Chapter 97 of 100
Chapter 97. Open the Festival of Abundance (1)
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Chapter 97. Open the Festival of Abundance (1)
"Alright, go and review now."
(Yes!)
After teaching the golden bat all the consonants and vowels, Sejun prepared breakfast.
"Today, I'll try cooking with a new leek."
Sejun took out the detoxifying leek harvested from the 67th floor, the frozen purple locusts, and carrots from the extra-dimensional storage.
Today, he planned to focus on harvesting to complete his job quest, so he chose carrots as the main ingredient to boost his agility.
The cooking was complete.
[Enhanced Purple Chef's Carrot Soup has been completed.]
[Your Cooking Level 4 proficiency has slightly increased.]
The name 'Enhanced' was added to the dish, possibly due to the high-grade leek used.
"Oh! The duration has increased to one hour!"
The effect of increasing agility by 10.5, which originally lasted for 30 minutes, now lasted for one hour. Of course, the taste was also excellent.
"Kids, let's eat."
Sejun, who had checked, called the animals.
"How do I feed this to them?"
Now, he had to convince the rabbits that this purple soup was delicious.
Thump, thump, thump.
The rabbits ran over at the sound of Sejun's call.
Squeak...
Squish...
Squish...
As expected, the rabbits' expressions were not good when they saw the purple soup. Some even looked at the food suspiciously, as if wondering if someone had tampered with it.
Squish!
Squish!
Fortunately, the black rabbit and Kkyeong, who had already tried it, encouraged the other rabbits to eat the soup, and one by one, they overcame their reluctance and started tasting it.
Honk!
Kkyeong's contribution was significant.
Slurp!
Honk!
Kkyeong quickly finished the soup in one go, and the other rabbits, sensing the potential loss of food, started eating the soup.
After the battle-like breakfast,
"Alright, let's harvest the cherry tomatoes."
Just as Sejun was about to move to the cherry tomato field,
Squeak!
The father rabbit blocked Sejun's path and pointed in another direction.
Squish!
Squish!
Squish!
There, the white rabbits, with serious expressions, were staring at the sweet potato field where 6,500 sweet potatoes were planted. Originally, 10,000 were planted, but only about 65% grew properly.
"Over there? The sweet potato field still needs about ten days before it's ready for harvest."
Sejun knew there was still time before the harvest.
However,
Squeak!
The father rabbit shook his head at Sejun's words.
And
Thump.
Squeak. Squeak.
[Since Mr. Sejun brought this stone, the harvest time for all crops on the farm has been accelerated. After harvesting the sweet potatoes, you need to harvest other crops as well.]
The father rabbit, touching Sejun's leg, pointed to the sacred stone fragment in front of Sejun's house and explained.
Thanks to the sacred power emanating from the sacred stone fragment, which benefits the surroundings, the growth period of the crops had been shortened.
"Is that so? Then let's start with the sweet potatoes."
Sejun moved to the sweet potato field. For Sejun, who needed to use the Harvest skill 100,000 times for his job quest, having a lot to harvest was a welcome task.
"I'll handle the harvesting with Theo, the black rabbit, and Kkyeong. You guys take care of other farm work."
Squeak?!
Squish?!
Squish?!
The white rabbits were greatly surprised by Sejun's words. The sweet potatoes to be harvested today numbered about 250,000, weighing over 100 tons. They weren't just being serious for no reason.
But to do that with only four of them? The white rabbits couldn't help but be shocked.
However, after watching Sejun, Theo, Kkyeong, and the black rabbit harvest the sweet potatoes,
Squeak.
Squish.
Squish.
The white rabbits nodded, accepting Sejun's words, and moved to their respective tasks.
When Sejun pulled the sweet potato vines with his right hand,
Crack.
The sweet potatoes came up with the vines. Unfortunately, even though he could harvest 30 to 40 sweet potatoes at once, the Harvest skill only counted as one use.
"Here."
Sejun put the harvested sweet potatoes into the extra-dimensional storage that followed him. This was a feature added by Iona.
"My turn, I guess?"
Crack.
When Sejun put the sweet potatoes into the extra-dimensional storage, Theo, waiting inside, used his claws to cut the sweet potatoes from the vines and placed them in wooden boxes,
Squish!
The black rabbit replaced the full wooden boxes with empty ones and stacked the filled boxes in the storage.
Although the explanation is long, the work was fast, filling a wooden box with sweet potatoes every 30 seconds, thanks to the carrot soup he had for breakfast.
And Kkyeong...
"Honk! Kkyeong!"
Helped harvest the occasional giant sweet potatoes.
Honk!
At Sejun's call, Kkyeong, who was eating honey nearby, ran over and helped pull the sweet potato vines Sejun was holding.
"Pull!"
Honk!
With Sejun's signal, they pulled the sweet potato vines together,
Crack.
The ground split, and a giant sweet potato, 3 meters in size, was pulled out of the ground.
[You have harvested a Giant Pumpkin Sweet Potato.]
[92,967 uses remain to complete the job quest.]
[Your job experience has slightly increased.]
[Your Harvest Level 4 proficiency has slightly increased.]
[You have gained 30 experience points.]
"I should give this to Uma-oh."
This was the third giant pumpkin sweet potato. The first one went to Eilin, and the second to his mother, the Crimson Giant Bear.
Thus, Sejun managed to harvest all the sweet potatoes before lunch.
For lunch, he decided to have roasted sweet potatoes.
Crack. Crack.
Thump.
Sejun poured 2,000 sweet potatoes wrapped in garlic leaves into a giant bonfire in the sweet potato field. He didn't skimp on the quantity, wanting everyone to taste the proper roasted sweet potatoes.
When the 2,000 roasted sweet potatoes were ready,
[Tower Manager: Roasted sweet potatoes! Roasted sweet potatoes!]
Eilin, who had been waiting for the roasted sweet potatoes to be ready, approached.
"Here."
Sejun put 500 roasted sweet potatoes into the large pot, which was Eilin's soup bowl, and handed it to her.
[...]
And the silent Eilin. She was clearly peeling the roasted sweet potatoes, her face covered in soot.
'But if she's a black dragon, wouldn't the soot not show?'
While Sejun was having such pointless thoughts,
Thump.
His mother, the Crimson Giant Bear, poured the large pot of roasted sweet potatoes into her mouth.
Gulp.
Slurp.
She swallowed them too quickly, finding them too soft.
Honk!
This time, she picked up the second large pot, determined not to make a mistake.
Squeak!
Squish!
Squish!
Squish!
The rabbits also started eating the roasted sweet potatoes, their faces covered in soot.
Honk!
Kkyeong roughly peeled the roasted sweet potatoes and ate them ten at a time, causing them to disappear quickly.
"Ah!"
Seeing the roasted sweet potatoes disappearing, Sejun, who had just come to his senses, was trying to cool them down by blowing on them.
"Hmm?"
He felt someone watching him.
"It's not the golden bat."
He thought it might be someone hiding and watching,
Squish!
(O! I see! Big brother!)
The golden bat was learning how to eat roasted sweet potatoes from the black rabbit.
"Then who is it?"
Sejun looked around and saw the black dragon statue spouting water in front of him.
'Not it?'
Sejun looked at the roasted sweet potatoes again,
Flick.
And quickly looked back at the black dragon statue. Their eyes met.
-What... What are you looking at?!
Kaiser, feeling guilty, lashed out.
'Not honest at all.'
Sejun put the roasted sweet potatoes in a basket and went to the fountain.
"Mr. Kaiser, please have some of this."
-Cough. I'll eat it, considering your effort in bringing it here!
Although he said he didn't want to eat it but would do so out of respect for Sejun's effort, the black dragon statue poured the entire basket of roasted sweet potatoes into its mouth.
After taking care of Kaiser and returning to his spot,
"Huh?!"
There were no roasted sweet potatoes left. They had eaten everything without leaving a single one!
Just as Sejun was about to gather the animals,
"President Park! I've been keeping President Park's roasted sweet potatoes warm!"
Theo showed the yellow roasted sweet potatoes he had been holding, saying proudly, "Did I do well?"
However, the roasted sweet potatoes were covered in Theo's fur because he had peeled them so kindly.
Sejun was debating whether to eat them when
"President Park, your face is dirty again! Eat this and let me clean your face!"
Theo, holding the fur-covered roasted sweet potatoes, started rubbing them on Sejun's face.
Rub. Rub.
Sejun had to eat the roasted sweet potatoes while Theo rubbed his face, removing the fur.
However,
"Cough! Cough!"
Even as he removed the fur, Theo, who was sitting next to him, kept shedding fur, making it impossible to completely avoid eating fur with the roasted sweet potatoes.
After the difficult lunch, Sejun, without taking a nap, moved the sweet potatoes from the extra-dimensional storage to the storage shed next to his house to make room for other crops.
The storage shed was large, so he had to make several trips, but the sweet potatoes still only filled a tenth of it.
"Alright, next is the potato field!"
Sejun hurried to the potato field, where about 3,000 potatoes were planted. Today's schedule was incredibly tight. It turned out he also needed to harvest 15,000 carrots after the potatoes.
Still, if he finished today's harvest, he could complete 30% of his job quest.
Thus, Sejun and the animals quickly finished harvesting the potatoes and moved to the carrot field.
And
Pull. Pull.
While they were harvesting the carrots,
"Ugh! Kkyeong!"
A carrot that Sejun couldn't pull out appeared. It was a giant carrot.
Honk!
At Sejun's call, Kkyeong ran over.
When they pulled the carrot vines together,
Crack.
The ground split, and a giant carrot, 3 meters in size, appeared.
But this time, it was a different kind of giant crop.
The giant carrot was floating in the air, and there was a red ribbon pattern in the center.
[You have harvested the Red Ribbon Giant Carrot Altar.]
[87,818 uses remain to complete the job quest.]
[Your job experience has significantly increased.]
[Your Harvest Level 4 proficiency has significantly increased.]
[Your Harvest Level 4 proficiency is full, and your level has increased.]
[You have gained 10,000 experience points.]
"Red Ribbon Giant Carrot Altar?"
A strange name for a crop.
Squish?!
The black rabbit was surprised to see the giant golden carrot. Was this?!
The legendary carrot he had only heard about from his father.
At that moment,
[Quest has appeared.]
[Quest: Within 24 hours, offer 100 of 10 different crops to the Red Ribbon Giant Carrot Altar and open the Festival of Abundance!]
Reward: Hosting the Festival of Abundance, Job Skill - Crop Gigantification Level 1
A quest appeared in front of Sejun.
"Festival of Abundance? Crop Gigantification?"
While Sejun was reading the quest,
Squish! Squish!
The black rabbit, excited, called the father rabbit over.
And
Squeak!!!
The father rabbit, running over with the black rabbit, was greatly moved upon seeing the golden carrot. He never thought he would see a golden carrot again after the fall of the Red Ribbon Kingdom.
Now, there might be a chance to revive the Red Ribbon Kingdom.
While the father rabbit was moved by the golden carrot,
"10 different crops?"
Sejun counted the crops he had.
"Giant Pumpkin Sweet Potato, Sun Pumpkin Sweet Potato, potatoes, carrots, cherry tomatoes, detoxifying leeks, sturdy blade leeks, peanuts. Oh! 8 kinds?"
He was two crops short of completing the quest.