The Overlord of Blood and Iron

Chapter 45

Chapter 45 . Businessman Kang Chul-In

Lee Chae-rin decided to return to the Pangaea continent first and wait for Kang Chul-in there .

5 days later .

After making an excuse of having a vacation, Kang Chul-in spent lots of time with his mother . After that, he the met old man Kwon before deciding to meet Lee Chae-rin again . It was to discuss the trade going on between Pangaea continent and Earth .

“Soon, my territory’s economy will be able to grow . ”

While heading to Yongsan (a place in Seoul), Kang Chul-in thought of the contract he had made with Lee Chae-rin with his eyes shining .

The contract was wonderful .

It was beneficial to both sides, and even Lee Chae-rin was right when she said they would both be happy with it .

It was good for her as she would gain the protection of Kang Chul-in, and it was good for him as his economic might would increase . It was time for the immense synergy of both economic and military might .

Since he was so broke, he couldn’t even use his ‘cosmic force’ ability . Instead of expanding his territory or buying units, he had to spend his precious money on hunting the Peacock Dragons .

But by being able to solve this request well, he would be able to aim for total domination of the Eastern Plains . Dominating the Pandemonium region . This was Kang Chul-in’s number one priority right now .

“Hey, its you! Good thing you came . Kuhahaha . ”

Old man Kwon was greeting him as if they hadn’t met for 30 years .

“You disgust me . ”

He waved his hands .

“What is a dying old man like you doing . ”

He hated men who stuck close to him like that .

“It’s because I’m so happy and thankful! Because of the ring that you gave me last time, I was able to win the Seniors University Tennis competition .

“… You go to a senior’s university?

“Since I regretted how I spent my youth, I’ve been going since year . ”

“This shouldn’t be the school term though?”

“Kuku! For old and dying people like us, there’s no such thing as a school term or a vacation . It’s just that we’re bored and that we want to go out . It’s always like that when you’re old . ”

Although it was a sad and bitter tale, it seemed as if old man Kwon seemed to be happy about going to the university .

“Let’s get to business . ”

Of course, Kang Chul-in didn’t really care what old man Kwon did in his leisure time .

“Yeah, I think that we will be able to officially become partners from today . ”

Old man Kwon’s eyes were full of hope and expectations .

The dimension travellers as well as the items from the Pangaea continent were receiving attention from all over the world . He had no choice but to put his hope onto Kang Chul-in .

“Before that…”

Before they discussed terms, Kang Chul-in decided to tell old man Kwon his requests and terms . It was like the basics of cooperation .

“Well, say it quickly . I’m getting dizzy because you aren’t saying anything . Are you going to take responsibility if I die because of that?”

“Well, that’s your fate, not mine . There are many businessmen out there . ”

Kang Chul-in responded casually .

“Hmph . Are you really going to pull that on a senior like me?”

“Well, I would be able to do much worse things to a criminal . ”

“… Okay, name your terms . ”

Old man Kwon decided to give up .

“I need a house and a car . ”

“A house and a car?”

“It would be much better if it’s a manor, but it’s not easy to get those kind of houses in Seoul . And it has to be bigger than 100 square meters . Make it in Seocho (another district in Seoul) if possible . Well, since I won’t be living there for long, it doesn’t really matter . ”

“Hmm… That’s not very hard . I have spare mansions, I’ll lend you those . But why a car? The one that you ride right now, isn’t it a Ford Mustang? It’s not a bad car . Why, did you get ignored by someone riding a Lamborghini?”

Old man kwon seemed to know some things about cars .

“Ignored? Haha . ”

Kang Chul-in burst out laughing .

“It’s a hobby . ”

“Collecting cars? Ha . That’s a very expensive hobby… you are quite extravagant . ”

“So, what car do you want then? For example, an Aston Martin?”

“Tell James Bond to ride something like that . Those cars are for gangsters, as well as psychos . ”

“Wh-What makes you think that? Aston Martin is a perfect fusion of a Sedan and a sportscar . There are no other cars that can express a young gentleman like Aston Martin! Those cars are perfect with suits . ”

“I just don’t really like them . ”

Kang Chul-in’s tastes were quite straightforward . Although he didn’t really know why, he just didn’t like Aston Martins .

“Well…Since you yourself don’t like it, there’s no choice . Just tell me what you want . ”

Old man Kwon said so with a crestfallen expression .

“Jaguar, F type Coupe . ”

“Hmm… Jaguar F type… You really know how to look at cars . How about the model year?

“Make it a 2013 one if possible . And then color has to be black . ”

“And of course…”

“5000 cc . ”

“Of course, if you’re a man, you need 5000 cc . ”

“The house and the car, both within 3 hours . As well as moving my baggage . For the mustang, tell one of your underlings to move it to the new house . ”

“Sigh… All within 3 hours . ”

“I don’t like rent or lease . ”

“… . ”

Kang Chul-in’s ridiculous requests made him unable to speak, but he didn’t disagree to them nonetheless .

Although it would be tiring, it wasn’t impossible . They didn’t call Old man Kwon ‘The King of the Underworld’ for nothing after all . And Kang Chul-in knew this .

“Manager Oh . ”

“Yes boss . ”

“Did you hear him? 3 hours . ”

“I’ll start immediately . ”

Manager oh started moving with his precise movements and took Kang Chul-in’s car and drove off outside .

“Now, are you satisfied?”

“Let’s begin then . ”

Kang Chul-in nodded his head and took out a huge bag and dropped in on the table with a loud BANG .

“I brought a lot of items that can be mass produced and found easily . Today we will discuss what we will use . ”

“Hmm…It really wasn’t a waste of money buying a jaguar for you . Good, let’s talk . ”

“Here . ”

After holding the bag up, he flipped it upside down, making the contents of the bag all fall down . WIth a sound making one think of a domino, a bunch of items from the Pangaea continent all fell down at once .

“Oh? Are these all items with special abilities?”

“Of course . For example… this is the ‘Blinding Ring’ .

Kang Chul-in took out a white ring from the bag .

“The ‘blinding ring’?”

“It blinds the enemy for 3 seconds perfectly . Although it isn’t of much use against monsters, I think it could be effective for self protection . ”

“How do you use it?”

“Like this . ”

Is what Kang Chul-in said before putting on his right index finger and pointed at one of old man Kwon’s underlings .

‘FLASH!’

It seemed as if white sparks flew .

“Arghh…”

The underling of his started to grab his face and roll on the ground in pain .

“MY EYES!”

The only bad thing that the underling did was catch Kang Chul-in’s eyes . He became a lab rat because of that . No wonder why they called him a gangster .

“Y-you…”

“There are no side or after effects . Well, isn’t it best experiencing something first-hand?”

Although old man Kwon was extremely surprised, Kang Chul-in said it off-handedly . After 3 seconds, the underling seemed to regain his sight and felt confused .

“Hmm… It really is effective, but I think it’s a bit over the top . ”

“Well, I think they are better than using Gas Guns for self defense .

“You are right… But the only good thing about this country is copying and taking . Since guns, swords and other weapons are banned here, the government would try their damnedest to take it from us . No matter whether it has any way to kill or not . ”

Although he sold guns to the Chinese and japanese criminal syndicates, it was something sensibile coming from Old man Kwon .

“Well, there really was some problems that came from that in the past . ”

Kang Chul-in thought of the things that happened in his past life after Old man Kwon brought the topic of selling up .

It was too early .

He needed more time .

As the spec and power of the dimension travellers rose, the item’s ranks would go up and the government’s intervention would grow weaker as well .

Now was not the time to take the world by storm .

“Then another one . ”

He had brought a variety of items . Although some weren’t items used for attacking, there probably was something here that could be mass produced .

The conversation grew longer .

“What’s this?”

“Hmm… Not this . ”

“It’s too expensive . ”

“There would be problems if you sold this . ”

There were many discussions going on .

“What’s this? Is this for drinking or for applying on the skin?”

Old man Kwon took out a flask that contained a milkish liquid inside and shook it .

“It seems to look like ‘that’ . Are you sure this is not a drug?”

Kang Chul-in knew what old man Kwon was thinking .

Old man Kwon probably thought what was inside was something similar to propofol (a drug that you inject in your body to get high) . It was fitting of someone that was known as the King of the Underworld .

“Ha . The way you think . ”

He smirked .

“Some people can only see some things . ”

“Eh hem . Kuhum . ”

Old man Kwon started making fake coughs with an embarrassed face .

“This is a liquid extracted from the Talking Tree . ”

Kang Chul-in explained .

“Talking tree? Extraction?”

“As I said, it’s a liquid taken from the Talking Tree . ”

“What is the Talking Tree?”

“It’s literally a tree that talks . ”

“… Unbelievable . ”

“It’s not that it talks because they have thoughts . Just that they read the brain waves of the nearby humans . After that, they can talk so people decided to call it the Talking Tree . ”

“Ooh . The pangaea continent truly has many things . Fascinating… What does this liquid do then?”

“You can learn languages . ”

“What?!”

Old man Kwon’s body shaked .

“A-are you serious? Talk about in more detail . ”

“After you drink this liquid and you think of a language, it’s like data about that language coming into your body . If you drink one every day, you would be able to learn one language within a week . If it’s something many people speak, like Chinese or English, it would only take around 3-4 days . ”

“This is it! It’s this!”

“…… . . ?”

“Let’s do it with this!”

“Is this really that good?”

“Of course! Korea is the haven of academy as well as education . Things like TOEIC (english test for international countries) cause people to spend a bunch of money on it . With this, we would be able to earn a bunch of money!”

“…… . . !”

From the talking of Old man Kwon, Kang Chul-in seems to understand something too .

Yes .

South Korea really was the haven of education . It was a country where people went into serious debt and risked the future to let their children get better education . By selling the liquid in a country like this, they would be able to dominate the education market in not just Korea, but other countries to .

“And there are no need to worry about the regulations either . If it’s good for their children’s education, Korean parents would make their children eat whatever . If the government try to regulate this, they would taste some of their own medicine . Kukuku . ”

Old man Kwon spoke as if he had already achieved his dream .

“I will create an academy . I will allow the students to drink this liquid and make a curriculum for them!”

“As well as a business for adventurers . ”

“Yes, that’s right! Now I understand what you are truly talking about . This business is truly one that will let the goose lay the gold egg! There are infinite possibilities that can branch out from this! By using this extracted liquid as a signal flare in order to gain the people’s trust, it would be easier when selling new items . ”

“This is just the beginning . Old man, you don’t need to try and rush . ”

“There will be regulations . Although the plan of the academy is great, there will be regulations and rules made against it . ”

Yes, he was right .

It would be a fight . A tough and long fight .

But that was obvious . Living light itself was like participating in a cruel battlefield .

It was a society of infinite battles .

The second you were out of your mother’s womb, it was a competition, a competition against all odds .

Starting from primary school was a fight of grades, until fighting for salary when they were adults, a fight to gain a job after college . Especially Korea in the 2020s was an era where the competition was very ruthless .

In an era like this, they had to wage war in anyway possible .

“I will help you . ” Kang Chul-in said .

“However, I won’t do absolutely everything . This is not my fight, but yours . The one controlling this business will be you, not me . ”

Kang Chul-in’s fight was in the pangaea continent . He had no time waging war against the civilians of earth .

“Your words, I understand them well . ”

Old man Kwon took his wrinkled fists and gripped them hard .

“Just leave it to me . I will succeed . ”

“Of course you will . If you fail…”

“You will immediately switch partners . ”

“You know me well . ”

“Looking at you, I think of my elder brother of yesteryear, when he had yet to pass . ”

“……?’

Old man Kwon started talking about the past .

“He was not just a businessman, but an emperor . He had more charisma than anyone, and was absolutely strict in management . I know what you are going to do to me if I fail . But I also know how you will treat me if we succeed . ”

Talking about it, old man Kwon said .

“Thank you . ”

“…… . ?”

“From this conversation, I can tell how our future business relationship and business will be like . With this, I truly will be able to leave the underworld and clean up . My dream will finally come true . For letting me escape my fate of being a criminal, thank you . ”

Kang Chul-in didn’t respond . He didn’t know much about these kind of conversations after all .

“Eat this meat later . ”

He handed some of the peacock dragon’s meat to old man Kwon .

“What is this? Is it steak? Are you trying to revitalize this old man?”

“It’s dragon meat . ”

“……!”

“It’s good for your health . Don’t eat things like Ginseng or Viagra, and eat this instead . ”

“I don’t eat Viagra… . Yet…”

Old man Kwon tried to make an excuse, when Kang Chul-in’s phone started ringing and saw that there was a message from Park Doo-sik .

“…… . !”

But the face of Kang Chul-in’s face turned stiff when he saw the message .