Chapter 469: Chapter 469
Between the grand and massive headquarters of the Combat Shop Headquarters and the small, shabby Seed Shop Headquarters, there was a small but elegant building.
Hel was humming a tune while sitting at her desk, leisurely writing in her ledger.
For Hel, the God of Merchants, keeping records in her ledger was like play.
“Good. It matches perfectly!”
When the ledger and her divine power matched up precisely to the second decimal point, Hel felt a sense of satisfaction and a thrilling pleasure.
‘This is exactly why I love bookkeeping.’
The seal and the scales in her hand melted and started to fuse into one.
‘How will it turn out?’
Hel watched, wondering.
One thing was for sure: with six scales from the dragon leaders, the result would be strong and durable.
A burst of nine-colored light exploded, and an item with the word “employee” in its name was born.
Outskirts of Destruction.
“Kuhuhu. Let it all perish.”
Halphas, who had forgotten about the Earth and Neta he hadn’t been able to destroy yet, was now focused on destroying other worlds.
Two hands slowly pushed through the Black Moon at the center of the destruction.
The hands began to forcefully pry open the Black Moon.
Through the gap in the pried open Black Moon, brown mucus started oozing out.
The mucus gathered and reformed into droplet-like shapes.
It was the Fifth Calamity, Slime, which melted everything.
Thousands of slimes poured out of the Black Moon.
“Huh?! Reinforcements already? Oh! This time it’s slimes.”
Watching this, Halphas hurriedly flew toward the Black Moon.
The reason Fenrir had assigned Halphas to guard this place was to manage the calamities being replenished through the Black Moon and—
“I greet the Master of Destruction.”
Halphas bowed his head in reverence as he gazed at the crimson eyes beyond the Black Moon, awaiting instructions for destruction.
-Why is it you here, Halphas, and not Fenrir?
“Well… it seems that something happened to Fenrir.”
-Fenrir has been defeated?
“Yes. There has been no contact from him since he entered the Black Tower, and I’ve heard that pieces of his core are wandering around.”
-That’s impossible. I can still sense Fenrir’s soul. I also sense the souls of Krueger, Alice, and Delia. Halphas, take the slimes and go retrieve Fenrir and the other apostles.
As the crimson eyes of destruction focused on Halphas and the slimes,
A red mist began to envelop Halphas and the slimes, and in an instant, they disappeared.
The hands that had been forcibly holding the Black Moon open retreated, and the Black Moon shrank once more.
99th floor of the Black Tower.
“Oh. That looks delicious. Cuengi, let’s go try it.”
When Sejun pointed to a food stall in the raccoon market selling grilled cheese,
[Hehehe. Sounds good!]
Cuengi lifted both of his front paws in excitement at Sejun’s suggestion.
“Oh. It’s delicious!”
The two wandered through the market, tasting food from every stall.
After they had visited all the stalls, they finally headed toward the last one, owned by Emil, the elder of the raccoon tribe.
Theo, having received the renamed Legendary Merchant item from Hel, laughed.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, look at this, meow! I did exactly what you asked and changed ‘slave’ to ’employee’, meow!”
Hoping to be praised by Sejun, Theo handed over the Legendary Merchant item with his front paws.
A high-class seal with a dragon’s head, emitting a brilliant light in nine colors, surrounded by the scales of nine dragons.
‘So that’s what he was getting out of the Void Storage earlier?’
Sejun thought as he examined the seal’s options.
→ A newly created seal made by combining the Five Towers’ Slave Seal with the scales of the Nine Dragons.
→ You can easily make an employee contract by stamping the seal on the other party’s body.
→ Those who were previously marked by the Five Towers’ Slave Seal will automatically become 1-year contract employees.
→ The seal can be used up to 100 times. (TL: It’s probably an error, or maybe not, but I guess it should be 100 times per month or day; otherwise, this will become a useless item based on the scale at which Theo makes slaves after only 100 uses.)
→ During the contract period, employees will receive a salary and three meals a day.
→ However, the owner of the seal must guarantee the employee’s meals and wages every day. (Meals are provided automatically, and if meals are not provided, the contract is automatically nullified.)
→ Employees belonging to a tower affiliated with a dragon acting as its administratorswill be protected by that dragon during the contract period. (However, if the contract is violated, the employee will incur the wrath of the dragon and be expelled from the tower.)
→ Current affiliated tower administrators: None
→ Bound to Park Sejun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, and Theo Park, the Legendary Merchant of the Black Tower.
→ Usage restrictions: Theo Park, the Legendary Merchant of the Black Tower, any superior of Theo Park, Magic Power 3000 or higher.
→ Creator: Hel, the God of Merchants
Skill: [Eternal Contract (Master)]
→ Employee contracts last indefinitely.
→ Even if meals are not provided, the contract will not be nullified. (However, the missed meals must be provided later in one batch.)
→ Can be used up to 50 times per month.
The effect had weakened significantly compared to the previous version.
With the new seal, a contract only lasted for one year. Plus, if three meals weren’t provided daily, the contract would automatically be nullified.
Moreover, although there was a skill to create permanent employees, its use was limited to 50 times per month.
Instead, there was a benefit that both Sejun and Theo could use the seal themselves, and if they formed an alliance with a dragon managing a tower, their employees would receive the protection of that dragon.
Receiving a dragon’s protection was an incredible privilege.
Who would dare mess with someone under the protection of a dragon?
‘I’ll look into how to affiliate with dragons later.’
“Vice Chairman Theo, you did well.”
Sejun patted Theo’s head, who was staring at him with sparkling eyes.
“Puhuhut. Of course, meow! I, Vice Chairman Theo always do well, meow!”
“Yes, you usually do well, but today you did even better.”
“Puhuhut. Keep going, meow!”
Theo’s lips curled up in joy from Sejun’s praise.
At that moment, a message appeared:
[Participants, please gather in front of the Bountiful Grape Cluster Altar.]
The message announced the start of the first competition of the Harvest Festival.