Chapter 187 – Is It a Salt Mine!

The Black Rabbit, who was opening a document in the treasure warehouse, was suddenly transported to an unknown place.

Squeak?

The Black Rabbit looked around to understand where he was. The ground and everything in sight was as white as snow.

While the Black Rabbit was looking around like that,

Thud.

A strong vibration was felt from the ground.

Tap.

Before anyone knew it, the Black Rabbit pulled out his exclusive weapon, the squeaky hammer, perked up his ears, and focused all his attention on his feet.

Rumble.

Rumble-rumble.

As the vibration grew stronger, something from underground moved toward where the Black Rabbit was. The Black Rabbit calmly listened to the sound, drawing the movement and appearance of the opponent causing the vibration in his mind.

An enemy with a huge, elongated body digging through the ground and rising to the surface.

Squeak!

The approaching enemy was not just one.

And,

Rumbleee!

The moment the vibration was felt right beneath his feet,

Squeak!

Hop!

The Black Rabbit kicked off the ground and jumped high into the sky.

Boom!

Gwoooo!

Three snakes whose bodies were made of pure white stone surged up with their massive mouths wide open, crushing the ground where the Black Rabbit had been just a moment ago.

As the Black Rabbit floating in the air fell back to the ground and the distance between him and the stone snakes gradually narrowed,

Squeak!

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

The Black Rabbit struck one of the heads of the approaching stone snakes, loaded with his own strength on top of the gravitational force of descent, and used the recoil to fly toward the head of another stone snake.

Crack.

While the head of the first stone snake that received the attack cracked and shattered,

Squeak!

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

The Black Rabbit shattered the head of the second stone snake in the same manner and used the recoil to smash the head of the last remaining stone snake before lightly landing on the floor.

Rumble. Thud.

Hearing the sound just now, more enemies began to gather.

***

“Lord Kaiser! Lord Kellion!”

[The Tower Administrator said that the Black Rabbit had moved to the White Tower, so you could rest assured.]

Aileen spoke to Se-jun, who was running and calling out for Kaiser and Kellion. An alarm for an existence entering without using the entrance appeared to the Tower Administrator.

“The White Tower? Whew.”

Se-jun was relieved at Aileen’s words. If it was the White Tower, he could feel safe. The land deed of the White Tower belonged to the 43rd floor of the tower.

When he had asked Kaiser about the level of the other towers in the past, he said that they were slightly lower in level than the Black Tower, so there was no way the Black Rabbit would be in danger.

Moreover, the administrator of the White Tower was Kellion. If he got Kellion’s help, he could easily bring the Black Rabbit back. Or so he thought.

However,

-That’s difficult.

Kellion rejected Se-jun’s request in one go.

“Why?”

-There are a couple of problems. First of all, the Black Rabbit cannot withstand my energy.

“What if Ajax moves him?”

-That’s the second problem. Dragons are not affected, but the moment other existences come out of the tower, they are affected by the power of destruction.

“What happens if they are affected?”

-They will either die or be consumed by destruction and become monsters.

It was a total mess.

-There are about three ways to bring the Black Rabbit back. Delivering the land deed of the Black Tower to the Black Rabbit, having the White Tower appear on Earth so the Black Rabbit can exit the White Tower and enter the Black Tower, or creating a passage using Lindgen.

-In reality, only the first method is feasible.

Kaiser asserted at Kellion’s words. There had never been a case where another tower appeared in the same place where a tower had already appeared since the towers were created. And although it was said that Lindgen could make a passage out of the tower, it was impossible to connect one tower to another.

-If you obtain the land deed, I will have Ajax deliver it.

With that, the conversation with the dragons ended,

“VP Theo, you heard, right?”

Se-jun spoke to Theo. Under the current circumstances, Theo was the only existence who could obtain the land deed. He had to bring the new groom back before the wedding.

However,

“What do you mean, meow? I didn’t hear anything, meow…”

Theo, who had just woken up from a sleep, replied in a sleepy voice.

“VP Theo, listen carefully…”

Se-jun explained the current situation.

“VP Theo, you’re the only one I can trust.”

“I understand, meow! President Park, just trust me, meow!”

At Se-jun’s absolute trust, Theo burned with a sense of duty. He would meet President Park’s expectations and, as the eldest brother, rescue his brother who was about to get married soon, meow!

‘Puhuhut. Me, receiving President Park’s expectations! I’m so cool, meow!’

“Then, I’ll be back, meow!”

Theo, intoxicated with himself, headed to the 77th floor of the tower. It was time to visit the new lost and found warehouse that Taru had mentioned.

***

“Cuengi, how is the Black Rabbit?”

Kkueng!

[Little brother is punishing the bad guys!]

“Is that so?”

As expected, it was the 43rd floor of the tower, so there was nothing to worry about. To know the Black Rabbit’s situation precisely, Se-jun looked into the bronze mirror held by Cuengi. Inside the bronze mirror, the Black Rabbit was showing unrivaled strength against the giant stone snakes.

‘Since there is enough food in the treasure warehouse, there won’t be any problem until Theo obtains the land deed.’

Just as Se-jun was relieved,

“I guess that one is the boss?”

A stone snake that was much larger than the other stone snakes appeared from the ground. A giant purple crystal was embedded in the forehead of that boss stone snake.

“It was worth feeding him the elixir.”

Se-jun spoke in a pleased voice, watching the Black Rabbit cleanly finish the boss raid. The enemy’s boss collapsed helplessly at two swings of the squeaky hammer swung by the Black Rabbit.

However,

“Huh?”

Light burst out from the purple crystal on the forehead of the collapsing boss stone snake.

“What is that?!”

When the light disappeared, a giant made of massive crystals appeared. It felt like something unusual. The Black Rabbit also felt that the enemy was not easy, so he readjusted his posture and wore the Dragon Tooth Soldier Helmet given by Se-jun.

“Could that be an Apostle of Destruction?”

Since the Dragon Tooth Soldier Helmet even had Kaiser’s scale, Se-jun watched the situation for now and prepared to instruct Ajax to go down to the 43rd floor of the tower and protect the Black Rabbit.

In the meantime, when the Black Rabbit lifted his squeaky hammer and pointed it to the sky, the sky darkened and a giant crescent moon appeared.

And,

“Huh? What is that?!”

Eleven transparent rabbits leisurely descended from the crescent moon, holding rice cake mallets. It was the skill: I’ll Make You into Rice Cake!, which summoned the souls of the ancestor rice cake artisans obtained when the Black Rabbit became an official rice cake artisan, to pound the rice cake together.

The eleven rabbits began to pound the giant crystal giant in order. The crystal giant staggered heavily every time it was hit by the mallets.

As the eleventh and last ancestor rice cake artisan finished pounding, the Black Rabbit delivered the final blow, and the crystal giant collapsed and turned to powder.

And three purple coins fell with a glitter. With that, he could tell that the opponent was indeed an Apostle of Destruction.

“Whew. Thank goodness.”

Se-jun was relieved. But at the same time, he felt a sense of betrayal.

‘Even you, Black Rabbit…’

Yet another one was running past him. Although it had surpassed him long ago, Se-jun was only acknowledging it now.

“I’m jealous. Some people have skills like that.”

Se-jun envied the Black Rabbit’s cheat-like skill. While he himself, even without skills, ordered the monsters of the 99th floor of the tower as he pleased, and had two dragons he could summon. Of course, the catch was that even if he summoned a dragon, he could not withstand the dragon’s energy.

At that moment,

[Guardian Black Rabbit defeated the group of Rock Salt Snakes that was occupying the mine and was recognized as the rightful owner of the land deed of the 43rd floor Salt Mine of the White Tower.]

[The authority of the land deed of the 43rd floor Salt Mine of the White Tower is transferred to the Black Tower Farmer Park Se-jun.]

[The land deed’s skill: Mine Information Lv. Max is activated.]

With the message, the land deed appeared on Se-jun’s hand. It seemed that the land deed for which a Guardian acquired the rights was taken by the Tower Farmer.

“It could work like this too?”

Se-jun realized that he did not necessarily need to use the land deed himself to become its owner.

“But a salt mine?!”

Se-jun examined the land deed with an excited expression.

[Land Deed of the 43rd Floor Salt Mine of the White Tower]

This was a land deed proving ownership of the mine on the 43rd floor of the White Tower.

Owner: Tower Farmer Park Se-jun of the Black Tower

Grade: S

Skill: [Mine Information Lv. Max]

[Mine Information Lv. Max]

Size: 10,000 pyeong (approx. 8.16 acres)

Reserves: 10 million tons of salt

Workers: 1 (Tower Farmer Park Se-jun’s Guardian Black Rabbit)

Special Note: It was an open-pit mine.

“An open-pit mine?”

Then all that white stuff he saw around was salt? And 10 million tons of it?!

“Hehehe.”

Se-jun let out a broad grin. Now, there was no need to save salt in the future. Now he could make salted seafood and preserve cabbage. One of the important ingredients for making kimchi was prepared.

“Tell the Black Rabbit to pack salt into the treasure warehouse.”

Se-jun hurriedly sent a rabbit to the 55th floor of the tower to deliver a piece of paper describing the current situation and Se-jun’s words into the treasure warehouse, and the Black Rabbit persuaded (?) the surrounding monsters with his squeaky hammer to pack salt into the treasure warehouse.

***

The 99th floor of the Green Tower.

“Grandmother, is it true?! That we can bring the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower here?”

A beauty who appeared to be in her early twenties with green hair asked a woman in her forties with the same hair color in an excited voice.

“Yes. It seems possible. And in a much better way…”

Brachio spoke gently to her granddaughter. Although almost a month had passed since the meeting ended, Brachio, being a dragon who was relaxed by nature, was only telling Ophelia now.

“How?!”

“Well, we have to think about that from now on.”

Brachio had only thought about bringing the Tower Farmer of another tower. However, her thoughts changed as she exchanged information about the fragment of the Creator God’s stone monument with other dragons.

‘To think the Tower Farmer’s role was so large in the Creator God’s arrangement…’

[The Second Commandment – A Tower Farmer can lead the Tower Farmers of other towers.]

Within that realization, the Second Commandment could also be interpreted to mean that, depending on how one thought about it, a strong Tower Farmer could rule over all towers.

‘The only one who will lead all the other Tower Farmers is our granddaughter Ophelia!’

Brachio smiled to herself without realizing it, counting her chickens before they hatched, thinking of ruling other towers.

Although Kellion’s grandson Ajax was a bit of a concern, Ajax was 500 years old while Ophelia was 800 years old, a difference of 300 years. Unless it was thousands of years later, Ophelia was overwhelmingly stronger right now.

“Grandmother, please bring the Black Tower’s Tower Farmer quickly. How dare he produce better crops than me… I cannot forgive him!”

Ophelia intended to bring and punish the Black Tower’s Tower Farmer Park Se-jun, who had produced better crops than her at the Harvest Festival.

“Ophelia, do not be too impatient. An opportunity will come soon.”

Brachio spoke with a meaningful smile.

***

“Meow-meow-meow! VP Theo is going!”

Theo arrived in front of the lost and found warehouse on the 77th floor of the tower with energetic steps.

“You came?”

Taru, who was standing guard, asked in a welcoming manner upon seeing Theo.

“That’s right, meow! I want to draw from another lost and found warehouse, meow!”

“Follow me.”

Taru locked the door of the lost and found warehouse and guided Theo. It was a building that would not be strange to be called an abandoned house. It was to the extent that it made him think that the previous lost and found warehouse was a decent building in comparison.

“How much is one draw here, meow?”

Theo asked Taru with sparkling eyes. He felt many attractions inside the building. His front paws were itching to go inside quickly.