One Man Army - Chapter 42

"Yes, that's it, dodge to the right. Ooh, a counterattack here? Awesome!"

"Sangmoon. It's annoying me so calm down already. Didn't you say that Pu TV streams were crap until yesterday? Why are you so excited right now?"

"Oh, sorry about that. But, hyung. That's before I watched this channel and I changed my mind now."

"Everyone's crap except for this guy."

"What era are you from? Don't you know BJ Gale?"
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"Yes."

"He is. He's really amazing."

"Honestly, there are times he even exceeds my expectations. This guy is a huge jackpot."

"Mm…… honestly, about fifty-fifty. I don't think it's impossible if I prepare many things and practice a lot. But even after that, I don't think I can do it as cleanly as that guy there. It's as if that guy played the Cave of Giants a thousand times already. His movements and skill usage are all perfect. It's almost beautiful."

"Hyung, did you forget that I'm the one who's the most prepared? Just wait. The first named monster in Hellfire Desert will be killed by us!"

He had a very competitive personality.

Shooting Star, the guild master of Rising guild, had put in no small amount of effort, and his efforts were slowly coming to fruition.

"This one is a little peculiar. They said that there was another change other than the upgraded monsters."

"I don't know the exact thing so I'll have to log in to find out…… but it seems like there's a 2nd stage to the singularity point."

"It looks like this Gale guy is actually amazing. I heard he doesn't belong to any guild either…… where did such a freak come from?"

Many large guilds in EL were paying attention to BJ Gale. However, the person himself was actually focusing on something completely different right now.

The 43rd quest of the large chained quest 'Merchant Guild' has been completed. Go to the merchant manager in Tune and receive the final quest.

"Phew, finally……."

Sanghyuk had started this 'Merchant Guild' quest as soon as he arrived in Hellfire Desert.

The reason Sanghyuk had gathered insane sums of gold recently was also due to this Merchant Guild quest.

Strangely, this quest was known to the majority of the users from the get-go. The actual difficulty of the quest wasn't that hard.

The reason this quest became famous was that a merchant guild could only be created through this quest. Merchant guilds were something that wasn't exactly a guild but helped users do many business or commercial transactions in the game.

Then why were merchant guilds made? There were two major reasons.

They were NPCs with completely different AIs to vendor NPCs who were only capable of standing on the spot and sell stuff only.

The second was that only merchant guilds were allowed to open shops in villages or cities. No amount of money was enough for users to open a shop in a city or a village under their own name.
In any case, there was only the final quest left and Sanghyuk returned to Tune after finishing the 43rd quest.

"You exterminated those evil vermins so proactively… I understand how much you care about us merchants. I think I can now trust you to hire us. How is it? Are you interested?"

The 44th quest of the large scale chained quest 'Merchant Guild' has been added.

For reference, the merchants association has only allowed up to five merchant guilds for the Dimensional Travelers for the sake of balance. Please be warned that the opportunity may disappear if you don't hurry.

Sanghyuk finally received the 44th quest. Numerous users wanted to create merchant guilds, but 99% of them were blocked there.

The other 43 quests were child's play compared to this.

'0/8,000,000 Gold'

The amount of gold written on the quest window was 8 million gold. In other words, users would have to pay 8 million gold to the merchants association to acquire a permit. Normally, no single user would have the capability to pay this.

8 million gold was something that normal users wouldn't get their hands on even if they played EL for their entire life, but Sanghyuk was different.

To express how big of a sum this was, the current gold-to-cash ratio was around 10,000 gold to 400,000 won (400USD).

What was more interesting was that the value of gold increased as EL's popularity rose. Honestly, there were more buyers than sellers of gold right now, so it was hard to look for a buyer.

Using 400 million won (400,000USD) just to create a merchant guild in-game may seem like a foolish thing.

'It's an investment for the future!'
Sanghyuk didn't hesitate and linked his (in-game) bank account immediately and paid 8 million gold in one go.

8,000,000/8,000,000 You have paid all the required gold.

"Ooh, you sir…… are more capable than you look. Congratulations. You are now a full-fledged executive!"

You have created a merchant guild. The name of the merchant guild can be created in the management window. All the other functions of the merchant guild can be set in the management window as well.

You have acquired the unique-grade title 'First Executive'.

Having created a merchant guild, Sanghyuk immediately hired 2 C-rank merchant NPCs through the merchant guild manager. They were NPCs who had to be paid weekly, and as C-rank NPCs, their weekly pay was only 1,500 gold.

He didn't need all the functionalities of an S-rank merchant NPC right now, so a C-rank merchant capable of simply selling and buying was enough.

Golden Mountain - this reflected his will to pile mountains of gold.

'Let's first send one of the C-rank ones to Falcon City…… and leave the other one here at Tune.'

Merchant NPCs moved to their respective locations by themselves once he set them up, so it was rather comfortable. There was no need for Sanghyuk to move anywhere as he did with a vendor NPC.

They may not be able to hoard the items due to lack of money, so he gave them plenty, and also gave them the currently largest-available spatial expansion bag.

With that, Sanghyuk no longer needed to go to the commissioned sales store or the auction. The merchant NPCs hoarded the necessary items that Sanghyuk needed as long as they were below a certain price, so he only needed to visit them once a day and collect the items.

Buying low-evaluated items with insane investment…… Sanghyuk was planning to raise the Golden Mountain merchant guild as the big hand that manipulates the prices of items in the auction.

Since he knew that, Sanghyuk was trying to change it and become the one and only invisible hand.

Sanghyuk had the confidence to not fail this business.

And he could also automate those businesses with merchant NPCs without him having to care much about it.

Before he went off to hunt, he checked his newly acquired title.

Title - 'First Executive'

Description - You have created the first merchant guild as a Dimensional Traveler and became its executive.
Effect - [Prefix: Receive 10% more money when selling any item to any NPC.] [Suffix: Receive 10% discount when buying from any NPC.] [Constant effect: >Wage freeze (A) : Weekly wage required to pay merchant NPCs decreases by 30% for all ranks.