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Buy This’s judgment was correct.
There were definitely options that the System could not display, but that only Ki Ja-hyeon’s eyes could see, and the options she had guessed were more or less correct as well.
That was right.
The second option of Krushvalbi Elixir was a 5% increase to the performance of equipped items.
While Ki Ja-hyeon praised Buy This for figuring that out through guesswork alone, Buy This was also deducing the next option.
[Honestly, I nearly failed to figure out the second option. If I hadn’t looked through the testimonials posted on the community, I probably still wouldn’t know! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank user hsk217, who sold us this potion and even gave us a hint. Now I’ll show you the second option. However, a little preparation is needed!]
Whew!
With a determined sigh, Buy This charged at the slime.
Then she deliberately cut only the outer part of the slime, again and again.
109, 109, 109, 109.
The damage landed, but there were no effective hits.
After all, the slime was a monster that would not die unless its core was removed, as if one were cutting water with a blade.
The tedious footage of repeated slashing continued at 4x speed, then 8x speed, then 16x speed.
How much time had passed? The moment Buy This’s eyes flashed as she continued her meaningless slashing,
BOOOOOOM!
The slime burst apart in a single blow.
The core popped out and rolled across the ground!
Rumble, rumble.
The damage that appeared above its head was 327!
A full three times the damage.
[Whew. Hoo! After enough damage is accumulated...one fixed skill can be used. When you’re hunting normally, it seems to fill up about an hour and a half after consumption, and I filled it up over five minutes, so whew...that’s why it was this hard!]
At the same time, one more line was added to the Krushvalbi Elixir’s options displayed on the screen.
– Once damage accumulates, Single-Point Explosion (300%) can be used 1 time!
“Oh. She got it exactly right?”
Ki Ja-hyeon thought again of the Krushvalbi Elixir’s options.
Name: Krushvalbi Elixir
Grade: E
Type: Consumable
Effects:
– Strength and Agility increase by 5% for 2 hours.
– Equipped item performance increases by 5%.
– Once damage accumulates, Single-Point Explosion can be used 1 time.
The emphasized options had not been read by the System.
[A potion that seems to exist outside the System... Who on earth is the person who made this? Thun! Der! Cloud! Just who are you?]
A shout-out from a 200,000-subscriber Huntuber!
It was a channel he had enjoyed watching to begin with, so even though she was pointing straight at him, he did not feel bad at all.
Rather, a smile hung on his lips.
[If you’re watching this, please contact me! Whether it’s 100 or 200, I’ll buy them all! I’ll buy them, so just say the word!]
“Haha. That’s a bit much. Please take good care of them when I list them on the sales stand!”
He turned off the broadcast
and checked the amount of coins that had come in for him.
A total of 300 coins.
If he exchanged them for credits, it would come to at least 3,000,000 credits.
How long would it have taken him to earn that amount as an ordinary odd-jobber?
“Even generously speaking, it would’ve taken half a month, right?”
And that was based on him, a fairly successful odd-jobber.
He had earned that in a single attempt!
But was it because of the memories of his wealthy previous life? He was not wildly excited or acting rashly.
This much was something any decent druid could naturally do!
Rather, the part that surprised him was something else.
He was even a little flustered.
Was it really all right to make money this...
“Is it really okay to make money this easily?”
He had Awakened, discovered Krushvalbi, made it into elixirs, and sold them...!
All of that had happened in only a few days.
On top of that, even the groundwork that would have required quite a bit of hardship in his previous life had been prepared far too easily in this life.
The heated floor that had already been in the house!
Liquor so cheap he did not even have to make it!
Even high-graaade empty glass bottles that only the royal family would have used!
It had all ended as simply as breathing...!
The only thing necessary had been personal skill!
And that, too, had been freely prepared at the end of the hellish suffering he had gone through in his previous life.
It was too easy.
“So easy it makes me wonder if this is all right!”
In any case, if he made and sold elixirs like this, he would earn a great deal of money.
Since Buy This had shouted him out, everything would sell as soon as he listed it on the sales stand!
Of course, he had no intention of selling them at jaw-dropping prices.
In business, early image mattered more than anything!
Now that attention was focused on him, if he set an absurd price, his image would be fixed as a bastard who only cared about making a quick killing.
“No, that won’t do.”
Krushvalbi Elixir was only the beginning.
He needed image management.
Since he had already thrown his weight around and sold things expensively in his previous life, and also sold many things cheaply with a low-margin, high-volume approach, Ki Ja-hyeon knew very well what was best.
Of course, he would probably be able to make a lot of money with a premium strategy too.
Perhaps he could even make more than with the method he had chosen.
But that did not fit his standards.
No matter how he thought about it, Ki Ja-hyeon could not sell the current elixir expensively, if only because of his pride.
“When something expensive comes out later, I’ll sell that expensively.”
Until then, he would stick to this price.
Selling good goods for cheaper than expected!
That was what Ki Ja-hyeon considered “cool.”
***
From that day on, Ki Ja-hyeon devoted himself to making elixirs.
He repeated the work of soaking the half-dried Krushvalbi, dried using the heated floor, in liquor, infusing it with energy until just before it burst, and waiting for it to mature.
Two days passed like that.
The moment he completed an additional 100 bottles!
[Elixir Manufacturing (F-) unlocked.]
[Efficiency increases when making the same elixir.]
[Natural power operation efficiency increases each time skill level rises.]
[Current efficiency: 10%]
“Hmm?”
Ki Ja-hyeon sprang to his feet.
A manufacturing skill? Efficiency?
These were things he had never experienced in his previous life.
“Well, there was no System itself back then, was there?”
In that case, he had a question.
If there had been a System in his previous life, would he have followed this kind of growth route?
Or if not, rather than all of this being growth,
“could it be the process of regaining my power from my previous life?”
Of course, either way did not matter.
What mattered was that he was becoming stronger!
Ki Ja-hyeon opened and closed his hand while circulating natural power throughout his body.
As Elixir Manufacturing increased, he could clearly feel that the efficiency of his natural power operation had improved.
“It really is exactly 10%.”
And 10% was greater than one might think.
Why else would the Awakened risk their lives for a 5% increase in attack power?
Thinking of it that way, Ki Ja-hyeon was now in a state as if he were always taking two mana-increase potions that raised it by 5%.
And with this much,
“I can make the next stage of elixir.”
Of course, he had only gained the minimum ability to do so; it did not mean he could make the next elixir right now.
He needed another skill.
To obtain it, he needed to become F+. On top of that, the skill he wanted had to appear with good timing, and he had to learn it before manufacturing would become possible.
“Well, it’ll work out somehow.”
Because of that, he planned to make basic Krushvalbi Elixirs for a while.
Afterward, 100 bottles of Krushvalbi Elixir were completed, and he accessed the System shop to put them on the sales stand.
Just as he was about to think about what price would be appropriate this time,
[Buy This wishes to purchase all of your Krushvalbi Elixirs at 10 coins each, with direct delivery.]
“Wow.”
Buy This was not the only one with an interesting offer.
[HansHans wishes to purchase 20 of your Krushvalbi Elixirs at 5 coins each.]
[Area5Wildman wishes to purchase 1,000 of your Krushvalbi Elixirs at 3 coins each.]
[Daejeong Guild wishes to sign an exclusive contract for your Krushvalbi Elixirs at 9 coins each, with a face-to-face meeting.]
“Wow... Huntube’s influence is incredible, isn’t it?”
Buy This wanted to buy all of his stock exclusively at 10 coins each, and in exchange, she wanted to meet him.
Another person wanted to buy twenty at a reasonable price of 5 coins each, and there was even a thief-minded buyer who wanted to buy them cheaper than before, but in a huge quantity all at once.
There was even some unknown guild called Daejeong Guild that wanted an exclusive contract in exchange for buying them at 9 coins each. And they wanted a face-to-face contract at that.
In addition to those, there were countless similar offers packed in densely.
Of course, Ki Ja-hyeon had no intention of accepting such deals.
[Notifications disabled.]
And for good reason. They were either offers from people desperate to see him somehow, or if not that, people thinking of buying in bulk and reselling them.
Ki Ja-hyeon simply,
[100 Krushvalbi Elixirs listed at 6 coins each.]
listed the Krushvalbi Elixirs on the sales stand at their proper price.
At 6 coins, it was an appropriate price that was neither cheap nor expensive compared to the elixir’s performance.
In that case, would they all be sold when he woke up tomorrow?
“I’ll keep selling them at this price from now on~”
He intended to sell them periodically.
And to do that, he needed a lot of Krushvalbi, the raw material.
Of course, he had already used every Krushvalbi he had harvested.
In the worst case, he had even thought of going back with that “party” from before and picking a lot of them.
That was only if Krushvalbi cultivation had failed, however.
But the basement he went back down to was no longer dark.
Because the fully grown Krushvalbi were blooming all over and emitting luminous light!
It was enough to make well over 100 elixirs, roughly speaking!
Looking at the Krushvalbi that had all grown in a week thanks to overgrowth, Ki Ja-hyeon smiled broadly.
“My household finances are going to get a little better!”
Like that, time passed.
***
Beep-beep-beep!
“Get uuuup!”
Kang Han-su sprang up and looked at the clock.
The current time was 7:59 in the morning.
“Successful wake-up!”
At this moment, with one minute remaining until eight o’clock,
Kang Han-su lay back down on the bed and closed his eyes.
It was not to sleep more.
He had closed his eyes to access the System Market!
Swoooosh...!
The moment his consciousness connected to the System, he ran to the sales stand.
Thundercloud, who made and supplied Krushvalbi Elixir!
The time he put potions on the sales stand was consistent.
It was right now, just past eight!
Naturally, the search term was Krushvalbi Elixir!
‘Please...please!’
But the search results were....
Kruseubalbi Elixir.
Kurushubyulbyu Elixir.
KRSBB ELXR.
Krushvalbi Chick.
.
.
.
“Ah, System, you son of a bitch! Filter things like this out...!”
It took ages just to find Krushvalbi Elixir.
Then, while he scrolled down, praying that he would succeed in this open run at least,
Krushvalbi Potion.
“Found it!”
The price was also 6 coins.
Accurate.
Just as he rejoiced, thinking he would finally purchase it this time, his expression darkened.
“It’s not an elixir... It’s a potion!!”
That was right.
It was Krushvalbi, but it had to be an elixir, not a potion...!
The moment he thought he was ruined and barely found the proper elixir listing,
[Krushvalbi Elixir (4/15) - 6 coins each]
“Purchase...purchase! Whew...!”
Kang Han-su clenched his fists and trembled.
How many days had he been holding out?
The legendary elixir released at only fifteen bottles a day!
Now that he had purchased it, he would have some face left before his teammates.
Of course, he had heard there were people who resold it offline for 12 coins, but in the case of Kang Han-su’s party, it was far more profitable to drink it and hunt, so they did not do that.
If only Thundercloud sold more, he would not have to suffer like this...but since it was personally made, perhaps there was nothing that could be done?
“Today is the true hunt!”
He immediately sprang up from his seat.
Morning sleep had always grabbed him by the ankle, but today, his steps were as light as a spring breeze.
***
Krushvalbi Elixir was truly sensational.
One might wonder what was so impressive about a mere F Grade item, but if one thought about it again, that was not the case.
Among the Awakened, F Grade accounted for a full 65% or more of the total!
They had no choice but to buy and use the failures or experimental works of production-type Awakened.
They bought things that might go wrong at any time and fail to be worth their price, while grudgingly enduring it.
Of course, among them, proper consumable items did exist.
The price simply started from over 10 coins, but they certainly existed.
In most cases, those were purchased by rookies raised by guilds, or by F- Grades who had steeled themselves to experience higher hunting grounds.
In particular, Korea’s Hyeonmu Shelter did not have any famous consumable hunters, so proper potions could be said to cost whatever the seller asked.
In such a situation, Krushvalbi Elixir, which had appeared like a comet, was like welcome rain in a drought to the Awakened, most of whom were F Grade.
Countless reviews of Krushvalbi were posted on the Hunter Forum.
Although only fifteen bottles were sold per day, those who had used it could not help reviewing it, so there were countless testimonials(?).