Chapter 193 – Go! Ajax!

“Golden Bat, go to the 83rd floor of the tower and call the hedgehogs and the poison honeybees.”

(Yes!)

The Golden Bat, who was hanging on Se-jun’s back and resting, immediately flew to the 83rd floor of the tower at Se-jun’s instruction. Se-jun decided to borrow the labor of the hedgehogs on the nearby floor to quickly harvest the kudzu fruits.

And the reason he called the poison honeybees was because of the kudzu flowers blooming among the kudzu vines. Since a fairly sweet scent came from the kudzu flowers, it was to see if the poison honeybees could harvest honey from them by any chance.

Even if they couldn’t, they could still obtain the pollen of the kudzu flowers, so there was nothing bad about it.

While the Golden Bat went to the 83rd floor of the tower to bring reinforcements,

Thump. Thump.

Se-jun dug up the kudzu roots, washed them clean, and

“Cuengi, squeeze it tight.”

He cut the kudzu root into fist-sized pieces and had Cuengi squeeze it. He was thinking of making kudzu juice. Although he had never actually tasted it, he had seen kudzu juice sold a lot, so he thought it would be edible. He was curious about what it tasted like.

Kkueng!

[Understood! Squeezing it tight!]

When Cuengi held the kudzu root with his two front paws and pressed it lightly,

Creak.

Drip. Drip.

Along with the sound of the root being squeezed, kudzu juice began to come out. Se-jun quickly placed a tumbler on the ground and collected the kudzu juice.

Kkueng!

[No more is coming out of this one!]

Cuengi threw away the kudzu root in his hand, grabbed a new kudzu root, and began to squeeze it again. Se-jun touched the kudzu root that Cuengi had thrown away.

“Wow, at this rate, it could be used as dry firewood right away.”

The kudzu root Cuengi had thrown away had all its moisture drained, leaving it in a state almost like a dry twig. The performance of Cuengi’s juicer was amazing. It seemed he could collect the juiced kudzu roots separately and use them as firewood later.

Slosh. Slosh.

Once a certain amount of kudzu juice had gathered,

Sip.

Se-jun tasted the kudzu juice. When he drank the kudzu juice, first, the unique aroma of kudzu lingered in his mouth, and a strong bitter taste came. However, to Se-jun, who was adapted to bitter tastes, it was not that bitter.

Gulp.

As he savored and swallowed the kudzu juice, a lingering sweet taste was felt in his mouth, wrapping up the finish pleasantly.

“Mmm. Good.”

While Se-jun was smiling and feeling the aftertaste of the kudzu juice,

Lick.

‘Dad said it is good!’ Cuengi, who was closely watching Se-jun’s expression, placed his tongue on the kudzu juice smeared on his front paw. Since a subtle sweet scent came from it, he was filled with anticipation.

However,

Kkuek!!!

[It is bitter!!!]

Cuengi, who licked the kudzu juice with his tongue, made a sour face and shuddered. To Cuengi, who had never experienced such a bitter taste, it was too intense of a bitterness.

“Here, take this.”

Se-jun popped a honey jelly into Cuengi’s mouth.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It is okay now!]

Thanks to the honey jelly, Cuengi, whose face relaxed, tried to squeeze a kudzu root again. ‘Only Dad will eat this now!’ Cuengi made a generous decision to yield the kudzu juice to Se-jun.

However,

“Cuengi, stop squeezing.”

Thinking that it was not a taste he would drink often either, Se-jun closed the tumbler’s lid and stored the remaining kudzu juice.

“Let’s harvest fruits again.”

When about five hours had passed since Se-jun harvested the kudzu fruits,

(Se-jun!)

Buzz! Buzz!

The Golden Bat and about 5,000 poison honeybees appeared.

And,

Kkosit! Kkosit!

Behind the Golden Bat and the poison honeybees, 10,000 hedgehogs were seen running hard, following Godori.

“Thank you for coming, guys.”

Se-jun expressed his gratitude to the reinforcements who had come all the way here.

Buzz!

[Greetings, Se-jun. I have heard a lot about you from my mother.]

The queen who led the 5,000 poison honeybees greeted Se-jun.

The poison honeybee queen here was a new queen born from the poison honeybee queen of the 83rd floor. Upon receiving Se-jun’s request for support, the poison honeybee queen had taken the opportunity to send the new queen off to be independent along with worker bees.

“Yes. Nice to meet you. First, please harvest honey from the flowers here.”

Buzz!

[Yes!]

At Se-jun’s words, the poison honeybees scattered, clung to the kudzu flowers, and began to suck the honey.

Kkosit?

[What should we do?]

The leader of the hedgehogs, Godori, asked with an expression that said to assign them any task.

“You guys help me harvest kudzu fruits. This is a kudzu fruit. You harvest it like this.”

Se-jun demonstrated how to harvest the kudzu fruits.

Kkosit! Kkosit!

At Se-jun’s demonstration, the hedgehogs nodded their heads vigorously, indicating they understood.

“Then, let’s harvest just 10,000 each.”

Kkosit! Kkosit!

Swiftly.

At Se-jun’s instruction, the hedgehogs quickly scattered and began to harvest kudzu fruits. If 10,000 hedgehogs harvested 10,000 kudzu fruits each, a total of 100 million kudzu fruits would be obtained.

“Hehehe. Just wait a little.”

Amused by the thought of detonating a bomb of 100 million kudzu fruits in the Green Tower, Se-jun put the kudzu fruits harvested by the hedgehogs into boxes and stored them in the void storage. Cuengi and the wolves also helped Se-jun move the fruits.

At that moment,

[A tenant farmer used Seed Harvesting Lv. 6 and obtained 5 kudzu fruits.]

[The Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner receives 7% of the skill proficiency reward.]

[The proficiency of the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner’s Seed Harvesting Lv. 6 increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 6 is filled, and the level increases.]

The level of Se-jun’s Seed Harvesting skill rose. This was because Se-jun had designated 500 of the hedgehogs that had come as support as tenant farmers to receive the skill proficiency rewards. There was no way Se-jun would miss such a great opportunity.

Once 100 million fruits were harvested with the help of the hedgehogs,

“I will go upstairs for a moment, so please stay here and continue harvesting the fruits.”

Kkosit!

Se-jun had the hedgehogs continue harvesting the kudzu fruits and moved toward the waypoint of the 85th floor of the tower.

“It is empty here?”

Se-jun said while looking at the waypoint. The boss that should be protecting the red crystal was not in sight.

“Yes. There was originally a boss protecting it, but because the floor was like this, they gave up and left.”

“Really?”

Se-jun placed his hand on the red crystal while listening to Elka’s words.

[The waypoint of the 85th floor of the tower has been saved.]

[Loading saved waypoints of other floors.]

[Saved Waypoints]

-99th floor of the tower

-83rd floor of the tower

-77th floor of the tower

-49th floor of the tower

“Guys, get in.”

“Understood, meow!”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Se-jun sent Theo and Cuengi into the void storage.

And,

“Elka, protect this place.”

“Yes. Do not worry!”

“Yes. Then I will be back.”

He entrusted the remaining hedgehogs and poison honeybees to Elka and moved to the 99th floor of the tower.

***

The 99th floor of the Purple Tower.

-How is the acquisition of the land deeds going, Becca?

“Currently, we have acquired 77 land deeds of the Purple Tower, 13 land deeds of the Black Tower, 12 land deeds of the Golden Tower, 5 land deeds of the Blue Tower, and 1 land deed of the Green Tower.”

Prostrate before the Purple Dragon statue, the dark-skinned tower farmer Becca answered while trembling in fear.

-Hurry up more!

“Yes!”

When Becca went back,

Flutter. Flutter.

Tier Peten flew to the stone monument erected in the center of the 99th floor of the tower. The stone monument was the Creator God’s monument, and Tier’s reason for collecting land deeds was written there.

[The Ninth Commandment: If a tower farmer collects more than half of another tower’s land deeds, they can seize ownership of the tower.]

In short, it meant that as long as they collected the land deeds, a tower farmer could seize other towers. If ownership of a tower was taken away, it would be quite damaging to the dragons’ pride.

By Tier’s judgment, there were a total of 99 land deeds given to each tower, one for each floor. In other words, if one collected just 50 land deeds, they could seize a tower ruled by another dragon.

-Hehehe. Keep letting your guard down. Before you know it, I will snatch them all away. I alone will enjoy the glory of carrying out the task given by the Creator God.

Without even knowing properly what the Creator God’s task was, Tier Peten was already thinking of monopolizing the towers all for himself.

***

Kkueng!

[We have arrived at home!]

Cuengi, who ran all the way while carrying Se-jun and Theo, shouted.

“Good job.”

When Se-jun stroked Cuengi’s head,

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. Cuengi is going to sleep with mom!]

Cuengi ran toward Pink Fur while smiling. It was late evening.

“Let’s sleep for now too.”

“Understood, meow!”

The next morning.

As soon as Se-jun ate breakfast, he went to Kaiser and asked if there was an easy way to spread kudzu in the Green Tower.

Since he also had the land deeds of the Black Tower, Se-jun could have gone to the Green Tower himself, spread the kudzu, and returned, but he disliked that. To Se-jun, who pursued safety first, the risk of that was too high.

-Hmm.

At Se-jun’s question, Kaiser fell into thought while looking at the land deeds of the Green Tower. This was because spatial movement could only be activated if there was a subject who could own the land deeds.

-It is impossible to send only the land deeds and the kudzu fruits.

Kaiser, who had reached a conclusion, answered.

“Really? Then it cannot be helped.”

Se-jun was not disappointed by Kaiser’s answer. This was because he had one more idea to scatter kudzu fruits in the Green Tower.

-But what are you going to do by sending such things to the Green Tower?

Kaiser could not understand why Se-jun, while claiming it was revenge, was scattering 100 million of those fruits—which he had harvested with difficulty despite being useless—into the Green Tower.

“Hehehe. A funny thing will probably happen. Kellion, can I send Ajax to the Green Tower for a moment?”

Se-jun, who was laughing like a villain, asked while looking at Kellion beside him.

-What?! What do you mean by that?! Why would we send our grandson to the Green Tower?!

At Se-jun’s words, Kellion became agitated.

“If you give the kudzu fruits to Ajax, Ajax can just go to the Green Tower for a moment, scatter the kudzu fruits, and come back. Instead, I will give you 100 bottles of soju.”

-What?! How hard is that for you to give 100 bottles?!

At Se-jun’s words, Kaiser became excited. It was dangerous for Se-jun, but there was absolutely no danger for Ajax.

Of course, the tower administrator would not stand idle since someone invaded their tower, but since he would return quickly, that was not a major problem either.

However, to Se-jun, it was a fairly reasonable trade.

If he transported the kudzu fruits through inter-tower transport, he would have to consume nearly 100 million tower coins. Moreover, since Ajax could just return using the land deeds of the White Tower, Se-jun could save the land deeds of the Black Tower he possessed.

-150 bottles! Then I will send my grandson.

-Hey! You scammer! Why are you taking as many as 150 bottles?!

Kaiser became agitated because the amount of soju he would get later would decrease by as much as Kellion took.

-What do you mean by ‘taking’ to a friend?

-I say ‘taking’ because that is what you are doing!

While the two dragons were fighting,

“Guys, help me take out the kudzu fruits.”

“Understood, meow!”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

With the help of Theo and Cuengi, Se-jun began to take out the 100 million kudzu fruits stored in the void storage.

-Ahem. You know about later, right?

-Yeah. I got it.

Kellion, who had agreed to drink the 10 bottles of soju he received from Se-jun with Kaiser in the evening, answered in a voice full of annoyance. He had been caught by Kaiser.

-So I just need to scatter this in the Green Tower?

“Yes. You can scatter half on each floor. Never drop any in the White Tower. If you drop it, it will be a big disaster.”

Se-jun gave Kellion two land deeds of the Green Tower and warned him. Once a single kudzu took root, it was only a matter of time before the surroundings turned into a kudzu field.

-I got it.

Having answered, Kellion swallowed the land deeds and the kudzu fruits.

After a moment,

-I have delivered the kudzu fruits to Ajax.

Ajax got furious and protested, asking why he had to go, but Kellion quietly just delivered the kudzu fruits. Since Se-jun would handle the rest himself.

“Yes. Thank you. Here is the soju.”

Se-jun handed Kellion the 150 bottles of soju he had brought from the brewery.

And,

“Go! Ajax!”

Se-jun sent the bombing dragon Ajax, armed with the kudzu fruit bomb, to the Green Tower.