The Knight King Who Returned With a God

Chapter 68: Perfect Calculations, Fateful Victories

It was not only the hunters who came to the TTG Guild headquarters to see the hammer.

“This is the TTG Guild headquarters.”

“Oh my, really? The one that’s famous for rice and a new religion these days?”

“Of course. My cousin ate their rice and cured her cancer.”

TTG Guild, which had already built a good image with blessed crops and YouTube, was becoming a temple of that kind of religion that people knew.

There was no formal religious activity yet, but this time it was different.

The hammer of Georgic, which was revealed to have been obtained from the gate, was a relic itself and had the power of earth and abundance.

A powerful relic was no different from a saint. This was what the trainees under Leon’s command felt, as they gradually became healthier and more muscular, and their bodies improved overall after the hammer came in.

The occasion was when Kim Do-han, the team leader who had entrusted his dementia mother to a nurse, brought her over for a while due to the remodeling of the nursing facility.

When a soldier asked if he could bring his sick mother for a while, Leon kindly allowed him, and Kim Do-han gratefully brought her to the TTG Guild headquarters for a while. And then──

“Oh my, Do-han!”

“Huh, mom! Do you recognize me?!”

She recovered from dementia.

“Oh my son! You’ve been through a lot because of mom.”

“Sniff… Sob sob sob…!”

Kim Do-han, who had seen his mother suffer from dementia for over five years, prostrated himself in front of the relic.

This story, Yappy filmed it from beginning to end.

[K-TTG Guild headquarters where a dementia patient’s eyes opened]

-Stop lying even if it’s bullshit. (This comment has been deleted)

-No, what kind of bullshit is this──(This comment has been deleted)

-This could be true. Our uncle who had terminal cancer got better after eating TTG Guild rice that we got with difficulty. (Like 3,565)

-What is this? The number of likes is over 5,000 in no time

-I went to the golf course and saw the TTG Guild headquarters from afar, and the wi-fi connected automatically? But it was over 1km away, how did it work?

It was a hard-to-believe story, but with the video and the story of blessed rice spreading, visitors flocked with the thought that it would be worth believing.

Yappy initially rejected them.

-NO. Only TTG believers can visit except challengers.

“Oh, no… I came all this way and you have to let me in once…

-Trespassing on private property. Advised to withdraw.

The machine blocked them without an inch of gap. And then, as if he had been waiting for it, Han Ha-ri appeared.

“Excuse me, sir Yappy.”

-Kiruk?

“Aren’t these people actually here to worship at TTG headquarters?”

“Huh? No, what are you talking about…?”

“Wait, just stay still.”

The visitor kept quiet at Yappy’s restraint but Ha-ri clapped her hands and said.

“There are many gods in the TTG Pantheon. How about getting to know them while making small donations, praying… and seeing the relics?”

-Makes sense.

Yappy nodded at Ha-ri’s words and moved the camera eye. The visitors realized it then.

“Well, then! I was thinking of making a donation!”

“Let’s see, here, is this enough?”

One visitor handed over a blue bill. Yappy looked at it and threw it away.

-Lack of faith.

“…”

The visitors had to deposit hundreds of thousands of won before they could enter.

“Is this right? No, what kind of religious worship is this that forces you to donate and doesn’t accept less than 500,000 won?”

“This is totally a cult──”

-Zap!

A creepy wire line grazed the visitors’ clothes.

-Don’t swear. I understand Korean.

“…Yes.”

The visitors met a villager who worked as a servant in front of the temporary altar of the TTG.

“Oh my, hello. Did you come to worship at the altar?”

“Uh, um… yes?”

“New believers are always welcome. Would you like to see the guide of the Ten Thousand Gods made by our village?”

“There’s such a thing?”

“Of course.”

The first thing the villager handed over was the spirit and teachings of Demera, the goddess of life and abundance.

The spirit of life and abundance.

1. 1. Make an image of the goddess with the first harvested crop and offer it to the altar.

1. 1. Don’t pee in the field. Fertilizer is fine.

1. 1. Set up a scarecrow and put on a hat and clothes.

1. 1. Sing when you harvest. A song with gratitude for the goddess is better.

1. 1. Don’t starve yourself even if you’re busy.

…

…

The most important 0th.

※Frostbitten die.

“Good words.”

“What is frostbitten die…?”

It was somewhat unfamiliar, but still, it was mostly good words written because it was a religious guide.

The visitors went through the altar worship, singing praises to Leon Dragonia Lionheart, shouting “Devil die”, buying souvenirs (made by Yappy), and finally entered the training ground where the relic was enshrined.

“What is this, why is it in such a place if the relic is enshrined…”

As soon as they entered the training ground, they saw the relic.

A huge one-handed hammer was standing proudly in the middle of the barren training ground and the energy flowing from its noble existence made them feel refreshed and energized as their mind became clear.

“Huh? Huh?!”

“What, what’s wrong?”

“Oh, no…my, my eyes.”

“Your eyes what?”

It was a young man wearing glasses. He had such bad eyesight that he received a 4th grade rating and went to public service.

But now, as his vision became strangely blurry and he took off his glasses, a world he had never seen before unfolded.

The modern people wear glasses more and more because of smartphones but the moment he perceived the world clearly with his bare eyes the young man shed tears.

“Oh God… thank you──”

-Zap!

“Long live Arianna! Thank you for curing my eyes!!!”

Another young man became a believer of the Ten Thousand Gods.

-There is an envelope for donations for the expansion of the altar facilities. Prove your faith.

“Uh, uh, then! I have 200,000 won right now…will that be okay?”

He had escaped from being a visually impaired person recognized by the state and was willing to give up his liver and gallbladder right now.

-That’s fine. Faith is not proven by the size of the offering.

“Oh, sir Yappy…you are a Holy Knight of the God of Iron and Blacksmithing…”

The young man, who had handed over a 10,000 won bill at the entrance and got cut off, prostrated himself in front of Yappy and bowed.

And so──

Patients from all over the place who came with the thought that it would be worth it and those who experienced miracles with the combination of relics and blessed crops became believers.

With these people gathering the TTG headquarters became a hot place where even foreigners came from Naju, where there was no time to find a tourist spot.

“Sir Yappy! Starbucks wants to enter here!”

-Show me the amount of donation and decide.

“Sir Yappy! Cherry Co., a training facility development company for hunters, said they would build a training facility for us in exchange for advertising! Our TTG Guild is modernizing too!

-Tell them to donate first.

“Oh my! The governor said he would deliver a plaque of appreciation! He also wants to consult on blessed crops!

-Tell him I’ll meet him if he promises budget support.

Yakt Spinner, a strong artificial intelligence killing machine and a Holy Knight of Heto, the God of Iron and Blacksmithing of TTG Guild ruthlessly secured money and goods under the premise of securing funds and expanding his reputation.

What did he do with the budget he secured like this?

“Wow…Sir Yappy, what is this?”

-High-strength forging facility.

What was in front of Ha-ri was a huge metallurgical facility located in the corner of TTG Guild headquarters and it had a design that seemed more futuristic than modern.

“Sir Yappy…is this really a blacksmith shop?”

-The lowest level forging facility in my database. This is the limit with the earth’s poor metallurgy level.

“Well… it still looks amazing though?”

-That’s because you have an organic level brain.

“That’s mean!”

Ha-ri made a pouty sound, but still sent a hopeful look as she saw an impressive level of blacksmith shop in front of her.

“Uh, Sir Yappy is a Holy Knight of the God of Iron and Blacksmithing, right?”

-That’s right.

“Then, can you make my sword here too?”

-Impossible.

“Heeeng… I guess so.”

Ha-ri was technically an outsider. She should be grateful enough to receive TTG Guild knight benefits as an Association member. But Yappy’s refusal was not for that reason.

-This forging facility is not complete. Additional facilities are needed for Adamantite polishing.

“Oh, is that so?”

-To do that, more money is needed.

Yappy said that and went into the forging facility.

The building size was about two-story building level, but the entrance was only big enough for Yappy to barely fit in, so there was no way to know what was going on inside.

-Minimum forging protocol initiated. Seed money secured. Analyzing international situations.

Yappy accessed the global stock exchange via self-developed wireless internet sharing wifi-100Gbps installed at TTG Guild headquarters.

The global stock market has been hit by a major disaster recently.

From some point on, someone who joined in on stocks that soared due to price manipulation operations messed up their selling timing and quietly made profits and left.

The so-called righteous stock thief.

The identity of this whale of the stock market, who was not caught at all and even evaluated as a ghost or a group, was none other than Yappy.

Yappy hacked into the world network and mercilessly trampled on corrupt politicians, media, and businessmen who intervened for price manipulation, and manipulated information to his advantage.

He messed up their selling timing, buying timing, and dumped large amounts of stocks that rose due to operations and got out.

-You bastard! Why! Why are there so many opposite articles at this time!

-You son of a bitch, can’t you do it right? How much money did I give you for that little news manipulation!

-What? Wait! A blackout at this timing? No! Cell phones too? Satellite communication is jammed too? This is nonsense!

This phenomenon, which happened all over the world, also attracted attention from the financial sector. The pattern was too similar.

No matter how different the methods were, the price manipulation forces suffered terrible damage and someone who caught the selling timing made a decent profit and got out.

Is this possible?

Why would a force that can hack into the world network and jam satellite communications bother with price manipulation forces?

Yappy collected enough data and accumulated experience and now planned to move on to bigger profits.

The financial item that Yappy was eyeing was food.

The food situation of the 21st century humanity was not good at all.

First of all, there are too many places contaminated by miasma. At the beginning of the Cataclysm, the Western powers and East Asia dealt with it exemplarily.

They closed the gate, encouraged hunters to grow large guilds, and built a system that could cope with red gates as well as variables like black gates.

The downside was that they were swayed by large guilds, but anyway, it was exemplary in terms of security.

But poor Eastern European countries, rigid Middle East Asia, and backward countries that had no time to nurture hunters experienced dungeon breaks that burst out of nowhere.

What’s the problem with dungeon breaks? First of all, there is human damage caused by monsters.

But that’s ultimately a secondary problem. The problem is that the land is contaminated by miasma.

As you can see from the case of Hunan Plain and Naju Plain, land contaminated by miasma is a huge problem that threatens survival. Of course, the value of the land is infinitely close to zero.

Yappy bought this contaminated land. The first target was Beida Huang Grain Field in Heilong People’s Republic in northern East Asia.

20 years ago, after the Shanghai Incident, one of the 50 independent factions that were torn apart, this place’s miasma contamination was serious.

Almost half of the land was contaminated and he bought some of it to spread the faith of Demera, the goddess of life and abundance, and started purification work.

Large-scale purification and immediate food production at Leon’s level were impossible, but still, thanks to prayers and accumulating faith, the contaminated land recovered greatly.

Now all he had to do was harvest the food and it would turn into a grain field worth a fortune with “blessed rice, corn, barley” and so on.

The expected profit is a whopping tens of millions of dollars. And if he thinks about the tax that the farmers will pay, he can get closer to the amount he aimed for.

-Calculation of grain market impact in progress. Error range confirmed.

This is just the beginning. The global food market will be shaken by this country as a start, and people will eventually take it for granted that blessed crops will come up on their table.

Of course, only farmers who serve Demera, the goddess of life and abundance, can grow these blessed crops, so in fact, TTG Guild will dominate the world’s food.

The only uncertainty in this grand plan is the neighboring country of that region…

The machine thought that the possibility of invasion in Beida Huang region was low when looking at the complex situation of East Asia’s ‘53 countries’.

The world history changed greatly after the Cataclysm. Inter-state wars became meaningless waste of national power, and more importantly, these numerous countries were overwhelmed by dealing with their own gates.

It won’t be a problem in the end. There is no way it will be a problem. There were once those who shouted for unification of China, but that’s an old story now.

The factions who broke away from the central government of the great country and established their own kingdoms did not feel the need to expand their kingdom unnecessarily.

The neighboring country of Heilong People’s Republic, Gilim Republic, is also busy blocking gates.

A human leader with common sense would have no reason to do excessive use of force here.

Logical calculation based on big data and fateful victory. This was the only conclusion Yappy came up with.

A perfect zero-sum game? High risk high return? That kind of thing is meaningless number play in front of a strong artificial intelligence.

My land will rise. It will definitely rise. It has to rise.

Three days later.

[Gilim Republic coup d’etat.]

-Sir, sir Yappy! This is Huang, the head of the department! Food prices! Food prices are plummeting! There are rumors that orc armies are heading to the grain fields!

-Kiruk?

[Coup d’etat by orc soldiers. Blatant invasion declaration to Heilong People’s Republic grain fields for food security.]

-This is news that the company’s profitability will plummet! The loss rate has already exceeded 30 billion won! If this goes on, we’ll go bankrupt!

-Kiruk?

[UN criticism letter issued. Shocking statement by Lin Xiang Kazak, who led the coup d’etat, ‘Orcs decide everything by war’.]

[Detroit city mayor publicly supports orcs.]

[Orc discrimination violates political correctness. Those who have power must reflect and understand them.]

[Great confusion in the world food market. Will Beida Huang grain fields fall into orc hands?]

[Rising Comet Divine Private Equity’s sudden war causes quarterly returns to plummet!]

-The bank came. It’s a seizure warning. You have to pay 14 billion won in interest this month.

-Ki, kiruk?

Are they going to take this?