Red fog poured out of the big, dark Black Moon, like blood flowing. Slowly, the red fog came together and turned into the shapes of the Eight Disasters.
“Go forth and destroy everything! Wipe out the world!”
With cries full of destructive fury, they vanished into the thousands of holes that had opened before them.
Now that the Destroyers were gone, the force of Destruction would control everything.
Once again, a crisis loomed over the peaceful world.
Black Tower, 99th floor, dawn.
“Oh dear, we’re out of seaweed…”
And the bloodsucking leeches are gone now.
Sejun looked troubled as he took out the leech seaweed to make seaweed soup for the dragons today.
Moreover, there wasn’t much slime meat left either, nor locust meat to make Ace’s favorite Dragon Chicken.
What to do when there are no Calamities?
Sejun thought about what to do as he made seaweed soup with the last of his seaweed.
Bae-rorong.
Baet-Bae had fallen asleep early and was snoring on Sejun’s shoulder.
A short while later.
“Eileen, here’s the seaweed soup. I don’t think I can make any more, since we’re out of seaweed,” Sejun said, sending the seaweed soup to Eileen.
“It’s a big problem!” Eileen said, her voice flustered.
“Huh? Eileen, what’s wrong? Why are you so flustered? It’s not a problem if I can’t make seaweed soup, right?”
Sejun was taken aback by Eileen’s panic.
“The great Green Dragon Kelly is recently pregnant and has been craving seaweed soup lately,” Eileen said.
“Oh?! Is it like morning sickness or something?”
“Yes,” Eileen replied.
“Eh?! Do dragons really get morning sickness?”
“According to Grandpa, it’s very rare, but sometimes there are dragons who get morning sickness,” Eileen said.
“If there’s no seaweed soup, Kelly might have to keep starving,” Eileen added.
“Really? Then should I bring seaweed from Earth?”
“That probably won’t work,” Eileen said.
“Huh? Why? It’s the same seaweed, isn’t it?”
“They’ve tried the Earth food you brought, and the food from Earth seems to lack the inherent flavor and magical taste of the ingredients,” Eileen explained.
Dragons could taste magic, not just sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
“That’s true. Then what do I do if there’s no seaweed?”
Sejun thought for a moment.
“Ah. Eileen, give all the seaweed soup to Kelly today, and apologize to the other dragons and give them something new.”
Since it was enough seaweed soup for tens of thousands of dragons, Kelly could eat it alone for decades.
“Don’t overdo it,” Eileen told him.
“Okay. I won’t overdo it.”
Sejun took out ingredients from his subspace warehouse and began baking bread and melting all the chocolate bricks he had.
A short while later.
“It’s done.”
Heh heh. These are perfect for a treat!
Sejun said, looking at the round, thick Choco Pies coated in chocolate.
Now all that’s left is to stamp them out.
He used his cooking skill. As Sejun put the ingredients together and used his power, they started to turn into Choco Pies.
Sejun stamped out tens of thousands of Choco Pies in an instant.
“I should tell Theo later to get more chocolate bricks from the Mud God, Mud.”
He said, looking at the bottom of the empty chocolate bowl.
And
Twitch.
Heh heh heh. Herr, please go to Mud and get some chocolate bricks, nya!
Theo, who was listening to Sejun’s words even while sleeping, conveyed the message to Herr.
[A designated quest from Sejun Company Vice President Park Theo has been generated.]
[The designated target is the God of Merchants, Herr.]
[>Room Owner> Herr’s Pawnshop God of Merchants Herr: Loyal!]
Herr had been getting notices about owing money, so he quickly took the quest.
“Mud, just 10,000 chocolate bricks.”
“Okay. Here.”
“Thank you. Ah… Mud, I don’t have any divine power, so can I pay with welfare points?”
Herr, who had been about to pay with divine power, realized he didn’t have any and hurriedly took out his welfare points.
The system had seized his divine power, but it hadn’t taken his welfare points. No, it couldn’t.
Because Sejun Company welfare points were a currency issued solely by [System SJC].
[System 371] had no authority to take them.
“Okay! Of course! So this is welfare points!”
Mud, who received the welfare points from Herr, looked at them with an excited expression.
Mud had kept failing the Sejun Company employee lottery and hadn’t even seen welfare points yet.
And so, Herr used 1 welfare point,
[The God of Merchants, Herr, has received 5 welfare points as a quest completion reward.]
And received 5 welfare points.
“Heh heh heh. Try taking this away! I should only trade with welfare points from now on.”
Herr, who had found a way to prevent the system from seizing his assets, arrived at his pawnshop with a triumphant expression, when
“Oh?! Dio, what brings you here?”
There was already a customer in the pawnshop.
A handsome man with a tall stature and golden long hair. It was Dio, the God of Wine.
“Herr, is it true that you sold alcohol to the non-combat gods?”
“Yeah. Why?”
Bang!
“Hey, Herr! Is it true you sold alcohol to those non-combat gods? That’s our drink! Especially mine, Dio, the God of Wine! You gotta sell me that Samyangju!”
Dio shouted excitedly, hitting the wall at Herr’s answer.
Crash!
Naturally, the wall couldn’t withstand the power of Dio, one of the five executives of the Combat Shop Headquarters, and it collapsed.
Dio was the God of Wine, but he couldn’t make alcohol.
Dio had many powers, including one called ‘Alcohol Lover.’ This power made him stronger when he drank good alcohol, so he tried to obtain good alcohol by any means.
“This is for the repair costs.”
Dio handed Herr divine power after finishing his words.
However,
“No. I won’t accept divine power anymore.”
“What?!”
Herr refused the divine power that Dio was handing over. What was the point of receiving it, since it would be seized immediately?
“If you want to trade with me in the future, bring Sejun Company welfare points.”
“Welfare points? What’s that?”
“Ask Battler or Beb, and they’ll know.”
“So, if I bring welfare points, will you sell me the Samyangju?”
“Yeah. I don’t have any right now, but I’ll sell it to you when I get some. But if someone else offers more welfare points, I’ll sell it to them.”
“Heh heh heh. That’s obvious. Okay. I don’t know what welfare points are, but I’ll bring them soon.”
So, Herr, the God of Merchants, said he would only take Sejun Company welfare points, not divine power. Because of this, more gods started using welfare points.
This made the power of [System 371] even weaker.
“Heh heh heh. President Park, here are the chocolate bricks you mentioned earlier, nya!”
Theo, who had been sleeping while clinging to Sejun’s lap, suddenly began taking chocolate bricks out of his bundle.
“Oh?! Theo, you weren’t sleeping?”
“Heh heh heh. I, Vice President Theo, listen to the words of the great Hybrid President Park even while sleeping, nya!”
Theo answered Sejun’s question with a proud expression.
“Our Vice President Theo, you work even while sleeping? I should raise your salary, shouldn’t I?”
“Heh heh heh. Of course, nya! Give me exclusive rights to your lap as my salary, nya!”
“Okay. Then I’ll give you exclusive rights to my lap for a month as your salary.”
“Heh heh heh. Good, nya! Now President Park’s exclusive rights to my lap won’t decrease, nya!”
Theo felt like he had found a magic box that kept giving him treasures.
“Now that we have more chocolate bricks, I should make more Choco Pies,” Sejun said.
Sejun started making Choco Pies again.
Grumble.
Theo fell asleep again.
Sejun made a huge pile of Choco Pies.
Thud. Thud.
Kroooooh!
Pink Fur bounced into view. “Good morning, Sejun!”
Kkueng, clinging to Pink Fur’s chest, giggled. “Hehehe! Good morning, Daddy!”
“Yeah. Good morning. Try this new food I made.”
Sejun offered Choco Pies to Kkueng and Pink Fur.
He gave 100 Choco Pies to Pink Fur at once, because she needed at least that many to taste anything.
Kroooooh!
“Sejun, this is really delicious!” Pink Fur exclaimed.
“Daddy is a genius!” Kkueng cheered.
Sejun chuckled. “Heh heh. Feels good.”
He heard it often, but he never got tired of it, no matter how many times he heard it.
“Pink Fur, take this and eat it.”
Feeling good, Sejun packed a lot of Choco Pies for Pink Fur to take as a snack.
Kroooooh.
“Thank you, Sejun,” Pink Fur said gratefully.
“Hehehe. Mommy got a snack pouch like Kkueng!” Kkueng giggled.
Pink Fur went to the Ox King with a snack pouch full of Choco Pies.
“Eileen, take this. Blackie, stop sleeping and get up to eat.”
Sejun sent the Choco Pies he made to Eileen and woke up Blackie, who was sleeping in bed.
Kkihihit. Kking.
Blackie peeked out from under the covers. “Hehe. Butler. Feed me.”
Blackie was acting spoiled, not wanting to get up.
“Okay, Blackie, if you don’t get up in 3 seconds, no breakfast. One, two.”
Kking!
“No!”
Of course, it didn’t work on Sejun.
Once everyone was up, Sejun had a simple breakfast.
Theo had Churu, the Blackie family had dried sweet potato, and Sejun and Kkueng had Choco Pies with coffee and milk.
After breakfast,
“Shall we go now?”
Sejun took his group and moved to Jormungandr’s stomach instead of the 10th Tower.
He planned to focus on the Giant Tears of Destruction where Theo’s pull was felt for the time being.
Sejun crossed the dimensional door first, followed by the others.
“Cabul, to the location.”
Yolyol!
“To the location!”
Cabul lost consciousness by headbutting the bare ground, and the Blackie family also lost consciousness by banging their heads on the floor while surrounding Cabul.
-Then I’ll start.
“Okay.”
Pppbbbbbt.
Fartghoul started sailing again.
“Kkueng, that one.”
Kkueng!
While moving, Kkueng used telekinesis to send the Tears of Destruction that Sejun pointed out next to him.
Wiggle.
“Welcome, everyone.”
Sejun brought the Destruction Sejuns and put them to work.
If a Destruction Sejun became a Creator God Tear that wasn’t ready,
“Here you go.”
He exchanged it for a Potion of Great Growth and drank it.
Fartghoul moved all day, but they only moved one-fifth of the distance because the distance to go was considerable.
“It will take four more days. Vice President Theo, do you still feel the pull?”
“Fuhuhut. That’s right, meow! The pull has become stronger, meow!”
“Good.”
Sejun stroked Theo’s head and said,
“Fuhuhut. I like it too, meow!”
Theo also raised his head so that Sejun could stroke him more easily.
While Sejun was stroking Theo’s head,
What would happen if I brought Yuren here?
Suddenly, a question arose.
Bringing Yuren would either be a huge disaster or a great success.
So far, everything had been a great success because Theo’s luck was stronger, but this time the enemy was not easy, so I had to be careful…
No, wait!
What if the Tears of Destruction even copied Yuren’s misfortune?!
“Huh?!”
There could be no better result than this.
Sejun hurried back to the Black Tower to inquire about Yuren’s location and made dinner.
Bbyot! Bbyot?
“Sejun, Theo, hello! Were you looking for us?”
“Uhehe. It smells delicious.”
“Mohehe. Hello!”
Bbyot, Yuren, and Poyo arrived at the 99th floor of the Black Tower in time for dinner.
“Yuren, follow me for a second.”
“Huh?! Can’t I go after dinner?”
“No. I’ll make you whatever you want to eat later instead.”
“Uhehe. Then I’ll go!”
Sejun coaxed Yuren and moved to Jormungandr’s stomach.
“Kkueng, send Yuren over there.”
Kkueng!
Kkueng used telekinesis to send Yuren to where the Tears of Destruction were gathered.
Wiggle. Wiggle.
The Tears of Destruction were replicating Yuren.
At that moment,
Wham! Kwwa Kwang!
Some of the Tears of Destruction began to explode.
In the process of replicating Yuren, misfortune intervened, and they disappeared without even forming properly.
‘As expected of the King of Misfortune.’
Of course, bad luck quickly found the Destruction Yuren that looked just like Yuren.
They were either killed by fragments of exploding colleagues, hit by attacks wielded by colleagues, or it was a complete mess.
In particular, the larger the Tears of Destruction, the greater Yuren’s misfortune was copied, and the faster they disappeared.
The Tears of Destruction around them were quickly cleaned up in an instant.
“Uhehe. Are we eating now?”
Yuren, oblivious to what he had done, calmly asked for food.
How is he still alive?
Sejun felt sorry for Yuren and made him everything he wanted to eat.
Yuren’s survival itself was a mystery.