Part 2 Chapter 133: I, System Eok-Samchiri, Am Moved by Sejun-nim's Spirit of Sacrifice! / 857
TL: Hanguk
Great Black Tower 99th Floor.
Moo.
[Show me your invitation.]
"Here you go."
"Here it is."
Those who had purchased invitations from Theo were filling the Great Black Tower's 99th Floor endlessly.
Of course, there were also those who tried to attend the party by illegally forging invitations, but
Moo. Moo!
[This one's a fake. Take this fellow away!]
Moo!
[Yes!]
"I'm sorry. Please forgive me!"
Since Iona's Anti-Forgery Magic was applied, fakes could be spotted at a glance. For reference, on genuine invitations, if you tilted them at different angles, Theo's front paw would curl and uncurl, moving back and forth.
Time passed like that, and it was now ten minutes before the party celebrating the first world creation by Dongdong, the eldest of the 23 Next Creator Gods.
"So the party's about to start soon?"
"Ah. I want to taste Chairman Park's delicious cooking as soon as possible."
"You idiot! Get a grip! You think we came here just to stuff our faces?! We need to make a good impression on Chairman Park!"
"That's right! If we just get on Chairman Park's good side, our families will be set for generations! So focus!"
Those eager to make a good impression on Sejun were desperately waiting for the party to start, hoping to exchange even a single word with him.
But
"Huh? Why are there so many people?! Three million servings won't even come close!"
I need to make more food!
Having seen the number of party attendees, Sejun had to go back into the kitchen and cook.
"Puhuhut. Chairman Park, I, Vice Chairman Theo, went down and sold a ton of invitations, meow! Look at this, meow! I made a ton of money too, meow! Did I do good, meow?!"
Theo showed off the money to Sejun with a triumphant expression.
"You did do well, but still, this is way too many."
When Sejun grumbled that there were too many attendees,
"Puhuhut. It's fine, meow! Chairman Park can totally handle it, meow!"
Theo clenched his front paw and cheered Sejun on with a fighting pose.
"Easy for you to say when you're not the one doing it."
"I, Vice Chairman Theo, am not just saying it, meow! I'm speaking from the heart because I, Vice Chairman Theo, believe in Chairman Park, meow!"
"Right. That's exactly what 'just saying it' means. It doesn't help at all."
"Puhuhut. Is that how it works, meow?! Then let me just say it, meow! Chairman Park can easily whip up 7.53 million servings, meow! Chairman Park, take this, meow! It's the heart sign that's trending among humans these days, meow! Bang, meow! Bang, meow! Bang, meow!"
How cute.
Sejun watched Theo shooting finger hearts at him and held back the laughter threatening to burst out.
"...Go chop some green onions."
He said coolly.
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow! Iona, let's chop green onions, meow!"
"Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Okay."
While Sejun resumed cooking with Theo, Iona, and Cuengi assisting him,
Kkwek-hem! Kking! Kking!
[Ahem! The true power behind Sejun Company, the Great Blackie, has arrived! Everyone bow your heads!]
"The Great Blackie-nim has arrived!"
Kkiruk!
Sharalang!
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..
.
Clang!
The Blackie Family appeared at the party venue, and
"Hello, Great Blackie-nim, I'm from the 5th Floor of the Great Red Tower...."
"Hello, Great Blackie-nim, I'm from the 12th Floor of the Great Green Tower...."
The party attendees approached Blackie instead of Sejun. Their plan was to befriend Blackie first, then use him as a stepping stone to get close to Sejun.
However,
Kihihit. Kking? Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. You want to monopolize the mining business? Then first, offer that mine to the Great Blackie!]
"Excuse me? What do you mean...?"
Kking! Kking!
[And you look sturdy, so become the Great Blackie's subordinate!]
"Ah. I just remembered I have something to do... Farewell!"
"Ah. My friend's calling me too..."
Kking! Kking?! Kking!
[Hey! You lot! The Great Blackie is speaking, where do you think you're going?! If you become the Great Blackie's subordinate, you get to eat half a dried roasted sweet potato every day!]
Seeing that Blackie was even worse than the great devil Theo, they quietly slipped away from him. Having formerly been the 1st Seat among the 12 Apostles of Destruction, being terrible was certainly on brand for him.
Meanwhile, ten minutes passed and the party began.
-We shall now commence the party celebrating the first world creation by Dongdong-nim, the eldest of the 23 great Next Creator Gods!
With the Nine Clan Leaders' declaration that the party had begun, Black Minotaurs, Mushroom Ants, and Poison Honey Bees came out carrying food and began distributing it to the attendees.
After a little while,
[You have fed 100 people to until they are full.]
[Through the effect of <Title: Saint of Feeding>, all stats have permanently increased by 20.]
As the attendees' stomachs filled, Sejun's stats began to rise as well.
"Hehehe."
Making money and raising stats at the same time. Now that's killing two birds with one stone.
Thanks to that, even though Sejun was cooking over 5 million servings, he didn't feel tired at all.
"Puhuhut. Iona, Chairman Park's stamina is running low, meow! Recovery Magic, please, meow!"
"Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Okay. O power of mana...."
Of course, it also helped that he genuinely wasn't struggling, thanks to the support from Theo, who precisely monitored Sejun's condition, and Iona.
As the party was reaching its peak,
"Ahem. I am... the eldest... of the 23 Next Creator Gods... Dongdong!"
Dongdong, the star of the party, stepped into the center of the venue while trying his best to hide his shyness.
And then,
"Oh! We greet the Creator God!"
"We greet the great Creator God!"
The tower's residents bowed to Dongdong.
"Yes. I'm glad to meet you too."
Everything was going smoothly.
"Huh?!"
Until Dongdong accepted his position and gained the power of a Creator God, that is.
Why is this happening all of a sudden?!
I can't control my power!
Gooooo.
The power of Dongdong, who had been receiving congratulations at the center of the party, suddenly went berserk.
Having created a world and awakened as a perfect Next Creator God, Dongdong had not been particularly aware of that fact himself.
And everything changes depending on one's mindset.
That was why Dongdong's power hadn't grown. He still thought of himself as just Dongdong, after all.
But when so many people acknowledged him as a Creator God, he naturally came to accept that he had become one, and his power rose to match that awareness.
As Dongdong's power grew stronger,
"Urgh...!"
"Ugh...!"
The party attendees groaned in agony as they endured Dongdong's energy, losing consciousness and collapsing one by one with heavy thuds.
'Only 1% of the power has come in so far....'
The problem was that the Creator God's power Dongdong was receiving was growing stronger by the moment. If things continued like this, everyone might be overwhelmed by Dongdong's energy and die.
"What do I do...."
Dongdong fell into a panic at the alarming situation and
"Teacher Sejun! Please help me!"
called out to Sejun, his most trusted pillar of support, for help.
And then,
"Dongdong, what's wrong? Huh? What happened to everyone?!"
Sejun came outside and was shocked to see the collapsed party attendees.
Normally, Sejun should have been suffering from Dongdong's energy too, but thanks to <Title: Grand Mentor of the Next Creator Gods>, he could still endure it.
"What should I do?"
Sejun pondered.
"You guys, start moving the residents whose lives are in danger to the 98th Floor!"
"Got it, meow!"
"Yes!"
Kueng!
After first having Theo, Iona, and Cuengi move the unconscious people, he
"Eok-Samchiri, can you distribute the time I've saved up to everyone, just enough so they don't die?"
called upon [System Eok-Samchiri] and asked whether he could use the <Unique Power: Temporary Creator God> time he had accumulated.
He just needed to keep them alive until his companions finished moving the fallen to the 98th Floor, and since some people would repay their borrowed time along the way, he could manage somehow with 10 hours.
[Sejun-nim, to think you would use that precious time for everyone's sake... I, System Eok-Samchiri, am moved by Sejun-nim's spirit of sacrifice! What you've described should be possible!]
"Good. Then lend my time to everyone. At an annual interest rate of 5%."
[Pardon? You're charging interest?]
5%, no less?
"Yeah. And the interest is calculated with compound interest, obviously."
He's thinking about lending out time in a situation like this?
[System Eok-Samchiri] was astounded at Sejun's words.
A brilliant idea like this came from Sejun-nim's head?!
At Sejun's genius.
"Eok-Samchiri, what are you doing? Hurry! People are going to die at this rate!"
[Oh. Yes!]
And so, following Sejun's instructions, Eok-Samchiri lent Sejun's time starting with those whose lives were most at risk, allowing them to escape the 99th Floor.
[You have lent Yarius 13 seconds of <Unique Power: Temporary Creator God> time at an annual interest rate of 5%, compounded.]
[Yarius's Causality will be taken as payment and converted into <Unique Power: Temporary Creator God> time.]
[Converting Causality into <Unique Power: Temporary Creator God> time is expected to incur approximately 8% loss, so an additional 8% of Causality will be collected.]
[Principal and interest totaling 13.00178 seconds have been repaid by Yarius.]
[You have lent Okerion 20 seconds of <Unique Power: Temporary Creator God> time at an annual interest rate of 5%, compounded.]
[Okerion possesses no Causality.]
[Until the full principal and interest are repaid, 50% of the Causality generated by Okerion will be taken as payment.]
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..
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"Nice. I've already earned 3 seconds in interest."
Hehehe. With this, I can move up the wedding with Aileen even sooner.
Sejun had managed to save lives and earn interest on the time he lent out.
'To come up with an idea like this in such a short time, maybe I really am a genius?'
Feeling so proud of himself, Sejun wore the most smug expression he could muster, and
"Meow?! Chairman Park, aren't you managing your face, meow?! Your face has gone rotten again, meow! Everyone, step on him, meow!"
"Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Okay."
Kueng!
Kihihit.
Theo, who had returned after moving everyone to the 98th Floor, caught him, and Sejun's face was stepped on by his companions until he regained his humility.
Once Sejun had recovered his humility,
"Hey guys, take this down to the 98th Floor. They'll feel better after eating it."
Sejun decided to split the party between the 99th and 98th Floors and continue it on both.
Kkwek!
Bzzzz!
The Mushroom Ants and Poison Honey Bees carried the food Sejun had made and headed to the floor below.
Once the situation was settled,
"Teacher, I'm sorry... I ruined the party...."
Dongdong approached Sejun looking like he was about to cry at any moment.
"It's okay. It's not like you did it on purpose. It's not something you could control either, Dongdong."
Sejun comforted him.
"Dongdong, everyone makes mistakes. You shouldn't be afraid of making them."
"Okay...."
Dongdong, who had only just awakened as a Creator God, needed to make many mistakes.
"And if you learned something from a mistake, then it wasn't a mistake. It was growth."
"Yes!"
For once, Sejun was delivering a rather impressive lesson.
Just then,
[You have fed 100 people to until they are full.]
[Through the effect of <Title: Saint of Feeding>, all stats have permanently increased by 600,000.]
A message appeared before Sejun.
"But Dongdong, there's one last and most important thing you need to remember."
"What is it?"
[Too great a stat increase has put strain on your body.]
"People always repeat the same mistakes."
"Huh?"
As Dongdong looked puzzled at Sejun's words,
"I'm gonna pass out for a sec...."
Thud.
Sejun, having delivered his final lesson, collapsed unconscious.
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