“Father, it would have been better if you had just handed over the chairman position obediently.”
Michael said as he entered the huge house’s foyer.
“Michael, you’re insane. Killing a dragon that doesn’t even exist? Get a grip!”
Gagel’s chairman, William, shouted at Michael in an angry voice. Hundreds of hunters were surrounding Michael.
A few days ago, Michael had started acting strangely after coming out of the tower.
He began killing people.
Not just a few, but hundreds.
“Puhuhut. Then we’ll stop by the 75th floor first, then head to the 69th floor, meow!”
Thanks to Iona’s information, Theo and his companions headed straight to the 75th floor without any detours.
[Theo~nim, there’s a fork in the road!]
A fragment of Jǫrmungandr, brought on by Uren’s misfortune, appeared.
“Puhuhut. Uren, which way, meow?”
“Hmm… I want to go left.”
Hearing Uren’s answer, Theo swung his front paw toward the left path.
The left path, no, the fragment of Jǫrmungandr, split into six pieces.
Piyot quickly flew over and picked up the falling white coins.
After dealing with the fragment of Jǫrmungandr and moving a little further,
“Kukukuk. Lucky me, finding three newbies here. I, the life-draining wizard Roku, will take your life force. And of course, your belongings…”
A green goblin in a black robe appeared, but
“I don’t like your laugh, meow!”
He was knocked out by Theo’s punch to the back of his head.
In the meantime, Piyot took out a slave contract, got Roku’s handprint on it, and looted his belongings.
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Theo~nim, please leave Roku to me. He’s a wanted criminal by our Wizard’s Association. In return, I’ll give you the reward money.”
“Puhuhut. Got it, meow! By the way, how much is the reward, meow?”
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. It’s 5 million tower coins.”
They also got an extra reward too.
‘Puhuhut. As expected, there’s always much to gain when traveling with Uren, meow!’
Theo walked confidently with a bright smile towards the 75th floor of the tower.
A little while later.
When Theo and his companions arrived at the office of the Wandering Merchants Association,
“Welcome, Chairman Iona of the Wizard’s Association, Legendary Merchant Uren, Diplomat Piyot of the Kingdom of Kov, and Theo~nim. Nice to meet you all. Then, it seems Theo~nim has passed the first stage of the Legendary Merchant promotion test.”
Mason greeted the group and informed Theo that he had passed the first stage of the Legendary Merchant promotion test.
“Meow?! What do you mean, meow?!”
Theo was flustered by Mason’s words. He planned to take the promotion test with Chairman Park! He didn’t want to pass it now!
“Didn’t you know? The first stage of the Legendary Merchant promotion test is to bring three reputable figures from the Black Tower to verify the merchant’s connections. I assumed you all came together because Uren-nim informed me beforehand…”
“No, meow! I’m canceling this, meow! I, Vice Chairman Theo, am not taking the promotion test yet, meow!”
Theo, who wanted to pass the promotion test together with Sejun, shouted.
“Ah… I see. Then, if you’re not here for the promotion test, why have you come…?”
Mason asked the reason for their visit.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Mason, sell me the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower, meow!”
“The land deed for the 75th floor of the tower? One moment, please.”
Mason instructed a subordinate to bring the land deed for the 75th floor of the tower.
The subordinate returned empty-handed and whispered to Mason.
“Hmm. If only you had come a little earlier… It was sold 10 minutes ago.”
“Meow?! To whom did you sell it, meow?!”
“We don’t know. We received five times the market price in exchange for not asking for their identity.”
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Theo~nim, let’s hurry! If it’s only been 10 minutes, they might still be nearby!”
With that, Theo stepped outside.
Where could the land deed for the 75th floor be?
Theo stretched his front paws forward and called out earnestly for the land deed for the 75th floor. I, Vice Chairman Theo, have golden front paws, meow!
There wasn’t just one pull. I’ll check them all, meow!
Theo grabbed Piyot and Uren with his front paws and disappeared using Meow Step.
Theo moved quickly, checking everything he felt a pull towards, but they were all other items, not the land deed.
“Only one left, meow!”
Theo headed towards the last pull.
“Stop right there, meow!”
Theo called out to a brown orc he felt the pull from.
“What do you want…? Wait. Who is this?!”
The brown orc turned around at the call and, upon seeing Uren, smiled brightly.
On the contrary, Uren’s expression was not good. It was natural.
Baka was the one who had taken a commission of 300 billion tower coins to find treasure for Uren, only to abandon him in a maze and run away.
Thanks to this, Baka held a proud spot as the tenth name on Uren’s blacklist.
Just when he thought he could settle down and quietly live on a farm, was this a divine revelation telling him to pull one last big job?
Baka’s eyes gleamed as he looked at Uren.
“Uren, I’m sorry about that time. I got lost myself…”
Baka hurriedly started preparing his next scam.
“What?! You didn’t abandon me?”
If Uren were alone, he would have the misfortune of being scammed, but the moment he is with Theo, Uren’s misfortune disappears and turns into Theo’s luck.
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Theo~nim, this is Baka, a client-killer who deliberately abandons clients in dangerous places and runs away! With the Mercenary Association’s bounty of 15 million Tower Coins and other bounties combined, it exceeds 100 million Tower Coins!”
Thanks to Iona, who could provide real-time information from the association, they could collect a hefty bounty as well.
“Puhuhut. Let’s get the stamp from him first and talk later, meow!”
Theo smiled as he approached Baka.
Piyot took out a slave contract and prepared to stamp it.