Chapter 43: Welcome to the Kindergarten of Destruction! (43) |
TL: Hanguk
PR: MiniPixelZ
“Ah. Let’s take a break now. Land Moving.”
After running around excitedly to dodge the children’s water gun attacks, Sejun raised the ground to create a giant stone parasol to block the rain.
And then,
‘It’s about time they got hungry.’
After taking out firewood and crops to eat as snacks from the void storage,
Snap.
He snapped his fingers to light the firewood.
“Hehehe. Attack Blackie Teecher-nim!”
“Attack!”
The children chose Blackie as their new victim instead of Sejun and began shooting water guns at him.
However,
“Great Blackie-nim, please trust me! I, Eomdol, the loyal butler of Great Blackie-nim, will block everything!”
“Great Blackie-nim, Jaki is here too!”
Stone Golem Eomdol and Violet Golem Jaki blocked the water streams heading toward Blackie with their whole bodies.
Thanks to them, Blackie’s defense became perfect.
Kihihit. Kking?! Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. How dare you challenge Great Blackie?! Great Blackie also has a water gun! Mukbupal! Besugu! Attack!]
He launched a counterattack with his underlings who could shoot water.
For water-attributed Mukbupal and Besugu, a day like today with heavy rain was the perfect condition to show off their skills.
Bpuu!
[Ink Eight Shadow Clones!]
Mukbupal created eight clones and sprayed water,
Bebe!
[Nine Water Streams!]
Besugu sprayed nine water streams from his mouth and attacked the children.
As the Blackie Family unleashed a powerful total of 18 water streams at the children,
“Uwaah!”
“Let’s run!”
Startled by Blackie’s overwhelming firepower, the children quickly started fleeing.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. This is what happens when you mess with Great Blackie!]
Blackie picked one of the fleeing children
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. You there, stop!]
and persistently chased after him, firing water streams.
“Kkangkkang surrenders!”
When the opponent surrendered,
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Take this from Great Blackie’s water cannon!]
Drip drip drip.
Blackie used his talent Watering Can to spray a pathetic stream of water from his mouth, marking the final victory’s finale.
Kihihit. Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Since you surrendered to Great Blackie, now Kkangkkang is on Great Blackie’s side too! Let’s attack together!]
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“Yes!”
In that way, with the children who surrendered, he steadily made others surrender one by one. Blackie grew into a major force in the water gun fight, and once all the children had surrendered,
Kking! Kking!
[Cuengi hyung! It’s a challenge! Kids, attack!]
They attacked Cuengi along with the children.
However,
Kueng!
Cuengi used telekinesis to gather the water and rain shot at him into a giant water bomb and launched a bombardment.
Kking…
The water gun fight ended quickly with Cuengi’s overwhelming victory.
At that moment,
“Kids, it’s snack time!”
Sejun’s voice rang out from under the stone parasol, where he was steaming corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in a large pot.
Kueng!
Kking!
“It’s snack time!”
“Wow!”
“Mingming’s hungry!”
The group and children rushed toward Sejun. After running around in the rain, they were starving.
A little while later.
“Teecher-nim, it’s so delicious!”
“It was a little cold, but eating something warm made Rangrang feel happy!”
The children grasped the corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, which were bigger than their own tiny hands, and ate with eager bites.
“Puhuhut. As expected of the Churu personally made by Great Hybrid Chairman Park! It’s delicious, meow!”
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. The peanuts are tasty too!”
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. So tasty!]
“Hehehe. It’s so good! Daddy, you eat too.”
The group enjoyed the food as well.
However,
Kking! Kking?! Kking!
[Butler! Why did you steam the Extremely Delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potatoes?! That reduces the amount of the Extremely Delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potatoes that Great Blackie can eat!]
Blackie strongly protested to Sejun while watching the children, Cuengi, and Taecho eat sweet potatoes.
“Park Blackie, stop being greedy. Look. See here? There’s this much Extremely Delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potatoes just for you.”
Sejun showed him the pile of Extremely Delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potatoes stacked in one section of the Void Storage. It was enough that even if Blackie ate diligently for decades, it wouldn’t run out.
Kking?!
[Butler! All of this is for Great Blackie?!]
“Yep. If you behave.”
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Great Blackie will listen to butler very well!]
“You sure know how to answer.”
When Sejun responded bluntly to Blackie’s words,
Kking! Kking! Kking!
[No, really! Great Blackie will truly listen to the butler! Ah! Butler! Great Blackie will give you something good!]
“Something good?”
Blackie didn’t answer Sejun’s question and instead darted off, running wildly and bouncing around the Void Storage.
A moment later.
Blackie came running back to Sejun, holding in his mouth a fragment of the Great Golden Dragon’s Heart, a fragment of the Great White Dragon’s Heart, and a black orb of unknown identity but oddly familiar shape.
And then,
Kkeuhihit. Kkeing!
[Hehe. Butler! Watch closely!]
Crunch.
Right in front of Sejun, Blackie deliberately bit down on all of them at once.
“Hey!? You punk! Park Blackie, why are you biting those?! That’s dangerous! Spit them out right now!”
As Sejun rushed forward to take whatever was in Blackie’s mouth,
Paat.
Golden, white, and black light burst out from the crack of Blackie’s closed mouth, then vanished in an instant.
Kkihihit… Kking…
[Hehe… I did it…]
Thud.
Blackie collapsed, barely able to speak,
Roll…
and from his mouth rolled out an orb mixed with black, gold, and white colors.
[Purified Fenrir’s Core Fragment (22%) infused with the energy of the Great Golden Dragon and Great White Dragon, and Divine Power]
“Fenrir’s Core Fragment?”
Why is this here?
Sejun tilted his head in confusion
Kking…
and gathered the core fragment along with the unconscious Blackie.
Blackie had discovered his own core fragment by chance in <Nekucha>, held by an Ent,
Hehe. Give that here! That belongs to Great Blackie!
and had stolen it. No, more accurately, the Ent willingly handed it over to Blackie, a companion of Sejun.
And then,
Hehe. I’ll use this later to bargain with the butler for some dried roasted sweet potatoes of extreme taste!
Blackie had been keeping his core fragment as a hidden card to trade with Sejun. Of course, the reason he didn’t use it immediately was partly due to Sejun’s weakling constitution.
A core holding 22% of Blackie’s power was too dangerous for Sejun to absorb.
And there was also the issue of balance of power.
Inside Sejun’s body, there were three energies.
The energy of the Great Black Dragon settled in Sejun’s bones, and the energy of a god embedded in his heart.
The divine energy came from the Heart of Dark, the God of Darkness, and the Divine Relic Heart of Courage from Bev, the God of Courage. Though their natures differed, they had formed a temporary alliance to counteract the other energies.
Lastly, the energy of the Divine Beast resided in Sejun’s lower abdomen. He had obtained the energy of the Divine Beast through a core fragment from Blackie.
Ah. One was forgotten.
Sejun’s own innate energy, his Innate Qi also existed.
Sejun’s Innate Qi, much like him, had almost no presence compared to the other energies and was so weak it was on the verge of being extinguished multiple times.
But each time, the other energies lent it their power, preventing its extinction.
The energies wanted to eliminate the Innate Qi and take its place, but whenever one made a move to do so, the other two would share their energy with the Innate Qi and simultaneously attack the one trying to erase it.
Thus, the energies of the Great Dragon, the God, and the Divine Beast kept each other in check while occupying Sejun’s bones, heart, and lower abdomen respectively, always watching for a chance to dominate.
It was a balance that could collapse instantly if any one side grew overwhelmingly stronger.
And amidst these overwhelming powers, Sejun’s Innate Qi barely managed to survive each day.
Having lost its own spot to the others, the Innate Qi wandered, one day to the bones, one day to the heart, one day to the lower abdomen.
But the Innate Qi didn’t give up.
I’ll reclaim my place!
It quietly built strength, waiting for the right opportunity.
As it continued receiving power from the three energies, at some point it became capable of merging those energies with its own.
By mixing a small amount of its own energy with equal parts of the Great Black Dragon, the God, and the Divine Beast’s energies in a 1:1:1 ratio, it created a new energy that was strong and resilient.
If its original strength was 1, this new energy could produce a power of 1000 using the same quantity.
The Innate Qi, having endured countless humiliations, absorbed a little bit of each energy as it moved between places, nurturing this new power. It awaited the day when it would replace all of its old self with this new energy.
It planned to reclaim its rightful place on that day.
Of course, this was only the Innate Qi’s wishful thinking. Even if it grew 1000 times stronger, it was still insignificant compared to the other three.
The Innate Qi had no real grasp of just how vast the other three energies were.
And there was no way the three would just stand by while it quietly grew by nibbling at their strength.
Anyway, the reason this is being told is because a few months ago, Blackie, sleeping inside the sling bag as usual, noticed Sejun’s Innate Qi struggling for survival inside his body.
Hehe. As expected, the butler’s energy is just like the butler, hybrid?
Great Blackie should lend a hand!
He decided to help enhance Sejun’s hybrid strength.
And what he created today was the result of that decision.
Even just by being in Sejun’s possession, his Innate Qi could gradually absorb the energy from Blackie’s core fragment and grow stronger.
Moreover, the Great Dragon race was originally born from a single Creator God, so if the energies of the Great Nine Dragon races could be united into one, it would become an immense power.
Also, since the energies of the Great Golden Dragon and the Great White Dragon repelled other energies, it was advantageous for Sejun’s Innate Qi that only it could absorb the energy of the core.
Of course, combining them wouldn’t be easy,
Hehe. But since the butler is a hybrid, it’s possible!
Blackie believed in this strange logic and pushed forward with the plan to strengthen Sejun’s Innate Qi.
As for why he was only doing this great thing now?
Great Blackie is tired!
Because Blackie didn’t feel like doing it before.
While Sejun was busy packing up Blackie and the core fragment,
“Hehehe. Eating outside like this makes it even tastier?”
Aileen spoke with a happy expression.
“Hehehe. Right? Food always tastes better in rough conditions.”
“Really? Then next time, let’s eat in an even worse environment!”
“Uh, no. That’s a bit…”
While chatting with Aileen, Sejun forgot that he had placed the core fragment in his pocket.
During that time,
It’s food!
Sejun’s Innate Qi absorbed the energy from the core and grew rapidly. Of course, it was still too weak to be noticeable.
But thanks to the strengthening effect of the Innate Qi,
“Oh! I’m overflowing with power!”
The Giant Chairman Park No. 5 within Theo’s mental world grew into a Super-Giant Chairman Park No. 5.
And so, while Sejun, his companions, and the children enjoyed their snacks,
Swaaaah.
The rain poured down even harder.
“It’s raining too much. Isn’t this going to cause a flood?”
As Sejun looked up at the sky with a worried expression,
Vrrrm.
His smartphone vibrated.
[Mom]
It was Kim Mi-ran.
Is she calling because of the pancake?
“Hello?”
When Sejun answered the call,
“Sejun, is your house okay?!”
“Huh? The house?”
So not about the pancake?
“What’s wrong with the house?”
“What do you mean ‘what’s wrong’? The whole neighborhood is flooded. And your house is in a low area.”
“Ah. I’m outside with the kids right now.”
“What?! You took the kids out in this rain? Are you out of your mind…”
Sejun had to listen to Kim Mi-ran’s nagging for several minutes. He had a lot he wanted to say, but he stayed quiet and listened.
That was the best way to keep his mom’s nagging as short as possible. If he talked back, it would get several times longer.
“And haven’t you seen the news? It’s not just Korea, the entire world is experiencing torrential rain, and every country is on high alert. So don’t go back to your place, come to Mom’s and eat pancakes.”
“Okay. Got it.”
As soon as Sejun ended the call,
[A quest has been triggered.][Quest: Due to [Children of Creation Tainted by Destruction], dark clouds have covered the entire sky of <Earth>, causing massive rainfall. If the rain continues, all continents of Earth will be submerged, and if more time passes, an ice age will begin, leading to the destruction of <Earth>. Please eliminate the dark clouds immediately.
Reward: Peace of <Earth>, Delay of Green Tower’s arrival by 5 days
[System Eok-Samchiri] displayed the quest message in front of Sejun as if it had been waiting for the moment.
Normally, Sejun would have had something to say to [System Eok-Samchiri] for showing up late,
“Hm.”
but the content of the quest message was no joke.
“When did you guys mess things up?!”
After reading the message, Sejun glared at the children with fierce eyes,
“Dongdong didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Jjongjjong didn’t either! Right, Pungpung?”
“Yeah!”
The innocent children answered proudly. Indeed, they had done nothing wrong.
They had simply all cried together, and the resulting wave had pierced through Kindergarten of Destruction and created dark clouds over Earth.
-Kekeke. Let everything be submerged! Freeze! Be destroyed!
Clouds with a wicked consciousness.