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Chapter 83: 083
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What is a hidden piece?
Just as the name suggested, it was a hidden piece.
An exceedingly rare item or artifact discovered when a particular condition was met while climbing the Tower.
And it seemed I had found one of those hidden pieces.
The Blue Potions and Clear Potions.
To think they were hidden pieces...
The conditions for obtaining them had been pretty simple.
“I just put out the fire. That was the condition for a hidden piece?”
As soon as we started, I became the Extreme Lunatic Hell Firefighting Helicopter and put out the flames.
Then Hyeji and Iing Iing had picked up the items. That was all.
Apparently, extinguishing the fire had been the condition for the hidden piece.
Well, anyone who couldn't use magic like me would have found it impossible to put out that sea of flames.
It was a hidden piece that only this wizard could obtain.
Still, there was a problem.
“Then... nobody knows what these potions are?”
Since I was the first person to find them, it seemed nobody knew their use or value.
I'd planned to find out what the potions did and how much they were worth through the Raid Team, then sell them off...
Who would've thought even the upper-floor Hunters wouldn't know?
You useless idiots!
You're no help at all!
This was why common rabble couldn't be trusted!
Anyway.
“I should at least put up an artifact sale post.”
-Click!
After taking pictures of the artifacts, I wrote a post on the Raid Team board.
[Post Title: Selling artifacts, come buy them]
[Author: Baek Jiho (21)]
(Photos of thirty-six assorted artifacts and the potions)
Yep, your bro's here.
I'm here to get rid of the stuff I got after killing those foreign Hunter special operations unit bastards a few days ago.
Two Grade 1 artifacts.
Eleven Grade 2 artifacts.
Twenty-three Grade 3 artifacts.
And I have potions too.
There are all kinds, from Grade 3 gear for scrubs to Grade 1 stuff for the Highest Floors, so help yourselves.
The appraisal certificates in the pictures list all the specs.
The National Intelligence Service removed all the tracking and imprints, so they're clean items.
Buy them already. Cheap, cheap.
Name your price first.
But if you lowball me too hard per item, I'll crack your skull open.
Buy them fast. I'm selling these to invest.
Oh, and I looked around the board for a moment.
You guys don't know what the Blue Potions and Clear Potions are either...?
How am I supposed to find out?
Should I drink them myself and run a self-experiment?
What am I supposed to do with these...?
└Kang Seojun (22): If you ask a research institute to study them, professors and PhDs will swarm you, begging you to let them handle it. You have two of each, so you could send one of each to a lab as samples?
└└Baek Jiho (21): I can send them to a lab? But which lab? Recommend one.
└└Kang Seojun (22): Korea University has the most famous labs in the country, so try contacting them.
└Park Dohu (31): Blue Dot, you're finally here!!! That Grade 2 axe is mine!!!
└└Baek Jiho (21): How much?
└└Park Dohu (31): 11 billion won.
└└Baek Jiho (21): That's reasonable. Send the money to my account and message me your address. I'll mail it to you.
└└Park Dohu (31): You crazy bastard, who mails something worth over ten billion won...
└└Im Hyunsu (30): I'll buy the axe for 12 billion won. Mailing it is fine too.
└└Park Dohu (31): What the fuck, idiot? Don't outbid the axe I bid on unless you want to die.
└└Im Hyunsu (30): Who do you think you are, Yonggae?
└Lee Hyunsu (28): Blue Dot, did you abandon our Raid Team...? Why don't you ever come here? You only show up to sell stuff, then ditch us the rest of the time. Isn't that too much? Are you only going to use Hunter Gallery because you're Hunter Gallery's idol??
└└Baek Jiho (21): No, you guys are too fucking crazy;; The Raid Team makes me dizzier than Hunter Gallery, so I don't want to come here.
└└Lee Hyunsu (28): What's wrong with the Raid Team...
└└Baek Jiho (21): There's always some lunatic talking about shit, another bastard only posts what they eat, and someone else is always going on about their girlfriend... It's nothing but concept addicts. Every time I come here, there are too many shitposts and I get exhausted. Especially that bastard who posts shit pictures;;
└└Park Gyu (38): Lol, shit! Pee attack!
└└Baek Jiho (21): See?
└└Lee Hyunsu (28): I admit the Raid Team is a shit pit.
└Oh Sanghyeon (35): What's this investment thing, though?
└└Baek Jiho (21): I'm going to try making my money multiply too. By the way, there'll be good news soon, so anyone holding dollars should exchange them all for won. King Korea's currency value is about to rise.
└└Oh Sanghyeon (35): The won is basically toilet paper right now, so dumping dollars for won sounds kind of bad...
└└Baek Jiho (21): You traitor! Don't come crying to me later. I warned you.
└└Oh Sanghyeon (35): Calling me a traitor is too harsh...
└Choi Yejin (41): Hey, sell me both Grade 1 artifacts.
└└Baek Jiho (21): Aren't you an archer? You won't even use those weapons, so why buy them?
└└Choi Yejin (41): Thinking of them as the belongings of those Chinese bastards makes me want to break them. I'll give you 150 billion won each, so hand them over.
└└Baek Jiho (21): You're crazy... Anyway, okay. Deposit the money into my account, and I'll mail them to your house.
└└Choi Yejin (41): Yeah. Want to go on a date with me? I'm free this weekend.
└└Choi Yejin (41): Why are you ignoring me?
└└Choi Yejin (41): Answer me.
└└Kim Jihu (37): Uh, Big Sis Yejin, surely you aren't...
└Jeong Gitae (33): But why are you still tagged as Floor 21? I saw Hunter Gallery, and you cleared Floor 33. Aren't you on Floor 34 now? Update it already.
└└Baek Jiho (21): Taking pictures and verifying it is annoying, so I've just left it alone... I'll update it once I'm past the Highest Floors.
└└Jeong Gitae (33): What the hell.
...
The comments kept rolling in.
I busily sold off the artifacts.
As a result, I managed to sell most of them.
It helped that Choi Yejin bought both Grade 1 artifacts.
I could easily sell the Grade 2 and Grade 3 artifacts to common rabble in the High Floors or Middle Floors, but I thought the Grade 1 artifacts would become unsellable dead stock because there weren't many people who could afford them...
To think Choi Yejin would buy them.
Her head was a little screwed up, but she was a big spender who always bought my spoils.
If I saw her next time, maybe I could treat her a little better.
Anyway, I made around 600 billion won.
I also learned something new.
I muttered quietly.
“Hmm. I should hand the potions over to Korea University for research.”
If I gave the potions I'd found to a Korea University laboratory, they'd probably figure out what they did.
I immediately went looking for my sister.
“Sis! Sis!”
“What is it, Jiho?”
Bang.
When I called her, my sister opened her door and came out.
I handed her the Blue Potions and Clear Potions.
“Sis. These potions are hidden pieces. Give them to a Korea University lab for research.”
“You want me to hand these over to a Korea University lab?”
“Yeah.”
They were substances that had never been discovered in the Tower before.
If we handed them to a lab, we'd learn what effects they had.
My sister nodded.
“I finally get to do some manager work for the first time in ages. Okay! I'll contact them.”
“Good.”
If we gave them to a Korea University lab, we'd learn what they were soon enough.
Koreans were a get-it-done-fast people!
The master's and doctoral students at Korea University were the smartest elites of the get-it-done-fast Korean people.
They'd research them fast, get results fast, and tell me fast.
Anyway.
“Should I get some sleep?”
I had to go look at houses tomorrow.
I should go to bed early today.
So I went to bed a little earlier than usual.
Tomorrow, I would become the Owner of a massive Hannam-dong mansion.
* * *
The next day.
I climbed the Tower early in the morning.
[Entering Tower Floor 33.]
-Boom-boom-boom!
-Rat-a-tat-tat!
-Clatter-clatter!
[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 33)]
[You have completed Tower Floor 33.]
[You have defeated 4,623 Ghouls (100).]
[Points are being calculated.]
[Tower Floor 34 has been unlocked.]
[Returning.]
It took around thirty minutes to clear Floor 33.
I put out the fire as soon as I entered, spammed magic to kill Ghouls, and collected the loot.
I got eight potions, by the way.
Three Reverse-Aging Potions, one Health Recovery Potion, two Blue Potions, and two Clear Potions.
I muttered quietly.
“Hehe. I saved lots of King Korea's citizens again today. 460,000 Points...”
“Jiho, you're going to look at houses now, right?”
“Yes.”
The reason I'd climbed much earlier than usual was simple.
I was going house-hunting.
The time had finally come for me to become the Owner of a luxurious Hannam-dong residence!
Hyeji muttered quietly.
“I'm jealous. You're going to own a luxury house...”
“I'm more jealous of you, Hyeji. You can sip wine in a high-rise Yongsan apartment, look down at the common rabble on the ground, and feel superior...! If the floor wouldn't collapse under the weight of my loot, I'd move into a high-rise apartment too!”
“What even is a high-rise apartment to you, Jiho...?”
“Hmm... A place where I can look down on common rabble from high above?”
“Haah.”
Honestly, I wanted to live in a penthouse in a supertall apartment building.
The highest floor of a towering skyscraper apartment.
If I lived in a luxurious penthouse...
I could stand in front of huge windows, sip wine, and look down at common rabble scurrying around like ants on the ground while feeling superior...!
But the problem was dealing with the loot.
Apartment floors probably couldn't bear the weight of tons of loot.
There was also the issue of receiving the loot buyer trucks that came every day.
For many reasons, moving into a luxurious house with a yard was the sensible choice.
Of course, I could just sell the loot without taking it out of my Spatial Bag...
But that method didn't appeal to me.
If I didn't take my loot out of the Spatial Bag, I couldn't make brag posts on Hunter Gallery.
I had to lay all the loot out, take a brag photo, and post it on Hunter Gallery.
Posting loot brag posts on Hunter Gallery.
VS
Looking down on common rabble from a supertall penthouse while basking in superiority.
I chose the former.
I gave up on a penthouse so I could make Hunter Gallery brag posts.
It was tragic.
“Gah! To think I have to give up on a supertall penthouse because I want to brag about loot! Heavens!”
“Someone who says they'll save the Republic of Korea wants to look down on other people and feel superior that badly?”
“I'm actually a noble and superior Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard Hunter. So I'm allowed to feel a little superior.”
“I think the Republic of Korea's future is looking a little bleak...”
Hyeji let out a quiet sigh.
Anyway, I'd finished climbing early so I could look at houses today.
“Hyeji, goodbye. I'll have a housewarming party after I find a place. Come then and bring me an awesome housewarming gift.”
“A housewarming gift? Hmm... I'll bring toilet paper.”
“Isn't there anything more amazing? Something extreme, lunatic, and hellish. Toilet paper is too boring.”
“What kind of housewarming gift are you even expecting...?”
“You need to think about that, Hyeji. Anyway... Iing Iing, bye! See you tomorrow!”
I was about to send Hyeji home.
We'd finished climbing, so it was time to clock out.
But then.
-Iing! Iing iing!
Flutter.
Plop.
Iing Iing climbed onto my head.
What was Iing Iing doing?
“Hmm. Jiho? Iing Iing says she wants to see the house you'll be living in too.”
“Huh? Why?”
“She's probably just curious.”
“Oho.”
Apparently, Iing Iing was curious about the house I'd be living in.
Fine, she could come along.
If she hid in a bag, nobody would notice.
“Would you like to come too, Hyeji?”
“Hmm... I'll pass. I want to go home and look at charts. I'll leave Iing Iing with you just for today, so please take good care of her. Iing Iing wants to stay with you, Jiho.”
“Leave it to me. Iing Iing! Let's go look at our Extreme Lunatic Hell Premium Luxury Royal Prestige Elegance Suite Home! We're going to find a new nest!”
-Iing!
“...I'm nervous about leaving Iing Iing with this crazy person. I'll just come along too.”
“Why?”
My house hunt.
Once Iing Iing joined, Hyeji joined too.
She seemed nervous about leaving Iing Iing with me.
Why would she be nervous?
Who took better care of Iing Iing than I did?
Anyway, since that was settled.
“Sis! Let's go look at houses!”
Off to the Hannam-dong real estate office!
* * *
We got in the car and headed for Hannam-dong.
It took around thirty minutes to get from our home in Jungnang-gu to Hannam-dong.
Our means of transportation was, naturally, my sister's BNW M2.
-Screeeech! Screech!
-Vrooooom!
The tires made insane noises.
The engine let out a savage roar.
“Agh! Eeeek! Aaaagh!”
“Sis, drive more carefully. Hyeji is rolling around in the back seat. It's cramped enough back there already...”
“That Avante N bastard provoked me first! How dare some four-cylinder rattlebox provoke me? I'll leave it in the dust in no time-”
“Why are you acting like it's your rival...? This isn't a racetrack. Just drive calmly.”
-Iing iing iing!!!
The ride was a complete mess, by the way.
My sister drove wildly.
Hyeji rolled around in the back seat.
Iing Iing clapped like she was having fun.
It was chaos. Total chaos.
After making all that noise, we arrived at a Hannam-dong real estate office.
As I got out of the car, I muttered.
“This time, I'm definitely going to play at hiding my wealth.”
Today, I planned to experience the cliché where the protagonist hid their wealth.
The protagonist made a lot of money in a short time and went to buy something expensive.
The salespeople looked down on them because of their shabby clothes and old car.
Then the protagonist gave the only kind employee a huge sale...
It was the kind of cathartic cliché that appeared at least once in every modern fantasy novel.
I'd never experienced it before.
I tried it once when we went to buy my sister's foreign car, but the salespeople at the dealership had been too desperate for sales.
There hadn't been much fun in it.
But this time, I was going to Hannam-dong!
It was a place overflowing with rich people.
To real estate agents who dealt with the super-rich, my shabby clothes would surely look pitifully poor.
This time, I would successfully play at hiding my wealth!
“Hehe. I deliberately wore shabby sweats for this. This time, I'll definitely experience the ‘protagonist hides their wealth’ cliché.”
“Jiho, your personality is really twisted.”
“That's me.”
Anyway, together with my sister, Hyeji, and Iing Iing, who was inside Hyeji's handbag, I confidently opened the real estate office door and went inside.
“Welcome, customers.”
When we entered, the middle-aged realtor looked over the clothes my companions and I were wearing.
She looked indifferent when she saw my sister.
When she looked at Hyeji, a little tension appeared around her eyes.
Then she looked at me.
Her eyes widened as though they were about to pop out.
I immediately understood.
‘Hehe. She must've seen my shabby clothes. Good, look down on me now. Decide that I'm a customer with no money and treat me poorly! Then I'll go to the real estate office next door and buy a super-luxury mansion worth tens of billions of won!’
My heart pounded.
Would I finally get to experience the protagonist-hiding-their-wealth cliché too?
As someone who often read modern fantasy novels, this was a pretty exciting moment.
To experience a cliché I'd only seen in novels for myself!
Hurry up and look down on me!
For some reason, though...
“Welcome, customer! I'm Han Sukja from Premium Real Estate! Ah, right! I'll bring you some coffee first! Hohoho!”
Contrary to my expectations, the realtor lady ushered us in with extreme politeness.
She hurried to make coffee, then spoke sweetly with a professional sales smile.
“What sort of property are you looking for? Please tell me anything you need. I'll find the perfect listing for you!”
What was this? Why was she so nice?
She saw my clothes.
They were incredibly shabby.
Why was she treating a customer with no money so respectfully?
Confused, I had no choice but to ask directly.
“Excuse me. Why are you being so nice? You can see what I'm wearing. I don't have much money.”
Look at my shabby sweats and old shoes!
I looked like a beggar!
Hurry up and look down on me already!
The realtor lady kept her sales smile as she spoke.
“Oh, customer. You're incredibly wealthy.”
“Wealthy? Me?”
“Hehe. I can tell just by looking at your eyes. People like you, who don't care much about clothes but have confident eyes, are the truly wealthy ones.”
“...”
“So what kind of property are you looking for? Someone like you would probably want a mansion. How about this listing? The chairman of A Group put this mansion up for sale because they're emigrating-”
This lady's real-rich-person radar was insanely accurate.
To think she wouldn't be fooled by shabby clothes and would see through my wealth just by looking at my eyes!
Did she have that much experience dealing with Hannam-dong's truly wealthy people?
Gah!
I was frustrated.
I couldn't experience the protagonist-hiding-their-wealth cliché again!
“Jiho. You're pathetic.”
-Iing...
Hyeji clicked her tongue, and Iing Iing quietly comforted me from inside the handbag.
Thanks, Iing Iing.
As expected, you were the only one I could trust.
“Here, customer. There are lots of listings worth looking at. Take your time and look through them.”
“...Okay.”
“Ah? Why do you look like that? Did I make some kind of mistake...?”
“No... Show me... the listings...”
“???”
And so, our purchase of an Extreme Lunatic Hell Premium Luxury Royal Imperial Majestic Elegance Noblesse Prestige High-End Flagship Signature Suite Home began.
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