Chapter 286 – I Won’t Die Before That, Right

“Hehehe.”

[Bronze Giant’s Blood]

It is blood drawn from a bronze giant’s body.

Upon consumption, Stamina and Stamina potential increase by 10% each. (The maximum Stamina increase for Stamina and Stamina potential is 100.)

Upon consumption, you can awaken the Talent: Giant Strength.

Once you drink the Bronze Giant’s Blood, the effect will not appear even if you drink Bronze Giant’s Blood again afterwards.

Expiration Date: None

Grade: S+

Se-jun smiled, looking at the glass bottle in his hand.

He didn’t know about Talent: Giant Strength, but a 10% increase in Stamina and Stamina potential was a tremendous figure.

While Se-jun was looking at the options of the glass bottle like that,

“Puhuhut.”

Theo licked his belly diligently while waiting for Se-jun’s touch. ‘I won’t shed fur anymore, meow!’

Pop.

While Theo was grooming himself like that, Se-jun opened the glass bottle.

“…?”

An aroma that was better than expected flowed out of the glass bottle. A slightly fishy metallic smell and a subtle sweet scent.

‘It won’t be a strange taste, right?’

Usually, for distinctive tastes like bitterness or sourness, an explanation of the taste was written in the description.

However, since there was no such explanation here, Se-jun felt somewhat relieved and boldly chugged the Bronze Giant’s Blood.

Gulp.

A thick liquid entered his mouth.

…?!

Contrary to expectations, a strange taste that could not be described by anything coated his tongue.

“Eup!”

Se-jun grimaced and hurriedly took out water,

Gulp. Gulp.

and swallowed the Bronze Giant’s Blood in his mouth down his throat. This was a bizarre taste that could not be expressed in words.

To make matters worse, the liquid was so thick that it did not wash down easily even when he drank water.

“It’s an emergency, meow! Chairman Park’s face is ruined again, meow!”

Dadada.

Knead. Knead. Knead.

Theo hurriedly climbed onto Se-jun’s shoulder and began to massage Se-jun’s face,

“Eup! Eup!”

‘Hey! Don’t press!’

Se-jun desperately blocked his mouth with his hand to prevent the Bronze Giant’s Blood from spitting out due to Theo’s kneading pressing on his cheeks.

‘I can’t waste a single drop!’

His appetite was already ruined. Se-jun swallowed it all, if only out of spite.

And,

[You consumed the Bronze Giant’s Blood.]

[Stamina and Stamina potential increased by 10%.]

[Stamina increased by 81.]

[Stamina potential increased by 85.]

[You awakened the Talent: Giant Strength.]

the messages appeared. Fortunately, he did not spill a single drop of the Bronze Giant’s Blood, so he received 100% of the item’s effect.

“Hehehe. It’s done. I should check the talent too.”

Se-jun smiled and checked the details of Talent: Giant Strength. Since his stats had already increased tremendously, he did not have high expectations for the talent.

However,

[Talent: Giant Strength]

-It is a talent with high potential for Strength.

-Strength increases by 10 every time you level up.

-Strength potential increases by 500.

Even the talent was a jackpot.

“Oh!”

While Se-jun was rejoicing,

‘Puhuhut. Now I’ve fixed Chairman Park’s face, meow!’

Theo, finishing the massage, lay down flat on Se-jun’s lap again with a proud expression and

Pat. Pat.

“Chairman Park, I’m ready, meow!”

he said, tapping his belly proudly.

“Yeah. Later.”

“Nyang?”

Clank.

Se-jun put Theo and the animals in the subspace warehouse and moved to the 99th floor of the tower.

Thus, on the 79th floor that Se-jun had left.

Rumble.

Flamie moved her roots again and approached the bird-bearing tree.

At that moment,

[Lady Flamie, please name me!]

[What? You want me to name you?]

[Yes!]

The bird-bearing tree, which became able to speak after growing into an adult tree, asked Flamie to name it.

[Hmm… then since I am Flamie, let’s make yours Bulssak-i.]

Thus, the name of the bird-bearing tree on the 79th floor of the tower became Bulssak-i.

***

Goooo.

As the red mist clumped creepily, a demon with a pair of black horns and red wings, whose entire body was engulfed in fire, appeared.

It was Melfix, the Demon of Ruin and the 4th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction.

“Burn it down!”

Melfix attacked the Blue Tower as soon as he revealed himself.

Whoosh.

Huge black flames poured down like meteors toward the Blue Tower.

“Block it!”

Kuoooo!

The blue dragons shot breaths laden with cold air, blocking Melfix’s attack.

If they had not doubled the number of dragons guarding their territory due to the recent appearance of Halphas, they would have suffered great damage from Melfix’s surprise attack.

“Light of Ruin!”

Meanwhile, Melfix prepared another attack, and

Kuoooo!

the blue dragons blocked Melfix’s attack with their breaths again.

A tight battle of offense and defense.

No. A desperate defense.

“Hah, hah.”

“Hang in there!”

“We must hold out until the leader arrives!”

They were gradually getting exhausted as they blocked Melfix’s attacks.

“Khek-hek. I’ll be disappointed if you’re already exhausted.”

In contrast, Melfix was not exhausted at all.

At that moment,

“You fellow! How dare you show up here?!”

Moring Aster, the head of the Aster family and the Great Blue Dragon, appeared leading all the blue dragons in the territory.

“Where else but the place where ice lizards live! Die! Wave of Ruin!”

Black flames rose like a tidal wave and tried to engulf the dragons.

“How dare you!”

Kuoooo!

Moring shot his breath toward the surging black flames.

Fitting for the leader of the blue dragons, Moring’s breath was different in power from the other blue dragons.

Boom!

Moring’s breath collided with Melfix’s black flames.

However,

“Urgh!”

Moring’s breath was blocked by the Wave of Ruin and could not advance forward.

Meanwhile, the blue dragons who appeared with Moring gave the Essence of Ice to the blue dragons fighting Melfix, allowing them to recover their strength.

Although the Essence of Ice had the purpose of balancing the world, it was also used for recovering the strength of the blue dragons like this.

And,

“Support the leader!”

Kuoooo!

All the blue dragons shot their breaths toward Moring’s breath.

Then, the breaths of the other blue dragons naturally merged with Moring’s breath, and the breath grew increasingly giant.

Boom!

Moring’s breath, supported by the dragons, destroyed the Wave of Ruin and attacked Melfix.

“Khek-hek. The blue dragons’ skills aren’t rusty yet.”

Crack.

Melfix tore off his hand, which was frozen by the blue dragons’ breath, and

“But if that is all, you will all die!”

Melfix spoke, throwing his torn-off arm at Moring.

Boom!

“Urgh!”

Although Moring blocked the arm, his scales were torn off in the aftermath, resulting in a small wound.

“Release seal.”

In the meantime, Melfix released up to his 3rd stage seal simultaneously.

Three more pairs of wings appeared on Melfix’s back, increasing Melfix’s power sixfold.

And,

Crunch.

At the same time, Melfix’s arm began to regenerate again.

“Attack!”

Moring shot his breath at Melfix, who was regenerating his arm, and

Kuoooo!

the other blue dragons supported.

“Khek-hek. Is this all?”

Melfix leisurely blocked their attacks with his remaining hand while regenerating his other arm.

‘We must hold out until support from other dragons arrives!’

Moring Aster shot his breath and looked around at the Brown Tower and the Green Tower, which were closest to the Blue Tower.

As they were the closest, they were highly likely to notice the anomaly of the Blue Tower first and come to support.

However,

“…?!”

In Moring’s eyes, the brown dragons and green dragons were seen fighting the Apostles of Destruction.

The Brown Tower and the Green Tower were also already in battle with other Apostles of Destruction.

‘Could it be that all nine towers are being attacked by the Apostles of Destruction?’

In this state, there was no chance of winning.

Just as Moring was about to fall into despair,

Boom!

“Kheheok! What is this?!”

“What else? It’s the Great Black Dragon, Lord Kaiser Pritani!”

Kaiser, who had appeared out of nowhere, began to attack Melfix.

Boom! Kaboom!

Kaiser poured out attacks mercilessly, and Melfix was beaten helplessly.

And,

“Khek-hek. See you next time.”

Crunch.

With his neck bitten off by Kaiser as the final blow, Melfix turned into red mist and disappeared.

Clink.

“Good job. Moring, are you okay?”

Kaiser, who pocketed the dropped coin, looked at Moring and asked.

“Uh?! Uh…”

Moring replied, trying his best to act calm.

At that moment,

“Uh?! Moring, you’re not okay! You’re hurt?! I’ll treat you!”

Kaiser discovered a small wound on Moring’s shoulder.

Having obtained a good opportunity to pocket the dragon blood without getting noticed, Kaiser approached Moring with a bright smile.

“No. I can handle this much myself…”

Moring tried to refuse, but

“No! You must have had a hard time fighting, so I’ll treat you!”

Kaiser pretended to treat Moring’s wound while

Rip. Rip.

ripped off a huge amount of scales around Moring’s wound,

Squeeze.

pressing the wound to squeeze out the dragon blood.

It was because the regenerative power was so good that it had already healed a lot, so blood did not come out easily.

Thus, Moring was subjected to blood donation under the guise of treatment.

“Hey! It hurts! You could just treat it with magic, so why are you pulling scales and drawing blood?!”

As the treatment was much more painful than the pain of the wound, Moring began to lose his temper.

“Ah. Right. Treatment.”

Kaiser, who had taken everything he wanted, simply treated Moring’s wound with magic.

And this sort of thing happened in the exact same way at the Brown Tower and the Green Tower.

“Uh?! You guys are hurt! I’ll treat you!”

“Oh! You’re hurt?!”

Kellion and Ramter also pocketed the dragon blood just like Kaiser.

***

The 99th floor of the tower.

Rumble.

They were on the way to the farm riding Toryong-i.

Stroke. Stroke.

“Puhuhut. It’s good, meow!”

Theo lay flat on Se-jun’s lap and smiled happily while getting the rubs he hadn’t received earlier.

And,

Purr.

Chirp.

Cuengi lay down using Se-jun’s buttocks as a pillow and fell asleep, and Ppiyot was sleeping while lying on Cuengi’s belly.

[Hehet. I like the sun because it is warm.]

Lastly, Flamie was photosynthesizing on Se-jun’s shoulder with a happy expression, receiving the sun from a higher position than usual.

“Toryong-i, let’s take a detour and go slowly today.”

-Yes. Master.

At Se-jun’s request to enjoy a peaceful time with the animals, Toryong-i reduced his speed and detoured along a curved path rather than a straight line.

A moment later.

-Master, we arrived.

Toryong-i, who had traveled along a path that took about an hour longer than usual like that, announced that they had arrived at the 99th floor farm of the tower.

“Now. Vice Chairman Theo, let’s get up.”

“Nyang? I don’t want to, meow! Not yet, meow!”

Theo threw a tantrum even after receiving rubs for almost two hours.

Grab.

“It’s over.”

“Nyaang…”

Se-jun caught the scruff of Theo’s neck with a firm attitude and wore him on his knee,

“Let’s go!”

and slid down from Toryong-i’s head while holding Cuengi and Ppiyot in his arms.

Swoosh.

Land.

“We’ve arrived.”

Thus, Se-jun stepped onto the ground.

“Guys, let’s eat.”

He simply settled dinner with fried eggs and dried sweet potato strips, and fell asleep early.

***

The next morning.

“Heup.”

Se-jun woke up feeling refreshed.

At that moment,

[You stored 10% of the life force you had while sleeping.]

[The Bead of Life was 0.1% completed.]

the message appeared in front of Se-jun.

With 10% of Se-jun’s life force, 0.1% of the Bead of Life could be filled.

“In 1,000 days, one Bead of Life will be completed.”

In 1,000 days, one extra life would be created.

One life in three years.

Although it was a tremendous benefit,

“I won’t die before that, right?”

because the surrounding environment was not good, such aspects were not highlighted well.

“Vice Chairman Theo, let’s wake up.”

“Nyaang…”

He wore the whining Theo on his knee and

Scribble.

marked the date on the wall, starting the morning of the 363rd day.

And,

“I should pack the black beans.”

Clank.

The first place Se-jun headed to was the subspace warehouse.

Click.

Se-jun opened the Golden Box of Abundance, took out two black beans, and closed it again.

When Se-jun, who had packed six black beans like that, came out of the subspace warehouse,

-Kahahahaha. When did our Se-jun arrive?!

-Uhahaha. Se-jun!

-Se-jun, you lucky rascal!

The dragons flew toward Se-jun with happy expressions, carrying thick money bags.