99th Floor of the Black Tower.
Morning of the 444th day since entering the tower.
Sejun was sleeping in late.
Due to the fatigue from the battle(?) with Delia that hadn’t yet worn off, and the exhaustion from transporting Destruction Devourers all day yesterday, the tiredness had piled up again.
Since Sejun hadn’t woken up, it was natural that Theo also hadn’t woken up.
[I hate Black Torch! I’m just going to stick with Black Rabbit Jr.! And don’t you guys act all high and mighty when you’re weaker than me!]
Black Torch stomped the ground angrily, rejecting the embarrassing name Sejun had given him, ignoring Blackie and his subordinates.
Kking! Kking?! Kking!
[Black Torch is actually a really good name among those the butler has given! And you dare say we’re weak?! Guys, show him how scary we can be!]
“Yes! Great Blackie~nim!”
Black Torch had to pay a terrifying price after receiving the pitiful headbutts from Blackie and his subordinates.
Thirty seconds later.
[Great Captain Blackie~nim, please accept my greeting! Rookie Black Torch reporting in!]
After being exorcised by Blackie and his subordinates, Black Torch transformed into a very polite rookie.
Blackie looked at his exorcism success with satisfaction.
But there were two beings that even Blackie couldn’t exorcise.
One was Theo, who had the giant Sejun.
Blackie once secretly entered Theo’s mental world while he was sleeping, only to hurriedly exit upon encountering the giant butler about the size of his own.
Theo was a crazy cat who only cared about Sejun.
Thanks to this, Blackie realized just how terrifying a fanatic could be.
The other being was Cuengi.
Inside Cuengi, a red bear with terrifying power was curled up, sleeping.
The bear slightly opened its right eye, as if annoyed by Blackie’s appearance in the mental world.
Even that slight movement was starting to impact Blackie’s mental state.
The moment Blackie faced the bear, he realized its true identity.
The Beast of the Apocalypse…
If creation and destruction are like a repeating cycle of life and death, the apocalypse is the existence that breaks that cycle.
That’s why it’s also called ‘The End Bringer’.
When the Beast of the Apocalypse awakens, it means everything returns to nothingness.
– Leave. It is not yet time for me to awaken.
At the bear’s command, Blackie was expelled from Cuengi’s mental world.
As a result, Blackie couldn’t defy Theo or Cuengi.
Theo was crazy and unpredictable, while if the entity inside Cuengi were to awaken, his happy life would come to an end.
As Blackie was lost in thought for a moment while looking at the rookie,
[Thank you for your hard work!]
Black Rabbit, who had endured the Minotaur King’s punches with his own two fists for 10 minutes, bowed to the Minotaur King.
[Uncle, I’ll be back in about a week!]
Black Rabbit prepared to go down the tower with Black Torch. Since Black Torch was still growing, he couldn’t undergo the Minotaur King’s special training every day.
“Won’t you have a meal before you go?”
[I’ll eat later! I have something important to do this afternoon!]
[Goodbye, Uncle Grandpa!]
And with that, the Black Rabbit father and son hurriedly left.
Sejun suffered a serious internal injury from Black Torch’s innocent words.
After the Black Rabbit father and son duo left,
“Then let’s eat by ourselves.”
Sejun returned home and had lunch with his companions.
On the outskirts of Destruction.
“Leviathan, have you heard when the other Apostles of Destruction are coming?”
Leviathan shook his head at Halphas’s question. It was natural, as he hadn’t come here of his own accord either.
-Leviathan, where are you? There’s a lot of food here! Come eat with us! Jǫrmungandr~nim is here too!
Kraken had reached out to him.
Even among the Apostles of Destruction, there were groups that formed based on their characteristics or levels of closeness.
Halphas, Melpheus, and Delia, who all had wings.
Jǫrmungandr, Hydra, and Leviathan, who were all snakes, along with Kraken, who was close to Leviathan as they were both sea creatures.
They were called the Wing Faction and the Snake Faction.
Meanwhile, Fenrir, Krueger, Violet, Alice, and Shasha, who preferred to act alone, were simply categorized as the Solo Faction.
-Kraken, help! Tell Jǫrmungandr~nim that I’m with Halphas~nim, so hurry and come over!
Just as Leviathan was asking Kraken for help,
“I feel Krueger’s presence here…”
Violet, the Crystal Giant of Destruction and the 11th seat of the Apostle of Destruction followed Krueger due to their shared rock attributes.
A fragment of Violet was moving from the 72nd floor of the Black Tower towards the upper levels, following Krueger’s energy.
“This time I’m sure! It must be here!”
Uren, who was leading the way while boasting loudly to Piyot, encountered them from the opposite direction.
[The seed of the Destruction Devourer has been planted in the body of Krueger, 7th seat of the Apostle of Destruction, the Destroyer of Mountains.]
After lunch, Sejun was planting Destruction Devourer seeds in the Void Storage.
Around Sejun, 70 Destruction Pioneers were diligently planting Destruction Devourer seeds.
[Hehe. Everyone, devour it all!]
Under Blackie’s command, the Destruction Devourers were eagerly consuming the energy of destruction.
The energy of destruction they digested began to transform into a blue mist, which started mixing with the atmosphere of the 99th floor of the tower.
Some of that energy seeped into Podori’s branches.
[It’s done! I finally did it!]
Podori exclaimed in delight, having absorbed the energy of creation to produce a grape cluster resembling an altar.
How long and arduous had this journey been?
Countless hours of scorn and humiliation when Flamie nagged that it couldn’t make an altar.
Under Flamie’s relentless pressure, Podori had finally absorbed enough of the energy of creation to create a bountiful grape cluster altar that could hold a harvest festival.
As Podori was rejoicing,
[Now that it’s made, you should quickly inform Master. What are you waiting for?]
Flamie’s voice echoed.
Flamie had undergone a rapid increase in level and power after passing one of the three trials needed to become a Tree of Creation a few months ago.
Because of this, Flamie could no longer appear in front of Sejun and had pressured Podori into creating the altar for the Harvest Festival as a means to meet with him.
With the help of the Harvest Festival, Flamie hoped to appear before Sejun just as Aileen had done in the past.
[Sejun~nim, please harvest this!]
Worried about receiving more pressure from Flamie, Podori hurriedly called out to Sejun.
A little while later.
As Sejun harvested the grape cluster altar,
[Your Job Experience has greatly increased.]
[Your proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 9 has greatly increased.]
[You have gained 10,000 Experience Points.]
Along with the messages, the purple grape cluster grew to a massive size and floated in the air, with vines extending from the grape cluster to Enjoy reading on NovelHub - your free online novel platform.
[Quest: Within 24 hours, offer 100 of each of 10 different crops to the bountiful grape cluster altar and hold the Harvest Festival of Abundance!]
Reward: Hosting the Harvest Festival of Abundance
A quest to hold the Harvest Festival of Abundance had appeared.