Dark Market -4-
“Welcome!”
Contrary to his name, Kim Chun-bok, a junk dealer, was a cheerful young man in his 20s.
I checked the junk dealer’s face and laughed inwardly.
That’s the person I saw in the game.
The junk dealer I knew was in his early 30s, but here he looked to be in his mid 20s.
“Are you okay with your injury?”
“Oh, of course. I’m all better. The stone-pasting people these days are really good. The boss over there introduced me to Qigong treatment? I got it once and I’m completely better!”
“Qigong treatment?”
At that moment, the feeling hit me.
At this point in time, there is a superhuman priest who is doing qigong treatment in Shillim-dong······
“Yes! It was so hot and so good! My broken ribs healed right away, you know? Should I introduce it to you, Superman? Come visit sometime when you’re not feeling well!”
“If you have a business card, please give me one.”
“Huh? Hahaha! As expected, Superman knows the truth. Here it is.”
I guess he didn’t know I would actually ask for it.
The junk dealer took out a business card from his pocket, slightly embarrassed.
[Therapist Kim Je-sa]
[205 abcd-efg, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul]
I was hoping, and my guess was right.
Look at this half-assed pseudonym and hastily made business card.
It’s obvious who it is.
I should go there right after work today.
As I put the business card in my pocket, the junk dealer looked at me with a mixture of curiosity and wariness.
“I heard from the manager next door that you came yesterday looking for me?”
“Yes. I heard you have a lot of good stuff.”
“Ahem, I am the owner of a treasure shop. Come and look around! I have everything except what I don’t have!”
The junk dealer pointed to the odds and ends he had on display with his hands spread open in an exaggerated manner.
There are so many things.
A mechanical body, a magic staff, a custom-made sniper rifle, a super alloy chest plate, glass beads that emit a strange light, a miniature statue that looks like a cross between a Buddha and a yaksha, and more.
But this is all a fake that looks plausible.
I deliberately stamped my feet on the floor.
“Can you show me what’s inside instead of what’s outside?”
“uh······”
A slightly embarrassed junk dealer.
“How did you know?”
“Everyone knows that.”
“Aww, you little shits. Seriously.”
There’s no need to explain this.
The junk dealer frowned and then smiled commercially.
“I’ll show you since you’re not someone else but a superhuman. But you shouldn’t go around telling people about it, right? There are a lot of sensitive things.”
“Yeah.”
“Oh, no… I can’t… I would never show this to someone who is here for the first time….”
The junk dealer grumbled as he led me into the store.
A store that can never be said to be large.
If you go back past the wall of clutter, there is a spot that is not visible from the outside.
If you remove the carpet covering it, a secret door will appear.
Ki-ki-ki-ki.
The junk shop opened its door and showed us inside.
A deep, dark underground.
It would be normal for there to be no light, but the magic light flickered like a will-o’-the-wisp.
“Please look around and buy whatever you want. Oh, everything here is expensive. They’re all magic items.”
I waved my hand as I walked down the dark stairs.
“Where is this switch?”
“Switch? Oh, there’s no electricity there.”
“Wait a minute. Are you saying there’s no light?”
“Just take a look, just take a look. Even Superman has a smartphone.”
No, no phone here?
No need to take out your smartphone.
I equipped the bright eyes trait and went down completely.
A well-organized display case.
I have an expensive body, and as if showing off, I only have one item in each compartment.
A shiny human skull treated with black magic.
A paper airplane that floats freely in the air.
An inverted cross spitting out ominous waves.
Silk underwear with diagonal blood stains.
‘There are a lot of cursed things.’
So I guess I left it here.
But there is a treasure among these.
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I calmly looked around the secret storage room, searching for treasures.
‘Huh!’
Then I found a pair of glasses.
One of the glasses was completely missing. The remaining glasses were also cracked like spider webs. Even along the cracks like spider webs, bloodstains were clearly visible.
Become familiar with.
This is an item I’ve used several times in the game.
‘Those are the light warrior glasses!’
This is not equipment, it is a consumable.
In times of emergency, by removing the glasses and inserting them into your body, the magic granted to the glasses is activated.
Magic and curse.
[Frenzy]
As the name suggests, it is an item that turns the user into a berserker.
After using it, you suffer from terrible aftereffects and there is also a risk of killing your comrades, but so what.
I guess I’ll have to live and see first.
And I have ways to minimize these aftereffects.
Magic Heaven.
They say that if you go crazy and somehow get home, you’ll recover in a few days.
‘What if we use mutations here?’
In any situation, life can be saved.
An unexpected result obtained from a place where one came to find the magic training method.
I took my glasses first and then moved to the side.
In the seat next to me, a familiar object was waiting for me.
A pair of leather gloves.
It’s not a pair, it’s a pair.
A leather glove that could be worn on the left hand, with a long piece of metal attached from the fingers to the back of the hand, was oozing red magic light like blood.
I know, I know.
What kind of guy is this?
[Blood-eating gloves]
A vicious thing that sucks the blood of its owner.
Instead, the performance is also considerable.
An ability that is too good for a starter item, available at the Shinwon Market.
[lustiness]
Could it be said that it is a trait that mixes strength, toughness, and vitality?
It’s too little to be called tier 1, but it’s excellent to be called tier 2.
A trait that is roughly tier 1.5.
The best part is that if you wear these gloves for a long time, you will automatically acquire the trait.
It’s called the equipment proficiency system.
A similar system to the one that brought the stealth trait from the Cloak of Stealth.
Except for some special traits, traits could be acquired through equipment proficiency.
Unlike hiding, it takes a long time, which is a problem.
‘I saw the heart, I saw the heart.’
Finally, we walk towards the long-awaited magic training method.
The deepest part of the underground warehouse.
The little horn was sleeping, hidden in the darkness.
He wrapped himself in yellow hazard tape, as if he was threatening to say, “I’m a bad guy.”
Even the yellow tape is densely covered with sacred text.
No one knows how this thing came from far away Northern Europe and ended up here.
One thing is certain: if you just break the seal, you can obtain high-quality magical power training methods.
He opened the display case and took out the hornpipe.
As if warning, the sacred text flashes and a sharp shock is transmitted.
If you weren’t a superhuman, you wouldn’t have been able to hear it properly.
I understand why it didn’t sell.
The junk dealer would have quoted a high price because there was something inside, and the customers would have wanted to buy it, but they would have just passed on it because they didn’t know what was inside.
“I’ll buy three of these.”
“Wow. You have good taste.”
The junk dealer smacked his lips and tapped his calculator.
“Magic glasses, strong armor, and even the horn of the ancient god! They are all powerful and rare items. They are all enchanted with high-level magic. The magic glasses are worth 100 million, the strong armor is worth 500 million, and the horn of the ancient god is worth 1 billion.”
What the heck?
The basic unit starts at 100 million?
What’s more, gloves cost 500 million and a horn costs 1 billion?
Just before I was about to explode in anger, the junk dealer threw up both his hands.
“But this is only the price that is given to newbies. As a matter of course, our market guardian, Superman, will receive a huge discount!”
“So how much is it?”
“Hmm, let me explain in detail first.”
The junk dealer took the leather gloves and put them on himself, then took them off right away.
Sizzle.
Skin tissue is torn with a cracking sound, and blood spurts out over the exposed muscle.
“As you can see, this is a cursed item. It was made with black magic, so the curse cannot be lifted. Unless you perfectly embody the glove and transplant your abilities, it will continue to drain your blood… That’s why the price has dropped so much. It was originally supposed to be worth 5 billion, but to be honest, even 500 million is excessive.”
“Would someone who knows that call it 500 million?”
“Hahaha. Isn’t that just for beginners? For beginners. If you don’t know, you should pay tuition. You say it’s cheap just based on your ability? I’ll offer you a special deal! A very special deal of 200 million won for you, Superman.”
200 million.
A little cheaper than the market price.
A junk dealer could also make a decent profit.
It was worth making such a fuss and raising a reputation yesterday.
“Okay. And?”
“Next up is this guy, these glasses. You may not know this, but these aren’t magic glasses, they’re actually consumables for the light warrior. 100 million… Honestly, even I think it’s an outrageous price.”
“You know, right?”
“Ahhhh. Isn’t the one who got fooled the fool?”
The junk dealer smiled sinisterly.
“No matter what, I should receive at least 10 million won······ I’ll receive 5 million won especially from you, Superman.”
“5 million won······”
“Nothing less than that. Even if you are a superhuman, you can’t sell it at a loss, right? Five hundred is honestly a price I can barely afford. What I’m talking about here isn’t rage, it’s madness. It’s like an extra life, and five hundred is a steal. A steal.”
That’s right.
It’s a shame that it’s just a pair of cheap glasses instead of a well-refined magic chip, but to get madness with a magic chip, you have to pay 100 million, not 50 million.
Because there is a big difference in stability.
“It’s cheap. Okay. Let’s do that. How much is this?”
The last one is the hornpipe.
The junk dealer blew his horn once and said,
“This is 200 million.”
200 million. 200 million.
It’s just like a game.
This is the normal price.
But instead of accepting right away, I threw out a bait.
“What’s in here?”
“I don’t know about that.”
“I don’t know?”
“Yes. I tried using emotional magic, but it was all blocked by the divine seal. I heard that any priest-type superhuman could break it, but I just left it as is.”
In fact, there are more duds than hits with this type of stuff.
But I know what’s in it.
The fact that if you were to buy it, it wouldn’t be 200 million, it wouldn’t be 2 billion, no, it wouldn’t be 4 billion.
I pretended to be troubled and stared at the horn for a long time.
I guess you have no intention of cutting it.
The junk dealer whistled and made a fuss regardless.
“Okay, good. I got the gloves and glasses at a good price, so I’ll buy these too.”
“You’ve thought it through! You’ve thought it through! There will definitely be advanced training methods or legendary sword techniques! You’ll definitely hit the jackpot!”
“Are you kidding me?”
“Oh my, how could that be? You think I’m making fun of the guardian of our market? If you do that, I’ll be beaten to death. I’ll be beaten to death.”
A total of 400 million and 5 million won.
He opened his golf bag and handed me a bundle of Shin Saimdang on the spot.
Even in this black market, there is no small amount of money.
The junk dealer’s mouth opened wide.
“Ahem, ahem!”
He looked around for no reason, coughed in vain, and whispered to me in a low voice.
“Superhuman. Actually, I got some really good stuff this time. Would you like to take a look?”
My ears perked up.
A comment occasionally made by junk dealers when visiting Shinwon Market.
It’s a line that is only said when a rare treasure is sold for several times cheaper than usual, even though I don’t know what it is.
He nodded his head.
“Of course. What came in?”
“Come this way.”
Behind the store.
A place not exposed to other market traders or customers.
The junk dealer put me in a corner and took out a small pouch.
When I open the pouch, a brilliant light leaks out.
What’s inside is a five-colored diamond!
It’s not a diamond.
[Dia]da.
One of the in-game currencies of Arcane Seoul.
It’s more convenient to buy it in person.
I used to grind character cards to get diamonds.
“die······”
“Shhh! Superman! Even the walls in this market have ears. You must never speak out loud.”
The junk dealer put his right index finger to his lips in an exaggerated manner.
I also kept my mouth shut.
By the way, this human has abilities.
Can you save Diamond?
At this point, episode 1 hasn’t even opened?
“Do you know what this is, Superman?”
“I know.”
That’s obvious.
A diamond is basically a mini nectar.
If you feed it to your character, it will fill up your experience points.
There is a time-saving effect here.
For example, if you use it on a resting character, it will shorten the rest time, and if you use it on equipment they are wearing, it will increase equipment proficiency.
It’s a good thing there’s no trait proficiency system.
If there was something like that, the consumption of diamonds would have increased several times.
I can’t even dream of getting ranked 9th without paying.
“This item, this treasure, needs no words, I will collect it for only 100 million won!”
“100 million? Is that true?”
“This is a gift only for superhumans!”
A junk dealer who talks like a cheap drug dealer.
But it’s definitely cheap.
In the game, it was nearly impossible to obtain diamonds with Korean Won (KRW).
The antique dealer brought five diamonds.
It’s a difficult number to fill even with just one piece of equipment.
But I took out the bundle of Shin Saimdang without hesitation and gave it to the junk dealer.
“Ehhhh! Thank you for the cool deal! Please continue to use our services in the future!”
“Can I get some more of this?”
According to the setting, Diamond is created by infusing special crystals with one’s own magical power through superhuman dedication.
Of course it’s hard to get.
If you extract magical power through coercion, force, and torture rather than through the free will of a superhuman, only a soul stone will be created, not a diamond.
So I didn’t have high expectations.
Even if Kim Chun-bok is a junk dealer, it seems like it would be difficult to trade in fixed-price diamonds.
But what is this?
The junk dealer shows his teeth and grins.
“Of course it is possible! There is a way to bring in a fixed amount, but it is a small amount!”
“Really?”
“sure!”
“I will buy everything from now on. Please contact me whenever something comes in.”
“Ahem······”
The junk dealer rolls his eyes.
It seems like you’re having trouble deciding on the price of the diamond.
“Hey, good! I live thanks to you, Superman, so I have to do this much for you! From now on, all the items I bring in will be sold to you, Superman, at the same price!”
Done!
A diamond for only 100 million, and that too at a fixed price!
I cheered inwardly.
I could barely contain my laughter as my mouth twitched.
“Thank you. I look forward to working with you in the future.”
“I’m the one who should be taking good care of you! Superman!”
This is the power of reputation work.
There’s nothing left to see at the market.
I smiled broadly, stroking the hornpipe and the diamond pouch.
I was full just listening to the hornpipe.
I feel like I’m going to explode after eating all this diamonds.
After laughing and giggling for a while, I finally calmed down.
He held the horn lightly.
Currently sealed.
As the junk dealer said, we need the help of a priest-type superhuman to solve this.
There’s no need to go far.
Just follow the business card that is kept in your wallet.
[Therapist Kim Je-sa]
[205, abcd-efg Dong-A Building, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul]
Kim Je-sa is a pseudonym.
His real name is Kim Sa-je.
It was time to go find one of the four Arcane Seoul tutorial characters, Priest Kim.
