Welcome to the Magic Tower

17 – Special Forces

It is very difficult to live.

“f*ck.”

Mountains of paperwork piled up on my desk that I can’t even guess when they will be finished.

At some point, my left hand moves semi-automatically and picks up one of them, my eyes make sure there is no mistake, and at the same time my right hand writes my name in the approval column.

I was working without a break like that, and I suddenly came to such a realization.

No, actually, it’s a feeling I’ve felt ever since I was assigned to the Mage Tower Support Headquarters.

It was a desperate struggle and scream to get out of the canned food in the office.

…… Oh, it looks like my eyes are going to fall out. In addition, the head was very, very sluggish, as if an anesthetic was injected directly into the brain, and it looked like it was going crazy.

“f*ck, it’s already the 15th… ….”

After working all day in the office, when I am almost exhausted, I go to the night shift room to sleep, and when dawn breaks, I am called back to the office and immerse myself in paperwork.

That surprisingly regular, vicious life pattern was repeated for 15 days.

Oh my God, I can’t believe that the bathroom is in the office. I ate rice as a lunchbox, so I didn’t have to go out of the office.

Galgal—Galgal—! It’s literally a situation where the mind and body are divided at the same time.

I resent the me of the past who wanted ‘labor’ 15 days ago.

Even if you make them work viciously, I thought they would buy and sell them according to the cooldown.

‘Why on earth?’

Why don’t you use me, a talented person who is optimized for financial fraud, in the right place?

I’d rather give you tens of billions of dollars and ask you to call me into tens of trillions!!!

“This dirty world, like a dirty workplace…….”

There is no need to look far away for impoverishment. Because it was a lump of negative emotions that every office worker in the world lives with at least one.

Ah, I want to kill my boss at work.

I grabbed the quill with a sudden thought. This was the closest thing to the magical items I coveted, but damn. There is no need for such romance in the face of survival and anger.

I glared at the boss at the next table with bloody eyes.

She happened to be wearing an eyepatch and sitting back in her chair.

Currently, the evil boss is sleeping and very defenseless.

If you stick a sharp, moist quill tip into that exposed thin nape, you can escape this hell.

“f*ck.”

After today’s season 179342 anger control disorder delusion, I immersed myself in paperwork again. If the condition worsens a little more, it may really kill a person.

…… Well, I wouldn’t go crazy even if it was f*cking hard because of this.

I glanced at the system message floating in the corner of my field of view.

[ ‘Geumhwa God’ is active. ]

When was it? It was probably the third day, when I was getting used to the paperwork and starting to get overworked.

“Okay, use it.”

“…… This is something else.”

The evil boss, the red-haired Irene, held out a scroll with a slightly lively face and said. Normally, when I saw the scroll, I would joke that it was a magic scroll, but I didn’t have the time to do that.

…… If you open it, it’s like a magical scroll with 300 pages of letters written on it, right? Yes?

I felt PTSD when I saw it, having been plagued by countless documents.

Irene looked at my pale face and continued talking dryly.

“This is your mission reward.”

“Ah, there was such a thing. But why are you doing this?”

“I now remember what Hyeyoung gave it to me. Oh, by the way, it has an attribution function, so only you can use it.”

I accepted the scroll without hesitation. I knew that there was a martial arts level, but I completely forgot about it because I was hit here and there.

“Try using that now. I don’t know exactly because I passed out, but I heard that the grade went up. Then you must have been first, but that much better martial arts will come as a reward.”

Irene has a very interesting expression. I thought it was a machine that only did work, but it seems that it was a human being.

For some reason, I wanted to get away from the seat with the thought of taking a little trick, but when she said that I might need a guard, I just opened the scroll on the spot.

Whirliririk—!

As soon as the scroll was opened, the Chinese characters written on it jumped out into the air while going crazy. It swarmed around and eventually turned into a system message.

[ Do you want to learn ‘Five Elements Spirit Art’? ]

[ Accept / Decline ]

The Five Elements. It refers to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which make up all things in the universe. In Western terms, an Elemental Master.

Besides, it’s a divine skill. It is said that there are one or two martial arts that have cool names and are like dog poop, but when it comes to new martial arts, aren’t most of them classified as tax-free martial arts?

‘What if the two become jjambbong?’

My mouth waters just imagining it. This is unbearable!

I immediately hit the accept button.

T-ring—!

A notification sound unique to the system sounded.

[ The Five Elements God (五行神功) detects the gold attribute of the target! ]

[ The Five Elements Spirit and Golden Power are fused! ]

[ You have learned the Gold Coin Art! ]

[ Geumhwa Shin Gong (金貨神功)]

[ A martial art that has been transformed by specializing in the gold attribute. As long as the subject has money left, he never dies. Mind doesn’t break ]

“…… What?”

To my great regret, I had over 700 million gold in my possession, and it was a large amount of money worth about 70 billion in Korean currency.

In other words, overwork was not enough.

So from that day on, I became a machine dedicated to paperwork at the Support Headquarters, in other words, an express employee. The days of a very faithful livestock go on for another week after the full moon,

“I guess I can stop doing simple paperwork now. Now, would you like to use your trading skills?”

To my credit as usual! To the boss! Oh my god! When I was feeling very angry, the evil boss approached me and said with a smile.

Combat jobs have to attack dungeons to gain public value, but support jobs just need to do job-related tasks. For that reason, I had a merchant job do the paperwork…….

“Huh? What’s wrong with your expression? Are you sick?”

Looking at Irene’s face, which was completely lively, unlike the first meeting when almost everyone was dying, I couldn’t help but be suspicious.

…… I wondered if this person could have taken care of his work.

Besides, at some point, I found energy and naturally started to let go of my words.

‘Ah, it can’t be. There can’t be such a bad boss in the world, right?’

…… First of all, I folded all the malice that was rising and kept it deep in my heart. But, in case something happens later, stick a quill in the real scruff of your neck… !

“Deal (去來).”

T-ring—!

[ Please specify the ‘transaction target’. ]

Used trading ability.

And, following Irene’s words, I designated the system as a trading target.

Challenge—! A so-called ‘shop window’ with a vast amount of information is displayed in front of your eyes.

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【Giant Eyes】

【Philosopher’s Stone】

【Mithril Ingot】

【Adamantium Ingot】

【Heaven Silk】

【Branches of the World Tree】

【Flame Witch’s Left Arm】

【Amulet of Haeju】

【Dragon’s Tooth】

【Dragon Scales】

【Superlative Mana Stone】

【Play Life】

【Phoenix Feather】

【Mirgard Tree Sap】

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I dreamed that I would finally be able to get out of the breeding stock and be reborn as a merchant.

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＜ Jinwoo Lee ＞

[ Rating : Yellow ]

[ Occupation: Merchant ]

[ Attribute: Golden Goddess ]

[ Ability: Trade (去來), Buy (買收), Sell (賣却) ]

[ Tendency: Moderate, hot-blooded ]

[ Strength: 27 ] [ Stamina: 24 ]

[ Agility: 22 ] [ Wisdom: 41 ]

[ mana: 30 ] [ Luck: 75 ]

[ Possession: 743, 488, 000 Gold ]

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