Chapter 390 – Heh! I Should Feed Him This Too!

Austin, the capital of Texas, USA.

……

The current downtown area has become an empty city with no people. No, to be precise…

Keeeeek!

It had become a city of Flesh Devourers. This was because although Baet-baet-i had defeated the Flesh Devourers, their seeds remained.

Even Flamie and Baet-baet-i did not realize that they had to remove the seeds.

Meeting room of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in the United States.

With the director and key executives attending, Robin was reporting on the details he had investigated.

“We analyzed the satellite photos from when the bat pattern was engraved on the ground in Austin, but we could not find anything special. However, as a result of analyzing the atmospheric photos, it is judged that a force suddenly acted at a point 100 meters above Austin.”

“Any eyewitnesses who saw the Golden Bat? If it was 100 meters above, there should be eyewitnesses.”

The director, who was listening to the report, asked.

“Well… there are none among the survivors.”

“Then, who is the suspected entity?”

“The most suspected is the Golden Bat that appeared in Harbin, which China claims is its national divine beast. On the last page, the analysis bureau attached a report stating that the similarity between the Golden Bat and the bat pattern is 87%.”

“Haa. So the report’s conclusion is that what saved our America is China’s divine beast?”

The expression of the director, who spoke while sighing, was unusual. It was the same for the other executives.

“Huh? No, it’s not that…”

The atmosphere grew hostile.

At that moment,

“Um…”

Agent Peter, who was on his third day of work and had followed Robin, quietly raised his hand. At the same time, Robin’s face crumpled up.

‘Hey. Read the room!’

‘I let the rookie attend the meeting because there’s an interview with the director after the meeting…’

‘The atmosphere is already bad, but the moment the rookie adds one tactless remark,’

‘the atmosphere of the meeting room will freeze and turn into the Arctic, and I will be marked by the director and dispatched to the Arctic.’

‘Stay still! Can’t you see the atmosphere is bad?’

Although Robin shot lasers with his eyes to signal Peter,

Nod.

Peter, perhaps taking it as encouragement from his senior, nodded his head solemnly.

And

“Look at this.”

He turned the laptop screen he was looking at and confidently showed it to the director and CIA executives.

‘You… YouTube?! You bastard!!! Were you watching YouTube during the meeting?’

Robin, who had been hoping that he might have gotten a genius junior like he saw in movies, despaired. A dispatch to the Arctic was confirmed.

‘Should I submit my resignation?’

While Robin was seriously contemplating whether to pull out the resignation letter he had put in his pocket,

-Now. The current time is 5 AM. It is the 110th day of the Miracle Morning.

In the meeting room where everyone was speechless with absurdity, the video began to play.

When about 2 minutes had passed since the video started playing like that,

-Everyone! Can you see over there?! Over there! The rooftop of the building! That’s the Golden Bat, right?!

The man in the video spoke in an excited voice while filming the rooftop of a building.

There, a golden bat was standing on the rooftop railing, flapping its wings toward the air.

The video ended with the Golden Bat disappearing while holding a black bag.

“Ahem. Your name?”

When the video ended, the director asked for Peter’s name.

“Peter Lee.”

Peter replied vigorously to the director’s question.

“Yes. Peter, I see that the Golden Bat appears in this video, but why did you show it to us?”

“Because this video is the eyewitness of this Austin incident.”

“Eyewitness?”

“Yes. If you look at the video…”

Peter continued the explanation while looking at the video.

“At around 5:03 AM Seoul time, the Golden Bat appeared and flapped its wings, and at around 3:05 PM Texas time, the bat pattern appeared.”

“Wait! Then considering the time difference between Seoul and Texas is 14 hours, does that mean it defeated the monsters across a distance of 12,000 km in just 2 minutes?!”

The deputy director, who was listening, looked up the time difference on his smartphone and asked in a shocked voice.

“Yes. To be precise, it is 1 minute 53 seconds. Since I couldn’t believe it either, I looked up the GPS coordinates based on the building in the video and analyzed the direction in which the Golden Bat flapped its wings, and the direction matches Austin.”

“How can that be…”

“Where exactly is the location of the building in this video?”

“It is the Halla Building in Gangnam, and the owner is listed as Park Se-jun.”

Peter, who had already finished his investigation, spoke without hesitation.

“What?! Park Se-jun?”

‘Why does that name come up here?’

At Peter’s report, all the CIA executives in the meeting room were bewildered.

Park Se-jun.

The hunter who was currently exerting great influence on Earth by selling crop items, and the being known as the strongest among hunters.

However, he was known to have never left the tower once since entering it, for the safety of everyone.

But… the Golden Bat, which China claimed as its own divine beast, appeared on the rooftop of Park Se-jun’s building?

‘There is something to this.’

“Robin, depart for Korea immediately with Peter! Go find out the relationship between the Golden Bat and Park Se-jun!”

“Huh? Korea?!”

Robin, who was listening to Peter’s explanation blankly, replied.

“Yes! Hurry!”

“Yes! We will depart immediately!”

‘Good job! Peter!’

Robin nodded while looking at Peter proudly, and Peter also nodded back to Robin, who had trusted him.

***

99th floor of the Black Tower.

“Good. Now I should dry them. Greenhouse.”

[Greenhouse Lv. 4 is activated.]

[A warm greenhouse is created within a 2 km radius.]

[The proficiency of Greenhouse Lv. 4 is filled.]

Se-jun used the Greenhouse skill to make it look like the Sun Peppers were placed inside a vinyl greenhouse.

Since there were only two days left until the dragons’ meeting, there was no time to naturally dry the Sun Peppers.

“Cuengi, blow wind gently inside this.”

Kkueng!

[Understood, yo!]

Se-jun had Cuengi blow wind inside the greenhouse. Wind was necessary for drying.

After drying the Sun Peppers for several hours like that,

Crisp.

they were bone-dry to the extent of crumbling even with a slight touch.

“Good. Iona, please grind this.”

“Kyu-kyu-kyut. Yes! Power of the wind, crush my enemy! Tornado!”

The Sun Peppers were ground very finely by Iona’s magic, and the red pepper powder was placed in Se-jun’s void storage by Iona using magic.

At that moment,

“Kelkelkel. Lord Se-jun, we have finished extracting all the garae-tteok. Is there anything else you want us to do?”

Orik, who had extracted garae-tteok with the other tower farmers, ran over in a hurry to report. He was working hard to regain the points he had lost with Se-jun yesterday.

“Yes. Good job. Rest for a moment.”

“Kelkelkel. Yes!”

When Orik went back,

porridge completed.

Garae-tteok completed.

Samyangju completed.

Since the wine would be opened on the day…

Se-jun checked the current situation.

“Now, once I cut the fruits to eat as dessert and boil the spicy fish stew, it is finished.”

It seemed it would be almost finished if he worked hard until tomorrow morning.

At that moment,

Kkuhehehe.

Growl.

A thunderous sound came from the belly of Cuengi, who was proudly looking at the paper stamped with five stars by Se-jun. It was lunchtime.

“We should eat.”

Since the most convenient thing was the garae-tteok they had just extracted, Se-jun used it to make soy sauce tteokbokki for the first time in a while.

And with soy sauce he brewed himself. Yesterday, the soy sauce and soybean paste were finally completed. Normally, a lot of time was required, but it was thanks to the Fermentation skill.

“Wow! Brother, are you making soy sauce tteokbokki? Guys, this is really delicious!”

‘You guys have never eaten it, right? I’ve eaten it.’

Ajax, who had already eaten it, bragged while explaining the taste of soy sauce tteokbokki to the other tower farmers.

While Ajax was chattering like that,

“Everyone, eat.”

Se-jun, who had made soy sauce tteokbokki, called the group.

And

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It’s delicious, yo!]

“Hehe. As expected of Brother Se-jun!”

“As expected of Lord Se-jun’s cooking.”

“It’s really delicious! But to me, Lord Se-jun’s steamed potatoes are…”

“Kelkelkel. It’s really delicious! In that sense, next time, I’ll bring the rice cake made by the goblins’ secret method…”

“I’m not eating it!”

As everyone began eating the soy sauce tteokbokki while praising Se-jun’s cooking,

Kking?! Kking!

‘Hey! What about my food?! I feel like you have no interest in me lately!’

Fenrir, who felt hurt because Se-jun was busy preparing for the dragons’ meeting, threw a tantrum.

“Alright. There is food for Blackie too. Here.”

When Se-jun put finely chopped soy sauce tteokbokki into Fenrir’s bowl so it wouldn’t get stuck in his throat,

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

‘Delicious!’

Fenrir, who had been whining until a moment ago, became quiet after eating the soy sauce tteokbokki.

His hurt feelings melted away gently along with the soy sauce tteokbokki in his mouth.

Se-jun took care of even Fenrir’s meal like that.

“Hehehe. I should eat it spicy.”

Craving a spicy taste, Se-jun sprinkled the Sun Pepper red pepper powder he made today on his tteokbokki and ate it.

Then,

[You have consumed Sun Pepper red pepper powder.]

[If you receive light for 1 minute, one of your stats will randomly increase by 0.0002.]

…

..

.

Messages appeared.

1 minute later.

[Having received enough light, your strength stat increases by 0.0002.]

…

..

.

Se-jun’s stats, which had been rising while he sat quietly and received light, began to increase.

Although they weren’t high stats, since he got stat increases while eating delicious food, it was practically a freebie.

[Your soul becomes filled by the pouring praise.]

[Your mental strength increases by 3.]

Subsequently, his mental strength also rose.

“Hehehe. Today’s lunch was also a rewarding meal.”

While Se-jun was smiling warmly and grinding beans to brew coffee to drink,

Ppiyot!

[Lord Se-jun, hello!]

“Hello!”

Ppiyot and Uren appeared.

Ppiyot!

[Lord Theo, a letter!]

Ppiyot handed the letter sent by the Traveling Merchant Association to Theo, who was sitting on Se-jun’s knees grooming himself.

“Meow? Who sent it, meow?”

Since he had never received a letter before, Theo read the letter while wondering.

And

“Puhuhut.”

“Puhuhut.”

Theo did nothing but laugh continuously while looking at the letter.

“Vice President Theo, what letter is it?”

Curious about the contents of the letter seeing Theo like that, Se-jun asked.

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, the Traveling Merchant Association contacted me, Vice President Theo, to take the Great Merchant promotion exam, meow!”

“Great Merchant?”

“Puhuhut. That is right, meow!”

Theo spoke in a proud voice.

Starting from a novice traveling merchant, he was finally becoming a Great Merchant, meow! This glorious moment had to be shared with Chairman Park too, meow!

Theo thought that he should obtain the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower, grab Se-jun’s knees, and go to the Traveling Merchant Association Headquarters together.

And he imagined himself becoming a Great Merchant while receiving Se-jun’s congratulations.

“Puhuhut. Just thinking about it is exciting, meow!”

“What is?”

“There is something like that, meow! Chairman Park, I will go down for a bit, meow!”

“Yeah. Okay. Ah, right! If you see the land deed for the 68th floor of the tower on your way, collect it too.”

Because Aileen had said she felt the power of destruction on the 68th floor of the tower, Se-jun asked Theo.

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

“Have a safe trip!”

While Se-jun was seeing Theo off like that,

Kkihikit. Kking!

‘Heh. I figured it out!’

Fenrir obtained a great realization.

Kking! Kking?!

‘Since receiving my core, the butler’s food has gotten delicious! Then, if he receives more of my core, won’t the food get even more delicious?!’

It was Fenrir’s misunderstanding. Se-jun simply made the food he wanted to make, and it just happened to suit Fenrir’s taste.

However, Fenrir, who thought of himself as a smart wolf, believed there was no way he could be thinking incorrectly.

And

Kkihikit! Kking!

‘Heh! I should feed him this too!’

Biting the 1% core fragment Se-jun had given him to play with as a toy, he began to watch for an opportunity to put the core fragment into Se-jun’s mouth.

Because swallowing a core fragment that didn’t match one’s ability was extremely painful.

But

Kking?!

“Blackie! Why are you putting something covered in your spit into my mouth?!”

He failed.