Chapter 447 – It Might Screw Me Over, but It Doesn’t Lie

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‘Hehe. That way, I can receive my achievement monument quickly too.’

Rhea, who urged the Farming King without knowing that Podori, who harbored a desire for revenge against the Farming King, was on the 99th floor of the tower.

And

-Goddess. I am also working hard in my own way. Do not rush me.

The Farming King, who seemed slightly annoyed, as if he were angry at Rhea’s rushing.

“Keu-hum. I see. Then take your time.”

The Goddess of Abundance, Rhea, winced and hurriedly humored the Farming King.

‘Hmph! I should tell Park Se-jun later that the delivery of the divine tool was delayed because the Farming King was dilly-dallying.’

While thinking of snitching to Se-jun in her heart.

Rhea, who had only ended up irritating the Farming King’s temper by rushing him like that.

“I should go repay the money.”

She went to find Her again.

But

“Shark! I told you to run away unconditionally if you see a yellow cat!”

Her was screaming today as well.

“Why is she like that lately?”

‘Did I tell her to invest in Park Se-jun for nothing?’

After investing in Se-jun, Her’s condition seemed to be getting worse and worse.

While Rhea was worrying about Her like that,

[The Great Merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park, has discovered that the Great Merchant item [Slave Seal of the Green Tower] bound to the Great Merchant of the Green Tower, Shark, is corrupted by the energy of destruction.]

A message appeared before Her.

“What?! Shark’s Great Merchant item is corrupted by the power of destruction?”

Great Merchant items were items whose ownership was bound to Great Merchants.

‘Then does that mean Shark has betrayed us?!’

Her was greatly shocked by the message.

“To think a traitor who sided with destruction would appear among the Great Merchants…”

‘He only corrupted the Great Merchant item to avoid my gaze.’

This was an extremely serious situation. It was possible that Shark was not the only Great Merchant who had betrayed them.

What if she had realized this too late, and the Great Merchants who sided with destruction had impeached her and become the God of Merchants?

The Seed Shop Headquarters and the Combat Shop Headquarters would all be polluted by the power of destruction.

“Huhut. Shark, you messed with the wrong guy today.”

‘That fellow Theo will make Shark a slave right away, right?’

For today, she thought it was a saving grace that Shark had met Theo.

And

[The Great Merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park, makes the Great Merchant of the Green Tower, Shark, a slave.]

As Her had expected, Theo made Shark a slave.

“Phew. What a relief.”

Her had cleanly dealt with the traitor thanks to Theo.

“Thank you, Theo Park, for making Shark a slave.”

As Her felt grateful to Theo while letting out a sigh of relief,

[The Great Merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park, demands that if you are grateful, you show it with a reward rather than words.]

Theo confidently demanded a reward.

“Right. Perhaps because he is a Great Merchant, his calculations are clear-cut. Fine. I will give you this.”

Normally, Her would have only rewarded after threats were made, but today, her gratitude was so great that she readily rewarded him with a smile.

When Her sent the reward to Theo like that,

“Her, I’m here.”

Rhea, who had been watching from outside, entered the building as Her’s condition improved.

“Rhea? Welcome. Shall I lend you some divine power?”

“No. I came to repay the divine power today!”

“Really?! You must be earning a lot lately? Well, I have also accumulated quite a bit of divine power recently thanks to Park Se-jun.”

“See? I told you it was a good idea to invest in Park Se-jun, right?”

“Yes! I think it was indeed a good choice to listen to you.”

Although she had regretted it slightly at first because of Theo, thanks to Theo, she had also caught a traitor and things ultimately turned out well.

“Here is 10 divine power.”

“Yes. Now you only need to repay 91,281 more divine power.”

Although there was still an immense amount of divine power left to repay,

“Understood! I will repay more soon!”

Rhea replied energetically.

Until not long ago, she had been in a state where it was hard even to pay the interest of 0.001%.

Rhea was extremely happy that she was now able to repay the principal.

“I’ll be off then.”

“Yeah. Goodbye.”

Not long after Rhea left the building,

Knock, knock.

“Hello, Lady Her.”

“Pearl, welcome. Did you also come to repay divine power?”

“Yes! Here is 0.2 divine power!”

Pearl, the God of Pearls, had also come to repay her divine power.

Knock, knock.

Even after that, non-combat gods visited Her to repay their divine power, and thanks to this, Her spent a busy time for the first time in a long while.

“This is nice.”

Although she had not even received 1% of the divine power lent to the non-combat gods yet, Her smiled warmly.

She felt relieved because it seemed the non-combat gods, who had lived difficult lives without divine power, now had some leeway.

“Park Se-jun is indeed amazing. No! This is all because the Great Merchant, Theo Park, helped!”

Like birds of a feather, Her defended the Great Merchant, Theo.

[The Great Merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park, intends to bind the Great Merchant of the Green Tower Shark’s Great Merchant item, [Slave Seal of the Green Tower].]

[Do you permit this?]

Theo attempted to bind the Great Merchant item of Shark, whose name had changed.

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The 93rd floor of the Green Tower.

“Slave Seal of the Green Tower?”

Se-jun examined the stamp handed to him by Theo.

[Slave Seal of the Green Tower]

A seal born from the Great Merchant promotion exam of the Green Tower.

The Law of Babel, the Lasso of Binding, the root of a 1,000-year-old tree, high-grade mana stones, and 1,000 slave contracts were used as materials.

Using the Law of Babel, the Lasso of Binding, and the root of a 1,000-year-old tree as materials, the slave contract has been strengthened.

Due to corruption by the power of destruction, when stamped on the body of an opponent belonging to the Green Tower, it forcibly imposes a debt of 100 billion Tower Coins on the opponent, and if they cannot pay it back, makes them a slave forever. (Can only be used once on the same target.)

It is bound to the Great Merchant, Shark.

Usage Restriction: Great Merchant, Magic Power of 5,000 or higher, one who belongs to destruction

Creator: God of Merchants, Her

Grade: ★

While Se-jun was examining the item,

“You bastards! Hand over my item!”

Shark, who had been stripped of his Great Merchant item, rushed at Se-jun, but

“Kkueng! Kkueng!”

[Dad is concentrating right now, da-yo! You must not disturb him, da-yo!]

Thud!

Crackle.

“Kuaaaak!”

He fainted after being hit by Cuengi’s Thunderbolt Staff.

A moment later,

“Wow. This guy is really a bad guy.”

Confirming Shark’s Great Merchant item, Se-jun spoke.

To forcibly impose a debt of 100 billion Tower Coins just by stamping the opponent’s body without a contract, and make them a slave forever if they have no money…

“Even we release them if they repay their money, but forever…”

It was a viciousness that made even Se-jun, a fellow worker in the same industry, click his tongue.

“Vice Chairman Theo, this is an item corrupted by the power of destruction.”

“Nyang?! Then does that mean that guy is a bad guy, nyang?!”

Theo pointed at the fainted Shark while grinning.

“Yes.”

“Puhuhut. Then is it okay to make him a slave, nyang?!”

“Hehehe. That is correct.”

The reason Se-jun and Theo had personally come all the way to the 93rd floor of the Green Tower was to make many slaves.

However, luckily, they had immediately met the master of the slaves.

If they had the master who owned a massive number of slaves as their own slave, they would be able to own a massive number of slaves without much effort.

“Go! Vice Chairman Theo!”

“Puhuhut. Understood, nyang!”

Answering Se-jun’s shout energetically, Theo ran over and took off the hood to get the stamp of the fainted Shark.

Press.

He received the handprint of Shark, who had a shark’s head on a human body.

[You have hunted 1 slave.]

[Confirmed 51,231 slaves owned by the slave.]

[Under the effect of , all stats increase by the maximum value of 10,000.]

Thanks to this, Theo’s stats rose immensely.

“Nyaang… Chairman Park, I hunted over 50,000 slaves, but all my stats only rose by 10,000, nyang…”

Theo was depressed.

‘More than 50,000 slaves?! Then I…’

“Hehehe.”

Se-jun was looking forward to the message that would appear in front of him.

[You have acquired 1 slave.]

[Under the effect of , all stats increase by 0.01.]

“Huh?!”

Unlike Theo, Se-jun’s stats rose by only counting the single slave that Theo had caught directly.

‘You system bastard!’

Se-jun was furious at the system that was screwing him over today as well.

While Se-jun was being furious like that,

[Using the power of Fenrir within your body, you can purify and strengthen the [Slave Seal of the Green Tower] corrupted by the power of destruction.]

[Would you like to use the power of Fenrir?]

Another message appeared before Se-jun.

“The power of Fenrir purifies the power of destruction?”

‘Fenrir is an Apostle of Destruction, though?’

To say that the power of an Apostle of Destruction purifies the power of destruction, it did not make sense somehow.

“Still, since the system doesn’t lie…”

“It might screw me over, but it doesn’t lie.”

“I’ll use it.”

[Using 0.005% of Fenrir’s power, you purify and strengthen the [Slave Seal of the Green Tower] corrupted by the power of destruction.]

With Se-jun’s words, dark blue energy flowed from Se-jun’s body into the stamp.

And

[Slave Seal of the Five Towers]

It upgraded to a stamp that could make residents of the Black Tower, White Tower, Golden Tower, and Brown Tower into slaves, in addition to the Green Tower.

Instead, as the power of destruction was purified, the debt incurred when stamped was reduced to 50 billion Tower Coins,

and the options changed so that they could escape slavery once the debt was repaid.

Se-jun, who had strengthened the Great Merchant item like that.

“Vice Chairman Theo, use this.”

Because his chest had swelled up too much imagining Theo making slaves with this stamp, he had forgotten that it was a bound item.

“Puhuhut. Thank you, nyang! Chairman Park, use this, nyang!”

Taking the stamp, Theo handed Se-jun a bead he had received as a reward from Her.

“Heart of Valor?”

‘I’ll check it later and head back for now.’

When the work was finished, Se-jun tried to hurriedly return to where the other companions were. For some reason, he had a bad feeling.

“Cuengi, let’s go back.”

“Kkueng!”

[Understood, da-yo!]

As Se-jun and Theo rode Cuengi back to their companions like that,

[The God of Merchants, Her, does not permit the use of another Great Merchant’s bound item.]

A message from Her appeared before Theo, who was hanging onto Se-jun’s lap.

“Nyang?!”

‘Chairman Park gave it to me, nyang! I will use it, nyang!’

[The God of Merchants, Her, says that if Great Merchant items are concentrated on one side, it will cause problems for the economic balance of the nine towers…]

Her tried to persuade him by explaining economic logic, but

‘Haak! Lady Her, if you refuse, it is impeachment, nyang!’

[The Great Merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park, begins the impeachment vote for the God of Merchants, Her.]

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‘Theo, you scamp cat!’

[The God of Merchants, Her, permits the [Slave Seal of the Five Towers] to be bound to the Great Merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park.]

She had no choice but to permit it immediately due to Theo’s blackmail of impeachment.

At the time when the slave hunter Theo obtained magnificent wings called the Slave Seal of the Five Towers like that,

“Kki-hi-hit. Kking!”

[Hi-hit. We won!]

“Congratulations, Great Lord Kkamang-i!”

“Ki-ki!”

“Ki-ki!”

Kkamang-i and his subordinates, who had occupied the enemy’s main base while only following behind due to the active roles of the Black Rabbit and Baet-baet-i, celebrated their victory.

And

[Abyss of Destruction]

In the meantime, the Black Rabbit and Baet-baet-i were able to find the place where the Great Poison Snails of the Fifth Calamity came out in the enemy’s main base.

A red hole, 100 meters in diameter, whose bottom could not be seen like an abyss. Just looking at it was chilling and gave goosebumps.

“Bpyak?”

[What is this?]

(Baet-baet. It’s ominous.)

While the Black Rabbit and Baet-baet-i hesitated and could not approach close to the Abyss of Destruction,

Gulp, gulp.

the Destruction Devourers approached the Abyss of Destruction and diligently absorbed the energy of destruction,

Burp.

Burp.

and as they exhaled the energy of creation, they made the Abyss of Destruction smaller and smaller.

Thanks to this, just as all of the companions were feeling relieved,

-Who dares to interfere with my work?

A gloomy voice that froze everyone echoed from beyond the Abyss of Destruction.

And

Thud, thud.

A giant spider crawled up from the Abyss of Destruction as comfortably as if walking on flat ground.

The main body of Alice, the Deceptive Spider who was the 9th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction, appeared on the 93rd floor of the Green Tower with half of her power.