Chapter 433 – Follow the Great Kkamang-i!

The outskirts of destruction.

“Eeek! What on earth is Fenril doing inside the Black Tower?!”

Halphas raged as he looked at the Great Great Tower, which had slightly increased in height after being upgraded from the Black Tower.

Although there was no big difference in appearance, the energy had become several times stronger.

At that moment, one of the spheres nearby, which had been stained red with destruction up to half, quickly turned transparent.

“Huh?!”

Halphas turned his head and checked the sphere.

“This is the place where Fenril personally took control of destruction.”

‘Fenril, you incompetent fool! To not even be able to destroy such a small world and instead get pushed back!’

It seemed he had overestimated Fenril’s ability too much due to the memory of being miserably defeated by Fenril in the past.

Now, he could no longer wait for Fenril!

“Everyone, gather!”

Halphas summoned the other Apostles of Destruction.

And,

“Send shards to the Black Tower and find Fenril!”

He had the Apostles of Destruction bring Fenril.

“And if Fenril has lost his strength, you may annihilate him and absorb his core pieces.”

“Yes!”

At Halphas’ words, the Apostles of Destruction competed to send shards to the Black Great Tower.

***

[You have arrived at the 99th floor of the Black Great Tower.]

“When returning, I return to the 99th floor of the tower.”

Se-jun said as he looked around the surroundings. Se-jun was in the center of the waypoint.

Thinking about it, it was fortunate.

If he hadn’t worn the Grapevine Bracelet of Sealing and had gone to the 1st floor of the tower with the kids not inside the sub-space warehouse, it would have been a disaster.

“Aileen, I’m back.”

Se-jun reported his return to Aileen immediately.

[The Tower Administrator asks if you spent a pleasant time with your family.]

“Yeah! It was very pleasant. Aileen, this is food brought from Earth, try it.”

Se-jun took out delivery foods such as chicken, pizza, and tteokbokki from the sub-space warehouse and sent them to Aileen.

[The Tower Administrator says she will enjoy the food.]

“Tell me if you need more. I’ll give you more. By the way, Aileen, I heard you are learning cooking from my mom lately? Is it not difficult?”

Se-jun, who was trying to tell her not to cook by seizing the opportunity.

‘Say it’s difficult! Say it’s hard! Please let me do the cooking!’

Although Se-jun prayed hard in his heart,

[The Tower Administrator says it is not hard at all.]

[The Tower Administrator says it is extremely fun.]

Se-jun’s prayers did not work.

[The Tower Administrator says she has actually made food for you.]

“Huh?”

Rather, betraying Se-jun’s prayers, a trial approached.

[The Tower Administrator says she has made 100 fried eggs.]

‘As many as 100?!’

A giant trial.

A plate stacked with 100 fried eggs appeared in front of Se-jun.

And,

‘Phew. Thank goodness.’

Se-jun, who had expected fried eggs that were completely burnt like coal, was greatly relieved upon seeing the undercooked fried eggs.

Although it was a level of cooking that would normally be called a failure,

‘Aileen didn’t burn the food?! Our Aileen must have really worked hard.’

Perhaps because he had expected the worst, Se-jun was highly satisfied with Aileen’s cooking.

‘It’s better that the fire was weak.’

If he thought of it as a soft-boiled fried egg, it was fully edible.

At that moment,

[The Tower Administrator says in a tense voice to hurry up and try it.]

Aileen, anxious about whether her cooking would be okay, urged Se-jun to try the fried eggs.

“Yeah.”

Se-jun picked up a whole soft-boiled egg and put it in his mouth.

Although it was slightly fishy since it was a soft-boiled fried egg,

Hehehe. It’s edible.

The corners of Se-jun’s mouth curled up in joy that he didn’t have to eat coal fried eggs.

‘Kkihit. Se-jun smiled while eating my food! It must be really delicious!’

Thanks to that, Aileen’s cooking confidence rose significantly, and

‘Mother is the best! I must learn even more diligently!’

Aileen thought she should learn cooking from Kim Mi-ran even more diligently.

Gulp.

Unaware that he had ignited Aileen’s cooking enthusiasm like that, when Se-jun swallowed the fried egg,

Bbyak!

[Uncle, I’ll go down now!]

The Black Rabbit prepared to leave. He had thought he would leave a bit later, but it seemed he missed Pyupyu since he hadn’t seen her for a few days.

“Take this with you.”

Se-jun packed Earth food for the Black Rabbit.

“Goodbye, meow!”

Kkueng!

[Goodbye, second brother, yo!]

Kking!

[I will grant you permission to spread the rumor that you ate with the Great Kkamang-i!]

Once the seeing-off of the Black Rabbit ended,

“Toryong-i.”

Se-jun called Toryong-i and headed home, and

“I’m back.”

immediately upon arrival, he visited the dragons to let them know he had returned.

-Kuhahaha. Did our Se-jun return safely?

“Yes.”

-Euhahaha. And were our presents delivered successfully?

“Yes…”

‘Since Kkamang-i, who went after selling the gems, brought joy to my parents with his cuteness, they must have been delivered. They must have been.’

Kkirorong.

‘Are you sleepy right now?!’

Se-jun glared slightly at Cuengi sleeping in the sling bag.

“This is what I brought from Earth.”

Se-jun also distributed the Earth food to the four family heads.

And,

“Finally home!”

He threw his body onto the bed after entering the house, and

Keu-eoh-eoh.

fell asleep.

***

The next morning.

“Ugh. I slept well.”

Se-jun stretched and opened his eyes.

And,

[The seal of the Earth Gem has been released.]

[Saffy, the God of Sapphire who was sealed in the Earth Gem, was released from the seal.]

[Saffy, the God of Sapphire, repaid the favor to the target who released his seal.]

[Saffy, the God of Sapphire, repaid the favor by creating a sapphire road on 1 pyeong of land.]

[Stored 10% of your vitality while sleeping.]

[The Orb of Life was 9.22% complete.]

0.1 mana accumulated over 24 hours.

[Mana increased by 0.1.]

‘Sapphire?’

After checking the message,

Purr.

Kkirorong.

he tended to the sleeping Theo and Kkamang-i, and stood up to mark the date on the wall.

Although he had brought back his HunterPhone when returning yesterday, perhaps because he was used to it, he preferred marking it directly on the wall.

A moment later.

“Oh! It’s real sapphire.”

‘Lord Saffy, I’ll give you 3 pyeong out of a score of 10.’

Reach.

Se-jun opened the Space Expansion Pouch at his waist to retrieve Myler’s Hoe in order to create the Saffy Road.

And,

“Move Earth!”

[Saffy Road]

Saffy, the God of Sapphire, who repaid us with sparkling sapphires. He was a cool god.

Se-jun, who confirmed Saffy the God of Sapphire’s reward, created the 3 pyeong Saffy Road.

Previously, it was a reward that would have only earned 1 pyeong, but

‘I need money.’

Having brought back most of the food ingredients while visiting Earth, money had now become more important to Se-jun.

He had to gather money to go to Earth again.

That was why the reward for wealth had gone up.

“I should take out the rest of the equipment too.”

Se-jun took the opportunity of retrieving the equipment to put on the gear he had taken off.

Plop.

While retrieving the equipment, something slipped out of his pocket and fell to the floor.

“Huh? This is…”

It was the pouch containing the Destruction Devourer seeds that Theo had picked up yesterday.

“Right. I should check this.”

Se-jun opened the pouch and examined the seeds.

[Destruction Devourer Seed]

This is a newly evolved seed after the energy of destruction was purified from the Flesh Devourer seed, which had evolved from the Cherry Tomato of Mana of Park Se-jun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, into a mutated cherry tomato under the influence of chemicals, and was then contaminated by destruction to evolve into a Flesh Devourer.

Because it hates the power of destruction, if the power of destruction is nearby, it devours and eliminates the energy of destruction.

It digests the devoured power of destruction and emits the energy of creation.

Grade: E

“What is this?”

‘This was my Cherry Tomato of Mana?’

While Se-jun was surprised upon seeing the description,

[You have achieved the achievement of birthing a new breed in the tower.]

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[As a class characteristic, all stats increase by 10.]

The achievement message for birthing a new breed appeared.

“Nice.”

A new breed obtained pretty much for free.

Se-jun smiled and moved to the field. It was to plant the Destruction Devourer seeds.

[You have planted the Destruction Devourer seed in the mana-imbued soil.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[Since the Destruction Devourer seed is hearing the farmer’s footsteps, the growth speed of the Destruction Devourer is doubled for 24 hours due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 9.]

[A portion of the Tower Farmer’s energy is imbued into the Destruction Devourer seed due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 9.]

[The proficiency of Mana Sowing Lv. 9 increases slightly.]

As Se-jun planted the Destruction Devourer seed like that,

Crunch.

the Destruction Devourer grew rapidly and revealed itself above the ground.

Although its size was small, about the height of Se-jun’s instep, it had everything, with a red cherry tomato head and moving roots just like a Flesh Devourer.

The grown Destruction Devourer looked around and then,

Kiki.

laughing strangely as if it had found something, moved, toddling toward the cornfield.

‘Why is a crop moving?’

While Se-jun was flustered looking at the walking Destruction Devourer, the Destruction Devourer arrived at the cornfield after walking diligently.

Gobble. Gobble.

opening its mouth toward the empty air, it began to diligently swallow something.

‘Is it eating the energy of destruction?’

It seemed it was devouring the energy of destruction coming from Fenril’s core piece planted in the cornfield.

A moment later,

the Destruction Devourer grew slightly taller and its cheeks puffed up, as if it had eaten its fill of the energy of destruction.

At that moment,

Burp.

the Destruction Devourer burped refreshingly and blew out blue mist.

And,

[You have achieved a great achievement of creation by spreading the energy of creation to the world.]

a message appeared.

“Eh?”

‘The burp is the energy of creation? That’s a bit dirty?’

As Se-jun frowned looking at the dispersing blue mist,

[As a great achievement of creation reward, the energy of creation begins to spread to the world again.]

[As a great achievement of creation reward, the cost of staying on the 0th floor of the Black Great Tower decreases by 7% hereafter.]

The achievement reward appeared.

“Oh! 7 percent!”

Se-jun rejoiced upon seeing the message.

‘If it decreases by another 7% on top of the original 4%, it’s 11%?’

Going to Earth was gradually becoming easier.

While he was reading the messages like that,

[A quest is generated.]

[Quest: The energy of creation is still far too weak. Please grow the Destruction Devourers to increase their number to 1 million and spread the power of creation.

Reward: 100 drops of the Elixir of Growth, designation of the Destruction Devourer as a calamity sentry

The quest appeared.

‘I think I’ll only know if the calamity sentry is good or bad once the quest is completed…’

“Hehehe. They are giving as many as 100 drops of the Elixir of Growth?”

Se-jun walked to the kitchen, smiling.

He wanted to perform the quest quickly, but he still had to fill his stomach.

As Se-jun was heading to the kitchen to prepare breakfast,

Kkueng!

[Dad, good morning, yo!]

Cuengi, who was walking from the opposite side, greeted Se-jun upon seeing him.

“Yeah. Cuengi, you’re hungry, right? Let’s go and eat.”

Kkueng!

[Good, yo!]

Se-jun, who arrived at the kitchen like that.

“What should I eat?”

Kimchi stew, japchae, chicken, pizza, jjajangmyeon, sweet and sour pork, and so on.

The problem was even when there was too much to eat…

“No.”

He could just eat everything.

“Hehehe.”

Se-jun took out the foods he wanted to eat, placed them all on the table, and ate diligently with his companions.

Once breakfast ended,

“Meow! I’m off then, meow!”

Theo packed the Earth food to give to Ophelia and went to work at the Green Tower, and

[You have planted the Destruction Devourer seed in the mana-imbued soil.]

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Se-jun planted the Destruction Devourer seeds to complete the quest.

Crunch.

The Destruction Devourers grew as soon as they were planted.

Kiki.

Since the Destruction Devourers looked around and moved to find the energy of destruction, Se-jun had no need to move from his spot.

While Se-jun was planting the Destruction Devourers from his spot like that,

Kkihit. Kking!

[Heehit. Follow the Great Kkamang-i!]

Kiki!

Kiki!

The Destruction Devourers followed Kkamang-i around.

Kkamang-i, who had gained control by swallowing Fenril’s thoughts, was playing boss with the Destruction Devourers.