novelzi Chapter 50: Lord Yappy’s Big Data
Chapter 50: Lord Yappy’s Big Data
Chapter 50: Lord Yappy’s Big Data
Ha-ri starts her mornings early.
She wakes up at the crack of dawn, does a light workout, and eats a fried egg with ketchup.
Her morning routine is pretty conscientious for a modern person. Ha-ri hasn’t seen anyone get up earlier than her since her orphanage days.
“Ah, Your Majesty, have you had a good morning?”
“Yeah.”
But Leon’s mornings were much earlier than Ha-ri’s. Never one to go to bed early, he was up before the morning chickens crowed.
He rises and swings his sword mechanically. Although he never breaks a sweat in battle, what kind of intense training does he have to do to break a sweat?
“You’re an early riser, I see.”
“Morning, Your Grace.”
A ghostly woman in a black dress, her face hidden by a veil.
“Have a seat, Queen.”
Leon offers her a seat and the two casually sit down on a bench in the training center.
“Make us a cup of tea.”
“Yikes!”
Ha-ri blushed and prepared a teacup for both of them.
“Your Majesty, would you like green tea or barley tea?”
“Hmm, my queen. Black tea would be proper, but these people don’t know how to make tea.”
“As long as it’s hot, she’s fine.”
“I’ve been neglecting, but I’ll have to hire a maid after all. Han Ha-ri.”
“Ah, yes!”
Leon said, gracefully drinking the barley tea Ha-ri offered.
“You may attend to Queen Beatrice for now. I don’t care about your luggage, but I want you to dress and behave appropriately for the queen.”
“Ha... yes.”
“It is not necessary for you to go to such lengths.”
“No. Royalty must be properly attended to and cared for.”
“Then... Did you say you were Miss Ha-ri?”
The queen’s veiled gaze turned to Ha-ri.
“Ah, yes!”
“I sense an intense aura of fire coming from you, and if you don’t mind, I’d like to take a look.”
Did she recognize her unique skill?
The queen’s unexpected suggestion caught Leon off guard.
“Very well, then, draw your sword. You’ve been carrying the load, and you deserve it.”
Leon hands over the sword, as if she’s honored to be taught by king Lionheart himself.
Ha-ri hesitantly took the sword.
“Where did your swordsmanship come from?”
“I learned it from my master at the Academy. I’ve heard that he was a promising swordsman before the Cataclysm.”
“Show me your swordsmanship. I’ll take a look.”
“Yes!”
Ha-ri gripped the wooden sword and stood as Leon instructed.
As a recent graduate of the Hunter Academy, she hadn’t had much training and what she had learned was basic swordsmanship so there was a gap in her skills compared to the arcane skills that the Ten Guilds kept hidden.
Rejecting the offers of the Ten Guilds in the draft, Ha-ri had to develop her own swordsmanship on her own.
Ha-ri swings the sword as she imagines a swift, loud blow that slices through space.
Ha-ri was a prodigy...the youngest Rank A Hunter but Leon looked at her sword swing and said nonchalantly.
“It’s a big move.”
“......Yes.”
It was fast, but that’s all. A fast sword that relied on physical ability has many gaps and a large range.
“That’s assuming you use your abilities.”
“Well, yes, sir. You recognized it right away, didn’t you?”
“Because I saw it when you fought that honorable knight at the Hunan Gate.”
Leon remembered fighting the Dulahan.
“Watch this king closely. Swords are meant to be swung hard, but in short bursts.”
Leon takes up the sword himself, assumes a top stance and strikes down with a light, quick slash.
It seems light and simple at first, but the movements are small and unassuming. He had such skill that even the queen admired it. And then──
-Kwazik! Kwazik!
Sharp sword winds scraped the floor and cut through the outer walls. It was a terrifying sword wind that would tear the entire training center apart with just a little more force.
“It’s easy enough, try to imitate it by swinging the sword ten thousand times a day.”
“Ugh.......”
“And then there’s the Blessing of Fire, which requires you to swing the sword with all your might to maximize its power. Demonstrate it once more by using it.”
Ha-ri’s unique skill, Blessing of Fire, gave her heat resistance and the ability to convert magic into fire.
It requires a medium, and in the hustle and bustle of battle, it’s most efficient to use a sword as a medium to ignite the fire and swing it with full force.
When combined with her own unique skill, Blessing of Fire, Ha-ri’s swordplay was quite colorful and convincing.
“Beatrice, what do you think?”
“Her use of fire is immature.”
The queen stood up and drew her sword. It was a sword from the royal family of Spero.
That’s right. The Ten Thousand Gods Guild had an all-around Holy Knight, Lord Yappy!
“Well, we also need to account for expenses and pay taxes, and I’ve been to the accountants, but ‘I don’t pay taxes’ is a stretch.”
-Big Data Notes. Hunter Applying the Special Administrative Law. Can process hunter meal expenses. Registered to produce own equipment.
“What?”
Ha-ri remembered that last month, the trainees had only spent 38,000 won on sugar and salt but in the accounting, it was registered as 38 million won.
It wasn’t stealing, it was accounting manipulation.
“Well, there must be something wrong with that?”
-Not wrong. Crop prices in the Naju Plain skyrocketed. Utilizing the special support type of the Agriculture and Fisheries Act. Purchase tax credit.
“So... you’re buying crops at a premium and including them in the hunters’ food allowance? Isn’t that a scam?”
-Separating businesses. Ten Thousand Gods Farm and Ten Thousand Gods Guild are strictly separate entities. Utilize special support for Ten Thousand Gods Farm. Additional tax exemptions.
-Utilize the Trainee Family Support Project. Register a welfare business in the name of Ten Thousand Gods Guild and utilize additional tax exemptions.
-Registering an independent pension business. Increase asset value through investment.
He downloaded the country’s legal system in 0.1 seconds and found loopholes in the law in an instant.
‘Is this big data?’
Ha-ri marvels at Yappy’s intelligent computing power that finds solutions in a fraction of a second.
“Wow, that’s really helpful, I think I can put this issue to rest for now.”
-Ha-ri
“Mmmm....”
There was nothing more Ha-ri could ask for since Yappy had taken care of things so quickly. She now spoke of a very personal matter.
“His Majesty has asked me to attend to the Queen, and since I’ll need to hire a maid, he’s also asked me to provide her with an outfit...a maid’s outfit, I assume?”
Ha-ri knows that Leon’s worldview is very medieval.
He’s from an otherworldly fantasy kingdom, so it can’t exactly be compared to Earth, but the maids he thinks of are probably maids, right?
Yappy agreed.
-His Majesty Leon. Similar to modern medieval European kingdoms. The handmaiden=maiden inference is reasonable.
“It is, isn’t it? I was hesitating because I thought I’d be criticized for cosplaying later.”
-No problem. Rational ‘maid suit’ order based on big data?
“I’d be grateful if you did!”
Ha-ri didn’t know that the “big data” of a maid suit that Yappy was referring to was aggregated data from online home shopping.
It was the number one product with the most satisfactory star rating.
-My boyfriend really likes it.
-My boyfriend really likes it. I should wear it more often.
-Yay!
It was the scourge of big data.
* * * *
After Ha-ri left, Yappy went about his business without a break.
Heto, the god of iron and blacksmithing, had entrusted Yappy with one task: The rise of the Ten Thousand Gods Guild and the resurrection of the Lionheart Kingdom.
To do so, Yappy must manipulate public opinion and spread faith so he got right to work, utilizing his 1,398,865 accounts.
First, he edited the video he shot of the Fluctuation Gate and translated it into the language systems of every country on the planet with an active internet connection.
He also thoroughly analyzed local YouTubers, overseas YouTubers and channels, and communities related to hunters and religious communities.
Among them, Yappy’s latest concern was to investigate the strength of the Archdemon Androzin items obtained from the Fluctuation Gate.
-Dense ore. Strength measurement, superalloy MDV or higher.
Yappy sees the possibilities of this great metal. While not comparable to the ‘new iron’ shown by the divinity of iron and blacksmithing, it is at least as hard as the superalloy MD series he was used to in his original world.
-Similar minerals exist. A special mineral from Gate Mountain. Commonly known as ‘Adamantite.’ 99.8% Identical
Yappy has counted hundreds of instances of it and deemed it worthy of purchase and study.
-Legendary Minerals. 230 million per kilogram of Adamantite. Need to raise more money.
The budget required was enormous so Yappy asked Leon for permission to raise funds.
“We need large quantities of materials to build research facilities and factories.”
“Hmm, military funding. We’ll always need money. Is the money from selling rice and the gates not enough?”
-Not enough. Suggestion. Stock market intervention.
Leon was only vaguely familiar with stocks, though he was surprised to learn that a famous investor from his time on Earth was still alive.
“How do you plan to raise the money?”
-Game plan. Futures market manipulation. Hack the polls and send the coin market skyrocketing.
“Hmm... I forgot to discuss the definition of human with you.”
Leon recognized the AI’s lack of human morality.
“I suppose there are victims to your sordid money-grubbing ways but you are a Holy Knight of the Goddess of Light and Justice. There must be justice in gambling.”
-Huh?
Leon laid down a few principles.
1.Reduce the number of innocent victims.
2.The standard of innocence would be human morality.
With its overwhelming computing power, AI absorbed human morality, commonly condemned financial crimes, etc. into big data, and naturally came to one conclusion.
It is possible to make a lot of money and still be moral.
-Discovered 187 suspected stock price manipulations. Engaged in immoral behavior. Opening unlimited short trades.
Using 1% of its computing power to manipulate the stock market, the computational power of artificial intelligence, which can turn even the world’s best supercomputers into barbarians, has begun to intervene in the world’s stock market.
-I will be a righteous thief today.
The destruction of the world’s stock market manipulators has begun.