Part 2 Chapter 141: Just Five More to Go. / 865
TL: Hanguk
A robbery?
Sejun glanced at the hundred masked figures in black who had surrounded him and his companions, then said,
"Wow. How are there so many weeds?"
"Puhuhut. No idea, meow!"
He calmly surveyed the farm. This was Black Tower Floor 31. Sejun alone was more than capable of easily subduing the masked figures surrounding them, so he felt no tension whatsoever.
"Hm? I don't think this one is a weed, though?"
Sejun looked around and grabbed the stem of what appeared to be a crop, pulling it straight up.
Swoosh.
[You have harvested a kohlrabi.]
[Your job experience has increased by an infinitesimal amount.]
[Your proficiency in Harvesting (Master) has increased by an infinitesimal amount.]
[You have acquired 1 experience point.]
Harvest messages appeared. To Riko, who had never farmed before, everything looked like weeds, but kohlrabi had been growing among them. Of course, there weren't many due to all the weeds.
"Oh. This is kohlrabi?"
"Puhuhut. Great Hybrid Chairman Park, what's kohlrabi, meow?!"
"It's similar to radish but sweeter. Want to try some?"
"No way, meow!"
Kuehehehe. Kueng?!
[Hehehe. Dad, it's tastier than radish?! Then Cuengi wants to eat some!]
"Sure. Hang on."
Just as Sejun pulled out a dagger and began peeling the kohlrabi,
"Are you people insane?! Hey! You! Can't you hear me?! Hand over everything you've got if you don't want to die!"
The masked figure who appeared to be Blackmara's leader, enraged at being ignored, shouted and pointed his sword at Sejun's neck.
...?
Sejun gazed at the masked figure pointing a sword at him with calm eyes.
He has horns?
The jet-black tops the masked figures wore had red demons drawn on them, but only the one pointing a sword at him had horns on the demon's head.
It seemed the more horns, the higher the rank.
"Hehehe. Now it's nice and quiet. See, a little violence really does make conversation easier. Right?"
"Hehehe. Agreed. Let's just kill them quick and grab the spoils."
"Yeah. Get to it."
At the leader's command, the other masked figures crept toward Sejun and his companions with sinister grins.
Just then,
Clatter clatter clatter.
Thud.
Thump.
The leader of the masked figures lost consciousness.
How dare you point a sword at my butler's neck?! Great Blackie is angry!
Blackie had unleashed a furious Headbutt.
Inside Blackie's mental world.
"What is your name?"
"Mix...er..."
Fizzle.
"Huh? He's already dissipated? Great Blackie hasn't even started the Mental Education yet! What a pathetically weak guy!"
And so Blackmara's action leader Mixer was unable to withstand the overwhelming pressure of Blackie's mind and dissipated.
Kueng!
[Cuengi, why are you getting in the way of Cuengi eating kohlrabi!]
Crash!
The remaining ninety-nine masked figures were slammed into the ground and subdued by Cuengi's Telekinesis.
A short while later.
Crunch. Crunch.
"Squat down, stand up, begin. On one, be good. On two, stay alive. One. Kueng, is the kohlrabi good?"
""Be good!""
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. It's cool and tasty!]
"Two. Here, have some more."
""Stay alive!""
Kueng!
[Dad, thank you!]
Sejun ate kohlrabi with Cuengi while putting the masked figures through military punishment exercises.
"Puhuhut. Get your stamps, meow!"
Theo gleefully stamped away, slipping the stamp inside each mask in the blink of an eye.
Just then,
[A quest has been issued.]
[Quest: The kohlrabi farm, left untended for a long time, has become overrun with weeds, preventing the kohlrabi from growing properly. Please remove all the weeds.
Reward: Recognition as the rightful owner of the Black Tower Floor 31 Kohlrabi Farm]
A Land Deed Quest appeared.
"Alright. From now on, we're changing the chant. On one, the weeds. On two, pull 'em."
"One."
""The weeds!""
"Two."
""Pull 'em!""
"Don't just say 'pull'. actually pull them. One."
""The weeds!""
"Two."
""Pull 'em!""
Sejun made the masked figures pull weeds.
Occasionally, some of the masked figures pulled kohlrabi instead of weeds.
"Hey! I said pull weeds, not kohlrabi! Mask number 54, time-out."
"Mask number 54, time-out!"
"Puhuhut. Mask number 54, get over here and get your stamp, then do 100 full-body twists, meow!"
The masked figure who had pulled the kohlrabi was given a time-out, stamped one more time by Theo, extending their Sejun Company employment period by ten years, and then subjected to an even harder round of punishment exercises.
Once all the weeds around the masked figures were pulled,
"Move ten paces to the left."
Sejun moved them to where more weeds grew and resumed the punishment exercises.
As time passed, the out-of-breath masked figures began removing their cumbersome masks, revealing a variety of faces. However,
"Huff... huff..."
Strangely, the last five refused to remove their masks even as they gasped for air, completely winded. As if they wanted to hide their identities.
But the masks were soaked with sweat, and the outlines of their faces began to show through clearly.
"Kyoo-you people are?! Power of the wind, blow. Wind!"
Iona, who had been smiling the entire time, suddenly turned serious and used magic to forcibly remove the five's masks. The outlines had revealed the large tusks and massive snouts of boars.
"Kyoo-Kyoo-I knew it! Greed's subordinates!"
They were Boar Beastfolk, subordinates of the late landowner Greed, who had been killed by Iona in the past.
"Iona-nim, please spare us!"
"Spare us! We've repented for our crimes plenty!"
"That's right! It's not like we wanted to do those things."
"Exactly! Greed ordered us to do it all, we had no choice!!"
The moment their identities were exposed, the Boar Beastfolk dropped to their knees and begged.
But,
"Kyoo-Kyoo-Kyoo-you say you've repented while looking like this? What utter nonsense."
It only made Iona angrier. If they had truly repented, they should have turned themselves in, or at the very least lived quietly in some remote place. Not been out here robbing people.
"That's... we had to make a living..."
"That's right. Since we're criminals, the only place we could end up was somewhere like this..."
"Kyoo-Kyoo-Kyoo-the excuses just keep getting more ridiculous. Since you clearly haven't repented at all, I'll have no qualms about killing you. Power of gravity, reverse the direction of gravity. Reverse Gravity."
Iona used reverse gravity magic to send the Boar Beastfolk, who kept making absurd excuses, soaring high into the sky, and then,
"Cancel."
She canceled the spell.
"Aaargh!"
"Kkuik-!"
The Boar Beastfolk screamed as they went into freefall.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
They hit the ground and died.
As expected... the Great Wizard of Destruction...
Gulp.
The remaining ninety-four swallowed hard and pulled weeds with even greater fervor.
[All weeds in the kohlrabi farm have been removed.]
[You have been recognized as the rightful owner of the Black Tower Floor 31 Kohlrabi Farm.]
Thanks to them, the weeds vanished from the kohlrabi farm, and the Land Deed Quest was completed.
"Hehehe. Good."
Just five more to go.
Sejun smiled contentedly as he read the message. The number of Black Tower Land Deeds Sejun had been recognized as the rightful owner of was now forty-five. Tower Landlord wasn't far off.
"Puhuhut. Great Hybrid Chairman Park, I, Vice Chairman Theo, will work even harder to find more Land Deeds, meow!"
"Thanks. I'm counting on you."
"Puhuhut. Of course, Chairman Park has to come with me too, meow!"
Theo added that Sejun had to come along, worried he might not.
"Sure."
"Puhuhut."
Theo beamed at Sejun's answer.
"For the kohlrabi farm to run properly, the security around it matters too, so take me to your hideout."
"Yes, sir."
Sejun had one of the ninety-four, who had just become Sejun Company employees and kohlrabi farmers, guide them to the Blackmara Hideout.
"Here it is."
They arrived at the Blackmara Hideout, located about ten kilometers from the kohlrabi farm.
"We don't have time, so let's wrap this up fast."
It's bedtime soon.
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow!"
Kueng!
At Sejun's words, Cuengi used Telekinesis to drag every Blackmara member inside the hideout out.
"Puhuhut."
Press. Press. Press.
Theo swiftly stamped the backs of each member's head, and Blackmara ceased to exist. In its place, the number of employees at Sejun Company Black Tower Floor 31 Branch Kohlrabi Farm grew.
***
One afternoon at the Kindergarten of Destruction, three months after obtaining the Black Tower Floor 31 Land Deed.
"Everyone, let's head out."
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow!"
Sejun called his companions, Aileen, and the Children of Destruction together. Today was the momentous day of the premiere for [Night of Zombies], the film that Cuengi, Blackie, and Taecho had shot alongside Serang.
Though they hadn't managed to obtain any additional Black Tower Land Deeds over the past three months, a great deal had happened.
First, Tongtong and Sotteok had awakened as Children of Creation after watching Sejun and his companions' Snow White Performance, and then Jjokjjok and Myeolumchi had awakened after watching the Cinderella Performance.
Rangrangi became the second, after Dongdong, to create a world, and Sejun named the world Rangrangi had created <Rangilhwageo>, incorporating Rangrangi's thoughts that 'Rangrangi created first' and 'made a world with volcanoes and giants'.
The naming effect was world level +1 and volcano and giant size +10%.
And Sejun had passed the Great Colorless Dragon's 100th Trial, bringing the Great Colorless Dragon's Power he possessed to 1%.
Thanks to that, he was able to absorb an additional Heart Fragment of the Great Blue Dragon and Heart Fragment of the Great Red Dragon. This was largely thanks to Blackie.
Sejun consumed the [Light-Saturated Magic Amplification Yacon], which Blackie had mistaken for a sweet potato, on Black Tower Floor 99, where he could receive help from his companions, and the Dragon Leaders.
[You have consumed a Light-Saturated Magic Amplification Yacon.]
[Your magic power is permanently amplified by 3 times.]
[You have awakened Talent: Sunlight.]
Fortunately, the 3x amplification appeared.
"Ugh!"
"Chairman Park, you can't lose consciousness, meow!"
-Sejun, focus!
Until Sejun adjusted to his tripled magic power, everyone stayed by his side for days, helping him with Magic Control.
Thanks to that, Sejun's magic power reached nearly 4 million, and the stronger magic greatly reduced the aftereffects of Essence Absorption.
He also diligently worked on the Proxy Creator God Quest, completely eliminating any possibility of the First Dimensional War and accumulating 3,500 hours.
But the overdue hours from borrowing time had also increased. The overdue balance had now grown to 17,000 hours.
Fortunately, after hearing about Sejun's situation, the Creator God agreed to help and was currently working with System Eok-Samchiri to create something that would allow Sejun to reclaim the overdue hours, with plans to show it to Sejun soon.
In between, Uren had fallen from the sky about three times, and Baektang had targeted Sejun's lap five times, failing miserably each time.
Additionally, the songs casually composed with Paespaes kept becoming massive hits, leading to a flood of song orders, which meant the dark circles under Suzbub Music's arrangement slave Jo Kyung-su were growing ever darker. Something like that.
There had been plenty of other changes as well, given how tirelessly Sejun kept moving, but none were particularly noticeable.
"You all know you have to hold hands when we go outside, right?"
""Yes!""
As Sejun looked after the Children of Destruction and headed outside,
Click.
"Puhuhut. Kim Miran, nice to see you, meow!"
Kueng!
[Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle, hello!]
Out from the house next door came Sejun's parents, Kim Mi-ran and Park Chun-ho, along with his younger brother, Park Se-dol. The three of them were naturally headed to the movie premiere as well.
As it happened, the future second daughter-in-law and grandchildren had ended up in the same movie, which meant the entire Park family was attending.
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