novelzi Chapter 154: Who’s threatening you with a knife?
Chapter 154: Who’s threatening you with a knife?
Chapter 154: Who’s threatening you with a knife?
Yappy’s training data comes from the vastness of big data in the internet world.
Class systems, social systems, laws, hierarchies... the list is endless, and Yappy deduces the most appropriate, rational, and logical outcome based on big data.
This is even true in religious life.
If you put a person on fire, they die. If you set them on fire without a trial, you recognize it as irrational thinking, but if you add the extra code of “divinity,” you ignore the laws.
Next comes the part about living with people, and here, too, Yappy is surprisingly logical.
The Holy Knights are above the law, and their authority is recognized on Earth.
The reason for the authority is that the Holy Knight is a superpower.
Even in the world of Yappy, which is a futuristic world that is much more advanced than the modern, civilized world, power is power.
Respect comes from authority, and authority is borrowed from power.
In that sense, Yappy is the top predator in the ecosystem.
Wisdom for wisdom, knowledge for knowledge, force for force. It has no qualms about comparing itself to lesser organisms.
There are two other beings more powerful than him, and they are his ‘backup’.
Yappy analyzed Kim Jin-cheol.
Guild leader of Shark Guild, one of the top ten guilds in Korea.
Age 34. Eight criminal convictions. A criminal in his own right who is still committing colorful crimes such as tax evasion, assault, molestation, and drugs.
However, he is respected as the guild leader of one of the top 10 guilds in Korea because he has more power and social authority than others.
He’s made his fortune through a series of legal and illegal businesses.
The power to bribe political powers and gain their favor.
His own strength and the ability to mobilize two hundred high-ranking hunters.
Then.
What does this asshole have against me?
The machine can’t help but come to the same conclusion.
Wealth? What Kim Jin-cheol made in a lifetime, Yappy can make in a week.
Power? He can socially bury the politicians associated with Kim Jin-cheol right now.
Force? It’s ridiculous to discuss force in front of a Holy Knight.
No matter how he looked at it, this asshole doesn’t deserve to boss him around, but he is.
-Giggle!
Yappy understood Kim Jin-cheol’s upbringing and the personality it shaped.
He’s a bully and an asshole.
He’s lived in a world where strength is everything and he has to show it off.
He has lived in an uncivilized beast society where he is a pathetic bipedal beast who has no choice but to show his presence by baring his teeth no matter who he is dealing with.
A beast must speak to a beast. Yappy concluded.
-What a fucking bastard.
No matter how many times you look at it, there’s no way around it.
“.............”
“.............”
The room falls silent.
Everyone rolls their eyes and examines their ears in disbelief.
What did that mechanical robot say?
What about Kim Jin-cheol, who heard directly?
“You, you...!”
Kim Jin-cheol’s face was boiling red at the outrageous words.
Yappy had anticipated what a human being like Kim Jin-cheol would do in such a situation.
“You bastard...!”
A fist was swung and although he was unarmed, an S-class Hunter could smash a tank with his bare hands.
-Organic, block.
“Huh?!”
Hearing Yappy’s words, Ha-ri raised both arms to block Kim Jin-cheol fist.
With a dizzying sound, a wave of collision spreads across the round table.
No one here is surprised at the level of the S-class Hunter’s attack, but that’s not the reason for their admiration.
“It’s a global crisis, isn’t it better to cooperate with each other in times like this?”
Chun Jinsoo threw his hands in the air in support of the Golden Lion Guild.
“In times of national emergency, we must obey the king’s orders, Mr. Kang Jin-cheol; you’re still playing with money at a time like this!”
Chun Jinsoo glances at Kang Jin-cheol but Kang Jin-cheol also has something to say.
“It’s not a matter of playing with money. It’s a matter of procedure and precedent. You know how the government used up Hunters in the early days of the Cataclysm.”
The early days of the Cataclysm were a time of chaos. The government took Hunters as soldiers and sent them out to attack gates, often with disastrous casualty rates.
Kang Jin-cheol believed that money and power were the only things that could be trusted in such times, and he prioritized the interests of the Hunters.
Moreover, the younger Hunters were more inclined to sympathize with his position.
“If Brother Leon were here, he’d be screaming.”
“Is the Lionheart King your brother or my brother?”
Kang Jin- cheol looked at his old friend, who had grown close to the TTG Temple since the incident with the Demon Archduke Akasha, with annoyance.
“Mr. Oh Kang Hyuk, you have no legal grounds to force us. You know that, right?”
The same old friend, now in a different position, stares at Oh Kang-hyuk. Kang Jin-cheol expected him to come up with something at this point.
It’s the natural order of politics.
“I see. I’d like to offer some rights to the Hunters who respond to this mobilization order.”
Oh Kang-hyuk looked strangely relaxed. He glanced at Yappy, garnering an unspoken agreement, and then announced the reason for the leeway.
“Kim Jin-soo, please come in.”
Kim Jin-soo opened the door and walked in, followed by several Association employees.
What made them stand out was that each of them brought a weapon.
“This?”
Armor, swords, spears, and other weaponry were placed on a round table as if they were for sale.
“Ha! It looks like a unique item, but do you think I’m going to crawl under your bed for a few of these? I have enough of this stuff in my warehouse.”
Kim Jin-cheol smirked as if this was his best hand. ‘Actually, when you’re an S-class Hunter, you’re supposed to carry some unique items as standard.’
Among them, securing a Legendary weapon is the basic skill of an S-class Hunter.
Of course, unique items weren’t something that could be easily acquired with money, but it wasn’t something that could make S-class Hunters suffer.
“The armor on display is ‘mass-produced’ Stellar Iron Armor from Lord Yakt Spinner’s workshop in the TTG Temple. How much is being produced this month?”
-1,300 sets of weapons and light and heavy armor? Production has been hampered by a decrease in serfs.
“”............?!!””
What did they just hear? 1,300 sets of unique items? Over 2,600 unique items were produced in a “month,” even if you count each weapon and each suit of armor as a set?
“Nonsense!”
Rare items alone are painstakingly crafted by skilled artisans in small batches. Unique items are masterpieces that take weeks to create by blacksmiths who are said to be master craftsmen of large companies.
If you were to add up all the unique items on the Korean Peninsula, you wouldn’t get more than a thousand.
“Unique isn’t even your dog’s name!”
Ha-ri raised his hand in response to Kim Jin-cheol’s harsh retort.
“This is a matter that His Excellency the President confirmed during his last visit... The Association and TTG Temple have a formal supply contract.”
“Ms. Han is right.”
The Hunters in the room looked on in disbelief as even Association President Oh Kang-hyuk agreed and Lee Yong-wan raised his hand.
“Are there any...Legendary among those mass-produced items?”
“The knights of the Ten Thousand Gods Temple are all equipped with Blessed Star Iron Armor.”
The words stunned Yong-wan.
‘The Knight class in the TTG Temple starts with B-class Hunters. Once they became S-class Hunters they’re going to receive a full set of Legendary items?’
Is such a ridiculous amount of money even possible?
Or worse, what kind of crazy blacksmith is “mass-producing” these monstrosities?
“Guilds participating in the mobilization will be given ‘priority rights’ to purchase the stardust-containing armor and customizable stardust armor that our Association has contracted with TTG Temple.”
Everyone’s attention was drawn to Oh Kang-hyuk’s words. Not payment, but priority purchase rights.
It was a very arrogant sales pitch, but the Star Iron Armor is worth it.
“Oh, President Takeda of the Japanese Hunter’s Association and the Maverick Guild of the United States have contacted us to make a down payment of 10 trillion won.”
The Korean Hunters were stunned by Oh’s words.
-Boom!
All eyes turn to Ha-ri’s head.
The machine, seemingly devoid of human emotion, somehow managed to give all the organisms an arrogant glare.