TL: Hanguk
[You have arrived at the 99th floor of the Black Tower.]
When Park Sejun exited the door connecting to the 10th tower, the outside was dark, and 12 starlights twinkled, warmly welcoming Sejun.
At that mont,
Growl.
Kueng…
Cuengi’s stomach rumbled loudly like a clock.
Growl growl.
Right after, the sound ca from the stomachs of Sejun, Theo, and the rest of the Blackie family.
Having fought lpheus, the Apostle of Destruction, Sejun and his companions had forgotten about their hunger. But now that they had returned ho, their tension relaxed, and hunger ca rushing in.
Co to think of it, we skipped both lunch and dinner.
“My Cuengi was hungry but held it in so well. Let’s eat quickly.”
Kuhehehe. Kueng! Kueng!
[Hehehe. Sounds good! Cuengi wants soy sauce butter egg rice!]
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, I want grilled fish, ow!”
Kikikihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! I want roasted and dried sweet potato!]
“Alright.”
As Sejun was being urged by his companions, he headed to the kitchen and
“Sejun No. 1, make soy sauce butter egg rice.”
He instructed Sejun No. 1 to prepare Cuengi’s requested dish.
And then,
“Here. Blackie, share this with everyone here.”
Kikikihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Okay!]
Sejun handed Blackie ten pieces of roasted and dried sweet potatoes and began grilling the fish for Theo.
A little later,
“Here you go, Vice Chairman Theo.”
“Puhuhut. As expected, the grilled fish made with Chairman Park’s care looks completely different, ow! It tastes amazing, ow!”
Theo started eating the grilled fish that Sejun had prepared with relish.
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Kuhehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. It’s delicious!]
Cuengi also enjoyed his soy sauce butter egg rice topped with 30 soft-boiled eggs.
“Let try so too.”
When Sejun was about to scoop so soy sauce butter egg rice from Cuengi’s bowl,
[The Tower’s Administrator tells you not to eat that.]
[The Tower’s Administrator confidently says she has prepared a dish just for you.]
Aileen hurriedly spoke up.
“D-dish?”
Sejun’s voice trembled at Aileen’s words.
[The Tower’s Administrator says she has made plenty of swelled up corn that you love.]
“What?! What are you talking about?!
Since when do I love swelled corn?”
Sejun asked with a puzzled expression.
[The Tower’s Administrator, in a flustered voice, says that your mother clearly said you love swelled corn.]
Aileen was visibly flustered.
And then,
Mother… no matter how much you want to score points with Aileen, selling out your son like this?
Sejun quickly grasped the situation.
“Oh. Swelled corn?! Sorry, I read it wrong as ‘burning corn’! Swelled corn?! How much I’ve been craving that! Aileen, give it to quickly! I feel like I might pass out.”
Sejun acted with all his might, pretending he was desperate to eat swelled corn.
[The Tower’s Administrator realizes the misunderstanding and happily says it’s all good.]
[The Tower’s Administrator tells you to enjoy the al.]
Thud.
With Aileen’s words, a massive plate appeared, piled high like a pyramid with swelled corn.
How many layers is this?
A 130-story corn tower, with more floors than the Black Tower.
Can I clear this?
Sejun hesitated for a mont but then resolved,
‘I have to do it!’
I’m going to score so points with Aileen, too!
Chomp. Chomp.
He began eating the swelled corn. Compared to the burnt dishes from before, this was definitely edible.
[You have consud the Swelled Stamina Corn.]
[The corn’s effects have been reduced by 30% as it has swelled with water.]
[Your Strength increases by 14 for 30 minutes.]
…
..
.
After clearing 50 layers from the top, a crisis ca, but
“Vitality.”
[You have used Vitality Lv. 8.]
[The food in your stomach is instantly digested.]
[All stat values increase by 8% for 180 minutes.]
[Your digestion speed increases significantly for 180 minutes.]
He emptied his stomach using the skill and started eating corn again.
At that mont,
Kikikihit. Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! Na this one!]
Blackie barked as he put down lpheus in front of Sejun, having carried him in his mouth.
lpheus, who had been carried by Blackie, had no idea of the fate awaiting him and was munching on the roasted sweet potato slices in delight.
Mumu?! Mumu?!
(What is this?! Why is it so delicious?!)
He devoured the roasted sweet potato slices hurriedly, spitting tiny flas barely visible at the tips of his horns from his excitent at the sweet taste.
Ah. Right, I need to na the newbie.
“Let’s see…”
Original na lpheus. Ladybug. Seven black spots on the back.
Makes ‘mumu’ sound and spits fire when excited.
Sejun listed out lpheus’ characteristics.
Kking! Kking!
[Butler! He’s also really bad at commanding!]
Blackie provided additional information to Sejun.
On top of that, he’s a bad commander.
“Then…”
As Sejun got into naming mode,
Thump! Thump!
The Blackie family looked at Sejun with eyes full of expectation.
Especially,
Please, let it be a silly na!
The look in Karurur’s eyes wasn’t just expectant—it was desperate.
With everyone’s hopes in mind,
Since his na is lpheus… latonin, lcheese. (TL: Random nas starting with ‘l’)
Since he’s a ladybug, how about Murisu, Mumaster, Musawon. (TL: Ladybug’s (무당벌레) 무(Mu) rest are random things.)
Since he’s a fire-spitting ladybug, how about Buldang. (TL: 불 (Bul) ans fire 당 (dang) from Ladybug (무당벌레))
And he is a poor commander… Munoob? No, that’s too harsh. (TL: It’s actually Munung, but Munoob sounded better, so I translated it that way. Mu (무) cos from ladybug (무당벌레), and nung (능) ans ‘incompetent’.)
Sejun pondered hard, thinking of various nas.
But…
This is tough…
He couldn’t co up with a na he liked.
At that mont
Then, the words started to form in his mind:
A ladybug that makes ‘Mumu’ sound. Bad commander. Seven spots on its back.
As these three characteristics combined in Sejun’s mind,
Mubalchil! (TL: Mu (무) from Mumu (무무) Bal (발) cos from 발컨 which is a slang for bad players used online, aning playing a ga with your foot Chil (칠) is number 7 in Korean)
One na ca to mind.
This seems pretty good?
Though it made his toes feel tingly, he still thought,
“Mubalchil.”
Saying it out loud, it sounded even better.
And then,
Kikikihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Butler’s naming skills have returned!]
“It’s the Sejun-nim from before!”
Kkiruk!
Shalarrang!
“You’ve returned, sir!”
Caw!
Ppiyak!
The Blackie family, who had been worried because no good nas had co up since Karurur, cheered upon hearing Sejun’s new na.
Cawrurur. Cawrurur.
Karurur, who had suffered a lot due to his own na, burst into laughter at Mubalchil.
A little later,
Chomp. Chomp.
“I’ve finished eating!”
Sejun, having digested the food while naming, cleared the swelled corn tower and fell asleep.
***
Sejun’s coffee plantation in Chikasan on the 94th floor of the tower.
“Hmm… from now on, the highest-grade coffee produced from Chikasan will be nad ‘Sejun 94 Chikasan Black Tower’, and the next grade will be nad ‘Mozak 94 Chikasan Black Tower.’”
Ninir, the legendary rchant in charge of managing the coffee plantation, nad the coffee.
The highest grade bore Sejun’s na, the chairman of Sejun Company, and the next grade carried the na of Black Drake Mozak, the Ruler of Chikasan.
“Alright. Then I’ll send 100 kilograms of ‘Sejun 94 Chikasan Black Tower’ to Sejun-nim on the 99th floor…”
After naming the coffee, Ninir gave instructions to the Black Wolves and Silver Wolves on where to deliver it.
“By the way, Ninir, didn’t you contact your sister to tell her you’re here?”
“Yeah. Mimyr seed to be looking for you…”
Hegel and Elka cautiously asked Ninir.
To that,
“Hmph! You think my ‘dear big sister’ would worry about soone like if I went missing?! She’s too busy working to even care about soone like !!!”
Ninir shouted at the two in a shrill voice.
Hwarururu.
Fiery flas burst from Ninir’s red fur.
Among the White Sheep Tribe, Mimyr and Ninir were rare in that they were born with different colored fur.
And they were sisters.
The White Sheep Tribe was innately capable of handling lightning energy, and Mimyr, born with golden fur, had displayed a high level of achievent from birth, enveloping her entire body in lightning, gaining recognition from the tribe.
However,
Neeheheh.
Ninir, with her red fur, had almost no talent in handling lightning energy. No, it was practically non-existent.
Even though she was over 10 years old,
“Neeak! It stings!”
She couldn’t even control the level of lightning energy that newborn White Sheep Tribe mbers could handle.
Because of this, Ninir was always compared to her older sister Mimyr among the White Sheep Tribe.
The more this happened, the more Ninir felt discouraged.
On top of that, when Mimyr beca a legendary rchant,
“Sigh, the older sister is a genius, but the younger sister is an idiot…”
Ninir faced even greater comparisons and could no longer stay in the White Sheep Tribe’s village.
“Hmph! I’ll beco a legendary rchant too!”
She ran away from ho, wandering the tower while working hard to earn money to beco a rchant.
That’s when she t Theo and beca a legendary rchant.
And then,
I’m not talentless! My talent is in fire!
While working to create rchant items, Ninir realized she had incredible talent, not in handling lightning energy but in controlling fire energy.
I’ll work hard under Theo~nim and show my skills to my sister and the White Sheep Tribe!
Ninir dread of returning in triumph after developing her abilities.
However, she didn’t know that her sister was already a senior full-ti employee of Sejun Company.
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The next morning.
“Alright.”
Sejun woke up after a good night’s sleep.
“ow…”
Kking…
He got up, taking care of Theo and the Blackie family.
“Maintain Cleanliness.”
He used the skill to clean himself and his companions.
Then,
Scribble.
He marked the date on the wall and went outside and,
“Land Moving.”
He erected a 10-ter-tall monunt for Har.
[Har’s Achievent Monunt]
– Har, the God of Farming, the first god to be commanded under the leadership of the great Park Sejun
“Hehehe.”
Sejun felt proud as he looked at the inscription he had written.
I’ve raised them really well.
Thinking about Theo, Cuengi, and the Blackie family, who made it possible for him to command Har,
Step. Step.
He strolled through his farm.
After walking for about 30 minutes,
[The Wind Cabbage is grateful for the farr’s footsteps and lends its strength.]
[The effect of Great Blessing of the Crops (Master) activates, increasing the potential of your Magic Power potential from 7,157 to 7,167.]
His potential stat rose.
Magic Power (7,167/7,167).
Of course, it filled up right away.
And so, Sejun slightly reduced the queue of stats waiting for him to increase his potential stat today as well.
A little later,
Kueng!
[Dad, did you sleep well?!]
Cuengi, who had woken up, joined and clung to Sejun’s side as they walked around the farm together.
Then,
“Hm?”
Sejun’s eyes caught sight of sothing hard, with a mix of brown and green, piled up in a heap.
Did Paespaes bring this?
Usually, Paespaes brought slis, but it seed he had brought sothing different today.
Sejun cautiously approached and touched it.
This is…
“Seaweed?”
Nice. Today’s breakfast will be seaweed soup!
Excited, Sejun hurriedly grabbed the seaweed and ran to the cooking area, where he washed and soaked the seaweed in water to soften it.
After about 20 minutes, the seaweed had absorbed plenty of water and beca soft and elastic.
“Today, I’ll personally handle the cooking.”
Sejun was cooking for the first ti in a long while. Since the recipe for seaweed soup wasn’t registered in the cooking skill, Sejun No. 1 couldn’t make it.
Of course, once the seaweed soup recipe was registered in the cooking skill, Sejun No. 1 would be able to make it.
Sizzle.
Sejun heated the sturdy stone pot made by Eomdol and stir-fried sli at in it, stirring until it changed color.
Whoosh.
He then added the soaked seaweed and stir-fried it together.
‘Add soy sauce, garlic, and so tuna broth.’
After adding seasoning and ingredients, he stir-fried the at and seaweed again to let the flavors soak in.
Pour.
He then added water and covered the pot.
“Ti Acceleration.”
Finally, he used a skill and waited for a minute. When he opened the lid, a cloudy broth of seaweed soup greeted him.
[You have achieved the feat of making Sli at Bloodsucking Leech Hide Soup for the first ti in the Tower.]
[The recipe for Sli at Bloodsucking Leech Hide Soup has been registered in Cooking (Master).]
[Your proficiency in Cooking (Master) has greatly increased.]
A grotesquely nad dish was now registered in his recipe list.
“Huh?!”
It’s not seaweed soup but bloodsucking leech hide soup?!
“What’s with this na?!”
Sejun was shocked by the na of the dish.
In reality, what Sejun had mistaken for seaweed was actually the corpse of a bloodsucking leech.
When Paespaes had killed the bloodsucking leech, the liquid inside had drained, making the leech’s skin dry out and resemble seaweed.
The sll and taste were like seaweed soup, but…
As Sejun took a sip of the soup and tilted his head in confusion,
[You have achieved the great feat of creation by completing a dish using two types of calamities for the first ti in the tower.]
[As a reward for your great feat of creation, you have acquired the ]
[As a reward for your great feat of creation, you have awakened the talent: Bizarre Cooking.]
[As a reward for your great feat of creation, the cost of staying on the 0th floor of the Black Tower will be reduced by 0.1%.]
A series of ssages appeared.
“…..”
Is this system mocking ?!
“Vice Chairman Theo, this won’t do! Let’s impeach the system!”
“Puhuhut. I agree, ow! Impeachnt it is, ow!”
Kueng!
[Cuengi wants to join the impeachnt too!]
Kking! Kking!
[We want to join too! Let us in!]
And so, on the 99th floor of the Black Tower, Sejun and his companions started plotting the impeachnt of the system.
Despite giving Sejun titles and talents based on his achievents, the system still sohow managed to make him angry.
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