Hoarding in Hell Novel

Chapter 119 Expansion and Breakup (1)

Difficulty: Hell. shelter.

“Butler, were you well guarded today?”

As soon as she was about to set foot in Hell, Lenny An suddenly appeared and slapped Hyunmoo’s neck against her face.

I would like to describe it as a pororong, but the actual sound of flapping wings is close to a waeaeeng.

Hyunmoo still had something to ask Lenian.

“Lenian, can you move my body?”

“Huh? If that’s the case, it’s already……”

Lenian said that far and covered his mouth with a bashful smile.

Hyunmoo was slightly goosebumps. What the hell was he trying to do if he could move his body?

Watching Lenian regain his appetite, Hyunmoo hurriedly proceeded with the conversation.

“Last time something strange happened, and I almost passed out, so I heard your voice and my body moved on its own. It has nothing to do with you?”

“Huh? Ah, that. The fairy didn’t move. The butler moved it on his own.”

“I? But I was fainting?”

“Um, so… I can’t say that fairies are completely unrelated… but the butler doesn’t seem to be happy, so I just switched the mode a bit. Something like the pursuit of happiness mode. It’s just that you repeatedly use the behavior pattern. You can’t even take out items, and you only work with what you have.”

“What is the pursuit of happiness mode?”

“Isn’t that when the butler is the happiest?”

“…to catch and kill someone?”

Lenian laughed, hehehe.

Of course, Hyunmoo never thought he was the type to get pleasure from murder or blood.

It’s refreshing to kill monsters, but it doesn’t make you happy. To get pleasure from battle, that’s for sure… … It’s like a monster, isn’t it?

“I don’t think so.”

Then Hyunmoo had a serious concern.

“Wait, what if the mode in which I pursue happiness is that, sex or something like that?”

Lenian laughed again hehehehe.

Hyunmoo decided to let go of the creepiness and rather think it went well. And he thought that he had to make sure that he had a countermeasure for whether it was a mode change or what.

“Don’t worry, butler. The reason why the butler’s mode can be switched is because of the battle helper skill. The battle helper records the butler’s behavior and combat method as it is. So when the consciousness goes off, it automatically enters defense mode. Someone If you show any hostility towards yourself, you will intercept the enemy, as you have always done.”

“Then you used the Battle Helper when I lost consciousness?”

“Do you want to be similar?”

Then explain it like that.

Hyunmoo was relieved because it seemed to be organized to some degree.

He thought that battle helpers were simply combat modifiers, but he didn’t know they could be anything like this. Hyunmoo opened the skill window and checked the battle helper skill.

[Battle Helper (Legendary)][Special Ability: Record/control the user’s movements to correct the accuracy and predict the enemy’s movements to aid judgment. By consuming mana, you can create an aura that enhances attack power and defense.][Talents: Strength, Reaction Defense][Note: One of the funniest human attempts. Professor Keller succeeded in realizing a legendary skill by creating a pseudo-golem called Scarecrow from the remains of Marf obtained from the Sentinel’s Spire. The skill with the concept of constantly getting stronger according to the opponent was powerful, but that skill was dead before it could create a body that could see the light.]

‘what? Professor Keller?’

Hyunmoo paused when he saw a name as he skimmed through the comments. I think I heard it somewhere.

However, it was difficult to know for sure whether it was Earth or not just by looking at the name. Among other commentaries, the terms used on Earth were often used together.

Rather, Hyunmoo was concerned about something else.

“You have a characteristic.”

It is clear that the characteristic of reactive defense was not originally present.

However, it appeared suddenly that it had occurred unconsciously. I didn’t feel like there was a crisis of life when I was fighting with the five major castles, but it happened suddenly.

Hyunmoo felt something strange, but he took it well.

‘In reality, even if you die just once, you may die completely, so accepting it may be different.’

No matter what anyone says, he is not the holder of the stats SS/SS. Hyunmoo decided to do one more thing for sure.

“Then Lenian, the fact that you activated my skills… means that you are watching me all the time?”

“Of course. So the butler is the butler.”

I don’t know what you mean.

“But I can’t show my face. I can’t speak.”

“Why?”

“At that point, the fairy shouldn’t be embodied.”

“……Why?”

“Because I am the beast promised in the end!”

As always, the enigmatic conversation with Lenian never ends.

I’d rather have a conversation with a ratman or a goblin, but Lenian is a very different world.

Then, Hyunmoo suddenly remembered and opened his mouth.

“Then, is this the end?”

“Of course.”

Lenian said with a bashful smile.

“This is hell, it’s the star of the end. It’s the final stage of everything!”

The update has been over for a long time, the content has come out to the very end, the difficulty has hit the ceiling, the items have been unlocked enough, inflation is out of control, and the server seems to be in a state like such an online game that is about to end due to a decrease in the number of users. .

Hyunmoo understood that. Because it seems to fit.

And at the same time, I had other thoughts.

It seems that he has already changed quite a lot in reality, but the world is still ruined and nothing has changed. Was the change insufficient, or was it all useless?

‘… … Or this world has already become a world that has nothing to do with reality.’

***

Meanwhile, the shelter was now returning to its fairly comfortable form.

Of course, it was limited to the area where Hyunmoo would live, but as a new village of goblins and ratmen and a connecting passage were created, it was developing into a fairly large underground space.

And without knowing it, the number of goblins increased. Hyunmoo doesn’t want to know much, but a fierce curiosity arose.

“Uh, then, so you don’t have to do that…”

“Sex. Boss. Of course I do. What fun would I have if I didn’t do that in this beggar world? But even if I don’t, at some point a young individual will roam among us, nurture naturally, and grow rapidly.”

“A child ‘just’ is born?”

“It’s true, but what about it? Boss. So it seems like we’ve been living in this land for a long time? I don’t think you believe the saying that wolves will ask you to reach that age, do you?”

It is said that the crane will ask you here, but the lore of the goblins seems to be a little different.

“Is this also because of mana?”

“Well, that’s right. Everything you don’t understand is because of mana.”

Hyunmoo seems to have more complicated circumstances than that, but thinking about it is useless.

It was enough for Hyunmoo to know the result and think about how to use it.

In any case, it is good news that the number of goblins and ratmen will continue to grow, but it also raises concerns.

One day, there may be food consumption that Hyunmoo can’t handle.

‘I can live without eating, but… … .’

Mana only made it possible to sustain life, and the monsters were continuously strengthened by eating. Food supplies are essential to maintain health and morale.

‘I told you there is a food wholesaler in the Almighty. I’ll have to look into that.’

Other than that, the overall situation of the shelter was also flowing positively. The warehouse where the crystal moss was stored was full of mana, and another crystal moss was growing in the warehouse.

The crystals made by Rhenian were piled up close to 100kg.

“It’s enough to make about 30 legendary items…”

There’s so much piled up that it’s embarrassing. Hyunmoo’s calculations became complicated.

They are still monitoring and controlling how many legendary items each country has.

Throw around 30 of them in the market and you’ll be in turmoil. I had to find a way to use it more secretly.

‘For now, I need to make a piece of armor.’

Up to this point, in Hell, I couldn’t even dream of defending because of the thought that if I got even one hit, I would die. Better to avoid it than to make it heavy.

And in the present, because there was nothing like an enemy, conversely, I did not feel the need for armor.

However, as I struggled with people, especially the Oh Daeseong, I felt it desperately. You only have one life, so let’s cherish it.

‘Aside from that, I’ll have to use this somehow.’

Just piling things up in the warehouse doesn’t do anything.

Crystals cannot be leaked outside, so even if they were to be stockpiled, they had to deal with the crystal moss that had accumulated too much.

It was difficult to exhaust them all by selling them to Hwiso Park.

‘But you can’t even spray it. I said that the rating could be raised through this… … .’

The conclusion is one thing.

The goal is to find a way to directly consume this crystal moss in large quantities.

What Hyunmoo thought of was a gigantic factory in the Fallen Empire, Blackbeak Citadel.***

“Grimmore and D&W. What’s the difference between the two?”

Yumin’s lab. Yu-min was shocked to see Hyunmoo suddenly rushing in and asking a question.

D&W Industries and Grimore Labs were both promising high-tech companies in the mana industry. And it was also a company whose stock price soared due to this increase in difficulty.

Yumin answered without any hesitation.

“D&W approaches the item industry with a focus on mechanical engineering, and Grimore Labs is on the biotechnology side. In terms of financial health, D&W is better, and its performance is also promising. However, Grimore Labs has a high future value. It’s a field. Rich people want to become strong people without hard work. Why?”

“If I could buy one, which one should I buy?”

“If you look at D&W for short-term profits right now, Grimore is more promising in the long run. But since you don’t know when the results will come out, I’d buy D&W with the technology right away. But why? Stocks would be better? ”

“I thought I’d buy one.”

Yu-min smiled, but something caught Hyunmoo’s mind. Are you talking about stocks right now? Surely ‘live’ doesn’t mean a company, right?

No matter how much money Hyunmoo is making, it’s not enough to buy the most popular small and medium-sized businesses right now.

However, Yu-Min has already seen many cases in which what he said ‘I hope’ will come true.

“Isn’t that the point of buying a company?”

“What? Hey, maybe.”

Hyunmoo laughed and Yumin was relieved. The smile soon faded, though.

“I’ll steal it.”

“Yes?”

“We’re going to steal technology and run it in our own factory. It’s much better quality and cheaper. So when the value of that part plummets, I’ll go buy it then. I can’t buy it now. How expensive it is. It’s too burdensome to buy at full price. ”

“…Uh, stealing technology?”

“Yes.”

“how?”

“First of all, I will request technical cooperation with the stock I have. It’s not that many, but it’s not negligible. I’ll give it to you. If you sign a technical agreement on terms of confidentiality like that, and start running the factory…”

Hyunmoo grinned and Yumin pointed with two fingers.

“You’re stealing all the technical cores, drawings, and designs from there!”

Yumin couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

“So, let’s do industrial espionage?”

“okay.”

“After stealing the achievements of countless researchers from a multinational research company, do you want to put aside research ethics and anything else and sell copies of them at low prices in small factories in developing countries without a single patent fee, destroying the company and extorting shares?”

“Exactly.”

Needless to say I didn’t even have to think. Yu-min raised his arms and cheered.

“What a cool plan! Oppa!”

“Isn’t it really cool?”

“Industrial spy, it’s the same as the future hope I wrote down when I was in the second year of middle school! I’m really going to do it! What’s the research ethic?

“I thought you’d like it! Okay, I’ll call you right away.”