Chapter 98 – Open the Harvest Festival of Abundance (2)

“Where do I get the remaining crops?”

While Se-jun was thinking about it while harvesting the remaining carrots,

Pyupyu!

Byaa!

Bbap!

Squeak!

Hearing the news, other rabbits also gathered in front of the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar.

And,

‘Mr. Se-jun will be able to do it!’

‘Mr. Se-jun can do it!’

‘I believe in you! Mr. Se-jun!’

The rabbits began to look at Se-jun with expectant eyes.

Burning.

The hot gazes felt from the back of his head. Se-jun could not bring himself to look back.

‘So burdensome.’

He wanted to escape from this place quickly.

Crunch, crunch.

[You have consumed an Agility Carrot.]

[Agility increases by 0.5 for 10 minutes by decomposing 30g of fat.]

So Se-jun harvested carrots while eating carrots that increased the agility stat to speed up the work. Thanks to that, he achieved the feat of harvesting all 15,000 carrots in just two hours.

And he quickly left the carrot field where the giant carrot altar was located and checked other crops.

However, the Corn of Stamina, Corn of Exploding Stamina, and pineapple had not even bloomed yet.

“What should I do?”

For the rabbits who looked wistfully at the giant carrot altar, Se-jun definitely wanted to host the Harvest Festival of Abundance.

At that moment,

“Ah!”

Se-jun thought of the Ents. Since Ent seeds could be eaten, they might be treated as crops. Furthermore, since they said their numbers had increased, it seemed he could easily get about 100 purification seeds.

“Cuengi!”

Kkueng!

At Se-jun’s call, Cuengi ran over.

“Let’s go to the western forest!”

Kkueng!

At Se-jun’s words, Cuengi giantized. In the meantime, Cuengi had grown again, and his height was exceeding 15 meters.

Grab.

Cuengi lifted Se-jun up, placed him on top of his head, and took a stance to run on all fours.

“Chairman Park, sit down quickly, meow. You will fall.”

“Okay.”

When Se-jun sat on Cuengi’s back at the words of Theo, who was hanging onto his knee, Theo also lay down on Se-jun’s lap.

And,

“Open it, meow!”

Theo quietly handed over a Churu. He had an ulterior motive for making Se-jun sit.

Rip.

“Here.”

When Se-jun opened the Churu and gave it to Theo,

Chwap, chwap, chwap.

Theo began to lick and eat the Churu diligently.

But,

Kkueng!

[I also want to eat food-da-yo!]

Because of Theo eating the Churu, the greedy Cuengi also demanded food.

“I’ll give Cuengi honey when we arrive. Okay?”

Kkueng!

[Understood-da-yo!]

Thud, thud.

Cuengi began to run quickly towards the western forest on all fours.

A moment later.

Thanks to Cuengi, who was filled with the single thought of arriving quickly to eat honey, they arrived at the western forest just twenty minutes after departing.

The center of the western forest was still trapped in the ice wall made by Iona’s magic, Avalanche.

However,

“Wow. What is all this?”

Se-jun was surprised as he looked at the entrance of the western forest, which was completely different from before. Green grass was growing where the wasteland once was.

And,

Budeuk, budeuk.

Budeudeuk, budeudeuk.

Ents, big and small, walking around the western forest. In the few days Se-jun was gone, the number of Ents had increased tremendously. Almost 1,000 of them.

Munch, munch.

The Ents were eating the trees that were still left in large numbers.

While Se-jun was watching the Ents like that,

Kkueng!

Cuengi, who had shrunk back, pulled out his empty glass jar and called Se-jun.

“Alright.”

Clank.

Having received the empty glass jar from Cuengi, Se-jun opened the void storage, put the empty glass jar in, and pulled out a glass jar full of honey.

“Here. Take this.”

Kkueng!

Receiving the new honey, Cuengi cheered and quickly opened the glass jar and began to scoop and eat the honey.

At that moment,

Budeudeuk, budeudeuk.

The largest Ent among them, with a size of 5 meters, approached. It was the Strong Purification Ent born first.

Tap.

The Strong Purification Ent placed a branch on Se-jun’s shoulder,

[Lord… Se-jun… there is… fire… harassing… us.]

It began to complain about the fire that was harassing them.

“Fire?”

Now that he thought about it, there were burn marks here and there on the Ents’ bodies.

“I see. If that fire appears again next time, tell me. Also, I need about 100 of your seeds.”

[Under…stood…]

A moment later,

Budeuk, budeuk.

Young Ents with white seeds formed on their heads came to Se-jun and poked their heads out.

[Pick… the seed… for me…]

“Yes.”

Pluck.

When Se-jun picked the seed growing on the Ent’s head,

[You have obtained the Purifying Ent’s Seed.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 3 increases significantly.]

[Thank… you…]

It was an Ent that expressed gratitude to Se-jun and returned to eat trees again.

After about two hours passed in that way, he was able to collect 98 Purifying Seeds.

“What should I do for the remaining one?”

While Se-jun was waiting for the Ents with seeds to form, contemplating which crop to offer to the giant carrot altar,

Budeuk, budeuk.

Budeudeuk, budeudeuk.

The Ents began to move busily, picking up branches that had fallen on the ground.

And the Strong Purification Ent approached Se-jun.

“What’s going on all of a sudden?”

Se-jun asked, placing his hand on the body of the Strong Purification Ent.

[The fire… has come.]

Kieeeek!

At the same time, a shriek was heard from the south.

“Theo, Cuengi, let’s go check it out.”

“Understood, meow!”

Kkueng!

Se-jun, who was anxious about going alone, took Theo and Cuengi as bodyguards and followed the Ents to the south.

Kieeeek!

The shriek continued to be heard throughout the movement.

“Guys. Should we stick close?”

“That’s good, meow!”

Kkueng!

Frightened, Se-jun moved while pressing Cuengi and Theo close to himself.

When Se-jun arrived at the very front of the line of Ents where the shriek was heard,

“Fire ants?”

He could see the Ents fighting 100 red ants with a size of 1 meter. The fight was the Ents’ one-sided disadvantage.

Most of the young Ents were much smaller in size than 1 meter,

Kieeeek!

Crunch.

The red ants cut the Ents’ bodies with their powerful jaws after suppressing the Ents with their large bodies.

At that moment,

Budeudeuk, budeudeuk.

As the giant Ents approached to block the red ants, the red ants attacked the Ents by spewing fire like a flamethrower from their two antennae.

Whoosh.

The Ents’ bodies began to burn in the fire spewed by the red ants from their antennae.

“Create Rainclouds! Rain!”

Shuaaa.

Se-jun hurriedly made it rain, putting out the fire caught on the Ents’ bodies.

Pssss.

“Where did these things appear from?”

In this damn 99th floor of the tower, something new kept appearing.

“Sigh. Just how many died…”

Looking at the battle, he got the thought that the original number of Ents must have been much larger than now. Many Ents had died from the ants’ attacks.

“Guys! Attack!”

“Come out! Gaeron!”

Kkueng!

At Se-jun’s instruction, the animals attacked the red ants.

Ribbit!

The ground beneath Theo’s feet turned into a black swamp, and Gaeron with a size of 30 meters appeared.

And,

Goooo.

He sucked in the rain Se-jun made with his mouth, then

-Water Cannon!

Fwoosh.

And spewed it towards the ants.

Chwaaaak!

Although the power of the water spewed by Gaeron was of immense power to the point of penetrating even rocks, the ants’ exoskeletons withstood Gaeron’s attack without much difficulty.

Instead, their insides, which could not withstand the water pressure, began to be destroyed first.

[Guardian Theo’s slave bug hunter Gaeron has defeated a Fire Ant Worker.]

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

[You have acquired 450 experience points, which is 50% of the experience points acquired by Guardian Theo.]

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Kkueng!

Furthermore, as Cuengi, who transformed into his giant form, began to stomp the Fire Ant Workers to death, the fight ended in no time.

Se-jun examined the exoskeleton of the Fire Ant Worker. Seeing it withstand even Gaeron’s attack, he grew interested. Of course, it was turned to powder under Cuengi’s stomp.

Ting.

Ding.

When he stabbed it hard with a dagger, the exoskeleton dented slightly and vibrated. It seemed to disperse the shock to the surroundings.

“This might be useful.”

He thought it would be decent if made into defensive gear.

“I should pack a few.”

Se-jun packed several carcasses of the Fire Ant Workers into the void storage.

After the battle ended,

“Rain!”

Se-jun had Cuengi dig the ground to make a long trench so that the Fire Ant Workers could not easily approach. This was because when he made it rain earlier, he had noticed that the Fire Ant Workers were reluctant to let water touch their bodies.

After making the trench like that, when Se-jun was returning,

Budeudeuk, budeudeuk.

[Lord… Se-jun… pick… the seed… for me…]

An Ent with a size of 2 meters approached to ask him to pick the 5 seeds grown on its head. It was the Ent that Se-jun had saved from the flames earlier.

Seureuk, seureuk.

Tickling Se-jun’s body with its branches, it seemed to be showing some affection.

Thwack!

“Don’t try anything funny, meow!”

Theo, wary of the Ent, threw a punch towards the Ent’s branch.

Slap.

Then, the Ent hit Theo with another branch arm.

“Hiss! How dare you touch me, President Theo, meow?! Let’s fight, meow!”

Jump.

Angry, Theo jumped towards the branch, but

Whoosh.

The Ent avoided him by moving the branch greatly.

“Nyang!”

Pababak.

Theo moved even more diligently, chasing the branch.

Whoosh, whoosh.

The Ent avoided Theo’s front paws by moving the branch greatly once this way, once that way. Ultimately fooled, Theo ran around diligently by himself.

Pluck.

[You have obtained 5 Purifying Ent’s Seeds.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 3 increases significantly.]

[The level increases as the proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 3 is filled.]

In the meantime, Se-jun harvested the 5 seeds from the Ent’s head, raising the Seed Harvesting skill level to 4.

And,

-With a low probability, the number of seeds obtained when harvesting seeds increases by 2 to 5 times.

A new effect was added to the level 4 Seed Harvesting skill.

“Let’s go now.”

“It was a good match, meow! See you next time, meow!”

Although he had been toyed with by the Ent, whether he knew it or not, Theo’s expression was very satisfied.

“Now I only need to get one more.”

Se-jun fell into thought while returning home. On the way back, since Cuengi was in no hurry either, they moved slowly.

When they returned home like that,

Squeak!

Pyupyu!

The Black Rabbit and Pyupyu, who were waiting for Se-jun, got angry at Se-jun, asking where he had been.

“No… I went to get crops.”

Squeak?

[All 10 crops are right here, so where are you going?]

The Black Rabbit spoke, feeling frustrated.

“All 10 are here?!”

Squeak!

The Black Rabbit nodded and led Se-jun to the carrot field.

With an expression questioning what kind of nonsense that was, Se-jun followed the Black Rabbit. And then, he saw the crops placed in front of the giant carrot altar.

“Huh?! This is?!”

There were two unseen crops among the crops. They were a well-ripened red strawberry and a glossy green Cheongyang chili pepper.

“Ah! Why didn’t I see this?!”

Se-jun only then remembered that he had bought 100 strawberry and Cheongyang chili pepper seeds along with 20,000 carrot seeds when the 5th Seed Shop opened on the 215th day of being stranded.

Squeak!

“What? They were hidden by the corn? I see.”

Why he did not discover the strawberry and the Cheongyang chili pepper was no longer important. There was something else that was important.

“Sluurp.”

Just looking at the strawberry made his mouth water. He desperately wished he could taste it, but because of the sharp gazes of the rabbits monitoring Se-jun from behind, he could not bring himself to eat it.

‘Right. This comes first.’

When Se-jun came to his senses, approached the giant carrot altar, and placed his hand on it,

[Would you like to offer crops to the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar?]

“Yes.”

Along with Se-jun’s answer, the crops began to be sucked into the giant carrot altar one type by one.

And the alarm appearing in front of Se-jun.

[100 of 1 type of crop has been offered.]

[100 each of 2 types of crops have been offered.]

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[100 each of 10 types of crops have been offered.]

[The quest has been completed.]

[The Harvest Festival of Abundance is hosted as the quest completion reward.]

[The Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar randomly summons 1,000 rabbits of the Rabbit Tribe to enjoy the Harvest Festival of Abundance.]

[The Blessing of Abundance is bestowed upon the entire floor where the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar is located.]

[You have acquired the Job Skill – Crop Giantization Lv. 1 as the quest completion reward.]

Finally, the Harvest Festival of Abundance was hosted.

Squeak!

Byaa!

Squeak!

Pyupyu!

While Se-jun was watching the rabbits cheer,

“Huh?!”

The Ent seeds Se-jun had put in his pocket were sucked into the giant carrot altar.

[100 each of 11 types of crops have been offered.]

[The Harvest Festival of Abundance is enhanced to the Harvest Festival Overflowing with Abundance and Mana.]