TL: Hanguk
PR: MiniPixelZ
<Grondra>
Kamous’s Castle Victorious .
“Kuhuhut. Shall I leisurely watch those bastards die now?”
Having arrived at the castle basement through the waypoint, Kamous came up to the lobby and entered the situation room.
However,
……
The pirates who should have greeted Kamous were all frozen in place, unable to take their eyes off the situation room monitor.
“What?! Why are they surrendering?!”
To Kamous’s eyes, all the pirate ships were waving white flags in surrender.
Because he had come up from the basement, he hadn’t seen the destruction beams fired by the Planet-Destroying Turtles, and so Kamous couldn’t understand what was going on.
But, thanks to his decades of experience as a pirate, there was one thing he could grasp:
If I stay here, I’m finished!
Kamous hurriedly ran to the treasure vault located even lower than the floor with the waypoint.
He was thinking of grabbing some treasure and escaping. He didn’t intend to take everything, nor did he need to.
Just taking a few of his top-tier collections would be enough to never worry about money for the rest of his life.
And so, planning to flee to the furthest place he could reach using the waypoint, Kamous gathered treasures.
Creeeak.
Arriving at the treasure vault, he opened the door to the vault.
Fwoosh.
Blue magical torches lit up in the treasure vault.
Click.
Kamous grabbed the third torch from the left on the wall and pulled it.
Rumble.
With a mechanical clunk, the wall of the treasure vault opened, revealing a secret vault where only Kamous’s top-tier collection was kept.
“Hello, my babies, daddy’s here.”
Greeting his collection affectionately, Kamous hurried to pack the most valuable items in order.
After gathering up to his 15th collection,
“Number sixteen, I’m sorry. Sorry to the rest as well.”
He gazed longingly at the remaining collections with eyes full of regret and reluctantly turned away.
At that moment,
“Puhuhut. Kamous, found you, meow!”
Theo appeared in front of Kamous.
When Kamous disappeared from the Black Cuengi Ship,
Kyoot?! This magic wave?
Iona had read the magic pattern created by Kamous as he moved, and quickly tracked the coordinates to follow him.
Thanks to that, the remaining pirate subordinates who hadn’t received their stamps yet were stuck helplessly under the strict surveillance of the Planet-Destroying Turtles.
How could this be?!
Shiver.
Kamous’s nape tingled at Theo’s appearance. At the same time, despair surged in him.
There’s no way I can escape…
“Hahaha. I wasn’t trying to run away at all. I just came early to open the treasure vault…”
He desperately made excuses to save his life, but Sejun and his companions had already obtained confessions from the other pirates that they had received Kamous’s orders to launch an all-out attack.
And then,
Kueng! Kueng!
[If you lie, you’re a bad guy! You need to be punished!]
Cuengi, who had learned from Sejun that liars must be punished, pulled out his Thunderbolt Staff and approached Kamous.
That’s right. Liars should be punished. I really taught him well.
Sejun nodded with a pleased smile as he watched Cuengi, who only spoke the truth.
Kueng! Kueng!
[And you did a lot of other bad things too! That’s why Cuengi is angry!]
On top of the sin of lying, Kamous was also guilty of attempted theft of Sejun(?)’s treasure and attempted destruction of the Black Cuengi Ship. His sins were very heavy.
Thud.
Zzzzt.
“Arghhhh!”
And so, Cuengi’s electrifying beating began,
“Betrayers can’t be forgiven. From today onwards, Kamous is the youngest member of <Grondra>.”
Sejun said to Kamous as he was being beaten by Cuengi.
Thus, Kamous was demoted from great pirate to youngest member. His life became incredibly miserable.
And the rumor spread among the pirates that betraying Sejun Company meant being demoted to the youngest, instilling a strong sense of fear not to betray.
To the pirates, becoming the youngest was a greater humiliation than dying.
***
Black Tower, 99th Floor.
-Kuhahahaha. Come on. Let’s drink!
-Cheers!
-Kuuu. That’s good!
The dragons of the Nine Dragons Council were drinking merrily together.
-But don’t you think the younger dragons these days are getting way stronger?
The great silver dragon, Crisella, asked the others.
Then,
-You’re right. The power they emit is far too much for their age.
-That’s why young dragons nowadays are having trouble controlling their strength.
The other dragons agreed with Crisella’s comment.
And then,
-It’s probably because they’ve been eating a lot of Sejun’s crops.
-Actually… these days, I sometimes use too much strength without meaning to.
-Same here.
-Me too.
Even dragons of the leader-class were experiencing issues with controlling their power.
The Great Dragons, born with almost infinite potential, who become the strongest in the universe just by breathing and aging.
Now, having consumed Sejun’s crops, they were gaining power so quickly that they couldn’t contain their own strength.
On top of that, dragons absorbed almost 100% of the magic power infused in Sejun’s crops, making the effects dozens of times stronger.
And the older the dragons were, the more drastically they got stronger from eating Sejun’s crops. This was due to their bloodline power.
<Bloodline Power: Power of an Adult Dragon>, grants the ability to use ten times the power of their current stats.
Over time, the bloodline power evolves into “Mature Adult Dragon’s Power”, “Strong Dragon’s Power”, and “Ancient Dragon’s Power”, amplifying stats by a hundredfold, thousandfold, ten-thousandfold, and more.
Thus, the older they got, the harder it became to control their strength.
Furthermore, when one becomes a leader, the bloodline power evolves into “Leader Dragon’s Power”, with an effect of 1 million times stat amplification.
Meaning, if their magic power stat increases by 1, they gain 1,000,000 more magic power.
For reference, it is said that the legendary first dragons had powers that amplified stats by 100 million times.
-Looks like we need training.
-Yeah, I guess we do.
-At this rate, we might affect even the Tower itself.
-Getting stronger is such a pain.
Even the great dragons, who normally hated training, realized they needed to train to control their power.
***
<Grondra>
“Guys, let’s pack up everything!”
“Puhuhut. Got it, meow!”
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Yes.”
Kueng!
Kking!
Sejun and his companions began looting Kamous’s treasure vault.
Since there were many treasures of various types, it took quite a while to classify and store them in void storage, so Sejun and his companions spent an entire day working in the treasure vault, even eating meals there.
While everyone was busy collecting the treasures,
Kihihit. Kking.
[Hehe. Great Blackie must also burn treasure to become stronger.]
Great Blackie would now become powerful through money!
Blackie, who had awakened a new talent, began secretly burning treasure.
Just as Cuengi had the talent to immediately mimic what he saw, Blackie, though not instant, could understand the principle and adapt it for his own use.
[According to the Law of Equivalent Exchange, 7kg of gold is converted to +7 in all stats.]
[All stats have increased by 7.]
[According to the Law of Equivalent Exchange, 5kg of gold is converted to +5 in all stats.]
[All stats have increased by 5.]
As Blackie burned small gemstones to raise his stats,
“Haak! Blackie, you’re not allowed to burn treasure, meow!”
Theo discovered it and got angry.
Kking?! Kking!
[Why not?! Big brother burns treasure too!]
Blackie argued with Theo.
“Puhuhut. I’m Vice Chairman Theo, so I can, meow! But Blackie, you can’t, meow!”
But Theo didn’t persuade with logic. It was simply that only he could do it.
Kking! Kking!
[No way! I’m doing it too!]
Naturally, Blackie couldn’t accept that.
“Haak! Haak! Erase it right now, meow!”
Grrrr. Kking!
[Grrrrr. I won’t erase it!]
A sibling dispute broke out.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Young Master Blackie, I’ll give you 10 roasted and dried sweet potatoes if you erase your talent.”
Kking?!
[Really?!]
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Of course. Here you go.”
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. I erased it!]
Fortunately, Iona mediated and quickly resolved the situation.
Thus, it was Theo and Iona who stopped the major disaster of Blackie becoming stronger than Sejun at an early stage.
After several hours passed,
“Done.”
At last, Kamous’s treasure vault was cleaned out.
Sejun and his group scraped the floor clean, not even leaving behind a single small gold piece.
“Alright then, let’s head to that place called the Pirate Bank.”
“Puhuhut. Sounds good, meow!”
They were heading there to ask how to issue a card.
As they left Victorious Castle and were on their way to the Pirate Bank,
“Meow?!”
“Vice Chairman Theo, what’s wrong?”
“My front paw is being pulled, meow!”
Theo sensed his front paw being drawn toward something.
“Really?! Where?!”
“That way, meow!”
Following Theo’s guidance, Sejun and his companions arrived at,
“Welcome! Everything is 1 Tower Coin! Test your luck, everyone!”
A merchant was selling utterly worthless items laid out before him, stuff no one could be angry about even if you called it trash.
It was a lottery-style shop that bought goods pirates couldn’t dispose of after plundering and sold them in bulk for cheap.
“Oh. A lottery draw?”
Hehehe. This is exactly what our Vice Chairman Theo is good at.
“I’ll pick ten. Here are 10 Tower Coins.”
Knowing that Theo would definitely draw a jackpot item, Sejun handed over 10 Tower Coins out of pity for the merchant who would soon be suffering.
“Thank you! Then, please choose ten items.”
What a sucker. There’s only real garbage here.
The merchant, Hett, expressed thanks outwardly while mocking Sejun in his heart.
That’s because Hett could use appraisal magic and had already sold anything remotely valuable after appraising it himself.
So, among the items laid out now, there wasn’t a single thing worth more than 1 Tower Coin.
Of course, that was Hett’s assumption,
“Vice Chairman Theo, pick ten.”
“Puhuhut. Got it, meow!”
Theo had quite a bit to choose from.
Theo picked the ten items in order from the one he felt the strongest pull from. After the fifth, he just picked randomly.
Then,
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Power of magic…”
Iona immediately used appraisal magic to identify the items.
She started appraising from the last item Theo had picked.
The last three were truly garbage items not even worth 1 Tower Coin.
Then, upon appraising the seventh item Theo had picked, an item worth about 10 Tower Coins appeared.
“Huh?!”
That’s lucky.
Hett merely thought Theo was lucky.
Then, upon appraising the sixth item, out came an item worth about 100 Tower Coins.
And then,
Something’s off.
Just as Hett began to feel something strange, the fifth through third items that Theo had chosen were appraised,
“Huh?!”
“No way!”
“Aaaagh!”
Every time an appraisal finished, Hett screamed.
A statue of the [Singing Archangel] carved by Master Odysseus.
Number 78 of the top 100 dimensional daggers, [Demon Slayer].
[Detox Gem], of which only 1,000 were made by the renowned poison family – Sacheon’s Tang family.
Each of them was worth well over 10 billion Tower Coins on its own.
And then,
104.28.193.250
When the item Theo picked second was appraised,
“I’m not selling it! Give it back!”
Hett lunged to snatch the item from Iona’s hand.
Kking!
[Don’t touch my sister-in-law!]
Sister-in-law gave Great Blackie 10 roasted and dried sweet potatoes!
Thump.
He received mental education from Blackie’s headbutt.
“Hehehe. I feel a little bad.”
Sejun said as he looked at the unconscious Hett. But his expression didn’t look sorry at all.
And then,
Hehehe. I’ll save this for later.
Sejun carefully put the heart fragment of the great golden dragon, about the size of a small bead, into his pocket.
Since eating it alone might get him killed, he planned to consume it under the watch of dragons.
While Sejun was storing the dragon heart fragment, Iona was appraising the item Theo had picked first, a stone tablet covered in strange letters.
However,
“Kyoot?!”
Even with Iona’s appraisal, the tablet showed no reaction.
Then,
Sejun’s eyes turned golden.
And then,
It worked!
At last, Sejun-nim has obtained the second access code!
[System 371] cheered.
*****
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