Seed Shop Headquarters.
[If Park Sejun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, completes the Harvest Festival Quest within 24 hours, the Harvest Festival of Abundance will be held.]
[Time remaining until the Harvest Festival of Abundance: 23:59:59]
Suddenly, a huge message window appeared in the center and started counting down.
A certain god was overwhelmed with emotion as he looked at the message window.
To think a harvest festival offering grapes to me would be held! I knew it! I believed in you, Park Sejun!
With the message, bright lights of deep green, blue, and white exploded from the Bountiful Grape Cluster Altar, spreading across the entire floor.
And suddenly, foxes of various colors appeared beneath the altar.
“Huh?! Where is this place?”
“There’s daylight here?”
“Daytime? There’s no daytime where you’re from?! Hey, why is your fur white?!”
“What about you, why are you brown?”
The Fox Tribe members, summoned from the Nine Towers, were bewildered as they looked at their fellow tribesmen with different colored fur.
“Puhuhut. If you’re not sure what’s going on, just come here and get this stamp, meow!”
Theo held up the Five Towers’ Slave Seal and shouted to the foxes.
“A seal shouldn’t be stamped carelessly!”
Though their fur colors were different, their dispositions were similar. The foxes were not easily swayed.
“No, that’s wrong, meow! A seal should be stamped carelessly, meow! And if you do, you’ll get free food made by the great Chairman Park for life! Three meals a day! Free of charge, meow!”
While Theo was trying to lure the foxes with food,
Sejun opened the status window to check the details of the blessings.
Before he knew it, Sejun’s level had reached 107. It was thanks to drinking all the growth elixirs he had accumulated.
“First, let’s look at the Great Blessing of Abundance.”
When Sejun pressed on the Great Blessing of Abundance,
– The blessing is bestowed only on those permitted by Tower Farmer Park Sejun, the host of the harvest festival.
– During the harvest festival, abundance greatly increases on the 99th floor of the Black Tower.
– The growth rate of crops is greatly accelerated.
– The chances of conceiving new life increase significantly when engaging in breeding activities.
The information appeared.
If the rabbits had been summoned this time, sleep would have been out of the question.
Sejun then checked the second blessing.
– The blessing is bestowed only on those permitted by Tower Farmer Park Sejun, the host of the harvest festival.
– Two Magic Streams are connected to the 99th floor of the Black Tower during the harvest festival.
– The Magic Power Stat increases by 1 to 1000 every hour, depending on magic affinity.
– Magic recovery speed increases.
– The power of magic increases.
Just breathing really did increase his magic power.
But it was a bit unsettling…
The explanation that magic power could increase by 1 to 1000 depending on magic affinity felt a bit worrisome.
He was working hard to close the gap with the others(?), but it could suddenly widen again in an instant.
– A blessing for peace is bestowed upon all places where the harvest festival is held.
– To prevent harming each other, attack power decreases as the festival progresses. (Attack power decreases by 5% every 24 hours.)
As Sejun was checking the last blessing,
Flamie’s avatar opened its eyes.
[It’s a success! Yay!]
When Flamie created a purple flame,
The effect of the blessing was amplified. It was the Amplifying Flame that boosted all effects fivefold.
Having thus created an environment where she could move freely,
[Hehe. In just 5 days, I can see Master!]
Flamie began to stretch, eagerly waiting for the day it would reunite with Sejun.
And back on the surface,
“If you give me 30 additional clusters of grapes, I’ll stamp the seal!”
Among the foxes who initially resisted, some began to show interest in Theo’s offer.
They were the silver foxes from the Silver Tower, where the food situation was not good.
And so, the transaction was completed.
When Theo stamped the seal on the foxes’ paws,
Cuengi began distributing 30 clusters of grapes and various other food items to the foxes who had stamped the seal.
They looked at the food they received, swallowing their saliva in hunger, but they desperately held back. They needed to take this food back to their starving kin.
“Nak, just hold on a little longer.”
“Yeah. If we wait just 4 more days, we can eat all the grapes we want at the grape-eating contest.”
“And there’s also the grape wine drinking contest.”
“Sseup. That’s right.”
As the silver foxes imagined eating grapes and drinking grape wine to their heart’s content, battling their hunger,
Sejun called out to the group after preparing dinner.
Today’s menu was grilled pork belly.
All the foxes’ noses began to twitch, drawn toward Sejun’s cooking area.
“You guys, come eat too!”
Sejun invited the silver foxes over. Since they had joined Sejun’s company, their meals were, of course, free.
As the silver foxes who received Sejun’s invitation entered the cooking area
“Bayon~nim, why don’t we eat here? All their faces look so gentle and weak.”
“That’s right! If we act a bit tough, they’ll immediately flatten themselves on the ground.”
The red foxes, much larger and taller than the others, began to whisper among themselves, gathering around Bayon.
A little while later.
“Hey! If you invite us to the harvest festival, shouldn’t you feed us?!”
“Yeah! Give us food, now! Before we kill you all!”
Bayon and the red foxes, exuding a murderous aura, burst through the door of the cooking area.
[Did you just say you’re going to kill Dad?]
Hearing their words, Cuengi put down the ssam he was about to eat and,
He began to take out his Thunderbolt Staff from his snack pouch.
Two lettuce leaves layered with two perilla leaves, one spoonful of white rice on top, five pieces of pork belly.
On top of that, seasoned green onion, two pieces of grilled kimchi, three slices of Cheongyang chili pepper and garlic, and a dab of ssamjang to make the ssam. (TL: Ssam essentially means ‘wrap’, and ssamjang is a sauce used for wrapping.)
The fact that Cuengi put down the ssam made with what he considered the best delicious combination showed how angry he was.
The red foxes had chosen the worst possible way to become slaves.