Chapter 7: My Item Is Worth 999.9 Billion Won
One billion won! How am I supposed to spend it?
I was still struggling with the same problem.
Should I ask one of those trendy AIs?
WhipGPT was apparently famous.
I opened a chatbot website.
How can I spend one billion won in cash on game purchases without the National Tax Service noticing?
I asked it.
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Sorry, but I cannot provide instructions related to crimes such as tax evasion.
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"What did you say? Crime? Are you saying carefully caring for the great Teacher Shin Saimdang is a crime?"
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Sorry. I don't understand what you mean.
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"This thing is useless."
From my point of view, it clearly didn't know the answer and was just spouting nonsense about crime.
Apparently everyone used AI these days.
And yet a useless program like this was widely used.
Some people even depended on it?
The world has gone insane.
I'd rather have a philosophical conversation with the system messages.
Do I really have no choice but to clear the tutorial?
I had to clear Floor 10 before the Trade Board became available.
More importantly!
I don't want to climb the Tower...!
Because I was scared?
No!
I'm someone who absolutely can't afford to die.
I was a man worth four billion won an hour.
If there was even a one-in-ten-thousand chance that I died...
It would be a national loss.
No.
It would be a loss for the entire world.
While thinking about it, a brilliant idea suddenly came to me.
"What rank are the floors up to Floor 10?"
[F-rank.]
"Open a Gate connected to Floor 1 of the Tower of Fate."
[Floor 1 is the Waiting Room. You can begin climbing the Tower from Floor 2 through the portal on Floor 1.]
So that was how it worked.
"Then Floor 2!"
[Search complete.]
[Opening "Tower of Fate Floor 1, Slime Family's Room (F)."]
Flash!
A tall, egg-shaped portal appeared in front of me.
I carefully stuck only the barrels of the Gatling Laser into the light.
Then I pulled the trigger.
Pew-pew-pew-pew-pew!
Sure enough...
[You have cleared "Tower of Fate Floor 1, Slime Family's Room (F)."]
"Oh!"
I exclaimed.
"Next!"
[Opening "Tower of Fate Floor 2, Goblin Spearman (F)."]
Pew-pew-pew-pew-pew!
[You have cleared "Tower of Fate Floor 2, Goblin Spearman (F)."]
"Next!"
[Opening Tower of Fate Floor 3...]
[You have cleared Tower of Fate Floor 3.]
[Opening Tower of Fate Floor 4...]
"Next, next, next!"
[You have cleared Tower of Fate Floors 7, 8, and 9.]
And finally!
[All tutorials have been completed.]
[The Trade Board has been activated.]
The first thing I did was check how much S-rank weapons usually sold for.
[Selling! S-rank Weapon: Sun Sword.]
[Nickname: Fist]
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Please message me to negotiate the price. Cash only.
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Even when I searched the Trade Board for S-rank items, there were almost no listings.
And every single one said the price was negotiable.
I guess they really are priceless.
Still, I probably couldn't ask for one quadrillion won.
This world can't even afford my annual salary of thirty-five trillion won.
The world was simply too small to contain someone of my caliber.
I need to sell it for as much as possible.
But the people trading S-rank items kept all the details hidden.
So this is why S-rank Hunters are such assholes...!
Of course, this was probably only the tip of the iceberg.
Then one sentence caught my attention.
Cash transactions only?
Looking again, HunVen's marketplace had a special currency called "Gold."
Gold could apparently be purchased with cash.
But Gold couldn't be converted back into cash.
In other words, if you want actual cash?
You had no choice but to meet the other person directly.
An S-rank weapon and an astronomical amount of money would be exchanging hands.
There was no way anyone would make that deal without seeing the item in person.
And the person trying to buy an S-rank weapon would most likely be an S-rank Hunter.
"Teacher Shin Saimdang, please wait. I will rescue you from the hands of those rude S-rank Hunters."
My chest grew hot with patriotism.
[Selling! S-rank Weapon!!]
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Price is 999.9 billion won!! If you make a quick deal, I'll generously add another 100 million won and sell it for exactly 1 trillion won!! Bank transfer only!!
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If they transferred it to my bank account?
It would be a legitimate transaction.
I could simply pay the taxes.
Fine! I'll pay taxes!
Not that I had ever done anything illegal in my life, of course.
Lee Geonho's house.
"Pfft!"
A-rank Hunter Lee Geonho.
Also known as WaterPuppy.
He was browsing HunVen when he spat out his drink.
"What? S-rank weapon, Krog's Gatling Laser?"
There was nothing especially strange about an S-rank Artifact being sold.
But the seller's nickname was DivineMan.
"Bullshit. What kind of S-rank weapon would some measly E-rank have?"
After the humblebragging incident, WaterPuppy had secretly been watching all of DivineMan's posts.
Almost like he was monitoring every single movement.
He could never forget the humiliation from that day.
Afterward, WaterPuppy had become known as a "villain" on HunVen.
Someone might think gaining a bad reputation on an online community wasn't a big deal.
But that wasn't true at all.
Countless HunVen users had blocked him.
His access to information had almost completely disappeared.
For a Hunter, that was fatal.
For example...
[Tower of Fate Floor 51, "Arachne Nest" Completely Safe Strategy!]
[Nickname: Heavenly Demon]
Every time a guide was posted, it received countless recommendations and became a top post.
WaterPuppy frequently relied on Heavenly Demon's guides.
Without Heavenly Demon, he wasn't confident he could have climbed as high as Floor 50.
