Chapter 149 – You Messed with the Wrong Person

After chasing away the uninvited guests, Se-jun took measures to prevent monsters heading to the magic tower from entering the farm so that the rabbits and mushroom ants could work comfortably.

He had not done anything grand,

“- Private property. If you enter, you die! There are ferocious wild beasts inside!”

but simply set up warning signs to prevent monsters from entering out of curiosity like before.

Since they had already received warnings from Iona and the Black Minotaurs not to touch the beings on the farm, and there were also monsters who had just witnessed Jashu getting beaten up, a sign was sufficient.

Having set up the signs like that, Se-jun went to make a new stone bed for Cuengi.

“Earth Raising!”

Rumble, rumble.

As the ground moved, a new stone bed began to be made in the spot where the old bed had broken. Since he had already experienced making it once, he recalled his memory of that time and made a bed optimized for Cuengi’s body type.

“Cuengi, try lying down.”

Cueng!

[It’s a new bed-da-yo!]

Cuengi cheered at Se-jun making the bed for him again and quickly lay down.

And,

Cueng!

[It feels good-da-yo!]

He rolled around on the bed, feeling happy.

At that moment,

Growl.

A loud sound came from Cuengi’s belly. He seemed to have grown hungry after exerting his strength earlier.

Cueng!

[I’m hungry-da-yo!]

Cuengi, who was rolling around on the bed, sprang up.

“Okay. Let’s eat.”

Although it was an early hour for dinner, they decided to eat a little early today.

“Meow-meow-meow! It’s grilled fish, meow!”

Cueng! Cueng!

At Se-jun’s words to eat, Theo and Cuengi began to hum.

And,

Bat-bat.

Hearing the singing, the golden bat also appeared and sang along.

While the animals were singing like that,

“What should I eat today?”

Se-jun pondered the dinner menu.

‘Theo likes grilled fish, Cuengi eats everything well, and the golden bat is set with just a few cherry tomatoes…’

“Alright.”

At the same time Se-jun decided on the dinner menu, he started cooking.

“First, I will grill the fish and corn.”

While he skewered the fish and corn using thin branches and grilled them over the fire,

Squeeze, squeeze!

he squeezed cherry tomato juice into an empty pot to make juice. While making the juice, he used the Talent: Fire Mastery to adjust the fire appropriately here and there so that the grilled items would not burn.

“Aha. The fire control is a work of art.”

Se-jun admired his own fire control skill and diligently finished the grilled fish. After a while, the grilled fish, grilled corn, and cherry tomato juice with honey were completed.

“Everyone, let’s eat!”

Se-jun called the rabbits to have dinner.

At that moment,

Squeak!

Pyah!

The cheering sounds of the rabbits were heard.

“What is it?”

While Se-jun was wondering,

Cueng!

[I smell little hyung-da-yo!]

Cuengi happily ran outside.

“If it’s little hyung, is it the Black Rabbit?”

“Let’s quickly go out to see the Black Rabbit, meow!”

Theo confirmed Se-jun’s thoughts and urged him to go outside.

“Yeah.”

As Se-jun hurriedly followed Cuengi out,

Squeak!

Pyupyu!

the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu were having a friendly conversation with the other rabbits. Invited to Iona’s celebration party, the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu had come to Se-jun’s farm, bringing 300 subordinate rabbits with them.

Cueng!

Squeak!

Pyupyu!

Seeing Cuengi approaching, the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu greeted him warmly. And they did the same for Se-jun and Theo, who followed behind him.

“Welcome. Let’s go in and eat dinner first.”

Se-jun led the rabbits to the kitchen. Since the kitchen had accommodated even 1,000 rabbits during the past harvest festival, it was spacious enough even if all the rabbits entered.

Although there was a slight shortage of food for the rabbits to eat, that was easily solved by bringing out carrots from the storage.

Once dinner was finished like that, the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu handed Se-jun a small box.

“What is this?”

Squeak!

[Open it first!]

Pyupyu!

[You will know once you open it!]

The two urged him to open the box.

“Alright.”

Click.

When Se-jun opened the box,

“Huh? It’s cold?”

cold air flowed out from inside the box. And in the center of the box from which the cold air came, a single walnut was carefully placed.

“Is this for me to eat?”

Squeak!

[No, it isn’t!]

Pyupyu!

[It is the last remaining walnut in the Red Ribbon Kingdom!]

At Se-jun’s words, the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu shook their heads vigorously.

“It’s not? Then why did you give it to me?”

Squeak!

[Uncle, please plant the walnut and grow it!]

Pyupyu! Pyupyu!

[Se-jun-nim is the only one who can grow this! We are counting on you!]

“We believe in you!” The Black Rabbit and Pyupyu spoke while looking at Se-jun with eyes full of trust. To be precise, they meant that he should grow the walnut tree and give them lots of walnuts.

“Ahem…”

‘Suddenly, I feel pressured.’

Getting expectations from someone was awkward, but it felt good.

“Hehehe. Don’t worry! Just trust your uncle.”

Se-jun said in a loud voice. He might not know about fighting, but he was quite confident in farming.

‘But it turns out this could be planted.’

Se-jun looked at the walnut with curiosity. Although he had seen walnuts on Earth, he had never once thought of it as a seed itself.

It was a thought that, had the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu known about it, might have made them take the walnut back.

‘Shall I take a look at it first?’

Se-jun first picked up the walnut inside the box and examined it closely.

[Walnut of Training]

A walnut harvested from a walnut tree grown inside the tower, which is delicious as it has absorbed sufficient nutrients.

Every time you peel the hard shell of the walnut, your Strength increases by 0.1.

Eating the walnut kernel inside makes the feeling of fullness last longer than usual.

Grade: C

“Walnut of Training?”

It was fascinating that the Strength did not increase by eating the walnut kernel, but rather by peeling the walnut shell.

“But why is there only one of these?”

Since the explanation mentioned that there was a walnut tree, Se-jun asked.

Pyupyu!

[They were all destroyed when the Red Ribbon Kingdom fell!]

“Ah.”

They seemed to have been eaten by the locusts.

Squeak! Squeak!

[We also obtained this Walnut of Training by luck. One of the rabbits…]

According to the Black Rabbit’s explanation, one of the rabbits who managed the Walnut of Training tree had barely managed to protect a single Walnut of Training when the Red Ribbon Kingdom fell.

The Black Rabbit had obtained the Walnut of Training saved that way not long ago. However, there were no rabbits left in the Red Ribbon Kingdom who remembered how to grow a walnut tree.

Squeak!

[I wanted to take this to uncle!]

That was why the Black Rabbit had brought it to Se-jun.

Squeak!

[Uncle, to quickly raise the combat power of the Black Rabbit tribe, the Walnut of Training is absolutely necessary!]

The Black Rabbit wanted to pull up the combat power of the Black Rabbit tribe, which was responsible for the military power of the Red Ribbon Kingdom, using the Walnut of Training.

“Alright. Leave it to me!”

‘I need it too.’

Since this was not food, he could become stronger without it being taken away. Once their conversation ended like that, the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu set off for the magic tower first. The rabbits on the farm went with them.

***

The next morning.

“Heave-ho!”

When Se-jun woke up,

“Chairman Park, are you awake, meow?”

Theo, for some reason, had woken up first and was grooming himself, diligently licking his body.

“Vice Chairman Theo, what’s got into you? Waking up this early?”

“Of course, meow! Since today is the party, I must dress up, meow!”

“Huh?! Dress up?”

“That’s right, meow! Dressing up is a must for a party, meow!”

Se-jun was flustered by Theo’s words. Come to think of it, he was the only one who did not have clothes to wear to the party?! Although it did not matter for the animals since they all had fur, he was different.

Se-jun had only thought about going to the party to look around the magic tower and eat delicious food, but he had not thought about the clothes he would wear to the party at all.

“Must be nice. You can cover everything with just fur…”

Se-jun looked at Theo and then looked at his own clothes. The clothes Se-jun was currently wearing were the ones he had worn at the time of his distress, with the ends cut off and patched up whenever holes appeared. In other words, he looked like a beggar.

For no reason, he felt depressed from the morning. Still, what comforted him was that Cuengi was there. Cuengi was not the type of fellow to care about such things.

Clank.

Having obtained comfort like that, Se-jun opened the void storage and took out the Golden Box of Abundance.

Then, he removed the two elixir-grade cherry tomatoes inside the box, which had multiplied to two, and placed the Walnut of Training into the Golden Box of Abundance. He intended to increase the number of walnuts first.

After a while,

Cueng!

[Dad, I’m hungry-da-yo!]

Cuengi came over.

However,

“Huh?! Cuengi, you?!”

Shattering Se-jun’s expectations, Cuengi had also come dressed up. And very stylishly, at that. With a pomade hairstyle made of pine resin… Huh?! He had also sprinkled glitter on his body.

‘Glitter is foul play!’

To add the glitter effect on top of his already great fur!

“Cuengi, who did this for you?!”

Cueng! Cueng?

[Mom did it-da-yo! Do I look cool?]

“Yes! You look cool! Our Cuengi is absolutely cool!”

Se-jun gave a double thumbs up and praised Cuengi. Although it was sad that he was the only one who had to go to the party looking like a beggar, Cuengi was truly cute. Who would have thought Pink Fur would have such a sense of style!

Khehehehe.

Having received Se-jun’s praise, Cuengi laughed happily, picked Se-jun up, and headed to the kitchen.

Se-jun had no intention of eating breakfast in order to eat a lot at the party, but

Cueng!

[To eat a lot, you must also eat a lot of breakfast-da-yo!]

Cuengi’s thoughts were very different.

Having eaten breakfast like that, Se-jun set off toward the Black Parkae Magic Tower with the animals.

Cueng!

[Departure to eat delicious things-da-yo!]

The giant-sized Cuengi ran dynamically, carrying Se-jun and the animals on his back.

***

“Wow!”

Se-jun marvelled as he looked at the circular magic tower soaring high into the sky in the distance. Even at a rough glance, the area seemed to exceed 1,000 pyeong.

“They built this in just a few days?”

‘If I bring Iona and start a construction company on Earth, it will be a huge hit?!’

Besides, if Theo took charge of sales and Cuengi took charge of demolition, it would take no time to become the world’s best construction company!

Se-jun’s thoughts, while having members capable of world domination with him, were too trivial.

While Se-jun was thinking about the construction company, as the distance to the magic tower grew short,

“Ugh…”

His body gradually became heavy. To be precise, Se-jun was being pressed down by the strong energy around him. This was not something the surrounding animals could help with.

“I should use it in advance. Dragon Tooth Soldier – Summon Helmet.”

Se-jun wore the Dragon Tooth Soldier helmet, which he had planned to wear before entering the party venue. As it contained Kellion’s mana, it protected the wearer from the surrounding energy.

‘Transform into full-body armor.’

Se-jun transformed the helmet into full-body armor here. Since he did not have clothes, he planned to cover himself with the armor.

“Meow?! What is it, meow?!”

When the bone armor covered the top of Se-jun’s knees, Theo got annoyed.

“Just bear with it until we go home.”

“Alright, meow! In return, you must also rub my belly when we go back, meow!”

“Got it.”

Having appeased Theo like that, Se-jun, who had killed two birds with one stone by blocking the surrounding energy with the bone armor while also solving his party attire, entered the party hall of the magic tower.

At that moment,

“Oh! Nice to meet you! Aren’t you Theo Park-nim, who newly became the top traveling merchant this time?”

A red panda approached and struck up a conversation with Theo, who was clinging to Se-jun’s knee.

“That’s right, meow! But how do you know me, meow?”

“I am Dori, an excellent traveling merchant. When you came to the Traveling Merchant Association headquarters to apply for the top traveling merchant last time, I was also next to you.”

“Is that so, meow?”

“Yes! If it’s alright, could you share the know-how of becoming a top traveling merchant with me and the other excellent traveling merchants?”

“Right now, meow?!”

At Dori’s request, Theo looked at Se-jun and Dori, feeling conflicted. He wanted to go there and boast, but he also had to protect Se-jun.

“It’s fine. Go ahead.”

With Cuengi and the golden bat next to him, he thought that there would be no bold beings who would dare start a fight in Iona’s magic tower.

“Meow-meow-meow! Then I will go teach my salesmanship to the other traveling merchants and return quickly, meow!”

Theo went along with Dori, looking excited.

And,

“Shall we see what there is to eat?”

Cueng!

[There is lots of delicious stuff-da-yo!]

(Bat-bat! There are also lots of fruits!)

While Se-jun was looking at the food with the animals,

“Hey! I am Koto, a lower-class True Bone from the 20th floor of the tower! Offer your bones to me right now!”

Contrary to Se-jun’s expectation, there was indeed a bold being. A skeleton with a height of three meters and thick bones demanded Se-jun to give him his bones.

“You messed with the wrong person. Guys.”

Se-jun smiled and said while looking around.

However,

“Huh?!”

Cuengi and the golden bat were nowhere to be seen, having gone somewhere.