Return of the 10th Circle Archmage

“Wow, that’s great.”

Ari and I arrived at a factory in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi-do in a Rolls-Royce Phantom, the company's corporate vehicle.

“This is a factory purchased by Daedong Group. It used to be a factory owned by Cheong-A Jewel Lee, but recently the factory went bankrupt and was put up for sale.”

“It’s huge.”

“It’s about 1000 sq. There are dormitories, a mart, and a gym near the factory.”

"i See."

Me and Ari, holding hands side by side, entered the freshly painted company building.

Perhaps it was because he had already spoken to Yoo Pil-jun, the inside of the store was diligently decorated with flowers for the successful start of the new Ari Jewelry Shop.

"Hello."

“Oh yes, nice to meet you. Are you at the Ari Jewelry Shop?”

"Yes that's right."

“Wow, you are so beautiful.”

“Ho-ho-ho, thank you.”

We met the interior manager who we just met in the hallway, and we chatted a little. He always looked at Ari's beauty and showed more interest in Ari than me.

“You made a good choice. By the way, the factory I used to live in went bankrupt, so creditors sold it at a bargain price. Since the economy is difficult these days, no one wants to start a business, and jewelry factories are even more prone to that.”

"i See."

“However, your wife is such a beautiful woman, so whatever she does, she will do well.”

“Ho-ho-ho, is that so?”

I don't know what a pretty face has to do with business... No, does it have anything to do with it?

Anyway, after hearing the compliments in moderation, Ari pulled my hand and walked away.

In front of the factory, there was a wide playground and various exercise equipments, and dormitories, gyms, and marts were also located nearby.

“I really like it.”

"That's fortunate."

“I also wanted to have a factory like this one day.”

“Then, shall we do it in Ari’s name?”

“Ho ho ho. It doesn't matter who the name is. After all, the things I designed will be made here.”

"Yes."

Again, Ari was cool in business. Even if he didn't have to do it in his own name, he knew by intuition that the chairman of the Daedong Group couldn't move on to me.

In the end, Ari's meaning became mine, and Yoo Pil-jun was ranked 3rd in rank.

‘Even dogs who can’t speak are strictly ranked in the house, but humans are nagging to say the least.’

When I look at the puppies they have at home, for some families they wag their tails, and for others, they just bark without hearing anything.

It's all about doing things in order.

“After a week, disabled people who have received vocational training will move into the dormitory and start making products.”

He said that Daedong Group had already put out a large-scale job advertisement, and a large number of disabled people who had spread across the country were selected.

The employees of Ari Jewelry Shop are dispatched there to provide customized vocational training.

Originally, they were friends who graduated from schools for the disabled in each region and went to vocational schools that are part of the employment program run by the country.

Vocational competency schools for the disabled nationwide in connection with the Employment Success Package receive training for 6 months to 1 year regardless of mental or physical disability and get a job at each company.However, since most of them worked in poor treatment and environment, most of the disabled were forced to work with patience despite unreasonable treatment.

'I'm not going to force my work hours.'

It operates 5 days a week, and the hourly wage is higher than the minimum hourly wage. As the staff was organized mainly for people with disabilities, the government provided a small amount of subsidy for salaries.

For each disabled person hired, each person was paid between 300,000 and 600,000 won per month.

‘Starting with a simple assembly, the company itself should support university admissions and help them learn professional skills.’

Everyone says that if you make easy money, it's easy to get out.

To others, it may seem like I just got lucky.

But I earned it by suffering to death.

That much, I was able to afford to look back on people who were more difficult than me.

‘Money is all I need, and I think it’s better to spend the rest on good things.’

No matter how much I bought a foreign car and wore luxury goods all over my body, it was only the amount of a drop of water in the sea.

So, other than that, I wanted to use my unnecessary money for the best possible use.

People who are marginalized around us without having to go to Africa in a grand way.

If the money was used for the disabled, those receiving basic benefits, the orphans without parents, and people without hospital bills, the money I earned at the point of death would be very valuable.

“Junhyuk, thank you very much.”

As I was contemplating the scenery outside the company, Ari took my hand and said so.

She, too, must have been running for her business, only looking at her money. Since her father is a politician, he must have owed a lot of money, and must have worked hard to pay it off and to finance it.

It was for that reason that she had never had her boyfriend before.

However, as she met me, she was freed from worrying about money and became a person who could see her surroundings more widely.

“Da-Ari is kind, so the energy of the universe helps her.”

“Does that sound like a joke for some reason?”

“It must be the mood.”

“Ho-ho-ho-”

Ari covered her mouth at my joke and smiled broadly. She lit up a slightly dark room with her laughter. A person who makes you feel good when you are by your side.

Ari was such a person to me.

“Now we are slowly going back. Because the Daedong Group will do all the chores anyway.”

"okay."

I and Ari returned to Seoul in a Rolls-Royce again. Yangpyeong is a short distance from Seoul, so it was not difficult to come and go for business.

After I dropped Ari off at the jewelry store, I went straight home. From investment companies to pharmaceutical companies, and this time to jewelry factories.

If I had more than a trillion dollars, I thought I would just lie in the corner of the room like a jolbu and watch TV and play fresh gambling.

Surprisingly, spending was hesitant, and there were many places where the money could go. Of course, there were a lot of people around to help, so it wasn't too difficult.

As I drew the blueprint for the factory that was going to start operating in earnest, I fell into happy thoughts.

And another two weeks passed.

*

The factory equipment used the original one, and I engraved the magic circle into the equipment.

The magic circle was linked to the pylon that was placed in our house, and was connected every time a cube was printed.

By combining the cubic blocks produced in this way, the item was sold in the market as soon as the item was completed in the form designed by Ari.

The promotion was promoted by Daedong Group and penetrated the supplier. Mainly, it started supplying to large stationery stores in each province, and also conducted Internet and TV advertisements on a large scale.

And the workers at the factory started with a total of 100 people, including the newly hired people with disabilities from Daedong Group and the remaining workers from the existing Cheong-A jewelry factory.

“Wow, that’s pretty.”

At the Ari Jewelry Shop, I looked at the finished products that arrived one by one with Ari.

"Hehe. My craftsmanship is a bit..."

At my compliment, Ari crossed her arms and flaunted her triumphant demeanor. She wasn't that kind of person in the first place, but she became more flirtatious about whether she was becoming more like me.

“Anyway, as Junhyeok said, I hope it’s really effective.”

"there is. Trust me.”

“Yes. I will only trust the president.”

Ari forcibly corrected her playful expression, and nodded her head with a solemn expression.

I hated her, so I grabbed her hands and tickled her armpits.

“Ho ho ho, ha ha!”

Ari ran away to avoid my tickling. I picked up the leftover SAT items on the desk and looked at them one by one.

'Concentration bracelet, memory necklace, English easy ring, it turns out that math genius bracelet...'

The name is a little childish, but I was confident that it would catch the students' attention.

‘Because I have confidence in one effect.’

From the time they came out of the factory, magic-linked items changed the wearer's hormones to maximize the study effect.

In addition, each item has a rating, some of which are 1.1 times the efficiency, some 1.2 times, and some 1.3 times...

In this way, by making it progressively better, there was a price difference for each product.

‘It’s sweeping the market from very low-priced brands to high-end brands.’

The difference in cost is not much.

However, Ahri carefully designed each grade according to my order, and the higher I went, the more luxurious and beautiful it became.

Not only does the effect get better, but the aesthetic value also rises sharply.

Even the highest grade items were made of cubic materials.

It was decorated with cubic imitation sapphires, imitation emeralds, imitation rubies, and rhinestones, so that the cost did not exceed 1,000 won per piece.

However, the highest grade items were priced from 100,000 won to 200,000 won, so it was almost 100 times, 200 times or more, taking profit.

‘Anyway, rich people will buy it even if they have money.’

Perhaps, if the effect was proven, it was clear that it would be sold in a used country, even at a higher price.

There will probably be a lot of stock.

With that in mind, another week passed.

*

“Are you saying items for the SAT are not selling well?”

-Yes that's right. Although it was actively promoted, consumers turned away from it because it was more expensive than the general price.

“It was designed with care by Mr. Ari, and it should cost at least tens of thousands of won.”

-Yes, but where do students get their money? I don't often buy SAT items that I want only a few hundred won or several thousand won, but tens of thousands of won seems a bit burdensome.

“No, you have to do something about it. Isn't that your role?

-········

Through the receiver, Yoo Pil-jun's bewildered appearance was transmitted. I still put an iron plate on his face and kept pushing.

“Find a way. Whatever you do, you sell a lot.””···Oh, yes. all right."

drop.

The phone is disconnected.

Ari, who was eavesdropping on my phone in the white room, asked with a worried expression.

“It didn’t sell well, did it?”

“No, um… I thought there was not enough publicity yet, so I scolded Yoo Pil-jun.”

”········Could you lower the price a bit more?”

“No, you don't have to. Ari's design is great. Of course, you have to pay that price.”

"However······"

“Don’t worry, I have a way.”

I calmed Ari who was worried for a while, then immediately picked up my smartphone, rummaged through the phone book, and pressed the call button again.

“Yes, Mr. Seok Chang-ik. Long time no see."

- Oh, yes. brother. How are you?

The person I called was Seok Chang-ik, the president of the Cheetah Godfather.

“It’s no different…”

- With our staff, I sent 20 million won a month without missing a lot.

“Yeah, the money is being paid well. That's not what I'm talking about today."

-········

It was Seok Chang-ik's tone that seemed to be hoping for a compliment from his owner with a triumphant tone, but I lightly ignored it and said the purpose.

“I started a new business, but it didn’t go well, so I contacted them.”

-Yes?

Seok Chang-ik's tone was absurd.

He's not in his business, either, so he's probably thinking what's got to do with him, whether it's good or bad.

However, I didn't think so.

“It seems to be a lack of publicity. I entrusted the publicity with the Daedong Group, but these guys only pay for publicity and they don’t do their job properly.”

-········

“So I would like you to come out of the Cheetah Godfather. Putting 200 a month on my bank account is on hold for a while, and please take care of this.”

-all right.

When they told me to stop receiving 200 monthly payments, Chang-Ik Seok said he was right, and quickly agreed.

“Please do your best so that the items I made for the SAT can be sold. Can you do it?”

“Just leave it to me.”

”As a product promotion, please distribute this SAT item to poor students. If you just hand them out, you might not have them, so it would be better if you gave them a cultural gift certificate worth 1-2 thousand won to the children who tried it and left a review. The funds will be supported by Daedong Group, so please do not worry about money and do your best to promote.”

- Are you really okay with that?

He asked with a questionable tone as to whether he thought he was not blunt even when he thought about it. This is a huge loss business from a seller's point of view, no matter what anyone thinks.

However, I didn't care about such damage. It's money I spend on good work anyway, so I didn't really care because it would all come back to me in the future.

“It’s a ‘work-and-run’ event where we advertise and do good things. Once you've used it, word of mouth from the students gets you, and you won't even need to advertise after that. We can’t sell it because we don’t have enough stock.”

-········

Seok Chang-ik didn't answer whether he was absurd with my excessive self-confidence or was at a loss for words.

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