Chapter 298 – The Black Tower is the Best!

“Master Se-jun, is it okay to do it like this?”

Veronica asked as she wrapped sweet potatoes and potatoes with green onion leaves.

The cooking had paused briefly due to Veronica’s appearance.

When Se-jun started cooking, Veronica offered to help by his side, and

“Then, do this for me.”

Se-jun had Veronica make roasted potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes.

“Yes. After making it like that, you just have to put it in the fire.”

Se-jun said, throwing what Veronica had made into the fire.

“Yes! Leave it to me!”

Like that, Se-jun left the cooking of the roasted potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes to Veronica.

Se-jun went up onto the giant furnace, put Tower Coins into the Relic: Wealth-Swallowing Rice Dough, and

Swoosh.

began to pour rice flour into the boiling crab shell pot.

Since rice flour could be extracted infinitely as long as he had money, Se-jun planned to make a dish with rice flour as the main ingredient.

The menu decided in that way was fish porridge and locust porridge.

They were easy to make and could be made in any quantity.

“Cuengi, take out some fish.”

Kkueng!

[Understood, da-yo!]

At the request of Se-jun, who had no free hands because he was pouring rice flour, Cuengi pulled out prepped fish from the subdimensional warehouse and

Splash. Splash.

put them into the crab shell pot.

A moment later,

Swoosh.

Se-jun began to pour rice flour into the other crab shell pot.

At that moment,

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, I am back, meow!”

Cling.

Theo said as he clung to Se-jun’s leg.

“Vice Chairman Theo, did you finish all the contracts already?”

“Puhuhut. That is so, meow!”

Theo missed Se-jun’s lap after being apart for just a short moment. ‘I want to go to Chairman Park, meow!’

Although he wanted to go to Se-jun, the number of people remaining for the slave contracts was still hundreds of thousands.

At this rate, he wouldn’t be able to go to Se-jun even after several hours. ‘This won’t do, meow!’

So Theo immediately put those who had just become slaves to work writing the contracts, and

as the number of slaves increased as the contracts progressed, he was able to finish the contracts in an instant.

Like that, Theo returned to Se-jun’s lap.

“Vice Chairman Theo, good to have you back.”

Se-jun welcomed him greatly. He happened to need Theo, and he had returned at the perfect timing.

“Puhuhut. Did Chairman Park miss me too, meow?”

“Yes. Shred this finely.”

Se-jun spoke while throwing frozen locust meat from the subdimensional warehouse toward the crab shell pot.

“Puhuhut. Leave it to me, meow!”

Shing!

Theo extended his dragon claws and

“Nya-nya-nyan!”

slashed the locust meat flying into the crab shell pot.

“Here it comes!”

“Bring it on, meow!”

While Se-jun repeated throwing the locust meat, Theo shredded it, threw and shredded, threw and shredded,

“What is that?!”

Veronica, who was wrapping sweet potatoes and potatoes with green onion leaves, felt a chilling sharpness.

A sharpness to the point of giving her goosebumps.

Veronica stood up and turned her head toward the direction where the sharpness was felt.

“No way?! Are those dragon claws?!”

Veronica, who discovered the black claws on Theo’s front paw, was astounded.

Dragon claws?! Dragons never give their body parts to trivial existences.

I haven’t even received one…

Veronica envied Theo as she looked at his claws.

However,

tens of thousands of dragon scales engraved with Dragon Skin magic.

hundreds of Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

the bracelet made of dragon horn.

If she had seen the items Se-jun received from the dragons… and moreover, the dragon blood of the nine dragon clans he would receive soon.

It was something Veronica, who was only scolded by Tier Peten every day, could not even imagine.

“Puhuhut. How is the skill of the stylish Vice Chairman Theo, meow?!”

“Our Vice Chairman Theo is doing great!”

“Puhuhut. Of course, meow! Chairman Park, throw them quickly, meow!”

While he was finely shredding the locust meat with Se-jun’s cheering like that,

—Kukukuk. He’s here.

—Kukukuk. As expected of Tier. He flew over immediately.

—Phehehe. Since his tower farmer was taken… well, I must go watch quickly.

The dragon statues stopped all at once.

***

“Kaiser, you bastard!!!”

Tier Peten, the head of the Purple Dragon Clan, flew rapidly toward the Black Tower.

“You’re here?”

Kaiser came out and greeted such a Tier.

“’You’re here’?! Can you say that after stealing my tower farmer right now?!”

Tier was even more heated by Kaiser’s relaxed appearance.

Kaiser had accumulated a lot from Tier’s teasing all this time. It was an action done on purpose to make him angry.

And,

Rumble.

Just as Kaiser thought, the angry Tier raised his energy as if he was going to fight.

However,

“What do you mean? Stealing your tower farmer? Your tower farmer came in person and defected.”

Kaiser spoke, provoking Tier’s anger.

Since it was a situation where he was already winning, there was no reason to be excited.

Of course, that pissed Tier off even more.

“What?! You think I’ll believe that?! Surely your tower farmer kidnapped our Becca!”

Tier thought Se-jun had infiltrated the Purple Tower and kidnapped Veronica.

But that was only because he did not know Se-jun’s ability.

“I told you it’s not. Veronica came by using the land deed herself. Oh?! Right on time, witnesses are coming.”

“What?! Witnesses?”

When Tier looked around at Kaiser’s words,

“Ehehehe. Witness 1 appears.”

“Phehehe. Witness 2 appears.”

Kellion and Ramter, who came to watch the angry Tier, approached with laughter.

—Kaiser is right. She came to the Black Tower directly.

—Yes. And Veronica said herself that she was defecting under no coercion whatsoever.

The two testified that Kaiser’s words were true.

“How could our Becca…?”

Tier was shocked by the words of the three dragons.

“I… I must enter the tower myself and talk to Becca.”

He thought he should talk to Becca first.

However,

“No.”

Kaiser flatly refused.

Tier might harm Se-jun, and

‘also, the competitors will increase.’

There would be one more competitor trying to buy Samyangju and black beans.

Shake. Shake.

Behind him, Kellion and Ramter diligently shook their heads side to side as if they shared the same thought as Kaiser.

At that moment,

“Grandpa! What are you doing right now?!”

Aileen appeared.

Aileen, who felt Kaiser’s movement was suspicious and had been watching from afar.

‘Chasing away our Se-jun’s customer?!’

She had appeared in a hurry when Kaiser rejected Tier’s proposal.

And,

“Hello, Lord Tier Peten, head of the Purple Dragon Clan. I am Aileen Pritani, the administrator of the Black Tower.”

She politely greeted Tier.

“Yes. The granddaughter is better than the grandfather.”

Looking at Aileen who treated him well, Tier spoke sarcastically of Kaiser.

“Kukukuk. Of course. How wonderful our granddaughter is.”

It did not work at all on Kaiser. As expected, Kaiser was a fool for his granddaughter.

“You see, our granddaughter…”

“Ahem. G-r-a-n-d-p-a.”

Aileen hurriedly stopped Kaiser, who was about to brag about her.

And,

“Lord Tier, in order to enter the Black Tower, you need a dragon statue and a contract stating that you will not kill anyone inside.”

She stated the conditions to enter the Black Tower to Tier.

“A dragon statue and a contract?”

“Yes…”

Aileen explained why the dragon statue was needed and the contents of the contract.

“Understood. Then first, I shall go and make a dragon statue!”

Tier hurriedly returned to the Purple Tower to make the dragon statue.

“Ah. Lord Tier, just in case, bring plenty of Tower Coins too!”

Aileen shouted toward the flying Tier.

Aileen was kind to Se-jun’s customer.

***

“Vice Chairman Theo, well done.”

“Puhuhut. That’s right, meow! I worked hard, meow!”

At Se-jun’s words, Theo praised himself, and

Hop.

hopped off Se-jun’s lap and went to the front of the Tombstone of the Creator God.

And,

Scritch. Scritch.

began to sharpen his dragon claws on the Tombstone of the Creator God. Sharpening the edges of the dragon claws.

If you ask why he had to go to the Tombstone of the Creator God of all things?

The dragon claws would not be sharpened unless it had the hardness of the Tombstone of the Creator God.

“Puhuhut. I must always cherish and care for my dragon claws, meow!”

Scritch. Scritch.

While Theo was sharpening his dragon claws and setting the edge diligently on the Tombstone of the Creator God like that,

“Um… where did you get those?”

Veronica approached and spoke, looking at Theo’s dragon claws with envious eyes.

“Puhuhut. Are you envious, meow?!”

Theo, whose mood improved, asked in a boastful voice.

“Yes! I’m so envious! How did you obtain them?”

“Puhuhut. These dragon claws were given by Lord Kaiser, meow!”

Theo swaggered and proudly showed his dragon claws.

“Yes?! Lord Kaiser directly?!”

Veronica was shocked at Theo’s words.

To receive the claws of Kaiser, who was not just a great black dragon, but none other than the head of the great black dragons?!

“H-how did you receive them?!”

Veronica asked in an excited voice.

“Puhuhut. Because this body is Chairman Park’s right arm, meow!”

“Really?! That’s amazing!”

‘If I also show loyalty to Master Se-jun with the determination to bury my bones here…’

While Veronica was imagining becoming Se-jun’s left arm and receiving dragon claws,

“I finished making it!”

Se-jun completed the fish porridge and locust porridge.

“Cuengi, move this over there.”

Kkueng!

[Understood, da-yo!]

Cuengi held the crab shell pot with both front paws and

Thud. Thud.

moved it to the place where the party participants were gathered.

“Guys, you move these.”

Kkee-ek!

Se-jun had the Mushroom Ants move fruits.

The persimmons Se-jun harvested in person, and the melons, bananas, and peaches brought by other animals.

And,

“Crop Gigantification.”

the cherry tomatoes and grapes made giant by using the skill.

While the Mushroom Ants were moving fruits like that,

“Crop Gigantification.”

Se-jun gigantified about 1,000 cherry tomatoes of mana, and

“Now, I should grow the grapes.”

when he took out a few bunches of fragrant grapes overflowing with life to use Crop Gigantification,

Kking!

‘Black fruit!’

Fenril, who was watching Se-jun, saw the grapes and pounced.

“Kkamang-i, no!”

Se-jun hurriedly raised the hand holding the grapes upward and stopped Fenril.

It was because he had clearly seen on YouTube that grapes were one of the foods that must not be fed to dogs.

Of course, Fenril did not understand Se-jun’s words and

Kking! Kking!

‘Hey! I sat down! Give me the black fruit!’

Sit.

sat quietly in front of Se-jun and stared at the grapes. ‘You’re giving it now, right?’

‘It can’t be helped.’

He had to keep taking out grapes, but it would be troublesome if this happened every time he took them out.

Reach.

Se-jun pretended to pick a single grain of fragrant grape overflowing with life, while taking out a black royal jelly.

And,

“Here you go.”

he gave the black royal jelly to Fenril.

Kking!

‘Black fruit, mine!’

Fenril, unaware that it had changed from a grape to a black royal jelly, blindly obsessed over the black fruit.

Nom.

Fenril took the black royal jelly in his mouth.

And,

Whimper…

‘I endured…’

He tried to endure the bitter taste but fainted helplessly.

‘I’m sorry. But it’s good for your body.’

Grin.

Se-jun’s lips curled up, contrary to his thoughts of being sorry.

Lift.

He picked up Fenril, laid him in the bedroom, and started working again.

At that moment,

“Um… Master Se-jun, can’t I try eating just one of those?”

Veronica, who was enchanted by the scent of fragrant grapes she had never smelled before in her life, asked Se-jun with desperate eyes.

“This grape?”

“Yes.”

“Sure. Eat it.”

Se-jun readily handed over five bunches of fragrant grapes overflowing with life to Veronica.

“Thank you!”

Nom.

Veronica expressed gratitude to Se-jun and ate the grapes.

“Oh my!”

Veronica exclaimed in admiration after eating the fragrant grapes overflowing with life.

Veronica had always eaten tasteless food full of poison in the Purple Tower.

‘To think there was food that tasted like this?! The Black Tower is the best!’

One more reason not to want to return to the Purple Tower was added.

And,

‘If I go to the Purple Tower, I won’t be able to eat things like this, right?’

It became even harder for Tier to bring Veronica back to the Purple Tower.