Chapter 66
[Announcement: This Guy Just Loves Money]
Author: Head Mod*
Yeah, that's me.
So I'm thinking of selling more lotion,
(Meme of witnessing a back-alley transaction)
(Meme of lotion being secretly exchanged)
Resellers are really causing a fucking ruckus, huh?
I was going to turn a blind eye within reason, but now I'm cracking down.
From now on, reselling items listed on the Marketplace is prohibited.
If you report them to me when you catch them, I'll reward you too.
Of course, there's a bounty.
If you catch someone attempting a black-market deal, you'll receive 100 mana dumplings or an item of similar value from your wishlist. Dream big.
Please show lots of support, lots of support.
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- Head Mod: I'm a money-crazed bastard.
- Kya~ That's how you do it~
- Black-market dealers? Die.
- Wait, is Head Mod an idiot? What about people who wanted to buy it but couldn't?
ㄴ You're banning it to prevent that, idiot.
ㄴ Caught a black-market dealer lol
ㄴ Heh, I'll enjoy the bounty~
A new announcement post appeared in the Gallery.
The post declared that all the black-market dealers I'd turned a blind eye to until now would be cleaned out.
Thanks to the added rewards, the black-market dealers' operating range had narrowed considerably.
Even if they stubbornly tried to make trades somehow, it had become more difficult and dangerous.
With the vast majority welcoming this, it was time for the Marketplace to go up.
- Wait just one minute and the Marketplace will refresh!
ㄴ Because whenever it goes over a minute, you hit your head really hard...? ???? Hit you?
ㄴ W-what's wrong with this guy?
ㄴ Get a grip, Gallery user. There's really only one minute left.
ㄴ Just when did you start hitting people over the head?
The Marketplace, refreshed twice a day, was by far the time Gallery users looked forward to most.
Since new products often appeared without warning, competition was fierce.
[The Marketplace has been refreshed!]
- It's now!!!
- Gallery-kkyat-hoo! Gallery-kkeuluk-kkeuluk!
- Please let a can of chili tuna come up today, just this once!!!
Regardless of race, everyone entered the Marketplace in a frenzy.
And what greeted the Gallery users was an unexpected video.
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“Huh? Were there videos on the Marketplace?”
Eliana, an elf secretly waiting for the Marketplace at work, tilted her head.
After she finished buying Chamisul in bulk, a strange video appeared at the top.
“Was there a video function on the Marketplace board too?”
Her curiosity was piqued.
Having already selected all her items, she watched the video, and something slowly began to play.
[For your beautiful skin.]
It began with a sweet voice.
Her eyes went round at the particularly beautiful voice, one rarely heard in the Gallery.
What appeared next was a woman applying something to her face.
“How is her skin that white?”
Even to an elf famed for her beauty, the woman's looks were astonishing.
She looked somewhat mature to be called young, yet cute to be called an adult.
In particular, her milky skin and enigmatic features had a captivating quality.
Just then, the woman in the video stared silently at the screen.
Then she smiled shyly and said it as if whispering.
[Thanks to toner, my skin has become soft.]
With skin that clean, she ought to have been cautious, yet she was being so bold.
‘What on earth is that?’
Eliana, who had been watching intently without realizing it, found herself face-to-face with the model on the screen.
The model, having neatly applied the lotion, soon gave a fresh eye-smile and lightly tossed her hair.
And then came the closing copy.
[A new product, toner, made from pure ingredients extracted from nature.]
[Embrace your skin with purity from nature.]
“Waaah.”
Eliana exclaimed in admiration before she knew it.
A beauty so lovely that even an elf coveted it.
Suddenly, she found herself wanting one too, and curiosity began to stir.
“Come to think of it, I think a new product had gone up too...”
Even Eliana, whose innate beauty had allowed her to do nothing but drink Chamisul all day, became interested in cosmetics.
But when she laid eyes on the new product...
[Enlightenment Toner 500ml] - 100 mana dumplings
Sold out.
“Agh!”
It had already been sold out for quite some time.
*
The advertisement's effect was enormous.
“Will this really work?”
I had done my best to remember modern advertisements and imitate them, however clumsily.
At the time, I had wondered whether it would really work, but...
[The product has sold out.]
The fact that it sold out even after I'd increased the quantity tenfold proved it.
The video, dropped into a medieval world without advertising, had elicited an explosive response.
Just then, an admin chat notification came in.
[Admin Chatroom]
Full-HP Elf: Head Mod! Head Mod!!
Head Mod*: ?
Full-HP Elf: (Meme of the new-product toner advertisement)
Full-HP Elf: Give me the new product too, please. I want a reward for being an unpaid slave.
Full-HP Elf: (Meme of an elf looking up with sparkling eyes)
Dying-After-All: Head Mod, can't you give me one too?
“Looks like they're interested too.”
I gifted the toner I had set aside for the sub-mods and turned my attention back to the Gallery.
After the advertisement, the Gallery was one continuous stretch of chaos.
[Title: Ah lol, my house got robbed]
(Meme of intact gold objects on a shelf)
Fuck.
- ? What the hell? The stuff's all fine.
- Did you just make this post to brag about how rich you are?
- Even your humblebrag is annoying as hell lol
- What exactly was stolen?
ㄴ Author) Fuck, my lotion and toner are gone.
ㄴ Ah lololol
ㄴ I don't care about the gold and treasure, just hand over the lotion lol
For instance, some thieves were stealing lotion while leaving gold and mana dumplings behind.
There were simply far too many customers for the amount released onto the Marketplace.
There were even bizarre scenes of people trading lotion for daily necessities.
And Penny played a major role at the center of it all.
“Does this really sell? I only said one line.”
“Of course it sold well.”
“Humans are strange...”
Penny wore a slightly displeased expression.
She had been the one to say she would do anything, perhaps because she felt bad about living off me.
But apparently she had worried about whether it would actually work.
I roughly tousled Penny's hair and said,
“I'll give you cake and castella for a late-night snack today.”
“Really? Yay!”
Meanwhile, the Gallery was still blazing over the cosmetics topic.
- Review of the newly released Enlightenment Toner
- Toner is edible too. Do your mouth a favor instead of your skin.
- Toner taste review...jpg
- Unboxing my delivered Enlightenment Toner review...jpg
- Skin-drying phenomenon? Fuck off. Toner is god, and I am invincible.
“At this point, I think it's fine to keep going with the luxury-brand strategy.”
[Adding 100 lotions to the Marketplace.]
[The items have sold out.]
- Ah, fuck!!!
- Surprise restock
ㄴ I have to say, Head Mod really is amazing.
- Open it again... I've been asking for this for ages...
ㄴ Head Mod*) lol
ㄴ Lol? LOL?????
Of course, mana dumplings kept pouring in.
Maybe it was because, unlike before, I was selling an item for profit.
I could clearly feel that the scale of the dumplings coming in was entirely different.
“I am a famous rich person.”
Emperor, come out! Bourgeoisie, come out!
For almost the first time, an item sold specifically for mana dumplings had achieved huge success.
Drunk on that feeling, I ended up overlooking one obvious fact.
- Ah fuck, save me
- Ah, the North is completely fucked.
ㄴ Don't say such bad things ㄴㄴㄴㄴ
ㄴ Completely fucked x; It got a little colder, so all the plants and animals froze to death o
ㄴ That's what completely fucked means, you dumbass lol
“Oh.”
This was an apocalypse setting,
and it wasn't at all strange for a problem to break out somewhere at any time.
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Northern Adrian.
The duchy formerly ruled by Duke Isaac.
The place, famous for being cold, had a strongly independent streak.
- What the fuck are cosmetics, you otakus?
- You've gotten fat and complacent, huh? Aren't you supposed to focus on eating and surviving?
- Ah, why did I have to be born here of all places?
ㄴ For real, fuck, I must've respawned in the wrong place.
A place of constant survival and combat.
The only thing it cared about was the result of the fertilizer I had scattered there before.
The northern territory was already barren, and the soil had been ruined by the rift terraforming attempt.
[Title: Did it work...?]
(Meme of a frog letting out a triumphant roar)
(Meme of successfully growing food despite the barrenness)
It worked, so of course I had to post it lol
Head Mod, you dastardly bastard!!!!! Put those cheeks right here!!!!!
- No way this actually worked.
- Didn't you just plant already-grown crops?
- It snowed for days, so how the hell did they grow perfectly fine?
- Wow, almost everything grew successfully with no failed crops ㄷㄷㄷㄷ
Even while the Gallery was going wild over cosmetics, this place was concerned only with survival.
Furthermore, thanks to the power of nitrogen fertilizer, they had ultimately succeeded in mass cultivation despite the barren conditions.
- Have a drink~ No, you worked hard.
ㄴ Have another drink~
ㄴ Fu1ck, pour it down, barkeep!!!!!
ㄴ This guy gets drunk after two drinks.
A problem had recently arisen in such a place.
[Title: Hello. Does anyone happen to know what this is?]
Author: Joy of Harvest
This is my first time posting in the Gallery.
I've searched no matter how much, but I couldn't find any related posts, so I'm asking here ㅠ
(Meme of cold air flowing out of a rift)
(Meme of nearby fields, plants, and animals gradually freezing)
It suddenly seemed to get cold around the rift, and then everything froze solid like this ㅠㅠ
Does anyone happen to know why this is happening?
If so, could you please tell me how to deal with it?
- What the fuck is that?
- Why is that rift thing turning blue?
- Doesn't seem like this is the time to leisurely write a question post; I think you should run.
A brutal cold swept in, enough to make even the cold-resistant Northerners tremble.
The reason was the cold air coming from the rift, but it had happened without any warning.
“Is this a new wave, seriously?”
When I found the post, I didn't think much of it.
If it had only been one or two waves, I might have panicked, but they happened so often that I merely thought, “Oh, it's one of those again.”
[Shop/Winter Supplies]
[Wool Scarf (Korean Military Issue)] - 8 points
[Cold-Weather Mask] - 9 points
[Beanie] - 20 points
[20-Pack of 100g Hand Warmers] - 9 points
Besides, the Shop happened to carry all kinds of winter supplies, so there was enough to prepare.
- Just another regular WWE
- Bring it on!
- The moment you cross over, you're headed straight to the seasoning shop.
Besides, the Northerners, who took survival seriously, had quite a few naturally tough people.
The waves were just a regular annual event.
Just as I thought everyone would prepare for it and get through it without major trouble, a notification came in.
[Admin Chatroom]
Dying-After-All: Head Mod, be careful. I have a bad feeling.
Head Mod*: ? Isn't it just another wave at worst?
Dying-After-All: I sense a strange energy.
Dying-After-All: It's different from before. You need to be careful.
“No way, Dying-After-All is saying this much?”
If it had been anyone else, I would have dismissed it as overreacting, but when it was Dying-After-All, who had chewed up a mutant roe deer, it was different.
But by the time I felt that something was off, it was already too late.
- Oh lol, we're fucked.
- Hahahaha, fuck, I am the Ice Queen.
- My hand (what used to be my hand)
- My hands are freezing, my feet are freezing, you rift bastard lol
As if everything before had merely been a joke, the cold air from the rift soon began freezing everything in an instant.