Chapter 47 – No Waypoint

When Se-jun said he was going to visit the Bull Demon King, the boss of the 99th floor of the tower,

Pyak!

Kkueng!

The black rabbit and Kkueng stepped forward. We will protect you!

And

“President Theo, get ready.”

“What-nyan? Am I going too-nyan?”

Theo, who was in charge of the bundle, was forced into a business trip.

“Guide us.”

Moo!

At Se-jun’s words, Woo Chun-sam and Woo Chun-sa took the lead.

However,

Thump, thump.

“Hey! How can you run so fast?!”

In a split second, Woo Chun-sam and Woo Chun-sa quickly distanced themselves.

“Great Black Dragon. I will escort you.”

Elka prostrated himself before Se-jun, and the other wolves carried the black rabbit and Theo on their backs.

However,

Kkueng! Kkueng!

Kkueng was caught by the front paw of the mother Crimson Giant Bear. For the mother Crimson Giant Bear, she could not send her cub to a dangerous place where the Bull Demon King was.

“Kkueng, it’s dangerous, so let’s wait here.”

Se-jun coaxed him, but

Kkueeeng!

Leaving behind Kkueng’s crying sound as he wept because he wanted to follow, Se-jun, Theo, and the black rabbit set off on the wolves toward the waypoint guarded by the Bull Demon King.

Patter, patter.

The wolves’ moving speed was extremely fast, at nearly 70 km/h.

Swoosh.

The vast wasteland passed quickly in the eyes of Se-jun, who was running on a wolf.

How long had they run like that? Before they knew it, the endless wasteland ended, and red land began to appear. ‘Is it mud?’ Mud bricks popped into Se-jun’s head.

“If I make bricks, I can build a building.”

While Se-jun was moving, thinking of building a structure using mud bricks,

“Huh?!”

Over a thousand Black Minotaurs were visible in the distance.

But

“What are those guys doing?”

The Black Minotaurs were seen baling mud and putting it in their mouths.

“Maybe they get excited whenever they see grass because they eat things like that?”

Se-jun suddenly felt sorry for the Black Minotaurs.

***

Moo!

Woo-il hurriedly ran over, calling the Bull Demon King.

“What is it?”

The Bull Demon King, who was lying asleep in front of the waypoint, opened his eyes and asked.

“Woo Chun-sam and Woo Chun-sa have returned!”

“What?! Woo Chun-sam?!”

Thud!

At the news that Woo Chun-sam, who had ignored his orders and just flirted around, had returned, the Bull Demon King kicked the ground and stood up.

“Where is he?!”

“But he brought an outsider.”

“An outsider? Bring everyone.”

“Yes!”

Escorted by Woo-il like that, Se-jun and his party confronted the Bull Demon King together with Woo Chun-sam and Woo Chun-sa.

Beside the Bull Demon King, a red bone club and a pure white horn trumpet were stuck in the ground.

And

“So that’s the waypoint.”

Se-jun looked at the red crystal visible behind the Bull Demon King.

Moo?

“He asks why we came here-nyan.”

Theo translated the Bull Demon King’s words.

“Tell the Bull Demon King that we came to receive the price for what happened three days ago.”

“Understood-nyan! Bull Demon King, we came to receive the price for three days ago-nyan!”

Theo confidently conveyed Se-jun’s words to the Bull Demon King. He had nothing to be intimidated by. Because he was the lethal yellow cat, the subordinate of the Great Black Dragon.

‘Puhuhut. With this, a cool scene is added to my biography-nyan.’

Just as Theo was imagining a scene from a wonderful story to tell others later,

Mooooo!

The Bull Demon King was enraged by the attitude of boldly demanding compensation from him.

“Hiccup, hiccup-nyan.”

Startled by the Bull Demon King’s shout, Theo began to hiccup.

“Calm down.”

Se-jun calmed the startled Theo by stroking his head and approached the Bull Demon King.

And

Clasp.

placed his hand on the Bull Demon King’s leg,

“I heard that Black Minotaurs are warriors who know honor, but it seems that is also an old saying. Not knowing shame for what you did and instead getting angry… then it doesn’t matter if I tell other subordinates that their leader stole and ate someone else’s food, right?”

Just as Se-jun was about to remove his hand after conveying his words,

Moo!

[Wait!]

The Bull Demon King urgently held onto Se-jun.

‘I knew it.’

Se-jun forced down the corners of his mouth that were rising and

“What is it?”

asked in an indifferent voice.

Moo! Moo. Mmm…

[I am a great warrior of the Black Minotaurs who knows honor! I intended to visit later and compensate you. As the price for the grass I ate last time…]

Just as the Bull Demon King was about to propose the compensation,

“Wait! I decide the compensation to receive. First, let us use the waypoint as compensation.”

Se-jun cut off the Bull Demon King’s words and stated the compensation he had in mind.

Moo?

[You mean the waypoint?]

“How about it?”

At Se-jun’s words, the Bull Demon King thought for a moment.

And

Moo. Moo…

[Fine. I grant it. Although it seems useless to you…]

The Bull Demon King stepped aside to let Se-jun approach the waypoint.

It worked!

Se-jun did not hear the Bull Demon King’s tailing words because he was busy approaching the waypoint.

“Finally…”

Se-jun placed his hand on the red crystal floating in the air.

[The waypoint of the 99th floor of the tower has been saved.]

[Loading saved waypoints from other floors.]

[Since there is no saved waypoint other than the 99th floor of the tower, you cannot move to other floors.]

“What?!”

To Se-jun, who had started on the 99th floor of the tower from the beginning, there were no other saved waypoints. There was nowhere he could go.

Usually, other hunters start from the 1st floor, so they tag the 1st floor waypoint and climb the tower.

And generally, saving a waypoint reveals a portal to the next floor.

This was possible regardless of defeating the boss. There were many floors where the location of the floor’s boss and the waypoint’s location were different.

However, he had never heard of a portal going down appearing. Since one could just use the waypoint to go down, there was no reason to have one.

While Se-jun was disappointed like that,

Moo.

The Bull Demon King, who guarded his cherished weapon, felt relieved. As much as he valued his honor, the Bull Demon King had intended to give his cherished weapon, the red bone, to Se-jun as the price for protecting the great warrior’s honor.

The red bone was a club that turned red by absorbing the blood of countless monsters, and its grade was legendary. It was a legendary item of which only three existed in the tower.

Due to the waypoint that could not even be used properly, the opportunity to obtain the legendary club disappeared. Of course, it had the effect of turning one into a blood-crazed madman if not controlled, so there was no benefit even if Se-jun had obtained it.

“The next compensation is…”

Se-jun demanded a few more things from the Bull Demon King as compensation.

And as Se-jun looked at Theo, Theo took out enough green onion leaves from his bundle to form a small hill.

“This is a gift to get along well in the future.”

It was called a gift, but rather than a gift, it was brought to advertise green onion leaves to the Black Minotaurs. It meant they had something like this, so if they were interested, they should come and work.

Gulp.

The Bull Demon King swallowed his saliva, looking at the green onion leaves. It seemed he had already secured one worker.

***

Three days passed since visiting the Bull Demon King.

A few things happened in the meantime. The biggest thing was that the wife rabbit became pregnant again. It was because of the grilled eel.

“It has been strange ever since we sent the baby rabbits to the burrows of the first-generation children… Let’s see if I ever give them grilled eel again.”

Se-jun felt cranky for no reason.

And through the transaction with the Bull Demon King, the entire wasteland area was recognized as Se-jun’s land, so ten Black Minotaurs commuted to Se-jun’s land every day to reclaim the wasteland.

According to Woo Chun-sam, the competition among the Black Minotaurs was fierce because they wanted to come here every day.

“Well, since they lived eating mud every day…”

Lastly, Se-jun obtained one additional cocoon of the poison queen bee yesterday. With this, three barracks of beehives became possible.

“By the way, it’s the Blue Moon soon; will it be okay?”

Se-jun recalled the event about a month ago, looking at the surface fields.

When the surface fields were destroyed by Woo Chun-sam during the Blue Moon, Se-jun fell into contemplation.

“If this keeps repeating, there is no reason to plant crops in the surface fields.”

It would be fine if monsters did not come during the Blue Moon if he was lucky, but if a monster came even once and turned the field into a mess, all the farming would be in vain.

Since there was nothing he could do about this, Se-jun even thought of giving up the surface fields.

Then,

[The tower administrator says that if you are worrying because of the monsters running wild during the Blue Moon, leave it to her.]

“Leave it to you? What are you going to do?”

[The tower administrator asks boastfully if you didn’t see her step forward to subdue the monsters during the Blue Moon.]

“Ah…”

Thinking about it, when the Black Dragon stepped forward during the first Blue Moon after Se-jun was stranded, the monsters had become quiet. That was Aileen.

“Alright. Then I will only trust you, Aileen.”

[The tower administrator tells you to just trust her and plant crops vigorously.]

Although he planted crops diligently trusting Aileen’s words like that, he was still a bit anxious as the Blue Moon approached.

“It will be okay, right?”

Since he decided to trust her anyway, Se-jun resolved to trust Aileen to the end.

Today, the Crimson Giant Bear mother and cub and the Black Minotaurs did not come either because of the Blue Moon.

And the wolves went down to the lower floor last night, saying they did not want to cause damage.

“Is it because the large-sized fellows are missing? It feels somehow empty.”

Se-jun said, looking at the wide field.

At that time,

Slurp, slurp, slurp.

“What is empty-nyan?! President Theo, the lethal yellow cat, is here-nyan!”

Theo, who was eating Churu while resting on Se-jun’s lap, tapped Se-jun’s chest with his front paw, asserting his presence.

“Right. You are here… Sorry.”

Where did he learn such rhetoric… Se-jun hastily coaxed Theo by stroking his back. Since they had to finish work early today to prepare for the Blue Moon, he needed Theo’s labor.

Having finished work hastily like that, everyone prepared for the Blue Moon.

Se-jun turned off the fire and eliminated odors, the rabbits went into their burrows, and the poison honeybees went into the beehives, blocking the entrances.

And

“See you in the morning-nyan!”

Theo went inside his bundle.

As everyone went into their own homes, the inside of the cave became terribly quiet.

“It’s cold.”

Although it was not such cold weather, Se-jun, perhaps due to loneliness, felt cold and wrapped himself in a blanket.

After a short while, the Blue Moon rose.

***

“Khehehe. The human should just trust me, the Great Black Dragon Aileen Pritani.”

Aileen was excited at the thought of helping the human.

Not long ago, to commemorate the 200th day of the human’s entry into the tower, whom she was indebted to every time, Aileen put in all the elixirs from her storage with gratitude and regret, and stirred and made a soup for the weak human’s health for several hours.

But

“Cooking was not my aptitude.”

Honestly, cooking was too hard.

Aileen worried what if the human said it was too delicious and asked to make more, but the human did not ask to make it again, perhaps knowing her hard work.

On top of that, the human even requested never to make it again next time.

“Khehehe. Praiseworthy human fellow, to worry about me to that extent.”

Se-jun had worried about his own life, but Aileen thought he had worried about her.

Aileen moved to the rooftop of the tower administrator’s space while thinking of the praiseworthy human.

There, a cylindrical object looking like a searchlight, with a diameter of 5 meters and a thickness of about 1 meter, was placed.

“Grr. Grr. Grr.”

Squeak, squeak.

Aileen hummed and polished the front part of the cylinder where a black dragon was drawn.

And after a short while, the surroundings turned bluish, and the Blue Moon rose.

“Khehehe. Is it time for me to step forward now?”

Click.

As Aileen pressed the switch on the side of the cylindrical object,

Flash!

Like the Batman signal appearing on the moon, light shone from the cylinder, and the black dragon drawn on the front part of the cylinder moved, and the shadow of the black dragon began to fly above the sky where the Blue Moon rose.

And when the shadow of the black dragon reached the peak of the sky,

Roar!

Aileen roared loudly behind the cylinder.

Roar-!

The cylinder carried mana in Aileen’s voice and spread it throughout the 99th floor of the tower.

This cylinder was a magic tool created for his granddaughter by Kaiser Pritani, Aileen’s grandfather. It was an item made for the granddaughter, who could not leave the administrator space, to use once in a while when it was difficult to manage the tower.

“Khehehe. The human will think that is me, right?”

Looking proudly at the black dragon floating in the sky, Aileen roared loudly once more.

Roar-!

The roar of the Great Black Dragon calmed the monsters of the 99th floor of the tower who had gone mad due to the Blue Moon.