Chapter 303: Humanity Cantons – Dwarf Kingdom (3)
In the middle of the golden floor of the Red Tile Palace, a path made of red rubies was spread out like a red carpet.
At the end of the path was a giant throne of red metal, and on the throne sat 7th Redbeard, the head of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan.
The throne seemed large enough to seat several dwarves, but the presence of 7th Redbeard filled the space and more. High-enhanced epic equipment that hasn’t even been patched in World yet. He deserved to wear them.
Dwarf ministers were lined up on either side of him, and among them was a familiar fairy face.
<Fairy-Elven Alliance Delegation>
<Former Tower Master of New Arc-en-Ciel>
▼Siam Tinya (NPC)
“Ah, Lothar. That’s the new owner of New Arc-en-Ciel I was talking about.”
“A human……?”
Lothar frowned at the sudden appearance of Kyung-joon.
“……Who are you? I don’t recall inviting you to this meeting?”
This meeting was with delegates from the Fael Alliance.
He had been informed in advance of who would be attending.
For example, Siam Tinya, the top of the Fael Alliance’s business world.
But he had never heard that there would be a human among them.
Not to mention Lothar, the head of the Dwarf Clan, but even the dwarf ministers of the Red Tile Palace.
Murmur, murmur.
The ministers began to whisper among themselves, asking who the human was and if anyone knew him.
Lothar also left the ministers to their whispers and began to guess who he was.
‘Judging by his clothes, he doesn’t look like a human from Humanity. Wait, a human? Don’t tell me……’
Lothar suddenly had a hunch about who Kyung-joon was.
It was at that moment.
Crash!
The door of the Red Tile Palace broke down and public security officers came rushing in.
“Surround the illegal immigrant!”
“Don’t let him get anywhere near Lothar-nim!”
“Lothar-nim! We apologize for the interruption during your important meeting, but this is an emergency! An illegal immigrant has broken into the Red Tile Palace targeting you! We need you to evacuate immediately!”
Click, click, click, click!
The dwarf public security officers surrounded Kyung-joon.
‘Damn it, what should I do……’
The officers already knew on their way here that such actions would be meaningless.
A human who just passes through any wall or attack.
Even if they surrounded him now, he would surely pass through them unharmed.
But then.
Thud.
Kyung-joon stopped walking.
And he opened his status window and activated his titles.
<Second Mark of the Hero (Takiki)>
<Third Mark of the Hero (Half-and-Half Dragon)>
<Friend of the Dragon>
<Recognized by Fairy King>
<Lord of the Study Territory>
▼Kyung-joon (Player)
“……!”
“……!”
“……!”
The public security officers, the ministers, and even the chief were all shocked to see the titles above Kyung-joon’s head.
“Oh, right. I forgot to mention one more thing.”
Siam Tinya spoke as if they had planned this, looking at Kyung-joon.
“He’s the new owner of New Arc-en-Ciel and the hottest Mr. Descendant with the Hero’s Mark these days.”
“Officers, you get the picture now, right?”
At Siam’s words, Kyung-joon added with a sly smile.
And then he started walking again just like before.
Step, step, swoosh.
The officers were all dumbfounded and couldn’t do anything even as Kyung-joon passed through them.
“It’s an honor to meet you. 7th Redbeard, Lothar-nim, head of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan. I’m Kyung-joon.”
Kyung-joon introduced himself formally, trying to be polite.
Then Kyung-joon turned his head to the side.
“Siam. Are you done talking?”
“Yes~ You can proceed right away.”
Siam had already laid the groundwork through the meeting before Kyung-joon arrived.
So Kyung-joon didn’t have to bother explaining anything and could just get on with it.
Kyung-joon looked up at Lothar, who was sitting on the Red Iron Throne, and said,
“As the new owner of New Arc-en-Ciel and the owner of the second largest workshop after you, Lothar-nim, I’m here to tell you that the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan will be working with me from now on.”
Kyung-joon was not only the largest shareholder of New Arc-en-Ciel, but also the second largest shareholder of the dwarf workshops here.
After the chief, Lothar!
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After Kyung-joon became friends with Half-and-Half Dragon and completely separated Yoo Seol-ha from Chairman Yoo to his side.
The area he focused on the most was ‘stocks’.
First, about the four people he entrusted Old Arc-en-Ciel to.
Siam Tinya, the top of the Fael Alliance’s business world.
TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant, the owner of a large player guild and a graduate of Seoul National University’s Department of Business Administration.
Yoo Seol-ha, who grew up receiving all kinds of royal and corporate education from the Seolha Group.
And Ezeri Capirus, an ordinary person but a capable one.
First, Ezeri began to reform the inside of Arc-en-Ciel.
Yoo Seol-ha used the knowledge she learned from the Seolha Group to support Ezeri and acted as a middle manager, informing TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant of the internal situation.
Based on this, TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant went on all sorts of external activities with Siam Tinya.
Siam Tinya, the top of the Fael Alliance’s business world, used her enormous wealth and connections to make all the plans that Kyung-joon had framed and TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant had fleshed out possible.
The most important of these was the funding plan.
It takes a long time to earn money, but it’s quick to take it away.
So they began to take the money that many large and small magic towers had through stocks and bring it to Arc-en-Ciel.
The method was simple.
Buy when it’s cheap, sell when it’s expensive.
The buy and sell algorithm that the four of them and Kyung-joon had created together uncannily found the highs and lows.
Every time they did, ‘legal’ funds began to flow into Arc-en-Ciel.
But it wasn’t enough.
It was enough to save one Arc-en-Ciel, but it was far from enough to influence the entire canton.
They needed a surefire solution.
That’s when this chat window appeared.
[Chat window with Kim Elsa]
▶Kyung-joon: I’ve unsealed one. From now on, dispose of all Fael Alliance stocks except for military-related ones and go all-in on inverse.
From that point on, Arc-en-Ciel began to dispose of all its shares except for those related to military and weapons magic towers.
They started going all-in on inverse with the funds they got from that.
Inverse.
The ultimate gamble where you make money when the world’s stocks go down and lose money when the world’s stocks go up.
By the time they went all-in on inverse, it was already widely accepted that inverse was over.
Inverse had skyrocketed for a while when variant monsters were swarming, but it soon plummeted.
This was because, from the canton’s point of view, most of the variant monsters at the time were easy to catch, and other problems such as the magic tower virus were quickly resolved.
Moreover, the Holy Cross Faction took care of the incident where the Demon King’s seal was almost broken.
The fact that Kyung-joon became friends with Half-and-Half Dragon also caused a brief stir, but it was soon forgotten as Kyung-joon did not engage in any major activities.
The world regained stability, and those who had ridden the inverse coin and got burned began to dispose of it.
Arc-en-Ciel began buying up all of that, which everyone was throwing away saying it was over, in Kyung-joon’s name.
And they started buying up shares of small military magic towers within Fael University and workshops of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan with the remaining funds.
To become the second largest shareholder, as taking over management rights could be a problem.
And not long after.
News began to spread that the seal of 67th Amdusias had been broken.
Inverse went up a little.
The very next day, the seal of 72nd Andromalius was also broken.
Inverse went up even more.
It didn’t stop there, and 71st, 70th, and 69th were also unsealed.
Inverse began to skyrocket, unstoppable, and Arc-en-Ciel began to hand over the inverse to those who had been eyeing it.
They were able to sell what they had bought for 1,000 liyan for 20,000 liyan, 30,000 liyan, and even close to 50,000-100,000 liyan.
With the funds that had increased tenfold and hundreds of times over, they began to buy up military and weapon-related magic towers and workshops, regardless of whether they belonged to the Fael Alliance or the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan.
That’s how they became the second largest shareholder in most magic towers and workshops.
But.
There was no news of the unsealed devils running rampant.
They were nowhere to be found.
There was not a single area that had been damaged.
No one had even heard a peep about the devils.
Eventually, inverse began to plummet again, and all sorts of institutions and ants were left holding the bag.
They were desperate to get rid of the inverse.
Arc-en-Ciel started buying it all back up again.
Since they had already made enough money from playing the inverse game once, it wasn’t too difficult to buy it all back.
Not long after they had bought up most of the plummeted inverse.
Another incident occurred.
Variant monsters began to swarm.
Unlike the previous variant monsters, which were only level 200-300 at most.
The basic level was 200-300, and the higher ones went up to 400-500.
In the past, it was only the Holy Cross Faction that was in a bit of a panic, but now the entire canton was in an uproar.
Inverse began to skyrocket again, and.
As demand for weapons surged, military and weapon-related magic towers and workshops began to rise sharply.
A return of 10,000%.
If you started with 100 million, you would earn 1 trillion.
If you started with 1 trillion, you would earn 10 quadrillion.
All the rich people became middle class, and those who were not rich just lived as they always had because they could not afford to play the stock market in the first place.
In the end, most of the wealth held by the canton’s rich was forcibly gathered into Arc-en-Ciel.
Arc-en-Ciel was reborn.
New Arc-en-Ciel.
The second largest shareholder of all military and weapon-related magic towers and workshops, including the Fael Alliance and the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan.
It had become an entity that could influence the entire weapons industry of the canton.
This was something that Kyung-joon, who could control the fate of the World with his own hands, could do.
Kyung-joon, who was practically the eighth canton.
He made a proposal to Lothar, the head of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan.
“A crisis may soon befall the World, a crisis that could destroy it. I want to borrow the power of the dwarves to overcome this crisis.”
“……Borrow our power, you say? What do you mean?”
Swoosh.
Kyung-joon took something out of his inventory.
It was something he had received from Siam Tinya when he first met her.
[Mana Automatic Rifle – Arc-en-Ciel Prototype]
▶A new weapon born from ‘magical engineering’, a fusion of scroll magic, magic tool technology, and the scientific knowledge of another world.
▶Simply pulling the trigger fires 2,000 Unique-grade Energy Shooters per minute. It is engraved with perfect recoil control and automatic aiming imprinting that allows it to only target variant monsters.
▶Item Grade: Unique
“I’d like to work with you on mass-producing this.”
A grand plan to revive the Demon King himself and then clean up the mess he creates!
This is the first step.
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