Chapter 274 – I’m Excited, Meow

The 52nd floor of the Purple Tower.

Squeak.

A giant tarantula climbed up onto the giant land floating in the sky.

At that time,

Crack.

Wiggle. Wiggle.

Splitting the tarantula’s back, countless tentacles began to stretch out.

Crunch.

The tentacles soon tore the giant tarantula’s body apart, escaped from the host, and moved on their own.

-Kekekek. I’ve arrived.

It was a fragment of Kraken, the sea-swallowing beast occupying the 6th Seat of the 12 Apostles of Destruction.

Since it had found what it wanted, it did not care what happened to the host anymore, so it revealed its true form directly.

Wiggle. Wiggle.

The fragment of Kraken that revealed its form crawled through the wasteland and moved toward the center of the land.

And,

-Kekekek. Found it. The temple of the Creator God.

The fragment of Kraken discovered a pure white building surrounded by Emila’s flower bed in the distance. The temple of the Creator God guarded by the apostle of the Creator God.

The reason the Apostles of Destruction kept entering the tower was to find this place.

-Kekekek. I feel an appetizing energy.

To be precise, it was to absorb the power emitted by the temple of the Creator God.

To the Apostles of Destruction, the power of creation was good food to grow the power of destruction. The more they absorbed the power of creation, the stronger the power of destruction became.

Wiggle. Wiggle.

The fragment of Kraken that moved toward the temple of the Creator God like that finally arrived at Emila’s flower bed.

Crumble.

Upon touching the tentacles of the Kraken fragment, the crops turned to ash, and the flower bed began to turn into a wasteland.

When a quarter of the flower bed had shrunk like that,

-This is as far as I go. But now I am able to release the 3rd stage of the seal.

With those final words, the fragment of Kraken was expelled, and the land where the temple of the Creator God was located moved to another place again.

***

“Here. Take two each, and you just need to give me 50 billion Tower Coins each.”

Se-jun showed the black beans in his left hand to the dragons, and

Extend.

Stretched out his right hand. Money first, please.

-Kuhahaha. Understood.

-Se-jun, here it is.

-Me too.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

The dragons, excited as soon as they saw the black beans, hurriedly gave Se-jun the money and took two black beans each from Se-jun’s left hand.

‘It’s light.’

It was a money pouch so light that it was unbelievable that 150 billion Tower Coins were on his hand.

A higher level of weight-reduction magic than the money pouch Theo carried was applied, so almost no weight was felt.

‘Hehehe. I should change my kids’ pouches to this.’

Rejoicing at the unexpected extra income, Se-jun began to count the Tower Coins inside the money pouches.

“The total is indeed 150 billion Tower Coins.”

Se-jun verified the money received from the dragons. Thanks to this, he had the money to buy a new authority again, but now there was no time to buy an authority.

Descending from the fountain, Se-jun

“Cuengi!”

Called Cuengi, and

Dadadada.

Cuengi ran hard at Se-jun’s call.

And,

Extend.

Kkueng? Kkueng?

[Did Dad call Cuengi-da-yo? Is it time for Cuengi to eat-da-yo?]

Cuengi, who ran excitedly thinking it was time to eat, clung to Se-jun’s leg.

But,

“Cuengi, bear with it for a little bit. Toryong-i!”

Se-jun headed to the waypoint riding Toryong-i with the animals. He had to hurry so as not to be late for the founding ceremony.

Rumble.

On the way to the waypoint riding Toryong-i.

“Here. Let’s eat breakfast now.”

Se-jun fed the animals breakfast on top of Toryong-i’s head.

Lick. Lick. Lick.

For Theo, Churu.

Crunch. Crunch.

For Cuengi, a giant sweet potato.

Slurp. Slurp.

For the Golden Bat, grapes.

Peck. Peck. Peck.

For Ppiyot-i, peanut powder.

While the animals ate their food like that,

Chew. Chew.

Se-jun also filled his stomach while eating dried sweet potato slices.

At that time,

“Chairman Park, I have something to give you, meow!”

Theo, who had finished his Churu, stood up from Se-jun’s lap and shouted, “Ppiyot-i, now, meow!”

Flap! Flap!

Ppiyot!

[Vice President Theo, here it is!]

Receiving Theo’s signal, Ppiyot-i quickly flew to Theo carrying Theo’s bundle.

“Puhut. Good job, Ppiyot-i, meow! Chairman Park, take this, meow!”

Having received the bundle like that, Theo took out two items drawn from the ghost warehouse on the 75th floor of the tower and handed them to Se-jun.

One was a book with a shabby leather cover, and the other was a wooden rod.

[Book]

???

Restrictions on Use: Mana 50

Creator: Private

Grade: B

[Rod]

???

Restrictions on Use: None

Creator: Private

Grade: D

Perhaps because they were unappraised items, the inside of the book was blank paper with nothing written, and there was nothing special about the rod either.

“Aileen, appraise these for me.”

[The tower administrator tells you to leave it to her.]

While Se-jun was asking Aileen for appraisal,

“Nyan?”

Theo, who was organizing the inside of the bundle, discovered an object. What is this, meow?

Extend.

The item Theo took out from the bundle was a land deed. It was the land deed of the 79th floor of the tower.

‘Ah, meow!’

Thanks to that, he remembered his promise with Rui to bring Se-jun to heal the Mother Tree and receive rewards.

And Theo pictured in his mind the image of himself handing the reward he chose with his own paws to Se-jun, and bragging while lying on Se-jun’s lap.

‘Puhut. Just thinking about it is exciting, meow! I must bring Chairman Park to the 79th floor of the tower quickly, meow!’

Theo, excited at the thought of bragging to Se-jun.

“Chairman Park, we must go to the 79th floor of the tower, meow! We must go and heal the Mother Tree, meow!”

He pestered Se-jun, who had to go to the Black Rabbit’s founding ceremony, to go to the 79th floor of the tower.

Ppiyot!

[Lord Se-jun, we must go heal the Mother Tree!]

That’s right! I was on a mission! Ppiyot-i, who remembered his mission as a messenger bird again at Theo’s words, shouted loudly.

“Calm down, guys. We must go to the founding ceremony now. Let’s go after the founding ceremony.”

“Understood, meow! Then let’s go after the founding ceremony, meow! Here is the land deed, meow!”

Theo handed the land deed of the 79th floor of the tower to Se-jun.

“Okay. But how did you obtain this?”

When Se-jun asked how he had obtained the land deed,

“Puhut. For this great self to save Chairman Park’s egg fruits…”

Flop.

Theo lay on Se-jun’s lap, bringing Se-jun’s hand to his belly, and began to explain. Stroke me while talking, meow!

“If that’s the case, of course we must go.”

Hearing Theo’s words, Se-jun’s attitude changed actively.

‘I can’t let the tree where egg fruits grow die!’

To Se-jun, egg fruits were very precious.

When the talk with Theo finished like that,

[The tower administrator says that the appraisal has ended.]

Along with Aileen’s words, the book and the rod appeared in Se-jun’s hands.

[Illustrated Plant Guide of the Experienced Farmer]

[Unbreakable Rod]

“Chairman Park, look at the rod first, meow!”

Because the attraction to the rod was weak, Theo advised Se-jun to look at the rod first.

“The rod?”

At Theo’s words, Se-jun picked up the rod and examined it. The rod’s only ability was that it kept extending when mana was injected.

“I can use it when there is no firewood.”

After checking the rod like that,

“Shall I look at the book?”

Se-jun picked up the book and examined it.

[Illustrated Plant Guide of the Experienced Farmer]

It is an illustrated guide where an experienced farmer recorded his knowledge.

If you write the name of a crop on a blank page of the book, it tells you the location of the crop growing inside the Black Tower.

A page once used cannot be used again.

Usable pages: 0/200 sheets

Restrictions on Use: Mana 500 or more, those with farming-related occupations

Creator: Experienced Farmer Figaro

Grade: S+

“It tells the location if you write the name of a crop on a blank page?”

Upon seeing the explanation, Se-jun wanted to test the performance of the book.

But,

‘But I don’t have a pen?’

Se-jun did not have a pen. Is there nothing to write with instead? Se-jun looked around to find something to write with instead of a pen.

At that time,

(Bat-bat. Grape seeds to Lord Se-jun! Throw away the grape skins!)

Se-jun’s eyes caught sight of the Golden Bat, which had finished eating the grape juice and was separating the seeds from the grapes. That was it!

“Golden Bat, give me some grape skins.”

(Yes!)

At Se-jun’s words, the Golden Bat brought the grape skins without asking any questions.

Squeeze.

When Se-jun received the grape skins and squeezed them with all his might,

Drip. Drip.

Two drops of red juice fell.

“Good.”

Extend.

Se-jun dabbed the red juice with his index finger and

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

Began to write characters in the book.

“Sweet… po… ta… to.”

First, to verify if the information was accurate, he wrote down a crop he knew.

When Se-jun wrote characters on a blank page of the book like that,

[Honey Sweet Potato of Strength – the 99th floor of the tower, the 55th floor of the tower]

[Solar Honey Sweet Potato – the 99th floor of the tower, the 55th floor of the tower]

[Chestnut Sweet Potato – the 70th floor of the tower]

The locations of sweet potatoes appeared. The top two were the sweet potatoes Se-jun knew well.

But,

“Huh?! Chestnut Sweet Potato?”

Se-jun was surprised that another kind of sweet potato existed in the Black Tower.

“Then other crops too…”

Just as Se-jun was about to write the name of another crop on a blank page of the Illustrated Plant Guide of the Experienced Farmer to see if there were other crops he did not know in the Black Tower,

-Master, we have arrived.

Toryong-i announced that they had arrived at the waypoint.

Clank.

“Guys, go inside.”

Se-jun sent the animals into the subdimensional warehouse, placed his hand on the red crystal, and moved to the 55th floor of the tower.

***

Inside the White Castle on the 55th floor of the tower.

“Has the delegation still not arrived?”

Zeto, the Great Merchant sitting in the VIP seat, asked his subordinate.

“Yes… about that… we are releasing all merchants to search, but there is still no contact that the delegation has been found.”

“Whew… the founding ceremony starts in a bit… just where and what is the delegation doing…?”

At his subordinate’s answer, Zeto sighed in frustration and spoke. The remaining time until the start of the founding ceremony was truly short now.

The delegation Zeto was waiting for now was the delegation from the Cobb Kingdom, and the Great Merchant Zeto, who was from the Cobb Kingdom, was in charge of the delegation’s gifts.

“Still, just in case, have a merchant standby at the kingdom’s entrance too.”

“Yes!”

The subordinate who received Zeto’s instructions like that left, and

“We need a countermeasure…”

Zeto began to formulate countermeasures on what to do if the delegation did not come.

But,

……

No proper countermeasure came to mind. There was too little time.

Not sending an official delegation to another country’s founding ceremony was a serious rudeness to the other nation.

If handled poorly, it could develop into a diplomatic problem, and in the worst case, they had to consider war.

‘Of course, since the personalities of the King and Queen are not bad, that won’t happen… but they will still be offended…’

While Zeto was thinking about how to clean up the matter,

“Lord Zeto!”

The subordinate quickly ran to Zeto and reported something.

“Is it true?!”

“Yes! They were clearly wearing the Chief Diplomat badge of the Cobb Kingdom!”

“Good. Guide me!”

“Yes!”

Zeto quickly followed his subordinate.

***

The 55th floor of the tower.

When Se-jun arrived at the 55th floor of the tower via the waypoint,

Salute!

[Lord Se-jun, welcome!]

Coco, the captain of the escort guard who had been waiting for Se-jun to arrive at the waypoint, greeted Se-jun.

“Yeah. We are not late, right?”

Salute! Salute! Salute!

[Yes! There is plenty of time! Follow me!]

“Hold on. Guys, come out.”

Se-jun quickly called the animals in the subdimensional warehouse.

“Nyan!”

Bat-bat!

Ppiyot!

Sure enough, Theo, the Golden Bat, and Ppiyot-i came out of the subdimensional warehouse immediately at Se-jun’s call.

However, Cuengi did not come out because he was busy filling his snack bag.

“Cuengi, Dad will give you something delicious later. Let’s fill the snack bag later.”

Grab.

Kkueng?

With no choice, Se-jun went into the subdimensional warehouse, coaxed Cuengi, and carried him out with both hands.

“Let’s go.”

Salute!

[Yes!]

As Se-jun and the animals followed behind Coco into the White Castle like that,

“Mr. Diplomat, where have you been and only appear now?!”

The Great Merchant Zeto, coming out of the castle, shouted while looking at Se-jun’s group. No, to be precise, he shouted while looking at Ppiyot-i.

Ppiyot? Ppiyot?

[A diplomat? Me?]

Ppiyot-i, who received Zeto’s gaze, tilted his head and asked. I’m not a diplomat? This time, Ppiyot-i didn’t forget, he really did not know.

Rui had given Ppiyot-i the badge symbolizing the Chief Diplomat of the Cobb Kingdom just in case Ppiyot-i got into trouble, but did not inform Ppiyot-i of that fact.

This was because seeing Theo next to him, Rui had a strong feeling that he must not let him know.

And,

“Puhut. Zeto, nice to meet you, meow! But if one is a diplomat, what can they receive, meow?”

Just as Rui worried, Theo, with eyes full of anticipation, wagged his tail which was full of excitement and asked Zeto.

‘Puhut. I’m excited, meow!’

Theo revved up his engine to catch a windfall again today.