Chapter 92 – Stamp Your Paw Print Here, Meow!

“This is Iona, meow!”

Theo introduced Iona to the Jewel Frogs.

Ribbit, ribbit.

The Jewel Frogs surrounded Iona and began to exchange greetings.

And,

‘Just as planned, meow!’

Theo, who had separated Iona from Se-jun, leisurely returned to where Se-jun was.

At that moment,

Tingle.

“Meow?”

Theo felt that his front paw was being drawn to something. Another opportunity to be adored by Se-jun had come.

“Where is it, meow?!”

Theo quickly ran following the pull of his front paw.

However, the place Theo arrived at following the pull was a dead end.

“What is this, meow?”

Theo was flustered for a moment, but he decided to trust his front paw and dig through the wall. The pull was telling him that the distance to the goal was not far.

Shring.

Just as Theo extended his front paw to dig through the wall after taking out his claws,

Slip.

Theo’s front paw passed straight through the wall.

“What is this, meow?”

Theo walked toward the wall only after carefully putting his front paw in and out to confirm that there was no anomaly. It was an illusion magic so elaborate that it was confusing even if one knew about it.

Beyond the wall, a giant white temple was visible. As Theo went inside the temple without hesitation following the pull of his front paw, there was a giant frog statue in the center of the temple’s interior.

And,

“It’s over there, meow!”

Theo was able to see what his front paw was drawn to. It was a seven-colored rainbow gem embedded in the forehead of the giant frog statue.

Pitter-patter.

Theo quickly climbed onto the forehead of the giant frog statue, and

Pop.

Plucked out the rainbow gem.

“Puhahat. As expected, I am lucky, meow!”

While Theo was putting the collected gem into his bundle,

Slowly,

The giant frog statue began to crumble like sand.

“Meow?!”

Theo intuitively realized that he had caused some major accident.

“I’m running away, meow!”

Theo hurriedly left the temple and fled to Se-jun. He did not show the gem to Se-jun immediately.

‘Pushing too hard constantly is not good, meow!’

Theo, who instinctively understood the principle of push-and-pull. Now was not the time to take out the gem.

Looking for an opportunity like that, the moment Theo saw Iona being praised by Se-jun, he realized that the time to take out the gem had come.

“Chairman Park, I picked up something amazing, meow!”

Theo took out the rainbow gem from his bundle and ran to Se-jun.

‘I will defeat Iona with this, meow!’

He intended to solidify his position with the gem.

At that moment,

-Is it you? The one who woke me from my sleep?!

An angry voice rang inside Theo’s head.

“Who is it, meow?”

-I am Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs. Pay the price for ruining my great work!

The rainbow gem began to shine.

“Meow! Chairman Park! Help me, meow!”

Theo urgently called Se-jun, feeling the strength draining from his entire body.

***

[Freezing and storing the Purple Locusts.]

[The Purple Locusts fall into hibernation.]

[If the Purple Locusts are not taken out within 10 hours, they will freeze to death.]

…

..

.

[50% of the space is filled.]

…

..

.

Once he froze and stored about 50,000 Purple Locusts, half of the Subspace Warehouse was filled.

“This is convenient.”

Se-jun said as he looked at the square ice blocks confining the Purple Locusts.

Seeing the square ice blocks filling half the warehouse neatly in exactly the same size without a single error made him feel at ease.

“Iona, then…”

Just as Se-jun was about to ask if there were other features in the Subspace Warehouse,

“Meow! Chairman Park! Help me, meow!”

Se-jun quickly turned his head at Theo’s terrified voice calling him.

And,

Thump.

He found Theo collapsing.

“Theo!”

Se-jun hurriedly ran toward Theo. Although a huge and dare-not-be-approached spiritual power was felt from the gem, Se-jun reached his hand out toward Theo without fear, with the sole determination to save him.

-Do you dare to interfere with the work of me, Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs?!

The rainbow gem shone brighter and tried to suck in Se-jun as well.

But the black energy emerging from Se-jun’s body began to repel the light of the gem.

And,

[A tribal god who has illegally trespassed into the Black Tower has been detected.]

[The analysis result shows it is Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs.]

[Under the authority of the Middle Manager, you can banish Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs.]

[Would you like to banish Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs?]

The message appeared.

***

-Ugh! Why is the energy of the Black Dragon here?!

Gaeron was startled by the black energy emerging from Se-jun’s body.

“Puhahat. That’s why I ask, why did you touch me, Theo Park, the deadly yellow cat who is a subordinate of the Great Black Dragon, meow?!”

Theo’s soul, which had been absorbed into the gem, looked at the giant frog and spoke arrogantly with hands on his waist. He was too confident for someone who had stolen the gem.

-What?! You… no! You are a subordinate of the Great Black Dragon?!

Flustered by Theo’s words, Gaeron’s tone of voice changed. Judging the rights and wrongs, it was a mistake for him to even be here.

Since he was caught like this, he had to get the Great Black Dragon’s permission somehow to stay in the tower, but to think the cat he touched was a subordinate of the Great Black Dragon!

“That’s right, meow! And if you touch me, Chairman Park will punish you, meow! You are in big trouble now, meow!”

Theo said boastfully, like an older brother arriving after he fought with a friend.

-Ugh…

Gaeron was scared. However, he was not scared by Theo’s threat.

The tower forbids tribal gods from entering the tower. Gaeron had entered by breaking that rule.

-If I am banished from here…

It is extinction. Because the world Gaeron originally belonged to had already vanished.

At that moment,

“Puhahat. Do you want to live, meow?”

Theo asked with a wicked smile.

-Yes!

Gaeron nodded violently and shouted. To Gaeron, Theo’s voice sounded like salvation.

“Then there is a way, meow!”

-W-What is it?!

“Stamp your paw print here, meow!”

Theo said, pulling out a contract. Theo was in a soul state. It was possible to create whatever he imagined.

-That is?!

Gaeron was horrified looking at the contract Theo pulled out. Theo did not know, but what Theo proposed was a soul-to-soul contract. It was a contract one could not escape even in death.

“You don’t want to, meow?! Then it can’t be helped, meow. Nice meeting you, and let’s never see each other again, meow.”

Theo greeted him brightly while waving his front paw at Gaeron.

-N-No! I will stamp it!

Still, living like this was better than being banished outside the tower and destroyed. Gaeron did not want to be extinguished.

Press.

A giant frog paw print and Theo’s paw print, which was too small to even be seen by comparison, were stamped side by side on the contract.

***

“Iona, do you know what a tribal god is?”

“Of course! A tribal god is…”

Iona, thinking Se-jun was evaluating her knowledge, began to explain diligently. Thanks to that, Se-jun learned about tribal gods in detail.

“A god that protects only one tribe… what should I do?”

Actually, the worry did not last long. How dare you try to harm our Theo?! Since he confirmed that Theo was breathing, Se-jun thought that Theo had just fainted.

Just as Se-jun, who made that decision, was about to banish Gaeron,

[Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs, has signed a soul contract with Subordinate 1.]

[If the divinity of Gaeron, the god of the Jewel Frogs, falls, he returns to his pre-god name, Bug Hunter Gaeron.]

[Bug Hunter Gaeron becomes the slave of Subordinate 1.]

“Huh?!”

Subordinate 1 was Theo.

Grab.

“Meow! Chairman Park! Thank you for coming to save me, meow!”

While Se-jun was grasping the situation, Theo, who had lost consciousness, regained sanity, clung to Se-jun’s lap, and said as he rubbed his forehead. A necklace with a frog-shaped rainbow gem was hanging around Theo’s neck.

“President Theo, are you okay?”

Se-jun asked, examining Theo’s body.

“That’s right, meow! Chairman Park, just trust me now, meow!”

Feeling good at Se-jun’s touch, Theo shouted in a voice full of confidence.

And,

“Wait just a moment, meow!”

Theo ran outside. Se-jun had praised Iona because of the freezing storage feature, but Theo thought it was because she defeated the Purple Locusts.

“Hey! Where are you going?”

“Now, I will defeat all of Chairman Park’s enemies, meow!”

“What?!”

Something was ominous. Very ominous. It was clear that the stupid cat had misunderstood something.

“Get out of the way, meow!”

Meanwhile, Theo went outside, defeating the Purple Locusts entering the cave.

“Hey! Wait!”

Se-jun hurriedly called Theo and followed him out.

And when Se-jun followed Theo out through the rocky crevice,

“Gaeron, come out, meow!”

Theo was calling something. Simultaneously with Theo’s call, the frog-shaped rainbow gem on the necklace began to shine.

“Huh?! Chairman Park came out too, meow? Let’s go together, meow!”

As Theo, who found Se-jun, moved to where Se-jun was,

Rumble.

Centered around Theo’s feet, the ground turned into a black swamp, and something rose up. It was a giant frog with rainbow-colored stripes that was over 20 meters in size.

“A frog?”

“It’s my subordinate Gaeron, meow!”

Theo replied proudly.

Flutter. Flutter.

In the meantime, all the Purple Locusts that were in the surroundings swarmed in.

“Gaeron! Eliminate Chairman Park’s enemies, meow!”

Slurp.

At Theo’s command, as Gaeron flicked his giant tongue once, the tongue moved freely like a whip and devoured about 10,000 Purple Locusts in an instant.

As if there was some kind of stickiness on Gaeron’s tongue, the Purple Locusts stuck to Gaeron’s tongue could not escape.

Gulp.

Gaeron swallowed 10,000 Purple Locusts at once. Thereupon, Gaeron’s body became even more giant.

Slurp.

In the meantime, Gaeron stuck out his tongue again to hunt the Purple Locusts. Gaeron grew more giant every time he ate the Purple Locusts.

“Wow. That’s amazing.”

Se-jun said as he looked at Gaeron, who had grown to a size of 30 meters.

“Puhahat. How is it, meow?! From now on, I will defeat all of Chairman Park’s enemies, meow!”

Theo said boastfully.

But

“Do you think this is funny?”

Se-jun’s words were not a compliment.

“Meow?”

[Bug Hunter Gaeron, the slave of Guardian Theo, has defeated 200,000 Purple Locusts at once.]

[Guardian Theo acquires 90% of the experience points acquired by slave Bug Hunter Gaeron.]

[You have acquired 5,000,000 experience points, which is 50% of the experience points acquired by Guardian Theo.]

[You are in a level-up restricted state.]

[You cannot acquire indirect experience points.]

Se-jun said as he looked at the messages. The experience points were leaking out continuously, like pouring water into a bottomless pot.

“My experience points…”

“Chairman Park, why is your facial expression so rotten, meow? You should manage it, meow?”

While Theo was kneading Se-jun’s face with his front paws, completely unaware of Se-jun’s feelings,

Flutter. Flutter.

A huge purple wave was approaching from afar. Gaeron’s bulk was clearly visible from a distance, and even all the Purple Locusts at the waypoint flew toward Gaeron.

“Hey! Send him back quickly!”

“I understand, meow! Gaeron, come back, meow!”

At Theo’s command, Gaeron began to sink beneath the black swamp again.

And when Gaeron sank completely,

“President Theo! Plant quickly!”

“I understand, meow!”

Stab. Stab.

Se-jun and Theo hastily planted Sturdy Blade Green Onions at the entrance and around the entrance from the Subspace Warehouse, and hurriedly entered the rocky crevice that was the Jewel Frogs’ habitat.

As soon as Se-jun and Theo went inside the cave,

Flutter. Flutter.

The Purple Locusts swarmed toward the Sturdy Blade Green Onions.

At that moment,

Thud.

A Purple Locust fell down while eating the green onion. Here and there, similar phenomena began to occur in various places.

And near the collapsing Purple Locusts, there was the Detoxifying Green Onion. In his haste, Theo had planted them together without even looking.

When the Detoxifying Green Onion detoxified the poison of the Purple Locusts, the Purple Locusts instead died as if they had been poisoned.