Chapter 134 – I’m Going to Be Promoted, Meow!

“I will go now.”

As Se-jun waved his hand to the monkeys while leaving after finishing the banana harvest,

Ukki!

The monkeys bowed and saw Se-jun off. Next to those monkeys, a bunch of bananas was placed. It was the reward for the first harvest.

And the animals following behind the departing Se-jun also headed to the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower with a lot of bananas in their arms. It was not because they would not fit in the sub-space warehouse… it was snacks to eat as they went.

Se-jun, the black rabbit, and the golden bat, who were riding on Cuengi’s back, busily peeled the bananas and put the inner flesh into the mouths of Cuengi and the wolves,

“Here.”

and gave the banana peels to the Black Minotaurs.

Mooo!

The Black Minotaurs rejoiced upon receiving the banana peels. The Black Minotaurs liked the peels more than the flesh of the bananas.

“Se-jun-nim, we have arrived.”

“Already?”

While peeling bananas for the animals, before they knew it, they arrived at the gorilla village that guarded the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower.

“There’s no one here?”

The village was completely empty. This was because no one had occupied it since Cuengi cleared it out. Normally, other monsters would have occupied this place in no time.

However, the current situation on the 77th floor of the tower was that strong individuals overflowed, including the Black Minotaurs, the wolves from the 80th floors, and even Cuengi.

Moreover, because they had recently rummaged through various parts of the 77th floor of the tower under the pretext of holding a treasure hunt, the monsters of the 77th floor of the tower thought they were showing off their power and hid in their nests, trembling with fear.

Step.

Thanks to that, Se-jun leisurely approached the red crystal floating in the air and placed his hand on it.

[The waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower has been saved.]

[Loading other saved waypoints from other floors.]

[Saved Waypoint (1)]

-99th floor of the tower

“It’s done!”

Finally, a place where he could travel via waypoint was created.

[Following the 99th floor of the tower, the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower has been registered.]

[You have achieved the feat of going from top to bottom for the first time in the history of the tower.]

[You have acquired .]

“Reverser?”

Just as Se-jun opened the status window to look at the title,

[Currently, there is no existence guarding the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower.]

[As a middle manager of the Black Tower, you can designate a boss to guard the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower.]

“Hmm… I can designate an existence to guard the waypoint?”

Se-jun fell into thought. Since there was a banana farm on the 77th floor of the tower, he would have many reasons to visit the 77th floor in the future. In that case, wouldn’t it be more convenient if their side managed this place?

“Elka, bring the chief of the monkey village.”

“Yes!”

Elka hurriedly ran to the monkey village and brought the chief of the monkey village.

Since he planned to receive a registration fee in exchange for letting hunters register the waypoint later, the boss guarding the waypoint did not need to be strong.

But,

Thump. Thump.

“Huh?!”

What Elka brought back was a giant monkey. Clearly, the chief of the monkey village had been small, about 1m tall, but after not seeing him for a few hours, he grew to 2m in height and appeared with his whole body turned muscular.

Although Se-jun did not know, they were a race called Banana Monkeys, which had a racial characteristic of becoming stronger when eating bananas. In the past, when the banana trees were not diseased, they had ruled the 77th floor of the tower.

Thanks to this, the plan to station the wolves to guard this place was quickly scrapped.

“From now on, you guard the waypoint here.”

When Se-jun designated the chief of the monkey village as the waypoint boss for the 77th floor of the tower,

[Designating the Banana Monkey Ukil as the existence guarding the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower.]

Ukki!

Thump.

Ukil, the chief of the Banana Monkey tribe, bowed, deeply moved by Se-jun’s grace. To return bananas to his race and now even return the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower.

“I’m off then. You guys come up quickly too.”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[We will go soon! Dad, you must not get sick in the meantime!]

When Se-jun, who designated the boss of the 77th floor of the tower, spoke to Ukil and the animals and selected the 99th floor of the tower as the destination,

Flash.

Se-jun vanished in an instant.

And,

Kkueng!

[Let’s go quickly!]

Mooo!

Cuengi and the Black Minotaurs moved to the 99th floor of the tower,

Pyak!

“Departing!”

and the black rabbit and the wolves moved to the 55th floor of the tower.

A moment later,

Uooo!

the chief of the orangutan tribe, who noticed that the strong had left, led his subordinates and challenged Ukil, the boss of the waypoint on the 77th floor of the tower, but

Ukki!

Ukil, who ate bananas, was truly strong.

Bam! Bam!

Ukil subdued the chief of the orangutan tribe in a single blow. Even after that, the chiefs of other tribes challenged him, but no one could defeat Ukil.

***

“How is the situation in Africa?”

Han Tae-jun asked while having a video call with Ngugi.

“Currently, about half of Nigeria and Cameroon have been occupied by the locusts.”

“Already?”

“Yes. Because of the grains that were in the food warehouses at the port of Lagos…”

Unfortunately, the locusts ate up all the food loaded at the port for export. No matter how much feed there was, it was an incredible reproductive capacity. The number, which was in the hundreds of thousands, increased to nearly 1 billion in just a few days.

“And yellow spots are gradually appearing on the bodies of the locusts.”

“Hmm… It seems their evolution is getting closer.”

He had heard from Theo that as the number of locusts increased, they would gradually change color and evolve. And once they evolved, it would become truly difficult.

When they were Green Locusts, they were no different from ordinary grasshoppers, so even a child could easily kill them, but once they evolved into the yellow-colored Yellow Locusts, they would become strong enough that even an adult could not easily kill them.

“For now, it seems best to cut the leaves of the green onions to create a defense line surrounding the borders of Nigeria and Cameroon.”

“Understood. Then I will quickly hire people to build a defense line!”

After replying, Ngugi hurriedly hired workers and began to cut the leaves of the Sturdy Blade Green Onions planted in Kenya.

Whir.

Hundreds of grinders spun, cutting the blade leaves and transporting them to the borders of Nigeria and Cameroon to create a defense line so the locusts could not escape.

However, some locusts were already spreading to other countries by taking ships from the port.

***

[You have arrived at the 99th floor of the tower.]

Mooo!

The Bull Demon King, who was guarding the waypoint, welcomed Se-jun.

“Yes. It’s been a long time.”

Se-jun briefly exchanged greetings with the Bull Demon King and hurriedly headed to the farm, riding the Black Minotaur Woo Il-i.

At that moment,

[The tower administrator says she is glad you have returned.]

“Yes. Have you been well too, Aileen?”

[The tower administrator says she has not been doing well.]

“Huh? Why?”

The moment he asked, Se-jun thought, ‘Oops!’ Although there was no change in the message, Se-jun belatedly felt a terrible chill from the message.

‘I think I asked for nothing…’

While Se-jun was trembling with foreboding on top of Woo Il-i’s head,

[The tower administrator asks who the woman in the picture inside the lightning-attribute object you carry around is.]

Aileen asked, using difficult words.

“Lightning-attribute what?”

[The tower administrator screams, “Who is that woman?!”]

A deep irritation was felt in the message.

“That woman?”

While communicating with Aileen like that,

Mooo!

Woo Il-i, sensing the seriousness of the atmosphere, ran quickly, left Se-jun at the farm, and hurriedly returned.

And,

“Ah! The lightning-attribute object referred to the smartphone.”

Looking at the screen of the turned-on smartphone, he could tell who the woman Aileen spoke of was.

“The woman in this photo is a woman named Sera of the girl group Moonlight Fairy…”

[The tower administrator asks anxiously what relationship you have with that woman.]

“What relationship? No relationship at all? Just a fan?”

[The tower administrator asks what a fan is.]

Glare.

From the side, Kaiser was glaring at Se-jun. If he spoke wrongly here, it would be a direct ticket to the afterlife. He had to explain well.

“Hmm… A person who cheers for someone to do well?”

[The tower administrator says she understands.]

“Huh?! Really?”

The misunderstanding was resolved much more easily than expected.

[The tower administrator says, isn’t a fan someone who cheers for a poor person to do well.]

The clothes Sera was wearing on the wallpaper were ripped skinny jeans and a loose hoodie for the top.

From the perspective of Aileen, who did not know Earth’s fashion, Sera was a beggar who, having no money to buy scraps of cloth, just wore ripped pants and picked up a top she could throw on.

“Huh?! Th… That’s right! Yes! That’s it!”

Well, it could be said to be similar. Because when he first became Sera’s fan, she was not very popular. Maybe she was a little pitiful?

[The tower administrator says she is sorry for misunderstanding.]

“It’s fine. Things like that can happen in life. More importantly, I brought this to give to you, Aileen. It’s called a banana.”

Se-jun hurriedly changed the subject.

[The tower administrator says thank you.]

[The tower administrator asks to change the smartphone’s wallpaper to her photo later.]

“Okay. I will do that. I will take a good picture later.”

Se-jun readily agreed. He thought it would be cool if the photo of a giant black dragon was used as the wallpaper.

[The tower administrator says she is happy.]

Having passed the crisis safely, Se-jun planted the mango and watermelon seeds he had brought from the 77th floor of the tower in the field in front of his house. Since he had also collected all the seeds of the fruits the animals ate, there were about 200 mango seeds and about 3,000 watermelon seeds.

Splash.

“Grow well.”

As Se-jun was watering the place where he planted the mangoes and watermelons, hoping the seeds would grow well,

Kkueng!

[Dad, I’m here!]

Cuengi arrived and hugged Se-jun’s leg.

“Huh?! How are you here already?”

Even so, it was too fast.

At that moment,

“Kyu-kyu-kyu. He came with me via the light-speed merchant passage.”

Iona, who had been hidden behind Cuengi, poked her head out and spoke.

Having obtained permission from the dragons to build a magic tower on the 99th floor of the tower, Iona had descended to the 77th floor to get Se-jun’s permission, and there she met Cuengi, heard the news that Se-jun was on the 99th floor, and came up together.

“Se-jun-nim, I have something to tell you.”

“What is it?”

Iona began to talk about building the magic tower on the 99th floor of the tower.

***

The shopping district on the 75th floor of the tower.

“Where do they purchase land deeds, meow?!”

Having quickly finished trading with the hunters, Theo was wandering around the shopping district, asking where to buy land deeds.

“It’s easy if you ask at the headquarters of the Wandering Merchant Association. Usually, the association mediates the trading of land deeds.”

“Thank you, meow!”

Just as Theo, who obtained the information, expressed his gratitude and was about to head to the headquarters of the Wandering Merchant Association,

“But the commission is a bit expensive. Moreover, only top-tier wandering merchants can purchase land deeds. How about it? I was thinking of selling a land deed, would you like to make a direct deal with me?”

The merchant with a snake face explained kindly and asked Theo.

But,

“I refuse, meow!”

Theo refused flatly.

“Right. The commission is not just a penny or two… What?!”

The snake merchant, who had not expected Theo to refuse, was flustered.

“Chairman Park told me not to trade with merchants who act kindly, meow! And I am someone who will soon become a top-tier wandering merchant, meow!”

Speaking in that way, Theo headed toward the headquarters of the Wandering Merchant Association.

And,

“I want to be promoted to a top-tier wandering merchant, meow!”

He went in front of the employee and shouted confidently.

The promotion condition for a top-tier wandering merchant was 10 million tower coins. However, his total accumulated sales amount through trades up to today exceeded 15 million tower coins. A condition that allowed him to easily become a top-tier wandering merchant.

But,

“It is not allowed.”

“Why, meow?!”

He was rejected.