132. S-Grade Summon (2)
Rachel, who had contacted him, asked bluntly.
[Rachel: You pulled an S-grade summon, right?]
What the hell, this girl.
How did she know?
Did she install CCTV all over Yoobaek City?
[Rachel: So, what did you get?]
[Baek Jinwoo: Why do you care?]
[Rachel: What do you mean? We’re allies. You won’t even tell me that much?]
[Baek Jinwoo: What does that have to do with this? Then you should hand over all the info on Yellow Dragon, White Tiger, and the Archmage too.]
[Rachel: Tch, yeah, I’ve got nothing to say to that.]
[Baek Jinwoo: So, did you contact me just to ask whether I really pulled an S-grade summon?]
[Rachel: No, no, that’s not it. Someone will be coming your way soon.]
[Baek Jinwoo: Hm? Who?]
[Rachel: Olivia Abernathy.]
[Baek Jinwoo: Why is she…..?]
Baek Jinwoo scratched his head.
Olivia... that was the one who used that A-grade Judicator... now he remembered.
Those vicious eyes.
She was the woman ranked 7th in the world......
[Rachel: Hehe, don’t hate her too much. After this match, she’s completely become your fan.]
[Baek Jinwoo: Huh? ....Huh?]
[Rachel: Hahaha, she said she never imagined there’d be someone who could beat me. Anyway, when she gets there soon, be nice and greet her! She’s a good girl. Please!]
What?
She was suddenly showing up like this without even making an appointment?
That was exactly what happened.
About thirty minutes after he got the call?
Rumors spread that Olivia was coming to Korea, and another thirty minutes after that.
She was standing right in front of him.
“Jinwoo oppa!”
A very tall Westerner was smiling brightly and bouncing up and down.
“.......”
What felt so awkward about that sight was...... that people usually had an atmosphere about them, didn’t they.
Just looking at Olivia’s face gave off a slightly cynical impression.
So seeing someone like her act that friendly gave him a slight chill.
“You heard from Rachel unni, right? That I was coming.”
“Sorry, but were we close?”
“Ahaha, this, this......! Don’t be so cold. I brought information that means we’re bound to get close from now on.”
Sway, sway.
She waved something in her hand.
“What’s that?”
“Let’s go inside and talk first! A guest has come all this way, and you’re just going to leave me standing here?”
“Mm.”
Whatever it was.
It looked like she had brought something pretty tempting...... so should he at least hear her out?
* * *
“Wow…. Nice building.”
Olivia entered the 「Yoobaek」 headquarters building and looked around.
A spacious lobby stretching from the first to the third floor and luxurious marble flooring greeted her.
When they took the elevator up, a reception room appeared on one of the middle floors.
The place with the nicest view.
It was the place Yoo Jia had put the most care into decorating, to make a strong first impression of the company.
Once they went in and sat down, a resident employee brought out coffee and tea.
“Information that means we’re bound to get close?”
Baek Jinwoo asked right away.
He wanted to know as soon as possible what she was thinking, coming all the way here.
“Ooh-hoot! Unni said this, you know? She said she didn’t know how you did it, but that you probably had the ability to summon old summons that got patched out and disappeared.”
Slurp!
She took a sip of tea.
He didn’t know what kind it was, but it seemed like it must have been made from pretty expensive ingredients.
“Things like Wind Fairy, Training Instructor, Explosive Dragon Sorcerer....... those kinds of things.”
“That’s right.”
Baek Jinwoo nodded.
At this point, there was no reason to hide it anyway.
The summon he possessed were the world’s only EX-grade summon.
“So.”
Tap!
Olivia placed the thing she had been holding this whole time on the table.
“I heard you’d need this veee~ ry badly.”
A barely concealed thrill gleamed across her face.
So.
What was it?
After receiving Olivia’s information, Baek Jinwoo’s body stiffened.
[Guaranteed Summon Scroll]
[Grade: A-grade]
[You can guaranteedly draw the A-grade summon you want.]
What the hell!
An A-grade guaranteed summon scroll?
‘Wow, something like this existed?’
At the current point in time, this was the summon scroll Baek Jinwoo needed the most.
Aso and Magic Cat.
Because this was a scroll that let him choose one of those two.
“.....Where did you get this?”
“Hey, why are you acting like such an amateur? If I tell you that, there’s no negotiation.”
For one thing, it definitely wouldn’t have come from the lower floors of the Tower of Trials.
At best, those only gave B-grade guaranteed summon scrolls.
Since this was A-grade.....
That meant it was Tower of Trials endgame content......
‘Did Rachel get it?’
That was probably the most likely possibility.
Even Baek Jinwoo, a veteran with ten years sunk into the game, had never seen this kind of summon scroll before.
‘Whew. She played an insanely strong card right from the start.’
“You said negotiation, right? What do you want?”
“...The S-grade summon you pulled.”
“What?”
Baek Jinwoo frowned.
“Unni said this. She said that for you, this single sheet of paper would be worth dozens of times more than an ordinary S-grade summon. On the other hand, for me, the value of an S-grade summon is greater than this little sheet of paper.”
“So you want to trade?”
“Yep. If each of us thinks the other person’s thing is better, then we just switch. And besides, aren’t you planning to win the 5th World League too? You’re in a position where you can get one S-grade summon regularly every year anyway....... It’s a profitable deal for you.”
Ha.
She wasn’t wrong.
Honestly, no matter how good Thunderbird was. Compared to Aso or Magic Cat, it was a tier lower.
‘Especially Aso.’
The sooner he got Aso, the better.
Because it was a growth-type summon.
At first, it was so weak you’d wonder how this could possibly be A-grade, but once HunGyo equipped it with every martial art.......
‘Whew.’
It produced destructive power so ridiculous it was hard to even imagine.
How broken had it been for a balance patch to be introduced just because of those martial arts alone?
“Still, giving up an S-grade is crossing the line a bit. The one I pulled this time is insanely useful too.”
“Come on, if you put it that way, what lousy S-grade summon even exists in this world?”
“Two.”
Baek Jinwoo held up his index and middle finger.
“......What?”
This time, Olivia frowned.
“Two? Are you kidding? Do you know how much trouble unni went through to get this......!”
“As I thought.”
Baek Jinwoo grinned.
“Rachel really was the one who got it, huh?”
Oops!
Olivia smacked her palm against her forehead, then cleared her throat.
“Ahem, yes. She got it as the reward for clearing the 50th floor of the Tower of Trials this time. We’d love it if we had two of them too! But we really don’t. I’m serious. You can even use that Mind-Reading Eagle or whatever.”
Everyone had already seen the effect of Mind-Reading Eagle at the London casino.
Hmm.
Judging by how far she was going, it really seemed true.
‘What should I do?’
Give up Thunderbird and take Aso?
It wasn’t a bad choice, but......
‘Even if I climb the Tower of Trials myself, there’s no guarantee that this will drop.’
Baek Jinwoo closed his eyes.
This wasn’t something he could ask anyone else about.
‘Only me.’
This was a choice he had to make himself.
“If I hand over this S-grade summon, who would end up using it? Rachel?”
“No.”
Olivia shook her head.
“Unni already feels burdened raising the three she has now. So it’ll probably go to the person whose attribute fits it best.”
“Hm, then there’s a high chance you’d be the one using it.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Because this summon is a lightning attribute.”
“R…..really?”
Olivia shot to her feet.
She operated no fewer than three A-grade Judicators.
And the Judicator’s main skill was precisely ‘Lightning Strike’!
At this point, the one growing impatient was actually Olivia.
There was a big difference between some member of the British national team using it and her being guaranteed to use it herself.
“I’ve decided.”
Baek Jinwoo grinned.
“Decided what?”
“What you can give me. Add that on top, and I’ll think about it.”
“What I can give you? What is it?!”
“You’d know that better than I would.”
Put simply, he meant he wanted to see her sincerity.
If that sincerity moved him, he would hand it over; if it was lacking, he would refuse.
Still, she had stayed in the world top 10 for three years, so she must have quite a lot, right?
“You have until tomorrow.”
Swish.
Baek Jinwoo rose from his seat.
Actually.
This was the basic principle of negotiation Yoo Jia had taught him.
‘Don’t say first what you want.’
Usually, the one who puts something on the table first loses.
If I say what I want first?
Then the other side only has to prepare a custom-fit card.
Even so, if you still have to speak first, then you have to say something completely outrageous...... but where was it ever easy to say something like that?
But Baek Jinwoo could say it.
Because he was clearly the one in the dominant position.
“I’ll have a room prepared for you, so think it over carefully.”
“...... ”
Baek Jinwoo turned away with a faint smile.
Olivia could only watch him leave with her lips pushed out in a pout.
“Haah.”
A sigh flowed from Olivia’s lips.
She had figured it probably wouldn’t work.
Trying to get an S-grade summon with just this little piece of paper.
That really was a thief’s mentality.
‘Still.’
It did seem like he was interested.
That alone was already a big gain.
‘As expected of unni.’
When Rachel had told her to come all the way to Korea and test the waters herself, and then said to somehow trade that for an S-grade summon.
How absurd had that sounded?
‘But really….can this actually work?’
Olivia had even obtained brief information on the S-grade summon under a confidentiality condition.
Thunderbird.
How beautiful that bird spewing lightning had been.
‘I want it so badly.’
To be honest, she wanted to get it even if she had to hand over her entire fortune.
That was the value of an S-grade.
The ultimate embodiment of a unique, with only an expected 1% chance even after opening 100 Ultimate Summoning Scrolls, known as priceless treasures!
The common belief was that realistically, unless you became MVP of the World League, there was no way to obtain one.
But now?
It was obvious at a glance that this time’s MVP would belong to God Ji-nu.
“Ughhaaaah......”
What do I do!
What am I supposed to do!
* * *
The next day.
“1 trillion!”
Olivia shouted as soon as she ran into him on the street.
“I’ll add 1 trillion won!”
At those bold words, Baek Jinwoo broke into a delighted grin.
And then.
“Yep, go back.”
He refused immediately.
Something like this had to be refused about nine times.
Ten times might break her spirit, and if he wanted to squeeze out the maximum, nine was about right.
“2 trillion!”
See?
She had so much that in less than an hour, she had doubled it and come back.
“Yep, go back.”
“No, isn’t this too much? 2 trillion is my entire fortune!”
“Yep, go back.”
“I’m not going back! I’ll stay right here and wait!”
The way she huffed and stormed off really was just like a woman in her early twenties.
“What on earth are you trying to get out of her?”
Yoo Jia, who had happened to be watching from the side, asked.
He had already explained the entire situation to her.
“I don’t know either.”
“….What?”
“If I keep refusing, she’ll offer everything she can give eventually.”
It couldn’t be helped.
That was exactly the charm of an S-grade summon.
This was what people meant when they said something was truly priceless.
“What are you going to do if that really is her entire fortune?”
“Just wait and see.”
Baek Jinwoo smiled leisurely, and after another hour.
“3 trillion won! I can’t go any higher!”
Olivia approached again.
Yoo Jia, who had been waiting together with him, let her mouth fall slightly open.
See that?
If you waited, she found some way to increase it.
She’d probably even take out a credit loan in her own name.
For something on the level of an S-grade summon, a country would probably even approve the loan.
Baek Jinwoo laughed brightly.
“Yep, go back.”
Trying to get a free ride, are you?
Money was nice, sure, but they had plenty of money too.
If she really was desperate, she would have to bring something different.
Something equally priceless.
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