How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

Kim Hye-eun’s daily life at the Gunsan Industrial Complex was always the same.

On weekdays, I stop by the energy purchase booth on my way home from work to sell energy, and on the weekend, I sell energy at the purchase booth installed in my apartment.

In this way, Kim Hye-eun earns 210,000 won a month, but with her husband and two sons, it is 840,000 won, so it was no small amount of money.

I stopped by the purchase booth on my way home from work as usual.

“uh?”

But isn’t the employee of Seron, who disappeared after the energy purchase booth was unmanned, doing something against people in the booth?

Kim Hye-eun approached the employee without much thought because she had never lost money by actively cooperating with the work promoted by Seron.

“hello.”

In response to Kim Hye-eun’s greeting, the staff spoke with a friendly smile.

“yes. welcome.”

“What is it this time?”

“It’s nothing else, because our company is changing the purchasing system right now. I have been sent to explain it.”

“A change? Could the price be lowered?”

“It could be lowered.”

“yes? You can’t do that…”

Parents who live nearby are also more relaxed thanks to energy sales, but the price is lower here.

Then the staff laughed and said.

“But it can also go up the other way.”

“What do you mean?”

“As you know, isn’t our company doing various businesses using purified water?”

“Yes.”

“But when you run a business, sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn’t. As a result, some argue that it would be better to introduce a variable pricing system depending on the situation rather than the existing fixed price.”

“A variable price?”

“Like stocks, when the market is good, it goes up, and when it is bad, it goes down.”

“aha.”

“In addition, giving cash to people every day unconditionally as before is too much of a burden on the work, so from now on we will not give cash right away, but will accumulate rounds.”

“You’re accumulating rounds?”

“yes. Then you can sell it at the price you want. For example, today’s market price is 6,900 won, but if you don’t like this price, you can sell it all at once when it goes up later.”

“I see.”

Kim Hye-eun was relieved after hearing the employee’s explanation.

Even if the price drops right now, you can sell it later when the price goes up. How convenient is it?

“We will also use the app to facilitate transactions between individuals.”

“A person-to-person transaction?”

“Would you like to give me your cell phone for a second?”

The employee who received the cell phone like that, installed the app, and started explaining about the app.

“If you look here, you can check the rounds accumulated so far, and on this side, you can trade these rounds between individuals like stocks. If you place a buy order at the desired price range and someone wants to sell at the same price, it is automatically matched.”

“It looks like real stock. Anyway, you can store it and sell it later when the price goes up, right?”

“Exactly.”

Kim Hye-eun, who heard all the explanations, said as she entered the booth.

“6,900 won today? I’ll sell it later, then.”

*

Kim Hye-eun sighed and said.

“Did you fall again?”

Starting at 6,900 won, the purchase price gradually decreased to 5,900 won.

I saved it 30 times with the intention of selling it when the price goes up.

Kim Hye-eun sighed once and entered the community where people post.

Then, a community filled with writings from people who couldn’t catch the point of sale in the continuing decline.

Among them, there were many people who said they had already cut their hands, saying that it was annoying.

“If I sell it now… for 177,000 won.”

It was only a little over 30,000 won, but even so, Kim Hye-eun felt like she had lost her raw money, so she was not at ease.

After thinking for a while, Kim Hye-eun said.

“Let’s just sell it.”

It is true that purchasing energy is a great help to households, but that doesn’t mean we can’t just hold on to it forever.

That’s when I decided to sell it.

“uh?”

The title of a post caught Kim Hye-eun’s eye.

“Is this the low point?”

Kim Hye-eun checked the contents by clicking on the post like that.

The post was about analyzing the trend of the business that Seron is currently doing related to water purification and the amount of water consumption resulting from it, and it will not go below this level no matter how much it goes down, so now is the bottom.

“A low point?”

Kim Hye-eun, who confirmed the recent price change as if she was possessed by something.

“It continues to move sideways at 5,900 and 5,800.”

The price, which started at 6,900 and went down steadily, stopped going back and forth between 5,900 and 5,800.

“Is that really the low point? It is said that this can also be done privately. If I pay 100 won more and buy a lot, then sell when the price goes up, won’t I make money?”

Kim Hye-eun said with a blank expression.

“There’s no way that Seron will fail anyway, and even if the energy collapses, how much will it collapse? Coins without substance have risen so much in price, but energy is definitely consumed.”

Seron is still expanding its business.

Kim Hye-eun, who thought that the more Seron’s energy part business expands, the more water it will need, and of course, the energy price will inevitably rise.

“You had spare funds… 3,000, right?”

*

Kim Hye-eun, who invested all her spare money in energy purchases as if possessed by a ghost.

She bought pure water at just 100 won higher than the current market price in the personal transaction market, and the amount of rounds accumulated in Kim Hye-eun’s app was a whopping 5,000.

And from that day on, Kim Hye-eun’s nervousness grew worse day by day.

“5,700… Did you get down more?”

I thought it was the lowest point and invested 30 million won without my husband’s knowledge, but it fell even further.

“Ahh. I’m crazy, I’m crazy I’ll just work hard at what I’m doing.”

I’ve only invested a million won in stocks for fun, but I never thought I’d suffer like this because I suddenly bought energy.

“It’s still okay though. Let’s be patient a little longer.”

Kim Hye-eun, who tried so hard to turn away from her cell phone and watched the news on TV.

But then.

– Breaking news. A famous American Hollywood actor was shot five times by an assailant, but he managed to escape thanks to the bulletproof Korean luxury clothes and bag and is currently receiving treatment at the hospital. This actor is known to have suffered only minor bruises, and thanked him for being able to live thanks to Korean products.

Seeing the news, Kim Hye-eun exclaimed.

“Protégé! Good news!”

Kim Hye-eun, who hurriedly turned on her cell phone and entered the personal transaction item, was torn apart.

“Go, the price has gone up.”

Isn’t the price of energy, which was traded just 100 won higher than the price announced by Seron every day, suddenly jumped over 800 won.

This means that everyone expected that the news would boost property sales and naturally increase energy sales as well.

Kim Hye-eun’s pupils shake.

“Sell? Are you selling right now?”

If you sell it to an individual now, you can make a profit of 3.5 million won.

However, Kim Hye-eun had no choice but to hesitate.

There is still time left until the unit price is announced tomorrow in Seron, and above all, the fact that people pay 800 won more to buy it is because there is an expectation that it will rise more than that.

In the end, Kim Hye-eun had no choice but to shout out terms she had only heard on the Internet from time to time as she grabbed her cell phone.

“Jonber. Jonber wins!”

*

The energy trading market introduced only in Korea as a test.

I deliberately dropped the price to give people a learning effect, then raised the price by 1,500 won to 7,200 won the very next day when news broke that an American Hollywood actor had survived being shot while wearing a protege outfit set. abandoned

Perhaps the quick-witted person who bought at the bottom made a profit of nearly 20%.

“Aren’t there people who invest professionally only in energy?”

Deokbae Kim nodded and said.

“I think that might be the case.”

I said with a smile.

“Anyway, it’s a success.”

The effect of introducing this system was truly successful.

Except for some people who dispose of it in a hurry, most people waited and sold it or sold it to people who were buying rounds in the market, and thanks to this, more than 80% of the amount that Ceron should have paid was locked in the market.

While funds were tied up in the market, Cerone had already used that energy to produce power plants and protege products and completed generating profits, so a huge amount of money was piled up in the company’s bank account.

At that time, a shooting incident of a Hollywood actor broke out, so I raised the price all at once to 7,200 won and paid the overdue debt.

Deokbae Kim nodded and said.

“It’s a really good way.”

In a normal transaction, you would first buy raw materials, make a product, and then sell it to make a profit.

“By the way, President, if people suddenly sell energy simultaneously, wouldn’t it be a big problem?”

I said with a smile.

“A bank run?”

“yes.”

“Then we can put up an urgent notice and drop the price. It’s an opportunity to pay for credit at a low price.”

“···ah.”

“The reason I introduced this in the first place is not to make money with this, but to give the money that should be given flexibly when I want to give it.”

The method of earning interest by receiving deposits and rolling the funds like a bank is attracting customers to an unbearable level because the more deposits you receive, the more money you can earn, but I’m not trying to make money with this in the first place.

That is why, after attracting only the level of customers that can be afforded, when there is something that requires a lot of funds, lower the price to keep the funds in the market as much as possible.

“To be honest, it’s not like everyone can afford to exchange money at the same time right now, right? We just have to manage it at this level in the future.”

“okay. All right. By the way, there was talk of futures trading among some executives…”

At Deokbae Kim’s words, I shook my head and said,

“That doesn’t work. It’s a total gamble, even when we unilaterally set pricing. If someone loses money with futures, it is certain that we will make a fuss about manipulating the price and causing damage.”

It’s not that I don’t understand what Kim Deok-bae said.

If people bet on the rise by trading futures with energy, if we reverse the price and force liquidation, Ceron can handle even the credit value at a bargain price.

However, if that happens, will not Cerone, who has the right to change prices, be accused of deliberately manipulating prices to cause losses?

“Let’s not do anything to insult. It’s still going well, so there’s no need to do that, right?”

At my words, Deokbae Kim lowered his head and said,

“okay. Then I will tell the executives to be careful.”

“no no. Just leave it alone. It’s because you talk one by one and then a great idea comes out. Anyway, keep the current price for the time being. Then let it go up and down moderately.”

Energy trading was special this time, and we aim for low risk and low return going forward.

That way, people will be more relieved and lock the market.

“All right.”

I said with a bright smile.

“Anyway, it’s definitely a Hollywood actor, so the publicity effect is certain.”

Demand for the Protige product, which had been selling like hot cakes, was proving its performance in this Hollywood actor incident, and the demand for it was increasing exponentially.

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Moreover, protégés localized in the U.S. must be worn as a set to be functional, so people with a lot of money often buy several bags and dozens of clothes at once.

“Even if it’s not the case, the US distributor has contacted us saying they will open offline stores across the US if we increase the supply.”

“Increase the supply, what. Expand your production line.”

At that time, Deokbae Kim looked at me and said.

“But then, isn’t the chairman’s work becoming too burdensome…?”

Right now, Protige’s products were made in such a way that when fabric or leather was received, I carved a magic circle on it and cut it around the magic circle to make clothes and bags.

Of course, in order to increase production, the amount of fabric I engrave the magic circle on must also increase.

I licked my lips and said.

“Honestly, there’s nothing I can’t do… but it’ll be difficult if it increases here.”

Although it aims for luxury goods, in the end it is not very difficult because it is a ready-made product of the same shape, so it is not too difficult to just copy the magic circle, but if you have to make tens of thousands of copies a day later…

You can’t stick to it all day when your business doesn’t have only one property.

I thought for a while and said.

“I can’t help it. Build a factory.”

“You mean the factory?”

“We need a factory with a secure facility that no one can break in.”

It’s time to make a tool that can engrave magic by connecting it to the essence you’ve been thinking about.

The only way to do that is to make the tool and then use the tool to draw the same magic circle on the fabric indefinitely in a factory with high security.

And this factory, of course, required tight security.

It would be a big deal if the magic circle or the tools that could draw the magic circle were leaked.

“I’ll take care of everything inside the factory, so the vice president only cares about external security.”

A large number of skeleton troops are placed in a tightly secured factory where only I can come and go, making it a fortress that no one can invade.

“All right.”

*

While Deokbae Kim led the construction of a new security factory, I actively increased the production of Protige products to meet the demand in the United States.

Thanks to this, Protige’s sales are skyrocketing day by day.

But suddenly, a brake was put on the brakes that I had hoped would not happen in Korea.

“Whoa.”

I said frowning.

“Something has come.”

That’s value added tax.

It was Korean law that all for-profit transactions were subject to a 10 percent VAT.

For example, if A makes a raw material and sells it to B for 100 won, A must pay 10 percent of the 100 won, or 10 won, as VAT.

And if B processes the raw material for 100 won and sells it at 250 won, the profit is 150 won and another 10% VAT is added to pay 15 won.

However, mana has no form, and above all, it was exempted from this value-added tax because there was no profit from it until recently. that’s it

“This can’t be helped.”

Unlike skeletons, this was literally a situation similar to raw materials like oil.

The problem was that the people who had to pay this fee were ordinary people who were selling magical powers to Ceron.

“If I can postpone it as long as possible, I try to postpone it, and if that doesn’t work, I can’t help it. After all, the country listens to resentments.”

I’m just following the laws set by the country.

“Then, if you buy at 7,000 won in the future, the tax will be 700 won each? Then the range of fluctuation should be a little larger so that people trade more actively… Wait a minute. But then, what happens when people do business with each other?”

Now, with the opening of the energy trading market, transactions between people were actively taking place.

People who are looking for arbitrage are buying from 100 to 200 won higher than the unit price of taxon in the market, and those who need urgent money are selling rounds for money from these people, not taxon.

If value-added tax is added to this transaction, wouldn’t this market be completely destroyed?

I hurriedly picked up the extension phone and spoke to the secretary.

“Tell the accountant to come to my room quickly.”

*

An accountant in charge of accounting for the Seron Group, who heard my call and came running.

The accountant listened to me and smiled.

“There is no VAT on transactions like that.”

“You don’t stick?”

“yes. This is an act of buying and selling a kind of right, not the actual exchange, so tax is only applied at the final stage of holding cash by receiving a settlement in the taxonomy. If the buying and selling of rights is taxed, the stock market cannot be maintained, right? hahahaha.”

but.

Every time I trade, 10% goes away, but who would buy stocks?

I nodded and said.

“That’s good.”

Then the accountant said with a sorry expression.

“ah. It would be more accurate to compare the gold exchange rather than the stock market.”

gold exchange?

“Originally, gold investors preferred only cash transactions because of a 10 percent VAT on gold transactions. That’s why the gold exchange appeared. It is not directly trading gold, but only the gold rights held by the exchange are bought and sold between people, so there is no value-added tax, making gold investment very easy. Then, if you need real physical gold, you pay the value-added tax and receive the gold.”

Exactly the same as an energy purchase transaction, right?

However, I have a question here.

“Then do people often receive physical gold?”

I bought it for 300,000 won, but the moment I receive it in real life, 30,000 won value-added tax goes out?

Then, even if it were me, I would not receive it in real life, but would just resell it to someone else and then take the money?

Sure enough, the accountant shook his head and said.

“Of course, only a few cases are actually received. In the first place, it was entered for the purpose of investing in gold, so when the price of gold rises moderately, most of the cases are sold back to others and only receive money. Frankly, if everyone had accepted the real thing, the gold exchange would have gone bankrupt long ago. Just as banks don’t have all their deposits in cash, gold exchanges have limits on how much gold they hold.”

I said wide-eyed.

“So you’re saying that gold is still there and people continue to run their money in the market?”

“Exactly.”

I said, snapping my fingers.

“That’s great!”

Putting barriers to cashing with VAT and making people transact with each other in the market?

Originally, my plan was to pay off the credit once every one or two months, but wouldn’t the story change if this happened?

“If we do well, we can make them be tied up for longer than a month or two?”

If you have to exchange money right away anyway, you have to pay a 10% tax, so if that’s the case, keep rolling in the market.

“uh? wait for a sec. But in order to do that, shouldn’t there be an expectation that the price will go upwards like gold?”

Currently, the energy exchange is a method of binding funds by inducing short-term investments due to price fluctuations.

In other words, it fluctuates, but in the end, when averaged, it is not much different from before.

That’s why it’s ok for short term investment, but there is no merit for long term investment.

Of course, people won’t keep their money tied up for long.

“Gold exchange…”

An energy market similar to the gold exchange.

There is only one thing this energy market lacks compared to gold exchanges.

The anticipation itself that it will turn right.

In reality, the magic power they already have the right to has already become a whole number and has already been sold, so in fact, as it is now, the price will always be the same, and it will never go upward.

But anyway, if artificially or whatever can satisfy this expectation, doesn’t it mean that it can be rolled like a gold exchange?

I said with my eyes shining.

“The gold exchange. Could you explain in more detail how it is structured and how it operates?”