Chapter 191 – Becoming a Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner

[Land Deed of the 98th Floor Wasteland of the Black Tower]

[Land Deed of the 85th Floor Wasteland of the Black Tower]

[Land Deed of the 57th Floor Rocky Mountain of the Black Tower]

[Land Deed of the 44th Floor Lake of the Black Tower]

The appraised land deeds were all land deeds of the Black Tower. To think he obtained as many as four land deeds of the Black Tower?! Se-jun was amazed by Theo’s ability.

At that moment,

Flutter. Flutter.

“-I will deliver the land deeds to the Black Rabbit.”

Kellion flew down and said.

“Yes? That’s fine, though.”

Since he could deliver the land deeds to the Black Rabbit by putting them in the treasure warehouse of the Red Ribbon Kingdom, Se-jun rejected Kellion’s offer. He thought the Black Rabbit would feel uncomfortable if Kellion or Ajax visited.

However,

“-Ahem! I said I will go!”

Kellion insisted stubbornly. It was a scheme to do Se-jun a favor and receive soju in return.

“Then, please do so. Instead, please make sure the Black Rabbit doesn’t get startled.”

Se-jun said as he handed the land deed of the 57th floor of the tower to Kellion so that he could quickly go to Pyupyu, who was waiting for the Black Rabbit.

“-Do not worry. Since I will deliver it very quickly and quietly.”

Kellion replied and swallowed the land deed.

One minute later,

“-Delivered.”

Along with Kellion’s words,

“The Black Rabbit received the land deed, meow!”

Kkueng!

[The land deed suddenly fell from the sky!]

Theo and Cuengi, who were watching the Black Rabbit through the bronze mirror next to Se-jun, informed him that the Black Rabbit had received the land deed.

“Thank you.”

“-Then…”

“Here you go. Thank you very much.”

Se-jun, confirming from the mirror that the Black Rabbit opened the land deed and moved to another location, said as he handed ten bottles of soju to Kellion in gratitude.

“-Oh, you shouldn’t have… Uhahaha! If you have anything to request next time, tell me anytime.”

Flutter. Flutter.

Kellion flew away, taking the soju.

***

“Really?”

“-Yeah. If it weren’t for me, Se-jun would have almost been dragged to the Green Tower.”

“Grandfather, thank you. I feel so reassured because of you.”

“-Khahaha. This grandfather will protect Se-jun in the future as well.”

Kaiser, who heard words of thanks from Aileen, replied with a big laugh. If he saved Se-jun, he received alcohol from Se-jun and got closer to Aileen, so it was killing two birds with one stone.

While they were talking like that,

“Huh?! Se-jun asked me for an appraisal! Hehehe. Se-jun, wait just a little. Appraisal.”

Aileen, who received the land deeds from Se-jun, began the appraisal. In that way, the first land deed was appraised.

“Huh?! This is a land deed of the Blue Tower?”

The land deed Theo had found in the warehouse haunted by evil spirits was a land deed of the Blue Tower.

“Appraisal.”

Subsequently, Aileen appraised the last land deed Theo had won in the bid at the auction.

“Huh?! This is a Green Tower land deed.”

“-What?! Green Tower?!”

When Kaiser was startled at the mention of the Green Tower,

Hum.

The land deed of the Green Tower unfolded and tried to move Aileen to the Green Tower. The land deed was cast with Brachio’s magic that would automatically unfold the land deed if appraisal magic was used.

“Eek!”

Aileen hurriedly tried to cancel the magic, but it was too complex for the young Aileen to cancel.

At that moment,

“-It’s fine. Aileen, since you are the Tower Administrator, the tower protects you.”

Kaiser, who had been flustered for a moment, regained his composure and spoke calmly.

[The Tower Administrator cannot leave the Black Tower.]

[Spatial movement is forcibly cancelled.]

As Kaiser said, an alarm appeared in the crystal ball, and the land deed was forcibly rolled back up.

“-For now, this grandfather will keep this.”

Kaiser took the Green Tower land deed.

“-Grit! How dare she try to kidnap my granddaughter?!!!”

The enraged Kaiser ground his teeth, thinking of a way to give Brachio a taste of her own medicine.

***

[The Tower Administrator said that the appraisal was finished.]

“Aileen, thank you. Huh? But there is only one land deed?”

Since only one land deed was returned, Se-jun asked in wonder.

[The Tower Administrator said that one was a land deed of the Green Tower, which was dangerous, so her grandfather decided to keep it.]

“The Green Tower again?”

[The Tower Administrator said that she also almost moved to the Green Tower just now.]

“Aileen too?!”

To think even Aileen was almost dragged away… this made him angry!

[The Tower Administrator said that you should also be extremely careful with land deeds from now on.]

“Yeah. Understood.”

Se-jun resolved that he should definitely be careful with land deeds from now on and thought it would be good to take some measures against the Green Tower.

Finishing the conversation with Aileen like that,

“VP Theo, which one draws you the most here?”

Se-jun asked Theo to decide which of the three remaining Black Tower land deeds, after delivering to the Black Rabbit, to go to first.

However,

“Puhuhut. Puhuhut.”

Theo just kept laughing, as if something was so good.

“Is it that good?”

“Puhuhut. Of course, meow! I am now the official VP Theo, meow!”

Se-jun decided to appoint Theo, who had achieved the enormous feat of bringing six land deeds, as the official VP Theo instead of temporary, and because of that, Theo’s laughter did not stop.

“Puhuhut. Now, I, Theo Park, have become the true second-in-command, meow!”

Flash!

Theo placed his left front paw on his waist, extended his right front paw forward, and unsheathed his claws to make a V-shape.

“Right. Right. So which one draws you the most?”

Se-jun asked again, stroking Theo’s head.

“Hm-nyang! That is strange, meow!”

At Se-jun’s question, Theo put his front paw on his chin and fell into thought.

“What is strange?”

“Clearly, last time the 44th floor of the tower drew me the most… but now the 85th floor of the tower draws me the most, meow!”

“Really?”

At Theo’s words, Se-jun also fell into thought. What was it? If so, it was one of two things. Either the thing that drew Theo’s front paw on the 44th floor of the tower had vanished, or something new that drew Theo’s front paw had appeared on the 85th floor.

“Let’s go to the 85th floor of the tower first.”

“Then let’s call Elka, meow! Elka is from the 85th floor of the tower, meow!”

“You’re right! Then I should tell Elka to go first and inspect the farm.”

Se-jun also recalled at Theo’s words. In that way, Se-jun sent a White Rabbit to Elka and gave new instructions.

“Now, let’s work.”

As the urgent matter disappeared with the Black Rabbit being brought back to the Black Tower, Se-jun prepared for sowing again to complete his job quest.

When Se-jun put on his straw hat and lifted Myler’s hoe,

“I understand, meow! I will also assist President Park, meow!”

“Really? If you help…”

Cling.

“What are you doing?”

Se-jun asked with a dumbfounded expression, watching Theo hang from his knees, claiming he was assisting him.

“Puhuhut. Hanging from President Park’s knees like this is my assistance, meow!”

Theo replied confidently to Se-jun’s question.

Kkueng!

[Cuengi will also assist Dad!]

Following Theo, Cuengi also hung from Se-jun’s knees, claiming he would assist his dad. He shouldn’t have said anything if he was going to do this.

“Heave-ho! Heave-ho!”

“Heave-ho, meow! Heave-ho, meow!”

Kku! Eng!

Thanks to that, Se-jun matching the chants with Theo and Cuengi, moved his heavy legs and sowed seeds in the field.

“Earth Movement.”

[You planted 500 seeds of the Corn of Stamina in the soil filled with magic power.]

[Due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 6, the probability of the Corn of Stamina seeds taking root increased.]

[Due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 6, the growth rate of the Corn of Stamina seeds accelerated for 24 hours.]

[7,210,489 times remaining until the completion of the job quest.]

The seeds sown today were the Corn of Stamina.

“Phew. Still a long way to go.”

Se-jun sighed, looking at the number displayed in the message. Just what kind of amazing job combat skill were they trying to give him to make him suffer like this?

“Are they going to give me something extremely strong?”

Se-jun continued to plant seeds, imagining himself becoming stronger after obtaining the job combat skill.

After planting corn for about an hour like that,

[The Corn of Stamina was grateful for the farmer’s footsteps and added its strength.]

[The potential of the Stamina stat increased from 103 to 104.]

A message that the potential of Stamina increased appeared.

“Hehehe. It’s rewarding.”

While Se-jun was rejoicing at the increased potential,

[The size of the farm owned exceeded 3 million pyeong (approx. 2450 acres).]

[Talent: Thousand-bag Grain Owner grew into Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner.]

A message that the talent grew appeared. As he made fields, before he knew it, the size of the farm Se-jun cultivated exceeded 3 million pyeong.

“Oh! Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner!”

Se-jun cheered looking at the message. The person who didn’t even have a single pyeong of land outside the tower had become a landowner with 3 million pyeong of land. Parents, rejoice! A Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner has emerged from our family.

Se-jun, who was enjoying the mood alone,

“Shall I see what changed?”

Se-jun examined the newly grown talent: Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner.

[Talent: Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner]

-It was an acquired talent that only a farmer with more than 3 million pyeong of farmland could possess.

-You could designate up to 3 stewards to manage the farm on behalf of the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner. (A steward could designate their own 100 tenant farmers and 3 guardians.)

-You could designate up to 15 guardians to protect the farm. (You receive 50% of the experience points of enemies defeated by a guardian within a 5km radius of the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner as a reward.)

-You could designate up to 3,000 tenant farmers.

-Tenant farmers could use the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner’s farming skills. (If a tenant farmer used the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner’s skill, the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner received 7% of the skill proficiency reward.)

-The talent would grow as the size of the farm increased.

“Oh!”

Se-jun let out an exclamation looking at the changed details. The number of stewards, guardians, and tenant farmers he could additionally appoint increased by 2, 5, and 2,000 respectively. Especially, the number of tenant farmers was enormous.

Considering that the skill proficiency reward used by the tenant farmers changed from 5% to 7%, it seemed he could accumulate an enormous amount of skill proficiency in the future.

“Hehehe.”

He had been in a stagnation period lately, but since his talent grew like this, his mood improved. He couldn’t let a day like this pass by.

“Today is a party!”

“A party, meow?! A party needs a new Churu, meow!”

Kkueng!

[A party needs a lot of honey!]

At Se-jun’s words, Theo and Cuengi each said what they wanted.

At that moment,

Thump!

A huge vibration was heard from the direction of the cave.

“Huh? Don’t tell me?! Guys, let’s go!”

Worried about Flamie at the thought that an Apostle of Destruction might have invaded through the pond, Se-jun hurriedly ran toward the cave with Theo and Cuengi attached to his legs.

“Whew.”

Arriving at the cave, Se-jun felt relieved seeing Flamie unharmed.

[Giant Deep-Sea Crayfish]

There was a giant crayfish that came out from the pond in the cave, but for some reason, it was just sticking closely to the wall and looking around. He was lucky. It seemed to be on guard because it was still an unfamiliar place.

“How dare you come here!”

“Meow?”

Kkueng?

Se-jun detached Theo and Cuengi from his legs and ran toward the crayfish. Thanks to his lightened legs, he felt like he could fly.

“Take this!”

Se-jun extended his fist toward the head of the crayfish with that momentum. His Strength and Stamina stats had almost reached 99. He could be said to be at the level of Lu Bu from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He could easily defeat a crayfish like that…

Thwack!

“Keh!”

[Your body suffered a fatal injury from a powerful attack.]

[ was activated.]

[Mana was consumed to protect the body from breaking.]

Huh? Was I wrong?

While Se-jun, hit by the giant pincer of the crayfish, was blown away and flustered by the scene that turned out differently from his thoughts,

Crash!

Tumble.

Se-jun’s body hit the cave wall and was buried under the crumbling pile of stones.

“President Park, are you okay, meow?!”

Kkueng?

[Dad, are you okay?]

Theo and Cuengi asked as they pulled Se-jun out of the pile of stones.

“Yeah. I’m fine.”

Fortunately, Se-jun, whose body had become sturdy, was not injured. Se-jun hurriedly prepared for the crayfish’s attack.

However,

[You defeated the Giant Deep-Sea Crayfish.]

[Experience points could not be obtained because the job quest was not completed.]

“Huh? It’s dead?”

The crayfish had died in the meantime.

When Se-jun was flustered looking at the message,

[Master, you are amazing! I saw the crayfish stagger and collapse from Master’s attack!]

Flamie praised Se-jun.

“Hehehe. Really?”

Se-jun grinned looking at his fist. As expected, I seemed a bit strong.

When Cuengi moved the giant crayfish Se-jun caught out of the cave like that,

Clink.

Two green coins and three gray coins fell from the claws of the Giant Deep-Sea Crayfish.

“Huh? Why did this guy drop coins?”

Se-jun, wondering, picked up the coins and hurriedly went to the kitchen. It took a long time to properly grill the giant crayfish.

And Flamie was left alone.

[Whew. That was close.]

For the crayfish, which had its last blow left on purpose, to exert its final strength and strike Se-jun… Flamie’s heart sank at the unexpected situation.