Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 157
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Chapter 157: Hot Night (1)
*Clang!*
As Yeongwoo removed the golden breastplate that wrapped around his torso after taking off his cloak, Jeonggu’s expression turned to surprise.
“Huh…?”
It was because there was a spiral-shaped flame tattoo on the chest of Jeong Yeongwoo, the dreadful son candidate.
That wasn’t all.
“Why… Why is your shoulder like that…?”
Right now, Yeongwoo’s right upper arm was flickering as if covered in gray noise, like a graphic error.
Seeing this, Yeongwoo glanced at his shoulder briefly and then touched the black metal card in his hand.
“It looks like the screen is adjusting because the advertisement is about to be attached soon. I just received the advertising fee.”
#Basic advertising fee: 10 million karma per week.
#Basic contract period: 4 weeks.
With the basic advertising fee of 10 million karma that the chairman had promised along with two special clauses, it was now in Yeongwoo’s hands.
*Available karma: 14,214,000
Thanks to this, Yeongwoo’s total karma amount had increased to a whopping 14 million.
‘The timing is incredible. I was planning to visit the merchants one by one after arriving in Gangnam.’
At this rate, it was almost certain that he would enter the night dungeon tonight.
“….”
As Yeongwoo, who had finished changing his clothes, raised his head to the sky, a system message appeared in his field of vision.
「As of now, the combined advertisement for the ‘Dogo’ weapon brand will be broadcasted on your advertising tattoo ‘White Space’.」
「The content of the broadcast advertisement will be periodically changed, and the contract period is 4 weeks.」
‘Finally, it’s starting.’
As Yeongwoo read all the messages, a large Dogo emblem appeared before his eyes.
*Swoosh!*
Then immediately.
*Bzzz…*
A vibration-like sound emanated from the ‘White Space’ covering Yeongwoo’s right upper arm, and the screen adjustment stopped, turning black.
*Swish.*
It was like the moment before a movie started at the theater.
“Oh.”
As Yeongwoo searched for something resembling a mirror, he stood in front of the large two-handed sword, ‘Golden Trail’, which was floating nearby.
Then, the advertisement surface covering his shoulders and elbows was reflected on the wide blade.
“Is… Is that an advertisement from outer space?”
Both Choi Jongseon and Kim Jeonggu, his probable father, couldn’t help but be interested in the advertisement being broadcasted on the body of Joseon’s Strongest Sword, Yeongwoo.
*Gulp.*
As Jeonggu swallowed heavily and subtly shifted his gaze towards Yeongwoo’s shoulder, the advertisement started right on time.
–∠∨≪
It was the first tattoo advertisement for Yeongwoo, starting with the appearance of extraterrestrial characters meaning ‘Dogo’.
This caused the pupils of all three people, including Yeongwoo, to widen.
“Huh?”
“Can you just read that?”
Although the characters they saw with their eyes were strangely shaped, they could understand their meaning in their minds.
Within the ‘White Space,’ the red atmosphere of a desolate planet was visible.
Then.
*Whoosh!*
The camera angle descended towards the ground, revealing a desert scattered with large rocks.
It was a scene of extraterrestrial beings, small in stature with reddish-brown skin, diligently striking the rocks with their tiny fists.
Then cracks started to appear in the rocks, and thick blue liquid began to pour out from the cracks.
–°∨⌒∧∠·。
(Monocular boy Gepi from the planet Jargal had to pound the rocks every day until blood came out of his hands in order to obtain the sap.)
The camera zoomed in on one extraterrestrial in front of a rock.
Probably Gepi, the boy from the planet Jargal.
Gepi looked at the rock with a sad expression, then slowly raised his hand, which was covered in scabs, and extended his fingers.
*Swish.*
Suddenly, between his cute fingers, a scene appeared where a large anchor descended from afar and struck the ground.
‘Oh, it’s the chairman’s ship.’
It seemed to be a staging of the encounter between the impoverished Gepi of the frontier planet and ‘Dogo’.
–∩⌒×。
(But not anymore.)
The screen faded to black with extraterrestrial text.
Then suddenly the screen brightened, showing Gepi standing on a planet with a completely different feel from before.
He was standing upright, wearing a lot of unusual equipment on his small body.
–≪⌒°∨∠⊇∴∴∈。
(With the support of Dogo, Gepi became a space pirate ruling over 6 planets.)
“Huh…?”
“…What?”
While Yeongwoo and the two Strongest Swords wore blank expressions, in the advertisement, Gepi was kicking the inhabitants of other planets into his spaceship that he had brought along.
–∠·∧°￢
(And now, Gepi has 70,000 slaves pounding rocks for him.)
Gepi, now back on his home planet, had a happy expression on his face.
And by his feet, there was a slave holding a jar filled with sap, lying on the ground.
Thunk!
Gepi snatched the jar away and gulped down the sap in one breath.
–≪⌒∋∠≤。
(Dogo supports your dreams.)
However, the camera was now zooming in on a slave lying on the ground.
When Dogo said ‘your,’ it meant both Gepi and his slaves.
Crunch.
Eventually, the slave clenched the sand on the ground with his hand, leaving a spike pattern on the ground with his fingers, and the advertisement concluded.
“….”
“What… is this…?”
Choi Jongseon alternately looked at Yeongwoo and the ‘White Space’ with a dumbfounded face.
Now, on Yeongwoo’s shoulder, an alien with several tentacle-like arms was explaining the usage of ‘Dimensional Bombs.’
These were the bombs Yeongwoo had received as sponsorship from the dungeon last night.
“What’s this about? It’s one of my breadwinning methods.”
As Yeongwoo said this, he hesitated as he tried to put on his armor.
‘Wait, can I wear a top? That way, the advertisement will be completely covered.’
Once money is received, professionalism comes first.
If Yeongwoo were the advertiser, he wouldn’t allow the model to wear a top.
‘Of course, the contract didn’t explicitly say to keep the advertisement exposed…’
But logically, is it reasonable to hide the advertisement after receiving payment?
‘And this is also a matter of principle.’
However, there was another problem.
The effects of the armor he was currently wearing were too good to take off and wander around naked.
「Golden Oath」- Legendary Breastplate
【Reduces enemy attack power by 50%.】
‘I guess I have to wait a bit until I get the Armor Encyclopedia.’
Yeongwoo glanced vaguely at Dogo, then quietly put on the armor he had thrown on the ground.
Clank.
Nothing happened.
“Is… Is it okay?”
Yeongwoo murmured as he looked at the sky, and Jongseon tilted her head.
“What’s wrong?”
“The clothes. I was wondering if I could cover the advertisement completely.”
“Oh.”
Understanding Yeongwoo’s meaning, Jongseon furrowed his brow.
So he was considering wandering around without a top the whole time.
“Shall we go back then? We need to finish our work quickly before it gets too dark.”
The current time was 7:10 PM.
Although it was summer and the days were long, the surroundings were already getting dark.
There wasn’t much time left until the notice for the lodging will appear in 50 minutes, so time wasn’t that abundant.
“What other tasks do we have left?”
Kim Jeonggu asked as he prepared to chase after the iron horse again.
Yeongwoo pointed south and said.
“First, we need to leave Jongseon and the baby in Gangnam, and then we’ll go through the merchants.”
“Merchants…? At this hour, wouldn’t everyone have taken away the goods?”
Jeonggu expressed a logical doubt.
However, it wasn’t the case for Seoul, especially for Yeongwoo.
“The merchants left in Paju might be a little worrying, but no one would have touched the ones in Seoul. They know I’ll come back.”
He spoke with great confidence.
As someone who didn’t know Yeongwoo’s status among the Strongest Sword in Seoul, Jeonggu could only tilt his head in confusion.
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《We have invited Yangju Strongest Sword, Choi Jongseon, who will be in charge of Gwangjin-gu mutants starting tomorrow.》
Yeongwoo entered Gangnam through ‘Pado’ while informing the Strongest Swords in Seoul about the new Strongest Sword they had recruited.
Since it was almost time for the next lodging notice to appear, there weren’t many people outside the city outskirts.
At 8 PM, the lodging notice appeared.
At 9 PM, the lodging service began.
Everyone was waiting in front of their favorite residences to occupy them as soon as possible.
“It seems like Gangnam… almost doesn’t show any signs of the reset.”
Kim Jeonggu opened his mouth in surprise as he looked at the neat buildings in Gangnam.
Even Dobong-gu had considerable damage on the first day of the reset, so most of the low-rise buildings had one defect after another.
“Yes. I heard the previous holder of Gangnam was a chaebol, so the order was established early on.”
“Gangnam chaebol…? By the previous holder, do you mean the Gangnam’s Strongest Sword?”
“Yes. Gangnam’s Strongest Sword.”
“….”
Upon Yeongwoo’s words, Kim Jeonggu glanced at Yeongwoo’s title, which read ‘Joseon Strongest Sword.’
After all, the title of Strongest Sword could be seized.
“What happened to the previous holder?”
“Of course, he died. And now I’m also the Gangnam Strongest Sword.”
He didn’t explicitly mention swinging his elbow to cut the throat of the previous Gangnam Strongest Sword.
Nor did he mention the presence of the son’s body of the former Gangnam Strongest Sword at the scene.
“The people who used to help the previous Gangnam Strongest Sword run Gangnam are now helping me. It’s a strange world, isn’t it?”
“The bottom of Seoul was really chaotic.”
Jeonggu finally realized that the monster on horseback he had heard about through the ‘wave’ announcement the other day was Jeong Yeongwoo in front of him.
At that time, he hadn’t paid much attention to the situation in the southern part of Seoul, but now he realized that it was the time of upheaval in Seoul.
Squeak, squeak!
As they exchanged various conversations, the three of them entered the central part of Gangnam, and they could feel that the number of citizens along the roadside was gradually increasing.
It was because there were more and more people following them as they talked.
“Huh…?”
“Strongest Sword?”
“Did your title change again?”
The rumor that the Gangnam Strongest Sword was riding a horse had already spread throughout Gangnam, and even if it hadn’t, thanks to the golden rain that had fallen today, all the residents of Gangnam knew Jeong Yeongwoo’s face.
However, because they hadn’t heard the story of him flying around with a greatsword, they didn’t approach the Strongest Sword rashly but followed from a distance.
“It’s fortunate. It used to be so congested that it was difficult to move.”
Yeongwoo glanced back slightly and said, making Jeonggu look at him with a puzzled expression.
“Why do the people in this area like you so much…?”
It was understandable.
All Jeonggu had seen of Jeong Yeongwoo so far was when he had split the Uijeongbu Strongest Sword in half and stabbed him with a sword.
“I wonder. Maybe because I’m the representative of their region?”
Yeongwoo said this, looking at the Coex building and the Parnas Hotel on the other side.
It was because he could see that the protocol team of Taewon Group was already gathered there.
They must have been standing there for hours, not knowing when he would return.
“…What’s that?”
Dobong’s Strongest Sword Kim Jeonggu, who was once again in culture shock due to the protocol of a large company, opened his eyes wide, and a person from the Taewon side who recognized Yeongwoo ran towards them.
It was none other than Lim Suna from the secretary’s office.
“Yeongwoo!”
Lim Suna’s expression froze in real-time as she ran towards the Gangnam’s Strongest Sword.
It was because she had just realized that this troublemaker had brought two more Strongest Swords from other regions.
Moreover, what did he do?
Wasn’t his title changed to Joseon Strongest Sword?
At this point, it wasn’t surprising that the golden greatsword was flying around by itself.
“S… So many things must have happened.”
“Yes. Was there any trouble during that time?”
When Yeongwoo asked like this, Lim Suna cautiously opened her mouth after glancing behind him.
“The family of chairman Kim Taejoon requested a meeting while you were away.”
“Want to see me?”
“It seems like they want to meet Kim Taejoon again.”
“Ah, that makes sense.”
Yeongwoo smiled awkwardly.
But it was awkward.
Although there was one more chance with the whistle, it was intended to be used in the dungeon tonight at 11 o’clock.
“Uh… the chairman has to go to the dungeon tonight, so he can’t go out. What should I do?”
Yeongwoo fiddled with the whistle and then his eyes lit up as if he had a good idea.
“Please tell his family. If it’s okay with them, how about staying at my place tonight?”
“Huh…?”
Lim Suna, who didn’t fully understand Yeongwoo’s words, made a face asking for more explanation.
So Yeongwoo made a square with his index fingers and thumbs.
“Kim Taejoon will appear on TV tonight. This time, it’ll be a human appearance, so it’ll be more pleasant to watch.”
Yeongwoo said this and then made a request.
“Oh, but it’s better not to let the children see it after 11 o’clock.”
“Why? Why is that…?”
“At that time, the chairman might be doing something dangerous.”
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