Black Tower 40th floor.
A black pig stepped foot on the sword farm.
However, there was no one at the farm. Even the usual places where weasels usually stayed were carefully inspected, but they were empty too.
“Hmm… Is the rumor true? That Uren-nim got money from ‘Tolt and the guys’ and turned them into slaves…”
The rumor seemed credible enough to check since the scene corroborated the unbelievable rumor.
“If Uren~nim managed to get 100 billion Tower Coins from Tolt, then the remaining money would be…”
49.9 trillion Tower Coins.
Originally, Uren was just a pig born into an incredibly, no, enormously wealthy family.
At Theo’s urging, Uren started leading the way.
Uren’s next destination was originally the 31st floor of the tower.
He planned to go after the scammer who had sold him a completely ineffective stone, claiming it was a charm that protected against scams, for 50 billion Tower Coins.
However, seeing Theo’s skill in reclaiming money, Uren gained courage.
‘With Theo~nim, we can get the money back from those guys!’
Thus, he decided to seek out those he had almost given up on getting money from and had blacklisted.
‘I might even be able to go home now!’
Uren guided Theo with a bright smile,
‘Puhuhut. I’ll earn even more money and monopolize Chairman Park’s knees, meow!’
Theo, buoyed by the expectation of monopolizing Sejun’s knees for a long time, also followed with a bright expression.
‘Puhuhut. Theo~nim is smiling! He must be pleased with my assistance!’
Thanks to this, Piyot could also smile brightly.
Black Tower 99th floor.
Sejun, who took a bath, drank banana milk, and took a long nap.
He spent 8 million Tower Coins to bring mugwort from the Green Tower,
“Cuengi, let’s squeeze it.”
[I want to squeeze too!]
Cuengi and Black Rabbit made mugwort juice.
After producing 2.5 liters of Life Mugwort Juice and 2 liters of Magic Mugwort Juice,
“Here. Keep these. Use them when it’s dangerous.”
He prepared 10 bottles each of Life Mugwort Juice Potion and Magic Mugwort Juice Potion, adding a bit of water to the 17ml of mugwort juice to make it easier to drink, and handed them to Cuengi and Black Rabbit.
As Cuengi’s juicing skills improved, they could now recover 6% of life and magic power per 1ml of mugwort juice.
After preparing the mugwort juice potions for the two, Sejun mixed the mugwort juice with rice flour to make dough.
Since the Mushroom Ants couldn’t drink from glass bottles, he decided to make the juice into pills, which were easier to consume.
He shaped the dough, now turned red with Life Mugwort Juice and blue with Magic Mugwort Juice, into bite-sized pieces,
[You have achieved the feat of making mana mugwort pills for the first time in the tower.]
Cooking achievement messages appeared. The cooking effect enhanced the effects of the ingredients, improving the effects of the mugwort pills.
“Use them when in danger.”
After distributing a total of 2,000 of both types of mugwort pills to the representative of the Mushroom Ants,
‘Hey! Give me some too!’
Fenrir, who had gently sat in front of Sejun, barked, asking for some too.
“Do you want some too, Blackie?”
Sejun later gave some mugwort pills for Fenrir to eat,
‘This is bitter! I can’t eat this!’
Fenrir, tasting the bitterness, spat out the mugwort pills and barked fiercely. He couldn’t tolerate even a bit of bitterness.
“Puhuhut. Indeed, you don’t know the bitterness of life because you’re young.”
After scoffing at Fenrir, the oldest Apostle of Destruction who couldn’t handle bitterness, Sejun gave him a dried sweet potato to chew on.
‘Heheh. As expected, the yellow and chewy ones are the tastiest!’
While Fenrir enjoyed the dried sweet potato, Sejun prepared dinner.
For dinner, he made rice flour dumplings mixed with the mugwort powder that Cuengi had made while juicing the mugwort.
Shortly after, Sejun skewered three mugwort dumplings each, piled them onto a plate, and brought it to the table.
Next to the plate, he placed a bowl filled with bean paste and honey so everyone could dip their dumplings if they wished.
With dinner preparations complete,
“Summon Ajax. Summon Veronica.”
He summoned Ajax and Veronica, who insisted on eating dinner only in the Black Tower.
He called the group together for dinner.
[It’s so, so delicious!]
“Of course, it’s made by Sejun hyung~nim!”
“Right! Sejun~nim, your cooking is the best!”
[Mental Strength increases by 1.]
As Sejun was encouraging his companions to eat more, observing the messages,
‘I want to dip and eat too!’
Fenrir put the dumpling he was holding in his mouth into the bowl of honey.
Naturally, the dumpling sank, and Fenrir put his face into the bowl to retrieve his dumpling, resulting in honey sticking all over the fur around his mouth.
‘Hehi. It’s delicious!’
Fenrir gleefully licked the honey off his face, savoring the taste.
“Blackie, you need a bath.”
Seeing Fenrir, who quickly became a scruffy mess, Sejun commented,
‘No! I just had one!’
‘Bath’ was one of the few words Fenrir understood. Fenrir sneakily buried his face among the dumpling skewers, hiding his body.
‘Heheh. I won’t get caught this time!’
Fenrir was confident as he hid again, perfectly covering his eyes and ears while hiding this time too, but
“Hehehe. Blackie, are you hiding here?”
Sejun caught him by the nape and carried him off to the bath.
‘I was sure I hid well, why do I keep getting caught?’