Chapter 292 – Now Your Name is Kkamang-i

The 53rd floor of the Purple Tower.

“Found it. I must call Lady Flamie quickly.”

Veronica, who found the farm on the 53rd floor of the tower under Flamie’s instructions.

Thrust.

When she drove a part of the tree root given by Flamie into the ground, the root began to send a signal to Flamie’s root.

Meanwhile,

Swoosh!!

Veronica began to deal with the purple lizards around her.

“I should at least do well in things like this to be praised.”

Veronica, the tower farmer of the Purple Tower, was scolded by Flamie every day for not being good at farming.

Wanting to hear a word of appreciation from Flamie, she held her weapons, the dual daggers, and diligently slashed the lizards.

While Veronica was diligently clearing the surroundings like that,

Thud! Thud!

a giant lizard appeared.

“Ugh! What is that?!”

Veronica was startled as she looked at the lizard’s mouth.

Wiggle. Wiggle.

It was because hundreds of tentacles connected to the lizard’s tongue were wiggling around its mouth.

“Aargh! Die! Crescent Moon Decapitation!”

As Veronica could not bear the creepiness and swung her daggers in an X-shape,

Slash. Slash.

two dagger qi resembling crescent moons from the daggers cut the giant lizard’s body into four pieces.

Thud.

The giant lizard fell.

“Phew…”

Veronica felt relieved when the enemy that had given her goosebumps died.

At that moment,

—Who dares kill my host?

Wiggle. Wiggle.

Tentacles emerged from the giant lizard’s body and formed a shape.

It was a fragment of Kraken, the Beast that Swallows the Sea and the 6th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction.

However,

“What?! There was something inside?! Moonlight Requiem Slash!”

Veronica had never met a fragment of an Apostle of Destruction until now.

Thinking it was a parasitic organism inside the lizard, she quickly swung her dual daggers.

Swish. Swish.

The emitted dagger qi overlapped, creating a full-moon-shaped dagger qi with a saw-like edge, and flew toward the fragment of Kraken.

However,

—Kukuk. A fun technique.

Clang.

The fragment of Kraken nonchalantly destroyed Veronica’s attack with a single tentacle.

“How…?”

As Veronica was flustered by the opponent’s overwhelming strength,

Swish.

a tentacle of the Kraken fragment flew in rapidly to snatch Veronica.

At that moment,

Rumble.

the ground vibrated, and

Thrust.

a giant tree root surged up and pierced the body of the Kraken fragment.

And,

[Burn, fire.]

along with Flamie’s words,

—Argh… For me to end up like this…

the fragment of Kraken burned and disappeared.

Clink.

leaving behind dozens of coins with tentacles engraved on them.

Pick. Pick.

[Hehe. Should I tell Master that someone gave me these on the way?]

While Flamie was picking up the coins excitedly, thinking of a way to give them to Se-jun,

“Lady Flamie, thank you for saving me.”

Veronica expressed her gratitude to Flamie, who saved her life.

[Sigh. Really, not being able to handle even this, if it were our Master…]

Flamie was about to say something to Veronica but swallowed her words.

Come to think of it, if Se-jun were here, he would have died a long time ago.

“I’m sorry.”

‘Lady Flamie’s Master must be good at farming and very strong. Respectable.’

Thanks to that, Veronica ended up overestimating Se-jun’s ability.

[Is this the farm?]

“Yes.”

[Good. Let’s start the work.]

Rumble.

Flamie moved her roots to create a border around the farm, and

[Hiya!]

began to purify the farm using the power of purification.

***

Munch. Munch. Munch.

“Haah. It doesn’t smell anymore, right?”

“Puhuhut. It’s a pass, meow! It doesn’t smell like poop anymore, meow!”

Se-jun ate dozens of bunches of grapes overflowing with life and passed Theo’s bad breath check.

And,

“Vice Chairman Theo, but where did you bring this fellow from?”

Se-jun, who was finally able to speak, asked Theo what he was curious about. It was about Fenril.

Kking! Kking!

‘I’m hungry! Give me food!’

Ppiyot!

[Stay still!]

As Fenril tried to run away as soon as he woke up a little while ago, Ppiyot was holding the leash tightly.

“Puhuhut. You mean Kkingkking-i, meow? I, Vice Chairman Theo, rescued him from the belly of the Apostle of Destruction, meow! So in exchange for saving him, he decided to become my subordinate, meow!”

Theo replied to Se-jun from a very self-centered perspective.

“Really? His name is Kkingkking-i?”

Se-jun looked at Fenril.

‘This fellow is just like me.’

As soon as Se-jun saw Fenril, he felt that they were of the same kind.

He strongly felt the vibe of a sunfish. And a sunfish far worse than himself.

Se-jun faced an existence infinitely weaker than himself for the first time.

‘I will protect you.’

Se-jun decided to take care of Fenril based on his experience as a sunfish senior so that he wouldn’t die.

“Now. Then first…”

When Se-jun took out the Black Dragon’s scale, an essential survival item exclusive to sunfish, and used it on Fenril,

Swoosh.

Fenril’s entire body turned black.

It was because Fenril’s mana was too low, making the Black Dragon tattoo grow large enough to wrap around Se-jun’s torso, but Fenril’s body was too small to wrap it.

As the Black Dragon tattoo was squeezed into Fenril’s small body, the tattoo disappeared and he just became pitch black.

“Now your name is Kkamang-i.”

Se-jun thought the name Kkingkking-i was not very good.

Looking at the pitch-black Fenril, he spontaneously named Fenril Kkamang-i.

It was almost the same. It was fifty steps versus a hundred steps.

“His appearance is also like a country dog, and it suits him well.”

As Se-jun was satisfied with his naming like that,

Kking?! Kking?!

‘What are you looking at?! I’m annoyed because I’m hungry, are you trying to fight?!’

Fenril took a fighting stance as he looked at Se-jun.

However,

“Kkamang-i, do you want food?”

When Se-jun took out the dried roasted sweet potato,

Kking!

Fenril’s eyes locked onto the dried roasted sweet potato.

Sit.

He sat down quietly on the floor naturally like a trained dog,

Wag. Wag.

wagging his tail diligently and drooling.

“You were hungry? Go ahead and eat.”

When Se-jun gave him a piece of dried roasted sweet potato,

Kking!

Fenril began to eat the dried roasted sweet potato diligently.

And,

…!!!

Fenril was extremely shocked. It’s delicious!

Munch. Munch. Munch.

Like that, Fenril deliciously ate the first dried roasted sweet potato of his life.

Kking!

Favor began to be contained in Fenril’s gaze as he looked at Se-jun.

“Hehehe. As expected, sharing food makes everyone close. Kkamang-i, eat more.”

Se-jun gave another piece of sweet potato to Fenril, and

Munch. Munch. Munch.

Fenril ate diligently.

A moment later.

Purr.

Fenril, who filled his belly with dried roasted sweet potato, fell asleep again.

Fenril was very tired every day because he still had no strength.

“Guys, let’s go to sleep. Since Kkamang-i… might get stepped on and die if he sleeps here…”

Grab.

Se-jun picked up Fenril and headed to the bedroom.

***

The 44th floor of the tower.

Swoosh.

When Han Tae-jun and Kim Dong-sik arrived at the waypoint, holding 250 kg in each arm, totaling 1,000 kg of kimchi and side dishes,

“They came, peng!”

the blue-backed penguins guarding the waypoint hurriedly shouted at their appearance.

At that,

Trot. Trot. Trot.

the Black Wolves and Silver Wolves waiting nearby ran over hurriedly,

“Load it.”

sitting on the ground so that the goods could be loaded, and spoke.

“Since this is sensitive to temperature, we have to be careful.”

As Kim Dong-sik explained the points of caution while loading the kimchi and side dish containers,

“Don’t worry, peng! We will maintain the temperature as we go, peng!”

The blue-backed penguins replied as they rode on the backs of the wolves one by one.

They intended to maintain the temperature using their ice refining technique.

“Then we shall depart!”

Like that, the wolves, loaded with the penguins and the food Se-jun would eat on their backs, hurriedly began to run toward the 99th floor of the tower.

***

The next morning.

Kking?

Fenril, who was sleeping on Se-jun’s fluffy pillow, woke up.

And,

Snore.

Purr.

Fenril looked at the sleeping Se-jun and Theo.

Kking!

‘Since you offered me something delicious, I will specially spare you later!’

Tap. Tap.

He patted Se-jun’s face, went outside, and began to run away.

Meanwhile,

‘A scent similar to what I ate yesterday is coming from here.’

When a smell similar to the dried roasted sweet potato he ate yesterday came from the sweet potato field,

Scratch. Scratch.

Fenril dug up a sweet potato in the ground.

Crunch.

Kking!

[I did it!]

Munch. Munch.

He barely managed to dig up one root of sweet potato and began to eat it.

Although the texture and taste were different from what he ate yesterday, it was edible.

Kking!

[Eating it gives me strength!]

After filling his belly like that,

Kking!

[I should eat this when I’m hungry!]

Drag. Drag. Drag.

Fenril, biting a sweet potato as big as his own body, ran away diligently again, almost dragging it along.

As Fenril fled for a long time like that and left the front yard of the house,

Flutter. Flutter.

—What kind of fellow are you again?

Kaiser, who discovered Fenril, approached.

Kking?!

[This energy is Kaiser?!]

Fenril froze at Kaiser’s approach. If it was revealed that he was Fenril, it would be instant death.

At that moment,

Flutter. Flutter.

—Kaiser, what is it?

—What is this dog? Did Se-jun bring it to guard the house?

Kellion and Ramter also flew over and watched Fenril.

Kking?

[Why are Kellion and Ramter here?]

Fenril was flustered as he looked at the dragons.

The heads of the dragon clans guarded their respective towers and were not beings who hung out together like this.

Moreover, they originally did not even allow other dragons to enter their towers.

—I don’t know. It seems Theo brought it again.

—Theo?

—But doesn’t a familiar energy come from him?

—Hmm… Come to think of it… I feel a weak power of destruction.

—Then is he a fragment of Fenril?

Among the 12 Apostles of Destruction, the one with the most similar appearance was Fenril.

While the dragons were pondering as they looked at Fenril,

“Kkamang-i!”

Se-jun’s voice calling Fenril was heard.

When Se-jun woke up from sleep and saw that Fenril was not beside him,

‘Where are you wandering around so fearlessly, when you’re just a sunfish?!’

he hurriedly came out to look for him.

As Se-jun approached Kkamang-i with Theo hanging onto his leg like that,

—Se-jun, step back. I feel the energy of an Apostle of Destruction from this fellow!

—Yes! Step back!

—Se-jun, stay away!

The dragons blocked Se-jun from approaching Fenril. It was to protect Se-jun.

“Um… wait a moment. Theo said he rescued him from the belly of an Apostle of Destruction. Since he is too weak, could it be that the energy of the Apostle of Destruction just rubbed off on his body?”

Se-jun quickly spoke his thoughts, fearing that the dragons might kill Fenril.

—If it’s a pup…

—Is that so?

—It seems that could be the case.

Fortunately, the dragons thought Se-jun’s words were more plausible.

It was because the entity before them was too weak to even be called a fragment of Fenril.

Fenril, who always boasted of being a noble wolf, would never make such a trivial fragment.

Moreover,

“Nyaaaang…”

Theo, while sleeping, kept absorbing the weak energy of destruction emitted by Fenril, so it seemed it would disappear soon.

—Well… since it doesn’t seem dangerous to Se-jun.

Thanks to that, Fenril passed the crisis of death, treated by the dragons as an even more trivial existence who could not harm the trivial Se-jun.

Once the dragons’ suspicion disappeared like that,

“Please eat this. These are grapes harvested yesterday, and they are delicious.”

Se-jun served the dragons fragrant grapes overflowing with life.

Meanwhile,

Trot. Trot.

while the dragons’ attention was focused on the grapes, Fenril fled diligently again.

Kking?! Kking!

‘Oh?! Come to think of it, this place is too strange!’

Fenril, who belatedly realized that there was something here, stopped walking.

His goal was to obtain the black, round, oval-shaped fruit that Kaiser ate.

There was no place more suspicious than here, which was guarded by Kaiser and other heads of the dragons.

Kking! Kking!

‘Kuku. As expected, I’m a genius! I infiltrated the enemies’ secret place without even knowing!’

Trot. Trot.

Fenril praised himself, returned, and sat next to Se-jun’s leg, looking at Se-jun.

It was absolutely, absolutely not because he wanted to eat more dried roasted sweet potato.

However,

Drip. Drip.

contrary to Fenril’s thoughts, a lot of saliva was overflowing from his mouth.

At that moment,

Buzz!

[Se-jun-nim~!]

The Poison Honeybee Queen, who returned after finishing her royal jelly making practice, called Se-jun while holding the black royal jelly.

And,

Kking!

‘That’s it!’

Fenril, who saw the black royal jelly, scratched Se-jun’s leg with his front paw and

Kking! Kking!

[Give me that! Hand it over!]

demanded to be given the black royal jelly. A black and round thing. It was definitely what he was looking for.

“Kkamang-i, do you want to eat this? Hehehe. Then you should eat it.”

Se-jun, who was troubled by the black royal jelly, grinned and readily put the black royal jelly into Kkamang-i’s mouth.

And,

Kking?!

[Kaiser ate this?!]

Fenril fainted from the bitter taste of the black royal jelly.