Chapter 397: Chapter 397
Black Tower Administrator Area.
1st – Park Sejun (19,920,042 monsters)
2nd – Han Tae-jun (3,312 monsters)
3rd – Leon (2,134 monsters)
“Khehehehe. Everyone, keep it up.”
Several hours passed like that.
Sejun, who had been diligently finding thumbs and stamping, stood up and stretched widely.
His companions stretched along with him.
“This is harder than collecting treasure.”
Sejun looked at the towering piles of sorted thumbs and said.
With so many skeletons, finding and stamping the thumbs was an enormous task. There were still many unchecked bones left.
Cuengi’s stomach rumbled. It was dinner time.
Since finishing today seemed impossible, the remaining work would have to be done tomorrow.
“Let’s eat first. Vice Chairman Theo, please catch some fish.”
Following Sejun’s instructions, Theo hunted fish from the moat, and Sejun prepared and grilled them deliciously.
“As expected, fish grilled with Chairman Park’s care is the best, meow!”
‘More! Give me more!’
While the group enjoyed their grilled fish,
A pile of fish bones quickly accumulated.
A strange noise came from the pile of fish bones.
When Sejun got up to check the pile of bones,
There, a skeleton’s skull was munching happily on fish bones.
“Meow? That’s the guy who didn’t tell us his comrade’s location earlier, meow!”
Theo recognized the skeleton and said.
Now that he thought about it, they still hadn’t found that skeleton’s thumb bone.
Sejun said as he moved the surrounding fish bones out of the skeleton’s reach.
The skeleton visibly showed its disappointment. It seemed willing to do anything as long as it could eat the fish bones.
“Hehehe. I have a lot of this.”
Sejun said as he took out the fish bones he had stored for making broth from the Void Storage.
The skeleton mimicked swallowing. Though it couldn’t actually swallow, it acted like it did.
“If you stamp this contract, I’ll give you one of these fish bones every day. How about it? If you want to stamp, move your thumb bone.”
When Sejun said this to the skeleton,
Suddenly, the sound of moving thumb bones was heard from all around. The skeleton in front of him wasn’t the only one who wanted the fish bones.
As a result, the maintenance cost for the skeletons went from zero to one fish bone a day, but it was no burden at all.
“As expected, Chairman Park is a genius, meow!”
“Aha. Doing this much is nothing…”
Sejun modestly replied to Theo’s praise, but internally,
Heheh. Maybe I really am a genius?
He felt incredibly proud.
A little while later.
They found and stamped the contract on all the moving thumb bones.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, Anis says there are many slaves on the 96th floor of the tower, meow!”
Theo had found out the location of more comrades from Anis, the leader of the skeleton mages.
“The 96th floor of the tower?”
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. The 96th floor of the tower is ruled by Regius, the Lord of Bones, who is considered sacred even among the sacred bones!”
“Really? But we’re stronger, right?”
Sejun asked Iona, slightly uneasy due to the impressive title of Lord of Bones.
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Of course! We’re more than enough! If you’re worried, should we call the Minotaur King and the Black Minotaurs?”
Feeling uneasy, Sejun immediately nodded.
“Then I will contact the Minotaur King right away?”
“No. We need to go to the 68th floor first, so contact them later.”
“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Yes!”
After finishing his conversation with Iona, Sejun played with Theo, Cuengi, and Fenrir before falling asleep.
99th Floor of the Golden Tower.
[Participants who wish to join the contest, please gather in front of the High Elf’s Giant Cherry Tomato Altar.]
“Not alcohol, but juice?”
The elves, who were expecting alcohol, were taken aback.
Cecilia was no different.
Instead, young elves who could now participate cheered.
Cecilia came in last place again.
But the ‘Honey-infused Magical Cherry Tomato Juice’ was really delicious.
Cecilia smiled, recalling the taste of the juice she had just drunk.
“But… the rewards will be even tastier, right? I’m so jealous.”
Thinking about the rewards, she quickly became sad.
“Oh! It’s the rewards!”
Meanwhile, the winners of the contest received their prizes.
“Horrible Cherry Tomato Goblin Whiskey?”
It was an S-grade alcohol made by mixing Sejun’s cherry tomatoes with the horrible goblin whiskey that Orik had brought to the Brown Tower.
Thanks to this, Orik gained immense recognition from the Red Goblin tribe, but for the elves, it was a disaster.
“Let’s at least try it. Despite the name, it must taste good!”
The winners who drank the rewarded alcohol ended up vomiting everything and passed out.
“Phew. Thank goodness.”
Cecilia was grateful she didn’t win.
Later, when the winners woke up, they were so traumatized that they shuddered even at the mention of ‘goblin’ for months.
“You guys go to the 4th floor of the tower, meow!”
The skeleton mages, under Theo’s command, left for the 4th floor of the tower, preciously holding the bundle of fish bones inside their rib cages.
“Guys, go inside the storage.”
Sejun put his companions into the Void Storage and,