Chapter 97 – Open the Harvest Festival of Abundance (1)

“Now. Go and review.”

(Yes!)

Having taught all the consonants and vowels to the Golden Bat, Se-jun prepared breakfast.

“Today, I should try cooking with the new green onions.”

Se-jun took out the Detoxifying Green Onion, which had slaughtered the swarm of poisonous insects on the 67th floor of the tower, frozen Purple Locusts, and carrots from the void storage.

Since he planned to only harvest diligently today to complete his job quest, he chose the carrot, which increased agility, as the main ingredient.

In that way, the dish was completed.

[Enhanced Purple Chef’s Carrot Soup has been completed.]

[The proficiency of Cooking Lv. 4 increases slightly.]

Perhaps because he used a high-grade green onion, the word ‘Enhanced’ was added in front of the dish.

“Oh! The duration increased to one hour!”

The duration of the effect that increased agility by 10.5 upon consumption was doubled from 30 minutes to one hour. Of course, the taste was good beyond words.

“Everyone, let’s eat.”

Having tasted it, Se-jun called the animals.

“How do I feed this to them?”

Now he had to convince the rabbits that this purple soup was delicious.

Wudadada.

The rabbits ran over at Se-jun’s call to eat.

Squeak…

Byaa…

Bbap…

As Se-jun expected, the rabbits’ expressions were not good upon seeing the purple soup. Some rabbits even sent suspicious glances, wondering if he was playing tricks with the food.

Squeak!

Pyupyu!

Fortunately, the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu, who had tasted it first, told the rabbits it was delicious and ate the soup, so the other rabbits overcame their aversion and began to taste the soup one by one.

Kkueng!

In particular, Cuengi’s contribution was significant.

Gulp!

Kkueng!

As Cuengi downed the soup in one shot and devoured it quickly, the rabbits ate the soup out of a sense of crisis that the food might disappear.

In that way, the combative breakfast ended,

“Okay. Shall I harvest the cherry tomatoes?”

When Se-jun was about to move to the cherry tomato field,

Squeak!

The father rabbit blocked Se-jun’s path and pointed in another direction.

Byaa!

Bbap!

Byayat!

There, the White Rabbits, who had eaten breakfast, were staring at the sweet potato field where 6,500 sweet potatoes were planted with determined expressions. Originally, they had planted 10,000, but only about 65% of them grew properly.

“Excuse me? There are still about ten days left until harvesting the sweet potato field.”

As far as Se-jun knew, there was still time left until the harvest.

But

Squeak!

At Se-jun’s words, the father rabbit shook his head.

And,

Tap.

Squeak, squeak.

[Since Se-jun brought that stone, the harvest time for all crops on the farm has speeded up. Once the sweet potato field harvest is over, we have to harvest other crops too.]

The father rabbit, who put his hand on Se-jun’s leg, pointed at the fragment of the sacred stone monument placed in front of Se-jun’s house and spoke.

Thanks to the divine power flowing from the fragment of the sacred stone monument that benefited the surroundings, the growth period of the crops was being shortened.

“Really? Then I should harvest the sweet potatoes first.”

Se-jun moved to the sweet potato field. For Se-jun, who had to use the harvesting skill 100,000 times for his job quest, having a lot to harvest was a welcome event.

“I will take charge of the harvesting with Theo, the Black Rabbit, and Cuengi, so you guys take care of other farming chores.”

Squeak?!

Byaa?!

Bbap?!

At Se-jun’s words, the White Rabbits were greatly flustered. The sweet potatoes to be harvested today from the sweet potato field were approximately 250,000. In weight, it exceeded 100 tons. They had not made determined expressions for nothing.

Yet the four of them would do it? The White Rabbits could not help but be flustered.

However, after watching Se-jun, Theo, Cuengi, and the Black Rabbit harvest the sweet potatoes,

Squeak.

Byaa.

Bbap.

The White Rabbits nodded, accepting Se-jun’s words, and moved to do their own work.

When Se-jun grabbed the sweet potato vine with his right hand and pulled,

Udeudeudeuk.

Sweet potatoes were dragged up along the sweet potato vine. Unfortunately, even if he harvested thirty to forty sweet potatoes at once, the count of using the harvesting skill was counted only once.

“Here. Take this.”

Se-jun put the harvested sweet potatoes into the void storage that followed him. This was also a function added by Iona.

“Is it my turn, meow?”

Pababak.

When Se-jun put the sweet potatoes into the void storage, Theo, who was waiting inside the storage, cut the sweet potatoes from the vines with his claws and put them into wooden boxes,

Squeak!

And the Black Rabbit replaced the wooden boxes filled with sweet potatoes with empty ones and stacked the filled boxes in the warehouse.

Although the explanation was long, the work speed was fast enough that one box of sweet potatoes was filled in 30 seconds. It was thanks to the carrot soup they ate in the morning.

And Cuengi…

“Heup! Cuengi!”

Helped with the harvesting of giant sweet potatoes that appeared from time to time.

Kkueng!

At Se-jun’s call, Cuengi, who had been eating honey nearby, ran over and pulled the sweet potato vine that Se-jun was holding together.

“Pull!”

Kkuueeng!

As they pulled the sweet potato vine together at Se-jun’s signal,

Crack.

The ground cracked, and a giant sweet potato with a size of 3 meters was pulled out from the ground.

[You have harvested a Giant Honey Sweet Potato.]

[92,967 times remaining until the completion of the job quest.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 4 increases slightly.]

[You have acquired 30 experience points.]

“I should give this to the Bull Demon King.”

It was already the third giant honey sweet potato. The first was given to Aileen, and the second was given to the mother Crimson Giant Bear.

In that way, Se-jun was able to harvest all the sweet potatoes before eating lunch.

For lunch, they decided to eat roasted sweet potatoes for the first time in a long time.

Tadak, tadak.

Pour.

Se-jun poured 2,000 sweet potatoes wrapped in green onion leaves into a huge bonfire he had lit in the sweet potato field. Not wanting to hold back, he spared no quantity to let everyone taste proper roasted sweet potatoes.

Once the 2,000 roasted sweet potatoes were completed,

[The Tower Administrator shouts, “Roasted sweet potato! Roasted sweet potato!”]

Aileen, who was waiting for the roasted sweet potatoes to be completed, spoke to him.

“Here. Take this.”

Se-jun put 500 roasted sweet potatoes in a large pot, which was Aileen’s soup bowl, and handed it over.

[······]

And Aileen was silent. It was clear that she was diligently peeling the roasted sweet potatoes while getting soot on her face.

‘But if she’s a black dragon, does it not show even if soot gets on her?’

While Se-jun was having useless thoughts,

Pour.

The mother Crimson Giant Bear emptied the large pot containing her roasted sweet potatoes into her mouth.

Munch.

Gulp.

Because it was too soft, the mother Crimson Giant Bear simply swallowed it.

Kueong!

As if she would not make a mistake this time, she picked up the second large pot.

Squeak!

Byaa!

Squeak!

Pyupyu!

The rabbits also began to eat the roasted sweet potatoes diligently, getting soot on their faces.

Kkueng!

Cuengi roughly peeled the roasted sweet potatoes and ate them ten at a time. Thanks to that, the roasted sweet potatoes disappeared quickly.

“Ah!”

When Se-jun, who belatedly came to his senses while watching the disappearing roasted sweet potatoes, was diligently blowing wind on the roasted sweet potatoes to cool them down,

“Huh?”

He felt a gaze from somewhere.

“It’s not the Golden Bat.”

He wondered if someone was hiding and watching again, but

Squeak!

(Oh! I see! Brother!)

The Golden Bat was learning how to eat roasted sweet potatoes from the Black Rabbit.

“Then who is it?”

Se-jun looked around his surroundings, then stared at the black dragon statue spitting water while looking forward.

‘Is it not?’

Se-jun looked at the roasted sweet potatoes again, then

Swish.

He quickly looked at the black dragon statue. And their gazes locked.

-Wh… what is it?! What are you looking at!!!

Kaiser got angry for no reason, perhaps feeling guilty about something.

‘How dishonest.’

Se-jun put roasted sweet potatoes in a basket and went up to the fountain.

“Kaiser, please eat some of this.”

-Hmph. I will specifically try eating it considering your sincerity in bringing it all the way here!

Contrary to his words that he was reluctant but would eat considering Se-jun’s sincerity, the black dragon statue poured the roasted sweet potatoes in the basket into his mouth all at once.

Once he took care of Kaiser as well and returned to his seat,

“Huh?!”

Not a single roasted sweet potato was left. These guys ate everything without leaving even one, how cheap!

When Se-jun was about to gather the animals,

“Chairman Park! I kept Chairman Park’s roasted sweet potato warm, meow!”

Theo spoke in a proud voice that said ‘I did well, right?’ while showing the yellow roasted sweet potato he was harboring in his chest.

However, because he had kindly peeled the roasted sweet potato, Theo’s fur was sticking all over it.

When Se-jun was contemplating whether to eat that or not,

“Chairman Park, your face looks rotten again, meow! Try eating this, meow. I will massage your face a bit, meow!”

Theo handed over the roasted sweet potato covered in fur and started kneading.

Squeeze, squeeze.

Ultimately, Se-jun had to pick the fur off the roasted sweet potato and eat it while receiving Theo’s kneading.

However,

“Tpeh! Tpeh!”

No matter how much he picked it off, since the culprit who was fluttering fur all over was right next to him, he could not completely prevent chewing the roasted sweet potato along with the fur.

After ending the hard lunch, Se-jun moved the sweet potatoes that were in the void storage to the storage warehouse built next to the house without even having nap time. It was to hold other crops.

Because the storage warehouse was built large, he transported the sweet potatoes several times, but it was not even one-tenth full.

“Now. Next is the potato field!”

Se-jun hurriedly moved to the potato field where about 3,000 potatoes were planted. The schedule today was incredibly tight. As it turned out, after the potatoes, he also had to harvest 15,000 carrots.

Still, if he finished today’s harvest, it seemed he could complete 30% of the job quest.

After quickly finishing the potato harvest in that way, Se-jun and the animals moved to the carrot field.

And,

Pull, pull.

When they were harvesting carrots diligently,

“Ugh! Cuengi!”

A carrot that could not be pulled out by Se-jun’s strength appeared. It was a giant carrot.

Kkueng!

At Se-jun’s call, Cuengi ran over.

And as they pulled the carrot stem together, joining forces with Cuengi,

Crack.

The ground cracked, and a giant carrot with a size of 3 meters appeared.

However, this time it was a slightly different giant crop.

The giant carrot was floating in the air. And there was a red ribbon pattern in the center of the giant carrot.

[You have harvested the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar.]

[87,818 times remaining until the completion of the job quest.]

[Your job experience increases significantly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 4 increases significantly.]

[The level increases as the proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 4 is filled.]

[You have acquired 10,000 experience points.]

“Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar?”

It was a crop with a strange name.

Squeak?!

The Black Rabbit was surprised upon seeing the giant golden carrot. That was?!

It was that very legendary carrot that he had only heard about from his father.

At that moment,

[A quest has occurred.]

[Quest: Offer 100 of each of 10 or more types of crops to the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar within 24 hours and open the Harvest Festival of Abundance!]

Reward: Hosting the Harvest Festival of Abundance, Job Skill – Crop Giantization Lv. 1

A quest appeared in front of Se-jun.

“Harvest Festival of Abundance? Crop Giantization?”

While Se-jun was reading the quest,

Squeak! Squeak!

The Black Rabbit called the father rabbit over in excitement.

And,

Squeak!!!

The father rabbit, who ran over with the Black Rabbit, was deeply moved upon seeing the golden carrot. He had never thought he would be able to see the golden carrot again since the fall of the Red Ribbon Kingdom.

Now, they might even be able to revive the Red Ribbon Kingdom again.

While the father rabbit was touched looking at the golden carrot,

“Ten or more types of crops?”

Se-jun counted the number of crops he possessed.

“Honey Sweet Potato, Solar Honey Sweet Potato, Potato, Carrot, Cherry Tomato, Detoxifying Green Onion, Sturdy Blade Green Onion, Peanut. Huh?! There are eight?”

They were short of two crops to complete the quest.