Chapter 417 – Puhuhut. It’s a Wonderful Transformation Show, Meow!

My name was No. 13-2279. As soon as I was born, I was kidnapped by Copy, the Replicator and became an experimental subject.

Copy was a mad mage who was fanatically obsessed with transforming into other shapes. To the point where he did not hesitate to conduct human experiments for it.

At first, the friends who were full around me disappeared one by one before I knew it.

It was only later that I realized the ’13-‘ attached to the front of the name was the trace of 10,000 test subjects disappearing 12 times.

As the experiments went on like that, the friends disappeared, and I was left alone. Unfortunately.

When only I was left like that,

“From now on, your name is Kka-bi.”

I received a new name from Copy, the Replicator and was forced to become his disciple.

But although he was called a disciple, he was an experimental subject until the very end.

Then one day.

“Drink this.”

The master handed over a thick silver liquid. Lacking the courage to defy the master’s command, I drank the liquid and lost consciousness.

Afterward, when I regained consciousness, the surroundings were completely devastated.

I waited for the master for several days at the place where I regained consciousness, but the master did not appear.

Was it finally freedom… the freedom I had dreamed of so desperately all this time.

Just when I thought I had escaped from the master,

Wiggle.

My body began to transform into a completely different form. Perhaps I had wanted too much freedom.

Since I had become free even from my body.

My second transformation, and the first transformation I remember, was a gray wolf. Because I was not used to walking on four legs, it took me several days to take my first steps.

And when I barely got used to running at last,

Wiggle.

I transformed again.

After that, sometimes I transformed into an Orc, a goblin, a man, a woman, a child, an elderly person, an animal, or an insect.

At least up to animals, my consciousness remained, but when I transformed into an insect, I didn’t even have consciousness.

Then, when I woke up after transforming into another appearance, I fell into self-deprecation, recalling the memories of when I was an insect.

Moreover, there were hundreds of times I went through crises where I almost died after transforming into a weak existence.

Fortunately, even if my arm was cut off or I bled a lot, as long as I transformed, my body returned to a normal state and I could live.

Even if I wanted to settle down in a village and become safe, I could not stay. Because my appearance kept changing.

I could not control the transformation ability.

In fact, there was a time when my appearance changed while I was with everyone, so I was attacked and barely escaped.

Realizing that I could not live like this, I had no choice but to risk danger and return to my master’s laboratory.

I was afraid of meeting the master, but the world was even scarier.

Fortunately, the master was not in the laboratory. Perhaps because he had not visited for a long time, the inside of the laboratory was covered in thick dust.

I felt relieved and studied the master’s research materials, looking for a way to control the transformation ability.

And while studying the research materials, I realized what the master had done to me.

The strongest creature.

He had experimented on me to transform me into a great dragon.

It was a crazy idea.

Naturally, it was impossible for me to become a great dragon, and as a side effect of that, I ended up in a state where I even lost my original appearance.

Afterward, I remembered.

That during my first transformation, I had transformed into a Black Minotaur and finished off Copy, the Replicator.

Based on Copy’s research materials, I continued my research and completed two potion recipes.

[Transformation Suppression Potion]

[Transformation Promotion Potion]

One was a potion used when wanting to maintain the appearance, and the other was used when wanting to change the appearance.

Upon completing the recipes, I went outside to obtain the ingredients for the potions.

However, since most of the ingredients for making the potions were extremely expensive and I had no way to make money, I utilized my characteristic of changing appearance and became a thief.

Because my appearance changed, no matter what traces were left behind, as long as I was not caught, no one could track me.

Starting from petty theft like that, as I built up my skills and gradually increased the scale of my theft,

Before I knew it, instead of the name Kka-bi, a new name, the Faceless Great Thief Rune, was attached to me.

And returning to a short while ago…

Beep!

“Ugh…”

The Faceless Thief Rune tossed and turned in bed at the alarm magic announcing intruders.

To think there were intruders when he had transformed into a flying squirrel with weak combat power, of all times…

Although he wondered how they had found his hideout, he was not too worried.

Because there were traps in which he had invested heavily just in case.

So without worrying, he covered himself with the blanket again and fell asleep, but…

Clatter…

He opened his eyes at the sound of something breaking.

“What is it…?”

Rune hurriedly got up and activated the video magic stone through which he could view the laboratory.

Then,

…?!

He saw the intruders who had entered the laboratory before he knew it, and all the reagents displayed on one side of the wall completely shattered.

Just how much was all that?!

While Rune was furious that his efforts and money had become useless,

“Huh?”

He saw a small brown bear producing a blindingly white light in its front paw.

No!

If a fire broke out, my research materials…

In particular, the recipe for the potion to return to his original appearance, the lifelong masterpiece he had finally completed yesterday, was placed right in front of that bear.

Therefore, he quickly packed the Transformation Suppression Potions and the Transformation Promotion Potions and left the residence.

***

“Is that the Faceless Great Thief Rune?”

Se-jun was flustered as he looked at the flying squirrel flying with its limbs wide open.

A tiny kid like that was a great thief?

Se-jun almost let his guard down at the small and cute appearance, but

‘No! Iona is also small and cute, yet she is the Mage of Great Destruction!’

Recalling Iona, he raised his alertness.

At that moment,

“Huh?”

Rune, who was flying in the air, clung to the wall, reached into the vest he was wearing, pulled out a potion, and drank it.

Then,

Wiggle.

Rune’s body turned into something like silver dough and instantly transformed into a frog.

Subsequently, he drank the potion and transformed into a raccoon this time, and then again into a sloth.

As if he was particularly out of luck today, he failed to transform into a race suitable for combat.

‘This is bad!’

While Rune was anxious,

“Wow. Incredible!”

“Puhuhut. It’s a wonderful transformation show, meow!”

Cuengi! Cuengi!

[It’s amazing, yo! His appearance keeps changing, yo!]

Ppiyot!

[So that is why he is called the Faceless Great Thief Rune!]

“Wow…”

Se-jun and his companions fell deeply into Rune’s transformation show.

Thus, Rune, who had been transforming while drinking the Transformation Promotion Potion almost more than ten times.

Finally.

When a strong entity finally came out,

Thud.

He landed in front of Se-jun’s companions.

[Blue Phoenix]

Unlike the phoenix that controls fire, this phoenix controls ice.

Since he did not know which race he would transform into, studying other races was essential for Rune.

Crackle.

Rune tried to freeze all of the surroundings so that his research materials and reagents would not be damaged. The intruders as well.

At that moment,

“Ugh.”

He felt a sting in his buttocks… no, his tail.

As Rune quickly turned around,

Pluck.

Pluck.

“Puhuhut. It would be great to make Chairman Park’s farming tools and Iona’s staff with this, meow!”

Theo was plucking Rune’s tail feathers.

“Eek! I will freeze you all!”

As the enraged Rune tried to conjure cold air,

“Ack!”

Cuengi!

[If our papa is cold, he will catch a cold, yo!]

Cuengi, who had transformed into a giant before anyone knew it, grabbed Rune’s neck tightly with his front paw.

Pluck.

Pluck.

Thanks to that, Rune was reduced to a state where his tail feathers were being plucked while his collar was grabbed.

He quickly pulled out a Transformation Promotion Potion from his chest and drank it.

Wiggle.

Cuengi?! Cuengi!

[Huh?! He is escaping, yo!]

Cuengi tried to catch the transforming Rune, but Rune slipped out of Cuengi’s grasp like a loach and transformed into a water deer.

And Rune, who was transforming several more times again.

Cuengi!

[He is transforming again, yo!]

Cuengi, Ppiyot, and Yuren fell back into the transformation show viewing mode, and

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, take this, meow!”

Theo brought 7 tail feathers of the Blue Phoenix to Se-jun.

“Oh. This is cool.”

Se-jun examined the blue feather he received.

[Blue Phoenix Tail Feather]

This is the tail feather of the Blue Phoenix that lives eternally, and it is a very excellent material containing strong cold energy.

If you make equipment using this feather, there is a high probability that legendary-grade equipment will be born.

If you make a weapon using this feather, you can make an ice-attribute weapon; if you make a staff, you can make a staff that amplifies ice-attribute attacks by 2 times; if you make a farming tool, you can make a farming tool that increases the shelf life of crops by 10%.

Grade: SSS

“Good job, Vice President Theo.”

“Puhuhut. Of course, meow! I, Vice President Theo, always do well, meow!”

“Hehehe. Right.”

Although he knew an annoying response would come out, Se-jun could not help but praise him.

Making a hand hoe that increases the growth speed of crops by 5% with the Phoenix’s tail feather.

And making a sickle that increases the shelf life of crops by 10% with the Blue Phoenix’s tail feather would produce the best synergy.

At that moment,

Meem. Meem.

Cuengi?

[Is the transformation over, yo?]

Rune transformed into a cicada and lost consciousness.

Meem. Meem.

“Capture him alive for now.”

Ppiyot! Ppiyot!

[Yes! I will catch him!]

After Ppiyot caught Rune, who had turned into a cicada, with her beak,

Press.

She stamped the cicada’s leg print on the slave contract.

However,

Ppiyot?

[Theo-nim, did it work?]

“It didn’t work, meow!”

It seemed that because it was not a handprint of his original form, the slave contract could not be made.

“For now, this place… let’s tell Iona the location later and go back.”

“Understood, meow!”

Se-jun captured the Faceless Great Thief Rune and returned to the 99th floor of the tower with his companions.

***

The 12th floor of the Golden Tower.

Rumble!

A plain where hundreds of lightning bolts struck down from the sky to the ground.

Rattle, rattle.

A golden cart slowly moved.

Boom!

Rumble!

Although lightning struck several times during movement, the cart moved without any issues.

“What is that?”

“Should we attack first?”

The elves, who were hiding in a cave and guarding the outside, murmured while looking at the suspicious cart.

At that moment,

Rattle, rattle.

The cart changed direction and began to move toward the cave where they were.

“What is it?”

“What should we do?”

“Inform Elder Roiba first!”

While the elves were moving busily like that,

Thud.

The cart stopped in front of their cave.

“Draw your bows.”

At Elder Roiba’s words, the elves notched wooden arrows with sharp stone heads on their bows and aimed at the cart.

However,

……

The cart did not move in the slightest.

“Group 1, approach.”

“Yes.”

At Roiba’s command, five elves, looking alternately at the sky and the cart, moved under the trees and cautiously approached the cart.

They did not know when lightning might strike down toward them.

As Group 1 drew close like that,

Hum.

The cart began to emit a golden color, then created a giant golden barrier with a radius of 500 meters,

Rumble!

The barrier perfectly blocked the lightning striking nearby.

And,

Clack.

As the side of the cart opened,

[Sale List]

1 Cherry Tomato of Mana – 2 Tower Coins (Remaining Quantity: 10,000)

1 Honey Sweet Potato of Strength – 10 Tower Coins (Remaining Quantity: 10,000)

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..

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[Purchase List]

Land Deed for the 35th Floor of the Golden Tower – 1,000,000 Tower Coins (1 unit)

– If you sell items, we will evaluate the price and purchase them. (4 types of remaining items)

The shop window appeared.

“Huh?”

“Yes?”

Because the elves had good eyes, not only the Group 1 elves but also the other elves could see the shop window,

“I will go first!”

Elder Roiba approached the cart as a representative.

10 minutes later.

“Ahem… It seems we can use it.”

Roiba, who had been eating continuously, excited by the taste of the Cherry Tomato of Mana, barely calmed his excitement and spoke to the elves,

“Wow!”

“Let’s eat quickly!”

The elves also approached the cart and bought Se-jun’s crops.

After a while,

Clack.

Once the transaction was finished, the side of the cart closed.

“Good bye!”

“Come again next time!”

Rattle, rattle.

Leaving behind the elves who had their arms filled with Se-jun’s crops, the golden cart began to wander the Golden Tower again in search of new customers.