The Shaman Wants Transcendence

11 – Foundation Construction

“Godmother Capital, Sambon Money.”

It was a so-called private loan or loan business.

Jinseong laughed at the golden smoke that snaked around the second and third floors of the building.

“Debentures are a lot of money.”

Of course, debentures are a lot of money.

People do not know how much money they have because of the image of thugs or janitors wearing shabby clothing and collecting money. However, this clan of moneylenders often plays skillfully at the boundary between law and illegal, so they stock up on slush funds and gold bullion. Was often In particular, there were many cases where I had to run away if I was wrong, so there were many cases where I had expensive items that were small in volume.

“But the debentures have no money.”

But there is a contradiction.

Even if you rob a loan shark, you won’t get any money.

These moneylenders knew all too well that they were being treated like golden goblins.

Let’s assume that a person with quite strong power robs.

So, where is the best place to hit?

Home?

There’s no point in brushing it off.

The only thing you need to look for is the end of the money and wedding gifts. Even so, it is difficult to deal with gifts, so they have to be sold on the black market or left alone, and then there is not much left to hold in hand.

Rich house?

Here, too, the balance is not right.

Of course, there are things like slush funds or emergency funds in rich houses, and it will be salty if you touch them.

But after that, the aftermath always follows.

It was because there were many people who hated the rich people because they did not like their loss or loss of face.

Bank?

A place with a lot of money that often appears in places like movies.

Like a stereotype, robbery = bank is also embedded in people’s heads.

But this is the worst option.

There are strong people on the premises, and as soon as robbers start a rampage, the police station is immediately contacted through all means. And the police are heavily armed in an instant, surround the bank, and inject special forces to attack all the robbers.

There is no end to this.

Let’s assume that you rob money because your ability is so great. Do you think you can splurge on that money?

As soon as the money is taken away, it goes into pursuit.

Magic, science, witchcraft…

They use all means to track down and catch the burglar without fail. If you don’t catch it, you won’t be able to spend a single penny.

Human obsession with credit money has reached a level of madness.

Most can’t handle this madness.

So which would be the best?

Where should I rob a family, not a rich family, or a bank?

If you rob it, money comes out like water, there are no strong people, and there is no end to robbing, and where is the place where you can’t track using public power? Where would be such a place where you might be able to even receive cheers from people rather than being criticized for robbing it as a bonus?

‘The loan shark.’

From the point of view of powerful people or heinous criminals, these loan sharks were really funny.

People often regard the image of a loan shark as that of a heinous criminal.

However, those who regard human life as the life of flies do not act as loan sharks. It falls into the real heinous crimes: murder, kidnapping, drugs, and gangs. Most of them fell into mercenaries or bodyguards who could use violence legally.

＜Br＞ ‘That’s why the mercenary world was full of all kinds of crazy people. What a terrible thing.’

It was full of crazy people that Jinseong, who considers himself to be a person of common sense, could not tolerate, so it would not be lacking even if he called it a demonic realm.

That’s why, to Jin-seong, who has seen such a demonic scene, the moneylender is the smallest among the small.

To put it differently, it was an existence at the level of a bully group.

They are thugs, gangsters, and gangs, so aren’t they the ones who just prey on the weak at all costs?

Of course, in the situation of heinous criminals who lived in a crime world where blood was splashed and corpses were scattered, or people with powers fighting, the loan sharks had no choice but to look ridiculous.

Private moneylenders have come up with a number of countermeasures because they know that they are seen that way. Do you try to make yourself look scary by threatening all around like a puffer fish growing in size, or buy a strong person with money and try to use it like limbs…

But if so, what does it mean?

Have you ever seen a bear walk past a hive of honey because the bees are swarming?

Even though I tried to look scary, it wasn’t really scary.

Even if the cat’s hair is straight, it’s the same as looking at the level of a joke in the eyes of a beast. From the point of view of a real criminal organization, I only saw what kind of bullsh*t they were doing, and I was only impressed with what the bugs that were less than a fistful of strong people were doing.

Those with abilities that can be purchased with money could be organized along the lines of those with abilities that aim for money as well. Because there are many dead people of money in the world, and there were many strong people who sought money for the same reason as Jinseong.

So, the moneylender took numerous means to protect his body, and they chose two.

A back seat to protect yourself.

A safe and sturdy safe.

And this means of subsistence worked quite well, allowing the moneylenders to survive unharmed into modern times.

‘So it’s not like killing all these bullies and stealing things…’

Fortune telling is mysterious yet ambiguous, so it is difficult to guess its meaning.

Tarot, astrology, tortoise shell, trump card, yut, mountain branch…

There are countless tools for divination, but none of them tell you the future clearly. It is because the future has a variable nature that can change at any time and is determined by being exposed to countless probabilities and conditions.

The guide cast made by Jinseong also guides the way by answering his questions, but does not tell him what to do.

What is needed for that is…

‘Patience.’

Jinseong closed his eyes and lowered his body.

Bend over at his waist, bending his hands so that they touch the floor.

Let your back stick out backwards.

The body protrudes abnormally forward.

The hamstrings are slowly bent like a rebar, and the tidy hair is tousled.

“The frost that falls on life.”

Poududeuk!

And when the shape became like a hunchback, grayish-white mold began to form all over his body. It started from the neck and spread to the body as if spreading its roots, and it gave off the scent of crushed grass that somehow irritated the nose.

The fungus expanded its reach, covering his entire body like frost on a cold day.

His skin, which had been white due to lack of sunlight, changed to an unpleasantly white color, reminiscent of a wax figure or a corpse. The color that was full of life disappears, and the concrete dough is scooped up to blood.It turns into a terrible figure that seems to have been mixed with wealth.

Poududeuk!

Like the inorganic color of the mold that covered his body, its nature also follows the color.

The net of the mold resembling a stone constrained his body to maintain the position he had already held, like a plaster mold.

Let the protruding back stick out as it is, and bend the bent knee as it is.

In that way, Jinseong quickly became a short-lived hunchback.

And there Jinseong opened his mouth again.

“Like things will breed like things.”

Homologous witchcraft.

Like things will give birth to like things.

Resemblances will come closer to resemblances.

The effect will resemble the cause, and the cause will become the effect.

“The frost that fell. The color that covered the body.”

Since ancient times, humans have imitated nature.

I made a sleeping bag imitating a chrysalis.

I made an airplane imitating a bird.

I made a sword by imitating the fangs of a beast.

I made a house imitating an oyster.

So, what did people imitate and wear different colors on their bodies?

How did something like a stone wrap around a person?

“Become a stone.”

The grayish white color that wrapped around the body resembles a stone.

So it became a stone.

“Stone is hard.”

Since stone resembles hard things, it can be transformed into something hard.

So gray became black.

“Anything that is hard is like a bug.”

Insects wear hard things around their bodies.

Rhinoceros beetle, centipede, cockroach.

Beings with an exoskeleton roam the world at will.

As a result, joints and gaps are created in the stone statue.

“What worms wear is armor, so be your armor.”

Humans made armor by imitating bugs that wore exoskeletons.

Thus, Jinseong became a human wearing armor.

The like resembles the like.

The person covered with white mold became a human wearing armor.

A fungus parasitic on insects, a human imitating insects.

“Heh-huh.”

Jinseong laughed.

He wore a black mask resembling a bug and laughed.

* * *

“Hey man, what an unlucky day.”