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◈ Our Precious Demon King ◈
Chapter 94: Seoul Station
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Kim Junyong was satisfied.
Yu Jia’s progress had been remarkable.
Awakening as a hunter had practically given her superpowers, and her archery had improved enough to call her a godlike archer.
“She’s good enough to call herself a hunter now.”
His eldest niece could now at least make a living wherever she went, and he was pleased with his sister Kim Jangmi’s progress too.
“She won’t die easily at this level.”
His sister had awakened as a Healer.
Her long career as a doctor had probably influenced that.
In any case, they had forced her mana up by funneling an enormous number of kills to her, so her Healing skill alone had become impressive.
Her only weaknesses were a lack of offensive skills and a rather poor sense for combat...
“Junyong, aren’t I pretty good at fighting?”
“No, you’re just physically stronger than them.”
Physical abilities rose along with experience points.
She was now far stronger and faster than most Olympic athletes. Whatever enemies she encountered, she could avoid them, or keep herself alive with Healing if she got hit.
“Don’t try to fight. Just call for help. There’s Jia, and Jihun’s pretty good too.”
Yu Jihun’s progress was encouraging.
Perhaps he took after Kim Jangmi a little too much, given his poor combat instincts and weak nerves, but changing classes had made a big difference.
Spirit Mage!
By choosing a class that let him coast through life, he could now do more than pull his own weight.
Actually, the spirit was the one pulling the weight. Yu Jihun only needed to stay alive as its summoner.
“Jihun, you probably won’t die either, as long as you don’t get cocky and charge in.”
“Hehe, Uncle, aren’t I pretty strong now, though?”
Kim Junyong nodded at Yu Jihun’s question.
“Maybe you’ll die sooner than I thought...”
“Goodness! Your uncle’s right! You need to know your limits!”
“...Yeees.”
Yu Jihun looked dejected, but part of him agreed.
‘Uncle Cheon Yubeom and Aunt Lee Mina are complete monsters... and now my sister really seems like a hunter too...’
At the very least, he didn’t think he could stand up to Yu Jia anymore.
“All right, let’s head out.”
Satisfied with their progress, Kim Junyong decided to end his family’s training here.
“Ugh, let’s. I’m worried about being away from the hospital for so long.”
“I can’t wait to go to school!”
“It’s a bit of a shame...”
Kim Junyong chuckled.
They had come a long way since their first visit to the Demon Realm.
Now, none of them ran away at the sight of a monster.
“All right, Remi, Luciel, Ed.”
Pop! Pop!
He summoned his retainers, who had been resting in the dungeon.
“Hmm? Why call us when you said we were leaving?”
“We’ve cleaned up so much already. It’d be a waste to leave now.”
Over the past week, they had wiped out more than half the devils on the map.
If they finished off the rest, they could earn the title.
At present, only three people on Earth had it.
The buffs it provided were considerable, so it would be a shame to head straight back.
“Wipe them all out.”
At Kim Junyong’s command, the three retainers immediately scattered.
“Let’s take a break.”
Pop! Pop!
He summoned the camping equipment from subspace, with everything still set up.
The others settled into the camping chairs around the table as if they were used to it.
When he took drinks out of the refrigerator in subspace, which contained his entire house dungeon, Yu Jihun stepped forward to pour them into cups.
“Here, Uncle.”
“Thanks.”
“What about your mom?”
“Oh, I was just about to get yours, Mom.”
After taking a sip of the juice her son had served her, Kim Jangmi began indulging in some classic Korean mom nosiness.
“Team Leader Lee, are you seeing anyone?”
“Sorry? No.”
As Lee Mina grew flustered, Kim Jangmi gave her a knowing look.
“You’ve been texting someone for a while now.”
“Oh, th-this is...”
She was sending regular reports to the Teukgoji group chat.
Cheon Yubeom used to handle that, but he now worked for Kim Junyong, not the Bureau.
‘Team Leader Cheon might be clueless, but he’s a master at sneaking looks at his phone.’
Lee Mina wasn’t nearly as good at secretly using her phone as Cheon Yubeom.
To Kim Jangmi, it looked exactly like she was messaging a boyfriend.
“So there’s someone you’re flirting with?”
“Haha, n-no, it’s not that.”
Kim Junyong cut in as his sister gave the knowing smile of an older woman.
“She’s sending reports.”
“Huh? Reports? To whom?”
“The Bureau, probably.”
“What?”
“That’s what she’s here to do as a team leader.”
“Hahaha.”
Lee Mina laughed awkwardly.
It could have been uncomfortable for him, since it was a form of surveillance.
Kim Jangmi’s displeased expression made that clear.
But Kim Junyong didn’t think much of it.
“How are things outside? Anything happen lately?”
“Everything’s fine, apart from an A-rank dungeon in China that they’re having trouble dealing with.”
“Oh, really?”
Kim Junyong’s eyes lit up at the mention of trouble.
Wasn’t this a chance to collect order points?
‘Ideally, enough to make the Scales grow.’
The pans had grown quite large and could handle a fair amount of order and chaos. The strengthened beam was holding up well too.
To make Bel’s Scales grow, he needed to acquire enough points at once to overflow the pans or break the beam.
And that required a tremendous amount of “Rescue.”
“Are they in a lot of trouble?”
“Th-that’s what I hear. It appeared right in the middle of Beijing, of all places.”
At the news that the dungeon had appeared in the middle of a city, Kim Junyong grinned from ear to ear.
“Wow, they’re really screwed.”
‘Is it time for me to step in?’
But another man spoke up before Kim Junyong could.
“Team Leader Lee, if they need the Adviser’s help, they’ll have to pay a fair price.”
“O-of course!”
Cheon Yubeom asked Kim Junyong’s permission.
“If you intend to deal with the A-rank dungeon in Beijing, may I negotiate your compensation?”
“Sure, go ahead.”
Kim Junyong didn’t mind either way.
Money was trivial.
He could ask for it whenever he wanted.
“Team Leader Lee. You’ll negotiate with me.”
“All right.”
Cheon Yubeom and Lee Mina moved a short distance away.
“Wow, thank you. I knew I could count on you, Team Leader Cheon.”
“For what?”
“Didn’t you step in on purpose?”
“Why would I?”
“To help us get the Adviser’s support?”
Cheon Yubeom shrugged.
Having become the Guardian’s Knight, he now had some understanding of Kim Junyong’s intentions.
‘He’d do it simply to save people.’
What a noble, admirable man.
‘I can’t let them use him for free.’
He couldn’t let South Korea take advantage of the Special Adviser’s noble love for humanity and profit from it without paying.
The Bureau paid him a salary, and he had an expense card.
It also supplied all the ingredients for Jun Dragon Kitchen.
‘That’s barely a peacekeeping fee.’
Cheon Yubeom believed Kim Junyong deserved his current treatment simply for staying in South Korea.
Twenty billion won in friendship fees to have Kim Junyong as a neighbor?
Every country in the world would be willing to pay that.
“Team Leader Lee, let’s be clear. I’m only doing this for the Adviser.”
“Sorry?”
“Let’s have a serious discussion about what South Korea stands to gain from the Adviser going to Beijing, and what he deserves in return.”
“...Um, just a moment.”
Tap-tap-tap.
Watching her busily type messages, Cheon Yubeom shrugged.
“I’ll speak to them directly.”
“W-would you?”
Cheon Yubeom called Deputy Director Choi Hyunju himself.
* * *
South Korea’s Hunter Management Bureau.
After a fairly long phone call, Choi Hyunju sat in silence for a moment.
“What’s wrong? Did it not go well?”
“Oh!”
Her assistant Park Somi’s question pulled Choi Hyunju from her thoughts, and she smiled.
“It went well.”
“You looked worried.”
“It’s nothing.”
She said it was nothing, but it was actually something.
Cheon Yubeom’s strict demands and the negotiation process?
She was grateful for those.
‘Something that wasn’t for sale now has a high price tag. That’s all.’
Originally, “Kim Junyong’s help” had been irregular and impossible to put a price on. With Cheon Yubeom involved, at least it had become easier to negotiate or make requests.
They could no longer expect a bargain like having a dungeon cleared for a box of Kobe beef. Still, the fact that something previously unavailable had entered the market was highly encouraging.
There was just one concern...
‘I think Team Leader Lee’s going to leave too...’
It was a vague worry, but Choi Hyunju’s instincts told her it was almost certain.
Kim Junyong already treated Lee Mina like his own subordinate.
It was only a matter of time.
‘Still, that’s not a bad thing.’
Rather than Kim Junyong and the Bureau communicating directly, their subordinates would form a buffer between them.
Wasn’t that how negotiations always worked? The working-level staff sorted everything out, and then the leaders just shook hands and posed for photos.
“Anyway, Beijing’s saved.”
Deputy Director Choi Hyunju first passed the good news to the Bureau director.
With so many summons to the Blue House lately, the director spent more time out of the office than in it.
She didn’t know what South Korea would gain from China through this, but that was the government’s business.
“Whew.”
Personally, Choi Hyunju was more curious about Kim Junyong’s family.
They hadn’t come out of the Demon Realm for over a week. Just how much stronger would they be when they returned?
And could they get more “awakening tickets”?
Thanks to the two tickets transferred to Japan, the country was now enjoying an unprecedented boom.
Team Leader Lee - It looks like they’ll finish clearing the map soon.
Team Leader Lee - How about negotiating to let us choose the location of the Conquest Monument?
“Oh!”
There was that too.
The Conquest Monument.
A suppressor that prevented dungeons from forming in the surrounding area.
‘What if we could have it installed wherever we wanted?’
Given its tremendous value, the price would be steep.
But before she could even work out what it was worth...
[World Notice]
[All devils in Region 36 of the Demon Realm have been slain.]
[A Conqueror has been born.]
* * *
[Please select a location for the Conquest Monument.]
Kim Junyong considered the world map that had appeared with the message.
“A guaranteed teleportation point.”
Building a Conquest Monument had clear advantages and disadvantages.
Since dungeons would no longer appear in the surrounding area, Kim Junyong couldn’t use them to teleport there.
The advantage was that the Conquest Monument itself served as a fixed set of coordinates.
“Oh, Adviser! Do you have a location in mind?”
“Why?”
At Kim Junyong’s question, Lee Mina answered honestly.
“If you build it at the Blue House, we’ll assess its value and compensate you as generously as possible.”
“I don’t want to.”
“Sorry? Th-then where are you going to put it?”
“A major transport hub, obviously.”
Kim Junyong had little trouble deciding where to place these fixed coordinates.
[Would you like to designate Seoul Station Plaza as the installation site?]
If, just if, every dungeon really disappeared, this location would be the most useful teleportation point to have.
“Yeah.”
First, he would secure a base for traveling around the country!
[Regional (Korea) Notice]
[A “Conquest Monument” has been erected in Seoul.]
[Dungeons will no longer appear in the surrounding area.]
The world’s second Conquest Monument rose in Seoul Station Plaza.
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