Chapter 34: Welcome to the Kindergarten of Destruction! (34) |
TL: Hanguk
PR: MiniPixelZ
Black Tower, 99th Floor.
-Tier, what did you do?!
Kaiser shouted toward Tier. This was because the Purple Tower had arrived on Earth much earlier than scheduled.
Although the other leaders didn’t say anything, the looks they gave Tier were not friendly.
With the Purple Tower arriving on Earth early, the pace at which their own towers reached Earth had also accelerated.
When four towers gathered in one world, their forces accelerated the movement of the other towers.
Because of that, the remaining leaders had to put in more effort to slow down the movement speed of their towers.
Tier hastily made an excuse in a flustered tone
-Is that what you’re going with?! Do you think that counts as an explanation?! I’m telling Sejun everything about this.
That only made Kaiser angrier.
-No, I mean, I’m sorry… but isn’t it too much to get this mad over a little mistake?!
Tier, knowing he was at fault, had tried to endure and listen quietly, but when Kaiser said he would tell Sejun, he raised his voice.
He could endure everything else, but he could not endure someone tattling to Sejun.
If his mistake reached Sejun’s ears, he wouldn’t be able to drink the electrifying grapefruit wine for days.
Just the thought of not being able to drink the electrifying grapefruit wine was enough to induce withdrawal symptoms, it was that addictive.
And
If the grapefruit wine is cut off, a riot will break out immediately.
Tier couldn’t bring himself to tell the other Purple Dragons that it was his fault they wouldn’t be able to drink it.
-Ah. Sorry. That was a bit much, wasn’t it?
Kaiser realized he had gotten too worked up and quickly apologized. Even he thought going to Sejun was too harsh.
-Yeah. Kaiser, that was too much!
-Kaiser, no matter what, tattling to Sejun is a bit much.
-Right. Let’s at least keep some lines.
-Yeah. This time, Kaiser crossed the line.
The other leaders, who had been glaring at Tier just moments ago, reprimanded Kaiser and took Tier’s side.
As the mood shifted to make Kaiser look like the one at fault
-Still, if you made a mistake, you need to pay the price.
Kaiser tried to change the mood by shifting the topic.
And then
-Alright. Since it was my fault, I’ll cleanly give Sejun 10,000 of my scales and a piece of my heart.
Tier acknowledged his fault and boldly decided to offer even a piece of his heart as payment.
However
-No. Forget the heart. If Sejun receives that, he could be in danger. Instead, let’s settle for 100,000 scales.
Kaiser rejected Tier’s heart.
-Right. Remember how the piece of the Great Golden Dragon’s heart that Sejun got before was also dangerous for him, so Theo is keeping it?
Artemis explained why Sejun couldn’t receive Tier’s heart.
At first, Sejun had been happy to obtain the piece of the Great Golden Dragon’s heart, but he couldn’t handle its power, so he couldn’t use it.
On top of that, Sejun, although vaguely defined, was a dragon too. A black dragon at that.
Because of that, just the contact between Sejun’s heart and the piece of the Great Golden Dragon’s heart caused the powers of darkness and lightning to clash and had a subtle negative effect on Sejun’s heart.
Fortunately, before Sejun’s heart worsened, Theo realized Sejun’s condition and put the piece of the Great Golden Dragon’s heart in his bag to keep it.
The piece of the Great Golden Dragon’s heart was now quietly forgotten in everyone’s memory.
Once the matter was settled
-But what should we say to Sejun? Doesn’t anyone have a good idea?
Tier looked at the other leaders and asked. With the power of collective intelligence, there was nothing they couldn’t solve.
However
-……
-……
-……
-Huh?! Where are you guys going without giving any ideas?
Instead of giving ideas, the leaders quietly left their seats. While Kaiser crossing the line was wrong, that didn’t mean Tier’s mistake had vanished.
None of them wanted to be involved and have their own alcohol supply cut off because of Tier.
***
<Nekucha>
Flying through the sky on Cuengi’s back in search of the child who dropped the meteor, Sejun and his party pressed on.
“There! Over there!”
Sejun shouted, pointing his finger toward one side.
There sat a child, about six years old in appearance, yet 50 meters tall. Seated atop a massive chunk of land floating in the air.
The reason was unknown, but the child was levitating the massive landmass.
Thud.
Landing on the floating land, Sejun approached the child quietly with Theo hanging from him, while Cuengi and Iona prepared to safely lower the land.
If this enormous landmass were to crash to the surface as-is, <Nekucha> could not possibly survive unscathed.
At that moment
[A quest has occurred.][Quest: A portion of the continent of <Nekucha> has risen into the sky and is now in danger. If the continent falls as it is, <Nekucha> will be destroyed. Please return the floating continent safely to its original position.]
Reward: Peace of <Nekucha>, part of <Nekucha>’s evolution experience points
As if to cheer Sejun on, the quest message appeared and motivated him.
“Hehehe. Nice.”
Sejun smiled upon confirming the quest reward. A portion of the evolution experience of a Level 9 world was bound to be substantial.
“Hello. Nice to meet you. My name is Park Sejun.”
Sejun slowly approached the child and began speaking. With Theo by his side, he felt reassured.
Theo was the type who somehow resolved things no matter what.
However
“If you come with me, you can have some deli…”
An unexpected attack came at Sejun.
“Heehee! You’re ugly! You look like a deep-sea squid!”
The child launched the first strike with an insult about appearance.
“What?! You look like a flat flounder!”
Sejun snapped back without backing down.
However
“Then Park Sejun looks like poop! Hehe. No, maybe diarrhea-poop?”
The child was a natural-born trash talker. Like breathing, he easily delivered a critical hit to Sejun’s weak spot.
“Then you’re….”
Ah. What am I doing fighting with a kid?
Just as Sejun was about to say “You look like a booger!”, a sudden wave of self-awareness hit him, and he couldn’t finish his sentence.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Butler lost!]
Without reading the room, Blackie laughed and annoyed Sejun even more.
“Park Blackie, did you just laugh?”
Sejun grabbed and pulled up Blackie’s cheek as if grabbing a collar. He was taking his anger out on Blackie for getting slapped verbally elsewhere.
Kking…
Only then did Blackie realize Sejun was mad and entered reflection mode. But it felt a bit too late.
“Hehehe. Park Blackie, do you think I’ll let you off like that?! I sentence you to 10 minutes of rice cake punishment!”
Kking…
As Sejun tugged on Blackie’s cheek to calm his mood
Crack.
“Yap.”
Losing interest in teasing Sejun, the child yanked a massive boulder from the ground and hurled it forcefully at a 45-degree angle. As it flew and accelerated, it effectively became a meteor.
“Vice Chairman Theo, block it!”
Sejun urgently gave Theo the order.
“Puhuhut. Just trust me, Vice Chairman Theo, meow!”
Thunk!
Theo quickly moved in front of the boulder and struck it with his front paw
Crash!
And drove the boulder back into the ground.
Then
“This won’t do. Let’s just knock him out by force.”
“Puhuhut. Ok, meow!”
Whack whack!
“Waaah! That hurts!”
Following Sejun’s instructions, Theo began happily smacking the back of the child’s head.
It was absolutely not because Sejun was emotionally wounded by the child’s earlier words. It was purely to prevent the situation from escalating…
Why am I a deep-sea squid?!
Apparently not. Sejun was quite hurt by the earlier comment.
“Puhuhut. I’m hitting to hurt, meow! How dare you call our great hybrid Chairman Park a deep-sea squid, you deserve more pain, meow!”
Perhaps sensing Sejun’s feelings, Theo was punishing the child for insulting Sejun’s appearance.
Hehehe. Good job, Vice Chairman Theo!
Thanks to that, Sejun’s mood improved a bit.
However
“You should’ve just kept that thought inside, meow! Saying it out loud is rude, meow!”
Words must be listened to all the way to the end.
Theo, you’re even ruder.
Theo dealt Sejun a second blow. Sejun’s mood was now far worse than before.
“Uwaa….”
When the child was finally knocked unconscious after being hit on the back of the head twenty times by Theo
Rumble.
Cuengi and Iona slowly began lowering the land back to its original place.
Some time later.
Just as the land was nearly back where it belonged
“Meow?! Great hybrid Chairman Park, I sense a pull, meow!”
Theo suddenly shouted, pointing at the ground with his front paw.
“A pull?”
“Puhuhut. That’s right, meow! It’s deep beneath this spot, meow!”
“Guys, hold on for a second!”
Sejun had Cuengi and Iona stop their work and descended from the levitating land.
Kueng?
[Dad, what’s going on?]
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. What’s the matter?”
Cuengi and Iona approached and asked.
“Theo says he feels a pull from below.”
Kueng?! Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Then it’s a treasure hunt?! Hehehe. Cuengi’s going to find the best treasure!]
“Puhuhut. That’s nonsense as long as Vice Chairman Theo is here, meow! The one who finds the best treasure will be me, Vice Chairman Theo, meow!”
Theo and Cuengi, burning with competitive spirit.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe! Hyungs! Don’t leave out great Blackie!]
Blackie also scurried around them, not wanting to be excluded.
“Let’s head down first and do the treasure hunt there.”
“Puhuhut. Got it, meow! This way, meow!”
Guided by Theo, they moved toward the source of the pull.
“Here?”
“Puhuhut. That’s right, meow!”
About midway down a massive pit formed where the land had been lifted, there was a deep, circular hole.
When Sejun threw a rock to gauge the depth, the sound didn’t come for a while, it was that deep.
“Let’s go!”
“Puhuhut. Let’s go, meow!”
Kueng!
Kking!
Sejun and his group boldly leaped into the pit and began falling rapidly.
They fell for ten minutes straight.
With acceleration building, Sejun and his group were plummeting at terrifying speed.
“Puhuhut. Look at Chairman Park’s face, meow! He’s not a deep-sea squid, he’s an underground squid now, meow!”
Theo teased Sejun, whose face was distorted by the wind.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot.”
Kuehehehe.
Kihihit.
The others laughed along beside him.
Sejun wanted to say “You guys aren’t much better either!” but
You’re getting the same wind, so why?!
Unfairly, Theo, Iona, Cuengi, and Blackie were getting wind buffs and becoming even cuter.
“Hey! Didn’t you say earlier that thoughts like that should be kept inside?!”
So he tried to nitpick something else instead.
“Puhuhut. Underground squid is fine, meow!”
Theo claimed completely incomprehensible logic. No. Was there even any logic to it?
“What…”
As Sejun tried to object, unable to make sense of Theo’s words
Kueng!
[Dad! I can see the ground!]
Finally, the end began to come into view.
“Huh? I don’t see anything yet?”
Of course, with Sejun’s vision, he couldn’t see the ground until they had fallen for about five more minutes.
A little while later.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Power of the wind…
104.28.193.250
Iona used wind magic to slow the group’s fall.
Tap.
They landed softly on the ground.
And then
“Wow. It’s huge.”
“Puhuhut. Looks like there’s a lot of treasure, meow!”
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. I feel an ominous atmosphere. This seems fun.”
Kuehehehe. Kking!
[Hehehe. It’s so spacious, looks like fun!]
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Great Blackie wins everything!]
Before them stood a massive door.
It had the image of a terrifying monster carved into it, and the atmosphere was so ominous that it felt like it should never be opened, but
“Puhuhut. This way, meow!”
Theo opened the door without a second thought.
Creeeak.
The door opened smoothly, as if welcoming Sejun and his party.
Kuhuhu. Finally, the offerings for my resurrection are entering in on their own.
The demon god Kali welcomed Sejun and his companions, who had entered the place where he was sealed.
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