Chapter 210 – Not Our Se-jun!

“Se-jun-nim, hello!”

The cat intern Bill greeted Se-jun, who was resting while eating barnacle porridge and drinking coffee.

After a while,

“Se-jun-nim, hello?!”

“Hello!”

The other cat interns also gathered on the 99th floor of the tower one by one.

When all eight cat interns gathered like that,

“Puhahat. Is everyone gathered, meow?”

“Yes! Vice President Theo!”

Theo, who was clinging to Se-jun’s leg, climbed down from Se-jun’s lap and spoke to them. It was Theo who had made the cat interns gather today.

And,

“From now on, I will start the employee promotion ceremony, meow!”

The purpose of gathering them was to promote the interns with good performance to regular employees.

“Bill, Jeff, step forward, meow!”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

Bill and Jeff stepped forward at Theo’s call. Their expressions were full of pride. Unlike other cats, they now had a lifetime job where they could continue working even after the contract period of 10,000 days passed.

“Listen well, meow! Bill, when I, President Theo, was attacked by the Three-Headed Society, quickly requested help from the Black Orcs and made a great contribution to searching the Three-Headed Society’s hideout…”

Theo read the achievements Bill had made, and

“from now on, Bill has become a regular employee of our farm, meow! Everyone, congratulate him, meow!”

he appointed Bill as an employee.

Clap, clap, clap.

At Theo’s words, the interns looked at Bill enviously and clapped with their front paws.

“Jeff has excellent communication skills with other animals while working, identifying their locations when needed and deploying them to the right places…”

Subsequently, he read the achievements Jeff had made and appointed him as an employee.

“Thank you! I will work hard in the future!”

“That’s right, meow! Continue to work hard in the future for Chairman Park, who promoted you, meow!”

The one who decided the promotion of the two was Se-jun. Because Theo was highly moody, if left to him, he would quickly promote the cats, creating eight presidents.

“Yes! Chairman Park, we will work hard in the future too.”

“Right. Please continue to do well.”

When Bill and Jeff expressed their gratitude to Se-jun,

“In the future, we will pay the two who became regular employees three grilled fish a day and a 2% sales incentive, meow!”

Theo explained about the employee benefits.

“2%?!”

“Wow!”

The cats who heard the employee benefits were astonished. Grilled fish was one thing, but the incentive had doubled. Even if they worked as usual, they would now earn twice as much money.

However, the employee benefits did not end here. Something even greater was waiting.

“And to Bill, I will entrust the distribution of potatoes, and to Jeff, the distribution of carrots, meow!”

He entrusted Bill and Jeff with the Potato of Strength and Agility Carrot, crops with sales dozens of times higher than the Magical Cherry Tomato.

“Thank you!”

“Thank you!”

At the unconventional benefits, Bill and Jeff expressed their gratitude to Theo again.

“Puhahat. Other interns, work hard and become employees quickly too, meow!”

Theo said, looking at the other interns. Only then would he have no reason to fall off Chairman Park’s lap, meow! Theo wanted to quickly promote everyone to regular employees and hand over his work.

When the employee promotion ceremony ended like that,

“Everyone, follow Vice President Theo, meow! Chairman Park, I will be back, meow!”

“Right. Go safely.”

“Understood, meow!”

Theo, who wanted to quickly hand over his work, led the cats and went down to the 41st floor of the tower, saying he would show a demonstration.

***

“Please let it work today!”

Gonzales, who had pushed his body into the tower’s exit every day with hope. Unlike what he shouted, he had naturally thought he wouldn’t be able to go out, but…

Swoosh.

“Oh?!”

his body passed through the exit and collapsed on the floor.

And,

“Where is this?”

Gonzales, who hurriedly stood up, looked around at the completely unfamiliar surrounding scenery.

At that moment,

“A person came out of the tower!”

Employees of the Korean Awakened Association, who were controlling entry and exit of the tower, spotted Gonzales and hurriedly approached.

“By any chance, are you from the Brasilia Tower?”

Because they had set up a hypothesis that the tower that appeared in Hannam-dong might be the tower that was in Brasilia and had an interpreter who could speak Portuguese on standby, there was no problem in communication.

“Yes. But where is this?”

“This is South Korea.”

‘This is South Korea?’

‘It really was the Brasilia Tower!’

Thanks to that, both sides were able to obtain the necessary information.

“First, we will issue a visa to stay in South Korea.”

The employees requested Gonzales’s personal information from the Brazilian Awakened Association, confirmed his identity, and issued a long-term visa to stay in South Korea for 10 years.

It was to keep the hunters in South Korea as long as possible. The number of hunters who entered through the Brasilia Tower was approximately 100,000. And the number of Korean hunters was 10,000.

At this opportunity, even if only 10% of the 100,000 hunters naturalized to South Korea, it was an opportunity to double the number of Korean hunters.

Furthermore, they knew that there were quite a few top-tier hunters ranked within the top 10,000 in the world who had entered the Brasilia Tower. Just by giving them a good impression, it was a massive benefit from South Korea’s perspective.

“What would you like to do about lodging? If you have no particular place in mind, we will escort you to a nearby hotel.”

The employees asked kindly.

“Just a moment. First, I will go into the tower and inform the people that they can go outside.”

“Of course. We will also deploy hunters to help.”

“Thank you.”

A little while later, more than 10,000 hunters came out of the Hannam-dong tower, and thanks to that, the sales of nearby hotels and lodging businesses rose significantly.

***

Snip, snip.

“Hum, hum, hum.”

Se-jun was harvesting cherry tomatoes after eating lunch, humming a song.

At that moment,

[You have harvested a Magical Cherry Tomato.]

[Due to the effect of Harvesting Lv. 7, you have harvested one crop of a grade higher.]

[Job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 7 increases slightly.]

[You have acquired 100 experience points.]

Due to the effect of the Harvesting skill, he harvested an A-grade cherry tomato, which was one grade higher.

“Oh! As expected, I’m a lucky guy!”

Se-jun said proudly. Today, everything worked out for him. The effect of eating a lot of Lucky Strawberries was tremendous. Although it was a mystery why the luck, which was supposed to rise for only 1 hour, kept being maintained.

“Hehehe. Has my luck finally burst?”

When Se-jun was thinking, ‘Could it be that my life’s potential has finally burst?’

Kkueng!

[Dad, Cuengi wants to eat snacks!]

Cuengi, who had been playing digging the ground alone, approached, asking for snacks.

“Just a moment. Crop Giantization.”

[Using Crop Giantization Lv. 4 on the Potato of Strength.]

[Uses the power contained in the Sweet Potato of Strength to giantize the crop.]

Se-jun used Crop Giantization on the sweet potato.

[You are lucky.]

[The Sweet Potato of Strength successfully giantized without losing its power.]

“Huh?”

The Sweet Potato of Strength grew while maintaining its option.

“Hehehe. As expected, I’m a lucky guy. Here you go.”

Confirming his luck again, Se-jun smiled, giving the giant sweet potato that maintained its options to Cuengi.

In the process, Se-jun harvested cherry tomatoes again after giving the sweet potato to Cuengi like that,

Kkek!

A fire ant that had followed Se-jun to the farm approached with a confident stride. A single red king oyster mushroom was growing completely on the fire ant’s back.

“Is that by any chance an elixir?!”

Kkek!

The fire ant moved its antennae up and down at Se-jun’s question. Another good thing had happened.

“Really?!”

It was surprising that even fire ants could grow elixirs.

Kkek!

The fire ant worker showed his back toward Se-jun.

Pluck.

Se-jun harvested the mushroom from the fire ant worker’s back and checked its options.

[High-grade Elixir: King Oyster Mushroom of Flame]

The king oyster mushroom grown by the Tower Farmer’s tenant farmer, the fire ant worker, absorbed all the fire energy possessed by the fire ant worker and all the surrounding nutrients alone, growing into an elixir.

It boasts excellent taste and scent.

Upon consumption, all stats +3

Upon consumption, slightly strengthens flame-related talents.

Grower: Tenant Farmer Fire Ant Worker of Tower Farmer Park Se-jun

Shelf Life: 120 days

Grade: B

Certainly, perhaps because its size was larger than the mushroom ants, the effect of the elixir was also better.

“I should bring more fire ants.”

Se-jun harvested cherry tomatoes again, thinking he should go to the northern area later and catch more fire ants.

After a while,

“Oh! Another A-grade cherry tomato!”

Even after that, Se-jun’s luck continued, without him knowing what kind of result it would bring.

***

Black Tower Administrator zone.

“Khing… it’s hard… yum.”

Aileen, who was exhausted from engraving magic on Kai-la’s Dragon Heart fragment, put the elixir Se-jun had given her, the Cherry Tomato Containing Mighty Magic Power, into her mouth. Only now was about half of the engraving work finished.

“Khehehe. It’s delicious. Yum, yum.”

While Aileen was recovering her magic power like that, eating the elixir-grade cherry tomato,

[Tower Farmer Park Se-jun of the Black Tower has used undeserved luck.]

[The causality of the Black Tower has been slightly distorted.]

[The scale of causality operates.]

[Restores causality by giving misfortune to Tower Farmer Park Se-jun with the scale of causality.]

An alarm stating that misfortune would be given to Se-jun appeared on the crystal ball.

“Grrr! Not our Se-jun!”

Trying to make our Se-jun unfortunate?! That cannot be! Aileen flew into a rage, infused magic into the crystal ball, and used administrator authority.

And,

[The Black Tower Administrator intervenes in the adjustment of causality.]

[The adjustment of causality is in progress.]

[Misfortune that was going to Tower Farmer Park Se-jun is distributed to the beings on the 99th floor of the tower.]

The misfortune that was heading toward Se-jun was dispersed. Thanks to that, the misfortune of the germination rate of seeds Se-jun planted for three days becoming 0% was passed to other beings and altered.

***

The west forest on the 99th floor of the tower.

Thump. Thump.

A young ent played while tapping the ice in front of him.

At that moment,

Crack.

A small crack went through the ice, which seemed like it would never break, hit by the young ent’s branch.

Crack, crack, crack.

Starting with the small crack in the ice, the cracks on the ice spread in all directions in an instant, creating a fracture.

And,

Crash.

As the giant ice wall collapsed, the bodies of the Corrupted Ents in the center of the west forest, who had been trapped, recovered warmth and began to spread the energy of corruption.

***

Slash.

Se-jun, who had finished harvesting cherry tomatoes, swung the Greatsword of Amplification diligently, cutting leaves in the green onion field. It was Se-jun’s own swordsmanship training, as he had no skill in handling swords.

While he was cutting green onion leaves diligently like that,

Creak, creak.

Creak, creak.

“Huh?”

Turning his gaze toward the place where the sound came from, Se-jun saw an enormous number of ents flocking from the west.

“What is it?”

Feeling something strange, Se-jun approached the Purified Ents.

“Guys, what’s the matter?”

[Se-jun… nim… the ice… has broken…]

“Ice?”

[Yes… the ice… that was… trapping… the Corrupted… Ents…]

“Really?!”

Only then did Se-jun remember the Corrupted Ents that Iona had trapped by making an ice wall.

“Understood. Then you guys guard the surroundings. Cuengi! Pink Fur!”

Se-jun asked the ents to defend the farm and called Cuengi and Pink Fur.

“Let’s go to the west forest!”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Kruooar!

[Understood!]

Se-jun rode Cuengi and ran to the west forest with Pink Fur.

Se-jun’s dispersed misfortune gave misfortune to the Purified Ents, breaking the ice that trapped the Corrupted Ents.

However, misfortune was equally applied to the Corrupted Ents as well, creating an opportunity for Se-jun, whose luck did not decrease, to accumulate a large amount of experience points.

“Level up, go go!”

Se-jun and the animals, who would bring misfortune to the Corrupted Ents, rapidly ran to the west forest.