Chapter 179: A Letter Delivered by a Blue Bird
As TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant said, something felt off when he thought about it.
Since the Dimensional Study Room reached level 2 and he had more time, Kyung-joon had been making about 100 Unique Breads and 10 Four-Color Herbal Teas every day.
That’s 3,000 Unique Breads and 300 Herbal Teas a month, so why were the actual quantities delivered only 500 and 100, respectively?
<¯ࡇ¯>
<Now that I see it, Master is definitely eating and drinking a tremendous amount of bread and tea.>
The reason for the low delivery volume was simple.
It was because Kyung-joon was consuming most of it himself.
In other words, 2,500 Unique Breads and 200 Four-Color Herbal Teas were going into Kyung-joon’s stomach every month.
“Hey, Teemo. Maybe the herbal tea, but not the Unique Bread, right?”
Even though Kyung-joon munched on Unique Bread every hour, it was impossible for him to polish off 2,500 loaves by himself every month.
“I only eat about 500 a month? The rest is all eaten by residents or monsters.”
Actually, the place that consumed the most of Kyung-joon’s Unique Bread wasn’t Study Villa, but Whale Forest.
The monsters under the joint command of Kingyear and Ceram continued to fight against the players who invaded Whale Forest.
For them, Unique Bread, which buffed stamina/mana for a certain amount of time and increased HP/MP regeneration per second by a percentage, was almost an essential item.
The first thing to secure in war and battle was supplies, and Unique Bread covered all three aspects of food, buffs, and healing.
Kyung-joon briefly summarized the reason he had been thinking about and typed it into the chat window with TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant.
▶Kyung-joon: Ah, that. Production has increased, but there are other expenses. So, I think the bread delivery volume will probably be like this for the next few months.
▶TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant: Ah…… That’s quite a shame.
▶TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant: ^오^
As TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant said, it was a shame.
If he had just focused on increasing production, he could have made several times more sales than he was making now.
But that would mean sacrificing study time.
Studying was something you do looking towards the future, not the present.
There was nothing more foolish than selling out your future for money you didn’t even need right now.
Kyung-joon, with that thought in mind, began tapping the virtual keyboard in front of the chat window.
Tap. Tap tap.
▶Kyung-joon: I can increase the supply right now if I want to, but it’s not urgent. I think I need more market research. We need to test the waters a bit more. Still, over 90% of bread buyers are players, right? I’m aiming for more than that.
The current number of The World players was around 1 billion based on account registrations.
That number would decrease even further if limited to people who actually played the game for more than 2 hours a day.
And if it were further limited to those who could afford Kyung-joon’s Rare Bread, it would probably be less than 10 million.
Even South Korea, with a population of 50 million, was shouting about globalization because its domestic market was too small, so how could he be satisfied with a mere 10 million?
▶Kyung-joon: I think our real target should be NPCs, not players. Especially among NPCs, only 10%, no, maybe not even 5% actually engage in combat. I don’t think the Unique Bread and Rare Bread we’re selling now will appeal to them at all. As you can see, mostly only players are buying it, right? Our bread?
Kyung-joon’s words hit the nail on the head.
Unlike usual, TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant’s reply didn’t follow immediately.
Whenever such a crucial topic came up, TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant would always be a little slow to respond.
He was probably deep in thought, chin in hand.
It meant that TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant was greatly impressed by Kyung-joon’s opinion and was giving it serious consideration.
Knowing this, Kyung-joon stretched and pulled out a book.
『List of Russian Swear Words Learned from AngerManagementVodka』
“While we wait, let’s memorize some words.”
<ƪ ( ˘ ⌣˘ )ʃ>
“Teemo, pronunciation, please.”
<Блять (Blyat). Блять (Blyat).>
“Блять (Blyat). Блять (Blyat).”
As Kyung-joon and Teemo were busy practicing their pronunciation…
Thud!
Suddenly, a tremendous sound came from the window.
“W, What was that?!”
Kyung-joon was startled and immediately turned his gaze towards the source of the sound.
And there…
“……Blue? No, a blue bird……?”
A deep blue bird was sliding down the quartz glass window.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
Thud!
A bird crashed into the quartz glass window of the Study Villa.
A blue bird. Or rather, an azure bird.
Azure feathers fluttered beyond the window as the bird slid down.
“Coo, coo…”
The bird’s face, pressed against the glass, looked comical.
But for some reason, the sight reminded him of a glacier that wouldn’t melt for ten thousand years.
“…Ice Demon Claw?”
The cold claws that Spotted Deer picked up, Kyung-joon obtained as a quest reward, and then gave to Whale Forest Wolf to use.
Kyung-joon felt the chill of Ice Demon Claw from the bird’s feathers.
<It would be best to go out and check.>
“Yeah.”
Kyung-joon tossed the Russian study book on the desk and hurried out of the Study Villa.
The azure bird he saw through the window was now right before his eyes.
There was a spinning star mark above the bird’s head.
<It seems to be in a stunned state.>
“I think so.”
Kyung-joon glanced at the quartz glass window beside him.
It was perfectly fine, without a single scratch.
“Hey, after all, it’s 7 on the Mohs scale.”
The Mohs hardness of pure quartz was 7, similar to steel, which was around 7-8.
No wonder it was perfectly fine without a scratch.
But more importantly, there was something else.
“There’s frost on it.”
There was frost on the quartz glass window where the azure bird had just crashed.
Impossible.
Even though it had gotten quite chilly recently, it was still November.
Moreover, this was The World, a game world.
While Korea might as well have no spring or fall anymore, it was still too early for the World to experience such abnormal weather.
<The bird’s body temperature is registering as almost sub-zero, Master.>
“What? Really?”
Kyung-joon immediately touched the azure bird’s body.
It was cold.
“It’s true.”
<Yes. To be precise, the area around the bird is almost sub-zero, and it’s predicted that its internal temperature will be much lower.>
“I guess it depends on the heat transfer coefficient of its skin and feathers, right?”
A creature that lived with a sub-zero body temperature.
Surely, the metabolic rate of its body would drastically decrease below its body temperature.
“Is this the mystery of fantasy?”
Kyung-joon felt his curiosity piqued.
What was the inside of this creature’s body like?
“Now that I think about it, we were supposed to dissect rats and frogs for our biology practical this time.”
< ಠಒ್ದಠ!>
This was a good opportunity.
He could satisfy his intellectual curiosity and practice dissection at the same time.
“Hehehe.”
[Unique skill 『Ultrasonic Vibration Mana Dagger (Lv.3)』 ]
[Rare skill 『Transform Magic (Lv.5)』 ]
Kyung-joon transformed his mana dagger, which vibrated 40,000 times per second, into the form of a sharp scalpel that you would only see in an operating room.
Wheeing! Wheeing!
Kyung-joon’s ultrasonic vibrating mana scalpel, now smaller and sharper, emitted a faint whirring sound.
“Ehehehe!”
With a laugh like a mad scientist, Kyung-joon slowly brought the scalpel closer to the azure bird.
If AngerManagementVodka had been here, he would have gulped down his vodka, saying it was a far more intense and chilling killing intent than he felt when he confronted Kyung-joon before.
“Coo…… Coo woo……”
The blue bird finally opened its eyes to the vibration of the air that shook its skull and reached its brain.
At the same time, a super-vibrating mana scalpel appeared right before its eyes.
“Hello?”
For your information, it was just human speech.
Even Kyung-joon hadn’t learned the language of birds from Ceram yet.
“Coo, Coo-ee?!”
Flap, flap!
The blue bird, faced with the risk of death as soon as it opened its eyes, fluttered madly.
But Kyung-joon grabbed its leg and knocked it to the floor once more.
“Coo-ee! Coo-ee!”
Flap, flap!
The blue bird’s flapping wings, trying to escape, sent cold feathers flying in all directions, as if someone were punching a hole in a cotton pillow and hitting it repeatedly.
“Where are you going after trespassing on my territory? Speaking of which, how did this thing even get in?”
<ꈍ﹃ꈍ>
<Perhaps it flew in since it’s a bird. Even the Energy Tower can’t attack anything in the air beyond 50-100m.>
“Coo-ee! Coo-ee!”
Flap! Flap!
Come to think of it, the Energy Tower wasn’t as omnipotent as he thought, just like BlackChef last time.
<It seems to be some sort of messenger. Look at its leg.>
“Huh? Leg?”
At Teemo’s words, Kyung-joon looked at the blue bird’s leg.
“There’s nothing. Then maybe it’s this.”
Finding nothing, he spread out the hand holding the bird’s leg a little.
Amazingly, there was something like a letter tied to it.
“Oh, a letter?”
Kyung-joon decided to check the letter.
But first things first.
“Stay put. Don’t run away.”
“Coo-ee……! Coo-ee……!”
Kyung-joon tied the ‘object to be dissected’…… no, the territory intruder to the Study Villa railing with 『Bouncy Fishing Line』 to prevent it from escaping, and then checked the letter.
『From Larev, the highest elder of the Fairy-Elven Alliance.』
“Oh, it’s that person who gave me the wings last time.”
It was the person who gave him 『Improved Wings of the Sylph』 as a gift, saying let’s be friends.
Of course, it was actually the beastkin Brave Fang and his group who delivered the wings.
『To the lord of Beginner’s Village, dear Lord Kyung-joon.』
<Hoho. So the elder knows you have a territory?>
“By now, everyone who should know, knows.”
TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant, Limurimu, Brave Fang, and Ezeri all knew that Kyung-joon had a territory.
It wouldn’t make sense for the highest elder of the Fairy-Elven Alliance not to know.
Kyung-joon continued reading the letter.
Unlike the previous one, this one was written in a much more formal tone.
>>>
『Your meaningful first meeting with us at the recent Master’s presentation at the magic academy marked a truly significant beginning of the journey between our Fairy-Elven Alliance and you.
I personally express my deepest gratitude for your passionate spirit of inquiry, which, through your thesis, has opened up new horizons of research at the Fairy-Elven University.
The 『Verification of the Legal Structure Rearrangement of Scroll Rune Language for Magic Memory Stone Replacement Used in Refrigerant Compression in Heat Pumps and Its Efficiency and Practical Implementation Possibility』, which you co-authored and presented, has become a starting point for a new future for the Fairy-Elven University.
We firmly believe that the firm will and sincere efforts of the Fairy-Elven Alliance and Lord Kyung-joon, along with your unique approach, to overcome the stagnation that has come after a long period of development, will surely bear great fruit.
We hope that the trust and confidence between you and the Fairy-Elven Alliance will be further strengthened in the process of future implementation, and we are confident that these efforts will hasten our next meeting.
We would like to invite you to share your thesis with the budding talents of our Fairy-Elven University in the near future.
The Highest Elder of the Fairy-Elven Alliance.
Larev』
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Kyung-joon finished reading the letter.
He scratched his head and frowned.
“Ugh, suffocating.”
<I agree. But I guess that’s what an official letter is like.>
“They sent it casually last time, why so formal all of a sudden?”
Kyung-joon muttered and put the letter back in the envelope.
Or, he tried to.
Twinkle!
The letter shone brightly.
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