chapter 24
exhibition
The first thing that came to his mind was the magic stone.
As he already said at the dinner with Choi Il-soo, the price of magic stones was skyrocketing as the war between Kyushu and Sanghyeon got longer.
However, it was his idea that the magic stone was a train that had already left, perhaps if he had invested at that time.
Magic stones are currently almost the only resource that can replace oil.
It was obvious that if Sanghyeon Group blindly raised the price of magic stones, the economy of each country would suffer a severe recession.
If that happens, the price of magic stones, which have been raised at most, will not be able to avoid a collapse, so this would not be what Sang-hyeon wanted.
What they want is to generate sustainable profits at a sufficiently higher but sustainable price than before, not to die together.
Therefore, sooner or later, as the Kyushu seaway reopened, the Maseok market would soon regain stability and enter the boxed range.
In this situation, what Siyoon had to look at was not the train he had already missed, but the next step.
‘grain. and food plants.’
The Gates and World War III made food a much more scarce resource than before.
In particular, the outside of the city was infested with monsters, and most of the soil was devastated by the long war, so the construction of a food plant was indispensable for farming.
Highly-concentrated refined magic stones were also essential for the construction of that food plant.
Here, what came to his mind was the main event of the early stage of the magical warrior hero ‘Gillian’.
‘I think there’s about a month left in terms of timing.’
If the magic archer ‘Kang Hee-jin’ started as a freelancer, the magic warrior ‘Gillian’ was an employee at a security company under the Jungyun Group.
The Jeongyun Group is a company whose predecessor was Jeongyun Construction, which was forcibly merged with the Seongma Group a long time ago.
And the Jungyun Group’s announcement of a bold plan to build the largest food plant in Yeonbaek Plain, South Hwanghae Province soon was the beginning of the Gillian event.
As the price of magic stones soared along with the price of grain, this project was promoted quickly with the support of Sungma Group in the name of stabilizing food prices.
Of course, this resulted in a large rise in the stock prices of large security companies as they had to subdue the beneficiaries of the food plant, including the construction owner, and the monsters of the Yeonbaek Plain.
Of course, as long as this was the ordeal of the magical warrior hero ‘Gillian’, there was no way it would go smoothly.
‘When a gate disaster occurs during construction, the entire project is in danger of being stranded.’
At that time, it was Gillian’s role to defeat the monsters and deal with the disaster.
However, stranding is stranding, and for Siyoon, who can roughly estimate the timing, it was enough to get out before then.
‘The question is, which company should I invest in to maximize profits?’
Any company involved will be able to see profits in a short period of time, but isn’t it best to pull as much as possible?
What he turned his attention to was Daejin Planet, one of the companies that produces and maintains climate controllers, a key part of food plants.
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Daejin Planet had a large market capitalization, but it was a company that never lost its competitiveness in the industry.
Because of this, it was sometimes mentioned in tooltips or lines in related quests while winning orders for various plant projects.
But that’s for the future anyway.
Currently, Daejin Planet’s profitability has deteriorated due to the rise in magic stone prices, and its share price has suffered considerable ups and downs due to a series of downward revisions in guidance.
However, soon after the Jungyun Group announced a food plant business, the stock price rebounded on expectations.
On top of that, the good news that Daejin Planet, which is just a small and medium-sized company, will participate in the project is overlapping, and the stock price is literally marching high. It would be a record-breaking rise.
And before the event starts in earnest, you just need to sell at the right time.
Of course, the content of investing in stocks was not properly implemented in the hero’s biography.
However, there were reasons for Siyoon’s confidence.
As an achievement hunter, he used to go around the city periodically during every event and talk to every npc he saw, wondering if there was a hidden achievement.
As a result, other users had no choice but to naturally learn about the background settings that are easy to overlook.
Siyoon clearly remembered what a number of NPCs said at the time, ‘Daejin Planet’s stock price increase rate is a record’. Even when it’s near the peak.
‘The answer sheet is next to me, so there’s no reason not to go in.’
Siyoon had no intention of directly intervening in the main events of other heroes at this time.
It was because, if left alone, these were problems that they would solve on their own, and their useless obstinacy and greed could rather hinder their growth.
They had to grow as well as they did before so that they could pass through the disaster that would follow.
But even so, it would be foolish not to use the background of their events.
With the White Flame established, the heroes would now enter their own early events in turn.
Starting with the magic warrior hero ‘Gillian”s Battle of Yeonbaek, the archmage hero ‘Shin Jia”s magic tower sealing case, and the holy woman ‘Lucy”s pilgrimage terrorism, and so on.
As Si-yoon, who remembered both the background and the ramifications of the events at the time, he intended to use whatever was available.
Wouldn’t it be an event that would have a great impact on the magic tool market even if the magic tower was sealed in the future?
Mukdon must have arrived at the right time, too, and he spoke up right away at the shooting range the next day.
“Ji, are you really investing here? As you can see, they are heading towards the basement.”
Pil-woo asked, pointing at the blue chart with a trembling face.
“And you’re going to pull leverage?”
President Kang also had an expression of astonishment.
There was a place that acted as an agent under a borrowed name, so there was nothing that couldn’t be done. However, the fees and interest rates are not too high.
“I’ll eat and lose weight soon, so it’s okay.”
As she looked at Siyoon, her eyes became strange.
“Have you ever played stocks?”
Those were the eyes of a suspicious person.
“Nope.”
At least, as Choi Si-yoon, I never did it.
President Kang, who had been staring at him, immediately looked away.
“I’m sure you all have your own thoughts… Who is this Einstein? The person who got hit in the head with that apple did that. I can calculate the movement of the earth, but I cannot calculate the madness of man.”
“It must be the movement of the celestial body, not the earth. It’s Newton, not Einstein.”
Upon hearing this, President Kang asked Pil-woo.
“Is that so?”
“Why are you asking me that? I don’t know because I’m ignorant.”
“Damn it, you can ask.”
President Kang lightly hit Pil-woo on the back of the head.
“Anyway, I’m telling you to be careful. Don’t ask me to lend you money just because it was sold against me.”
“He buys you unnecessary worries.”
“Among my guests, there should have been one or two people who forgot all their money on stocks…”
“Anyway, stop talking about this. I’m going to try to visit here tomorrow.”
As he held out the pamphlet he brought from the library, President Kang and Pil-woo drew attention.
“Gideon Mark’s magic tool exhibition?”
“Bocchan, were you interested in a place like this?”
Siyoon shook his head at their gaze, not knowing what they were thinking.
No matter how much it was, he couldn’t say that it was a muddy experience dungeon, so he decided to cover it up.
“It’s not like that, but to expand my knowledge by looking at the well-engraved magic tools.”
They nodded as if they understood.
“But tickets here are very expensive.”
When Pil-woo spoke, Si-yoon shook his shoulders and said.
“I can’t help it. Is there any discount for Mr. Choi in Hanyang?”
“Shall we call you again?”
“There must be a puck.”
President Kang smiled and shook his head.
And the next day, in front of Hanam Art Center.
Siyoon and Pilu, dressed in uncomfortable suits, arrived at the exhibition just in time for the night opening.
As they stood in front of the queue, people looked at them and started whispering.
This was because Pil-woo’s huge size played a part, but Choi Si-yoon’s face and suit fit attracted people’s attention.
However, they had long been accustomed to such gazes, so they exchanged conversations without caring the slightest.
Pil-woo muttered as he untied his tie a little.
“This is really awkward.”
“Isn’t it Nandle?”
“But, Bocchan-nim, you’ve worn them a lot before, haven’t you?”
‘That’s not me.’
After answering inwardly, he and Pil-woo stood in front of the guide of the art museum.
“Could you please present your employee ID?”
There, Pil-woo handed over his employee ID to her.
“Please wait a moment.”
After confirming her employee ID, she gave it back to me with a business smile.
“Then, enjoy watching.”
“Yes, good job.”
“By the way, what kind of exhibitions even have a dress code?”
“I don’t think the young boy from the royal family knows that better than I do.”
“If I knew, would I have asked you?”
“That’s right.”
Standing in front of the exhibition map, Pil-wu asked him.
“Then where would you like to look around?”
“You’d better go in order.”
“All right. Let’s start with the first hall.”
He nodded, and Pil-wu took the lead.
In Hall 1, weapons were mainly displayed. It seemed that most of them were going to be auctioned off after the exhibition.
“Oh, look at this sword. young master.”
What Pilwoo was pointing at was a pure white, fancy sword.
However, no matter how you look at it, it felt more like a decorative sword than a real battle.
“Well···.”
When he analyzed it through the characteristic ‘Thunder Power’, it was sure to be a demonic sword reconstructed from a third-tier spell.
“It seems to show various illusions when you put magic power into it.”
“Do you see it just by looking at it?”
“uh. I see.”
Perhaps the ones imprinted with the third-tier spells didn’t seem to be of much help to the skill level increase.
They moved on to the next exhibit.
This time it was a crude one-handed axe.
However, when he saw the spell imprinted there, his eyes lit up.
‘If this is enough…’
He smiled as he understood the structure and principle of the magic formula in an instant by activating the characteristic “Thousand Sea Power”.
‘It’s at least a 5th level magic. That’s lightning magic. I’ve restructured the formula so that I can cast Thunder Calling at the desired coordinates just by injecting magic power and striking it down.’
At the same time as a slight dizziness caused by the recoil of the shallow sea power, a familiar phrase came to mind in front of him.
[I understood it after seeing the magic tool engraved with a spell higher than the 3rd tier!]
[The proficiency of the skill ‘Low Engraving’ is greatly improved.]
In an instant, Siyoon instinctively realized that the proficiency level of the low-level engraving was almost full.
“Okay, next.”
“yeah.”
Next was the magic palace with the 4th tier magic imprinted on it.
When I analyzed this also with my natural ability, a familiar phrase immediately came to mind.
[I understood it after seeing the magic tool engraved with a spell higher than the 3rd tier!]
[The proficiency of the skill ‘Low Engraving’ is greatly improved.]
[The skill ‘Low-level engraving’ has become the skill ‘low-level engraving’!]
Seeing that, Siyun clenched his fists without anyone noticing.
‘This is it.’
There are still many exhibits left.
Since it has become a lower-middle-level engraving technique, from now on, only magic tools that are imprinted with spells higher than 4th tier will increase the proficiency, but it seems that there are quite a few 5th tier magic tools, although I don’t know about 6th tier magic tools.
‘It would be nice if I could raise it to the intermediate level.’
Even if you only raise the intermediate level of engraving, you can imprint 5th tier magic on your gun.
That alone wouldn’t have to worry about running out of firepower for a while.
Thinking so, it was time for him to quickly move on to the next one.
He patted the back in front of his eyes at the large body that suddenly stopped.
“what are you doing?”
When he asked, Pil-wu pointed forward with a shy expression.
“That’s…”
“What?”
Siyoon turned her head in the direction he pointed, and her face hardened involuntarily.
‘Kim Seo-ah?’
Our eyes meet with her neatly dressed in a pale pink chiffon dress.
She opened her eyes wide in surprise. However, Siyoon’s gaze was over her shoulder.
Kim Kang-hoon, the father of Kim Seo-ah and the president of Gangdong Management Construction.
He was approaching Siyoon.
“Isn’t this Siyoon? I didn’t expect to see you here. No, is it worth coming?”
When Kim Kang-hoon approached and talked to him while talking incomprehensibly, Seo-ah Kim called him as if he was embarrassed.
“Ah, father.”
“Hey, nice to meet you. Siyoon Choi, right? I think it’s the first time since I was a student. Are you already this big?”
Pil-woo flinched at the sudden fall, but Si-yoon stopped him by grabbing his arm.
“Isn’t this Mr. Kim? You’ve been doing well. I’ve heard a lot about you from my older brother.”
“Ha ha ha is that so? What a coincidence. I’ve heard a lot about you from your older brother. By the way.”
While shaking hands with Siyoon’s outstretched hand, he suddenly hardened his face.
“In a place like this, would you like to call me the head of the district instead of President Kim?”
At the same time, I felt a slight pressure from the hand holding it.
Siyoon rolled her eyes at the childish check that came in.
‘Look at this human?’