Black Tower Administrator Area
[The Black Tower’s Tower Farmer, Park Sejun, says you can come now.]
“Okay. Just a moment! Weakness. The punishment of heavy iron chains. Feet trapped in a swamp. The curse of the magic leech…”
Aileen hurriedly cast 20 curses upon herself, each powerful but without affecting her surroundings, perfectly harmonizing with each other.
Aileen smiled brightly, gauging her strength, now weakened by the curses.
Though her body had become heavy from the curses, her heart was filled with joy at the thought of meeting Sejun.
“Sejun, I’m coming now! Teleport!”
[All stats increased by 1.]
[All stats increase by 10 by burning wealth (10 billion Tower Coins).]
Theo absorbed Aileen’s energy and increased his stats by burning gold as much as his increased potential.
With this newfound strength, Theo successfully blocked Aileen’s energy from affecting Sejun, allowing Sejun to enjoy the meal with Aileen peacefully.
“Aileen, how about some dessert? Do you like ice cream?”
“Yes! I’d love that!”
“Then wait just a moment. I’ll make it for you right away.”
While Sejun was busy making strawberry ice cream,
‘Theo, thank you so much.’
‘Puhuhut. Aileen-noona, don’t worry, meow!’
Aileen gave Theo another thankful look.
I’m out of money, meow!
Sejun’s entire fortune had been depleted far sooner than expected.
Even though the Golden Boots of the One Who Believes in Miracles were bringing in money with the built-in skill “Money Hug”
[You’ve earned 10,000 Tower Coins.]
Compared to the speed at which Theo was burning money, it was like pouring water into a bottomless pit.
As if waiting for the money to run out, the remaining curses on Aileen began to break all at once.
Aileen tried to hurry back to the Administrator’s area to avoid causing any harm to Sejun, but
She couldn’t move because her power was entangled as the curses were destroyed.
This is really bad, meow! If this keeps up, I won’t be able to help the Great Hybrid Chairman Park or Aileen-noona, meow!
Seeing the situation, Theo realized he needed emergency funds.
‘Hel-nim, give me money, meow! Or else, I’ll push for your impeachment, meow!’
Theo, the demon of Serial Impeachment Threats, demanded money from Hel, the God of Merchants, who seemed the easiest target.
[Your Divine Power has increased by 2.]
“Good, this is sweet as honey.”
Hel was happily munching away, recording his steady stream of divine power flowing in as usual.
[Your Divine Power has increased by 50,000!]
A message appeared before Hel.
Why is a dragon appearing here?!
Frozen by the sight of the message, Hel panicked.
“Hehehe! Trust-in-Park! Trust-in-Park!”
As expected of Park Sejun! He even hangs out with dragons! His class is on another level!
Hel began chanting in excitement.
But while Hel was busy chanting,
[The legendary merchant of the Black Tower, Theo Park, says if you refuse, he’ll push for your impeachment.]
Theo’s message appeared.
He’s not even asking to borrow it, just outright demanding money?
As expected of Theo, the cat-scoundrel, shamelessly extorting money. And from a god, no less.
“Fine! I’ll give it to you!”
Once again, Hel surrendered to the threat of impeachment and hurriedly sent the Tower Coins she had accumulated to Theo.
Unaware of the enormous surge of energy from Aileen’s broken curses behind him, Sejun was diligently making strawberry ice cream.
A foreboding red message appeared before Sejun.
Being the sensitive sunfish that he was, Sejun didn’t wonder why or how this was happening.
Sejun simply swallowed the Golden Grape Infused with the Energy of the World that he had prepared earlier, bracing for the impending danger.
Maybe eating the Lucky Strawberry will help too?
Sejun spotted the strawberries he had taken out to make strawberry ice cream.
[Your luck will greatly increase for one hour.]
Even though the Lucky Strawberry hadn’t been giving him any luck lately, Sejun hurriedly ate it, hoping it would help even a little this time.
For reference, when he had fed a Lucky Strawberry to Uren before, Uren experienced a slight reduction in bad luck for an hour. However, once that hour passed, a massive wave of misfortune struck Uren, and ever since then, his face turned pale at the mere sight of strawberries.
While Sejun was preparing for danger with the help of the Orb of Death’s Energy,
“Puhuhut. I’ve got money now, meow!”
Theo began burning the money he received from Hel.
[An enormous power stirs.]
[A large amount of money is being burned.]
[Power, luck, and money combine to amplify the strength of the small miracle.]
An extraordinary miracle occurred.
[A safe zone, where you will not be affected by each other, has been created for one hour.]
A safe zone, which would normally cost 100 quadrillion Tower Coins for Aileen to create, had appeared on the 99th floor of the Black Tower for one hour.
Now I can go on a date with Sejun without worrying!
Aileen smiled brightly at the message.
“Meow?! Chairman Park, wake up, meow!”
It seemed like they needed to wake Sejun up first.