Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant Chapter 369

The Return of the High-ranking Civil Servant

[Guests of the Grid]

# Grid, known as the Great Demon of Greed, is very greedy. He sometimes gets what he wants directly, but sometimes he gets it through deals.

# Players who become guests of the Grid can gain power through trading with the Grid.

A brief explanation.

There is no warning anywhere against trading too frequently.

‘I guess that’s what the system is aiming for.’

It’s a system that uses the world as a playground, so how could it possibly have a warning sign attached to it?

I would rather have an accident.

And very dramatically, too.

Suho immediately activated the acquired trait.

[Guest of the Grid is activated.]

[ The grid answers your call . ]

As the trait was activated, the space in front of my eyes distorted slightly and a greedy toad head appeared.

The form is half-human and half-beast.

It was about the size of an adult male’s hand, and the proportions of its head and body were equal.

The guy’s name is Grid.

To be exact, it’s the Grid’s clone.

‘It’s not yet at the point where the main body can descend directly.’

Grid, who appeared in front of Suho for the first time, slowly opens his eyes.

Then the toad’s characteristic yellow eyes were revealed, and the creature looked at Suho with a strangely unpleasant look in its eyes and smiled.

– Hehe, nice to meet you. I am Grid, the arch-demon of the Seven Deadly Sins.

A voice as old as a toad.

“Why does even the voice sound so greedy?” Soo-ho said with a smirk.

“Nice to meet you. My name is An Su-ho.”

– An Su-ho! Be sure to remember that name. Yes, when I briefly looked at Janelle earlier, I noticed that she was very full of desires inside her. And it was a thirst for power.

“That’s right. I want to be stronger than anyone else. That’s why I think we could have a really good business relationship. I heard that if the calculations are right, there’s nothing you can’t do.”

– What? Hahahaha!

Grid laughs heartily at Suho’s words.

Because from the perspective of the great devil, the boldness of a mere human felt extremely cute.

He said with a grin.

– That’s right. I, the Great Demon Grid, can do anything if the plan is right. My power to make transactions with customers has infinite power expansion due to the price paid by the customer. So, what can you give me?

“I can give you what you want most.”

– What do I want most?

“Yes. What you want most and what you desperately hope for.”

– Hahahahaha!

Grid laughs loudly again at Suho’s words.

Then he smiled like an old man looking at a cheeky kid and asked.

– I wonder. What do I want the most? I’m so greedy, I don’t even know what I want the most.

“Well, I think I know right away.”

– What is it?

“The Demon King’s seat.”

– what?

“You’re definitely a great demon who coughs in the demon world. But that doesn’t mean you’re the Demon King, right? Because I know there’s only one Demon King, and that position is currently vacant.”

– … … .

The grid’s eyes narrow.

His expression, which had been smiling heartily, also hardened.

However, Suho continued talking without paying any attention.

“You, the great devil, wouldn’t want just money. Since you were born as a devil, power is the most important thing, and the size of that power should be the strongest among other devils, no, among all devils, right? And the position that proves that is the position of the Demon King. What do you think?”

Suho asks with a grin.

Grid no longer felt like the laughter of a cheeky brat.

Rather, I felt that they were of a similar type to me.

– You’re a more interesting guest than I thought. What’s your identity?

“If we were to borrow a demonic expression, you could say he’s the Demon King of this world. And he’s on an overwhelmingly different level.”

– What? Hahahahaha!

Grid’s vigilance immediately crumbled at Suho’s expression.

And Grid could tell from Suho’s answer.

I’m saying that the person in front of you is definitely not an ordinary person.

Suho said.

“Really. I am the strongest in the world I live in. I can confidently say that I am the strongest among all players.”

– Hehe, right. I don’t think that’s a lie. Because I saw your inner desires and thought you weren’t an ordinary human being.

It really was.

The desire he had for Suho was the strongest of all the beings he had ever welcomed as guests.

So, without hesitation, I granted him the right to be my guest.

The grid narrowed its eyes.

– So I’m curious. Why do you need more power? Since you’ve already ascended to the throne of the Demon King?

“Because the standards are different.”

– standard?

“My target is not fellow humans. I am only a demon king among humans, and I am still far behind in the world created by the system. You know that, don’t you?”

– … … .

The grid didn’t respond for a moment.

No, I couldn’t do it.

He may not be a player like Suho, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t experienced the power of the system.

Even if the Grid was the ultimate evil, it was ultimately a slave within the fence of a system like Suho.

That’s why the corners of my mouth quickly rose.

– I see. Then, if I make a deal with you, I can easily take the Demon King’s seat.

“Of course. In that sense, shall we start a monumental first transaction?”

– Hehe, okay. Let’s make our monumental first deal like you said. Tell me what you want.

The deal has begun.

Suho said as if he had been waiting for those words.

“I want you to give me the Rune of Victory.”

– Rune of Transmission? If it is the Rune of Transmission… … .

The Rune of Transmission is an item that stores the target’s skills into a rune and creates it like a skill book.

In other words, it means that you can steal the opponent’s incredible skills as if copying them.

Of course, at first glance, it looks like a really great item, but as it has great options, it also has many restrictions.

‘The target must be a fellow human being, and that target must be dead.’

So, the Rune of Transmission became a banned item like the remaining Ki Seung-hwan, which caused many murders at one time, as soon as it appeared.

However, it is available now.

Because it is an item that has not yet appeared in the world.

That’s because the Rune of Transmission is an item that can only be obtained during the mid-Cataclysm period.

Grid said, narrowing his eyes.

– How do you know about the existence of the Rune of Succession? Isn’t it a time when current players don’t know about it yet?

“If you’re curious, you have to pay the price. If intellectual curiosity is a desire, then it’s a desire, right?”

– Haha! That’s true. But, after talking to you, I think it’s better not to know such secrets for the sake of future fun. I’m the type that pursues fun and pleasure more than intellectual curiosity.

“I see. So what’s your answer?”

– There’s nothing I can’t get you. If you pay a reasonable price.

“Payment, or rather, not payment. The type of transaction I want is exchange.”

– what?

“You have several ways of dealing. One of them is ‘paying’, which means paying what you ask for in exchange for what you want. And the ‘exchange’ I mentioned is a fair exchange of goods of equal value. Right?”

– … … .

Grid’s eyes are filled with bewilderment.

Suho is right.

However, I tried not to reveal the method of exchange as much as possible.

Because payment transactions are what brings the most benefit to the grid.

“Anyway, I’ll do it as an exchange. And since the rune is an item, I’ll pay with the item.”

Suho, who had decided on a trading method, immediately opened his inventory.

Then, I started to take out a bunch of miscellaneous items that I thought I would no longer use… … things that I could sell off through the Ion representative right away.

Of course, I didn’t really take out the trash.

For example, wyvern eggs, mega parasite eggs, mega parasite hearts, etc.

What these have in common is that they may have a use somewhere, but they are of no use right now.

And even if you use the night market’s furnace, you can’t extract the special options.

‘It’s a shame, but I can’t just give you trash.’

However, no matter how valuable they were, they fell far short of the grid’s standards.

Finally, after Suho had cleared out all the junk he had, he spoke to Grid.

“Oh, by the way, there are two Runes of Succession that I want.”

He spreads out two fingers and explains again kindly.

But unlike the smiling guardian, the temperature of the grid had changed.

Grid asked, frowning.

-What are you doing now?

“What are you doing? You have to pay the price, just like you said. If you want an item, you have to pay with an item. If you want a person, you have to pay with a person. If you want a skill, you have to pay with a skill. That’s exchange, right?”

There is no such thing as a professional appraiser when it comes to dealing with the grid.

The value of goods used in transactions is determined solely by Grid and the customer.

So the grid also applied the rule of equivalent goods that I just mentioned to the way exchanges are traded.

That way, we can create a slightly more advantageous situation.

In that sense, Suho was not a very good guest for Grid.

– You seem to know everything about me, as if you’ve used everything about me. So let me ask you this. Do you really think that what you’re saying is reasonable? I thought you were pretty reasonable.

“Of course not.”

– what?

“Even if other people pay a high price for items that haven’t even started yet, they can’t compare to the Rune of Succession, especially two of them.”

– You know what I mean. Are you planning on using the phrase “monumental first transaction”? Sorry, but emotional appeals are not my style of trading.

“No way. I don’t like that either. So I’m thinking of adding something else to it.”

– I don’t know what to put on it, but I don’t think bringing other items will meet my expectations. Items from the early Cataclysm period can never be more valuable than items from the mid-period.

“Right. But I never said it was an item.”

– what?

“What I’m going to add is information. Information can be added as much as you want, even if it’s not the same type of item. And it’s also given infinite value.”

Grid couldn’t help but burst into laughter at Suho’s words.

– Oh my, I’m so speechless.

Instead of answering, Suho shrugged his shoulders.

Grid narrowed his eyes again in response.

– Then you know that too, right? If information is added as a payment item to the traded goods, the trade is decided after hearing the information first.

“Of course I know. That’s why I wanted to pique your interest. Aren’t you curious about how I’m going to make you a Demon King?”

– Is that all the information you’re going to give?

“Yeah, that’s it. Of course I won’t say something boring. I’m not that kind of obvious person.”

– Then what is it?

“The runes of the remaining seven deadly sins.”

– hmm?

“Aren’t you curious about which players have which runes and how much they’ve grown?”

– You really… … .

“Let’s think about it simply. What’s the most certain way to win first place in a race? I don’t think you necessarily have to run as fast as you can. You just have to make sure there are no other competitors.”

Suho’s advice.

At those words, Grid’s eyes began to shake more violently than he had ever seen before.