Chapter 146
[Title: What Happens If a Chicken Flies? lol]
Posted by: FarmerWillStandInTheSky
(GIF of a house being torn apart)
(GIF of a father facing off against a harpy in the living room)
If you've seen it, get lost.
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- Fuck lol
- Holy shit, this GIF is insanely dynamic lol
- Who won?
ㄴ Posted by) Dad Man 1 vs. Harpy 0
ㄴ Posted by) Another birdbrain just showed up, so we have to fight a second round
ㄴ LMAO
A flying magical beast appeared.
“They're cheating.”
It was a harpy, a bird-type magical beast with a woman's face and torso.
The Mob Tower's operation naturally came to a temporary halt, and everyone turned to dealing with the harpies.
Fortunately, harpies weren't particularly powerful magical beasts.
[Title: Would you call me ‘The Sharpshooter Who Never Misses’?]
(GIF of an arrow piercing the exact center of a harpy's chest)
The reason was that a careless harpy could be killed instantly...
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- Ah... Of course, ‘Elf’
- Hey, “Old Lady Kellierton's Staff Thief”
- Oh, you got it in one shot?
ㄴ Posted by) Yeah, it's fucking weak.
Their reaction speed and defense were low.
Especially the parts shaped like human bodies were as weak as humans, so they broke and got injured easily.
Thanks to that, if you targeted them when they came down to rest, you could easily finish the hunt.
- Can we use this as a chicken substitute?
- Ah, I'm salivating lol
- But its torso is human?
ㄴ But the limbs are chicken meat, right?
Thanks to that, the gallery, which had gone crazy for chicken, went harpy hunting in hopes of harvesting chicken meat.
And so, the harpy-hunting craze began in earnest.
[Title: Ah lol]
(GIF of a harpy throwing only feathers from the air)
(GIF of it flying away the moment someone approaches)
(Video of a harpy's mocking laughter)
This fucking bird-monster bitch won't come down?
I'll chase you for the rest of my life.
The moment you come down, you're becoming fucking half-fried, half-yangnyeom chicken.
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- I've genuinely never heard a harpy laugh before
- Fuck lol, that laugh is fucking hilarious
- Yeah, but even if you catch one, it doesn't give much gyeongdan, right?
It didn't take off.
It took too long to catch one.
Besides, the gyeongdan payout wasn't good.
“What, it only gives ten gyeongdan?”
Successfully hunting a small specimen yielded only 8–13 gyeongdan.
The income was that of a goblin, but the hunting difficulty was high.
They were magical beasts that gave you nothing for the effort.
“That doesn't mean we can just leave them alone.”
Harpies formed groups to block roads or flew over cities looking for opportunities.
Harpies were like thieves.
You couldn't ignore them, but dealing with them was a loss.
Above all, Adrian didn't have the power to solve this.
He was busy replacing the upper echelons and reforming the imperial palace, so he had no time to worry about harpies, too.
- The Emperor should do his job!!!!!
- Who's catching that thing?
- It is chicken meat, but... I'd rather buy chicken than catch that
- Nobody would hunt them if not for their unique feathers and the weird fetish for female-form magical beasts, seriously
ㄴ ?
ㄴ How do you know that, Gallery Bro?
A magical beast that became more of a loss the more you hunted it.
In the end, I had no choice but to take drastic measures.
A way to very effectively thin the population of troublesome vermin.
[Mild Yangnyeom Chicken Sauce, 10 kg] - 30p
[Notice: Yangnyeom Chicken Sauce Available]
Posted by: Head Mod*
(GIF of a harpy screaming fiercely)
Catch harpies and I'll give you yangnyeom chicken sauce lol
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- !!!
- Yangnyeom chicken? Yangnyeom chicken... Yangnyeom chicken!!!
- Actually, I like harpies lol
- Harpy hunting party / Recruiting 3 Kelliertons@@@
I began providing sauce as an incentive.
*
If you caught harpies, I gave you yangnyeom chicken sauce.
It wasn't even expensive.
A mere 30 points for a full 10 kg.
“What, are the meat and salt supposed to come from our ancestors?”
The problem was the lack of brining and meat.
If I sold sauce alone when there was no meat, it would only lead to reducing the precious harpy population for nothing.
“That's why I hadn't sold it until now...”
But things were different now.
[Title: I'm Going to Catch sax]
Harpy
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- Something about this doesn't add up?
- Repetition of synonyms
- Buying harpy meat
ㄴ Posted by) Not selling it, I need to make chicken
With the sauce incentive, demand for harpy hunting increased.
No, it didn't merely increase.
[Title: Don't Put Poison in the Food for Stray Cats, Fuck]
(GIF of a representative elf image)
I'm an elf and I nearly died, fuck.
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- As expected, the food thief stealing stray cats' food is an elffag
- Sigh, of course an elf would do something like that
ㄴ Kyaaaagh!
ㄴ Just putting an elf GIF after saying weird stuff doesn't make you an elf!
- They put out rat poison to turn it into food for the harpies
ㄴ No, fuck, they had it prepared in a hunting sack from the start, so why did you
ㄴ Posted by) (Elf emote: It's quite edible!)
ㄴ Elves don't eat that stuff!
ㄴ Eeeek!!!
Rather, people were even keeping each other in check out of concern for the harpy population.
“Honestly, it really only has one use: chicken.”
Considering its only advantage was chicken, it was strange how oversupplied they were.
Hunting other magical beasts as your main job made more money.
Nevertheless, there was only one reason harpy hunting became popular.
- It's delicious
- Seriously, what else are you going to do with money?
- I earn money so I can eat chicken
ㄴ Huh?
ㄴ Earn-to-eat-chicken! Earn-to-eat-chicken! Earn-to-eat-chicken! Earn-to-eat-chicken!
Because they were earning money to eat chicken.
- But how do you brine it?
ㄴ You need salt.
ㄴ How do you have salt?
ㄴ ?
The problem was salt.
The thing needed to make chicken was brining.
The doomed medieval people, too busy trying to survive, couldn't possibly have salt.
[Edible Sea Salt 20 kg] - 11p
“But the Shop has it.”
Salt? Of course the Shop sold it.
It came in a variety of types and prices.
And normally, whenever things got stuck like this, I would sell the items in the middle, but...
This time, I didn't list it on the Market.
- Whew... The mining industry these days...
- Well, gemstones can't be helped
- It's a brother's business, so isn't it only natural that it can't be helped?
Because there happened to be dwarves.
*
The gemstone business, one of the dwarves' main sources of income.
Of course, it was utterly ruined.
[Title: Hehe, Isn't It Pretty, Humans?]
Posted by: Squishy
(GIF of the Fancy Stone given by Head Mod)
(GIF of a heart-shaped fake ruby)
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- Wow, holy shit, it's so pretty
- Wow, wow... no, this is genuinely a work of art...
- Uh, where can I get one?
ㄴ Posted by) Head Mod gave it to me ^^ They don't exist in this world
ㄴ Holy shit
“Oh, so it was because of me.”
The toy gemstones I had given the Gold Dragon, Squishy, had become unexpectedly famous.
A fake gemstone worth only a few points had eclipsed real gemstones and become the rare item.
People without money had no intention of buying them, while people with money dreamed of Fancy Stones.
“I didn't mean for that to happen, but...”
So I wanted to help them in another way, and as it happened, there was rock salt.
Globally, more salt was mined than harvested from the sea.
Head Mod*: Hey.
Taldain: Oh, brother, what is it?
I contacted Taldain, king of the dwarves.
Head Mod*: I don't sell salt myself.
Head Mod*: You guys should make some profit.
The dwarves had far too much unsold rock salt.
The market already had my modern salt, which had both quality and price covered.
But I had plenty of points and gyeongdan.
No, far too much.
I was even wondering whether I should build another bunker, so I had no need to sell salt.
“It's just one of my many sources of income.”
Besides, the dwarves had willingly gifted me a masterwork sword.
Thanks to that, hadn't it fulfilled the role of the air purifier in my bunker?
Taldain: Brother, you surely know what that would mean.
Taldain: You're offering us the Market without asking anything in return?
The problem was that dwarves clearly distinguished public and private matters.
Taldain, who held the position of king, questioned such kindness with no sign or context to explain it.
Head Mod*: I took over the gemstone business, remember.
So I tried giving them a reason of sorts.
Taldain: Why do you describe it as taking it over?
Taldain: That was due to your excellence, brother, not because we had anything taken from us.
“No, you're not taking it.”
If they had been elves or humans, they might have begged me to give it to them before I even finished speaking.
Despite losing one of their main businesses, the dwarves didn't care at all.
“Hmm...”
But I really didn't need the salt business.
It would benefit me more to give it to the dwarves, increase interspecies trade, and have them become self-sufficient.
“What do I have to say to make them accept it?”
But dwarves were dwarves, even if they starved to death.
Weren't they a race that would protect their pride as dwarves today, even if they were going to die tomorrow?
As I pondered briefly, a form of address came to mind.
“Oh, right. The brother card.”
Unlike other races, who called me Head Mod, the dwarves called me brother.
Head Mod*: We're brothers, aren't we?
Head Mod*: Brothers share and help each other out, you know lol
So I brought up brotherhood as my reason.
Taldain: *sob*
Head Mod*: ?
Taldain suddenly began to cry.
“Those musclebound dwarves?”
Dwarves who seemed like they would enjoy it as a battle even if stabbed with a sword were crying?
Just as I was growing flustered, Taldain slowly continued.
Taldain: We've never even met face-to-face, yet you think of us so highly...
Taldain: You've been the first to show the dwarves such kindness, brother...
Head Mod*: No, that's not what I meant.
Taldain: True. It wouldn't be right to flatly reject a kindness from a brother.
Taldain: As king, I promise you. We dwarves will never forget your help, brother!
I somehow succeeded in securing a promise from the dwarves.
*
- How to Enjoy Harpy Chicken...jpg
- Calculated the profit margin for Head Mod's Mob Tower
- My world is bright again...
After turning harpies into chicken.
Fortunately, the Mob Tower resumed operation successfully.
It was the first time we'd succeeded in extracting only profit from a rift without suffering any damage.
DragonDragonWillDie: As expected, you're amazing :) So will you build more of those Mob Towers out of rifts from now on?
A factory that essentially produced unlimited food and gyeongdan.
But I shook my head at Felisi's question.
“Impossible.”
The Mob Tower was a special case.
Normally, rifts were nothing but trouble.
They had been sparse at first, but now appeared so indiscriminately that you could trip over one walking down the road.
“Even if we could somehow make Mob Towers out of large rifts, the small ones are a problem.”
Rifts were everywhere.
In outlying regions, rural villages, underground, and even in lakes.
The problem was that they couldn't be destroyed, either.
No, that was the gallery's general understanding: that they were impossible to destroy.
But with their numbers increasing exponentially, it seemed time to normalize the situation.
Head Mod*: No.
Head Mod*: It's about time we did something.
DragonDragonWillDie: ㅇuㅇ? What are you talking about?
“What else could I mean?”
The excess of rifts.
The danger of waves, and the growing number of magical beasts.
Head Mod*: It's time to start the Rift-Breaking Movement.
Rifts were no longer entities that provided profit.
Especially small and medium-sized rifts that couldn't be turned into Mob Towers had become a social problem.
“We've really milked this for a long time.”
Rifts can never be destroyed?
You won't know until you try.
“This should do it.”
I slowly opened the Shop and bought in bulk what I had been thinking of.