TL: Hanguk
After chasing away the uninvited guest, Sejun took measures to ensure that monsters could not enter the farm, so that the rabbits and mushroom ants could work comfortably.
He didn’t do anything extraordinary.
– Private property, Enter and you will die! Ferocious beasts inside!
He put up a signboard with a warning so that monsters would not enter out of curiosity just like before.
The monsters had already received a warning from Iona and the Black Minotaurs not to mess with the farm’s inhabitants, and some had witnessed Jashu being attacked earlier, so the sign was sufficient.
After putting up the sign, Sejun started making a new stone bed for Cuengi.
“Raise the ground!”
Rumble.
The ground moved, and a new stone bed began to form where the bed had been destroyed. Having made one before, he recalled the experience and made a bed optimized for Cuengi’s physique.
“Cuengi, lie down and try it.”
Krueng!
[New bed!]
Krueng cheered and quickly lay down, happy that Sejun made a new bed.
And then,
Krueng!
[It feels great!]
Cuengi rolled around happily on the bed.
At that moment,
Gurgle…
A loud sound came from Cuengi’s stomach. He seemed to have gotten hungry after exerting himself earlier.
Krueng!
[I’m hungry!]
Cuengi, who was rolling on the bed, suddenly got up.
“Alright. Let’s eat.”
It was early for dinner, but they decided to eat a little earlier that day.
“Meow meow meow! Grilled fish meow!”
Krueng! Krueng!
At Sejun’s suggestion to eat, Theo and Cuengi started singing.
And then,
Flap flap.
Hearing the singing, the golden bat also appeared and sang along.
As the animals sang,
“What should we have for dinner?”
Sejun pondered over the dinner menu.
‘Theo likes grilled fish, Cuengi eats anything, and a few cherry tomatoes will suffice for the golden bat…’
“Alright.”
Sejun decided on the dinner menu and immediately started cooking.
“First, grill the fish and corn.”
While grilling the fish and corn on thin wooden skewers over the fire,
Chak-! Chak-!
He squeezed cherry tomato juice into an empty pot to make juice. While making the juice, he used his Talent: Fire Mastery to adjust the fire occasionally to make sure the grill didn’t burn the food.
“Heh. Controlling the flame is an art.”
Sejun admired his own fire control skills as he perfectly cooked the grilled fish. Soon, the grilled fish, corn, and cherry tomato juice with honey were ready.
“Guys, let’s eat!”
Sejun called the rabbits for dinner.
Then,
Squeak!
Squeak!
Cheers from the rabbits were heard.
“What’s going on?”
As Sejun wondered,
Krueng!
[It smells like Big Bro!]
Cuengi, delighted, ran outside.
“Big Bro? You mean the black rabbit?”
“Let’s go see the black rabbit quickly, meow!”
Theo confirmed Sejun’s thought and urged him to go outside.
“Okay.”
As Sejun hurriedly followed Cuengi outside,
Squeak!
Pi-ppi!
Black Rabbit and ChuChu were happily chatting with the other rabbits. Black Rabbit and ChuChu, who were invited to Iona’s celebration party, brought 300 subordinate rabbits to Sejun’s farm.
Krueng!
Squeak!
Pi-ppi!
Seeing Cuengi approaching, Black Rabbit and ChuChu greeted him warmly, and also Sejun and Theo who followed.
“You came. Let’s go inside and eat dinner first.”
Sejun led the rabbits to the kitchen. The kitchen, which had handled 1,000 rabbits during the past harvest festival, was spacious enough for all the rabbits to enter.
Although the food for the rabbits was slightly insufficient, it was easily resolved by taking out carrots from the storage.
After dinner, Black Rabbit and ChuChu handed a small box to Sejun.
“What’s this?”
Squeak!
[Just open it!]
Pi-ppi!
[You’ll know once you open it!]
Both urged him to open the box.
“Okay.”
Thunk.
When Sejun opened the box,
“Huh? It’s cold?”
Cold air flowed out of the box. And in the middle of the cold box, a single walnut was carefully placed.
“Is this for me to eat?”
Squeak!
[No!]
Pi-ppi!
[It’s the last walnut left in the Red Ribbon Kingdom!]
Black Rabbit and ChuChu vigorously shook their heads at Sejun’s question.
“No? Then why did you give it to me?”
Squeak!
[Uncle, please plant and grow the walnut!]
Pi-ppi! Pi-ppi!!
[Only Sejun can grow this! Please take good care of it!]
Both Black Rabbit and ChuChu said, looking at Sejun with eyes full of trust. They essentially wanted him to grow a walnut tree and harvest a lot of walnuts.
“Ahem…”
‘Suddenly I feel pressured.’
It felt strange to be relied upon by someone, but it felt good.
“Hehehe. Don’t worry! Just trust your uncle.”
Sejun confidently exclaimed. He might not be sure about combat, but he was confident about farming.
‘But I don’t know if I could plant this.’
Sejun looked at the walnut in curiosity. He had seen walnuts on Earth, but he had never thought of them as seeds.
If Black Rabbit and ChuChu had known, they might have taken the walnut back.
‘Let’s take a look first.’
Sejun picked up the walnut from the box and examined it closely.
[Walnut of Training]
→ A walnut harvested from a walnut tree grown inside the tower. it’s delicious and nutritious.
→ Every time you crack the hard shell of the walnut, your strength increases by 0.1.
→ Eating the walnut inside makes you feel full for longer than usual.
→ Grade: C
“Walnut of Training?”
It was interesting that cracking the walnut shell increased strength, not eating the walnut itself.
“But why is there only one?”
The description mentioned a walnut tree, so Sejun asked.
Pi-ppi!
[All of them disappeared when the Red Ribbon Kingdom fell!]
“Ah.”
It seemed that they were eaten by locusts.
Squeak! Squeak!
[We were lucky to find this Walnut of Training. One of the rabbits… ]
According to Black Rabbit’s explanation, one of the rabbits who had been taking care of the Walnut of Training tree barely saved one walnut when the Red Ribbon Kingdom fell.
Black Rabbit recently acquired that saved walnut. However, there was no rabbit left in the Red Ribbon Kingdom who remembered how to grow a walnut tree.
Squeak!
[So, I brought it to you, uncle!]
That’s why Black Rabbit brought it to Sejun.
Squeak!
[Uncle, to quickly increase the combat power of the Black Rabbit tribe, we need the Walnut of Training!]
Black Rabbit wanted to use the Walnut of Training to increase the combat power of the Black Rabbit tribe, which was in charge of the military power of the Red Ribbon Kingdom.
“Got it. Leave it to me!”
‘I need it too.’
This isn’t food, so it wouldn’t be stolen, and he could get stronger. After the conversation, Black Rabbit and ChuChu left for the wizard tower first. The rabbits on the farm also went with them.
***
The next morning.
“Alright!”
When Sejun got up,
“Chairman Park, are you awake?”
For some reason, Theo was already awake, grooming himself vigorously by licking his fur.
“Vice Chairman Theo, what’s up? Why are you up so early?”
“Isn’t it obvious? I have to groom myself for the party!”
“Ah?! Grooming?”
“Yes! Grooming is essential for the party!”
Sejun was taken aback by Theo’s words. Come to think of it, I don’t have any clothes to wear to the party?! The animals are all covered in fur, so it doesn’t matter, but it’s different for me.
Sejun had only thought about going to the party, looking at the wizard tower, and eating delicious food. He hadn’t thought about what to wear at all.
“It must be nice. Being covered in fur…”
Sejun looked at Theo, then at his own clothes. The clothes Sejun was wearing were the ones he had worn during the vanishing, with the ends cut off and mended whenever there were holes. In other words, they looked like rags.
He felt unnecessarily depressed in the morning. The only consolation was that Cuengi didn’t care about such things.
Creak.
Sejun, who found comfort in that, opened the storage room and took out the Golden Box of Abundance.
He then took out two Elixir-grade cherry tomatoes, which had increased to two, and put the Walnut of Training in the Golden Box of Abundance. He planned to increase the number of walnuts first.
A little later.
Krueng!
[Dad, I’m hungry!]
Cuengi came looking for him.
However,
“Ah?! Cuengi, you?!”
To Sejun’s surprise, Cuengi also came dressed up. And very stylishly at that. With pomade made of pine resin… Ah?! There are even pearls on his body.
‘Using pearls is cheating!’
He already has the advantage of fur, and now he’s added pearls!
“Cuengi, who did this for you?!”
Krueng! Krueng?
[Mom did it! Do I look cool?]
“Yeah! Super cool! Our Cuengi looks absolutely dashing!”
Sejun gave a thumbs up, praising Cuengi. Though the realization that he was the only one who’d look shabby at the party saddened him, Cuengi, genuinely looked adorable. Who would have thought that Pink-fur would have such a sense of style?
Kuhehehe.
Cuengi, pleased by Sejun’s compliment, laughed happily, lifted Sejun up, and went to the kitchen.
Sejun did not intend to eat breakfast because he planned to eat a lot at the party, but
Krueng!
[In order to eat a lot, you have to eat a lot of breakfast too!]
Cuengi had a different thought.
So, after breakfast, Sejun left for the Black Park-Ai Wizard Tower with the animals.
Krueng!
[It’s time to go eat something delicious!]
Cuengi, who had enlarged himself, carried Sejun and the animals on his back and ran quickly.
***
“Wow!”
Sejun exclaimed as he saw the circular tower soaring high into the sky. The size looked well over 3,300 square meters even at a glance.
“They built this in just a few days?”
‘If I start a construction company on Earth with Iona, it will be a huge success, right?!’
Moreover, if Theo takes care of sales and Cuengi takes care of demolition, it would quickly become the world’s best construction company!
Sejun thought it was too trivial to consider conquering the world with such capable members.
As Sejun daydreamed about starting a construction company, the distance to the wizard tower decreased.
“Ugh…”
His body gradually felt heavier. To be precise, Sejun was being pressed down by the strong energy surrounding him. It was not something the animals around him could help with.
“I should use it in advance. Dragon Tooth Warrior – Helmet.”
Sejun wore the Dragon Helmet he had planned to use before entering the party. As it contained Kellion’s magic power, it protected the wearer from the surrounding energy.
‘Transform into full-body armor.’
Sejun transformed the helmet into full-body armor here. Since he had no clothes, he planned to cover himself with the armor.
“Meow?! What, meow?!”
Theo was annoyed as the bone armor covered Sejun’s knee.
“Endure it until we go home.”
“Okay, meow! But you have to stroke my belly on the way back, meow!”
“Okay.”
Sejun appeased Theo, shielding the surrounding energy with the bone armor, and solved the problem of party clothes at the same time before entering the Black Tower’s party hall.
Then,
“Oh! Nice to meet you! Are you Theo Park, the new elite wandering merchant?”
A red approached Theo, who was hanging on Sejun’s knee, pretending to recognize him.
“That’s right, meow! But how do you know me, meow?”
“My name is Dori, an advanced wandering merchant. I was there when you came to apply for the elite wandering merchant at the headquarters of the Wandering Merchant Association.”
“Really, meow?”
“Yes! If it’s alright with you, could you share with me and other advanced wandering merchants how to become an elite wandering merchant if you don’t mind?”
“Now, meow?!”
Faced with Dori’s request, Theo was torn between boasting to the other merchants and looking after Sejun.
“It’s okay. Go ahead.”
Cuengi and the golden bat were beside him, and he didn’t think there would be anyone daring enough to start a fight in Iona’s tower.
“Meow meow meow! Then I’ll go tell the other wandering merchants my tricks and come back quickly, meow!”
Excitedly, Theo followed Dori.
And then,
“Let’s see what there is to eat?”
Krueng!
[There’s a lot of delicious food!]
(Pip-pip! There are a lot of fruits too!)
While Sejun was looking at the food with the animals,
“Hey! I am Koto, a lower true bone skeleton from the 20th floor of the tower! Hand over your bones immediately!”
Contrary to Sejun’s expectation, there was a daring being. A skeleton with thick bones, about 3 meters tall, demanded Sejun’s bones.
“You messed with the wrong person. Guys.”
Sejun smirked and looked around.
However,
“Huh?!”
Cuengi and the golden bat were nowhere to be seen.
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