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When I arrived at Incheon International Airport with Kim Deok-bae, many reporters quarreled and asked me questions.
As you can see, if you don’t give me a rough answer, I’ll keep blocking you.
“I will go ahead and answer a few questions. This one first.”
Then the reporter who was pointed out said, with his eyes shining.
“Chairman Ji-hyuk Han! During the attack on the SS-class gate, the skeleton stopped sporadically for two days, raising the possibility of injury. What happened?”
I said with a casual expression.
“It’s nothing. The fight against monsters was so intense that the supply was not smooth due to the lack of mana. As you can see, what.”
I said, pounding all over my body.
“There are no injuries, so you can rest assured. Now, the next reporter.”
Then the reporter took the microphone and spoke.
“There are many experts who say that this incident is an event that shows the limits of the theory that depends entirely on the ability of Chairman Han. What do you think about the claim that it is necessary to prepare for the risk that arises when an abnormal situation occurs for a chairman like this one?”
You need to be prepared for risk.
To be honest, what you say is true.
To be precise, even to alleviate the anxiety of those who are related to Seron rather than myself.
I have a long life and I am confident that I will not die, but I am not like other people who do not know that fact.
And this kind of anxiety can soon lead to problems with trust in Seron.
So, by suggesting a solution to it, it alleviates that anxiety.
“Nevertheless, I also learned a great deal through this incident. I am a civilian, but given the impact on society in general, I am in a position where I cannot act recklessly.”
“Does that mean you won’t go to dangerous places like SS-class gates in the future?”
That’s not it.
If the Undead Legion comes out, I will unconditionally intervene no matter where it is.
So, what people need now is the conviction that even if I disappear, at least the status quo can be maintained.
I said looking at Kim Deok-bae.
“Do you have any artificial water left?”
“There are two left.”
“Give me one.”
So, having received artificial water from Kim Deok-bae, I showed it to reporters and said.
“This is artificial water created by purchasing energy from people. I plan to build a system that can maintain a skeleton without me using this artificial essence.”
“Yes?”
“Currently, I have been buying energy from people to create artificial essence and then absorbing this artificial essence to maintain a skeleton. With a little twist on this, we’re going to study how the skeletons can receive energy directly from this artificial essence.”
It was meant to appease, but it was quite feasible.
Just as my undead corps’ magical power has been replaced and turned into a monster, I’m just replacing the magic power supplier with an artificial essence instead of mine.
If this happens, just as a machine needs oil or electricity to work, the skeleton will also be refueled with artificial water power to complete a system that works.
Of course, I’ll still be able to create additional new skeletons, but at least it’s good enough to keep what’s already been created.
“Once this system is complete, the skeleton will operate with the magic of artificial essence, not mine, so even if there is a problem like this one, the power supply will not become unstable.”
Then another reporter asked a question.
“But wouldn’t that require more artificial water? The power plant project is also in progress.”
“Of course it is.”
“Then, is the energy purchase business being introduced in other regions beyond Jeonbuk?”
Currently, Ceron Group was only purchasing energy for 3 million people a day.
However, people’s awareness of energy sales is getting better and more and more people are demanding to install it in their own area.
“Yes? You have to increase it.”
At my positive reaction, the reporters said with excitement.
“Then, which area do you consider to be your top priority?”
“I’m thinking of two places first.”
“Two places?”
“First of all, the Chungnam area. We are considering it because it is geographically close to Jeonbuk and has a good transportation network.”
“How about the other one?”
“that······.”
I said with a smirk.
“It’s China.”
*
When I arrived at the Ceron Group headquarters, my aides who met me smiled brightly and said:
“Chairman, I am very glad that you are safe.”
“I was worried, Chairman.”
I said, patting people on the shoulders.
“It was hard.”
The skeleton suddenly stopped and I was very scared.
Kang Chan-soo looked at Kim Deok-bae and said.
“Still, I was anxious, but I was able to persevere thanks to the vice-president’s focus and calm response.”
Kim Deok-bae was embarrassed by those words and coughed in vain.
“It’s all the things the president has instructed in advance, so no matter what happens, don’t be reckless.”
“Whether given the instructions or whatever, everyone stays calm in an anxious situation…”
“Stop, stop. Today is the day to celebrate the Chairman’s return, so why do you keep talking nonsense?”
I saw it and smiled and said.
“The vice president and the bosses, everyone did a good job. Now, let’s go to the conference room and talk about the rest.”
So I led the people to the conference room.
As I sat down, I briefly conveyed the situation in the past.
“…so, we dealt with monsters in cooperation with China, and China decided to abolish the tariffs it had raised as a sign of friendship and cooperate with the energy purchase business.”
I explained the price of silence as a reward for dealing with monsters.
The secret is that the less people know it, the more it shines, so there is no need to tell us anything unrelated to the business.
“Of course there are conditions.”
The biggest reason China decided to attack me was because of energy.
If China is subordinated to this energy, it might be swayed by me in a situation where it is already being damaged by Seron.
However, I can’t just refuse to do so, so I tried to kill myself and make it a non-existent situation, but it failed.
As the situation unfolded, China negotiated with me and, instead of making concessions, offered other terms.
“Energy purchases will be carried out only in designated areas in consultation with the Chinese government.”
There is no way to stop the spilled water, so at least the local management is in the direction of the government directly.
“And second. Lower the purchase price.”
Then Kim Deok-bae said with a surprised expression.
“You want to lower it? Aren’t you going to upload more?”
“Yes.”
What the Chinese government is most concerned about is that the Chinese people may be swayed by Ceron by relying on the revenue they get from their energy purchases.
That is why China has come with an extraordinary method in this negotiation.
“You originally signed a contract with a Chinese company for 50,000 won, right? Of that, 3,000 won was eaten by a Chinese company and 47,000 were given to people. But they told me to give 15,000 won to the people and 35,000 won to the Chinese government.”
In Korea, it is said that 210,000 won a month is about 60,000 won a month.
In addition, the Chinese government can take money as the government does.
Of course, I can’t do anything good for the Chinese government, right?
“So I negotiated well, gave people 25,000, and finally agreed to pay a fee of 3,000 won to the operator that passed the screening jointly by me and the Chinese government, not the Chinese government.”
To be honest, 15,000 won is way too small.
No matter how much, you have to be at least 10% of your monthly salary so that you can risk a little bit of annoyance.
So, it was set at 25,000 won.
“By the way, wasn’t our original plan to introduce all energy purchases in Korea first and then advance overseas?”
“It was originally. But now things are different.”
Energy purchase business started as part of an experiment to understand the natural flow.
When people thought of it as a welfare benefit, we postponed our overseas expansion to a later date with the idea of capturing the public sentiment in Korea.
We have to build a power plant and introduce the skeleton maintenance system that I told reporters, and above all, there are over 200 corpses of Class A or higher Awakenings piled up in subspace right now.
There are so many things to do, such as how to control the powers of the Awoken, but artificial essences are too scarce.
It would take too long to cover this with expensive Korean horsepower alone.
However, through this negotiation with China, it is possible to purchase horsepower at almost one-tenth the price of Korea, so all of this can be done more quickly.
“We need a lot of artificial water. So both China and Korea are doing business at the same time.”
Korea is for appeasing the public, and China is for supplying cheap horsepower in bulk.
People nodded their heads at my words.
“All right.”
This is the content of the first consultation with China.
But this was only the beginning.
“In addition, there are many gifts from China. Not only will we support the relocation of companies that have entered the Chinese market, but we will also provide mining rights for some of China’s seabed resources…”
The Communist Party has applied various disadvantages and pressures to delay the relocation of overseas companies.
But through this negotiation, at least they promised not to interfere, and in addition to that, they also brought, to some extent, the right to mine undersea resources.
This mining right even has a non-disclosure agreement in which all of the mined minerals will be shared by the Chinese government after paying only the project cost, so it will be a huge benefit.
“For now, this is an official gift. Then there is the unofficial secret gift. We will lend some of the Chinese funds in our overseas accounts to Seron as an investment.”
This is a secret fund from the Chinese government, so the horse lends it to me, and in fact, it is nothing more than a reparation for me.
“We also received some of the monster essence stockpiled by the Chinese government. Add to······.”
As I continued to list the list that the Chinese government had agreed to give me, people opened their mouths and said:
“Oh, you’re giving me that much?”
“How the hell did he become such a strong monster?”
It was a very strong monster.
As much as China has replaced over 200 High Awakeners.
“ah. And the introduction is late.”
I said, pointing to Park In-gwi, who had followed me without saying a word.
“I had a lot of conversations with Guild Leader Park In-gwi at the SS-level gate, and my friendship grew stronger. So I persuaded him to bring him to Korea. I will be officially naturalized in Korea soon.”
Park In-gwi bowed his head at my words and said.
“Take good care of me.”
Then the people opened their eyes and said,
“Then the 7th SS class in Korea?”
Hmm······.
After meeting a lot of SS-levels in China, why do Korean SS-level numbers look so shabby?
Anyway.
“ruler! We receive so many gift packages from China, so there is a lot of work to do. Let’s all start working.”
Then, after being silent for a while, Kim Deok-bae said.
“President.”
“Please speak.”
“Before starting work, like I said at my inauguration, why don’t we all go on a vacation together?”
“Are you on vacation?”
Come to think of it, this happened suddenly while we were talking about vacation.
“Yes. I’m going to go somewhere close and cool my head for a few days. It’s us too, but the president went to the gate and went through all the hard work, but we need to rest a little bit.”
“Well······.”
I thought for a while and said.
“OK. The work is done, let’s go and get some rest.”
I didn’t say it, so everyone here must have had their skeletons stopped and constantly received calls from partners and contracted companies.
What the hell happened, how did the contract go without any setbacks, etc.
Of course, they themselves do not know what happened, so they must have suffered all the humiliation in the process.
Anyway, I suffered so much, but it’s okay to release it once in a while, right?
After all, artificial purified water must be supplied from China in order to work in earnest, so come play for a while in the meantime.
“Five! Really!”
I nodded and said.
“Yes. Make a vacation plan. Instead, not too long.”
“of course. I’ll have to call quickly and tell my wife to clear her schedule.”
oh
Come to think of it, did you ask your family to go with you?
“Where are you going?”
“It doesn’t take long, but it’s a bit too far away.”
People who talk about vacation in earnest like that.
I looked at these people and smiled.
“like. Let’s enjoy it properly this time.”
*
After such a long meeting, the vacation location that was decided was Jeju Island.
It’s true that it’s a bit futile to be the first family trip for the chairman of a chaebol and his aides, but since all the people who came together are key members of the group, we couldn’t stay away for too long at the same time, so we decided to Jeju Island, the nearest island.
But I was very satisfied.
“Jeju Island is good.”
It was my first trip since I returned to Earth, and it was my first time on Jeju Island itself.
I said, lying on the sunbed, sipping a cocktail.
“It’s not bad to be relaxed like this sometimes.”
Back then, when I was having so much fun.
An old woman came up to me and said,
“Thank you again, Chairman.”
That aunt is the mother who brought Baek Sang-ho on a family trip.
“It is all thanks to the chairman that our son acts as a human being.”
From the first time I saw him, he held my hand and expressed his gratitude, and since then he has continued to do this whenever he has time.
“no. It is thanks to the outstanding skills of Center Manager Baek.”
“You say he’s outstanding, he’s a guy who only plays games every day at home. The guy who was like that, thanks to the president, he made a career like this……”
Then Baek Sang-ho ran up to her and stopped her mother and said,
“Mom! How many times has this already been!”
“Hey! A hundred times and a thousand times are not enough to express my gratitude!”
“If this is the case, the president cannot rest! Please stop and go to work!”
A mother who is taken somewhere by Baek Sang-ho.
I looked at it and smiled.
“It’s nice to see.”
A mother who cares for her children
A feeling I’ve never felt because I don’t know who my parents are.
I said silent for a moment.
“Will I be like that when I have children?”
I thought about it for a while, but then I shook my head and said.
“Okay, what about the child? I don’t want to see you die before me.”
Just because I have a child, there is no guarantee that my child will rise to the level of an Archmage like me.
Then, before I die, my children and their grandchildren may end their lifespan. How can I endure such a terrible thing?
I’m just comfortable being alone.
“By the way, after all the corpses are made into skeletons, will there be artificial essence left?”
Bulk supply of cheap price china artificial water purification.
It will only be used to craft high-level skeletons right now, but after all the corpses are used up, the artificial essence will remain.
Of course, when a power plant is built on a large scale and fully operated, it can be exhausted enough, but that will happen after a while.
When a new power plant comes out, old power plants such as coal will go out of business, because in the process, there are many things to deal with, such as contract issues with customers and employee turnover, so it takes a lot of time.
So the government talked about replacing it slowly over the years.
In addition, the skeleton maintenance system needs Essence, but it doesn’t consume much, so that’s not enough.
“Is there no place to use purified water?”
However, the financial power of the Ceron group is not infinite, nor can they be piled up.
After all, the best thing is to make a cycle like a power plant.
A cycle of buying horsepower from people, using that horsepower to generate electricity, and selling it back to people.
The more you grow this cycle, the more money you can earn and the more magical power you can get.
After thinking about it for a while, I shook my head and said.
“I’m thinking of working again. Let’s rest, rest.”
That’s when I was trying to focus on taking a break again.
“The child is floating away!”
I woke up to the sound and looked at the sea, and saw a child entrusted to the tube and drifting far away from the sea.
“what should we do!”
“Call 911!”
I saw it and reached out to the child.
Then the child stopped and floated into the air.
Then it floats and flies to me and lands gently next to me.
A young couple who saw it came and said,
“Thank you very much! Chairman Han!”
I said waving my hand.
“It’s nothing.”
“It’s nothing! If it wasn’t for the president, I might have lost my child!”
It’s really nothing.
Because I just brought it by casting Fly.
“Just be careful next time. It’s a little odd to leave a child alone in the sea, isn’t it?”
The young couple bowed their backs and said.
“All right! Thank you very much!”
A young couple who took their children and went somewhere.
At that time, Kim Deok-bae, who saw it, approached and said,
“Good job.”
“It’s nothing, okay.”
“It doesn’t matter to the president, it’s not to ordinary people like us.”
Kim Deok-bae said with a smile.
“At times like this, I really envy the Awakened. They can do things that humans cannot do.”
I envy you….
“Ohh?”
If you think about it, after all, the Awoken are no different than beings equipped with magical weapons inside their bodies.
Because their powers can only be used within a certain range.
Of course, after checking it out myself, I am well aware that magic and power seem to use magic as a power source, and everything else is different, but from the general point of view, both are there anyway.
Then, with the remaining artificial essence, why not make and sell magic weapons that can be useful in real life like the fly you just did?
“I think it will sell well.”
Then, when all of the artificial essence’s magical power is exhausted, it would be perfect if it was replaced with another artificial essence.
This completes the cycle of buying mana from people and selling it back as a power source without magic.
It’s good that people can use this ability as long as they have money, and it’s good that I can earn money with the remaining artificial essence.
I said with my eyes shining.
“Is this okay?”