Chapter 436 – No! The House is Getting Farther Away!

Today, as usual, Ppiyot-i gained experience by going around to collect Uren’s money in order to become the right front paw of the wonderful Theo.

“Phehehet. Today, I collected 1 billion Tower Coins!”

After tailing a target who had claimed to have no money and told him to do his worst for several days, he discovered assets under another person’s name and collected the money.

“Lord Theo will be pleased, right?!”

With such a joyful heart, Ppiyot-i climbed toward the 99th floor of the tower where Theo was.

However, there was something much harder than collecting Uren’s money.

“Ppiyot!”

“[As expected, Lord Uren is so unlucky!]”

“Kweek! I’m sorry!”

It was that wherever Uren went, they continuously encountered fragments of the Apostles of Destruction.

The types of the Apostles of Destruction they met were also diverse; it felt like they had met those from the 3rd Seat to the 12th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction at least once.

Of course, if the two of them combined their strength, they could easily defeat one,

but three was a different story!

Melfix, the Demon of Ruin, the 4th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction;

Kruger, the Mountain-Crushing Rock, the 7th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction;

and even Hydra, the Nine-Headed Snake, the 10th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction.

-Catch them! I feel Fenrir’s energy from those guys!

-Stop! Explain the energy of Lord Fenrir coming from you bastards!

-Hand over Lord Fenrir’s core fragment!

They were currently being chased by three fragments of the Apostles of Destruction.

At first, they ran because there were two, but they met one more while running, making it three.

True to the unfortunate Uren, even the path he chose only led to where enemies were.

At that moment,

-Welcome. Into the embrace of me, Sasha, the Queen of Screams and Ice.

An enemy blocked their path.

“Ppiyot!”

“[Lord Uren, breakthrough!]”

Since their front and back were blocked, there was no choice but to break through.

“Got it! Turn into gold!”

Uren ran forward and extended his front paw toward Sasha, and Sasha temporarily turned into gold.

In the meantime, Ppiyot-i and Uren slipped past, and Sasha, who returned to her original form, tried to attack Ppiyot-i and Uren but ended up—

-Die…?!

-Sasha, what are you doing?!

attacking her allies, and thanks to the Apostles of Destruction colliding with each other, Ppiyot-i and Uren were fortunately able to lose them.

After running for another hour even after losing the Apostles of Destruction, the two

“Ppiyot!”

“[It was really dangerous this time!]”

“Indeed…”

took a short rest.

“Ppiyot?”

“[But didn’t the apostles tell us to hand over Fenrir’s core fragment earlier?]”

“Yeah. I heard it too.”

“Ppiyot… Ppiyot?”

“[No way… Lord Uren, it’s not you, right?]”

When Ppiyot-i looked at him with suspicious eyes,

“Me?! No way!”

Uren strongly denied it while waving his two front paws.

However,

‘Could it really be me?’

Just in case, he searched his luggage.

And,

“Ppiyot-i, I’m sorry.”

Uren apologized as he pulled out Fenrir’s core fragment.

He had packed them because there were some stones of decent shape, planning to turn them into gold later, but Fenrir’s core fragment happened to be mixed in among them.

As expected, an unlucky guy was unlucky no matter what he did.

“Ppiyot! Ppiyok!!!”

“[Lord Uren! %!$@!]”

Thanks to that, Ppiyot-i, whose anger made his pure white feathers look red, poured out an immense amount of nagging toward Uren.

***

The 99th floor of the Black Giant Tower.

“Hello.”

“Nice to meet you, Dragons, meow!”

“Cuengi!”

“[Hello, Dragons, da-yo!]”

When Se-jun, Theo, and Cuengi went to the fountain where Kaiser, Kellion, Ramter, and Tier were having a drinking party and greeted them,

-Kahahahaha. We are always doing well as long as our Se-jun is healthy.

-Indeed! Thanks to our Se-jun, our grandson even awakened… Huhahaha!

-Puhahaha. Our Red Tower has also almost returned to normal now, thanks to our Se-jun.

-I heard our Purple Tower has also become a much better place to live, thanks to our Se-jun.

The dragons were busy praising Se-jun.

‘Great.’

The atmosphere was not bad for making a request. No, it felt like they would grant whatever he said.

“Please make a staff with these ingredients.”

So, he boldly stated his business.

-A staff?

-With these ingredients?

-You, Se-jun?

-It will be difficult, though?

The dragons, who checked the ingredients, looked at Se-jun with worried eyes.

This was because if they made a staff that properly utilized the effects of the ingredients Se-jun brought out, a staff that Se-jun could never use would be created.

Furthermore, it was strange for Se-jun, who knew absolutely nothing about magic, to ask them to make a staff that he did not even need.

“It’s not for me, but a staff for Iona to use.”

-Ahem. You should have said so in the first place.

-Do not worry about anything!

-We will make the best staff for you!

The dragons took the ingredients from Se-jun, discussed for a moment, and

-Alright. I will guide the mana stream.

-Then I will neutralize the Yeti’s Heart with my power.

After reaching some agreement, they stood in four directions with the ingredients in the center.

-Let’s begin.

As the four of them poured mana into the ingredients simultaneously,

*Wooooong.*

the shape of Podori’s branch, which he had picked up while coming up earlier, transformed to create the form of a staff, and

the Black Pearl of Oppressive Gravity, the Yeti’s Heart, the King Giant Worm’s Heart, and the Albatross’s Heart merged into one and became embedded in the head of the staff.

*Flash.*

At the same time, seven colors of black, white, blue, red, purple, yellow, and silver exploded, and

-Although we made it, it is quite excellent.

-Of course. Because we made it.

The dragons praised themselves while looking at the completed staff; seeing the dragons, who had high standards, call it excellent, it seemed that a truly decent item had been made.

[Gravity Staff of Oppressive Subjugation]

‘Is it legendary-grade?’

While Se-jun was wondering as he looked at the name of the staff,

-Here. Take it.

Kaiser handed the staff embedded with a black gem to Se-jun.

“Thank you.”

Se-jun bowed in gratitude and quickly checked the staff.

[Gravity Staff of Oppressive Subjugation]

A staff made using the World Tree’s branch, the Black Pearl of Oppressive Gravity, the Yeti’s Heart, the King Giant Worm’s Heart, and the Albatross’s Heart as ingredients; it could not become a divine artifact due to the lack of divinity.

It is specialized in gravity magic.

The Great Black Dragon and the Great White Dragon created a balance of darkness and light, the Great Red Dragon balanced the Yeti’s Heart with the power of fire, and the Great Purple Dragon created a balance between the King Giant Worm’s Heart and the Albatross’s Heart with the power of poison.

With seven attributes in balance, two of the nine streams of mana are currently connected to the staff.

When equipped, you can additionally connect with two mana streams.

Usage Restriction: Those who have connected with three or more of the nine mana streams.

Creator: Great Dragon Clan

Grade: ★

Skill: [Subjugation (Master)]

[Subjugation (Master)]

Increases the gravity acting on enemies within a 1km radius. (Gravity increases by 1x for every 1000 difference in mana with the skill user. Gravity increases up to 50x.)

“Wow.”

‘It was a truly broken item.’

Just equipping the staff connected him to two mana streams, and the skill was also too good.

He was so envious.

Se-jun became extremely envious of Iona’s item.

‘What about me? Make something like this for me too.’

When Se-jun looked at the dragons with eyes full of anticipation,

‘Yeah, no.’

‘We won’t make it for you.’

‘Come back when you’re stronger.’

They shook their heads.

The dragons shook their heads.

Even if they made it with all their heart and soul, Se-jun could not equip it due to the excessively high usage restrictions.

Even so, if they made equipment that Se-jun could equip, it was obvious that it would be a waste of ingredients.

And the representative items of such wasted ingredients were the Dragon Horn Return Bracelet and the Dragon Horn Summoning Bracelet.

Instead of Kaiser suppressing them with his immense mana to remove the usage restrictions, the abilities possessed by the ingredients dropped to the extreme.

“They were so firm…”

Se-jun was disappointed by the dragons’ firm attitude.

“Chairman Park, let’s go give the staff to Iona quickly, meow!”

“Yeah. Got it. Then we will head out.”

At Theo’s urging, Se-jun said goodbye to the dragons and decided to visit the Black Parkae Magic Tower where Iona was.

Just as Se-jun was about to leave the farm with his companions,

“Whimper!”

“[I will guard the house!]”

Kkamang-i did not want to follow, saying he would guard the house.

Whether it was thanks to his mental training, Kkamang-i was saying commendable things.

“You don’t need to guard the house, though?”

“Whimper! Whimper!”

“[No! Please let me guard the house!]”

“Alright. Then I’ll be back soon. Guard the house well.”

At Kkamang-i’s words, which even felt like a sense of duty, Se-jun decided to leave Kkamang-i behind, and

“Kkihihit. Whimper!”

“[Heheh. Have a safe trip!]”

sent off by the brightly smiling Kkamang-i, he set out to give the staff to Iona with Theo and Cuengi.

***

The top floor of the Black Parkae Magic Tower.

Iona’s room.

*Rustle.*

“Sigh.”

“Phew.”

Only the sound of flipping papers and sighs could be heard inside.

“Kkyu. It’s another request to increase the budget…”

The sound of flipping papers was from Iona, and

“Sigh. What was it?”

“I definitely heard it…”

“Hey… show me a bit…”

the sighs were coming from the ten vice presidents.

The vice presidents who had run away were eventually all caught, and they were taking a test every day on what they had learned from Iona yesterday.

However,

*Scratch scratch.*

unlike the vice presidents who solved the problems while sighing deeply, there was one being who moved his pen without hesitation.

‘Oh! I learned this the day before yesterday! It’s too easy?’

Blackster solved the problems given by Iona very easily.

“Kkyu-kkyu-I clearly told you everything, so why can’t you solve this?! Everyone except Blackster, follow me!”

“Yes…”

The ten vice presidents who failed to pass the cut-off score were dragged away by Iona,

“Gravity Control!”

“Argh!”

“Endure it!”

and they had to endure Iona’s gravity magic by using defense magic until their mana ran out.

While Iona was grilling the ten vice presidents like that,

“Hmm? Where did Iona go?”

Se-jun and his party arrived in Iona’s room.

“Oh! Lord Se-jun, hello.”

“Blackster, how are you doing? Is Iona teaching you magic well?”

“Yes. It’s so fun! Ah! This is a blueprint for magic equipment I made using the magic knowledge I learned from Lady Iona, so please take a look.”

Blackster showed a rectangular cuboid-shaped equipment blueprint.

“Would I know even if I looked?”

“…Could you just explain it instead?”

“Ah. This is an equipment that removes footsteps, made using the technology to increase mana efficiency that I learned from Lady Iona. If you wear this, you will definitely never be caught when infiltrating. I named it Sound Eater.”

Blackster, true to his title as a great thief, was making infiltration equipment again.

“The name is not that great. Let’s call it Sogaebi.”

“Yes? Sogaebi?”

“It’s a combination of sound and muncher. How is it? Isn’t it ingenious?”

“Puhuhut. As expected of Chairman Park, meow!”

“Kkuhehehe. Cuengi!”

“[Hehehe. Then Cuengi is Kkulgaebi, da-yo!]”

“……”

‘Lady Iona, please come quickly!’

Blackster offered the maximum resistance he could by not replying.

***

Se-jun’s farm.

When Se-jun left with Theo and Cuengi, Kkamang-i was left alone.

“Kkihihit. Whimper! Whimper!”

“[Heheh. Freedom! Now it’s my world!]”

He was enjoying his freedom without having to walk on eggshells around Theo and Cuengi.

And,

“Kiki!”

“Kiki!”

the Destruction Devourers surrounded Kkamang-i and tossed him in the air.

“Kkihihit. Whimper! Whimper!”

“[Heheh. Guys, go that way! This time, this way!]”

Kkamang-i sat down comfortably on top of the Destruction Devourers and gave orders, and the Destruction Devourers moved in a herd according to their leader’s command.

At that moment,

“Ki?!”

*Swish.*

As if they sensed something, the heads of the Destruction Devourers turned to one side simultaneously, and

“Ki! Ki! Ki!”

they began to run quickly in that direction.

“Whimper?!”

“[Huh?! Guys, where are you going?!]”

Thanks to that, Kkamang-i, who was riding on top of the Destruction Devourers, was swept along and moved with them.

“Whimper! Whimper!”

“[No! The house is getting farther away!]”

In that way, Kkamang-i unintentionally ran away from home.