Along with the message announcing the appearance of the Grape Harvesting Competition, 2,000 grape fields of 330 square meters each appeared around the Bountiful Grape Cluster Altar.
A massive message window appeared in front of the Bountiful Grape Cluster Altar.
When Sejun approached—
Seedless Grape for Beginners (1 piece) – 100 Harvest Festival Commemorative Grapes
The hunters who participated in the competition saw their harvested grapes disappear, and for every grape cluster they harvested, they received one grape seed.
1st – Superfan (520 clusters) [4th Floor of the Black Tower]
2nd – Mair (490 clusters) [4th Floor of the Black Tower]
3rd – Yoshida (483 clusters) [4th Floor of the Black Tower]
The hunters took the top ranks, pushing out the Mushroom Ants.
“This should be enough to be in the rankings, right?”
“It showed they were from the 99th floor, but they aren’t that much.”
“Maybe we were just too scared. After this, let’s try climbing the tower again.”
Thanks to this, the hunters felt confidence growing in place of their fear of the 99th floor of the tower.
1st – Legendary Merchant Golden Sheep Mimyr (9,500 clusters) [99th Floor of the Black Tower]
2nd – Chestnut Hedgehog Godori (8,200 clusters) [99th Floor of the Black Tower]
3rd – Black Bear Rak (7,900 clusters) [99th Floor of the Black Tower]
“Huh?! The rankings…”
About an hour later, the rankings shifted dramatically again.
The mushroom ants had finally finished, and the real participants who had bought Harvest Festival tickets began to take part.
“As expected, the 99th floor of the tower is a scary place.”
“It’s not somewhere hunters like us should mess with.”
As all the hunters were pushed out of the top 1,000 and fell into despair—
1st – Tower Farmer Park Sejun (120,500 clusters) [99th Floor of the Black Tower]
Sejun made a meteoric rise, taking first place with his exceptional farming skills and physical prowess.
1st – Legendary Merchant Theo Park (9,020,222 clusters) [99th Floor of the Black Tower]
Before the hunters could even take hope from Sejun’s victory, he was quickly dethroned from first place.
Theo, reducing travel time by using Meow step, was dominating first place with an overwhelming lead.
Puhuhut. I, Vice Chairman Theo, will give Chairman Park the first-place prize, meow!
Though Theo had every intention of giving Sejun the reward, he had no intention of yielding first place.
Afterward, Cuengi, Iona, the Minotaur King, and the Black Minotaur all joined in, and Sejun’s name quickly dropped from the top ranks, disappearing from the leaderboard entirely, leaving none of the hunters able to see his name.
99th Floor of the Black Tower.
“Ah, it’s not even a 3-second reign, more like a 0.3-second reign…”
Although he knew he’d lose first place, it happened way too fast.
[You can exchange Harvest Festival Commemorative Grapes here.]
Behind the sign Theo had engraved with his dragon claws, Sejun sat at a desk, propping his chin with his hand and sighing.
“I’m hungry, should we eat something first?”
“Great, meow! I want grilled fish cooked by Chairman Park, meow!”
Since there were no more customers, they decided to prepare brunch.
The menu? A 10-layer whipped cream pancake topped with vanilla ice cream, along with chocolate milk, to soothe his gloomy heart.
A super-sweet set of sweet + sugary.
Of course, since Sejun had to feed more than one mouth, he quickly made 100 Super Sweet Sets.
Recently, after mastering his cooking skill, Sejun gained the ability to recreate any dish he had made within an hour, as long as he infused magic power into the ingredients.
“Aileen, here. Hey everyone, it’s time to eat!”
As Sejun sent 5 Super Sweet Sets to Aileen and called the others for a meal—
Cuengi, who had become hungry from participating in the Great Harvest Festival, hurriedly flew over.
The silver, brown, and red foxes, who had become employees of Sejun’s company, quickly ran over and lined up.
“Move aside! How dare you, a temporary employees stand in front of a full-time employee?!”
“We’re full-time employees!”
The red foxes, led by Bayon, pushed aside the silver and brown foxes to stand at the front of the line.
“Sejun-nim, your loyal full-time employee Beyon has arrived!”
Bayon looked proudly at Sejun.
If I become a full-time employee, I can eat for free forever, right?
The other foxes looked at Bayon and the red foxes with envy.
What? Being a full-time employee is worse, you idiots…
“All the foxes who cut in line, go to the back.”
The red foxes, ears drooping in disappointment, obediently moved to the back of the line at Sejun’s command.
The mushroom ants, making angry sounds, swarmed towards Sejun.
“We’ll arrive soon. Get ready.”
Halphas spoke to the Slimes as they moved along the flow of the magic stream.
No matter how much it was related to destruction, there was no power that could allow an unauthorized being to enter the tower, especially the Great Black Tower. Not yet.
If that were possible, the world would have already been destroyed.
However, with the Great Harvest Festival of Abundance and overflowing Magic, a gap had opened that allowed entry into the 99th floor of the Black Tower, where Fenrir resided.
It was due to two magic streams connected to the 99th floor of the Black Tower.
Thanks to this, Halphas and the slimes could enter the Black Tower with minimal loss of power.
The time they could remain in the tower was about one hour. Kukukuk. It would be nice if there are dragons too.
Feeling confident in his full power within the tower, Halphas was looking forward to the upcoming slaughter…
[Stop! How dare you target my master’s farm?!]
A massive root blocked their path.
The magic of the magic stream began to burn strongly as if responding to Flamie’s will.
“I’m telling you, being a full-time employee is worse!”
[Master, we worked hard!]
[We’ll work even harder! Please make us full-time employees!]
Sejun was having a tough time trying to persuade the mushroom ants, who were demanding to be made full-time employees.
[We’ll go on strike until we become full-time employees!]
His attempts to persuade them were completely ineffective.
“Fine. I’ll make you full-time.”
Sejun created a full-time employee contract for the mushroom ants and made contracts with them.
“Vice Chairman Theo, don’t you smell meat grilling somewhere?”