Chapter 121 Tyranny of Big Business (1)


    “Jaeyoung... No, Kaiser, are you going back now?”


    “Maybe so? I wasted too much time here than I thought.”


    Jaeyoung had no intention of staying in the dwarf vige for a month. However, he had spent too much time here taking care of Joong-sik, his helper and the source of precious probability.


    “Then are you going to use the upper deck when you return?”


    “Perhaps?”


    An essential choice to avoid excessive exhaustion of probabilities as long as there is no way to detect desert scorpions digging traps here and there waiting for their prey. That''s how they headed towards the ce where the merchants were gathering to leave the Sands of Forge, and what they saw was a huge crowd.


    buzz buzz.


    “Oh, can''t you shave it off a little?”


    “Wow... that’s a big deal. I’ve spent all my money on equipment, so I don’t have money to buy tickets.”


    “Who wants to do that and drive it? oh really.”


    A mooring in the form of a huge cavity. However, the ce was really crowded with people who were packed without any space to set foot.


    “...The appearance has changed a lot here too?”


    “yes? At first, it was a little central heating, but as time passed, a system was created and settled down.”


    The atmosphere is noisy and noisy enough to make you feel crazy. However, the users began to move in perfect order at someone''s cry to see if there was order even within it.


    “Team 12 is leaving now. Team number 12, please gather.”


    “I will check the ticket. Show me.”


    “Oh, don’t push me! Hey guys .. hey guys!”


    Just like people waiting to board a ne, users show their tickets to a user who appears to be an attendant and leave in a row. Jaeyoung, who was watching them, asked Jaegyun with an absurd face.


    “What is that doing now?”


    “Oh that one? I''m checking tickets for people leaving. I’ll check to see if you paid or not, and I’ll catch the guys who secretly wear tweezers.”


    “A pickpocket?”


    “Uh, it’s like a countermeasure made by a lot of people who don’t pay and just follow the upper ranks and get to this point avoiding scorpions.”


    “...Does it go that far?”


    “Oh you don’t know? How crazy is the world these days because of this?”


    Jae-young, who had stopped caring about other things while living in the dwarf vige for a month. ording to Zhongsik, once the merchants started to trade with the dwarf viges, the news was covered with stories of Arcadia.


    [You know that a dwarf vige called Dwarves was recently revealed in Arcadia. Do you know how much money the top earns from buying and selling high-quality weapons and equipment items inrge quantities? It was 20,000 gold. 20,000 gold! It''s 2 billion at the current market price. That''s for a one-time transaction!]


    Dwarf-made equipment that I thought smelled like money. However, the demand for these devices was astronomically higher than users thought.


    “It doesn’t matter how old it is. Finish us before the other kingdoms finish strengthening.”


    “A person equipped with strong equipment can take on a challenge with a high level of skill.”


    “I hear jewelry made by dwarves is in vogue these days... can you get some? The price doesn''t matter.”


    In the early days of opening, Arcadia has very few users who have grown to such an extent. There were still many people who did not possess that much gold, but unlike him, when the overflowing gold of NPCs living in the world of Arcadia, especially of the wealthy aristocrats, began to be released, the world began to fall into a shock like a great revolution.


    - A new gold rush? People flocking to Arcadia.


    -Companies trying to enter the virtual market. Remarkable growth of ‘GM Top''.


    - The rapidly rising value and influence of ‘gold'', amodity in the game.


    - Tens of billions of dors in sales per month. The real economy in virtual reality that has gone crazy.


    Those who started having fun by trading with the Dwarves through the Merchant. In particr, the gold earned by the ‘GM Merchant'' was huge enough to bring about a huge sensation.


    [We, GM''s upper management team, are seriously working on Arcadia as another reality, not a game. It is iparable to other corporate activities, but as a sound corporation, we will do our best with the goal of growing to the top of Arcadia by recruiting outstanding talent in the future.]


    The top of GM who made the deration. Surprisingly, they actually started hiring people directly from the real world.


    [GM 1st term open recruitment.]


    -0 merchants (height 165cm or less).


    - 0 wizards (freezing specialist preferred).


    - 0 explorers (crisis detection, terrain understanding, rank 9 or higher).


    In fact, their n to hire yers as full-time employees while even publicizing them was enough to make many job seekers seduced.


    “Hey, did you see the announcement for a ce called GM?”


    “Are you crazy? They didn’t look at their academic background or academic background, they only looked at their job and skill rank in the game, right?”


    “More than that, the working conditions are real workces. The sry and benefits are the same as new employees at GM Group. In addition, they have an office and even support capsules for y!”


    “Wow..... Really? Is that great?”


    Job seekers who are still struggling to get a job because of their academic background and specs. As it became known to them that they could wear name badges as employees ofrge corporations simply with the skills of the characters in the game, even those who jumped into Arcadia aimed for it, causing all sorts of topics and controversies, heating up Korean society.


    “Anyway... the explorers and wizards needed to cross the desert are always on standby, and drinking water and consumable items necessary for abnormal conditions are provided indefinitely, so the price is a bit high, but almost everyone uses the top.”


    Top bus by name.


    A one-way ticket cost 1 gold, which was an incredible price, but in fact, almost all users were buying tickets from the top, to see if it was cheaper to get from person to person than to prepare for an unexpected situation.


    “What is it, but the top is all GM?”


    “Ah, it takes at least a week for the top to go back and forth, so the small and medium tops once a week? It works very infrequently. The GM Merchants Group consists of several Merchant Merchants and operates them repeatedly every day. That''s why it looks like that.”


    Is it because of the strong capital power of conglomerates? Except for 3 or 4 of the dozens of upper tiers in the huge cavity, all of them were stered with the patterns of the upper tiers of GM.


    “Ah, you said you don’t like GM’s upper management team, right?”


    Jaeyoung frowned as if he didn''t like it. Looking at him like that, Jaekyun muttered as if he remembered now. Then he waved his hand and said.


    “are you okay. Still, there are a few other guilds, so you can use them to get over it.”


    Just like that, the two of them walk toward the small and medium-sized upper end huddled together in the corner of the huge mooring. But there were those who stood in their way.


    “Hey users. Haven''t you bought a ticket yet?”


    A user who asks with a friendly smile. Jaekyun answered his question with an innocent face.


    “Ah yes. I want to save it now.”


    “That’s right. Then would you like toe over here? Right before the ticket deadline for leaving soon.”


    A user who solicits customers. However, Jae-gyun, who noticed that the ce he was guiding to was the GM, said with a puzzled face, pointing his finger at the small and medium-sized business in the corner.


    “Ah... I''m sorry, but we''re going to use something other than GM.”


    Not the top of the GM, but the other tops in one corner. The user, who was talking with a smile when he said that he was using them, quickly changed his face to a cold face and asked.


    “why?”


    “yes....?”


    “No, why do you want to go to a top that you haven’t even heard of, leaving behind a big and sure top spot like us?”


    “...?”


    The question why they don''t buy tickets for themselves. To such a question, Jaekyun didn''t know what to answer, so he stood there dumbfounded with a brainless face.


    “Why is it cheaper over there? Do you know how many cases of getting caught and killed by a scorpion while using a cheap guild like that? If anything, it''s better to use ourpany, which is definitely guaranteed...”


    That''s how the user started to tell Jaekyun and Jaeyoung the justification for ‘why should we use the GM to cross the desert?''. Jae-kyun was swung around by an unknown employee at the top of the GM, and he was sweating, not knowing what to do.


    “So, you use it as the top of the GM. Instead, I’ll give you a 10% discount on the ticket price.”


    “Uh... that''s...”


    Jae-gyun, who is about to be sold tickets like a snake jumps over a wall. It was as if he went to Dongdaemun to look at clothes and was captured by nasty men and forced to wear a full outfit and buy it as a set, so Jaeyoung stepped out.


    “Don''t worry, we''ll take care of it.”


    “yes....?”


    The employee asked Jae-young''s refusal, asking whether he thought he had almost passed it. Jaeyoung spoke to him again.


    “I’m not going to use GM’s upper management team, so I told them to just leave without losing their strength.”


    GM top. I don''t know about others, but it''s not a very good perception for Jaeyoung. However, apart from that, Jae-young started to get annoyed as they often shed because of the fact that the forces in the game were constantly being called out based on the strong backing of argepany. And at his attitude, the employee began to openly reveal his hostility with a mocking smile.


    “Ah.... You must have been a bit ipetent to use our guild. Sorry for this.”


    obvious mockery. He looked up and down at Jaegyun and Jaeyoung, then opened the seat with an unpleasant smile and said.


    “Well, you can use the other guild as much as you like. I hope you will not die from meeting a scorpion on the way across the desert.”


    Truly the ultimate king of power. It was to the point that Tan and L, who had been watching it silently, suddenly elerated.


    “Wow... Master, don’t you kill that? Aren''t you innocent even if you kill him?”


    “You are a man full of meanness. Heavenly powers are preparing for a righteous judgment.”


    Tan and L whisper to each other to use their powers if they''re going to mess with it right now. However, Jaeyoung just didn''t know what to do, so he told Jaegyun, who was at a loss.


    “Hey let’s go.”


    “huh....? Yes!”


    Jaeyoung didn''t show any reaction and just silently moved on. Jae-kyun, who had been quietly following him behind him, noticed something and shouted.


    “uh? Those people...?”


    “why? What?”


    The people Jae-kyun points to. There were two people who had just met before.


    “I thought it was an apple and a lemon...? It was still here.”


    A small caravan run by individual yers called a pie caravan. Jae-gyun winked at him and asked Jae-young when he was amazed to see the upper house, which the newlyweds were managing, was stuck in a corner waiting for guests.


    “How about using it over there?”


    “Um...st time I looked at it, it wasn''t very reliable...”


    “But... other guilds are already leaving.”


    Previous memories of not being so trustworthy after hiring NPC mercenaries. It wasn''t a very tempting proposal because he couldn''t find the hidden scorpions, and eventually exhausted his chances with strong spirit, but he was the only one still recruiting buses among the small and medium corps, so there was actually no option.


    “uh? Are you...?”


    “See you again.”


    Apple and Lemon look at Jaeyoung and Jaekyun with surprised eyes as they get closer as if they know who they are. Jaeyoung asked the two of them.


    “Are tickets still on sale? Do you have a seat for two?”


    Then, he seemed embarrassed for a moment, but soon smiled brightly and said as if he was d.


    “sure. Of course it is.”


    Jaeyoung and Jaekyun leave the desert again through the top of the pie. But there was one thing that no one noticed. The fact that there is a guild that secretly follows them with a lot of malice behind them.