[But everyone. Why do you keep comparing it to B Grade consumables? Think about it! There’s no way I could use a B Grade consumable, right?]
That was right.
Buy This was a C- Grade Awakened recognized by the System.
Because of that, she could only use C Grade items or lower.
B Grade items could only be used by those who were B Grade or above!
Which meant...?
[This is a C Grade consumable.]
......!
└ ???????
└ What did sis just say? C Grade?
└ No, wait, it has B Grade performance, but its Grade is C? There’s no restriction??
└ Hey, hold on, where’s the buy button!!! What’s wrong with the server!?
– Chat is moving too fast to read.
– [Admin] Streaming temporarily suspended due to System overload.
“Uh...it turned off?”
Ki Ja-hyeon, who had been watching the broadcast with a bright smile, opened his eyes wide.
It was the most important part, yet the broadcast had been forcibly ended?
“She didn’t get to promote the time yet...?”
Ki Ja-hyeon had asked Buy This to promote that Krushvalbi Elixir (True) would be listed tonight at exactly ten o’clock.
But the broadcast had shut off before she could promote it?
The current time was 9:44.
“Well, since it turned out like this, should I just list it now?”
Ki Ja-hyeon closed his eyes and connected to the System.
A pure white room.
The altar-like sales stand in the center.
There, he placed every Krushvalbi Elixir (True) he had worked so hard to make until now.
The number was a full 200!
[Checking details of Krushvalbi Elixir (True) before listing.]
Name: Krushvalbi Elixir (True)
Grade: C
Type: Consumable
Description: An improved version of the elixir made by user “Thundercloud.” The elixir has been compressed into jelly.
Effect: Strength and Agility increase by 20% for 2 hours.
The remaining three effects promoted today were not filled in.
But Ki Ja-hyeon was not surprised like before.
It was the result he had expected.
“If anything, I would’ve been disappointed if they all showed up. Then asking her to promote it would’ve been pointless.”
[Recommended price: 30 coins.]
“According to the options you wrote down, sure.”
[List at 30 coins?]
“Nope~ I’m selling it for 100 coins~”
[Not recommended.]
“You’re terrible at System display.”
[Not recommended.]
“Could you just list it already?”
[200 Krushvalbi Elixirs (True) listed at 100 coins each.]
After confirming that much, Ki Ja-hyeon ended the System connection.
When he opened his eyes and checked the clock, it was 9:50.
Ten minutes before ten.
“I hope they sell well....”
It was a project he had prepared for a full two weeks.
Harvesting Krushvalbi, making elixirs, compressing them... It was time he normally had in excess, but Compression was high-difficulty work, so with his current body, fifteen per day was his limit.
Like that, what he had made one painstaking bottle at a time over two weeks was these 200 Elixirs (True).
Naturally, his income for those two weeks had been zero....
If these did not sell well, it would truly be a disaster!
“Hmm, they’ll all sell. That’s certain!”
There was no way these would not sell. He had made that kind of item.
He knew. He knew, and yet the thought, what if they don’t...? was probably a genetic defense mechanism that humans could not help having.
Just then, a Huntube notification rang.
It was an announcement from the Huntuber Buy This.
{We missed the most important part because the server crashed. 10:00! Krushvalbi Elixir (True) is scheduled to go up on the System sales stand exactly on the hour, so please start holding out from now!}
“Ms. Buy This is really putting in work, isn’t she?”
Would they start selling from ten now?
Thinking that, Ki Ja-hyeon was watching the replies rise in real time when he scratched his head.
└ It’s already on the sales stand, so why is she telling us to buy at ten? Is Buy This sis anti-Thundercloud?
└ She just seems anti-us.
“Hmm, should I have just listed them at ten?”
He felt sorry because it seemed she was being cursed at for no reason because of him.
But even then, he did not think too much of it.
It was only a difference of a few minutes, and he thought the items he had listed would not go anywhere anyway.
However,
└ They’re already all sold out, man....
└ No...how are we supposed to buy when there aren’t any...how are we supposed to buy when they’re all sold out...!!
└ ??? I didn’t look at the comments and held out until ten, and you stab me in the back like this...?
└ ?
└ ??
└ ???
└ ????
└ [Buy This] I-I’m a victim tooㅠㅠ...!
└ ?????
“...They all sold? How long has it been since I listed them?”
That could not be.
Startled, Ki Ja-hyeon connected to the System.
And the moment he entered the shop and checked the sales stand....
[Krushvalbi Elixirs (True) sold out.]
[20,000 coins deposited.]
“......”
Ki Ja-hyeon ended his System connection without saying anything in particular.
20,000 coins... That was,
“200,000,000 credits...?”
Ki Ja-hyeon was someone who had reached the peak of druids in his previous life.
He had lived as nature’s friend, and money had been something that was fine to have and fine not to have.
In fact, to befriend nature, he had kept that sort of thing(!) at a distance.
Rather than material greed, he had preferred living as nature’s friend.
That had made his mind more comfortable, and moreover, it had become a synergy that drew his ability as a druid to its highest point.
That previous-life druid,
“Whew...money...is multiplying...? Heh...hehehehe...!”
Hraaaaaaaaaah!
at his first taste of a large sum, simply lost his mind.
Woof! Woof, woof! (Master, seizure?)
Myaaang! Hiss! (Startled. Punishment!)
“Hraaaaaaaah!”
At this rate, after two weeks, he would have another 20,000 coins.
In other words, another 200,000,000 credits.
A total of 400,000,000 credits!
He would become able to buy, in a lump sum, the house he had gone window-shopping for well over ten times...!
“Whew...goodbye to this damned house. I’ll expand my house, farm hard, and make a fortune. A damn fortune!”
.
.
.
After that incident,
aside from the time he spent eating and sleeping, Ki Ja-hyeon began making Krushvalbi Elixir (True) like mad.
Manifesting Compression and maintaining it required high-level concentration. After making around five, he wanted to rest, and from more than ten onward, maintaining concentration became extremely difficult.
It was hard. His mind was saying it was hard, but....
His body would not stop!
He had reached the point of whipping his exhausted mind by force!!
Money was multiplying.
And it was multiplying tenfold, a hundredfold, so how could he possibly stop...!
“Krrrrgh...!”
When the water came in, one had to row the oars...!
Then, at some point,
[Elixir Manufacturing (F-) skill upgraded.]
[Efficiency when making the same elixir has increased.]
[Current efficiency: 20%]
“Yes!”
The proficiency of his Elixir Manufacturing skill had risen!
And almost at the same time,
[Compression (F-) skill upgraded.]
[Compression efficiency increases for items with Compression experience.]
[Current efficiency: 10%]
The Rank of his Compression skill had also risen by one stage!
“Oooh...!”
Only a 10% increase.
But the way his exhausted body accepted it felt completely different.
With how he felt now, it was almost twice as efficient!
“Uryaaaah!”
In the end, Ki Ja-hyeon finished enhancing fifteen bottles far faster than usual.
Like that,
Ki Ja-hyeon’s fulfilling time flowed and flowed....
Two weeks passed.
***
The C Grade board on Hunter Forum was in chaos over Krushvalbi Elixir (True).
{Title: {Proof} A review.txt from me, a C Grade loser, after I gobbled up a B Grade hunting ground today]
Honestly, a B Grade hunting ground?
My hands and feet were trembling like crazy...but when I drank the True Elixir and went in, it was a different world.
My basic attacks got stronger too, and the autospell that explodes on the fourth hit went in as the finishing blow, so the monsters all dropped.
The result?
I earned in one day what I would’ve had to grind ten times in a C Grade hunting ground to make.
Of course, the elixir was expensive, so what was left over wasn’t much, but it was still enough to count as the earnings from running a C Grade hunting ground.
What’s even crazier is the experience.
How long did I even run...? I went from C- to C0 Grade, I’m telling you. I like the skill I got too!
While we’re at it, why don’t those who successfully bought Elixir (True) gather? We’ll form parties among ourselves and tour B Grade hunting grounds. Now it’s the revolt of C Grade!
└ Wow... I’m jealous. I failed the click war and I’m chewing on trash-tier consumables...!
└ So 100 coins wasn’t expensive. You’re saying your rate of profit actually went up even after taking it?
└ If you consider the absurd experience too....
└ A C Grade party running a B Grade hunting ground? Is this balance-breaking real?
└ Starting today, I’m pitching a tent in front of Thundercloud’s shop and holding out!
But the reaction from the upper neighborhood was different. The board of B Grade rankers, whose territory had suddenly been invaded, was filled with nothing but displeasure.
[Title: Is it real that C Grades are crawling up these days? It’s seriously disgusting to look at.]
I went out to the hunting ground this morning, and some C Grade bumpkins were strutting around while chewing one elixir jelly each. They were bursting basic attacks and stealing all the mobs, and seriously, if Shelter laws and CCTV didn’t exist, I would’ve taken their heads right there.
Ha... That production-type bastard called Thundercloud or whatever, climb up quickly. First you made life good for F Grades, and now it’s C Grades? Let us benefit too! If the performance is this good, we’ll buy it for more!
└ For real. I fucking hate losers without dungeon entry tickets acting up with item advantage.
└ If a B Grade-only elixir comes out, those guys are all dead, lol.
└ But honestly, I do want that performance. Even among B Grade potions, there’s nothing like that.
└ You mere C Grades, go play in your own neighborhood. Stop muddying the water!
The B Grade board was, in every sense, filled with “C Grade hatred.”
On top of that, C Grades who had properly experienced the effects of Krushvalbi Elixir (True) began leaving fearless replies.
└ For real, why are they throwing a fit at us when they’re grinding in the field because they have no ability?
└ Mr. B Grade, we can’t enter dungeons because of System regulations, but if you get your mobs stolen by us in the field, that’s just because of your skill, lol.
└ If you’re mad, then go into a dungeon instead of the hunting ground, lol. Ah, you barely crawled up to B- by clenching your ass and twisting your whole body, but I guess you’re not confident you can beat us?
└ Fact: B Grade beggars who crawled out into the field because they can’t afford high-level hunting ground entry tickets sure have long tongues.
└ [Original Poster] You bastards really want to die... Hey, reveal your real names and say where you’re going hunting tomorrow.
└ Ooh, so scary~ Should I buy one bottle of elixir for the old B Grade geezer? I have a lot of money these days~!
It was a class difference they normally would not have even dared to meet eyes with, but overwhelming “item advantage” was granting the C Grades the confidence to grab B Grades by the collar and flip them off.
Of course, there were not only B Grades trembling with rage there.
└ “I have a lot of money,” my ass, lololol. Let’s be honest. Who do you think will buy it faster, you or us?
└ After trying it, B Grades get plenty of benefit from it too.
└ It’s not like there’s a law saying you can only buy B Grade potions.
└ Let’s just hoard them instead. The moment they come up, we buy them all so the C Grade bastards can’t even dream of it.
└ Those bastards are so annoying I can’t let this go. I’m buying it even if I don’t need it.
└ But the thing is, you do need it. You’ll know if you use it. It’s effective enough.
Ja-hyeon, who had been examining those scenes, scratched the back of his head.
“Ugh...this isn’t the kind of situation I wanted....”
Among them, the most desperate were the F Grades and E Grades crawling along the bottom.
The C Grades who had been their comrades yesterday had now left for B Grade hunting grounds they could not even dare look at today?
On top of that, in a situation where ordinary lower-grade elixirs were not even being produced because he was making Elixir (True), they could not help feeling the loss of having the ladder kicked away from them.
[Title: Thundercloud...I loved you, you fucking bitch...ㅠㅠ]
{I had a dream. A dream where I enjoyed 600,000 credits’ worth of happiness for 6 coins! But tears are flowing. Because it is a dream that will never return. Boss, are you really not making ordinary elixirs anymore, only Elixir (True)?}
└ Wake up, guy above. If it were you, would you sell the 100-coin one or make and sell the 6-coin one?
└ Capitalism is cold by nature. F Grades like us have been forgotten now....
└ Let’s have a beautiful farewell. If it were me, once the 100-coin one sold, I wouldn’t even associate with the 6-coin one.
└ But I still miss that thrilling herbal medicine taste... Krrrgh!
“Oh dear... Right now, I can’t help it.”
Ja-hyeon felt a little sorry.
To buy a house, he had no choice but to make only Elixir (True).
But thanks to spending those two weeks like that, the coins gathered in just one week were now exceeding 40,000.
Converted into cash, that was 400,000,000 credits!
He had accumulated an amount that made it reasonable to aim for paying in full for the kind of house that someone considered to have “made it” in Area 4 could only barely buy with a loan.
And now,
“Um, are you listening?”
“Uh! No, I did not hear you properly.”
Ki Ja-hyeon was standing here in order to pay that lump sum.