The Book of Thoth
His mind went completely blank.
Investor? Was that even a real profession?
Because of that, the Knight Commander spoke with a slightly awkward stammer.
“Is… is there a job called investor?”
Job? What the hell was he talking about?
“You don’t have investors here?”
“If you’re talking about merchants, then yes… but I mean the job listed on the status window.”
?
Why would a status window have a job?
No matter how he looked at it—upside down, from the left, from the right, from below—there was no job anywhere on his status window.
Kim Sunghyun (38) Male
Traits: Investment [EX] (LV. 1, 2.28%), Thunder Purification [S+] (LV. 1, 25%), Sacred Duel [S] (LV. 3, 7%)
Body:133 (24%)
Mana:134 (12%)
Skills: Coin Market [EX] (LV. 8, 38%), Fire [B] (LV. MAX)
Account Balance:3,637,036C
Owned Dimensions: Asgard 1 share, Titan (Olympus) 1 share, Celestial Realm 1 share, Ten Thousand Demon Front 1 share, Earth 1 share, Heliopolis (Egypt) 1 share
See? Nothing.
“Why would a status window have a job?”
Ah, wait a second.
“Hey, brat. Can you share your status window?”
“Yes, sir!”
Sunghyun checked the status window Hayato shared.
Hayato (17) Male
Job: Hero (4-Star)
Body:43 (23%)
Mana:45 (42%)
Skills: Holy Sword Summon, Heart of Trust, Holy Power
Something was different.
Unlike Sunghyun’s own window, the kid had a Job instead of Traits. And neither the Job nor the Skills showed any rank indicators.
As Sunghyun tilted his head at the window, Hayato asked from beside him,
“Is something wrong?”
“Did any of the gods here explain anything to you? About Jobs, Skills, Traits—that kind of stuff?”
At those words, Hayato’s eyes lit up.
What the hell? Why’s he looking at me like that all of a sudden? Creepy.
“Ah! Yes! I was told that Heroes summoned from Earth receive a status window tailored to each of their unique characteristics!”
Hmm… in that case…
They’d given him an ability that matched someone who used a shop.
And that ability was his current status window.
He understood now.
Which meant that if the gods had status windows of their own, they probably looked exactly like his.
The conditions were the same.
This is actually getting fun.
Sunghyun began to smile with a distinctly shady gleam.
Oh, right.
“Hey, so you’re the Knight Commander, yeah? What’s your name?”
The Knight Commander snapped his arms to his sides like a fresh recruit.
“Hadad, sir!”
Sunghyun slung an arm around Hadad’s shoulders.
“Alright, Hadad. We seem about the same age, so I’m dropping the formalities. You asked if there’s a job called investor? Well? Think there is? Think there isn’t?”
Memories of the past flashed through Hadad’s mind, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead.
“Th-there is! There must be!”
“And if there isn’t? You gonna take responsibility?”
It was pure bullying, but Sunghyun was thoroughly enjoying himself.
“No, sir! I’m sorry!”
Sunghyun pressed the thoroughly cowed Hadad further.
“By the way… didn’t you call me a scrub earlier? Why are you so scared of a scrub? Relax~ Just chill.”
Hadad’s face went deathly pale.
“No, sir! I’m sorry!”
Cold sweat poured down Hadad’s face in streams.
Seeing that, Armin came over and tugged on Sunghyun’s collar.
“Sunghyun, let’s go. I’m hungry.”
Sunghyun looked at Armin and snapped back to his senses.
“Ah, sorry about that, Hadad. Got a little carried away. I’ll look at your sword work sometime later, so don’t take it to heart. You know how big brothers are, right?”
“Wha—! You’ll look at my sword as well?! Then I welcome you anytime! Before Sunghyun-nim, I shall live as an eternal recruit! Chuuuung! Sir!”
At that display, Armin’s expression turned ice-cold.
“We’re leaving.”
Sunghyun took Armin’s hand and walked out.
Only then did the people around them let out the breaths they’d been holding, replaying everything that had just happened.
“What the hell was that just now?”
The knights who had always believed their Knight Commander was the strongest felt as though they had just glimpsed a new sky.
Hayato, who had nearly fallen into arrogance, steeled his heart once more and gripped his sword.
“I must never forget the feeling from just now.”
The Knight Commander himself was far from normal.
“I can… I can climb even higher!”
From the moment Sunghyun arrived in the kingdom, a new current began to flow through it.
After the meal, Sunghyun patted his stomach.
“Whew, that hit the spot. Better than I expected.”
In every subculture story he’d ever seen, the food of other worlds always turned out terrible.
“Guess that’s not always the case.”
“I want to know about the Earth you lived on, Sunghyun.”
Armin leaned against him.
Not a hard request.
Sunghyun opened the Coin Shop and navigated into the Earth catalog.
Hmm… pricier than I thought.
Item Grade: C
Return of Mount Hua — Complete Collection
A novel chronicling the events that unfold as Mooyoung, the greatest master of Mount Hua, regresses. Fast-paced, exhilarating action is its specialty. 🪙 200C
I Regressed and Became a Music Genius
Kim Simin, once just an ordinary session musician, has regressed. I regressed… and now I’m a music genius? 🪙 200C
. . .
And every single Earth item is like this.
Fantasy novels like these are C-rank? This is the dignity of a market-cap top five, huh…
Sunghyun bought several novels and set them in front of Armin.
“Here! Read these. Everything you want is in here.”
He’d spent about 5,000C total, but it didn’t matter.
Who am I? Owner of 3.6 million coins.
“Um, Sunghyun…?”
Armin opened a novel and frowned.
“How do I even read these letters?”
Ah. Right.
But fear not! The Earth dimension had prepared for exactly this kind of situation.
Account Balance: 3,612,036C
Sunghyun pulled a perfectly ordinary-looking pair of glasses out of thin air.
“What is that?”
He held the glasses out.
“Just put them on.”
“Whoa! I can read the letters! Woooooah!”
Before long she was completely absorbed in the web novels, reading as if she might fall straight into the pages.
“Great. Then I’ll get some work done too.”
He already knew where the coins needed to go.
Every coin had to be spent in a way that helped his investments.
And so Sunghyun brought one particular trait into view—the one that fit this situation better than anything else.
A magic tome hidden in the most secret place in the world.
It shows the user whatever they wish to see, and projects the user’s vision onto its pages exactly as it is. The pages of the tome are infinite.
🪙 1,600,000C
“Hoo… my hands are shaking…”
Buy it.
Account Balance: 2,012,036C
Ziiiiing—.
A golden book dropped into Sunghyun’s hands.
“So this is the Book of Thoth…”
It showed the user whatever they wished to see. And it projected the user’s vision onto the tome itself.
What Sunghyun intended to do with this power was the same thing Earth’s banks did every day.
Had any god ever tried something like this?
Probably not.
If they had, someone would already be holding the Book of Thoth—
not selling it.
“Alright~ Time for a financial statement audit.”
The Book of Thoth shifted into the form of a photocopier, exactly as Sunghyun imagined it.
He started with Titan.
Ziiiiing—. Thunk!
The Book of Thoth spat out several sheets of paper.
The pages were filled with information on Titan, written in terms Sunghyun could actually understand.
What Titan’s dimensional revenue looked like. On what basis that revenue was calculated. Its growth rate. Total assets. Current assets. Which god owned the dimension. Everything.
All of it had been realized through the Book of Thoth.
Sunghyun clenched his fist.
“Hell yeah!”
So far, everything was going exactly as planned.
Now came the simple, grinding repetition.
He had to generate financial statements for every dimension from market-cap rank 1 all the way down to 100.
He glanced sideways. Armin was already lost deep inside the novels.
“Buying those was worth it. Alright—time for me to work hard too.”
If he wanted to hand materials to the lawyers by evening, he was already short on time.
Not just a hundred financial statements—he also needed to secure shares in the dimensions beneath them.
Over five hundred dimensions. He had to find the real gems among them.
Watching the Book of Thoth churn out financial statements like a photocopier, a thought suddenly crossed Sunghyun’s mind.
Maybe I should take a quick look at this dimension’s info?
He paused the work and copied the information on Hermopolis.
Thunk!
“Let’s see what we’ve got.”
Sunghyun read the paper—then burned it.
This… is better off if no one knows.
The moment he’d unlocked the SSS-rank shop, he’d been able to browse Hermopolis’s goods. Among them had been one product whose identity he couldn’t place.
Become the adversary of a dimension that has summoned a Demon King and experience war firsthand!
🪙 5,000,000C
Now he finally understood what that product was.
Hermes had been treating this entire dimension as entertainment—and making coins off it.
The buyer became a demon god and summoned a Demon King. Hermes, as the chief god, summoned a Hero.
And then he watched the two of them fight.
That was the reason this planet existed.
Sunghyun had no intention of chewing Hermes out over it.
He was still fulfilling his duties as chief god. If he hadn’t even been doing that, Sunghyun would have thrown a punch the next time they met.
Which was why—
it was better to erase this information.
He just needed to do what he had to do.
Honestly, saying he wasn’t disappointed would be a lie.
But what could he do about it?
The only thing he could do right now was raise hell.
And all he’d gain from that was a handful of coins.
In exchange, the odds of losing everything else were far too high.
In that case, gathering coins and simply acquiring this planet outright was the better call.
“Back to work.”
This was his way.
Sunghyun wordlessly kept printing financial statements.
And so, in his room, there was nothing but the sound of pages turning and paper being copied.