Chapter 391 – This is Canceled, Meow!

Minnesota, USA.

“Father, it would have been better if you had just handed over the chairman’s position meekly.”

Michael said as he walked into the entrance of the huge house.

“Michael, you are crazy. Killing a dragon that doesn’t even exist? Snap out of it!”

William, the chairman of Gagel, spoke in an angry voice toward such Michael. Hundreds of hunters were surrounding Michael in the vicinity.

Michael, who had come out of the tower a few days ago, started acting strangely.

He went around killing people.

He killed not just one or two, but hundreds of people.

William, who learned of this, sent hunters to subdue Michael and asked Michael the reason why he killed the people.

“Hehehe. In order to kill the dragon and rule the tower, strength is needed. Give me Father’s chairman position too. Then…”

He locked Michael, who spoke of nonsense, in a hunter-exclusive psychiatric hospital.

However, Michael eventually killed all the hospitalized hunters and the guarding hunters there, escaped, and appeared here.

“You may kill him. I have plenty of children anyway.”

“Yes.”

The guard team leader replied to William’s words and signaled to the other hunters.

Then, the hunters rushed quickly toward Michael.

“Hehehe. You should react like that. Then I will take the chairman’s position with my own power.”

Michael smiled fishily and rushed toward the hunter approaching from the front, and—

“This can’t be…”

The fight ended in an instant. With Michael’s massacre.

No one could properly see Michael’s movement.

“Then, goodbye.”

“Michael, spare me… *Ack!*”

Michael became the new chairman of Gagel.

***

The 99th floor of the Golden Tower.

Inside the cave.

*Rumble!*

Thanks to the massive amount of lightning falling onto the ground, the inside of the cave was as bright as day.

Inside the cave, there were residential facilities where thousands of elves lived and wide fields.

Although they were elves who usually farmed quietly,

“Cecilia, fighting!”

“Cecilia, hang in there!”

now, all the elves were standing around the cherry tomato field, cheering for the blonde elf who was diligently harvesting cherry tomatoes in the field.

Cecilia, the tower farmer of the Golden Tower, was participating in the cherry tomato harvesting competition, the first event of the harvest festival.

A while ago, an elf who was harvesting cherry tomatoes, the staple food of the elves, harvested the high elf’s cherry tomato altar, and—

Cecilia offered the 15 types of crops she harvested to the altar and held the harvest festival.

Thanks to that, the cherry tomato harvesting competition, the first event of the harvest festival, was held just a moment ago, and Cecilia participated in the competition.

The result was…

[Cherry Tomato Harvesting Competition Ranking]

1st Place – Cecilia (13,172)

2nd Place – Paneli (2,300)

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..

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Naturally, Cecilia took first place with an overwhelming score.

“Cecilia-nim, that’s unfair!”

“Cecilia-nim is greedy!”

Although she received complaints from the young elves instead.

Thus, she received 5 A-grade Cherry Tomatoes of Mana as the first-place reward.

[Cherry Tomato of Mana]

Unlike the regular cherry tomatoes they ate, it was an item.

The producer was Park Se-jun, the tower farmer of the Black Tower. He was a tower farmer just like her.

“It increases mana by 10 for 10 minutes?!”

Although 10 mana was almost useless, it was amazing to be able to increase mana just by eating a crop.

Still, since he did not focus on the taste, it would probably taste worse than her cherry tomatoes.

By Cecilia’s common sense, that was natural. Because if a part of the nutrition went to mana, the taste would naturally drop.

“Still, I should taste it. Everyone, try one each.”

“Thank you!”

*Nom.*

Cecilia offered them to the young elves, picked up one cherry tomato, put it in her mouth, and chewed.

But—

*Splurt!*

The moment the juice of the cherry tomato exploded,

…!!!

Cecilia realized that this cherry tomato was completely different from the ones she had grown before. It was this delicious?!

It was so delicious!

The word ‘bursting with juice’ came to mind naturally.

Cecilia, who was savoring the taste of the cherry tomato like that,

looked at her hand to eat another cherry tomato, but—

“Wow! It’s really delicious!”

“This is a cherry tomato?!”

they had already been taken by other elves.

“Cecilia, you fool! Why did you offer it?!”

When Cecilia, who could not forget the taste of the cherry tomato like that, was blaming herself for over a day,

[In a moment, the second competition of the harvest festival, the cherry tomato eating competition, will begin.]

[Participants who wish to participate in the competition, please gather in front of the high elf’s giant cherry tomato altar.]

the second competition of the harvest festival started.

“I won’t give it to anyone this time!”

Cecilia firmly resolved and participated in the competition.

***

The way down the tower.

“Puhuhut. Where do you think we should go to get the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower, meow?”

Theo asked his party. It was because they had already visited all the places they could go.

That was why he was asking the party where to go.

“Woohehe. Wouldn’t they tell us if we just go and ask any merchant we see passing by?”

At Theo’s question, Uren replied with a slightly dim-witted smile.

It was a face that naturally made people want to scam him.

At this point, wasn’t it Uren’s fault, not the scammer’s, meow?

Asking with that dim-witted face, while also having a massive amount of money… was it a physiognomy that made even ordinary people want to scam him?

While Theo was pondering the topic of ‘Whose fault is it that Uren gets scammed, meow?’,

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. I contacted the association and looked into it a bit, and they said the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower is at the Traveling Merchant Association, and the land deed for the 68th floor of the tower is held by the Lizard King, the king of the Lizardmen.”

Iona replied, opening her eyes.

He thought she was sleeping, but she had ordered the vice president to find out the location of the land deeds. The information power of the Mage Association was amazing.

“Meow?! Is that true, meow?! Iona, thank you, meow!”

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. I am happy to be of help to Lord Theo!”

“But where is the Lizard King, meow?”

Ppiyot! Ppiyot!

[I know! The Lizard King is on the 69th floor of the tower!]

As soon as something he knew came up, Ppiyot-i hurriedly raised his wings and replied.

“Puhuhut. Then we can stop by the 75th floor of the tower, and then go to the 69th floor of the tower, meow!”

Thanks to Iona’s information, Theo and his party headed straight to the 75th floor of the tower without wandering.

At that moment,

Ppiyot!

[Lord Theo, it’s a fork in the road!]

A fragment of Jormungand, summoned by Uren’s misfortune, appeared.

“Puhuhut. Uren, which way, meow?”

“Hmm… I want to go to the left.”

“Understood, meow!”

Hearing Uren’s answer, Theo swung his front paw toward the left road.

Then,

*Crack.*

The left road split into six parts. No, it was the fragment of Jormungand.

*Clink.*

Ppiyot!

Ppiyot-i quickly flew over and picked up the falling white coins.

After defeating the fragment of Jormungand and moving a little,

“Keh-keh-keh. What good luck. To meet three fresh ones here. I, Roku, the Mage of Life Absorption, will take your life force. Of course, your belongings too, I…”

A green goblin wearing a black robe appeared, but—

“I don’t like how you laugh, meow!”

*Thwack!*

he was hit on the back of his head by Theo and fainted.

Ppiyot!

[Stamp the print!]

*Stamp.*

In the meantime, Ppiyot-i took out a slave contract, received Roku’s handprint, and then ransacked his belongings.

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. Lord Theo, please hand Roku over to me. He is a guy wanted by our Mage Association. I will give you the bounty instead.”

“Puhuhut. Understood, meow! But how much is the bounty, meow?”

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. It’s 5 million Tower Coins.”

They obtained the bounty in addition.

Puhuhut. As expected, traveling with Uren brought a lot of gains, meow!

Theo smiled brightly and moved toward the 75th floor of the tower with a majestic stride.

A moment later.

When Theo and his party arrived at the president’s office of the Traveling Merchant Association,

“President Iona of the Mage Association, Great Merchant Uren, Diplomat Ppiyot-i of the Cobb Kingdom, and Lord Theo, welcome. Nice to meet you. Then, Lord Theo has passed the first stage of the Great Merchant promotion test.”

Mason, who greeted the party, said that Theo had passed the first stage of the Great Merchant promotion test.

“Meow?! What does that mean, meow?!”

Theo was flustered by Mason’s words. He was going to take the promotion test with Chairman Park, meow! He could not pass it now, meow!

“Didn’t you know? The first stage of the Great Merchant promotion test is to bring three reputable beings from the Black Tower to verify the Great Merchant’s network. I thought you all came together because Lord Uren told me in advance…”

“No, meow! This is canceled, meow! I, Vice President Theo, am not going to take the Great Merchant promotion test yet, meow!”

Theo, who wanted to pass the Great Merchant promotion test together with Se-jun, shouted.

“Ah… I understand. Then, if you are not going to take the Great Merchant promotion test, why are you here…?”

At Theo’s protest, Mason asked why he had come to see him.

“Puhuhut. President Mason, sell the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower to me, Vice President Theo, meow!”

“The land deed for the 75th floor of the tower? Just a moment.”

Mason ordered his subordinate to bring the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower.

But—

“Um… President…”

The subordinate came back empty-handed and reported to Mason in a whisper.

“Hmm. If only you had come a little sooner… I was told it was sold 10 minutes ago.”

It was already sold.

“Meow?! Who did you sell it to, meow?!”

“Well… I don’t know. In exchange for not asking their identity, they received five times the market price.”

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. Lord Theo, let’s go out quickly! If it was 10 minutes, they must still be nearby!”

“Understood, meow!”

Theo went outside like that.

Where was the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower, meow?

Theo stretched his two front paws forward and called the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower with an earnest heart. He, Vice President Theo, had the golden front paws, meow!

Then, a pull was felt.

But—

“Meow!”

The pulls were not just one or two. He would check them all, meow!

“I’m going, meow!”

Theo grabbed Ppiyot-i and Uren with his front paws and disappeared using Meow Step.

Theo moved quickly and checked the things that felt like a pull, but they were other items, not the land deed.

“Only one left now, meow!”

Thus, Theo moved toward the last pull.

And—

“Stop right there, meow!”

Theo called to stop the brown orc that felt like a pull.

“What is the matter…? No. Who is this?!”

The brown orc looked back at the voice calling him, spotted Uren, and smiled brightly.

“Baka?”

On the other hand, Uren’s expression was not good. It was natural.

Baka was a being who had run away after leaving Uren in a maze, after receiving a commission fee of 1.3 trillion to help Uren find treasure.

Thanks to that, he proudly occupied a spot on the 10th line of Uren’s blacklist.

He was planning to buy a quiet farm and live peacefully now, but was this a divine revelation to pull off one last big job?

Baka’s eyes shone as he looked at Uren.

“Uren, I’m sorry about that time. I got lost too back then…”

Baka hurriedly prepared the next scam.

“Huh?! You didn’t abandon me?!”

If Uren had been alone, it would have been a misfortune of being scammed, but the moment he was with Theo, Uren’s misfortune disappeared and returned as Theo’s good luck.

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. Lord Theo, that is Baka, the Client Killer who intentionally abandons clients in dangerous places and runs away! If you combine the Mercenary Association bounty of 15 million Tower Coins with other bounties, it exceeds 100 million Tower Coins!”

On top of that, thanks to Iona, who could know the association’s information in real time, they could even secure a hefty bounty.

“Puhuhut. Let’s stamp first and then talk, meow!”

Theo smiled and approached Baka, and—

*Puhuhut.*

Ppiyot-i took out a copy of the slave contract and prepared to stamp the print.

“Woohehehe.”

Uren also took out money from his chest, thinking of beating Baka.