Chapter 4 (2/2)
Thewas chaotic but the time wasn’t spent wastefully
Transcender Yan, it seeth for Suhyuk in the future
In case of another raid, Suhyuk only dismembered the dead monster’s useful parts like its useful bones, teeth, and toes
The rest was trash so he collected the his house Suhyuk pondered what to do next
Suhyuk inforeons, but he has yet to tell hieon has also been cleared so requesting for more jobs was impossible
But sitting around idly seemed wasteful
After obtaining the transcendental syste In the past, no a in Suhyuk’s life But everything was different now
Now, there was s he could obtain with effort
One of the first wishes areater monsters
He could becoer with effort now Therefore, Suhyuk could not bear to waste even 1 second of 1 minute of his life anymore
‘It’s been awhile since I entered a colony’
Suhyuk as trapped in his thoughts decided to enter a colony Suhyuk will be hunting much more monsters than usual so he needed to purchase more monster bullets He also needed to dispose the e
Suhyuk wanted to secure all the required equip all his wealth
“It will be good to catch up on how the world is doing… eon cleaners?”
Suhyuk didn’t think it would be so bad to becoht companies
If he were to becoet a chance to clean Rank 3 dungeons Then it would certainly help his growth exponentially
But it was extreht coe expectations
There were tays a ghost like Suhyuk could enter a colony An official and unofficial method
The official as to get a temporary entry permit Ideally it was easy, but in reality the procedures to be issued one was complex with many rules
Much money and tieon cleaner’ was enough to be outright rejected
Therefore, Suhyuk did not like the official method much
Suhyuk regularly snuck in through unofficial methods
Unofficially, it is very simple
It was to secretly bribe one of the gatekeepers of the colony borders to gain entry
As long as you had a counterfeit entry permit and didn’t cause trouble within the colony it was almost impossible to be found out
Suhyuk would not stay long and he needed to bring inthe official h unofficial ways like always
He needed to bribe the gatekeeper with a higher price than norain h this transactions in the colony
Creeeak BOOM!
Once Suhyuk confirate close behind him, he continued into the inner colony
Suwon Colony had a ‘Grade A’ barrier, 20est colonies of South Korea so a “Grade A’ barrier was common sense
That’s not all, the barrier was reinforced with an upgraded barrier syste from officials
Suwon colony always had blue titans on stand by in tip top condition to defend against monsters whichhelped its citizens feel very secured
These blue dragon titans belonged to the Blue Dragon Knight Coon which spanned across froht
The Blue Dragon Coeons and the reon outside in plain vieas probably for the latter reason
Its height was a staggering 81m and width of 44loves hadlook
The blue dragon’s horns looked like giant axes that could easily tear a on’s eneration titan, one of the newest models
There were rueneration titan but that was still in the development phase
‘It looks so cool no matter how many times I see it’
Whenever Suhyuk visited Suwon colony, he would take soon froon thousands of tiination In reality, it was impossible to even admire the titan close up
Suwon colony was traditionally the hohts There were several talented private knight coht Company had the most popularity so the presence for the rest of the companies were practically nonexistant
The world inside the colony was very different than the outside
On the outside, the colony gave off aBut inside, it was not that way at all
Rather, with the developineers human life becaer healthier lives and the basic living facilities cannot be coo
Lesser or greater monsters would appear time to tiainst monsters were not much of a problem for people inside colonies
Rather, there wereto hunt eons than deaths inside colonies
‘Monster engineers estie lifespan of citizens to be 90 years… while ghosts had an average life span of about 50 years’
Suhyuk had a bitter expression thinking of the lifespan of citizens versus ghosts
Following zero iated into ranks
Ahts were at the top Knights were free froe lifespan of about 140 years
Crucially, their strength exceeded normal human powers
Knights had ranks of their own, but even hly respected by the rest of society
If one had to explain, knights were like the nobility of the hts, many others existed
Other than knights, people of siineers
A ork ants ere proe for manual labor However, their quality of life was not too different frohosts
Work ants labored in large scale far inside the colonies
If you calculated accurately, ghosts had a little more room to live co hefty taxes to live inside colonies
Suhyun headed to the black s
The black market existed in the slums located in the H section of Suwon colony The Suwon Colony ement are of the black market, but they didn’t care to rid of its existence because the black nized them
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Suhyuk opened the door to the store he visited regularly You would think the black arette smoke, but in reality it was not so
On the outside, it seemed to be a café who sold coffee and various other soft drinks
“Oh! Who do we have here? Kiddo! It’s been a while ”
The store owner s up fro boss of Suwon Colony’s black market Seo WonTaek
He was also Suhyuk’s life savior
“hello”
Suhyuk did not care for others, but for Seo Wontaek, he felt nothing but great respectWhen Suhyuk lost everything and had to dig through trash for food, Seo Wontaek taught hiht Suhyuk how to survive in this hellish world He lent all the necessary basic equipeon cleaning business
However, Seo Wontaek is not such a generous business man to handout free charity Hean investment Suhyuk would need to repay the debts with additional interest later on
In fact later, he made exact calculations for the interest and collected all the debt Still, it didn’t change the fact that Seo Wontaek wasSuhyuk’s life savior
“It’s been so long I thought you retired fro business”
“like I’ll ever retire The jobs drastically decreased these days so I don’t need as much equipment now”
“True, the jobto take control of the cleaning jobs now… they used to say it was too troublesome and throay the monster parts
“The job h these days I heard there are soldier ranked knights ork as helpers these days, is that true?”
“It’s not just a handful, they call all soldier ranked knights helpers these daysThe aet into a knight company with a mere soldier rank
“It’s that bad?”
“That’s why the knights take care of the dead monster parts nohen before it was just a troublesome peasant job”
“Oh, I see”
Suhyuk finally understood why the jobs available drastically decreased recently from Seo WonTaek’s words
“Additionally, the demand for monster bones and teeth drastically increased Lesser reateras steel More people have been creating affordable versions of weapons with lesser reater monsters for raw eons like normal metals
“I guess the supply for greatercompared to the demand”
“The aed, but the demand for its supplies exponentially increased so this result can’t be helped”
Monster engineers call the raw reater endary fictional eleineers attached this nareater monster’s bones are metal in nature
“The ht?”
“Greater monster bones are expensive, but lesser monsters only rose by a little bit”
“Then has the price for one up?”
Matans are the e market price for weapons When the price ofwith it
“No,matans from lesser monsters so the price drastically fell
“Is that so? Quality is not a problem? ”
“Not at all! The skills of closet smithshave drastically increased so you’ll find bullets produced from lesser monsters to be better quality than previous versions reater monsters”
Seo Wontaek refered black market weapon smiths as closet smiths
“Incredible”
“the world is changing in a horrifying fast pace Did you know that? The titans produced in the earlier days are used for construction in the colony now”
“Ah! The antique robots anyone could control and not the ones especially ht?”
“Yes, that’s right People weren’t allowed to use the antique for every day tasks like construction, but now people are using it without a second thought like nothingThe world became such a convenient place”
“They’re probably only using the antique titans because they are made from steel”
The raw eneration titans are 100 percent adareater monster’s bones) This was the only way titans can be useful inside dungeons
However, titans made froeons since they turn into nothing but dead weight, but they are quite useful outside of dungeons
Colonies therefore keep steel titans for purely defense purposes
“Nohat do you want? Matans? Neutralizer? ”
“I want to dispose these items first Then, I want 4 boxes of ivematans, and 1 box of explosive matans
Suhyuk dropped his large backpack and listed the items he needed to purchase
“Why did you need soand explosive matans? You said it was too expensive and didn’t bother looking at them before”
“I did, but ht i would purchase some”
Burning and explosive matans are about a hundred times more powerful than normal matans
“I’ve heard ed for the worst outside the colonies these days Then why don’t you try ice ood performance”
“Whatever you call it, it’s only a simple monster bullet No matter how many special tricks you shove into aand explosive bullets
“It’s as you say, a matan is just a matan Then shall I provide your usual mithril crafts?”
Seo WonTaeksaid while nodding along to Suhyuk’s statement There are ineers these days but monster weapons have their limits
“Yes, I’ll take that one”
Mithril crafters were one of Korea’s top three Matop
Matop were locations monster craftsmen craft, but to be considered a ‘Matop’ the location needs to be e in scale
Once Seo WonTaek received the orders, he pushed the showcase to one side On the other side, a new room was revealed
Countless iteeon weapons black listed for personal transactions
Seo WonTaek quickly organized the needed iteinal position
“Four boxes of matan I’ll subtract the necessary aht me
“If you don’t have enough, please call I’ll deposit it right away”
“Froh”
“Thank you”
Suhyuk bowed respectfully once more
“I’ve said this to you before but, I’ve reaped the profits by collecting all the debts plus interest already There’s no need for you to behave so respectfully since you don’t oweanymore
“Even so, it doesn’t change the fact that boss is my life’s savior”
He lost everyone he ever cherished and now the only person he was close to was Seo WonTaek And so, it couldn’t be helped Suhyuk felt so much respect for Seo WonTaek
“I should really give you credit for that stubborn nature of yours”
Seo WonTaek had a hopeless face and shook his head
“I’ll take my leave then”
After Suhyuk pulled out all the monster’s bones, he packed 4 boxes of matan and neutralizers
Now that he purchased all his needed iteo around the colony for some information
“Yes, goodby… Oh, wait a eons?”
“Rank 3? Of course I will do it if available”
“Is that so? That’s great then There was so secrets, are you interested?”
“Yes, of course I’m interested”
The dungeon wasn’t a rank 1 or 2, but a rank 3
That meant it was possible to collect much more dimensional force Suhyuk, who’ve been starved of dimensional force, couldn’t help but show interested