Episode 54. evolve
Episode 54. evolve
75th floor of the tower.
The office of the president of the Traveling Merchants Association.
Fox Mason, head of the Wandering Merchants Association.
Tiger tribe Hannibal, head of the Free Mercenaries Association.
Iona, a hamster, is the head of the Wizards Association.
The leaders of the three major powers that influence all floors of the tower gathered.
“It’s already been 5 days since the Red Locust appeared on the 67th floor of the tower. According to our information, two-thirds of the 67th floor of the tower was devastated by the Red Locust. And currently, the Lizardmen are desperately defending the waypoint.”
Mason shared the information he had learned.
“Why isn’t the Great Black Dragon stepping forward?”
Iona asked in a worried voice,
“Honestly, I don’t know. But we can’t just wait like this. If this continues, the great famine of 100 years ago may occur again.” The great
famine of 100 years ago. It began when the Red Locusts invaded the 55th floor of the Tower, the highest granary of the Tower.
There had been invasions by the Red Locusts before then, but there had always been a Great Famine. Because the black dragon appeared, the beings in the tower did not think it was a big deal.
But…
at that time, for some reason, the great black dragon appeared a few hours after the invasion of the Red Locust.
As a result, the rabbit kingdom that ruled the 55th floor of the tower was destroyed. Red Ribbon was destroyed. Unfortunately, the Red Locust appeared over the kingdom. This caused a huge food shortage throughout the tower.
“That’s right. It’s only a matter of time before the waypoint is taken over. If the Red Locusts occupy the waypoint on the 67th floor of the tower like this, they will soon start moving up to the upper floors.”
Hannibal strongly agreed with Mason.
If the Red Locusts occupy the waypoint on the 68th floor of the tower, the next step is the 69th floor.
And on the 69th floor of the tower was the Draken Farm owned by the Kingdom of Lizardmen. It is one of the five major granary areas of the tower. This wasn’t just a Lizardman problem.
As food supply decreases, the distribution of food decreases and prices rise, and those who cannot buy food due to lack of money starve to death or turn into bandits.
The overall order of the tower collapses. Because they had already experienced it once, they knew well how serious the damage was.
“The Wandering Merchant Association will provide supplies equivalent to 1 million Top Coins for military expenses.”
“The Free Mercenary Alliance will dispatch 10,000 free mercenaries.”
“The 7th Magic Tower Association will dispatch 200 War Mages.”
So, reinforcements set out to stop the Red Locust on the 67th floor of the tower.
***
Tower 38th floor.
“When on earth is the wandering cat merchant coming?!”
“Just wait a little bit and if you don’t come today, I’ll go back.”
Five hunters were waiting for Theo at the corner of the road he passed before coming to the trading location.
They were kidnappers who kidnapped Theo and tried to find out the location of the farm where the magic cherry tomatoes were, as magic cherry tomatoes were being sold outside at exorbitant prices these days.
Then,
“Mean meow meow.”
I heard Theo humming.
“come.”
The hunters hurriedly hid behind the wall.
and
‘Now is the time!’
When the hunters were about to attack Theo, they shouted,
“Crrrrrrrrr. How dare you touch CEO Teo!”
“Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
Two silver wolves suddenly appeared behind them, looking fierce and growling.
‘What?!’
The hunters were so shocked that they fainted.
“Mean meow meow. Money is rolling in!”
Theo hummed as he stamped the thumbs of the unconscious hunters on the scroll.
‘Fuhuhuhu. ‘You targeted me, so I’ll give you a lot of money!’
The formula was created in Theo’s head: ‘An enemy who attacks me = an entity that gives me money.’
‘Fuhuhuhu. Park Se-jun said the price of my life was 10,000 Top Coins!’
“When they wake up, get 10,000 Top Coins!”
Theo planned to receive from the hunters the full value of his life that Sejun had assessed.
“yes.”
Theo left the hunters to the wolves and moved the cherry tomatoes from the wolves’ bags into the luggage.
We ate food as we moved and found space in our luggage.
“Then I will come back.”
Theo moved to the trading location.
***
Day 220 of distress.
Mmmmm!
Finally, the completed mud bricks and dark stones began to be delivered near Sejun’s cave.
Beep beep!
Hmm!
When the architect Gray Rabbit indicated where to place a brick, the Black Minotaur placed the brick at that location.
And
swish.
Sejun and the gray rabbits filled the gaps between the bricks by spreading mud around them. The first floor of the exterior wall of a house measuring about 30 pyeong was completed quickly.
Then, bricks were placed in between and the top was completely covered with bricks. The brick first floor below was a space for making a fire. Sejun built an ondol at home.
You may wonder what kind of ondol is in a place that isn’t that cold, but if you have an ondol, you can remove moisture from the house, and sometimes, on a stuffy day, you can feel incredibly refreshed by sweating off your body.
After building several layers of bricks, the house was completed up to Sejun’s waist height.
However, there was one person who looked at it with disapproving eyes.
Kueng…
it was Kueng. The door of the house was too narrow for Kueng to enter.
Dad doesn’t even think about me… I want to grow up and go home…
When Kkueng was heartbroken, he
let out a sigh.
Kueng’s wish came true and his body began to shrink.
Kueng?!
Kueng looked at his shrinking body.
And
Kueng!
Kueng was so excited that he ran towards Sejun and threw himself at him. Dad, I got smaller!
But
wow!
“Gagging!”
Sejun felt as if he had been hit by a large truck and flew away, landing in a field of green onions. Although the size was smaller, the weight was still the same.
If the big wave hadn’t relieved the shock, it would have flown much farther.
Clap, clap.
Sejun, who had been to the other world for a while, opened his eyes feeling wet.
Kueng!
Kueng was happy to see Sejun opening his eyes.
“Um…what happened to you…?”
Sejun asked, looking at Kueng who had become smaller. It was as small as when I first saw it.
Kueng. Kueng!
[I don’t know. He just got smaller!]
At that time
, “Huh?”
Sejun confirmed that the name on Kueng’s head had changed.
[Crimson Giant Honey Bear]
“Honey Bear?”
Kkueng evolved into Honey Bear.
“Then you can’t grow up again?”
Sejun asked anxiously. For some reason, I felt like if I did that, I would be scolded by the mother Crimson Giant Bear for what she did to my cub. Might die?
Kueng!
Kueng shook his head and returned to his normal size. No, it grew to 5m and became bigger than before.
Kueng had been unconsciously making himself smaller because he wanted to be with Sejun.
“oh!”
Sejun looked curiously at Kueng, who was growing and shrinking his body at will.
“uh?!”
Then Sejun realized that this was an emergency. Cave storage!
Until now, it was safe because Kuengi couldn’t come down to the cave, but if Kuengyi started going back and forth in the cave again, the crops in the storage were at risk.
“Black rabbit!”
When Sejun looks down into the cave and calls out to the black rabbit,
bam!
A black rabbit that had been hunting hard in the pond came up to the ground.
“Go with Kueng from now on, okay?”
Bye!
Kueng!
The two responded energetically to Sejun’s words and ran away excitedly. Where are you going?
Sejun was told to keep an eye on Kkueng, but the two accepted it as a pleasant surprise.
Sejun, who had been keeping an eye on Kuengi, went down to the cave to prepare lunch.
Today’s menu is stir-fried squid. When Sejun went down to the cave, there were 30 squids already caught and cleaned by the black rabbit in the pond. As expected, it was a trustworthy black rabbit.
Creep. Creep. Creep.
Sejun cut the squid into bite-size pieces.
Then, I heated the pot and added the last remaining piece of eel fat
.
The fat melted and turned into oil with a fragrant smell.
Song song song.
Sejun started to make green onion oil by cutting green onions and frying them in oil.
Then, when the scent of green onions seeped into the oil, the prepared squid was added and stir-fried together.
Stir-fry like that for about 10 minutes. When the squid cooked and turned white, red pepper powder and other seasonings were added, and carrots were added and stir-fried.
After a while,
[Spicy stir-fried squid is completed.]
[Cooking Lv. 2’s mastery increases slightly.]
[Skill Increase Lv. Harvest with an effect of 1 Lv. 2 mastery increases by an additional 5%.]
[Cooking Lv. The recipe for spicy stir-fried squid is registered in 2.]
For the white rabbits and gray rabbits who cannot eat spicy food, Sejun and the black rabbit Kuengi ate boiled squid and spicy stir-fried squid with salt together.
“Do you want to eat Eileen?”
Eileen didn’t really answer what was going on these days.
“What’s going on?”
While Sejun was worried about Eileen,
kuang…
kueng…
After finishing their meal, the black rabbit and kueng came to take a nap. Kueng, who was able to climb on Sejun’s lap, took up Sejun’s lap with the black rabbit.
Bylolong.
Kurorong.
I fell asleep quickly.
And when the break was over,
“Ugh.”
Sejun said that he couldn’t move for a while because his leg was numb after being pressed by Kuengi.
***
“Humans, I’m here!”
Theo, who plans to acquire 10,000 Top Coins, appeared at the trading venue with a bright voice.
But,
‘Why are there so few?”
The number of hunters waiting was smaller than expected. About 30.
When Theo’s good mood was about to worsen,
“Theo, wait a moment.”
“Okay. The team is on the way.”
“It will be about 10 minutes.”
“How dare you make the deadly yellow cat Theo Park wait?! “I’ll just wait for one hour!”
“Huh? uh. Yes.”
Even though he was angry, Theo was a generous cat who waited for an hour.
“Yes, it’s me! Come quickly!”
“Come quickly! Theo is here!”
The hunters hurriedly contacted their fellow hunting companions using the hunter phone.
As many hunters continued to wait here, the representatives of each team consulted with each other and set up camp here.
Continued It was a waste of time to just wait. So one or two members of each team were resting here and waiting for Theo, while the rest of the hunters were hunting.
After a while, the hunters who had gone out to hunt came back. Then, almost 300 hunters came out to trade. The Royal Knight Guild and the Wizard Guild, which are following closely behind the Phoenix Guild, also participated in this auction.
“There are a lot of hunters,” Leon said, looking at the gathered hunters. Thanks to Theo waiting for an hour
, they were able to participate
on the 36th floor. Leon, who was on the antidote quest, was also able to participate.
After taking the magical cherry tomatoes home, his wife’s treatment of him had clearly changed, so he was determined to secure them.
‘Fuhuhu. There are a lot of customers.’ Theo laughed
as
he looked at the 300 hunters.
“Today, I’m going to auction off 500 C-level magical cherry tomatoes, for a total of 6,000!”
“What! Class C?!”
The hunters were excited by Theo’s words. It’s been a month since the release of the Class D magical cherry tomatoes. Now that research results on the effects of the Class D magic cherry tomatoes have begun to come out, people are surprised by their amazing efficacy. There was. But what about Class C?
“350 Top Coins for 500!”
I hadn’t even checked the options yet?
Leon called out the price without even looking at the options. I was planning on quickly winning the bid and going on the quest again. That’s how Magical Cherry Tomatoes were purchased. The auction started with a price of 0.7 top coins per piece.
And,
“500 items and 600 top coins have been won!”
The first auction ended with Leon purchasing magic cherry tomatoes at a price of 1.2 top coins per piece.
“Here they are!” ”
Leon received the C-class magic cherry tomatoes that Theo gave him and checked the options.
“Huh?!”
Leon’s eyes widened when he saw the option that increased magic power by 0.5. It’s not 0.3, it’s 0.5?! 10 of them. When you eat it, your magic power increases by 5.
In Leon’s mind, the A-class item Tarantula’s Sharp Tooth Sword, which he had stored in the warehouse due to a usage limit of 5 due to a lack of magic power, came to mind. If you wear only the Tarantula’s Sharp Tooth Sword, your hunting speed will be three times faster than now. .
‘I’m buying the rest too!’
“650 Top Coins for 500!”
Leon changed his mind about winning the bid just once and participated in the auction again.
Hunters who were convinced by seeing Leon’s attitude change after seeing the C-class magic cherry tomato option also actively participated in the auction. By participating, Theo earned 8,900 Top Coins through the auction.
When the auction ended and the hunters were about to go hunting again,
“I have one more item to sell today! It’s the big wave of detox…”
Theo said in an uncertain voice. I took out the green onion of Haddock from the robot gym.
