Saturday 6 PM.
Awakened Management Bureau office located in Hannam-dong, Republic of Korea.
I arrived at that place which is always bustling with people regardless of weekdays or weekends.
I feel like I'm going to die of tiredness.
I didn't skip Tower climbing during the 3 days preparing for the meeting.
Currently, the Management Bureau is in a state of not knowing the fact that I am the EX-Rank conqueror.
I debated whether to reveal that fact in this meeting too, but decided not to.
Naturally, if I belong to an Elite Team, full support from the state would drop, but.
Is there a need to do that?
The benefits I can receive just with the potion supply contract will be overflowing anyway.
Perhaps the potion might be more important than EX-Rank.
Even if not EX-Rank, don't capable Elite Teams including Hunter Lee Se-hwa exist?
However, for potions, I am the only one in the world.
In a way, it is natural.
Plus, the real reason is separate.
The biggest reason is that I want to protect the plants I am raising as much as possible.
If I become an EX-Rank Awakened, the kids' identity will inevitably be known.
Even if security is thorough.
And if that happens, there is no knowing what threat will strike.
Kidnapping for research purposes.
Or approaching for the purpose of EX-Rank conquest.
At the very least, I have to think of cases receiving ridicule or malicious comments on the internet.
It might be my overreaction, but.
Still, there is nothing bad about being careful.
Because there is no guarantee everyone will love them like I do.
Therefore, at least revealing that I am the EX-Rank conqueror, the judgment that it is better to reveal when I have the power to protect the kids certainly.
Anyway, because of such reasons, I didn't skip Tower climbing, so I feel like I'm going to die of tiredness.
Naturally, I completed today's climbing too.
Well, thanks to that, Magic Stones piled up a bit leisurely.
Therefore, arrived two hours earlier than the appointment time!
I should sell off some Magic Stones.
Recently, after Spiky started feasting in the Tower, leeway was created in Magic Stones.
Currently, lowest grade Magic Stone is about 100,000 Won per kg.
The Magic Stones I possess are 36kg.
Leaving 10kg as spare food, I made up my mind to sell only about 26kg.
A whopping 2.6 million Won.
Thanks to the Magic Stone reward increasing as I go up, I earned money of monthly salary level even though I only climbed 8 floors.
Should I seriously quit the part-time job?
Time will disappear on top of it.
I should concentrate more on the Tower too.
Rather earning with Magic Stones is much more profitable.
The more I go up, the more rewards await.
At this, I was just making up my mind to tell them I'm quitting after doing until this month.
"Lowest grade Magic Stone 26kg confirmation complete. Shall we send to your account?"
"Ah, yes. Please."
[2,600,000 Won has been deposited into Yoo Ji-soo's account.]
I sold Magic Stones at the exchange and received 2.6 million Won.
[Balance: 3,120,000]
The appearance of the bankbook, which was tight with many places for money to go out recently, inflating its belly in an instant.
...I should really quit the part-time job.
Holding back leaking laughter, quite a while of peeking around sightseeing here and there.
A call came from Director Kim Han-soo.
"Yes, hello."
> [Hunter-nim, have you arrived by any chance?]
"Yes, I am inside right now."
> [Aigo, where are you? I will go to escort you.]
"Haha, it is fine. I will just go to the place you told me."
Like that, rejecting Director Kim Han-soo who said he would come out to meet me for quite a while, I visited the Director's office directly.
To think I'd come to the Director's office.
The somewhat awkward feeling was brief.
After taking a deep breath, I put my hand on the doorknob visible before my eyes.
Click.
As the door opened, the two people sitting on chairs stood up simultaneously.
"Hunter Yoo Ji-soo!"
"Mr. Yoo Ji-soo?"
Faces I only saw on TV are looking at me.
It was a moment where I would have stuttered due to nervousness if it was usual, but the current me wasn't nervous even a little bit.
[Scent of Tranquility]
Because I applied the scent excellent for psychological stress and mental stability on my body like perfume.
The effect is jackpot, this.
I made it, but it's no joke.
As if they were faces I always saw, composure overflowed.
Looking at the two alternately, I bowed my head slightly.
"Nice to meet you. I am called Yoo Ji-soo."
Slide.
A white document came up onto the luxurious dark brown desk.
"This is...?"
"It is the contract condition we prepared."
"Isn't it an Elite Contract?"
"It is slightly different from a general Elite Contract."
Director Kim Han-soo started explaining regarding the relevant contract.
"First, Hunter Yoo Ji-soo is an Elite Hunter, but we plan to include you as Support-type having no duty to climb the Tower."
Usually, Elite Hunters are forced with the duty for Tower climbing.
Because, anyway, a Hunter's job is climbing the Tower.
Even Elites contracted with the state are acknowledged for that potential, so parking is impossible as they receive treatment worthy of that.
"Then I will have a duty for potion production instead of climbing."
"That is..."
"It is fine. It is a condition I expected sufficiently."
As a result of reading down the contract meticulously for quite a while afterward, I couldn't find any particular toxic clauses.
No, isn't this practically free?
Annual salary 3 billion, house provision for Elite Hunter from the state, security, Hunter Shop discount, etc...
Besides that, all kinds of conveniences for direct family are provided so I can concentrate solely on potion production.
Among national projects currently in progress, granting reading rights and speaking rights regarding all projects related to the Tower.
Even providing manpower to help potion manufacturing, and space provision.
Furthermore, every time I manufacture one potion, purchase with a large sum of 1 billion, new types of potions are price measured after value evaluation after Elite Hunters use them.
I sweated hard trying to hold onto the corners of my mouth trying to ascend.
If not for Scent of Tranquility, I might have fainted perhaps.
Units of numbers I see for the first time in my life.
If it is this much, not only can I raise the fellows in a better environment.
I can try everything I wanted.
It is possible to liquidate all of my parents' debt and even move to a new space.
But isn't accepting immediately looking too cheap?
Therefore, I asked what I was most curious about.
"But is it okay to proceed like this?"
"...You mean the Special Medicine Law."
"Yes."
Awakened Special Medicine Law.
My case was a case perfectly conflicting with this law.
Phew.
Director Kim Han-soo, who exhaled a deep sigh, opened his mouth.
"You do not have to worry about that."
"Is there a method?"
"Actually, since there are many problems with the Special Medicine Law itself, I was thinking of overhauling it sometime."
This, isn't he doing this for no reason because of me?
When I stared at Director Kim Han-soo blankly at that thought, Lee Se-hwa spoke.
"It is true. Because that law is wrong from the root in the first place."
"Hunter Lee Se-hwa...!"
"Director, Mr. Yoo Ji-soo must have come knowing it naturally too. If one is a citizen of the Republic of Korea, everyone knows that law has many problems."
...I didn't know.
First, I didn't open my mouth to watch the turning situation.
"Phew. That is true too."
When the Director agreed, Lee Se-hwa continued speaking.
"In the first place, it doesn't make sense that the only thing caught by the Special Medicine Law is potions, right? On top of that, the standards are full of things roughly modifying standards used for general medicine manufacturing."
"..."
"It doesn't make sense that we can't sell potions made by Awakened directly with verified effects just because of one law. Don't you think so?"
Is it because of what this woman said in the interview?
I can't look her straight in the eye for no reason.
Therefore, I just nodded with an expressionless face.
"...As expected. Look at this, Director. I told you he came knowing everything already."
"Kuhum. Excuse me for this."
"No problem."
Wow, burdensome.
I should sign the contract quickly and leave.
"Then I will understand that there is no problem with that part."
"Yes. Then now the full-scale contract...?"
"Before that, one thing."
"...?"
"I also have a condition."
Still, I have to demand the conditions I want strictly.
"I want to create a business entity."
Because if my ability doesn't receive proper value because of national projects or whatever, it would be considerably unfair.
Awakened Management Bureau Director's Office.
The two people there were wordless for a while.
"...We must catch him unconditionally."
Lee Se-hwa, who tied her platinum blonde hair up neatly, broke that silence.
"By using whatever means."
"...I agree."
Kim Han-soo stared blankly at the potion placed on the desk.
It wasn't ordinary from the first phone call.
He dealt without a single shake as if he expected all situations entirely.
"Just where did such a talent come out from..."
It was the same for every moment proceeding with the meeting.
He couldn't find a bit of fluster or agitation from Hunter Yoo Ji-soo who revealed himself as the potion creator.
And that was what Lee Se-hwa felt too.
Befitting her proudly occupying Republic of Korea Ranking 1st, she was someone whose senses were much more developed than normal humans.
"Perhaps he expected this situation from the moment he uploaded the post on the community."
Director Kim Han-soo couldn't refute those words.
Because, didn't he answer any question fluently without blockage throughout the meeting?
Even to the sensitive question of how he could produce such potions, he answered honestly without showing particular signs.
Of course, he didn't answer about the Awakening Trait as is, but since they also have conscience, they didn't wish to that extent.
"...Support-type Awakened, huh."
It's not that there are no Support-type Awakened among other Hunters registered at the Management Bureau.
However, they never heard of an Awakening Trait like manufacturing potions like Yoo Ji-soo.
"Then the EX-Rank conqueror wouldn't be Hunter Yoo Ji-soo."
"Ey, of course. Director, really. Would it be the same person? On top of that, he said with his own mouth it is a trait not suitable for combat, didn't he?"
"I just thought about it just in case."
It doesn't matter even if he isn't the EX-Rank Awakened.
Because the fact that he possesses ability not inferior to EX-Rank, no, perhaps even more amazing, doesn't change.
"If his words are true, the whole world will turn upside down."
"...It's not just that degree. If done well, the Republic of Korea might grasp the hegemony of the whole world."
Hard to believe, but true.
The economy of the world at the current point was relying on the Tower.
Magic Stones coming out of the Tower are natural, and besides that, rewards given with low probability.
Equipment made with monster byproducts, or clothing.
Weapons refined with Tower metals.
The added value these create is to the degree comparable to simply climbing the Tower preventing destruction.
One cannot deny that Korea rising tall as the leader of East Asia is also because the Tower climbing speed is the fastest among the three countries.
"Are you planning to use that in the next conquest?"
Kim Han-soo pointed to the bottle containing dark blue liquid placed in front of Lee Se-hwa.
While talking about the potion supply contract with Hunter Yoo Ji-soo, it was an object taken out from inventory and handed to Lee Se-hwa.
"Of course. If it is really a potion granting Night Vision ability..."
The back words didn't continue.
Because Director Kim Han-soo also could know what she wanted to say.
"We can consider conquest up to 55th floor as a done deal."
"Well, only when this potion has effect."
"How do you think it will be, Hunter Lee Se-hwa?"
"About what?"
"About that potion, and the person called Yoo Ji-soo."
Then Lee Se-hwa exhaled a deep sigh.
"Director, do you know you are 'Answer is fixed so you just answer' style if looking closely?"
"Haha, is that so."
"Director knows too. Even if this new potion has no effect."
Lee Se-hwa pushed the potion containing golden liquid placed next to it forward.
"Just with this one, his value is already above Elite Hunter."
"..."
"On top of that, this pouch."
The gift Yoo Ji-soo handed to the two before leaving.
The object he handed one each saying he calls it Scent of Tranquility.
"If this really has the effect as he said, along with the potion, it is an object that will become a necessity for Hunters in the future."
Scent of Tranquility.
A scent pouch emitting scent excellent for mental stress and mind-body stability.
In the case of Healing Potion, they can believe it because they experienced it directly, but they couldn't believe the two new potions Yoo Ji-soo handed over.
To be precise, saying it's unbelievable would be the correct expression.
If it is really as he said, this is a matter where the world will turn upside down and more.
Because it was a clue to solve the treatment of Hunters and various social problems caused by them.
"First, if I speak my thought, I think the condition Hunter Yoo Ji-soo put up is very reasonable."
The condition Hunter Yoo Ji-soo put up is exactly one thing.
Along with all authority regarding potions, absolute authority regarding all manufacturing processes.
Meaning, he said he wants to create one business entity.
He just didn't say it directly, but he blocked the attempt itself of researching his potion or developing similarly perhaps.
However, for this, considerable procedures were needed.
Awakened Special Medicine Law, hereinafter Special Medicine Law, had to be amended essentially.
Because the Special Medicine Law itself is a bill making detailed disclosure of manufacturing process inevitable.
"Is there anything problematic? In the first place, Special Medicine Law itself has many things done by rule of thumb."
It is true.
The Special Medicine Law itself was a bill created by Hanshin Group, which holds the exclusive supply right of Glorio, through all kinds of solicitation and lobbying.
Therefore, actually, the citizens' public opinion had many voices saying the Special Medicine Law itself should be overhauled.
Anyway, it is a bill that must be overhauled someday.
If overhauling a bill while at it and obtaining Hunter Yoo Ji-soo, it is a very cheap deal.
"It would be good to try promoting it while at it."
The next meeting is one week later.
If it is that degree, a simple outline regarding the newly amended Special Medicine Law will come out.
Furthermore, a sufficient period to test the new potions.
Director Kim Han-soo picked up the receiver wordlessly.
"Aigo, Assemblyman Yang. You are doing well, right? Yes well, nothing else, just wondering if we should have a meal..."
It was the moment when the newly amended Awakened Special Medicine Law started to be discussed.
(End of Chapter)
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