TL: Hanguk
<Uen>
“First, we need to find Mount Mering…”
While Sejun, having crossed the dimensional gate with his group, was looking around to see if there was anywhere they could gather information,
Flap. Flap.
Cute little bats, drawn by Uren’s misfortune like moths to fire, thankfully began to gather on their own.
“We’re the Storm Bat Gang!”
“Hand over everything you’ve got!”
“If you resist, we’ll punish you with our ultimate technique!”
However,
So cute.
To Sejun, who had encountered thousands of bandits, they just looked adorable.
“Puhuhut. I refuse, meow!”
As Theo stepped forward with a laugh,
“Guys, let’s show them our ultimate technique!”
“”Got it! Boss!””
The young bats moved in perfect sync, shouting a cheer.
“Here we go! Ultimate-”
“”Super Bat Cyclone Attack!””
It was clear they had practiced a lot, with their form and timing being spot on.
Flap-flap-flap-flap.
The ten bats lined up in a row, began flying in a large circle with great effort,
Shoo-shoo-shoo.
And their speed gradually increased.
A few seconds later,
Whoong. Whoong.
Before anyone knew it, the fierce winds formed a vortex, transforming into a storm,
Kwa-kwa-kwang!
And the rapidly strengthening storm began to churn up the ground and everything on it as it moved
In the opposite direction of where Sejun was.
The Storm Bat Gang’s ultimate technique only went as far as creating a storm. Controlling its direction or stopping it was beyond their capabilities.
“Ughhh…”
“Save us…”
As the wind within the storm surpassed their flying speed, they were swept away by the very storm they had created and lost consciousness while tumbling about.
“…What are they doing?”
Are they running away?
Sejun watched the storm moving away,
Sreung.
And drew his sword.
He would cut the storm.
He remembered Sejun No. 3’s wish.
However
Swish. Swish. Swish.
Sejun swung his sword toward the storm with full force about ten times,
“Agh. No good.”
Sejun No. 3’s wish would have to be fulfilled another time.
Click.
Coolly giving up, he returned the sword to its sheath.
Then
“Cuengi.”
He left the storm to Cuengi.
Kueng!
……
The storm cleanly disappeared with one shout from Cuengi.
Thud-thud-thud.
As the storm ceased, the bats who had been tumbling inside began to fall to the ground,
Kueng!
[They can’t work if they’re injured!]
Thud. Thud.
Cuengi caught the falling bats with telekinesis, so they weren’t injured.
A short while later.
The bats, who had been stamped by Theo while unconscious, came to their senses.
“To think you defeated us… impressive. From now on, we shall serve you as our boss!”
The young bats, unaware that they had already become Sejun’s subordinates, bowed their heads toward Sejun and proudly declared themselves his underlings.
And then
“Accepted.”
Hehehe. Recognizing me? You kids will go far.
Sejun nodded with a pleased expression, seeing the baby bats who recognized him as their boss and not anyone else in the group.
With just this small action, the lives of the baby bats would change 180 degrees. In ways they could never have imagined.
And so, Sejun made the Storm Bat Gang his subordinates.
“But what are your names?”
He asked the young bats their names.
“I’m Ilbok, the leader of the Storm Bat Gang!”
“I’m Ibok!”
“I’m Sambok!”
…
..
.
The bats shared their names.
Such auspicious names. (TL: When translated in english the names would mean Ilbok = First Blessing, Ibok = Second Blessing and, Sambok = Third Blessing and so on.)
“But do you know anything about Mount Mering?”
Hearing their names, Sejun asked the bats about the location where the treasure was hidden.
“We don’t know about the mountain, but we do know Mering Lake.”
“It’s a lake, not a mountain?”
Sejun was taken aback by Ilbok’s answer.
It had been tens of thousands of years since the god who told Toryong the treasure’s hidden location and been imprisoned in Tartarus.
It wasn’t strange for a mountain to become a lake in that time.
“Let’s go there for now.”
“Yes! It’s this way!”
With no solid information, Sejun decided to start by checking out Mering Lake, guided by the bats.
On the way there
Bzzz.
A black space opened in front of the group,
Flap-flap. Flap-flap.
And locusts began pouring out.
Now, even calamities were being summoned by Uren’s misfortune.
“Uren, good job.”
“Uhehe. Thank you. But… for what?”
“It’s just a thing. Guys, get them!”
Thanks to that, they could hunt locusts with ease.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Power of fire…”
First, Iona cast a fire spell at the entrance the locusts were coming from and burned their wings,
Poof. Poof.
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
[Guard Park Theo has defeated 100 First Calamity Locusts.]
[You have gained 5000 experience points, which is 50% of the experience points obtained by Guard Park Theo.]
[Guard Uren Damon…]
…
..
.
After the rest of the group took care of the locusts that could no longer fly
Kueng!
Cuengi used telekinesis to neatly store them in the Void Storage.
Paespaes worked together with the fellow bats of the Storm Bat Gang.
(Pip-pip. Kids, it’s easier if you do it like this.)
He kindly taught them how to coat their wings with magic power to sharpen them and hunted the locusts.
“Paespaes~nim, you’re amazing! I want to be like you one day!”
(Paeheehee. Really? Then someday you’ll be able to do stuff like this too.)
Swish.
Receiving the young bats’ admiring gazes, Paespaes, puffed up with pride, fired a blade of magical power from his wings and instantly took down hundreds of locusts.
“Wow! That’s incredible!”
“Do you think I could do that too?!”
(Pip-pip! Of course! I’ll teach you everything!)
While basking in the admiration of the young bats, he earnestly taught them his technique.
Of course, since Paespaes’s technique wasn’t easy, none of the young bats were able to pull it off properly.
One hour later.
Sejun and the group had stored 10 billion locusts in the Void Storage.
“Let’s move out again!”
Feeling confident, they resumed their journey, and after about two hours of traveling
“Sejun~nim, that’s Mering Lake!”
A massive emerald-colored lake came into view, so vast the end couldn’t be seen.
Couldn’t this be called a sea?
“No matter how big it is, it doesn’t matter. We’ve got Vice Chairman Theo.”
“Puhuhut. That’s right, meow! Chairman Park just needs to rely on me, meow!”
At Sejun’s praise, Theo puffed up and put both front paws on his hips.
Then
“Meow!”
He extended a paw and concentrated.
But
“Meow… I’m not feeling a pull… meow…”
He soon lowered his paw with a dejected voice.
“It’s okay. There might not be anything.”
Sejun comforted the gloomy Theo by patting his head.
I should at least check out those islands, right?
He looked at the five islands within the lake.
Even Theo’s front paws weren’t perfect, so if something was too far or blocked by something, he sometimes couldn’t sense any pull.
“Cuengi, let’s head that way.”
Kueng!
And so, Sejun and his group began flying through the sky one island at a time using Cuengi’s telekinesis, and when they reached the third island
“Meow?”
What is this pull, meow?
Theo felt a very faint pull. But it was strange, like a person without arms feeling an itch in their arm. A pull with no substance.
Where is it, meow?!
Determined to restore his pride after being praised, Theo focused desperately.
Did he find something?
Sejun quietly stayed by Theo’s side.
A short while later
It’s definitely here, meow!
Theo soon pinpointed the exact location of the pull.
However
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How do I get there, meow?
He knew the location, but couldn’t reach it. It felt like multiple dimensions were overlapping in one spot.
“Iona, help me, meow! Please check here, meow!”
With no other options, Theo asked Iona, who was sleeping while hanging from his tail, for help.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Leave it to me!”
Iona began using various detection spells to see if there was anything suspicious.
But
“Kyup…”
She couldn’t sense anything out of the ordinary.
About 30 minutes passed like that when
“Kyoot?!”
Iona detected a faint dimensional crack with her detection spell.
This is it!
She began infusing magic into the crack and started interpreting the dimension.
A short while later
Srrrrk.
A door appeared in midair. Iona had found a hidden Void Space door with her magic.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Theo~nim, you’re amazing! How did you find the entrance to the Void Space?!”
As expected of my cat!
Iona sparkled with admiration as she praised Theo.
To find the entrance to a Void Storage hidden beyond dimensions.
Even for Iona, who had been confident in her search, it had taken effort to find it, meaning locating this entrance was absolutely not something just anyone could do.
In fact, this Void Space required a special magic to even locate its entrance. That’s why the god had felt secure telling Toryong the location.
But unfortunately, it seemed it was going to be raided by expert thieves.
“Puhuhut. Of course, meow! I’m always amazing, meow!”
Feeling proud from Iona’s praise
Chairman Park, I think I did something really amazing, meow!
Theo glanced at Sejun with expectant eyes.
But
“Oh! As expected of our Vice Chairman Theo!”
Sejun’s reaction wasn’t as grand as Iona’s.
Is it really that impressive to have found this?
To Sejun, Theo was always someone who pulled off the impossible. So he took finding the entrance to the Void Space in that same light.
However
Meow…
Disappointed by Sejun’s reaction, which was less enthusiastic than Iona’s, Theo drooped a little. He hadn’t gotten enough praise.
“Kyoo- Sejun~nim, Theo~nim just accomplished something record-breaking! Please praise Theo~nim more! Finding the entrance to a hidden Void Space is never easy! According to the Shuturu’s Dimensional Magic Theory…”
Iona, in stage one of her rage-kyu, began pouring out technical knowledge in support of Theo.
I have no idea what she’s saying, meow.
Blank…
Theo listened with a blank expression, then when Iona finally finished
“Puhuhut. That’s right, meow! Praise the great me more, meow!”
He shouted at Sejun with a triumphant expression.
Blank…
“Ah. Sorry. Vice Chairman Theo, seriously, great job! I didn’t realize it was that incredible. As expected, our Vice Chairman Theo is the pillar of Sejun Company.”
Of course, even Sejun, who had been listening with a blank expression, quickly praised Theo.
Because if he didn’t, it felt like Iona’s explanation would start up again.
“Puhuhut. I know, meow!”
Theo made a face like he was overjoyed and could die happy from Sejun’s praise.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot.”
Theo~nim smiling makes me happy.
Iona, who had successfully supported Theo, also smiled brightly.
And so, after showering Theo with praise until he was satisfied
Srrrk.
Sejun opened the door to the Void Space. It didn’t have a lock, so it opened easily.
Then
“Whoa!”
How much is all this worth?!
Beyond the door was an incredible amount of treasure, unlike anything he had ever seen.
“Guys, let’s pack it up.”
Sejun and the group excitedly began loading the treasure into his Void Storage.
But
“Huh?!”
No space?
The space in the Void Storage had already been filled with the corpses of the Calamity, so it quickly ran out of room.
“No choice, then.”
But Sejun couldn’t just throw away the cooking ingredients and leave.
So, with no other option, he offered the remaining treasures to the Creator God’s Tablet.
After a while, a message appeared, and the Creator God’s Tablet could no longer absorb any more treasure.
“There’s still so much left…”
Should I just leave it?
As Sejun gazed at the treasure with a wistful expression
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Power of dimension…”
Iona cast a spell,
[Do you allow it?]
A message appeared in front of Sejun.
Iona, thank you!
Sejun looked gratefully at Iona, who was casting the spell. He had been wondering what she was up to, and it turned out she was expanding the entire storage.
“Of course I allow it.”
With Sejun’s permission, a new door appeared at the end of his Void Storage.
“Hehehe. You guys can have this. Let’s head back, everyone.”
“”Thank you!””
Before leaving, Sejun handed each bat in the Storm Bat Gang a fist-sized gold nugget and returned with his group to <Noel>.
“Let’s have breakfast now.”
Sejun and the others enjoyed a delicious breakfast as the sun rose.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Heehee! Butler! Give me food too!]
“Nope. Blackie, you need to run first.”
Of course, Blackie, who had slept all night, had to run ten laps around the area before getting any roasted and dried sweet potato.
Kking… kking…
[Butler, you’re so mean… The great Blackie is sleepy and hungry…]
When he wasn’t fully awake yet, everything in the world felt unfair to Blackie.
