Chapter 551: Chapter 551
2nd floor of the Black Tower.
“Kyung-chul, take this.”
Sejun handed the Divine Relic of the God of Hunting, the Relentless Hunter’s Bow, to Kyung-chul, who was feeling down after being called an uncle by Flamie.
Kyung-chul, puzzled, received the bow.
As he examined the bow, Kyung-chul couldn’t help but repeatedly exclaim in awe.
After his companions came out of the Void Storage,
“There’s no message about me becoming the landowner?”
Then that must mean something’s here, right?
Sejun carefully walked across the ice-covered lake, hoping for a quest to appear, trying not to slip.
Of course, that didn’t last long.
“How’s this? I’m moving without falling, right?”
Sejun quickly slid across the ice, gliding smoothly.
Suddenly, the ground trembled.
When Sejun looked down, he saw countless fish gathering beneath his feet, so dense that the ice below appeared pitch black.
[Quest: Other life forms are dying because of the Ice Piranhas occupying the Ice Lake. Reduce the population of the Ice Piranhas to protect the lake’s ecosystem from collapse.]
Ice Piranhas (0/100,000)
Frost Giant Piranhas (0/1,000)
Super-Giant Piranha, Ruler of the Ice Lake (0/1)
Reward: Recognition as the rightful owner of the Ice Lake on the 89th floor of the Black Tower.
A quest appeared before Sejun.
They want me to catch 100,000?
On top of that, there were also 1,000 Frost Giant Piranhas and one Super-Giant Piranha.
“Puhuhut. This is exciting, meow!!!”
Thanks to this, Theo was already thrilled.
“Let’s make a hole first.”
Sejun drew his sword.
“Magic Swordsmanship!”
After infusing it with magic power, he worked hard to make holes about 1m in diameter in the ice.
But Sejun had overlooked one thing.
The ice was much thicker than Sejun had anticipated.
When the ice thickness exceeded 10 meters, Sejun began to feel something was wrong.
But smashing all the ice could risk breaking the entire lake.
Of course, breaking all the ice wouldn’t be a big problem, but,
I want to show Flamie ice fishing.
Sejun didn’t want to ruin this moment.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, I, Vice Chairman Theo, will make the holes for you, meow!”
Theo extended his dragon claws and
He drew a clean circle with his front paw on the ice,
A perfectly circular piece of ice 1m in diameter was cleanly cut.
Next, Cuengi used telekinesis to lift the cut section of ice and toss it aside.
The ice was nearly 30 meters thick.
No wonder it hadn’t cut through easily.
Sejun finally understood why he couldn’t manage it on his own.
“Vice Chairman Theo, make three more holes.”
“Puhuhut. Understood, meow!”
After Theo made three more holes and the ice fishing spot was ready
“Alright, everyone, from now on, we’re only catching piranhas using fishing rods! Got it?”
Sejun handed out fishing rods and began hosting an ice-fishing competition.
There were no prizes, but,
“Puhuhut. I, Hybrid Vice Chairman Theo, will definitely win, meow!”
[Hehe. I can do well too!]
[Hehehe. Cuengi will catch the most, you know!]
[Hehe. Great Blackie will be first!]
Everyone was highly motivated.
After all, anything with Sejun was always fun.
[Hehe. Ggomi! Make a net!]
“Blackie, that’s cheating! If you do that one more time, you’re disqualified.”
Caught trying to use a net to catch the piranhas, Blackie reluctantly picked up a fishing rod again.
“I caught one, meow!”
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All they had to do was attach a chunk of slime meat to the fishing line. Since the target was piranhas, they bit the bait as soon as it entered the water.
Every time they pulled up the fishing rod, dozens of piranhas, devouring the slime meat, were hauled up with it.
[Hehe. Sejun-nim, we got one too!]
“Alright. Let’s pull it up.”
At Flamie’s call, Sejun and Flamie lifted their fishing rod together.
Since Flamie couldn’t lift the fishing rod alone, Sejun was assisting her.
In the case of Blackie family,
Kihihit. Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Got one! Everyone, pull!]
Everyone worked together to lift the fishing rod.
After about three hours of fishing, the sun began to set.
“Let’s stop for today.”
Sejun ended the competition.
Ice Piranhas (10,013/100,000)
They had caught about 10,000 piranhas.
The rankings were- Theo in 1st place with 4,500 fish, Cuengi came in 2nd by a small margin, Flamie was 3rd with 900 fish, and Blackie family took 4th place.
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Theo-nim, congratulations on 1st place!”
“Puhuhut. My victory was only natural, meow!”
Iona, who had arrived midway and wrapped herself around Theo’s tail to nap, rubbed her eyes and congratulated Theo.
“Time to eat dinner.”
Sejun took out wooden planks from the Void Storage to block the heat transfer, layered them on the ground, and then placed stone slabs on top.
He started a campfire and began grilling the piranhas.
[You gained 100 experience points.]
The piranhas must have still been alive, as they released experience points while being grilled.
While the piranhas were cooking,
“Vice Chairman Theo, cut the ice into brick-sized pieces.”
Sejun asked Theo to cut the ice.
Since he planned to ice fish here for a few days, he decided to build an igloo.
“Puhuhut. Got it, meow!”
Theo cut the ice, shaping it into bricks as he had done earlier when making the fishing holes.
Sejun then started building the igloo using the ice bricks that Cuengi and Blackie had brought over.
Having built igloos many times before, the structure was quickly completed.
“Alright. Come inside.”
Sejun and his companions finished their fulfilling day eating grilled fish inside the igloo.
“Flamie, isn’t this amazing? We’re sleeping on top of a lake. These are all memories.”
Sejun was trying to forcefully create memories for Flamie, but,
[Heheh. For me, everything has been a cherished memory ever since I met you, Sejun-nim.]
Sniff. My Flamie is so adorable.