Chapter 141 – There’s Something

Swish.

“Here. Now it’s done, right?”

Se-jun used Kaiser’s scale to create a mark on Theo’s left hind paw. Se-jun was careful about even the smallest things, fearing that it might bring bad luck to Theo’s golden front paw.

Thus, a black dragon tattoo was engraved on the sole of Theo’s left hind paw.

“President Park, thank you for giving me the mark, meow!”

Theo squatted down and rejoiced as he looked at the black dragon tattoo engraved on the pink jelly of his left paw. Compared to the tattoo that took up Se-jun’s entire left arm, Theo’s tattoo was extremely small.

-The greater the magic power one has, the more the size of the tattoo can be reduced. It is you who is lacking. When will your magic power ever……

Se-jun wondered about this and asked Kaiser, only to end up getting nagged for nothing.

‘I’ve grown too!’

Se-jun had also become stronger in his own way. As his magic power increased, the black dragon tattoo that had once crossed over his shoulder shrank to the point where it did not cross the shoulder.

However, telling Kaiser would be no different from an ant boasting of its strength in front of an elephant, so he refrained. It would only prolong the nagging.

Cueng!

[Dad, I want a mark too!]

As Se-jun returned after hearing the nagging, Cuengi held out his right front paw and said.

“Alright. Here.”

Se-jun placed Kaiser’s scale on the paw Cuengi held out,

Swish.

Kaiser’s scale seeped into Cuengi’s paw, and a small black dragon tattoo was engraved on Cuengi’s big toe. A cute-sized tattoo.

‘Our Cuengi has high magic power too.’

Thanks to that, he could tell that Cuengi’s magic power was immense.

Cueng!

[Big brother! I have a mark too!]

The excited Cuengi showed off the black dragon tattoo engraved on his big toe to Theo.

“Puhuhut. My mark is bigger than Cuengi’s, meow! Just looking at this, you can tell that I’m the second-in-command here, meow!”

Theo put his hands on his hips and gloated over his mark being larger than Cuengi’s.

Cueng?

[Why is Cuengi’s mark small?]

Cuengi was disappointed as he compared his own mark to Se-jun’s and Theo’s. Although the smaller the mark, the better it was, things worked backward here.

At that moment,

“President Park, let’s give Iona a mark too, meow!”

Theo, who was in a good mood, showed favor to Iona.

“Okay. You do it.”

“Got it, meow! Here. Take it, meow!”

Receiving Kaiser’s scale from Se-jun, Theo personally placed the scale on Iona’s body.

And,

Swish.

Soon, the scale was absorbed into Iona’s body.

But

“Meow?!”

Perhaps because Iona was sleeping, an error occurred. As a result, a hamster with a black dragon tattoo on its back was born.

“Pfft! Vice President Theo, I know nothing about this.”

Cueng!

[Big brother! Cuengi knows nothing about it either!]

Se-jun and Cuengi abandoned Theo and fled to the field.

“President Park! Cuengi! Let’s go together, meow!”

Theo also hurriedly chased after them. We are one, meow!

Shortly afterward,

“Kyuuuut! I slept so well.”

Iona stretched and woke up.

“Se-jun, I will set off to the south then.”

“Y-Yeah.”

As soon as Iona woke up, she led the wizards to the south to subjugate the fire ants.

And the wizards who witnessed the black dragon tattoo on Iona’s back. None of them asked about the black dragon tattoo on Iona’s back. No, they could not ask, trembling in fear.

‘Scary!’

Already scary normally, Iona’s intimidating presence with a tattoo on her back was no joke. Thanks to that, Iona subjugated the fire ants with the wizards, who were more obedient than usual.

In the end, since no one told her, Iona roamed around without knowing that a black dragon tattoo was engraved on her back until the southern subjugation was over. It was truly fortunate for Theo.

***

“Excuse me? The address here? Gangnam-gu, Seoul……”

The voice of an employee reached the ears of the Golden Bat, who was flying around trying to find the location of the building. Thanks to that, the Golden Bat easily found the address of the place where it was.

(Bat-bat! Se-jun, I found it!)

Flap. Flap.

The Golden Bat flew around, flapping its wings in joy. Having found the building’s address so easily, the Golden Bat, with nothing else to do, waited endlessly to return to the tower.

(I’m bored.)

As the Golden Bat was feeling bored,

(Because I like that person……)

A singing voice drifted from somewhere.

Bat-bat?

The Golden Bat flew toward the coin karaoke room, following the singing voice. This was because it had developed an interest in singing while singing to the trees on the 77th floor of the tower.

And after watching people’s actions closely while flying around the coin karaoke room, the Golden Bat inserted 1,000 won into the karaoke machine and sang. However, only two songs were loaded. The singing ended quickly.

(Bat-bat! This is fun! I was in the darkness. The one who pulled me out back then was~ Se-jun~)

Having finished singing 1,000 won’t worth of songs, the Golden Bat, caught up in the excitement, began to sing its self-composed song. Although it still had 3,000 won left, it could not carelessly spend Se-jun’s money.

(Bat-bat. I feel better.)

When the Golden Bat, having finished singing, was about to leave the karaoke room,

Remaining Songs: 1

(Huh?!)

It had definitely finished singing them all, but one song remained on the screen.

Bat-bat!

The Golden Bat sang one more song. However, even as the Golden Bat kept singing, the remaining one song did not decrease.

(This is magic!)

The Golden Bat rejoiced and continued to sing. It did not think that someone at the counter was continuously adding songs.

“Ah. This is healing.”

It was Hwang Min-ho, the karaoke room owner, who was receiving healing from the Golden Bat’s singing.

At that moment,

Flash.

The Golden Bat, which was singing, vanished. While holding the wireless microphone.

***

“Oh! It ripened well.”

Se-jun said as he slightly peeled open the husk wrapping the corn to inspect the corn kernels inside. Passing by the cornfield, he saw corn whose silks had turned brown, and upon checking them, the corn was indeed well-ripened grain by grain.

Pluck. Pluck.

Se-jun began harvesting corn from the corn stalks that had fallen on the ground.

One hour later.

Purr.

Theo was clinging to Se-jun’s lap, sleeping soundly, and

Cueng!

[I want to eat steamed corn quickly!]

Cuengi was diligently peeling the corn husks, looking forward to the corn that Se-jun would soon steam for him.

Crunch.

Cueng!

Of course, about half of the corn he peeled went into Cuengi’s stomach. It’s delicious even raw!

And,

“It’s too much……”

Looking at the 10,000 or so corn ears that were still unharvested, Se-jun fell into thought for a moment, then brought over Myler’s Hoe which had been stuck in front of his house.

And,

“Earth Move.”

He swung the hoe and used the skill.

‘Swallow and sort!’

Loading a strong will in his mind. Since it was said to have endless utility, he thought this might be possible too.

Rustle.

The corn stalks on about ten pyeong of land were buried in the ground as if absorbed by the earth. Since it did not move the land on a large scale, the consumption of magic power was also small.

A moment later,

[You have harvested 102 Corns of Stamina.]

[Job experience points increase slightly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 6 increases slightly.]

[You have gained 3,060 experience points.]

Rustle.

Along with the messages, the corn stalks and the harvested corn rose back up from the ground. The two rose from the ground separated and piled up individually.

“This actually works?!”

Se-jun stared at the neatly piled corn stalks and corn with a blank expression, as if unable to believe it even though he had done it himself.

And,

“Earth Raise! Earth Raise!”

He used the skills in succession.

Then,

Rustle.

Rustle.

The corn stalks were sucked into the ground with a time difference.

“Earth Raise! Earth Raise!”

Se-jun did not care whether the skills were activated properly and used them on other land again.

By the time he used the Earth Move skill ten times like that,

[You have harvested 97 Corns of Stamina.]

…

..

.

Messages indicating that corn had been harvested began to appear.

“As expected.”

Se-jun was certain as he looked at the messages.

‘There is something reacting to my will.’

He did not know exactly what it was. However, when he used a skill, there was something that carried out his thoughts to the end, even if he did not pay attention.

Furthermore, as he used the skill while thinking of the same thing, it was as if it was learning, allowing him to use the skill without much concentration.

“But what is moving according to my thoughts?”

While Se-jun was lost in thought,

(Se-jun! Se-jun! I found it!)

The Golden Bat, having returned from Earth, flew over holding two bags of Choco Pies.

***

The next day at lunch.

“Kyu-kyu-kyu, who did this?!”

Iona, who had subjugated all the fire ants near the land where the magic tower would be built, said while pointing at her back in a state of angry Kyu stage 3.

The subjugation of the fire ants was harder than Iona had anticipated. It was because the fire ant queen’s nest happened to be on the land where they intended to build the magic tower.

Although she did defeat the fire ant queen, Iona’s pride, her pure white fur, was singed due to the fire ant queen’s fierce resistance. So she shaved her fur and washed, but……

“Kyu?”

Iona, who was checking her body in a mirror made of ice to see if she had washed well, discovered the black dragon tattoo engraved on her back.

And she immediately rushed here. Because the only time she was careless enough for such a tattoo to be engraved was when Se-jun and Theo were around.

“Vice President Theo did it. But Vice President Theo went down to the 40th floor of the tower yesterday, though?”

Se-jun, who had heard the address that the Golden Bat had found yesterday.

“Vice President Theo, go down and tell Tae-jun to buy the building at the address the Golden Bat found.”

“Meow…… I don’t want to, meow! It hasn’t been long since I came up, meow! I want to stay longer before going, meow!”

Theo, who did not want to part from Se-jun’s lap, rubbed his forehead against Se-jun’s cheek and acted cute.

“Iona will be here in a little while, will you be okay? I’m doing this because I’m worried about you.”

“Meow?!”

At Se-jun’s words, Theo remembered what he had done to Iona.

“If you go down, I will talk to Iona and appease her anger.”

“Really, meow?”

“Vice President Theo, do you not trust me?”

“No, meow! Of course I trust you, meow!”

Theo shook his head vigorously at Se-jun’s words. Even if he could not trust himself, Theo trusted Se-jun. Thus, Theo went down to the 40th floor of the tower yesterday.

He was probably selling crops to the hunters and conveying his message to Han Tae-jun by now.

“Iona, don’t be so angry. Although it was wrong of Theo to engrave the tattoo without permission, he did it with truly good intentions.”

“Kyu-but this is still too much.”

Iona said as she looked at the black dragon tattoo on her back again. Perhaps because it was Kaiser’s magic, it could not be moved or erased.

“Hmm…… then how about this? Since I also failed to stop him, I will give you 1,000 roasted peanuts every month for the next six months.”

“R-Roasted peanuts, 1,000 of them?! Hmph! Do you think I’ll sway for food?!”

She seemed almost won over, but her pride apparently did not allow her to give in to food.

“Then, add to that one day of Theo’s Tail Usage Ticket.”

“Kyu? Theo’s Tail Usage Ticket?!”

Iona’s eyes sparkled.

“Yes. I will give you the authority to take Theo around as you please for a day.”

Giving the initiative to Iona, who was usually dragged around wherever Theo went.

“Kyu-kyu-kyu! Good!”

Thus, Iona’s anger was appeased.

***

“Meow?! I feel strange, meow……”

Theo tilted his head and arrived at the 40th floor of the tower.

And,

“Humans, I have come, meow!”

He announced his appearance to the hunters in the camp as usual. To return after doing what Se-jun had ordered, he had to move quickly.

“It’s Theo!”

“The savior of the 40th floor of the tower has arrived!”

The hunters waiting in the camp welcomed Theo warmly and rushed over. This was because rumors that Theo had driven out the black orcs and protected the 40th floor of the tower had spread through the survivors.

“Meow?! Humans, get back, meow! Thank me from afar, meow!”

As the hunters came too close, Theo pushed them back. He disliked anyone being too close except for Se-jun.

And once the hunters gathered, he started the auction.

“The first crop to be sold today is the Exploding Corn of Stamina, which makes hair abundant, meow!”

Theo shouted, pulling out a red ear of corn.

“What?! Corn that makes hair abundant?!”

At Theo’s shout, a fire ignited in the hunters’ eyes.

The Green Onion of Detoxification that cures liver cancer, the Potato of Strength that cures stomach cancer.

Down to the Carrot of Agility that restores eyesight, every time the crops sold by Theo were released on Earth, diseases on Earth were conquered one by one.

And those words meant that the Exploding Corn of Stamina brought by Theo would solve hair loss, one of humanity’s greatest challenges.

“100 Tower Coins!”

“500 Tower Coins!”

“1,000 Tower Coins!”

The hunters began calling out bids without asking questions. The asking prices rose in an instant. Naturally, they had no hair.