TL: Hanguk
Black Tower Administrator Area.
[Black Tower 4th Floor Flesh Eater Extermination Contributions]
1st – Park Sejun (19,920,042 monsters)
2nd – Han Tae-jun (3,312 monsters)
3rd – Leon (2,134 monsters)
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“Khehehehe. Everyone, keep it up.”
Aileen cheered for those fighting hard on the 4th floor of the tower while looking at Sejun’s contribution displayed on the crystal orb.
Khehehehe. If we take down just 10 million more, I can buy a Power to make our Sejun even stronger!
While Powers could be purchased with money, Aileen aimed for a special Power that could only be acquired through contributions.
[Mid-level Administrator of the Black Tower and Tower Farmer Park Sejun’s contribution have increased by 1 point.]
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“Khehehehe. It’s rising well.”
While Aileen was playing by herself while watching Sejun’s contribution points go up like that,
Thud.
Several dragons entered the administrator area. They were parent dragons and hatchlings.
“Aileen, where are you?!”
“Aileen, Hokus oppa is here!”
“Your Sylvia unnie is here too!”
As soon as the hatchlings arrived at the Black Tower, they ran towards Aileen, calling out for her.
“Ah. I was having fun just now…”
Aileen put down the crystal orb and went to greet the guests.
“Welcome, unnie, oppas!”
“Aileen, you must have been bored by yourself, right?!”
“Huh?!”
“We’ll play with you!”
Aileen was taken aback by the hatchlings who were eager to play with her.
No, I’m not bored. Watching my Sejun’s contribution rise is so much fun.
“I, Hokus Yul, will make sure you’re not bored!”
“What are you talking about?! Sylvia will play with Aileen and have fun!”
“No way! I will play with her!”
The hatchlings argued over who would play with Aileen, not knowing her thoughts.
‘How can I get unnie and oppas to play together without fighting?’
In the meantime, Aileen thought of a way for everyone to play together. If she played with just one hatchling, the others would sulk.
If the sulking hatchlings didn’t visit the Black Tower, it would mean a decline in Sejun’s crop sales.
That can’t happen!
Sales that have gone up once must never go down. Never!
They needed a game that everyone could play together.
Ah! That will work!
“Unnie, oppas, let’s play hide-and-seek!”
Aileen suggested to the hatchlings, who were still arguing.
“Hide-and-seek?”
“What’s that?”
“Never heard of it.”
The hatchlings were intrigued by the new game.
“Hide-and-seek is…”
Aileen explained the rules of hide-and-seek.
Of course, Aileen learned about hide-and-seek from Sejun.
In the past, Sejun, wanting some alone time, played hide-and-seek with the tower members, intending to hide and not come out.
However, he was found immediately.
Puhuhut. Found you, meow!
Since the seeker was Theo, getting caught was inevitable. This was before Sejun knew Theo had a Sejun detector.
Thus, Sejun became the seeker right away.
As he wandered around looking for the hidden ones, he realized that if he didn’t find them, he could have alone time by himself.
But
Kueng! Kueng!
[Cuengi’s hungry, and can’t hide anymore!]
Because Sejun wasn’t looking for him, Cuengi cried out, and the hide-and-seek ended.
‘Khehehehe. Sejun was really funny back then.’
Aileen laughed as she recalled Sejun’s flustered expression.
“So we just have to hide without using magic?”
“Yes, Hakun oppa.”
“Oh! That sounds fun!”
“Then I, Garrick will be the seeker!”
Fortunately, the hatchlings showed interest in hide-and-seek.
“Then hide quickly! I’ll start counting! One, two…”
As Garrick covered his eyes and started counting,
“Aileen, hide with me!”
“Hakun hyung, you’re too big. We’ll get caught if we hide together. So Aileen come with me.”
The hatchlings began to fight over who would hide with Aileen.
At that moment,
“Hehehe. I, Sylvia am the smallest here! So, Aileen will hide with Sylvia! Let’s go, Aileen!”
Sylvia grabbed Aileen’s hand and ran.
Thus, Aileen ended up hiding with Sylvia.
“Aileen, just trust me!”
“Okay.”
She followed the confident Sylvia.
But since Sylvia had never played hide-and-seek before, she didn’t hide well.
“Sylvia unnie, you were about to go over there, right? That’s a really good idea!”
Aileen subtly suggested a hiding place to Sylvia.
“Huh?! Of course! I know, since I am your unnie! Hehehe.”
Sylvia, pleased with Aileen’s words, managed to find a good hiding spot as Aileen intended.
After playing hide-and-seek for a while, the hatchlings became hungry.
“Let’s eat something.”
“Sure.”
The hatchlings wanted a snack.
“Aileen, can you give us some garaetteoks with honey?”
“We want some dried sweet potatoes.”
“We want roasted corn…”
The parents began to buy snacks from Aileen.
Playtime was playtime, and business was business. Aileen was thorough in separating the two.
‘Khehehehe. This works well too.’
Aileen, back to being a seller from a pampered youngest, smiled as she sold Sejun’s food.
The parent dragons were also very satisfied with the situation. Since the hatchlings were playing among themselves, they could relax.
“Should we meet at the Black Tower regularly from now on?”
“That sounds good.”
While the parents were planning their future gatherings,
“Let’s play hide-and-seek again!”
The hatchlings, having finished their snacks, started playing again.
“This time, Aileen is the seeker, so unnie and oppas, hide quickly!”
Initially, Aileen thought she was just being playful with her unnie and oppas.
“One, two, three…”
As Aileen, counted with her eyes closed, her face was soon filled with genuine joy.
***
70th floor of the tower.
“Where are your comrades, meow?!”
“I will never tell you!”
“Speak, meow!”
Despite Theo’s pressure, the skeleton didn’t reveal the location of its comrades.
“Vice Chairman Theo, don’t get too worked up. If we find their thumbs, we can make them talk.”
Once they become slaves, their thinking will have no choice but to change.
“Puhuhut. As expected, Chairman Park is smart, meow!”
Following Sejun’s advice, Theo quickly found the skeletons’ thumbs and started stamping the contracts.
“Guys, let’s help out too.”
Sejun and the others also found the thumbs and stamped the contracts.
Several hours passed like that.
“Oh, my back. Ugh!”
Sejun, who had been diligently finding thumbs and stamping, stood up and stretched widely.
“Meeeow.”
Kuueeeng.
Kyuuu.
Piyooot.
“Ugh!”
His companions stretched along with him.
“This is harder than collecting treasure.”
Sejun looked at the towering piles of sorted thumbs and said.
With so many skeletons, finding and stamping the thumbs was an enormous task. There were still many unchecked bones left.
At that moment,
Grooowl.
Cuengi’s stomach rumbled. It was dinner time.
Since finishing today seemed impossible, the remaining work would have to be done tomorrow.
“Let’s eat first. Vice Chairman Theo, please catch some fish.”
“Got it, meow!”
Following Sejun’s instructions, Theo hunted fish from the moat, and Sejun prepared and grilled them deliciously.
“As expected, fish grilled with Chairman Park’s care is the best, meow!”
Kueng!
[It’s delicious!]
Kking! Kking!
‘More! Give me more!’
While the group enjoyed their grilled fish,
Swish. Swish.
A pile of fish bones quickly accumulated.
Then,
Crunch. Crunch.
A strange noise came from the pile of fish bones.
“Huh?”
“What is it, meow?”
Kueng?
When Sejun got up to check the pile of bones,
“A skeleton?”
There, a skeleton’s skull was munching happily on fish bones.
“Meow? That’s the guy who didn’t tell us his comrade’s location earlier, meow!”
Theo recognized the skeleton and said.
“Really?”
Now that he thought about it, they still hadn’t found that skeleton’s thumb bone.
“You like this, huh?”
Sejun said as he moved the surrounding fish bones out of the skeleton’s reach.
Then,
“Ah…”
The skeleton visibly showed its disappointment. It seemed willing to do anything as long as it could eat the fish bones.
“Hehehe. I have a lot of this.”
Sejun said as he took out the fish bones he had stored for making broth from the Void Storage.
The skeleton mimicked swallowing. Though it couldn’t actually swallow, it acted like it did.
“If you stamp this contract, I’ll give you one of these fish bones every day. How about it? If you want to stamp, move your thumb bone.”
When Sejun said this to the skeleton,
Rattle, rattle.
Suddenly, the sound of moving thumb bones was heard from all around. The skeleton in front of him wasn’t the only one who wanted the fish bones.
As a result, the maintenance cost for the skeletons went from zero to one fish bone a day, but it was no burden at all.
“As expected, Chairman Park is a genius, meow!”
“Aha. Doing this much is nothing…”
Sejun modestly replied to Theo’s praise, but internally,
Heheh. Maybe I really am a genius?
He felt incredibly proud.
A little while later.
They found and stamped the contract on all the moving thumb bones.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, Anis says there are many slaves on the 96th floor of the tower, meow!”
Theo had found out the location of more comrades from Anis, the leader of the skeleton mages.
“The 96th floor of the tower?”
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. The 96th floor of the tower is ruled by Regius, the Lord of Bones, who is considered sacred even among the sacred bones!”
“Really? But we’re stronger, right?”
Sejun asked Iona, slightly uneasy due to the impressive title of Lord of Bones.
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Of course! We’re more than enough! If you’re worried, should we call the Minotaur King and the Black Minotaurs?”
“Should we?”
Feeling uneasy, Sejun immediately nodded.
“Then I will contact the Minotaur King right away?”
“No. We need to go to the 68th floor first, so contact them later.”
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Yes!”
After finishing his conversation with Iona, Sejun played with Theo, Cuengi, and Fenrir before falling asleep.
***
99th Floor of the Golden Tower.
[The third event of the Harvest Festival, the Cherry Tomato Juice Drinking Contest, will begin shortly.]
[Participants who wish to join the contest, please gather in front of the High Elf’s Giant Cherry Tomato Altar.]
“What?!”
“Not alcohol, but juice?”
The elves, who were expecting alcohol, were taken aback.
“No way!”
Cecilia was no different.
“Yay!”
Instead, young elves who could now participate cheered.
And then,
“Ugh… I’m so full…”
Cecilia came in last place again.
But the ‘Honey-infused Magical Cherry Tomato Juice’ was really delicious.
Cecilia smiled, recalling the taste of the juice she had just drunk.
However,
“But… the rewards will be even tastier, right? I’m so jealous.”
Thinking about the rewards, she quickly became sad.
“Oh! It’s the rewards!”
Meanwhile, the winners of the contest received their prizes.
“Horrible Cherry Tomato Goblin Whiskey?”
It was an S-grade alcohol made by mixing Sejun’s cherry tomatoes with the horrible goblin whiskey that Orik had brought to the Brown Tower.
Thanks to this, Orik gained immense recognition from the Red Goblin tribe, but for the elves, it was a disaster.
“Let’s at least try it. Despite the name, it must taste good!”
“Yeah.”
The winners who drank the rewarded alcohol ended up vomiting everything and passed out.
“Phew. Thank goodness.”
Cecilia was grateful she didn’t win.
Later, when the winners woke up, they were so traumatized that they shuddered even at the mention of ‘goblin’ for months.
***
The next morning.
“You guys go to the 4th floor of the tower, meow!”
“Yes!”
The skeleton mages, under Theo’s command, left for the 4th floor of the tower, preciously holding the bundle of fish bones inside their rib cages.
And then,
“Guys, go inside the storage.”
Sejun put his companions into the Void Storage and,
Swish.
[The summoning function for the initial engraving of the land deed for the 68th-floor farm of the Black Tower has been activated.]
Sejun unfolded the deed for the 68th floor and disappeared.
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