[Butler! This is Shasha!]
As Blackie introduced the blue chick to Sejun,
[Greetings! You lowly human. I am the mighty Ice Queen Sasha, the Screaming Banshee and 5th seat of the Apostle of Destruction…]
The blue chick struggled to fly, hovering above Sejun, and with a rather arrogant expression, directly introduced itself to him.
Just the aroma was enough to make them imagine the delicious taste that would explode in their mouths.
“Puhuhut. Don’t worry, meow! I, Hybrid Vice Chairman Theo, will stamp everyone in one go, meow!”
Theo moved swiftly using Meow-step, stamping hundreds of goblins on their shoulders in no time.
“Oh! It’s delicious!”
“Wow. How can something taste this good?”
The goblins quickly took advantage of the high-quality company cafeteria of Sejun Company.
“But what’s over there?”
As Sejun ate with the goblins, he looked toward the south, where he sensed a fragment of Fenrir’s core, and asked the goblins.
He was trying to gather information. He suspected that a monster might have picked up the gragment of Fenrir’s core.
“Over there? If you mean that area… that’s the Forest of Abyss.”
Paku answered Sejun’s question.
“Yes. A few months ago, a mist appeared in the forest, and since then, no one who goes in has come out, so that’s the name it got.”
I guess I’ll have to go and see for myself.
Sejun didn’t get any special information other than that the place where Fenrir’s core fragment was located was suspicious.
After finishing his meal,
“Shari, can you freeze this for me?”
He handed a glass of watermelon juice to Shari.
[Yes! I’ll show you the power of Shari, the Chick of Screams and Ice!]
Shari immediately flew straight to Sejun, grabbing the glass with her tiny wings and focusing her strength.
After a brief private conversation with Blackie, where they had a heart-to-heart conversation, Shari had become extremely polite.
Shari let out a strange cry as she tried to freeze the watermelon juice with all her might.
Lacking the power, she could only freeze the surface of the watermelon juice slightly, leaving her feeling very dejected.
“Oh. Did you intentionally make it slushy? Shari, you’ve got some good sense!”
She wasn’t very good at making ice cubes, but…
Sejun, thinking that Shari had done it on purpose, praised Shari and seemed pleased.
[Of course! It was all part of my plan!]
Thanks to Sejun’s compliment, Shari regained her confidence.
-Why do I suddenly feel bad?
The ice cube suffered an inexplicable defeat.
After enjoying his watermelon juice,
“Alright, everyone, let’s harvest the perilla seeds!”
Sejun mobilized the goblins and his companions to start collecting perilla seeds. Since they had perilla plants in front of them, they couldn’t just leave them behind.
He felt a little regretful that they couldn’t pick the perilla leaves earlier.
After filtering out the impurities from the harvested perilla seeds,
“Cuengi, can you press this for me?”
Cuengi lifted the perilla seeds into the air using telekinesis.
As Cuengi compressed the perilla seeds with force,
Perilla oil began to flow out from the seeds.
“Ah, the smell is amazing.”
First, Sejun fried an egg in the freshly pressed perilla oil…
The fragrant aroma of the perilla oil filled the air, and Sejun, thinking of how he could use it, started to fill glass bottles with the oil.
A little while later…
Hehehe. Just looking at it makes me feel full.
Sejun, with a satisfied smile, looked at the 300 glass bottles filled with perilla oil.
[Your Mental Strength has increased by 1.]
His Mental Strength had increased.
“Alright, let’s get moving. Take good care of the farm while I’m gone.”
“Yes! Leave it to us, Chairman Park!”
Sejun, receiving a warm farewell from the goblins, set off toward the direction of the Forest of Abyss, where he sensed a fragment of Fenrir’s core.
“So, this is the Forest of Abyss.”
Sejun and his companions came upon a forest filled with dense gray fog. The mist was damp and gave off an ominous, sticky feeling.
“It feels creepy to go in. Cuengi, use Kueng-fooo.”
[Understood! Mist disappear!]
Following Sejun’s command, Cuengi used Kueng-fooo to blow away the fog.
However, Cuengi’s strength was too overwhelming, causing not only the fog but also the trees of the forest to be blown away, leaving the area clear and visible.
Cuengi’s power was more and more surprising the more he saw it.
“…Cuengi, well done.”
Sejun praised Cuengi and walked toward the once fog-covered plain that had become a now completely clear ‘Forest of Abyss’.
They discovered the culprit creating the fog at the center of the forest.
A creature the size of a dump truck with a round body.
Its body was covered with suction-cup-like mouths,
And from those mouths, it was exhaling gray mist.
Blackie, who had noticed Fogra belatedly, was taken aback.
Meanwhile, the fog that Cuengi had blown away began to creep back, surrounding Sejun and his companions.
“Meow-meow-meow! Meow-meow-meow!”
Theo immediately attacked the fog with his Meow-meow Storm Fist.
[Kueng-Meteor Punch!]
Cuengi followed Theo’s lead and attacked the fog.
The gray mist absorbed both their attacks without a trace.
It’s useless. That creature’s fog absorbs all attacks.
The only way to deal with it is to enter the fog and battle against all the souls that Fogra has absorbed.
Even for Fenrir, that was impossible.
In the past, unable to defeat Fogra, Fenrir had swallowed Fogra and the mist whole to deal with it.
Fenrir had devoured and digested many beings in this way, but there were five beings he could not fully digest and had to seal.
Fogra, the Mist of the Abyss was one of them.
Fogra, which had been sealed in Fenrir’s core fragment, began to regain its strength when Fenrir’s power weakened.
It even manipulated Fenrir’s core fragment to create its own body and was now turning this place into its territory.
-Fenrir! So you were here all along!
The mist began to surround Blackie.
It was trying to settle the old score.
-Fenrir, this time I’ll devour you!
The mist swallowed Blackie.
Hehe. Welcome! Guys, let’s show the power of the Blackie Family!
Blackie was no longer the solitary wolf fighting alone as he once had been.
-Wha… What is this?! Fenrir, why aren’t you alone?!