Chapter 422 – Our Sausage Is Working Hard

Texas, USA.

Kee-eeek!

Currently, more than half of Texas was occupied by the Flesh Devourers.

The movement of the Flesh Devourers changed strangely two days ago.

The Flesh Devourers, which were trying to cross the Mexican border, suddenly changed direction and began to attack the cities of Texas again,

And around the same time, the giant leeches scattered all over the world gathered in Texas.

It was because of Michael, who received the control of the calamity from Halphas.

Michael moved the giant leeches to attack the feed factories where he had placed orders for growth promoters, and sent half of them to Texas.

And the Flesh Devourers, which absorbed the growth promoters transported by the giant leeches, were increasing explosively.

The White House, USA.

“As you can see from the video, the growth of the Flesh Devourers has rapidly accelerated, and their numbers are increasing quickly.”

The Army Chief of Staff reported while showing a real-time satellite video to the President. In the video, the Flesh Devourers covering the ground were abundant.

“How much faster has it become?”

“Originally, it took 15 days to grow into adults, but according to experts’ opinions, at the current speed, they will grow into adults in just 3 days.”

“Then it has become almost 5 times faster…?”

“Yes. And an additional report on mutant entities has come in.”

“Mutant entities?”

When the President showed a puzzled expression,

“Yes. It is the entity reported during the last Houston evacuation operation.”

The Secretary of Defense quickly showed a monster with a cherry tomato head and human-like limbs on a tablet.

“Ah… I remember. Continue explaining.”

“Yes. Then I will continue explaining. We found out where these mutant entities are reproduced.”

“Reproduced? Not growing?”

Until now, the Flesh Devourers were grown from seeds. It did not match the word reproduction.

“Yes. Look at this.”

The Army Chief of Staff showed another video.

A video playing fast at 20x speed.

In the video, there was a Flesh Devourer much larger than other entities. Almost 30 meters in size.

As time passed, the cherry tomato head split and bloomed wide, becoming a giant flower.

And something was seen crawling out from the mouth in the center of the flower.

“So they are mutant entities…”

“Yes. Those mutant entities are hunting and supplying nutrients to the mother body.”

“Are there many of those?”

“According to current analysis, one such mother body is analyzed to appear per approximately 1 million Flesh Devourers.”

“Hmm… it is already difficult with just the Flesh Devourers… even things like that…”

The President’s face, who received the report, darkened further.

“So what is the operation? How are we going to deal with those guys?”

“Mr. President, I request permission to use nuclear missiles.”

The Secretary of Defense spoke at the President’s question.

Since they suffered damage from high-temperature heat at least, a nuclear missile could destroy a large number.

“Nuclear missiles?! Even so…”

The President hesitated at the word nuclear. It was natural. It was right to hesitate.

To shoot a nuke, and on the US mainland at that…

Even with a certain reason and justification, it was a matter to contemplate.

“If we stop the Flesh Devourers with hunters and the military, the damage will be too great. Moreover, looking at their location, they are gradually moving eastward.”

Since Texas was already mostly devastated by the Flesh Devourers, there wouldn’t be much additional damage even if nuclear missiles were used.

As time passed, the number of Flesh Devourers would increase, and the damage would grow.

The Secretary of Defense persuaded the President, diligently speaking of the reasons and justifications for using nuclear missiles.

“Whew. Fine. I permit it. But the evacuation of the people living in Texas must be completed first.”

The President, who had been contemplating for a long time, spoke.

“Yes. Of course. We will complete the evacuation of all citizens in Texas within 100 hours!”

As the President’s permission fell, the US military immediately began the evacuation operation for the citizens of Texas.

100 hours left until the launch of the nuclear missiles.

“Kukuku. So this is Korea.”

Michael had arrived at Gimpo Airport on his private jet to destroy the safe zone in Korea.

With the cargo hold fully loaded with Flesh Devourer seeds.

The only place on Earth with a safe zone. To surely conquer the Earth, destroying the safe zone was the priority.

“Chairman, then we will move the cargo to the location you specified.”

“Yes.”

For this task, he called half of the giant leeches on Earth to the East Sea.

The moment the safe zone disappeared, the giant leeches would enter Korea and supply growth promoters to the Flesh Devourer seeds.

“Kukuku. Then this small country will collapse in no time.”

And they would immediately enter the continent to collapse China.

Once the US and China, which had the greatest power on Earth, collapsed like that, it would naturally become very easy afterwards.

After a while.

“It’s here.”

Step.

Arriving at the Black Tower at the outermost edge of the safe zone in Seoul, Michael placed his hand on the tower.

And,

“Disappear.”

As he injected the power of ruin into the tower, the Black Tower began to disappear.

***

The 75th floor of the Black Tower.

“Good. Then I will manage the Faceless Great Thief Rune from now on!”

“Yes. We will keep in mind that the compensation for damages to be paid by the Faceless Great Thief Rune will be paid by the Mage Association from now on.”

“Yes!”

Iona obtained the agreement of Mason, the President of the Traveling Merchant Association, and Hannibal, the President of the Free Mercenary Association.

‘Kyut-kyut-kyut. Now my work will decrease!’

Imagining Rune, who would write reports diligently instead of her, Iona headed to the 99th floor of the tower with energetic steps.

Thus arriving at the 99th floor of the tower, the members of the 99th floor of the tower were the same as usual.

Theo was nodding off while sitting on Se-jun’s knees. Cuengi and Kkamang-i were sleeping with their rumps stuck to Se-jun’s buttocks. And…

Kyut?! A hamster?

A brown hamster, holding a branch in one hand and diligently receiving and eating peanuts given by Se-jun, was visible to Iona’s eyes.

“Kyu—kyu—kyu—kyu—kyu—”

‘How dare you… my Theo Park-nim!!!’

Iona approached Blackster while raising her mana.

***

‘To think my name is Blackster…’

Blackster fell into self-deprecation after receiving a new name from Se-jun.

Crunch. Crunch.

“It’s delicious.”

Still, eating these things called peanuts made his mood improve slightly.

At that moment,

“Huh?”

Blackster suddenly shivered at the ferocious killing intent sweeping over him.

‘What is it?’

‘Scary!’

Blackster quickly stuffed the peanuts into his mouth, dug the ground under Se-jun’s legs, and hid his body. A swift movement worthy of a great thief.

Who was it?

From under Se-jun’s legs, Blackster poked his head out and searched for the entity that sent killing intent to him.

Then,

“Kyu—kyu—kyu—kyu—kyu—”

He saw a pure white hamster approaching him while emitting a sinister energy.

‘Iona, the Mage of Great Destruction?! But there was also a level 5 Kyu of Anger?!’

‘Why is she doing this to me?’

While Blackster trembled in fear upon recognizing Iona,

“Puhuhut. Has Iona come, meow?!”

Theo, who was dozing off, got up and welcomed Iona.

“Kyu—kyu—kyu—yes! But Theo-nim, who is that hamster?!”

Iona, whose anger decreased significantly just by Theo calling her name, asked in an angry voice.

“Ah. This is Blackster. A male, by the way.”

Se-jun, who grasped the reason why Iona was angry, quickly cleared up the misunderstanding.

While he couldn’t manage his own love life, Se-jun showed excellent quick-wittedness in times like this.

“Kyut-kyut-kyut. I see.”

He is a male.

Iona smiled brightly at Se-jun’s words and dug into Theo’s tail.

And,

“Se-jun-nim, here is the bounty for the Faceless Great Thief Rune.”

Iona handed the bounty she brought over to Se-jun.

“Hehehe. Thank you. By the way, how much is the bounty?”

Se-jun asked while receiving the pouch containing the bounty with a bright face.

“It is 750 billion Tower Coins.”

“That is indeed a lot.”

“Yes. Because he stole really a lot. Se-jun-nim, I want to hire Rune. I don’t know if you know, but the Faceless Great Thief Rune…”

Originally, Rune had to pay the compensation for damages and rot in prison for 100 years.

However, she diligently explained that if she hired Rune, he could pay off the damages by working, and the other associations also agreed to let it pass.

“Sure. Do that. Even without that, I was thinking of sending him to Iona to learn magic.”

“Really?! I will teach him well!”

Since she was thinking of directly educating Rune for a few months to build his magic skills if she took him, Iona’s face brightened upon hearing Se-jun’s answer.

“Blackster, follow Iona and learn a lot. Got it?”

“Yes! I will work hard!”

Perhaps because it was in front of Iona, Blackster answered in a very tense voice.

“Yes?! Blackster?”

She had said she wanted to hire Rune, but suddenly Blackster?

When Iona was puzzled,

“Rune is Blackster, meow! It is the new name for Rune that Chairman Park built, meow!”

Theo explained Rune’s situation to Iona.

“Kyut-kyut-kyut. I see! It is a cool name!”

Iona praised Se-jun’s naming skills, and

‘Hang in there.’

Looked at her compatriot, a victim of the Se-jun Naming Center, with a sympathetic expression.

“Then leave Blackster to me! I will teach him well!”

“I will be back!”

Thus, Blackster, who held the World Tree branch tightly, greeted Se-jun and left with Iona,

“I should work now.”

Se-jun approached the sausage tree.

Although he harvested sausages two days ago, sausages were already hanging in clusters.

“Our Sausage is working hard.”

Se-jun praised while stroking the branches of Sausage, and began to harvest the sausages.

[You have harvested a sausage.]

…

..

.

While he was harvesting sausages diligently like that,

“Huh?!”

Instead of a cluster of sausages, a long and thick giant sausage emitting a soft light was visible to Se-jun’s eyes.

“It’s a giant sausage!”

Se-jun quickly harvested the sausage. Naturally, he thought it was a new variety.

However,

[You have harvested the Divine Tool: Giant Sausage Staff.]

[Job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 8 increases slightly.]

[You have acquired 100,000 experience points.]

“Huh? A divine tool?”

This is a staff?

Sniff, sniff.

The smell matches a sausage too, though?

While Se-jun was smelling the sausage held in his hand,

[You have achieved the achievement of harvesting a divine tool.]

[As an achievement reward, the expiration date of the divine tool is doubled.]

“Huh?”

Does a divine tool have an expiration date too?

Se-jun examined the options of the Giant Sausage Staff.

[Giant Sausage Staff]

All sausages are governed by the sausage tool sent by Vienna, the God of Sausage. (Wait, let’s make sure: . -> This is a divine tool sent by Vienna, the God of Sausage, who governs all sausages.)

Although it smells heavily of sausage since it is made of sausage, it is hard and flexible.

When Vienna was hungry during battle, he tore off and ate pieces of the Giant Sausage Staff to fill his stomach.

Upon consumption, all stats increase by 20.

Expiration Date: 60 days

Use Limit: Strength 1,000 or higher, Agility 1,000 or higher

Creator: Vienna, the God of Sausage

Grade: S

“They say Vienna, the God of Sausage, sent it?”

Is there a god like this too?

Although he was slightly puzzled,

“Thank you, Vienna-nim.”

Se-jun was grateful to Vienna who sent him the divine tool, and created a 1 pyeong Vienna Road.

While Se-jun was creating the Vienna Road like that,

Hum.

“Huh?!”

Aileen checked the vibrating crystal ball.

[You have additionally acquired a divine tool.]

[It is a single-use divine tool.]

[Reduces the time required for the growth conditions of the Black Great Tower by 200 days.]

“As expected of our Se-jun!”

He did something again!

While Aileen was rejoicing,

[The growth of the Black Great Tower has been completed.]

[The functions of the Black Great Tower are activated.]

[It takes 3 days for the task to include Earth, which is the dimension currently managed by the Black Great Tower, into the management territory.]

[After 3 days, Earth will be temporarily incorporated as the 0th floor of the Black Great Tower.]

A black film began to cover the Earth.