Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

I took a shower early in the morning, got dressed, and left the apartment . As I walked out of the apartment, I saw Ah-young's apartment next door .

'She is sleeping now, right?'

I'd been in and out almost every day lately because I'd been eating breakfast, but it was a pa.s.s today . I told Ah-young, “I'm afraid I'll have to go to work early tomorrow, because I have something important to do . ”

Ah-young sometimes wanted to be with me, but she didn't protest when I said, “It's important . ” That was a good thing, it was cool . I took the elevator down to the bas.e.m.e.nt and drove my Bentley out of the underground parking lot . The intersection of Gangnam Station was quiet at 6:30 a . m . Gangnam Station, where my apartment was located, and Nonhyeon Station, where the company was located, were just two blocks away . If there was no traffic, I would be there in ten minutes .

Hmm~ Hmm~ I hummed and drove Bentley . On the other side, a yellow Lamborghini pa.s.sed me by .

'Well… is that low car worth driving?' I didn't know because I'd never ridden one . 'This time, my cla.s.s will be raised… Shall we buy one?' I changed my mind after thinking about it . 'Yes, if I get the Master Cla.s.s today, I'll go with Secretary Seo and book a Lamborghini . '

What I felt from my recent relations.h.i.+p with Ah-young was that my consumption pattern was still unchanged . Of course, as I got more money, I bought this and that without looking at the price tag, but I didn't spend much money on the luxury items as I just thought, 'Why do I need that?'

Since I was a child, the DNA from growing up in a poor family was so deeply embedded that it was not easy to spend money . Ah-young, on the other hand, knew a lot about luxury goods and bought them with the monthly rent she received . She'd learned to spend money reasonably since she was young .

'Yes, I'll spend some money, too… I make too much money, but I don't spend it .

'The rich are good at spending money . If the rich earn money and do not spend it, the money will not circulate in the market . Of course, I'm paying money in the form of “salary employment,” but that's a little short of it . I have to spend more money to feed others .

'I will buy a Lamborghini… the one I saw at the Bentley store the other day . What was it? Flying Spur? I'll buy another one, too .

I thought of things to spend more money on while waiting for a short signal .

'Money… where should I spend it?' Come to think of it, there was one thing I wanted to try since I was young: owning a club .

'I've seen that in a web novel before . The main character who returned to the past became the owner of a club and managed a soccer team . Was it… “A Club Owner from the Future?”…'

I used to go to K-League soccer field with my family . I didn't know about our Chungcheong-do team now, but it was still quite weak at the time, so I remembered that they had lost the game helplessly to the Seoul metropolitan team that day .

'Wait a minute… If I get the news in 12 Years After…' I had a rough idea of the sports category in the news 12 Years After-the list of 2030 World Cup national team .

'If I get a piece of that news, I can set up the future national team players to our team in advance . Of course, the growth process is important for athletic ability, but we can't deny that talent takes precedence .

'If I do that, it would be a lot like holding onto a big stock . '

'No, it might be better to advance to the EPL like the novel . If I get an article or two, like [2034 FIFA Best 11] or [2038 Ballon d'Or Winner], I can order a scout, “If you go to a place called Santa Fe Rosario in Argentina, you'll find Lionel Messi . Get him . ” or “If you go to an island called Madera in the west Atlantic, not mainland Portugal, you'll find Cristiano Ronaldo . Bring him in . ”'

I might be able to build up a team that way .

'They say that since Juventus hired Ronaldo last year, the stock market in Italy has increased by 30% .

'Then I can sweep up rising stars with a small amount of money . I'll just need the club to have a perfect youth education facility . How much does an EPL club cost?'

I had such fanciful thoughts as I arrived at my company . I was trying to get into the bas.e.m.e.nt parking lot of the company, and I saw a car which I was used to: a Genesis, the most expensive Korean-made large car . It was my car when I was a working stiff . I pulled over and waited for a moment for the car to stop .

Soon Secretary Seo came out and told me, “Oh, boss . You came to work early?”

“Yes . I have something important to do today . ”

I took the elevator with him . Secretary Seo pressed the seventeenth floor with the president's office . The fourteenth to the seventeenth floor were all embedded with the logo of our company, Invictus Investment . Originally, only one floor was used, but it increased as the company grew and had more employees .

'Oh, yeah, before I buy an EPL team…'

“Secretary Seo, does the landlord still want to sell this building?”

“The last time Jang asked indirectly, he said he wanted to sell it at a price higher than the market price . ”

“Really?”

“Our company is so popular that… He thinks this would be an opportunity and he is asking for ten million dollars more than the market price . ”

“Well… that is a little bit detestable . ”

“Right . ”

“We'll move out of here . There are vacancies in Gangnam these days . ”

“That's right . ”

I arrived on the seventeenth floor while I was talking to Secretary Seo . I spoke firmly to Seo, who sat down in front of the president's office . “Today, I don't want to see anyone before 9:10 . ”

“What about Jang?”

I shook my head and spoke decisively, “Not even Vice President Jang . Today, if he has a report, just let him wait . ”

Secretary Seo nodded, “Yes, boss . ”

As soon as I entered the president's office, I turned on the computer and took a seat .

I'd been eating the breakfast Ah-young made every day, and so I felt a little hungry, but I held back . Today was an important day . At 8:00, the email arrived .

[Master Cla.s.s Skill Guide]

I clicked on it without hesitation . There was a familiar phrase inside .

[Congratulations, Han Sang-hoon, who has been promoted to Master Cla.s.s . Master Cla.s.s can also be used and enhanced by investing points in each skill . ]

It was repeated, but I still read it carefully to see if there was any difference .

[The cooldown time of an active skill is based on the same thirty-day as the subscription period . There are currently four different skills available for the Master Cla.s.s . There are ten skill points that are not currently allocated . ]

I'd been given ten points this time . 'Ten points . ' I looked further down the scroll, rethinking the number briefly .

[People Search Lv3 (Active skill – three points required)

There is one more slot for searching for people . It will be available with other pa.s.sive skills applied .

Ranking News Lv2 (Active Skill – two points required)

In a specific category out of the news, you can receive first and second place news with high c.u.mulative view counts . It's available twice . It will be available with other pa.s.sive skills applied .

Future News Lv5 (Pa.s.sive skill – five points required)

You will receive another news 12 Years After with the existing news . Its format is the same as the existing news, and active skills are also available the same way . This pa.s.sive skill is overlaid with other pa.s.sive skills . ]

[Infiltration Report Lv1 (Active Skill – seven points required)

We will send a reporter to a specific target . The reporter will conduct a thirty-day intensive

investigation into the target and bring in one article that will not be reported to the established

press after thirty days . When you are sending a reporter, you can specify what to

investigate . ]

There was nothing really new or different in the skills . There was nothing to worry about . I made a quick decision . 'Let's get this straight . Tak Joon-gi is a problem, too . I don't know what kind of obstruction I'm going to have from him . ' Come to think of it, I was a little lucky in the last Bisang Construction, as the future news had an article about the corruption case .

'If Jung Gi-woong had been caught a little over a year later, not next February, I wouldn't have been able to implement justice . If I have this news, I can even get “the news that doesn't appear in the article . ” I now have the power to make news and articles that don't appear in articles through Oracle News .

'Okay, let's take Infiltration Report, investing seven points . I'm still using the others enough . '

What was a bit disappointing was that I wanted to get the news 12 Years After . I was curious, but it was simply a matter of curiosity .

'It is a far-fetched future thing like science fiction news, and it won't make money . Of course, it will be necessary to plan for a long time, but it won't be too late when my a.s.sets are over a billion dollars, after I get my Grandmaster Cla.s.s later . '

I took the Infiltration Report right away . Then, its description was changed .

[Infiltration Report Lv2 (Active Skill – ten points required)

We will send a reporter to a specific target . The reporter will conduct a fifteen-day intensive

investigation into the target and bring in one article that will not be reported to the established

press after fifteen days . When you are sending a reporter, you can specify what to

investigate . ]

Nothing else had changed, but thirty days had been shortened to fifteen . I knew it would be getting better, but I didn't know how much it would be getting better .

'Let's use it once . ' My remaining points were three . The remaining skills were People Search and Ranking News .

'These three points are… for People Search . ' I invested them in People Search to match my score . Ranking news had been used every month, but it didn't work often, because there were times when it became money and times when it didn't . On the other hand, People Search was useful in one way or another . The slots were not short, but they might not be enough if I thought about them in the future . Now there were thousands of people I had directly or indirectly hired .

'All right, then, like this . '

A congratulatory message came out when I took a skill, [Congratulations . You've been promoted to Master Cla.s.s . ]

And a follow-up notice was there, [Upgrade your news to Grandmaster Cla.s.s! A ten-million- dollar subscription fee is required for the promotion to Grandmaster Cla.s.s . ]

Fortunately, the subscription fee did not change, either . Ten million dollars a month was not a small amount of money, but it was fully affordable now . The next thing that mattered followed .

[In addition, as a qualification, you have to govern more than ten listed companies in your own country, with the combined market capital of the listed companies exceeding ten billion dollars . ] Now, it was demanding specific market capital, as well as the number of companies I would have under my wings .

I made a rough estimate . 'What I now control now is one billion dollars of Hyun Young Pharmaceutical and eight hundred million dollars of Kai Games . If I add up the rest… will it be approximately two billion dollars?'

That was about it . It meant I would have to put more than eight billion dollars more under me in the future so I could go up .

'Well, it's not very difficult . It'll just take a while . I thought I could make it in a few years . In a year or two, if I did well…

'All right, all right, then…' I went down the scroll further, thinking about it . But it finished with a phrase that I had never seen before .

[You have selected the Infiltration Report skill for the first time . Reporter Crow will come to see you . Please specify the place and time to meet . ]

Translator: Khan.

Editor: Aelryinth.

I took a shower early in the morning, got dressed, and left the apartment . As I walked out of the apartment, I saw Ah-young's apartment next door

'She is sleeping now, right?'.

I'd been in and out almost every day lately because I'd been eating breakfast, but it was a pa.s.s today . I told Ah-young, “I'm afraid I'll have to go to work early tomorrow, because I have something important to do . ”.

Ah-young sometimes wanted to be with me, but she didn't protest when I said, “It's important . ” That was a good thing, it was cool . I took the elevator down to the bas.e.m.e.nt and drove my Bentley out of the underground parking lot . The intersection of Gangnam Station was quiet at 6:30 a . m . Gangnam Station, where my apartment was located, and Nonhyeon Station, where the company was located, were just two blocks away . If there was no traffic, I would be there in ten minutes

Hmm~ Hmm~ I hummed and drove Bentley . On the other side, a yellow Lamborghini pa.s.sed me by

'Well… is that low car worth driving?' I didn't know because I'd never ridden one . 'This time, my cla.s.s will be raised… Shall we buy one?' I changed my mind after thinking about it . 'Yes, if I get the Master Cla.s.s today, I'll go with Secretary Seo and book a Lamborghini . '.

What I felt from my recent relations.h.i.+p with Ah-young was that my consumption pattern was still unchanged . Of course, as I got more money, I bought this and that without looking at the price tag, but I didn't spend much money on the luxury items as I just thought, 'Why do I need that?'.

Since I was a child, the DNA from growing up in a poor family was so deeply embedded that it was not easy to spend money . Ah-young, on the other hand, knew a lot about luxury goods and bought them with the monthly rent she received . She'd learned to spend money reasonably since she was young

'Yes, I'll spend some money, too… I make too much money, but I don't spend it

'The rich are good at spending money . If the rich earn money and do not spend it, the money will not circulate in the market . Of course, I'm paying money in the form of “salary employment,” but that's a little short of it . I have to spend more money to feed others

'I will buy a Lamborghini… the one I saw at the Bentley store the other day . What was it? Flying Spur? I'll buy another one, too

I thought of things to spend more money on while waiting for a short signal

'Money… where should I spend it?' Come to think of it, there was one thing I wanted to try since I was young: owning a club

'I've seen that in a web novel before . The main character who returned to the past became the owner of a club and managed a soccer team . Was it… “A Club Owner from the Future?”…'.

I used to go to K-League soccer field with my family . I didn't know about our Chungcheong-do team now, but it was still quite weak at the time, so I remembered that they had lost the game helplessly to the Seoul metropolitan team that day

'Wait a minute… If I get the news in 12 Years After…' I had a rough idea of the sports category in the news 12 Years After-the list of 2030 World Cup national team

'If I get a piece of that news, I can set up the future national team players to our team in advance . Of course, the growth process is important for athletic ability, but we can't deny that talent takes precedence

'If I do that, it would be a lot like holding onto a big stock . '.

'No, it might be better to advance to the EPL like the novel . If I get an article or two, like [2034 FIFA Best 11] or [2038 Ballon d'Or Winner], I can order a scout, “If you go to a place called Santa Fe Rosario in Argentina, you'll find Lionel Messi . Get him . ” or “If you go to an island called Madera in the west Atlantic, not mainland Portugal, you'll find Cristiano Ronaldo . Bring him in . ”'.

I might be able to build up a team that way

'They say that since Juventus hired Ronaldo last year, the stock market in Italy has increased by 30%

'Then I can sweep up rising stars with a small amount of money . I'll just need the club to have a perfect youth education facility . How much does an EPL club cost?'.

I had such fanciful thoughts as I arrived at my company . I was trying to get into the bas.e.m.e.nt parking lot of the company, and I saw a car which I was used to: a Genesis, the most expensive Korean-made large car . It was my car when I was a working stiff . I pulled over and waited for a moment for the car to stop

Soon Secretary Seo came out and told me, “Oh, boss . You came to work early?”.

“Yes . I have something important to do today . ”.

—-.

I took the elevator with him . Secretary Seo pressed the seventeenth floor with the president's office . The fourteenth to the seventeenth floor were all embedded with the logo of our company, Invictus Investment . Originally, only one floor was used, but it increased as the company grew and had more employees

'Oh, yeah, before I buy an EPL team…'.

“Secretary Seo, does the landlord still want to sell this building?”.

“The last time Jang asked indirectly, he said he wanted to sell it at a price higher than the market price . ”.

“Really?”.

“Our company is so popular that… He thinks this would be an opportunity and he is asking for ten million dollars more than the market price . ”.

“Well… that is a little bit detestable . ”.

“Right . ”.

“We'll move out of here . There are vacancies in Gangnam these days . ”.

“That's right . ”.

I arrived on the seventeenth floor while I was talking to Secretary Seo . I spoke firmly to Seo, who sat down in front of the president's office . “Today, I don't want to see anyone before 9:10 . ”.

“What about Jang?”.

I shook my head and spoke decisively, “Not even Vice President Jang . Today, if he has a report, just let him wait . ”.

Secretary Seo nodded, “Yes, boss . ”.

As soon as I entered the president's office, I turned on the computer and took a seat

I'd been eating the breakfast Ah-young made every day, and so I felt a little hungry, but I held back . Today was an important day . At 8:00, the email arrived

[Master Cla.s.s Skill Guide].

I clicked on it without hesitation . There was a familiar phrase inside

[Congratulations, Han Sang-hoon, who has been promoted to Master Cla.s.s . Master Cla.s.s can also be used and enhanced by investing points in each skill . ].

It was repeated, but I still read it carefully to see if there was any difference

[The cooldown time of an active skill is based on the same thirty-day as the subscription period . There are currently four different skills available for the Master Cla.s.s . There are ten skill points that are not currently allocated . ].

I'd been given ten points this time . 'Ten points . ' I looked further down the scroll, rethinking the number briefly

[People Search Lv3 (Active skill – three points required).

There is one more slot for searching for people . It will be available with other pa.s.sive skills applied

Ranking News Lv2 (Active Skill – two points required).

In a specific category out of the news, you can receive first and second place news with high c.u.mulative view counts . It's available twice . It will be available with other pa.s.sive skills applied

Future News Lv5 (Pa.s.sive skill – five points required).

You will receive another news 12 Years After with the existing news . Its format is the same as the existing news, and active skills are also available the same way . This pa.s.sive skill is overlaid with other pa.s.sive skills . ].

[Infiltration Report Lv1 (Active Skill – seven points required).

We will send a reporter to a specific target . The reporter will conduct a thirty-day intensive.

investigation into the target and bring in one article that will not be reported to the established.

press after thirty days . When you are sending a reporter, you can specify what to.

investigate . ].

There was nothing really new or different in the skills . There was nothing to worry about . I made a quick decision . 'Let's get this straight . Tak Joon-gi is a problem, too . I don't know what kind of obstruction I'm going to have from him . ' Come to think of it, I was a little lucky in the last Bisang Construction, as the future news had an article about the corruption case

'If Jung Gi-woong had been caught a little over a year later, not next February, I wouldn't have been able to implement justice . If I have this news, I can even get “the news that doesn't appear in the article . ” I now have the power to make news and articles that don't appear in articles through Oracle News

'Okay, let's take Infiltration Report, investing seven points . I'm still using the others enough . '.

What was a bit disappointing was that I wanted to get the news 12 Years After . I was curious, but it was simply a matter of curiosity

'It is a far-fetched future thing like science fiction news, and it won't make money . Of course, it will be necessary to plan for a long time, but it won't be too late when my a.s.sets are over a billion dollars, after I get my Grandmaster Cla.s.s later . '.

I took the Infiltration Report right away . Then, its description was changed

[Infiltration Report Lv2 (Active Skill – ten points required).

We will send a reporter to a specific target . The reporter will conduct a fifteen-day intensive.

investigation into the target and bring in one article that will not be reported to the established.

press after fifteen days . When you are sending a reporter, you can specify what to.

investigate . ].

Nothing else had changed, but thirty days had been shortened to fifteen . I knew it would be getting better, but I didn't know how much it would be getting better

'Let's use it once . ' My remaining points were three . The remaining skills were People Search and Ranking News

'These three points are… for People Search . ' I invested them in People Search to match my score . Ranking news had been used every month, but it didn't work often, because there were times when it became money and times when it didn't . On the other hand, People Search was useful in one way or another . The slots were not short, but they might not be enough if I thought about them in the future . Now there were thousands of people I had directly or indirectly hired

'All right, then, like this . '.

A congratulatory message came out when I took a skill, [Congratulations . You've been promoted to Master Cla.s.s . ].

And a follow-up notice was there, [Upgrade your news to Grandmaster Cla.s.s! A ten-million- dollar subscription fee is required for the promotion to Grandmaster Cla.s.s . ].

Fortunately, the subscription fee did not change, either . Ten million dollars a month was not a small amount of money, but it was fully affordable now . The next thing that mattered followed

[In addition, as a qualification, you have to govern more than ten listed companies in your own country, with the combined market capital of the listed companies exceeding ten billion dollars . ] Now, it was demanding specific market capital, as well as the number of companies I would have under my wings

I made a rough estimate . 'What I now control now is one billion dollars of Hyun Young Pharmaceutical and eight hundred million dollars of Kai Games . If I add up the rest… will it be approximately two billion dollars?'.

That was about it . It meant I would have to put more than eight billion dollars more under me in the future so I could go up

'Well, it's not very difficult . It'll just take a while . I thought I could make it in a few years . In a year or two, if I did well….

'All right, all right, then…' I went down the scroll further, thinking about it . But it finished with a phrase that I had never seen before

[You have selected the Infiltration Report skill for the first time . Reporter Crow will come to see you . Please specify the place and time to meet . ].