Mr. Kim Strikes It Rich with Auto-Hunting [Novel] Chapter 68

Chapter 68

At his residence after finishing his conversation with the Chairman.

Kim Yong-pil let out a deep sigh.

“Haa….”

The conversation held at Workers’ Party Building No. 1.

A conclusion had been reached.

Something along those lines.

“How on earth did things turn out like this….”

Tightly closing his eyes, even after thinking it through carefully….

He had no idea.

Just where had it started going wrong?

Taking responsibility if he failed.

That meant they would kill him.

Ha.

Does that even make any sense?

After how devoted I was to the motherland….

“Damn it.”

Of course, there was a minor mistake.

Even so, to go that far.

“Trying to purge me over a petty reason like that?”

Just you wait.

If I can just get through this crisis, I won’t take it lying down.

“Phew….”

However, he had to survive first.

Right now, the other side held the justification.

If things went wrong here?

Even China, backing Kim Yong-pil, wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Before it comes to that—.

“For now, I must resolve this matter properly.”

Bring the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau.

It wasn’t something he said thoughtlessly.

He definitely heard about it.

How China’s Special Operations Department searched for the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau.

“Obtain South Korea’s list of recent awakened individuals…. And if I narrow down the scope from there, he’ll show up.”

What next?

He didn’t know up to that point yet.

Because around then, he heard that the Special Operations Department was smashed to pieces.

Something about Lord Guan appearing, or whatever.

The last piece of news was that even the President got swept up in it and everything was in total chaos.

After that.

He heard rumors that chaos had erupted inside China.

That Lord Guan descended in person to deliver divine punishment, or some nonsense.

Stupid bastards.

Divine punishment, my ass.

Even Lord Guan?

If you’re going to go crazy, at least be reasonable about it….

At this rate, they’ll start saying General Yi Sun-sin is walking around too.

“This is why those foolish commoners are, tsk.”

Still, things should be mostly settled by now.

Time to contact them after a long while.

“To give them some generous pocket money as well.”

And to ask for the South Korean awakened individuals list too.

Once I get that list….

Finding out who he is will only be a matter of time.

It’s not like there are only one or two operatives planted in South Korea.

So let’s obtain the list first.

“I should ask Big Brother Li Wei for a favor after all this time.”

* * *

China’s Central Awakened Management Bureau.

[The first move of the newly appointed Director of the Central Awakened Management Bureau, Li Wei—.]

Glancing over the article, Li Wei let out a deep sigh.

“Haa….”

“Director, is something the matter?”

“No, my chest just felt a bit suffocated all of a sudden.”

“Haha…, I understand. The former director was often like that too.”

“That guy. I had a drink with him the other day, and he looked so relieved he could fly.”

“Because near the end, he suffered so much in various ways….”

No.

Did I not suffer too?

Back then, I was the deputy director!

We suffered together….

Even worse.

“At the very least, sitting in the director’s seat used to be a breeze back then….”

“Well…, since you’ve risen to the director’s seat now, you should enjoy an easy time too, Director.”

“Yeah, I should, but someone keeps piling up paperwork, so it’s not easy….”

“Haha, whoever they are, they’re truly a terrible person.”

‘Whoever they are,’ my foot.

It’s you, you punk.

Look, you’re piling them up again right now.

“Here are the additional documents that require your approval by this week.”

“This is…. No, does the Awakened Management Bureau even have to handle this too?”

“Originally it wasn’t our jurisdiction, but as you know, all the work from the Special Operations Department and its subordinate departments has been transferred over here….”

Grit.

“Zhang Zhi’an, Liu Hao. Those dog-like sons of bitches.”

Why the hell did they have to mess with the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau for no reason?

What a mess.

Those bastards took a crap.

And in the end, we have to clean it up.

“Ha, the stress….”

It definitely looked easy when watching from the side.

Wow, this.

Actually doing it gives me a splitting headache.

Now I understand.

Why the former director practically lived on headache medicine all the time.

“Still, I have to get it done. Look how far I’ve climbed to get here.”

I will definitely endure.

And once things stabilize, I’ll live an easy life.

Strengthening his resolve again.

Just as he was about to focus on work—.

Ding!

“An email from Kim Yong-pil? What Is this guy up to?”

A contact he hadn’t seen in a long time.

The sender was Kim Yong-pil, a North Korean executive with whom he had become sworn brothers long ago.

He checked the message to see what was going on.

“Ha, crazy bastard.”

“Director, is something the matter?”

“No, just some insane message came in.”

Is this a dream?

What did I just read?

A baffling situation.

Even after blinking and reading it again, the contents remained the same.

[Nothing major, but it’s regarding the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau you mentioned last time. I am in a situation where I need information on that fellow, so if you could procure the list of South Korea’s awakened individuals—.]

To summarize in one line.

Give me information about the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau.

Well, he mentioned compensating generously, but….

“As if that’s gonna happen.”

Of course, strictly in terms of possibility, it was possible.

The current Central Awakened Management Bureau.

Though currently in a position of taking care of the aftermath.

Its power was growing stronger by that much.

[Recent Awakened Individuals List – Korea]

This?

Since it was data held by the Special Operations Department.

If he set his mind to it, he could obtain it.

However….

Could he handle the consequences?

“Haha….”

That bastard Kim Yong-pil.

Even if he’s a North Korean.

Does a guy who’s a national executive live without watching the news?

I must have warned him roughly before.

Messing with the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau completely upended the Special Operations Department and everything else.

Is having a death wish his hobby….

And besides.

The board had completely changed in the first place.

The Head of the Manpower Management Bureau?

Now, regardless of the danger, he had become a person you must never touch.

[In the end, the key is receiving the weapon of the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau—]

[Through improving relations with the Korea Awakened Management Bureau—]

……

…

Look at this.

Even among the documents piled up right now, they were full of talk regarding the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau.

Why?

Because people everywhere were raising a fuss that we must get a weapon from him somehow.

In this situation, touch that guy?

Did the Tower of Chaos not appear in Pyongyang?

[The Tower of Chaos Soaring in the Middle of Pyongyang’s Taedong River]

It did appear.

And yet he makes that kind of judgment….

This won’t do.

I should keep my distance from Kim Yong-pil for the time being.

Unless I’m insane, I can’t board the same boat as a guy pouring gasoline over himself and rushing into fire.

“He wasn’t this kind of guy originally, how did he become so stupid….”

I’m going to live.

If you want to die, die alone.

Still, considering our past loyalty.

I’ll send a reply telling him not to touch him if possible.

“To clear the top floor within 3 months, the help of the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau is an absolute necessity, so….”

After Wei Jin’s death.

China scraped up all its resources to nurture Chen Yu.

Thanks to that, he rose rapidly, and was currently at Floor 59.

Even that was something he reached barely a couple of days ago….

Suddenly, they’re telling him to clear it within 3 months.

What kind of….

“The Tower of Chaos isn’t some child’s play.”

Reaching Floor 60 within 3 months?

Impossible.

Unless there’s some kind of variable.

The conclusion reached that way was that they needed a weapon from the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau.

The problem was….

“Will he really give it?”

Even from the position of deputy director.

Li Wei had watched everything.

China and the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau….

No matter how nicely you tried to sugarcoat it, it was a relationship that couldn’t look good.

On top of that, there was nothing they could even offer.

“Can’t we just give him heaps of money? It’s not like we lack money, we only lack magic stones or materials.”

“Money? To the Head of the Manpower Bureau?”

Would he need it?

He must be raking in money by the bucketload.

In fact, he probably doesn’t even need materials anymore.

They said he climbed up to Floor 63….

“Sigh….”

Still, we have to make it happen somehow.

“First, contact the South Korea Awakened Management Bureau, and send word to the politicians connected with us as well.”

“Should we proceed as we used to?”

“As we used to?”

Ah.

Don’t tell me.

Threatening and intimidating?

“Are you out of your mind? We have to bow down as low as possible. First, find out if there are any conditions they want on a national level. Tell them we’ll accommodate them if possible.”

So please, just one weapon.

Otherwise.

Beijing is on the verge of disappearing.

“Ha…. Zhang Zhi’an, Liu Hao. Those bastards.”

Just having ascended to the director’s position.

Yet why was this?

With thoughts of already wanting to quit.

The sigh of Bureau Director Li Wei only grew deeper.

* * *

The sudden change in the difficulty of the Tower of Chaos.

In the aftermath of this, the mindset of regular hunters also began to change.

——-

Complete Summary of Tower of Chaos Difficulty Comparison

I’m currently a Floor 53 hunter.

For the past 3 days, I’ve tasted everything from the 20s, 30s, up to the 40s floors.

On top of that, I gathered info from other hunters and reached a rough conclusion, so please read it through and give feedback.

Looking at it, the difficulty jump varies between sections.

20s floors -> Level 5

30s floors -> Level 3

40s floors -> Level 7

Feels like it increased like this?

In other words.

If you’re a Floor 43 climber, you have to think of it as Floor 50 by the old tower’s standards.

Of course, this isn’t absolute truth.

The sample size is still small, so it might change.

Let’s use this as a rough benchmark for our raids.

And if anyone wants to share information, please leave a comment.

I’ll check and add the details.

Right now, information is literally our lives, so we have to help each other, right?

Please show a lot of interest, everyone.

– I’m currently on Floor 57, please add that the 50s floors differ by about 5 levels.

└ Thanks.

– Floor 32) Everything else is similar, but monster HP has increased massively. You have to hit them for a long time, so those raiding should take note.

– It’s tough, but the rewards are insane. Clearing Floor 40 gave rewards on the level of clearing Floor 50?

└ When we climb higher later, it’ll truly be mind-blowing

└ The problem is, we have to break through within 3 months first, though….

……

…

——-

The original tower climbing?

It was an atmosphere where the whole world competed.

Of course, strategies existed, and they exchanged information to some extent.

The overall tone was pure competition.

The term ‘Five Great Powers’ also came out of that atmosphere.

Then what about now?

It had turned 180 degrees.

When one wrong move meant death, competition was out of the question.

Survival came first.

[Complete Summary of Differences on Floor 43 of the Tower of Chaos]

[To those raiding Floor 31, if you lack antidotes, leave a post on the request board.]

Active information sharing.

And even cooperation.

The problem was….

– Wow, even with this, not a single person has succeeded in clearing the top floor in 3 days.

└ Honestly, unless it’s people who cleared the previous top floor over a year ago, it was impossible anyway.

– I’m already dreading 3 months from now.

└ 100% agreed. How many national capitals will disappear….

Clear the top floor within 3 months?

Just how?

An absurd condition.

Right around the time the whole world began to feel dizzy.

News of a clear came from South Korea.

[South Korea, Anonymous Awakened. Successfully Cleared Floor 62 of the Tower of Chaos!]

[South Korea, Anonymous Awakened. Successfully Cleared Floor 63 of the Tower of Chaos!]

– No, what on earth is up with that country?

└ Anonymous awakened, that’s the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau.

└ Ah…. Then it makes sense.

– So envious, seriously

– How on earth do you clear two floors in one day?

└ People have been talking about it since before, but nobody knows. Well, there are only speculations that it’s related to his class.

Climbing two floors in a day?

Naturally, it was astonishing.

However, what was even more astonishing.

– Clearing the top floors consecutively is what’s truly mind-boggling.

– Exactly. Floor 62 and 63 are practically around Floor 70 by the old tower’s standards….

└ And doing that for two floors in a row in a single day? He’s not human.

– If only we had the Head of the Manpower Management Bureau too….

– If not, please just give us one weapon.

– He even blocked requests right now, though….

It was completely different from before, when they sought weapons purely out of greed.

Right now….

It was a situation where nations would be ruined if they couldn’t clear it within 3 months.

Right around when everyone grew desperate.

A post was uploaded to AwakenedNet.

[Accepting crafting requests. For the time being, please negotiate conditions with the South Korea Awakened Management Bureau. – Head of the Manpower Management Bureau]