Chapter 647 – Three Rewards (2)

After becoming an S-class hunter officially, I managed to relieve my busy schedule over the course of two weeks.

Excluding a brief stop by the company for broadcast filming or interviews, it was the third day since I officially returned to work for the first time in a long time.

“Hunter Taekyung Seong, this is a call from the CEO.”

“Ah yes. “Can I go to the boss’s office?”

“Yes, you can visit the representative office on the 17th floor.”

Although she was momentarily a little puzzled by the call from her boss who returned as soon as she had come to work, it was a moment when a strange sense of anticipation bloomed in her heart.

The idea that this time I could repair the Mithril Greatsword by receiving the Orichalcon material I talked about last time began to creep into my head.

‘I heard that the Basilisk material has almost been disposed of, so I think you called me this time to hand over the Orichalcon material. After receiving it, take it to Areum and get a new Mithril Greatsword…’

After getting into the company elevator with a pleasant imagination in my head, I entered with excitement the 17th floor of the building where the CEO’s office was located.

Fortunately, this time my prediction wasn’t so wrong, and the boss handed me the Orichalcum material as soon as he met me.

“… Yes?”

The item she was trying to give me wasn’t just Orichalcum material.

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It was the first day in a long time that I was alone with CEO Seo Ok-hee in the president’s office.

As soon as our eyes met, the owner exchanged a proper greeting with me. As soon as the greeting was over, he placed the items prepared below on the top of the desk and showed them to me.

“Ruler. “This is the Orichalcon material I told you about last time.”

“Oh oh…”

Because it is a gemstone, it has a slightly cloudy feel, but if you look at the few chunks of stone shining purple, it is definitely Orichalcon.

One of the only two materials that can save my mithril greatsword in the current situation. The Orichalcon was now sparkling before every eye.

The last time I swung my mithril greatsword was during the Basilisk subjugation battle two months ago. Other than that, it’s all an indirect experience I had in a dream not long ago.

Of course, the Damascus steel greatsword that Areum made was made of good materials, but compared to the time when I used a mithril greatsword, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit disappointed.

This time, I had a chance to repair the mithril greatsword I had been using for a long time.

“Can I take it?”

“Uh. “Because that’s what I prepared for it.”

“Are there any additional costs related to material recovery?” .”

“I took care of it. “Because that’s not the only thing I have to give you anyway.”

“Yes?”

While I was taking the stone pieces made of orichalcon and putting them in my subspace pocket, this time the boss handed me something else from the bottom drawer.

It didn’t take long to realize that it was an account and stamp from a commercial bank.

“And this is the account containing your reward for defeating the Three-Headed Basilisk.”

“Ah yes.”

“It is separate from the allowance I received from working as a recovery hunter in an abandoned village. If the amount is a bit large and you send it directly to your account, your taxes will go down too much. So it would be better to just accept it as is and use it as is. If you want to transfer it to your account even after paying taxes, you can cancel the contract with the stamp we give you.”

“Oh, thank you.”

“Check it in front of me now. “It’s annoying to have to say that the amount is different later.”

“Yes.”

You’re doing that because you received a certain amount of money as a reward for your contribution to the subjugation.

First of all, I knew that the government had placed a bounty on the three-headed basilisk we defeated. And the amount of the bounty was quite high.

From what I remember, the bounty was roughly in the billions. If it is divided according to the number of people, each person will receive a few hundred million won, or almost a billion won at most.

If you add in the price of basilisk materials and other things, the amount per person would be at least hundreds of millions, and I could fully understand why they did not send that amount of money to the account due to tax concerns.

The moment I opened the bank account given to me by my boss with that thought in mind and a little bit of tension.

… I couldn’t help but feel a bit embarrassed by the number that was stamped on my account for the first time in my life, but the unit itself was different.

‘One, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, billion, billion…’

“… President. “Didn’t you give me the wrong account?”

“It says how much it says.”

“I may have seen it wrong, but 4… I think it says about 47 billion…”

“You saw it right.”

“… Yes?”

I was still overcome with confused emotions when I saw CEO Seo Ok-hee nodding her head as if it was obvious.

Perhaps because he was frustrated with me like that, the boss answered by spitting out the exact amount again.

“I guess I saw it right. Isn’t it 47,056,420,000 won? “Are you dissatisfied with the fact that I had to pay 1,000 won because it was a hassle?”

“Oh, no… Of course, you can’t complain about something like that…”

“Yes? “I put in a lot of effort behind the scenes to get you the money, but now you can’t complain about something like this.”

“…”

“I’ll tell you roughly what the amount is, so open your ears and listen straight.”

“… Yes.”

“First of all, because you killed the Three-Headed Basilisk, the government land that was tied up in Chuncheon City was made available for trade again. Here is a technical term for the compensation you receive…”

After that, the boss told me the amount of various things, but to be honest, it was a specialized knowledge that was difficult for me to follow in my head.

What I managed to understand was that the money that I and the other hunters who participated in the subjugation at that time received was not limited to the bounty of the boss monster and the price of the materials, and that the boss collected all of the compensation.

The account containing the 47 billion subjugation merit reward was a combination of the bounty on the head of the abandoned village boss monster, the material price of the three-headed basilisk itself, the government’s subjugation contribution reward, land liberation reward, and various other rewards.

What made me feel at ease was that this was not all my responsibility.

“So, this 47 billion is the sum of the amount owed to all those who participated in the subjugation at the time?”

“Oh, right.”

“Whew, what else can I say…” . I was surprised to think that this was all mine…”

Since 8 people cooperated and subdued it together, it would be roughly 5 to 6 billion won per person.

Although it was still a large amount, it was a fully understandable amount.

Considering that the salaries of famous sports players in their past lives were in the tens of billions of billions, the compensation for subjugation in the billions was an understandable category.

Of course, I never thought that 5 to 6 billion won was a small amount, but the sense of money in this world felt a little different from the original world.

In particular, this world was a place where housing prices in Seoul went crazy beyond the original world because there were things like Dungeon Gate and Monster Wave.

Roughly, I thought that if I combined the prices of my house and Hye-eun’s house, it would be around 500 to 600 million won, and I almost lowered it to an understandable amount in my head.

As the boss continued to speak, I had to experience the feeling of losing my mind once again.

“It is true that that amount was the compensation given to all the subjugators at the time, but in reality, it was all your money.”

“… Yes?”

“First of all, here are three copies of the pledge from the foundation’s personnel.”

As for the Foundation’s personnel, are they Sihee, Do Yehee, and Lulucia?

I wondered what the oath meant, so I received the three documents given to me by my boss and checked the contents.

I was able to confirm the meaning of the pledge mentioned by the president in the pledge with Dosihee’s name written on the very first page.

“Hunter Dosi-hee entrusts all the rewards for subjugating the three-headed basilisk in this abandoned village to Hunter Seong Tae-kyung…”

“For your information, the remaining two chapters are all the same.”

“… Oh, no way. If it were Sihee, there was no way the other two would make such a pledge to me…”

I checked the other two pledge documents to see if there was some misunderstanding, but it was definitely exactly what the boss said.

The same thing was written in the vows of Lulucia, who only recently discovered her feelings, as well as Do Ye-hee, who did not have a very deep relationship with her compared to the other two.

I couldn’t help but feel confused by the three pages of pledges whose intentions I couldn’t understand.

“This is…”

“I don’t know how you know the successor candidates of the Dogyeong Group, but in any case, the reward for this subjugation won’t seem like a large amount to those children.”

“… Yes?”

“When you think of the provincial capital, it is a group that has reached out to the construction industry. “This is a family that spends up to trillions of dollars every time they build an apartment complex, and it seems they thought they could give you billions in consideration of their friendship with you.”

“Just a friendship with me…”

“It’s not just a friendship with you. It’s the world’s first and only friendship with a male awakened S-class hunter. “If it’s a relationship that can be bought with money, I think it’s cheaper, right?”

“…”

“And the saint’s oath may be based on the saint’s own will, but it is probably safe to say that the entire Vatican City is keeping an eye on your movements as a male S-class hunter. Considering the national budget, they probably came to a similar conclusion as the sisters of the Dokyung Group.”

… Well.

Considering the relationships I had formed with three people, including Sihee, over the past year, I thought that might not be the only reason.

And no matter how rich he was, the fact that he would willingly give me compensation amounting to billions of dollars was an act I couldn’t understand.

First of all, one thing is certain: in this case, I was definitely indebted to them.

“Then, as for the other members of Azure Shield…”

“It’s the same with them. Since you were the leader of the last subjugation battle, I confirmed that it doesn’t matter how you distribute the subjugation rewards. “It doesn’t matter if you eat it all, it doesn’t matter if you distribute it equally, or it doesn’t matter if you distribute it differentially.”

“…”

“So in reality, it’s all your money, Seong Tae-kyung.”

… I thought I would just get the Orichalcon materials and go back today.

The fact that an amount of 47 billion won suddenly came into my hands was something I had never expected.

It wasn’t until a while later that I realized that the boss hadn’t even mentioned the last one of the ‘three things’ he wanted to deliver to me today.