Chapter 370 – I Am So Disappointed

Black Tower Administrator Area.

“Khehehe. It’s delicious.”

Aileen was eating an elixir-grade cherry tomato while taking a break after searching for destruction with the destruction detector.

At that moment,

Woong.

The crystal ball vibrated.

“What is this?”

Aileen stuffed all the remaining cherry tomatoes into her mouth and checked the crystal ball.

[Tower Farmer Park Se-jun of the Black Tower has achieved the great accomplishment of driving the first calamity, the locusts, to extinction for the first time in the dimension guarded by the tower.]

[Out of the growth conditions for the Black Giant Tower, the condition of achieving three great accomplishments has been met by achieving three great accomplishments.]

[One of the growth conditions for the Black Giant Tower has been achieved.]

“Khehehe. As expected of our Se-jun!”

Aileen, who checked the alarm on the crystal ball, smiled broadly. Six out of the eight conditions for the Black Giant Tower had been achieved.

Since being with Se-jun, everything was working out well.

“I will also become a wonderful and great Black Dragon worthy of our Se-jun!”

Therefore, Aileen decided to exert herself even more.

And,

-Hakun-oppa, I told you to come visit the Yongyong Market, so why haven’t you come yet? Surely you’re not unable to come because your parents told you not to, right? If so, I’m really disappointed. To think you’re a weak hatchling who can’t even move against your parents’ wishes…

Aileen began to write letters once again, provoking the other hatchlings to come to the Yongyong Market.

As a side note, Aileen was the youngest among the hatchlings of the nine dragon clans, at 200 years old.

Amused, the hatchlings who received Aileen’s letters would probably pester their parents to visit the Yongyong Market at least once to restore their pride.

***

[As a reward for the great accomplishment, the crops cultivated by Tower Farmer Park Se-jun of the Black Tower can absorb an extremely minute amount of the power of destruction and turn it into nutrients.]

An additional reward message appeared.

To be able to absorb the power of destruction and turn it into nutrients. Although they could only absorb a minute amount, it was quite a decent reward.

“Since I just need to plant a lot.”

Se-jun decided to plant Fenrir’s core fragments in the ground when he returned to the 99th floor of the tower to try to remove the power of destruction.

And,

“Hehehe. I did something great.”

Se-jun, who had driven the first calamity of destruction, the locusts, to extinction with green onions, made a proud expression.

At that moment,

Clatter?

[Se-jun-nim?]

The Farming King, whose skull alone lay in front of Se-jun, called Se-jun, who was talking to himself while listening to his story.

The Farming King had been packed in the bundle on Uren’s back along with the other members of the Crying Skull Band.

As soon as he regained consciousness, the Farming King discovered Se-jun and

Clatter!

[Se-jun-nim, I am the Farming King!]

informed him that he was the Farming King.

Thanks to that, the Farming King, who was rescued by Se-jun, was explaining why he was here.

“So you’re saying that while coming to meet me by Rhea-nim’s instructions, you were stripped of all your money and grape seed oil by these guys and left penniless?”

Clatter!

[Not ‘these guys’, but the Crying Skull Band!]

Clatter!

[And it wasn’t stripped, it was used as great revolutionary funds!]

Clatter! Clatter…

[Indeed! For the great cause of overthrowing the bone-rank system…]

Koto and the other subordinates vigorously protested Se-jun’s words.

However,

“Haak! Don’t talk back to President Park, meow!”

Thump-thump-thump.

Hit on their heads by Theo, the skulls they had barely restored shattered, and the Crying Skull Band fell silent.

“But can you summon Rhea-nim with that body?”

Clatter. Clatter.

[No. It is only possible when my body is completely recovered.]

“Is that so? Then we must wait.”

Because the bones had to be assembled precisely, Theo’s healing arts, Cuengi’s physical mana massage, and Ajax’s recovery were of no use.

It seemed it would require five hours to recover.

“By the way, where are the money and the grape seed oil? It wasn’t in what Theo brought.”

Se-jun asked about the items the Farming King said he had brought, while watching the Farming King’s bone fragments being assembled bit by bit.

Since the grape seed oil had almost run out, Se-jun’s interest was focused on the grape seed oil.

Clatter…

[Well…]

The Farming King spoke of how his money and grape seed oil had been looted by other bandits.

And,

“Haak! Haak! How dare they lay hands on President Park’s money, meow!”

Hearing the Farming King’s words, Theo was enraged.

Although the amount was small at 1 million Tower Coins, the amount was not important. The fact that they laid hands on Se-jun’s money was what was important.

“President Park’s money can only be borrowed and burned by me, Vice President Theo, meow! Yet they dared to extort that money, meow!!!”

Theo absolutely! Absolutely could not forgive them.

“Where was it taken, meow?!”

Therefore, to retrieve Se-jun’s money, he asked the Farming King for the location where it was taken.

Clatter.

[Near the merchant passage on the 38th floor of the tower.]

The Farming King said, recalling the location where he had encountered the bandits.

Near the merchant passage on the 38th floor of the tower.

Although it was a very vague explanation, Theo had the slave lure, Uren. It was clear that the bandits would appear on their own, drawn by Uren’s sweet misfortune.

And all he had to do was catch those bandits, make them slaves, and retrieve Se-jun’s money and grape seed oil.

“President Park, I will go collect the money, meow!”

Theo hurriedly prepared to leave. If it was the 38th floor of the tower, he could make the round trip in two hours at most.

“Vice President Theo, make sure to find the grape seed oil too.”

“Understood, meow! Bpiyot, Uren, let’s go, meow!”

Theo moved quickly, taking Bpiyot and Uren with him.

Three hours later.

“Puhuhut. President Park, I found the money and the grape seed oil, meow!”

Theo, who had been delayed after encountering ten teams of bandits, returned after getting stamps on slave contracts from 100 bandits.

As expected, the performance of the slave lure was outstanding.

“Welcome back. We were just having dinner.”

Although no one else but Se-jun and Fenrir was visible around,

Bbyak!

[It’s delicious!]

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It’s delicious-da-yo!]

“Aaaargh. This is really spicy! But it’s delicious!”

the sounds of the Black Rabbit, Cuengi, Ajax, and hundreds of blue-backed penguins deliciously eating the spicy dough drop soup that Se-jun made with freshwater shrimp were heard.

Because of the special effect of the freshwater shrimp: Stealth.

“Puhuhut. Me, Vice President Theo, wants to eat grilled fish, meow!”

Theo hurriedly sat on Se-jun’s lap and

“I prepared it in advance, knowing you’d say that. Here.”

“Puhuhut. It’s grilled fish with President Park’s devotion in it, meow!”

He accepted the grilled fish Se-jun had grilled diligently and began eating it deliciously.

“Uren, eat the shrimp soup, and Bpiyot, do you want to eat walnuts?”

Bpiyot! Bpiyot!

[Yes! I want to eat!]

Se-jun offered the dough drop soup to Uren, who ate anything well, and walnuts to Bpiyot, who liked nuts.

“Alright. Just a moment. Walnut-cracking Blacky, let’s work.”

When Se-jun held out the Walnut of Training to Fenrir,

Kking!

‘I’m getting stronger!’

Crack.

Fenrir immediately bit and cracked the walnut.

Crack.

Crack.

“Here. Eat.”

Se-jun cracked 5 walnuts, shelled the walnuts inside, and gave them to Bpiyot,

Kking!

‘Hey! You should give me food too!’

“Alright. Blacky, eat this.”

He picked out the fish meat and put it in the bowl for Fenrir, who sat in front of Se-jun, placed his bowl down, and barked eagerly.

And,

“Hey! You should leave mine!”

Se-jun also hurriedly scooped the dough drop soup from the pot, which was showing its bottom, into a bowl with a ladle and began eating.

Slurp.

“Kueh. So refreshing.”

Due to the spicy and refreshing taste, Se-jun sweated profusely and ate the dough drop soup frantically.

Once Se-jun finished eating the dough drop soup,

[You have consumed Spicy and Refreshing Freshwater Shrimp Dough Drop Soup.]

[Special Effect: Due to the effect of Stealth, your appearance becomes transparent for 30 minutes.]

Stealth was activated, and Se-jun’s figure vanished.

A moment later.

Kkihikit. Kking. Kking.

‘Hehit. I’m full. Now I should ask the butler to stroke my belly.’

Fenrir, who had pleasantly filled his belly with fish meat, looked around and searched for Se-jun.

But

Kking?!

‘Where did this guy go?!’

Thump. Thump.

Since Se-jun was not visible, he began to run around diligently looking for Se-jun.

Kking! Kking?!

‘I clearly smell him! Hey! Where are you?!’

Fenrir put his nose to the ground and diligently tracked Se-jun’s scent.

And,

Thump.

Fenrir collided with the stealthy Cuengi’s butt and passed out. He was indeed like the sunfish Se-jun recognized.

Kkueng? Kkueng!

[Blacky, what are you doing here-da-yo? Dad, Blacky is sleeping here-da-yo!]

Cuengi lifted the passed-out Fenrir and delivered him to Se-jun,

“Why is he sleeping here?”

and Se-jun put Fenrir into the sling bag. No one thought Fenrir had passed out.

After Se-jun ate dinner like that,

“Here. Just put in a scoop of shrimp and grab a handful of salt to sprinkle.”

while he was making salted shrimp with his companions, putting freshwater shrimp in a jar and sprinkling salt,

-O Park Se-jun. I am so disappointed…

Before he knew it, the eyes of the Farming King, whose bone assembly was finished, turned golden as Rhea appealed her disappointment to Se-jun.

“Pardon? What did I do…?”

-You built a shrine for Peblos, the God of Gravel, but didn’t build one for one for me, did you?

“A shrine?”

Se-jun fell into thought for a moment at Rhea’s words. Ah… was she talking about the 1-pyeong Peblos Road?

Since that was the only thing he made for Peblos, it had to be correct.

But… seeing that she called a road a shrine, it seemed she could not see this side at all from over there.

“I also wanted to build Rhea-nim’s shrine first. But as you know, it costs a lot of money to build a shrine, doesn’t it?”

Therefore, he fibbed a little. If he only used the Shifting Earth skill, he could easily make a road.

However, Se-jun had a miraculous logic that using a skill consumed mana, consuming mana made him hungry, and filling his belly required money.

-Of course! It naturally costs a lot of money to construct a shrine!

Rhea agreed with Se-jun’s words.

“Yes. But because Peblos-nim threw down wealth, I had no choice but to build Peblos-nim’s shrine first.”

-I see. O Park Se-jun. Then, I will give you 5 bottles of the Elixir of Harvest as the cost for constructing the shrine.

“Really?”

-Indeed! And… ahem. I wish my shrine is larger and has more visitors than Peblos’s shrine.

Ah. A floating population was also important.

Se-jun, who obtained good information thanks to Rhea.

“Of course! I will build a giant shrine in a better location than Peblos-nim’s shrine!”

Since 5 bottles of the Elixir of Harvest was 500 billion Tower Coins in price…

he just needed to lay 5-pyeong stones engraved with Rhea’s name on the path where the mushroom ants frequently passed and call it Rhea Road.

After Se-jun replied and made an estimate,

“Ah. But… do you have any other divine artifacts like the Golden Box of Abundance?”

he asked Rhea if she had another divine artifact.

-That… is difficult right now, but I will give it to you later. Well then…

Just as Rhea, who could not say she couldn’t make it due to a lack of Divine Power for the sake of a god’s dignity, glossed over and was about to leave hurriedly,

“Huh?! Aren’t you selling the Elixir of Harvest today?”

Se-jun hurriedly called Rhea. Having plenty of money, he intended to buy elixirs in bulk.

However,

-…The 5 elixirs just now were all.

Rhea replied in a pitiful voice. To make elixirs, not only Divine Power but also time was required.

“Ah… Then please accept this.”

Se-jun, who felt uncomfortable at Rhea’s answer, took out 500 billion Tower Coins and handed them to Rhea.

-Why this?

“I will accept the shrine cost as deferred payment. Repay it later.”

-Oh! Thank you! O Park Se-jun. You are very considerate! I will surely repay this grace!

Rhea spent all the time she could stay praising Se-jun and returned.

And,

[The soul becomes full from the high praise of Rhea, the Goddess of Abundance.]

[Mental Strength increases by 10.]

Mental Strength increased thanks to Rhea’s praise.

“Hehehe. I should treat them well and extract praises next time too.”

Se-jun, thinking he should extract praises along with wealth when he met the gods next time, put the Elixir of Harvest into the sub-space warehouse, came out, and

“Guys, let’s go home. Toryong-i!”

called Toryong-i and prepared to return home.

***

Territory of the Great Golden Dragons.

“Eek! To think a mere 200-year-old calls me, the Great Golden Dragon Lord Hokus, a weak hatchling?!”

Hokus, who was reading Aileen’s letter while lying in a fluffy golden cradle, flew into a rage.

“Hmph! I, Hokus, will show you how strong of a hatchling I am!”

Hokus walked out of the golden cradle, bracing himself.

And,

“Waaah! Mom! I want to go to the Black Tower!”

He began to cry out loud.