Chapter 319 – Unlocking the Mental Power Stat

Blank…

Se-jun sat blankly after having a simple breakfast.

“Puhuhut.”

Cuhahaha.

“Hehe.”

[Hehet.]

Theo, Cuengi, Ajax, and Flamie took their spots next to Se-jun, and

Stroke, stroke.

were receiving Se-jun’s strokes.

“Hehe. Now it’s my turn.”

[It’s my turn.]

In turns.

Ajax brought Se-jun’s left hand, which had been stroking Cuengi’s belly, to his own tail, and

Jump.

Flamie brought the right hand that was stroking Theo’s belly and placed it on her head.

Stroke, stroke.

“Uhehe…”

[Hehet…]

Ajax and Flamie grinned broadly while receiving Se-jun’s strokes.

As time passed like that,

“Puhuhut. Now it’s my turn, meow!”

Cueng!

[Now it’s Cuengi’s turn!]

Theo and Cuengi brought Se-jun’s hands back to themselves.

Like that, Se-jun’s hands went back and forth multiple times, and

“Huh? Why am I doing this?”

Se-jun, who had been sitting blankly, came to his senses.

And,

Slide.

when Se-jun’s hands stopped for a moment,

Blank…

Se-jun’s consciousness gradually faded. Strangely, he felt empty and lacked motivation.

“Chairman Park, move your hands, meow!”

Cueng!

[Cuengi hasn’t had enough yet either!]

Stroke, stroke.

Theo and Cuengi grabbed Se-jun’s hands and forcibly moved them to stroke their bellies.

“Hmm…”

As his hands moved, Se-jun regained consciousness.

Se-jun had almost had his mind annihilated by the Night Walker yesterday.

Although Fenrir had hurriedly saved him, in the meantime, Se-jun’s soul was wounded.

And through that wound, his soul was dispersing.

Se-jun’s soul had been dispersing continuously like that since yesterday.

When morning came, Se-jun’s soul condition became even worse, but

fortunately, while stroking the four with strong mental power, the wounds on his soul were being healed.

Through the strokes, the energy emitted by the souls of the four flowed toward Se-jun’s soul, replenishing his energy.

Stroke, stroke.

While Se-jun was stroking the four of them like that until well past lunchtime,

[The wound inflicted on your soul has been healed.]

[Talent: A Soul That Healed Its Wounds blossoms.]

The message that he bloomed his talent appeared in front of Se-jun.

“Huh?”

I had an injury to my soul?! Se-jun was surprised as he looked at the message.

Come to think of it, the lethargy that had suddenly dominated his entire body had disappeared a lot.

Is my energy depleted lately? Seeing that I had a nightmare yesterday, it was clear that my body had weakened.

“I must eat nourishing food today. But what kind of talent is it?”

Se-jun checked his talent, thinking he should eat something good for his body.

[Talent: A Soul That Healed Its Wounds]

This is a talent that only those who have suffered a wound to their soul and healed it can possess.

-Special stat Mental Power is unlocked.

-Mental Power +10

-Mental Power Potential +500

-Every time you do something that fills your soul, mental power increases by 1.

“Mental Power is unlocked?”

When Se-jun checked his stats,

Stats: Strength (921/943), Stamina (1,319/1,396), Agility (929/958), Mana (1,323/2,279), Mental Power (10/500)

Just as described, the mental power stat had been added.

“But what is mental power used for?”

Stroke, stroke.

While Se-jun was wondering as he stroked Ajax and Flamie,

“Hyung Se-jun, you got the Mental Power stat?! Ahem! I will tell you what the Mental Power stat is! It is…”

Ajax explained boastfully.

And,

“So, the elders said it’s a good stat if it’s high?”

“Yeah! They said it is a stat that is good but hard to explain in words!”

It wasn’t like a stamina booster or anything, but to think they couldn’t explain it in words because it was so good…

‘I should ask Lord Kaiser later.’

Although he wanted to ask right away,

Sparkle. Sparkle.

Hehe. I told Hyung Se-jun! Because of Ajax, who had a proud expression on his face for having taught Se-jun something, he could not do so.

At that moment,

Growl-!

Cuengi’s belly clock, which announced dinner, rang loudly.

“Huh?! It’s dinner already.”

Looking at the slightly darkened sky, Se-jun realized why Cuengi’s belly clock rang more loudly than usual.

Because they had not eaten lunch.

“You’re hungry, right? Kids, catch some seafood from the pond.”

The dinner menu was seafood mushroom Shabu-shabu. He requested the children to fetch seafood.

Cueng!

[Understood!]

“Yeah! Hyung!”

At Se-jun’s words, Cuengi and Ajax hurriedly ran to the pond, and

“Puhuhut. I hate it, meow.”

Theo, who disliked water and also hated to fall from Se-jun’s lap, kept clinging to Se-jun’s leg.

And,

[Hehet. Master, but what do you think it would be good for Cuengi and Lord Ajax to catch and bring back?]

Flamie extracted information on what Se-jun wanted to catch from Se-jun’s shoulder.

“Well. Today, it would be nice if there is octopus, which is a nourishing food ingredient… I wonder if there is any?”

[Octopus? What does that look like?]

“Octopus? Hmm… It has 8 legs and its head is shaped a bit round.”

Se-jun explained as he knew to Flamie’s question.

[Oh! I see!]

Thanks to that, data about the octopus was delivered to Flamie.

‘I must find octopus!’

Flamie’s roots in the dimensional ocean diligently searched for octopuses and herded them toward the pond.

A moment later,

Cuhahaha. Cueng!

[Hehehe. We caught a lot of guys with many legs!]

“Hehe! Hyung Se-jun will like it, right?”

Squirm. Squirm.

Cuengi and Ajax emerged from the pond, holding the octopuses sent by Flamie tightly in their arms.

And,

Rumble.

A giant octopus connected to the legs tied to each of their waists…

-You bastards! How dare you treat this body like this!

It was not an octopus, but a fragment of Kraken, the Beast that Swallows the Sea, the 6th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction, was dragged up.

Since it would turn into coins if they killed it, they had captured it alive.

Of course, they had tied the remaining six legs tightly together so that it could not move.

Unfortunately, the Kraken also had eight legs.

Cueng?!

[But is this really nourishing food?!]

“Since Hyung Se-jun said so, it must be right.”

Although the two questioned whether they could eat an Apostle of Destruction, if Se-jun said it was nourishing food, then it was nourishing food.

Of course, Se-jun had never imagined that they would catch and bring the Kraken.

***

‘Stubborn fellow, he really doesn’t think of falling off from Se-jun…’

Tier had been watching Theo all day long in order to naturally hand over the land deed for the 83rd floor of the White Tower.

However, Theo stuck like glue and never detached from Se-jun.

Thanks to that, just as Tier’s patience was gradually hitting rock bottom,

-Huh?! This energy?!

Tier felt the energy of destruction. How dare the power of destruction!

Tier hurriedly flew toward the place where the energy of destruction was felt.

-You rascal! Where do you think this is, that a mere Apostle of Destruction dares to show itself?! Children, I will save you!

He shouted upon seeing Cuengi and Ajax, whose waists were bound by the Kraken’s legs.

To Tier, the legs tied to the waists of Cuengi and Ajax looked as if they were being dragged away by the Kraken.

And,

-Melt!

Slide.

Tier melted the Kraken down.

-Return.

Of course, he absorbed the poison back into his body, ensuring a clean cleanup. Because Se-jun must not be poisoned.

Clink.

Like that, the Kraken turned into 10 grey coins.

Kkwe-eng-!

[Dad’s nourishing food has disappeared-!]

“Ehing! We were going to give it to Hyung Se-jun-!”

Cuengi and Ajax burst into tears at the disappearance of the Kraken they had dragged up with all their might, and

“Why is our Cuengi crying?!”

-Who made my grandson cry?!

Hearing the cries of the two, Se-jun and Kellion ran over in a hurry.

-Uh… that is…

Thanks to that, Tier had to explain the situation while watching the reactions of the four. I did nothing wrong, though…

“Pardon? The Kraken?”

-Why the Apostle of Destruction…?

At Tier’s explanation, Se-jun and Kellion looked at Cuengi and Ajax.

At that,

Cueng!

[Dad said he wanted to eat a nourishing food called octopus, which has 8 legs and a round head, so we caught and brought it!]

“Yeah! Hyung Se-jun said he wanted to eat octopus as nourishing food!”

The two answered diligently about the reason they had caught the Kraken.

But,

“Huh? From whom did you hear that I wanted to eat octopus as nourishing food?”

“…!”

“…!”

Because their emotions flared up, they ended up saying even what they shouldn’t have said.

At that moment,

“Ah. I heard it in passing and told the two of them.”

Veronica replied, emerging from the pond.

“Huh?! Veronica, were you in the pond too?”

“Yes. I suddenly felt like swimming…”

Veronica had been connecting the place where the Ents were to the pond under Flamie’s instructions.

[Veronica, go to the pond quickly and convey what I said to Lord Se-jun!]

“Yes! Mad Moon Wild Dance!”

Ka-boom!

She had hurriedly connected the tunnel under Flamie’s instructions and emerged from the pond.

Thanks to that, Flamie’s identity was protected.

“Now. Let’s go eat dinner.”

Se-jun took Cuengi and Ajax to the kitchen to eat dinner, and then

Se-jun hurriedly prepared the octopus while boiling the Shabu-shabu broth prepared in advance.

Clatter.

He poured the octopus and various mushrooms into the broth.

After a moment.

[You have achieved the achievement of making energetic octopus mushroom Shabu-shabu for the first time in the tower.]

[The recipe for energetic octopus mushroom Shabu-shabu is registered under Cooking Lv. 8.]

[The proficiency of Cooking Lv. 8 increases slightly.]

The message that the dish was completed appeared.

“Let’s eat now. Dip it in here to eat.”

When Se-jun said so while taking out soy sauce,

Cueng!

[I will eat well!]

“Hyung-nim, I will eat well!”

“Thank you for the meal!”

Cuengi, Ajax, and Veronica began to scoop out the octopus and mushrooms and eat them dipped in soy sauce.

And,

“You guys eat too.”

Se-jun took care of Theo, Ppiyot-i, and Blacky’s meals, providing Churu, peanuts, and roasted sweet potato jerky.

Chomp.

Se-jun also scooped out and ate the octopus and mushrooms from the Shabu-shabu. Indeed, octopus. It was chewy and delicious.

While everyone was deliciously eating dinner like that,

Kking!

‘I finished eating!’

Fenrir ate the roasted sweet potato jerky quickly.

‘What he is eating must be more delicious, right?’

He aimed for what Se-jun was eating.

Squirm, squirm.

He targeted the moving raw octopus Se-jun had set aside to put in later.

Jump.

‘I’m going to eat all of it!’

Fenrir threw his body toward the bowl containing the raw octopus.

But,

Kking! Kking!

‘Hey! Save me! I can’t move!’

Far from eating, Fenrir, whose body was tightly wrapped by the raw octopus instead, sent an SOS to Se-jun.

“Hey! If you want to eat, you should call me! Why did you go in there?!”

In the end, Fenrir was only scolded by Se-jun.

Kking!

‘You’re eating delicious things alone again!’

“Blacky, did you want to eat this? Here.”

Still, whether Fenrir’s protest worked, he was able to obtain a chunk of boiled octopus.

And,

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

he quickly finished eating the octopus Se-jun gave him and,

Kking… kking…

‘I’m full… stroke me…’

sent an SOS to Se-jun again.

“Sigh.”

Stroke, stroke.

Se-jun stroked Fenrir’s full belly and,

Burp.

made him burp.

As dinner ended like that,

[You have obtained a ginkgo seed.]

[Your class experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 8 increases slightly.]

[You must use the Seed Harvesting skill 603,716 more times to complete the class quest.]

…

..

.

Se-jun spent time harvesting ginkgo seeds until sleeping.

Crackle. Crackle.

It was in front of the bonfire under the night sky.

Se-jun harvested ginkgos like that for a long time.

“I’ve done a lot.”

Seeing the shelled ginkgos piled high before he knew it, his mood improved. It was rewarding.

At that moment,

[Your soul is filled.]

[Mental power increases by 1.]

Along with the message, his mental power increased by 1.

“Since they said it’s good if it’s high anyway…”

Se-jun fell asleep, feeling proud of himself for growing today as well.

Next morning.

“Let’s go look for pears today!”

Se-jun, who fully regained his motivation, decided to go look for pears.

Cueng?!

[Are we looking for a new Cuengi-ship?!]

“No. Not the ship you ride, but the pear you eat. Get in quickly.”

After Se-jun sent the group into the sub-space warehouse,

Flutter.

he disappeared from the spot as he unfolded the land deed for the 81st floor of the Black Tower.