Chapter 364: Fear Marketing (5)
Kim Minwoo hummed a tune and pressed the [Batch Exchange] button on the system window.
The amount his younger brother Kim Hyungsuk had raked in by selling out the VVIP resort immigration zone was approximately 9 trillion dollars.
Converted to Korean Won, it was an astronomical amount reaching about 12 quadrillion won.
According to the original contracts, it should normally be close to 10 trillion dollars, but this much money was lost while hurriedly disposing of the corporate shares and physical goods extorted from the rich who lacked cash and paid with physical goods instead, throwing them all into the market as super urgent sales.
“Still, 9 trillion dollars is nothing to sneeze at. It's no different from free money.”
Now, it was time for this entire amount to be substituted into achievement points.
“It would have been really nice if even a rotary press was possible.”
A thought that if money becomes points anyway, wouldn't achievement points also be infinitely copied if he just operated a dollar copier or a rotary press in the basement to churn out money infinitely.
To state the conclusion first, it was impossible.
There was no way the stagnant water Kim Minwoo, who had tried every trick in the world, wouldn't have tested that good method in the past.
However, this guy called the system was much more meticulous and vicious than he thought.
What if a country printed currency mindlessly and only increased the circulation of money without substantial value?
Then the system ghost-like struck down the value of that currency to trash and plummeted the exchange ratio.
Simply put, it meant that if dollars were copied 10 times and released into the market, the exchange cost demanded by the system would also jump 10 times.
A simple trick like running a rotary press was a structure that wouldn't work in the first place.
‘Still, it's a relief.’
Kim Minwoo smirked.
Because the dollar value of the USA and Europe was falling like crazy right now due to the Shadow's ark terrorism and the terror of the apocalypse, but it hadn't become perfect pieces of toilet paper yet.
At this timing when its value as currency was still gasping for breath and alive, he had refreshingly robbed the genuine cash scraped together from the souls of the top 0.01% rich people of the world.
“Thanks to that, didn't I make a refreshing killing before money became toilet paper?”
Ttalkkak!
Kim Minwoo cheerfully raised his hand into the empty air as if clinking a champagne glass and confirmed the exchange button.
“Good work, Wall Street bastards. Have a drink~.”
Ttiring!
Ttiririririring―!!!
Like golden chips pouring out like a waterfall from a broken jackpot slot machine, the held achievement points floating before Kim Minwoo's eyes began to run wild fiercely.
Ttiririring―!
[9 trillion dollars are exchanged into achievement points!]
[According to the current exchange ratio (150 billion won to 1 point), 80,000 points are paid.]
“Huh? It's a bit stingier than I thought?”
Barely 80,000 points.
It was true that it was a bit disappointing compared to the overwhelming number of a whopping 12 quadrillion won.
The limits of cash that had plummeted to the level of the Zimbabwean dollar due to inflation and panic selling were clearly visible.
However, the moment Kim Minwoo opened his current [Achievement Shop], that disappointment evaporated without a trace.
Ttiring!
Ttiririring―!
Suddenly, the system window fluctuated and began to spew out brilliant rainbow-colored alarms that surpassed golden light.
[Total acquired achievement points have surpassed 10,000 points!]
[The Achievement Shop rank is promoted to Platinum!]
[Total acquired achievement points have surpassed 50,000 points!]
[The Achievement Shop rank is promoted to Diamond!]
[New items reaching the realm of myth and authority are stocked in the shop!]
“Oho?”
Kim Minwoo's eyes flashed open.
The achievement shop, which had been stagnant at the Gold rank for a long time, skyrocketed by a whopping two stages along with the explosive influx of 80,000 points.
He gulped down saliva and opened the newly updated Diamond rank sales list.
[Diamond Rank Product List]
[11. Mythical Rank Equipment Random Draw Ticket (Required Achievement Points: 20,000 points)]
[11. SSS-rank Bound Skill Book (Required Achievement Points: 30,000 points)]
[13. Large Fragment of Divinity (Required Achievement Points: 50,000 points)]
[14. ??? (Unlocked at 100,000 points or more)]
“……Wow.”
An exclamation burst out automatically.
Price tags with a number of digits unimaginable in the past Gold grade days. However, their performance was a lineup truly at the level of smashing the universe to pieces.
“With 80,000 points…… I can buy two Mythical grade equipment draw tickets right away, and still purchase an SSS-rank skill book on top of that, can't I?”
The 12 quadrillion won scraped together by smashing the souls and lucrative concessions of Earth's top capitalists with super urgent sales.
It was the moment that overwhelming money-flexing was finally substituted into the absolute military power capable of shopping the realm of myth with money.
The Shadow Cult's High Priest Persen?
Even at this moment, those bastards would be shabbily instigating terror, scraping together petty cash and life force from places like New York and Thailand to fill the ark's power.
The stagnant water Kim Minwoo was utilizing that terror in reverse, entirely extorting the national wealth and capital of the world's 1% in the most legal and sophisticated method called capitalism.
“Thanks for fattening me up, Persen.”
Using the most expensive fantasy resort in the world as bait, it was the moment the war funds of the capitalist crusaders who would tear apart the Outer Gods were perfectly loaded.
Kim Minwoo's gaze, which was happily scanning the shop list like that, headed toward the Gold grade product list below the brilliant Diamond grade.
[6. Physical Potential Amplification Potion]
[Required Achievement Points: 1,200 points]
[Effect: Temporarily unlocks restricted physical potential for 1 hour.]
An item that had been sitting right there since the Gold shop first opened in the past.
At that time, Kim Minwoo's evaluation upon first seeing this item was extremely cold-hearted.
‘1,200 points for a 1-hour disposable doping potion? The cost-effectiveness is smashed. I'm absolutely not buying it.’
It was a time when he trembled regretting even 100 or 200 achievement points.
Since 1,200 points was a massive amount that could buy 12 limit breakthrough elixirs and break through the limit level by 600, it was natural that he didn't even glance at a mere 1-hour temporary buff potion.
But now?
Kim Minwoo glanced at the number stamped at the top of his vision.
[Currently Held Achievement Points: 80,000 points]
“……Looking at it now, it's completely the price of gum, isn't it?”
Before the overwhelming capital power of 80,000 points, 1,200 points was nothing more than petty cash that would only make him feel slightly bad if he dropped it while walking down the street.
The corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth crept up.
‘My original potential is fixed at -999, right.’
That cursed physical body where the system gritted its teeth and didn't create a skill even if he directly saw the swordsmanship of prominent masters including the Sword Immortal with his two eyes and underwent bone-cutting training.
But what if he drank this potion and that restriction was lifted for 1 hour?
His original thought went like this.
‘Even if it's lifted, it's probably trash.’
The original owner of this body was that famous scumbag Kim Minwoo. Hadn't he keenly realized that he was a guy without a shred of talent in the first place while rolling around for 6 years.
Even if the restriction was lifted, the probability of it being merely the talent level of an ordinary person 1 was extremely high, but to burn a precious 1,200 points on that?
It was a complete waste.
However, as his points began to overflow, curiosity began to creep up.
‘Wait. Is the real talent really trash? You never know, right?’
What if he thought he was a petty and stupid guy, but it turned out there was some massive hidden talent dormant in this body, so the system forcibly placed the restriction of -999?
‘If I swing around imitating something like the Thunder Wind Swordsmanship during the 1 hour the restriction is lifted, wouldn't it be registered right there as a skill like other people?’
If he was tight on points, he wouldn't have even looked at it, calling it a crazy act, but now it was petty cash.
There was no reason to purposefully suppress this petty curiosity.
If he scratched a 1,200-point lottery ticket and even one hidden talent popped out, it would rather be a loss not to buy it.
“Let's see, shall I make an investment to see what kind of talent is hidden in this trash body.”
Kim Minwoo pressed the purchase button without hesitation.
Ttiring―!
[Consumes 1,200 achievement points!]
[Purchased 1 Physical Potential Amplification Potion!]
A small glass bottle filled with sloshing silver liquid dropped onto his palm. Kim Minwoo popped the cap off with a ttuk and poured the potion into his mouth in a single breath.
Kkulkkeok.
It was that moment.
[Consumed the Physical Potential Amplification Potion!]
[For 1 hour, the extreme restriction (-999) that had been constricting your body is forcibly released!]
Udeudeudeuk―!
“……Eok?!”
Kim Minwoo's two eyes, which had been waiting for a possible jackpot talent, widened glaringly.
Along with a terrible pain as if every single bone, muscle, and blood vessel in his entire body was screaming and being reassembled, a bizarre and unfamiliar sensation he had never felt even once until now began to strike his entire body.
[Initiating physical scan according to the liberation of potential.]
[Measuring your lost true talent…….]
“Keueueuk……!”
Over the retina of Kim Minwoo, who slumped down pouring cold sweat, unbelievable system messages began to rush in crazily.
