a post on Hunter Gallery, aren't you?”

“How did you know?!”

“I can see your fingers itching.”

That was right.

The entire Hunter Gallery was on fire over me for once.

If I didn't make an appearance here, wouldn't that be neglecting my duties as Hunter Gallery's beloved Extreme Lunatic Hell regular?

I couldn't ignore everyone's anticipation and expectations!

I quickly wrote a post.

[Post Title: Yeah, It's Me.]

[Author: Blue Dot]

Yeah, that's right. Surprisingly, it's all true.

As the Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard Hunter, your big bro will save this country, build the Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plant, and protect both energy security and industry.

Doesn't that make me a patriot? Yeah, it does. Anyone who disagrees is a traitor.

So you commoners can leave the Republic of Korea to me, wash your feet, and go to bed.

This body will save King Korea.

Later.

└I think I'm going insane.

└You evil Blue Dot, undo the president's brainwashing right now! Turn off your hypnosis app!

└King God Dot, are you saying your patriotism is as unmatched as your trolling skills!!!

└I can't take this. The president really bowed his head and thanked a concept addict who writes like a middle schooler?

└Guys, I'm dizzy. What the hell is happening?

└Hello, this is K Daily. Would an interview be possible?

└Blue Dot, I always believed in you!

└└You fucking liar, I checked your comment history and you've been cursing Blue Dot out under every one of his posts lol.

└└Look at this guy deleting his comments because he's scared, this is hilarious lol.

└└Don't be scared! Stand your ground and fight!

└Hunter Gallery's idol Blue Dot is actually a patriot? What is this, some hilarious hidden-camera prank?

└Well done, Kim Blue Dot. Save Korea with your own two hands.

...

Comments poured in one after another.

Every time I refreshed, hundreds of comments and views appeared in an instant.

The comments kept multiplying.

Three hundred, five hundred, a thousand, two thousand...

Hunter Gallery slowed down more and more with every refresh.

Then, finally.

[503 Service Unavailable]

[The service is currently unavailable.]

Hunter Gallery went down.

Its servers had crashed under the traffic overload.

I clicked my tongue.

“The Hunter Gallery servers couldn't bear the greatness of this body, the Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard Hunter. To think the fifth-largest site in the Republic of Korea would go down from this much traffic... It must be because the servers were weakened by the power shortage.”

“...”

“But it's fine. Once the power supply is normalized before long, the Hunter Gallery servers will be able to withstand this body's greatness just fine!”

Anyway.

Dopamine was bursting through me.

All that attention had naturally put me in a good mood!

Ah, so this was why people acted like attention whores.

Now I understood why Elon Mengsk was always provoking people.

With countless people's attention focused on a single word from me, it felt as though I stood at the center of the world.

A thought suddenly came to me.

‘With this much attention, can't I start competing with Elon Mengsk's attention-whoring power?’

I was still nowhere close to him in wealth.

Still, with enough influence to receive thousands of comments, it might make for a good match against Elon Mengsk!

I immediately opened Elon Mengsk's social media account on my smartphone.

There, I found:

[Elon Mengsk]

[280 Million Followers]

The overwhelming number, 280 million followers, was displayed before me.

Urgh!

I felt defeated.

“Damn it. Elon receives attention from hundreds of millions of people. I thought I'd grown all this time, but I still have a long way to go!”

A few thousand comments couldn't compare to hundreds of millions of followers.

But I wouldn't give up here.

I would farm even more money and attention, then someday surpass him in both wealth and attention-whoring power!

“Just wait, Elon! I'll definitely catch up to you!”

“Why are you competing with an attention whore on the other side of the planet over something as stupid as attention...?”

“Because it's me.”

An Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard Hunter was supposed to be Earth's number one in every way.

Combat strength, wealth, influence.

I had to claim the top spot in every field.

In that sense, Elon Mengsk was a good point of comparison.

If I kept climbing the Tower, I would naturally reach the top in combat strength. But I could only call myself Earth's strongest after surpassing Elon in wealth and influence.

Ah, but when would I ever save up 2,600 trillion won?

Anyway...

“Hunter Gallery is down, so there's nothing else to do. I should get to bed soon.”

“Ehh... Then I'll be going. Have a good night.”

-Iing Iing!

“Bye, Iing Iing. Have a good night!”

-Iing!

Hyeji and Iing Iing stepped outside.

The room fell quiet.

I lay down in bed and pulled the blanket over myself.

Maybe it was because I'd received so much attention.

I tossed and turned for a long time in my excitement before finally falling asleep.

It was the day the Extreme Lunatic Hell Power Plan was announced.

* * *

At that moment.

The entire world had its eyes on the Korean Peninsula.

Washington, United States.

United States Climber Management Department.

The Minister's Office.

“...Korea really secured Magic Stone Reactors? And as much as 171 GW?”

“...”

“So... Baek Jiho. Those pictures he posted online. They were actually real? This is absurd...”

Korea's National Intelligence Service wasn't the only organization watching Baek Jiho's posts.

The United States Climber Management Department had been monitoring Baek Jiho's activities as well.

They hadn't fully believed his posts.

There was good reason for that.

“This... doesn't make sense, does it? A Hunter who climbs one floor a day, that could happen. If he were a Hunter blessed with talent at the absolute peak of humanity, someone who far surpassed even David. Maybe. It might actually be possible.”

“...”

“But... Magic Stone Reactors! Those are items that only appear on the Highest Floors! It's physically impossible to obtain them on the Middle Floors!”

The story had simply been too fantastical.

They had barely managed to accept that he might be an extraordinary Hunter who climbed one floor a day...

But collecting Magic Stone Reactors found only from Floor 42 onward was an entirely different matter.

They had considered it a lie.

What was more, he had gathered dozens of Magic Stone Reactors.

Not just small Magic Stone Reactors found from Floor 42 onward, but even Large Magic Stone Reactors that only appeared from Floor 48?

Even the United States, the country that had reached the highest Tower floor, possessed only two. How could a single Hunter have them?

“Didn't we deploy Highest Floors Hunters and thoroughly search the floors in the twenties? There were no Magic Stone Reactors anywhere!”

Just in case, they had sent five precious Highest Floors Hunters to search every inch of the floors in the twenties.

They had never found a single Magic Stone Reactor.

That was why the United States Climber Management Department had judged Baek Jiho's posts to be sophisticated fake images.

Yet it now seemed they had been true.

Who could have expected the president himself to begin construction on power plants?

Simon Scott, the Minister of the Climber Management Department, studied the report with complicated feelings. Then he rose from his seat and muttered.

“First, I will go see the President.”

Baek Jiho had become even more important.

They had to present him with stronger terms than before and recruit him at all costs.

If the information they had gathered was true, his abilities went beyond those of an ordinary Tower climber. He had more than enough potential to exert tremendous influence across the entire world.

Minister Scott headed for the White House.

* * *

Beijing, China.

Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China.

The Minister's Office.

“Those Korean bastards have lost their minds. They acquired Magic Stone Reactors? With a Hunter who's only in the Middle Floors?”

“...”

“Did they all fall under mass hypnosis? Or did they lose their minds because destruction is right around the corner?”

“...”

“They're quite amusing, aren't they?”

Five people were in the Minister's Office.

Four men with vicious expressions and one middle-aged man in uniform.

The middle-aged man in uniform was Superintendent General Feng Tianxia, the head of the MSS.

He had his head deeply bowed, completely cowed as cold sweat streamed down his face.

He had no choice.

The four men before him, all wearing vicious expressions, were China's Highest Floors Hunters. They wielded power and strength in both hands.

China's true rulers.

They were Committee Members.

The Committee Member in the center chuckled.

“Anyway... we just need to deal with this Baek Jiho bastard and that Choi Yejin bastard, right?”

“Th-that is correct, Committee Member comrade.”

“We have to send all four of us to deal with two Koreans? What trouble you've caused us because of your incompetence, Feng Tianxia.”

“I apologize-”

“Kneel first.”

The Committee Member lightly kicked Feng Tianxia's knees.

Then.

-Boom!

A strange sound tore through the air.

Blood burst out, and both of Feng Tianxia's knees ripped apart with a wet crack.

Thud.

Feng Tianxia's lower legs vanished beneath the knees as he crashed to the floor.

“Arghhhhh!!!”

“You're loud. Keep making a scene, and I'll smash your head right now.”

“Urgh! Ugh...!”

“Considering your service to the Party, I'll show mercy and stop at both legs.”

“Ugh... ugh...!”

Feng Tianxia's face gradually turned pale.

The stench of blood pouring from both his knees soaked the floor of the Minister's Office.

As Minister Feng Tianxia slowly bled out, the four Committee Members looked through the documents and laughed among themselves.

“By the way, this Korean named Choi Yejin. She's my type. Can I have a little fun with her before we kill her?”

“Do as you please.”

“Hehe. A Highest Floors Hunter... she'll be tough, so I'll be able to enjoy myself properly for once. The women I have break too easily, you know? They all die right when I'm starting to have some fun...”

China's four Highest Floors Hunters began to move.

* * *

Moscow, Russia.

Zaslon Special Purpose Center, under the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

“The operation will be carried out in two days.”

Dmitry Andreyevich Sokolov, leader of Team Granite from Zaslon Team A and overall commander of three teams, looked over his subordinates and continued in a low voice.

“By the end of today, we will infiltrate Seoul and complete preparations with help from our local collaborator. The operation begins at midnight two days from now.”

The Zaslon Group had finally completed all preparations.

They had recruited a local collaborator, completed a map of the air defense network, and prepared an escape route.

All that remained was to infiltrate Seoul and carry out the operation.

“Command has raised Baek Jiho's importance by several levels. We must succeed. For Mother Russia!”

“For Mother Russia!”

Thirty-three veteran Russian soldiers and High Floor Hunters.

The Zaslon Group was heading for the Republic of Korea.

* * *

And in Tokyo, Japan.

Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office Headquarters.

Cabinet Intelligence Director Yaguchi Takashi shouted.

“A honey trap! The answer is a honey trap!”

To acquire the supernova Hunter known as Baek Jiho, China and Russia were using force while the United States flexed its financial power.

Japan chose the honey trap.

It was a very Japanese operation.

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