Black Tower Administrative Area.

“Kuehehehe. Delicious.”

Aileen was taking a break while searching for powers of destruction using the destruction detector and was enjoying some Elixir: Cherry Tomato Imbued with Powerful Magic Power.

At that moment,

Wooong.

The crystal orb vibrated.

“What is it?”

Aileen shoved the remaining cherry tomatoes into her mouth and checked the crystal orb.

[Black Tower’s Farmer Park Sejun has achieved a great feat by being the first in the dimension protected by the tower to exterminate the first disaster locust.] [One of the growth conditions of the Black Tower, achieving three great feats, has been fulfilled.]

[One of the growth conditions of the Black Tower has been met.]

“Kuehehehe. That’s our Sejun!”

Aileen grinned broadly as she read the alert on the crystal orb. Six out of eight conditions for the Black Tower had been met.

Everything had been going well since she started working with Sejun.

“I too will become a noble and great Black Dragon worthy of our Sejun!”

So, Aileen decided to work even harder.

And

-Hakun oppa, I told you to come see the Dragon Market, why haven’t you come yet? Don’t tell me your parents said not to come? If that’s the case, I’m really disappointed. To think that you, like me, can’t even move against your parents wishes… you are such a w.e.a.k hatch. ling.”

Aileen began to write another letter provoking other hatchlings to come to the Dragon Market.

By the way, Aileen was the youngest of the nine dragon tribes’ hatchlings at 200 years old.

The hatchlings who received Aileen’s letter would likely come to the Dragon Market at least once to restore their pride.

***

[As a reward for the great feat, the crops grown by Black Tower’s Farmer Park Sejun can now absorb a very small amount of the power of destruction and convert it into nutrients.]

An additional reward message appeared.

Being able to absorb the power of destruction and turn it into nutrients. It was a good reward, though only a small amount could be absorbed.

“I just need to plant a lot.”

Sejun decided to go back to the 99th floor of the tower and plant the of Fenrir’s core fragment in the ground to try to remove the power of destruction from it.

And then,

“Hehehe. I’ve done something amazing.”

Sejun, who had eradicated the first disaster locust with green onions, wore a proud expression.

At that moment,

Clatter?

[Sejun~nim?]

The King of Farming, whose only skull was placed in front of Sejun, called out to him after overhearing Sejun talking to himself.

Uren was carrying the King of Farming in a bag on his back, along with other crying skeletons.

The King of Farming spotted Sejun as soon as he regained consciousness and

Clatter!

[Sejun~nim, I’m the King of Farming!]

He announced his identity.

Thanks to Sejun, the King of Farming was rescued and explained why he was there.

“So you’re saying you came to meet me on Goddess Leah’s orders, but they robbed you of all your money and grape seed oil, leaving you penniless?”

Clatter!

[Not they, it’s the Crying Skull Gang!]

Clatter!

[And they didn’t steal it, they used it for the great revolutionary fund!]

Clatter! Clatter…

[Yes! For the great cause of overthrowing the bone-ranking caste system…]

Koto and other subordinates protested fervently against Sejun’s words.

However

“Hak! Don’t talk back to Chairman Park, meow!”

Crack.

Theo hit their heads, silencing the Crying Skeleton Gang as their barely recovered skulls shattered again.

“But can you really summon Goddess Leah with that body?”

Clatter. Clatter.

[No, I need to be fully recovered to do that.]

“Is that so? Then we’ll have to wait.”

Even with Theo’s healing magic, Cuengi’s physical magic power massage, and Ajax’s recovery spell were of no use because the bones needed to be intricately assembled.

It seemed it would take about 5 hours to recover.

“But where are the money and grape seed oil? They weren’t with what Theo brought.”

Sejun watched as the King of Farming’s bone fragments were slowly being assembled and inquired about the items the King of Farming had brought.

Since the grape seed oil was almost depleted, Sejun’s attention was focused on the grape seed oil.

Clatter…

[Well, that’s…]

The King of Farming explained how he had been robbed of the money and grape seed oil by another thief.

Then

“Hak! Hak! How dare they touch Chairman Park’s money, meow!”

Theo got angry after hearing what the King of Farming said.

The amount was small as one million Tower Coins, but the amount was not important. What mattered was that someone had touched Sejun’s money.

“Only I, Vice Chairman Theo, can borrow and burn Chairman Park’s money, meow! And they dared to rob that money, meow!!!”

Theo absolutely could not forgive them.

“Where were they robbed, meow?!”

So, he asked the King of Farming where the location of the robbery had occurred to recover Sejun’s money.

Clatter.

[It was near the merchant’s passage on the 38th floor of the tower.]

The King of Farming recalled and mentioned the location where he had encountered the thieves.

The merchant’s passage near the 38th floor of the tower.

It was a vague description, but Theo had the slave-baiter Uren with him. Due to Uren’s sweet misfortune, the thieves would surely show up on their own.

And he would catch those thieves and turn them into slaves, and recover Sejun’s money and grape seed oil.

“Chairman Park, I will go and get the money back, meow!”

Theo hurriedly prepared to leave. Given that it was the 38th floor, he could return within about two hours.

“Vice Chairman Theo, make sure to find the grape seed oil too.”

“Got it, meow! Piyot, let’s go. Uren, you too, meow!”

Theo quickly moved out with Piyot and Uren.

Three hours later.

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, I have found the money and grape seed oil, meow!”

Theo had encountered ten teams of thieves and was delayed, but he managed to get the slave contract stamp from a hundred thieves and returned.

Indeed, the performance of the slave-baiter was outstanding.

“Welcome back. We were just having dinner.”

Though no one else was visible around except for Sejun and Fenrir, but

Ppyak!

[Delicious!]

Kuehehehe. Kueng!

[Hehehe. It’s tasty!]

“Aaack. This is really spicy! But it’s delicious!”

Sounds of Black Rabbit, Cuengi, Ajax, and hundreds of Blue-Backed Penguins enjoying the spicy homemade sujebi that Sejun made with freshwater shrimp could be heard.

It was due to the special effect of camouflage from the freshwater shrimp.

“Puhuhut. I, Vice Chairman Theo, want to eat grilled fish, meow!”

Theo quickly sat on Sejun’s lap,

“I knew you would, so I already prepared it. Here.”

“Puhuhut. This is grilled fish made with Chairman Park’s sincerity, meow!”

Theo received the grilled fish that Sejun had worked hard to grill and began to eat it deliciously.

“Uren, do you want to eat shrimp soup, and Piyot, do you want to eat walnuts?”

Ppip! Ppip!

[Yes! I want to eat!]

Sejun offered sujebi to Uren, who eats anything, and walnuts to Piyot, who likes nuts.

“Okay. Just a moment. Blackie, the walnut cracker, let’s get to work.”

As Sejun offered the Special Walnut of Training to Fenrir,

Kking!

‘It makes me stronger!’

Crunch.

Fenrir bit into the walnut and cracked it open.

Crunch.

Crunch.

“Here. Eat.”

Sejun cracked open five walnuts and scooped out the walnut inside the shell, and gave it to Piyot,

Kking!

‘Hey! You should give me something to eat too!’

“Alright, Blackie, eat this.”

In front of Sejun, Fenrir, who was eagerly barking at his food bowl, received some fish meat filleted by Sejun in his bowl.

And

“Hey! You guys leave some for me!”

Sejun quickly scooped out the remaining sujebi from the nearly empty pot into a bowl and began to eat.

Slurp.

“Ah, refreshing.”

Refreshed by the spicy and cool taste, Sejun sweated profusely as he ate the sujebi.

After Sejun finished eating the sujebi,

[You have consumed the Spicy and Refreshing Freshwater Shrimp Sujebi.]

[Special Effect: Camouflage makes you invisible for 30 minutes.]

Triggered by the effect of camouflage, Sejun disappeared.

A little later.

Kkihihit. Kking. Kking.

‘Heheh. I’m full. Now I need to ask my butler to pet my belly.’

Fenrir, having happily filled his belly with fish meat, looked around for Sejun.

But

Kking?!

‘Where did he go?!’

Thud, thud.

Not seeing Sejun, Fenrir began earnestly running around searching for him.

Kking! Kking?!

‘I can definitely smell him! Hey, where are you?!’

Fenrir pressed his nose to the ground and earnestly tracked Sejun’s scent.

And then,

Thump.

Fenrir, while still in camouflage, bumped into Cuengi’s behind and fainted. As expected, Fenrir was as fragile as a sunfish, just as Sejun had recognized.

Kueng? Kueng!

[Blackie, what are you doing here? Daddy, Blackie is sleeping here!]

Cuengi picked up the fainted Fenrir and delivered him to Sejun.

“Why is he sleeping here?”

Sejun placed Fenrir into the sling bag. Nobody thought that Fenrir had fainted.

After Sejun had dinner,

“”Okay. You just need to add a bucket of shrimp and a handful of salt and sprinkle it on.”

While he and his companions were preparing shrimp paste by adding freshwater shrimp and salt to a jar,

-Sejun. I am deeply disappointed…

Suddenly, the King of Farming, whose bone assembly had finished, spoke with golden eyes, conveying Leah’s feelings of being disappointment to Sejun.

“Huh? What did I do…?”

-You built a temple for the God of Pebbles, Peblos, didn’t you? And you didn’t build one for me?

“A temple?”

At Leah’s words, Sejun fell into thought for a moment. Ah… Is she he talking about the 3.3 square meter Peblos Road?

That was indeed all he had made for Peblos.

But… seeing her call the road a temple, it seemed like they couldn’t see this side at all from over there.

“I actually wanted to build your temple first, Leah~nim. But as you know, building a temple requires a lot of money.”

So he exaggerated a bit. Just using the Land Moving skill, he could easily make something like a road.

However, Sejun had a miraculous logic: using skills consumes magic power, using magic power makes him hungry, and filling his stomach requires money.

-Of course! Building a temple would indeed require a lot of money!

Leah agreed with Sejun’s words.

“Yes. But since Peblos nim offered me wealth, I had no choice but to build his temple first.”

-I see. Sejun, I will give you five bottles of Harvest Elixir as the cost for building my temple.

“Really?”

-That’s right! And… ahem. I hope my temple is bigger than Peblos’s and attracts more visitors.

Ah, foot traffic is also important.

Sejun, enriched by the good information from Leah.

“Of course! I’ll build a massive temple for you in a better location than Peblos nim’s temple!”

Five bottles of Harvest Elixir would be worth 50 billion Tower Coins…

He could just pave a 16.5 square meter stone engraved with Leah’s name on a path well-traveled by mushroom ants and call it Leah Road.

Sejun responded after making an estimate,

“Ah, but… do you have any other divine items like the Golden Box of Abundance?”

Sejun asked Leah if there were any more divine items.

-That… It’s difficult now, so I’ll give it to you later. Then for now…

Leah, unable to admit she couldn’t create it due to a lack of divine power, hastily tried to leave when

“Eh?! Aren’t you selling any Harvest Elixirs today?”

Sejun quickly called Leah back, thinking of buying a large amount of elixirs since he had plenty of money.

But

-…Those 5 potions just now were all I had.

Leah answered with a somber voice. Making elixirs required not only divine power but also time.

“Ah… then take this.”

Sejun, feeling uneasy about Leah’s response, took out 50 billion Tower Coins and handed them to Leah.

-Why this?

“I’ll take the temple costs later. Pay me back when you can.”

-Oh! Thank you, Park Sejun! You are very kind! I will surely repay this favor!

Leah spent all the time she could praising Sejun before returning.

And

[Your soul is fulfilled by the high praise from the God of Abundance, Leah.]

[Mental Strength increases by 10.]

Thanks to Leah’s praise, Sejun’s Mental Strength increased.

“Hehehe. I’ll have to treat her well and earn more praises next time.”

Sejun, thinking that he should also receive praise along with wealth the next time he meets the gods, placed the Harvest Elixir in the void storage and then said,

“Guys, let’s go home. Toryong!”

He called Toryong and prepare to return home.

***

The territory of the Great Golden Dragon.

“Eek! A mere 200-year-old dares to call me, the great Golden Dragon H, a weak hatchling?!”

Hokus, lying in a fluffy golden cradle, got worked up while reading Aileen’s letter.

“Hmph! I, Hokus, will show how strong a hatchling I am!”

Hokus resolved himself as he got out of the golden cradle.

And

“Waaaaah! Mom-! I want to go to the Black Tower!”

He started crying and whining loudly.

*****