Transcendent Warrior With A Dimensional Shifting Inventory 31
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Minhyuk’s declaration that he would recapture the fortress within two days was not merely a boast.
The entire schedule would be disrupted if they failed to retake it.
In any case, the most urgent task at hand was to establish a campsite.
That way, they could give the soldiers some much-needed rest.
Any location outside the realm of protection was teeming with monsters.
As such, camping in an open field was tantamount to throwing their lives away.
There was a rocky mountain near Fort Tamryn.
Using that as their campsite had been part of the plan ever since before they set out on the expedition.
One side of the rocky mountain summit was a sheer cliff, allowing them to establish a defensive line with a small force.
They would have the soldiers take turns resting there.
“The entire army, follow me!”
Minhyuk led the expeditionary force up the rocky mountain.
Upon reaching the summit, they found themselves face to face with hundreds of beasts the size of oxen.
They were
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Swoosh-thwack-thwack-thwack-
The soldiers began firing crossbow bolts at the hyenas.
The killing power of the crossbow bolts fired by thousands of men was immense.
The hyenas were turned into pincushions in an instant.
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Despite piercing their tough hides, the arrowheads made of astral metal remained undamaged.
The soldiers retrieved the crossbow bolts from the hyena carcasses and reused them.
Whoosh-
Alpha hyenas appeared and breathed fire at the soldiers.
However, the soldiers were wearing ponchos made of lizard leather.
Unfazed by the flames, they fired their crossbows at the beasts.
The alpha hyenas were also slaughtered mercilessly.
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Minhyuk extracted the magic beads from the bodies of the alpha hyenas.
He used them to charge his magic armor and went on a rampage.
Not long after, the red-maned hyenas were all wiped out.
The return time that had dwindled while procuring supplies was now fully replenished.
I could finally set foot into the long-awaited Monday, leaving Sunday behind.
Then I realized something I had overlooked.
‘What about my company?’
Normally, I would have had to go to work on Monday.
But now, things were different.
I couldn’t waste the precious return time going to work and assembling machinery.
‘Absolutely not!’
Of course, I had to quit my job.
But it wouldn’t be right to just up and leave a place where I had worked for five years.
‘I have to show my face at least once.’
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On the rocky mountain peak, I deployed the defensive line and put the soldiers on shift.
This place seemed safe, yet it was also dangerous.
There was no escape route because there was a precipice at the back.
So I had to quickly defeat the goblins and retake Tamrin Fortress.
Minhyuk gathered his staff and held a strategy meeting to discuss the goblin subjugation.
Professor Lehman explained the goblins’ habits.
“Goblin ecology is quite unique.”
They had many strange habits, but the most bizarre was their reproductive method.
“They don’t have separate s*xes. However, they only have male genitalia and no uterus.”
Goblins use the wombs of other races to reproduce.
They emit fertilized embryos, not sperm, through their genitals.
Therefore, when they rape human women and impregnate them, the fetus is not a human-goblin hybrid but a pure goblin.
“They capture females of other species and keep them in their lairs to use as reproductive tools. Their primary targets are elves.”
There are no elves inside Asdel Fortress.
However, there were elves living outside the territory of the Guardians.
Elves had a different attitude towards the Cataclysm than humans.
An apartment-type factory in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul.
On the third floor of this building was a small SME that assembled industrial machinery and supplied it to large corporations.
Whew-
President Park let out a sigh as he looked at the large box in the warehouse.
The box was full of sensors the size of fingernails.
They were all dead stock.
He had purchased the parts based on a verbal order from a large corporation contact.
However, the order never came in and all the parts became dead stock.
It was a common occurrence when supplying to large corporations.
They always do that.
Once an order form goes out and preparations begin, they say they absolutely can’t meet the deadline.
So secure the parts in advance, they say.
They say the order will come in 100%.
Don’t you trust me, they say.
‘I’m the idiot for still believing you.’
No matter how much he investigated, the answer would be the same.
They’d say the plan suddenly changed.
You know this floor was originally like that, right?
They say they have it hard too.
Let’s share the pain.
But then they have this year-end party with their own attendance only and enjoy a bonus feast of several hundred percent.
‘I want to give my employees a set of Hanwoo ribs for the Lunar New Year’s Day. Not canned ham!’
That was when it happened.
Ring-ring-ring-
CEO Park’s cell phone rang.
‘What’s up, Team Leader Choi?’
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Minhyuk brought his van near the cargo-only elevator and went up to the factory.
CEO Park was sitting down when he entered the office.
He greeted him with a nod.
“Hello.”
“But what brings you here? It’s not an overtime day.”
“I heard you were going to return the proximity sensors.”
“Who told you that?”
Minhyuk spoke straightforwardly.
“Just give me 3,000 of them.”
“Give you?”
“Sell them to me.”
“What are you going to do with them?”
“I have a use for them. You were going to return them because you don’t need them anyway. Sell them to me.”
“What a strange guy. Did you start a company without me knowing?”
“No, it’s not like that. I really need them.”
After some contemplation, CEO Park nodded.
“Okay, take them.”
The sensors were products of a leading Japanese company.
The company managed the prices of all the components they produced as classified information.
You could only find out the component prices by looking at the catalog they issued to their clients every quarter.
Minhyuk opened the catalog and checked the component price.
“The price for 3,000 of them is 39,900,000 won.”
CEO Park nodded.
Minhyuk placed eight bundles of 10,000 won bills on the desk.
CEO Park looked slightly surprised and then brought a money counting machine from the accounting staff’s desk.
And he picked one bundle and counted it.
There were exactly 100 bills.
“The rest must all be correct as well.”
President Park asked Minhyuk as he handed him 100,000 won in change,
“Do you need anything like a tax invoice?”
“No, that’s okay.”
Minhyuk put the 3,000 sensors in an empty box.
Then he carried it to the freight elevator.
Then he returned to President Park and handed him an envelope.
President Park chuckled to himself as he looked at Minhyuk’s resignation letter.
‘He’s really started his own company.’
He figured that Minhyuk had started his own factory.
It was a common occurrence in this industry.
Once they’re trained up to a certain level, they all try to go independent.
But President Park didn’t say anything else to Minhyuk about it.
He just smiled and said this one thing.
“You’re the first person to submit a resignation letter on a Sunday since our company was founded.”