Chapter 626: Chapter 626
99th floor of the Black Tower.
“Isn’t this a bit too much?”
Grave~nim, this is too much.
Sejun grumbled to himself while looking at a piece of paper detailing the growth conditions for the Brown Tower.
[Brown Tower Growth Conditions (0/8)]
– Tower Farmer (A): Not achieved
– Create at least 9 new varieties: Not achieved (0/9)
– Increase the soil fertility of the Brown Tower by at least 50%: Not achieved (40%)
The fertility had decreased. Worse, it had dropped below what it was before planting the beans.
No way. Why is the fertility decreasing?!
An inexplicable phenomenon.
“It’s time for Detective Sherlock Sejun to step in.”
Sejun spoke in a serious voice while putting an elegant red pipe with smoke billowing from it in his mouth.
It was a gift from Ramter for helping with the growth of the Red Tower. Its name, [Flame Devourer].
Inside the pipe was a Fire Seed that created the essence of flames, allowing it to absorb all fire-attribute attacks. It was a three-star item.
As Sejun’s detective act began,
“Puhuhut. Then, the great assistant of Detective Sherlock Sejun, Theoson, will also step in, meow!”
Theo licked the end of his pipe, which was filled with Churu.
[Hehehe. Detective Cunan is stepping in too!]
Cuengi also bit down on a pipe filled with honey and declared enthusiastically.
[Hehe! Butler! Detective Kapang is on the case too!]
Blackie, holding an empty pipe in his mouth, shouted as well.
Originally, the pipe had been filled with pieces of roasted and dried sweet potato, but as soon as they received it, the Blackie Family had devoured them all.
When Sejun received the Flame Devourer from Ramter,
“I, Vice Chairman Theo, want the same thing as Chairman Park, meow!”
Everyone wanted a pipe just like Sejun’s.
Sejun asked Ramter to make pipes that had the same shape and color but no actual abilities. He then filled them with things his companions liked.
And so, with their pipes in their mouths, Sejun and his party set out to find the cause of the declining fertility.
They started by investigating the area around the Red Goblin village.
Soon, they noticed something suspicious. A terrible stench was coming from the stream flowing beside the village.
“Is there something upstream? Detective Cunan, let’s fly.”
Using Cuengi’s telekinesis, Sejun flew toward the upper reaches of the stream.
“What the hell is this?!”
A massive pile of rotting food waste came into view. Or rather, it should be called the Red Goblins’ food storage.
No wonder the fertility was low…
With such an enormous amount of rotting food waste, it would have been stranger if the fertility had remained high.
In the end, the Red Goblins were the main culprits behind the decline in fertility.
“How should we deal with this?”
Sejun pondered for a moment.
Then, he noticed bubbles rising from the stagnant water near the food waste pile.
Gases were escaping from the fermentation of the rotting food.
“I should just blow it up.”
Sejun snapped his fingers to create a flame and ignite the waste dump.
But the fire was immediately extinguished.
Instead, the Flame Devourer, which had absorbed Sejun’s fire, glowed red on the surface.
Right, it absorbs fire.
Sejun stored the Flame Devourer in his Void Storage and,
Created another flame.
He lit a piece of firewood and threw it into the waste dump.
A fiery explosion erupted.
This was followed by a massive secondary explosion.
The first explosion was from the gases on the surface. The second was from the gases trapped underground.
Chunks of rotting food waste were blasted in every direction by the force of the explosion.
Of course, Sejun was protected by Cuengi’s telekinesis, so he was safe.
Just as Sejun thought the job was done,
-How dare you destroy my home?!!!
A small dung-colored orb shot out from the pile of rotting food waste.
Cuengi, you wanna eat that?
Sejun turned to Cuengi.
[No way! Don’t want to eat that! That’s disgusting!]
Cuengi vigorously shook his head.
“Yeah, I guess that’s a no…”
The stench was unbearable.
“Alright, then Kkabi can eat it.”
Kkabi was visibly horrified at Sejun’s words.
“What? You use the power of decay, so you’re similar to that thing, right?”
Sharalang! Sharalang!
[No way! That thing and I are on completely different levels! Completely different!]
Kkabi vehemently protested Sejun’s statement.
[Kkabi, did you just raise your voice at our butler?! Guys, hold Kkabi’s mouth open!]
Sharalang! Sharalang!
[Nooo! Just kill me instead!]
Blackie, enraged, forced Kkabi’s mouth open, just like when Sejun had made him drink the Great Growth Elixir.
This was why you need to be mindful of their behavior in front of the others.
Thus, within Sejun’s family, it was decided that Kkabi would eat Dicain.
-You bastards! How dare you mock me?!
Dicain, enraged, released a putrid stench in all directions. A visible yellow miasma spread outward.
“Ugh! I can’t take this! Cuengi, just get rid of it!”
[You have gained 70 billion experience points, 50% of the experience points Advanced Herbalist Park Cuengi acquired.]
Dicain was struck by Cuengi’s Thunderbolt Staff and was completely annihilated.
As soon as Dicain, the source of the foul stench, disappeared, the fertility of the Brown Tower began rising rapidly, even though Sejun hadn’t done anything.
Two of the Great Tower growth conditions had been fulfilled.
“Huhuhut. Case closed.”
With a smug expression, Sejun declared the resolution of the incident.
“Vice Chairman Theo, let’s start recruiting employees.”
“Puhuhut. Understood, meow!”
Sejun began working on achieving a Great Achievement.
This will take some time, right?
Since Sejun Company wasn’t well-known in the Brown Tower, he assumed the process would take a while.
“Was it you?! The bastard who destroyed our food storage?!”
“Don’t let him live!”
Residents from various floors of the Brown Tower began swarming toward him in anger.
It turned out that the place Sejun had blown up wasn’t just the Red Goblin Tribe’s storage, it was a communal food warehouse.
“Huhuhu. Guys, start hiring employees.”
Seeing how riled up they were over food, Sejun figured they’d be excellent eaters.