Chapter 388 – Cuengi, Beat Orik Severely!

Austin, Texas, USA.

The city was full of people who, upon hearing the news that monsters had entered the city, got out of the cars they were riding in and fled.

And

Keeeeek

not long after, when the Flesh Devourers revealed their appearance in the distance,

“Out of the way!”

“Go faster!”

“Run away!”

people abandoned their belongings and began to flee in a hurry.

However, the roads were already packed with cars, and the paths between the cars were so narrow that only two people could barely pass through.

Even though they wanted to go fast, because the road was blocked, they couldn’t go fast.

Keeeeek!

Boom!

Fortunately, the movement speed of the Flesh Devourers slowed down as they cleared the cars blocking the road.

“Let’s stay calm! If we move in an orderly manner, we can move faster than those things!”

“That’s right! We can all survive even if we move slowly!”

People who broke free from fear courageously spoke up one by one,

and people who regained their senses at those voices began to move in an orderly fashion.

As they moved in an orderly manner, their pace actually became faster than when they were rushing, and the distance from the Flesh Devourers gradually widened.

As people widened their distance from the Flesh Devourers like that,

Rumble.

a giant leech suddenly emerged from the ground and attacked the front of the refugees escaping Austin.

It had traveled underground.

“Kyaaa! Save me!”

“Run away!”

People, who had been feeling relieved at the thought that they could now escape the city, screamed.

A giant leech in front, and Flesh Devourers behind.

It was a dilemma.

At that moment,

Boom!

something invisible from the sky flattened the giant leech.

“Huh?!”

And in the sky, the shape of something that split the clouds remained. It was the shape of a giant bat.

Naturally, the same shape was engraved on the ground where the giant leech had been.

It was Baet-baet-i’s Baet-baet 1,200-Step Fist.

Flamie had informed him that the Earth is round, and hearing Flamie’s words, Baet-baet-i had used his skill in a curved trajectory.

Therefore, he had fallen from the sky.

Boom! Boom!

Subsequently, a bat pattern was also engraved with an explosion where the Flesh Devourers were, and most of the monsters were cleared.

Since he was dealing with an area out of sight, he could not clear them completely.

However, the number of remaining Flesh Devourers was only about 100 in total, which was a number the hunters could easily handle.

(Baet-baet! Lady Flamie, I’ll go back now then!)

[Yeah. Good job.]

Baet-baet-i, who had dealt with the monsters in America from the rooftop of the Halla Building in Gangnam, Seoul, returned to the tower again.

In the feet of that Baet-baet-i, food that Se-jun would naturally like was held.

And

“Hehehe. This will get some views, won’t it?”

A YouTuber filmed Baet-baet-i flapping his wings toward America and disappearing, and uploaded the video.

***

99th floor of the Black Tower.

“Heave-ho!”

As morning came, Se-jun opened his eyes.

[The seal of the Earth’s Gem has been released.]

[Pontz, the God of Spring, who was sealed in the Earth’s Gem, is released from the seal.]

[Pontz, the God of Spring, repays the favor to the one who released his seal.]

[Pontz, the God of Spring, repays the favor by making a spring on a 1-pyeong plot of land.]

[10% of your life force while sleeping has been stored.]

[The Sphere of Life is 5.75% completed.]

[0.1 mana has accumulated over 24 hours.]

[Your mana increases by 0.1.]

He checked the messages while lying down for a moment.

“A spring?”

‘Considering the rewards from the gods so far, it probably won’t be just water.’

“Hehehe. What is it?”

Curiosity arose in Se-jun.

“Meow…”

After grabbing the sleeping Theo by the scruff of his neck and getting up, he wore Theo on his knees.

Then,

“Puhuhut…”

Theo hugged Se-jun’s knees tightly and smiled pleasantly.

‘This fellow…’

With his lips curving up in warmth, Se-jun marked the date on the wall and went outside.

Naturally, Iona, who was sleeping on Theo’s tail, was also with them.

Se-jun set out to find the spring like that.

But

“Where is it?”

Even after walking around the farm once, he could not find the spring.

“I should ask Cuengi to find it later.”

‘Since Cuengi can fly with telekinesis, it’ll be easily visible if looked at from the sky.’

“Kyu-kyu-kyut.”

Although Iona was next to him, he didn’t want to wake up Iona, who was sleeping pleasantly wrapped around Theo’s tail for the first time in a while.

“I should make breakfast.”

Unable to find the spring like that, Se-jun arrived at the kitchen.

“Huh?!”

‘Why is this here?’

The spring Se-jun had been searching for for a long time was inside the kitchen.

“But… is this milk?”

Se-jun spoke as he looked at the milky white liquid inside the spring. The spring was filled with milk.

“Oh! Do I finally have a milk spring too?”

Se-jun scooped a cup of milk, drank it while giggling, and began cooking.

The menu was roasted sweet potatoes.

‘Because it tastes heavenly when eaten with milk.’

At a moment later.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It was delicious, yo!]

Kkihikit… Kking…

‘Heh. It was delicious…’

Cuengi and Fenrir, who had eaten the roasted sweet potatoes and milk, were lying down with their butts pressed against Se-jun’s butt,

Slurp.

and Se-jun stroked the two of them while drinking a latte, which was made by mixing milk with the coffee he brewed himself.

After drinking the latte like that,

“Earth Raising.”

he made a 1.5-pyeong Pontz Road for Pontz, the God of Spring.

Although milk was good, it was not as good as chocolate, so reflecting that, he made a 1.5-pyeong path.

[Pontz Road]

-Pontz, the God of Spring, who rewarded us with a milk spring. He was a milky god.

Se-jun made the path and began cooking for the dragons’ meeting again.

He stirred the soup once, went to the brewery, and used the Fermentation skill.

And

“Summon slaves!”

He summoned the other tower farmers,

“Let’s make rice cakes.”

and began extracting garae-tteok together.

Se-jun and Cuengi.

Theo and Iona.

Ajax and Veronica.

Zelga and Orik paired up, put the dough into the molds, pressed them, and extracted garae-tteok.

Since the 4 teams extracted only garae-tteok without resting until lunch, the quantity was truly massive.

It was almost enough to form a small hill.

For reference, the garae-tteok extracted now was less than a quarter of the prepared dough.

“What should I do with this?”

Although he could put it in the void storage, he would have to pull it out again later, so he would be doing the work twice.

“Ajax, please call Lord Ramter.”

“Yeah! Brother!”

So Se-jun, who was contemplating, had Ajax call Ramter to come and take the garae-tteok.

-Collected. Our Se-jun is working hard. Refresh.

Ramter collected the garae-tteok, cast recovery magic on the hardworking Se-jun and his group, and went back.

And

‘For Lord Ramter to personally cast recovery magic!’

‘The only magic Lord Grave casts on me is when he’s angry!’

Having seen such a sight for the first time, Zelga and Orik were greatly shocked. The great dragons usually treated beings of lower status than themselves almost like bugs.

Yet, not only did he cast recovery magic on Se-jun, whose status was lower than theirs, but he even encouraged him?

“Kelkelkel. Lord Se-jun, what kind of scam did you pull on the dragons?! Please teach me too!”

Orik asked Se-jun while laughing slyly. He also wanted to stop being beaten by Grave.

But

“Meow! Chairman Park does not pull scams, meow!”

Kkueng!

[Cuengi’s dad doesn’t pull scams, yo!]

Orik was grabbed by the collar and dragged to a corner by the angry Theo and Cuengi, returning with bruises around both eyes.

At that moment,

Growl.

A sound came from Cuengi’s belly.

“Kelkelkel. Lord Se-jun, it seems Lord Cuengi is hungry, so let’s eat lunch.”

Sometime along the way, the title Orik used to call Cuengi had changed from Cuengi to Lord Cuengi.

“Sure. Let’s eat.”

Lunch was, of course, garae-tteok.

“Zelga, eat it with this.”

“Thank you.”

For Zelga, who preferred fish, he gave salted shrimp to dip the garae-tteok in.

Having eaten lunch like that, they extracted garae-tteok again until dinner.

“Everyone, good job. Eat dinner before you go today.”

Since they had especially worked hard today, he decided to give the tower farmers dinner.

Se-jun opened the void storage, intending to make simple pancakes.

“Huh? What is this?”

As soon as he opened the storage, he saw an object wrapped in a black bag. A yellow Post-it note was stuck on the black bag.

-This is pork belly that Lord Se-jun likes. Enjoy it. From Baet-baet-i.

“Baet-baet-i, thank you.”

Having read the memo, Se-jun, feeling grateful to Baet-baet-i who would be listening from somewhere, put his hand inside the black bag and pulled out the contents.

A chunk of red meat welcomed Se-jun.

“Hehehe. It’s pork belly.”

But

‘Huh?! I told the kids to stay for dinner…’

Se-jun soon realized that there were many mouths to eat this pork belly.

‘Should I hide it?’

As Se-jun was contemplating,

“Kelkelkel. Lord Se-jun, that looks delicious.”

the pork belly was discovered by Orik, who had appeared at some point.

“Sigh. Go pull some green onions and cabbage.”

“Kelkelkel. Yes!”

Since it was discovered anyway, Se-jun decided to eat it together.

Se-jun made green onion salad with the green onions brought by Orik, and cut the cabbage into bite-sized pieces. It was to wrap the meat in cabbage since there was no lettuce.

Once the preparations to eat pork belly were finished like that,

Sizzle.

they grilled the pork belly and ate it deliciously together.

And as the atmosphere ripened,

“Kelkelkel. Lord Se-jun, I have a good alcohol. Let’s drink together.”

Orik handed over a bottle of alcohol from inside his pants. It seemed that void magic was cast inside his pants.

Although he really disliked the location it was taken from, he accepted the bottle because he was curious about the alcohol of other towers.

Although he thought the contents inside would be fine since it was in a bottle,

[Terrible Goblin Whiskey]

This is a whiskey made only from rotten food using a secret recipe passed down through generations of the Red Goblin tribe.

Upon consumption, you will be poisoned by all B-grade poisons. (If you have an A-grade or higher poison resistance, you will not be poisoned.)

Use Restriction: Stamina 1,000 or higher

Creator: Wiki, the Elder of the Red Goblin Tribe

Expiration date: 10 years

Grade: A

his mind changed after reading the content.

“Orik, do you have poison resistance?”

“Kelkelkel. Of course.”

“What is the grade?”

“Kelkelkel. Naturally A-grade. We Red Goblins have exactly two kinds. Red Goblins who achieved A-grade poison resistance and survived, and Red Goblins who failed to achieve it and died.”

“Really? Then do I have A-grade poison resistance? Or do I not?”

“Kelkelkel. Since Lord Se-jun is not a Red Goblin, of course you wouldn’t, right?”

“Hehehe. You knew that and still offered this to me?! Cuengi, beat Orik severely!”

This was unforgivable.

Kkueng!

[Cuengi will punish him, yo!]

At Se-jun’s words, Cuengi, who was chewing after stacking three pieces of pork belly and a lot of green onion salad on a cabbage leaf, hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth and stood up.

“Meow! Orik tried to harm Chairman Park, meow! I, Vice President Theo, will punish Orik, meow!”

“How dare you try to poison our brother Se-jun?!”

On top of that, Theo and Ajax also stood up, and Orik was dragged away by the three.

“Kelkelkel. Everyone, calm down. But what did I do wrong?”

Orik did not know what he had done wrong even as he was being dragged away.

“First, I should keep this.”

Se-jun kept the Terrible Goblin Whiskey.

Poison would also be useful someday. Just like how he caught the giant electric eel with Aileen’s food in the past.

“But it’s a bit of a shame since I wanted to drink but couldn’t.”

Se-jun spoke while looking at his empty cup.

“Should I go drink just one cup?”

Suddenly craving alcohol, Se-jun went to the brewery and opened the lid of the jar containing Samyangju.

Then,

“Oh! It seems to be completed?”

A golden aura flowed out from inside the jar. The Samyangju made of golden rice was completed.

And

[You have achieved the achievement of making the first golden Samyangju in the tower.]

[The recipe for golden Samyangju is registered in Cooking Lv. 9.]

[The proficiency of Cooking Lv. 9 increases slightly.]

The achievement message appeared just as Se-jun had thought.

[You have obtained a clue to achieve a great achievement.]

[A quest occurs.]

Subsequently, the quest message also appeared.

“Is this a quest? Hehehe. It’s too easy?”

Reading the quest details, Se-jun smiled brightly.