“Huhup… Whoop…!”
Jericho hurriedly shoved the hot spaghetti into his mouth.
A smoky puff of steam seeped out through his mouth.
The guy who had been mumbling for a while finally opened his mouth.
“First of all… the organization structure has to be systematic. Even Olympus itself was more organized than it looked. There was a ‘headquarters,’ and right below that were ‘affiliate organizations’ like ours, and further down were regional temples and their members, like that.”
“What is that?”
The first step toward making Pax FC a ‘business.’
It wasn’t a very difficult task.
There were already more than 100 affiliated organizations under Pax FC, and they were well-differentiated by region and force.
Of course, to give it a more systematic feel, the overall name needed to be unified.
“Then…”
The real point was this:
A ‘business’ clearly organized with systematic names.
Next, I had to show the substance of the business.
“Just as the name suggests, a business has to have sales. That means it has to be able to make money.”
It was a chamber-like condition.
An organization whose purpose is to engage in for-profit activities.
It was nothing more than a sort of terrestrial command that they were imposing upon the entire multiverse.
Jericho once again briefly summarized the goals of such profit-making activities required of businesses.
“Pax FC must have a solid business item of its own.”
Olympus had that.
They built temples all over Europe, recruited believers, and created ‘gods’ who would use their faith as a resource to earn magic stones on their behalf.
To use a familiar metaphor, it could be seen as a kind of management business.
Star Olympus, Olympus 101, maybe you could call it that.
Pax FC’s exclusive business item.
This alone would have been a problem, but what happened next was also a problem.
“So what’s next? Once you find a business idea, you’re done, and you’re in business?”
“Hehe… I know that too… As you know, we were just a franchise…”
Jericho scratched the back of his head, seeming embarrassed.
I quietly knocked on the desk.
As if he sensed something, Jericho hurriedly inhaled the spaghetti and grabbed the drumstick of the roast chicken, stuffing it into his mouth like crazy.
CLANG!
Meanwhile, Ethan, who had been waiting outside, came in and roughly dragged Jericho out with his bronzed forearms.
“Let’s go now. There’s a lot of work left to do in the fields.”
“Hey, wait a minute! Brother! Brother…!”
Ji-i-ik.
Jericho’s two feet disappeared, leaving behind skid marks in the shape of the number eleven.
All that remained was dark silence.
After finishing my conversation with Jericho, I returned to Yongsan.
As I looked around at the corpses of the cold, dead monsters along the Han River, I fell into deep thought.
“…It’s a business item.”
That was the challenge at hand.
Regardless of how to set up a business specifically, as Jericho said, you need to have a solid business idea.
“If we are to be exact, there are a lot, but…”
Dozens of business ideas emerged as candidates.
Distribution using subspace portals,
Civil engineering construction using Father and Paxman technicians,
The transportation industry led by the number of users and awakened drivers,
Manufacturing utilizing the infinite inventory of logistics centers,
The food industry in fresh centers,
The educational business centered on training programs,
Finally, the cultural industry that puts the destructive talents of the elves at the forefront.
“…Let’s leave out the last one.”
Although Pax FC was truly active in many ways, they had one thing in common.
“…Because it helps everyone on a human level.”
But this time, it was different.
Because there was a need to secure a business item that the Chamber of Commerce would recognize.
This means that it must be a business that can be applied across multiple dimensions.
Wasn’t war originally fought with money?
In order for Earth to overcome the invasion of other dimensions and acquire overwhelming power, it had to have more capital than them.
A capital called none other than ‘Maseok.’
Standing on the rooftop of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters, I looked out over the Han River, now filled with a cold wind.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, I noticed there was someone else on the rooftop.
As I watched closely, I saw a short dwarf jumping up and down in place to look at the street.
I walked over to him and called his name.
“Cooper!”
“Oh, you’re here?”
He was a dwarf, Cooper.
It looked like they came out to see for themselves since Monster Wave had ended.
Even though I greeted him, he couldn’t take his eyes off the corpses of monsters lined up along the street.
“Oh, what a pity… What a pity.”
“What a pity?”
Cooper’s expression was dripping with regret.
He let out a long sigh and answered me.
“Byproducts, you know. Those are all resources and money… Well, it’s just a pie in the sky…”
“If you mean by-products… are you talking about the corpse of a monster?”
“Yes. What else is there?”
It was a problem I had never thought about before.
The corpses of monsters were nothing more than rotting, decaying, and crawling with flies.
Because I never imagined that it could be a resource beyond just food for bacteria or fertilizer for the soil.
“What are you going to do with the body?”
“Of course, most of it is thrown away. However, there are times when certain organs, horns, leather, and other things are absolutely necessary when making equipment. Well, they’re not necessarily only usable in blacksmith shops… but for a smelter like me, the utility comes first.”
The fact that monster corpses can be used as item materials or other resources.
But for that reason, Cooper’s appearance of just quietly stomping his feet was just questionable.
“Then why don’t we just go and collect them?”
“It’s not as easy as it sounds. If you don’t collect it at the right spot and at the right time, the material’s effects will disappear. Usually, it’s a task that fails ninety-nine times out of a hundred… so unless you’re a skilled expert, it’s usually best to just leave it alone. You’ll only hurt yourself and get nothing out of it.”
“Okay…”
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That’s why Cooper was looking at the monsters’ corpses with disbelief.
I was briefly contemplating a business idea using by-products, but now I am in a similar situation.
“Phew…”
“After…”
A heavy feeling of disappointment and helplessness.
At that moment, while I was staring blankly down the Han River with my chin resting on Cooper’s shoulder,
“…Who is that?”
Someone was seen approaching the troll’s corpse.
“That person is definitely…”
It was a sure thing.
A young man from Avalon who was doing his business in the manure fields of Elvenheim.
He was leading several Avalon people and heading towards Han River Road.
Finally, they reached the corpses of the trolls and ogres…
“What, what is it?”
Swaaaah!
Immediately, he swung his sword at the monsters’ corpses.
A diagonal line was drawn in the shape of a cross in the center.
Based on the central point, the Avalon people began to stab long awls and blades into the ground.
“T-That’s for sure. That’s definitely…!”
Dwarf Cooper exclaimed.
No matter how you look at it, what the Avalon people were doing was ‘slaughter.’
They swung their swords and awls without a moment’s hesitation, as if possessed.
Surprisingly, not a single drop of blood leaked from the corpse, and on the floor were neatly cut pieces of flesh, pieces of bone, and several organs laid out in an orderly manner like Go stones.
“It’s collecting by-products. Oh my God! There are professional bone diggers here…!”
Even to an untrained eye, the skills of the Avalonians were outstanding.
Knock knock.
Just by tapping on it, the orcs’ armor was ripped off.
Swish! Swish!
With each poke through the seam, one of the steel ogre’s scales was torn off.
What we soon saw was…
“Oh my God.”
A by-product of monsters piling up like a mountain.
So… it was Pax FC’s business item.
The picture was drawn right away.
There would be countless monster waves in the future.
If we placed defensive facilities and troops at each Red Gate, we would be able to secure the by-products of monsters in the future.
“What amazing people. It’s something we wouldn’t even dare to think about…”
Cooper, who had witnessed the skills of the Avalon people, was amazed.
“I said earlier that it has many uses, right? You can even sell it.”
“Of course. It’s not just the materials that determine the performance of an item… but you can’t deny that those by-products are absolutely necessary materials. If you’re serious about making them like us, you can sell them… I’ve heard that there are often cases where the Chamber of Commerce buys them directly.”
I clenched my fist.
If this by-product can become a ‘business item,’ it will make Pax FC a business, and furthermore, it will be able to create a powerful field effect all over the world.
“If the by-product is something that can be quite profitable… how about putting it in a subspace and copying it?”
I was quietly looking at the by-product when I asked Cooper.
It wasn’t impossible.
If you collect magic stones and reach subspace level 8, you will be able to insert by-products and copy them.
But Cooper shook his head.
“It might be good for now. But there are over a hundred types of by-products that are widely known. Only five or six are gathered here.”
“That means…”
“The world of items is truly mysterious. It’s a world of compatibility where there is no such thing as absolute superiority, so the more weapons of the same type you have, the weaker they become. And there will be more and more good by-products… Wouldn’t it be a waste to use your abilities now?”
It was a simple story.
In rock-paper-scissors, if you only sell scissors, it might be good in the short term, but the scissors will be worthless.
However, if we were to evenly place the three games of rock, paper, scissors into the subspace, the number of by-products would exceed 100.
But Cooper added one more assumption.
As time went by, I collected all kinds of by-products.
“If I collect all the by-products and put them into a subspace and print them out infinitely… maybe I really could become a god-like being in this universe.”
For now, we decided to postpone storing the by-products in a subspace and collect them by type.
But that didn’t mean we should only look to the future.
Because the by-product was an essential crafting material that the dwarves immediately coveted.
‘Is that why you were so excited about Avalon…’
Suddenly, I remembered the black magicians of Barnaul who tried to erase Avalon from the Earth.
Of course, the factories that had been built in Avalon were destroyed by the explosion, and the final process of the black magic items they were said to have made was unknown.
But at least I felt like I had completely inherited the basic business model of raw materials processing.
‘Since it’s only half-baked, I don’t know if it can be recognized as a business item…’
We could check those issues little by little.
For now, it was enough that the Avalonians had significant abilities and that they could still do ‘more.’
Besides, there was something else that had to be done right away.
Because the Earth was still teeming with guests from other dimensions.
From those who had made their home on Earth like their own living room to unscrupulous people who had set up businesses.
‘I have to take it all back.’
It would not be long before Pax FC would have its own field effect.
For that reason, shouldn’t we plant Pax FC flags in as many places on Earth as possible?
“You’ve made up your mind.”
Cooper added softly, as if he had read my expression.
I also nodded quietly.
Excluding cases like Elvenheim, where beings from other dimensions entered Earth through unintentional mergers, there were three main types of routes through which beings from other dimensions entered Earth.
<Freedom Development> in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stages, with indiscriminate entry.
<Bidding Competition>, which took over the area after winning the bidding competition.
<Linked Business>, businesses that joined hands with the awakened people of Earth through affiliate programs and such, such as Olympus.
Most of the dimensions that entered through <Bidding Competition> and <Linked Business> were gradually solidifying their positions on Earth.
Perhaps many of them, like Olympus, had completed their businesses and even created a ‘field effect.’
I added softly, imagining the city they built on Earth.
“I won’t just block it anymore.”
A new realm of destruction.
Because now the world is starting to come into view.
“Because it’s our land that they stole.”
This time, it was our turn to attack first.
And that was the prelude to the war of conquest that Pax FC would wage from now on.
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