80 episodes
People earn one round each time they sell energy to Seron.
And you can sell this episode when you want and save money.
However, when the VAT was applied and the point system was introduced in this round, the situation completely changed.
With the points accumulated in this round, you can win the lottery for priority products, so you can win a lot of money by accumulating points while paying the 10% tax and turning it into money.
As such, various phenomena appeared when people recognized the round as a lottery ticket, such as a subscription passbook, beyond a simple means of earning money.
From people who spend money to buy high-scoring episodes, to farmer-type investors who buy a lot of low-scoring low-scoring episodes and stay silent, assuming they will sell them back.
However, what stood out the most were the Johnver-type investors who held the stock they had until the end.
They were the people who held the round to the end even in the process of mass liquidation due to the application of VAT.
Others liquidated all the episodes and started from 0, but the episodes they had were already in a situation where they had accumulated quite a bit of points over time.
In this way, they used the episodes they accumulated points to get priority for the Protégé product and resell it, or they sold the episode itself and made a lot of money.
And as the stories of such people became known to the outside world, even people who were not interested in energy began to take an interest in the energy market, which was at the center of all topics.
“A premium of up to 500 was added to a 4-point item.”
A situation in which a four-point piece worth 7,000 won is traded for 5 million won if you go to the Seron.
I said with a smirk.
“It’s only natural that if you win, 10 million won in profit alone will be ridiculous.”
Of course, this won’t last forever.
There are so few episodes with the highest points right now, so the odds of winning are overwhelmingly high, but when all the rounds with the highest points are won and reset, the rounds that accumulate millions every day from then on will be the highest points.
The competition between the highest scores will be fierce, so by then, the premium for each score will be only a few thousand won at most.
Of course, if that’s the case, I’ll try to hold as many rounds as possible to increase the odds of winning, and that’s the core of my plan for this project.
As the score accumulates, the probability of winning increases and a premium is attached, but since Ceron only liquidates a fixed level of 7,000 won, it is much more profitable to sell to an individual who buys at a premium with the aim of winning.
“What is the percentage that is returned to Seron?”
Kim Deok-bae laughed at my words and said.
“Less than 1 percent.”
The recovery rate, which was about 20 percent when only trading was introduced, fell to less than 1 percent.
“It’s good.”
At least for the three years needed to accumulate the 36 points I set as the highest point, the current flow will be maintained.
“When will the factory be completed?”
And all of this is possible because the products of Protege are traded between people at a price that is much higher than the list price.
So, you should be more careful with Protige’s products.
When I asked Kim Deok-bae about the construction of a secure factory to engrave magic circles on leather, Kim Deok-bae said with a confident expression.
“Soon.”
“Security?”
“The walls are thick with reinforced concrete and there are no windows. There are only two doors that can enter the factory: the door that connects to the warehouse where the skeletons will pile up the leather finished, and the door that the president enters and exits.”
A factory of strict security that only me can enter and exit.
This factory mass-produced leather with magic circles using skeletons.
“Once this is completed, you will be freed from work.”
In the meantime, how boring and cumbersome it was to do the simple repetitive work of drawing magic circles on leather for several hours a day while increasing the number of protégé products.
Now, if you make and operate this factory, you will be freed from work.
“Tell me as soon as the plant is complete, because it will be ready and put into operation right away.”
*
The factory is finally complete.
I said looking at the factory.
“This should be enough for security.”
Once outside the factory, guards dispatched by a private security company rotate around the factory 24 hours a day to protect the factory.
Their role was to prevent the intrusion of the general public and guard against suspicious people, so I used a private company for this role because it is suitable for a person who can make a flexible judgment rather than a skeleton.
In addition, some of Park In-gwi’s guild members, who are naturalized in Korea, are on standby at all times, so any level of intrusion will be blocked at this stage.
I opened the thick iron gate with the master card and went inside, immediately summoning a large number of combat-type skeletons.
“A class S is placed at the entrance, and class A and class B along the wall. And the SS-class is also deployed as an emergency standby…”
An SS-class layout that should not be revealed to the world in the first place.
However, this is a space that no one can enter except me, and if he is capable of breaking through this tight security and thick reinforced concrete, it doesn’t matter because he is full of malice in the first place.
Not because I’m not good enough to show mercy to someone who covets my core knowledge of the magic circle.
Having placed a large number of combat skeletons inside the factory like that, I rubbed my hands and said.
“ruler. Shall we place workers now?”
*
moon crack. moon crack.
Skeletons draw on the leather with a pen connected to an artificial essence.
Of course, the magic circles that would go into the Protégé product.
I said wiping my hands.
“End with this! Liberation!”
Skeletons who draw the same magic circle indefinitely 24 hours according to an algorithm using a tool that can draw a magic circle.
In fact, in terms of efficiency, this method was nothing short of atrocious.
It consumes too much mana and is slow.
However, there is a huge amount of horsepower and skeletons obtained by growing the energy market, so what does it matter?
“After all, being comfortable with my body is the best.”
If the lack of efficiency is taken out by the amount, it is enough.
Anyway, the finished hides here will be piled up in the warehouse next door, and will be periodically picked up by Seron’s staff and supplied to the Protage production line.
So, I just stop by once in a while to check if there are any problems and take care of it.
“…by the way, what do you do with Najiun?”
When the moment came when the skeleton, not me, drew the magic circle, I was intimidated by the gangsters and I remember Nai-woon who caught my eye while making fake products.
He has talents optimized for learning magic, so he hired him as a designer to keep him next to him.
“If you teach me the magic circle and give me that tool, I would be able to work as a quasi-necromancer.”
Nai-woon, whom I’ve seen in the past, is a fairly simple and altruistic character, and his personality itself was really good.
“If you teach me well, I will do everything for you… no, no.”
I shook my head and said.
“If you’re going to give a designer who doesn’t have any power to tickle a magic tool, what are you going to do with a factory like this?”
The most certain thing is to raise Najiun as a real necromancer and capture all of his own strength and abilities.
And to do that, I have to pass on a considerable amount of my knowledge myself.
To be honest, I don’t know if it’s a situation where I have to raise disciples unconditionally, I mean, I want to avoid that.
“Anyway, the factory has been completed, and now we can continue mass production. OK.”
Let’s make it and sell it.
*
He distributes rounds to people, buys horsepower from them, and sells protégé products.
In fact, the business was a breeze.
Then, suddenly, there was news.
“Is there a shortage of manpower?”
“Yes.”
As funds for energy purchases were released in Gunsan, the manpower shortage that small business owners complained about has spread beyond Gunsan to Jeonbuk and Chungnam where the energy purchase booth was introduced.
“It seems a little too serious. It is said that the price has risen since the introduction of the score in the recent episode, and many people are relying on energy sales for their livelihood. This trend is particularly strong for low-wage workers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).”
The number of people who quit their job altogether increased as their income increased as a premium was added to the energy purchase price, which was previously 210,000 won.
“No, if it wasn’t for the peak episode, it would have been a little over 1 million won for a family of four……”
“Even with that amount of money, it’s a lot of money for people who were working with low wages.”
“ah.”
“From the standpoint of a low-wage dual-income couple, rather than working part-time to earn a few dozen more, if one of them concentrates on housekeeping, they can save on living expenses and focus more on family.”
that makes sense
“Of course, not everyone is like that, but because of that, small business owners and SMEs say that the shortage of manpower is serious.”
Because the wages are so low, factories and small business owners who were using part-time jobs or foreigners were hit directly.
I said with my eyes shining.
“Push the skeleton?”
In Gunsan, where energy purchases were first introduced, when small business owners were struggling with a manpower shortage, they hesitated because they thought it would be difficult to manage each small store, but now the situation has changed.
As people looked at Seron anxiously through the fake SS-class gate incident in China, I completed a system that works by supplying magical power from artificial essence even without me, completing the independence of the skeleton, and the number of programmers also increased exponentially.
“Shall we try to introduce it on a trial basis from Gunsan City?”
A very natural flow that fills in the gaps created by skeletons with skeletons.
If I leave it alone anyway, I’ll bring foreign manpower to fill it up, but in that case, I’ll just have to suck the money into my skeleton.
Of course there are risks.
Because there may be a company that deliberately sends out human employees and then complains about the shortage of manpower.
I thought for a while and said.
“Let’s borrow the skeleton.”
“Are you okay? There is a risk of abuse.”
I said with a bright smile.
“We can make it so that it can’t be abused.”
A side effect of skeletons is that skeletons are more efficient and cheaper than human employees.
Then, why not twist this and make it more profitable to have as many human employees as possible?
“Once a business with five or more employees passes, it is aimed at small business owners in Gunsan City. Besides, you don’t have to set it up for every store anyway, right? If there are any changes, we have to dispatch programmers as well.”
“you’re right.”
I said with a smirk.
“Then you will be paid a corresponding fee, so only use a skeleton when you really have no choice but to use it.”
*
The president of a convenience store in downtown Gunsan was literally dying these days.
Thanks to Ceron, Gunsan-si’s economy was revived, energy sales funds were released, and people who were relaxed increased their consumption, so sales increased, but it was not possible to find employees to work.
So, my wife and I have been working at the convenience store for 12 hours a day, taking turns, but the late night part-time job has stopped and now the convenience store owner works 16 hours a day.
There was no other way because the contract was made on a 24-hour basis with the head office, so we had to open the business 24 hours a day.
The store manager said with a blank look.
“I might really die from this.”
In order to somehow find a new part-time job, he posted a job advertisement at a higher price than the minimum hourly wage, but he never received a call.
“Ahh.”
Then, a man enters the convenience store.
“welcome······.”
The store owner, who had been habitually greeting, noticed something behind the man and said with a blank expression.
“… a skeleton?”
It was just a skeleton.
Of course, the skeleton itself was not very strange.
Gunsan is Ceron’s base, so if you go to the industrial complex, you can see a lot of working skeletons.
However, it is only limited to construction sites and companies, and it is the first time I have seen an individual carrying only one skeleton with his daughter.
Then the man came up to the boss and said,
“hello.”
“ah. Yes.”
“I came across a job advertisement, did you find a part-time job?”
The store manager opened his eyes and said.
“Ah, a part-time job!?”
When he heard the words he desperately wanted the most, the boss who erased the skeleton from his mind said:
“I haven’t been able to find it yet!”
At that, the man smiled brightly.
“That’s good. So, are you thinking of using a skeleton part-timer?”
“Skeleton?!”
As high-quality jobs are created in Gunsan City, energy purchases are distributed, and low-wage workers disappear, one of the opinions from the Federation of Small Businesses is to use a skeleton to fill the vacancy.
However, it was canceled due to the opposition of Seron, but Ceron finally moved.
‘If you use a cheap skeleton, your income will increase, so it’s the best!’
The best option for less work and more income.
The boss nodded vigorously.
“Of course it is!”
If you don’t know about other regions, Gunsan-si is a city with a high affinity for skeletons and Seron, so there is no objection to skeletons, so it was perfect.
Then the man handed him a piece of paper and said,
“Then please read this and sign it if you agree. Then we will start installing right away.”
The president, who received the documents like that.
But the more you read, the more your expression hardens.
“…this is kind of strange.”
“What is strange?”
“Is the installation cost 1 million won?”
“Of course. We have to write and apply an algorithm for this store, but this algorithm cannot be used anywhere else. Instead, we visit once a month to apply the desired revisions. Of course, if you call other than that, you will be charged an additional 200,000 won.”
After installation, if you want to change something, you have to pay an additional 200,000 won and call or wait a month.
The boss was silent for a moment.
“I will understand that. As with the original robot, automation is expensive in the initial stage but low in maintenance cost. But is it expensive to maintain?”
The president said, pointing to the skeleton usage fee written in the contract.
“Isn’t this money a little more expensive than the minimum hourly wage?”
“you’re right.”
“I have to pay the installation fee, and I can’t make changes to my liking, but it’s more expensive than the minimum hourly wage. In that case, it’s just people, who uses skeletons?”
The man nodded and said.
“That is the key.”
“···Yes?”
“At the beginning, this project was started by the president as a special consideration for people who are struggling with manpower shortage. So these skeletons are a temporary replacement for the manpower shortage, not a complete replacement.”
The boss said with a blank expression.
“If you can find a human employee, use it, and if you can’t find it, borrow the skeleton power?”
“It is correct.”
The male employee smiled and said.
“How would you like to sign a contract?”