Chapter 53. The Power of Money (1)

“Can I ask you something random?”

Listening to Ilya’s report as always, Sanghyuk suddenly became curious about something.

“Please speak.”

“The Hiddenline…… can I buy it with money?”

It was actually just an absurd curiosity he had.

Since he had so much money on his hands, he was thinking about how to spend all this money.

Although he had a few plans in mind, he thought that he would still have a lot of money left over even after doing all those things. This was why he was contemplating on how to spend the remaining money.

The question was something that just came to his mind.

It was more of a joke than anything……. Naturally, it wasn’t like Sanghyuk wanted a special answer or anything.

But an unexpected answer was uttered from Ilya’s mouth.

“It is possible.”

“Right? Of course, it’s impo-….. what? I can?”

Sanghyuk widened his eyes in surprise and turned his head to look at Ilya.

“Yes, it is indeed possible.”

The hidden main quest ‘Shadow King’s first chain quest ‘Hiddenline of Hellfire Desert’ has met an unexpected change. A new chain quest ‘Hiddenline? So? How much do you need?’ has been generated.

Sanghyuk quickly tapped on the quest with the peculiar name.

Quest – Hiddenline? So? How much do you need? [Myth, Hidden, Main]

– Who would ever dare to think of buying a Hiddenline with money? Quite the guts. However, what’s important is that it’s not impossible. In the end, Hiddenline possesses a value, and that value can be bought with gold. However, you must realize that the value of a Hiddenline is unimaginably high.

Details : Buy all the Hiddenline scattered across Hellfire Desert and make them worship you as their lord!

Clear requirements : 0 / 40,000,000 Gold

Note : This quest can be given up. Once given up, the original quest will resume.

“Whoa…….”

Sanghyuk could only laugh in bitterness the moment he checked the quest contents.

He found it absurd that such a high-difficulty chain quest can be solved with money.

However, the moment he checked the price, he realized that it wasn’t OK Goldback (S) : 2% of all spent gold returns to your bank every day at 24:00.<]

‘That’s an interesting title.’

After seeing the effects of the title, Sanghyuk closed the title window. But in fact, this wasn’t just an ‘interesting’ title.

Considering the fact that Sanghyuk spent around one million gold every day, this meant that he would receive tens of thousands of gold every single day.

Having arrived at Tune, Sanghyuk went to see Pallakan. His current location was kindly shown on the map by the system, so he didn’t need to ask around.

“Pallakan, the Lamp of the Desert Wanderers, greets the master.”

Pallakan bowed as soon as he saw Sanghyuk. To put it simply, Pallakan was a wanderer.

A wanderer that wanders around the back alleys of Tune – He was also called the Lamp of the Desert Wanderers.

You have been acknowledged by the Lamp of the Desert Wanderers, Pallakan. Congratulations. Your proof of qualification has finished and you have become the Master of the Hiddenline. You have acquired the special title ‘Shadow Duke of the Desert’.

[You have acquired a highest-grade enhancement stone.]

You have become the Master of the Hiddenline, and your familiarity with the members of the Hiddenline is raised to ‘Colleagues’.

The S-rank NPC organization [Hiddenline of the Desert], combines with the existing [Hiddenline of Falcon City] and changes to the S+-rank NPC organization, [Hiddenline of Two Continents].

The new organization management window is generated. You can efficiently manage and operate the organization through the management window.

Sanghyuk also just watched the stream of system messages without doing anything this time.

‘Combine? It’s possible to combine organizations?’

This was something even he saw for the first time. He had never heard or seen something like this despite his long years of gaming.

Sanghyuk stood still for a while as he tilted his head before opening the management window and selecting a deputy.

You have appointed Ilya, Lord of the Footless Horse, as the deputy of the Hiddenline.

Sanghyuk’s deputy could only be Ilya.

With two organizations combined, quite a lot of things had changed as well. However, Ilya did everything properly once he appointed her.

***

Ilya immediately came to Tune once the two organizations were combined and she was appointed the deputy. To be exact, she used a recall to come to this place. In any case, since she came here, she reorganized the organization as Sanghyuk had ordered her.

She appointed Pallakan as her direct subordinate and immediately seized control of the Hiddenline of the Desert.

Sanghyuk really liked the way she worked.

Like always, Ilya did everything to perfection. Sanghyuk just needed to watch. However, just as he was ‘watching’, he was suddenly contacted. It was unexpectedly the Golden Mountain merchant guild. To be exact, an NPC merchant working there requested Sanghyuk for help through messaging.

Since the NPC was in Tune, Sanghyuk immediately ran to the auction and saw what was happening.

“I will take care of this, so please continue with your work.”

Sanhyuk told the merchant NPC and immediately dragged the semi-translucent auction menu to the front of him.

‘That’s a dreadfully nice time. How can this come up right now?’

Sanghyuk was smiling while looking at an item that came up on the auction. The reason the merchant NPC messaged him was very simple.

It was a sort of a bug. To be exact, a condition error had appeared and he couldn’t take care of the matter by himself and requested Sanghyuk for help.

The item that made the NPC confused…… was none other than the ‘Flashblack Eye’ that Sanghyuk had taken out from Skies Above Skies’ guild warehouse.

Sanghyuk had told all the merchant NPCs under his management to buy the Flashblack Eye regardless of the cost.

However…… the problem was the price that it came up in the auction.

It was 1 million gold!

Normally, Sanghyuk supplied all merchant NPCs with 1 million gold. Since he resupplied them with 1 million gold every time they came back to him, there was not a case where the merchant NPCs were lacking in gold to buy something.

This was where it went wrong this time. The price of one item was 3 million gold, so even when the item was supposed to be purchased ‘regardless of the cost’, it could not be bought.

In the end, the merchant NPC decided that this was not a problem he could solve and contact Sanghyuk.

That led Sanghyuk here.

‘Looking at the price…… it looks like this seller thought that it looked like it was something, but was too bad to be used by himself, and thought that he would try and see the people’s reaction rather than trying to sell it, right?…… Fufu, but what can you do? No matter how expensive it is, I think I’ll take it.’

*Click!*

Will you purchase the item, Flashblack Eye? (Y/N)

When the message appeared, Sanghyuk pressed Y without a second thought.

As Sanghyuk had estimated, the seller did not plan to sell this item. That was why he put the item at an absurd price of 3 million, and was planning to see if there were any reactions.

However, contrary to his expectations, Sanghyuk bought the item without hesitation.

Later in the game, the Flashblack Eye could not be purchased even with tens of millions of gold. Sanghyuk was more than daring enough to buy that item for 3 million gold.

Having acquired the second Flashblack Eye, Sanghyuk once again could feel the power of money.

Money…… it possessed tremendous power.