Chapter 40: Welcome to the Kindergarten of Destruction! (40) |
TL: Hanguk
PR: MiniPixelZ
<Hellis>
As they got closer to the place where the super-giant black hole was,
‘That must be the one.’
Sejun saw, behind the black hole, a gigantic child whose size easily exceeded 1km.
“I’m hungry! I said I’m hungry!”
The child was opening his mouth behind the super-giant black hole, devouring everything the black hole sucked in.
“Eok-Samchiri, how much time do we have?”
[<Hellis> has 10 minutes left until destruction.]
10 minutes?!
There wasn’t much time left.
“No choice, then.”
It seemed like he would have to proceed with multiple tasks simultaneously.
“I’ll go calm the child, so Iona, stop the black hole.”
“Kyoo… Sejun-nim, I’m sorry, but I can’t close it by myself. I need help from Theo-nim, Cuengi, and Paespaes.”
Iona answered in a gloomy voice. She seemed to feel sorry for not living up to Sejun’s expectations.
“It’s okay. Theo, Cuengi, and Paespaes, stay and help Iona.”
Sejun said to Iona as he
“Meeooow!”
Pried off Theo, who was tightly holding onto his knee.
And then,
“Guys, can someone give me a ride over there?”
As he approached the blue wolves standing behind and asked for help,
Woof!
Woof!
The blue wolves stepped forward to offer Sejun a ride.
Hehehe. Is this the power of meat soup?
Sejun looked at the blue wolves with a pleased smile.
However,
Kkirorong.
The blue wolves actually wanted to give a ride not to Sejun but to Blackie, who was inside Sejun’s sling bag giving Tikan a mental lesson.
Unaware of that, Sejun rode on the back of the victorious blue wolves among the dozens and moved toward the child.
“Puhuhut. Iona, what should I, Vice Chairman Theo, do meow?!”
Kueng?!
[Sister-in-law, what is Cuengi supposed to do?!]
(Pip-pip. Sister-in-law Iona, what should I help with?)
Theo, Cuengi, and Paespaes waited for Iona’s instructions.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. First, Paespaes, you should….”
Iona began explaining the plan to the three.
A moment later.
(Pip-pip. Then I’ll begin!)
Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.
Paespaes began opening and closing dimensional gates at the edge of the black hole.
Kueng!
Cuengi used telekinesis to slow down <Hellis> from being sucked into the black hole.
Woof!
Woof!
The blue wolves, catching on, diligently pushed <Hellis> in the opposite direction of the black hole under their leader’s command.
And then,
“Meow? Iona, is it okay for me to just stay like this, meow?”
Theo, who had Iona wrapped around his tail as usual, asked her curiously.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Yes! Power of gravity….”
Iona confidently replied and began chanting.
Though Theo didn’t know, his role was to buff Iona’s mental strength. When wrapped in Theo’s tail, Iona could perform at her peak ability.
About three minutes after Iona began casting magic, a change appeared in the black hole. The black hole began wriggling like an amoeba.
Paespaes’s dimensional gates opened and closed, gradually breaking the black hole’s balance, and Iona further amplified that imbalance using gravity magic.
As a result, the black hole’s power weakened, and its shape began to collapse.
About five more minutes passed, and the black hole’s range had expanded to dozens of times its original size, but its power grew weaker and weaker.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Theo-nim, it’s almost over. Please go in over there.”
“Puhuhut. Got it, meow!”
Theo ran toward the center of the black hole that Iona pointed at, and the two of them soon disappeared into the black hole.
Three seconds later.
Swoosh.
The black hole vanished in an instant.
Where the black hole had disappeared, among the things it had sucked in,
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. To obtain the core of the black hole, how lucky we are!”
Was Iona, holding a small peanut-sized orb swirling with sealed black energy, the core of the black hole, and Theo, wrapping Iona with his tail and front paws.
Apparently having gone through a rough time protecting Iona who was focused on magic inside the black hole, Theo’s fur was sticking out in all directions in a mess.
It was because the gravity had been pulling his fur every which way.
In contrast, Iona’s fur was just as neat as it was at the beginning.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Theo-nim, for my sake….”
Iona looked back and forth between herself and Theo’s condition, deeply moved by Theo’s thoughtfulness, and began tidying up his fur.
While the group was busy extinguishing the black hole,
“Want to try this? I bet this tastes better than what you’re eating now.”
Sejun approached the child and offered some food to win favor first.
“Tasty? What is this?”
The child immediately showed curiosity at Sejun’s words.
“It’s called a chicken skewer… but rather than explaining, just try it.”
“Chikken skewy?”
At Sejun’s words, the child immediately shoved the entire skewer into his mouth. Considering the child’s enormous size, it honestly wasn’t even enough to tickle his stomach, but…
…?!
“Tasty!”
The child clearly tasted the flavor of the chicken skewer.
“Hehehe. Tasty, right? Want some more?”
“Yeah!”
At Sejun’s sly question, the child eagerly nodded his head.
The child, having fallen into Sejun’s chicken skewer scheme, everything went smoothly after that.
“Listen while you eat.”
“Okay.”
“If you come with me, you’ll get to meet a lot of friends.”
“Fwiends?”
“That’s right. See this picture? Don’t you want to play with the kids here? This one’s my daughter, Taecho. This one’s Dongdong, this one’s Nangnang…”
As Sejun swiped through pictures of the children on his smartphone, introducing them one by one, the child’s size gradually shrank.
“And this one is Ttaettae.”
By the time Sejun introduced the last child.
“Then what about me?”
The child pointed at himself and asked.
“Hm?”
5.251.205.82
“What will you call me? When you introduce me to your friends…”
“Oh, your name? You are…”
Dozens of names flashed through Sejun’s mind.
Since the child created a black hole… Black?
Combine black hole and Hellis… Holly?
The 23rd child, so shorten Twenty-three to Twoth?
He honestly wanted to give a name like that, but…
No, the kid didn’t know any better. And giving a name like that could make him more twisted.
Right. I can’t give him a crude(?) name like that.
With generosity in his heart, Sejun decided to give the child a proper(?) name.
And the name that came from that generosity was…
“Helmang?”
A name made by shortening ‘Hellis’s Destruction’ to Helmang. [헬망 (Helmang) = 헬 from 헬리스 (Hellis) + 망 from 멸망 (Destruction)]
It was a naming skill so fearsome, one might wonder what kind of name would come out if Sejun were generous twice.
“From now on, you’re Helmang.”
Helmang had missed the chance to have a decent name due to Sejun’s generosity.
Then, Sejun held the now-tiny child who had shrunk enough to fit snugly in his arms.
[You have extinguished the super-giant black hole that was devouring <Hellis>.][You have completed the quest.]
[As a quest reward, <Hellis> has become peaceful.]
[As a quest reward, you have gained 0.5% evolution experience for <Hellis>.]
A quest completion message appeared.
“Hehehe. 0.5%.”
Reading the message, Sejun smirked.
If 0.5% evolution experience from a level 10 world were converted to Earth’s evolution experience…
“Eok-Samchiri, calculate it quickly.”
Don’t misunderstand. I can calculate it too, but I’m giving Eok-Samchiri some work because it’s being lazy.
Do your job!
[Converting 0.5% evolution experience from a level 10 world to level 4 world evolution experience.][You have acquired 32% evolution experience for the level 4 world.]
Prompted by Sejun, [System Eok-Samchiri] quickly displayed the conversion result in front of him.
And then.
[<Earth>’s evolution experience has been completely filled.][<Earth> will now begin evolving into a level 5 world.]
[Earth’s evolution will be completed in 4 hours.]
Earth’s evolution had begun.
“Nice.”
Now, in 4 hours, it would be able to accommodate up to 6 towers.
“Now I just need to deal with that guy.”
Sejun said as he looked at Tikan, who was hanging on the back of the blue wolves leader.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! Great Blackie is awake!]
Blackie had regained consciousness.
Kking?! Kking?!
[What are you looking at?! You want to get scolded by great Blackie?!]
As soon as he woke up, Blackie, now in Sejun’s arms, picked a fight with Helmang, who was staring at him.
“Why would I get scolded?! You’re the one who should!”
Thwack!
Helmang smacked Blackie on the head for picking a fight.
And then.
Kking-! Kking-!
[Butler! This kid hit great Blackie on the head-! Scold him quickly-!]
Blackie whimpered pitifully and looked to Sejun for help.
“Blackie, you were the one who picked a fight first.”
Of course, Sejun didn’t indulge Blackie’s whining.
Kking…
[Butler is mean…]
But he didn’t just stand by, either.
“Here. Eat this and apologize to Helmang.”
Sejun patted the spot where Blackie had been hit and placed an extremely-delicious roasted and dried sweet potato in his mouth.
Then.
Kkihihit.
Blackie’s mouth curved straight upward in delight.
Kkihihit. Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. The generous and great Blackie will let it go this time! Sorry for picking a fight!]
Blackie immediately apologized.
“Helmang, you too, what were you thinking, throwing a punch just because you got mad? Eat this and apologize.”
“Okay! Helmang’s sorry for hitting you too!”
Helmang also ate a piece of roasted and dried sweet potato and apologized to Blackie.
Once the two made up,
“Blackie, what do you want to do with Tikan?”
Sejun asked Blackie about how to deal with Tikan, who was the son of Blackie’s enemy.
Kkihihit. Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Obviously, make him a lifetime full-time employee of Sejun Company! I’ll work him forever!]
Blackie grinned wickedly. Thanks to learning well from Sejun, he now knew how to make someone suffer without killing them.
Slam.
“Puhuhut. Great Hybrid Chairman Park, stamped, meow!”
Hearing Blackie’s words, Theo quickly stamped a seal on the back of Tikan’s head.
Originally, since Tikan was the God of Justice, the seal should’ve been stamped in the mental world, but Tikan was actually a demigod.
“But why isn’t he waking up?”
Sejun asked as he looked at Blackie.
Kkihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Because great Blackie’s mental education was excellent!]
Blackie answered proudly.
So basically, he beat him a lot.
Sejun understood Blackie perfectly.
“Then what kind of work should we give Tikan? Do you have any ideas, Blackie?”
Kking! Kking! Kking!
[No! I don’t! That’s the butler’s job to figure out!]
“Really? Hm. Vice Chairman Theo, got any good ideas?”
Since nothing came to mind right away, Sejun asked Theo for his opinion.
“Puhuhut. I, Vice Chairman Theo, am competent, so of course I have good ideas, meow!”
“Good ideas? What is it?”
“Send Tikan to Tartarus, meow! Make him work a ton and then let him go, meow!”
“Oh. That’s a great idea!”
“Puhuhut. I know, meow!”
Theo answered smugly. But since it was a good idea, Sejun had nothing to say.
Lately, Tartarus had changed quite a bit under the management of the Seventh Poisonous Queen Bee.
She was putting willing prisoners to work from morning to night and giving them a modest amount of divine power in return, which was very well received.
To gods, divine power was both life force and currency, and also the energy needed to use their powers.
So having a lot of divine power basically meant being powerful. Not always, but often.
Anyway, since divine power brought many advantages, gods were voluntarily laboring to receive it.
So what kind of labor were they doing?
Whirr!
[Everyone! We’re building statues of Sejun-nim and Sweetie-nim!]
Construction of giant statues of Sejun and Sweetie.
Wihihi. When Sejun-nim and Sweetie-nim see these statues later, I bet they’ll praise me!
Truly, it was just like the sycophantic Seventh.
Anyway, after that, Tikan began working hard in Tartarus and receiving divine power.
And since he was a full-time employee of Sejun Company, the amount of divine power Tikan received was greater than that of the other prisoners.
“I want to be a full-time employee too!”
“Me too!”
Upon learning that, the imprisoned gods began applying for positions at Sejun Company, and as a result, the number of full-time employees of Sejun Company in Tartarus started increasing unintentionally.
And then.
Whirr. Whirr.
[Wihihi. Just as planned.]
With results like these, I can keep this warden position for a long time!
It’s said that the Seventh, Warden of Tartarus, looked very pleased as she reviewed the pile of job applications on her desk.