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Ki Ja-hyeon did not particularly want to become a Huntuber.
How should he put it? He was trying to promote something, and this was the only thing that came to mind.
‘These days are the age of self-PR too.’
The methods of speaking to many people all at once were limited.
Because of that, he had gathered his courage, bought a cutting-edge laptop, and clumsily finished setting up the broadcast.
“Ugh, I’m getting nervous for no reason.”
The title had already been decided.
[Forest-Access Druid’s Property Sales Broadcast.]
It was an excessively honest title.
A bland title without a single ounce of bait.
However,
└ Wow, holy shit, lol. Thundercloud was alive? He turned on a broadcast instead of sending news of his death, lol.
└ If this is someone impersonating the username, this channel is getting blown to pieces today. I’m serious!
The host’s ID itself was a lump of bait.
Poster: Thundercloud!
└ What...is that voice and physique real? I thought he was some old grandpa?
└ On top of that, isn’t he pretty handsome?
└ Boss, stop using face-correction filters, lol. You make a lot of money, and you look like that?
└ I had no idea he’d be this young??
└ Fact: once money-grubbing sets in, your skin improves first, lol.
Ki Ja-hyeon frowned as he looked at the chats that had already begun rising rapidly.
“Oh dear, this is dizzying. Yes. I am that Thundercloud. Could the elixir consumers raise your hands? Ah, never mind. I can only see ‘hand.’ Anyway, thank you. But are there no ordinary people here? If all these people are Awakened, that is fascinating in its own way....”
In any case, the viewer count was increasing in real time.
100, 1,000. Now it had exceeded 10,000.
└ But why did you turn on a broadcast? Do you have some major announcement?
└ How do you manufacture the elixirs? What is the medium ingredient?
└ Wow, what kind of bastard is trying to raid valuable information here... Lord Thundercloud. It is so dirty, so just tell us and end it.
└ You are worse....
“Uh...?”
Ki Ja-hyeon was completely out of his depth. He had come to do a property sales broadcast, but questions about everything except that poured in endlessly, leaving him unable to collect himself.
“Should I take a few questions before more people gather? Yes, I am Thundercloud, the one selling elixirs. Ingredients? Secret to mass production? Things like that are personal information, so it is a little difficult. Ah! Why Thundercloud, you ask? I can tell you that. Kids?”
Saying that, Ki Ja-hyeon took out snacks.
Woof, woof. Woof! (Snack. Snack. Snack!)
Thunder, who had become even more sparkly, approached so fast he left afterimages, then hopped like a rabbit.
└ Wow...so cute! To think I would behold a real dog like this?
└ Wow...look at that glossy fur! But why is its nose silver?
└ Wow... Look at that Welsh corgi rump, lol. But what is with the nose color? Did you stick silver foil on it?
└ Isn’t this real-time AI? The shadow shading is a bit jumpy.
└ [Fact Check] That is a deepfake. Does it make sense for an animal’s nose to be silver? lol.
└ Please shut up with the everything-is-AI theory.
“This one’s name is Thunder. The username came from Thunder’s name.”
└ Then what is Cloud?
“Cloud will probably come soon too.”
Because Ki Ja-hyeon was holding a tube treat.
Cloud, having smelled it, also came padding over.
Then he flopped down in front of Ki Ja-hyeon and showed his belly.
His silver-glowing eyes were still chic and haughty.
His expression seemed to say, You like this, right? You like looking at my belly, don’t you?
Myaaang. Myaaang. (Snack fee. Touch me and I hit you.)
└ Gyaaaah! Insane. Insane!
└ Holy shit. Look at the silver eyes. So cute!
└ So that’s why it’s Thundercloud?
└ Cute... The ID is his pets’ names.
└ Pets... As expected, money really is nice. I cannot even dream of it.
All sorts of chatter continued.
Had word spread that Thundercloud had turned on a broadcast?
The already crowded chat room began pouring in even harder.
‘Ugh... How do Huntubers read all of this?’
Just as he was thinking that not just anyone could be a Huntuber,
– Buy This TV donated 50,000 credits.
└ Lord Thundercloud, you are so mean! If you had something to promote, you should have told meㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ.
└ Wow. Is that real?
└ What is with a stingy 50,000? Go for 500,000.
└ Anyone would think you are the one giving it.
└ If you are going to spew that kind of crap, donate before you run your mouth.
“Uh, hello, Ms. Buy This! Goodness...50,000 credits! Thank you for last time, and I am very sorry for listing the items early. Of course, if it were a different promotion, asking Ms. Buy This would be right, but this is something a little different in nature. When the next elixir comes out, I will absolutely contact you then.”
└ What? Another elixir is coming out?
└ When is it coming out? How much is it?
└ Just a tiny hint about its effects....
Looking at the chat room going wild over the elixir talk, Ki Ja-hyeon scratched his head.
Across both his previous life and this life, this was the first time something like this had happened.
‘How do people give me this much attention over just a single word...?’
When had he become someone with this much influence?
It was confusing,
and bewildering,
and amid all that,
amid all that, there was....
exhilaration!
‘Th-This is exhilarating...?’
This delicious sensation flowing through the center of his brain.
The sensation he had felt only when taming a legendary divine beast, making an elixir-grade potion, or raising a World Tree that covered an entire city was being revived simply by turning on a laptop and broadcasting a little.
Attention from someone, recognition!
Had he ever received it in real time like this in his previous life?
‘As expected, it was good that I reincarnated!’
Of course, it was not as if he had reincarnated because he wanted to.
In any case, it was originally a broadcast he had meant to use for a little promotion and then end.
But at this rate,
‘it might be fun to turn it on when I’m bored.’
– Buy This TV donated 50,000 credits.
└ So what is this property sale?
└ What is it, for you not to say even a word to me...!
“Ah, that is right. It should be about time to explain!”
The number of viewers watching this video had already exceeded 20,000.
Thinking that this was more than enough to promote real estate, Ki Ja-hyeon turned the camera around.
The filming environment had already been a little dark.
They had thought it was outside rather than inside a house, but the environment, which had been fairly dark, began sparkling with luminous light.
└ What is that huge thing?
└ Is it a tree...?
└ Wow! It must be three meters tall??
Of course, he was not showing them the Spirit Tree.
After all, even if it was a baby Spirit Tree, it was taller than three meters.
What Ki Ja-hyeon was showing was a tomato tree planted far away from the Spirit Tree.
└ What is that? Is it not a tomato? There are cherry tomatoes hanging all over it.
└ But were cherry tomatoes originally silver?
└ Of course not. Have you never seen a picture? They are red.
└ That one is silver, though?
Ki Ja-hyeon had been surprised at first too.
Silver cherry tomatoes?
On top of that, to grow this fast and this tall!
Even with territory-declared land and a Spirit Tree, it was a surprising figure.
Because it had grown faster than Krushvalbi.
But soon, he understood.
It was because it had been affected by the Spirit Tree!
[Plant shares the same DNA as the Spirit Tree.]
[Growth speed benefit x2.]
Of course, it did not hold the kind of possibility that would let him make an elixir with it like Krushvalbi, but the fact that it grew incredibly fast and tasted amazing was impressive enough on its own.
Perhaps to ordinary people, it might be much more welcome than Krushvalbi Elixir?
Of course, what he had meant to introduce was not silver cherry tomatoes, so he would not bother explaining that.
Nevertheless, the reason he had shown this thing
was to make it serve as a stand-in for the Spirit Tree.
“I obtained a new skill. It is a little difficult to explain in detail, but thanks to that skill, this fellow grew in my vegetable garden.”
It was not a lie.
The Spirit Tree had grown, and this fellow had been planted and grown in that vegetable garden.
Of course, it would have been good to show the large and beautiful Spirit Tree itself, but....
‘The cannabis and coca leaves are visible, so I can’t....’
There was such a thing as adult circumstances.
But even this size seemed enough to shock everyone, and the reaction was tremendous.
If he answered every reaction one by one, there would be no end. Raw dopamine was nice, but he had not turned on the broadcast to communicate either.
“I cannot tell you what kind of skill it is, but...I can tell you the effect. From the point where this fellow is planted, the air is purified. What is purification, you ask? Hmm... First, recovery will probably increase on a cellular level. Naturally, the speed of mana recovery will increase as well, right? I do not know everything, but the people who live here will experience a tremendous change in their quality of life. I guarantee that!”
└ Oh! If Lord Thundercloud says so, then it is so!
└ The air becomes clearer? Hmm, it does not really feel concrete, but does that roughly mean the mana concentration in the air rises?
└ How does it compare to prime Area 4 land?
└ Quality of life? Healing? Hmm...what exactly does that mean?
└ I want to live in a place like that too... You said it was the outskirts of Area 4? Hmm, it will probably be more expensive than the surrounding market price, but would it be worth it?
└ So how much is it?
“Hmm, no matter how much I say like this, it has not been proven yet, so I intend to list it more cheaply than you might expect. Please check once the notice goes up!”
Like that, Ki Ja-hyeon turned off the broadcast.
As if he had been waiting, Kim Cheol-hyeok uploaded a post to the property sales site.
The title keyword was,
Forest-Access Druid Village!
With the condition that he would not sell, and would only take monthly rent, 100 units went up as listings.
The listings appeared immediately after Ki Ja-hyeon’s broadcast ended.
The eyes of people who looked them up, expecting them to be around two or three times higher than the surroundings, went round.
└ ...2,000,000 credits?
└ Lord Thundercloud.
└ Are you insane...?
***
The monthly rent for prime Area 4 land was 2,000,000 credits.
But the price of the listings Thundercloud had posted was 2,000,000 credits!
└ Holy shit. Does this make any sense?
└ Prime Area 4 land is 2,000,000 a month, and this kind of place is the same price?
└ lololol Boss sold elixirs and now his brain is seriously soaked in credits, lololol. 2,000,000 credits monthly rent in an Area 4 outskirts garbage dump??
└ Does it even have that much value in the first place? Its mana concentration should be far below prime land.
└ There is no infrastructure there either!
└ Yeah, I am not buying~ I would rather go to an Area 1 penthouse, lol. (Actually, I have no money.)
And for good reason. In Hyeonmu Shelter, each area had a purification system.
Its purpose was to purify the murky air.
Mana concentration had been a secondary effect, but now, that had caused an earthquake in real estate.
The denser the mana concentration, the better it was for the Awakened, without exception.
That was because they could go hunting more than thirteen times a month in places where they would only be able to go ten times elsewhere.
When Awakened gathered, public safety improved that much, and land prices rose as well.
What emerged that way was Area 4’s prime land!
The closer one went to Area 3 and Area 2, the better the filtration system became.
It was not for nothing that high-level Awakened preferred the area near Area 2.
On the other hand, Area 5 had no filtration system at all.
Should one call it a hotbed of every kind of infection?
Because of that, the people of Area 5 tried to reach even the edge of Area 4 somehow.
In any case, the location of Forest-Access Druid Village was the outskirts among the outskirts of Area 4.
People wondered just how much difference there could be in mana concentration.
└ In the first place, it is all vague, pie-in-the-sky talk, is it not?
└ That is true. Something about every cell, something about purification....
└ What do we call posts without numeric proof?
└ Scam~~
└ Thundercloud is committing the fraud of the century~~
While public opinion was dominated by talk of fraud like that, one post went up.
{I am an existing tenant.}
I heard our angelic building owner was being cursed at, so I am stepping forward like this. Clear air, a place that only makes you smile...that place is here. I thought it was a miracle that the leg that almost had to be cut off recovered...such a story...without showing off, deep...heart. A grateful...heart.
└ Wow... The post smells like a widower and red ginseng candy at the same time, lol.
└ This guy has to be at least in his sixties.
└ What a bait post. What do we call posts with no proof???
└ The boss is doing a self-made play~~
└ Proof went up, though? Looks like these comments were made before it was edited.
└ What? Then he is letting existing tenants in without kicking them out? How much are they paying?
└ They said it was frozen at 300,000.
└ What? Now I am suddenly pissed.
Other posts defending Thundercloud also went up.
Most of them were tenants of Forest-Access Druid Village.
Through their fingers, Thundercloud’s good deeds were also revealed.
From giving them 6,000,000 credits while saying he was remodeling, to ghost-like driving out malicious tenants, making the place better to live in instead.
They said there had been a reason their backs healed, their chronic illnesses improved, and so on. They began praising the building owner Thundercloud, who had not said any of that and had not even flaunted it.
└ Wow...if even half the proof posts are right, then Thundercloud is an angel among angels, is he not?
└ What good is it if he is an angel? The rent is 2,000,000.
└ And he said even that was listed “cheaply,” lololol. He really does not know it is an absurd price.
└ Hmm... At this point, maybe there is some reason?
└ Can someone go there?
└ We will know if we wait. Soon, people who went will upload videos.
Sure enough, there was someone who moved fastest amid all this.
└ A place with endless controversy! Forest-Access Druid Village! It would be a shame if Huntuber Buy This did not go, right? I am going to explore it myself!
Buy This set out.