Chapter 399 – Huhut. Am I Also a Super Insider Now

The president’s office of the Traveling Merchant Association headquarters on the 75th floor of the tower.

Mason of the Traveling Merchant Association was attending to the association’s business as usual.

At that moment,

*Knock. Knock.*

“President, Lord Theo Park has arrived.”

The subordinate announced Theo’s visit.

“Alright. Tell him to come in.”

At the subordinate’s report, Mason replied quickly and stood up from his seat.

Theo, who had refused to pass the stage 1 Great Merchant promotion test even after bringing the Mage of Great Destruction, Great Merchant Uren, and Diplomat Ppiyot-i of the Cobb Kingdom.

He was curious about what kind of amazing beings he had brought instead of them.

A moment later.

“Puhuhut. President Mason, I came to take the Great Merchant test, meow!”

Theo entered, bringing three reputable beings for the stage 1 Great Merchant promotion test.

But—

“Hmm…”

the two, excluding Iona, were beings he was seeing for the first time.

‘I should use that.’

There was no way there was a being he had not identified, but for a sure evaluation, Mason picked up a blue square panel on his desk anyway.

It was an item called the Fame Reader, which evaluated and revealed the reputation of everyone existing in the Black Tower.

“Detect Fame.”

Mason made Se-jun, Cuengi, and Iona enter within the square panel and activated the Fame Reader.

Then,

[Fame Score]

Park Se-jun: 3 points

Cuengi Park: 13 points

Iona: 91 points

The names and fame of the three appeared. He was not wrong. The fame of the two, excluding Iona, was actually terrible.

At least Cuengi had a two-digit fame score, perhaps due to his career of winning the food fight competition.

The cut-off for the promotion test was 70 points.

‘What is this?’

Mason did not understand why Theo had brought the two.

It seemed that because Great Merchant Uren and Diplomat Ppiyot-i of the Cobb Kingdom suddenly had busy business, he had no choice but to bring anyone.

‘He half should have just accepted it when I passed him last time.’

Unfortunately, a test is a test. The president must not be swayed by emotions.

After Mason looked at Theo pitifully,

“Failed.”

he failed him in the stage 1 Great Merchant promotion test.

As a few words were exchanged after failing Theo, the atmosphere of the president’s office turned into a mess.

‘Chairman Park is the chairman of me, Vice President Theo, and Cuengi is my younger brother, meow!’

“There’s no way the two of them have no fame, meow! President Mason is a fraud, meow!”

Enraged by the words ignoring Se-jun and Cuengi as having no fame, Theo made unreasonable demands.

“Iona-nim, please do something about Lord Theo Park…”

Mason tried to ask for help from Iona, Theo’s girlfriend, but—

*Kkyu-kkyut-kkyut-kkyut-kkyut—*

‘You ignored Se-jun-nim and made Theo-nim angry!!!’

Iona, who was supposed to calm things down, was even more furious.

“Iona-nim, calm down!”

Mason, who had never imagined in his life that he would witness the 5th stage of Kyu of Anger in person, screamed in terror.

At that moment,

“Guys, calm down.”

Se-jun stepped forward and calmed the two.

“Understood, meow!”

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. Yes!”

The two immediately quieted down at Se-jun’s words.

‘What?!’

Mason was astonished, looking at Se-jun who calmed Theo Park, the hottest golden cat in the Black Tower these days, and Iona, the Mage of Great Destruction, with a single word.

His mind that had looked down on Se-jun, who was at the very bottom in both fame and strength here, completely vanished.

The being in front of him was absolutely not an ordinary existence.

While Mason raised his evaluation of Se-jun significantly,

“Why did Theo fail?”

Se-jun, who did not even know the content of the stage 1 promotion test yet, asked Mason.

“That is…”

Mason, who met someone he could at least communicate with, hurriedly explained to Se-jun.

If he couldn’t convince Se-jun here, the Traveling Merchant Association might vanish today.

“So you mean that we have to bring three people who score 70 points on the Fame Reader to pass the test?”

“Yes!”

‘It is not my fault.’

‘I only stated the test result based on the score shown on the Fame Reader.’

At Se-jun’s words, Mason nodded his head vigorously and replied.

“Then can you show me the Fame Reader?”

“Of course!”

Mason hurriedly showed Se-jun the Fame Reader.

“Hmm…”

Se-jun’s expression stiffened after checking the score shown on the Fame Reader.

‘It’s too low, way too low!’

‘Aileen, the administrator of the Black Tower, and Lord Kaiser, Lord Kellion, Lord Ramter, and Lord Tier love my cooking so much!’

‘Moreover, my name has spread to dragons of other towers, and gods are asking me to build temples for them!’

‘And yet my fame is a mere 3 points?!’

‘And why is Cuengi’s fame higher than my fame? By as much as 10 points.’

Something was seriously wrong here.

At that moment,

*Kkuhehehe. Cuengi!*

[Hehehe. Cuengi’s fame is higher than Dad’s!]

Cuengi, who climbed up Se-jun’s body, stood on Se-jun’s shoulder and laughed while looking at the Fame Reader.

Se-jun’s expression stiffened even more.

“Chairman Park, your face looks rotten, meow!”

Theo hurriedly massaged Se-jun’s face with his front paws.

Thanks to that, Se-jun’s mood improved slightly.

“Aileen, please look into this.”

He sent the Fame Reader to Aileen. No matter how much he thought about it, the item seemed to be broken.

Cuengi! Cuengi!

[Cuengi won the food fighter competition! Cuengi is famous!]

In the meantime, Cuengi also realized that his fame was excessively low and grabbed Mason’s collar, shaking him.

“Ugh… calm down! Shaking me like this doesn’t make your fame rise!”

‘Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut. Mason-nim, how can the president representing traveling merchants be so lacking in a discerning eye?’

Iona looked at such Mason pitifully. It was all his own doing.

***

The administrator area of the Black Tower.

“Huh? What is this?”

Aileen tilted her head, examining the Fame Reader she received from Se-jun.

But—

“How dare they give our Se-jun 3 points?!!!”

She soon grew furious upon looking at the Fame Reader’s panel.

“But why is our Se-jun’s fame low?”

Aileen spoke with a look of incomprehension.

These days, Se-jun was as hot as an idol among the dragons.

Seeing how more than half of the great dragons who had no contact with each other knew or had heard of Se-jun’s name, one could tell how famous he was.

Such Se-jun’s fame score was 3 points?

“Is it broken?”

Aileen also thought that the Fame Reader was broken just like Se-jun, and inspected it corner to corner, but there was no error.

At that moment,

-Puhahaha. Aileen, Grandfather is here!

Kaiser, who returned from the Red Tower, controlled the black dragon statue to inform Aileen of his return.

“Ah! Grandfather!”

-Yeah! My granddaughter missed her grandfather…

When Kaiser spoke in a touched voice, looking at Aileen who welcomed him,

“Grandfather, why is our Se-jun’s fame like this?!”

Aileen showed Kaiser the Fame Reader.

And—

-Huh? Se-jun’s fame? What?! Why is our Se-jun’s fame 3 points?!

Checking Se-jun’s fame, Kaiser sobered up instantly.

“Exactly. Strange, isn’t it?”

-Indeed. There is no way it could be like this…

‘No matter how insignificant our Se-jun is, he is recognized by none other than us, the great dragons. 3 points is too harsh.’

Kaiser fell into thought.

At that moment,

-Ah!

Kaiser realized that in the past, he had blocked external information entering the Black Tower to hide Aileen’s identity.

-Aileen, check the external information link.

“The external information link?”

At Kaiser’s words, Aileen hurriedly picked up the crystal ball and searched for the external information link.

[External Information Link: Blocked]

“Grandfather, the external information link is set to blocked.”

-Indeed… change that to connected.

“Yes!”

Aileen injected mana into the crystal ball and changed the external information link to the ‘connected’ state.

Then,

*Hum.*

[External information is updated in the Black Tower.]

[Since the external link has been closed for a long time, there is a large amount of information to update.]

[It takes 30 days until the update is complete.]

Alarms appeared on the crystal ball.

“Prioritize updating only the information regarding the Black Tower farmer Park Se-jun.”

[Information regarding the Black Tower farmer Park Se-jun is prioritized for updating.]

[It takes 3 minutes and 30 seconds until the update is complete.]

Silence.

[The update of information regarding the Black Tower farmer Park Se-jun has been completed.]

An alarm appeared on the crystal ball.

“Oh. It’s done!”

Aileen hurriedly checked the Fame Reader.

“Hehehe. Now Se-jun’s fame is the highest. Se-jun, it seems there was a problem with the administrator settings. Check it again!”

Aileen, who resolved the problem, sent the Fame Reader back to Se-jun.

***

The Seed Shop headquarters.

[6 mushroom ants, tenant farmers of the Black Tower farmer Park Se-jun, passed by your temple.]

[Divine Power increases by 0.0006.]

“The mushroom ants are diligent today too.”

At the divine power entering her body, Rhea, the Goddess of Abundance, wore a pleased smile and injected part of the divine power she had gathered so far into the golden box.

Rhea was creating a new divine tool to give to Se-jun.

‘Hmph. If I give this to Se-jun later, he will make my temple even bigger, right?’

Rhea laughed pleasantly thinking of the time she would meet Se-jun, and headed outside.

Now she had to care for the gods who were uncomfortable because they lacked divine power.

As Rhea came out of her residence like that,

“Wow!”

the cheers of the gods were heard.

“What is this?”

When Rhea went to the place where the sound came from, almost all non-combat gods were gathered closely there.

“Oh! Just now, as many as 4 mushroom ants passed by my temple!”

“Waaa!”

Other gods cheered at the words of Peblos, the God of Gravel, who shone a bright light having obtained divine power.

“Everyone, take this.”

Peblos handed part of the divine power he received to the gods who looked pale.

“Thank you.”

The complexions of the gods who received divine power improved slightly.

“Oh! Mushroom ants passed by me just now, too!”

In the meantime, the body of Sants, the God of Sand, shone, and

“Waaa!”

the gods cheered again.

And—

“Take this.”

Sants also handed part of the divine power he obtained to the gods whose complexions were not good.

Until now, Rhea had cared for the gods lacking divine power almost alone, but now other gods who received temples from Se-jun were doing that work together.

“As expected of Park Se-jun. Park Se-jun! Park Se-jun!”

When Rhea chanted Se-jun’s name, walking toward the place where the gods were gathered,

“Park Se-jun!”

“Park Se-jun!”

the gathered gods began to shout Se-jun’s name.

While the non-combat gods were strengthening their unity by shouting Se-jun’s name like that,

“Why is it so noisy!”

a combat god in the next building shouted loudly.

Normally they would have shut their mouths immediately, but

‘Now we can self-suffice divine power, too!’

they were not their old selves.

“Park Se-jun…”

“Park Se-jun…”

In small voices that could barely be heard, the non-combat gods kept chanting Se-jun’s name.

***

Cuengi! Cuengi!

[Cuengi’s dad is Park Se-jun, and mom is Pink Fur! Cuengi’s master is the Bull Demon King, but why is Cuengi not famous!]

“Ugh…”

Mason was being shaken and thoroughly rattled by the collar by Cuengi for several minutes.

[The administrator of the tower states that there was a problem with the Black Tower administrator settings.]

[The administrator of the tower tells you to check the Fame Reader again.]

“Yeah. Thank you, Aileen.”

In the meantime, Se-jun was checking the Fame Reader sent by Aileen again.

“Hehehe. As expected, it was wrong.”

Se-jun smiled pleasedly, looking at his fame.

“Cuengi, just a moment. Here. Look. Now it’s a pass for the test, right?”

Se-jun stopped Cuengi, who was grabbing and shaking Mason’s collar, and showed the Fame Reader to Mason.

[Fame Score]

Park Se-jun: 553 points

Cuengi Park: 113 points

Iona: 131 points

Cuengi’s and Iona’s fame scores also rose together because of their relationship with Se-jun.

“Huh?! Three digits?!”

Mason was shocked at the three-digit fame score he was seeing for the first time.

The highest fame score one could receive in the Black Tower was 100 points. However, he had never seen 100 points.

And yet… as many as three had fame scores exceeding 100 points.

On top of that, the highest score is 553 points?!

While Mason was shocked,

Park Se-jun: 554 points

Se-jun’s fame rose by 1 more point.

Thanks to the gods shouting Se-jun’s name. Se-jun’s fame was continuing to rise.

Hmph. Was he also a super insider now?

Se-jun looked at Mason with a proud expression.