Chapter 108 – Safely Passing the Danger

“Kehehehe. I’ll get praised by Se-jun again.”

Aileen went up to the rooftop, thinking about being praised by Se-jun during the Blue Moon.

And

“Keureung. Keureung. Keureung.”

Squeak, squeak.

Aileen hummed and diligently wiped the front of the cylindrical searchlight item, which had a black dragon drawn on it.

After a while, the Blue Moon rose.

“Kehehehe. It’s my time to step up!!!”

Click.

Aileen pressed the switch of the searchlight item with a confident attitude.

However,

Spark… psssshh.

The light tried to turn on but went out.

“Huh?”

Click, click.

Aileen felt ominous and hurriedly kept turning the switch off and on, but

……

there was no reaction.

“Grandfather, help me!”

Aileen quickly called Kaiser.

-My granddaughter! What is it?!

“The searchlight item Grandfather gave me doesn’t work!”

-How could that be? The one I made is perfect… Ah! Check how many green slots are on top of the switch.

“Green slots on top of the switch? Was there such a thing?”

-It displays the magic power storage rate.

“Is that so?”

Aileen checked the slots on top of the switch according to Kaiser’s words.

“Huh? They’re all gray.”

Of the five slots, all five were gray. Usually, Kaiser, who came to the administrator area when Aileen fainted, charged it, but this time, the portal didn’t open, so there was no opportunity to charge it.

-My… That is an indication that you used up all the stored magic power. You can only use it again after charging it with magic power.

The timing was not good. Normally, Aileen, whose Dragon Heart had grown, could have charged the magic power, but now she could not fully recover her magic power due to the polymorph.

In addition, Kaiser had also used up all the magic power he had to assist Aileen’s polymorph, making it difficult to help Se-jun.

“Khing! Se-jun, I’m sorry!”

Aileen hurriedly looked for Se-jun through the crystal ball.

***

[The administrator of the tower said tearfully that she didn’t think she could help this time.]

“I understand.”

[The administrator of the tower said she was sorry.]

“It’s okay.”

Se-jun answered, pretending to be calm, and looked around. Complaining and getting angry here right now was of no help at all.

“Guys, get inside the house quickly!”

“Ppi-ik!”

“Weeeing!”

At Se-jun’s shout, the rabbits and poison honeybees, who had been sensing something strange, began to hurriedly enter the house.

However,

Crack, crack.

Time was too insufficient. The rabbits and poison honeybees were already losing their reason under the influence of the Blue Moon, and their bodies began to change.

‘No!’

If the animals lost their reason, they would attack each other, and many lives would be lost.

“Create Dark Clouds!”

Out of urgency, Se-jun used Create Dark Clouds to make dark clouds within a 1km radius and covered the sky.

Fortunately, it was effective; the Blue Moon was blocked by the dark clouds, and the rabbits and poison honeybees began to return to their original state.

“Go home quickly!”

Se-jun hurriedly sent the animals back home.

At that moment,

“Kuooohhh!!!”

Thump! Thump!

The mother Crimson Giant Bear’s body became even more massive as she went wild.

“Dark Clouds!”

Se-jun gathered all the dark clouds over the mother Crimson Giant Bear’s head to block the Blue Moon, but it seemed to have no effect once she had already gone wild.

“Kuoohhh!!!”

Bang!

At a single punch from the mother Crimson Giant Bear, the dark clouds scattered in vain.

“I’m screwed.”

Se-jun hurriedly ran to the cave. Since it had come to this, the only way was to hide his body in the cave and wait for the Blue Moon to end.

At that moment,

Purr, purr.

“Huh?”

In the eyes of Se-jun running to the cave, Cuengi, who was sleeping using the monument in front of the house as a pillow, was seen.

“Cuengi!”

Se-jun hurriedly called Cuengi. To think he was sleeping calmly in a dangerous situation like this…

“Cueng?”

Cuengi, who had just woken up from sleep, looked around.

“Cuengi, follow me!”

“Cueng.”

At Se-jun’s words, Cuengi rubbed his eyes and followed Se-jun.

[Master! Were you okay?]

When they went down into the cave, Flamie greeted Se-jun.

“Yes. I’m fine. Cuengi… Huh? Why are you perfectly fine?”

Se-jun was about to tell Cuengi to escape to a place without the Blue Moon. Come to think of it, Cuengi was bathing in the blue light of the Blue Moon plenty while sleeping.

“Cueng?”

Cuengi also asked back as if he had no idea why. Why was he perfectly fine?

Although Se-jun and Cuengi did not know, Cuengi had become unaffected by the Blue Moon as Se-jun appointed the animals as sentries when he became a Hundred-bag Landowner.

Since the sentries had to protect the fields, they always had to maintain a sober mind.

Purr, purr.

Perhaps because it was sleeping time, Cuengi lay down on the rock that used to be Se-jun’s designated seat and began to sleep again.

“Kuoohhh!!!”

The mother Crimson Giant Bear appeared above Se-jun’s cave.

‘Please just go!’

Sniff, sniff.

The mother Crimson Giant Bear sniffed hard, then looked down and made direct eye contact with Se-jun.

‘Ah. Today really was not my day.’

Se-jun lamented that his daily fortune was bad.

At that moment,

“Ah!”

A decent idea popped into Se-jun’s head.

“Flamie! Use the Flame of Purification on the mother Crimson Giant Bear!”

[Yes!]

If it was Flamie’s Flame of Purification buff, which purified impure energy, it might be able to stop the mother Crimson Giant Bear’s rampage.

[Iyaap!]

As Flamie gave a shout and used her first leaf, the green leaf turned white. At the same time, a white flame flew to the mother Crimson Giant Bear’s leg and was absorbed.

Whoosh.

The white flame that started from the mother Crimson Giant Bear’s leg engulfed her entire body in an instant.

“Kuong.”

Fortunately, as the Flame of Purification began to burn, the mother Crimson Giant Bear’s rampage stopped. Thus, the white flame burned away the impure energy the mother Crimson Giant Bear possessed and gradually died down.

After a while, the flame disappeared, and what remained was the mother Crimson Giant Bear, whose impure elements were purified, changing from red fur to pink fur.

“I should change her name to Pinky.”

Se-jun said as he looked at the mother Crimson Giant Bear.

“Kuong.”

Perhaps liking her color-changed fur, the mother Crimson Giant Bear licked her fur while guarding the surroundings. Fortunately, no other monsters came until the Blue Moon ended.

“Phew. Thank goodness.”

Se-jun exhaled a sigh of relief. It was a dangerous situation, but they got through the Blue Moon without any major accidents.

“Let’s sleep for now.”

With his tension released, Se-jun fell asleep using Cuengi’s belly as a pillow.

***

“Prepare yourselves.”

Iona gave a warning ahead of entering the 55th floor of the tower.

“Ppyu-ppyu!”

“Pyak!”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

Ppyuppyu, the Black Rabbit, and the Black Wolf tribe and Silver Wolf tribe who joined on the 75th floor of the tower prepared to enter behind Iona.

“Then let’s go! Power of the wind, in accordance with my command, make it so sound does not spread. Silence.”

As Iona used silence magic and entered the 55th floor of the tower first, the animals followed behind her.

“Who are you?!”

As soon as they came out of the passage, the boar tribe warriors guarding the passage shouted, but because of Iona’s silence magic, the sound did not spread.

“Keu-eok!”

“Keok!”

The wolves easily subdued the boar tribe warriors.

“Go straight to Grid’s mansion!”

“I know the location!”

Elka, who had been to Grid’s mansion before, stepped forward. It was advantageous to move as quickly as possible so the enemies would notice their intrusion as late as possible.

Their goal was to enter, subdue Grid, and rescue Jeras. It was decided that if they just subdued Grid, Mason would take care of the rest.

When they arrived at Grid’s mansion like that,

“Huh?!”

Iona and the animals discovered Grid’s grand mansion covered with a dome-shaped, opaque energy.

Thump. Thump.

“It seems to be a barrier.”

Elka said, taking the handle of the giant battle-axe slung over his back in his mouth. It was Guillotine, the sacred relic of the tribe retrieved after killing Tarik.

Whoosh.

Elka moved his head and swung Guillotine.

Bang!

A red energy emerged from Guillotine, cutting the barrier. And a giant hole was made in the barrier.

“Let’s go in.”

Iona and the animals went inside the boundary.

After the animals went in,

Slide.

the hole in the barrier began to disappear.

***

Growl.

“Mmm.”

Se-jun, who had been sleeping using Cuengi’s belly as a pillow, woke up at the loud sound coming from Cuengi’s stomach.

‘Shall I sleep with Cuengi from next time?’

Sleeping with Cuengi’s belly as a pillow was so soft. Was it like the feeling of sleeping on a cloud? In addition, it even had an alarm function announcing the morning.

“Cueng…”

[I’m hungry…]

As soon as he opened his eyes, Cuengi looked for food first.

“Let’s go eat.”

When Se-jun got up and went outside,

“Wow!”

Blue crops were visible here and there. They were Magical Cherry Tomatoes holding the energy of the Blue Moon.

“Let’s eat quickly and harvest.”

“Cueng!”

Cuengi cheered at the words to go eat.

Se-jun hurriedly entered the kitchen area and ladled soup. Because he wanted to harvest the crops quickly, he just ate soup.

“Ppi-ik!”

“Pya-ah!”

In the meantime, the rabbits also woke up and ate breakfast together.

Refreshed, they began harvesting crops.

“Let’s go!”

Se-jun began harvesting crops, taking Cuengi along.

Pluck.

[You harvested a Magical Cherry Tomato containing the energy of the Blue Moon.]

[61,287 harvests remained to complete the job quest.]

[Your job experience increased slightly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 5 increased slightly.]

[You gained 150 experience points.]

Se-jun immediately put the harvested blue cherry tomato into his mouth.

Crunch.

Squirt!

The juice bursting out as soon as he chewed the skin of the cherry tomato.

“Keuu. It’s delicious.”

[You consumed the Magical Cherry Tomato containing the energy of the Blue Moon.]

[Magic power permanently increased by 0.3.]

Because there were many cherry tomatoes containing the energy of the Blue Moon today, it was fine to eat a few without worrying.

“Cueng!”

Cuengi pointed at himself with his front paw, indicating that next was his turn.

“Alright. Here.”

Se-jun looked for a blue cherry tomato again and gave it to Cuengi.

By the time he had harvested about 100 blue crops like that,

[You harvested 100 crops containing the energy of the Blue Moon in a day.]

[Your job experience increased greatly.]

“Huh? Was there such a thing?”

Giving additional job experience for harvesting 100 crops containing the energy of the Blue Moon was new information.

“Cueng!”

Cuengi pointed at a desirable blue cherry tomato and urged Se-jun to harvest quickly.

“Alright.”

After a while, the harvesting of the Magical Cherry Tomatoes containing the energy of the Blue Moon ended.

“Now I must harvest regular cherry tomatoes.”

Just as Se-jun was about to harvest regular red tomatoes,

“Cueng!”

Cuengi called Se-jun in front of the sweet potato field.

“Why? Huh?!”

When he went to the place Cuengi called, five blue sweet potatoes were pulled out there.

“Cuengi, how did you find this?”

“Cueng!”

[It smells!]

Cuengi said, pointing to his nose.

“Smell?”

According to Cuengi, crops holding the energy of the Blue Moon had a unique scent. Thanks to that, they could find the crops containing the energy of the Blue Moon located underground.

They could keep harvesting blue crops like that, and when the number of blue crops Se-jun harvested reached 200,

[You harvested 200 crops containing the energy of the Blue Moon in a day.]

[Your job experience increased drastically.]

This time as well, he was able to obtain additional job experience.

And

[Your job experience was full.]

[The rating of Tower Farmer (C) rose.]

[You became a Tower Farmer (B).]

[As the job rating rose, job characteristics were enhanced.]

Finally, the job rating rose.

“Good!”

While Se-jun, who was now able to harvest higher-grade crops, rejoiced,

Flash.

Golden light exploded from Se-jun’s straw hat.

[The Relic: Straw Hat of Patrick, the Saint of the Earth confirmed the wearer’s job rating increase.]

[Tower Farmer (B) was confirmed.]

[The rating of the Relic: Straw Hat of Patrick, the Saint of the Earth rose to B.]

[The B-grade restriction was lifted.]

[The restriction on Skill – Protection of the Earth Lv. 5 was lifted.]

[The restriction on Skill – Farmer’s Body Lv. 4 was lifted.]

[The restriction on Skill – Prayer for a Bountiful Harvest Lv. 3 was lifted.]

[The restriction on Skill – Growth Promotion Lv. 2 was lifted.]

[Skill – Farmer’s Talent Lv. 1 was unlocked.]

Se-jun checked the skills of the Straw Hat of Patrick, the Saint of the Earth.

Protection of the Earth changed from ‘slightly fast’ to ‘fast’ in intelligence recovery speed,

Farmer’s Body changed from 5 to 7 in all stats increase,

Prayer for a Bountiful Harvest changed from a maximum of 300 pyeong to 500 pyeong in the bountiful harvest area,

and Growth Promotion changed from one week to fifteen days in the period of growing crops without side effects.

And

“Farmer’s Talent?”

Se-jun checked the newly unlocked skill.

[One More! Lv. 1]

Every time you harvest 1,000 of the same crop, you can obtain 1 more.

It was decent in its own way.

“Cuengi, good job.”

Se-jun praised Cuengi, giving him a blue sweet potato. If Cuengi hadn’t found the blue crops in the ground, it would have required more time to raise the job rating.

On the 272nd day of being stranded, Se-jun became a B-grade Tower Farmer.

***

“Meow?”

Theo’s mood suddenly turned bad as he was going down toward the 38th floor of the tower.

“What is it, meow? Who is receiving President Park’s affection, meow?”

Theo’s Se-jun lap detector was gradually evolving.